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EDITOR ANNA MUMFORD
ART EDITOR BOB GORDON
PICTURE RESEARCH RACHEL DUFFIELD
PRODUCTION CONTROLLER CHRISTINA ROBILLIARD
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Introduction 7
NORTH AMERICA X Last Bastion of ETH 10 Database 14 From Saucers to Conspiracies 0�
EUROPE 72 A Common European Ufology? 74 Database 7'b Beyond Extra-terrestrials 120
THE EAST 124 UFOs and Freedom of Infonnation 126 Database 128 Interaction between East and West 141
AFRICA 142 UFOs Within African Culture 144 Database 146 UFOs or Ancestral Spirits 1;:)/
AUSTRALASIA 158 The Australasian Perspective 160 Database 1()� The Missing Links 17;:)
SOUTH AMERICA 176 The South American Viewpoint 17� Database 1�11 UFOs South of the Border 1���
Index 1 �Ill
Afterword 1 :1� s the International Director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's largest and most geographically widespread independent UFO research organization, I am A aware, perhaps more than most, that the UFO phe- nomenon is a truly global one. Unidentified Flying Objects are experienced by people all over the world and the World Atlas of UFO's shows this continent by continent. The World Atlas of UFO's also highlights areas of large countries - remote or less technological countries - where UFO's are rarely reported. It becomes apparent that UFO reporting is confined to those areas that have UFO investigators to whom these events can be reported. Those of us involved in the study of this phenomenon are convinced that if there were more people to whom sightings could be reported, then more cases deserving of serious study would reach UFO researchers. During my twenty years at MUFON I have determined at least two important things: first, that the UFO subject is serious and deserves to be treated with greater respect by scientists, world governments and the public than it presently is; second, that this subject is bringing people together across the world, and in a way that brings out their best talents. Thousands of people are donating hundreds of hours per year without fmancial compensation to helping those who do not seem to understand their own experiences or who may be unwilling victims of traumatic experiences. The annual MUFON International UFO Symposium attracts hundreds of people from all over the world who come together in a spirit of joint endeavour· that breaks down international boundaries. Both the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) are organizations to which the author and many of the contributors belong. They have a stated objective to educate the public in a responsible and authoritative manner, to encourage other groups and organiza tions around the world to share their work, and to proceed towards a solution to this intriguing and mysterious subject. This book is part of that process.
WALTER H. ANDRUS]R. INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR MuTUAL UFO N ETW(mK
6 nidentified Flying Objects are a subject Kuhle mann, Jenny f{andles, Steve Camble, which is much misunderstood: partly Bob Digby, Philip Mantle, Andy Hoberts. None because of poor media attention, partly of these people are responsible for any opinions U because of inadequate support from the expressed in the book other than those they scientific community and partly because of the make in their own section introductions. absurd claims of cult followers who attach My thanks also to the artists and illustra themselves to the subject. The end result is tors, Tony l{oberts, Martin Hower and Keith that authoritative data rarely gets to the Scaife for their astonishing visualizations that general public and the UFO phenomenon as a portray the mystery and awe of key events. whole attracts ridicule. The World Atlas of I would like to !-,rive special thanks to three UFO's aims to redress that imbalance. other people who each gave very special We do not know what UFOs are: some support in their own way: my wife, Anne, who cases make it very clear that they are a physical became researcher and cartographer despite reality; other cases seem to be caught up in a the demands of our home and her own busi sociological event; some cases have mytholo ness; Anna Mumford, of Reed International gical and others psychological components. Books, who gave tremendous back-up and Some UFO reports arc humorous and appear to installed a hot -line direct to my desk; Kathryn be relatively unimportant while a great many Howard, a UFO abductee who, when I needed have serious, often frightening implications for a fresh perspective on the subject, provided it individual people and for the world as a whole. (in trumps!). Too many people have been touched by UFOs, There are people missing from this list who, directly and indirectly, for the UFO phe for various reasons, cannot be acknowledged nomenon to be wished away. These people and individually: the hundreds of good UFO investi the rest of the world deserve a reasoned gators whose cases make up the databases - attempt to provide them with the answers that space simply prohibits a full cross-referenced they seek - whatever those answers may be. list; psycholo!-,rists and some scientists who The World Atlas of UFO's proves one thing prefer to remain anonymous at least for the very clearly: that at some level, or in some moment; witnesses whose cases are not in way, the UFO phenomenon is real. cluded out of respect for their wish that their To compile a world database of over forty stories remain out of the public domain - the years of research from all around the world was perspective they provide is vital. a daunting task. I could not have easily done so In researching the data, I have used many without the support of friends and colleabTUes case files including my own, and taken the across the world who supplied data, gave their opinions of many more experienced than my opinions, guided me to sources of data, or self. For specific references I have referred to simply kept me going when the coffee ran out. many publications (see Bibliography page 192). From an endless list I would particularly like to None of the books, journals or authors men mention: Hilary Evans, Cynthia Hind, Paul tioned are responsible for the opinions ex Norman, Eduardo Russo, Walter H Andtusjnr, pressed, some of which are no doubt contrary Budd Hopkins, Thomas (Eddie) Bullard, Bertil to their own. Such is this subject.
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SOMEWHERE 'OUT THERE', THERE MUST SURELY
BE TECHNO-DEMOCRATS, JUST LIKE OURSELVES,
IN SEARCH OF NEW FRONTIERS AND HORIZONS,
WILLING TO GO 'WHERE NO MAN HAS
GONE BEFORE'.
KEY TO MAP OF NORTH AMERICA
CD Aerial Cattle Rustlers, Le Roy, Kansas @ Flynn Incident, Everglades, Florida 0 Maury Island, Washington State @ Exeter Flap, Exeter, New Hampshire Q) Kenneth Arnold Sighting, Mount Rainier, Washington State ® Great North Eastern Blackout, North Eastern United States/Canada <3) Roswell Incident, Roswell, New Mexico ® Swamp Gas Debacle, Ann Arbor, Michigan ® Captain Thomas Mantell, Godman Field, Kentucky ® Catalina Island Film, California ® Aztec, New Mexico ® Betty Andreasson. Ashburnham, Massachusetts 0 Chiles/Whitted, Montgomery, Georgia ® Stephan Michalaq. Falcon Lake, Ontario/Manitoba border (Canada) ® Fargo, North Dakota ® Patrolman Schirmer. Ashland, Nebraska ® White Sands, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico ® Shane Kurz. New York State @> The Trent Photographs, McMinnville, Oregon ® Callery Chemical Plant, Butler, Pennsylvania @ The Lubbock Lights, Lubbock, Texas ® Dapple Grey Lane, Los Angeles, California ® Washington Flap, Washington D.C. @) St Catherine's, Ontario (Canada) @ Desvergers Encounter, West Palm Beach, Florida @ The Delphos Ring, Kansas ® George Adamski, Desert Centre, California ® Michellmbeault, Montreal, Canada @ Gulf of Mexico @ Pascagoula Encounter, Mississippi @ Tujunga Canyon, California @ Jeff Greenhaw, Falkville, Alabama ® Livermore, Oakland, California @ Captain Coyne, Mansfield. Ohio ® Daniel Fry, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico @) FlattertDonathan, Blackford County, Indiana ® Goose Bay, Labrador (Canada) @ Polaski Encounter, Greensberg, Pennsylvania ® Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky ® Tsutomu Nakayama, Hawaii ® 'Jennie', Nebraska @ Carl Higdon Abduction, Medicine Bow National Forest. Wyoming @ Lochraven Dam, Baltimore, Pennsylvania @> Travis Walton Abduction, Snowflake. Arizona @ Joe Simonton, Eagle River, Wisconsin @> Falconbridge. Ontario (Canada) ® Betty and Barney Hill, Concorde, New Hampshire ® Cash/Landrum Encounter, Dayton, Texas @ Socorro, New Mexico ® 'Kathie Davis' Abductions, 'Copley Woods', Indiana @ Gary Wilcox. Tioga, New York State ® Japan Air Lines, Anchorage Airport, Alaska ® Cisco Grove, California ® Gulf Breeze Case, Gulf Breeze, Florida ach year the President of the United States of was American ingenuity and industry, was it not, that America addresses the nation with a State of felled Hitler's Fortress Europe? (Never mind for now the Union message. This speech is purely that Soviet armies had a small helping hand in turning political; that is to say, heavy on platitudes, back the Fascist tide.) Moreover, it was American andE short on substance. A few troublesome issues are know-how that manufactured the world's first atomic admitted to, but these are traditionally glossed over as bomb. (And a military mind-set we tend to overlook nothing 'the spirit of the American people can't that decided to drop it.) conquer if we only put our minds to it, and our Certainly, the remarkable economic and industrial shoulders to the wheel.' recovery of a war-ravaged world owes a great deal of I can see that I might easily be accused of a similar debt to its American constituency, however tarnished sort of equivocation here. As editor of the monthly or lagging our present perlormance. The point is that, journal of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, I for better or worse, it is, perhaps, the American suppose I can be seen as a party loyalist, one who character that has cast the longest shadow over the adheres publicly to the perceived party line, and tends collective post World War Two global village. Musco to put a gloss on the overall status of the situation, vites crowd into McDonald's rather than New Yorkers whether or not merited by reality. into McGorky's. All I can say in my defence is that is certainly not Some commentators believe that we Americans how I think of myself. (Nor, judging from my mail, do are our own worst critics. In fact, our mania for all members of MUFON.) I hope I am capable of giving introspection is much more political and ethical than it a more or less objective assessment of the present is, say, psychological or metaphysical. Given our state of American ufolo1-,ry, warts, roses and all. I also industrial and technological background (itself a pro understand that what follows is only one person's duct as much of circumstance as character) it was only opinion. Another ufologist might see the current logical that we would see ourselves in the UFO situation in a different colour or light altogether and phenomenon. certainly they are welcome to their opinion. Somewhere 'out there', there must surely be So, what is the nature of the beast, then, as I techno-democrats just like ourselves, in search of new perceive it? Frankly, fairly encouraging, though not frontiers and horizons, willing to go 'where no man has without its moments of low humour and open rancour. gone before'. Such was the only logical assumption Before we enter into specifics, however, it might that could be made about these mysterious little green prove fruitful to look first at our background. men in their ma1-,rnificent flying machines. It was just That America should be the haven (if not the last not in our make-up to think otherwise. As America's bastion) of the so-called Extra-terrestrial Hypothesis taste for fast food suffused the world market place, so (ETI D. should not come as a surprise, either, given did perhaps premature adoption of the ETH suffuse our nature and circumstances. Although Americans ufolo1-,ry, again, for better or worse. are ar1-,TUably no more a technological culture or society On the other hand, as with any empire, rebellion than, say, the Germans or the japanese, we have was bound to set in, and this is exactly what we see always prided ourselves that we were. For example, it happening today. That these mini-revolutions have
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adopted their own individualistic and local 'style' was The mother ship in Close Encounters ofthe Third Kind which inevitable. Of course the failure of the ETH to prove compounded technological America's extra-terrestrial view of itself contributed to the situation, too. Still, the revolts the subject. have fallen back on their own culture and circumstance in a sort of intellectual nationalism, or chauvinism. tion of its own peculiar tin1e and place. Like its Thus we have several separate 'schools' of which contemporaries, it is riddled with holes and factions. faerie folklore, tribal culture, psychological and mys There is an exaggerated tendency to 'choose tical are all examples. sides', based on belief and feeling about a specific However, none of these schools has come any case, or personal loyalty to the principles involved, closer to ultimately resolving the central issue - the rather than a dispassionate examination of the evi unknown nature of the UFO phenomenon. Nor do I dence itself. This was most recently exemplified by mean to suggest that these generalized separate the spectacular and apparently on-going Gulf Breeze approaches are in any way monolithic, or that there Case in Florida (see page 67), which saw - if not old are not schisms. But the point is that American friends - at least old acquaintances, suddenly at one ufology, first and foremost, is a product or manifesta- another's throats over its validity.
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Interestingly, the argument could be made that each country and people get not only the ufologists they 'deserve', but seemingly specialized outbreaks of the phenomenon itself, as well. In the US, of late, that involves apparently physical and photographed objects seen by large numbers of witnesses, as in Gulf Breeze, accompanied by a strong undercurrent of abductions and a whiff of mutilated animals. In England, the strange Wessex crop circles (see page 121) beneath the great Chalk Horse have yet to be put in their proper context, and the same can be said of the French humanoids of an earlier day, and now, the Soviet 'invasion' and Brazilian accounts of flying refrigerators and death-dealing ray beams. Whether these specialized outbreaks can best be thought of as a case of the seeker blind to anything but the sought, or alternatively as a sort of perverse prank on the part of the phenomenon itself remains to be answered. Our native proclivity for picking teams has sur faced in the one area of ufology where one would naturally assume it might least rear its ugly head: in the realm of government and military intelligence documentation. The present controversy centres around an alleged presidential briefing paper which describes the existence of Majestic 12, or Mj-12, an ultra-secret special studies group reportedly founded in the wake of the Roswell Incident (see page 18). Those awaiting definite confirmation ofMj-12 may fmd themselves condemned to a permanent UFO purga tory. Meanwhile, the waters have been rendered even more murky by the recent revelation (or confession, depending on your point of view), made by a major Mj-12 player, of having actively participated in a military intelligence disinformation and surveillance campaign directed against certain individuals and UFO The space shuttle, a symbol of NorthAmerica's technological organizations. achievement which features so strongly in the consciousness of In the wake of Whitley Strieber's bestselling its people that the Extra-terrestrial Theory predominates. Communion and Transformation, in both of which he describes his own abduction, it seemed for a time as if At the moment, TREAT seems to have the best the abduction scenario might swamp the stage en chance of bridging the immense gap between ufology tirely. Such apprehensions have proven largely un and establishment science, if by the latter we include founded, although several competing camps have been professional psychotherapists and other mental health set up as a consequence of personality and philo practitioners. A working arrangement with a major sophical differences. Strieber and associates have east coast university appears imminent, which could established the Communion Foundation, with its own lead in turn to academic respectability, increased quarterly newsletter, and urged members not to funding, access to a super-computer and other tan fraternize with other 'orthodox' UFO organizations. gible benefits. MUFON itself is presently engaged in Budd llopkins and associates have responded with the an ambitious programme to standardize reporting Intruder Foundation. Yet a third group, TREAT (for procedures and computerize its database. The Fund Treatment and Research on Experienced Anomalous for UFO Research continues to solicit support in the Trauma) is underway, and a fourth abduction-related field. Subscriptions in the membership groups are up, group is rumoured to be on the horizon. approaching numbers not seen since the mid-fifties.
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The number of annual UFO conferences and strates that US ufology is anythmg but moribund, and symposia is on the rise as well, though the quality of that the spirit of American individualism is alive and the presentations varies widely. After a lengthy well, if not particularly inclined towards harmony and absence, there are now two national news-stand co-operation. magazines devoted to the subject, though again the Unfortunately, there is at least one other alarming contents of each issue fluctuate dramatically in tenns proclivity that should be addressed, and that is the of reliability. So called tabloid TV programmes regu temptation, in this most litigious of societies, to settle larly feature UFO stories, and of course the taller some issues in a court of law rather than through open tales remain a favourite staple of the supermarket dialo!-,'lle and public opinion. These civil actions to date press. jacques Vallee has returned to the publishing have mostly been lodged against other nationals, fold with Dimensions and Confrontations, studies whose laws allow for financial retribution in the case of which link folklore with UFOs. We have also seen, in libel. Some of us here wait with bated breath and 1990, the hardback appearance of Ed Conroy's well crossed fingers for similar suits to be filed in this received Report on Communion and The Gulf Breeze country. While the prospect of legal action may SiKiztinKS by Ed and Frances W<1lters. An eagerly indicate to some people a 'coming of age' for ufology, it anticipated study by reporter Howard Blum, Out is safe to say it is not the one most American There, w<1s also published towards the end of 1990. ufologistshave in mind as they continue to court public Other books that impinge on or envelope the UFO opinion and scientific respectability. subject, favour<1bly or critically, are too numerous to Now, where do we stand vis-a-vis our contempor mention, but balance would hardly be served if we did aries? Despite the difficulties of the science involved not refer to the revised paperback appe<1ranceof UFO (the distance between stars, the unlikelihood of so Abductions: A Dangerous Game, by skeptic Philip many extraterrestrials suddenly showing up on our Klass. Several English titles have also received lin1ited doorstep, etc.), the ETH must remain a viable theory. distribution here, although Timothy Good's Above Top Theories, after all is said and done, are all we have. Secret was picked up by a major American publisher. But if one theory can be convincingly shown to be The amateur press has been extremely preoccupied better than another, then Americans will be among the as well, and both MUFON and CUFOS, the Center for first to welcome it and applaud. So far this has not UFO Studies, continue to produce monthly and been the case. Arguing that abductions, for example. bi-monthly journals respectively. journals back in are predominantly psychological in origin. and there business include The journal of UFO Studies along fo re, so is the science of ufology at present is a far cry with Caveat Emptor, a local equivalent on a somewhat from an overall viable theory. In fact, so scarce is our more folksy scale than England's Magonia. No doubt I scratch on the surface. that hard and fast facts are have left much out in this brief summary, and my difficult to come by that would support any overall apologies to anyone particularly offended. theory, including those of mass psychokinesis, just as in the political arena, ufoiO!-,lY has its own psychotronic control systems, and a number of other extreme elements. The more vocal of these have hypotheses, half- or full-baked, that have been offered begun to raise rumours abroad of a secret diplomatic up over the last half century. 1 also include here the treaty between our government and the diminutive ultraskeptical, Shakespearean notion that all this has (one is tempted to say, demonic) 'grays'. What is been 'much ado about nothing'. encouraging about the present picture is the unlikeli It may behove us all to keep an open mind. be hood of any extreme minority, however vocal or patient, and remember that the U in UFO stands for active, assuming the mainstream mantle. There is a unidentified. That may not be an especially popular or certain inertia or gravity in human affairs which may American point of view, but neither was the two well work to our advantage, although in the meantin1e, minute hamburger until we won the war. the rumour mongers are not exactly perfonning a public service in our best interest. In-fighting and factionalism abound. but this strikes me as a by-product of human nature and DENNIS STACY is both a full-time writer and the editor of behaviour as opposed to anything fundamentally MUFON Journal, the house magazine of the Mutual UFO inherent to ufology, American or otherwise. Although Network. His editorship is characterized by impartial and sheer cantankerousness can be distracting and waste well-informed commentary so vital in a country where ful of both precious time and ener!-,l")'. it also demon- extreme views and high passions often run free.
13 Representatives and that people (Tacoma harbour) when they saw PRE 1900 who had known him for over thirty six UFOs above them. One of the NAME AERIAL CATILERUSTLING years testifiedin an affidavitthat UFOs, described as saucer- or
DATE 20APRIL 1897 they had never heard a word of his doughnut -shaped, jettisoned questioned and 'do readily believe material, some of which fell on to the PLACE LE ROY, KANSAS his statement to be true and boat injuring one of the companions MAP REF: J17 correct'. Furthermore the affidavit and killing his dog. EVENT AERIAL CATILE RUSTLERS was signed by the sheriff, the By the time tllis story had become deputy sheriff, a justice of the known Kenneth Arnold was already On 20 April 1897, fannerAlexander peace, a postmaster, the registrar associated nationally with the flying Hamilton filedan affidavitstating of deeds, a banker, an attorney, saucer phenomenon. He was drawn that earlier that week he had and others. into the Maury Island investigation watched a huge object glide down Hamilton said of the encounter principally due to the intervention of from the darkness and come to rest 'Every time I drop to sleep I see Ray Palmer, the editor of Fantasy in a field some 200 yds (18:-�m) from the cursed thing, all its bright magazine. his home. Together with his son and lights and hideous people. I don't Dahl claimed to have been visited one of the fam1hands he had know whether they are angels by a 'man in black', a character of approached to within 150 ft (46 m) of or devils ...I don't want any repression soon to appear the object, which he described as more to do with them.' repeatedly in American UFO stories approximately the length of an and a feature that would last at least American football fieldand made of a decade or more. He apparently something coloured deep red. It was strongly suggested to Dahl that it like an enormous cigar in shape and 1940s would be in his interests not to beneath it appeared to be a cabin NAME MAURY ISLAND discuss his sighting. made of glass; within it the farmer DATE 23 JUNE 1947 and his companions could see six PLACE MAURY ISLAND,WA SHINGTON STATE occupants which they described as MAP REF: E14 'the strangest beings ever saw'. An enormous wheel, located EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND beneath the craft, began to spin and KIND the airship rose to an altitude of some ]0 0 ft (92 m). The fa nners The 24Ju ne 19<'17is regarded as the noticed that a rope, reaching down birth date of the modem era of from the craft, was attached to a UFOs when Kenneth Amold had his heifer which was caught against the 'flying saucer' sighting at Mount barbs of a fence nearby. As the Rainier in Washington State, liSA. object rose it pulled the calf up with However, on the day prior to this it and disappeared into the darkness sighting an event was unfolding- the trailing the unlucky animal behind it. precise meaning and implications of The following day what remained of which have been a mystery to the calf was recovered from a ufologists ever since. nearby fam1: legs, head and skin. Harbour patrolmen Harold A. SlH >uld Hamilton's credibility be I >ahl and Fred L. Crisman owned a called into question, it must be boat and on the day in question Dahl pointed out that he had been a and other companions were sailing it member of the House of in Puget Sound, near Maury Island
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Kenneth Arnold was concerned NAME KENNETH ARNOLD SIGHTING relieve th<' angu1sh of rvl;tiJw·s of lost crew and also the that professional people should DATE 24 JUNE 1947 the financial investigate the case and suggested incentive of a $!i,OOO reward for PLACE MOUNT RAINIER, WASHINGTON STATE calling the .-tth Air Force Base at discovery of the wreck. MAP REF: E14 llamilton Field ;md requested the I laving completed his day's work involvement of t wo intelligence EVENT DISTANT DAYLIGHT SIGHTING- BUT installing fire fightmg eqUipment for officers: Captain William Davidson THE BIRTH OF 'FLYING SAUCERS' the Central Air Service at Chehalis, and Lieutenant Frank Brown. a small town in Washington State, When Brown and I )avidson In the clear skies of Washington Arnold look off at around �o'clock anived they were shown an State, lone pilot Kenneth Arnold heading for Yakima. With Mount assortment of the debris from the was peacefully <1dmiring the l 15 NORTH AMERICA While thinking they must be jet sky with him - equivalent to about objects, the tenn was very quickly planes he was also noticing that they 67 ft (19 rn). being used to describe saucer were moving in a curious way; Within a short time the objects shapes. It must be admitted that ilipp�g up and down tike the bows were gone and Arnoldcontinued his Arnold seemsto have jumped on his on the tail of a kite or, to use a search for the plane though he later own bandwagon. By the time his phrase that was later to make admitted his mind was no longer on story was told in the firstedition of history, moving 'like a saucer would the job. After a cursory search of Fate magazine in the spring of 1948, if you skipped it across the water'. the Tieton reservoir he eventually the cover illustration depicting the ' Given their distance -estimated flewinto Yakima at 4 pm. encounter was a hrross distortion of at 25 miles (40 km) away - Arnold On arriving and desperate to tell the ori.c,rinal story. The objects are was unable to make out their shapes someone about the sighting, Arnold seen in close proximity to Arnold's clearly but believed that when they went to see the general manager of plane and they are clearly saucer passed in front of the snow-covered Central Aircraft, AI Baxter, who in shapes with just a slight modification Mount 1- 16 NORTH AMERICA NAME THE ROSWELL INCIDENT The following morning, 75 miles from the ranch. It must be stressed (127 km) in that general direction, that contrary to some rumours there DATE 2JULY 1947 ranch manager William Brazel and was no disc recovery at this point - PLACE ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO his son and daughter discovered Marcel confirms that small pieces of MAP REF: H18 scattered wreckage on their farm debris were put into the boot of a car EVENT CRASH RETRIEVAL and alerted the local sheriffs office - and there were no alien bodies of Chaves County. Sheriff Wilcox of recovered. The debris was returned The most intriguing of all crash Chaves County contacted Roswell to the Roswell AnnyAir Base and, retrieval stories, and the only one Anny Air Base and Major jesse A. on the orders of Colonel Blanchard, definitely supported by physical Marcel. was flown on to Wright Patterson evidence, is the Roswell incident of To say that the governmenttook Air Force Base in Ohio. Although july 1947, which occurred just a few the report seriouslywould be an apparently detailed to accompany days after the Kenneth Arnold understatement; Brazel was the debris, Marcel was diverted by sighting (sec page 15). incarcerated for a period of several his superiors at Fort Worth and did In the early evening of 2 july a days and encouraged not to discuss not go to Wright Patterson. disc shaped UFO was seen flying the event on grounds of national What was recovered has been over Roswell, New Mexico and security. Meanwhile Major Marcel the source of considerable heading towards the north-west. and his team collected the debris speculation: that the material was a Asovl General Roger Ramey and Colonel AsovE RIGHT The RoswellDaily Record of 8 Thomas Jefferson DuBose display the July 1947 announcing the capture of the remains of a weather balloon, allegedly flying saucer. RIGHT A model artist's the matenal recovered by Major Jesse reconstruction showing the retrieved Marcel. Marcel said, 'It was definitely not saucer and what may have later taken a weather or tracking device ...· place at Wright Patterson Airbase. 18 ·IIillilllllllll•· thin, foil like metal that could not he dented even by forceful blows, that it was a light, balsa-wood substance which would not bum even under a direct name, and that there were strange hieroglyphs on the debris. The Roswell incident has been further complicated by apparently connicting infonnation, some of one of the local ranchers and of the communication immediately. ' which may have been issued by the Sheriffs officeat Chaves County.' A reconciliation of the government. If so, it was probably Another report by radio station contradictions in this case has been to divertattention from what was KSWS in Roswell which was being offered by the claims of witness really going on. In particular, a press put on to the ABC wire service was G. L. Barnettwho stated to friends release was issued by Roswell Anny apparently interrupted by an that he had seen another crash site Air Base on 8 july which stated incoming teletype message ordering near Socorro, New Mexico where a 'Roswell Anny Air Field was the station with these words 'Do damaged but complete saucer was fortunateenough to gain possession not transmit. Repeat. Do not discovered along with dead alien of a disc through the co-operation of transmit this message. Stop bodies. The speculation is that the 19 NORTH AMERICA machine exploded over Brazel's NAME CAPTAIN THOMAS MANTELL farrn dropping debris but continued DATE 7 JANUARY 1948 in the air to Socorro before finally being downed. It is suggested that PLACE GODMAN FIELD, KENTUCKY the governmentmay have issued MAP REF: M17 the statement about the retrieved EVENT UFOLOGY'S FIRST MARTYR saucer at Brazel's farn1in order to divert attention from the recovery In the early aftemoon of 7 january going on nearby. This seems to be a 1918 the control tower crew at diversion fraught with risks though, Godman Field, Kentucky reported a if true, it does seem to have sighting of a bright disc-shaped worked. object to their base operations There is no question that debris officer. Approximately one hour and was recovered from Brazel's ranch. twenty minutes after the sighting, In order to explain the situation to an when the object was still visible, eager public Brigadier General four National Guard P-51 Mustang Ramey, commander of the 8th Air training craft led by Captain Thomas Force district at Fort Worth Mantell were diverted from their together with his adjutant displayed flight to investigate the sighting. the recovered debris for the press. The aircraft climbed toward the The wreckage shown was clearly object. At 15, 000 ft (1, 572 m) the that of a Rawin weather balloon other planes turned back as they did which it was claimed was the cause not have the equipment required to of the event. supply oxygen which would enable Almost certainly this was a them to fly higher. They at tempted device to cover up the truth and the to contact Mantell by radio. Mantell real wreckage was by this time on made one transmission at 15,000 ft its way to Wright Patterson Air ( 1, 572 m) saying he had the object Force Base. in sight and was still climbing to A proper analysis of the Roswell investigate. The plane crashed, incident must take account of the scattering wreckage for over a mile. circumstances surrounding the Mantell was dead; this young man immediate area and time of the was ufoloKy'sfirst martyr. incident. New Mexico in 1918 was Analysis of the wreckage the site of the White Sands Proving indicates that Mantell did not Grounds, where German scientists attempt to bale out of the plane and brought over during the war were suggests that the plane broke up inability to 'close-in' on the target. hri ving birth to the American space from diving at excessive speed, Mantell's experience should have programme, and Los Alamos was presumably out of control. It is taught him to react better and it is the site of the recently developed suggested that Mantell blacked out speculated that he may have atomic bomb. The possibility that from oxygen deprivation as he flew overreacted to the UFO sighting as the government was trying to above the plane's capability to a result of six months of media hype secretly recover a damaged device supply oxygen. The question is, following the Amold sighting of the of its own must on this account alone what was it that drove Mantell previous year. be high on the list of explanations for higher and higher? One theory is Mysterious rumours abound l 20 I, lll i d� ' DATABASE 1940s his body. None of these claims can AsovE An artist's impression of Mantell's be regarded as definitively P-51 Mustang training plane cl1mbing substantiated and it is certainly the towards the UFO high over Godman Field usual procedure for plane crash 1n Kentucky Other planes in the fl1ght victims to be buried 'closed casket' turned back at a lower altitude but Mantell due to their injuries. pressed on . Minutes later he was dead. Whether Mantell was a victim of Speculation with regard to what he was his own excitement, or whether he chasing continues to th1s day Was it a was struck down by an alien force weather balloon. a star. the planet Venus. resisting his pursuit of their saucer or a craft from another world? can now never be proven. However. the light Mantell chased was. by any sensible definition, a UFO and therefore we can rightly regard Mantell's death as the first attributed to a UFO encounter. RIGHT Captain Thomas Mantell 21 r 11111111 :lU I • · NORTH AMERICA NAME AZTEC diamond drills could affect the fingers. Dissection revealed that surface; there were no rivets or there was no blood but instead a DATE 25 MARCH 1948 signs of welding. Fortunately, liquid smelling similar to ozone. PLACE AZTEC, NEW MEXICO damage to one of the saucer's Curiously, and apparently MAP REF: H17 portholes enabled the investigators contradictorily, the bodies had no EVENT CRASH RETRIEVAL to break in and open its hatchway. digestive tract but perfect teeth. After successfully dismantling the Whether or not Scully was the According to the newspaper object, its components and the victim of a hoax, Aztec remains just columnist Frank Scully in his book cadavers were then transported to one of many similar crash retrievals Behind the Flying Saucers a most what is now Wright Patterson Air reported in the United States over extraordinary discovery was made Force Base. Further investigation of the years. by the United States Air Force in the object apparently revealed still 1948. According to the story he was working control panels displaying told by his informants a flying saucer hieroglyphic symbols and a book of NAME CHILES!WHITIED hieroglyphs on plastic like paper. had crashed near Aztec, New DATE 24 JULY 1948 Mexico and was recovered by the The cadavers were described as PLACE MONTGOMERY, GEORGIA United States military. Inside the approximately 3ft 6 in (107 em) high MAP REF: M18 craft were sixteen dead humanoid with large heads, large slanting eyes alien cadavers. The disc had been and diminished nose, mouth and EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST detected by radar units and indeed it ears. The bodies were apparently KIND is thought that radar signals may very thin with long arms and webbed have disrupted the craft's controls, just after the formation of the US bringing it down accidentally. A modelmaker's reconstruction of the Air Force's Project Sign, one of its The disc was 100 ft (30 m) wide Aztec crash retrieval. A more exciting many attempts to investigate UFOs, and had a central cabin around 6ft incident than Roswell (see page 18) but it received the report of two Eastern (183 em) high. It was made of a light less authoritatively substantiated . Many Airline pilots, Captain C. Chiles and metal so strong that neither heat nor believe this one to be a hoax. First Officer john Whitted. 22 111111111111• •Ill' DATABASE 1940s In the early hours of the morning Cub nearby, which he confirmed reason. I am also ccrtam that it was they were flyingan EasternAirlines visu(JIIy. At the same time he S(JW governed by the laws of inertia, DC-3 ncar Montgomery when both another craft moving very rapidly because its acceleration was rapid, pilots witnessed a UFO heading under his right wing. He contacted not immedi(Jteand although it was towards them at 'terrific speed'. So the tower for further identification able to tum fairly tightly, at close was the encounter that the but they confim1edno aircraft near considerable speed, it still followed a DC-3 had to veer sharply to the left him, other than the Piper Cub. natural curve.' and the UFO passed by only 700 ft Closing in, Gom1an S(JW that the A most remarkable balloon! (213 m) from the plane. The UFO's object displayed (] light some 8 in (20 deceleration was so violent that it em) in diameter. It was globular and rocked the DC-]. hazing at the edge. Gom1an watched NAME WHITE SANDS The pilots were close enough to the object move into (] sudden tum DATE 24 APRIL 1949 it to take some note of the object passing over the control tower; PLACE WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS, itself; it appeared to radiate an Gorm(Jn dived towards the object NEW MEXICO intense blue light and the pilots saw but could not catch up with it. As it MAP REF: H18 a double row of windows along the started gaining altitude it banked left side. As it disappeared behind the and Gom1an attempted to follow. At EVENT DISTANT DAYLIGHT SIGHTING plane they saw a red-orange this point they were 7, 000 ft exhaust. They estimated its (2, 130 m) high, the object made a On a clear Sunday morning ncar the speed at between 500-700 miles sharp tum again and was heading White Sands Proving Grounds, (805-1, 127 km) per hour. straight for Gorman's aircraft. The Naval Commander R. McLaughlan There was corroborationof the effect was so startling that Gorman and a tracking crew of four launched sighting from witnesses at Robbins was forced to make a dramatic dive a large weather balloon. This Field, Georgia who described an and the light passed over the canopy followed an earlier launch of a small object tallying very closelywith the some 500 ft (152 m) above him. As similar balloon at 10. 30 a. m. description given bythe pilots. the UFO circled above, Gorman They were tracking their target gave chase again. One account at approximately 10,000 ft (3, 0·18 m) suggests that the manoeuvring was when one of the team, Charles NAME FARGO so intense that Gom1an blacked out Moore, spotted a white egg-shaped temporarily. object; he pointed it out and the DATE 1 OCTOBER 1948 Air traffic control was now UFO was confirmedvisually by all PLACE FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA visually confirming Gorman's the personnel. For about one minute MAP REF: J15 sighting, trafficcontroller Errol they tracked the object until they EVENT AERIAL DOG FIGHT Jensen announced 'You were right. saw it shoot up and vanish. There is something. ' He was If their interpretationof the data Captain Edward A. Ruppelt's official examining the object through high was correct, it follows that when 131ue Book explanation of the Fargo powered binoculars and he passed they had firststarted tracking the encounter was 'In this incident the these to witness Manuel Johnson, object it had been 56 miles (90 km) UFO was a balloon. ' Considering the who confirmedthe sighting. high and travelling at 7 miles (1 1 km) facts of the case below it is difficult As the object closed in again it per second, the escape ,·elocity to decide whether this conclusion suddenly shot upwards, Gorman needed to break out of the Earth's represents great imaginationon the chased it to 14,000 ft (4,260 m) and gravitationalpull. During one part of part of the US Air Force or an his plane then went into a power the observation the craft had made astonishing lack of it. stall, its engine dead. The object an 80 degree turnat that velocity, It was approximately 9 o'clock in disappeared towards the north quite beyond the capabilities of c\·en the evening of 1 October 1948 when west-north direction. The combat today's technoloh'Y· Second Lieutenant George Gom1an had lasted nearly thirty minutes. Interestingly. the object was of the North Dakota Air National Gorman reported'I am convinced simil 23 NORTH AMERICA NAME THE TRENT PHOTOGRAPHS A local newspaper picked up the One of two photographs taken by M rs Paul Trent on 11 May 1950 over the Trent farm DATE 11 MAY 1950 story and published the photo,graphs, which were later at McMinnville, Oregon . PLACE McMINNVILLE, OREGON featured in LIFE magazine, causing MAP REF: E14 something of a national sensation. At in diameter, and evidently artificial, EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST the time they were some of the best flew within sight of two witnesses.' KIND flyingsaucer photographs available. In the four decades since the William Hartmann, investigating for photo,1..,rraphs were taken there have In the early evening of 11 May 1950, the Condon committee, been many more sophisticated on a small farm near McMinnville, acknowledged that these analysis techniques employed to Mrs Trent was outside feeding her photo,graphswere the only ones study the photographs such as 'edge ra bbits when she saw the close that the committee had not enhancement' (which would show approach of a large disc-shaped dismissed (the Condon committee any cut-outs photographed through object. She called to her husband, was notmious for its unscientific, glass, or expose any supporting Paul Trent, who brought with him dismissive attitude towards the wires or struts for example) and their camera, and Mrs Trent was UFO phenomenon). He stated that colour-contouring. None have yet able to take two black and white the photo,1..,rraphswere consistent suggested that the photographs photoJ..,rr;1phs as the object passed with the witness's testimony 'that an were faked, and the indications across the sky in the direction of the extraordinary flying object, silvery, suggest that some large object flew north west. metallic, disc shaped, tens of meters over the Trent's fam1 that day. 24 . ·llllllfll OAT ABASE 1950s NAME THE LUBBOCK LIGHTS they watched the remaining objects. 