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By Sara NelsonA DATABASE of UFO sightings by police officers has clocked up more than 200 cases in five years. Launched by Detective Constable Gary Heseltine, of the British Transport Police (BTP), the unofficial site has seen around 100 officers added each year to date. In October 1993 PC Tony Francis was called to an address in Gravesend after reports of a UFO from a mother and her son. The craft was described as changing its shape from that of a bell to an oval with protruding spikes. According to the DC Heseltine, a seven-page report on the sighting was submitted to the Ministry of Defence, which gave no explanation for the UFO. Back in April 1978, PC Alan Craggs was called to an address in Farnborough, following an alleged UFO sighting. According to the site, PC Craggs described it as: "being 20-30 feet above him with wings like fins on a dolphin." The craft had allegedly been in the sky for close to an hour before the officer arrived. PC Craggs is reported to have said: "I've been in the Air Force, I know what an aircraft looks like at night." The site lists a total of 43 new reports of UFOs seen by on-duty police officers across Britain in the past year, with the largest number of sightings taking place in West Yorkshire. DC Heseltine, who works for the BTP in Leeds, said: "After studying the subject for over thirty years I am totally convinced that a small proportion of UFO sightings are genuine and represent an extraterrestrial presence on the earth. "I urge any officer out there, whether serving or retired to contact me about their respective UFO experiences. "Anyone wishing to have their identity witheld can do so safe in the knowledge that I will never release their details unless they specifically allow me to." To view the site, log on to prufospolicedatabase.co.uk To download the archives of 2005 & 2006 in PDF format, go the UFO Casebook site UFO PDF Files
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http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1201259.0.police_ufo_sightings_database.php
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8:21 AM 2/23/2007-I am a retired police officer. My career was in Florida. In 1972 I was on patrol on the midnight shift in a rural part of Hendry County, Florida. At around 2:00 AM, I got out of the patrol car to stretch my legs and get a brief dose of fresh air. As I stood by the patrol car I noticed an orange ball about the size of a softball floating parallel with the ground off in the distance.
As I gazed at it, wondering what it could be, it stopped still and then went from the size of the softball, to the size of a basketball. As it grew in size, the color changed from deep orange, to a bright white. When it reached a full bright white color, it shrunk back down in size to about what it looked like earlier. Then, from a dead stand still, it shot straight up towards the heavens. I grabbed my binoculars off the dash and in a few seconds was able to see it in the lens. I watched it speed straight up like a rocket. It made no sound, left no vapor or smoke trail, just left at a tremendous rate of speed. As I watched it in my binoculars, I was able to watch it ascend till it became nothing more than a dot in my vision. A dot the size of a pinhead. At this point it had to have been way up in the universe. I don't know what I observed, but what ever it was, it was something that has to be from another planet. I don't think the United States has anything that can travel at that speed so quickly without sound. I'd love to hear from someone that could give me a half way decent explanation. I know what I saw- no one can convince me it was from around here. Bob Durkis A big thank you to Mr. Durkis for sending in his report.
Source & References:
Bob Durkis
submitted to UFO Casebook
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Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 24, 2007 A strange flying object was picked up by a Nikon digital camera belonging to an airplane mechanic working at Angol's Los Confines airfield. The photo was taken in November 2006 and the photographer did not become aware of the intruder's presence until he checked out several panoramic shots he had taken of the area. According to the first impressions of people who have analyzed the photo, some believe they can see a sort of aura surrounding the object with some colored lights around it. Are these mere optical illusions? A UFO? A distorted intrusive object? Analysis of the picture is underway. Two years ago, when aerobatic trials by the "Halcones" group belonging to the Chilean Air Force were being performed, an Unidentified Flying Object shaped like a cylinder was captured on film. That photo remains unexplained. (translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Raul Nunez, NOUFA)
source and references:
NOUFA (Noticiero Ufologico Autonomo) |
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4:49 PM 2/23/2007-My name is Lee and I live in Wasilla, Alaska and own a ranch here. I am new to your forum and joined in hopes it would be a place to report a sighting of a UFO I had back last year in December.
