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| Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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| May 17 |
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| 1909 - At 10:00 p.m. many witnesses in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
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| observed a silent cigar-shaped flying object with a light that |
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| flashed several times. It rose higher and shot away to the east. |
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| (Source: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17). |
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| 1947 - Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. Field Engineer Savage in Oklahoma |
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| City, Oklahoma saw a frosty white, round and flat object, with a |
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| diameter to thickness ratio of 10:1. It was estimated to be the size |
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| of a B-29 (140 feet wingspan) traveling north at a 350° heading at |
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| between 10,000 to 18,000 feet moving at three times the speed of a |
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| jet, making a slight swishing sound. (Sources: Oklahoma City Times, |
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| June 26, 1947; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO |
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| Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May |
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| 1992, p. 19). |
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| 1950 - At three o'clock in the morning four oil men in Hay Creek, |
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| Wyoming watched two saucers over an oil field for two hours. The |
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| object had lights and flames around its rim. It made dives |
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| and maneuvers.(Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: |
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| April-July, p. 45). |
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| 1950 - On this night a military witness reported that a saucer-shaped |
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| object landed at the Amarillo, Texas airport for five minutes. Its |
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| touchdown set the grass on fire. It took off and flew to the west. |
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| There was an OSI investigation. On the same night a dark, "absolutely |
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| solid smoke ring" sped through the clouds of Timperley, Cheshire, |
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| England. It was the size of a plane. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A |
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| History. 1950: April-July, pp. 44 & 47). |
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| 1955 - At McDill Air Force Base, Florida a disc appeared at 7:00 p.m. |
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| as a large, square glowing object. It was at an estimated 30,000 feet |
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| altitude. It made 90 degree turns for 3 minutes, and then left by |
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| shooting straight up. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of |
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| the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June) |
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| 1956 - At 6:30 p.m. several people in South Bay, New York including |
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| witnesses named Winchell, Green and Harris observed a metallic |
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| saucer-shaped craft with a rim hovering over nearby East Mountain |
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| from the eastern shore of Lake George. It was silent. (Sources: |
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| Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, |
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| June 1956, p. 9, citing Glens Falls Post Statesman, May 18, 1956; |
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| Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A |
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| History. 1956: May-July, p. 28). |
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| 1956 - A man by the name of Meyer reported a formation of twenty |
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| silvery gray discs flying in close formation at a low altitude over |
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| Ada, Oklahoma at 10:22 p.m. The sighting lasted less than three |
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| minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official |
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| statistics, letter dated May 24, 1956; Flying Saucer Review, July |
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| 1956, p. 27; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple |
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| UFO, p. 185). |
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| 1956 - On the same day a Sasquatch was sighted by a man named Hunt |
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| along Highway 1 in Flood, British Columbia, Canada. (Source: George |
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| Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 21, citing the Toronto |
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| Globe, July 6, 1957). |
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| 1957 - At 7:45 a.m. two observers in Roswell, New Mexico saw a shiny |
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| white disc in the sky fly to the east against the wind; it made a 90 |
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| degree turn to the north tilted on a slant. (Source: APRO Bulletin, |
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| September 1957). |
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| 1958 - At 11:45 p.m. two men in a boat in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| watched as an orange fireball flared up and sped away when a |
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| spotlight was shone at it. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, |
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| p. 12, 121; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: |
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| UFOs: A History. 1958: May-July, p. 28). |
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| 1959 - Three crocodile hunters saw a huge football-shaped object 100 |
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| meters away from them while hunting in Cooktown, Queensland, |
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| Australia at 4:30 a.m. The object spewed forth a 50 meter wide band |
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| of vapor. Two of the hunters stood up to get a better look. One of |
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| the two later died, and the other suffered some severe physiological |
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| aftereffects from the encounter. (Sources: Bill Chalker, The Oz |
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| Files, p. 101; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, |
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| p. 24). |
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| 1960 - At 6:30 p.m. two men herding donkeys in Taboleiro de Nazare, |
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| Ceara State, Brazil were chased by a huge round object at low |
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| altitude for about 20 minutes. It pursued them for 18 kilometers, |
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| keeping same distance. Finally, after it flew away by climbing very |
