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#1959, July 11
L'Ain, France
On July 11, 1959, an unidentified flying object was seen by a group of people near the town of L'Ain, France. The object was saucer-shaped and was described as having a silver color and a red light. It was seen flying at a constant speed and disappeared on the horizon.

#1959, July 11
USA
At the same time, the X-15, another rocket-powered aircraft, helped to better understand the problems of flight in this still poorly explored zone, which no longer belonged entirely to aeronautics and not yet completely to space. The first X-15, released from a B-52 bomber, made its first free flight in 1959. (continued June 1962) ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 162)

#1959, January 2
USSR, Baikonour
The experiment was attempted by the Russians. They launched "Lunik I" towards the Moon, but the craft missed its target, passing about 7000 km from the lunar surface and continuing on its route. It eventually fell under the influence of the Sun and was condemned to perpetual orbit as a planet. (following September 12, 1959) (Astronautics - Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 53) Let us cite the measurements taken by the space probe "Lunik I". At first glance, the number of 26 impacts recorded in 36 hours of interplanetary flight per square meter of exposed surface may seem alarming. But the meteorite detector was in this case sensitive to the shock of masses of the order of a millionth of a gram... (...) It has become a planet of the Sun under the name of "Metchta" (Dream) ("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Pocket, 1967, p. 33 and 235)

#1959,
FRANCE, Colomb-Béchar
France set up a small Peenemunde in Vernon in the Eure. They put into the world Vveronique" a 1300 kg rocket, which, tested in Colomb-Bechar, reached a height of 200 kilometers in 1959. (see 1960)
("L'Astronautique" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12)

#1959, February 21
POLAND, Gdynia
Dock workers at the Gdynia port see a glowing object fall into the middle of the harbor basin and their description is so precise that the exact location of where it fell can be determined. The maritime authorities then send three divers who enter the icy water and first announce that their search is hampered by a thick cloud of mud. They eventually manage to surface with a metal piece. After being previously examined by the Polish Navy, the piece was sent to the Gdynia Polytechnic University. (...) Several days after the glowing object plunged into the port waters, men assigned to guard the surrounding beaches stumbled upon a strange figure: a kind of man crawling, completely exhausted, on the sand. This creature spoke no known language and was dressed in a kind of uniform. Part of his face and hair seemed burned. He was brought to the University hospital where he was kept in isolation and examined. But it soon became clear that it was impossible to undress this creature because the uniform had no means of opening: it was not made of a usual substance such as wool or fabric, but of a metal that could only be cut with special tools and after much effort. The doctors noted that the organs of their patient were very different from ours: the circulatory system was completely new to them and the number of fingers and toes was not normal. The creature remained alive until a kind of bracelet was removed from him. The remains were then sent to the USSR for further examination. The Polish ufologists quickly established a link between the metal object and the creature on the one hand and UFOs and everything related to them on the other. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est". French translation Laffont 1966 - p.23 - 24)

#1959, March 3
USA
The americans succeeded in making the Pioneer IV carrier rocket function at all levels, and this tiny 6 kg probe, missing the Moon by 50,000 km, became in turn a solar planet.
("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 235)

#1959, March 12
AUSTRALIA, Urnong Landing - South Australia
In the evening, young Kim Marks (6 years old) was getting ready for bed, when he told his parents that a man, dressed in a red jacket and pants with white trim, was in his room. The man, about 150 cm tall, had a crimson face. The child and the entity observed each other in silence for more than a minute. The dog, which accompanied the child, had no special reaction. (Keith Basterfield)

#1959, March 26 or 27
USA, Corsica, Pennsylvania.
12:45 p.m. Witness: T.E. Clark. An object shaped like a barrel, dark red in color, 20 feet long, 6 to 7 feet high, descended behind the trees during the 3 minute observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1959, March
POLAND, Kolobreg
Not far from this settlement, on the coast of the Baltic Sea,
soldiers saw a triangular object of four meters emerging from the sea creating a strong turbulence. It flew away, made a tour around the barracks and disappeared at high speed. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est". French translation Laffont 1966 - p.262)

#1959, March 29
GERMANY, Lampertheim near Mannheim
Horst Raps, 26 years old, is taking a walk (on medical prescription, he suffers from his lungs) Around 8 pm he sees a light descending from the sky. He approaches it and sees a shining object hovering one meter above the ground. It is a saucer of blue and purple light, topped with a dome that sends out beams of light. Fascinated, he sees a staircase come out and a large humanoid figure in multicolored uniform appears. The apparition speaks correct German and comes to warn the witness of great dangers. It sets a rendezvous and forces him to return to the same place three days later. (continued April 1, 59) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1959, April 1st and 18th
GERMANY, Lampertheim
Horst Raps is faithful to the appointments set on the 29th. He can board and in a minimum of time the saucer moves away to land on Alpha Centauri. There he notices that there are different races of people, that the dwellings are dome-shaped, and that multicolored flowers are cultivated. (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1959, April 15
DENMARK, near Svendborg
A man on a bicycle saw a luminous disc-shaped UFO, which seemed to be made of glass. This object was close to the ground and made a buzzing sound. When it took off, the UFO lifted the cyclist to about 7 m in altitude, then it fell back down, quite slowly. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 324)

#1959, May 20
ARGENTINA, near Tres Lomas (Pampa)
At 5:30 PM two hunters saw an image that appeared to be that of a disc-shaped object, 150 m away. They described the appearance as an engine made of aluminum or silver metal or polished glass, and 2-2.5 m high. They also added that it seemed to have a dome of one meter radius. After the object left, they found flattened grass. (Jacques VALLEE – Jeanine VALLEE: "Les phénomènes insolites de l'espace", ed. bound LAFFONT 1978, p. 74, 75)

#1959, May 28
USA, Cape Canaveral
FEMALE MONKEYS "ABLE" AND "BAKER" REACH 500 KM IN A JUPITER ROCKET. THEY ARE RECOVERED SAFE AND SOUND. (Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15) FLIGHT DURATION 15 MINUTES (Henk Nieuwenhuis, Artis in de ruimte, Van Wijnen - Franeker 1988 p. 19)

#1959, Spring
In flight, between Alma Ata (Kazakhstan) and Moscow (USSR)
A TU 104 was flying normally when suddenly a glow was noticed inside the passenger cabin, near the corridor leading to the cockpit. This glow suddenly took on a solid form, becoming a luminous disc about 50 cm in diameter. It remained motionless in a vertical position. The passengers were alarmed, someone shouted "Fire!" A pilot from the crew immediately came with an extinguisher, but he saw neither fire nor object, as it had disappeared! The situation had just returned to normal when, suddenly, the object reappeared! Slowly it moved through the cabin, from window to window. Paralyzed by fear, the passengers did not make the slightest movement. After making its inspection tour, the disc returned to its initial position and vanished forever. (Guy TARADE: "S.V. and Extraterrestrial Civilizations". - J'AI LU 1969, p. 219, 220)

#1959, June 27th and 28th
PAPUA, Boianai
RR3. (at dusk, about 25 witnesses, duration: 3 hours)
Excerpt from notes taken by Reverend Gill:
Time: 6:45 PM. Sky: some low cloud formations. Saw a bright white
light to the northwest. 6:50 PM: called Steven and Eric. Steven arrives,
confirms, not a star. 6:55 PM sent Eric to get people. Object at the
top moving - a man? Now three men, moving, luminous, doing something
on the bridge. Gone. 7 PM: men, 1 then again 2. 7:04 PM gone again.
7:10 PM cloud cover at 600m altitude. Man 1, 3, 4, 2 (appeared in
this order), thin blue electric projector. Men gone, projector still
there. 7:12 PM men 1 and 2 reappeared, blue projector. 7:20 PM
projector off, men gone. 7:20 PM UFO passes through a cloud. 8:28 PM
sky cleared above, big cloud above Dogura. Saw UFO up high. Called
people from the station. Seemed to be descending, growing bigger. 8:50
PM new cloud formation. Big UFO stationary. Others going back and
forth in the clouds. When they descend through a cloud, the light
reflects off the cloud like a big halo - no more than 600m, probably
less. All UFOs very distinct. The "mother" ship still big, distinct,
stationary. 9:05 PM cloud formations, numbers 2, 3, 4 gone. 9:10 PM
number 1 gone above us in a cloud. 9:20 PM "mother" back. 9:30 PM
"mother" gone, crossing the sea towards Giwa. 9:46 PM UFO reappears
above us, hovering. 10 PM still stationary. 10:10 PM hovering, gone
behind a cloud. 10:30 PM very high hovering in a break in the sky
between clouds. 10:50 PM very cloudy, no sign of UFO. 11:04 PM heavy
rain.<br/><br/>
The following night they returned (...) It was still luminous and
sparkling, but it seemed closer and clearer. And then there was this
figure on the bridge, well that's what I call the top. And it was the
teacher who said: "I wonder if it's going to land on the playground".
I replied: "Why not?" And then we made big signs - Hello, Hello! - and
you can imagine how surprised we were when they returned our signals.
And then Eric who was still with me - he never left me - and another
boy waved their arms and the figures also waved both arms in response.
(J. Allen HYNEK: "UFOs, Myth or Reality?" - trans. Belfond 1974 -
pp. 175 to 179, 278) (Maurice CHATELAIN: "The Messengers of the
Cosmos" - Laffont 1980, pp. 43, 44) 

#1959, June 26th and 27th 1959 
BOIANAI, PNG
(note in passing the difference in date) Several disc-shaped objects manifest
in the evening of the 26th, for four hours, to several dozen witnesses,
including Father W. Gill. Silhouettes are seen on the closest one. The
same scene is repeated the next day, and signs are exchanged with the
entities. There are about sixty similar observations in the region in
two months. Confusion with planets? (note from vog: this seems out of
the question to me: the indigenous populations of these regions know
their night sky much better than we do) (Science and Life, special
edition: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60 to 63)

#1959, June
ARGENTINA, near Buenos Aires, at sea
The Argentine Navy was perplexed in not being able to identify a submarine.
It had the shape of a huge fish (it might have been a huge fish!) with a wide tail like the stabilizer of a B 17. It moved and maneuvered very quickly. It was impossible for them to identify it and we do not know the rest of the story. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 170)

#1959, July 13
NEW ZEALAND, Blenheim
Mrs. Frederich Moreland was crossing a paddock to milk her cows. She looked up and noticed a bright green light among the clouds. (...) she saw two large intense green lights quickly descending from the sky. (...) Everything was bathed in this green light described as "sticky and horrible". (...) She took shelter behind some trees planted in the middle of the paddock (...) It was then that she realized that the two green lights were part of a large bell-shaped object that was emitting a strong heat. The object stabilized at the height of the roof of the house. The witness estimated its wingspan to be about 10 m. She heard a low humming. Two rows of openings located on the middle part of the craft emitted orange glows. The lower part, on the other hand, had a metallic green color. Suddenly the portholes went out. The top of the dome-shaped object made of a material as clear as glass lit up and Mrs. Moreland clearly distinguished two men wearing shiny costumes (...) the material of these uniforms had the shine of aluminum or silver paper. Their faces were covered with a translucent mask. One of the beings stood up and seemed to look at something specific inside the craft. Then he sat down next to his companion. Then the openings on the side of the object emitted orange flames, the craft tilted slightly and shot into the sky where it disappeared with a soft noise that seemed sharp to the amazed witness. (...)(Jean FERGUSON: "Les Humanoïdes..." - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.44, 45). (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 344, 345)

#1959, July
Spain, Cadaqués
In July 1959, engineer Juan Porta Massano took a photo of Salvador Dali in Cadaqués. Upon development, a black shape resembling a bottle appeared above the painter's head. (Archives of Ignacio Darnaude, published in "Màs Alla" No. 51 Madrid, January 1999)

#1959, August 7
USA
EXPLORER 6 (DELTA 1) TRANSMITTED THE FIRST IMAGE OF OUR PLANET. THIS FIRST DOCUMENT WAS OF QUITE MEDIOCRE QUALITY. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 20) (continued July 1961)