At the time I was self-contracted with the ADN to deliver their newspaper. I usually began my route after midnight. This was in December of 2006 and I have forgotten what the exact date was. But I had the same similar sighting for three consecutive nights and all at about the same time give or take 15 minutes more or less. It was always around 1:15 or 1:30 am. I was in a sub-division getting ready to begin delivery when I noticed a bright clear light coming from a Northerly direction. It was approaching at a steady speed. What drew my attention was the fact that I could see no navigation lights such as a green or red port or starboard light and no rotational beacon. As you can imagine I am used to seeing all kinds of craft due to all the float planes and then being close to Elmendorf AFB. I remember stopping the jeep and getting out to look at it as it approached. It was going in a southwesterly direction and was less than a 1,000 feet from ground level and was traveling at I would guess a very slow speed of 25 mph or less. This is another thing that I thought was weird as even the piper cubs usually don't fly that slow. It made no noise at all completely silent. There was no noise from it or noise going on in the area, (dogs barking, etc.) It was a black or a mat finish in color and had no other lighting as it went over and was in a delta shape. If it had came in on a straight flight path it would have came from the direction Fairbanks and would have had to come across the mountains that ring the one side of town. So at one time it would have had to have had more altitude than it did when I observed it. The next evening I was in the same sub-division and as I drove down the same road I noticed the same bright light coming from the same direction following the same flight path. It was at the same time also and was at about the same altitude and air-speed. No noise again could I hear. No other aircraft was noticed in the area either. The next evening I was running early on the route and had already thrown the area where the previous two sightings had occurred. I was in another area of town to the north when I noticed the same light as it was same altitude and speed. I thought this surely cannot be happening again. But as I stopped the jeep to watch I looked at my watch and it was about 15 minutes until 1 am. The craft was following the same path and at about 1:15 - 1:30 the thing would have been in the area that I had seen it the two nights before. I could not help but get the feeling that it was running a search path like it was looking for something in that certain area? From my position I could see a aircraft clearly in the distance as it would have been flying in over Cook Inlet and most likely coming in from Fairbanks to Ted Stevens Intl in Anchorage and was going in a 45* angle from this things flight path about 15 to twenty miles away est. I also wonder if it could have been some kind of new craft that was being flown out of Elmendorf AFB to the AFB in Fairbanks? Anyway just thought it was really interesting. Another interesting thing is that in the following weeks until now we have had a very heavy increase in military flight traffic of all kinds especially C-130 and Black Hawk Helicopters. We most normally never noticed any flight traffic over our property and this area before unless just a private plane that belonged to a neighbor or something like that. But on a almost daily basis now we hear and see the Black Hawks at just above tree level some times with a door open and soldiers inside can be seen, even in cold weather. On average the temp is around 10 to 14 F. The flight path is either going to or from the Elmendorf / Fort Richardson direction and going to or from the mountains and towards the direction this thing flew. One cannot help but wonder if this is related some way, or I am just grasping at straws. Lee A big thanks to Lee for sending in his report.
Source & References:
Lee
Submitted to UFO Casebook
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Hi BJ,
I have been granted authority to release a photograph taken by my friend- Jack. He is a friend from a small contact group. This is the beginning of photographic evidence that will be coming your way. This photo was taken in Ajax, Ontario on 08-21-06. One thing to note, the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant is close 8-10 kms away west. I believe the photo illustrates the further description BY SIGHT. Take care, as there are better ones coming your way ! Paul A big thanks to my good friend Paul for sending along the photograph.
source and references: Photograph © JT |
Photo was given to UFO researcher Michael Hesemann on a lecture tour. A retired officer of the National People's Army entrusted the photo to Hesemann, telling him that a comrade of his took the picture during a close encounter one night during a training exercise.
