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| Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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| May 19 |
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| 1909 - At 1:15 a.m. several witnesses on the docks in Cardiff, Wales |
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| observed a cigar-shaped airship that curved up and down the coast, |
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| making a whirring sound. It was described at fast, with two lights. |
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| At 9:30 p.m. several observers in Pontypool, Wales saw a graceful |
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| cigar with a quivering light make a 90 degree turn to the |
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| north.(Source: Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, pp. 18, 21). |
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| 1909 - In Wroxham, Norfolk county, England a searchlight from a white |
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| globe of light traveling overhead in a straight trajectory caused the |
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| headlamp on a motorcycle to fail at 11:30 p.m. (Sources: East |
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| Anglican Daily Times, May 21, 1909; Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, |
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| p. 19; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. |
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| 1). |
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| 1947 - At 12:15 p.m. seven railroad workers in Manitou Springs, |
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| Colorado watched a silver saucer do acrobatics for 20 minutes. The |
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| object flew away quickly to the west-northwest into the wind. |
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| (Sources: Denver Post, June 28, 1947; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying |
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| Saucers Are Real, p. 66; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; |
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| APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO |
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| Journal, May 1992, p. 19). |
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| 1949 - A 20-foot diameter disc flew over New Orleans, Louisiana going |
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| north at 4:15 p.m., again on this date. (Source: Bruce S. Maccabee, |
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| MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11). |
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| 1954 - A Ms. Heffer in the hamlet of Shobley, in the New Forest, |
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| Hampshire, England saw an intense glare in the sky at around 11 p.m. |
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| A 50-foot orb descended to the treetops; it then glided down road |
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| toward Bruton, Somerset where a close encounter occurred at 2 a.m. |
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| the next morning. (Source: Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 15). |
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| 1954 - At 8:30 p.m. a fisherman in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi watched |
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| three reddish-yellow objects that hung in the sky for 45 minuts. They |
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| bobbed up and down, and glided away fast to the northeast. (Source: |
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| Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 100). |
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| 1955 - At 7:15 p.m. three silver disc-shaped UFOs played tag over |
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| Mount Wilson for 50 minutes. They were seen by several thousand from |
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| Pasadena, Tujunga, and Montrose, California. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, |
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| August 1955, p. 5; Lenoard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, June 1955, |
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| p. 5; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 115). |
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| 1960 - On this night Salvatore Cianci, a jeweler, and his wife, were |
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| driving near the Sicilian town of Siracusa, Italy when a creature |
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| about one meter tall suddenly appeared in the headlights. It wore a |
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| shiny coverall uniform and a diving helmet, and had two short wings. |
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| Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock. (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, |
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| April 1964; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of |
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| Landings, case 506; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue |
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| of Humanoid Reports, case A0498). |
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| 1960 - At 3:50 p.m. twelve UFOs were seen over Long Beach, California |
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| swinging in the sky in a pendulum motion. (Source: NICAP UFO |
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| Investigator, August 1961, p. 6). |
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| 1963 - A 17-year-old teen named Bushbridge encountered an ovoid |
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| object by the side of road as he was driving near Mount Gambier, |
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| South Australia. When he got to within six meters of it a bright |
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| light dazzled him. The five-meter long object rose vertically, then |
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| moved across the road over his car, making a roaring noise. (Sources: |
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| Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 24; Michael |
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| Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 172). |
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| 1967 - In Grove City, Ohio between 4:00 and 4:30 a.m. EDT four men, |
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| including the main witness named Schmidhammer, saw a cigar-shaped |
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| object for 20 minutes that maneuvered in the sky and descended to |
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| within 150 feet of the ground. It then made a 90-degree turn and flew |
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| off to the west. The object made an odd noise "that made your ears |
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| ring." (Sources: Grove City Record, May 25, 1967; NICAP files). |
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| 1969 - At 3:10 a.m. a bright glowing ovoid object chased a car down a |
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| road southeast of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. The car's radio |
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| and lights were effected by the UFO during the pursuit. The UFO flew |
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| off to the south over some woods, according to the report filed with |
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| the RCMP. (Source: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 70). |
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| 1969 - On this evening at 7:30 p.m. two women, Dona Aurora and Clair |
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| Mefessoli, were walking to a neighbor's house in Fernandes, Santa |
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| Catarina, Brazil to borrow some milk when they saw an elongated |
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| yellowish luminous object descend behind them, not quite touching the |
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| ground. Two little three-foot tall beings, with features like humans, |
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| got out of the UFO. The terrified women fled the scene. (Source: |
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| David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid |
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| Reports, case 1969-36, citing FSR, July-August 1969). |