#1959, August
USA- SPACE
A RADAR OF THE AMERICAN NAVY DETECTS AN INTRUDER ADDING TO THE EIGHT SATELLITES THEN IN ORBIT. THE NEWS FIRST CONFIDENTIAL, APPEARS IN THE PRESS ON SEPTEMBER 2ND. FIVE MONTHS LATER, ON FEBRUARY 11TH 1960, THE SATELLITE STILL TURNS AND AN AMERICAN COMMUNIQUE REVEALS THAT THIS SATELLITE IS OF GREAT SIZE, REFLECTS POORLY THE SOLAR LIGHT AND CIRCULATES ON A POLAR ORBIT. CERTAIN ONES ADVANCE THE HYPOTHESIS OF A SECRET RUSSIAN SATELLITE, WHICH THE SOVIETS DENY IMMEDIATELY. IT MUST BE RECOGNIZED, INDEED, THAT THESE LATTER HAVE THEN NO SATELLITE IN POLAR ORBIT (THE FIRST COSMOS 144, IN FEBRUARY 1967) WHILE THE AMERICANS ALREADY HAVE POLAR DISCOVERERS.... ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 122, 123)

#1959, August
USSR, Georgia
Not far from a village in Georgia (the name is not given) a UFO is said to have exploded in front of a 43-year-old farmer named Vassili Doubichev. No remains were found except for a "dead monster"! A certain Dr. Fiodor Pétrov allegedly claimed that the remains were not composed of carbon but of silicon. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries". French translation Laffont 1966 - p.277)

#1959, September 7
Northern Ireland, Moneymore (Derry)
A couple approached a small UFO, one meter in diameter, that had just landed in a bog. It was ovoid, brightly red, and marked with three dark red lines. Thomas Hutchinson's intention was to take it to the police station. As he reached out, the object rose and flew away. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 346)

#1959, September 12
USSR, Baikonour
(cf. January 2, 1959) SUCCESS WAS ACHIEVED WITH "LUNIK II" ON THE FOLLOWING SEPTEMBER 12. THE ACCURACY OF THE SHOT HAVING BEEN IMPROVED, ESPECIALLY BY TELEGUIDANCE, THE ROCKET STRUCK THE MOON AFTER 34 HOURS OF TRAVEL AND WAS PULVERIZED UPON IMPACT. (following October 4, 1959) ("Astronautics", Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 53) THE ROCKETEERS OF LUNIK II ANNOUNCED SHORTLY AFTER DEPARTURE THAT THE ENGINE, A SPHERE OF 390 (1511?) KILOS, WOULD REACH THE LUNAR SURFACE ON SEPTEMBER 13 AT 10:05 PM MOSCOW TIME. THE IMPACT OCCURRED, INDEED, WITH ASTONISHING PRECISION, AT 10:02:24 PM IN A POINT LOCATED 800 KM FROM THE CENTER OF THE VISIBLE HEMISPHERE OF THE SATELLITE. ("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 235, 236)

#1959, September 24
USA, Redmond (Oregon)
At 5am a gigantic UFO slowly descended towards the earth and stopped 65m above the head of police officer Robert Dickerson. After a few minutes the object rose and flew over the airport, stopping again to the northeast of the landing field. Wertz from air security and other officials followed the object with binoculars, its radiation now less intense: at the circumference of the disk they saw yellow, red and green beams of light. At 05:10 fighter jets took off from Portland base, while Klamath radar operators were already observing the object. The Redmond employees heard the fighters arrive, and as soon as they dived towards the object, the light beams disappeared, but intense radiation came from its lower part and the object suddenly rose as if catapulted into the sky. One of the fighters narrowly avoided a collision. Three others tried in vain to chase it. (Johannes von BUTLAR: "UFO, We Are Not Alone" - Presses de la Cité 1979 - pp. 141-144)

#1959, October 4
USSR, Baikonour
(cf: September 12, 1959) This high precision acrobatic attempt was made
on October 4, 1959 by "Lunik III" this vehicle circled the Moon -
unfortunately from too far away: 60,000 km - and was able to transmit views
of its hidden face, giving astronomers the means to draw,
for the first time, a summary map. ("Astronautics, Pierre
Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 54) (continued April 20, 1960)

#1959, October 19
BRAZIL, Pinhal
Retired policeman Cavalheiro Mendes, alone in his cottage, sat down on the terrace at around 00:15. After 5 minutes he felt a fear that intensified so much that he felt uncomfortable, while a heat oppressed him in general but especially on his face. His hair stood on end. He wanted to go inside, but as soon as he stood up he headed towards a small path, crossed the fence: his will seemed dominated by an unknown force. Barefoot he walked, until he reached the beach, he felt weak, wanted to sit down but felt compelled to stagger forward. He then noticed at 150 m an orange glow of a lenticular craft. At 20 m from the craft appeared a male human bust, with large protruding eyes, tanned skin, no beard, straight blond hair combed back. The bust wore a coarse lead-colored jacket with a high collar, without closures or pockets. When he arrived close to the bust the being inclined his head to the left and right and smiled. A kind of banal telepathic conversation ensued. With his arm he made a circular gesture to the right, open hand, fingers joined. In the direction indicated the witness saw a small man of about 1m60 heading towards the craft and disappearing from view. Then the witness heard the sound of the latch of the fence and all of a sudden regained his normal state: it was 01:30. (Inforespace n° 34 p. 24, 25)

#1959, October 23
USA, SPACE
Re-entry of Explorer 4 launched on 26.7.58 (but mentioned on 8.8.59???). Location not specified. (Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 135)

#1959, October 30
BRAZIL, Pont de Camarao (Porto Alegre)
At around 10:55 PM, Colonel Waldemar Carlos Bastide Schneider and his wife saw two blinking UFOs, diamond-shaped, with an apparent size of 45 to 60 cm. They were hovering 5 m above a wood. With the car headlights and then with flashlights, the Colonel made signals to the UFOs which responded in kind. This game lasted for an hour. Suddenly, the two luminous diamonds disappeared suddenly. (Inforespace n° 34 p. 26, 27)

#October, end of 1959
FRANCE, Aubagne/ Madrague de Montredon
Mrs. Moulet and her three children were outside around 6 pm. She saw an ovoid object descending in a horizontal position, the back of it was steel-like and polished, at the front was a strong light and above it a large window above a platform. Through this window about twenty figures were visible: good-looking, tall, wearing white suits with short sleeves, officer collars, fair complexion, wavy blond hair, smiling, with an impression of laughter. The craft gave the impression of a boat cutting through the waves. It moved without a sound. A slight vibration before it left in 2 or 3 seconds. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 239, 240)

#1959, December 4
USA
The rhesus monkey "Sam" reached 85 km in a Little Joe rocket.
(Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15)

#1959, end of year
BRAZIL, Tres Cerros
The foreman came to warn the farmer Sesefredo Silveira Gomes that a wheel-less circular object was stopped on a small marshy island. He added that he saw small men coming out of the machine. (Inforespace n°35 - p. 19)

#1959, December
NORWAY, Namsenfjorden
At around 10pm, Lorentz Johnson was on his way home to Skomsvoll when he saw a cigar-shaped, red glowing object with windows hovering at 50m altitude. Suddenly, the UFO ejected two long objects into the fjord. Another witness was present at the scene and although he saw nothing strange, he heard splashing noises. Five years later, a fisherman caught something on the bottom of the fjord that he could not bring up. A colleague with a sonar on board located a sizeable object. This was confirmed in 1968 when a UFO group detected an object 20 feet long at 100m depth. Whatever means were used, it was never possible to bring it up. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 163, 164)

#1959, end of year
BRAZIL, Guaiba (Porto Alegre)
The witnesses saw a plane coming down in flames. This fire went out on the edge of the road 8 m above their car. It was a round object about 5 m in diameter, with a copper dome and bumps. A rim made of 3 rings spaced 30 cm apart encircled the object. The rings were not in contact with the body of the object. The outer rings shone like white metal and were of low thickness. The central ring was darker, had a thickness of about 5 cm. Under the craft was dissipating a white luminosity. It inclined at 45° presenting its dome where no opening was visible. During this maneuver the rings remained parallel to the ground. (Inforespace n° 35 - p. 19)

#1959
BRAZIL, Baya Blanca
A businessman leaving the hotel in the morning with his new car suddenly saw a cloud-like mass envelop the entire vehicle. He probably lost consciousness. The next thing he knew was that he was alone, without a car in a deserted area of the countryside. Seeing a truck, he signaled the driver and asked him to take him to Baya Blanca. The truck driver, surprised, replied that it was not possible, the nearest town was Salta and Baya Blanca was more than 1000 km away! The businessman looked at his watch and realized that only a few minutes had passed since he had taken his car from Baya Blanca, amazed he got into the truck and went to the local authorities to explain his case. Soon after, the police of Baya Blanca responded by phone that the witness's vehicle was in front of the hotel in Baya Blanca, and the engine was running! (R. Jack Perrin: "The Mystery of UFOs" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1976, pp. 149, 150)

#1960
FRANCE, Colomb Béchar
The "Véronique" rocket of 1959 then gave rise to other missiles, one of which, with solid fuel, rose to 150 kilometers in 1960 and reached a speed of 8000 km/h. ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12)

#1960's (exact date unknown)
FRANCE, Valensole
One evening, a farmer who owns a chicken coop on the edge of Valensole heard the chickens and roosters squawking. Thinking of the fox, he went to check. To his surprise, he saw in the midst of the panicked animals a strange little being who fled at his approach and entered a red sphere that took off from a meadow. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, First Complete Dossier..." - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 647)

#Around 1960
FRANCE, La Prodélie/Ayen (Puy d'Yssandon)
Mr. and Mrs. Plumauzille were driving on the D 151 around 11 pm. Suddenly, Mr. Plumauzille saw a pinkish red light without a border, at tree height, on the right side of the road. He saw it rise and realized he was only about a hundred meters away from it. Almost immediately, he and his wife saw, on the right side of the road, in the light of the headlights, a mass the size of a large bag of potatoes that quickly shrank, seeming to collapse in on itself. He then saw, as well as his wife, a number of these light gray-brown masses, smaller than the first, moving around in the grass. At least two of them crossed the road and disappeared into the ferns. The witnesses thought that these things moved by contracting, swelling and deflating their bulges, which made them look like an animal trapped in a translucent plastic bag. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 648)

#1960
USA (without further details)
Then, in 1960, it was Buck Nelson's turn to take some trips aboard a saucer. This allowed him to sell many copies of his book entitled: "My Travels to Mars, the Moon and Venus". (René PACAUT: "They Met Extraterrestrials" ed. Alain Lefeuvre, 1978, p 186)

#1960, January 21
USA
"MISS SAM" THE MONKEY IS LAUNCHED IN A MERCURY CAPSULE AND EJECTED AT 15 KM ALTITUDE. (Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15)

#1960, January 29
SWITZERLAND, Ursenbach (Emmenthal)
"As we were driving in a break to the evening service, Friday (January 29, 1960), an oblong thing, similar to a torpedo or a giant cigar, suddenly crossed the road, at man's height, in front of the horse, without the latter being frightened, which is really strange," wrote to her niece Mrs. Marie Morgenthaler, from Ursenbach in Emmental. "The envelope of this kind of torpedo seemed to be composed of horizontal colored and luminous bands," she specified. "The colors were moving and I had never seen such before this apparition. I have the feeling that they are not from this Earth. The torpedo arrived through the fields: it looked like a vehicle beacon. The thing then passed between two farms that border the road, and it was only at the moment when it emerged in front of us that we saw what it was. And imagine that this torpedo silently entered the side of the hill, on the other side of the road." In a postscript, Mrs. Morgenthaler added: We saw in the newspaper the next day that a luminous object had been seen at the same time in the sky of Berne." (Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997)