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Posted-10:41 AM 2/20/2007
Feb 20 2007-by Robin Turner, Western Mail A CELEBRATED UFO incident in which aliens are said to have crash-landed into a remote Welsh mountain range in 1974 may finally have been debunked. According to contributions on the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, the Berwyn Mountains Incident - often referred to as the "Welsh Roswell" - was actually a combination of an earthquake, a meteor shower and poachers carrying lanterns. Supporters of the UFO theory last night hit back at the claims. It all happened on the frosty night of January 23, 1974, near Llandrillo, high in Clwyd's Berwyn Mountains. Just after 8.30pm, even the most solid farmhouses and country pubs began to shake as the earth rumbled with what appeared to be a fantastic impact. As people looked out of their homes, the night sky was streaked with light. Peculiar "fairy lights" were also seen floating over the Berwyns. A nurse and her two daughters claimed to have seen an orange ball on the mountainside above Llandrillo while others claimed to have seen "non-human beings" being handled by military personnel. But it was, says Wikipedia, a complex coincidence of a meteor shower widely observed over Wales and northern England, a small earthquake, plus the activity of poachers - which explained the fairy lights. And the website says so-called "men in black", thought to have been Government agents in the area soon afterwards, were in fact civil servants from the British Geological Survey who happened to be wearing dark clothing. Contributors to the online encyclopedia say it is now known that at 8.38pm on January 23, 1974, an earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter Scale was felt over a wide area of North Wales and as far afield as Liverpool. First reactions were that a plane had crashed, or a meteorite had impacted. Wikipedia claims, "Further confusion was caused by lights seen on the Berwyn Mountains, which subsequently turned out to have belonged to poachers. "Police were alerted and set up a search team. Within an hour about 10 officers were searching the Berwyn Mountains and they were joined later by an RAF mountain rescue team from Valley (Anglesey). Nothing was found, and all searches were called off at just after 2pm the following day." But Cefn Henry Williams, a Plaid Cymru councillor representing Llandrillo, believes something unusual happened that night. He said, "In the early hours a close friend of mine said he went up the mountain to see if there had been some kind of crash. He was buzzed by army helicopters all screaming at him through loud speakers 'keep away - evacuate the area'. Now while I am not a follower of the crashed UFO theory there could have been some experimental jet which crashed and the military wanted no one near there." Cardiff-based Lionel Fanthorpe, the broadcaster and cleric who is president of the British UFO Research Association (Bufora), yesterday invoked the example of the celebrated Roswell incident - when the US Government is rumoured to have recovered an alien body from a downed UFO near the remote New Mexico town of Roswell - in support of the claims. He said, "Purely from a statistical point of view a visit from some other civilisation is long overdue." Also see Wales Crash,1974
Source & References:
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_headline=spooky-----one-of-our-ufo-sightings-goes-missing&method=full&objectid=18646137&siteid=50082-name_page.html
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Feb 20 2007Tryst Williams, Western Mail Wales has had its fair share of UFO sightings over the years. In the '70s an entire class of primary school children in Broadhaven, West Wales, claimed to have seen a UFO landing and aliens get out.The pictures they drew of what they had seen - a cigar-shaped object - appeared uncannily similar. In 2006 however, James Carlson of New Mexico, a serviceman based at Brawdy, West Wales, in the '70s and '80s, told paranormal magazine the Fortean Times in a letter that the Harrier vertical take-off jet used in the UK from 1969 might explain the cigar-shaped object sightings because it did not move like a conventional aircraft. In October 2005, the Ministry of Defence admitted they had investigated 28 UFO reports in Wales in the previous three years. They included a giant black object seen over Rhyl, a flying disc with legs seen over the Rhondda and a flying disc seen over Newport.
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http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_headline=wales--history-of-ufo-sightings&method=full&objectid=18646155&siteid=50082-name_page.html
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Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic UfologyFebruary 22, 2007-by Jose I. Ibarra Gonzalez TIJUANA. Over 40 unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were sighted by residents of the Altabrisa district around 10:40 a.m. yesterday morning (Sunday, 4 February). They stated that these objects were shiny and in formation although not in geometric order. They remained for over 10 minutes in the northern part of the sky and then headed toward Playas de Tijuana (West). "There were 38 in the first group, then they headed toward Playas, and another group of 5 or 6 appeared, heading off in the same direction," according to one of the witnesses. Residents of this district, located to the side of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, stated that they were very surprised by what they had seen in the sky yesterday. "At the time that the shining objects were there, an airplane went past. They must've seen them," said one of the locals. Moreover, Enrique Valle Alvarez, manager of the Abelardo L. Rodriguez International Airport at Tijuana, stated that no aircraft sent out any alert whatsoever. He said that the Control Tower did not report any unusual situations. However, it is possible that the Air Navigation Services of the Mexican Air Space may have more information. "There were no incidents and nothing was reported to me," he said. (Translation (c) 2006. S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid and Jose Ibarra Gonzalez)
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Diario El Mexicano and www.analuisacid.com |
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Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic UfologyFebruary 22, 2007 Reports from researcher Alfonso Salazar Mendoza
