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| Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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| July 6 |
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| 1874 - In Oaxaca, Mexico a 130-meter long spiral-shaped "trumpet" and |
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| a 60-meter diameter bell hovered and floated in the sky for five |
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| minutes and then vanished. (Source: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, |
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| p. 275). |
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| 1947 - There are 127 UFO reports for this day recorded in the UFOCAT |
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| database. Cities with multiple reports include St. Louis, Missouri: |
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| Birmingham, Alabama; Tucson, Arizona; Patterson, New Jersey; Chicago, |
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| Illinois, Darlington, South Carolina; Boise, Idaho; Milwaukee, |
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| Wisconsin; Portland, Oregon; and Mount Vernon, Washington. |
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| 1947 - At five o'clock in the morning, Mr. McLean and his son were |
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| driving through Pocatello, Idaho at dawn when they saw a three-foot |
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| wide disc with a bulge in the middle land on a city street. It rose |
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| up, made some jerky movements, and then shot straight up. (Sources: |
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| Pocatello Tribune, July 7, 1947; Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, |
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| July 8, 1947). |
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| 1947 - Mr. Bates, an airline passenger in a plane flying southeast of |
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| Boise, Idaho watched a disc flash by his window at one o'clock in the |
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| afternoon. It was heading toward the southwest. A stewardess quickly |
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| rushed over to look. That evening over Boise, silver discs whirled |
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| and changed directions several times in several minutes, as if |
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| searching for something. (Sources: Edward Sullivan, letters received |
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| by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles, April 5, 1952; Boise |
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| Idaho Daily Statesman, July 7, 1947). |
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| 1947 - Three airmen flying aboard an Army Air Force B-25 near Clay |
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| Center, Kansas saw a silvery circular object, 10-15 meters in |
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| diameter, at 1:45 p.m. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in |
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| official statistics; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying |
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| Objects, p. 37). |
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| 1947 - A Phillips Petroleum aircraft with two men on board, flying |
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| near the Kansas-Colorado border, reported that nine metallic, |
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| revolving objects came flying at their airplane this afternoon, |
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| one-by-one, for 15 minutes. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft |
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| UFO Encounters, p. 9). |
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| 1947 - On this day Mr. Miller, a farmer in Logansport, Indiana heard |
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| a whining roar that drew his attention to a gray, spinning |
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| saucer-shaped object in the sky. It descended and hovered for several |
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| seconds. It then rose up into the clouds and was gone from view. |
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| (Source: Indianapolis News, July 1947). |
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| 1947 - At 4:00 p.m. in Savannah, Georgia a metallic ovoid object, |
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| then two more metallic ovoid craft flew in the direction of the ESE; |
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| descriptions of the UFO differed. (Source: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO |
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| Phenomena 1947-1967, p. 2). |
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| 1947 - Three shiny discs in a delta formation flew high and fast |
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| toward the north across Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana at 5:10 p.m. |
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| They entered a cloud and were gone from sight. (Source: Ted Bloecher, |
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| Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 451). |
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| 1947 - At 5:15 p.m. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota a silver orb shot |
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| toward the southwest "faster than any plane." It flew at an estimated |
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| altitude of ten thousand feet. It had what appeared to be a road |
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| stuck through the center of the object. (Source: Sioux Falls (SD) |
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| Daily Argus-Leader, July 7, 1947). |
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| 1947 - At 5:30 p.m. a low flying shiny circular object, floated like |
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| dirigible near the ground over a wheat field in Emporia, Kansas. It |
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| veered slowly to pass over a hill and fly toward the southwest. |
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| (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 |
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| UFO sighting wave, p. 85). |
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| 1947 - At 6:00 p.m. Mrs. Stollmaier in Terrace Park, Ohio saw two |
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| "shiny silver plates" travel north to south at high rate of speed. |
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| They appeared to be gaining altitude as they flew. At the same time |
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| northwest of Richmond, Virginia twelve shiny metallic discs wavered |
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| and flipped across the sky, just below the clouds at an estimated |
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| altitude of 500 feet. At 7:00 p.m. a black disc flew across the sky |
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| in Portsmouth, Virginia. It flight was silent, "as if towed." |
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| (Source: Cincinnati Enquirer, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on |
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| the UFO Wave of 1947, cases 442 & 457). |
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| 1947 - At six o'clock in the evening in Norman, Oklahoma the |
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| University of Oklahoma Dean of Engineering and four others watched |
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| one, then two more UFOs shoot to the west at a very high speed. They |
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| were estimated to be flying at 20,000 feet altitude. A round object |
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| flew across the sky to the west "awfully fast" over Anadarko, |
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| Oklahoma at 6:30 p.m. That same evening a light colored 40-foot wide |
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| disc flew just below the clouds in Edgewood, Texas. It speed was |
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| judged to be faster than a plane, and it seemed to be gaining |
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| altitude as it flew toward the northwest. (Source: Daily Oklahoman, |
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| July 8, 1947; Dallas Morning News, July 7, 1947). |