#1960, March 2
Austria, Leibnitz
Edgar Schedelbauer, a war-wounded reporter, managed to take the most unusual photograph known as the "Leibnitz Spider". He was returning home on his motorcycle at 1:30 in the morning when an illuminated object appeared above the edge of the forest in the east, flew over the clearing, crossed the road and began to loop over the sloping terrain. It also briefly presented its upper part, which had the shape of an overturned bowl, orange in color. The alarming thing approached and remained motionless for 6 or 7 seconds. Schedelbauer, who had thrown his motorcycle into the ditch, clearly felt a thermal radiation and heard a machine noise. Crouching in the ditch, he managed to adjust his camera and capture this extraordinary moment on film. Suddenly, the hovering object above his head emitted a whistle similar to that of a jet engine, rose and quickly moved away to the east. The next day, Schedelbauer hoped to get a good price for his adventure... (A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: "The Secret File of UFOs", De Vecchi, 1978, p. 237)

#1960, Spring
USA
The first "midas 2" infrared alert satellite is satellited. Seven
copies were launched in total on polar orbits at 3500 km
altitude. In this type of detection it is indeed necessary to have a minimum of
distance. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot
1982, p. 78)

#1960, Spring
ITALY, Sicily
Jeweler Salvatore Cianci was driving near Syracuse when a small creature in shiny clothes and wearing a diving cap appeared in the beams of his headlights. It had no arms, but two small wings. Salvatore Cianci suffered a nervous breakdown. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 121)

#1960, Spring
USA, Syracuse (New York)
An electronics engineer who was night fishing, heard a shrill whistle and saw a round object with a rotating light land on the shore. Through an opening, two dwarves with abnormally large heads emerged with a hose and pumped water from the river. Later they appeared to be playing like children. Their bodies sparkled with changing colored lights. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 101)

#April 1, 1960
USA
LAUNCH OF TIROS I SATELLITE, FIRST WEATHER SATELLITE, WEIGHT 122 KG. ("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) THE FIRST GOOD IMAGES (.. OF THE EARTH) WERE THOSE OF TIROS I, WEATHER SATELLITE PUT IN ORBIT BY NASA, ON APRIL 1, 1960. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 20)

#1960, April 5
MOZAMBIQUE, Beira
A flying saucer of orange color landed and 4 small entities fled when the craft exploded. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 344)

#1960, April 6
USSR, SPACE
FALL OF SPUTNIK 3 LAUNCHED ON MAY 15, 1958 (LOCATION NOT SPECIFIED) (Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 135)

#1960, April 20
USSR, SPACE
RE-ENTRY OF LUNIK (LUNA) 3 LAUNCHED OCT. 4, 59, LOCATION NOT SPECIFIED (Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 110)

#1960, April
FRANCE, Puy du Dôme
Or early May. M. Germain Tichit, a baker, was kneading dough around 2 o'clock in the morning. He heard an unusual noise at the same time he saw flashes of all colors through the window. He went to the doorstep and in the middle of the sloping field was an object in the shape of a spinning top, 10 to 15 m in diameter and 5 m high. The central pivot looked like a bellows that inflated to give the object a horizontal plate on the sloping ground. A metallic cutting sound on top of the noise of the object itself caused a staircase to lower beneath the right side of the object and a small humanoid descended the three steps, stepped onto the ground and advanced. The small being was well built, rather handsome, wearing small boots, dressed in tight trousers and a jacket buttoned in front, gray-green in color, and wearing a helmet similar to that of a fireman of the same color as the jacket. He had a curved saber in a scabbard on his right side, the handle clearly visible. A real whirlwind blew under the object, a kind of hot, stinging wind which M. Tichit felt on his left cheek. The witness advanced towards the creature with the intention of capturing it. The dwarf pilot saw him and pointed a long tube at him which emitted an intense light. The witness then experienced difficulty breathing, bent forward, hands in front of his face, and continued to advance. The being seemed to be frightened, turned around, climbed the ladder and disappeared. The craft rose to about thirty meters, with a whistling sound, and then moved horizontally in waves. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 241, 242)

#May 5th, 1960
USSR, Sverdlovsk
It is remembered that American pilot Gary Powers was shot down by a Soviet missile, aboard his U-2 spy plane, while he was flying over the USSR above the Sverdlovsk Region. Departing from Pakistan to reach Norway by flying over the Urals, aboard this astonishing apparatus capable of covering more than 5000 km at 27000 meters of altitude, he was to take detailed pictures of certain regions or installations of interest to the American secret services. The photographic device equipped on the U-2 allowed to discover details of only 1 meter. (...) Due to its vulnerability, the U-2 spy plane program was interrupted. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 23)

#1960, May 13th and 14th
BRAZIL, Paracuru (Ceara)
More than a hundred people observed a circular craft of a polished and dark grey, maneuvering and hovering above their heads. It had a bright light on its top and seemed to measure 20 meters in width. At 4 o'clock in the morning the following day, Raimundo Dos Santos saw two discs on the beach and several entities similar to men, small and pale, standing next to them, apparently in conversation. Seeing the farmer, the entities made a gesture to him, but he turned his back and ran away. Coming back later with other men, he discovered the marks left by the discs on the sand. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 124)

#1960, May 18
GERMANY, Mainz
(cf. Dec. 30, 58 between Mainz and Kassel) While Hans Klotzbach was walking in the park, he was suddenly caught in a beam of light. Suddenly one of the extraterrestrials who had taken him in their saucer on May 25, 48 was near him. (follow-up to Oct. 16, 60)
(Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1960, May 24
USA, SPACE
MIDAS 2 (1960 ZETA 2° LAUNCHED. (continued 7.2.74) (Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 92)

#1960, June 10
USA, near Globe (Arizona)
At around 00:15 the driver, with her husband asleep next to her in the car and the two children sleeping in the back, was negotiating a right turn about 24 km from Globe, heading towards California, when she saw a small figure on the right side of the road about 100m ahead. It was as if it was ready to cross, and she let go of the accelerator and the car immediately slowed down as if they were going uphill. Simultaneously, the being faced her, pivoted and ran into the bushes out of the headlights' beam. She stopped abruptly and woke up her husband. The creature was about 90 cm tall, broad shoulders, long arms, dark in color, head shaped like a flattened pumpkin almost. In its head shone two yellow-orange eyes. When it was in profile there was a light radiating beyond its face. She did not see a nose, mouth, or ears. The body was less well defined than the head and she had the impression of hair or fur. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 193, 194)

#1960, June 10
PORTUGAL, Algoz (Algarve)
Observation at 03:30. Beings were seen moving around a landed UFO. Shortly afterwards it was seen flying over the region and disappearing. (Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations on ET Humanoids" - Laffont 1977 - p. 175 and 179) At 3:30 in the morning the witness was returning home with his dog, after a walk in the fields. He saw what he thought were the lights of a car. These lights suddenly becoming bigger and brighter, he hid in the bushes. From this hiding place, he observed, terrified, the coming and going of 6 humanoids around a UFO on the ground. The dog panicked and ran away. After a few minutes the object shot up vertically into the sky. The witness took off running towards his house. He was still surprised to see a searchlight directed downwards, scanning the ground 50 meters from his position. (collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; "Diario de Noticias"-12.6.60)

#1960, June 10
Spain, unspecified location
At 3 o'clock Carlos Sabinos, 25 years old, and his friend Filipe were out for a walk when they saw an object they took for a car. As they got closer they noticed the craft had a saucer shape and was emitting an unusual and bright light. They hid behind a mound and were able to observe six small beings who were moving around the disc. Later they entered the vehicle which soon rose vertically and quickly. (exactly the same story as the one in Portugal on the same date???)
The two men left their hiding place to run towards their house, but while they were running the craft reappeared and swept the ground with an intense beam of light. (Jean FERGUSON: "Everything about Flying Saucers", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 200)

#July 1960
Canada, Chapais (Abitibi)
Three workers were inspecting and repairing the Canadian National Railway at a place called Sub-Anville, in the Chapais region. Mr. Georges Godbout, a man in his fifties, communicated this case to us which he witnessed with his two companions. (...) The railway workers were hard at work. Suddenly a shrill noise rises, amplifies, to the point where the men feel unwell. (...) It is then that they see, 300 m in front of them, an object advancing on the railway track. It is dazzling like a well-polished metal that shines in the sun. As only one train passes per day, the men are perplexed. (...) Suddenly the object moves away from the track and hovers a few meters above an inaccessible savannah where it stops and stays a few meters from the ground. The men, disturbed by the noise, "a whirring of a top", can see its profile. It is an object in the shape of a top of a metallic green, throwing off luminous flashes. (...) An opening appears in front of the astonished witnesses and a kind of small ladder is placed on the threshold of the craft. A "being" well proportioned advances and descends about three rungs. He wears a fitting, greenish uniform. He is about 1 m 60 tall. His head is covered with a helmet that encloses it, and on his face there is a mask like that of a basketball referee. When he comes out he casts a circular glance, but his head does not seem to be mobile, the whole body turns at the same time. (...) He immediately climbs back up. The object rises with an unbearable noise, it flies over the railway track and moves away a little, rises into the sky and quickly disappears into space. (Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 39,40)

#1960, August 2
FRANCE, Noulle - Difques
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hiot were driving from Noulle to Morhinghem around 0:30.
Their father-in-law noticed a distant light, and as they left Moulle, they saw a red ball the apparent size of the moon.
The object crossed the road obliquely, 3 or 4 meters in front of the car and 2 meters from the ground, forcing the driver to brake suddenly. Then the 5-6 meter wide phenomenon, with a bright red light radiating from a kind of half-sphere larger than a horse-drawn carriage wheel at the base of the object, accompanied them for a kilometer. As they arrived at the first houses, it seemed to go out from bottom to top, as if it was veiling itself starting from the bottom. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 243) Near the hamlet of Difques, two witnesses were followed for more than a kilometer by a red luminous ball. A silhouette was visible inside. (?????) The ball gradually went out from bottom to top. (Erich ZURCHER/ "Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 201)

#August 11, 1960
USA
LAUNCH OF DISCOVERER XIII, 635 KG, RECOVERED IN FLIGHT ON NOVEMBER 14, 1960, FIRST! ("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) THE CAPSULE OF THE DISCOVERER 13 SATELLITE IS RECOVERED IN THE PACIFIC. THIS IS THE VERY FIRST TIME THAT AN AMERICAN SATELLITE RETURNS TO EARTH INTACT. (...) ONLY A FEW DAYS LATER, DISCOVERER 14 WAS RECOVERED IN THE GREATEST DISCRETION, IT WAS THERE, ALTHOUGH THE AMERICANS DENIED IT, THE FIRST SPY SATELLITE. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 23 and 25)

#August 12, 1960
USA
LAUNCH OF THE ECHO SATELLITE BALLOON, 75 KG. ("Astronautics", Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) ECHO I, A SIMPLE ALUMINIZED PLASTIC BALLOON, THICKNESS OF ONLY 12/1000 OF MM, WHICH, IMMEDIATELY AFTER INJECTION INTO ORBIT, WAS INFLATED BY THE EXPANSION OF A SMALL VOLUME OF GAS CONTAINED IN ITS FOLDS, UP TO TAKE THE FORM OF A HUGE SPHERE OF 30 METERS IN DIAMETER. (...) IT CONTAINS NO FRAMEWORK OR INSTRUMENT, NOT EVEN THE USUAL RADIO TRANSMITTER, IT WEIGHS 75.5 KG, OFFERING AN ENORMOUS SURFACE TO SOLAR RADIATION WHILE OPPOSING ONLY A SMALL INERTIA TO THEIR PUSH. ("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 173) (continued 24.5.68)

#August 6, 1960
USA
A SECOND GENERATION (OF INFRARED ALERT SATELLITES) MUCH MORE PERFORMANT APPEARED WITH BMEWS 1 (BALLISTIC MISSILE (or MULTIPURPOSE?) EARLY WARNING SYSTEM). IT WAS THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE OF A LONG FAMILY OF GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES, PLACED FIRST UNDER 10°, THEN UNDER 63° OF INCLINATION. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 78)

