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| Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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| April 18 |
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| 1897 - A cigar-shaped UFO hovered over the town of Sisterville, West |
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| Virginia at 8:30 p.m.. It directed brilliant searchlights down toward |
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| the ground. It appeared to have large fins or wings, and flashing |
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| red, white and green lights on the sides and on each end. Several |
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| witnesses estimated the length of the object to be 180 feet long. |
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| (Source: Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of |
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| the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 21). |
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| 1945 - There were two radar-visual UFO reports on this day from the |
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| Far East near Iwo Jima. At three o'clock in the morning ground |
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| control radar made radar contact with an unknown radar target over |
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| the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 18 to 8 miles from the island. The |
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| gunner in a P-61B "Black Widow" aircraft attached to the 549th NFS |
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| squadron saw a yellow, star-like light approach and lose altitude. |
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| Radar contact was then lost. The gunner saw a second light, but no |
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| radar contact was made with it. At 4:15 a.m. Ground control again |
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| made radar contact with a target. The gunner of a P-61B plane saw a |
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| reddish, round light. Contact on the radar screen showed two blips |
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| engaging in evasive action, which soon outdistanced the P-61, one of |
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| the fastest propeller driven aircraft of its time. (Source: Jan |
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| Aldrich, Project 1947 website). |
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| 1950 - At 10:30 a.m. three observers in Pullman, Washington saw two |
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| dark delta-shaped objects fly to the north; they joined a |
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| saucer-shaped object and circled a hill. The saucer then flew off to |
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| the north, while the "kites" flew off to the south. (Source: Larry |
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| Hatch, U computer database, case # 1691; newspaper clipping dated |
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| April 21, 1950). |
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| 1950 - CAA observers in Clarendon, Texas saw an unidentified object |
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| to the southeast, while observers in Childress, Texas about 50 miles |
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| to the SE saw the object to the northwest, and triangulated the |
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| stationary object about midway between, near Memphis, Texas. The |
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| sighting began around 9 a.m. and the object was on radar for four |
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| hours. This radar-visual case involved the crew of an F-61C as it was |
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| flying over Memphis around 11:00 a.m. as well as separate ground |
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| radars. A silver sphere that tilted was seen, and it did not move |
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| significantly despite winds aloft. Northrop engineering test pilot |
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| Max Stanley and observers Lloyd Balsam and Sam F. West were asked to |
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| intercept the object when they took off in their F-61C (AF 8357) from |
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| Amarillo on an MX-775 test of a Navaho missile celestial guidance |
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| test. A B-36 was also scrambled and took off from Fort Worth to |
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| intercept. On the same day at 10:50 a.m. two military wives in |
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| Sherman, Texas saw 18-20 flat silent silver discs race to the north, |
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| then maneuver for 4-5 minutes. (Sources: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A |
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| History. 1950: April-July, pp. 26-27; Jan Aldrich). |
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| 1952 - 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129.85 E, 34.32 N). Radar |
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| tracked an unidentified target for one minute flying at 2,700 mph. |
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| (Sources: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official |
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| statistics; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). |
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| 1952 - At 4:00 a.m. in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada Mr. C. |
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| Hamilton, a janitor, saw a yellow-gold colored spherical object make |
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| a sharp turn in the sky. It left a short, dark trail for one minute. |
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| Eighteen hours later at 10:10 p.m. a newspaper reporter, Chic Shave, |
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| sighted the same round, yellow-gold object as it flew to the south |
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| and then returned. His sighting lasted 90 seconds. (Sources: Quebec |
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| Chronicle-Telegraph, April 19, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook |
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| UFO Unknowns). |
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| 1952 - In Bethesda, Maryland at 11:30 a.m. Mr. R. Poerstal and three |
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| other men sighted seven to nine circular, orange-yellow lights in a |
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| 40-degree V or U-formation as they flew overhead silently for eight |
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| seconds at a high speed, from south to north. (Sources: US Air Force |
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| Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1128; |
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| Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). |
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| 1952 - On this day in Yuma, Arizona two Army weather observation |
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| students sighted a flat-white circular object flying in a very |
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| erratic manner. The sighting lasted approximately 10 seconds. |
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| (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). |
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| 1953 - A huge cigar-shaped UFO flew over Wilmington, Delaware at |
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| 11:15 a.m. and was sighted by a Ground Observer Corps observer. It |
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| was flashing as it passed over the city, heading northwest. (Sources: |
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| Wilmington News, July 9, 1954; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer |
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| Conspiracy, p. 186). |
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| 1960 - At 9:00 p.m. Mr. Arnold saw a round, fiery red flying object |
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| approach at high speed from the south in Lacamp, Louisiana. It |
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| touched the ground about 300 meters away with a loud explosion heard |
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| by many people, and a flame. It bounced in an easterly direction for |
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| about 300 meters, then rose again, turned west and disappeared. The |
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| ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance resembling |
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| metallic paint was found. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
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| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 503). |
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| 1961 - Mr. Paul Simonton, a Chicken farmer in Eagle River, Wisconsin |