1950s A suggestion m d that the DATE 28 AUGUST 1951 was a e NAME DURING THE WASHINGTON FLAP scope may not be functioning PLACE LUBBOCK, TEXAS DATE 19JULY 1952 correctly but the technician MAP REF: 118 examined it and ;1greed that it was in PLACE WASHINGTON DC. EVENT ANOMALOUS LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS perfect working order. MAP REF: N16 AI 25 •111111llllll1n•· NORTH AMERICA At around 9 o'clock in the evening the scout-master and three scouts were travelling by car from a meeting towards their homes when they saw lights in the nearby woods. Desvergers, carrying a machete knife and a torch, left the three boys in the car and went to investigate. One of the scouts apparently saw a red ball of fire above where Desvergers had last been seen; when Desvergers failed to return, one of the scouts ran to the nearest house and telephoned the sheriff. It was as the sheriff arrived that Desvergers made his reappearance. He was badly frightened, totally exhausted and describing a very close encounter indeed. He stated George J Stock photographed this, which sphere hovering directly above that when he had reached a clearing was one of seven UFOs he saw over them. ARTC called for Air Force he had pointed his torch upward and Passaic, New Jersey on 29 July 1952. The interceptors which arrived too late; had seen a huge, metallic, disc sighting came during an intense wave of the objects had gone. shaped machine hovering above reports in the vicinity of Washington DC Senior Air Traffic Controller him, which had immediately fired (the Washington Flap) and is typical of HarryG. Barnes at the ARTC made some sort of hot spray at him. He many descriptions of the time. the observationthat it seemed as had lain injured for a few minutes though the UFOs were monitoring during which time the saucer Pierman observed the objects for radio communication between disappeared. some twelve minutes before they groundand aircraft and were able to There certainly seems to be disappeared at remarkable speed take appropriateaction based on some corroboration for the story: and confirmedmuch of the detail of what they could hear. Desvergers' arm was scorched, his the radar reports. He said of the hat was burned, and the Sheriff incident 'In all my years of flying discovered scorching in the trees. I've seen a lot of fa lling or shooting NAME DESVERGERS ENCOUNTER stars ...but these were much DATE 19 AUGUST 1952 faster than anything like that I've PLACE WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA ever seen. They couldn't have MAP REF: N19 been aircraft ...they were moving too fast for that. ' EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND Piennan's confirmationof the KIND radar sightings is all the more impressive for his impartiality. He Evidence of possible hostility on the stated 'Please remember I didn't part of UFOs comes from the claims speak of them as flyingsaucers ... of scout-master D. Desvergers and only very fast moving lights.' his experience on 19 August 1952. In the pre-dawn light further Most significant is the reaction of confirmation was approaching. A the Air Force. Instead of ordering a new blip had appeared on the ARTC routine check by a local intelligence radar screen above Andrews Air officerfrom Miami, they instructed Force Base and tower personnel Captain Ruppelt, the head of its Captain Edward J Ruppelt, head of Project there. when notified, visually UFO investigation Project Blue Blue Book, the US Air Force's observed a large globular orange Book. to investigate personally. investigation into the UFO phenomenon. 26 111'DATABASEiillllllln•· 1950s PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE For most people. photographic evidence is perhaps the most analysis can expose these photographs as such. In one such convincing of all material used to substantiate a sighting. In case BUFORA received a photograph showing a disc in the sky fact. photographs can easily mislead and confuse rather than which had not been noticed at the time the photograph was clarify a case. Very few credible cases are supported by taken. The witness was convinced of the extra-terrestrial origm photographs, and many photographs that do exist are vague of the 'craft' shown but close study of the negative revealed it to and give very little information about the origin of a UFO be a lens flare. phenomenon. No photograph, however thought-provoking, has Occasionally, photographs last a long time before being yet been able to prove satisfactorily that UFOs are extra exposed in this way The photograph below was taken on 16 terrestrial spaceships. July 1952 at Salem, Massachusetts during a wave of sightings Nevertheless. photographs are of use in support of witness It was case number 1501 in the US Air Force's Project Blue testimony. If the image in the photographs is consistent with Book. The photograph seems to show lights in the air over the the story line given by the witness, then the case gains strength Coast Guard Facility. In fact. the photograph was taken through from the added weight of evidence. If the photographs tell a a glass window, and modern analysis suggests that the images different story, then almost certainly the case is a hoax. Many are reflected lights from somewhere inside the building, which photographs indicate the presence of UFOs but subsequent quite possibly went unnoticed by the photographer at the time analysis proves otherwise. Often, people will 'snap' pictures on who would have been concentrating on the 'dimming' and holiday only to find, when examining the developed prints, that 'brightening' of the lights as he lined up to take the photograph. disc-shaped objects appear in the sky. Sometimes these are Of course when strange lights appear in the sky over a Coast established to be lens flares (which can have remarkable Guard facility one can understand to some extent how a symmetry and apparent solidity) or tricks of the light. Modern photographer might leap to false conclusions. 27 NORTH AMERICA NAME GEORGE ADAMSKI miles (16 km) from Desert Centre, DATE 20 NOVEMBER 1952 towards Arizona. To a limited extent the encounter PLACE GEORGE ADAMSKI, DESERT CENTRE, was witnessed by two families, the CALIFORNIA Williamsons and the Baileys who had MAP REF: E18 asked to be with him when he next EVENT THE FIRST CONTACT BETWEENMAN believed he would see a flying AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL saucer. They reported that from a distance of approximately a mile In 1953 62-year-old George away they saw some details of the Adamski published a book Flying meeting. Saucers Have Landed which claimed Adamski was watching and that he had met with photographing a flyingsaucer some extraterrestrials in the desert in 3� ft (11 m) wide when he noticed a California. Althoughthere had been man beckoning towards him. The flyingsaucer sightings for many man was approximately 5 ft 6 in years (and indeed Adamski revealed (167 em), of average weight and that he himself had been sighting appeared youthful. He had perfect saucers since 1946), this was the white teeth, calm green eyes, long firstclaim of contact between man flowing blond hair and tanned skin. and alien. It apparently occurred just He was wearing a one-piece brown after noon on Thursday, 20 ski-type suit and oxblood coloured November 1952 approximately 10 shoes resembling sandals. 28 II DATABASE 1950s The two used sign language and Qpposm AflovE Flying saucer telepathy to communicate and the photographed by contactee George alien indicated he was Venusian. In Adamski at 9. 10 am on 13 December the days when Adamski published 1952 at Palomar Gardens in California. his book it was held that Venus was Adamski took the p1cture through a the sister planet of the Earth and 6 in (15 em) telescope. OPPOSITE likely to produce an identical race of Bnow Photographed by George Adamski people. Subsequent analysis of the on 5 March 1951 , the picture apparently planet indicates that that could not shows a cigar shaped 'mother craft' be further from the truth and no releasing small 'scout ships'. RIGHT The humanoid could comfortably live on cover of Adamski's book, written with the planet. The alien apparently British author Desmond Leslie, which told believed in God, felt that he and his the extraordinary tale of Adamski's people followed a more devoted path meetings with extra-terrestrials. His were than us and was concerned about the first claims of this sort and led to a atomic radiation from Earth . plethora of others in subsequent years. The contact was the first of BELow Mount Palomar observatory, the many; during this first meeting dome of the 200 in (500 em) Hale Adamski handed his alien companion Telescope. Adamski made much of his a filmfrom his camera and at the association with this institution although second meeting the filmwas his main connection with the apparently returned, covered in establishment was his job at a local indecipherable hieroglyphs. In hamburger cafe. subsequent adventures Adamski was taken on journeys to other planets where he met Martians, Saturniansand Jovians. In 1965 Adamski and Madeleine Rodeffer apparently took 8 mm movie film of the flying saucer visitations in Maryland, USA though the authenticity of that film hasbeen called into question. Many of Adamski's photographs were taken in the grounds of the Mount Palomar Observatorywhere Adamski worked and had a small telescope. Over the past forty years controversy has dogged Adamski's claims and the photographs he produced but, more importantly, scientificknowledge has made redundant many of the statements he made. Adamski himselfwas clearly aware of the controversy. In FlyingSaucers HaveLanded he states 'Suriace thinkers might like to conclude that J had had a very original dream. Or that I may be out to make money for myself in the fieldof science fiction. I can assure such persons that nothing is farther from the truth.' 29 NORTH AMERICA NAME GULF OF MEXICO Harter needed no confirmation of story remained quite firn1. E. DATE 6 DECEMBER 1952 that; he was watching the objects Major Donald Keyhoe, a approaching incredibly fast outside prominent ufologist with a military PLACE GULF OF MEXICO the windscreen. Bailey watched out background, interpreted the sighting MAP REF: K19 of the starboard side of the plane as as: 'The discs had been launched EVENT RADARNISUAL ENCOUNTER one of the objects, illuminated blue from a huge mothership for some white, streaked rapidly past the type of reconnaissance mission . . . In the early hours of the morning of plane, vanishing to the rear. Almost for a rendez-vous, whoever guided 6 December, Captain john Harter immediately other UFOs were the discs had chosen this point over and radar officer, Lieutenant Sid appearing on the radar screen and all the Gulf of Mexico. After the B-29 Coleman were returningto base heading towards the aircraft! was sighted one group of discs had following a night practice flight of Fortunately for the aircrew the been diverted for a brief observation their B-29 bomber. UFOs were on a course which just or tracking. Then, flying at 5,000 They were approximately missed the aircraft and after six miles (8, 04 7 km) per hour they had 200 miles (322 km) from Galveston, minutes from the time of the first been taken aboard the mothership. ' 100 miles (160 km) south of the sighting it appeared that the danger Whether this interpretation is Louisiana coast at 18, 000 ft was over. It was not! correct or not is open to debate and (5,186 m) in bright moonlight when A third groupof UFOs flashed the visual sightings were unable to Coleman noticed an unidentified blip onto the radar screen, radar confirm a distinct shape to the on one edge of the radar screen. It tracking indicated speeds much the objects because they were moving was not until the second sweep of same as before. Again blue-white so fast. However, the fact is that the screen that its significance illuminated objects streaked past the several members of a highly trained became apparent. plane. For Captain Harter the crew all witnessed the same When the blip reappeared the dangers were all too real as he was encounter. Added to this it was unknown object had moved 13 miles watching the objects cutting across tracked not only visually but on (21 km). By the third sweep the plane's flight path and - suddenly radar, strongly suggesting the proof Coleman and his staffsergeant had swerving - they were now heading of some reality, whatever its exact computed the speed of the object: straight for the B-29! nature or source. over 5, 000 miles (8, 04 7 km) per Suddenly, and almost hour, considerably faster than any unbelievably, the objects slowed to aircraft of the day! the speed of the aircraft and paced it NAME TUJUNGA CANYON Coleman reported the trace to for some ten seconds. As the crew DATE 1953 the captain, and indicated the speed watched, the objects pulled away of the object; Captain Harter and then the most amazing part of PLACE TUJUNGA CANYON, CALIFORNIA insisted that the set should be the sighting occurred. MAP REF: E17 recalibrated as it was 'impossible'. An enormous UFO apparently EVENT ABDUCTION While Coleman was recalibrating the joined the formation and, still set Master Sergeant Railey noticed moving at some 5, 000 miles The Tujunga Canyon abduction was, another object on the screen. At (8,047 km) per hour, it appeared by today's standards, a rather that point the navigator, Lieutenant that the smaller craft docked or undetailed and unremarkable event. Cassidy, reported that he had them merged with the larger object. However, it contains certain aspects on his screen as well. Accelerating to 9, 000 miles which make it worthy of note. Within a short space of time there (14,484 km) per hour the UFO The case predates Antonio Villas were four UFOs on the screen and flashed across the scope and Boas (see page 181) and Betty and the captain radioed from the flight disappeared. The encounter was BarneyHill (see page 42) by some deck 'I've got four unknowns at finallyover. years and consequently becomes 12 o'clock. What do you show?' Captain Harter contacted his one of the firstreported abductions. ('12 o'clock' is the code for 'dead base and when he landed United A word of caution: the report first ahead'). Coleman reported that the States AirForce intelligence officers arose considerably after the given objects were shmving up on all three met him and the crew. For some date, not in fact until 1975 when of the plane's rad;1r screens and it time they were questioned abduction lore was rife in America. was therefore not ;, 11alfunction. separately and as a group but their Note, too, that the case contains, at 32 DATABASE 1950s H G WELLS'S WA R OF THE WORLDS COMES TO AMERICA In 1897, when H G Wells's War of tile Worlds was published, man had not yet even learned to harness the power of flight. In his original story the Martians reached Earth in bullet-like projectiles fired as il from a gun and proceeded to terrorize the Home Counties in England from within walking machines. In 1953. George Pal's film moved the location to California and updated the walking machines to flying saucers. It was a clear reaction to the flying saucer phenomenon. Pal said. 'With all the talk about flying saucers. Wa r of the Worlds had become especially timely. And thai was one of the reasons we updated the story.' Just as films mirror UFO reports, conversely, detailed analysis shows that some aspects of UFOs follow film and other mythologies; the interaction is a complex one which requires serious research. Genuine reports of aliens often act like their filmed predecessors. yet lhe films were made before alien reports were offered. Simple copy-cat claims do not explain I he complexity of the interaction. which suggests that a genuine experience is being overlaid on a basic belief syslem which can manifest ilsell in fact or fiction. least as reported, the most explicit possibility as the road towards their suffered a two hour, twenty minutes example of missing time in any cabin was rough and would have time lapse and this caused them to abduction case. caused 'bouncing' motion. Jan was panic so considerably that they left According to the report the two now awake and went to get her their home and went to Jan's parents. witnesses, known as Sara Shaw and dressing-gown, Sara noticed it was Regression hypnosis revealed a Jan Whitely, both in their early 2 a. m. on the clock. classic abduction story, se\'eral of twenties, were living in a remote As apparently only a fraction of a which we shall sec later in this part of the Tujunga Canyon in second passed she looked at the database. The case has also come California. Sara was woken by a clock again feeling giddy and under considerable scrutiny from moving light out of her bedroom confused and noticed that the minute those who belie\'e abductions window which apparently terrified hand had moved on twenty minutes. constitute a psycholo,t.,rical her. She feared it might be the When Jan checked the clock she phenomenon as it appears that the headlights of a motorcycle gang confirmed this observationbut two �r irls' sexual relationships may seeking to attack the isolated pointed out that the hour hand had ha\'e generated anxieties of which women. The smooth movement of also moved on two hours. the abduction may ha\·e been a the lights quickly ruled out this Apparently both witnesses had manifestation. 33 NORTH AMERICA NAME LIVERMORE for a moment to watch a DC-6 in sight at the same time, allowing descending towards Oakland him to make certain comparisons. DATE 27 JANUARY 1953 Municipal Airport. His attention was By any definition theUFO had more PLACE LIVERMORE, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA attracted to a white object crossing power and manoeuvrability than the MAP REF: E16 the Atomic EnergyCommission DC-6 or the jet f1 ghter. EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST facilities and he first thought of this KIND as some sort of plant material in the wind. lie quickly realized that the NAME DANIEL FRY While not dramatic by toclay's object was more solid and indeed DATE 1954 standards, the sighting by John Bean swiftly moving. He described it as PLACE WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS, on '27january 1953 had a perfectly round with a metallic sheen NEW MEXICO considerable effect at the time, something like aluminium. MAP REF: H18 partly because of the location of the Bean concentrated on the object sighting and partly because of the and its manoeuvring watching its EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD qualificationsof the witness. veryabrupt direction changes and KIND Bean had been flying for some the incredible speed of its ascent. seventeen years and was Only days before he had watched According to Daniel Fry's testimony knowledgeable about aircraft two F-�6 lighters manoeuvring to his first meeting with manoeuvrability. On the aftemoon in the limit of their capabilities and he extraterrestrials took place on 4 july question he was driving away from realized that these lighters were 1950 thus predating many UFO the Atomic Ener�ry Commission amateurs compared to the claims and certainly the contactee Research facilities and had pulled capabilities of the object he was claims of George Adamski which had into the side of the road to get some watching. been published in 1953. However, papers from his briefcase. He was A jet aircraft was also as Fry's book was published in 1954 about to get out of the driver's door approaching for a landing. Bean was and since there seem to be some to go round to the backseats to therefore particularly fortunate in ,L,Tf ounds for believing it was inspired obt;Jin his briefcase when he stopped having three distinct types of aircraft in some way by George Adamski's 34 '111lilllllll1111· DATABASE 1950s claims, I have set it into the understood some of it since he was a first witnessed Sl'Ven lJFOs in database at the date of publication trained space technician. Indeed, format ion. lloward nullcated they rather than at the date of claim. the event had taken place ncar the were moving at a speed to pace tlw Daniel Fry's was just one of many White Sands Proving (;rounds aircraft, i.e. some �:m knots. wen· contactcc claims to follow those of where Fry was working. some :� miles (:i km) away from Adamski hut it is, perhaps along with The visitors were t rying to 'help them and were below the cloud Adamski's, one of the best known. you people on earth alter the level. Once they had passed o\·er According to his claims I>r Daniel present Oow of events and avert a the coast, the douds cleared ;md Fry witnessed a landing of a UFO on holocaust which is otherwise Captain lloward saw the lJFOs 1 July 1950. IJe walked up to it and inevitable. ' Fry was told he had to more clearly. touched it, feeling that it was write a book to communicate the They paced the aircraft for some nothing known to man on this Earth. messages to the people of Earth t\venty minutes during \vhich t ime The hull apparently felt soap like and which he dutifully did. Captain I Iowa rd. his crew and smooth and a voice came out of the several p:1ssengcrs witnessed and machine warning him, in a strangely sketched the obj ects. There were American slang, 'Better not touch NAME GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR appare ntly six small globes and one the hull pal, it's still hot . ' Clearly large object but the on ation wa DATE 29 JUNE 1954 f n s Fry's aliens came from somewhere constantly chanJ..�ng., The objects PLACE GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR other than Adamski's who, three kept a straight line with sometimes MAP REF: P11 years later, were still using three ahead of the large globe and telepathy and sign lanb11. Jagc to EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST three at the rear or sometimes four communicate. KIND ahead and two at the rear, etc. Fry's contactcc, A-Lan (but later Howard believed they were solid. shortened to Alan for convenience Kcports of sightings of UFOs by Co-pilot Lee Boyd reported the sake) explained much of the physics pilots arc frequent and deflate the incident to Goose Bay. Labrador and involved in the construction and claim that only unqualified or they were asked to describe the movement of his craft to Fry who deranged people sight such objects. sighting, which they did. Perhaps the best reported example Captain Howard could hardly is that of Captain James Howard complain that he was not taken over Goose Bay, Labrador in 1954. seriously. A patrolling F-9·1 fighter Captain Howard was flyinga was vectored towards the aircraft BOAC St ratocruiser from New York and frequencies were lined up to to London in the early hours of the allow Captain Howard to talk evening of 29 June. Some half an directly to the pilots of the fi ghter. hour out, Boston air trafficcontrol Whatever the explanation for the informed Howard he must hold UFOs they were not radar \·isiblc as position though gave him no reason. the fighterindicated they had only It took a request from Howard to the Stratocn1iser on radar. E\·en Boston control, pointing out his more mysteriously the objects concernsfor his fuel levels, to obtain disappeared as the F-9-1 approached. pcnnission to go fonvard and in At a fuel stop over at c;oosc Bay doing so he was made to detour far United States Air Force intelligen ce north via Cape Cod. In view of what ofticers interrogated the crew and was to happen later in the flight it is told them that there had been other speculated that air traffic control had sightings like it in the area. I >espitc AsovE Daniel Fry, the contactee who picked up anomalous returns on its possible corroboration from a claimed several meetings with space radar and was redirecting traffic as a )...Tfound witness who saw a number people during the early 1950s. Although result of this. of objects llying in the right dirccLion his claims pre-date Adamski's. they were It was some three hours later al the right time. lark of radar not revealed until after Adamski had m·er the St Lawrence estuary flying corroboration unfortunalcly published his book. Lm One of the alien at 19, 000 ft (5, 791 m ), way above deprived lhe case of its most spaceships photographed by Daniel Fry. the cloud le\·el, that Captain Howard valuable possibilities. 35 NORTH AMERICA NAME KELLY-HOPKINSVILLE (6 m) from the farmhouse. The loud, persistent banging sound. creature scurried away into the No trace of either the entities or DATE 21 AUGUST 1955 night. Indoors, the others heard a the UFO could be found although PLACE KELLY-HOPKINSVILLE, KENTUCKY scraping sound from the kitchen roof some bullet holes were located. The MAP REF: L17 and the men ran back into the yard Chief of Police stated that EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD and saw a similar creature on top of 'something frightened these people, KIND the farmhouse. When fired upon, something beyond their although the creature fell, it comprehension.' The police called As evening fell on 21 August 1955 apparently floated gently down off the investigation until daylight. the Sutton family, Elmer, Vera, towards the backyard before making But at 2.30 in the morningthe john, Alene and her brother were off on all four limbs. nightmare returned! hosts to the Langford family, Glenie The entities were of a type Glenie, in bed, looked at her and her three children Lonnie, unique in UFO lore. Although window and saw the huge shining Charlton and Mary together with a incorporating some of the features eyes of one of the entities staring friend of Elmer's, Billy Ray Taylor of 'classical' entities, i.e. short slim into the bedroom. She softly called and his wife june. Around 7 o'clock figures, large round bald heads, etc. to the other members of the family Billy Ray Taylor left the house to get there were striking differences. and 'Lucky' Sutton shot at the water from the farm well and to take Each had huge yellow shining eyes intruder which scampered off into a drink. While outside he saw a UFO placed on the sides of their face and the darkness. It was not until past 'real bright, with an exhaust all the an enormous mouth like a crack 5 o'clock that morning, 22 August, colours of the rainbow'. It stretching across the face. The ears and approximately an hour before apparently landed close to the farm were huge elephant like in a dried-up river bed. When he appendages, enormousin returned inside the house and told comparison to the body. the others of his sighting he was not The creatures appeared to be believed, and it was generally reluctant to come too close to the thought he had seen a shooting star. bright lights of the farmhouse but Nobody investigated the landing the families were concerned site. An hour later the eight adults because of the ineffectiveness of and three children were to begin an their weapons and barricaded extended, horrifying siege by beings themselves inside. For some three so extraordinarily grotesque as to be hours they watched the entities almost beyond belief. around the farmhouse until they It began with the crazed barking were forced to make a desperate of their dog in the yard and Elmer, decision to escape. At around 11 known as 'Lucky' Sutton, went with o'clock in the evening they dashed Billy Ray Taylor to the kitchen door from the farn1house into two cars of the farmhouse to see what was and 'high-tailed' it the 10 miles disturbing the animal. What he saw (16 km) to the police station at must have seemed like the product Hopkinsville, arriving in a state of of a nightmare: a glowing, dwarf like agitation and fear. creature with enonnous eyes and They impressed the police to the with arms stretched high above its extent that the Chief, Russell head was slowly and determinedly Greenwell, his Deputy George approaching the house! Batts, Sergeant Pritchett and three An artist's impression of one of the These isolated country folk were other officers, along with a local entities that besieged the Kelly not accustomed to diplomatic journalist, returned with the family Hopkinsville farmhouse on 21 August pleasantries and tend to 'shoot first to the farm ready to take up the 1955. They never harmed the witnesses, and ask questions afterwards'. battle. just 2 miles (3 km) out of and their approach, with claws raised in Lucky took a shotgun, and Taylor a Hopkins ville and on the way back to the air, may have been a gesture of peace . 22 rifle, and both fired at the entity the Kelly farmhouse they saw two -not an easy intention to express when when it had rc;tched around 20 ft streaks of light overhead and heard a you look like this! 38 DATABASE 1950s ------first light, that the entities were last JIM AND CORAL LORENZEN seeu and the nightmare was over. The aftermath of the night was very difficult for the witnesses. One of the first CIVIlian UFO research disbanded Desp1te a known study tJy They were accused of reliJ...rious organizations in the world was lhe lt1e Air Ofl1ce ol Special lnvesllgallon hysteria and they were harassed Aerial Phenomena Research (AOSI). neither Jim nor Cora! Lorr;nzen following the publicity that Organization (APRO). formed by Jim were prevented from continuing the1r surrounded their report. and Coral Lorenzen. The organization work for the US Air Force. suggeslmg Throughout all of this, however, and its founders came under much at least no official condemnation of they stuck to their story and refused official monitoring and it is now their activities_ to protect themselves from the excesses of the media even by toning down their claims, maintaining that they were being truthful. No explanation for the encounter has been offered that stands up to reasonable examination. A travelling circus had passed through Hopkinsville that day and it was speculated that they could have lost performing monkeys but the suggestion falls down on so many h1f otmds that it is almost laughable. For one thing there was no report of any lost monkeys, for another monkeys do not fit the physical descriptions of the entities, let alone glow in the dark. Most importantly NAME 'JENNIE' wall and claimed she could even see at least one wounded or dead the dirt and cobwebs inside the wall DATE 7 OCTOBER 1955 monkey ought to have been found as she passed through it. PLACE NEBRASKA after a night time barrageof The UFO itself appeared to haze MAP REF: J15 shooting, yet no bodies were ever in and out of visibility, apparently recovered. EVENT ABDUCTION allowing vision through its walls to It has to be admitted that there the interior and even through that to was no proof of malevolent intent on Late in the evening a teenage girl, the surrounding terrain. Inside the the part of the entities and it has jennie, was dressed for bed in her UFO it was \'Cry cold. She described been speculated that these bedroom. Under hypnosis, she told the entity as between 3-4 ft creatures approaching the the story of an entity floatingoutside (91-122 em) tall with an egg shaped fam1house with their hands in the air her bedroom window whom she head, grey complexion, reduced may have been trying to show they refers to as 'the explorer' and she facial features and long, slit like eyes. were unarmedand harmless. Given states that she felt drawn towards He was wearingsome close-fitting their physical appearance there him, perhaps under his telepathic head dress. During the subsequent seems to be no practical way in influence. She seems to be tr)ing to medical examination blood samples which a creature like that could ever protect herself, by pretending that \vere taken. fail to instil fear. the event is a dream and she says On re-awakening the next Whatever the truth of the Kelly she docs not want to listen to him. morningjennie remembered the Hopkinsville encounter, it remains The entity floated through the air e\·ent as a dream: whether this is a today, over thirty-five years later, towards a UFO, described as like protecti,·e device of her own mind or one of the most extraordinary and two dessert bowls placed together, not is unclear. There is some terrifying multiple-witness and willed her to follow. In doing so corroboration of her story as encounters on record. she moved through the bedroom possible physical traces on a ne;1rby 39 NORTH AMERICA UFO COMES IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES The expression UFO has been corrupted over the years and is often held to mean extra-terrestrial spaceship. Nothing could be further from an accurate definition and it is well to remember that the expression means nothing more nor less than Unidentified Flying Object. Of all the reports received by organizations throughout the world, approximately 90-95% are identified. Typically, most of these turn out to be reports of natural phenomena of various sorts. Planets - and particularly the bright planets Venus and Jupiter - are often identified as the cause of UFO reports. Some stars have been culprits, and there are many natural but exotic-looking phenomena that are reported as UFOs. RIGHT Noctilucent clouds are visible at night, at dawn or at dusk and comprise masses of ice high in the atmosphere illuminated by the sun from over the horizon, causing a hazy, glowing shape in \he sky. BEt ow Aurora borealis, the Northern Lights, photographed before dawn near Fairbanks, Alaska. Auroras are luminous displays that occur in the night sky at high latitudes. 40 DATABASE 1950s elm tree outs1de her wmdow show as burn markings. llowever, her father heli<�vcs that it was hit by lightning. Interestingly, this case only c NAME LOCHRAVEN DAM DATE 26 OCTOBER 1958 PLACE LOCHRAVEN DAM, BALTIMORE. PA MAP REF: N16 EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST KIND At 10.30 in the evening Alvin Cohen and Philip Small saw an egg-shaped UFO above Lochraven Dam in Maryland. The object was, they estimated, hovering approximately 100-150ft (;30-46 m) above a small metal bridge near the dam, some 250 yds (229 m) from them. They drove closer to investigate. At some 80ft (24m) from the object the car's electrical systems went dead; its dashlights and headlights went out and its motor stopped. In trying to restart the car there was no sound of e\·en the starter motor trying to engage. Both witnesses panicked, jumped out of the car and moved behind it. After some 20-:m seconds a bright white light accompanied by a deafening noise burst from the object and it started to rise \·ertically and within just a few seconds it had vanished into the sky above. As the light tlashed both men reported iccling heat and both displayed symptoms similar to sunburn. There were other witnesses who confim1ed the sound p1ior to take oil lt was reported to the l'nited States :\ir Force, but the case remains unsolved and is ofliciall�· listed as 'unidentified'. 41 "1111 i i llllllln•· NORTH AMERICA them each about 3 in (8 em) wide. and having made a short stop in a 1960s After this contact, lasting only a few restaurant at Colebrook the couple NAME JOE SIMONTON minutes, the object apparently rose set off down highway US 3. Just into the air, took off rapidly towards beyond the village of Lancaster they DATE 18 APRIL 1961 the south, its downwash actually noticed a bright light in the sky PLACEEAGLE RIVER, WISCONSIN bending nearby pine trees. ahead of them which appeared to be MAP REF: K15 The United States Department of getting bigger and brighter asthey EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD Health, Education and Welfare Food watched. During the drive they KIND and Drug Laboratory was given continued to observe the light which pieces of the cake to examine, was apparently moving behind trees A case that has prompted Simonton had already stated it and mountain tops. It was not until considerable background research tasted like cardboard. The official they stopped the car that they were into the true meaning of close analysis indicated that it was made of able to determine for sure that it encounters occurred in April 1961 at perfectly normal Earth type was moving, and that the movement Eagle River in Wisconsin when materials but that it contained no salt. had not been the apparent motion witness, Joe Simonton saw a It is the absence of salt which has given by the twists and turnsin the 'brighter than chrome' saucer interested researchers ever since; road. By looking at it through shaped object hovering near his comparison is drawn to the binoculars Barney was of the opinion farmhouse. His attention had been exchange of foods between humans that it was an aircraft or a attracted by a rushing noise which and faerie folk in Celtic traditions. helicopter. had drawn him out of the house; this The tum of the century Celtic As they approached the Cannon happening around 11 o'clock in the researcher Walter Evans-Wentz mountain they became somewhat morning. wrote of the Irish 'little people': concernedby their sighting and The UFO was apparently 'They never taste anything salt, but Betty considered pulling into an approximately 12 ft (3. 65 m) high cat fresh meat and drink pure open motel to findcompany and and 30 ft (9. 14 m) wide and while he water. ' Pure water was the request shelter. Had they done so they may watched it a hatch opened and three made of Simonton. have avoided the next extraordinary occupants looked out at Simonton. Since the physical traces and frighteningevents. Simonton described the occupants research reveals nothing of extra While Barneydrove, Betty as approximately 5 ft (152 em) tall terrestrial origin the case probably looked through binoculars and saw with dark hair, and human like offers no further analysis. Sheriff what appeared to be an enormous clothing. Indeed Simonton described Schroeder, of the area, stated that craft with a double row of windows. the aliens as 'resembling Italians'. having known Simonton for fourteen This caused Barneyto stop the car Perhaps the most extraordinary years he 'obviously believed the and make a more detailed event was yet to come. truth of what he was saying. ' investigation. He left the car, One of the men waved a jug crossed through a dark fieldand towards Simonton apparently apparently walked up to within 50 ft indicating that he needed water. NAME BETIYAND BARNEY HILL (15 m) of the object now hoveringat Simonton took the jug inside the DATE 19 SEPTEMBER 1961 treetop height, although he admitted house, filledit and returned it to later he was 'fully gripped with fear'. PLACECONCORDE, NEW HAMPSHIRE them by which time he also noticed With concern, Betty was looking MAP REF: 014 they appeared to be having some into the darkness for her lost sort of barbecue on board their EVENT ABDUCTION husband. saucer and were frying food on a Isolated in the dark field Barney, grill. In addition to the 'cook-out' Returning froma holiday in Canada again through binoculars, looked at Simonton noticed several to their home in the state of New the object now so close to him and instrument panels and a dark black Hampshire, Betty and BarneyHill stated that he could see at least a interior. were to become the firsthighly dozen people looking back at him. Simonton requested like-for-like publicized account of a UFO He particularly remembered the and indicated he would appreciate abduction. eyes of the crew members which one of the pancakes they were Having crossed the Canadian almost hypnotically gripped his cooking; they gave him three of border at approximately 9 o'clock attention and then, screaming that 42 DATABASE 1960s subwcting them to an unpleasant medical examination. In addition to this Betty was given a tour of the spaceship by the aliens who showed her a map apparently depicting their home world. Nightmares are bad enough, but in talking with people at her work she became convinced that these were no ordinary nightmares; they were memories of a real event. A frightening event, and one which suggested a less than benib'I1 purpose on the part of the aliens. In February 1964 the couple began a series of regression hypnosis sessions with Boston psychiatrist Dr Benjamin Simon, the purpose of which was to relieve tensions in the couple which they believed stemmed from the night of their encounter. The sessions appeared to confirm the worst; both Betty and Barneyrecalled the abduction of Betty's dream as a he feared they were about to be Betty and Barney Hill with their dog, reality. According to a later analysis captured, he ran back across the Delsey. These are the three witnesses to of the star map recalled by Betty Hill field to the car, jumped in and drove the first highly publicized abduction. as shown to her by the alien leader, off. Betty at this point could not see Barney is holding a sketch of the object the aliens' home world orbits either either the light or the craft but could that captured them. of the stars Zeta Reticuli I or I I and hear a continuous beeping noise, and the occupants apparently have a they seemed to have drowsed as a agitated by the case and drew the purpose here on Earth. sedated feeling overcame them. attention of another couple living in It must be said that Dr Simon's Seventeen miles (27 km) from the house with them by her excited view of the encounter was that he Concorde, according to a sign they state. Betty's interest in UFO study believed the abduction reality 'to be saw, Betty and BarneyHill seemed was then, and has remained to this too improbable, and much material to have recovered from their semi day, very high. just two days after was similar to dream material'. sedation at the same time as they the sighting she went to the library Subsequent analysis by other heard - or think they heard - a to collect a great deal of information psychologists has suggested that the separate set of beeping sounds about UFOs including reading Major regression hypnosis would be unable similar to the first. Eventually they Donald Keyhoe's Flying Saucer to sort fantasy from fact, particularly reached home. Conspiracy and just one week after where the couple had been In the morningfollowing the the sighting she wrote to Major convinced that the nightmares were event Betty discovered spots of Keyhoe about her experience which a reality, so it is possible that the metallic 'polishing' on the boot had only just begun. event did not occur. (trunk) of the car. This was just one Ten days after the sighting Betty For those who take comfort from of many physical traces which had a series of vivid nightmares over this possibility there is one further suggest, but do not alone confinn, a period of a week of a most fact that must be taken into account. the nature of a real event. She disorientatingkind. She dreamed 1\lilitary radar at Pease Air Force talked at great length to her sister that the UFO had stopped the car. Base apparently tracked an about the sighting, her sister having that alien beings from the UFO had anomalous UFO in the skies of :\ew had a UFO event some years extracted them from the car and Hampshire at the time and place of before. Betty was apparently \'cry taken them aboard their spaceship. the Hill report! 43 NORTH AMERICA NAME SOCORRO possible accident and that he would be out of the car; he stopped the DATE 24 APRIL 1964 vehicle and got out. PLACE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO All that he witnessed was the MAP REF: H18 object taking off, its pilots EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD presumably having been startled KIND into an escape. Apparently the object rose on a column of blue At around a quarter to six in the orange flame. Of the object itself evening, Police Officer Lonnie Zamora believed it was oval in Zamora was chasing a speeding car shape, whitish and had some red when he heard a noise and saw a 'lettering' on the side. light in the sky approximately 1 mile Zamora ran from the car and (1. 6 km) away. He believed it might ducked over the hill, watching the possibly be a dynamite store that object rise out of the gully and into had exploded and he called off the the air. The object then appeared to chase to investigate. As he level off and fly horizontally over the approached, it appeared that the dynamite store and away across blue-orange flame was descending country. Inspection of the landing over the rise of a hill ahead of him. site showed four clear impressions Having cleared the hill Zamora in the sand and burn marks in the AsovE Police OHicer Lonnie Zamora who noticed a shiny object parked off the vegetation. Marks nearby were reported seeing a landed egg-shaped craft road about 200 yds (183 m) away. referred to as the 'footprints' of near Socorro, New Mexico in April 1964. Nearby were two people in white the entities. Beside it were two humanoid forms. As overalls who seemed startled at the There were reports of Zamora approached, the beings and the appearance of the police car. corroborative sightings of the blue craft fled. BELOW Inspection revealed Thinking that it might be a crashed flame and of someone seeing the ground traces where the craft had stood . vehicle Zamora approached with police car driving towards the On the damaged rocks were metal help in mind. He reported over the encounter. There were other fragments which were sent for analysis radio that he was investigating a reports including one made by a but mysteriously went missing. 