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| Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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| August 12 |
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| 1883 - On this day at around 8:00 a.m. Astronomer Bonilla at the |
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| Zacatecas Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico watched as 283 objects |
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| passed across the face of the sun. He took a photograph of one of |
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| them. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 19; Frank |
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| Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore |
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| and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. |
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| 55). |
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| 1910 - At around midnight in the South China Sea a bright spinning |
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| wheel was see in the ocean, close to surface by four members of the |
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| crew of the Dutch ship S. S. Valentijn. (Sources: Charles Fort, The |
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| Book of the Damned, p. 265; Flying Saucers magazine, June 1970, p. 8, |
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| citing National Fisherman, May 1967; Flying Saucer Review, |
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| September-October 1967, p. 9). |
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| 1942 - At ten a.m. a large formation of as many as 150 aerial objects |
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| with no wings was seen from Tulagi Island in the Soloman Islands in |
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| the Pacific. They were flying in an equally spaced formation, ten |
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| across and fifteen deep, in a perfect square. They were definitely |
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| not Japanese planes. (Sources:Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, |
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| Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 126; Richard F. |
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| Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 55; Richard M. |
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| Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a |
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| Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396). |
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| 1946 - A spool-shaped "rocket bomb" was sighted flying rapidly to the |
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| north over the town of Sodertalje, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It had a |
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| magnesium colored flare for an exhaust. (Source: Loren E. Gross, |
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| Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 39). |
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| 1946 - Over Grants Pass, Oregon an intense red and green |
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| object, flaring in intensity, swayed back and forth in a rocking |
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| motion between mountain tops for 30 minutes on this night. (Source: |
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| Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 67). |
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| 1950 - More than eighty discs maneuvered in the sky over Campello, |
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| Ticino canton, Switzerland, leaving behind luminous wakes. They |
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| gyrated in the sky with a noise that was described as similar |
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| to "organ music". (Source: Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying |
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| Saucers Have Landed, p. 104). |
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| 1950 - In Yuma, Arizona a disc-shaped object with a glowing outer |
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| edge zoomed to a position directly over Main Street at 5:45 p.m., |
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| then shot straight up into the clouds. (Sources: Kenneth Arnold, The |
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| Coming of the Saucers, p. 153; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: |
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| August-December, p. 4). |
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| 1952 - In Toulouse, Haute-Garonne department, France more than a |
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| dozen witnesses saw a white disc-shaped object that stopped over the |
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| city in the middle of the afternoon. It was joined by two more |
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| similar looking objects, and then all three flew away fast together. |
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| (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129). |
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| 1952 - At 9:48 p.m. two military witnesses sighted two disc-shaped |
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| UFOs while in flight over Wink, Texas. The objects were described as |
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| aluminum colored, and shaped like pie-pans. They rose rapidly from a |
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| lower altitude and passed the plane. (Sources:Richard F. Haines, |
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| Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: |
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| A History. 1952: August, p. 37). |
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| 1954 - UFOs seemingly visited two U.S. military bases on the same |
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| night in the southern United States. At 2:30 a.m. EDT in Georgia, a |
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| disc-shaped object hovered to the west of the tower at Fort Benning. |
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| It flew away and then came back, but finally vanished when a |
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| helicopter approached. At Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama nearly an |
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| hour later, at 2:29 a.m. CDT, four military men on U.S. Army |
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| helicopters saw a glowing red disc soar around the base tower. There |
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| were both ground and air observers to this second sighting, as well |
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| as radar-visual confirmation. (Sources: (1) Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO |
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| Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 22; (2) Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. |
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| 284; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Richard M. |
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| Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a |
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| Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407). |
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| 1956 - A Mrs. McCaffrey and her daughter saw an oval disc-shaped |
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| object blazing with white lights over Denver, Colorado at around |
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| three o'clock in the morning. The object moved to the east, |
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| then hovered several minutes, and finally flew off to the west. The |
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| edges of the object were clearly defined. The sighting lasted several |
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| minutes. (Sources: Rocky Mountain News, August 13, 1956; Leonard H. |
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| Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1956, p. 3; Alexander Mebane, |
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| Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, September 1956, |
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| p. 7). |
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| 1958 - A small ovoid object was sighted by an electrical engineer and |
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| his family as it flew to the south at a low altitude at 9:30 p.m. |
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| over Alamagordo, New Mexico. A sound of rushing air was heard. |