#1960, August 18
USA, SPACE
DISCOVERER 14 (KAPPA 1) LAUNCHED. (follow-up 16.9.60) (Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 92)

#August 19, 1960
USSR, Baikonour
LAUNCH OF SPUTNIK V, RECOVERED THE NEXT DAY AUGUST 20, WEIGHT 4600 KG, FIRST LANDING WITH LIVE ANIMALS. ("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) The USSR SUCCEEDED IN ITS FIRST ATTEMPT AT RECOVERING A SATELLITE, WITH SPUTNIK 5, ON BOARD OF WHICH WERE TWO DOGS "BIELKA" AND "STRELKA". THIS SATELLITE WAS MUCH LARGER THAN DISCOVERER, AS IT WAS ALREADY A REAL SPACECRAFT, THE VOSTOK. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 24)

#1960, August
FRANCE, Meussia
During the night, around 3 o'clock, the child Jouffroy got up and went to a meadow behind the house. He returned scared having seen a white and luminous phenomenon. Mrs. Grandmottet then got up to accompany him, she also saw the strange phenomenon and thought she heard a strange noise. She returned to the house and asked Mrs. Jouffroy if she had hung out sheets. The three witnesses then noticed that apparently just behind the hedge, a kind of long white rectangle was placed or very close to the ground. They heard a noise of metal and stones being moved. Afraid, the witnesses went back inside. When a little later they looked out the window, everything had disappeared.
(M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 242)

#1960, August
FRANCE, Brittany
At around 3pm, G.P., a merchant from Dijon, was driving a truck with two employees in the center of Brittany. Suddenly, they saw on the road, about 100 meters ahead of them, three figures about 2 meters tall, wearing khaki scuba suits with some kind of helmet on their heads, who immediately turned around. The truck accelerated to about 60 km/h to catch up to them, but they moved faster above the ground and disappeared into an opening in the hedge on the side of the road. When they arrived at this spot, the passengers of the truck saw a saucer about 4 meters high, about fifteen meters above the ground. It rose and disappeared in a few seconds into the sky. Its diameter was about ten meters according to the circle of scorched grass it had imprinted on the ground. (Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Enigma of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 84)

#1960, September 16
USA, SPACE
DISCOVERER 14 LANDED ON 18.8.60 (Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 92)

#October 4, 1960
USA
LAUNCH OF "COURIER I", FIRST COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE, 277 (227?) KG. ("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63)
BUT THE MOST NUMEROUS STILL ARE THE SPECIFICALLY MILITARY TELECOMMUNICATION SATELLITES. THE VERY FIRST, EXPERIMENTAL OF COURSE, WAS COURIER 1 B, LAUNCHED ON OCTOBER 4, 1960. THIS FIRST RELAY SATELLITE FUNCTIONED FOR A LITTLE MORE THAN TWO WEEKS, UNTIL THE EXHAUSTION OF ITS BATTERIES. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 88)

#1960, October 4
AUSTRALIA, Cressy
A cylindrical object emerged from a curtain of rain, stopped abruptly and hovered, before being joined by six small discs. Then, the entire formation moved backwards. The witnesses were a pastor and his wife. (Science and Life, special edition: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63)

#1960, October 16
GERMANY, Mainz
(cf. May 18, 60) Two extraterrestrials take Hans Klotzbach in a car and drive him to the forest. There is a "glider" that takes the three people to a saucer in the sky. They explain to him the relationship between light and color. (following 8 to 11 July 73) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1960, October 20th and 25th
FRANCE, Montcel by Combronde/Lavaure
At around 7pm Mr. Faure was returning home when suddenly he was dazzled by a rectangular light at 3 or 4 meters altitude. In the upper part two humanoid silhouettes that seemed to be wearing a helmet of 40 to 50 cm in diameter. The light suddenly went out. When he arrived home the witness was in a state of shock and remained in a state of agitation for several days. At the same time three witnesses from Villemorge, a locality located downhill from Lavaure, saw a silent craft that crossed the sky at great speed towards the south-east. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 244)

#1960, October and November
AUSTRALIA, Cressy region (Tasmania)
UFO wave. Including observation of "mother ships" accompanied by smaller objects. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 310) (who are mistaken about the year - it was in 1959...)

#1960, November 13
FRANCE, La Londe
At 02:45, Rémi Carbonnier was awakened by a green light illuminating his room. He went to the window and saw a round, shining object, 6 m in diameter, resting on three legs, on a railway track, 300 m away. It was emitting orange glows. A dome on the top of the object began to turn, the legs disappeared and the object rose vertically above the trees, without a sound. Less than 20 seconds later it had crossed the hill and disappeared to the southwest. The next day the witness went to the spot and found no trace, but his dog refused to go forward and ran away. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 298)
The personality of the witness seems to weigh heavily on the credibility to be given to this testimony. (J.C. BOURRET: "The New Challenge of UFOs" - France Empire 1976 - pp. 43 to 50)

#1960, November 14
USA, SPACE
SECRET RECOVERY OF DISCOVERER 13 LAUNCHED ON AUGUST 10, 1960.
(Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 92)

#1960, December 9
FRANCE, Carignan
At 8:30 PM a dog barked at a bright object hovering in a park. Three witnesses observed it from separate locations. It appeared to be an oval, luminous craft 4 m in diameter and one could see vague shadows inside. It flew away in a northerly direction. On the ground a circle of yellowed grass was found. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of the E.T. Appearances - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 298)

#1960, December 26
FRANCE, Canteleu (Seine Maritime)
At around two in the morning, the two witnesses were riding bicycles. A few meters from the road, they saw a round or oval, metallic, very shiny, aluminum-colored object. One of them fled in panic, but the other observed the object with four feet resting in the snow. A kind of articulated arm equipped with a light emerged from the craft, and its blue-violet beam, 15 cm in diameter, was directed at the witness's face, immobilizing him. He saw a hatch open, letting out a bright light jet and an indistinct shadow entering the cabin. The module rose, causing a snow whirlwind. After the object had moved away, the witness was again free to move and returned home. The next day, at the landing site, the ground was charred in a diameter of 4 meters and four 30 cm deep and 40 cm in diameter holes were discovered. (...) 22 years later, in 1982, LDLN investigators revisiting the case, the witness was unable to approach the landing site. (...) (Jimmy GUIEU: "Our Masters the Extraterrestrials" - Presses de la Cité 1992, pp. 186-188)

#1960,
ALLEMAGNE, Offenbach
Klaus Dieter Kaufmann, had to undergo a spinal surgery in 1990. "How many years ago was the previous operation?" the surgeon asked him, looking at his medical file.
"But I have never been operated on," Kaufmann replied. The surgeon showed him the radiographs to prove the contrary. A strange story from his adolescence then came back to him: he had observed a UFO.
The craft shot a blinding flash at him and Dieter-Klaus fainted. He returned home four hours late and suffered from migraines and difficulty concentrating for several days. He had a painful mark on his pelvic region and a wound mark on the lower back. Kaufmann tried to remember the adventure and the memories gradually came back to him. He had entered a state close to trance when he was confronted with small armed creatures with some kind of oxygen tanks on their backs. He became friendly with them and followed them on board the ship, noticing that it did not walk but floated. He found himself in a brightly lit room where two beings with huge, black oblique eyes were standing: frightening. He tried to escape but was unable to move. After a medical examination carried out by beings with webbed fingers, he learned that he could go home and this time he felt like he was being carried out in the arms of someone he could not see but could hear breathing loudly, as if through a tube. He wanted to feel but only found a belt, no chest. A force pushed his hand away and he fainted, regaining consciousness at the place where the adventure had begun. (Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: "Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T." - Plon 1995, p. 262, 263)

#Since its birth in 1960
AUSTRALIA, Adelaide
In 1991 a 31 year old woman reported being abducted by a large entity and groups of small entities. The abductions occurred in her bed and through her bedroom door, throughout her life. The small entities measure 120 cm and have large ugly heads, with prominent eyes without pupils, dark blue to black in colour. They have only a slit for a mouth, and a very small nose. The larger entities measure 210 cm and seem to command the small ones. She levitated or was carried out of her bed, floating into a circular room, where medical examinations took place, while she was laid on a metal table. Then she would wake up in her bed. Hypnotic regression confirmed the abductions. Throughout her life she was surrounded by poltergeist activity, sensations of presence wherever she lived, children's toys moving by themselves, such as their tricycles, etc. (the whole paranormal panoply). She claims to have implants in her face. The investigation revealed that she was a victim of sexual abuse during her childhood, not by entities from elsewhere, but by men from her very close family. (note from vog: so traumatised enough to become completely schizophrenic...) (UFORA90045. UFORSA/Keith Basterfield.)

#1960,
AFRIQUE DU SUD, Durban
In 1960, electrician Edwin found a job as a radio mechanic in Durban. His firm hired an inspector named George. George lived in a hotel room and soon the two men became friends, and went fishing together on the weekends. On one of these fishing trips, George brought a radio apparatus, and soon a saucer appeared in the sky while a voice on the radio announced "This is Wy-Ora (name of the vessel) We are a people from the planet Koldas." It turns out that George is actually an extraterrestrial and his name is Valdar. To prove this, George/Valdar speaks in his extraterrestrial language and the saucer begins to perform incredible maneuvers. The world Koldas is in the universe of antimatter. In 1962 George/Valdar returned to his country, leaving the apparatus as a gift to Edwin, to continue to communicate. Which he did until 1964. Edwin was then warned against extraterrestrial saboteur groups, and also learned that a new planet called Epicot was being prepared to cater to the eventualities of repopulation. (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1961
USSR, Irkutsk
An engine, shaped like a rocket, with four feet, was seen on the ground, as well as two of its occupants and photographed by a doctor from a nearby laboratory (according to Flying Saucer Review of May 1967) (Henry DURRANT "The Black Book of UFOs - Laffont 1970 - p. 204)

#1961, January 22
FRANCE, Cestas-Gazinet
At 6:30 pm, a professor from the University of Bordeaux and 3 teachers observed an elongated, shiny, orange object. There was an influence on the car's ignition. One witness felt a slight discomfort and heard (or perceived in some other way) the word "Zemu" (note from vog: maybe it was the word "SAMU"?) repeated twice. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 298)

#1961, January 31
USA
Chimpanzee "Ham" reached 252 km with a Redstone rocket. His capsule
was recovered after a 18 minute flight. (Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15)

#1961, February 1
USA
Launch of "Samos II", a retrograde moving satellite.
("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63)

#1961, February 4
USSR, Baikonour
Launch of Sputnik VIII, the heaviest of all satellites with
its 6483 kg. It was recovered on February 26, 1961. ("Astronautics,
Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63)

#1961, February 12
USSR, Baikonour
The first test shot towards Venus was executed by the USSR on February 12.