February 20, 2007-On February 13, 2007 at 9:25 a.m., a UFO was reported over Mexico City International Airport, flying slowly from north to south. Its aspect was metallic and its overall shape spherical, reflecting the sun's rays with silvery flashes, according to the descriptions given by aviation technicians who witnessed the sightings. They estimated that the object flew at approximately 50,000 feet (15,000 meters) and the observation took place near air terminal #2 of said airport. Among the witnesses was researcher Alfonso Salazar, who added the probable UFO was lost from sight as it headed toward the sun, from his perspective. The crew of a Mexican Navy helicopter on its way to the Mexican capital advised an air traffic controller that a metallic spherical object had crossed its path in the vicinity of Chiquihuite Hill. The sighting was confirmed by the MCIA Control Tower on 13 February 2007 at 13:05 hours. As side note, Chiquihuite Hill is located to the north of the Distrito Federal and also covers a share of the state of Mexico, housing telecommunications antennae. Aviation pilot Captain Tarragona reported having seen, along with his crew, a luminous disk shaped object. He described it as "highly luminous" with red, blue and green lights, calculating that it was at distance of approximately 3 kilometers. According to his report, the pilot requested information from the Veracruz Center, asking if there was traffic in the area, and receiving a negative reply. This occurred during a nocturnal flight over the Gulf of Mexico and the exact date is unknown, estimating that it took place during the last week of January and early February 2007. Captain Peña, commander of an Aviacsa Boeing 737, remarked that he had a sighting during a daytime flight on the Mexico-Acapulco route. According to his account, the possible UFO resembled a basketball, with a metallic appearance, and it reportedly escorted his airliner for an estimated 5 minutes, coming dangerously close to the upper section of the aircraft's starboard wing. Subsequently, the sphere rose into the air and vanished from sight. Captain Peña added that he was convinced of the existence of UFOs. The exact date of this event is not known, and apparently occurred at the same time as the preceding report, that is to say, between January and February 2007. (translation (c) 2007. S.Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid and Alfonso Salazar)
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www.analuisacid.com and Alfonso Salazar Mendoza |
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Columbia, Missouri-June 28, 1973 0030 to 0105cst Witnesses: James G. Richards, age 41 Animal Care Technician, University of Missouri Vanea Richards, age 16 - daughter Jamie Richards, age 3 - son WEATHER CONDITIONS: Provided by Don Semaneik, Columbia Regional Weather Bureau: Sky-clear, visibility 20 miles+, Temperature 66 degrees, Wind Speed 5 knots at 290 degrees. ASTRONOMICAL CONDITIONS: Moon - phase 7.4% rising at 0236. Single bright star in portion of sky - Capella - below horizon, rising at 0106. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: July 9, 1973 - Ted & Ginger Phillips July 14, 1973 - Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Ted & Ginger Phillips July 28, 1973 - Ted & Ginger Phillips LOCATION OF OBSERVATION: 1/2 mile SE of Columbia-NE1/4, SE 1/4, sec. 17, R. 12W, T.48N, Boone County, Missouri SETTING: The witnesses live in a mobile home located outside the city limits of Columbia. The home is located at the end of a dead end lane about 1,000 feet N of State Road WW. The home is surrounded by scattered trees with the exception of the front yard, to the E. A house is located across the lane to the E and is occupied by an elderly lady who was asleep at the time of the observation. OTHERS CONTACTED REGARDING THIS EVENT: Mrs. A.P., Directory Assistance Operator, Columbia Mrs. L.M., Operator, Columbia Mrs. H.S., Federal Aviation Administration, Columbia The following information was gathered during three visits at the home of the James Richard’s family. Portions of the report are taken directly from the taped interviews. THE OBSERVATION: The event began as Vanea went into the kitchen ( located at N end of the mobile home ) to place a baby bottle in the refrigerator, which is located by the N window and that window was open at the time. Vanea heard a rather loud ( it could be heard over the record player in the living room ) thrashing sound in the direction of scattered trees some 80 feet N of the window. At this point she could see nothing in the dark, wooded area. As she listened at the window the sound seemed to be moving around a large tree . As the sound persisted she became rather frightened and called to her father to come to the window. Mr. Richard’s and Jamie were sitting in the living room. Richards stated that as it was late, he was tired and was slow going to the window. Vanea ran to the screened porch at the front of the home and locked the outside screen door and the front door. By this time Richards had reached the window and was looking from the left side of the window toward the N-NE. Vanea took up a position on the right side of the window and was looking toward the trees . As he watched, Mr. Richards noted two beams of light which were located at a point between a fence and the trees. The light beams would have been about 50 feet from the window. The beams were tapered, wide at the top, about four feet wide, tapering to about two feet at the ground. They were some five feet apart at the top. The beams were bright and silver-white in color. He could not see any form above or behind the beams. Suddenly, the beams disappeared, faded out rapidly, and a bright oval form was seen just above the original position of the beams.
Richards and Vanea estimated the glowing form to be twelve to fifteen feet in diameter and very near the ground. The object was described as extremely bright ( Richards had to turn his eyes away briefly ) and silver-white in color. The edges were fuzzy and no surface details were visible. The glow did not fade or brighten during the observation. The trees around the form, to the left and right, were quite visible in the glow. The area was “lit up bright as day.” No sound could be heard other than the thrashing noise in the trees and grass. No other forms were seen. They noted that the trees were moving back and forth as though blown by a strong wind. ( wind speed was 5 knots-no storms in area ) Tree A showed a different motion...it was described by Vanea as a “tugging” motion. It seemed that something was pulling that one tree toward the ground.