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| (Source: APRO Bulletin, September 1958). |
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| 1959 - A 60-year-old farmer in Brion, La Coruna province, Spain saw |
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| an egg-shaped object come down at high speed and land in a pasture |
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| near a river. It then took off vertically and flew away toward |
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| Santiago. It left behind traces on the ground, and it made an engine |
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| noise that was not similar to helicopter. (Source: Jacques Vallee, |
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| Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 494, citing Aime |
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| Michel). |
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| 1961 - In Kansas City, Kansas at 9:00 p.m. two 21-year-old witnesses |
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| saw a yellowish white oval-shaped UFO with an off-centered dome |
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| hovering only 50 feet above a road near Drake University. It stayed |
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| there for three to five minutes, then shot straight up, and climbed |
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| away sharply towards the east. It was gone from view in five seconds. |
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| A U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book "unknown" case. " (Sources: |
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| Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7579; |
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| Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 18; Thomas M. Olsen, |
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| Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 124; Richard Hall, The UFO |
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| Evidence, p. 98; UNICAT case # 640, citing James E. McDonald, A.A.S. |
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| 1968 Symposium Proceedings, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
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| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 522). |
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| Kansas City Close Encounter August 12, 1961 |
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| 1963 - Nocturnal lights exited and returned to a luminous pear-shaped |
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| UFO hovering over the Birchills Power Station in Staffordshire, |
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| England at 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted ten minutes and included |
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| numerous witnesses. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, |
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| p. 160; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6386, citing Jacques |
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| Vallee). |
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| 1967 - In Ogema, Wisconsin Mr. And Mrs. Miedtke, awakened by the |
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| barking of their dog at 2:30 a.m., soon observed a large |
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| hemispherical object with a fluorescent glow and a short flash of |
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| light. Too terrified to go outside, they heard heavy footsteps around |
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| their trailer for the next two and a half hours. At dawn there was a |
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| sound like that of a generator, and seconds later the object was |
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| gone. (Sources: Allen Utke, case investigation files; Jim & Coral |
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| Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 27; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
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| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 868). |
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| 1967 - On this night in St Louis de Kent, New Brunswick, Canada a |
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| dozen teenagers reported that they saw a "huge, black monster" that |
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| descended from a lighted craft in a wooded area. They were returning |
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| home from a dance when they caught sight of the figure dressed in |
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| black, with a black face or face mask and goggles. They didn't |
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| approach "the monster," who quickly disappeared. (Source: David F. |
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| Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case |
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| 1967-74, citing Moncton (NB) Times, August 17, 1967). |
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| 1968 - At 1:00 a.m. there was a reappearance of a bright white UFO, |
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| sometimes vivid orange in color, at the same nuclear missile sites in |
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| Pennington County, South Dakota as occurred two nights earlier on |
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| August 10, 1968. The UFO illuminated the ground behind a small hill. |
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| (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 5; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, |
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| Shadow of the Unknown, p. 166). |
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| Gloucester, Massachusetts Saturn-shaped UFO - 1968 |
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| 1968 - At 8:15 p.m. EDT a golden-white globe surrounded by a dark |
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| ring that looked like the planet Saturn flew over Gloucester, |
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| Massachusetts. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation report |
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| dated August 15, 1968; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary |
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| Visitors, p. 354). |
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| 1968 - A woman staying by herself at a house on the outskirts of |
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| Mercedes, Argentina heard a buzzing sound and her dogs began barking |
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| at eight o'clock in the evening. Looking out she saw a brightly lit |
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| object that gave off bright flashes of light, sitting on the ground. |
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| Smaller lighted objects emerged from the object and hovered above the |
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| treetops. At one point one of the lighted objects silently approached |
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| the house. The witness then saw a second object on the ground from |
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| which the figure of a man wearing a brilliant silvery outfit was seen |
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| to emerge. Suddenly there was a brilliant reddish blue flash and the |
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| whole scene disappeared. The next day several ground traces were |
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| found in the same area where the objects were seen. (Source: Albert |
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| S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #6, citing Richard |
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| Heiden, quoting R. Banchs). |
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| 1969 - At 10:50 p.m. two people witnessed three luminous triangular |
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| craft flying toward >E in a V formation over the mountains north of |
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| Espalion, France. They stopped, rotated in place, turned >SSE, and |
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| then flew away. (Source: Larry Hatch, U Computer Database, case 8929, |
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| citing LDLN Lecteurs). |
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| Taize, France Close Encounter August 12, 1972 |
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| 1971 - Three women at a camp in Himbleton, near Droitwich, England |
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| heard a roaring sound and thought that it was a plane that was going |