#1961
USSR, Baikonour
The craft, "Venusik" (643 kg) loaded with scientific equipment, was taken aboard Spoutnik VIII and placed in a circumterrestrial orbit at an altitude of 200 km. From there it was launched towards Venus in the opposite direction of the Earth's movement, with a speed of 27.7 km/second relative to the Sun. Then radio contact was lost and no more was heard from the messenger. (continued 25.2.61) ("Astronautics", Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 56) The Venusik probe was sent with the mission of exploring Venus. Launched with remarkable precision, using the technique of a stopover in a terrestrial orbit, this craft has refused to give news since February 27, 1961 and the failure of the transmitter deprived the Russians, for once, of a "first" that the Americans brilliantly achieved the following year with their craft "Mariner II" ("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Pocket, 1967, p. 279)

#1961, April 12
USSR, Baikonur
Launch of Vostok I, first occupied satellite (Gagarine) recovered the same day. ("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63)

#1961, April 18
USA, Eagle River
At around 11am Joe Simonton was drawn by a curious sound of studded tires on a wet pavement. He went into the yard and saw a silver saucer-shaped object, brighter than chrome, hovering close to the ground. The object was 12 feet high and thirty feet in diameter. An opening appeared about 5 feet from the ground and Simonton saw three men inside the craft. One was wearing a two-piece black suit. They were about 5 feet tall, clean-shaven, and resembled Italians: black hair, swarthy skin. Their shirt was trimmed with a turtleneck collar and they wore woolen caps. One of the men lifted a pot apparently made of the same material as the craft and it seemed to Simonton that he was asking for water. Simonton took the pot, filled it. On his return, one of the men was cooking food on some kind of flame-less grill. The inside of the craft was black like raw iron. He could make out panels for instruments and heard a sound like that of a generator. When he made a gesture indicating he was interested in the prepared food, one of the men, also dressed in black but with a narrow red braid on his trousers, handed him three small cakes about 3 inches in diameter with small holes in them. All this had lasted about 5 minutes. The man closest to the witness fastened some kind of belt to a hook on his clothing and closed the opening. The object rose 20 feet and headed south causing such a gust of wind that the pines bent. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of the E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 40-41)

#1961, April 28
USSR, Korb-Ozéro (Karelia)
Around 9 pm, forest guard Vassili Brodski was walking along the 600 m long and 150 m wide frozen lake without seeing anything out of the ordinary. The next morning he walked back and found a stretched out ditch that started on the high bank and disappeared into the lake through a huge hole in the ice: the earth that had been excavated to make this 27 m long, 15 m wide and 3 m deep ditch was nowhere to be found: yet it was about 1000 cubic meters. He informed the military authorities who arrived with their equipment a week later. The submerged part of the broken floating ice was green. On the shore the military found grains of a black material that crumbled between their fingers. Upon analysis they seemed to come from a metal that had been heated as if for welding. (Boris CHOURINOV: "The two faces of ufology in Russia" - May 1994, p. 6 and 7) On the morning of April 27, a group of twenty-five hunters and foresters saw an unknown aerial object descend and crash into the ground near a bend where a stream emptied. According to the witnesses it could have been 8 or 10 in the morning. The object was oval-shaped, as big as a long-haul plane and shone with a gray-blue light. It was flying at low altitude and at high speed. It was heading east to west when the crash occurred near the north shore of the lake. There was a loud noise like a strong explosion. (...) (note from vog: this contradicts what the Russian Chourinov says?) (Charles BERLITZ and William L. MOORE: "The Mystery of Rosswell, the Space Wreckage" ed. France Empire 1981, p. 191 to 195 - he cites UFO's in the USSR vol. II 1975 by Félix Ziegel and Gray and Dick: The new Soviet Psychic discoveries")

#1961, May 24th (or 1962, February 24th?)
IN SPACE
On May 17th 1961 a Russian Lunik type spacecraft took off from the Baikonour base (I couldn't find this information from authors talking about aeronautics...) : on May 24th the Turin and Bochum stations intercepted a man's voice and a woman's voice coming from the capsule: "We can no longer read the dials. The indicators are no longer clear. There are none... (silence)... There, there, there is something... it's difficult... (silence)... if we don't make it, the world will never know! It's impossible..." Then nothing more. (...) Could Terechkova aboard Vostok 6 on June 16th 1963 have been the first woman in space? (Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Enigma of the E.T." - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 33) A woman and a man had been launched on February 17th 1962 from the Baikonour base. On the evening of February 24th, at 8pm, the Bochum, Meudon and Turin stations heard the reports. (...) (Jacques POTTIER: "Flying Saucers" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 44)

#1961, May
USSR, Voronezh
A UFO in the shape of a cigar flew over the city of Voronezh, causing terror among the population. It was estimated to be between 250 and 300 m long and was at an altitude of about 600 m. When the Mig fighters arrived to intercept it, the UFO fled at an approximate speed of 16000 km/h and disappeared definitively. (Antonio RIBERA: "Trial of the UFOs" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 101)

#June 3, 1961
ITALY, at sea
Four people were chatting in the boat, engine stopped, off the Italian coast. Suddenly they were shaken by waves of increasing amplitude. They then saw the water swell into an enormous bubble 1 km away from them. A strange object in the shape of an overturned plate topped with a cone emerged from this bubble of water as if the object was pushing the water away, as if it was surrounded by an air cushion. Once out of the water it stopped for a few seconds at about ten meters from the surface, forming a halo around its base. Then it left at a lightning speed. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - P. 214)

#1961, June 21
USSR, Rybinsk
A metal object in the shape of a disc, approximately 100 m in diameter, hovered above the Rybinsk anti-aircraft missile launch base north of Moscow. The object, apparently at an altitude of 6000 m, was first detected on radar and then seen with the naked eye. While it remained stationary, smaller discs emerged from the giant object and began to fly over the base at low altitude. The commander gave the order to shoot down the craft. A first series of surface-to-air missiles were launched: the projectiles rose towards the UFO but exploded in the air when they were 2 km away. The UFO remained stationary and intact in the same place. A second attack was ordered, with the same result. Preparations were being made for a third attack when the small discs descended very low and the electricity was cut off, including that supplied by the emergency generator. After ten minutes the small objects rose back up to the large craft, then it disappeared. The electricity then returned normally. (Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux OVNI" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 101, 102) (Internet, WUFOC site, which reproduces this account attributing it to Thimoty Good "Above Top Secret" with the comment that Good claims his source is a very serious Italian scientific journal….) Defensive missiles were installed around Moscow. At one of the bases, a radar detected a UFO flying at an altitude of 18000 meters and escorted by smaller UFOs. The commander of the Rybinsk base responded with a salvo of missiles. The escort UFOs descended towards the base, whose electrical equipment then stopped working. The missiles exploded well before reaching their targets. When the UFOs rejoined their mothership, the energy returned to the missile base. (“Dossiers OVNI”, ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, p. 24)

#1961, July
USA, SPACE
Re-entry of Explorer 6 launched on August 7th, 1959. (Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 97)

#1961, August 23
USA
Americans resume their lunar adventure with probes of a new type, weighing 330 kg. These devices, called "Ranger", are to take physical measurements during the approach to the Moon, photograph the surface, and drop a capsule containing instruments and a small rocket onto the Moon's surface. This rocket, by means of retro-propulsion, is to allow the capsule and its contents to land without damage. The first two "Rangers" were two failures due to malfunction of the rockets. ("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 236) (continued 29.8.61)

#1961, 29 or 30 August
USA, SPACE
RANGER 1, LAUNCHED ON 23.8.61 CRASHES TO GROUND (Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 128)

#1961, Late August
CINCINNATI, Ohio
Hamilton County: Hundreds of people observe a red light moving very slowly at low altitude on a NE to SW trajectory. Above Bond Hill the object rises and explodes in a flash of white light. The weather services received hundreds of calls, as did the airport. According to the astronomical center, it was not a meteor, star, plane, or satellite. (Cincinnati Enquirer: August 31, 1961)

#1961, September 19
USA, Whitfield (New Hampshire)
RR3, around midnight, 2 witnesses, duration: 1 hour.
Case: Betty and Barney Hill.
Returning from their vacation in Canada, the interracial Hill couple was driving late at night on a deserted road, when they saw a UFO descending. It eventually landed, blocking the road in front of them. They were approached by humanoids. A few hours later the Hills found themselves back on the road, but 55 kilometers away and without any memory of what had happened during that time. This persistent amnesia caused them to experience various physical and psychological problems, and eventually they went to see Dr. Simon, famous for his amnesia cures. Having been put into a hypnotic state several times, each of them separately recounted the facts. Their respective versions were quite precise. They reported that they had been taken aboard the craft, treated well by the occupants, more or less in the way humans treat laboratory animals, and then released after being hypnotically instructed to totally forget their experience. (J. Allen HYNEK: "UFOs, Myth or Reality?" - trans. Belfond 1974 - pp. 186-192, 278) (note from vog: various authors cite Betty Hill, several times afterwards, to observe other UFOs, almost on command, to give UFO lectures, etc... ufobusiness...)

#October 21, 1961
USA
As work continued on the development of more sophisticated telecommunications satellites, an original but controversial formula was tested, known as the "Westfort" project. The US Air Force had been working on the project since 1958, which involved launching no less than 350 million 2 centimeter long copper hairs into space. It was expected that these angel hairs, once released from their container in orbit, would stretch out around the Earth to form a belt, a kind of miniature Saturn ring. The size of these metal needles had been calculated to reflect radio waves preferentially on a frequency of 8400 megahertz, or a wavelength of 3 to 4 cm. (...) The first attempt took place in October 1961 from the MIDAS 4 spy satellite. But the needles remained grouped in packets. Two months later, radar observations showed that the ring measured more than 8 km long. This experiment had obviously caused a real stir among scientists, who accused the military of polluting space. Astronomers in particular, led by the Englishman Sir Bernard Lovell. (continued May 1963) ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 88-89)

#November 10 (or 11), 1961
YUGOSLAVIA, Vukovar (Croatia)
(...) the broadcast of the city's station was suddenly interrupted. The electric lights in the studios went out or began to flicker for 30 to 40 seconds. The recording devices registered a considerable increase in static electricity..
(Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 250-251) November 18, 1961; USA, near Chadron, Nebraska: In the afternoon a strange object passed through the sky above Theodore Goff's farm leaving behind a mysterious substance. It seemed to be very fine metal fibers that draped over the fields, trees, electrical lines, machines. "It was around 3 o'clock in the afternoon," said Goff, "I had worked in the hangar. As I was coming out, I saw this strange ball flying in the sky, at a tremendous speed, without any noise. I only saw it for a few moments. (....) (National UFOReporting Center - Looking Back - by Bob Gribble)

#1961, November 18th to 20th
USA, SPACE
LAUNCH OF RANGER 2 (ALPHA THETA 1) IT RE-ENTERS ON NOVEMBER 20TH (Acta Aeronomica 1977, p. 128)

#1961, November 29
USA
"ENOS" Male Chimpanzee is launched in a Mercury capsule by an Atlas rocket. It completes two orbits. (Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15)

#1961, unspecified date
GERMANY, Timmendorf
A disc is said to have fallen in this village. The British Army was reportedly the first on the scene, setting up a security cordon to prevent access. Photos were said to have been taken. The object fell on soft ground with little damage, but buried itself a third of the way into the ground. Soon the British were joined by the Russians. Inside the object were 12 small corpses. Photos were also taken of these creatures, as well as during the autopsies. For some of them it was evident that they were not capable of procreation. They seemed to have been made on a production line, all of the same model. They had no digestive system. The disc was reportedly cut into 6 pieces, like a cake, for shipment to the USA to Wright Patterson.. (FUO n° 1 of 1995, p. 11, 12 - A.J.S. Rayl)

#1962, January 26
USA
TEST LAUNCH OF THE LUNA RANGER III PROBE. LAUNCHED AT AN EXCESSIVE SPEED, IT PASSED 36,800 KM FROM THE MOON AND BECAME A PLANET. ("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 236)

#1962, January 29
NETHERLANDS, in flight, (east of the country)
A pilot of the Royal Dutch Air Force experienced an encounter on January 29, 1962. Crossing an unknown object to the east of Holland, he commanded it to descend on several radio frequencies. As the UFO gave no response, he prepared to attack. His F 86, Sabre, was armed with 4 20 mm cannons and a rocket. Cannons armed, rocket in launch position, he sped forward at full power. But he did not have time to get close enough to adjust his aim. The UFO, in one stroke, had put itself out of range. (Donald KEYHOE: "The Strangers from Space" 1973 - Trans. Presses Pocket 1975 - p. 62)

#1962, February 20
USA
LAUNCH OF THE FIRST AMERICAN HABITABLE SATELLITE (GLENN) "FRIENDSHIP VII" (1305 KG) RECOVERED THE SAME DAY. ("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63) Mercury Capsule. John Glenn sees three flying objects. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: "UFO, first balance" - ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 232) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The enigma of the E.T." - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 34) At the moment of re-entry into the atmosphere, he claims to have seen through the upper window "a ball of fire" following the cabin. (S. DELLO STROLOGO: "What Governments hide from you about UFOs" - De Vecchi 1975- p. 181-182) John Glenn, piloting his Mercury capsule, sees three objects following and passing him at different speeds. (J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: "At the limits of reality" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p 83) (We would really like the three objects to be objectively described, right? Maybe they are just bolts, belts, panels, part of his own launch???)