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| 1947 - At 7:00 p.m. three families in West Hartford, Connecticut |
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| including a physician, saw a reddish brown disc move at great speed |
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| in a straight line flying toward the northwest. At about the same |
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| time in New Hampshire two large discs flew over the town of |
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| Londonderry, making a whistling noise. That same night a disc with a |
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| Maltese cross inscribed on it flew on a straight, northerly course |
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| over East Providence, Rhode Island. (Sources: Hartford Times, July 7, |
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| 1947; Manchester Union-Leader, July 7, 1947; Providence Journal, July |
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| 7, 1947). |
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| 1947 - At 7:00 p.m. a silver disc dipped down out of the sky and |
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| climbed back up again south of St. Joseph, Missouri. It then shot to |
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| the northeast very fast. (Source: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of |
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| 1947, case 468). |
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| 1947 - A 9:45 p.m. a military witness sighted up to eleven discs and |
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| some 40 nocturnal lights over Birmingham, Alabama. The discs whirled |
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| through the sky and flew off toward the west. Both the Air Force and |
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| the FBI investigated the case. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, |
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| January 1978, p. 4). |
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| 1947 - Four luminous discs drifted to the west at the same altitude |
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| as the clouds at 10:30 p.m. over Woodlawn, Maryland. (Source: |
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| Baltimore News-Post, July 7, 1947). |
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| 1947 - A "rolling" luminous disc was seen flying south of Omaha, |
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| Nebraska at 11:45 p.m. (Source: Omaha World-Herald, July 7, 1947). |
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| 1951 - A UFO zigzagged over Lynchburg, Virginia at 8:25 a.m. (Source: |
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| Edward Sullivan, letters received by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, |
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| Los Angeles, March 2, 1952). |
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| 1952 - Amateur photographer Neff was making time exposures at |
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| Governors Island, New York. He didn't see a UFO at the time, but an |
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| unidentified object appeared on the film when developed. (Source: |
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| Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1397). |
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| 1959 - At 12:50 a.m. a round oval-shaped UFO with a dark band |
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| encircling the object and four illuminated domed portholes under the |
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| dark band, was sighted by Orwin and Smith in Baniara, Papua New |
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| Guinea. That night at 8:40 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO did a loop over |
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| Dogura, Papua New Guinea. (Source: Norman E G Cruttwell, UFOs in the |
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| two worlds: FSR Special Edition no. 4, pp. 21, 35). |
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| 1960 - A moon-like object was sighted by eight scientists over Teli, |
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| Russia at a 45-degree elevation above the horizon. The UFO flew to |
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| the north moving at 1.5 degrees of arc per minute. (Sources: Felix Zigel, |
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| unpublished manuscript, p. 79; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the |
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| Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 185). |
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| 1965 - The commander and night crew of the Norwegian tanker "Jawesta" |
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| observed a lighted object flying out of the sea from Puerto La |
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| Cruz, Portugal. First Officer Toronin Lien first saw the large, blue, |
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| intense flame behind the ship moving at high speed. He called the |
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| captain and tracked the object with binoculars as its altitude |
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| reached about 300 meters. Its was cigar shaped, with a row of lighted |
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| portholes showing a clear yellow glow, and it left a bluish trail. |
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| (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, |
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| case # 651). |
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| 1965 - Mrs. E. R. Hayner saw a flashing light, like a satellite, at |
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| 9:30 p.m. in Kiel, Wisconsin. It was seen for less than one minute. |
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| (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case |
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| # 9474; Don Berliner, Blue Book UFO Unknowns). |
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| 1967 - A very bright, white, star-like object rose slowly over Stoney |
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| Cross in the New Forest, England at 2:15 a.m. It stopped, flew |
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| "half-way back", then made numerous high-speed loops and dives at |
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| fantastic speeds. It then disappeared in a cloudy mist. (Source: |
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| NICAP investigation files). |
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| 1968 - At 1:17 a.m. a married couple in La Habra, California noticed |
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| a hovering cigar-shaped object with two circular objects beneath it. |
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| These two lights rose and merged into the larger object, which then |
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| took off. The couple noted that their dog was agitated during the |
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| sighting. (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. |
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| 73). |
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| 1969 - An extremely bright blue-green, metallic disc was observed |
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| over the local radio transmitter in Goiania, Brazil at 5 o'clock in |
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| the morning. It flew away toward the south, flying in zigzags and |
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| moving up and down in the sky. (Source: Dr. Walter Buhler, Brazilian |
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| cases in 1968 and 1969-part 6, FSR Case Histories no. 7, October |
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| 1971, p. 16, citing Cinco de Marco, July 16, 1969). |
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| 1971 - Two witnesses with binoculars in Ouhans, France heard a dull |
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| roaring sound at 2:30 a.m., and then saw a bell-shaped object jumping |
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| about in the sky like a moth. It shot away toward the northeast. |
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| (Source: UFO Nachrichten, October 1971). |
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| 1972 - A light over Cheox, Belgium at first appeared to be behaving |
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| like a satellite, traveling from the north-northwest to the |
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| south-southeast. It stopped in place for 15 seconds and suddenly shot |
