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| Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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| May 6 |
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| 1897 - Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of |
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| Hot Springs, Arkansas when they saw a bright light in the sky. About |
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| seven km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. |
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| One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying |
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| lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were |
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| told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The profile |
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| of the 20-meter long machine could be seen in the clearing. There was |
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| a woman with an parasol or umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the |
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| younger man was filling a large container with water. The elder man |
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| had a beard and suggested to the policemen that they fly with them |
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| "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back to |
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| the same spot 40 minutes later but found nothing there. (Source: |
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| Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 186, |
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| citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966). |
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| 1949 - On this day, a decorated Soviet test pilot named Apraksin was |
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| flying over the Volga River in Russia, 40 kilometers north of the |
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| city of Saratov, when his aircraft's electrical system was knocked |
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| out of operation by a cone of light from a cucumber-shaped UFO after |
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| he attempted to approach it. He was blinded by the light, but managed |
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| to land the crippled aircraft despite his incapacitation in an abrupt |
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| emergency landing. He then lost consciousness and was confined to |
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| hospital to recuperate. (Sources: Felix Zigel, unpublished |
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| manuscript, pp. 124-126; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet |
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| Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 138, citing Felix Zigel; Geoffrey Falla, |
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| BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 4; Dominique |
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| Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11). |
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| 1949 - At 8:30 a.m. EDT witnesses Stump, Herman and Quinn in Sidney, |
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| Ohio saw a bright object about half a mile to the west moving south |
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| at high speed. It left no trail and made no sound. One of the |
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| witnesses said it was too bright to tell what shape it had, but the |
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| others said it had a flat, circular shape. It was in sight for two |
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| minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book files; Jan Aldrich, Project |
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| 1947). |
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| 1949 - At 9:35 a.m. a witness named C. G. Green reported to the U.S. |
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| Air Force that two shiny disc-shaped objects circled each other and |
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| banked over a field in Livermore, California. One of the objects |
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| shot straight up with a gray trail. The sighting lasted five minutes. |
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| (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, |
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| case 379; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1397; Don Berliner, |
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| Project Bluebook Unknowns). |
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| 1949 - At Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas a UFO observation network |
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| set up two days earlier, employing Army artillery observers, tracked |
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| their first object. They sighted and triangulated on a brilliant |
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| light 4000 yards in the distance. It moved very slowly, dropping from |
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| an altitude of 1200 feet to 440 feet. It was the apparent size of a |
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| half dollar at arm's length. Its color was pinkish to green, and was |
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| in sight for 50 minutes. The main witness was Lt. Mardell E. Ward. |
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| (Source: Jan Aldrich, FOIA, http://www.nicap.org/hood490506dir.htm). |
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| 1950 - Crowds of observers in Rome, Italy watched two flashing |
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| saucer-shaped object one mile over the Piazza Colonna at 4:30 p.m. |
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| They were spinning and moved slowly. (Sources: Solas Boncompagni, UFO |
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| in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 126; Loren E. Gross, |
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| UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42). |
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| 1950 - At 10:00 p.m. a squadron of discs flew in circles for 20 |
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| minutes above the city of Abington, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. |
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| There were many witnesses. (Sources: Riverside Daily Press, May 8, |
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| 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42). |
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| 1954 - At noon, three linemen working in Heppner, Oregon watched |
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| three - 36m domed discs cross the sky in a V-formation, traveling at |
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| 2200 kph. (Sources: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. |
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| 144; NICAP files, newspaper clipping dated July 1, 1954; APRO |
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| Bulletin, volume 3, number 1). |
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| 1960 - Shortly before 9:00 p.m. a rocket-shaped UFO crossed over the |
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| town of Vila Ezio, Sao Paulo State, Brazil moving at high speed. |