46 •illlilllllllllll· OAT ABASE 1960s principle investigator of the case, spreading manure on his field. lie NAME CISCO GROVE Ray Stanford, who saw a similar moved into another field ready for DATE 5 SEPTEMBER 1964 object in flightshortly afterwards . ploughing and he saw a light PLACE CISCO GROVE, CALIFORNIA No identification has ever been coloured object there as he MAP REF: E17 made of the object Zamora approached. At first he gave his witnessed but fairly extraordiuary sighting a mundane explanation, EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD claims have been made to debunk believing it to be a defunct KINO the sighting. One suggestion was refrigerator that had been laying in that having taken place on land the fieldfor some time. As he got For those who believe that it is only owneu hy the local Mayor the whole nearer he changed his mind, and abductions that cause ).,'f eat fear and story and physical traces may have believed it might be the wing tank extreme reaction in w· itnesses, the been created to increase tourism. dropped from an aeroplane. Only as case of Mr S. in Cisco Grove, Dr j. Allen Hynek who investigated he approached much closer did he Californiamerits a study. the case said, 'Of all the close reco).,'T!ize thefact that it was some Having spent the day hunting encounters of the third kind, this is 20 ft (7 m) long, egg shaped and with two companions and becoming the one that most clearly suggests a glistening aluminium. Ncar the craft separated from them he took shelter "nuts-and-bolts" physical craft. ' were two short humanoids wearing in a tree, strapping himself to a tight fittingclothing and helmets. branch to prevent himself fa lling out From a box on his chest, one of of the tree if he slept. NAME GARY WILCOX the humanoids calmed Wilcox's MrS. observed three objects apprehensions and stated 'We have with rotating lights from his location DATE 24 APRIL 1964 talked with people before.' He then and he believed these may have PLACE TIOGA, NEW YORK STATE went on, implausibly, to state 'We been helicopters searching for him. MAP REF: N15 arc from what you people refer to as Reacting to this he left the tree and EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD the planet Mars. ' During two hours lit signal firesto attract their KIND of conversation with the Martians attention. Unfortunately, he Wilcox discussed farming and succeeded. This particular case is potentially learned from them that they were on The unknown silvery objects important because of its Earth to learn about organic closed in and apparently despatched approximation in time to the Socorro materials. They apparently offered two humanoids who approached the incident (see page 46). According to explanations of how their craft fires. They were dressed in silver the witness, Gary Wilcox, it worked which Wilcox did not suits and had extraordinary, occurred at 10 o'clock in the understand and said that their visits prominent eyes. The two humanoids morning placing it just a few hours to Earth were regular. Apparently apparently tried to remove ivlr S. before Socorrobut I have listed it in one of the humanoids asked for a bag from the tree and a third robot like this database afterwards as its of manure and Wilcox went to his entity appeared also. l\1rS. fired si!-,TJ1ificanceis only appreciated when barnto collect one. When he arrows at the robot, then tore off the details of the Socorroincident returnedthe craft was gone but he strips of his clothing, set them alight are understood. left the bag of manure in the field and threw them at the entities to If true the account gives anyway and the following morningit frighten them away. He apparently substantial support to the Socorro was gone also. succeeded and they took off in their claim but it is the opinion of the If this is an early visit by the same UFO. the downblast of which Socorro principal investigator, Ray occupants of the same craft that unfortunately caused him to black Stanford, a well-known and well visited Socorro some hours later out. lie regained consciousness at respected researcher, that 'my then in the intervening hours they daybreak and discon_'red the l:Fo ufologer's intuition tells me this obviously became less talkative and and entities were gone. account may be a total hoax, less comfmtable around people; Several local people attested to fabricated by Wilcox after he had leaving as abruptlyas they did '"·hen 1\lrS. 's good character. including a heard of the Socorro incident.' officer Zamora interruptedthem. local astronomy teacher who notified Wilcox's report stated that at They can hardly ha\·e been in a Air Force officials. The.-\ ir Force approximately 10 o'clock in the desperate hurry to returnjust to explained the case ;1s morning of 24 April 1964 he was collect their bag of manure! 'psycholof.,riral '. 47 . I' i ' I I I ! ' I ·IIIII IIIIIIW·· NORITH AMERICA NAME FLYNN INCIDENT made to discredit Flynn which Muscarello observed these lights for backfired whenmany leading approximately a quarter of an hour DATE 14 MARCH 1965 citizens, police officersand doctors and at one point they appeared to PLACE EVERGLADES, FLORIDA vouched for him. The Air Force's come so close to him he leapt into a MAP REF: N20 suggestion that Flynn may have ditch to avoid being hit by them. EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND hoaxed the encounter ignored the Eventually Muscarello hitched a lift KIND remarkable ground and tree traces to Exeter police station and and his own physical impairments reported what he had seen. Rancher James W. Flynn of Fort which his doctor believed 'could not Confirmationcame from Myers, Florida was camping in the have been faked'. patrolman Eugene Bertrand who Everglades on the night of 14 March In the end the Air Force settled had been in the area in his car at 1965 after a day spent training for the somewhat useless statement 1 o'clock in the morning. The police hunting dogs. After midnight he saw that, when questioned, they had officerhad spoken to a woman who a bright light descend approximately nothing on their files concerningthe claims she was too upset to drive 1 mile (1. 6 km) away from his Flynn incident. because she had been followed in location and, believing it to be a her car by a bright light though plane landing in difficulties, he drove Bertrand did not witness this aspect towards it in his swamp buggy, NAME EXETER FLAP of the report. He did, however, getting as close as he could. Around accompany Muscarello to the field DATE 3 SEPTEMBER 1965 1,320 ft (402 m) from the landing and witnessed the bright red lights PLACE EXETER, NEW HAMPSHIRE site he alighted and went the rest of Muscarello had reported. Bertrand MAP REF: 015 the way on foot. noticed that although the lights were As he approached the object he EVENT MULTIPLE NIGHT LIGHT SIGHTINGS silent they were upsetting farm saw that it was a large conical animals in the area and he called machine hovering near the ground, In the springof 1965 the area of patrolman Hunt to the scene who some 75 ft (23 m) wide and 30 ft Exeter, New Hampshire was also observed thelights. (9 m) high. Portholes were visible subject to a local wave of UFO Pease Air Force Base because of the yellow lights shining sightings, many of which were investigated the report some through them. Flynn could see no investigated by journalistjohn G. months later and could not finda occupants. Deciding to offer Fuller and related in his bestselling cause of the sighting. They friendship, Flynn stepped near the book Incident at Exeter. Not commented that the observers object and raised his hand in a untypical of the wave, though appeared to be reliable and stable gesture of greeting. He was greeted perhaps most documented, was the people and believed that their own by a beam of light which struck him sighting of 18-year-old Norman ]. B-4 7 aircraft which had been in the on the forehead and knocked him Muscarello on :� September 1965. area at the time could not have unconscious. His sighting was confirmed by police caused the sighting. When he came to he was partially patrolmen Eugene Bertrand and During the flap that followed, blinded and bruised. Although the David Hunt. there was an extraordinary call to object had disappeared there was a Muscarello was hitch-hiking to the police station in Exeter; a man in charred circular ground trace ncar the south of Exeter at 2 o'clock in a call box claimed that a flying saucer where the object had been hovering the morningwhen he saw a group of was heading directly towards him, and trees nearby were also burned. fivered lights in a line, over a house the call was interrupted, the Flynn spent five days at Fort Myers some 100 ft (:30 m) from his position. connection broken and he could not Hospital who confirmedthat his He watched as the lights moved be traced. vision and muscular reflexes were behind trees and houses, out over a For several weeks after the impaired. large field and commented that they sighting Muscarello and his mother Unfortunately Flynn's encounter were so bright that he could not see staked out the hills to see if they came at a time of maximum difficulty structure behind them, possibly could see the UFOs again and on for the Air Force, indeed during a indicating only that it was hidden by one evening they did so. major flap in the locality, and they their brilliance. The lights were Project Blue Book, however, were doing their very best to play apparently pulsating and only one seems to suggest in its report that down the sighting. Attempts were light was brightat any s.,ri ven time. the B-4 7 aircraft or aircraft from an 48 •111illll ll111w DATABASE 1960s MISSING INFORMATION The sheer weight of UFO-related material available for study reference points !rom which detailed analysis can be is astonishing. The late Dr J Allen Hynek, tor over twenty made, then allen there is very little that can be learned years a leading figure in the subject, referred to it as an !rom it. However spectacular or clear the image is. its embarrassment of riches. In fact, so many claims are relevance will always depend on the witness's other received that hosts of reports are either uninvestigated testimony. or alforded only a cursory examination; their details are BELow This photograph was taken by Deputy Sheriff Arthur logged and are of value mainly in the event of other Strauch near St George, Minnesota while he was out hunting reports being received which can then be corroborated. with tour companions. While potentially a very interesting Perhaps surprisingly, even photographs fall into this image, interpretation of it is limited through lack of category; if a photograph is indistinct and has no authoritative information on the subject. operation known as 'big blast' may definitionand even by the standards fifteen years after the eYent the have been responsible for the of 1965 rather mundane and only witnesses stood by their sightings though such conclusions attracted the attention they did statements. Ofticer Hunt said 'It's have created J.,J'f eat criticism due to because of the high publicity they just a thing that happened and we their other inaccuracies. received rather than the particular reported it the way it happened at There has been some suggestion qualities of the reports themselves. the time, which you know is about all that the sightings were of indistinct When questioned about the sighting you can do, I guess.' 49 NAME GREAT NORTH-EASTERN BLACKOUT Just after power failed at New York, and a section of Canada. Syracuse, Deputy Aviation New York City had 600 trains and DATE 9 NOVEMBER 1965 Commissioner Robert Walsh sighted 600,000 passengers trapped in the PlACE NORTH-EASTERN UNITED STATES/ a round fiery UFO ascending at underground train system; many CANADA moderate speed from a fa irly low thousands were trapped in MAP REF: N15 altitude. A second fireball is also elevators; bridges and tunnels were EVENT GREAT NORTH-EASTERN BLACKOUT reported. The objects were over the jammed due to traffic-light Clay power substation, an automatic breakdowns; airports were shut There have been many connections control unit which regulated power down and flights redirected. The made between the appearance of from Niagara Falls to New York. enormous north-eastern powergrid UFOs and disruption of electrical Witnesses in the Time and Life was thought to have been circuits, particularly in cars building saw a UFO in the sky above invulnerable to accident or attack approached by low-flying UFOs. blacked-out Manhattan. Time having hundreds of automatic There have also been several claims magazine photographers controls and safety cut-outs. made that UFOs in the vicinity of photographed this object. Many Congress had been told that a major cities have caused power other reports of UFOs came in serious breakdown was quite blackouts affecting many thousands across New York, New Jersey and impossible. Various heads of power of people. Such claims were Pennsylvania. UFOs were reported plants indicated they had no particularly common in the 1960s. over Pennsylvania by pilot Jerry explanation for the blackout, no The most dramatic of all claims was Whitaker and passenger George severed transmission lines, faulty that of the great North-East Croniger who believe they saw them circuits or defective generators. blackout which covered an area of being chased by jet interceptors. One stated that it appeared that vast 80,000 square miles (207, 199 ml) At the height of the blackout it amounts of electricity had simply and affected 26 million people. had spread to six states other than been 'lost' but without explanation. 50 DATABASE 1960s [particularly] ... along with the stated since that time that he had reports of previous UFO-caused had no wish to do so and believed it blackouts.' was premature at the time when he Whether UFOs were the cause of made his comment. His statement the great North-Easternblackout or included the comment that some not remains open to speculation. At people in the area might have seen least they cannot be blamed for one ignited swamp gas. of the effects of the enforced hours The press immediately pilloried of darkness and quiet. Nine months him for the comment, and assaulted after the blackout New York him for attacking the credibility of experienced a baby boom. local witnesses. They completely ignored his further comment that a fuller investigation was required and NAME SWAMP GAS DEBACLE that a thorough investigation of all phenomena was needed before DATE 18 MARCH 1966 comment should be made PlACE ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN definitively. MAP REF: M15 Hynek always said afterwards EVENT THE 'SWAMP GAS' DEBACLE that it showed how even the most experienced people can fall prey to Over forty witnesses including the excesses of the press, it also several police officers saw a UFO shows how the excesses of the with blue and white lights, antennae press can affect public perception of and a pilot's cabin, in the marshlands the UFO phenomenon. near Ann Arbor, Michigan on I 18 March 1966. Four other craft I,!I�DAILY apparently travelled with it. Some witnesses claimed to reach to within New York and 80,000 square miles 1, 500ft (457 m) of it, and described � (207, 199 m2) of the surrounding area was it as football shaped and pulsating. ��- blacked out in 1965. Police patrolman Robert Hunawill agreed that he had watched the ! Because of the potential for object together with other local panic, with people trapped in citizens. Sheriffs deputies Stanley elevators and underground in the McFadden and David Fitzpatrick dark for many hours on end, calming observed it flying over the area. The and reassuring statements were state Police Commissioner, broadcast by those radio stations Frederick Davids, commented 'I that could transmit on emergency used to discount these reports too generators and certainly no mention but now I am not so sure.' was made of any UFO connection The following evening the craft for fear of the panic it would cause. was again observed by other However, the press picked up the witnesses and it became apparent �������� UFO reports (and indeed Air Force that the Air Force should send in an I 1: s=..:�� official denials) and by the end of the investigator if only to be seen to be : day it was already being speculated doing something. They sent in their that UFOs had caused the blackout. scientific adviser to Project Blue No proof of this connection has ever Book, Dr j. Allen Hynek. Hynek been forthcoming thoughone Air made an investigation of the area but Any analysis of the UFO phenomeno-n Force Major made the point that was virtually assaulted by the press reveals how media coverage often creates 'The evidence was too strong to be to make some kind of preliminary a mythology around a truth. Insubstantial ignored or debunked ... statement, although he always stories can easily become sensat1onal. 51 I, . I ·1111I11 1 �1uu��J. NORTH AMERICA NAME CATALINA ISLAND FILM NAME BETTYANDR EASSON These experiences have been in DATE APRIL 1966 DATE 25 JANUARY 1967 commonly reported America, but what was to follow is unique. PLACE CATALINA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA PLACE ASHBURNHAM, MASSACHUSffiS She was taken through various MAP REF: E18 MAP REF: 015 chambers inside the UFO, was EVENT PHOTOGRAPHIC CASE EVENT ABDUCTION covered in fluidsand fed fluids through her mouth; she met The Catalina Island film shot by Perhaps the most remarkable case reptilian creatures and flewover a professional cameraman Lee of imagery in a UFO abduction crystal city. Inside one of the crystal Hansen is important in UFO comes from the claims of Betty buildings she was brought face to research not because it is a mystery Andreas son. face with a bird like being and heard but because it is not. Shot in April On 25january 1967 she was at the voice of God. 1966 the film showed a silver, disc home with her parents and her Quazgaa told her that 'Secrets shaped object moving in the seven children in the early evening have been locked in her mind' and mountains on Catalina Island and (her husband was in hospital having she was then returnedto her home casting a shadow below. For twenty been injured in a car accident). findingher family apparently years the object remained a mystery. Suddenly, she saw a pulsating light paralyzed and unconscious. It was only the development of through the kitchen window and To the present day there has modernphotographic analysis which Betty's father saw entities outside probably been more written about gave final identificationto the object who Betty then saw entering the this case than any other and the full on the film. Image enhancement house through the walls. case history is rich in detail, much of techniques were employed by Dr This was all Betty remembered which may well be symbolic but all of Robert Nathan of the jet Propulsion for many years. Some eight years which appears to have deep meaning Laboratory in Pasadena; the film later she wrote to the tabloid for the witness. was scanned, enlarged and displayed newspaper Na tiona! Enquirer about on a television screen and broken her experience, this was a paper down into individual pixels. Each noted for its interest in UFOs and NAME STEPHEN MICHALAO for its $5,000 reward given annually frame of the filmwas similarly DATE 20 MAY 1967 di!-,ritized and each overlaid on the to the best UFO story. However, PLACE FALCON LAKE, ONTARIO/MANITOBA earlier image causing an averaging of they apparently took little interest in BORDER the lighting effects in the picture. her case. MAP REF: K12 (;radually the grain in the picture It was not until l977, more than diminished and the image was able ten years after the event that Betty EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND to he seen more clearly. Andreasson underwent a series of KIND In fact the cameraman had filmed, hypnotic regression sessions out of focus, a light aircraft that had suggested by MUFON investigator, If Canada comes a poor second to been manoeuvring in the mountains. Raymond Fowler. Her story was the United States on the North By the time the image enhancement extraordinary. American continent in terms of was completed it was possible even The aliens that had entered her quantity of UFO events, then it goes to sec the outline of the pilot sitting kitchen apparently lined up before a long way to making up for it in in the cockpit. Because the aircraft her and stated they needed food for quality with the extraordinary close had been filmed from its own flight their minds. Their leader, Quazgaa, encounter of Stephen Michalaq level it had eliminated the image of accepted a bible from Betty. She which is recorded here. wings and indeed the image of the then left the house with them and just after noon on 20 May, at tail fin. entered an oval object hovering a Falcon Lake between Manitoba and M;my UFO cases arc solved in few inches off the ground in her back Ontario, Michalaq witnessed the the firstinvestigation, indeed some garden. landing of a cigar shaped UFO. Two 90-95 per rent of cases are identified She underwent a medical such red objects descended, one quite quickly hut positive examination in a brilliantly lit landing and the other silently flying identificati(ln twenty years after an 'operating room' on board the object back into the sky. The landed UFO event is rare and this was an and suffered a probe pushed into her appeared to 'cool down'; its red glow important breakthrough. nose and another through her navel. diminishing to a silver gold. The 52 OATABASE 1960s object was approximately 30 ft (9 m) of the object. From it, a blast of Stephen Michalaq. victim of a very close wide and 12 ft (31/:! m) high. wam1 air struck him causing him not encounter, displays the extraordinary Michalaq was an amateur only surprise but pain and fear as it pattern of burn marks which appeared on prospector and carried goggles set his clothes alight. his body following a blast of heat from a normally worn to protect his eyes The object departed. Shortly landed UFO. when hammering into rock. Through afterwards Michalaq observed these goggles he observed the ground traces in the form of charred Organizations such as the object from close range over the earth where the object had been. Whiteshell Nuclear Research next half an hour, also making There were physiological effects Establishment, the US Navy sketches. He noticed a bright purple from the encounter; Michalaq Hospital and the National Research light emanating from inside the object, suffered nausea and vomiting as well Council in addition to 2i doctors detected the wam1 smell of sulphur as feeling a severe pain in his head. examined 1\lichalaq over a period. and heard motor noises from within. After returninghome he went to the Michalaq appears to have Michalaq was approaching closer Misericordia Hospital where he was received a dose of radiation which when a door opened in the UFO and treated for first degreebums. would have been lethal had it not he could hear voices coming from In the following week he was been of slight duration. inside. He called to the craft in examined by his family doctor. 0\·er The view of the Royal Canadian several languages but received no those few days Michalaq lost Air Force was that the case was a responses. He peered inside, considerable weight being unable to hoax though a Freedom of observing multi-coloured patternsof eat, suffered blood infection, skin lnfonnation Act request some years light. Eventually the opening was infections, diarrhoea and nausea. He later yielded a file 11�� pages long, covered and Michalaq took some complained of burningsensations and this was acknowledged to be time to examine the outside of the and stiff joints. Of particular interest considerably abridged. object, discoveringit to be hot was a patternof bum marks on The Royal Canadi 53 "11 I 111 1 11111111• NORTH AMER ICA NAME PATROLMAN SCHIRMER The former Chief of Police had Indeed at the time Schirmer apparently had an experience of interrupted them they were busy DATE 3 DECEMBER 1967 contact with extraterrestrialsthat stealing electricity from the PLACE ASHLAND, NEBRASKA was somewhere between a overhead power Jines with a device MAP REF: J16 contactee and abduction experience. which the entities obligingly EVENT CONTACTEE ENCOUNTER Having approached the landed object explained and went on to on the highway and suffered vehicle demonstrate to Schinner. 'Saw a flying saucer at the junction of interference cutting out the engine The entities themselves were highways 6 and 63. Believe it or and lights of his car Schirmer, now approximately 5 ft (152 em) high and not!' This was the brief report made under regression hypnosis, revealed muscular with larger chests than on by patrolman Herb Schirmer in that the car was apparently the normal human frame. Ashland, Nebraska following a UFO surrounded by entities from the Apparently their head was thinner sighting in December of 1967. globular UFO. He was prevented and taller than an ordinary human Shortly after the event, and after a from drawing his revolver to defend head; they wore tight fittingsilver short stint as Chief of Police, he himself by a mental block and was grey suits and boots. Schirmer resigned from the force. There has paralyzed by the entities who fireda described their eyes as 'like eat's been a great deal of speculation that green gas gun at his car. It was at eyes', the nose was flatter and they officialpressure was brought to bear this time that Schirmer apparently had almost lipless mouths. Schirmer but Schirmer is adamant that his suffered the injury to his neck when, was informed that he would be given resignation came from him alone having been forced to wind down the a cover story which would be all he because he was no longer able to do window of the car, he was forcibly would remember of the event; that his job properly. removed from it and taken on board he would recall seeing the craft land The suggestion of a brief period the UFO. and watch it fly away; and that he of missing time, some twenty The UFO is described as having would experience two returnvisits minutes, and a red weal on his neck been shaped something like a football, from the aliens. was sufficientfor regression glowing silver, with a bright flashing Of particular interest to the hypnosis to be used to findout light beneath. It apparently landed investigators was the emblem seen whether or not there was a more on tripod legs and later conversation by Schirmer on the uniformof the detailed story locked in Schirmer's with the aliens indicated that it entities which he drew and mind. There was! required electricity to power it. describedas that of a winged serpent. Much has been made of the EDWARD UHLER CONDON connection between this and the ancient historical storiesof winged serpent sightings and gods. In at the age of Condon was 1966, 64, The aliens apparently told appointed to head up the University of Schirmer that their mission was Colorado's study into UFOs - usually because the 'Earth people do not do known subsequently as the Condon things in the rightwa y.' They also Committee. A friend of Dr Robert J informed Schirmer that they had Oppenheimer, Condon was one of bases in the Bermuda Triangle, at North America's foremost theoretical the polar regions and in other nuclear physicists. He was also known locations around the world. lor 'taking on' the establishment when This case is probably more the need arose. He must have seemed influential than any other in pointing the ideal man to lead the impartial to genetic manipulation as an study. However it seems that the whole explanation for the alien visitations. project was an Air Force publicity trick; Schirmer said 'Maybe I asked if they its negative conclusions simply did not kidnapped people. I don't ta lly w h the unsolved case on its nles. it remember, except he said they had a programme known as "breeding analysis" and some humans had been used in these experiments. ' 54 OAT ABASE 1960s NAME SHANE KURZ mental difficulties; red marks on the events of 2 May apparently tilled in lower abdomen, pain and nausea and the details of the missing hours of DATE 2 MAY 1968 migraines, loss of menstruation, loss that date. She was drawn to the PLACE NEW YORK STATE of weight and an irrational fear of window by a voice, perhaps MAP REF: N15 being examined by the doctors. She telepathically, calling to her. She EVENT ABDUCTION became convinced that she had to dressed, went downstairs through know more about what happened to the kitchen and outside into the cold. Shane Kurz's experiences came her on 2 May. Outside, she found herself looking at during the early months of 1968 In january 1975 she appears to a landed UFO which was apparently when there were a number of UFO have had a 'follow-up' abduction, 'powering down', its lights dimming. sightings in the area around her waking up to finda burnon her She saw windows and a revolving home in New York State and the upper chest, spots on her cheeks rim and in walking towards the UFO firstof her own experiences was in and a purple mark on her right arm recalled being stuck in wet mud. mid-April. For several nights Miss with a pinhole in the middle. The UFO w 55 NORTH AMERICA but Dennis was keen to investigate deliberately pacing their car but 1970s further, turningoff the road and onto rather moving at the same speed NAME CALLERY CHEMICAL PLANT a dirt track near the chemical plant. and at the same place, possibly by (It is speculated that Betty and coincidence, whereas there is some DATE 14 APRIL 1971 BarneyHill also turnedoff their main speculation that the Hills' car was PLACE BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA road onto a subsidiary road where under deliberate scrutiny. However, MAP REF: N16 they were abducted by the the outcome was very different; in EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD occupants of a UFO that had been the Hills' case the object apparently KIND pacing their car. ) As they drove either guided the Hills off the main over the brow of a hillthey could see road and its occupants then The case of Dennis and Marion the object hovering just above the abducted them or took advantage of (pseudonyms adopted at the ground of a ploughed fieldsome 80 their own decision to drive offthe witnesses' request for anonymity) is yds (73 m) away. main road, which was subsequently important because of the similarities Dennis drove along to the forgotten during the amnesiac block between this case and that of Betty farmhouse hoping to findfurther apparently placed on them. In and BarneyHill (see page 42) in the witnesses to the event but nobody Marion and Dennis's case, although early events and for the dissimilarity was at home. Looking across the confrontedwith an opportunity for of the way the encounter ended. fieldtowards a small wood they abduction, the UFO appears to have Comparison of the two may result in could see the UFO hovering near ignored the witnesses and allowed a better understanding of both. the trees. Shortly after thisa shaft them to 'escape'. Having said that, it At approximately 8 o'clock in the of white light beamed up from the has been further speculated that evening the couple were driving top of the object. Several windows possibly in both cases the UFOs from Evans City to Pittsburgh on an were observed in the upper section scanned the occupants of the cars unlighted road through the of the saucer and portholes below. and in the Hills' case decided they farmlands. They had just passed the From within the windows flickering were of use whereas in the case of Callery chemical plant heading lights could be seen which gave the Marion and Dennis decided they towards Butler when Marion noticed impression of lights flickering across would not be suitable for their a UFO to the right of the car. The a computer screen. purposes. object was apparently pacing the car Marion then saw two giant Ignored or rejected? Either way at much the same speed, it was humanoid figuresin the windows. Marionand Dennis seemed to have glowing yellow-white and was silent. Prudently both witnesses leapt back been spared the frightening ordeal She estimated the object to be into the car very quickly and 'beat it which many abductees have approximately 100 yds (92 m) from out of there'. As they drove rapidly undergone. them. Dennis slowed down to down the dirt road they could see approximately 10 miles (16 km) an the UFO remaining in the same hour and then also saw the object. position. NAME DAPPLE GREY LANE As in the case of the Hills the On investigation the next day DATE AUGUST 1971 Butlers did not experience electrical researchers recorded that Marion PLACE DAPPLE GREY LANE, LOS ANGELES, difficultieswith the car but pulled the was white as a sheet and shaking CALIFORNIA car off the road for the purpose of and had undoubtedly been alarmed MAP REF: E18 properly observing and listening for by what she had seen. Researchers sound from the object. They also confirmed that they were EVENT NON-HUMANOID CONTACTEE watched as it flewaway becoming straightforward and respectable EXPERIENCE just a i 'tight point of light and then people. returnet; l 56 OATABASE 1970s some consideration. However, NAME ST CATHERINE'S )�egression hypnosis by psychiatrist Dr Aphrodite Clamar occasionally cases occur which have DATE 16 OCTOBER 1971 anything but humanoid entities and and therapist Dr Susan Schulman PLACEST CATHERINE'S, ONTARIO the encounter in Dapple Grey Lane seemed to indicate that ]ack had MAP REF: M15 in August 1971 is just one such been the subject of many abductions case. EVENT ABDUCTION during his life: first a medical John Hodges and Peter examination following an abduction l�odriguez had been visiting the Six members of a rock hrr oup from his pushchair at the age of two apartment of a third friend in Dapple including the principal witness of the by creatures with big black eyes; Grey Lane, Los Angeles and they case, known only as 'J ack', were then a joint abduction of himselfand left in the early hours of the pulled off the road by the appearance his fa ther when Jack was six, which morning. As they were getting into of a bright lighted UFO in the early was apparently corroborated by their car they noticed two seemingly hours of the morningwhen returning regressionhypnosis on the father; alive brain-like objects on the road from a party. next an abduction at the age of ten; ahead of them, each some 3 ft Three members of the group and finallythe multiple abduction of (91 em) high. Hodges drove past the were taken aboard the flyingsaucer the group when Jack was sixteen. objects, dropped his friendoff and and subjected to various medical then drove to his own home arriving examinations and interrogations A scene from the 1929 film Mys terious back some two hours later than he while the other three remained in a Island. Although it shows an image should have done. tranced state in their van. created decades beforealiens were being Under regressive hypnosis it The aliens apparently showed an reported by UFO abductees, many appears that the brain-like entities interest in both a recorder and drum features are remarkably similar: the dwarf telepathically projected a message kit, asking for detailed explanations shapes, prom inent eyes. bald domed into Hodges' mind telling him that of how they work and in fact heads and webbed fingers. Can reported 'We will meet again. ' When he retained one of the recorders as a abductions and science fiction imagery be arrived at his own apartment - but souvenir. arising from a common source? before he left the car - he apparently encountered the entities again and seems to have been projected into a control room where humanoid entities were manipulating the machinery. There was a great deal of imagery in the encounter and it appears that the aliens were concerned about ou r lack of environmental awareness and the damage we were doing to our planet. In 1978, duringthe period of the regressive hypnosis sessions, Hodges apparently encountered the entities yet again and was 1-,ri ven a warning about a coming world war. Hodges believes that both he and Rodriguez, along with thousands of other people, have implants in their brains which are designed to enhance psychic powers and the purpose of the creatures' interference is to help in developing the human race. 57 NORTH AMERICA NAME THE DELPHOS RING Considering the medical birth, though the young died shortly implications of the state their son afterwards. The witnesses were DATE 2 NOVEMBER 1971 was in and the possibilities invited to take a lie detector test but PLACE DELPHOS RING, KANSAS suggested by having touched the refused. MAP REF: J17 glowing white powder and then Analysis of the ground traces on EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND suffered partial paralysis, the the farm revealed some unusual KIND decision to visit the town to see the component but there was nothing reporters of a local paper rather than which demanded a non-terrestrial The johnson farm, Delphos, any member of the medical explanation. The possibility remains Kansas. At 7 o'clock in the evening profession has been one factor in that the witnesses invented some of Durel Johnson and his wife had just reducing the credibility of the case. the details on the back of a sighting finished supper when their son There have been many suspicions of extraordinary ground traces for Ronnie returnedfrom feeding the surrounding this event: the reasons of their own. It is only sheep. Ronnie reported that he had J ohnsons refused to report the because of the lack of hard physical heard a rumbling noise and had seen incident to the police; they seemed evidence which UFO events a mushroom shaped UFO hovering to greatly enjoy the fame and generally offer that the Delphos ring just above the ground some 70 ft attention which their reportbrought has become so famous in the past (21 m) away from him in a groupof to them; they were recipients of the twenty years. trees ncar the fa rmhouse. He much criticized $5,000 award from Most modem research described it as glowing with every the Na tiona[ Enquirer for concentrates not only on the colour of the rainbow and beaming a outstanding UFO reports; and just testimony but also on the credibility shaft of brilliant white light towards when the extraordinaryreports of of the witnesses and on that basis the ground. Ronnie reported that he the next two years looked like this particularcase might not be was blinded and paralyzed by the overshadowing their story the UFO rated highly. event which lasted about five returnedyet again, involving the minutes until the object flewaway Johnson farm in yet more strange The Delphos ring appeared to have been towards the town of Delphos. It was events. Not the least of these was dusted with a white powder which caused some fifteenminutes before he was that sheep that had not been numbness in the fingers of those who able to focus his vision and to move serviced by rams suddenly gave touched it. and he immediately ran to the fannhouse to report the event to his parents. His parents were disbelieving but accompanied him outside, both witnessing the UFO moving towards the south. Erma, his mother, described it as looking 'like a 1-,ri ant washtub'. At the site where the UFO had been hovering the witnesses saw a circle glowing in the dark and noticed that the nearby trees were also glowing. The soil appeared to have been dusted with a white powder which was touched by Mr and Mrs johnson who both stated that their fingertips had become numb shortly afterwards. Mrs Johnson also took photographs of the ring while Mr johnson drove his son into I )clphos to report the event to the local newspaper. 58 DATABASE 1970s NAME MICHEL IMBEAULT DATE 5 AUGUST 1973 PLACE MONTREAL, CANADA MAP REF: N14 EVENT ANOMALOUS LIGHTS At 5. 30 in the morning, Michel Imbeault and a friend were walking near the St Lawrence river when they saw a stringof lights across the sky. The lights moved quickly but he took one photograph. Michel lmbeault's remarkable photograph of a string of unidentified lights in the sky. NAME PASCAGOULAENCOUNTER toes. But they had feet shape . . . it buzzing sound in reply. DATE 12 OCTOBER 1973 was more or less a round like thing Presumably, and understandably, on a leg, if you'd call it a leg ...I near to hysteria Hickson cannot PLACE PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI was scared to death. And me with remember being removed from the MAP REF: L19 the spinning reel out there - it's all I craft and his first memory is of EVENT ABDUCTION had. I couldn't, well I was so scared, seeing Parker standing on the well you can't imagine. Calvin done ground outside witha look on his During October of 1973 America went hystericalon me. ' fa ce 'I've never seen that sort of fear underwent an extensive wave of The entities apparently glided up on a man's face as I saw on Calvin's. UFO sightings; an extraordinary to the witnesses continuing to make It took me a while to get him back to case during that period was the a buzzing noise, sounding something his senses and the firstthing I told abduction of shipyard workers like a machine. They were vaguely him was, "Son, nobody gonna Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker. humanoid in shape though apart believe this. " At 7 o'clock in the evening the from strange feet they also had most Hickson's description of the craft pair were fishingfrom a pier at the bizarre facial features, long conical is indistinct, he recalls it being Shaupeter Shipyard in Pascagoula. rods where nose and ears would approximately 8 ft (244 em) tall and At about that time, witnesses in the normallybe. Their long arms ended oblong with an opening at one end area sighted a blue light circling in in crab like pincers and their skin and exhibiting a blue light outside. the vicinity of the shipyard. Hickson was ghostly and pale, possibly Inside the craft it was very bright and Parker did not see a light but, wrinkled. Worse was yet to come. but there was no apparent source of sensing something behind them, Parker apparently fainted and the light. turnedto see a UFO some 25-30 Hickson was lifted off the ground by Following the interview between yds (23-27 m) away fromthem and the entities and floated into the Hickson and Parker and Sheriff just 2-3 ft (61-91 em) above the UFO. Inside, the entities apparently Diamond and Captain Ryder, events ground. The machine wasmaking a kept Hickson floating weightlessly occurred which give extraordinary buzzing sound and caused some while they moved him around and authenticity to the claim. \\'hen the consternation amongst the while an eye like scanning object police left Parker and Hickson alone witnesses. As Hickson stated under looked all over him. Even though the they quite deliberately left a tape hypnosis 'AndI started to hit the entities left the room at one point recorder running, presumably in the river, man. And Calvin just - he Hickson could not move and does hope that they would reveal their went hysterical.' not even know if he remained hoax, if that is what it was. Instead The witnesses watched as a conscious, though he believes he of that the two of them virtually hatchway opened in the object and did. Recovering his senses rambled on. apparently still in a state three entities floated out. As somewhat Hickson tried totalk to of shock but both confirmed their Hickson went on 'They didn't ha\·e the entities but could only get a impressions of the sighting. Hickson 59 NORTH AMERICA NAME CAPTAIN COYNE DATE 18 OCTOBER 1973 PLACE MANSFIELD, OHIO MAP REF: M16 EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST KIND During the night of 18 October 1973 Captain Laurence Coyne and three colleagues, Lieutenant jezzy, and Sergeants Healey and Yanacsek were flying a Bell UH-1H helicopter from Columbus, Ohio to Hopkins Air Force Base, Cleveland. Around 12 miles (19 km) from Mansfield, Healeynoticed a single red light to the left. He paid little attention to it. just a few minutes Charles Hickson (RIGHT) photographed in field ncar the town. Coming as it did later Yanacsek saw a red light to the 1990 with the author. amid the October 1973 United right and he believed it was pacing States flap there had been some the helicopter. Coyne told him to left the room at one point and Calvin publicity regarding UFOs and keep monitoring it and was shortly was left alone and the tape recorder Greenhaw reacted positively enough told that it seemed to be closing in picked up almost inaudible words as to take a Polaroid camera to the on them. The witnesses were now he prayed 'It's hard to believe ... scene. paying some attention to the object oh God, it's awful ...I know there Outside the town he apparently as it approached. is a God up there ...' encountered a tall, silver suited The object was so accurately In 1987 Charles Hickson summed creature standing in the middle of following a collision course that up his feelings about the experience the road. With extraordinary Coyne was forced to descend at 'I make my living with my hands. I composure Greenhaw got out of the increasing speed. The light had a chance to make a million car and welcomed the entity 'Howdy apparently stopped and hovered dollars like Whitley Strieber back in stranger' and started taking pictures over the helicopter. 