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Brazil, Ubatuba: Approximate date. Anonymous witnesses saw a disk dive down and
explode, showering the area with flaming fragments. Some samples were gathered,
sent to a Brazilian newsman, analyzed by friends of Dr. Fontes, of Rio, and were
found to consist of surprisingly pure magnesium. • Canada,
Baskatong Lake: 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his friends
saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere hovering over a hilltop about 4 km away.
From top and bottom issued light cones that illuminated the countryside and the
clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout the observation, except for a
very powerful signal at one wavelength, modulated, but not in Morse code. The
object rose slowly toward the south.
• Canada, Galt, Ontario: Jack Stephenson was walking about 7 km from Galt when
he saw a flash in the sky. A circular object making a whirring sound came down
and landed with a throw of flames. It took off again 30 min later, leaving the
ground blackened and branches broken. The craft had a stationary dome, but the
periphery was spinning.
• Denmark, Gesten: A shop owner saw a pyramid-shaped, luminous, transparent
object fly fast across the road. As it was above 250 m away, he clearly saw two
figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the other aboard the
craft.
• England, Aston: Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, 27, mother of two, saw the figure of a
man appear near her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He was tall
and fair, wore a tight fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with
her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was coming
from a world of peace and harmony. Suddenly he disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had
subsequent contacts with similar entities.
• Fiji Islands, Nabouwalu: Two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in a motor
boat saw a white object come down from the sky, thought it was a plane in
trouble and went closer. They found the object hovering 7 m above the water, and
a figure on board the craft aimed at them a beam so bright they "felt weak. "
The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took off vertically at high
speed.
• Japan, Pacific Ocean: Japanese fishermen aboard the "Kitsukawara Maru" saw two
metal disks come into the sky. This was followed by violent turbulence.
• Korea, Seoul: North of Seoul a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and
luminous, was seen close to the ground, reflected in a pool of water. It rose
and vanished "like a light switched off. "
• New Zealand, Balfour: William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar
to a shooting star coming close to them appearing then as an oval, fluorescent
craft, about 40 m in diameter, which almost touched the grass. They rushed to
catch it, but it jumped away, turning into a bluish-white sphere with a dark red
center. Each time they tried to reach it, the craft jumped farther away. It
cleared a high fence and slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no
explanation.
• Scotland, Edinburgh: Fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to
police that a disk-shaped object followed their truck, dived toward it, came
within 20 m of them, then left toward the sea, leaving a double vapor trail.
• USA, California, El Cajon: Edmund Rucker was awakened by a roaring noise and
saw a strange object land near his house. "Its windows were lighted, and I saw
strange looking heads there. " An opening became visible and four creatures
emerged. They had large heads, dome-like foreheads, and bulging eyeballs. They
delivered a message to the witness in English, stating that they had
philanthropic and scientific purposes.
• USA, California, Playa del Rey: Richard Kehoe, an employee of the General
Telephone Company of Santa Monica claimed that while driving along Vista del
Mar, a beach area, at 5:40 a.m. his engine stopped as did the engines of the two
other cars. When the drivers got out to see what was wrong they saw an
egg-shaped spaceship wrapped 'in a blue haze' on the beach. Kehoe claimed two
"little men" came out, and asked questions of him and the two other drivers.
• USA, Connecticut, Georgetown: Approximate date. Ina Salter was driving on
Route 53 in a desolate area when she encountered a cigar-shaped object about 5 m
long, showing several portholes, which was hovering close to the ground to the
left of the road. The portholes, about 50 cm in diameter, were illuminated with
a yellowish light, and there were shadows moving behind. As she passed the
object, it took off straight up, hovered for a few seconds, then rose out of
sight
• USA, Connecticut, Old Saybrook: Mary Starr was awakened by a brilliant light
and saw through her east window the fuselage of a craft that hovered in midair.
Aboard were two men, each with his right hand raised, wearing yellowish jackets.