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| (Sources: UFO Nachtrichten, August 1961, citing Olavo T. Fontes: |
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| Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 221). |
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| 1965 - At 9:10 a.m. local time the crew of a US Navy ship heading |
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| west at 265° at 15 knots in the Philippine Sea sighted approaching |
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| aircraft at bearing 0°. At 9:14 a.m. the radar detected four targets |
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| at ranges up to 22 miles for the next 6 minutes flying at extremely |
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| high speed (3,500 mph) and performing various maneuvers. The craft |
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| were viewed through binoculars and appeared as 3 lighted objects. |
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| Next, the UFOs hovered directly over the ship for 3 minutes as |
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| confirmed visually and on radar by the Commanding Officer, bridge |
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| crew and others on deck. The objects departed to the SE at extremely |
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| high speed. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 81, |
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| sighting Blue Book files). |
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| 1966 - At 2:05 a.m. EDT. in Collier County, southwest Florida, near |
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| Carnestown in the vicinity of Naples, a shaken motorist made a |
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| statement to Naples police about his car being approached from behind |
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| by a "large white light" that came within about 100-150 feet of his |
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| car, changing color to blue-green. He tried to flee, but the UFO |
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| zoomed past him making a "whooshing" noise, and circled around to the |
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| left and disappeared. (Sources: Miami Herald, May 7, 1966; NICAP |
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| notes, police statement in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives; Frank Edwards, |
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| Flying Saucers: Here and Now, p. 59) |
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| 1967 - A 24-year-old man named Campeadore was driving on the main |
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| highway 17 miles west of St. George, Utah at 12:43 a.m. when he heard |
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| a loud humming sound and stopped his car to investigate. He got out |
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| of his vehicle and saw a 40-foot wide, amber colored domed disc |
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| hovering only 20-30 feet over his head. He took out his pistol and |
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| fired a complete clip of bullets at the object. He reported that he |
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| heard the bullets ricochet off. He also suffered some physiological |
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| after effects as the result of his close encounter. (Sources: NICAP |
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| case files; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, |
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| The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 338; Richard F. |
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| Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 120; APRO |
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| Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5). |
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| 1967 - On this morning a man in Black River Falls, Wisconsin had a 10 |
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| minute sighting of a disc flying in the sky. (Source: Sherman Larsen |
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| case files, report dated October 13, 1969). |
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| 1967 - A mechanical engineer and his daughter were driving between |
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| Durango and Mazatlan, Mexico around 11:00 a.m. when they sighted a |
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| disc-shaped object on the ground off to the side of the highway. The |
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| engineer took three photographs while the UFO took off. Two parts of |
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| the landing gear are shown in first photo, while the second showed no |
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| legs and presumably had been retracted. The third photo missed the |
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| object. (Sources: Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. |
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| 65; Scott Corrales, Fate, May 2002, p. 19; Jacques Vallee, Passport |
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| to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 839). |
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| 1967 - Raymond Schirrmann, his wife, and two children of Schirmeck, |
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| Bas-Rhine department, France first sighted seven or eight black, |
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| lenticular objects at 7:00 p.m. over a grove of trees at an estimated |
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| distance of two kilometers. They were aligned in a straight, diagonal |
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| line in the sky, and each was surrounded by a halo of smoke. At 9:00 |
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| p.m. a large lens-shaped object, 15-20 meters in diameter, was seen |
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| close to the ground near their chalet only 25 meters away. A coherent |
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| beam of light snaked away from the object, ending in midair. It |
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| detached, then retracted into the object. Following this some landing |
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| legs appeared. The event lasted three hours, and the UFOs were |
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| tracked by radar at a nearby military base. (Sources: Michel Figuet |
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| Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres |
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| Rapprochees en France, p. 271; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A |
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| Study of Multiple UFO, p. 91, citing UNICAT; UNICAT database, case |
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| 403, citing Figuet & Ruchon; Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1967). |
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| 1973 - At 10:32 p.m. six witnesses in Gladston, Queensland, |
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| Australia, including a woman named Korn, sighted a UFO traveling |
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| slowly at 30,000 feet that changed course to the south. It was |
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| flashing at irregular intervals. Suddenly it dropped a small light, |
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| which shot north. The main light made an abrupt turn, then zig-zagged |