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| quickly out of sight. Ten minutes later a luminous green ball of |
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| light was spotted along the coastline in Acarau, Ceara State, Brazil. |
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| It stopped offshore, then followed the coastline to the southeast. |
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| Another light followed along after it a short time later. (Sources: |
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| (1) Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case 939, |
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| citing APRO Bulletin, September 1960; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer |
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| database, case 5923, citing Flying Saucer Review). |
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| 1964 - At 9:00 p.m. a fiery object, maneuvering at low altitude, was |
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| seen from Massillon, Ohio. It was sighted from Wooster and |
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| Smithville, Ohio at 9:10 p.m., then from Lawrence and Burbank at 9:25 |
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| and 9:30 p.m. It flew erratically with a whirring sound and changes |
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| of color, apparently interfering with police radio. It went down |
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| toward the northwest, appearing ready to land. Abnormal radioactivity |
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| was allegedly found at the landing site. (Source: Jacques Vallee, |
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| Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case # 605, citing Akron |
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| UFO Research Society). |
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| 1965 - On this evening a luminous UFO zigzagged over Brisbane, |
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| Queensland, Australia. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the |
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| Southern Hemisphere, p. 154). |
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| 1966 - At 3:10 a.m. an aircraft design engineer in Mentor, Ohio saw a |
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| bluish-white object pickup 10 smaller objects in groups, brightening |
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| each time a pick-up was made, then dimming. The parent object then |
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| turned to the west and accelerated away. At 4:00 a.m. on US Highway |
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| 26 near Warm Springs, Ohio seven small nocturnal lights circled a |
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| large UFO; 4 entered, 3 left, returned and then entered |
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| again.(Sources: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1991, p.16). |
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| 1966 - At 6:40 p.m. a Boeing engineer in Arabi, near New Orleans, |
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| Louisiana was among the witnesses who saw two discs flying off each |
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| wingtip of an airliner. The outer discs lagged briefly during a turn |
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| by the airliner. (Source: NICAP report form; Colorado UFO Study |
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| files). |
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| 1967 - At 10:00 p.m. a stream of lights seen in the sky in Kamyshin, |
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| Volgograd, Russia were actually windows on a huge cigar-shaped UFO |
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| that flew from the northeast to southwest, and was lost from view as |
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| it ascended up into space. Major Y. B. Popov, of Novosibirsk, |
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| together with Junior Lieutenant A. S. Nikitenko and several local |
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| residents saw a cascade of lights rushing across the night sky from |
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| the northeast in even rows. The lights were located on the surface of |
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| a very large cigar-shaped object; the impression was that of an |
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| ocean-going vessel. (Source: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the |
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| Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 189). |
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| 1967 - At 8:30 p.m. in Rural Hall, North Carolina witness Red Ledford |
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| observed a round, orange-colored object, similar in size to a small |
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| aircraft, which zigzagged back-and-forth for five minutes over a jet |
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| that was heading northeast. (Sources: Don Berliner, Australasian |
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| Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, |
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| Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339, UNICAT, case # 716). |
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| 1968 - At 8:45 p.m. Jose Da Silva, the driver of a VW minibus, and |
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| three passengers were listening to the radio under a light rain while |
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| driving between Florianopolis and Lagune, Santa Catalina State, |
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| Brazil when they suddenly heard a whirring sound and noticed a |
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| diffused light over the road. Suddenly the van rose up in the air |
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| about 50 centimeters and stayed there for a moment before coming down |
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| and again rising up in the air before it was set down on the road |
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| again, this time more slowly. The four men then noticed an intensely |
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| luminous circular object hovering overhead at about 100 meters |
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| altitude. Frightened, they watched from the van while the UFO hovered |
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| above them. They described the object as only about two meters in |
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| diameter with several porthole-like windows on its lower part. |
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| Through the portholes shadows or sillouhetted figures were visible |
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| moving about inside. A reddish light emanated from the top of the |
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| object. The UFO remained motionless for a few minutes, and then |
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| tilted at an angle and disappeared towards the ocean. After the |
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| incident all four men suffered from nausea and vomiting. One of the |
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| men also lost all the hair from his eyebrows. Da Silva, who before |
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| the incident had had an abundant head of hair, became bald in less |
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| than a year. A circular burnt area was found on the roof of the |
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| minibus. (Sources: Inforespace, February 1976; Albert S. Rosales, |
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| Humanoid Contact Database, citing Cuarta Dimension # 20). |
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| 1968 - At 7:00 p.m. many onboard a ferryboat in Canal de Chacao, |