Shortly after the form was visible the thrashing noise ceased. The tugging motion on tree A was still evident. Mr. Richards and Vanea heard a loud cracking sound and the tugging motion stopped. It was his tree which was damaged...the following morning a large limb was found broken at a point 17 feet above the ground. The area was very quiet now: Richards moved to the various windows around the trailer. It was at this time that he noticed his dogs lying very still between the trailer and a shed nearby to the W. He told me the dogs were normally barking during the night at the various night animals in the area. it seemed very strange to him that his dogs were not barking at all this noise and bright lights.(the dogs are large security animals and not easily frightened) Richards then went to the bedroom at the S end of the trailer to get his guns. He brought the guns to the kitchen, removed several shells from a cabinet, loaded the guns and placed them on a deep freeze by the N window. He joined Vanea at the window once again and noted that the object was still there in the same position. The light from the glowing form illuminated trees as far away as 100 feet. At this close position(about 50 feet) it was silver-white or aluminum in color, no other colors were visible. Mr. Richards said, It was real, real bright at the center, dull white at the edges, way beyond a normal light(such as an automobile headlight at the same distance) in brightness. Of the brightness vanea said, It was bright, but it didn’t hurt my eyes. After the form had remained in this same position for several minutes Richards decided to call for help. The object suddenly began to move away toward the N, passing below tree limbs through an open area some 20 feet wide. It moved parallel to the ground until it reached the edge of a field and then raised slightly and hovered some 200 feet away from the house. At this point it was not as bright and they could see it was silver-white at the center with a blue band of light and an orange glow extending around the outer edge. It was still low enough to be below a line of trees at the N edge of the field. When it was at this far point, Richards said, The color, it was something to behold, I’m telling you, it was, really. The object moved about 10 degrees to the W, stopped briefly and moved back to its original position over the field. The motion was smooth and slow. While the object was some distance away Richards dialed 113 for directory assistance. Mrs. A.P. took the call and later told me that Richards was very excited and seemed to be frightened as he described the event. He told her that he needed help and asked her to contact the police, the FBI, or anyone who could help him. After about one minute she told him she would contact an operator and have her call him back. As he talked with Mrs. P., the house lights dimmed twice. He hung up and returned to the window. While Richards and Vanea were watching the object, Mrs. P. contacted Mrs. L.M. and gave her the phone number. Mrs. M. immediately dialed the number, there was no busy signal, no ring-nothing-in her opinion, the Richards line was dead. She tried dialing the number five times, pausing after the third try to contact Mrs.P. to be sure she had the right number. She did. After the fifth try(she stated it would have taken perhaps three minutes to dial five times, waiting briefly after each dial and contacting Mr. P. she did not get through. During this time Richards was quite concerned as no one had called back, so he picked up the receiver to call out again. Over his end of the line he could hear no sound, no busy signal. He tried again and again, suddenly, as he recalls, Mrs. M. was on the line saying - Richards? and he answered-Jefferson City? Richards then told Mrs. M. what had been happening and that he was frightened for his children. Mrs. M. thought ( she could not be sure ) that she contacted the Richards home at about 0045. To her best recollection, he repeated his story over and over, pausing to ask Vane if it was still there and what it was doing. Both operators felt that Richards was sober and telling the truth. After what seemed to be several minutes(she couldn’t be sure of the time line) Mrs. M. contacted the Flight Service Station ( FAA ) at the Columbia Regional Airport. Mrs. H.S. was on duty at the time, Mrs. S. stated that Richards sounded sincere and sober. He seemed to be frightened as he described the event. After several minutes Mrs. S. told Richards that there had been another sighting on June 24th at Jefferson City. She then told him that she would contact the police for him and they hung up. The object was again moving toward the home and Richards became very frightened. Richards stated, It came back and we had it, I’ll tell you. we didn’t know what to do, we both got kinda scared. I said, what’s gonna happen? Something’s gonna happen here. This cold feeling came over me, I got speechless at this time. I just had this cold feeling when it came back that second time. I was just sure, like you almost feel that you were gonna get killed or something. Like death was at you, this was it. I didn’t know what to do, I just froze. I just knew this was it and no one would come, no policemen. I was scared to go out the door, I wouldn’t have gone outside, no way.
