5.6 KiB
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According to some theses, collaboration between the United States and extraterrestrials is resuming, with the latter agreeing to provide more technology to the United States.
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Jaime Shandera conducts research for a film on UFOs, and establishes contacts in American military circles.
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January: In the night, a resident of Trowbridge is awoken by a giant luminous being, claiming to come from a warring planet.
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February 14: Launch of SMM (Solar Maximum Mission) for the study of solar eruptions.
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March 26: Creation of the European consortium Arianespace.
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April 4 Photo taken in Charleston. See images/1980-04-04_17-30_Charleston.jpg
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April 11: Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States.
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Wave of observations in China. 98 reports reach the CURO.
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June 13th, 10 PM: An UFO is spotted near Toula (USSR).
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June 14, 4 AM: The headquarters of the KGB is alerted by its president himself, Iouri Andropov, who has just seen the UFO spotted at 10 PM the night before. The object is heading towards Moscow, where the sighting is confirmed by the astronomer Gindilis on duty that night at the observatory. The air defense radars have not detected anything, but the military think of a surprise attack by the Americans and trigger the alert. The UFO flies over the main airport of Moscow where it causes panic. Hundreds of witnesses see it emit a luminous crown and transform into a giant jellyfish: it moves away and expels 3 small UFOs which the Migs will vainly chase. Andropov orders the Institute of Studies of Magnetism and Earth Radioactivity to seriously study these UFOs still called anomalous atmospheric phenomena.
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July 18: India launches its Rohini satellite and becomes the 7th space power.
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August
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In China, hundreds of thousands of people observe UFOs in the sky of Tianjin and the Zhili Gulf.
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August 7, 9:40 PM: In Montmorency (Val d'Oise), an orange object descended into the forest then rose again according to. [[Gazette du Val d'Oise, July 16, 1997]]{.source}
"- August 15"
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Many people are waiting for the arrival of a UFO in Cergy-Pontoise, announced by Frank Fontaine, in vain.
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At 1:50, in Cergy-Pontoise (Val d'Oise), observation of a kind of spinning top with lower white, yellow and red lights. [[Gazette du Val d'Oise, 16 July 1997]]{.source}
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August 16, from 4:30 to 6:45: In Cergy-Pontoise (Val d'Oise), observation of a large star with a blue halo in slight sway. [[Gazette du Val d'Oise, July 16, 1997]]{.source}
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September
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William Moore meets his informant Falcon. He and Stanton Friedman managed to interview 62 people related to the Roswell incident, such as Bill Brazel, Loretta Proctor and Jesse Marcel Junior.
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A trace left by a UFO in Australia. See images/1980-09-30_300.jpg.
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October 16, 9:53 PM: Air traffic controllers at Tien Tsin Airport (China) confuse the radar echo of a UFO with that of Flight 402 from Beijing for a few minutes.
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November 4: Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter.
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November 12: Voyager 1 flies over Saturn and analyzes its rings.
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November 14: A collaborator of Jacques Vallée meets M. D. in Paris.
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November 28, 5:15: Meeting of British policeman Alan Godfrey.
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December
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In Hessdalen, Norway, the beginning of a long wave of observations of curious phenomena, mainly yellow balls, powerful white-blue lights and groups of multicolored lights, and even non-luminous objects visible only during the day. The trajectories can be varied; the phenomena are recorded on various devices, sometimes on radar.
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December 15: Numerous witnesses, including Timothy Good, observe a luminous flying object of conical shape in the South-East of London and in Kent. The front is red, the center silver and the back a sparkling blue.
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December 17: An English television channel broadcasts a short excerpt of a 30-minute film shot near Sevenoaks (Kent) showing the unknown object of the day before. The film is authenticated by 15 witnesses.
"- December 27"
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3 h: The radars at the RAF Watton (Norfolk) base detect an unknown flying over the North Sea towards the coast. It disappears from the screens around the Rendlesham Forest. At roughly the same time, near the forest, the security guards at the gate of the USAF RAF Woodbridge base see lights descending from the sky towards the trees. They are given permission to investigate and they leave the base in a Jeep.
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5:30: Rendlesham Incident: While serving as base commander at Bentwaters Air Base in southern England, Colonel Halt observes and investigates various anomalous objects appearing in the sky over Rendlesham Forest. The observations occur over two distinct nights during the week following Christmas.
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December 29: Cash/Landrum Incident.
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In Puerto Rico, observation of creatures with pointed ears and webbed feet.
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The word "extraterrestrial" enters the Petit Larousse Illustré, with the following definition: Outside of the Earth's atmosphere and as a noun, an inhabitant supposed to be from another planet than Earth.