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| Chile watched a luminous object slow, stop, and make curves in its |
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| flight to the north until gone. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue |
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| 117). |
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| 1968 - Three photographs of luminous UFOs were taken by Dr. Gabriel |
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| Alvial at the University of Chile's El Inferniello Observatory, in |
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| the Andes Mountains, Chile. The scientific research facility involved |
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| with this photographic case has been set up in the high Andes |
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| primarily as a Cosmic Ray measuring installation. The operators of |
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| the observatory apparently began observing a "series of luminous |
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| phenomena" months before. The objects were mobile but also stopped |
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| and hovered. One of the images can be viewed at |
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| http://www.nicap.org/images/680517andes.pdf (Sources: Prof. Gabriel |
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| Alvial. "Unusual Photograph from 14,000 Feet Andean Observatory", |
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| Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1969; "From a Laboratory in the |
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| Cordilleras Comes Documented Cases", INFO Journal, 1 (4), Spring |
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| 1969; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1968, p. 8; J. Antonio Huneeus. " A |
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| Historical Survey of UFO cases in Chile", MUFON 1978 Symposium). |
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| 1969 - On this night a married couple in Graz, Austria viewed a white |
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| disc-shaped object through binoculars. It hovered and zoomed up and |
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| around for three hours. Dogs barked. (Source: Ernst Berger, MUFON UFO |
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| Journal, July 1976, p. 13). |
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| 1977 - In Tranent and seven surrounding towns in Lothian, Scotland, |
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| shortly after nine p.m., a domed disc-shaped object and other objects |
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| were seen in the skies on a clear evening. One of the witnesses was a |
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| 13-year-old boy named McKenzie. The UFOs generally flew off to the |
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| east. The sightings lasted at least 20 minutes. (Source: FSR, |
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| November 1978, pp. 30-31). |
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| 1977 - In the village of Icoaraci, near Belem do Para, Para State, |
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| Brazil two fiery balls of light were seen in the sky at 9:30 p.m. One |
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| was green, and the other was red, and they came from opposite |
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| directions and collided causing a tremendous flash and a sound like |
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| thunder. The sky filled with a pink smoke, which slowly dissipated |
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| after 20 minutes. (Source: Otto Raymundo, MUFON UFO Journal, July |
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| 1977, p. 8). |
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| 1977 - A SWAT team witnessed a "flying Xmas tree" soar over the city |
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| of Memphis, Tennessee at 3:30 a.m. It was silent, and seen just 35 |
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| feet over twin electrical power towers. It was the length of a |
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| football field, and 50-75 yards wide. (Source: Bob Pratt, MUFON UFO |
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| Journal, issue 289; UNICAT, case # 549). |
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| 1978 - At 8:30 a.m. at a farmhouse in Emilcin, Poland just |
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| eight-tenths of a kilometer from the scene of Jan Wolski's humanoid |
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| encounter the day before, a mother was preparing breakfast while her |
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| two children, Adas and Agnieska, played outside. She heard a sound |
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| like thunder which seemed to be coming from the ground. A short time |
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| later her son Adas came inside to tell her that he had seen a |
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| box-shaped aircraft, like "a little house," fly low over their barn. |
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| It then vanished by shooting up vertically with a sound like thunder. |
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| Adas said that the object was flying with its smallest wall forward, |
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| and there was a square window in this side with rounded corners |
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| through which he could see a pilot. On the edges of the side, he |
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| said, were moving, swaying black rods, like the feelers on a snail. |
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| (Sources: Xenolog, December 1978, p. 2; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
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| Contact Database 1978, citing Timothy Good, Alien Base). |
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| 1979 - At 12:25 a.m. William Herrman saw a UFO from his home in |
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| Summerville, South Carolina and felt the urge to get in his car and |
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| follow it to a remote location. Everything became silent, and the |
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| object descended from the sky, and pulled him inside the craft by |
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| means of a blue beam of light. He then lost consciousness. When he |
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| woke up he was on a exam table. He was medically examined by short, |
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| light skinned beings, with large heads and oval-shaped eyes. They |
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| wore red, tight-fitting coveralls and pullover boots, and their |
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| leader had an emblem like a winged serpent on his chest. They |
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| conversely extensively. He was then taken on a journey and allowed to |
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| view a larger vessel in flight and people on the surface looking up |
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| at the craft. He was eventually returned to the same field as his |
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| first abduction experience. (Sources: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO |
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| Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, |
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| case # 191B, citing Wendell Stevens; Columbia (SC) State, June 28, |
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| 1981; Albert S. Rosales, 1979 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # |
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| 2258). |