A third man joined the first two, then all lights went off inside the craft
while it glowed like brass. A spinning antenna-like device was noted. A few
minutes later it flew off. More details from CSI newsletter, July 15, 1959:
"...Mrs. Mary M. Starr, long a resident of Old Saybrook, and holder of two
degrees from Yale University, has for some years spent all but two or three
winter months in a... well-built two story house situated only a few hundred
feet from Long Island Sound... at the beginning and end of the season, hers is
the only occupied building in the vicinity... marshy ground surrounds her
property on three sides. "On the night of 12/15-16/57, she was awakened from a
sound sleep sometime between 2 and 3 AM by bright lights passing her bedroom
window, which faces north. Looking out, she saw, just coming to a stop 10 feet
from the house... a huge machine 20 or 30 feet long, dark grey or black, with
brilliantly lighted square portholes... the object was now motionless, hovering
five feet above the ground. It had no wings, fins, or other external structure.
"Behind the lighted windows were two forms that passed each other, walking in
opposite directions. Their arms were upraised (apparently the right arm of each)
and no hands were seen. They wore a kind of jacket, and she thought they were
stewards, carrying trays, except that their heads were unusual. They were square
or rectangular, of a reddish orange, with a brighter red bulb in each. The feet
were out of view behind the portholes. Then a third man entered from the left,
and Mrs. Starr leaned forward to try to see his face more clearly than the
others. "As she did so, the portholes faded, and the entire object began to glow
with scintillating brilliance. Immediately, there rose from the nearer end a
kind of antenna, about 6 inches long. It oscillated and sparkled... "For almost
5 mins, the glow and the sparking continued; then the antenna lowered and the
[object] began to move... to the right, back in the direction from which it had
come. It made a very sharp right-angle turn. Mrs. Starr thought it would hit her
blue spruce but it did not... it had turned a dull bluish grey again, and
instead of portholes, small circular lights outlined the entire rim. It's shape
now appeared to be oval, and as it dipped or 'undulated' to follow the contour
of a shallow depression just beyond the garden, she saw that it was very shallow
in depth. Over the marsh, it tilted steeply and shot up into the sky at the
speed of a jet take off, but in complete silence, as throughout the entire
affair. "Except for the [figures, she] had seen nothing inside the [object].
[The men] could not have been more than four feet high at the most [given the
size of the object as determined by occlusion of nearby objects]."
• USA, Florida, Cecil Naval Air Station: A black, bell-shaped object bearing two
bright, white lights at the top and maeasuring 15 m in diameter was chased by a
civilian in a car until the engine stalled. The object was then hovering 3 m
away. The underside of the machine resembled a disk with fins. When a jet
aircraft took off from the airfield, the object went out of sight almost
instantaneously. The car battery was found completely dead. There was no
helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise made by
the object to that of a helicopter.
• USA, Illinois, Elmwood Park: Two policemen, Joseph Lukasek and Clifford Schau,
and a third man named Daniel De Giovanni, while looking for the cause of a
headlight failure, observed a fluorescent object 50 to 100 m away from them,
coming down. The car headlights functioned properly again and they drove toward
the object but had to stop at a cemetery wall.They turned off all lights and
watched the object for two min. It played "hide and seek" with them as they
tried to reach its location. (M 240; 113). BUFORA VICAT claims "Three police
officers in a patrol car chased an elongated reddish UFO. A spotlight was turned
on the object as it hovered. The car's headlights and spotlight flickered. As
the spotlight hit the object it shot up about 200 feet and headed off towards
the west." The first account represents the correct assignment of witnesses
according to Hynek (The Hynek UFO Report, p 172). According to that account, the
engine was not affected. Duration may have been longer than 2 mins. The car
spotlight and headlights both dimmed to about the intensity of a match, which
caused the witnesses to exit the car and use a flashlight under the hood, which
was unaffected. They then noticed an iridescent orange circle, possibly a
sphere, down the alley ahead of them. The object seemed to retreat and the
lights regained normal strength. Distance at that point is unknown, but must
have been less than half a mile (the length remaining to the alley), since the
witnesses were convinced it was over the alley. Whenever the car lights were
turned off as they followed it, it would hover as if waiting. It was not the
spotlight which provoked the departure, but turning on the high-beams after
turning off the lights for an extended period. At that time, the object was
descending and seemed to have taken on a cigar shape and had a halo of fog. On
departure it resumed a circular shape and the fog was "sucked up". Speed of
ascent was est. 50-60 mph. Object flew about at higher altitude and then flew
off. When the object disappeared it was darkened from the bottom to the top. The
object definitely passed in front of and obscured objects behind it. One witness
believed the object was very close, while another disagreed. Hynek was not
confident of the abilities of the witnesses, but indicated that the witnesses
had nothing to gain from a hoax, and believed that the witnesses could not have
had knowledge of the Levelland case at the time of their sighting, though it was
in the newspaper which they saw after their shift was over. This case was
reenacted by NBC for a UFO documentary sometime around 6/1/65.