197:3. I was offered all kinds of of him. When Greenhaw got back in Three of the witnesses who had a money to let them do a movie. I the car and tumed on the flashing clear view of the object, Coyne, declined. I am still declining. Making blue police lights the creature tumed Healey and Yanacsek, stated that a money is not what this experience is and ran ahead. cigar shaped metallic grey object all about.' Despite the fact that Greenhaw filled the front of the windshield of chased him in the car at up to the helicopter. The nose of the 35 miles (56 km) per hour the entity object contained the red light, a NAME JEFF GREENHAW outran him and indeed the chase white light at the tail and from its ended when Greenhaw spun offthe underside shone a sweeping green DATE 17 OCTOBER 1973 gravel road. pyramid shaped searchlight which at PLACE FALKVILLE, AlABAMA Greenhaw is perhaps the classic one point flooded the helicopter MAP REF· L18 case so often mentioned in UFO lore before the object accelerated away. EVENT ENTITY PHOTOGRAPHS when considering the effect of The remainder of the flight was reporting on witnesses' life styles. uneventful. At approximately 10 o'clock in the After relating his experienceon The following day Coyne wanted evening police chid Jeff Greenhaw national television he received to report the incident and impressed of Falkville, Alabama received a threatening phone calls, his wife left the flight controller at Cleveland telephone call al his home from a him, his home was bumt down and Hopkins Air Force Base with the woman reporting it UFO landing in a he was forced to resign his job. degree to which he was obviously 60 OAT ABASE 1970s disturbed by his sighting. Coyne troubled by their sighting, but can hill towards the place where the eventually filedan operational only have been more so when they object had either been parked or hazard form confirminga military heard the next day that another was hovering; now it was apparently person exposed to danger during witness, Gary Flatter, had also seen approaching them and it was bright flight. Subsequent investigation the creatures some three hours and illuminating the whole area and showed that the rna.1.,'11etic compass earlier on the same stretch of road. disturbing dogs in the house. of the helicopter had been rendered I lis sighting had been more Apparently it was making a sound useless and it had to be replaced. dramatic. It confirmed the general like 'a lawn mower'. When the story was published by descriptions .1.,r iven by Donathan but While they were observing the a news journal fivewitn esses on the Flatter, who watched the pair for object one of the boys saw two bear .I.,'T Ound reported seeing the steady some five minutes and turnedhis like fi.I.,JUres walking along the side of bright light above them and spotlight on them, indicated that a fence. Both the entities were tall, witnessed the encounter bet ween they kicked their feet which were over 7ft (213 em), covered in dark the light and the helicopter. Their covered in a box-like arrangement hair and had green-yellow eyes. observations confirmed the and just drifted away into the air at They were making baby like whining statements made by the crew. approximately 20-25 miles sounds and emitting the smell of The National Enquirer awarded (:32--1 0 km) per hour. burningrubber. Stephen instantly the men a substantial prize of $5,000 Whether this sighting truly opened fireabove their heads. for 'the most scientificallyvaluable belongs in a category of UFO Undeterred by the shot the report of 197:3. ' sightings or whether other entities continued walking towards witnesses would more easily have the trio and finally Stephen fired referred to it as a ghost sighting or three bullets directly into the largest NAME FLATIER!DONATHAN some other paranormal event is of them. One of the boys ran back to DATE 22 OCTOBER 1973 unclear. Certainly there arc enough the house very scared, the entity parallels to make it a valid inclusion that was shot apparently reacted PLACE BLACKFORDCOUNTY, INDIANA in any UFO catalo.1.,JUeand it shows mildly to the incident and the UFO's MAP REF: L16 very clearly that at least some lights disappeared. The creatures EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD aspects of UFO encounters walked back towards the woods. KIND interface with other paranormal The area of the ground where the activity more closely than is often object had been was glowing white DeWayne Donathan and his wife appreciated. and for some time afterwards were travelling home around 10 animals would not go near the place. o'clock in the evening when they Three-quarters of an hour after encountered on the road what NAME POLASKI ENCOUNTER the beginning of the incident State appeared to be two fi,1,JUresdancing DATE 25 OCTOBER 1973 Trooper Byrne assisted Stephen in to music. As the car approached an investigation of the site and as PLACE GREENSBURG. PENNSYLVANIA they continued dancing, apparently they were examining the glowing MAP REF: N16 unable to leave the road. Donathan ring they heard the sound of believed that they looked as if they EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD something large walking towards were skipping but could not quite KIND them through the woods; they could determine how they were holding hear the destruction of trees and their feet or arms. The Donathans At 9 o'clock in the evening farmer foliage. As they moved so the sound passed the couple and looking back Stephen Polaski and fifteen other followed them. When they stopped, DeWayne saw they were just witnessessaw a brightred UFO uncannily the sound would stop. In a standing along the side of the road. hoveringhigh over a field. Stephen small field nearby they could see an They turned the car round and together with two ten-year-old boys illuminated area. returned tothe spot but the silver decided to go towards the fieldto Although somewhat scared the suited entities were gone. In the sky investigate. trooper was all for inn·stigating the two separate bright lights were As they approached, the car incident but Stephen commented 'I waving up and down in an extremely headlights dimmed and they don't get paid for being brave. I'm odd motion. watched the object descending. not going any further. ' The trooper The Donathans may have been They left the car and walked up the commenced on his own but called off 61 NORTH AMERICA the investigation, ostensibly entity coming towards them they He then appears to have attacked because he was afraid that Stephen both jumped in the car and drove his ownfather and the investigator in his excited state might mistake some 50 yds (46 m) out of the field and chased his dog. Finally he him for one of the entities and shoot before they realized that they were collapsed onto the ground growling at him. Although perfectlyfeasible it probably safe inside the vehicle. before coming back to his senses. might be fair to say that the trooper Investigation of the event was However, whether in a state of had decided on discretion being the followed up within about four hours, shock or suffering some other better part of valour and few people by a local UFO study group. Ground difficulty, Stephen then became in that situation could blame him. traces and radiation were not convincedthat something was in the However, prudent this action the evident and the only suggestion of field and said he saw 'A man in a behaviour that followed was less something abnormalwas a bull in a black hat and cloak carrying a sickle'. than cool and calculating: when nearby field acting as if it were Stephen also became obsessed Stephen noticed a brown object scared of something during the time that he was receiving contactee coming towards them he requested they were watching. messages warningus of terrible of the trooper that he use his last During questioning Stephen catastrophe on Earth. bullet to shoot at it and the trooper apparently began to shake and The interpretation of the meaning agreed to this. Undoubtedly the two looked as if he was going to faint. He of this encounter has been the of them were both panicking to was rubbing his face, breathing subject of speculation ever since; some degree by this time. With the heavily and growling like an animal. whether or not the effect on Stephen was an externalevent or PROFESSOR ALVIN LAWSON something internallygenerated cannot easily be determined. The fact that there appears to have been Professor Alvin Lawson made a valuable wanted to discover the degree to which corroborative evidence of the UFO contribulion to the understanding of UFO deliberately false stories might vary from sighting and even of some ground abductions when he and his colleagues set real reports. In fact, there was very little traces does not itself give evidence up the imaginary abductee experiments in variation, except in terms of emotional to Stephen's state being caused California during the 1970s. He took a involvement. Perhaps the test subjects directly by the UFO but rather group of lest subjects who had not had read some background UFO possibly merely triggered by it. reported UFO close encounters and asked stories, but the same would be true of Stephen himself has a history of them each to create a false story. He those filing reports. violence; subjected to bullying by his father, beating up a boy at his school so badly he was off school for three weeks, stopping a car and joining in a fightbetween two people he had no connection with and breaking into a neighbour's house, doing $1,700 worth of damage and then making elaborate plans to kill the person. Whatever the truth his state of mind was a reaction to a UFO event, and possibly one of quite high strangeness. For this reason alone it would be reasonable to expect the authorities to take the UFO phenomenon seriously, either by providing citizens with an appropriate defenceor response or at least by ensuring that people's most fearful expectations are not heightened by unnecessary mystery. 62 :. :11111111 DATABASE 1970s NAME TSUTOMU NAKAYAMA dancers. That fact, and the fact that NAME CARL HIGDON ABDUCTION the UFO did not appear in other DATE 25 APRIL 1974 DATE 25 OCTOBER 1974 shots on the film, suggest that the PLACE HAWAII PLACE MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST. UFO is a photographic flaw, perhaps MAP REF: A17 WYOMING a lens flare. It is interesting to MAP REF: H16 EVENT SURPRISE PHOTOGRAPH compare Nakayama's photograph with the one taken at Salem on 16 EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER/ABDUCTION When japanese news photographer july 1952 (see page 27). PhotoJ.,rraphic Tsutomu Nakayama shot the picture surprises continue to occur. When out on a day's hunting trip, below he had not noticed the UFO in Carl lligdon, an oil driller for A. l\1. the sky above the heads of the Tsutomu Nakayama's Hawaiian surpnse. Well Service of Riverton, Wyoming parked his company pick-up truck. It was 4 o'clock in the aftemoon; Higdon took time to drink some coffee from a flaskhe was carrying. At this point he met a friend, Gary Eaton, and they discussed hunting elk. The two separated and Higdon found a suitable target elk in a nearby clearing. Higdon took aim and fired. In the next second he could not believe his eyes! The bullet silently and slowly floatedout of the end of his gun and fell gently to the ground some 50 ft ( 15 m) away. Higdon became aware of 'a cone of silence' surrounding the forest and a tingling feeling crawling up his spine. To his left a man approached who Higdon first thought was a hunter like himself. He was wrong. Although humanoid, the man did not appear human. He had no chin or jaw and his face simply extended down to his throat. He was wearing a one piece suit with a metal belt. He had a yellow skin, a mouth but no lips and very large teeth, his eyes \vere small with no eyebrows and Higdon could not see any siJ-,'11 of ears. Almost unbelievably, the entity also had two antennae protruding out of his forehead. Behind the entity was a cube-like object some 6ft ( 18] em) along each edge. In some strange way Higdon believes he was 'tcleportcd' into the object and he belie\'cs his natural fears were being suppressed by pills the entity had gi\'enhim to take. On board, Higdon may haH' been 63 : II (�n [[frllll�� •· NORTH AMERICA somewhat alarmed to have seen that NAME TRAVIS WALTON ABDUCTION the five elk he had been previously DATE 5 NOVEMBER 1975 attempting to shoot were now also PLACE SNOWFLAKE, ARIZONA in a compartment alongside him. MAP REF: G18 Higdon makes no particular attempt to explain the obvious dimensional EVENT ABDUCTION problems, accepting the quite extraordinarystrangeness of the When the American government event. issued a contract to clear trees in Instantly, an entity appeared in the Sitgraves National Park in the room beside him and wired Arizona they could have had no idea Higdon up to machinery via a helmet of the extraordinary story they were placed over his head. Somehow he about to unleash. The contract was believes he was either transported awarded to a seven-man to, or made to feel as though he was woodcutting team which included transported to, the home planet of the case's principal witness Travis the aliens where he saw tall Walton and hisbrother Duane. platforms and bright lights before Mter the day's work was over being returned to Earth. they were driving back to their base When Higdon was found by a when all the witnesses saw a large search party he was resting in his golden UFO hovering over the truck, exhausted, the vehicle axle trees. It seemed to be solid, with was stuck deep in the middle of a windows and a fairly classical flying ravine and it took a tow truck to pull saucer shape complete with cupola The cover of Travis Walton's book which it out. on top. Travis Walton jumped from relates his incredible five-day abduction. During regression hypnosis the truck and ran towards the object sessions following the event one while the other six shouted for him murdered Walton and they sought to particular detail gives some cause to come back. Little could they clear their name. One of the six was for alarm; Higdon apparently saw know that it would be some days apparently too agitated to take the on the aliens' home planet - ordinary before he would heed their cries! test but the other five did and the adult and child humans possibly A blue ray shot from the object, administrator of the test, Cy Gilson, prisoners of the aliens or possibly hitting Walton and knocking him stated 'I gotta say they passed the bred on their home world. Higdon back into the trees. Perhaps test.' Fortunately for them, and reported that he was unable to talk understandably the remaining indeed for Walton, the missing man with them. members of the gang fled the area in turned up late that night. Higdon has speculated that he the truck and drove straight to the His story was that he had been was in effect rejected by the aliens local police who instigated a search. abducted by the UFO and found as unsuitable for their purpose Walton was nowhere to be found. himself in a room being examined by because he had had a vasectomy. It is significant that three of the gang aliens very familiar on the North This would seem to give support to refused to join the search party or to American continent, i.e. pale the now current theorythat the go back into the woods at night and hairless skin, large domed heads, aliens arc visiting the Earth on a according to Sheriff Ellison who large eyes and reduced physical prohrrammc of genetic breeding headed the search party 'One of the features. Walton also recalls seeing experimentation. men was weeping. If they were a very human like person on board There appears to be some lying,· they were damned good the saucer and recalls the image of corroboration of the event; actors.' what appeared to be either a space members of the search party looking The search went on for five days flight or the holo!,rraphic projection of for Higdon saw strange glowing at the end of which the witnesses one. Walton also took a polygraph lights in the trees around the area. took poly!,rraph tests at the Arizona test under Dr Gene Rosenbaum of There were also other reports of State Office of Public Safety. They Durango, Colorado who stated 'This UFO lights around Wyoming at the were apparently concerned that it young man is not lying ...he really same time. was rumoured that they had believes these things.' 64 I '11111111 DATABASE 1980s The Walton case was one that It appears certain that the three became a 'boxing ring' for various 1980s witnesses were subjected to some American UFO J..,'Toups. One J..,JToup NAME CASH/LANDRUM ENCOUNTER form of radiation and, even more alarming, the presence of the claimed that he had failed polygraph DATE 29 DECEMBER 1980 tests, that his previous criminal military helicopters suggests that PLACE DAYTON, TEXAS record and interest in the subject of the UFO - on this occasion at least MAP REF: K19 UFOs was against him and that the was terrestrial: some form of whole story had been fabricated to EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND unshielded nuclear source was being explain why he was late in delivering KIND transported across the Texas skies. on the contract which would have Even if the object were a crash incurred him financial penalty. The Vickie Landrum, her grandson retrieved extraterrestrial craft then fact that the gang also received a Colby Landrum and their friend at the time of the encounter it was in $5,000 prize for their story has been Betty Cash were driving in the late terrestrial hands. regarded as a motive for the claims. evening/early night towards Dayton Believing the object to have been Other J..,'Toupshave 'adopted' him in Texas when they witnessed a American in design the two adult believing him to be sincere. huge glowing object descend to witnesses sued the United States While the passing of time makes treetop height above the road in government for$20 million but the it unlikely that any conclusion will front of them. case was dismissed on the grounds ever be drawn about this case the The witnesses were frightened that the Americans did not have fact that none of the many witnesses by the encounter but left the car to such an object in their possession. has ever come forward to denounce see what was happening although Senior officialsof the Air Force, the the story, although any one of them young Colby Landrum begged them Army, the Navy and the civilian could probably make substantial to get back inside which they space agency all testified sums of money by doing so, speaks eventually did. It was Betty Cash categorically that the object was not b'T eatly in its favour. who remained outside the car for the of their making. longest period of time. The UFO The finalstories on this case appeared to be indistinct though cannot yet have been written NAME FALCONBRIDGE generally diamond shaped with long because the American government DATE 11 NOVEMBER 1975 flamesbursting down from below. now appears to have a serious Of most interest is that the alternative to face; if the object was PLACE FALCONBRIDGE, ONTARIO witnesses also identified some American then the law suit should MAP REF: N14 twenty-four Chinooktwin blade succeed and a few prominent heads EVENT RADAR/VISUALENCOUNTER helicopters escorting the UFO at a may well have to roll. It appears that distance. They followed it in their those heads are resisting that Following a period of UFO sightings car for a period of time before alternative. However, the only near the USNCanadian border in reaching home less than an hour other option is that the object was 1975, autumn the 11 November after the encounter. The after not American. Be it terrestrial or brought a radar tracked UFO, effects of the sighting have been extraterrestrial this means that confirmedby visual sighting, at the horrific! someone other than Americans radar sites at Falconbridge, Ontario. Vickie Landrum suffered a were toting an unshielded nuclear Radar detected a UFO some temporary loss of hair and inflamed source over Texas that night and 30 miles (48 km) south of the site at eyes for a time, Colby appears to since it clearly has not yet been a height somewhere between have suffered similareff ects. identifiedthen it must rate as a 25,000 and 70,000 ft (7,620- Betty Cash, who spent the UFO. If tllis is the course they 21,336 m). The UFO appeared as a majority of the time outside the car, continue to take, the American large globe with porthole or crater suffered vomiting and diarrhoea, governmentcan therefore never like formations around the outside. impaired vision, variousaches and again state - as they ha\·e done so Two F -106 fightersfrom the Air pains across her body and blistering often in the past - that LJ FOs have National Guard's squadron at to the scalp. She suffered temporary no national security implications. Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan hair loss and developed breast \Vllich course the American were sent aloft tointercept the cancer which required a government\\ill choose to take only UFO, but no contact was made. mastectomy. tin1e will tell. 65 NORTH AMERICA NAME 'KATHIE DAVIS' ABDUCTIONS total of nine babies, the implication being that they arc hers. DATE 30 JUNE 1983 The case continues and Hopkins, PLACE 'COPLEY WOODS', INDIANA who carried out the regression MAP REF: L16 hypnosis sessions in the presence of EVENT MULTIPLE LIFETIME ABDUCTIONS a doctor, believes that the aliens are undergoing a series of examinations The Kathie Davis case, investigated and that her son Robbie is now the by top American abduction subject of abductions. researcher Budd Hopkins, can The case is heavily dependent on probably be regarded as the current regressionhypnosis with very little 'state of the art' in abduction lore. of the detail being remembered On :�O june 1983 Kathie Davis (a consciously. Hopkins has also stated pseudonym used to protect the that there are many facts he has not identity of the witness) saw lights yet made public hoping they will be apparently searching the garden of corroborated in other cases. her house and she went out to see The face of an alien abductor, drawn by them. It appears that because she 'Kathie Davis'. drew attention to herself she NAME JAPAN AIR LINES received a blast of radiation, was body. In 1979 Kathie was abducted DATE 17 NOVEMBER 1986 abducted, and then possibly had a again and a probe inserted into her PLACE ANCHORAGE AIRPORT, ALASKA device implanted into her by means nose possibly implanting some sort MAP REF: of a probe. of monitoring device. C8 However, the j une 1983 1983 bq.,1]nswith the incident of EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST encounter appears to be one of the lights in her garden which KIND many throughout her life. inspired her to contact Budd There are vague suggestions of Hopkins. Some months later it Notable mainly for the sheer size of abductions in her very early years; would appear that she was abducted the UFO involved, the encounter of Kathie has a dream of her mother again and subjected to a gruelling the crew ofjapan Air Lines cargo protecting her from a threat in the medical examination, which left her flight No. JAL 1628 on 17 November sky by hiding her in a wardrobe. On bleeding and when she reawakened 1986 attracted considerable interest. another occasion she recalls going to she was in her own backyard in her The plane was flying from France a strange house and meeting a 'little nightgown. Most incredibly of all she to japan and was making a stopover boy'. Hopkins believes this is a fa lse believes that during this abduction at Anchorage airport. At :39,000 ft memory implanted by an alien to she met a child which was her hybrid (11,887 m) and preparing for disguise her abduction. They took a alien daughter. descent, Captain Kenju Terauchi sample of her skin; Kathie has a scar In a further abduction in and his crew noticed lights near the on her leg which is regarded as November 198:3, it appears that jumbo jet. They were flying parallel evidence of this event. Kathie was subjected to medical and pacing the aircraft and Terauchi In I >ccember 1977, Kathie was examination and her ova contents briefly saw the object carrying the abducted from a car, the other were removed by aliens. There is lights, which he described as 'walnut occupants were apparently some suggestion that her son shaped' and twice the size of an 'switched off to isolate them from Tommy was also abducted at this aircraft carrier. the incident. She was taken aboard a time. It appears that Tommy was The UFO apparently paced the flyingsaucer and given the first of abducted again in February 1986 and plane for over half an hour and was many gynaccolo�1]caloperations. Kathie accidentally witnessed the radar-tracked by air trafficcontrol. Hopkins believes that time she was alien emerging from his bedroom. Captain Terauchi had his own artificially inscmin;Jted by the aliens. A further abduction takes place rather unique interpretation of the A further abduct ion occurred in from Kathie's home in April 1986. interest of the aliens, if that is what March 1978 and Hopkins believes She is shown two babies and allowed they were. 'We were carrying that during this event the unborn to name them and 'bond' with them Beaujolais from France to japan. foetus was removed from Kathie's though she is told that there is a Maybe they wanted to drink it.' 66 OAT ABASE 1980s NAME GULF BREEZE CASE Mr Ed experienced a considerable depositing aliens onto the road number of sightings, each one which then a e red DATE 11 NOVEMBER 1987 (TO THE PRESENT pp a to come aftvr hirn. Apparently he was able DAY) preceded by a peculiar buzzing to gd sound in his head. The investigators int o his truck and dri\'e off to escape PLACE GULF BREEZE, FLORIDA believe this may have been the capture. MAP REF: M19 product of an implant placed in his In Felmtary 19HH Mr Ed had ;1 1iv EVENT MULTIPLE PHOTOGRAPHIC CASE head at the time of an abduction detector test and the examiner was early in his life and designed to $-.ri ve firmlypersuaded that l\lrEd 'truly In 1�87, Gulf Breeze, the offshore him warningof the impending arrival believes that the photographs and area of Pensacola, Florida became of the saucers. personal sightings are true and the site of the most extraordinary Over the five to six month period fact ual to the best of his ability. ' photographic case and one which has Mr Ed took dozens of photographs, The 1 May 1988 date is import;mt caused considerable controversy in to some extent under controlled as it was then that M r Ed had an the United States ever since. conditions. Optical physicist Bruce encounter which he believes may This is the first case in which a Maccabee, the chainnan of the Fund have been an abduction during which large number of photographs were for UFO Research, set up a system the implant which forewarned him of used to support an abduction. At the of stereo photography, to give an his sightings was removed. It is same time that the events were almost three-dimensional effect, by further speculated that the reason occun·ing, the case was being <1tlaching two Polaroid cameras to that this was removed W 67 orth America, and particularly the United daylight. Until 1952 these reports seemed to satisfy States, is - as the scope and size of the the American need. In that year, however, the subject database suggests - the home of the UFO underwent its first major change which viewed with phenomenon. It was born on that continent, hindsight was inevitable. George Adamski (see page onN 24 June 1947, when pilot Kenneth Arnold reported 28), reported not only seeing flying saucers at close that he had witnessed nine objects in flight while flying quarters, but also claimed to meet with the extra in the Cascade mountains of Washington State (see terrestrial pilots, in the desert in California. In page 15). Although by today's standards, it was a very subsequent adventures Adamski claimed he was taken unimpressive sighting - of short duration by a single on tours of the planets of the solar system. It is a claim witness, of indistinct objects, and seen at some that has not stood the test of time; the planets considerable distance - it had enormous social signifi Adamski apparently visited have been shown in recent cance. When Arnold told reporters afterwards that the years to be quite incapable of supporting anything like objects had moved 'like a saucer would if you skipped humanoid life. Adamski's books sold well though, a it across the water', one reporter coined the phrase fact which may have encouraged others to follow him 'flying saucer'. It was the perfect term for the mood of in the next few years. the times, a name that the public was instantly drawn In 1961, less than a decade later, the phenomenon to. It was also the most powerful advertising slogan changed again. While driving from Canada to their ever coined. home in New Hampshire state, a married couple, The UFO hCls continued to live in the US ever Betty and Barney Hill (see page 42), claimed that they since. Certainly the phenomenon has siblings and were 'abducted' by the alien pilots of a flying saucer. cousins in every country in the world; as this book These were not the graceful, gentle aliens Adamski shows it is far from a solely North American had met who had shown such concern for the experience. However, the public acceptance of UFOs well-being of human kind; these were dwarf, alien is far higher there, particularly in the United States, fom1s, and their interest seems to have been virtually than anywhere else in the world. The uncritical clinical. During their two-hour captivity the Hills were acceptance of the more extraordinary theories regard subjected to a medical examination of the most ing UFOs is also wider there. The media in the US frightening nature. Such abductions have continued to have helped to make the subject there respectable, be reported up to the present day, but the sequels though also one of raJ..,ring controversy. Only Britain have been increasingly frightening. Probably the 'state comes close to the American response to UFOs, and of the art' abduction at the present time is the 'Kathie this is largely America-driven. Davis' case (see page 66) where the witness is The UFO has matured in North America, indeed claimed to have undergone a series of abductions there more than anywhere else it has evolved, and throughout her life. It appears that she was artificially mutated. Some aspects of the subject have undergone inseminated during one abduction, in a later abduction a complete metamorphosis. In the early days UFO (or the foetus was stolen from her womb and - in a still 'flying saucer') reports consisted of night-time lights in further event - she was allowed to meet with her the sky, or discs and egg shaped objects seen in the hybrid alien offspring. 68 I •llllllll illlllll•· FROM SAUCERS TO CONSPIRACIES LEFT Major Donald E Keyhoe was a prominent and vociferous opponet to UFO cover-up by the military, and took every opportunity to challenge the official line. He put a great deal of pressure on the establishment with such books as The Flying Saucers Are Real (RIGHT) . The UFO phenomenon had changed from being There are other mutations of the phenomenon fascinating, to being fascinating and disturbing. It was that seem uniquely American; perhaps the most like science fiction, but a science fiction that could obvious is the appearance of the 'men in black'. It has happen to you, or you. It does not matter if you think never been very clear precisely who these characters the whole phenomenon to be one of wish-fulfilment or were supposed to be; they were repressive indi fantasy; whereas before it might have been a pleasure viduals who rode around in squeaky-clean Cadillacs to be so affected, now it would be immensely and threatened UFO witnesses with Mafia style frightening. 'hints', suggesting strongly that they keep silent about Both the Arnold case and the Hill case raise an their sightings. Obvious candidates would seem to be interesting point about North American ufology. In agents of the CIA or the FBI either on a very strange neither case were the claims the first to be made in and non-productive mission, or just having a laugh at the world, but they were the first to gain media the expense of a 'fringe' subject. Other suggestions recognition. Prior to both these cases Europe had are that they were bornin the i\lauryIsl and case (see undergone the 'Foo Fighters' (see page 79) of the page 14), and were agents of the Atomic Energy World War Two aerial combat arena, Scandinavia had Commission. Eventually, the claims were made - experienced the Ghost Rocket sightings (see page 80) inevitably - that the 'men in black' had a vested and South America had seen the first abduction claim interest in silencing witnesses - they were them in the case of Antonio Villas Boas (see page 181). selves the aliens! One report suggested that they However, these new and - for the times - innovative were trying to blend in with the human community by, claims seemed unable to gain an acceptance outside for example, using heavy make-up and lip-stick. America until they had first become acknowledged Unfortunately they got it all wrong - the men wore the there. It is as if the world prefers either for America to make up, proving [!] their extraterrestrial lack of sanction extraordinary claims before it will consider earthly knowledge . . . them, or to avoid being the firstto look foolish, even if No-one has ever successfully explained these America is prepared to jump in with both feet. very marked differences between America and the 69 NORTH AMERICA rest of the world, though Dennis Stacy's opening human counterparts inside the Pentagon. Others still comments are enlightening coming as they do direct fear a worse scenario: that the government knows from within the USA. something so horrific that the public must not be told. One fact that might have coloured the develop In fact, the cover up is most likely to be a cover up ment of the subject is the 'prize' offered by the of ignorance rather than knowledge. The United National Enquirrr - a tabloid publication - of $5,000 States does not appear to be a country that maintains per year for the best UFO story. Certainly some of 'major' cover ups successfully in the long term, and the most extraordinary claims have been awarded the the holding of crashed flying saucers and dead aliens is sum -many are included in the database in this book 'major' by any standards. Such a cover up is alleged to the Travis Walton case (see page 64), the Delphos have gone on for over forty years and would have ring (see page 58), the Coyne encounter (see page involved hundreds if not thousands of people; yet the 60), and so on. But if this led witnesses to make false AmericanPresident could not cover up his ownactions claims, and if some of those claims were regarded as and the actions of his aides for the two more years 'real', then surely that alone would not account for the needed to see out his last term of office in the 1970s. subject, after all the Enquirer was not paying for Such crash retrieval stories are also uniquely claims from South America and Africa, and so on, yet American; although other countries, such as Australia, they came in too. It must be said though that a $5,000 have the wide open spaces and military installations reward for extraordinary stories would be totally that seem to be fa voured by the more clumsy of the irresponsible ifufology had offered it; we cannot blame extraterrestrial spaceships.. No other country has the Enquirer for 'doing what comes naturally' but produced this rash of such stories. A recent claim that perhaps must take account of the effect it had. a similar event had happened in Africa has proved to One other suggestion made is that the US is both be a ludicrous fraud. We must assume that the a more 'open' society able to accept new concepts and Russians, for example, also benefit from these at the same time a xenophobic one, fearing outside downed saucers, or that they are being very generous invasion. It is a country that has never had its mainland in allowing America the advantage of learning from this borders attacked and the two famous situations where incredibly advanced technology. In any other cir it appeared that this might be happening provoked cumstance we might have expected Russian espion remarkable responses. In 19:�8 Orson Welles broad age, if not a full scale Russian attack, on Wright cast a radio version of The War ofthe Worlds as if it Patterson Air Base, where - it is speculated - all were genuinely happening; there was extraordinary UFOs are sent and stored, to equalize the balance of panic in the population including evacuation of homes. power as with atomic secrets, space technology and In 1941 it was feared that the coast of Los Angeles so on. Yet the Russians seem happy to let the was being invaded by japanese fighter planes, which Americans get on with this one. was quite unfounded, but the resulting chaos caused Unfortunately America must also be said to be the several deaths and destruction of property. home of the fraudulent claim. It is quite likely that The average American's relationship with his or some of the more extraordinary documents seeming her governmenthas also affected the direction of ufology to support crash retrievals were created by ufologists in recent years, and again in a way that seems to in support of their beliefs (and their lecture circuit have been more extreme than that caused by similar income!). Since, in the past few years, ufology has situations in other countries. There has been great become 'big bucks', fraudulent claims are increasing. distrust of the government's honesty with regard to These negative considerations apart, America is UFOs; claims abound that the government is covering responsible for much of the very significant effort that up its knowledge of UFOs. Indeed, documents has gone into UFO research in the past four decades released under the Freedom Of Infonnation Act have and more. The private research organizations there revealed that there has been some cover up. Claims are more active than similar groups anywhere else in by the FBI and the CIA that they had no interest in the world. Notable amongst them is MUFON - the lJFOs and were not investigating them have also been Mutual UFO Network in Texas, and CUFOS - the J. shown to be quite fa lse. Unfortunately, this cover up Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. has helped colour in a conspiratorial picture. As a Of private individuals that country has produced result many in America believe that the government more informed researchers than any other. jacques has retrieved crashed flying saucers, and dead alien Vallee and john Keel have consistently shown the way bodies. ( Hhcrs believe that aliens work alongside to radical thinking into the phenomenon, and their 70 .. I ' Jl : I i I':1'! �I; FROM SAUCERS TO CONSPIRACIES books have had a great eifect well beyond the always exhibiting the very best efforts; :111 emphasis American borders. on the scientific style of study ;mel a determination to In the early years there was much high level be rational in his thinking and leadership. It w;1s he involvement in UFO study; Major Donald Keyhoe who talked of the 'escalation of hypotheses', w;1rning became a most vociferous exponent of the extra that it was improper to assume the extraordinary terrestrial theory, and wrote many books trying to before the ordinary had first been successfully elimin highlight his own government's apparent lack of ated. llynek's death has left a void in ufology that has proper commitment to the subject. lie also suggested not yet been filled. and it is a void that reaches across the idea of a 'lure' designed to attract and capture the world. If other countries took their lead from visiting extraterrestrials - the hunted turning hunter - America in the early years, it was at least a strong, if based on a Canadian idea of the 1950s of offering sometimes a headstrong lead. Today, it is both UFOs a specified 'landing field' from which contact confused and leaderless. llynek's death and the might be mutually arranged. attempts to replace him have left a very violent po\\·er One name that cannot go unmentioned in this struggle in America which is damaging ufology the introduction is that of I >r J. Allen llynek, who gave his world over. Those who 'would-be-l lynek' are insub name to the Center for UFO Studies on his death in stantial shadows of the real man. 1986. A professional astronomer, he was engaged by That leaderless lead has produced one \'ery the United States Air Force to investigate and debunk damahTj_ng effect, to which I )ennis Stacy refers in his the flying saucer stories, to produce a final investiga commentary; that of litigation by Americans. mostly in tion of the subject that would rid the Air Force of what pursuit of their more absurd theories. As one of the they perceived to be their problem. Far from succeed nations affected by this new trend, Britain now looks ing, Hynek became convinced that there was indeed with more suspicion at the American continent, and something extraordinary that needed to be investi it must be admitted - with more suspicion at the very gated properly. When the Air Force's final official foundation of ufology. I las it always been just a game investigation, Project Blue Book, was closed down in of extremists pursuing the great American dollar? 1969 Hynek fom1ed the Center for UFO Studies from Surely not. The sheer weight of substantial e\·idence the hard core of scientists he had worked with over in support of some extraordinary phenomenon is too the years. They had been known as the 'Invisible h'Teat to be dismissed that simply. Nonetheless. we College', now they were becoming visible. Through must trust that authoritative UFO groups strive to out the remainder of his life I lynek doggedly pursued avoid a situation which could result in the USA losing the UFO phenomenon through its many evolutions, its well-respected lead position in world ufology. Pro1ect Blue Book was the last UFO Air Force investigation. AsovE Dr J Allen Hynek. who was engaged by Project Blue Book to debunk UFOs; he became convinced of their reality and went on to become the most famous ufolog1st of all time. RIGHT Seated is Major Hector Ouintinilla. head of Project Blue Book 71 PUBLIC AWARENESS OF FLYING SAUCERS WAS THUS WIDESPREAD IN EUROPE AT THE SAME TIME AS CHEWING-GUM, COCA-COLA AND THE OTHER AMERICANA THAT THE 'MARSHALL' PLAN TOOK TO EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II. KEY TO MAP OF EUROPE CD Historical Perspective, Sardinia, Roman Mediterranean ® Dr ·x·. Southern France 0 The Irish Airship, Cloera, Ireland @ Kathryn Howard, Southern Sweden 0 The Birthof the 'Foo Fighters', Schweinfurt,Germany @ The lmjarvi Encounter, lmjarvi, Southern Finland @ Swedish Ghost Rockets. Lake Ktilmjarv,North Sweden @ The Maarup Encounters, Hadersley, Jylland, Denmark ® Greek Ghost Rockets, Salonika, Thessatia, Greece ® The Peter Day Film, Long Crendon, Oxfordshire, England ® Oloron, Oloron-Ste Marie, Pays Basques, France @ Langford Budville Encounter, Langford Budville, Somerset. 