ufo_data/bin/rr0/tran1963.md

-   **February:** The first five A-12 pilots of the [CIA](CIA.html) (Collins, Ray, Skliar, Sullivan and Walter) arrive at [Groom Lake](Area51.html) [\[Peebles 1995\]]{.source}.

- **March**: Professor Roger Jennison (Department of Electronics at the University of Kent) is flying late at night from New York to Washington. The plane enters a storm and at one point the aircraft is enveloped by a bright and audible electrical discharge. A few seconds later a [glowing sphere](BallLighting.html) of about 20 cm in diameter emerges from the cockpit and travels down the aisle of the aircraft to approximately 50 cm from Jennison. The [ball](BallLighting.html) moves in a straight trajectory along the length of the aisle at 75 cm above the floor and at a relative speed to the aircraft of about 1.5 m/s. It is blue-white in color and its apparent brightness is estimated to be about 5 to 10 W. No heat is felt when it passes close by and the limb darkening (like that of the Sun) gives it an almost solid appearance, indicating that it is optically opaque. No asymmetry is observed in any dimension so it is impossible to determine whether it is rotating or not [\[*Nature*, November 1969 \< *AA&ES Magazine*, June 1996\]]{.source}.

- **April**


-   [Joseph Hynek](HynekJosephAllen.html) writes in *Yale Scientific Magazine*: The average witness is above average, honest and serious. No truly scientific examination of the UFO phenomenon has been undertaken despite the enormous volume of raw data.

-   Major [Hector Quintanilla](QuintanillaHectorV.html) succeeds Major [Robert J. Friend](FriendRobertJ.html) as head of the [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) project.

- **May**


-   **May 7:** Launch of the Telstar 2 satellite.


- The American astronaut [Gordon Cooper](CooperLeroyGordon.html) broke the record for the longest space flight: 34 hours and 20 minutes, aboard *Faith-7*. During the final orbit, he warned the ground station near Perth that a green object was approaching him from East to West, against the direction of the orbits made by man at that time. The phenomenon was also detected by the Perth detection equipment. NBC broadcasted the report and planned to interview Cooper, who said nothing and referred to the official statement announced by the [NASA](NASA.html). But no statement would come from the [NASA](NASA.html).


-   **May 18:** Sighting in New Plymouth (New Zealand)
    [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8360 unsolved]]{.source}.


-   **May 22:** Sighting at Pequannock (New Jersey) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8363 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **May 24:** An A-12 (#123) tested from [Groom Lake](Area51.html) crashes due to pilot icing 14 miles south of Wendover (Utah). The pilot, Collins, survives [\[McIninch\]]{.source}.

-   **Summer:** Sighting in Middletown (New York) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8371 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **June 14:** Bikovsky flies 5 days aboard *Vostok* 5.

-   **June 15:** Observation in the Indian Ocean (14' -17" North, 69' 57" East) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8388 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **June 16:** Valentina Terechkova becomes the first woman in space, aboard *Vostok* 6.

-   **9 May** : Signing of the Status of Forces Agreement between the Australian Government and the US Government, concerning the Status of US Forces in Australia [\[ATS 1963 No. 10 UNTS 469 p. 55; TIAS 5349\] \[Pine Gap Treaty 1966\]..]{.source}

-   **May 15:** [Cooper](CooperLeroyGordon.html) completes 22 orbits aboard the last capsule *[Mercury](Mercury.html)*.

-   **Sunday, June 16th, 3:30 PM:** At Peralta (New Mexico), [Paul Villa](VillaApolinarA.html) photographs a "saucer" (see above) in motion near a dry river bed. See images/1963-07-16.jpg.

-   **July 1st:** Sighting in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8434 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **July 10**: Police Officer Anthony Penny sees an orange-colored object streak across the sky and disappear from Manor Farm (Charlton, Wiltshire). See July 16. [\[Vallee 1969\]]{.source}


- **July 16**


-   The satellite *Telstar 2*, launched on May 7th, ceases to transmit.