#1962, March 1
USA, Salem, New York.
10:35 p.m. Witness: Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66 years old. A golden box approximately 30 cm by 10 cm flew horizontally on the horizon for 3 to 4 minutes.
('Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1962, March 4
GREAT BRITAIN, Sheffield
Alex Birch, 14 years old, photographed a group of five mysterious objects as they rose into the air. Each of them had the shape of a lens, with a small dome on top. (A. RIBERA/ R. FARRIOLS: "Proofs of the Existence of UFOs" - De Vecchi 1975, p. 41 and photo p. 42) IN REALITY: Alex conspired with two of his friends: they drew their UFOs on a window with greasy chalk, then photographed the landscape through this window. Ten years later they confessed their prank and made sure the affair made a sensation again (see the Bild newspaper of October 7, 1972 and FSR of November 1972) (A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: "The Secret File of UFOs", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 271, 272)

#1962, April 23
USA
The LUNAR RANGER IV probe followed an aberrant trajectory and was unable to transmit any photographs or the results of the measurements that the onboard devices were to make. As the transmitter stopped being heard when the craft approached the lunar disc, it can be assumed that this probe crashed on the moon. RANGER V, which, having not obeyed the signals sent from the ground, passed by the moon to become a planet. The launch of the lunar probes then marked a time of pause. ("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 236)

#1962, April 26
USSR
IT IS ONLY KNOWN THAT THE USSR LAUNCHED ITS FIRST SPY SATELLITE COSMOS 4 ON APRIL 26, 1962. THEY ARE OF A GOOD SIZE SINCE THEY ARE DIRECTLY DERIVED FROM THE VOSTOK VESSEL. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, Famot Editions 1982, p. 63)

#1962, April 26
USA
The American aircraft SR-71, better known as the "Black Bird", is of a very intense dark blue color that does not reflect light. It is a strategic reconnaissance and espionage aircraft, manufactured by Lockheed California Co., and is the successor of the famous U-2. It made its first flight on April 26, 1962, and construction for the American Army began in December, under the designation SR71A. Its flight qualities are exceptional, it is capable of reaching an altitude of 24,400 m. and developing a speed of 3,220 km/h (STENDEK n° 40, June 80) (also NASA website "On the Frontier").

#1962, April 30
ITALY, Sicily
(cf: Catania, 25.3.52) Eugenio Siragusa felt an irresistible urge to go to Etna. He drove there and on the way he felt as if an unknown force was controlling the vehicle. He arrived at Mount Manfre, which is 1370 meters high. He got out and continued on foot towards an extinct crater. On the way he saw two silver figures, each 1.85 meters tall, they were blond-haired extraterrestrials. One of them spoke to him in Spanish, saying they were Ashtar Sheran and Ithakar (note from vog: it couldn't be missed...). These two forced him to write messages to the Pope, Kennedy, Kruschev, De Gaulle, the Queen of England, the King of Sweden, and the President of Italy. He did this that same night on his typewriter. He later received a response from De Gaulle. From then until the end of August, two flying saucers were constantly watching his house. The saucers were Alfa 2 and Alfa 8 (following 4 Sept. 62) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998).

#1962, May 24
SPACE
Scott Carpenter was aboard the Aurora 7 capsule when he spotted several large strange objects and took some pictures of them. (A. RIBERA/ R. FARRIOLS: "Preuves de l'existence des S.V." - De Vecchi 1975, p. 46 and photo p. 47) (Scott Carpenter): rumor has it that a UFO was seen and photographed. Carpenter took a photo of the balloon with instruments, ejected from the capsule. On the enlargement of the photo taken through a dirty window, the reflection of the sun is misinterpreted as a UFO. (1989 - listing and research by Harvey S. Stewart) Mercury VII: Scott Carpenter reports that he photographed with a portable camera objects similar to fireflies and that he took what he thought was a good shot of a saucer. (J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: "Aux limites de la réalité" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p 83)

#1962, June
USA
(cf: 1959, X-15) In June 1962, at an altitude of 76 km, the craft (X-15) breached the ceiling of the domain legally attributed to aircraft, and in August 1963, with the record altitude of 108 km, space was for the first time violated by an aircraft. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 162)

#1962, June
ITALY, Verona
Following a UFO sighting, a woman was awoken by an intense cold sensation and saw near the house a bald being. She called other witnesses and all of them saw the apparition "shrink" and disappear on the spot like a television image when the device is turned off. (Jacques VALLEE: "Other Dimensions" - trans. Robert Laffont 1989 - p. 284)

#1962, July 10
USA,
LAUNCH OF TELSTAR SATELLITE, 77 KG, FIRST RELAY TELEVISION SATELLITE. ("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63)

#1962, July 19
ARGENTINA, Saucer Viejo
At 2:00 PM, more than 150 Argentine workers, employed by the Auto Union DKW factory in Saucer Viejo (note from vog: translation of the town's name: "Old Saucer"... does this place exist in reality? ) a suburb of Santa Fe, northwest of Buenos Aires, saw a cigar-shaped craft quickly crossing the sky in a northeast direction. The UFO flew at 1000 meters altitude and emitted blinding flashes of light. It was silent, had no condensation trail, and quickly ascended before disappearing from sight. (Ufo Roundup 1.13 - Joseph Trainor)

#1962, July 22
USA
THE FIRST LAUNCH, "MARINER I", IS A FAILURE (following August 27, 1962) ("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 59)

#1962, July 26, 27 or 28
ARGENTINA, Paranà (Entre Rios)
Ricardo Mieres, 17 years old, a student, was riding his motorcycle near Badaja Grande, 5 km from Paranà, when he encountered a creature of very tall stature with a melon-shaped head, very long almost white hair and "three eyes that stared fixedly without blinking." In his terror he tried to flee, but his engine mysteriously stalled. The creature advanced and violently tore off his scarf. It then made "a half-turn, like a robot" and moved away, leaving footprints in the sandy ground. The motorcycle worked again and the student rushed to the city to gather a team of motorcyclists and chase the "robot" but they only found footprints and the scarf abandoned on the road. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 125)

#1962, July
ARGENTINA, Camba Punta
In July 1962, a UFO was spotted approaching Camba Punta in Argentina. The airport director, Luiz Harvey, cleared the runway. A few moments later, a perfectly round aerial vessel arrived at high speed. It stopped, hovering for three minutes. The Argentine Air Force had been alerted, but no pursuit was attempted. Unfortunately, witnesses, in a state of excitement, wanted to get a closer look at the strange machine and started running towards it. The flying disc quickly disappeared. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les Etrangers de l'Espace" - Presses Pocket 1975 - p. 66) The flying object arrived at high speed above the runway and suddenly stopped at an altitude of 1m to 1m 20 from the asphalt. The object was completely round according to the description of Mr. Harvey and a dozen other witnesses, and it was rotating on its vertical axis. During this time, the UFO emitted a blinding light of green, orange and blue. When Harvey and his team approached, the object rose at a dizzying speed. (The 1962 Ufo-Flap Remembered, Joseph Trainor, Saucer Roundup)

#1962, August 1
FRANCE, Le Brusc (between Marseille and Nice)
In the night, three fishermen in two boats saw a kind of submarine emerge slowly from the water. Three frogmen came out of the sea and boarded the vessel. One of the fishermen called them through a loudspeaker, but they did not answer, except for one of the three who made a gesture with his arm. When they had boarded the ship, it came out of the water, hovering in place, adorned with red and green lights. A white spotlight came on and was directed towards the fishing boats. Then the lights of the thing went out, the whole craft became luminous orange, began to spin faster and faster until suddenly it shot off in a fraction of a second towards the sky where it disappeared. The fishermen heard no sound other than that of the waves. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 166)

#1962, August 11
USSR, Baikonour
LAUNCH OF VOSTOK III AND VOSTOK IV, 4730 KG EACH, FIRST FLIGHT
GROUP OF TWO SPACECRAFT. RECOVERY ON AUGUST 15, 1962.
("Astronautics, Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 63)

#1962, August 20
BRAZIL, Duas Pontes-Diamantina
Shortly after dawn a poor diamond prospector, Rivolino Mafra de Silva, was mysteriously abducted or disintegrated by what seemed to be the action of a UFO. It was learned during the investigation that he had fallen a few days earlier on "little men" who seemed to be burying something. In the evening of August 19 two shining spheres the size of a football were observed by a neighbor, flying above the prospector's hut. During the night, strange non-human forms, about 40 cm high, entered the hut, contemplated the family then in bed and voices were heard outside, saying they were going to kill Rivalino. Shortly after dawn, his 12-year-old son opened the door and found two strange balls on the floor. One was black and the other black and white. Each had a tail and some kind of tip. The father went out to look at the balls which then joined, jumped on him, enveloping him in a cloud of yellow smoke, and he disappeared. (..)
(Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu, 1974, p. 126)

#1962, August 27
USA
(cf. July 27, 1962) But the second (launch) of "Mariner II" on August 27 was a complete success. Mariner II was a small spacecraft of 202 kg (gold and silver plate, if you please!). Its apparatus were set to begin operating ten hours before passing near Venus. Shot by its carrier rocket, it was put into orbit too, and then took off towards the planet. In spite of mistakes (...) it followed obediently the assigned trajectory - 291 millions of kilometers! - and after 109 days of travel arrived, on December 14, at less than 35,000 km from the Venusian surface. It was then that the American technicians sent him by radio, at more than 57 millions of km of distance, the order to trigger his apparatus. Mariner II received the order, acknowledged receipt and for 45 minutes pointed all his electronic eyes at the Shepherd's Star. ("Astronautics", Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 59) LAUNCH BY A TWO-STAGE ROCKET "ATLAS-AGENA" (...) WITH ALL ITS EQUIPMENT IN WORKING POSITION, IT MEASURED 3.63M IN HEIGHT AND 5M IN SPAN. ("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Poche, 1967, p. 292)

#1962, August 24
BRAZIL, Duas Pontas (near Diamantina)
Another disappearance without return: that of a farmer. A nine-year-old child was the only witness: his father claimed he had been taken away in front of his eyes in terrifying conditions: "When leaving our house around seven o'clock in the morning," he told the police, "I discovered two balls of about 40 cm in diameter, placed on the ground in front of the door. I called dad. He came out and approached the balls. At that moment a violent whirlwind of air was triggered which raised a cloud of dust. I no longer saw my father. The whirlwind rose, then calmed down. Dad had disappeared, I have not seen him again. (Charles GARREAU: "Alert in the sky: the file of abductions" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.273)

#1962, September 1 (presumed date)
Canada, Kénagami
A Mr. Leeming published in "Menenco", a small journal devoted to professional issues, published in April 1966 in Montreal, a story entitled "Encounter with a UFO" (note from vog: this story is very similar to another one that happened in the Scandinavian countries). Summary: during an excursion, the witness was advancing through the bushes when he found himself in a clearing where a UFO of 9 m in diameter, flattened like a top, with portholes, resting at 2m20 from the ground on a telescopic tripod, was stationed. He approached it and went around it and found an opening to enter, which he did. He finally met two extraterrestrials and had a technical conversation with one of them. (...) (Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, pp. 55-67)