0 Wolin Island Sighting, Wolin Island, Szczecin, Poland England ® The Stephen Darbishire Photographs, Coniston, Cumbria, England @ Torino Sighting, Caselle Airport, Torino, Italy ® W�gierska Gorka Encounter, W�gierska Gorka, Poland ® The Vilvorde Humanoid, Vilvorde, Brussels, Belgium @) The Dewilde Encounter, Quarouble, France @ The Anders Encounter. Gustavslund, Sweden @ Sinceny Misjudgement, Sinceny, Aisne, France @ Mrs Andersson's Encounter, Stiderby, Gustavslund. Sweden ® Flight Lieutenant Salandin's Encounter. Thames Estuary, ® The Bellingeri Sighting, Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy England ® The Aveley Abduction, Aveley, Essex, England @> The UFO Fleet, Rome, Italy ® The Trident Sighting, PortugueseCoast, 40 miles (64 km) south of @ Namur Photographic Case. Namur, Belgium Lisbon. Portugal @ Bentwaters/Lakenheath, Suffolk, England @ The Aviano Blackout, Aviano NATO Base. North-east Italy @ Angelu Encounter. Figueras. Catalonia, Spain @ The Sardinia Helicopter Encounter, Cagliari, Sardinia. Italy ® Vaddo Retrieval, Vaddo. Roslagen, Sweden @ Medinaceli Abduction, Medinaceli, Soria, Spain @ Gydnia Humanoid, Gydnia Harbour, Gdansk, Poland @l The Mount Etna Encounter, Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy ® The Jelly Entities of Sweden, Domsten, Southern Sweden @ The Flying Elephant, Southampton, England ® The Batman Encounter. Saltwood, Kent, England @ Piastow Encounter, Piastow, Near Warsaw, Poland ® Kallavesi Lake, Kuopio, Finland @ Czluchow Sighting, Czluchow, Poland ® Valensole Sighting, Valensole, Southern France @ The Livingston Encounter, Livingston, Lothian. Scotland @ Coquil Encounter, Bolazec, France @ Cergy-Pontoise Abduction, Cergy-Pontoise. France @ The Hook Vehicle Interference, Hook, Hampshire, England @ Godfrey Encounter, Todmorden, West Yorkshire. England @ The Moigne Downs Encounter. Moigne Downs, Dorset, England @> Rendlesham Forest, RAF/USAF Woodbridge, Suffolk. England ® Serra de Almos Encounter, Serra de AI mos. Spain ® Hessdalen Lights. Hessdalen Valley, Norway t will be no surprise that as Europe is only a closely following news of sightings from the USA. geographical expression, a unified 'European Public awareness of flying saucers was thus wide ufology' does not exist. The language barrier spread in Europe at the same time as chewing-gum, has long been an obstacle in developing a Coca-Cola and the other Americana that the 'Marshall' commonI framework of any kind in Europe - let alone plan took to Europe after World War 11. In the autumn in the field of ufology. Indeed, even if we limit of 1954 a second widespread 'great wave' of flying ourselves to the eighteen countries of Western saucer sightings and landings took place throughout all Europe, as many as fourteen different lanhTUages are the countries of Europe, and as a consequence more spoken, and local ufologists are often unable to and more people began to take an interest in the understand any language other than their own. subject in the following years. As a consequence, those countries with languages It should be repeated that two different levels of other than English and French have had fewer national ufologies may be considered, according to the exchanges with other nations, both in tenns of input spoken l 74 111 111 •II !; 111 11 A COMMON EUROPEAN UFOLOGY? non-English-speaking European countries could be Silbury Hillin southern England. This huge man-made hill is the found. Nonetheless, the very first attempt at a focus of much attention by those concerned w1th the powers of rationalistic approach to UFOs came from France as ancient man. and paranormal activity. It is also close to early as 1958, when Aime Michel published his book Warminster. the centre of much UFO activity in Wiltshire . on 'orthoteny' (straight line theory), attempting to show that UFO sightings in the French wave of 1954 the history of ufology through the 1960s and 1970s, were aligned along straight lines. mostly following the impulse from 0!orth America. The birth of scientific ufology may also be traced It was during this period that the first real back to Europe. It was a young French-born scientist, differences in interpretation between �orth America astronomer jacques Vallee (who later moved to the and Europe occurred. The schism was caused by the USA), who published the first scientific UFO books in so-called 'new ufology', which was initiated by Amer the mid-sixties. We have to acknowledge that Euro ican researchers as early as 1969 but soon abandoned pean ufologies as a whole retained only a minor role in in the USA. It made a big impact in some European 75 EUROPE UFO circles, and the effect may still be seen in the another of Jacques Vallee's books, The Invisible 1990s. Once again, it all began in the USA, when two College (1975). Several French UFO writers were similar books were published by journalist John A. heavily influenced by that, and 'parapsychological Keel and scientist Jacques Vallee. They both consi ufology' prevailed in the French UFO journals be dered a non-extra-terrestrial explanation for the origin tween 1975 and 1979. Among the most interesting of UFOs which, they suggested, might instead be authors are Jean Giraud, Jean-Jacques Jaillat and derived from a form of intelligence in a 'parallel reality' Pierre Vieroudy. which had always existed beside our own reality. Such a line of thought is no longer prevalent in In the USA these ideas never found great France, because in turn it stimulated a totally different favour, the majority of ufologists still preferring the simple current, called 'the new wave', also known as Extra-terrestrial Theory (ETH), and by the second half 'nouveaux ufologues', or 'neo-skepticism'. It all began of the 1970s these notions were virtually forgotten. when Michel Monnerie, co-editor of the French UFO However, they stimulated at least three different lines journalLumieres dans Ia nuit (LDLN) realized that the of thought in Europe, mainly in Great Britain and 'psycho-ufology' was demonstrating that a genuine, France. The first was the literally 'paraphysical' concrete phenomenon was no longer needed to current, hinting at 'parallel realities', mostly diffused in account for the sightings: the witness was enough. He the UK in the pages of Flying Saucer Review. It has presented his thesis in a book, provocatively titled gradually lost ground in favour of the next two lines of What ifUFOs did not exis t? But if it were so, why call thought. The second was the 'humanistic ufology' for such exotic mechanisms as psychic powers? heralded by the Magonia magazine's editorial team in Monnerie's book had the same effect as a bomb: the UK; greater emphasis is placed upon the 'human fierce attacks on his own somewhat naive suggestion factor' in the UFO experience, both at an individual of an 'open-eye dream' as an explanation for the (i. e. psychological) level and at a collective (i. e. strangeness of some UFO sightings forced him to a sociological) level. more and more inflexible attitude. He published a The third concept was typical of French ufology in second book on the Shipwreck of the Extra-terrestrials the mid-1970s, where 'paranormal' aspects openly (1979) where he tried to demolish the whole ufological bordered with psychical (i. e. parapsychological) over building, openly becoming a true skeptic and finally tones. It was stimulated by the French edition of yet leaving ufology. This first generation of 'new skeptics' For centuries man has pondered over the origins of the huge stone circle known as Stonehenge on the plains near Salisbury. It is built at a point reputed to be a centre of major energy lines (leys), and is of great mystic importance . The area is also a focus of UFO activity. Why our ancestors went to the enormous trouble they did to create this monument remains unknown but UFO-related worship has often been suggested, perhaps because of the circular shape of the monument. The coincidence of modern UFO activity near this ancient site has suggested to many researchers that the UFO phenomenon may only be a modern version of something veryanci ent, something that has perhaps been a partof the Earthfor longer than Man. 76 ·llllllllllllln•· A COMMON EUROPEAN UFOLOGY? (including a re-wntmg and debunking of the great ufolohrists (l�enzo Cabassi, l�oberto l'arahone, Fran French UFO wave of 1951 by G. Barthel and cesco lzzo): UFO fJhenomena - International Annual j. Brucker) virtually ended in 1980, because these Neview (UP/AN). It was a refereed journal whose 'disillusioned ufologists' abandoned the UFO fi eld. editorial board looked like the \Vho's who of the The lesson of doubt was taught and, after a world's scientific ufology, and in 19H1 UI'IAI� was severe crisis due also to the lack of UFO sightings in hrr anted a Science Achievement A ward by the Fund the early 1980s, a new generation of French ufologists for UFO Research, based in America. The second has emerged. They keep a skeptical but open mind, breakthrough was in France, where in 1977 physicist try to re-define the scope of ufology and consider Claude Poher succeeded in getting a UFO study group psycho-sociolohrical hypotheses to be as valid as the fonned within the Centre National d'Etudes Spatia/es ETII, until data arises to prove or disprove either (the French equivalent to NASA): Groupement theory. Claude Mauge, Bertrand Meheust, jacques d'Etudes des Phenomhzes Aerospatiaux Non-identzjes Scornaux and Thierry Pinvidic are the best known (GEPAN). names. Interestingly, a somewhat similar position is Specific national areas of interest may be found for now shared by most active European UFO resear single nations and hr iven periods of time. For example, chers, in countries other than France. sky-watching was popular in the UK in the 1960s, in In Great Britain jenny Randles's writings parallel France and Italy in the 1970s, and in Scandinavia in the the Monnerie/l lendry evolution of thought although 1980s. The series of cosmic messages known collec they never negate the physical reality of UFOs. She tively as the 'UMMO' affair is virtually confmed has moved from paraphysical reasonings to Hendry to Spanish-speaking countries. The earthlights debate like texts such as UFO Study (1981) and UFO Reality has barely passed the British boundaries. Even (1983), fi nally considering natural unexplained aerial specific UFO/IFO types may be found: lighted toy phenomena as good candidates for some UFOs. In this balloons (miniature hot air balloons) cause as many as context, we see Paul Devereux's Earthligh ts, Hilary 30 per cent of sightings in Germany, where virtually Evans's Ball Of Light International Data Exchange no landinghas been reported; Italy is plagued by 'laser (BOLIDE) or the very responsible position BUFORA beams' in concerts, circuses and the like; and the has been holding vis-a-vis the corn circle phenomenon abduction scene occurs in a different way in each and the plasma vortex hypothesis. European country. Europe has come of age: there is a collective A unifying pattern has begun to appear in the last movement towards a less critical attitude towards the few years. A common European framework is visible ETH origin of UFOs, a greater attention not only to when considered against the backgroundof American identifying IFOs but also to studying them, and a ufology - characterized, in particular, by the greater re-definition of the aims and scopes of ufology. attention to uniformity of research, investigation In Spain the sound, scientific-oriented work of methodology and definition of terms. The role of Vicente-juan Ballester Olmos has greatly contributed human sciences, in the case of both individual reports to the new breed of researchers presently collected and of the development of a 'UFO myth' parallel to the around the journal Cuademos de Ufologia. In Italy UFO phenomenon, is a further characteristic of the 'revisionists' like Paolo Toselli and Maurizio Verga cohesive European framework. have become the core of a national ufology. German We only need to overcome practical difficulties, ufologyis presently represented by either cultists or such as the languagebarrier, in order to get better and the skeptical CENAP and mildly skeptical GEP more stable exchanges. InternationalCongresses held groups. The same may be said - to a lesser degree - in the last few years have increased cooperation. l\lay of the Belbrian SOBEPS, the Swedish AFU or the we hope that by 1993 we will also have a European Danish SUFOI. Community of ufology? The so called 'revisionists' are all former 'classic' believers who gradually developed a ctitical attitude based on their on-field experience. They do not refuse 'exotic' hypotheses but minimize their importance. EooARDo Russo is a 'director' of the Italian group the Centro Europe has also had two major breakthroughs Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU). This group has an concerning science and UFO study. As early as 1976, integrated Italian network and many international the very first scientificjournal on UFOs \Vas launched associations. In 1988 it formally joined the International as an international venture by a group of Italian Committee for UFO Research (ICUR). 77 NAME THE IRISH AIRSHIP Duringa Sunday mass, witnesses PRE 1900 saw an anchor drop from the sky and DATE 1211 A.D. NAME HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE attach itself to the arch above the PLACE CLOERA, IRELAND DATE 216 church door. As they rushed out of B.C. D11 MAP REF: the church the witnesses saw in the PLACE SARDINIA, ROMAN MEDITERRANEAN EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND sky a ship with men on board. They MAP REF: J19 KIND watched as a man appeared to leap EVENT EARLY 'UFO REPORT' off the ship and 'swim' through the Airship style encounters have been air down towards the anchor to Things that looked like ships were common enough with the panics of release it. The witnesses apparently seen in the sky over Italy ...in 1897 in America and 1909 in attempted to capture the entity but Sardinia, a knight was making his Europe. Many of these sightings the bishop forbade them to do so. rounds inspecting the posts !,'l larding were of terrestrial prototypes; they The man was allowed to return to the ramparts when a stick in his were seen only a few years before the ship which then cut its anchor hand burst into flames. The same they were openly admitted to, and rope and sailed away. According to thing happened to .Roman soldiers in some even had inventors' names the report the anchor was preserved Sicily who saw their javelins start attributed to them. Some of the in the church. burningin their hands. . . . at Apri a accounts were very strange and Clearly, investigation of a case round shield was seen in the sky. It deserved further investigation, but nearly 800 years old is out of the seemed as if the moon was fighting one particular airship account is question but, if nothing else, it with the sun ...at Capua, the sky remarkable if only because it serves to emphasize that there were was all on fire and people saw certainly cannot have been an early extraordinary events occurring in fi gures above them that looked like prototype of a terrestrial airship . the sky long before the birth of the ships. ' coming as it did in the year 1211. UFO phenomenon in 1947. BASEL This illustration is taken !rom the Basel Broadsheet of 1566 and depicts !leets o! huge globes seen over Basel on 7 Augusl in I hat year. Whether we can righlly regard the image as an early UFO report or not is subject to question, but the drawing is thought provoking and one o! many from earlier centuries that suggest the UFO phenomenon is !ar older than its 'o!ficial' start date o! 1947. 78 ·liillillllllll••· DATABASE 1940s that the Axis powers had Later foo figh ter reports told 1940s themseln.·s encountered foo fighters mainly of fireball like lights and NAME THE BIRTH OF THE ·FOQ FIGHTERS' and belie\'ed that they might ha\'e glowing spheres. Because the l.'F() DATE 14 OCTOBER 1�3 been Allied weapons. There were phenomenon had not yet been also sightings reported from the officially born (see Kenneth :\mold PlACE SCHWEINFURT. GERMANY japanese aircraft in the Pacific. in the �orth American section. MAP REF· K14 The foo fighters made their first page 15) and because these reports EVENT FOO FIGHTERS appearance, at least officially, on 14 came in soonafter the first foo October 1913 when the :iS-1 Bomb fi ghter reports, they were Foo fighters were part of the UFO Group was making its final run over understood at the time to be further phenomenon that occurred during the industrial complex at examples of the same phenomenon World War II in both the European Schweinfurt in Germany, coded -in retrospect this seems less likely and Pacificba ttle arenas. For the �tission 115. The German fighter to have been the case than was most part they consisted of bright planes disappeared from the air and thought initially. lights which paced aircraft, the bomb group's pilots confirmed The foo fightermyster y was occasionally e\'en mming inside that 'there were no enemy aircraft never soh·ed. They are much less them, but they were also sometimes a bon.·. · Ahead of them a cluster of frequently reported nowadays. identified as small discs just a few tiny discs some 3 in (8 em) across though of course many current ball inches across, some of which were were reported and discussed by the of-light and night-light phenomena felt clattering across the \\ings of crews of the aircraft over the radio. may well ha\'e been called foo the planes. 'Foo' incidentally is B- 17 bomber number 026 fighters had they been seen in those thought to deri\·e either from the attempted to e\'ade the objects but early years when the phenomenon french word for fire- fe u - or from a was unsuccessful and reported that was common over Germany. cartoon character. popular in one wing cut directly through the England at the time, who went by cluster but did not damage the The picture is alleged to show the the name of Foo. plane. It is possible that this case mysterious ·too fighters' that buued The British belie\'ed that they represented an early experiment aircraft during World War II. It was taken might be an :\.xis power's secret \\ith 'window' (a de\·ice which over Germany in 1944 . No definitive weapon. Howe\·er. following the attempted to confuse radar return explanation tor these bright light sources end of the war documents re\·ealed si!-,1flals). has been found. 79 II •1111111 111 1 �II•· EUROPE ABovE An early photograph of a Swedish ghost rocket taken in 1946. RIGHT Karl Gosta Bartoli examining Lake Kolmjarvfor debris following a crash on 19 July 1946. NAME SWEDISH GHOST ROCKETS they firstthought was an aeroplane NAME GREEK GHOST ROCKETS DATE 19JULY 1946 but then realized was a rocket like DATE 1 SEPTEMBER 1946 device crashing towards the lake PLACE LAKE KOLMJARV, NORTH SWEDEN PLACE SALONIKA,THESSAL iA, GREECE surface. As it hit the water an MAP REF: M3 MAP REF: P1 9 enormous column of water cascaded EVENT GHOST ROCKET SIGHTING out proving beyond doubt that the EVENT GHOST ROCKETS object was physical. They described Throughout the early 1930s and into it as approximately 6ft (183 em) During the ghost rocket wave which the late 1940s Scandinavia, and long with small wings on either side. occurred across Europe in the latter particularly Sweden, was the setting On another shore of the lake a half of the 1940s, a number of such for a particular fonnof UFO sighting further witness, Frideborg Tagebo, objects were seen over Macedonia known as the 'ghost rockets'. They heard the crash and described it as and Salonika. One report of these first occurred around the Arctic being like a bomb detonating. came from the highest possible Circle near the Swedish!Norwe!,rian The following morninga company source - an interview on 5 border at Vasterbotten in the last of soldiers blockaded the area and September in London with the months of 1933 when distant lights searched the lake for the next two Greek Prime Minister, M. in the valleys were sighted by local weeks. No debris was apparently Tsaldaris. One of the principal people. The assumption made was recovered, although even with an scientists of the country, professor that the lights were made by explosion of this intensity there Paul Santorini, investigated the smugglers but customs action found should have been some material left. sightings and 'soon established that no support for this claim. Perhaps The ghost rocket saga continued they were not missiles'. the most substantial of the ghost and eventually became the subject of However, the investigation into rocket claims was that of 19 July an official 'ghost rocket' the sightings was stopped by the 1916 when two witnesses observed investigation committee. Erik Anny. The professor believed that a a small object crash into Lake Malmberg of the committee blanket of security had been placed K 80 ·1111lllllll111••· DATABASE 1950s long trails of angel hair (filaments NAME WOLIN ISLAND SIGHTING 1950s reportedly dropped from lJFOs and DATE 31 JULY 1953 NAME OLORON similar to spider's webs), which PLACE WOLIN ISLAND. SZCZECIN, POLAND DATE 17 OCTOBER 1952 covered trees, houses and electric MAP REF: L12 lines in Lhc area. Analysis of angel PLACE OLORON-STE-MARIE, PAYS BASQUES, hair from this and other cases has EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST FRANCE proved inconclusive. It has been KIND MAP REF: F17 suggested that it is a natural EVENT ANGEL HAIR PRECIPITATION substance unnaturally affected by One of the earliest 'modern' UFO certain properties of the UFO, reports from Poland originates from Shortly after noon on 17 October possibly super-ionization of the air. Wolin Island. At 7 o'clock in the 1952, headmaster Monsieur Prigent Any such speculation must remain evening of :n july 195], five Polish and his wife and children observed a only that as angel hair does not last nationals together with two strangely shaped cloud and behind il long enough for in-depth analysis. Germans witnessed a saucer shaped a long, cylindrical, luminous object object landing next to a railroad. It emitting puffs of smoke. Ahead of An artist'sim pression of UFOs seen over appears to have been some 60-70 ft the object were some thirty UFOs Oloron-Ste-Marie, France in October (18. :�-2 1.] m) wide with a series of shaped like the planet Saturn: red 1952. The Saturn-like UFOs were what may have been portholes globes surrounded by a yellow ring accompanying a huge cylindrical object. around its edge. which were travelling in a zigzagging Thin filaments of material known as 'angel The sighting lasted only a few motion across the sky. hair' were reporteddropping from the minutes and the object took off at The sighting left physical traces: objects, one of several such cases. remarkable speed. 81 EUROPE NAME THE STEPHEN DARBISHIRE PHOTOGRAPHS DATE 15 FEBRUARY 1954 PLACE CONISTON, CUMBRIA, ENGLAND MAP REF: F1 1 EVENT PHOTOGRAPHIC CASE Just over a year after George Adamski's celebrated encounters in California (see page 28), in which he took several photographs of the aleged Venusian scout ship, 13- year-old Stephen Darbishire photogaphed a very similar craft at C 82 '''llilllllllw· DATABASE 1950s NAME W�GIERSKA GORKAENCOUNTER DATE JULY 1954 PLACE W�GIERSKA GORKA.POLAND MAP REF: L12 EVENT ABDUCTION In lYHG a conversation took place involving the witness (name with held) in this case, which suddenly awoke in her memories of a strange event that had taken plllce when she was a child of eleven, in july 1Y51. She had been on holiday at WGgicrska G6rka when she and her friends had gone to the woods to pick mushrooms. While walking alone ncar a cliff, she saw a glowing, oval-shaped light near the ground. She walked to it. A figure approached her from a door in the NAME THE DEWILDE ENCOUNTER Marius Dewilde and h1s fam1ly at the scene object, then seemed to draw her of the UFO encounter of 10 September DATE 10 SEPTEMBER 1954 into the object in a way she cannot 1954, at Ouarouble in France. The railway PLACE OUAROUBLE, FRANCE recall: she just walked up a small track over which the object landed can be MAP REF: H14 flight ofst airs and then stepped in seen. Dewilde was not intimidated by the through the door. EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD encounter, and pressed home a vigorous Inside the object there were four KIND assault, met by a paralyzmg beam other entities: they were of average height and with many human When entities chose to visit nearby rail tracks. As he tried to features such as skin colour and Quarouhle in France they may have move he discovered that he was hand shape. However, they were recognized that they had superior paralyzed in his legs. wearing close fitting clothes, were technology on their side. They were That would be enough for many surrounded by a mist and had on the certainly going to need it because men but Dewilde was not finished back of their bodies something they came up against one of the yet. Ha\'ing been shocked by the resembling a hump. It is interesting most tenacious responses - from a ;1ppearancc of the entities and to compare this description 'Aith the single individual -on record. pre\'cnted from grabbing them ;mel one in the Czluch(lw sighting (see Alerted hy the sound of his dog having been paralyzed by a beam page 110), a case which occurred howling outside, Marius I>cwilde. at from their craft . once he had after the Wt;gierska G6rka ;1pproximatcly 10.]0 in the e\Tning regained the usc of his limbs he encounter but before the recall. on 10 September 1%1. opened his apparently ran towards the l 'FO in Their eyes were small, there was no door and S;JW t \VO strange ;m attempt to catrh up with it. He nose and the mouth was just like a humanoids just a few feet away from failed to do so and the object lifted crack. The girl was 'instructed' to lie him. They were wearing one piece off and tkw away. down, and she fell asleep. diving style suits and their heads Dewilde alerted the police and Her next memory is of being were enclosed in enormous globular the subsequent investigation found by her friends, sitting near the glass helmets. They w�'re short and in\'olH·d the French intl'lligcnrc cliff. She had been missing for se\Tn \'Cry stocky and the witness docs sen·iccs and its scientists. ( )nt· ol hours. While they had full baskets of not recall seeing any ;mns. the scientists indicated. irom thl' mushrooms, her's was empty. What Dewilde's reaction was ,l.' l'otllld tr;1ces left ;It the site oi thl' had she been doing in all that time, immediate: he tried to grab the cncountt•r. that the objt·l·t restin.t.: they asked? All she could recall was entities but \\'as blinded by a beam of over the rail tracks lllllst ha\ t' a vague memory of flying ... light from an object resting on weighed at least :t:, tons. 83 EUROPE NAME SINCENY MISJUDGMENT approached Southend on the During the encounter a DATE OCTOBER 1954 Thames estuary - he saw three considerable amount of angel hair objects heading towards him. (filamentsreportedly dropped from PLACE SINCENY, AISNE, FRANCE As they approached one gold and UFOs and resembling spider's webs MAP REF: G14 one silver object flew to his left side in texture) dropped towards the EVENT SLIGHT ERROR OF MISJUDGMENT and the third came directly at him witnesses and evaporated in a few almost filling his windscreen. He hours. 'Seeing a silhouette moving in the described it as saucer shaped with a Dr Perego had a similar sighting light of two lamps, I thought I was in bun shaped top and a bun on 12 November, again with other the presence of a Martian in the underneath. Salandinwas shaken at witnesses, and was soon to become process of repairing his flying the tremendous speed at which it a devotee of the extraterrestrial saucer. I went to get my gun and I had been travelling. He reported the hypothesis and supporter of flying firedat him. ' sighting to his base and after landing saucer research. A perfectly reasonable made a report both to Derek assumption you might think (and a Dempster, an intelligence officer charming gesture of greeting), but who was later to become the editor NAME NAMUR PHOTOGRAPHIC CASE one which was unfortunately a bit of Flying Saucer Review, and also DATE 5 JUNE 1955 wide of the mark. In this case the the Air Ministry. target turnedout to be the witness's Of the sightings Salandin said 'I PLACE NAMUR, BELGIUM MAP REF: 114 own neighbour repairing his motor haven't found a satisfactory car. Fortunately his aim was no explanation for what I saw but I EVENT PHOTOGRAPHIC CASE better than his judgment and the know what I saw. ' Earlier he had shot only damaged the car, already expressed one At approximately 7.30 in the presumably leaving his neighbour disappointment 'The thing was right evening, postman and amateur somewhat startled. in my sights, next time I will be on photographer, Monsieur Our witness might have had even the ball. ' Muyldermanswas able to take three more trouble explaining himself if he photographs of a disc shaped object had offered the explanation 'I'm flying low nearhis car near Namur in sorry. I thought you were someone NAME THE UFO FLEET Belgium. else ... !' Meteorological study of the DATE 6 NOVEMBER 1954 photographs suggested that the PLACE ROME, ITALY altitude of the objects was some MAP REF: K18 NAME FLIGHT LIEUTENANT SALANDIN'S 4, 921 ft (1, 500 m) and the size was ENCOUNTER EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST approximately 39 ft (12 m) in diameter. Though unremarkable by DATE 14 OCTOBER 1954 KIND the standards of what was to follow PLACE THAMES ESTUARY, ENGLAND The Italian politician Dr Alberto in subsequent years, these MAP REF: G13 Perego was one of over a hundred photographs became world famous. EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST people who, on several occasions German investigator Gerald KIND during October and November of Mosbleck used them as the basis of 1954, saw fleets of UFOs in the his own deliberate fakes to prove Flight Lieutenant ]ames l-t Salandin skies above Rome. Most noticeable the ease with which such of the 601th County of Middlesex of these sightings was on 6 photographs could be faked, and to Squadron, i{oyal Auxiliary Air November when dozens of white demonstrate, correctly, that Force, took off at 1. 15 in the dots appeared, occasionally leaving photographs alone do not prove afternoon from I�AF North Weald in short vapour trails. They were much unless there is other Essex in a Meteor Mark 8 jet estimated as moving at substantial evidence (see fighter. It was a cloudless deep blue approximately 800 miles (1,300 km) photographic evidence page 27). sky and Salandin was able to see the per hour and flying at a height of vapour trails of two Meteors in approximately 20,000 ft (6, 096 m). The sequence of photographs taken by fonnation high above him. At Occasionally they grouped into Monsieur Muyldermans in Namur on 16,000 ft (1, 877 m) - as he forn1ations of diamond or V shapes. 5 June 1955. 84 DATABASE 1950s 85 'lllillil 'IIIIII••· EUROPE NAME BENlWATERS/LAKENHEATH night fighter was scrambled to NAME VADDO RETRIEVAL intercept the objects. At midnight DATE 13 AUGUST 1956 DATE 9 NOVEMBER 1958 the pilot gained visual contact with A O PLACE SUFFOLK, ENGLAND the object and shortly afterwards PLACE V DD , ROSLAGEN, SWEDEN MAP REF: G12 also confirmedradar contact. MAP REF: M8 EVENT RADAR VISUAL ENCOUNTER It is believed that gun camera film EVENTALLEGED CRASH RETRIEVAL was taken. Indeed the former head Radar operators at USAF/RAF of the Ministry of Defence Physical traces from UFOs are rare Bentwaters, at 9.30 in the evening department which studies UFOs, and usually confined to ambiguous of l:j August 1956, tracked a UFO Ralph Noyes (now an active UFO ground marks, bum marks, etc. return incoming from the North Sea investigator) stated that at the time Occasionally, however, solid some 25-30 miles (40-48 km) off the he watched the film butadmitted artefacts alleged to be part of UFOs coast. According to the radar it was that 'the film clips were very brief, are recovered though it has to be travelling at approximately 5, 000 rather fuzzy and not particularly admitted that there has not yet been miles (8,047 km) per hour, certainly spectacular. ' However, the a recovery of anything made of a far fa ster than any aircraft of the independent radar corroboration and substance which has definitelybeen time. Radar also tracked another the visual sightings, despite unclear confirmedas extra-terrestrial in .L,r roup of targets moving towards gun camera film, suggest very origin. Bent waters from approximately strongly that something physical On 9 November 1958 two 8 miles (l:j km) out at the more was in the air over Suffolk on that witnesses to the landing of a UFO reasonable speed of some 80- 125 night in 1956. near Vadd<> in Sweden investigated miles o:m-200 km) per hour. the area following its departure and Checks on the radar could not recovered a small metallic artefact. determine any malfunctions and NAME ANGELU ENCOUNTER Analysis indicated that it was made therefore a T-:j;) interceptor from of tungsten carbide, cobalt and DATE OCTOBER 1958 the 512 Fighter l nterceptor titanium. Squadron. which was returning to PLACE FIGUERAS, CATALONIA, SPAIN According to the witnesses, Bent waters from a training flight, MAP REF: G18 when recovered, shortly after the was diverted to search for visual EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST UFO had departed, the object was confirmationof the radar targets. KIND warm to the touch. Whether it was The plane could not verify the heated up by the action of the sightings but was searching blind At approximately 7 o'clock in the descent of the UFO or whether it having no airborne radar of its own. evening Senor Angelu, ridinghis trulydropped from it is not certain. Approximately an hour later motorcycle near Figueras in Spain, radar reported another target saw what appeared to be an object moving at between 2,000-4, 000 crash in a nearby wood. Wanting to NAME GDYNIA HUMANOID miles (;),200-6,,1()0 kml per hour. help, he went towards the site but DATE 21 JANUARY 1959 This object was also seen by control saw that it was not a crashed plane N tower personnel and described by but a landed UFO of traditional PLACE GDYNIA HARBOUR, GDA SK, POLAND them as a bright light passing over saucer shape, a transparent dome MAP REF: M11 the airfield at terrific speed. At the on top and standing on landing legs. EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD s;m1c time the pilot of a C-47 It was approximately 25 ft (7.62 m) KIND/HUMANOID RETRIEVAL transport aircraft reported a bright wide. light streaking bctH.'ath him. The witness saw two dwarf like An abnormal number of fingers, a Bent w 86 • 11illillllllln•· OAT ABASE 1950s BELIEVE IT . .. OR NOT. There arc very few photographs of UFO entities, and no reliable recovered cadavers were sent to Wright Patlerson m Oh1o ) ones. There have, however, been some very spectacular hoaxes, There have been several similar photographs from Germany or suspected hoaxes. The photograph below allegedly depicts and it has been suggested that at one time laking outrageous an alien taken alive from a UFO that crashed ncar Mexico City UFO stories was a favourite pastime of the American troops in the 1950s. The alien died shortly afterwards and was sent to stationed there. There is no supportive evidence lor this Germany for analysis. (Most modern day reports suggest that photograph. 87 111111••· EUROPE hospital at Gdynia following the it was noted he had an abnormal NAME THE JELLY ENTITIES OF SWEDEN recovery of a humanoid from the number of fingers. The hospital staff DATE 20 DECEMBER 1959 seafront there. attempted to remove the one piece It must be said that this suit that he was wearing but it was PLACE DOMSTEN, SOUTHERN SWEDEN legendary tale is of doubtful of an extremely hard material and it MAP REF: L10 authenticity; it appears without took metal shears to cut it from him. EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD reference in Arthur Shuttlewood's The staff also removed a bracelet KIND book The Flying Sauccrers and also from his wrist which may or may not without reference in UFOs in the have led to his dying immediately Returningfrom a dance two Soviet Union (although dated 21 afterwards. witnesses, Stig Rydberg and Hans February 1959 in that article). None A post mortem examination at Gustavsson, stopped to examine a of our researchers in Poland were Gdynia Hospital showed a strange light in a glade near to the road on able to produce documentary arrangement of internal organs and a which they were driving in their car. evidence for the alleged event. different form of circulatory system They saw a disc shaped object some As the legend has it ...A UFO spiralling around the body. The 15 ft (4.5 m) across standing on apparently crashed into Gdynia hospital was apparently sealed off by three landing legs. Harbour and shortly afterwards a bJU ards and the body removed in a Incredibly, they were attacked by small humanoid in a space suit was refrigerated container under heavy several tiny jelly like creatures that found wandering along the seafront security. According to one report tried to drag them towards the in a confused state. He was taken to the lorry was destined for a research saucer and a fight brokeout. One of the local clinic for observation where institute in Moscow. the two witnesses reached the car and sounded the horn, the second was then released and the entities scampered back to their craft which took off. Hypnotic regression undertaken TliEMor,., by doctors seemed to indicate that the witnesses were telling the truth. An lnve . MPROPHEGstig att n i 1\iAN However, the allegation was ysterious A � nto Jthe S the mencan E rejected by an Air Defence Infamous F Visits of eathe G Department officialinvestigation By aruda JOH ry N A. kfEL because of the unreliability of the witnesses. 1960s NAME THE BATMAN ENCOUNTER DATE 16 NOVEMBER 1963 PLACE SALTWOOD, KENT, ENGLAND MAP REF: G13 EVENT ENTITYENCOUNTER In the 1960s there were many reports in West Virginia, United States of America, of the so called 'Moth Men' which were red-eyed, moth- and bat-like creatures, In The Mothmen Prophecies, Keel describes bat-like entities reported in West Virginia, USA during the 1960s. 88 DATABASE 1960s occasionally the size of small light clements present which arc not When Masse wa s around �0 yds aircraft, which terrorized local generally found in such objects. (18.] m) away from the entities one inhabitants. In the end, the findings were of them spotted him, took the England was never plagued by inconclusive with many suggestions cylinder from his belt and fired a the Moth Men to this extent but as to what it could not be, but none beam at Masse who was paralyzed there was one report from Kent in as to what it might have been. immediately. Despite the nature of November of 1963. Two courting the encounter, however, Masse said couples watched a star-like UFO he never felt fear and believed that hover near some trees as they NAME VA LENSOLE SIGHTING the entities had no animosity paused from their amorous towards him. DATE 1 JULY 1965 activities. Those amorous activities Approximately a minute passed PLACE VALENSOLE, SOUTHERN FRANCE came to a startling end when the and the entities boarded their craft MAP REF: 118 witnesses suddenly saw, coming which then took off at an incredible towards them, a grotesque, EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD speed. It took something like fifteen headless, black entity with webbed KIND minutes for the paralysis to wear off feet and wings like a bat. and Masse returned to Valcnsole No other coherent information is Farmer Maurice Masse !,Tf CW where he discussed the story with available as the couples, lavender for use in the perfume his friends. They were impressed by understandably, beat a hasty retreat industry and on 1 july 1965 he left Masse's state of mind and did not leaving researchers with only this his house very early in the morning doubt that he was telling the truth. outline report. to walk to the fields to bch7Jn work. Subsequent investigation found He had stopped in the shade to traces in the soil where the craft had smoke a cigarette before starting landed; the soil was hard and NAME KALLAVESI LAKE when he heard the sound of an crumbly with a high calcium content. object above him which he thought Lavender on the site died and even DATE AUGUST 1964 might be a military helicopter. He future crops \vere affected until the PLACE KALLAVESI LAKE, KUOPIO, FINLAND walked towards the field to sec it. field had been thoroughly ploughed. MAP REF: P6 Some 100 yds (92 m) away he There is an as yet unknown detail EVENT ALLEGED CRASH RETRIEVAL saw an object unlike anything he had to the story. Masse has admitted seen before. It was oval shaped with that there was something else of Raimo Blomqvist witnessed a UFO a small dome on top and about the importance which he has kept to hoveringnear him above Kallavesi size of a car. It stood on six legs himself ever since. Lake, Finland in August 1961. The radiating out from a central spike. For ufoloh7Jststh e importance of case became more interesting Slightly in front of the object the encounter is its similarity to when, shortly before speeding off, Masse saw two entities who \vcre many cases that occurred earlier in the UFO dropped a small chunk of examining the plants in the field. He France during the 195:1 wave of material into the lake's edge. thought at first they were young entity reports. Masse himself was Blomqvist retrieved it; analysis boys and believed he had caught the also impressed by the similarity indicated that it was made out of iron vandals who had been damaginghis between the object he described and oxide and trace elements. plantations in the weeks before the the one seen by officerLonnie At Akadcmi University, encounter. But as he put it 'From Zamora in Socorro, �ew i\lexico in Professor Edelman X-raycd the the moment I started out ...I the United States only one year object and determined it was not a knew that it wasn't with men that I earlier (sec page c16). geological entity although it had to deal.· Of the mysterious truth yet to be resembled materials that are found The two entities w�re dressed in revealed we can only presume that it ncar the site of active volcanoes in h'T een one piece suits; they had huge is some forn1 of contartee message certain sections of the world. Turku bald heads, large slanting eyes and or perception. ;\lasse has stated the University also examined the object lipless mouths. Their skin was chalk immovability of his stance indic 89 'IIIIi 111111111•· EUROPE Artist's impression of the entities and flying some 15 ft ( 1. 5 m) above it. produced by his engineering object seen by Maurice Masse; they have That was enough for him, he ran company. The prompt delivery of been drawn over a photograph of the site. back to his car and got in but the the casings was crucial to an object followed and hovered important contract. Mainly for that NAME COOUIL ENCOUNTER above him. reason Collett was very concemed He had difficulty starting the car when the electrical system of the DATE 16JANUARY 1966 which may have been due to his own bus cut out, causing the lights, radio PLACE BOLAZEC, FRANCE panic or may have been a vehicle and engine to go dead. MAP REF: E14 interlerence by the UFO (this is Collett got out of the vehicle, EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST commonly reported). Eventually it opened the bonnet and examined the KIND started and he drove off, leaving the engine but found nothing amiss. He object behind. retumed to the vehicle and while At 1 o'clock in the morningof 16 doing so noticed a dark. unlit forn1 J;muary 1966 carpenter Eugene hovering motionless over the road Coquil was driving in Brittany when NAME THE HOOK VEHICLE INTERFERENCE ahead of him. After a short pause he saw lights in the middle of a fi eld. the engine fired, the lights and radio DATE 26 OCTOBER 1967 He stopped his car, believing there came alive and Collett drove off may have been an accident, and PLACE HOOK, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND only to have the same breakdown walked across the field towards the MAP REF: F13 occur just a few hundred yards down light. As he did so he noticed that EVENT VEHICLE INTERFERENCE the road. the lights were on an object. And it Again the witness got out of his was moving silently towards him! Mr W. Collett was driving his Ford vehicle; this time he felt an extreme Only when he got to within Transit bus along the A32 towards pressure change which caused pain approximately :w ft (9. 