The object moved through the trees to a point near in the trees near its original position 50 feet away from the window. It remained there for an undetermined period of time. It suddenly moved away, through the trees toward the field. It move with a smooth, slow motion, no sound. Richards noted that the trees did not move during the second close approach and there was no thrashing sound. As the object reached a point at the near edge of the field it raised slightly until it reached a point over the field some 200 feet away. it hovered and no motion could be seen. It was still below the tree line to the N. The orange and blue bands could be seen again, it was silver-white at the center. The glow seemed to shrink, even though it was getting smaller the orange and blue bands were visible until it just disappeared by growing smaller and smaller. It does not appear likely it was growing smaller because it was moving away into the distance as no motion could be seen and it would have hit the trees to the N had it flown away. After the glow had faded out the object was not seen again. At about 0145 the police arrived, one young officer walked to the area with Richards and looked around briefly. He told Richards that there were some tracks but they looked like they were made by rabbits. Richards told him to forget the whole thing and he returned to the trailer, followed by the officer. He told the officer if he thought they were rabbit tracks he should forget the whole thing. It is very possible the officer didn’t see the deep imprints. They did not see the broken limb at that time. Richards called the Flight Service Station after the object had disappeared and Mrs. S. stated that he seemed relieved that he could talk with someone about the event. THE SITE: July 9, 1973....my wife and I interviewed the witnesses and investigated the area on our way to Chicago. Allen Hynek had invited us for a visit and to meet jazz drummer Buddy Rich ( I being a drummer and had mentioned to Allen that Buddy was my favorite on the planet ) Buddy had a sighting and had contacted Allen a week earlier and was playing in Chicago for a week. I spent most of the time obtaining measurements and taking photographs of the site. The imprints and damage to trees is located in an area of scattered trees N of the trailer. A fence is located 25 feet from the window and the first imprint was found some 50.5 feet beyond the fence. This seemed to be a series of imprints rather than just one. The imprints at this point number 4, they were 0.5 feet by 0.4 feet with a depth of 0.2 to 0.3 feet. This first set of imprints are 9.5 feet from a large broken tree limb. This limb is 0.4 feet in diameter and was still attached to the tree trunk. It appeared to have been twisted and pulled toward the ground. The limb was broken at a point 16.5 feet above the ground. two smaller limbs, each 0.1 feet in diameter, located on the larger limb, were broken off. A small limb 17.0 feet above the ground and extending from the tree trunk at the point of the break, shows signs of being rubbed. All the breaks are fresh. Leaves in the area above the path taken by the object to and from the field, but especially over the point where it had hovered are dying. There are signs of heating three limbs on tree B had leaves that are brown, these are 25 to 35 feet above the ground. To the North of the first imprints ( along the objects reported path ) we found a complex series of imprints.
It is difficult to determine a pattern as the object moved through this area four times, coming in an going out. Bob Gassaway, a reporter for the Columbia Tribune, visited the area the day after the sighting. He told me that he tried to make a heel mark by one of the imprints and although he weighs over 300 pounds, he could force his heel to a depth of only 1/2 inch. As the imprints are generally 0.5 by 0.4 feet with a depth of 0.3 feet, we must assume a weight on each imprint much above 300 pounds ( rabbits? ). There were no marks in the field and no radiation could be detected. Plaster casts were taken and the imprints outlined with flour for photographs.
When we arrived in Chicago I processed the film at the Northwestern University darkroom. We described the event with the photographs and Buddy and Allen both planned to go back with us, Allen made it but Buddy couldn’t get around a schedule. Buddy and I discussed cases many times after this. On July 14th we returned with J. Allen. The leaves were all quite dead & the limbs were barren over the area.