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| off in the same south-southeasterly direction. (Source: Larry Hatch, |
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| U computer database, case 9577). |
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| 1973 - A 51-year-old married couple in Fonda, Iowa sighted a bright |
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| yellow light in the southwestern sky. It moved slowly toward the |
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| west-northwest, changing colors from yellow to red to blue. It seemed |
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| to be round in shape. (Source: Fort Dodge (IA) Messenger, July 9, |
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| 1973). |
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| 1974 - In Madison County, Nebraska a cattle mutilation was discovered |
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| here. A Bigfoot report occurred on the previous day in Burt County, |
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| three counties to the east. (Source: Fate, November 1974, p. 14). |
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| 1975 - A mutilated cow was found dropped over the entrance to NORAD |
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| Headquarters located under Cheyenne Mountain, outside of Colorado |
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| Springs, Colorado. All reproductive organs were removed. (Source: |
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| Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 192). |
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| 1975 - At five o'clock in the afternoon in Mount Pleasant, Ontario a |
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| shiny metallic domed disc was seen in a tobacco field. A thirty-foot |
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| diameter area of plants was flattened, the tobacco plants were wilted |
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| and burned, and an oily residue was found. At the same time a |
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| daylight disc made a turn and entered the base of a thunderhead |
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| cloud, thirty miles north-northwest of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. |
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| (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1975; Canadian UFO Report, |
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| Summer 1976, p. 1; Center for UFO Studies, on-site investigation, |
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| report dated September 13, 1975; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, |
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| Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 122 & 264). |
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| 1977 - Steynsburg, South Africa - At 5:50 p.m. a spherical |
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| light--larger than the apparent size of Venus--moved, hovered for two |
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| minutes, and then shot away. (Source: Awareness, April 1979, p. 4). |
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| 1978 - An "apportation" (an translocation in time or space) allegedly |
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| occurred near Mendoza, Argentina on this date in 1978. Francisco |
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| Nunez, age 66, and his son of the same name, age 24, both mechanics, |
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| were driving south of the city in their 1930 Chevy pickup when their |
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| vehicle was lifted from road. They experienced a total change in |
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| their environment and scenery and found themselves speeding through a |
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| city with tall buildings on a five-lane highway. The sky, which had |
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| been clear and starry, was now red. |
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| They were nearly blinded by a brilliant red light and felt very cold. |
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| The vehicle's engine and the car stereo stopped running, and they |
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| noticed that all sounds had ceased. Finally their car "landed" back |
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| on the highway near Lujan de Cuyo, about 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) |
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| beyond the point where the incident had begun. Their pickup's engine |
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| restarted and they drove home. Both men felt a compulsive need to |
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| wash the car and take a bath. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping |
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| Service, November 1978, p. 14, translating Cronica, August 30 & 31, |
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| 1978; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year |
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| Report, p. 554). |
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| 1980 - At 2:30 a.m. in Bear River, Nova Scotia a silent, |
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| fifteen-meter diameter round object hovered only 500 feet away. A dog |
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| hid in fear. A six-meter long indentation was discovered on the |
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| ground. (Source: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 134). |
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| 1986 - A nurse in Sonoma, California reported that a white glowing |
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| disc followed her car through several turns at 5:15 a.m. It flew away |
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| in the direction of Napa. (Source: Robert Gribble, National UFO |
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| Reporting Center, case 1177). |
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| 1992 - A 15-year-old girl in Taber, Alberta saw a large black disc |
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| outside her bedroom window at 3:20 a.m. She hid in the house. |
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| Circular traces were discovered were found in a field outside. |
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| (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1994). |
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| 1994 - At 11:40 p.m. in Llanelli, Wales, UK a disc changed shape and |
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| color from a cigar to a delta over a 20-minute period. It had lights |
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| on its edge. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1994). |
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| 1999 - A triangular object was seen with a faint red light in each of |
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| its three corners in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. It flew overhead at 10:50 |
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| p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July |
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| 1999 web page). |
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| 2002 - A dark domed craft a with ramp hovered silently over a |
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| Canadian army base near Edmonton, Alberta at 1:30 a.m. (Source: 2002 |
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| Canadian UFO Survey, case 252). |
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| 2002 - At 11:45 pm. several lights "put on a show" over a mountain in |
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| Middleton, Nova Scotia. Animal reaction: scared dog. (Source: 2002 |
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| Canadian UFO Survey, case 251). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 October 2009) |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: Animal reactio |
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| ns, cattle mutilations, cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, landings |
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| , landing traces, luminous UFOs, procession of objects, silvery metal |
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| lic UFOs, translocation in time and/or space, UFOs flying loops, vert |
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| ical ascent, zigzag maneuvers, roaring, whining and whistling sounds. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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