11 m) of it did l{eading in the early hours of in his ear drums, similar to that he realize that it was not moving Thursday, 26 October 1967. He was which can be experienced in an along the ground but was in fact transporting machine casings aircraft. He also noticed the smell of 90 · illllllllllltn•· DATABASE 1960s burning elcctrics hut this was could have had a more seriouseffect dogs, was lying on his hack in a obviously not coming from his on his nervous system. shallow trough in the hills to shdkr vehicle as it was still in good order No attempts to analyze the from a force H wind. I Ie placed his although not functioning. Once again potential time lapses during this hands behind his head to rest himself he saw the object in the sky just a incident have been made, and indeed and saw what he at firsthelie\'ed hundred yards away and perhaps 50 none are probably appropriate. was a fine vapour trail o\'ert he town ft (15 m) high - dark and suspended However, it is interesting to note of Portland coming from a high flying above the road. the aspects of this case which arc aircraft. Very quickly 1\lr Brooks Collett believes that he watched similar to other reported abductions. realized that it was no such tlung; Jt the object for a few minutes until it Of further interest is the idea that was not growing in k· nJ.,rth or moved away at reasonable speed the interference with the nervous disintegrating. Indeed, it had all the over the trees. When he returned to system could in some circumstances appearance of a craft rushing the driving seal the cn)..,rinc also create hallucinations. headlong towards him! restarted, the vehicle was back to Cases such as this may hold some It descended rapidly, 'put the nonnal and he again drove off. of the answers to much more brakes on' with remarkable tenacity There were certain other effects elaborate claims. and at a height of some 200-300 ft noted by Mr Collett which are (61-9·1 m) hovered motionless some reminiscent of many cases of ,100 yds (366 m) away from where vehicles stopping, including NAME THE MOIGNE DOWNS ENCOUNTER Mr Hrooks was watching it. It was a abductions. He apparently unique never reported before DATE 26 OCTOBER 1967 UFO, completed his journey without nor since. It was a circular disc PLACE reference to his road map although it MOIGNE DOWNS, DORSET, ENGLAND shape with a long J.,ri rder-likc was a new route for him (he had, MAP REF: F13 fuselage reaching forward and three however, studied the planned route EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST !-,ri rder-like fuselages reaching before setting out). He described a KIND backwards. Howe\'er. as it went certain lack of co-ordination when into hover mode the fuselages driving off almost as if he had to One of the most credible UFO spread ou t into the shape of a cross. re-learnhow to use the controls of reports and certainly one of the best The craft while hovering rotated the bus. On returning home he documented by the witness himself. slowly but remained in a stationary noticed a throbbing in his fingers. comes from the wave of British position, apparently unaffected by Perhaps connected to the encounter sightings in 1967. The witness was the extremely strong wind blowing. he also found that he now Mr ]. B. W. (Angus) Brooks, a l\lr Hrooks noted that the object remembered his dreams, which he fonner Comet flight administration seemed to be made of some was not able to do before. officerfor the British Overseas translucent material. was Dr Bernard Finch, a London Aircraft Corporation (now part of approximately 175 ft (53 m) in doctor, examined Mr Collett for British Airways) and a former RAF diameter and he could see no physiologicaleff ects and suggested intelligence officer. Every analysis portholes or windows. The sighting that there was a possibility that the of the case by UFO investigators lasted 22 minutes, then the object UFO had emitted a force field which has concluded that l\lr Brooks was a resumed its original shape - had interfered with the witness's very reliable witness who exhibited realigning its fuselages - and shot nerves and spinal cord, damaging his considerable common sense in away towards \Vinfrith. nonnal reflexes. It appears from the coming to tenns \\ilh his sighting. One of l\lr Brooks's dogs, usually doctor's report that he believes Mr Of )...Jfeat use was the fact that l\lr at ease \\ith him on the downs. was Collett was only mildly 'washed' by Brooks prepared his own report agitated and pawed him as if urging the force field, ifthat is what it was, which reflected his detailed graspof him to leave the area. His other dog because the craft was emitting only administration and intelligence had gone off hunting. l\lrBrooks's low power. Had it been emitting a work. Indeed the opening lines even own analysis of the event is more radiant energy. if perhaps it indicated the ordnance survey grid clear: 'Before the �loigne Downs had been preparing to perfonn a reference of the encounter and an sighting I was only mildly interested rapid manoeuvre, then l\lrCol lell estimate of \\ind force and direction. in unidentifiedtl�ing objects but now might well have been hit by a much At 11.25 in the morning l\lr I am convinced there is something to more powerful backwash which Brooks, who had been walking his be investigated and the sooner we 91 EUROPE find out what is going on the better it sleep state he had seen a vitreous NAME SERRA DE ALMOS ENCOUNTER will be.' floater in his eyeball (a loose piece of DATE 16 AUGUST 1968 Mr Brooks circulated his report dead cell matter frequently seen PLACE SERRA DE ALMOS, SPAIN to many flying saucer research when looking at a clear background MAP REF: F19 organizations across the world and such as the sky). Mr Brooks had had has expressed no doubt that what he an eye injury some years previously EVENT UNUSUAL ENTITY ENCOUNTER saw was an alien spacecraft. He which was repaired by corneal commented 'To begin with I was transplant and this may have led to One of the main aspects of UFO apprehensive, wondering if I had him seeing larger floaters than entity claims is that the vast majority been spotted. It even crossed my usual. This explanation is believed to -by far - are of humanoid entities, mind that I might be captured and I account for the fact that the object i.e. aliens which resemble human planned, if there seemed any danger would have remained motionless formin having two legs, two arms of that, to leave my walking stick in despite the wind and why it moved and a head canyingthe sensory the ground as a clue to where I had very rapidly and decelerated quickly organs at the highest position. been. But after a bit I felt easier, to a standstill; it is a characteristic of However, not all cases are of this even content, and it has since 'floaters' as the eyeball moves and nature, for example the brain-like occurred to me that the green then stops. entities in the Dapple Grey Lane anorak I was wearing may have The Ministry of Defence further encounter in the United States (see camouflaged me.' concluded that Mr Brooks had page 56). The sighting came at a time when attributed an extraordinary nature to In August 1968 at Serra de the 'flying star' or 'flyingcross' was the incident because of publicity Almos, Spain, a chicken farmerwas the much reported UFO of the relating to the flying cross sightings to report one such rather frightening period. Indeed only days apart from in the national newspapers at the variation. It was approximately 6 the Moignc Downs sighting, two time. o'clock in the morning when he saw police constables in a police car had With perhaps only the slightest a dome shaped object hovering a few chased a flying cross along the edge irony Mr Akhurst's letter to Mr feet above the ground. As he of Dartmoor. Other police officers Brooks setting out their conclusions approached, two entities ran back to were reporting such sightings in stated 'I recognise that you may find and into the object which then took other parts of the country. our conclusions unsatisfactory. ' off. The entities he reported were Obviously it was speculated that They also pointed out that 'Our octopus like, approximately 3 ft what Mr Brooks had seen was the radar cover is such that we are also (91 em) tall and had several legs flying cross. quite satisfiedthere is no each. He also described them as The case was investigated by a clandestine aerial activity over the being light in colour and disgusting in Ministry of Defence team: Dr john United Kingdom under terrestrial appearance. Dickison from the Royal Aircraft control.' For me, there was an amusing Establishment at Farnborough; Alec It must be said that Mr Brooks side to this story. Although it had Cassie, a psycholohY]stwith the RAF replied with equal precision to the happened in 1968 it was not a widely and Leslie Akhurst from S4 at the Ministry, critical of their conclusion: reported case and I was unaware of Ministry of Defence (S4 is the 'The fact that the gale was howling it when I was editing a book, section of the Ministry of Defence and my Alsatian was painfully Phenomenon, for the British UFO which investigates UFO reports). clawing me to leave the spot was Research Association (BUFORA). They came up with an explanation hardly conducive to "dropping off'.' As an experiment for the book I which was imaginative, and indeed The fact that Mr Brooks's asked top British special effects plausible and not unreasonable, but sighting has remained unique and modelmaker to the film industry, it was not one which was ever going that no similar object has been seen Martin Bower, to fake a UFO to satisfy Mr Brooks. since need not weigh heavily against encounter solely for the purposes of They suggested that Mr Brooks the report since most UFO sightings proving how easily it could be done. had lain down to rest from the wind are unique in some detail or the In the book the whole story is and had fallen asleep or entered a other. We arc left only to decide clearly described so that there is no near sleep state. This was the whether the craft was an external doubt that the resulting photograph reason why his dog was agitated and event or indeed in the eye of the is a deliberate fake. In order to trying to wake him. I >uring the near beholder. further emphasize that fact I asked 92 .,,,lllllllllln•· DATABASE 1960s Martin to produce an octopoidal typc add to the mythology that surrounds so extraordinarily unbelievable that alien which I believed had never the UFO phenomenon. ) The no-one could believe it to be re(ll, I been reported and would therefore resulting picture proved the point had hit on one that had been 'seen' not confuse the issue by looking as if and was suitably amusing, but the already! It was around about this it could be real. (The last thing I book had only been out a few time that I discovered the true wanted was to produce a picture months when the Serra de Almos meaning of the expression 'The that would one day turnup in the case was drawn to my attention. Far best-laid schemes o'Mice an' Men literature as 'real' and unnecessarily from creating a fake UFO encounter gang aft a'glcy'. FAKE PHOTOGRAPHS RIGHT In 1962 Alex Birch claimed to have photographed five UFOs over Sheffield, England. Having impressed the Air Ministry and an inaugural meeting of BUFORA, he went on to confess that he had stuck the images on a pane of glass through which he look lhe photograph. BELOW This fake UFO photograph, with the author as victim, would not pass many modern analysis tests but it shows clearly how easy it is is to set up fake alien encounters. This whole image took less than thirty minutes to make, set up and photograph. 93 •llllill[llllll�•· EUROPE NAME DR 'X' However, the effect on the will reveal more as time passes. witness was not totally beneficial; he It was an early spring in southern DATE 1 NOVEMBER 1968 experienced cramps and stomach Sweden, in 1969, when Kathryn and PLACE SOUTHERN FRANCE pains, he lost weight and there was a two companions, Harvey and Martin MAP REF: H17 peculiar triangular shaped coloration (pseudonyms used), were sitting in EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND around his navel. Even more a meadow relaxing and discussing KIND extraordinary, the same triangle the events of the time that were so appeared on the baby's stomach a important to the young; mainly the Around 4 o'clock in the morningDr day or so later and the doctor Vietnamese war and the Biafran X (his name and the precise location dreamed that it was in some way famine. Kathrynfelt emotionally of the event are withheld to avoid connected to his sighting. upset by the violence and lack of unwanted publicity) was awoken by The triangle would appear and compassion that seemed to be the cries of his toddler. When he disappear on both the father and the embracing the world; indeed she reached the child, the boy was son for days on end for some began to cry. indicating that something was considerable time after the event Suddenly above them an object outside the window with great and indeed was recorded on filmin appeared in the sky, oval shaped excitement. The doctor saw lights 1986, 18 years after the first with what appeared to be legs which he believed to be lightning and sighting! The story continues. protruding from it. Martin and calmed his son. For years since the event the Kathryn saw it. but they heard Following this he then opened a family has been the subject of nothing. Without warning theirvery window to look over the open paranormal phenomena; telepathy perception of normality turned landscape outside the house and frequently reported between inside out: the sky no longer seemed observed two saucer shaped UFOs, members of the family, levitation, to exist and in front of them, both white above and red beneath. He unusual effects on electrical Martin and Kathryn sawthe moon also noticed antennae on top and a instrumentation. Indeed the family looking as it did in the photographs beam of light reaching down from seems to have undergone something that were beamed back to the Earth beneath the objects. The UFOs of a change in mental attitude leaving by the Apollo astronauts. They saw were moving towards the doctor and them sensitive to all kinds of space as an almost fluid-like grey he saw with astonishment that, as phenomena. endlessness. they approached him, they appeared Strangely, although Martin and to merge into each other leaving just Kathryn appear to have shared the one single UFO. NAME KATHRYN HOWARD same experience, Harvey saw The beam of light from nothing, either he was unable to face DATE 6 APRIL 1969 underneath the UFO suddenly the sensory input or he was cut off rotated round and illuminated the PLACE SOUTHERN SWEDEN from it. None of the trio could house, shining directly on the MAP REF: L10 explain why that should be, nor doctor. There was a loud bang and EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE TH IRD indeed how it should have come the UFO disappeared leaving behind KIND about. Kathryn felt compelled to talk just a glowing 'presence' which about what she was seeing or lose dispersed. But it seemed that the The Kathryn Howard case is one the image forever. 'I must talk. I will lJFOs had taken something with which clearly demonstrates the forget if I don't talk. Look at the sky. them! interface between the UFO There is no sky. We arc sitting in They had taken the doctor's pain phenomenon and other paranormal the Universe. This is the Universe. ' and disabilities. Three days before experiences. Because of the nature Her perceptions were still changing! the encounter the doctor had injured of her encounter Kathryn believes The Earth itself seemed to be his leg while chopping wood and had that she will not fully recall the expanding around them and Kathryn a very painful bruise which still events, nor feel able to openly relate said 'I feel like a puppet on strings. ' showed. Several years before he to all of what she has recalled, until She felt as if she were looking at the had also received wounds during the she has been able to emotionally feel Earth from way above while at the Algerian war. Astonishingly, both of as she did at the time. For that same time standing on it. Both these unpleasant injuries instantly reason what follows is of necessity Martin and Kathryn were crying and disappeared. incomplete and no doubt the case they felt they could hear the slow 94 11111llllll11n•· DATABASE 1960s Kathryn mto the object. Looking down between her feet �he could sec the treetops and the Eart h all() at one time even the impression of her own bodj'. Inside the object she felt as if she were free floatingbut nonetheless restrained at the wrists and ankles. Apparently she became fearful that the abduction was to be pcm1ancnt, that she would be removed from the Earth forever, and she screamed 'Please take me back. I am not ready to leave yet.' The only time she fe lt real fear was under the regression hypnosis, but whether this is a product of the technique or of her memory is debatable. Under hypnosis Kathryn saw Kathryn Howard now lives 1n America, that everyone wants to express herself wearing a kind of crystal where this photograph was taken in 1990, their hidden desires and secrets head-dress and since that time but she had her abduction experience in with me, and on and on I could write clairvoyants and others ha\·e seen a Sweden over twenty years earlier. She about these things. ' Neither Martin similar mass around her head. The believes that she will not fully understand nor Harvey have felt able to follow entities she encountered were her experiences until she is able to return up the experiences; Kathryn transparent, not a particularly to the surroundings of her earlier life. believes this is due to their frequently given description but. submergence into a fundamentally interestingly, one that has arisen in deep beat that was the rhythm of the materialistic world. other cases from around the same Universe itself. Of all the impressions she area and the period of time (see the The emotions overwhelmed received the last was of great Anders case, page 103). them. A feeling of love and compassion and she said as she In the fu ture, Kathryn feels that compassion b1f ipped them and began to come around from the she must returnfrom the United Kathryn said she fe lt the greatest experience 'If Hitler was here now, I States, where she presently li\-es. joy she had ever known. But there would put my arms around him and to Sweden and to taste the were also less joyful impressions: tell him that I loved him. lie didn't sensations of her earlier life before images of !-,Jf eat destruction, know what he was doing. I Ie was she will be able to fully understand possibly the end of the human race not alive yet. I Ie was just a shell. · the true meaning of the experiences and the end of time itself; there There then appears to be a she has had. Both I and the other were many other images which period of missing time. Although this UFO researchers she is working Kathryn feels unable to talk about event had happened during a bright with must lea\'e her to rediscm-cr even now. day their next memory was of 11 these e\'ents in her own way rather Of the three, only Kathryn has o'clock in the evening .1t the house of than usc the high pressure. almost felt compelled to follow up the one of them only an hour away from intenogative, techniques so experience having been conscious the meadow where they had been. common in America. Kathryn's rase even from an early age that her life There has been one attempt using will then almost certainly he a most had special meaning. She states regression hypnosis to fill in this valuable piece in the enom10us 'Ever since that day, I have felt missing time period; the recall of global jigsaw that is the llFO strongly that there is a message I this mostly concerns the UFO itself. phenomenon. have to get out, that [ know how to The legs that had been sticking Only time will tell: and with get people to open their eyes in a out underneath the UFO turnedout Kathryn's spirit iree, it will no doubt way they have never done before. to be cylinders, one of which pulled tell the truth. 95 •I ill! 1111 ii 111•· EUROPE As Heinonen related 'I was standing headache would disappear within ten 1970s completely still. Suddenly I felt as if days but for Heinonen they NAME THE IMJARVI ENCOUNTER somebody has seized my waist from continued for some time. Some five behind and pulled me backwards. I months later he was still suffering DATE 7 JANUARY 1970 think I took a step backwards, and in from the same pains and although A PLACE IMJ RVI , SOUTHERN FINLAND the same second I caught sight of the paralysis of his right leg MAP REF: 07 the creature. It was standing in the disappeared he could still not EVENTCLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD middle of the light beam with a black balance properly. KIND box in its hands. From around the Heinonen's memory was also opening in the box there came a severely affected and it got so bad 'I felt ill. My back was aching and all yellow light, pulsating. The creature that whenever he left home he had my joints were painful. My head was about 35 in (90 em) tall, with to tell his family where he was going ached and after a while I had to very thin arms and legs. Its face was so that they could search for him and vomit. When I went to pee the urine pale like wax. I didn't notice the collect him if he didn't return! Viljo was nearly black, it was like pouring eyes, but the nose was very himself was not unaffected by the black coffee onto the snow. This strange. It was a hook rather than a event; he had a red and swollen face continued for a couple of months.' nose. The ears were very small and and had become incoherent and These were the after effects narrow towards the head. The absent -minded. reported by one of two witnesses creature wore some kind of overall Dr Pauli Kajanoja stated 'The involved in an incredible encounter in a light green material. On its feet symptoms he described are like in the snow-covered forests of were boots of a darker green colour, those after being exposed to southern Finland in 1970. which stretched above the knee. radioactivity. ' He added 'Both men It was late afternoonon There were also white gauntlets seem sincere, I don't think they had Wednesday, 7 january 1970 when going up to the elbows, and the made the thing up. I am sure they countrymen AarnoHeinonen and fingers were bent like claws around were in a state of shock when they Esko Viljo were out skiing. They the black box.' came to me; something must have paused in a small clearing to enjoy Viljo also described the creature frightened them.' the few stars in the cold sunset. as 'luminous like phosphorus' and The experiencewas After a short time they heard a wearing a conical, metallic like corroborated by two other people buzzing noise and saw a bright light helmet. The creature was less then who reported UFOs in the sky at the moving through the sky towards 3ft (91 em) tall. same time and in the same area as them. As it neared them above Suddenly Heinonen was hit by the Jmjarviencounter. treetop height, they saw a red-grey the light from the box in the For Heinonen it was not at an mist swirling around it and puffs of creature's hands. The forest end; between the time of the smoke emanating from it. Inside the became suddenly quiet, the red encounter and August 1972 he cloud was a circular, saucer shaped grey mist drew down from the reported twenty-three other UFO object, metallic in appearance and object and sparks could be seen contacts. Occasionally, he reported some 9 ft (274 em) wide. It had a flying into the snow. The mist hid meeting with an extremely beautiful dome above, and beneath were the creature and surrounded both space woman and one entity very three spheres around the rim, the witnesses. Suddenly the light reminiscent of the Adamski reminiscent of the Adamski beam disappeared and was sucked Venusian who had progressed photographs of nearly twenty years up into the craft apparently taking considerably beyond the mere earlier (page 28). From the base the entity with it. Then even the telepathy of the Adamski encounter of the object a tube suddenly fireda craft itself was gone! Heinonen was and was able to speak fluent Finnish. sharp beam of light down towards paralyzed on his right side and Viljo These later claims have tended to the hJ found. By this time the object had to almost carry his friend the create an atmosphere of disbelief had lowered itself to around 10 ft 2 miles (3 km) to their home. even amongst hardened UFO (] m) from the ground, almost Later, at the Heinola clinic they researchers, but this is probably the within touching distance of the men. were examined and the doctor failure of UFO researchers to I; the witnesses were astonished prescribed sleeping pills and understand the phenomenon for now l:w next instant was to take sedatives. He believed that the what it really is. (An understanding what v. :L-i left of their breath away. symptoms of aching joints and that I feel is still a long way off for us 98 ·illillllllllln•· OAT ABASE 1970s all. ) Of those who knew the silently. As the object left, the car It must he said that the Air Force witnesses one farmer, Matti systems returned to normal and were reasonably open and Haapaniemi, a neighbour, stated Maarup reported the encounter to commented 'We have the greatest 'Many people in this neighbourhood his base. confidence in the police oftin·r. I le 1s have laughed at this story. But I Maarup was particularly a trained observer, and we do not don't think it's anything to joke concernedover the strangeness of seek in any way to dismiss this kind about. I have known both Aamo and the light; it had not faded but had of observation.' Subsequent Esko since they were little boys. actually drawn upwards, as if it were investigation showed that the pilots Both arc quiet, rational fe llows and solid. He had a Fujaxa camera in the of the T-:n training jets had not seen moreover they arc abstainers. I am car and took three phot0$..,1faphs of anything unusual below them and sure their story is true!' the object as it departed, also taking other explanations were offered There were many other sightings three more photographs once the such as shooting stars and <.:omets. of 'distant lights in the sky' in the object was gone. Unfortunately they None of the explanations area around the same time as this show very little, and nothing appeared to J.,ri ve credence to officer event, which also added to the distinctly. While still outside the car Maarup's statement that he had credibility of the case. Maarup investigated the area watched the object stationary for discovering that the metalwork of some fiveminutes and seem to the car was warm, but he could find dismiss rather than explain the NAME THE MAARUPENCOUNTERS no other traces. event. Perhaps the encounter was Of the object itself Maarup not that extraordinary by UFO DATE 13 AUGUST 1970/14 AUGUST 1973 described it as being some 30 ft standards, but unlike many this one PLACE HADERSLEY, JYLLAND, DENMARK (9. 14 m) in diameter with an had a sequel! J11 MAP REF: opening in the base approximately OfficerMaarup commented that EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIRST 3 ft (!:)1 em) wide from which the the sighting had taught him one thing KIND light emanated. There were two and that was to keep his mouth shut. domes on the underside (possibly However, he did admit to a second At almost 11 o'clock on Thursday, reminiscent of the three seen in the encounter on 14 Au$-,JUSt19 73 in 13 August 1970 police officerEvald Adamski craft, see page 28, and the almost exactly the same conditions Maarup was drivinghome in his Imjarvi encounter, see page 98). and almost exactly the same time of police car along a minor road when On reporting the incident to his evening and again he had taken he suddenly encountered a bright base he received the reply, almost some photographs. white light. His car engine cut out tongue-in-check, that he should On this occasion the light immediately, and all its lights went consider being committed to a apparently came across fields, out. Maarup was almost blinded by mental hospital. However, following disturbing cattle and horses before the power of the light and found more serious questioning bringing his car to a halt and difficultyeven in finding the afterwards, all of his colleagues extinguishing its lights. On this microphone of his radio to call his stated that they believed he was occasion he saw three domes base; a fruitless search because telling the truth. One of his protruding from the underside of the when he did findit it was also dead. colleaguesinformed the press and craft, exactly as in the Adamski The car heated up to the within a twenty-four hour period claims of two decades earlier. As the equivalent of a warm summer's day officer Maarup was being besieged object left it apparently scanned the and Maarup watched as the light by journalistsnot just from Dcrm1ark road with its beam and also tilted rose above him. Beyond it he could but from many other countries. towards him to show the solid see that it emanated from a large The officialexplanation given by superstructureand portholed grey object which made no sound the Air Force through l\lajorHe llden ''indows. whatsoever. To officerMaarup's of Air Tactical Command was that Officer�la arup was left with the astonishment he watched as over a Maarup had seen the landing lights same questions we all are left \\ith. five minute period the light seemed of a jet trainer (T-33) but Maarup Why? As he stated 'I haH' no doubt to be drawn up inside the object and replied to this that he had indeed what I have seen. but why at Cllmost as this was completed Maarup seen the aircraft some ten minutes exactly the same time? \\'hy on no stepped out of the car and watched after the sighting and was quite other day in the year? \\'by in almost the thing move on swiftly and adamant that the two were unalike. exactly the same place?' 99 lll ·IIIli I lllln•· EUROPE NAME THE PETER DAY FILM DATE 11 JANUARY 1973 PLACE LONG CRENDON, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND MAP REF: F13 EVENT DAYLIGHT SIGHTING/FILM l)riving through Oxfordshire towards Aylesbury, surveyor Peter Day watched an orange ball of light (possibly of the kind which in the early days of flyingsaucers used to be affectionately known by the nickname 'amber rambler') travelling at approximately treetop height less than a mile away from him and pulsating. Day was able to record 100 •illiillllllllll•· DATABASE 1970s OPPOSITE AnovE A still from Peter Day's the en)...TJne she felt a touch and J Jer subsequent report to her cine film on 11 January 1973. turned to sec a robot like figure husband and the police suggested no OPPOSITE !lELOW Artist's impression Of ball some G ft (lX:J em) tall standing question about her own belief Ill Llw lightning, which may well be the behind her. She fainted. event. It was impossible to phenomenon filmed by Peter Day Ball When she came around she found determine whether or not this was lightning often gives rise to UFO reports. that she and the robot were standing an internally generated imageor an next to a domed object some lH ft external reality. There were of the sighting on cine film which has (S. !1 m) wide and :{6 ft (1 0. Y m) high. course many similarities to earlier been highly publicized since and She fainted again! When she next cases which had by then become indeed analyzed extensively by became conscious she found herself well known. Kodak who have confirmed that it is naked and tied on to a metallic table genuine. The sighting was also in a room where the walls were corroborated by children and glowing in an eerie fashion. Three NAME TORINO SIGHTING teachers at the Long Crendon human like ligures conducted a DATE 30NOVEMBER 1973 School nearby. physical examination and when two PLACE Investigation suggested at first of them left the third sexually CASELLE AIRPORT, TORINO, ITALY J17 that the sighting could have been of assaulted her. Not surprisingly, Mrs MAP REF: a crashing jet aircraft and indeed one A. fainted yet again. When she came EVENT RADAR VISUAL ENCOUNTER did crash on the day in question but to she was inside her own car and without doubt not at the same time. discovered that three hours had It was approximately 7 o'clock in the The teacher and the school children passed. evening when Riccardo Marano were quite precise about when they approached Caselle Airportin his had seen the object and it correlated C3-PO from Star Wars - the classic Piper Navajo. As he was about to exactly with Peter Day's own science fiction idea of an alien robot. land the control tower radioed claims, thus ruling out the aircraft theory. Frame by frame analysis of the filmshows that in the closing frame, at the point when the object disappears, all of the trees appear to bend fiercely away as if in response to an airborne explosion. No confirmedident ificationhas ever been made of the object but it has been speculated that Day may have captured elusive ball lightning phenomena on filmfor the first and possibly only time to date. NAME LANGFORD BUDVILLE ENCOUNTER DATE 16 OCTOBER 1973 PLACE LANGFORD BUDVILLE, SOMERSET, ENGLAND MAP REF: F13 EVENT ABDUCTION Mrs A. (identity withheld) was driving along a country road near Langford Budville in Somerset when her engine and lights cut out. When she got out of the vehicle to examine 101 EUROPE information of an unidentified flying through the kitchen curtain and saw oval and yellow, very large and very object some 1, 200 ft (365 m) over a br reenish light emanating from his bright. As Mr V. flashed his torch at the runway. Marano aborted the garden. When he parted the curtain the humanoid the entity raised his landing and flew towards the object to get a better view he saw an hand and stuck his fingers up in a but it zigzagged away in a non astonishing sight in his smallwalled V-sign(which perhaps doesn't have ballistic motion quite beyond the garden. the same meaning wherever the capabilities of any aircraft. Given the At the end of the garden was a entity came from as it might in distance it covered Marano small humanoid just over 3 ft. tall Europe.) The entity then tumed estimated it to be moving at wearing a shiny one piece suit, and away and walked off towards the tall approximately 3, 100 miles glowing br reen. On his head the back garden wall. (5, 000 km) per hour. humanoid had a transparent globular If the sight of the creature or his There was no lack of helmet with a tube running gestures were a less than pleasant corroboration for the sighting; it was backwards to a backpack. On his awakening for Mr V. , what followed detected on the airport radar, on stomach there was a bright red box was even more astonishing. military radar, and visually sighted which was luminous and sparkling. The creature scaled the wall by two other pilots and several Even more remarkably, in his hands walking up and over it as if it were a civilians at the airport. he was holding what appeared to be continuation of a flat surface, and There has been some thought a vacuum cleaner or metal always remaining perpendicular to that the radar picked up the echo of detector, which he was passing the surface he was walking on. a weather balloon, and that the across the ground in front of him. When he reached the top he simply visual sighting was of the planet Mr V. flashed his torch at the flippedover the top and presumably Venus. However, the high number humanoid who tumed round. When walked down the other side of the of corroborative witnesses suggests he tumed he had to rotate his whole wall in the same way. Shortly that there is more to the case than body, apparently unable simply to afterwards a small round object mere collective suggestion. tum his head, indeed all of his making a muffled noise appeared movements as observedby Mr V. beyond the wall, rising away from were jerky and uncomfortable the scene of the event. NAME THE VILVORDE HUMANOID looking. DATE 19 DECEMBER 1973 As the humanoid tumed to face A drawing of the Vilvorde encounter him Mr V. can hardly have been any shows the entity and the walled garden in PLACE VILVORDE, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM more comfortable at the sight. The which it was seen. It scaled the walls of MAP REF: 113 ears were pointed, no nose or the garden by walking up them at a goo EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD mouth was visible and the eyes were angle to the surface of the wall. KIND The Vilvorde humanoid of 197�3 displayed some unusual characteristics which have made this case quite famous across Europe. The witness, Mr V. (name withheld) and his wife were in bed asleep in their house at Vilvorde, some 71/2 miles (12 km)to the north of Brussels, in Belgium, on the night in question. At approximately 2 o'clock in the moming Mr Y. left his bed to go to the toilet which was in a small outside yard next to the kitchen. As he reached the kitchen he heard a sound from outside as if someone was striking the !-,T fOund with a metallicobject and he looked 102 DATABASE 1970s No ground traces were found of his right and threw himself to the the event, and no other witnesses ground. ftc missed! came forward. Our witness seems Instead of hitting the ground he unaffected by the encounter himself, felt himself drawn upwards into what he continued the evening by making seemed to be a cone of light coming himself a light snack in the kitchen! from an object above. His next It is worthy of note that Mr V. conscious memory was of had had a previous UFO sighting and desperately ringing his doorbell to went on to have yet another one in be confronted by his wife concerned july 1974 though no humanoids were about a bleeding wound on his involved in either of these. forehead and an unpleasant burn on his check. Anders contacted the division of NAME THE ANDERS ENCOUNTER the national defence known as 'The Cavalry' who put him on to the local DATE 23 MARCH 1974 Home Guard chief, Hardy PLACE O S DERBY, GUSTAVSLUND, SWEDEN Brostrom. The press interviewed MAP REF: MB Brostrbm and were quick to catch EVENT ABDUCTION on to the story, publicizing it locally and on radio. Alerted by the At around midnight on Saturday, 2:� publicity Anders was contacted by ABovE The Anders abduction took March 1974 Anders (pseudonym) local UFO investigator Sten place at the centre of a concentration left a party in a school hall near Lindgren who set up regression of energy lines. mapped out using the Hagalund near Malmhagen. hypnosis sessions at Danderyds dowsing technique undertakenby Although he had been drinking Sj ukhus (hospital) with Dr Ture investigator Arne Groth. This sketch alcohol he was not drunk and only Arvidsson. These took place on was made by the author from Groth's stepped outside for a breath of fresh 1 Apriland 20 May 197 4 and during original. air. For some reason he then these sessions Anders recalled BELow Looking towards the site of the decided to walk home some 2lf2<3 some of the details of his abduction Anders Encounter. this photograph miles (4-5 km) to Lindholmen. It has aboard the vehicle. was taken at the position from which been a subject of debate, never Having been sucked aboard, he an independent witness reported reconciled, as to whether or not he was confronted by four semi seeing the cone of light that allegedly was at this stage simply making a transparent beings. They were tall abducted the witness. spontaneous decision or whether he was actually in the control of 'other' entities. He took a 'backwoods' route towards his home avoiding a more major road in order to take a shortcut. It was a cold bright night with a full moon and the area was luminescent with a layer of snow across the ground. In this brightened darkness Anders passed a small coltage and a circle of runic stones, as he walked towards a bend in the road. Ahead of him on the side of a hillock Anders saw a brightlight getting stronger and gained the impression that it might be a car approaching from behind. He left the road and walked onto the grass to 103 I I I I ·1"'''1 ,nul��··II. II EUROPE and apparently wearing hoods, watch' in the local area fieldingfifty Lindholmen. She thought at first appeared to be slightly glowing and of their own personnel as well as the that she was seeing a helicopter communicated by a series of musical fifteenufologists already present. descending into the valley near tones. It appears that during the During the course of that 'stake out' Soderby, north of Granby and very abduction the entities pierced his these groups also reported some close to the Anders abduction site. forehead with a probe like unexplained night lights. One of the Mrs Andersson drove to the instrument which resulted in the reports received also corroborated crossroads at Haga but could not sec bleeding wound his wife later saw. the Anders encounter, coming as it the object and she drove on to In a dream one year after the event did from a witness who had seen the collect her parents at Malmhagen. Anders received a message 'You cone of light in exactly the same Duringher stay with her parents have had my sword within you for a place at exactly the same time of the there was interference on the year, but you don't know for what to abduction from a site some 550 yds television and the telephone was out use it. ' (500 m) away. Unfortunately, her of order. They observed a large, There are two major aspects to precise location made it impossible bright UFO moving through the the case. First, Anders sought an to see Anders himself as he would forest east of Malmhagen towards a alternative type of investigation to have been behind a copse of trees nearby gravel pit. This was the usual regression hypnosis, from her point of vision. corroborated by a further which he found an unsuitable and The Anders abduction was not independent report from a local unsatisfying technique. He the only close encounter of the 90-year-old retired blacksmith and approached investigator Arne Groth Vallentuna wave and one of the also by a woman who watched the who searched for answers with other important cases is that of Mrs object travel between Skrattbacken Anders using the cncr!,ry of H. Andersson the following evening and Malmhagen. crystallography and by studying (see below). Mrs Andersson drove on to her Anders's biorhythms. Groth also brother's at Skrattbacken where used a divining rod to dowse the they saw the object again. Later in area of the site in a search for NAME MRS ANDERSSON'S ENCOUNTER the evening she left her brother's energy lines and studied Anders's house to travel home with her DATE 24 MARCH 1974 enhanced 'aura'. According to brother and his daughter in the car ti Groth's analysis, the site of the PLACE S DERBY, GUSTAVSLUND, SWEDEN behind. As they were driving along abduction is the precise location of a MAP REF: M8 her brother noticed an object pass 'crossroads' of major eneq.,rylines EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST over the road shortly after his and the event happened at a KIND sister's car had cleared the spot, and particular peak in Anders's he sounded his hom to attract her biorhythms which occurs only once Less than 24 hours after the attention. He accelerated to catch every forty-six years. These two abduction of Anders (see page 103) her up and they watched the object facts suggest that the encounter was and coming at the same time as disappear towards a nearby farm. pre-ordained and that Anders's some thirty independent close However, Mrs Andersson and decision to take a particular road or encounter reports in the same area, her children left the area and found leave at a particular time could not Mrs H. Andersson sighted an object that they were paced by orange have affected the outcome. It leads in a small valley towards Soderby coloured objects high above them, the investigators to believe that both (which was also reported by an one of which was apparently of these decisions were involuntary independent witness at Granby sweeping a torch like beam across on Anders's part. nearby). Mrs Andersson is a local them. There was an aftermath; the Secondly, the event happened UFO 'fi.brurc'and acts as the lynchpin children suffered headaches and during a wave of encounters in the of an informal support group for stomach aches and Mrs Andersson Vallentuna area with over thirty UFO witnesses where they can had severe pain in her kidneys for reports coming in within an exchange their experiences without some days. She summed up the approximately two-hour period of fear of ridicule. event 'It was so horrible I wish it had the Anders abduction and over a Her first sighting of the object never happened. I got the hundred within a l wo-month period. took place at 7. 