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| Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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| April 15 |
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| 1897 - This was the peak date in a wave of "airship" sightings around |
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| the United States and Canada. There were over fifty reports of |
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| "airships" on this day, including 18 in Michigan alone. There were |
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| six humanoid reports, two in Iowa and one each in Texas, Wisconsin, |
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| Illinois and Michigan. Two of these reports invovled communication |
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| with quite human-looking people. |
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| 1897 - A large object was seen in Linn Grove, Iowa in the morning hours of |
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| this day in 1897 flying slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to |
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| land and five men--F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe |
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| Croaskey, Benjamin Buland--drove toward it in a buckboard wagon. |
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| About seven kilometers north of Linn Grove they found the craft on |
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| the ground. They came within 700 meters of it but it "spread its four |
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| giant wings and rose towards the North". Two figures with |
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| shoulder-length hair were seen aboard the craft and made efforts to |
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| conceal themselves. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in |
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| flight. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of |
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| Landings, p. 183, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 16, 1897). |
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| 1897 - Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft |
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| in a field near the city of Springfield, Illinois around midday. They |
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| had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were |
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| told the ship had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 minutes and |
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| that the crew was making electrical repairs. (Source: Jacques Vallee, |
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| Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying |
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| Saucer Review, January 1965). |
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| 1897 - At nightfall the same day a flying object followed a train traveling |
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| from Howard to Artesian, South Dakota in Miner County. It came closer |
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| and closer to the ground as it did, reported the engineer, Joe |
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| Wright. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of |
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| Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966). |
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| 1897 - At around 9:00 p.m. a passenger train on the Wabash line heading |
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| toward Quincy, Illinois had just passed Perry Springs, Missouri when |
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| a low-flying object started following it. All the passengers saw the |
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| craft, which followed the train for fifteen minutes. It had one red |
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| and one white light. It flew ahead of the train and disappeared |
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| quickly, although the train was then moving at 65 mph. (Source: Chicago |
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| Times-Herald, April 15, 1897). |
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| 1897 - At 11:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped airship without wings and with yellow |
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| lights at the bow and stern flew to the north over Hudson, Michigan. |
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| It flew at an estimated altitude of 500 feet, and was clearly visible |
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| in the bright moonlight. (Source: Lucius Farish newspaper clipping |
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| files). |
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| 1930 - A farmer in Largentiere, France saw a bright orange glowing, |
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| cone-shaped object on the ground at 5:30 a.m. The object took off |
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| slowly and flew away. The grass was flattened where the object had |
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| been. (Source: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue |
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| of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 14, citing Dominique |
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| Weinstein). |
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| 1952 - At Frenchman Flat, Nevada at 9:30 a.m. four to six flying |
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| discs passed through the mushroom cloud created after an Atomic bomb |
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| test blast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2082). |
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| 1952 - That evening in Gardena, California a set of unidentified |
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| nocturnal lights flew silently to the north slowly, pulsating at |
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| regular intervals. The bright white light had a red glow preceeding |
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| it and one behind. When the white light went off the red glows seemed |
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| to merge to form a semi-elliptical red glow. It abruptly changed |
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| direction in a zigzag maneuver. (Source: Edward Sullivan, Civilian |
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| Saucer Intelligence-Los Angeles, letter dated April 26, 1952). |
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| 1958 - On or about this date in the mountains near Tabladitas, |
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| Argentina about 14 kilometers from Abra Pampa, a luminous object 30 |
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| meters in diameter came down to ground level. (Source: Jacques |
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| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 465). |
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| 1958 - A cigar shaped object with smaller satellite objects was |
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| sighted at 12:30 a.m. over Broager, Denmark. (Sources: UFO |
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| Nachtrichten, June 1958; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the |
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| Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 78). |
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| 1959 - On this evening Ove Christensen was coming home after work on |
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| his bicycle along the road between Svendborg and Nyborg, Denmark when |
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| he was stopped by a disc-shaped object spinning at ground level. |
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| After five minutes it began chasing him, flying six meters above him |
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| for five minutes. The UFO was luminous and seemed to be made of a |
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| glasslike material. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A |
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| Century of Landings, case 486; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1959). |
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| 1966 - While flying near Santa Catalina Island, California a |
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| professional Hollywood movie cameraman named Hansen shot a motion |