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| 1969 - Two hours later, at 7:30 p.m. CDT in Rising Sun, Indiana |
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| George Kaiser noticed a strange figure 25 feet away. The being was |
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| the size of a man and covered with black fur. The head sat directly |
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| on its shoulders and the face was black, with close-set eyes and a |
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| very low forehead. When Kaiser made a move to get into his car, the |
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| creature grunted, jumped over a ditch, and ran down the road at high |
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| speed. Footprints were found that showed only four toes. On the |
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| following night a UFO was observed over the same area by neighbors. |
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| (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
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| Humanoid Reports, case 1969-37, citing Jerome Clark and Loren |
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| Coleman). |
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| 1971 - On this morning in Mangere, New Zealand Mr. R. Gray sighted an |
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| elongated metallic object, quite bright like metal reflecting sun, |
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| that appeared in the sky over Penrose; it moved away and down slowly |
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| for 5 minutes. (Source: Auckland (New Zealand) Truth, June 15, 1971). |
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| 1973 - A blue cylindrical shaped UFO made a low silent pass over |
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| Springfield, Missouri at around 9 p.m. It was seen again that same |
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| night after midnight. (Source: Springfield (MO) News Leader, June 15, |
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| 1971; Data-Net Report, November 1971, p. 9). |
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| 1974 - Between Pantano and Tuejar, Valencia, Spain flashes were seen |
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| at around 10 p.m. by two witnesses. A red object was next seen |
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| resting on a mountain; it went up the mountainside. A red 12 meter |
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| saucer was on another mountain. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester |
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| Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case |
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| # 190). |
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| 1974 - At 9:00 p.m. a mother, daughter and son watched a bright |
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| object in the sky that was a quarter of a mile away from them in |
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| Hillsborough, New Hampshire. It hovered for awhile, then moved into a |
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| nearby forest. No evidence of a landing was found. Three hours later |
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| and 38 miles to the southwest an occupant report and UFO landing was |
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| made at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. (Source: David F. Webb, |
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| Skylook, August 14, 1975). |
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| 1978 - Cars stopped on US highway 29 in Greenville, South Carolina to |
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| watch a huge, silver colored cigar hovering in the sky around 4 p.m. |
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| It caused a two mile long traffic backup, and there were over 75 |
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| witnesses to the event, which lasted over two hours. (Sources: D. N. |
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| Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 12; Greer (South Carolina) Citizen, |
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| May 31, 1978). |
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| 1979 - In Bukit Mertajam on the island of Pinang, Malaysia six school |
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| children reported sighting a landed object and four tiny humanoid |
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| figures near it in the middle of the afternoon. The creatures were |
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| only about 4 inches tall. One of the students attempted to catch one |
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| of the creatures but was shot in the hand. The creature then shot at |
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| a brick, breaking it into pieces. Afterwards the creatures ran back |
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| into their tiny craft. Another student reportedly grabbed the small |
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| object and was shocked by an electric current. The object then took |
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| off, and an adult witness watched the object taking off. (Source: |
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| Admad Jamaludin, A Summary of UFO and Related Events in Malaysia, p. |
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| 81). |
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| 1984 - In rural Williams, Indiana at 11:50 p.m. the witness was |
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| working on equipment outside behind his house on a warm, clear |
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| Saturday night. His wife was sleeping inside, and two of this |
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| neighbors had just left after stopping by to visit him. Suddenly, |
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| everything around him became brightly lit, and the witness felt a |
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| tingling sensation. He looked up to see that the light source was a |
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| brilliant orange light, low in the northwest sky. It was totally |
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| silent and he could only see the light, no craft could be seen. He |
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| went inside to call his two neighbors to come back and see the |
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| strange light, but he did not wake his wife who is a sound sleeper. |
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| He went back outside and the UFO was there as before. After 10-15 |
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| minutes had passed, the object began to drift away to the northwest |
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| where he lost sight of it. Shortly after this his neighbors arrived. |
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| They had not seen the UFO and teased him and seeing things. The |
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| object was reportedly 400-500 feet away. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, |
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| Regional Encounters, p. 81, citing Palmiter, MUFON Indiana). |
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| 1986 - Starting at 9:10 p.m. multiple radar-visual trackings by |
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| civilian and military pilots occurred in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao |
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| Paulo, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For nearly three hours, air |
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| traffic control and military radar tracked up to 21 unidentified |
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| objects, and jet interceptors pursued them, making visual contact in |
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| some cases. The night was clear with good visibility. The objects |
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| appeared to be red-orange balls of light (BOL), but changed |
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| frequently to white or green. Col. Ospires Silva, oil company |
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| president and former president of EMBRAER Airlines, with his pilot, |
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| Commander Alcir Pereira da Silva, was descending through 2,000 feet |
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| (600 meters) on their landing approach to Sao Jose de Campos, near |
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| Sao Paulo, at 9:10 p.m. Sao Paulo radar notified them that an unknown |