25 in the evening impression that we were checked The wave caused significantconcern when she was drivingtowards out by someone - like a big torch and the Home Guard set up a 'sky Vasaskolan, a school north of that swept the area.' 104 DATAB.llillASEllllu�t· 1970s MARS -THE CLASSIC HOME OF ALIENS Rt(itiT Close-up ol one ol Mars's lwo moons, Phobos. Phobos has inlrtqued astronomers lor years, because ils orbital rnovernenlsseem lo violale natural laws. There have been suggestions !hal Phobos could be an arlilicial, hollow, spaceship in orbil around Mars. 01 even more inleresl, Jonalhan Swill in the eighteenth century gave accurale delails ol both Phobos and !he olher Martian moon, Diemos. It took years lor modern aslronomers to catch up with him. BELOW The Red Planet. Ever since Schiaparelli wrole of 'canali' on !he surface, Mars has been considered as a possible hornelor inlelligent lile. 105 EUROPE NAME THE BELLINGER! SIGHTING A vis made clear at a public meeting Elaine related something similar DATE 16APRIL 1974 of BUFORA that he had not found all to an out-of-body experience of the attention caused by the event describing floating sensations and PLACE PIEDMONT, ALESSANDRIA, ITALY to have been very pleasant. For that even looking back and seeing herself MAP REF: L19 reason I am reverting to the original inside the car while being inside the EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD pseudonyms that were used for the UFO. John was apparently shown KIND couple by the original investigators.) the power unit of the UFO and saw john and Elaine A vis together with videos of the aliens' home planet. A young married couple, Carla and their three young children were The aliens told them that genetic Mauro Bellingeri were driving home drivinghome to the village of A veley experimentation was part of their from a festival in the early hours of in Essex after 10 o'clock in the reason for being there, an element 16 April 1974 when suddenly Mauro evening of 27 October 1974. which features strongly in North spotted a bright object flyingto their Shortly after seeing a blue light in American cases. left and he pointed it out to his wife. the sky, describedas oval shaped There has been some speculation They saw the object dive to within and pale in colour which they about the direction of the Avis's life 50 ft (15m) of their own house. occasionally glimpsed as they were since the encounter, in particular As they drove up to theirhouse, driving, they rounded a bend in the John has undergone changes which Mauro opened the garage door and road and encountered a green fog, have led him to be more ecologically then returnedto the car where they which seemed to move across the concernedand more artistically stood together watching the object. road, obscuringit just outside their inclined. He himself at a public It hovered soundlessly above the home village. They also appeared to meeting of UFO researchers denied house and consisted of a dark ring enter a 'cone of silence', a commonly that any change had been dramatic surmounted by a transparent reported feature of UFO abductions stating that he believed he had cockpit. The ring had a row of where an unnatural stillness and always been interested in these various lights around its edge. Inside quiet surrounds the witnesses. subjects anyway, and the interests the cockpit they believed they could They were unable to stop driving would have surlaced at some stage. see three humanoid shapes and at into the fog. When they did so the Interestingly, many encounter one point one of the humanoids car radio crackled and smoked, the cases in Sweden have leftthe appeared to look at them before the engine went dead and the car jerked witnesses with profound feelings of UFO turned, firedits jets and began violently. Suddenly they were back concernfor the environment and it is to rotate fast before disappearing in drivingtowards their home! speculated that this aspect was part a north-easterly direction. On arrivinghome the couple of the meaning of these Mauro's sister-in-law who lives in switched on the television set keen experiences. the same house heard the noise but to watch a programme for which did not see the object. There were they had raced back from Elaine's many reportsfrom the area over the parents but they were disappointed NAME THE TRIDENT SIGHTING next few days. to see a blank screen. In fact the DATE 3DJULY 1976 television had shut down its broadcasts for the evening and on PLACE PORTUGUESE COAST, 40 MILES (64KM) SOUTH OF LISBON, NAME THE AVELEY ABDUCTION checking the time they were amazed PORTUGAL DATE 27 OCTOBER 1974 to discover it was now one o'clock in the morning.They had lost two and MAP REF: B20 PLACE AVELEY, ESSEX, ENGLAND a half hours! EVENT DISTANT ENCOUNTER MAP REF: G12 Some three years after the EVENT ABDUCTION encounter, when it was brought to One of the most impressive UFO the attention of the UFO sightings, which has been The A veley event was the first investigators, regression hypnosis corroborated, comes from a trio of British abduction to involve was carried out. From this came the planes that witnessed a UFO over rq.,'Tession hypnosis. (The real suggestion that the couple were the Portuguese coast in 1976. The names of the witnesses have been subjected to medical examination by primary report was made by the made public in many books and tall silver suited figuresand small bat crew of a British Airways Trident II. articles about this event, but Mr like creatures. The captain, and the first and second 106 'iII II!II III OAT ABASE 19IUI70s I· THE BILLY MEIER PHOTOGRAPHS Swiss farmer Eduard 'Billy' Meier took well over a hundred clear photographs of UFOs including the one here. Controversy has raged over Meier's claims, with many believing him a true contactee and others claiming his story - and the photographs - are a fraud. Sceptics have pointed out that the photographs are usually taken with the camera facing into the sun. which would obscure such details as supporting wires. Further controversy raged when small models of the saucers were found in Meier's possession; he stated he had made them based on the objects he had seen. His case was investigated by writer Gary Kinder who has released the story to the world in the book Light Years. officers were all interviewed and is a star or planet. ' The captain also mean a ship. It was customary to confirn1ed the story which was took the unusual step of radioing to track ships on the English Cha!Ulel subsequently also confirmedby the the passenger cabin and telling the which gave much more significant crews of the other planes. passengers 'If you look on the returnsthan the smaller aircraft. The Trident was about 40 miles starboard side, you will sec what we This returnon the radar suggested (64 km) south of Lisbon when the believe to be a UFO.' something three times bigger than a captain heard Lisbon air traffic The third corroboration came 200,000 ton (203,200 tonne) tanker! control radio to a Tristar, which was from a PortubJUeseState Airlines Although they turneddown the flyingabove them, saying 'We have 727 whom they also heard radioing cabin lights they could see nothing in reports of the UFO. Could you Lisbon air trafficcontrol confirn1ing the direction of the radar return confirm the sighting?' The Tristar the sighting. However, the story which may mean only that it was not was already confirn1ingto Lisbon air was not yet over. illuminated. traffic control 'Yes we have this After landing at Faro airport the No conclusion has been reached UFO in sight', when the crew of the aircraft 1turnedaround' and took off concerningthis case though for a Trident II also spotted the object. It for the return flight to London. The time the hoary old weather balloon was a very bright light, later captain decided to use the radar to explanation was trotted out but to described by one of the passengers scan the area where the sighting had nobody's satisfaction. of the plane, who had binoculars, as been. As the plane was climbing just O\'er two months later on 19 a bright light surrounding something towards 31,000 ft (9,4SO m) with September 1976 a Portuguese State like crumpled silver paper. As they the radar tilted upwards he got an Airlines Boeing 707 taking off from were looking at it a long brown cigar astonishing return. He stated Lisbon had a near mid-air collision shape appeared slightly below and to afterwardsit was 'much bigger than with a UFO described as bright and its right. The captain of the Trident any ship I have ever seen.' The glo\\ing and with a row of red and also confirmed to Lisbon air traffic captain was specifically questioned white lights around it. This object control that they had seen the UFO about this reference to a ship in case was also seen by the air traffic and stated 'There is no way that this he meant aircraft but he did indeed controller. 107 •Ill [ 111 11111111• EUROPE NAME THE A VIANO BLACKOUT other witnesses including control explained that there were two basic DATE 1 JULY 1977 tower personnel. races visiting the Earth: the tall During a normal training flight blond graceful people concernedfor PLACE AVIANO NATO BASE, NORTH-EAST they had encountered a bright, us and the short dwarf aliens ITALY circular, orange-coloured object interested in genetic engineering. MAP REF: L16 pacing the helicopters. The circle This latter claim, of course, EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND disappeared at an amazing speed mirrors the findingsof many KIND quite beyond the capabilities of ufologists over the past thirty years aircraft of the day. and has been highly publicized since In the early hours of 1 July 1977, US Other helicopters in flight the Betty and BarneyHill encounter soldier james Blake at the NATO confirmedthe sighting and on the (see page 42). base at A viano saw a very bright ground several people had been light hovering over the location of watching it through binoculars. Mount Etna, Sicily. The scene of an two military aircraft; this was Radar had detected nothing and extraordinaryencounter in July 1978. corroborated by other personnel on the officialexplanation was that the the base. It was described as being helicopters had encountered 'an some 150 ft (46 m) in diameter, aircraft operating out of Sardinia in spinning with a dome on top and the course of an ordinary flight varyingin colours fromgreen mission. ' through to red. During the one hour which the object remained at the base there NAME MEDINACELI ABDUCTION was a total power blackout. This DATE 5 FEBRUARY 1978 was corroborated by an independent witness living nearby who noticed PLACE MEDINACELI, SORIA, SPAIN that the base was in darkness which MAP REF: E18 was something he had 'never seen EVENT ABDUCTION before.' He also noticed a 'mass of light' low over the base. just a few The witness, known only as julio, seconds after the object flew away was walking his dog in the early beyond the mountains the base hours of 5 February 1978 when he lights came back on in a mysterious realized he had experienced a time fashion. loss. In regression hypnosis The official explanationof the sessions with psychologists, julio encounter was that it was no more recalled being blinded by a light, than the reflection of the moon on taken into a room and being low cloud. confrontedby tall, Nordic type aliens who were more concernedto examine his dog than himself. In NAME THE SARDINIA HELICOPTER fact, a full medical examination was ENCOUNTER undertaken of both and after a period of blackout he found himself DATE 27 OCTOBER 1977 returnedto Earth with painful eyes. PLACE CAGLIARI, SARDINIA, ITALY Apparently during his encounter MAP REF: J20 he discovered that our planet is EVENT DISTANT ENCOUNTER regarded as a beautiful oasis in the Universe which attracts many Major Francesco Zoppi of the 21st visitors, suggesting an explanation Helicopter Group of the Italian Air for the astonishing variety of entities Corps and his co-pilot Lieutenant reported. Even more amazingly, and Riccardelli released a statement assuming that the case is not a regarding a sighting confirmed by prefabrication, the witness 108 .,,,lllllllllln•· DATABASE 1970s NAME THE MOUNT ETNA ENCOUNTER patternof three bright red lights were described by the wllnesses as pulsating in the sky while they were beautiful. As two of the entities DATE 4 JULY 1978 together on Mount Etna in Sicily. walked towards them, the group PLACE MOUNT ETNA, SICILY, ITALY One of the lights headed down was paralyzed by some power. The L21 MAP REF: towards the group and disappeared entities. however. did nothing but EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD some 1,000 ft <:m.-t m) away behind returned to their saucer which took KIND the brow of a hill. off. Shortly after the witnesses had When the group drove towards recovered the usc of their limbs. A group of four witnesses, two the site they saw that resting on a They noticed one very Italian Air Force personnel (F. rock was a saucer shaped UFO interesting point; as another car had Padellero and A. Di Salvatore), an some -10 ft (12m) across with a passed by the site, the UFO had I talian Navy officer(M. Esposito) brilliantly lit plexiglass type canopy dimmed and then brightened again and Sih111ora Antonia Di Pietro saw a on top. Six tall entities were when it was beyond them, UFO consisting of a triangular standing next to the object. They apparently concealing itself. 109 · lllllil llllu ... EUROPE NAME THE FLYING ELEPHANT 10 ft (3 m) of the object and watched entities appeared to have had as geometric fib'llres began to form hunchbacks or at least some forn1 of DATE APRIL 1979 on its surface; triangles, squares, enlarged growth between the back PLACE 36,000 FTOVER SOUTHAMPTON trapezoids, circles, etc. He noticed of the neck and the shoulders, a ENGLAND that other lights were apparently rarely reported observation. This is MAP REF: F13 flashingon other parts of the disc. a feature that occurred in the 1954 EVENT DUMBO RETURNS! At one point the whole upper case in W�gierska Gorka (see surface of the disc illuminated a large page 83), which was not recalled by Occasionally a UFO mystery is H-shape. In this respect it sounds the witness until 1986 by which time solved, as in the case of this report. somewhat reminiscent of the UFO the details of the Czluch6w sighting When the passengers of an once seen over San jose de Valderas were generally known. airliner flyingat 36,000 ft. in Spain. Suddenly the object Even more extraordinarily, the (10, 972 m) reported seeing an emitted a bright blue light and the entities glided over the ground orange, flying elephant outside the witness felt burningbefore he rather than obviously walking on it, aircraft every UFO researcher and turned and ran away. aided, possibly, by the fact that their every psychologistmust have The following morninghe had a legs apparently ended at the knees considered that here was proof of form of oppressive headache, burns with only an invisible gap between mass hallucination if ever there was. and sore abcesses on his face. the knees and the ground itself! The However, some extraordinary witness shouted at them but they claims turnout to have not so glided away even faster and extraordinary explanations; in this NAME CZLUCHOW SIGHTING vanished. He never saw them again case a huge advertizingballoon for a but he did see a brilliantly lit UFO fly DATE AUGUST 1979 circus had broken free of its over the treetops approximately O moorings and had risen to terrorize PLACE CZLUCH W, POLAND 100 yds (91 m) away from him. the airlanes! MAP REF: M12 The only physical trace that EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD appears to have been left of the KIND event was that the dogs' fore-paws NAME PIASTOW ENCOUNTER were paralyzed for six months Mr Z. (name withheld) was rowing following the incident. DATE 22 MAY 1979 on a lake at Czluch6w in Poland in O PLACE PIAST W, NEAR WARSAW, POLAND August 1979 when he saw a dark MAP REF: 012 egg shaped object moving on the NAME THE LIVINGSTON ENCOUNTER EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND surface. It was apparently making no DATE 9 NOVEMBER 1979 KIND sound and causing no commotion in the water and shortly after it was PLACE LIVINGSTON, LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND An event occurred near Warsaw in firstsighted, it moved behind a MAP REF: F10 May of 1979 which was reminiscent peninsula and out of sight. EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND of the film Close Encounters of the A second witness, Mr Y. , KIND Third Kind, and could well have verified this sighting but also lost been an imaginative attempt at sight of the object from his position. At approximately 10. 15 in the communication. As Mr Y. approached the site he morningon Friday, 9 November The witness, W. R. , was walking saw two humanoids in dark clothing 1979 forester Robert Taylor, a 61- in the local park at approximately 10 moving into the nearby forest. Two year-old local inhabitant of o'clock in the evening, when he saw dogs owned by Mr Y. ran towards Livingston, Scotland, encountered a three bright lights on the path ahead the entities who faced them and UFO and entities of the most of him. He realized that the lights apparently forced them to runback extraordinary nature. were beaming down from a dark disc to their owner. With his dog, Taylor drove in his shaped object hovering above the The witness noticed that the pick-up truck to inspect young forest path. The object was apparently entities were approximately trees in an area just offthe M8 some 10 ft (] rn)wide and shaped 4-4 ft 6 in (122-137 em) tall wearing motorwaywhich connects like an icc-hockey puck. something resembling a diving suit Edinburgh to Glasgow. He stopped The witness walked to within with shields across their eyes. The the pick-up and walked to the site he 110 '1illilllllllln•· DATABASE 1970s may have been trying to camouflage trousers for any further forensic itself hy hazing in and out of solidity. examination that can be undertaken. The witness was uncertain whether Of the witness himself, Taylor is the object itself was transparent or described as honestand resp 111 , tlllill llll n•· EUROPE NAME CERGY-PONTOISE ABDUCTION Fontaine got into his car to get a Frank Fontaine leaving police headquarters better look at it but when his at Cergy-Pontoise after his abduction. DATE 26 NOVEMBER 1979 companions found the car he had French ufology was divided by the case; PLACE CERGY-PONTOISE, FRANCE vanished. A week later he returned, Fontaine later confessed it was a hoax. MAP REF: G15 apparently unaware of having been EVENT ABDUCTION away. He gradually told his story of ufologistsinto those who supported having been abducted aboard a UFO the claims and those who believed Some UFO cases arc important for and taken to an alien planet. Franck they were prefabricated. According their mystery while others are said that the aliens were interested to a report on the case sent to me by importantfor their eventual in one of his companions, Jean respected French researcher solution. The abduction of Franck Pierre Prevost, who they were Claude Mauge, prominent ufologists Fontaine belongs with the latter. selecting as one of their missionaries such as Michel Piccin and On 26 November 1979 Franck on Earth. investigators from the French Fontaine, with two companions, was The three men apparently government-associated research outside an apartment block in the enjoyed the public appearances and group (GEPAN) concluded that the suburbs of Parisearly in the morning notoriety which followed the affairwas a hoax. Fontaine later when they saw a UFO above them. encounter and the case split French admitted that it was indeed a hoax. 114 ·llillillllllln•· DATABASE 1980s alarmed to discover that the bus apparently caused Codfrcy, under 1980s seemed in fact to he an object some hypnosis , to cry out 'Tht·y <1rc NAME GODFREY ENCOUNTER 20 ft (() m) wide, ltl ft (tl.2 m) high horrible, horrible.' lie t'\'t:n saw and hovering above the road. It was what appeared to be a large dog (a DATE 28 NOVEMBER 1980 dome shaped and spinning. Codfrey feature unique to this experience). PLACE TODMORDEN, WEST YORKSHIRE, could see what appeared to be The tall humanoid entity was ENGLAND windows around the top. When he apparently called joseph, and he MAP REF: F1 1 tried to radio his base he found encouraged Godfrey to lie down on a EVENT ABDUCTION neither his car radio nor personal bed where some fonn of transmitter would work. While examination took place. UFOs frequently fall foul of the law watching the object he sketched it. Constable Godfrey (now no and there is an impressive list of Godfrey was hesitant about making longer with the force) has always police officers across the world, and his report but did so when he heard maintained a very level headed and particularly in the United States, that other police had been reporting sensible attitude towards the who report encounter experiences. UFOs around the same time. experience. He acknowledges that England, too, has its share as in the Re,h'Tession hypnosis sessions he docs not know what the obj ect case of police constable Alan were undertaken and revealed that was nor what the degree of reality Godfrey ofTodmorden, West the constable appeared to was in relation to the regression Yorkshire, who was interrupted experience fear and heightened hypnosis sessions but of course towards the end of his night shift on emotion at his apparent maintains his desire to find out. 28 November 1980. experiences. He believed he was in Driving onto a main road, heading a room faced by a man about 6 ft PC Alan Godfrey displaying a sketch of the towards a local estate to investigate (183 em) tall wearinga robe and object that may have abducted him, reports of loose cattle, Godfrey saw skull cap. There were other together with one of the entities that he what he thought to be a bus ahead of creatures in the room, non encountered. Godfrey maintains level him. As he approached he was humanoid dwarf like objects, which headedness in his search for answers. 115 EUROPE NAME RENDLESHAM FOREST formed indentations were believed ------to be landing traces. DATE 29 DECEMBER 1980 There were more extraordinary, PlACE RAF/USAF WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK, and more dubious, claims of silver ENGLAND suited aliens, of communication MAP REF: G12 between the base commander and EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND the extraterrestrials, and of films KIND and photographsof the contact being taken which were then confiscated. The tranquil darkness of There is little corroborative Rendlesham forest was shattered in evidence for these later claims. the early hours of a late December Radar stations in the area, morningwhen a triangular shaped including RAF/USAF Bentwaters UFO landed, or possibly crash (itself the subject of an earlier radar landed, amid trees to the rear of the visual encounter in the late 1950s, joint United States and United see page 86) tracked an unidentified Kingdom airbase at Woodbridge in object on radar at the time. Suffolk. According to USAF intelligence According to a report by officers, the radar indicated a Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, the possible crash landing in the forest deputy base commander at the time, near Woodbridge. two United States Air Force According to the book Skye rash, security officers saw unusual lights by jenny Randles, Brenda Butler in the forest to the rear of the base. and Dot Street, the two security They requested permission to officers, one given the pseudonym investigate on the basis that an james Archer and the other airman aircraft may have crashed into the john Burroughs, gave reports which trees. It was to be the beginning of confirmedthe report given by an extraordinary night. Lieutenant Colonel Halt. They made Three patrolmen tramped no comment about alien occupants through the forest towards the though did state that they believed glowing object and approached to there were shapes inside the object. within a few feet of it. It was 'I don't know what, but the shapes clcscribcd as triangular in shape did not look human. Maybe they approximately H ft (211 em) wide were like robots. ' ;mel h ft OHJ em) high and emitting a The mystery deepened further bright white light. There were when a tape recording alleged to reports of a red light on top and a have been made by Lieutenant bank of blue lights beneath which Colonel Halt and others was seemed to indicate that the object released, apparently describing, as was sitting on short legs. Possibly it happened, the search through the establishment intent on wishing to avoid direct contact as woods and encounter with the disinforn1ation (feeding ludicrous the officers approached, the object object. I have heard portions of the inforn1ation to people with a view to manoeuvred through the trees away tape and had the impression that it discrediting it) or by unprofessional from them towards a nearby farm, was stage managed but whether it is ufologists who by chance found driving cattle there into an agitated a total fabrication or whether the themselves involved in a major case. stale before taking off at tape is edited badly, falsely creating If the tape is faked then the precise l'Xtra 116 :'i DAlillTABASEllllln•· 1980s Admiral of the Fleet Lord Hill intrusion into British airspace 'I don't know what [they were] . but the Norton, wrote to Michael Heseltine. around a United States/British shapes d1d not look human Maybe they the then Secretaryof State for airbase from a foreign or alien pm,·er were like robots.· So sa1d one of the Defence, requesting details of the then clearly there was a defence security officers of USAF RAF Woodbridge case. On behalf of Heseltinc a reply sihTJ1ificancc. The altcmati\'e was aftersee1ng th1s ob)ect in the forest beh1nd was received from Lord Trefgame that the report by deputy base the Air Force base. It manoeuvred through stating that 'The events to which commander Lieutenant Colonel Halt the trees . and took off m spectacular you refer were of no defence was a hoax. a joke. or a symptom of fash1on. Desp1te all th1s. and a wntten sih1flificance.' him being 'out of his mind'. One reportby the deputy base commander Lord Hill-Norton pointed out that could arhJUethat any one of (see database entryfor deta11s l. the this was an extraordinary claim by these surely also has defence official British lme was that there was 10 any standards. If there had been an sihTJiificance � defence s1gn1f1cance 117 ·tlllill llllln•· EUROPE NAME HESSDALEN LIGHTS egg shaped, with porthole like analyser, geiger counters, cameras features, but there were also and infrared analysis. DATE 1981 -1985 spherical objects, cigar shaped Few people studying the PLACE HESSDALEN VALLEY, NORWAY objects and less distinct forms. Hessdalen claims would attribute MAP REF: J7 Over a four-year period many the events which occurred to EVENT LIGHT PHENOMENA ufologists camped in semi extraterrestrials or their craft. It is permanent bases in the Hessdalen far more likely that the lights are The problem for most ufologists valley and employed a variety of part of a natural phenomenon but not studying reports of UFO activity is equipment to study the lights. one which is fully understood by that they are invariablystudying a Officersof one of the Norwegian science. In one sighting it appeared historical claim, sometimes years defence divisions joined them for a that the lights were interactive with old, and studying an event which period and Project Hessdalen the witnesses; as they flashed seems never to repeat itself. received at least the approval if not torches at the lights so the lights Hessdalen provided one of very few the supportof the authorities. flashed back. Some investigators opportunities for ufologists to Project Hessdalen was set up which have speculated that these undertake a long-tem1 controlled included UFO Norway, UFO represent some form of hitherto study of repeating phenomena Sweden and the Society for unknown intelligence on the Earth. between 19Hl and 1985. Psychobiophysics, as well as Support for a natural explanation In November 19Hl local people in independent ufologists from Finland. seems to come from the fact that the area of the Hessdalen valley The project was able to obtain after 1985 the sightings died away. reported strange lights sweeping technical equipment from The earth lights theories proposed bet ween the mountains and making universities, and employed an Atlas by Devereux and others (Paul extraordinary manoeuvres. Many :woo radar, a seismograph, a Devereux's books EarthLi ghts and witnesses described the objects as magnetometer, a spectrum EarthLi ghts Revelations) indicate 118 I i! DATABASEll fiUnr1980s that there must be some possibility that the sightings were the result of some underground seismic activity which then subsided. Certainly the whole of Scandin;Jvia is subject to considerable seismic activity as a result of the isostatic readjustment (which is a movement of the earth's crust) caused by the last retreat of the ice age. As with most UFO events. some of the explanations offered were most extraordinary. One suggestion was that too much inbreeding in the area had produced an entire local population of physically and mentally defective people whose problems included hallucination. There is more photographic evidence for this investigation than any other UFO OPPOSITE Professor J Allen Hynek (right) ABOVE AND BELow Two of many event in history. It suggests that visits ProJect Hessdalen which gave photographs of lights in the Hessdalen this explanation, to put it in the ufologists a rare opportunity to study valleys, seen over a four- to five-year nicest possible way, is supported by anomalous lights over an extended period period . A w1de range of mstrumentat1on everything except the facts� of time between 1981 and 1985. was used in the course of the study. 119 urope is a ufologically rich continent, as the this theory is not as strongly held in most European database demonstrates. In fact, in terms of countries. In America, the study of the psychological ufological activity it is second only in the world aspects of the UFO phenomena are broadly confined IIto North America, and specifically the United to treating them as a by-product of a physical event. In States. The way in which UFOs are perceived and re Europe, the study of psychological aspects has tended ported in these two continents, however, is very difficult. to concentrate on examining whether or not UFO Firstly, there is no United States of Europe; the events could themselves be the manifestations of different nations of Europe have distinctly individual psychological processes. characteristics. Indeed, ufology seems to be following Sociological study of the UFO phenomenon is the business world where the intensified pressure strong in Europe, with a great deal of emphasis placed towards turning all nations into one European 'nation' on understanding the human background to witnesses are actually increasing nationalistic tendencies. In the and events. Again this is regarded as only incidental to field of UFO study these national characteristics have the American study of ufology; and, broadly speaking, surfaced not in the nature of the UFO reports, which amounts to a study of the extent to which physical have a global uniformity within very wide parameters, UFO events may affect sociological processes. but in the intnpretatirm of those reports. Mythological comparisons are heavily studied in Within Europe, there are si!-,mificant national differ Europe whereas they are totally rejected in America. ences in approach. Britain, Scandinavia (particularly It is recognizedin Europe that the UFO phenomenon, Sweden) and France lead the field in the comparative whatever else it may be, is a modern mythology. This study of modern day UFO claims with the folklore is not to say that it is totally mythological, but that a claims of earlier centuries and particularly the stories mythology has built up around real events to such a of the faerie folk and other Celtic legends. Germany, degree that it is probably masking the truth - which Sweden, Belgium and Spain have been strongly remains yet to be understood. receptive to contactee claims (the claims of those who Another major difference between America and believe they are in contact with benevolent aliens Europe is that the story of American ufology is told seeking to guide and protect the Earth). Sweden and Britain are very strong in studying the connection between UFOs and the Earth mysteries and particu larly the belief that the UFO phenomenon may represent something natural, but non-human, about the planet. Seen against the background of North American ufology, the common ground which exists between European countries begins to emerge. Whereas in America there is a general, national acceptance of the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETI 1), i.e. that UFOs represent a visitation to this Earth of alien spaceships, 120 • 11illlii iii1U••· BEYOND EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS through its cases each characterized by a firm circles is hy amateurish, cultist devotees who have acceptance of the ETI I. whereas in Europe the story already decided what results they want from their of ufology is told through its theories. examinations. Indeed cornfield circles have become a One example of this is the famous cornfield circle modern 'ink-blot' test for anyone to see almost phenomenon, which occurs mainly in southern Eng anything they want to in them. I t is also very obvious land. These formations appear in the late spring and that many of the people involved in cornfield research summer, generally in crop fi elds. They arc usually are there because of the publishing prospects offered. remarkably symmetrical in shape ;md represent swirl In other words cornfield circles are the modern ing patterns of flattened crops. It is held that these equivalent of the more extreme contactee claims of represent a part of the UFO phenomenon arising the 19SOs in America. oris.,rinally from the theory that they were the landing Individual European countries have experienced nests of alien spacecraft. This was a theory that never waves of particular types of sighting, or at least held water since, for a start, it required space craft interpretation of sighting: in 19S4 France was subject with specially rotating landing legs to form the to an extraordinary wave of UFO reports almost all of patterns that emerged. In fact no such object had ever which involved entities and most of which were varied been reported and indeed very few UFOs were ever in description; in 1967 Britain was subject to a reported in the vicinity of cornfieldcirc les. The British considerable wave but mostly of aerial sightings and - UFO Research Association (BUFORA) made a con for one period - particularly of flyingcrosses. It seems siderable study of the cornfield circles along with that sightings, or at least interpretation of sightings, bodies such as the National Farmers Union and the were governed by national rather than European Tornado and Storm Research Organisation. They characteristics at this time. were able to conclude that the cornfield circles were a Britain was home to one of the world's great UFO fonn of hurricane vortex pattern caused by the concentrations at Wanninster in Wiltshire. Warmins touchdown of wind and pressure vortices. In short ter was far more than a series of UFO reports and they were an extraordinary but nonetheless natural cases, it was a sociological event. It really kicked off in phenomenon. 1965 when Gordon Faulkner photo.l,Tfaphed something Although com circles are interesting in themselves, resembling a child's spinning top which was highly they should not be linked to UFOs. Unfortunately a publicized in the Daily Mirror, a tabloid newspaper. .l,Tf eat deal of the study that is being applied to cornfield and gained the nickname of 'the thing'. Suddenly 'the RIGHT The cornfield circles have been forced upon ufologists by a puzzled public hungry for answers. Apartfrom the glowing red ball which appears over their formation and is probably due to the ionization of air, their relevance to the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects is minimal. They are almost certainly a purely natural formation, though they are extraordinary enough to suggest that an understanding of their characteristics will add to an understanding of similar mysterious phenomena. LEFT For those who thought co rnfield circles were a new phenomenon this 1678 woodcut suggests otherwise; here 'the devil' mows circles in Hertfordshire. 121 • 1 11 I I I [ IIUin•· EUROPE thing' was being photographed and spotted all around Europe, with far more critical and broad-minded the Warminster area. Sky-watches of devoted ufolog analysis than in those early years. ists took place on Cradle Hill and Starr Hill which often Spain had its extraordinary UMMO affair which had the appearance of being something like a UFO comprised a bizarre series of messages coming from specialist's scout camp. Large groups of UFO de 'The Cosmic Federation of Planets'. The messages votees would flock to the area from all over the gave full details of the origin and home of the visiting country to spend the night watching the skyline and aliens which came from the planet UMMO, rotating the stars in the hopes of seeing one of Warminster's around the star IUMMA, which we apparently call famous 'things'. There was a great camaraderie - a Wolf 424. There were extraordinary photographs of camp fire atmosphere without the camp fire - and it walnut shaped spacecraft with strange hieroglyphs on has to be admitted not all of the nocturnal activity was the underside. devoted exclusively to UFO-watching. In Wales there was the extraordinary Dyfed For the most part the sky-watches consisted of enigma: hundreds of UFO sightings which attracted swapping UFO stories, of occasional dubious sightings remarkable local publicity and which became sociolo that caused some excitement at the time and of the gical events similar to Warminster. Undoubtedly they odd extraordinarily humorous episode. I recall being at were some form of concentrated light phenomena one sky watch (not at Warminster, in fact, but at perhaps similar to the phenomena at Hessdalen (see llorsenden II ills just outside London) where it became page ll8), but other claims built on these - almost apparent to me that the leader of the sky-watch was a certainly mythologically - were incredible. One ex little over-enthusiastic about ETH to say the least. ample was the claim that a UFO had an underground While the rest of us took only scant notice of the base in a rocky island off the coast despite the fact that flickering lights coming from underground trains every investigation indicated no secret UFO base crossing the points as they entered stations next to whatsoever. the hills this particular individual logged each and Europe, of course, has had its share of hoaxes. Six every one as an incoming UFO. He did the same for bleeping saucer shaped UFOs were found across the every moving light in the sky despite the fact that we southern counties of England. They turned out to be were on the main flight path into the world's busiest part of an elaborate prank organized by students from airport at Heathrow. I finally gave up in desperation Farnborough Technical College. There were also the when he ran off across the hills shouting that he had very dubious assertions of one Cedric Allingham who seen an entity which he was chasing, leaving the rest claimed to have met a Martian in Scotland and of us shouting 'Do you mean that rabbit?' photographed his craft, which was remarkably similar More seriously, the sky watches were a very to the Adamski saucer photographed in America the useful source of UFO-related data, not about the year before (see page 28). Allingham seemed to have UFOs but about the people involved in researching been overly protected from enquiries by his publishers them. In the decades that have passed since, UFO and suddenly died making further analysis impossible. research has much more come of age, at least in It was almost certainly someone playing a joke on ufoloJ.,rists though his identity has never been proven. jenny Randles points out that one of the candidates for the role was none other than astronomer Patrick Moore, who has never shown any serious tolerance for UFOs. lJFOs became so popular that they could be used to explain almost anything. In 196:� farmer Roy Blan chard found a crater 8 ft (244 em) wide in his potato fieldand apparently was in no doubt that the crater had been formed by a spaceship landing in the field. As he told reporters 'I didn't actually see it but what else could it have been? Obviously some craft from outer space since it sucked up my barley and potatoes when it took off. ' The Charlton crater (the field was at Charlton in Wiltshire) became world famous. One Australian 'expert' calculated that the saucer that had 122 ·illlllllllllln•· BEYONO EXTRA· TERRESTRIALS RIGHT A photograph taken by 'Cedric Allingham' at Lossiemouth, Scotland where he met a Martian in 1954 . The similarity between this saucer and the ones photographed by George Adamski a year earlier are unlikely to be coincidental. Allingham is almost certainly a hoaxer who was playing on the publicity of the earlier claims, probably as an attack against gullible ufologists. OPPOSITE 'The Thing' photographed by Gordon Faulkner in 1965. This photograph was highly publicized in the tabloid press at the time and started a wave of interest in flying saucer sightings in the Warminster area of England. Flying saucer spotting in Warminster became a social event. done the damage was 500 ft (152 m) wide and weighed In any case, the UFO phenomenon will undoubtedly 600 tons (610 tonnes), probably having a fifty man mutate as it has always done and what the future for crew. According to the expert 'We think these craft Europe will hold is uncertain. I think it likely that are coming from somewhere in the region of Uranus.' Europe will take centre stage over and above the (And all on the testimony of a hole in the ground!) United States eventually, as the United States is more England is of course a country of eccentrics and it and more seen to be not adhering to the ETI I so much has produced an enom1ous amount in the UFO field as clinging to it by breaking fingernails. Although which reflects this national characteristic more than recently, many of the US scientific hJ foups are be anything ufological. To name them might be unfair but ginning to develop a more European approach so that any reading of the UFO material from the 1960s would what might emerge is a transatlantic unification. paint a strange sociological picture. Openness and analysis will slowly attract the respect Less than eccentric, but far more dangerous, are of the scientific community from which ufology will some of the characters that have sought to attach then be able to hJ fow and from which those scientific themselves to the bandwagon. British ufoloh'Y has disciplines will also be able to expand. Apart from the suffered in the past from researchers who claim to core of true mystery which lies at the heart of ufology, have undertaken regression hypnosis sessions on a sociologists could leam a lot from a study of the hJ feat number of abduction witnesses and then believe development of the phenomenon. Folklorists could that they 'own' the witnesses and will even threaten also do so and the psycholo_bJ] sts will find an enonnous injunctions against anybody who even mentions 'their' amount of material in among 'true' ufolohJ]cal material. cases. Indeed they seem to feel that a second line of But speculation is idle as it has always been in this income from UFOs can be obtained through com subject. The next major e\·ent could well tum out to pensation from dubious court cases against a UFO be on some other continent, which would thenallow it community not easily able to defend itself in a legal to take centre stage. As Europe more than any other system which, in Britain, is more designed to protect continent so adequately indicates. UFOs are a truly the rich crook than the poor honest man. Their first global phenomenon. The national bounclmies are line of income comes, of course, from publication - but important only in as much as they bring into focus the primarily only in sleazy tabloid newspapers. national characteristics of their people, which simply For the future, the signs are that this kind of affect the perception of a phenomenon. But the profiteering is going to proliferate both in the United phenomenon itself seems generally quite unifonn ;mel States and in Europe, probably changing the UFO the key which unlocks the i-,J feat ufolohrical mysteries phenomenon dramatically, and for the worse. could lie in any part of the world at any time. 123 AS EARLY AS 1946 - THAT IS, EVEN BEFORE THE 'OFFICIAL' COMMENCEMENT OF THE 'AGE OF THE FLYING SAUCER' - PROFESSOR KAZANTSEV WAS SPECULATING PUBLICLY ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL INTERVENTION IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. KEY TO MAP OF THE EAST CD The Robozero Lake Sighting, Robozero Lake, USSR @ Shanxi Airport, China 0 The Tungus Event, Tungus, Siberia, USSR ® Amana Abduction, Sayama City, Japan 0 Hill 60, Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey @ Lintiao Airbase, Gansu, China CD Pushkino, USSR ® Kuwait Close Encounter, Umm Alaish, Kuwait ® Sverdlovsk, USSR ® Hunan Province. China ® Rybinsk, USSR @ Lan Xi, China 0 Shanghai, China ® Tientsin Airport,China ® The Green Triangle, Ogre Observatory, Lativia. USSR ® Spiral UFO, Guizhou, China ® Ukraine, USSR @ Baikonur Attack, Baikonur Space Centre, USSR @J Gobi Desert,China @ Heilong Jiang Province, China @ Dingxian City, Hebei Province, China @ Aeroflot Flight 8352, Lake Chud, Near Minsk. USSR ® Zhang Po County, Fu Jian, China @ Gansu Province, Lanz Hau, Gansu, China ® Petrozavodsk, USSR @) The Russian Park Giants. Voronezh, USSR f UFOs are extra-terrestrial spacecraft, we Hobana and julien Weverbergh, UFOs from behind the would expect them to make their appearance Iron Curtain, chronicled sufficient cases to make it more or less impartially throughout the globe. clear that UFO activity was not entirely a cultural If they are natural phenomena, though they contrivance of capitalist propaganda. But the authors mightI be affected by local variations of terrain and were able to list only fifty-one sightings in the entire climate, it is even less likely that they would be Soviet Union. Did this mean the Russian people selective with regard to the locations in which they weren't seeing UFOs, or that they were not reporting appear. Consequently, researchers for many years them, or that their reports were being ignored or have been puzzled about what to make of the relative quashed? The strict restraints on publication meant rarity of UFO reports from the Soviet Union, China, that it was impossible for outsiders to gauge the real and the Eastern bloc generally. situation underlying the apparent lack of activity. So far as underdeveloped countries were con It was not long, however, before it became cerned, the absence of UFO reports could be evident that the lack of activity was more apparent accounted for quite simply, on grounds of low level of than real: a deliberately created illusion. What gave education and the absence of appropriate channels of the game away was the way in which fluctuations in reporting. How would people know what to report, the public reporting of UFO activity synchronized with and where would they report it to? fluctuations in official policy. Whenever, as happened Ironically, among the earliest suggestions made from time to time, the authorities temporarily sof when flying saucers were first reported in the United tened their hard line, private groups were formed, States was that they might be secret military devices articles would be published, only to vanish when the of Soviet origin. In the Cold War era, the suggestion authorities changed their mind again. was not so preposterous. However, it soon became From China, too, occasional reports would evident that this idea was not viable, with the result emerge which sugge�.ed that UFO activity was not that most came to favour an extra-terrestrial origin. unknown there, either. For example, in 1980 the Whether, left to themselves, the Soviet people Chinese newspaper Beijing Wanbao published a would have come to the same conclusion, can only be photograph showing a shapeless blob of light. This, it a matter of speculation. The authorities imposed their appeared, had been taken by Xin Seng and Bi Jiang. own explanation and, with it, a blanket on all While campingnear the Great Wall on 23 August, they alternative explanations. So, in 1953, listeners to woke at 4 a. m. to see a luminous object in the sky Moscow Radio were officially informed that 'Flying over Beijing: it hovered silently for more than half an saucers are a fantasy invented by Western militarists hour. This enabled the campers to take the photo to frighten their taxpayers into accepting higher graph published in the newspaper, which was hailed as defence budgets'. China's first UFO photograph. True, there were occasional tantalizing indications Moreover, though the sighting is unremarkable in that despite official explanations, UFOs that did not itself, it is significant that it is only one of many - seem to be mere fantasy were appearing in Soviet several of them multiple - to have been reported in skies. In 1972 a book by the Romanian/Dutch team Ion China in the course of that month. If we suppose that 126 UFOS AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION only a small fraction of those seen were reported, we actually landed at Voronezh in the Soviet limon. Was may infer that a fairly massive UFO wave occurred at this truly an expression of the new freedom in Soviet that time in that place. I lad it occurred in the United cultural life, or was Soviet propaganda striking again States, say, it would have been easy to put it into the this lime with a deliberate attempt to defuse interest perspective of UFO sightings as a whole. But because in the subject by ridiculing it? so little was known about the situation in China, it was Taken at face value, the reports could he seen as not clear whether the August 1980 'tlap' was a a sign that the same freedom which was manifesting one-of-a-kind event or a glimpse of on-going UFO itself throughout the Eastern bloc now included flying activity in China comparable to that experienced in saucer reports. If this is so, they also showed that, other parts of the world. !