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| picture film of a disc-shaped object while shooting an action film |
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| from a helicopter. The television show NOVA claimed the film shows |
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| what probably was a light aircraft. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, December |
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| 1974, p. 1; Xenolog, September 1978, p. 11; CUFOS case files). |
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| 1967 - Two young boys sawa dark gray UFO hovering over the eastern |
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| coast of Denmark in the early afternoon. An elevator descended from |
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| the bottom, with eight occupants sliding down a thick cable. They |
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| wore masks and breathing apparatus boxes on their backs, and one of |
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| them wore a blue colored uniform. They waved at the witnesses. |
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| (Sources: Dennis Stamey, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 36; Charles |
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| Bowen, FSR, September-October 1967, p. 32, citing UFONYT). |
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| 1968 - A three-foot in diameter reddish orange disc was seen on the |
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| ground by several soldiers near a canal north of the Gobi Desert in |
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| Xinjiang province, China on this evening. It shot straight up as the |
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| soldiers approached. (Source: Wendelle C. Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs |
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| over Modern China, p. 49). |
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| 1969 - At 11:00 p.m. two people driving on the highway near |
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| Pichidangui, Chile in Coquimbo province were paralyzed and their |
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| truck engine died when they encountered a disc-shaped object ahead on |
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| the road. The object lit up the road and flew away, but came back two |
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| minutes later. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing |
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| Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #118). |
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| 1970 - Kalle Tiihonen, age 39, a locally well known and respected |
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| retired athlete, had just come from the sauna and was drinking coffee |
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| in his kitchen in Kursu, Salla, Finland at around 5 p.m. when he and |
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| his family heard a sound resembling a swarm of bees. He then had the |
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| feeling that someone was staring at him from the doorway behind him. |
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| He turned around and saw a small creature about 1.2 meters in height, |
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| clad in a tight fitting shiny green suit and helmet. The creature had |
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| very dark, large eyes, with a human look. Tiihonen believed that the |
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| creature had not come in through the door since he would have heard |
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| some noise. For several moments they stared at each other, and then |
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| Tiihonen asked the creature where he was from. "From the space," was |
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| the answer. Tiihonen was unsure if he in fact heard the answer or if |
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| it was a mental message. In an effort to make conversation Tiihonen |
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| asked the alien if the Apollo 13 astronauts, then stranded in space, |
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| would get back home safely. "Yes they will", was the answer. Tiihonen |
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| spoke with the being of other subjects for some time, but could not |
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| recall later what they spoke about, other than the creature promised |
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| to return. It took a step backwards and disappeared in an instant. |
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| Tiihonen again heard the noise resembling a swarm of bees. Tiihonen's |
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| eight-year-old son was sitting in another room during the encounter |
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| and heard his father talking to someone, but the dividing wall kept |
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| him from seeing the humanoid. However, he did see a bright object |
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| land on the grass outside, and also saw it lift off. Tiihonen ran to |
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| the sauna where his wife was and told her about his encounter. After |
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| the incident, Tiihonen was unable to sleep for three nights in a row, |
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| and experienced a sort of malaise for over a week. (Sources: K. Gosta |
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| Rehn, UFOs Here and Now, p. 136; UFO Information Sweden, March 1971; |
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| Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9601; Albert S. Rosales, |
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| Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Mervi Virtanen, Finland). |
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| 1970 - At 1:38 p.m. local time in Mar del Plata, Argentina a luminous |
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| disc-shaped object glowed as bright as the sun, yet vanished while |
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| still in view. A man by the name of Galan took a photograph of it |
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| before it disappeared. Richard Hall gives the photographer a high |
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| rating for reliability and the photograph a strong rating for |
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| genuineness. (Sources: CUFOS files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO |
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| Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 15 & 287; Dwight |
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| Connelly, Skylook, November 1975, p. 10; Spacelink, April 1970). |
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| 1971 - Two forestry workers, Morel and Hay, were driving through the |
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| forest west of Taupo, New Zealand on a cloudy evening around 9 p.m. |
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| when they encountered a large cone-shaped object with rotating lights |
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| on its rim. It followed their car for over three minutes. (Source: |
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| APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 6; Data-Net Report, |
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| September 1971). |
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| 1972 - At 6:30 p.m. three women watched a large dark shiny |
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| disc-shaped object with two triangular windows on top and a rotating |
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| bottom. It approached their house in Driffield, Humberside, England |
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| to within 200 meters. It hovered there for a minute, then backed away |
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| very slowly. It curved away to the north-northwest, and then went |
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| behind some woods. The sighting lasted for over six minutes, and they |
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| were able to view the UFO through binoculars. (Source: BUFORA |
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| Journal, April 1973, p. 19). |
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| 1973 - During the late afternoon on the road between Manor and Penn, |
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| Pennsylvania twelve witnesses saw a disc-shaped object, between 35-60 |