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02-14-07-While driving east on Wilcox Drive before reaching the intersection of Wilcox and Coronado at about 1630 I saw rising into the sky two spherical objects. The objects appeared to be about three or four miles away rising mostly straight up until reaching the clouds. When they reached the clouds I lost track of one object and the other moved to the south just below the clouds. The objects moved very fast, first shooting up about three thousand feet in less than five seconds and then, one object travel south for about two miles in about ten or twelve seconds before I lost it. Both objects were metallic looking spheres and left no visible exhaust or vapor trail. I wish I knew what I saw, it was the first time in years of keeping my eyes on the sky that I saw something that I clearly couldn't identify. source: www.mufon.com |
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02-19-07-Los Angeles-Hey there my name is Rudy I am 16 yrs old and I live in Los Angeles,
California. I just wanted to report that on the evening of Presidents Day I
was looking at the crescent moon with my telescope and i happen to see a UFO
travel across my view when I was looking at the moon with my telescope
Now I don't recall the exact time it happened but probably around 6:20 to 6:40(time that I was observing the moon). I say about 10 mins into my observation of the moon is when I saw this object.The object came into view from the southwest corner and traveled diagonally across the dark part of the moon and it went into the northeast corner and that's the last i saw of it. I don't know how fast it traveled but the event only lasted about 2 to 3 seconds. i guess it crossed the moon in 1 second or maybe half. When I saw this object the magnifying lens(12.5mm) were focused so everything looked really sharp and detailed. The object closely resembled the UFO that you have in your video files the one that's titled shuttle UFO film only that it was a bit smaller and it was a mix with blue and white. I cant really remember if it had a pulsating light or not that I cant really say for sure. I guess the object was in space not on the moon because the moon was in the middle of everything and all around it was just darkness. Now the problem is that i know it wasn't a meteorite because the object didn't have a tail as a meteorite should have. Now I don't think it was something that crossed the path of my telescope and the moon in earth because in the end a helicopter passed in front of the moon but the helicopter was all blurry even the lights. plus I couldn't see the moon when the helicopter passed so obviously it couldn't be something in the earth. I can assure you this object was in space. because after I saw the helicopter I was really positive that the UFO was in space. I am not a skeptic when it comes to UFOs even before this event occurred I had always believed that UFOs exist I just never saw one with my own eyes. And now I am really sure they do exist. I'm sorry I have no photographic evidence but this is the first time I see something like this when i use my telescope, hopefully the next time I report a UFO I will have with me either video or photo proof that will go with my report. P. S. Best of luck with you and your web site and maybe one day the whole world will see something that'll make them believe. - source-www.ufocasebook.com |
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02-12-07-I was looking towards Kailua-Kona from Hualalai farms area(well above the ball field looking westlerly). I saw this bright star like object hanging over the ball field(which had the lights on, which are very bright for night time mountain ball team play)What set it apart from the backround was its intensity.There were a few stars just becoming visible but this object was orders of magnetude greater than backround. When I put the field glasses on it, I thought I saw 4 or 5 distinct lights on its base. (which could have been improper focusing). Funny thing is...Its back in approximately the same place tonight. Submitted...8:02pm Feb.14th. 2007 Paul Schreiber (808)937-0993) (c) 1)I was standing outside of my friends Home 2)What made me notice it was its intensity 3)UFO 4)It was just sitting there above the ballfield(from my vantage point) 5) I was excited, I haven't seen a UFO since being on Kauai in 1998. 6) I was spending time with my friend. I didn't observe it longer than a half an hour. It stayed motionless the entire time. source: www.mufon.com |
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02-21-07-Morton-I just thought I would share this sighting with you while it's fresh in my mind. I just got home from work. I was traveling east and was 1 mile from the Morton, Illinois exit (102) on I-74 east. It caught my eye immediately. It looked like a meteor only much brighter even though there were city lights.
Most meteors usually travel downwards, this was traveling even parallel and very bright and very fast with a very defined tail. I pulled over to the side of the road to watch it better without being distracted from driving. This thing zoomed by from the north to the south and stayed within my sight for four to five minutes until I could no longer see it. I looked at my clock in my car and it was 11:23 P.M. when I first saw it, when I could no longer see it-it was 11:27 P.M. , then just clicked over to 11:28, so just under five minutes and it never burned out like a meteor would. It stayed parallel the whole time. This thing was FAST whatever it was and seemed to be very controlled in its movement, unlike a meteor. It looked very much like that picture that guy took recently in Hawaii, like a fireball with a defined tail. Kind of looked liked a missile or something. Just thought I would share this with you. Marty-source: www.ufocasebook.com |
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05-12-2004-City of Becker-11:04p.m. ? It was a cloudy night, about 50 degrees outside. Out of my window on the lower level, an extremely bright light shone. Looking outside, all I saw was this large ball of light right in my backyard. It was actually more of an oval shape. It moved around my .3 acre backyard slowly, as if it was cautious. My ears started to pop slightly. It went up sort of onto my deck, although still in the air. The object dimmed, and was gone in the blink of an eye. All of my watches never worked again. Circular piece of grass outside has been yellow ever since. Closest airport 20 miles away. The object was completely silent, although energy seemed to be radiating off it. No other known witnesses. A. R.-source: www.ufocasebook.com |