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| saw a disc-shaped carft land vertically on his farm. A hatch opened, |
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| and when he approached he saw three human-looking men inside. They |
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| asked him for some water. They appeared to be cooking pancakes on a |
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| griddle, and in exchange for the water they gave him four of the |
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| pancakes from griddle. The men were described as five feet tall with |
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| dark hair. They wore blue knit outfits and helmets. The newspapers |
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| had a field day with this report, but private UFO investigators who |
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| interviewed Mr. Simonton found him to be sincere and his story |
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| uncomplicated. (Sources: Allen Utke case files, case 6; Milwaukee |
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| Journal, April 23, 1961; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, |
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| p. 34; NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 8; Jacques Vallee, |
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| Passport to Magonia, p. 23). |
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| 1962 - According to Lt. Colonel Herbert Rolph, on this evening at |
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| 7:20 p.m. NORAD tracked a UFO across the entire continental United |
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| States. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6174). |
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| 1966 - On this evening there were four good UFO reports made in the |
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| northeastern United States in Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio. At |
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| 7:15 p.m. an elongated oval-shaped UFO with reddish green flashing |
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| lights on each end hovered over Peabody, Massachusetts, zipped |
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| around, and maneuvered to the horizon and back three times. The |
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| perimeter of the object glowed blue. A dense light was seen hovering |
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| only three feet above a roadway in Albany, New York. A blinding |
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| bright object with intense red lights landed on a road in Lancaster, |
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| Ohio and then flew off through a corn field. The witness, Mr. P. |
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| Friend, had sore and bloodshot eyes after his sighting from looking |
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| at the object. At 9:45 p.m. a UFO responded to a searchlight directed |
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| at it in Cohasset, Massachusetts by zigzagging, turning off its |
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| lights, and shooting straight up into the sky. (Sources: Raymond E. |
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| Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 338; Richard Bonenfant, |
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| Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 48, citing the Albany |
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| Knickerbocker; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1966, p. 7; Walter N. |
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| Webb case investigation files, case 60). |
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| 1967 - At 8:05 p.m. in Athens, Ohio a college professor and four |
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| others watched an unidentified light source that alternated between |
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| yellow and pink as it moved over a wide arc of sky at moderate speed. |
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| Their sighting lasted 10 minutes. At 8:30 p.m. the wife of the Ohio |
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| University director of the center for social science education saw a |
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| dull white oval for ten seconds. (Source: NICAP report forms, |
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| www.nicap.org). |
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| 1967 - At 8:00 p.m. in Point Pleasant, West Virginia a pilot and |
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| ground observers saw an anomalous "light bearing object" in the sky. |
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| The pilot attempted to close with the object and flashed his landing |
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| lights to get its attention, but there was no response and the object |
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| disappeared. (Source: West Virginia Register, April 1967; NICAP |
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| files). |
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| 1972 - In the afternoon two British tourists in Pokhara, Nepal took a |
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| photograph of a swarm of white dots that merged into discs, and then |
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| made fantastic maneuvers, flying off to the west. (Source: FSR, July |
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| 1973, p. 3). |
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| 1975 - A luminous disc came out from behind a house in Piano Chiesa, |
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| Italy at 7:50 p.m. and shot up into the sky. (Source: Maurizio Verga, |
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| ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue). |
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| 1976 - On this night in 1976 Ms. Larson was abducted out of her bedroom in |
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| Fargo, North Dakota to a UFO some distance away from her house. |
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| Inside the UFO she was put on a slab and hooked up to a complex of |
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| wires. She was levitated back to her house at dawn. She saw a small |
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| metallic cube zigzag and land on her lawn on the return trip. |
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| (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
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| Humanoid Reports, case A1467, citing Jerome Clark). |
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| 1977 - At 1:20 a.m. a Mr. O'Connor reported seeing occupants inside a |
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| UFO from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tucson, Arizona. Mr. |
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| Thrupp and Mr. Mancor, two weathermen in Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| watched an orange and blue cigar-shaped UFO with black portholes pass |
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| over the city in the predawn sky. It flashed as it went from south to |
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| north. (Sources: Center for UFO Studies case files, June 1977, |
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| International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2). |
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| 1984 - A rectangular UFO hovered only 100 feet above the side of a |
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| road near the RAF Lakenheath Air Base in England. It had red, green |
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| and white lights, and was silent. (Source: International UFO |
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| Reporter, March 1986, p. 5). |
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| 1989 - On this night a terminally ill patient staying in the |
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| cardiology ward of the Kirv hospital located in the Crimea, Russia |
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| suddenly felt a strong wind penetrate her room, even though the doors |
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| were closed. A dazzling white light and a man dressed in white then |
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| appeared. The man's eyes radiated a brilliant light. The witness |
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| asked where he was from and she was told "the tenth dimension." She |
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| was then told that she would soon be able to walk. After that the man |
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| and the light disappeared. The next day other witnesses saw strange |
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| white and red lights moving slowly along the body of the terminally |
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| ill patient, who then heard a loud clear voice telling her to "get up |
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| and leave." She was able to do so and was apparently cured, but there |