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| to crash. Instead, they saw a cigar-shaped object with red and green |
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| lights, thirty to forty feet long, that came and hovered silently for |
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| an hour, then rose with a noise and disappeared over the trees. |
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| (Sources: newspaper clipping, August 24, 1971; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA |
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| Journal, January 1972, p. 14; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1971, |
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| p. 6). |
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| 1972 - At 1:55 a.m. a huge elongated elliptical object with bright |
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| lights hovered near the ground in a forest near Taize, Saone-Loire |
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| department, France. It emitted light beams downward, and smaller |
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| satellite white disc-shaped objects emerged from it. The UFO reacted |
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| to a light flashed at it and caused some physiological effects. |
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| (Sources: Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1973, p. 11; |
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| FSR, July-August 1973, p. 16; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume |
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| II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 16, 202, 269 & 381). |
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| 1972 - A disc-shaped object landed on top of a Quonset hut in Gem, |
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| Kansas at 2:00 a.m., making beeping sounds. Its light illuminated the |
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| surrounding field. On the same night two women watched as two very |
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| large round UFOs flashed beams of light at each other for 45 minutes |
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| in Gallatin, Missouri. (Source: Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, |
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| pp. 51 & 52). |
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| 1973 - Several in Broxburn, Lothian, Scotland watched as a star-like |
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| object passed overhead. A car's engine malfunctioned during the |
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| sighting. (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle |
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| Interference, p. 58; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference |
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| Project Report, p. 65; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 |
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| (1974), case # 422). |
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| 1974 - In Salles-de-Villefagnan, Charente, France a 15-meter in |
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| diameter disc-shaped object was encountered over highways D31 and D27 |
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| at 4:10 a.m. Birds in the area were frightened by the UFO, and the |
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| eyes of the witnesses hurt after the sighting. (Source: Lumieres dans |
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| la Nuit, issue # 144). |
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| 1974 - At around two o'clock in the morning police from four towns in |
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| central New Hampshire saw a domed, oval-shaped object, 40 feet in |
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| diameter. At one point it came to within 300 feet of a police cruiser |
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| on Interstate 93 in Sanbornton. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, |
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| September 1974; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December |
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| 1974, p. 39; FSR, January-February 1975, p. 31). |
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| 1975 - At 9:30 p.m. J. P. Brassen watched an oval-shaped craft rise |
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| from the sea and land on the beach in Sanary, Var department, France. |
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| An oval door opened, and luminous orange beams of light shot out |
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| while at the same time he heard a loud hissing sound. Two short |
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| humanoids are seen moving around the craft on the ground. The |
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| humanoids reportedly had three legs, were very thin and were covered |
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| with what appeared to be a shell-like material. They moved around in |
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| small jumps and were only 70 cm in height. The witness fled the area. |
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| (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing |
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| Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 195 (April 1980), Denys Breysse, |
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| Project Becassine). |
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| 1976 - Calignaia, Tuscany, Italy was visited by a USO (unidentified |
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| submarine object) at 10:30 p.m. Dogs barked as a colored light |
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| maneuvered under the surface of the river. (Source: Larry Hatch, U |
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| computer database, case # 11812, citing ITACAT). |
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| 1978 - Two 21-year-old college students were driving in Niceville, |
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| Florida near Eglin Air Force Base when suddenly an oval-shaped UFO |
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| rushed at their car. At close approach it had the appearance of an |
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| "eye-like" form, with a "cornea" of shiny black glass, and a "body" |
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| of metallic silver. The object also had two antennas. (Sources: Allan |
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| Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 6; UNICAT, |
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| case # 152, citing IUR). |
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| 1998 - Five youths in Massape, Ceara State, Brazil reported seeing a |
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| huge object land near the Mondubim lagoon on this evening. Three |
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| humanoids resembling robots exited the object and proceeded to |
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| collect shrubs and rocks. The youths fled the area and notified some |
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| nearby military units, however they failed to find anything. Later |
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| one of the witnesses, Joao Lira, decided to return to the scene and |
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| saw the same object on the ground. When he approached it he suddenly |
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| felt dizzy and passed out. He was found three hours later next to the |
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| lagoon, shirtless, sweating, and with partial amnesia. (Source: |
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| Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Revista |
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| Brasileira de Ufologia). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 June 2009). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: beeping and |
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| buzzing sounds, disc-shaped UFOs, dome-shaped UFOs, giant humanoid dr |
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| essed in black, ground traces, large numbers of UFOs seen at the same |
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| time, landings, ovoid UFO, physiological effects: sore eyes, process |
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| ion of objects, robot-like humanoids, Saturn-shaped UFO, silver unifo |
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| rms, triangular UFOs, unidentified submarine objects (USO), vehicle E |
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| M ignition interference effect, vertical ascent, witnesses terrified. |
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