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| to the east. (Source: Gladstone Observer, May 9, 1973). |
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| 1975 - A ground ring was discovered this day in a pasture in |
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| Doughboy, New South Wales, Australia. It was an almost perfect circle |
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| of dead grass, with an inside diameter of 3.3m and an outside |
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| diameter of 4.6m. The circle deteriorated, leaving behind bare earth. |
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| A cowpad in the circle was completely flattened. (Source: Bill |
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| Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 23, citing Daily |
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| Examiner, May 14, 1975). |
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| 1975 - Two large silver disc-shaped objects bracketed a USAF jet |
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| aircraft testing equipment for an hour flying from Wright Patterson |
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| AFB, Ohio. The witness experienced a lapse of time. (Source: Leonard |
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| H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 174). |
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| 1975 - On this evening in Cameron, West Virginia a man, his daughter, |
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| and his daughter's friend where at the local high school basketball |
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| court. A green-blue blob (BOL) approached, passing 25 feet above the |
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| school. They got in his car to leave, but when the UFO hovered near |
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| the car the car's ignition system cut out. (Source: Cameron (WV) |
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| News, May 13, 1975). |
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| 1975 - Several separate observers driving between Sedona and Oak |
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| Creek, Arizona observed a dome shaped, glowing cloud maneuvering |
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| between 7:10 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. There were also nocturnal lights and |
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| searchlights reported. (Source: Raymond Jordan, APRO Bulletin, |
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| May-June 1976, p. 5). |
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| 1977 - At 2:30 a.m. a man in Challans, Vendee department, France had |
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| a close encounter by a railway bridge with a two-meter sphere |
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| surrounded by a blue halo. It followed the witness as he walked home. |
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| (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978). |
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| 1977 - In Encinitas, California a large domed disc-shaped object |
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| descended into canyon. A school teacher and fifteen students |
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| witnessed the descent, and said that they could see figures inside |
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| the craft. It was seen again one hour later. (Source: Larry Hatch, U |
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| computer database, case 12693). |
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| 1978 - At 5:40 a.m. a group of several witnesses, including police, |
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| observed 25-30 luminous UFOs make a turn over the city of Catamarca, |
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| Argentina. They shot off to the west at great speed. It was seen by |
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| several members of the guard from the province's police headquarters. |
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| On the same day a strange flying object fell to earth in a |
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| mountainous zone near Baritu in northern part of Salta province. A |
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| widespread aerial and ground search was conducted, in an area |
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| "practically inaccessible" due to the terrain. (Sources: Jane Thomas, |
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| UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1978, p. 14, citing Cronica, May 12, |
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| 1978; FSR, November 1978, p. 23). |
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| 1979 - While driving on the southwestern part of Bribie Island, |
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| Queensland, Australia at 12:30 a.m. four witnesses had a close |
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| encounter with orange lights when their car's electrical system |
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| failed. The car looked a different color in the light. (Source: Larry |
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| Hatch, U computer database, case # 13695, citing Australian Centre |
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| for UFO Studies). |
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| 1984 - A 13-year-old boy working at a kennel in Williston, Florida |
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| heard a humming noise, and noticed that the dogs were attempting to |
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| hide in their pens and whining. As he went out to investigate the |
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| area turned red with illumination, and a bright red disc-shaped |
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| object hovered only 20 feet over his head. He felt heat coming from |
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| the object. When he returned to the dog pens, the dogs barked at him |
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| and would not let him inside. (Sources: Robert Gribble, International |
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| UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984, p. 11). |
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| 1989 - Five girls observed two multicolored lights in Ferndale, |
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| Washington at 10:00 p.m. One approached at tree top level, just 15 |
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| feet from the ground. It was oblong and wide, and may have landed. |
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| (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, |
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| case 261, citing Bob Gribble). |
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| 1992 - A cone-shaped UFO that had orange and pale blue lights was |
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| seen hovering in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia. It was not a |
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| helicopter according to the witness. (Source: Timothy Good, Alien |
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| Update, p. 266). |
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| 1993 - A video of a silver domed disc-shaped object, with 6 seconds |
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| of footage, was filmed by a 42-year-old woman near Highway 150 in |
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| Cherryville, North Carolina at 6:30 p.m. (Source: UFO News Clipping |