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| object was in the area, so they broke off the pattern and turned to |
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| follow a bright red-orange light that seemed to dance around in the |
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| sky. Meanwhile, radar at Brasilia confirmed the presence of an |
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| unknown ojbect. As they pursued the object in the twin-engine Xingu |
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| aircraft, the light blinked off every 10-15 seconds, only to reappear |
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| in a new location, as if jumping from point to point. Their low |
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| performance airplane could not gain on the object, which they |
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| estimated was traveling at 1,500 km/hour (900 mph), so they abandoned |
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| the chase after about 30 minutes. |
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| By that time the Brazilian Defense Center, which operates an |
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| integrated civil-military radar ATC system, was on full alert due to |
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| numberous UFOs cluttering their radar screens in the vicinity of Sao |
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| Jose dos Campos and nearby Sao Paulo. All civilian air traffic was |
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| put on hold, as jet interceptors were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB, |
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| Sao Paulo State, and Anapolis AFB, near Brasilia. Three F-5E jets |
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| were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB, followed by three Mirage III jets |
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| from Anapolis AFB. The first visual contact was made about 10:550 |
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| p.m. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho, age 25, an F-5E pilot, was vectored |
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| toward a target indicated by radar to be 35 miles (56 km) distant, |
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| but he was unable to catch up. At one point ground radar showed the |
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| UFO rapidly approaching his jet, but he saw nothing at that time. |
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| Later, he did see a very intense reddish light that changed color to |
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| white, then to green, then to red again. Another F-5E pilot, Capt. |
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| Marcio Jordao, age 29, managed to close in to within 12 miles and saw |
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| a very strong, intensely bright light, continuously changing color |
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| from white to green. When the object moved off shore and out to sea |
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| he broke off contact and returned to base. |
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| Ten to thirteen white and green UFOs (BOLs) were chased by the three |
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| Mirage III fighters. Only one of the jets was able to make visual |
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| contact. The jets closed to within two miles, then the UFOs outflew |
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| the jets and climbed vertically up to 33,000 feet. The radar |
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| controller at Anapolis AFB testified that there were several targets |
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| behind one of the Mirage jets, six to one side and seven to the |
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| other. Radar had tracked the UFOs at speeds of up to 800 knots (920 |
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| mph). At time the objects made 80 degree turns. "No plane I know can |
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| make turns like that at 1,000 km/h," Capt. Viriato de Freitas said. |
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| The unexplained nature of the UFOs was openly acknowledged by the |
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| authorities. The decision to release the news to the public was made |
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| personally by the president of Brazil, and carried out by the Air |
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| Force Minister, Brig. Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima. (Sources: Richard H. |
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| Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 110-111; |
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| Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, July 1986, p. 4; Richard F. |
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| Haines, Project Delta, p. 40; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, pp. |
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| 317-318; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 131, |
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| UNICAT, case 535). |
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| 1990 - Driving to work in Warrior, Alabama at 4:35 a.m. a man saw a |
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| boomerang-shaped object with a fan tail approach from the front, |
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| hesitate, and then pass 15-20 feet over his truck at a leisurely |
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| speed. It had six big lights in front. He watched it until it was |
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| lost from view amid the rooflines in the vicinity. The UFO apparently |
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| overflew a shale strip mine in the area. (Sources: Todd Pierce, field |
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| investigator, MUFON field investigations database, case 900708; |
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| Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 121, citing the MUFON UFO |
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| Journal). |
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| 1993 - At 10:20 p.m. on a misty night in Kenyon, Rhode Island a woman |
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| was abducted into a 50 foot wide saucer-shaped object and kept there |
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| for five hours. Inside she was met by two three foot tall humanoids. |
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| She reported that she was later transported back to her house via a |
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| blue beam of coherent light. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
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| Contact Database 1993, case # 2389, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, |
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| issue # 268). |
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| 1996 - The witness was cooking in her kitchen in Rutland, Vermont at |
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| 10:30 p.m. when she noticed a strong glare of light streaming through |
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| the kitchen window. She stepped out onto the back porch and noticed a |
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| disc-shaped object hovering over her house. As the started walking |
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| back into the house to call additional witnesses, she was confronted |
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| by a strange humanoid being with huge round eyes. She apparently |
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| suffered a loss of consciousness and does not know what happened for |
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| two hours. She vaguely recalls being in some type of an otherworldly |
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| environment. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting |
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| Reports database, case 2453, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and |
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| the World). |
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| 1997 - At 12:15 a.m. local UFO investigator John Tosti and two other |
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| men in Bloomington, Indiana saw several bright objects hovering over |
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| a local power plant. Mr. Tosti decided to drive to Snoddy Road at an |