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| feet in diameter, that came within 70 meters of a car, causing the |
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| car's headlights to dim. During the night of April 15-16 more than a |
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| dozen witnesses reported observations of UFOs in the area of Penn and |
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| Manor, Pennsylvania, near the larger town of Jeanette. Among these |
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| was the report of a single witness who was driving near the Manor, |
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| Pennsylvania Power plant at 10:55 p.m. when he observed a large |
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| glowing object over the nearby railroad tracks. It was just above the |
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| trees, and the light from the object illuminated the immediate area |
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| with an intense white color. The witness pulled over to the side of |
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| the road and got out for a better look. The object, no more than a |
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| hundred yards away, was about 400 yards west of the power plant and |
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| approximately 10 feet above the trees. The object itself was |
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| completely illuminated but apparently solid in construction and about |
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| three car lengths in size. It had a dome like structure on top, which |
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| was the same bright color as the rest of the object. Around the main |
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| section were 2 or 3 rows of multi-colored lights, or square windows. |
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| One was whitish, the next red, and the third a blue or green hue. |
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| From the left side of the UFO a line or cord extended some 30 yards, |
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| and at the end of the cord floated a human form some eight to ten |
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| feet tall, similar to the "Apollo astronauts walking in space". It |
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| was of a purple or orange color. The witness did not see the humanoid |
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| form retracted into the UFO; rather it disappeared like "a string of |
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| lights." The witness had left his lights on and engine running when |
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| he got out of his vehicle, and he noticed that the headlights had |
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| dimmed to the strength of a weak flashlight. When the object |
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| departed, the headlights came back on as bright as before. The object |
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| made a high-pitched sound "like a spinning top" when it departed. |
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| "You could hear the trees blowing" as it went over them. The |
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| encounter lasted three to four minutes. (Sources: (1) Irwin |
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| Standard-Observer, July 1973, p. 27; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports |
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| Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56, citing the UFO Register, |
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| (volume 5, 1974), (2) Stan Gordon, Skylook, June 1973, p. 6; David F. |
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| Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case |
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| 1973-08 (A1199), citing Stan Gordon; David F. Webb, 1973 - Year of |
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| the Humanoids, case 73-07). |
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| 1974 - At 8:15 p.m. a 20-year-old woman named Saudron, who was |
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| driving between Gipey and Cosne, Allier department, France, sighted a |
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| red glowing hemispherical object on the ground near some woods in the |
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| Foret de Dreuille. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: |
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| Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. |
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| 483). |
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| 1974 - Fifteen minutes after the UFO landing in France, all |
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| passengers aboard a ferry off the coast of Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain |
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| saw a round, intense torch-like light rise from the ocean at 8:30 |
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| p.m. It emerged out of ocean near a huge rock, traveled at a low |
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| altitude, then dropped into the water. It then rose from the ocean a |
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| second time, flew a good distance, then dove back into the water |
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| again. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 137; Richard Hall, UFO |
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| Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 188; Richard H. Hall, The UFO |
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| Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 346). |
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| 1975 - A science teacher and six others in San Jose, California |
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| viewed an orange glowing domed disc through binoculars as it |
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| approached them at 9:23 p.m. The object made a right angle turn |
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| toward the witnesses, then stopped over their street and front yard. |
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| It was estimated to be 90 feet in diameter, with a ten foot wide |
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| cabin structure. Although it made no sound, it emitted a white beam, |
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| an orange glow, and red sparks that dropped from underneath it. It |
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| oscillated, then shot straight up into space. (Sources: Slava Mach, |
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| MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, The UFO |
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| Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 19, 154, & 162). |
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| 1981 - A huge metallic triangular object with several red lights on |
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| the sides and very bright white light on the leading edge flew over |
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| Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire at 7:35 p.m. It flew very low to the |
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| ground, and passed over a car flying off to the west. (Source: Philip |
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| J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 24). |
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| 1990 - A night security guard observed three humanoids while on |
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| patrol in Miami, Florida at 4:30 a.m. He described the beings as |
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| seven-foot tall aliens with cat eyes, who he watched walk across a |
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| parking lot. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO |
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| Reports, 1988-94, case 995, citing UFO Bureau). |
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| 1992 - A bright blue, domed disc-shaped UFO emerged out of the clouds |
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| and approached a 20-year-old witness in his yard in Aloha, Washington |
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| at 10:55 p.m. It stopped briefly, changed color from bright blue to |
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| bright red, then accelerated rapidly away toward the west. (Source: |
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| Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1992, p. 19, citing MUFON |
