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| [On This Day] |
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| Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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| April 16 |
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| 1897 - At 12:30 a.m. in Bay City, Michigan a large object was sighted |
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| high in the sky. It gradually descended and was estimated to be |
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| around 50 to 70 feet in length. It had a red light at each end, that |
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| gave the conical shaped craft a dull red glow. It moved at a rapid |
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| pace, then slowed. (Sources: Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw |
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| (MI) Courrier Herald, April 16, 1897). |
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| 1897 - Shortly before 3:00 a.m. police heard a drumming noise in |
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| Saginaw, Michigan and then spotted a 30-foot long cigar-shaped |
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| airship with something hanging down ten feet below it. It flew at a |
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| speed of 25 miles per hour to the south, and carried red and yellow |
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| body lights. (Sources: Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) |
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| Evening News, April 17, 1897; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with |
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| Roswell, p. 7). |
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| 1897 - While working in his field in Downs Township, Illinois farmer |
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| Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged |
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| from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving. (Source: |
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| Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 22, |
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| citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 17, 1897). |
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| 1897 - On that night there was a sudden flash in the sky over Logan, |
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| Ohio and then a 40-foot long dark shape flew over the town slowly. |
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| Witnesses thought they could hear voices coming from the object. Some |
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| followed it three miles south of town in a buggy. The craft descended |
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| to about 50 feet altitude, then rose swiftly and flew out of sight. |
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| (Source: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 8). |
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| 1897 - On the same night a man named Williams in Greenville, Texas |
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| came upon a landed airship. He described it as an "immense |
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| cigar-shaped vessel" with large wings, and having a "sidewheel like a |
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| steamboat" in front, with a fish tail at the rear. He claimed it was |
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| 75 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he encountered three men |
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| performing repairs on the craft. (Source: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't |
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| Start with Roswell, p. 39, citing the Dallas Morning News, April 19, |
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| 1897). |
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| 1952 - At 10:26 p.m. a U.S. Air Force captain and his neighbor in |
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| Shreveport, Louisiana saw a bright white object make a fast approach, |
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| reverse direction, then change shape from a flat circular object to a |
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| thin lens. It also changed color from pink to red. Its speed was |
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| estimated at 1285 mph, and showed a red exhaust tail after making its |
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| turn. It was ten times brighter than the brightest star. (Source: J. |
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| H. Tessier, UNICAT computer database case #812, citing Blue Book; |
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| Project Blue Book Report # 6, April 30, 1952). |
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| 1953 - The crew of a Maritime Central DC-4 flying near Chatham Royal |
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| Canadian AFB, New Brunswick sights an eight meter in diameter |
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| metallic disc at 3:34 p.m. that is heading toward their aircraft. The |
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| UFO passed underneath at 300 knots, just under the nose of the |
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| aircraft. (Sources: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 37; Dominique |
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| Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21). |
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| 1956 - On U.S. Route 1 in Henderson, North Carolina just before dawn, |
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| two government employees saw for a few seconds a large, top-shaped |
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| object passing over their car. It was as large as the road and made |
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| no sound. (Sources: Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
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| Magonia, p. 253). |
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| 1956 - Two police officers, Perkins and Williams, in Lexington, |
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| Kentucky sighted a small, pale-red light in the western sky at 11:55 |
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| p.m. They drove closer to get a better look. After 5 minutes the |
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| object disappeared; it left a glow in the sky for a few seconds. The |
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| object appeared to change shape, from round to ellipse, and then back |
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| to a circle again. (Sources: Lexington Herald, April 17, 1956; |
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| Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY News, June 1956, p. 8). |
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| 1960 - A brilliant vertical cylinder or pole-shaped object rose |
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| slowly over the shore of Napier, New Zealand at 5:50 p.m. It turned |
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| horizontal and then darkened. It finally flew to the northeast |
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| and out to sea. (Source: APRO Bulletin, July 1960). |
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| 1966 - At 7:55 p.m. an elongated elliptical object hovered over |
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| Highway 16 in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It had bright red lights |