#1962, September 4
ITALY, Sicily (Catania)
(cf: April 30, 62) Siragusa returns to Etna. In the street there are two beings, 2.15 meters tall, wearing helmets, they wear a luminous belt and in the sky there is a saucer 25 meters wide, at about thirty meters. A cylinder 3 meters high with a small door makes the connection between the saucer and the earth. The two extraterrestrials present themselves as Woodok and Lynk coming from the planet Metaria of Alpha Centauri. They come to give him a message from Asthar and Ithacar, he must send letters to stop nuclear testing. (continued April 64) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1962, October 28
AUSTRALIA, between Salisbury and Elizabeth
E.D. Sylvester was driving on the road around 7:30 pm when she and her children saw an object cross the sky in front of them and land in a field next to the road. When they reached the incident, all four of them got out of the car to go see the thing: oval shaped like an egg, 4.50 m long and 1.50 to 2 m high. Near the thing was a small being that looked like a man and was wearing a shiny outfit like a scuba diver. He had a transparent helmet and tubes on his back that connected him to the craft. In his hands was a small box or container and he was taking samples from the ground around him. Mrs. Sylvester told authorities that she was able to observe this being for forty minutes until the small being re-entered his craft which silently took off again. (Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 163)

#1962, October 29
USA, Greenland, Thule
In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, NORAD's radars detected a swarm of mysterious bodies rushing towards Earth, coming from Siberia. It was in fact the debris of a space probe sent to Mars by the Soviets, which had exploded before leaving its Earth orbit. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 121, 122)

#1962, November 2
USA, near Ririe (Idaho)
As they were driving around 21:30, two Navajo Indians, Willie Begay and Guy Tossie, were blinded by a powerful white light. Once recovered, they noticed a small UFO floating 2 m above the ground in front of them. The car began to slow down abnormally without Willie being able to do anything about it. The object had a diameter of 1.70m to 2.10m with a dome on top that was overturned as if it had hinges for opening. The two men noticed two small beings in the cockpit, whose appearance scared them. Immediately one of these beings flew away like a bird and descended to Willie's height. He was 1.10m tall, had a head 70 cm wide, coarse features as if he had undergone a rudimentary plastic surgery, huge ears, round eyes, no nose or lips. One of his hands had two fingers. The two creatures wore very tight-fitting suits to the shape of their body and a kind of empty backpack that extended above their head. (...) The little being jumped through the open window into the vehicle and grabbed the steering wheel with what served him as a hand. The car started moving again but the creature was too small to reach the accelerator: it became obvious that the car was being towed by the UFO. Finally the strange convoy stopped in a wheat field and Guy Tossie took the opportunity to make a run for it. The little being began to speak in a very high and shrill voice (...) in an unknown language. Then the being returned to the UFO which immediately took off with a rumble, emitting a yellow flame from the back. (Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids ..." - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.200, 201)

#1962, November
FRANCE, in the Var
A garage owner was driving in the evening in a pouring rain when he suddenly saw a group of silhouettes 80 m away. He slowed down as they were leaving by jumps and he observed that they were strange and looked like birds. As they leapt towards the car, terrified, he drove through them and then he saw them return to a bright blue object hovering above a field. They entered it as if they had been sucked in, a dull sound was heard before the object flew away. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 298)

#1962, November 22
USA
At the end of the DISCOVERER program, the US Air Force had thus succeeded in twelve recoveries and the series ended with number 38. But, from November 22, 1962, three months before the end of the program, an unnamed satellite launched from the same base by the same rocket (Thor Agena) quietly gained a low altitude orbit around the Earth. A few hours later it released a small capsule, which an airplane recovered in flight over the Pacific. This first satellite was to be followed by many others of the same type. (...) The first generation consists of small satellites that remain welded to the last stage of their carrier rocket, the Agena. For its takeoff it is propelled, of course, by a first stage, which is none other than a Thor missile. About three days later, a small capsule, baptized "E 6", is ejected to be recovered in flight. The detachment from the orbit takes place over Alaska, the capsule ending its course off the Hawaiian Islands. There, a Hercules C-130 cargo plane is waiting and circling over the planned arrival point. Its role: to catch the container in flight, by the suspension of its parachute, using a curved cable. Originally this aerial fishing number only succeeded once in two. It continues, perfectly perfected, to this day ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 27-28)

#1962, December 12 (December 18?)
ITALY, Milan
A police officer, Francesco Piania, saw in the city center two Martians. "I was doing my inspection round when I heard a whistling behind me. At first I thought it was my ears (note from vog: !) but the noise became louder. As I was going towards the park I saw a silver-aluminum disk, shining in the moonlight, landing. When I turned around I was petrified and couldn't move. I saw a strange entity about 1.85 m tall coming out of the disk. Its space suit was silver and fluorescent emitting a bluish light. It wore a black helmet and made a gesture towards the rotating dome of the disk. Then another person appeared at the entrance. The first man made a sign for me to come closer to him, but at that moment the other entity called him and both of them boarded the disk which took off."
(APRG) (note from vog: these so-called extraterrestrials didn't have much special about them, did they, except that their craft might have been a small helicopter?) (CISU, file 6205 - mentioning RR 3 but saying that only two journalists were aware of the uninvestigated case; sources: Corriere della Sera 19.12.62; Il Tempo 22.2.63; LUFORO Bulletin 3,6,5, Flying Saucers January 1966, 59 and others)

#1962
AUSTRALIA, Brisbane
This 65-year-old bar waitress had never seen anything like it in her life. On a hot night, a customer entered the bar wearing a raincoat and a scarf. He asked for rum and demanded to add Tia Maria to it. After drinking several of this concoction, he seemed completely drunk. One of the bar guards then approached him with the intention of gently putting him out. The visitor disappeared on the spot, his body and clothes vanished into nothingness before their eyes. (UFORQLD UFORA91064 QA90026 - Keith Basterfield.)

#1963
USA
Continued experiments nevertheless took place, particularly under the responsibility of the Lewis Center of NASA. Three types of "hypersonic gliders" were then built: the HL-10, the X-24 and the M2-F. All are ancestors of the Space Shuttle. The MF-F1 was the first to fly in 1963, the same year the X-20 project was abandoned. The X-24 pilot was to reach 1610 km/hour at 22,000 meters altitude in 1971 after being dropped from a B-52 bomber. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 161)

#1963, Winter
CHINA, Daxinganling (North)
My father was returning from work in the mountains. We had started to have dinner at 8 o'clock in the evening. After dinner, my younger brother and I wanted to go and play with our neighbors. Having opened the door, we saw a strange object flying in our direction. It was an unusual and bright thing with a diameter of more than one meter. It was surrounded by an orange, non-luminous band. The thing, which was two stories high, flew without making any noise and had a particularly bright point. It was heading at a uniform speed towards the southeast. Having noticed this phenomenon, I screamed in terror and immediately called my parents who ran and looked with us. This huge, luminous thing disappeared behind the mountain. (SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials". Ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 92)

#1963, April 18
USA, Los Lunas (N.M.)
Paul Villa affair, hoaxer. This mechanic, then aged 49, claimed that the craft in this picture he took on April 18, 1963 contained three beings with whom he conversed. Two months later he photographed a different UFO which, he said, had nine entities from Coma Berenices on board, who visited him for an hour and a half. ("UFO Files", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 24)

#1963, April 21
POLAND, Warsaw
We lived on the ground floor of an apartment in a dead-end street in Warsaw. I was about to go to bed, around 11 pm on April 21, 1963, and I was standing with my back to the window, whose curtains were closed. My wife was already asleep. Then I heard a woman's voice saying, "Look! Look!" in a pleasant but urgent tone. I immediately knew I had to look out the window into the street, where a gas bottle was hissing. Suddenly, the room was lit up by a light like that of a full moon, although the curtains were still closed. I rushed to the window and opened the curtains. I then saw a strange, frightening light. It was raining, but the raindrops seemed to be part of this pale, moon-like light. Then came a third, equally impressive vision: a hail of fire began to fall, with hailstones the size of hazelnuts that had nothing of the appearance of pieces of ice, but rather that of drops of steel running off during welding. These hailstones quickly covered the street and made a dull sound as they hit the shutters. I hoped to be able to pick up some of these hailstones as soon as they were cold. But as soon as they hit the ground they only kept their shape for a moment, immediately losing their steel-like color: they became gray and completely disappeared without leaving any trace. I woke up my wife. She was able to observe these strange things with me, which amazed us. As the rain crackled and the hailstones pounded against the shutters, we heard every ten seconds a curious explosion - a dry sound like that of a cork popping - which announced a renewed wave of rain and hail. At greater and more irregular intervals we also heard a kind of whistling and crackling similar to that of tram and trolleybus cables short-circuited by the pole when it has jumped. This lasted about an hour. In the morning we had confirmation from all our neighbors who had observed the phenomenon exactly as we had done ourselves. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 262-263) Metal balls the size of hazelnuts fell on Warsaw in the night of April 22 to 23. These balls shone with the red color of fire. They covered the streets and electric crackling was heard. (Internet, http://www.wufoc.com, WUFOC site)

#May 1963
USA
(cf: October 1961) BUT THE US AIR FORCE TURNED A DEAF EAR. A SECOND ATTEMPT WAS MADE IN MAY 1963, WITH THIS TIME 475 MILLION SPARKS PLACED IN POLAR ORBIT AT 3700 KM ALTITUDE. THE OPENING OF THE CONTAINER WAS TELECOMMANDED ABOVE THE NORTH POLE, AT THE EIGHTH REVOLUTION. THE RADARS COUNTED A TOTAL OF 18 PACKAGES OF NEEDLES, WHICH, AGAIN, DID NOT REALLY SUCCEED IN DISPERSING. FIVE DAYS LATER, A RADIO WAVE REFLECTION EXPERIMENT WAS HOWEVER SUCCESSFUL BETWEEN THE WEST COAST AND THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES. AND FINALLY, PROGRESSIVELY, THE RING BEGAN ITS DISPERSION. A MONTH AND A HALF LATER IT WAS COMPLETE (...) BUT IN THE FALL THE YIELD DROPPED SHARPLY, BECAUSE THIS ARTIFICIAL MIRROR WAS DISPERSING TOO MUCH BY DEFORMING, A LARGE NUMBER OF NEEDLES UNDERGOING THE EFFECTS OF SOLAR RADIATION. (...) MANY NEEDLES WERE LED TO DIVE INTO THE ATMOSPHERE WHERE THEY BURNED. THUS, IN THE SPRING OF 1966, HALF OF THE NEEDLES HAD FALLEN, THE WESTFORD MIRROR, DISMANTLED AND USELESS FOR A LONG TIME. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 90, 91)

#1963, May 16
USA- SPACE
Gordon Cooper reported the presence of a greenish UFO with a red tail during his fifteenth orbit. He also reported other mysterious observations above South America and Australia. The object he saw above Perth, Australia was seen on the screens of ground tracking radar stations. (J. Allen HYNEK and Jacques VALLEE: "At the Limits of Reality" - ed. Albin Michel 1978, p. 84) (Philippe SCHNEYDER: "UFO, First Balance" ed. du Rocher 1983, p. 232) (Jacques POTTIER: "Flying Saucers" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 42) (Pierre DELVAL: "Contacts of the 4th Type" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 214) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Enigma of the E.T." - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 34) Astronaut Cooper: Above Hawaii, he heard voices on a special frequency, speaking an unknown language, which, after examination of the tape, turns out to not correspond to any known terrestrial language. Flying over Perth, Australia, saw a large UFO, also observed by ground control station. (Charles BERLITZ and William L. MOORE: "The Mystery of Rosswell, the Space Wrecked" ed. Franc Empire 1981, p. 18)

#1963, May 23
USA, Kwajalein Atoll
A NIKE-ZEUS LAUNCHED FROM KWAJALEIN ATOLL IN THE PACIFIC SUCCESSFULLY INTERCEPTED AN AGENA D ROCKET STAGE IN ORBIT. EVEN MORE POWERFUL MISSILES THEN SUCCEEDED THE NIKE-ZEUS, THE "SPRINT" AND THE "SPARTAN", WHICH ITSELF BECAME NIKE-X. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 146)

#May, 1963
ROMANIA, Focsani
At about 11pm I was outside in the street when a strong light made me turn around. (...) I then saw behind and above me a sphere at 500 or 600 m altitude which, in a few fractions of a second, was above my head, very low, like an airplane dropping medicine boxes in inaccessible areas for rescue. The thing had the apparent diameter of a handball and it emitted a very bright white light with orange spots. The street was illuminated as if it was day by this thing which came from the south and went at full speed (constant) towards the north. When it reached far away (...) it stopped. Its passage, even at the closest, was accompanied by no noise except for a slight whistle when the blinking red-white light became visible. A feeling of cold, I think caused by my fear, seized me at the moment of its passage above me and even afterwards, while the night temperature was very mild. (Stelian Vasilescu) (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - trad. Laffont 1976, p. 300)

#1963, June 16
USA, Albuquerque N.M.
(cf: 1953, New Mexico) Villa receives the impulse to take his camera and go to a certain place. There he sees a saucer 21 m in diameter. A door suddenly opens and he sees 4 men and 5 women, all between 2 m 10 and 2 m 70 in stature. These people greet Villa and tell him they come from Coma Berenice. They make themselves understood both by telepathy and in English and Spanish. Villa is allowed to take pictures and for him to have nice images, they even do a kind of flight tour. (following April 18, 65) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998) IN REALITY: Paul Villa fabricated two series of eight color photographs each of circular flying objects with very precise details: one series on June 16, 1963, another on April 18, 1964; he spoke of numerous conversations with the extraterrestrials and promised to soon deliver another series of images. These series appeared in the January 1964 and April 1965 issues of "Ufo-International" and later in the 93 and 113 issues of "Ufo-Nachrichten" (A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: "The Secret Dossier of UFOs", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 270)

#1963, 28 June
AUSTRALIA, in New South Wales and Muloona
A metal sphere 41 cm in diameter, weighing 8.2kg is discovered.
A few days later, in Muloona, another sphere is found, only 15 cm in diameter and with a small opening. (FIying Saucer ReviewZ 10(1):5 and 9t4):23 - Keith Basterfield). (Too bad the information stops there...)