- At Manor Farm (Charlton, Wiltshire), Reg Alexander, a farmhand, discovered in the potato field and on a barley field of farmer Roy Blanchard marks forming a crater-shaped depression with a diameter of 8 feet and about 4 inches deep. At the center of this depression is a deep hole 3 feet and 5 inches in diameter, according to various assessments. Radiating from the central hole are 4 slots 4 feet long and 1 foot wide. Leonard Joliffe, a dairyman from the farm, reported hearing an explosion one morning around 6am. [[FSR Sept-Oct 1963]]{.source} [[Vallée 1969]]{.source}

-   **July 18:** Near Sunnyvale (California), 4 USAF [jets](USAF.html) attempted to intercept an airborne disc-shaped craft. According to the report signed by a qualified ground observer and archived by [NICAP](NICAP.html), the strange craft was much too fast for the jets. It climbed in a short turn and was out of sight in about 3 s [\[Keyhoe 1967\]]{.source}.


-   **July 20:** At [Groom Lake](Area51.html), an A-12 successfully reached Mach 3 during a test flight [\[Peebles 1995\]]{.source}.


-   **July 23**

- The *Daily Express* of London reported the observation of Officer Anthony Penny two weeks earlier [\[Vallée 1969\]]{.source}.


-   Observation (below) in Colorado.

- **August**

-   **August 5:** In Fairfield, Illinois, an entire family is trapped for several hours in their farm by a dazzling object patrolling at very low altitude.


-   The satellite *Anna* which had malfunctioned the previous year is starting up again on its own.

- The satellite *Telstar 2*, which had malfunctioned the previous year, began transmitting again.


-   **August 7:** First flight of a YF-12A (#1001) at Groom Lake, an interceptor capable of reaching Mach 3, based on the design of the A-12 [\[Peebles 1995\]]{.source}.

- Photo taken by a pilot of the Avena lines flying between Barcelona and the Maiquetia International Airport (Venezuela). The photo has been described as a hoax where the non-coherent shadows (according to the shadow of the wing engine of the plane and that on the ground of the plane to the right, that of the UFO should be much further to the right) and the UFO a button [\[Fortean Picture Library\] ]{.source}

- Photo taken by a pilot of the Avena lines flying between Barcelona and the Malquetia International Airport (Venezuela). Note the wing engine of the plane on the right and the shadows on the ground of the plane and the UFO. See images/1963_kettelkamp.jpg.

-   **August 13-14:** Sighting in Saint Calen (Switzerland) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8514 unsolved]]{.source}.

- At the Aquire Cerda base, observation of 9 witnesses.

-   In Oklahoma City, sighting of various witnesses including 2 police patrols.

- In South Dakota, sighting of a carousel of lights by 10,000 witnesses.

- In Cuernavaca, the city lights go out and an UFO is seen by many witnesses.

- Above Cuba, a [U-2](U2.html) is approached by a UFO before crashing in Bolivia.

-   **September 14:** Sighting in Susanville (California) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8548 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **September 15:** Sighting in Vandalia (Ohio) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8549 unsolved]]{.source}.

- **October**


-   **4 October:** Sighting in Bedford (Ohio) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8581 unsolved]]{.source}.


-   At Whidbey Island (Washington), a middle-aged woman sees a strange craft with 3 silhouettes inside. It bows, partially sinks into the ground, grows and departs in a flash.


-   **October 12:** Meeting with [Engenio Douglas](temoins.html#DouglasEugenio) (Argentina).


-   **October 21, 8 PM:** Observation of [Yolié Moreno](temoins.html#MorenoYolie), in Trancas (Argentina).


-   **October 23:** Sighting in Meridian (Ohio) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8603 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **October 24:** Sighting in Cupar Fife (Scotland) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8604 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **November 16 (October?):** Meeting of [John Flaxton](FlaxtonJohn.html) and his friends.

-   **November 22:** Assassination of [John Kennedy](KennedyJohnFitzgerald.html) in Dallas (Texas). Vice President [Lyndon Johnson](JohnsonLyndonBaines.html) succeeds him.

-   **November 27:** 1st flight of an Atlas-Centaur rocket.

-   **December 11:** Sighting in McMinville (Oregon) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8647 unsolved]]{.source}


-   **December 16:** Observation in the Pacific (40' -00" North 175' 54" West) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8654 unsolved]]{.source}.


- Publication of the translated narrative of the discs discovered in 1938. What does this narrative tell? That a spaceship had landed in the region of Bayan-Khara Uula 12000 years ago and had never been able to leave due to lack of fuel. The local tribes would not have accepted the extraterrestrials and would have ended up massacring them almost entirely. The surviving extraterrestrials would however have left traces of their passage and 2 tribes, the Hams and the [Dropas](dropa.html) (fragile beings, reaching about 1.30 m in height and who, to this day, have resisted any attempt at ethnic classification) would be descended from a mixture between the space castaways and the natives of the time.