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| Service, November 1993). |
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| 1995 - At 3:30 a.m. a couple traveling in a car in Dammartin en |
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| Geole, Seine-Marne, France saw the passage of a hexagon shaped UFO |
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| with white, red and blue lights at the angles. It made no noise, and |
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| traveled at a slow speed and low altitude. (Source: GEIPAN, case # |
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| 202). |
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| 1996 - Near Mata do Buraquinho, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at 9:00 |
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| p.m. Marcelo Barbosa and his wife Vaudeline were fixing windows in |
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| their house when they saw some bright multicolored lights--white, |
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| yellow, and blue--coming from some woods about 50 meters away. Sr. |
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| Barbosa decided to go out to investigate, and he saw a large white |
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| cloud descend slowly into the woods. From within the cloud a |
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| luminous, disc-shaped object emerged. It was about 8 meters in |
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| diameter, and had a revolving light on top that resembled that on a |
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| police car. It also had two or three bright lit windows. Inside one |
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| of these he was able to see several figures moving around. The object |
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| descended and landed briefly, becoming dark, and then bright again. |
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| Before it landed both witnesses saw an L-shaped ramp that had come |
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| out from the bottom of the object. At the object became bright again, |
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| it quickly took off a high speed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 |
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| Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 3813, citing Paraiba UFO). |
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| 1999 - At 4:45 a.m. a man in Elizabeth, South Australia sighted a |
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| bright light the size of a large strawberry at arm's length, moving |
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| from side to side and up-and-down. It then disappeared. It was seen |
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| in the northwestern sky at 30 degrees elevation. (Source: Robert |
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| Frola, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 46). |
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| 2000 - A triangle shaped object was seen hovering 100 feet above the |
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| ground in Kamloops, British Columbia at 9:18 p.m. It suddenly lit up |
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| in a white light, and then disappeared. (Source: Geoff Dittman, |
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| Canadian UFO Survey 2000, citing NUFORC). |
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| 2001 - At 7:30 p.m. several shiny orange dots were seen above the |
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| mountains in the sunset in Sussex, New Jersey; some were spots, but |
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| some were disk shaped. All sank below the horizon or just vanished. |
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| (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: |
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| Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 1; Peter Davenport, National |
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| UFO Reporting Center, May 2001 webpage, report uploaded August 5, |
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| 2001). |
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| 2001 - At 11:15 p.m. a security guard and a friend in Myrtle Beach, |
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| South Carolina sighted a dark, unlit triangle craft escorted by four |
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| helicopters. Seen by security officer and friend for 5 minutes. |
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| (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: |
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| Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 73). |
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| 2002 - A saucer that glowed like the moon and was the apparent size |
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| of the moon cruised over the town of Kirkwood, St. Louis County, |
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| Missouri at about 25 miles per hour from East to West. (Source: Peter |
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| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2002 webpage, report |
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| uploaded May 14, 2002). |
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| 2005 - A black daylight disc was photographed, high in the sky, in |
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| Donacona, Quebec, Canada at 3:06 p.m. According to the local OVNI UFO |
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| group, the photo appears to be genuine. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2005 |
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| Canadian UFO Survey, case # 32). |
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| 2007 - At 12:35 p.m. a slightly conical black UFO hovered over |
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| Kalamazoo, Michigan for roughly 2 minutes. The witness ran to get his |
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| parents, who watched the object leave. That afternoon, at 4:45 p.m., |
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| another group of witnesses in Flint, Michigan reported seeing a |
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| "disguised" UFO that made several stops in mid air. After a few |
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| minutes it accelerated at an extreme speed into the southern sky and |
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| shot almost straight up as it went out of sight. (Source: Peter |
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| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, reports |
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| uploaded June 12, 2007). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 May 2014). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: animal reactions, car buzzing, com |
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| munication, cone-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, human-lo |
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| oking occupants, humming sounds, inside occupants, landing gear, mult |
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| i-year reports from France, physiological effects, radar visual confi |
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| rmation, sensation of heat, triangle UFOs, UFO hovering low overhead, |
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| vehicle EM ignition interference, whooshing sound, zigzag maneuvers. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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