#1963, July 23
USA, between Setus Pass and Toppenish and Portland (Oregon)
At 1:00am three people were driving when a 4m tall humanoid with grey hair crossed the road. A couple from Portland were fishing in the Lewis river and saw on the other side a 4m tall humanoid. He was wearing a Ku-Klux-Klan style hood or had an abundant head of hair. (Jacques BERGIER: "Les E.T. dans l'Histoire" - J'AI LU - 1970 - p. 164)

#August 20, 1963
ITALY, near Rome
"Luciano sent me information about a landing that took place on August 20, 1963, at 9:32 PM, which he investigated with a team from the secret service under the auspices of the Italian government. The witness was the president's trusted chauffeur, driving his official car. The site was the president's hunting reserve, not far from Rome. An object shaped like a disk, resembling an upside-down saucer with a turret on top, hovered at low altitude above the car"
(...) (Jacques Vallée: "Forbidden Science - Journal 1957 - 1969" - O.P. Editions 1997, p. 136)

#1963, August 28
BRAZIL, Sagrada Familia
Three young boys in the garden around 7:50 pm, were drawing water from the well. Suddenly a sphere came hovering above the trees. They were even able to see 5 or 6 rows of people inside the sphere. An opening appeared in the bottom of the sphere and two beams of light were projected onto the ground, a thin being, 10 feet tall, descended sliding down the beams. Once on the ground he walked with a stiff back, bent legs and open arms, swaying from side to side. Then he sat on a rock. The giant wore a transparent helmet, he had an eye in the middle of his forehead, and he wore boots with triangular tips. His shining garment inflated as soon as he was on the ground, the trousers tightly fixed to the boots, on the chest a square packet that emitted light jets. Inside the sphere, still suspended, occupants were manipulating buttons and levers. When the giant made a gesture to grab one of the boys, one of the three picked up a stone, but was unable to throw it when the man looked at him. The giant stood up, but this time he walked with his arms tightly along his body and used the beams as an elevator and went back up into the craft. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 167, 168)

#1963, October 3
IN SPACE
Mercury VIII: Walter Schirra distinguished large luminous masses
above the Indian Ocean during his flight. (Philippe SCHNEYDER:
"Ovni premier bilan" - éd. du Rocher 1983, p. 233) and (J. Allen HYNEK and
Jacques VALLEE: "At the Limits of Reality" - éd. Albin Michel 1978,
p84) (Wally Schirra) Rumors say he saw a UFO and
used the code word "Santa Claus" to designate it. IN REALITY he
reported having observed clouds of nocturnal storms. It is easy to
take things out of context to make them coincide with
the UFO hypothesis at all costs. (1989 - listing and research by Harvey S.
Stewart)

#1963, October 12 (19?)
ARGENTINA, between Monte Maize and Isla Verde
At dawn, in a driving rain, Eugenio Douglas was driving his coal truck. Suddenly he saw a bright point on the road, a single blinding light was approaching. He stopped and pulled off to the side. He got out of the truck: the light had disappeared. Through the rain he saw a round object about 35 feet high, an opening appeared and three men wearing what looked like antenna helmets appeared. They were at least 12 feet tall. Douglas was scared, and when the men saw him a red beam was pointed at him and burned him. Grabbing his revolver he shot at the entities and ran towards Monte Maize. The red light followed him to the village where it interfered with the street lighting, changing it to violet and green. He knocked on a door where a family gathered in a wake heard him: at that moment the candlelight turned violet then green and there was a strange smell. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - J'AI LU collection, p. 165, 166) On the night of October 17-18, Ernesto Douglas (note from vog: different date and first name, slightly different story too) was driving in a violent storm when he was suddenly blinded by a bright light that enveloped his truck from all sides and moved along the same route as him. He suddenly felt a burning sensation on his face. He braked, but his truck skidded and then left the road to get stuck on the side. At that moment he got out and found himself in the presence of three strange beings that seemed to be robots, near which was a vehicle of oval shape equipped with portholes and emitting a bright light. Panicked, Ernesto Douglas took his revolver and fired four bullets at the creatures. They took refuge in their spacecraft which started moving. Several times it flew over the driver and his truck and each time Douglas felt violent burns all over his body. Exhausted, his clothes in tatters, he presented himself at the police station in Monte Maize. (Guy TARADE: "S.V. and civilizations from beyond space" - J'AI LU 1969, p. 183, 184) • MONTE MAIZ (ARGENTINA) on 10/12/63 E. DOUGLAS and M. MANOCCHIO: eye burns for DOUGLAS: indescribable sensations and loss of memory for several hours for MANOCCHIO (??? ) (source: GEPA 2-6 and PS 6. page 50).

#1963, October 16
USA
The first photographic reconnaissance satellites of the "Vela" type were launched in pairs, placed in orbit so that each was on one side of the Earth at 180° apart. Six pairs of Vela were thus launched in 7 years, all placed at very high altitude between 98000 and 119000 km. ("The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, p. 77)

#1963, October 21-22
ARGENTINA, Trancas (Tucuman)
In the night of the 21st to the 22nd, several UFOs stopped near the railway of Trancas. From there they emitted non-dispersive red beams of light (like those produced by our current lasers) of very high intensity. The workers of an agricultural company who had gone out had to run and take refuge in their dwellings, pursued by these heat beams. Inside the houses the temperature began to rise. A witness, Kairus de Moreno, gave a coherent description of these beams to Captain of Frigate Omar R. Pagani of the Naval Information Service of the Argentine Military. Following his investigation, the latter declared that this light passed through the walls of the houses and entered the rooms without windows, illuminating them as if it were broad daylight. (Henry DURRANT: "The UFO File" - Laffont 1973 - p. 131-132)

#1963, October 25
USA, Mitchell
A military pilot flying between St. Louis and Mitchel Air Force Base witnessed a strange phenomenon. At 6:45 PM, he noticed "an object with well-defined outlines accompanied by a smaller one". Without hesitation, he headed towards the craft. At that moment "the smaller one shrank, the bigger one shrank and both moved away". The pilot resumed his route towards the Michell base when he noticed that the two objects had merged into a single, very "compact" mass. Finally, the witness reported, the large craft broke apart into about ten bright points that faded away on their own. (Yves NAUD: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire". - Famot 1977, tome 4, p. 224)

#1963, November 16
GREAT BRITAIN, Hythe (Kent)
Four young people were walking along Sandling Park in the evening. The light, yellow-orange, came out of the sky at an angle of 60°. As it approached the ground it seemed to hover more slowly. Suddenly a gold-colored light appeared in the nearby field after the first object had disappeared behind the trees, floating 100 yards away from them at 10 feet from the ground. It seemed to follow their movements and as if it was observing them. It was oval, 15 to 20 feet wide with a bright and hard center. It disappeared behind the trees and a few seconds later a dark silhouette descended heavily. It was all black, the size of a man, but without a head. It seemed to have wings on either side of the body, like a bat. The young people did not wait to find out the rest.. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU p. 121, 122)

#November 19, 1963
JAPAN, Ryugozaki (Northeast of Tokyo)
Shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Kinoshita, director of the Fuji-Bank in Kashika, in a car with Mr. Saito, vice-director of the branch and a client, had just crossed a place called Kanamazhi and saw a car 150 m behind them, traveling in the same direction. It was a black car of a model known as Toyopet New Crown and it had a Tokyo license plate. On the back seat, on the left, an elderly man seemed to be reading the newspaper. Suddenly, a puff of something gaseous, like white smoke or steam, seemed to envelop this black car and when the cloud disappeared, a few seconds later, the vehicle had vanished. (R. Jack Perrin: "The Mystery of UFOs" - J'ai Lu/Pygmalion 1976, p. 150, 151)

#1963, November 19
CANADA, Saskatoon (Saskatchewan)
Four children saw an oval UFO flying which dropped something. They approached and saw an entity about 3 m tall, wearing a simian-like white suit. This creature made grunting noises and stretched out its arms. The children did not stick around. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 320)

#1963, November
ANDORRA, Terragone
The manager of the Mirador Hotel, Mr. Sesplugues, accompanied by his wife, was driving on the road from Camarruga to Torredembarra when suddenly, they saw a dark figure crossing the road 150 m in front of them. The being in question had the size of a man, but it did not seem to have a head. (Jean FERGUSON: "All about Flying Saucers", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 214)

#1963, December 10
GREAT BRITAIN, Cosford
At around 11:30 PM, a UFO topped with a dome landed on the base, illuminating the entire area with a green light. It was at least seen by two student pilots (Note from vog: on this entire base, there are only two student pilots to see it? Ah!) (...) (Jenny Randle, on the Internet in May 1997)

#1963, December 16
ARGENTINA, Sauce Viejo
Railway worker Cesar Tullio Gallardo, in a sleeping car, noticed his radio had stopped working and his carbide lamp went out. In the darkness he saw strange lights outside the car. A man, dressed up to his waist in a sparkling suit, entered the compartment, tore the part of the newspaper the railway worker was reading and took it, and poured the oil from a can into a bottle, which he took away. Two other witnesses saw "a luminous man" walking on the track. (Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations on ET Humanoids" - Laffont 1977 - p. 102)

#1963
USA, Fern Kreek, Kentucky
Four boys, aged 5 to 12, were watching a disc-shaped object land behind a small wood near where they were playing. A humanoid, dressed in a space suit, small, about 1.2 m tall, came out of the wood. The boys threw stones and clods of earth at him to provoke some reaction. The entity then shot at them with a small black rod which caused a slightly painful tingling sensation throughout their bodies. When the boys were questioned separately according to the information in the NICAP files, their description of the entity was identical and also corresponded to that of 200 other witnesses in the Ohio River Valley. The boys' mother noticed she had received a telepathic message in her head and felt compelled to call the University of Louisville immediately after she had phoned the National Guard to report the children's encounter. Small footprints and clear signs of the landing were found. The next day, two unidentified people visited the site and erased the footprints. They claimed to have been sent by the University of Louisville, but when enquiries were made there, this seemed not to be true. (By DON ELKINS with CARLA RUECKERT , CASE NUMBER 1, Investigators: Col. Verne Yahne, Ky. Air National Guard; D.T. Elkins, Independent Investigator)