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| 1989 - Two women in their twenties driving in a car in Pittsburgh, |
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| Pennsylvania at 2:57 a.m. had a close encounter with a white ovoid |
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| object with red beacons flashing on the sides. It made no sound, and |
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| vanished in sight. (Source: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December |
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| 1989, p. 5, MUFON case file # 890719). |
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| 1991 - At 8:00 p.m. a near collision occurred between a Boeing 707 |
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| airliner and a disc-shaped object over Ji Yong, 260 miles from |
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| Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. The airliner dropped in altitude |
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| and extinguished its lights to avoid a further encounter. (Sources: |
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| Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 57; Dominique Weinstein, |
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| Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46). |
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| 1994 - At 9:30 p.m. a huge bright light with lots of little lights, |
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| chased by second smaller light, was sighted in Monte Vista, Colorado. |
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| As the smaller object closed in on larger one, the larger one turned |
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| from white to red, and then made a 45 degree turn to the west. It |
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| made a pinging bullet sound as it flew. (Source: Christopher O'Brien, |
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| The Mysterious Valley, p. 240, citing the Valley Courier). |
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| 1998 - At 1:30 p.m. at La Veta Pass, Colorado on US Highway 160 a |
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| silver colored, cigar-shaped object was observed over the Sangres de |
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| Cristo Mountains during a thunderstorm. The UFO flew in and out of |
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| the clouds for several minutes before becoming obscured by the storm. |
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| (Source: Christopher O'Brien case files, case 548). |
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| 2000 - In the pre-dawn hours, in a dream-like state a local woman in |
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| Independence, Missouri remembered seeing a bright light overhead |
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| through her bedroom skylight window. She next remembered lying down |
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| on a table and a figure was at her head on the right side over her |
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| shoulder; another figure was at her feet on her right side. They |
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| seemed to be pulling or tugging at something that felt like a rope |
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| going through her body from her right shoulder to her right hip area. |
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| She felt very uncomfortable and her chest hurt. She woke up in her |
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| bed, and noticed a bright light shining in the skylight, and what |
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| appeared to be a plane at first that was traveling south to North. |
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| The object had a tail with a red flashing light and two wings with |
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| red and green lights on the ends. The wings were very thin, and right |
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| next to the tail, unlike a normal airplane. The body of the object |
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| was long with a squared off nose. The strange craft had two very |
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| bright large white lights underneath it at the front, shining |
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| directly towards the ground. No noise was heard. (Source: Albert S. |
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| Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 3785, citing Missouri |
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| MUFON). |
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| 2001 - At 9:45 p.m. a Ph.D., his wife and their three children in |
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| Ames, Iowa witnessed a huge, silent triangular craft with bright, |
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| blinking, strobing and pulsing white lights. The craft took three |
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| minutes to cross the sky. Using binoculars, they checked details on |
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| the huge, nearby object. (Source: George A Filer & David E. Twichell, |
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| Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 75, citing |
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| NUFORC). |
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| 2004 - A woman was cleaning house in Culloden, West Virginia on this |
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| evening when she spotted a black figure run past her window. She |
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| looked outside and could not see anyone. She resumed her cleaning, |
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| but again saw another figure run by the window, this one not as dark |
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| as the first. Ten minutes later she was in the kitchen when she was |
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| blinded by a bright flash of light that came in through both of her |
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| back windows. She then closed her curtains. The next day her dogs |
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| were acting strangely and there was a local power outage in the area. |
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| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2004 |
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| archived webpage, citing Donnie Blessing, MUFON Ohio). |
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| 2008 - At 12:30 a.m. a V-shaped object flew low over the city of |
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| Chilliwack, Fraser Valley, British Columbia. (Source: Geoff Dittman, |
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| 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case 259, citing UFOBC). |
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| 2008 - At noon a metallic cigar-shaped object was sighted over |
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| Carrollton, Texas traveling north at an incredible rate of speed for |
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| 20 seconds. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
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| May 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2008). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 May 2014). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: abductions, d |
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| isc-shaped UFOs, hovering UFOs, inside occupants, lasting physiologic |
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| al injuries and death caused by UFO, levitation, multi-year reports f |
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| rom Brazil and Queensland, temporary physiological effects, triangula |
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| r and V-shaped UFOs, pinging sound, whirring sound, zigzag maneuvers. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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