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| affixed to each end, and blue lights along its length. At 10:44 p.m. |
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| in Weston, Massachusetts police were called to investigate two |
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| reports of an object resembling a dirigible or blimp-shaped UFO |
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| carrying bright lights. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: |
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| Interplanetary Visitors, p. 337). |
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| Weston, Massachusetts - 1966 |
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| [Sketch for Weston, Massachusetts - 1966 sighting] |
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| 1967 - A fast moving, glowing ovoid UFO stopped and landed in |
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| Boraure, Venezuela on this day. It took off and flew away when |
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| approached. (Sources: Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, |
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| p. 60; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, |
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| case 835). |
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| 1968 - At 12:10 p.m. Henry Ford II sighted a very large UFO while |
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| flying onboard the Ford Motor Company Jet Star near Austin, Texas. |
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| (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 1; Donald E. |
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| Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying |
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| Objects, p. 177). |
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| 1972 - In Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru a man had his eyesight |
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| impaired, and others reported that headaches were caused by the close |
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| approach of a saucer-shaped UFO. (Source: Jane Thomas, FSR, July |
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| 1972, p. 24, citing Cronica, April 16, 1972). |
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| 1974 - A metallic ovoid UFO approached a car on a highway in Mitcham, |
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| South Australia at 6:00 p.m. It revolved slowly, and had four lights |
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| on its dome. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1974). |
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| 1974 - At around 12:50 a.m. a classic Italian CE-III case that has |
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| defied explanation occurred in Santa Maria del Tempio, Casale |
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| Monferrato, Piemonte district, Italy. Mauro Bellingeri and his wife |
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| had just arrived home when a luminous disc-shaped object came out of |
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| the sky at them, and then stopped over their house 40 feet up. The |
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| craft had a central ring of revolving red, green, and yellow lights |
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| that revolved around the cabin. The object made no sound as it |
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| hovered there. The couple could see a round, clear, dome-shaped cabin |
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| on the upper portion of the object that was 30 feet wide and six feet |
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| high. Inside the cabin there were three seated beings who were |
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| visible, wearing fishbowl or globe-shaped helmets. After several |
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| minutes of just hanging silently in the sky, 4-5 jets of flame were |
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| emitted from the underside of the craft, and the outer rim began to |
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| turn more rapidly. The object started making a whistling sound. With |
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| a strong blast of air that nearly knocked the witnesses down, the |
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| object then took off and flew away. (Sources: Renzo Cabassi, FSR, |
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| February 1977, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue |
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| of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-17 (A1317); Vicente-Juan Ballester |
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| Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, |
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| case # 187; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A |
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| Thirty-Year Report, pp. 18, 373, 460, 489; UNICAT, case 51; John |
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| Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 106). |
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| 1977 - An object consisting of two spherical lights that flickered |
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| back and forth between orange and deep red appeared to hover over |
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| Bushey, Watford, England. It approached and then suddenly vanished. |
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| (Source: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1977, p. 18). |
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| 1979 - At 11:30 p.m. in Bedarrides, Vaucluse, France a red sphere, |
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| the size of a car, descended fast and then landed. Flashes white and |
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| red lights. It left behind ground traces at the landing site. There |
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| were at least two witnesses, and the incident lasted five minutes. |
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| (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1979; Jean-Luc Rivera, UFO |
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| Newsclipping Service, July 1979, p. 12). |
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| 1990 - A young man drove his wife to work in South Chicago, Illinois |
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| and then saw a silver, oval-shaped craft in the sky at around 7:30 |
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| a.m. The silver, domed oval object was hovering near an intersection |
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| in the city; it was motionless, and made a whooshing sound. He |
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| felt odd, developed a headache, nausea and neck pain. There was no |
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| missing time associated with this close encounter. (Source: Frances |
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| Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 133). |
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| 1992 - On this evening the Current Affair TV film crew filmed a red |
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| UFO as it hovered over the Gulf Breeze, Florida Three Mile Bridge. |
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| (Source: Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 13). |
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| 1993 - In Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England a witness reported that |