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| isolated location to signal to the objects with a flashlight. Two of |
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| the UFOs descended to his location. When one object approached his |
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| vehicle, the engine and electrical system sputtered. Tosti was able |
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| to discern a metallic, disc-shaped object, with a small round dome |
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| and an even smaller dome on top. A blue glow emanated from the bottom |
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| of the craft. Around the middle of the object was a row of square |
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| windows, showing a yellow to amber colored light within. Inside the |
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| craft he could see the silhouettes of several individuals with large |
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| heads. He attempted to communicate with them by waving his arms, but |
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| he was apparently ignored. Two smaller bright spherical objects |
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| emerged from the disc, which then shot up at very high speed, joining |
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| the other objects in the sky. After a short while, the UFOs left the |
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| area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1997 Humanoid Sighting Reports |
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| database, case # 2630, sighting Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume |
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| 2, number 22). |
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| 1999 - Chilean TV showed a video of a UFO seen hovering over the |
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| capital city of Santiago, Chile in the late evening. Another UFO was |
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| filmed the night before. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), September 1999, |
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| p. 18). |
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| 2000 - A video of a hovering UFO was made in Southampton, England by |
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| police. A police helicopter flew around the UFO several times before |
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| the object faded and disappeared. There was a lengthy official |
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| investigation. (Source: Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case |
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| # 171). |
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| 2001 - At 2:17 p.m. on a Saturday, two people in Palatine, Illinois |
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| saw a metallic, cigar-shaped object that was extremely high above |
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| scattered clouds. "It flew directly over us and gleamed in the sun, |
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| as it was moving at a very high speed," reported the witness. It was |
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| an elongated oval, looking somewhat like a missile. The sighting |
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| lasted from 2-3 minutes. (Source: George A. Filer & David E. |
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| Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 120, |
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| citing NUFORC). |
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| 2003 - A huge boomerang, surrounded by a cloud or mist, flew inland |
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| over Tiruvanmiyur, India at 9:50 p.m. local time. It then flew |
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| silently back out to sea heading east. There were no lights on the |
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| object. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18192, citing |
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| a newspaper clipping). |
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| 2003 - Following a series of early UFO sightings on May 17, at 9:50 |
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| p.m. on this evening a bright shining nocturnal light was observed by |
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| local residents in Simferopol', Crimea, Ukraine. The UFO looked like |
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| a white star, as bright as Sirius. It was moving 2-3 times faster |
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| than a satellite. Mr. Viktor Zdorov, while waking his dog, saw a |
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| satellite passing near the UFO in the very same part of the sky. The |
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| satellite was dimmer and moving much slower. (Source:George A. Filer |
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| & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO |
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| Sightings, p. 44). |
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| 2003 - At 12:10 a.m. a totally silent craft bearing three bright |
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| white lights was observed crossing I-5 near Fresno, California. A |
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| boomerang-shaped UFO was spotted over Albany, California at 9:30 p.m. |
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| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May |
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| 2003 archived webpage of reports). |
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| 2004 - At 11:30 p.m. EDT a saucer-shaped object, flickering green and |
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| blue lights and only about 30 feet in the air was reported by a |
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| witness in Vicksburg, Michigan. There was a big bright flash that |
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| blinded the witness for 30 seconds, and when his sight recovered the |
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| UFO was gone. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting |
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| Center, Seattle, May 2004 archived webpage, report ). |
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| 2004 - At 9:52 p.m. PDT a V-shaped object with lights was seen |
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| hovering low, close to the ground, in Trail, British Columbia, |
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| Canada. There were three lights on each wing of the V, rotating |
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| rapidly in circles. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, |
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| case # 311, citing HBCCUFO). |
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| 2008 - A disc-shaped UFO was spotted over the Surry, Virginia nuclear |
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| power station at 12:20 p.m. The object was hovering or drifting |
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| slowly, and made a very leisurely circuit of the power plant. It |
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| moved against the wind, and very slowly rocked up and down. |
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| 2011 - At 10:00 p.m. Restoule, Parry Sound, Ontario a red light moved |
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| from southwest to northwest, stopped, flew down and then away. At |
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| 11:10 p.m. dark objects on a "crooked triangle" of red lights passed |
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| near witnesses in Dryden, Ontario. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2011 |
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| Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 329 & 331). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 May 2014). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: abduction, blue beams of energy, boomerang or V-shaped UFOs |
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| , cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, dwarf humanoids, |
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| small footprints, hairy humanoid, landings, luminous UFO, missing tim |
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| e, multi-year reports from Indiana, ovoid UFOs, pendulum motion, phys |
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| iological effect: tingling sensation, radar-visual reports, short hum |
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