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| is no report on the current health of the woman. (Source: Albert S. |
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| Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case 121, citing Sergei |
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| Bulantsev, UFO Universe, October-November 1991). |
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| 1990 - A man driving in Milton, Florida at 11:00 p.m. saw a spherical |
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| UFO approximately 1,000 feet away. The object, about 20-45 feet in |
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| diameter, first hovered, then appeared to pace his automobile. It |
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| appeared to change shape. It was last seen descending below the |
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| Escambia Bay Bridge. (Source: MUFON field investigation files, case |
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| 900818). |
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| 1993 - A UFO hovered in the broad daylight on this afternoon in New |
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| Port Ritchie, Florida. It then rose up into the sky until it was gone |
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| from view. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO |
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| Reports, 1988-1994, case 1511). |
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| 1997 - Sitting on their porch at 12:45 a.m. in La Grange, California |
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| the witnesses first thought they saw a flock of birds, but soon it |
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| became apparent they were looking at a UFO that was slowly flying |
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| over the Kroger store on Commerce Avenue. It then came toward them. |
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| When directly overhead the object "sped up and rapidly disappeared." |
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| (Source: MUFON field investigation files, case 970418E). |
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| 1998 - At seven p.m. a group of witnesses in Kamloops, British |
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| Columbia observed a silver disc hovering nearby. A second object |
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| appeared and circled the first one, then both UFOs shot straight up |
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| into the sky. (Source: UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO |
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| Survey, case 19). |
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| 2003 - A man was returning home from work at 1:00 a.m. in Calgary, |
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| Alberta, Canada and as he came out of an alley he saw a dwarfish |
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| figure run across the street between two cars. It was about four feet |
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| tall, humanoid shaped, and running on two legs. When the figure |
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| disappeared the witness ran to the place where it had last been seen, |
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| and had the feeling he was being watched. The witness could only |
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| describe the figure as having brown legs, and as it ran it seemed to |
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| be hunched over like it was trying not to be seen. (Source: Albert S. |
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| Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, |
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| National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). |
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| 2003 - Kaliningrad, Russia - At 6:17 p.m. the entire Russian Baltic |
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| Fleet and a large number of local residents watched in awe as a |
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| flying wing shaped UFO flew rapidly over Kaliningrad Harbor and |
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| plunged into the water. The event was captured on video by a local |
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| RTR Russian State Television news crew, who happened to be present on |
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| the huge naval base filming a documentary. The UFO had two elongated |
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| dome-like protrusions on top, and three similar structures |
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| underneath. It passed directly over the Baltic Fleet, which lay at |
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| anchor in Kaliningrad Harbor. According to a Russian Naval Commander, |
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| who wished to remain anonymous, the craft was apparently caught |
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| within the sweep patterns of ship-borne radars, which automatically |
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| tracked its progress. This may have caused some a malfunction on |
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| board the craft that resulted in the crash. "It was traveling at a |
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| tremendous rate of speed" he said to the reporters on the scene. "It |
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| was very low, not more than 1500 meters above the surface of the |
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| water. When the radars came on, it simply winged over and dove into |
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| the water, as if had lost either power or control." |
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| The light gray craft had no apparent seams or rivet patterns and was |
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| estimated to be about the size of a small airliner. It was estimated |
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| to be traveling at speeds in excess of Mach 2 and was absolutely |
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| silent as it flew. However, it made a tremendous noise when it hit |
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| the water, causing a geyser of steam and water. ,It appeared to one |
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| civilian observer that whoever was in control of the craft made a |
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| deliberate effort to steer it away from the naval ships and the |
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| shoreline before it went into the harbor. One Sovremini Class |
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| Destroyer was slightly damaged by flying debris, but no injuries were |
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| reported. Radiation levels at the site were "higher than normal." |
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| Debris recovered was small, less than a meter in diameter. Most |
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| debris recovered appeared to be "skin material" of an unknown alloy, |
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| and interior bracing and piping composed of a very high grade |
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| aluminum. The Navy cordoned off the area. In spite of the high speed |
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| at which the craft and it's very low altitude there was no sonic boom |
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| heard. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, |
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| citing UFO Casebook Forum, Russian Newspaper Sources). |
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| 2006 - Two couples observed a disc-shaped object skimming over a lake |
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| in Christiana Lake, Ontario, Canada at 10:45 p.m. The object was |
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| increasing and lowering its altitude, and seemed to be internally |
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| lit. It also had a line of bright blue lights in a marquee pattern. |
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| (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 143, |
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| citing www.ufoinfo.com) |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 April 2014) |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: abrupt sharp turns; cigar-shaped |
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| UFOs; crashes of UFOs and a retrieval of a UFO; discs; erratic motion |
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| ; human-looking UFO occupants, multicolored UFOs; multi-year UFO repo |
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| rts from Florida and Russia; physiological effects: sore eyes; radar |
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| tracking of UFOs; red UFOs; short humanoid; silent UFOs; spherical UF |
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| Os; trace residue resembling metallic paint; V-shaped UFOs or V-shape |
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| d formation of UFOs; vertical ascent; white UFOs; yellow-orange UFOs. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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