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| a one-foot in diameter, glowing ovoid object was just outside the |
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| window of the house at 2:30 a.m. It was very bright, and some psychic |
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| effects resulted from the close encounter. (Source: UFO Newsclipping |
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| Service, March 1994). |
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| 1993 - At 9:20 p.m. a deputy sheriff and others observed a 200-300 |
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| foot wide flying boomerang or V-shaped UFO in Bayport, Florida. The |
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| UFO was pulsing as it hovered, then "hauled ass." (Sources: Leonard |
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| Sturm, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1996, p. 20; Richard F. Haines, |
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| CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 80). |
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| 1995 - In Tacoma, Washington at 10:10 p.m. two white or light gray |
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| discs moved quickly from south to north over the clouds in a steady |
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| trajectory. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
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| Seattle). |
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| 1996 - In Tonto Hills, Arizona, a couple that had observed a large |
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| diamond-shaped craft land previously in the same area back in |
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| February observed a similar large craft landing nearby them. It was |
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| white, diamond shaped, and had green and red lights around it. Three |
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| humanoid entities (not described) were seen walking around it as if |
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| searching for something. Their sighting lasted for 15 minutes. Note: |
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| There is a Tonto Basin in central Arizona, but there is no town or |
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| locality named "Tonto Hills". (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 |
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| Humanoid Contact Report Database, case # 2812, citing Jim Ossipov & |
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| Myron K. Olson). |
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| 1997 - On a farm in Zagorje, Slovenia a 15 meter black sphere with a |
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| halo and portholes hovered near the ground at 6:45 p.m. Footprints |
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| were later found at the site, about size 9 in shoe size. (Source: |
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| Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 16). |
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| 2003 - Two orange lights flew in a corkscrew pattern together from |
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| south to north over Victoria, British Columbia at 2:40 a.m., and then |
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| went west. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # |
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| 148, citing UFOBC). |
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| 2004 - There was no sound coming from a triangle-like craft seen near |
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| Fort Benning, Georgia by a mother and daughter. At 10:20 p.m. a |
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| 47-year-old woman was driving home from Columbus with her 16-year-old |
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| daughter when they thought they saw a military helicopter from the |
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| Fort. Upon getting closer the mother thought it resembled more of a |
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| Stealth Bomber with a triangle shape. They slowed down and rolled |
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| down their car windows, which revealed there was no sound coming from |
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| the craft. Near Ellerslie, in Harris County, Georgia, they then |
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| observed the dark triangle hovering at a relatively low altitude. It |
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| had blinking red and green lights at the rear, and it was projecting |
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| a spotlight beam with an adjacent blue light under each wing. The |
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| daughter became a little concerned and said they needed to get out of |
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| there, get home, and tell her dad. The mother reported to the MUFON |
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| investigator that she had observed a similar triangular craft before, |
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| along with her older daughter, but had never reported it (Source: |
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| George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports |
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| of UFO Sightings, p. 95, citing field investigator Dan Worsham and |
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| Tom Sheets). |
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| 2007 - At 10:00 p.m. a gray triangle object outlined with many lights |
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| flew silently overhead New Westminster, British Columbia. (Source: |
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| Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 200, citing |
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| HBCCUFO). |
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| 2008 - A close encounter with a large Moon-sized, spherical object |
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| near the witness' car was reported in Ontario, Canada (city not |
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| given); it scared the witness, then vanished. (Source: Geoff Dittman, |
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| 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 212). |
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| 2009 - A large, metallic, cylindrical object was seen over Saint |
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| Augustine Beach, Florida at 5:00 p.m.; it hovered for about a minute |
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| and then disappeared. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO |
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| Reporting Center, April 2009 webpage archive, report uploaded May 12, |
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| 2009). |
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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: aircraft UFO encounters; cylind |
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| rical UFOs; daylight discs; domed discs; domed ovoids; fishbowl helme |
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| ts; ground traces; low flying UFOs; ellipsoid or ovoid UFOs; physiolo |
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| gical effects: impaired eyesight, headaches, nausea, neck pain; red s |
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| pheres or cones; shape changing UFOs; top-shaped UFOs; triangle UFOs. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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