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02-15-07-I first spotted it getting onto Madison 401 coming off of E highway. It seemed to follow along beside my car so I stopped the car and turned the radio off and had my son in the passenger side roll down the window so we could see if we could here anything. It was definetly not a plane or a helicopter it made like a humming sound and that is when we seen it shot a red beam of light down towards the ground. We watched it for about ten minutes and then I told my son lets see if it follows us home. So we continue down 401 leaving it behind us and then we went around a curve and there it was in front of us to the right side of the road. It wasnt as low as it had been but it was still very bright and how it got ahead of us without us seeing it was weird. So we continue down 401 to C highway and we could see it the whole time and the closer we got to home the closer it was and follow us home it did,it beat us home when we pulled into the driveway it was hovering above the neighbors house, where it stayed stationary for about 45 minutes and then it was gone. source: www.mufon.com |
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01-28-07-Witness states he was seated in his living room, facing a window and talking with his 92 year old Mother when he happened to glance out the window and saw a round, silver object coming toward his home over a tree line. At first he thought it might be an aircraft but then it hovered. He called his wife but she could not locate it. The object ascended at a 45 degree angle until the window frame blocked his view. He immediately got up and wnet into the adjacent kitchen, opened the door to get a better look but the object was gone. He described the object as looking like a "pin ball" from a pin ball machine. He had no unusual feelings or sensations at the time but he felt compelled to contact NH MUFON via Email. This was his third sighting in as many years but those were in a different location on the west side of Concord, NH. source: www.mufon.com |
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02-15-07-I was driving west on East 7th Avenue in Hendersonville, NC. The objects caught my eye, as they were out of the ordinary. They appeared motionless, yet were very bright, almost like super powered enormous flashlights, or star-like, yet in a bright blue sky, before sunset. They were higher than planes, maybe cloud height. One was directly above the other, the lower looking like a plumb bob. I looked at the clock in my car, and it was 5:35PM. I looked back at the objects. The sight lasted about 5 city blocks as I drove just under 20 miles per hour. Without warning or change, they vanished, no trace in the sky. I don't know how long the objects had been visible before I noticed them. I was still staring at the sky to see if they would come back, when I noticed a small plane, or helicopter, flying fromt the direction of the Asheville Airport towards the area of the sky where the objects had been. Seeing the plane removed any doubt that the objects had also perhaps been planes or helicopters. How I felt - At first I was a little scared. I wasn't in the mood to play War of the Worlds. The fear passed fairly quickly, and then I was very excited. I had never seen anything like them before. I wanted to call my husband and tell him to run outside and see them, but then they vanished, and I decided I had better pay attention to my driving. source: www.mufon.com |
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02-14-07-This evening, I kept hearing crashing sounds on the roof, it's already dark here and there is a lot of snow/ice on the roof. I went out to make sure my roof was ok, unfortunately, I was not able to see much on the roof, but I happened to look up and there was an object in the sky. Not moving, no sound, with lights flashing in a continuous circular motion. The night sky was clear to the east, a lot of stars, but this was NOT a star. I saw a plane flying from the west heading east toward this object, the next thing I know, the lights went out on the object. It was over my home, so there is no way I can see it from the windows. I live close to the 35 Bypass and 42. source: www.mufon.com |
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02-15-07-The two witnesses were driving together, travelling eastbound on State Route 12. At Butler Mill Road, near Porter, they noticed two bright lights shining down from the sky. They stopped the car to look, but were afraid to get out of their car. They said that other cars drove by, honking at them.
Both witnesses said the two lights appeared to be connected, shining from a single location/craft. No craft was seen and nothing was heard. Both witnesses called 911 from their cell phones. After making the report to the 911 center, they drove off. They noticed that both of their cell phones suddenly lost any signal. source: www.mufon.com |
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2005-My name is XXX. I would appreciate if you don't show up my email address. I
want to tell you about a UFO sighting I had. It was on the 21 of July
2005. I was sitting with my friend, ____, on the beach of Fodele. Fodele is a
village on the North of Crete, the biggest island of Greece. It was around 10 o' clock in the evening and we where looking at the sky. It was a warm night and the sky was clear. No clouds or anything else. The half moon was bright. The beach is between two mountains 800 ft. tall each. We suddenly saw an object, like in the drawing, appearing from the mountain on the right. It was making a whirling movement.It went towards the other mountain. It was grey in color, with some kind of antenna and there could clearly seen a row of about 5-6 portholes. There was no sound. Some dogs around the area were barking loud to it. We kept looking at it as it moved quite fast towards the other side. The UFO was about 4-5 ft wide and about 3 ft. tall. It was in a height of 40-50 ft.T he sighting lasted 28-30 seconds. After that it disappeared behind the other mountain. It was the first UFO sighting I had in my life.The total of my UFO sightings is 4. source-www.ufocasebook.com |
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