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| field investigator J. Kirby, case file 921504W). |
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| 1994 - Three 12-year-old boys including Diego Percebal were walking |
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| near an old crumbled shrine to the Virgen De Ciguela in Torralba de |
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| Ribota, Zaragoza, Spain at around 8:00 p.m. when they saw a |
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| strange-looking dwarfish figure moving close to the building. The |
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| figure was dark in color, about 1.30 meters in height, and somewhat |
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| deformed with a huge oval-shaped cranium and a dark featureless face. |
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| It moved on two short, thick legs. The dwarf was heavy set and wore a |
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| shiny black suit, and was seen to enter the abandoned shrine. The |
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| boys saw the strange humanoid hide behind some debris and broken |
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| boards. Terrified, the boys ran to get adult witnesses, several of |
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| whom responded and went inside the shrine to investigate. The adult |
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| witnesses saw the strange figure moving behind a partially collapsed |
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| brick-wall and ran from the area. There were other encounters with |
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| the humanoid later in the same area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
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| Humanoid Contact Database 1994, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La |
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| Historia de Los OVNI en Espana). |
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| 1996 - Two police officers were conducting their nightly rounds late |
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| at night driving on the outskirts of Gerona, Spain when a powerful |
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| light crossed in front of them on the highway. One man felt |
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| mesmerized by the brilliant outburst of light, while his partner |
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| tried to keep hold of the patrol car's steering wheel. When the light |
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| extinguished the mesmerized officer told his companion that he felt a |
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| very odd sensation of being pulled upward at the same time that he |
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| saw two pairs of moist, black oval shaped eyes staring down at him |
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| from large, pear-shaped heads. The police officer had not even been |
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| able to comprehend the uncanny experience when the bizarre light |
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| staged a return. According to the officers, nine lights identical to |
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| the first appeared out of nowhere, and were then joined by three more |
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| that came from across the Portuguese border. The twelve lights were |
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| elongated and had an intense yellow glow. The lights remained |
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| suspended some 100 feet above the highway, prompting the police |
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| officers to flee the scene in terror. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
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| Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2674, citing Scott Corrales, |
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| Uncensored UFO Reports # 1). |
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| 1997 - A woman reported seeing red and white lights flashing outside |
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| her home in Bridgeton, New Jersey late at night. She next remembered |
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| seeing a hundred white lights moving in unison like a swarm of bees, |
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| each carrying its own light in formation. She then experienced three |
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| hours of missing time. She can recall seeing a man inside a plastic |
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| looking column filled with liquid, with blue electricity flowing |
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| through it. She woke up violently ill, and with a scar on her face. |
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| While this was occurring her next door neighbor also woke up with |
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| facial burns, but he had no recollection of anything unusual |
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| happening. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database |
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| 1997, case # 3131, citing New Jersey MUFON). |
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| 1999 - At 2:30 a.m. a man in Mexico City, Mexico woke up in a sweat, |
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| feeling dehydrated. He got up and drank a glass of water, and felt |
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| the need to open the window curtains. When he did so he saw a bright |
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| spherical object that was circling overhead. He took out his video |
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| camera and began to tape the object. The UFO began making symmetrical |
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| maneuvers, drawing lines and numbers in the sky. The witness felt |
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| mental communication then the video camera shut down. After about 10 |
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| minutes of circling around the object left. The witness felt what he |
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| described as a strange electrical sensation in his left lung soon |
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| afterwards. Upon viewing the videotape he reportedly saw three |
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| humanoid figures, including a female figure. Whereabouts of the film |
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| is unknown. (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
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| Seattle, April 1999 archived webpage; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
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| Contact Database 1999, case # 3627, citing NUFORC). |
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| 2004 - A woman awoke at around 6:00 a.m. and walked to her screened |
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| bedroom window in Orlando, Florida. She saw a small, oval, slightly |
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| glowing object hovering just above the ground, low outside the |
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| window. The object was about 12 inches in diameter or less. A cat |
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| noticed the object and attempted to stalk it, whereupon it made a |
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| quick zig-zag maneuver and suddenly streaked away in a nearly |
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| instantaneous acceleration. (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO |
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| Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2004 webpage archive; Larry Hatch, U |
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| computer database, case 18198, citing NUFORC). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 March 2007). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: disc-shaped UFOs |
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| , domed discs, human-appearing occupants, landings, low-flying UFOs p |
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| acing trains, low-level pursuit of witness by UFO, multi-year reports |
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| from Denmark and Spain, shiny uniforms, short humanoids, tall humano |
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| ids, UFO approached witnesses; vehicle EM effects: headlights dimmed. |
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