• USA, Indiana, Covington: Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disk which
hovered above his tractor; the engine failed when the object rose.
• USA, Indiana, New Castle: An object looking like "a big meat platter" was seen
at close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside their
car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no ignition interference
noted.
• USA, Iowa, Waterloo: Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 m long flying over his
garage. The top part was bright, and there were two figures visible inside.
• USA, Louisiana, Chestnut: Mary Louise Tobin, a schoolteacher, was driving on
State Highway 1 when she saw an object that she compared to the rising sun, in
the vicinity of a smoking car. The driver, an elderly lady, came out with a
child who seemed to have suffered burns. The unknown object went away: The
disabled car did not catch on fire.
• USA, Louisiana, Provencal: Haskell Raper, Jr. , was driving home on a rainy
night when he saw a large, lighted object on the road ahead, which he thought
was a truck. Suddenly the object flashed a beam of light directly at the car,
apparently exerting a strong pressure and slowing it to a stop 5 m away. The
object was then described as oval, 5 m long, 3 m high, army green in color. It
bore lettering beginning with the letters UN, followed by some numbers. A sort
of heat wave filled the car, and the witness ran out in panic as the vehicle
caught fire. The object rose with the sound of a diesel engine. Raper ran to the
town, less than 2 km away; and reported the incident. The car, a 1956 Ford, was
completely destroyed.
• USA, Maryland, Deerwood Nike Base: Report of a landing observed by missile
men.
• USA, Minnesota, Baudette: A pilot saw a circular object flying against the
wind. It was luminous, about 5. 5 min diameter, and flew so low that it appeared
to suck up the snow.
• USA, Mississippi, Meridian: Truck driver Malvin Stevens, 48, was driving to
Memphis when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, he saw an object which appeared
to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out of his
truck, he saw three little men about 1. 30 m tall, in gray clothes, with "pasty
white faces" that seemed friendly and willing to talk, but he was unable to
understand their "chattering. " "I stood there for what seemed like an eternity.
" They got back into the machine and it took off straight up. There was no
ignition interference. An 8 year old girl from Honse independently reported a
round object crossing the sky toward the south.
• USA, Missouri, Lake City: A civilian driving his car home from work observed a
hovering object 16 m long. His car engine died as he neared the object's
position,and it started again only after the object's departure. (Atic). "Car
engine died as an elongated object appeared hovering 50 feet above the ground.
When the object left, everything returned to normal."
• USA, Nebraska, Scotia: A man heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and
perceived a "burning" odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that came to
ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and disappeared. The
witness was "paralyzed" during the observation. The object appeared to have
generated thick smoke.
• USA, Nevada, Tonopah: Four disk-shaped objects on the ground were observed for
20 min from a distance of 15 m. When the witness tried to come closer, they took
off with an unbearable humming sound.
• USA, New Jersey, Drakestown: George Chowanski, an auto mechanic was alerted by
the barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an electric
shaver. A lighted object was observed by Chowanski and his wife as it came
within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures came out of the bottom of the object,
walked around a clearing, and one picked up something before returning to the
craft, which then took off. Total duration: 2 min. • USA, New
Jersey, Everittstown: John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in
front of a barn and was confronted with a being 1 m tall with a putty-colored
face and froglike eyes. He thought the dwarf said in broken English: "We are
peaceful people; we only want your dog. " The little man, who was dressed in a
green suit with shiny buttons, a green tam-o-shanter-like cap, and gloves with a
shiny object at the tip of each finger, fled when the witness denied his
request.