-,r iven that freedom, the Soviet people and the Soviet The true state of affairs was revealed a year later media would, between them, generate the same kinds when journalist Shi Bo and a colleague launched the of sensational absurdity as the rest of the world. journal Exploration UFO, and received more than In his 1967 dossier 'UFO Sightings in the USSR' :� .000 reports in the course of a year. Though these (never published) Felix Zigel rejects landings and included a small percentage of tricks and sensationalist encounters with UFO occupants as fictionor hallucina claims, the great majority seemed to be honest tion - as most serious ufologists in the West are reports by sincere witnesses. Clearly, the silence inclined to do. But just as in the West there is a which had apparently prevailed hitherto was not an substantial body of opinion which believes that these accurate reflection of what the Chinese man and events take place on a matter-of-fact level, so it is woman in the street were actually experiencing. certain that there will spring up schools of thought, This was confirmed in 1982 when Shi Bo's book each favouring different viewpoints, in the Soviet China and the Extra-terrestrials was published in Union, China and elsewhere in the Easternworld. France, documenting reports going back to the early Nor is that the only problem ufologists in the East nineteenth century as well as more recent activity will have to learn to deal with. It has been clearly which compared pretty well with experience else established that the Soviet government, on several where in the world. The English-language compilation occasions in the 1970s, used the 'flying saucer myth' UFOs over modern China, independently published in as a convenient camouflage for secret rocket laun the United States by Paul Dong and Wendelle ches. The Soviet authoritiesdeliberately allowed their Stevens, confirmedboth the quantity and the diversity citizens to develop a panic situation, causing fears of of sightings. Many of the cases in one book did not American nuclear attack and all kinds of anxiety and appear in the other, hinting that there was probably a hysteria as occurred at Petrozavodsk on 20 Septem vast reservoir of undisclosed material. ber 1977, rather than reveal their space activities to A regrettable consequence of the political isolation the rest of the world. Such disinformation is some between the Easternand Westernblocs has been that thing ufologists have to accept as just one of their information flow has been verylimited. In the cases of problems, whether in the East or in the West. the UFO phenomenon, it is characteristic that such Paradoxically, the new freedom in the SO\iet East-West exchange of data as has taken place has Union may make it more rather than less difficult for been for the most part of the poorest and most effective UFO research to be conducted. From now sensational material. Unless he/she is lucky enough on, serious UFO researchers in these countries, like not only to read English but also to have access to their colleagues in Western Europe, Australia and the serious UFO publications, an Eastern ufoloblj_st would Americas, are going to fm d that their first and most have no choice but to get his/her knowledge of difficult task is to separate the signal from the noise. Western UFO research from those books which happen to have been translated. These, with rare exceptions, are the silliest and most sensational items, books which any serious Western researcher would HILARY EvANS is the overseas liaison consultant and a dismiss out of hand. By contrast, the work of serious specialist publications editor for the British UFO Research investigators is almost wholly unknown. Association. He is a researcher of many years standing, an Of course the same thing is liable to happen in author of many books and articles on UFOs and paranormal reverse. Typically, the one UFO event in the Soviet experiences, and a regular contributor at UFO symposia Union which made its impact on the entire world was throughout the world. Hilaryhas been co-editor with John the mid-1989 report that extra-terrestrial entities had Spencer on two compilations in the UFO studies field. 127 horizon and following the explosion PRE 1900 1900s they reported a sinister-looking, NAME THE ROBOZERO LAKESIGHTING NAME THE TUNGUS EVENT mushroom-shaped cloud. DATE 15 AUGUST 1663 DATE 30 JUNE 1908 Even 500 miles (800 km) from Vanovara, in the village of Kansk, PLACE ROBOZERO LAKE, USSR PLACE TUNGUS, SIBERIA, USSR the explosion was heard as a MAP REF: E5 MAP REF: J7 deafening noise and one train driver EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST EVENT PRE-ATOMIC AGE ATOMIC in that town even stopped his train KIND EXPLOSION? thinking that one of his own freight cars had exploded. Part four of the historical files At approximately 7 o'clock on the Above the Taiga (forests) an compiled and issued by the morningof 30june 1908 a massive enormous hurricane began to tear Archaeolohrical Commission contains explosion was heard from the away from the Tungus region a report submitted by the St Cyril forests of the Tungus regionof destroying roofs of houses and monastery of a strange sighting over Siberia. It had been preceded by shattering windows. Huge waves Robozero Lake in the USSR in the reports from many hundreds of flooded the banks of the Angara year 1663. farmers, hunters and fishermen of river. In London, shock waves were On 15 August many of the the remote region who had recorded on barographs. inhabitants of the district of witnessed an object travelling at The Tungus explosion has Belozero had gone to church in the great speed through the sky become legendary and the precise village of Robozero. While they emitting a light 'more dazzling than were in the church there was a that of the sun'. Most of the Forest devastation following an airborne sudden crash from outside and many inhabitants of the village of Vanovara explosion in the Tung us region of Siberia people left to see what had saw the light travelling along the in 1908. happened. One of the witnesses, Levka Pedorof, saw what happened and even had an explanation for it: it was a sign from God. At approximately midday a huge ball of fire had descended over Robozero from a cloudless sky; the fire was approximately 14� ft (45 m) wide and projecting in front of it were two beams. It disappeared (there is no description of how) but approximately an hour later it re appeared over the lake, travelling towards the west where it vanished. Later it returnedand hovered over the lake for an hour and a half. Fishermen on the lake were severely burned by the closeness of the object and the lake water was lit up to the depth of some �9 ft (9 rn). According to the report, even the fi sh fled to the hanks . .. 128 11DATABASE11llillll111•1 191 Os details of what is fa ct and what is troops furthn forward. TIU'Ir IIlarcll 1910s fiction arc obscure but what is very was witiH'SS(·d IJy tw(·nty-lwo nu·n clear is that a massive explosion NAME HILL 60 of a �ew Zealand lidd company. They reached the cloud ami they took place in, or more probably DATE AUGUST 1915 over, the Tungus forests on that marched int o it, taking almost an PLACE SUVLA BAY, GALLIPOLI, TURKEY day. It was not until the 19�0s, hour before all the men had MAP REF: A8 following the l�ussian Revolution, disappeared from the observers' that an expedition could be put EVENT THE LOST REGIMENT sight. The cloud unobtrusively lifted together to visit the reJ.,rion - on the off the ground joining the smaller basis that they were going to Many respected UFO researchers clouds above and then they all recover a J.,ri ant meteorite that was refer to the phenomenon of 'cloud moved away towards the north. In believed to have caused the lJFOs' and this is certainly the most three quarters ofan hour they had explosion. extraordinary example of the all disappeared from view. What they discovered was not a phenomenon on record. Since the 1st tl th Norfolk meteorite crater, which was At the break of day, unf'cr a clear reJ.,rimentdid not returnit was disappointing to them because the Mediterranean sky, the 1, 4th reasonably assumed that the Americans had just recently Norfolk reJ.,rimentwas p 129 · llllill llllu••· THE EAST communication and recovered the 1940s 1960s plane immediately. The aircraft was NAME PUSHKINO NAME SVERDLOVSK in a small clearing in a densely DATE SEPTEMBER 1943 DATE 1961 wooded forest. It was undamaged and intact but its position made it PLACE PUSHKINO, USSR PLACE SVERDLOVSK, USSR impossible for it to have landed since MAP REF: D8 MAP REF: F7 there were no runway facilities or EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST EVENT PERMANENT ABDUCTION clear patches. The authorities' KIND comment was that it could only have A report said to arise from the been lowered gently into the Spanish volunteers fighting Moscow Aviation Institute tells of a clearing. The mail cargo was alongside the Gennans in Russia, in mail delivery plane, an Antonov present and on testing the engine it the Azul Division, were in a bunker AN-2P, with seven people aboard, started without difficulty. But none during a battle between Gennanand which was flying between of the seven on board were found Russian Air Forces. Sverdlovsk and Kurgan. either then or since. The witnesses were astonished Approximately 100 miles (161 km) The report also states that a to see a disc shaped UFO stationed out, the pilot radioed ground control UFO was tracked on radar at the above the planes in combat 'as if and then the aircraft disappeared time of the disappearance and a 100 watching the battle' as one of the from radar screens. As ground ft (30 m) wide circle of scorched witnesses described it. control could not raise them again a grass was found some 300 ft (92m) Aftera time the UFO search party was dispatched. from the aircraft suggesting the disappeared at speed without Helicopter-bornetroops went landing or near landing of a circular revealing its source. straight to the scene of the last object. DISAPPEARING PHENOMENA Aircraft disappearances occur all over the world. Perhaps the The incident occurred in the infamous Bermuda Triangle and most famous is that of 'Flight 19' and its associated rescue the loss is generally attributed to that phenomenon, although flying boat (RIGHT). A flight of five TB Avenger aircraft (LEFT) exactly what occurs in this extraordinary corner of the world has took off from Florida on a routine training flight never to return. yet to be discovered. 130 •llllllllllllllll· DATABASE 1960s NAME RYBINSK, USSR DATE SUMMER 1961 PLACE RYBINSK, USSR MAP REF: E6 EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST KIND The appearance of a fleet offlying saucers hell-bent on breaching Moscow's air defences caused an unfortunate reaction from a battery commander and forced an interesting response from the UFOs. In the summer of 1961 missile emplacements were being set up ncar Rybinsk as part of the Moscow defences. Suddenly an enormous flying saucer appeared, flyingat 60, 000 ft (18, 208 m) and surrounded by smaller attendant UFOs. Despite the height the battery commander authorized firinga salvo at the objects and all exploded before reaching the target. Before any harm could be done the smal1 attendant UFOs apparently stalled all the electrical apparatus of the base and then flewback to rejoin the larger craft; only then did the electrical apparatus start up again. NAME SHANGHAI DATE 1 JANUARY 1964 PLACE SHANGHAI, CHINA MAP REF: 012 EVENT DISTANT ENCOUNTER Cigar-shaped UFOs such as the one in this Observatory in Lat\ia, USSR, A large cigar shaped UFO was seen illustration are one of the most commonly \\itnessed what they at firstthought by many of the population of reportedconfigurations in the world. was a solid trian�rularob ject. Once Shanghai in january 1964. they examined it through the Apparently MIG fighterswere NAME THE GREEN TRIANGLE telescope they saw that it consisted scrambled to pursue it but were not DATE 26 JULY 1965 of a large object surrounded by able to engage the object. three smaller greenballs and they PLACE OGRE OBSERVATORY. LATVIA. USSR Officially it was stated that the estimated the large central sphere MAP REF: DS object was an American missile, to be some 300 ft (92 m) wide. proving yet again that UFOs in EVENT DISTANT LIGHT Their best estimate of altitude whatever country they appear tend was that it was at approximately 60 to end up being blamed on foreign Astronomers Robert and Esmeralda miles (96 krn) highbut they could superpowers! Vitolniek and Yan Melderis at Ogre offer no identification of the sighting. 131 THE EAST NAME UKRAINE It is believed that the approach of NAME ZHANG PO COUNTY the motorcycles was detected by the DATE 29SEPTEMBER 1967 DATE 7 JULY 1977 object as it took off immediately they PLACE UKRAINE, USSR closed in. It was heading towards PLACE ZHANG PO COUNTY, FU JIAN, CHINA MAP REF: C8 the northernborder of the USSR. MAP REF: 014 EVENT VEHICLE INTERFERENCE As they were not well informed EVENT MASS SIGHTING about UFOs, the general feeling was An IL-14 aircraft on the Zaporoje to that this was a new formof Although the vast majority of UFO Volgograd air route, flyingover the reconnaissance craft from the Soviet activity is reportedin the Americas Ukraine, encountered a UFO at an Union. Examination of the landing and in Europe, it seems that every altitude above its own flight level. site showed burnmarks on the continent and indeed every country Alarmingly, the plane's engines cut ground, confirmingthe physical has its own spectacular and unique out and it glided down towards what reality of the report. involvement in the UFO would have been a major disaster. phenomenon. Such is the case in this However, 2, 625 ft (800 m) from the event though regrettably the ground the UFO disappeared and uniqueness amounted to mass panic 1970s the aircraft's engines restarted, and death. leaving a shaken crew to complete NAME DINGXIAN CITY Early in the evening of 7 july the remainder of the journey DATE SEPTEMBER 1971 1977, at Zhang Po County, Fujian, uneventfully. China an open air film was attended PLACE DINGXIAN CITY,HEBEl PROVINCE, Of all the vehicle interference by some 3,000 people. Suddenly CHINA reports received from around the two glowing orange UFOs MAP REF: M11 world full power failures on aircraft descended towards the crowd so are rare and, curiously, seem to be EVENT DISTANT ENCOUNTER low and so close together that panic most reported in Asia although many ensued. The witnesses could feel 'interierences'are reported in all Chen Chu was serving with the the heat of the objects and hear a forms of transportation. People's Liberation Army during an low humming sound and they assignment north of the city of claimed that the objects passed so Dingxian in September 1971 when low that they virtually landed. NAME GOBI DESERT he witnessed a UFO event. It was The sighting was of short DATE APRIL 1968 approximately 7. 30 in the evening duration and the objects ascended and Chen Chu, and others, and disappeared very quickly; PLACE GOBI DESERT, CHINA witnessed a globular object rising unfortunately in the ensuing panic MAP REF: L1 1 slowly and emitting a misty gas. 200 hundred people had been injured EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND After apparently hovering, it fired a and two were killed. Examination of KIND strong jet and rose higher, then the filmbeing broadcast showed that remained stationary for a time it was not the result of any optical While working on an irrigation before descending again. Eventually illusion or light effect caused by the project in the Gobi desert, Gu Ying it descended out of sight. transmission. and a companion witnessed the The incident was reported apparent landing of a UFO. They immediately and the army unit sent a saw an illuminated disc-shaped car to investigate. On returning, the NAME PETROZAVODSK object, red-orange in colour and unit claimed to have chased the DATE 20 SEPTEMBER 1977 about 10 ft Urn) wide approximately object around the mountain roads PLACE PETROZAVODSK, USSR half a mile from where they were. before losing it. MAP REF: ES When it landed, the commander of The witness's credibility is the military unit which was strengthened by his own attempts at EVENT DISTANT ENCOUNTER undertaking the enhrineeiingproject down-to-earth explanation: he requested the regiment to send confessed that having tried to Although a relatively undramatic investigators. Motorcycle troops explain it as a plane, a balloon or case in terms of sighting, it had were dispatched on a fact-finding some other 'normal' object he had interesting repercussions because of mlSSIOl1. always felt unable to do so. the government'sattitude. 132 ! I ! DAIII ABASEII, lll 1 970sl I u•• AURORA BOREALIS I he Aurora Borealis. or Norltu:m Lights, like its counterpart in lire soultlcrn ltcmrspllere, lhe Aurora Australis, or Soulhcm Lights. is a natural almospllCric cllecl wtuclr can tJe observed at near -polar lalilurJes. Although usually seen as bands ol ligl1l shimmering over a long period, there arc sighlings of smaller, quicker 'flashes' which can account for some ol lhc distant sightings !hal arc reported Auroras arc caused by charged subatomic parllclcs from the sun rntcractrng with atoms and molecules in l11c Earth's upper atmosphere. They occur at high latitudes on account of the facl lhal lhe particles from the sun are concentrated over the poles by Earth's magnetic field. Of the case itself there were elt.·ctromah'lletic effects driving NAME SHANXI AIRPORT many reports by residents of vehicles off the roads and even one DATE 26 JULY 1978 Pctrozavodsk that a giant, glowing claim that it was the forerunner of a PLACE SHANXI AIRPORT, CHINA jellyfish shaped UFO was hovering nuclear attack on the city. MAP REF: M11 over the city. It was never seen The Russian p; overnmentmade except from a distance and was seen no statement and this was taken to EVENT DISTANT ENCOUNTER for only a ten to t wenty minute be an officialacceptance of the UF<) period, during which time it phenomenon. It may be that the Fl�·ing instructor Sha Yon.l!kaow;ts amounted only to a light l{ussians decided to usc the UFO hr iYing tlying instruction at 10,()( )( ) It phenomenon. It appears to have phenomenon to corer up a particular CUJ lS ml when both he ;mel his puptl manoeuvred over the city, event of their own and, if so, must saw two .�.! lowing l fF( )s nrdmg the apparently shining down tine rays have felt somewhat embarrassed to aiqlort and then tlying away. that appeared to be like rain. The be paid back in pounds for their Yon.l!kao attempted pursuit ol thL· object then became a bright semi pennies of outlay. obJeds and was told by radiP that circle, red in the centre with white \V estcm obscrn·rs bclien· that there were no other aircraft 111 til( around it until it ii nally disappeared. the Russian gon·mmL·nt did not arc;1 and that thL· y were 11! 1[ The rase produced a sudden want to admit to t he launch of a returning( 111 Ll(br. outburst of mass hysll'ria. There military satellite or any other fonn of The same \\·itm·ss had a SL'C( )JlC� were many excilt'd responses from send satellite from nearby cn,·ounter less th;m ;1 year btL·r the population, and legendary tales, l'lesl'lsk; a subject which the whl'n he witill'SSt·d ;1 !;1st !11t l\'ll1,lC: unsupported, of holes being hoa·d Russian government typically never l 'F( l ;1t ;1 height ()f dppr' '-:ir�ldid� into the pa\-cments. of bizarre commented on. :UHlO ft (�ll l mi. 133 THE EAST NAME AMANO ABDUCTION NAME LINTIAO AIRBASE On the following night employees of the centre witnessed a more DATE 3 OCTOBER 1978 DATE 23 OCTOBER 1978 extraordinary encounter: a huge PLACE SAYAMA CITY, JAPAN PLACE LINTIAO AIRBASE, GANSU, CHINA cylindrical object larger than a jumbo MAP REF: 01 1 MAP REF: K12 jet approached the site. The seven EVENT ABDUCTION EVENT MULTIPLE WITNESS SIGHTING witnesses described the dome and flashing red lights and watched the Late in the evening on 3 October Early in the evening on 23 October object for seven minutes before it 1978 Hideicho Amano drove to the 1978 a large crowd of people disappeared. During the duration of top of a mountain near his home to including many military personnel the object's stay the pumping take advantage of the good were gathered in an open air system automatically shut down reception on his CB radio. He was theatre. Together they witnessed which suggested there had been planning to use this to talk to his the approach of a UFO. some kind ofelectrical failure. It brother. His two-year-old daughter, It was a cloudless night and the restarted when the UFO left, which juri, was also in the car. stars were clear when from the east should be physically impossible since At the top of a mountain, withthe a huge object approached. It was after any shut -down the system has radio on, the car was suddenly apparently oblong, had two powerful to be manually reset. illuminated. Amano looked around searchlight beams in front and According to one report cameras but could see no obvious source. trailed a luminous wake from its were handed out to field workers But the source had located juri! rear. There seemed to be a fog near the site should the object Suddenly Amano became aware surrounding the object. Fighter return andon 21 November it did that his daughter was lying across pilots had the object in sight for several photographs were allegedly the rear seat of the car with an more than two minutes and were taken but never published. orange beam shining onto her certain they were looking at a large stomach. Before he could react he object near the ground flying felt a metal object press against his relatively slowly. NAME HUNAN PROVINCE Apparently nobody had a camera forehead and he looked up to see a DATE 1 2 SEPTEMBER 1979 strange, hideous entity: short and and was able to photograph it, which with no obvious nose. was a cause for some regret. They PLACE HUNAN PROVINCE, CHINA Although paralyzed thereappears could be comforted by the fact that MAP REF: M14 to have been some kind of in the West a great many witnesses EVENT THE GREAT CHINESE BLACKOUT communication attempted; he felt have made the same lament, while the presence of visual images being those who did have cameras City blackouts associated with played into his mind and heard high lamented over the fact that their UFOs have frequently been pitched screaming noises. Afteran photographs proved very little! reported in the West, and particular indeterminate period of time the reference is made to the Great entity disappeared and the electrical North-Eastern Blackout of the circuits of the car and radio which NAME KUWAIT CLOSE ENCOUNTER United States (see page 50). had died, suddenly came back to life. DATE 9 NOVEMBER 1978 China too has been able to offer Amanowas in a state of panic and its own version from September PLACE UMM ALAISH, KUWAIT drove down the mountain as rapidly 1979 when in the early hours of the MAP REF: B12 as possible, not even lookingback at evening there was a power failure in his daughter. At the bottom, he EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTEROF THE FIRST Xuginglong and Huaihua, cities of turned to her, she appeared KIND Hunan Province. A brilliant UFO unharmed by the experience and was seen over the towns emitting requested only a drink of water. On the night of 9 November 1978 white rays before vanishing without Amano retired to bed with a there were reports of flyingsaucers a sound. severe headache and then over the Kuwait oil centre near 1 t is believed that there have remembered that the entities had Umm Alaish to the north of Kuwait been other power failures associated planted something into his brain to city. The reports claimed that once with UFOs but that the government alert him to their presence, and they observed the flying saucer had has felt the need to suppress have promised to return. dimmed its lights and disappeared. information about these. 134 DATABASE 1980s NAME LAN XI DATE 13 OCTOBER 1979 PlACE LAN XI, CHINA MAP REF: 013 EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD KIND Witnesses to UFO events act quite differently to one another and one such example comes from Lan Xi in China's Shekiang province in October 1979. A truck driver, Wang jian Min, driving at 4 o'clock in the morning, encountered a parked car. Inside the car, the driver described a strange craft that he had seen landing ahead of him and told Wang jian Min that he was too scared to approach it. Wangjian Min was apparently not so afraid and led the way up the hill, with the other car following, to confront the object. The dome shaped UFO was sitting across the road emitting a blue glow and beside it were two short entities dressed in silver. The witness noticed they also had what appeared to be lamps beaming from their helmets. Still not discouraged, Wangjian Min picked up a crowbar from his truck and an anomalous echo. During the Radar-detected UFOs are among the most sallied forth. approach to the airport the plane's common types of 'sightings', all the more The UFO and its occupants had returnon the screen lost contact for authoritative when visually confirmed. obviously heard of the expression several seconds. On contacting 'Discretion is the better part of Flight 402 they discovered that what However, the captain of the flight valour'; both the entities and the they were watching on the screen indicated that in trying to lock on the UFO disappeared. did not correlate with the aircraft, automatic direction finder the plane indeed it should not have been had locked on to an unkno\'m showing up on that particular radar transmission source; later, the plane at the time. Later during the successfully locked on to the proper 1980s approach the anomalous radar transmission. NAME TIENTSIN AIRPORT returncame back again, and tllis The last anomaly in the case was DATE 16 OCTOBER 1980 time it was visible alongside the during the touchdown of Flight 404 returnof the aircraft itself; the when one of the control tower PlACE TIENTSIN AIRPORT, CHINA image lasted a few seconds and personnel heard interference on the MAP REF: N11 disappeared again. radio and believed someone was EVENT RADAR DETECTED ANOMALY Most extraordinarily there was a tuning in to the control tower. In second flight in the air at the time, addition to the tower, the aircraft Radar control at Tientsin Civil Flight 404, which could not have crew and radar personnel listened to Aviation Bureau were plotting Flight been the source of the UFO since it the interference but no-one could 402 when the radar screen returned was moving in a different direction. identify the source. 135 THE EAST NAME SPIRAL UFO Wang Aining in Henan described An artist's impression of an incoming what he saw as a wash-basin some meteor. The fiery glow is caused by DATE 24 JULY 1981 60 ft (18. 3 m) wide, spinning and friction which occurs as the meteor enters PLACE GUIZHOU, CHINA dispersing flashes of blue light. He the Earth's atmosphere . MAP REF: L14 also noticed it was surrounded by EVENT SPIRAL UFO white fog. Li Zhengai of the People's would be many sighting reports, Liberation Am1y believed he was which indeed occurred. Zhang Of one thing we can be certain about looking at the moon until he Zhousheng also described the UFO the spiral lJ FO seen in China in recognized it was in the wrong part that would be seen; he said it would 1 �81, it is that it was a real physical of the sky. The local weather be larger than the moon, would object. It was reportedly seen by stations confirmed the sighting but appear to be a disc shape and many hundreds of people !-,ri ving were unable to confirm its identity. possibly spiral, would rotate independent reports from all over University professor Shi clockwise and be bright inthe centre the province. Zunsheng reported seeing a UFO with a fog surrounding it. Zhang Farmer Tian jin Fu, in the late with a row of portholes and drew a Zhousheng also commented that the evening, first saw the object when it sketch of a classical saucer although sighting should last some ten was about the size of the moon and up until that date he had been minutes. later saw a tail appearing from it severely critical of UFO claims. Actually Zhang Zhousheng was forming a concentric spiral around If all of this were not remarkable using very simple scientific the original object. enough, ever more remarkable was principles rather than any psychic Across parts of the province the fact that the sighting had been powers. He had been tracking the people were frightenedby the predicted a month earlier! path of a meteor shower due to pass apparition, while others were Astronomer Zhang Zhousheng of through the atmosphere at the time excited: an understandable cross Yun'nan Observatoryhad announced of his prediction and in this way he section of reaction to something so that between 10 and 30july UFO had foretold the effects that they strange. activity would intensify and there would have. 136 · ill!llll llllu••· DATABASE 1980s NAME BAIKONUR ATIACK broken welds. At the nearby Chinese Air Force pilols palrolhng DATE 1 JUNE 1982 housing complex where the other the North China border reported an lJ FO had been there were extraordinary, and potentially PLACE BAIKONUR SPACE CENTRE. USSR thousands of panes of glass damaged dangerous, encounter. MAP REF: F9 or broken out. The centre was out The danger came with the first EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST of action for t wo weeks for repairs. alert of the sighting when the jet KIND fighters'electr ical systems NAME HEILONG JIANG PROVINCE malfunctioned and their On 1 june 1982 two lJFOs were DATE 18JUNE 1982 communication and navigation seen hovering over the Baikonur system cut out. Ahead of the planes PLACE Space Centre, one paying particular HEILONG JIANG PROVINCE, CHINA was an unidentifiedobject MAP REF: N8 attention to the launch pads. approximately the size of a full Examination of the pads the EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST moon, glowing yellow-f_rreen. As it following day revealed that there KIND closed in on the planes it grew to had been considerable structural resemble a mountain of green mist damage, with loose rivetsand During a localized wave of UFO within which certain black objects activity over Heilongjiang Province could be seen. Because of the The Baikonur Cosmodro me. in China in june 1982 a flightof five electrical system failures the planes were forced to return to their base. NAME AEROFLOT FLIGHT 8352 DATE 1985 PLACE LAKE CHUD NEAR MINSK, USSR MAP REF: C6 EVENT DISTANT NIGHT LIGHTS This report, which comes from both the People's Paper and also the officialnews agency Tass, was publicized in 1985 though no date was givenfor the event. According to the report Flight 8352 was flying from Tbilisi to Tallin when at approximately 4 o'clock in the morning the plane, a Tupolev TU-134 encountered 'cloud UFOs'. The firsttrace of the sighting was apparently when the second officer noticed a bright star-like object above and to the right which seemed lo fire a laser-like beam down toward the ground. Other crew members confmned the sighting. The laser-like beam of light thinned out into a more diffuse cone of light; all the crew of the Tupole\· estimated that they were looking at something coming from approximately 30 miles (48 km) high. The cone of light had been 137 THE EAST scanning the J..,Jfoundand illuminating NAME GANSU PROVINCE the landscape very clearly, suddenly DATE 11 JUNE 1985 it turned on the aircraft itself obscuring the crew's vision. PLACE LANZ HAU, GANSU, CHINA Suddenly the star-like source of MAP REF: K1 1 the beam seemed to increase in size EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST becoming almost a yellowish-J..,Jfcen KIND cloud and it looked as if it was rapidly approaching the craft. For tllis China was one of several countries reason the captain ordered radio to report an extraordinary UFO details to be confinned of the during 1985. On 11 june, Civil sighting to air trafficcontrol in Aviation Administration Boeing 7t1 7, Minsk, which was unable to verify flying from Beijing to Paris, the sighting visually or by radar. witnessed the object in the late The cloud UFO exhibited some evening, over Lanz Hau in Gansu non-ballistic movement finally Province. swinging round to behind the The UFO flewacross the path of Tupolev and pacing its flight. The the airliner at extremely lligh speed crew noticed smaller lights causing the captain - Wang Shuting zigzagging inside the cloud. Finally, - to consider an emergency landing. One of two orange globes which appeared air trafficcontrol admitted they Of particular importance was the in July 1989 in a suburb near the Russian could see flashesof light on their size of the UFO, also reported in city of Perm. horizon which was in approximately other countries in the same year: an the correct position for the apparent diameter of 6 miles. creature with them. Interestingly, transmission from the Tupolev. the proportions arc the exact Remarkably, the cloud at one opposite of most Westernalien point seemed to be trying to NAME THE RUSSIAN PARK GIANTS descriptions - dwarf bodies, huge heads - though reflect perhaps the camouflage its shape, replicating the DATE OCTOBER 1989 outline of the Tupolev itself! The folklore of Russia, in which giants passengers were now somewhat PLACE VORONEZH, USSR feature strongly. The sighting alanned by the cloud and the captain MAP REF: D? seemed to confirm a previous report instructed them to be told that they EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD from Pennin central Russia when a were seeing the Aurora Borealis. KIND milkmaid had claimed to meet a A second aircraft flying in the taller than average creature with a opposite direction also confinned The Soviet news agency Tass small head. the sighting when the two aircraft almost gave way to sensationalism in Scientists apparently went to the were some 10 miles (16 km) apart. late 1989 when it reported a flying park in Voronezh and found a 60 ft As they were examining the cloud saucer landing in a suburban Russian (18.3 m) wide depression in the UFO with Lakes Chud and Pskov in park. However, the report certainly grass, four deep dents, wllich are the background they were able to had credibility as the involvement of regarded as landing trace evidence. make a reasonably accurate scientists investigating the area After the giants left there were estimate of the size of the cloud, showed, and perhaps reflected the reports that several of the witnesses some 25 miles (t10 km) wide. When liberalization taking place in the had been gripped by a fear for the Tupolev landed at Tallin the country's media. several days. radar control there confirmedthat According to the report, a UFO Investigation of a 'flap' is slow but radar had detected not just the landed in a suburban park at it appears at the date of writing tllis aircraft but two additional returns. Voronezh, some :mo miles (483 km) that there was indeed a wave of In March 1985 the USSJ{ south of Moscow, and witnesses sightings in the area at that time. A Academy of Sciences announced saw two giant entities walking full investigation of this will probably 'The Acroflot crew of Flight 8352 nearby. They were described as tall take about five years, assuming a had encountered "something we and thin but with tiny heads and they reasonable level of access to the call lJFOs". ' apparently had a small robot-like material. 140 he introduction by llilary Evans and the database itself give a very good impression of the state of ufology in Asia, principally the USSR and China as sern throu�Jz Westcm ey es. I lowever.T ufology is a part of a larger spectrum, a spectrum that includes folklore, the paranonnal, mythology, sociology, and psychology. The influence of these factors on UFO sightings is crucial to a full understanding of the phenomena. Perhaps reports are coloured by folklore? Perhaps the phenomenon has an in-built ability to react to people's expectations? No true understanding of the phenomenon can be achieved while these sort of questions remain unanswered. For Western ufolo�J]ststhe problem is that we do not have full access to all that is necessary to really understand the picture of ufology in 'closed' societies. China remains relatively closed, and the Soviet bloc is only just opening up (and it is still early days for any in-depth analysis). We have good reports, of course, from these countries but we can never be certain we have all of the important components. We need a full interaction between East and West on this subject. with access to government opinions and involvement, and perhaps a fuller understanding of Onginally built as an early-warnmg system, the Great Wall of those other 'human' factors which surround those Chma remains the largest construct1on ever built by man and a cases. As the world opens its doors a fuller picture will lasting reminder of China's territorial isolationism emerge; it is be�J]nningto already. Several Soviet delegates have been allowed - The picture is the same as in all other part:-; of the even encouraged - to attend 'Western' conferences world; the phenomenon is truly global. It is the 'local' and their input has been most valuable. llopdully, interpretations which offer the \·ariety. For ;lll ufolo they obtain much from interaction with us. Resear hJ] sts the problem is to separate source from signal. chers such as Paul Norman and Timothy (;ood have The future understanding of this global phe travelled in China, and have been kri n�n access to nomenon will be richer. but it lies, nen:rthele:-;s, in the valuable material. (;ood, effective. civilian UFO re future. A full picture of UFOs in this part of the \mrld search groups have de\·elopecl in most 'Eastem bloc' will broaden our minds and gin· us the perspL'L'tin·s countries. we all need - it cannot be quick L'nou.�h in roming: 141 WHILE THERE IS LITTLE SHYING AWAY FROM REPORTS OF 'GHOSTS', THERE DOES SEEM TO BE A FEAR OF RIDICULE WHEN SOMETHING OCCURS WHICH IS THOROUGHLY ALIEN TO A PEOPLE'S CULTURE. KEY TO MAP OF AFRICA Q) Drakensteen Mountain, Cape Province, South Africa ® Antoine Severin, Reunion Island, Indian Ocean ® Lake Mcllwaine, Harare, Zimbabwe @) The Landing at Loxton, Loxton, South Africa ® Elizabeth Klarer, Drakensberg, South Africa @ The Canary Islands Soap Bubble, Canary Islands @ Edwin and George, Patterson's Groyne, Durban, South Africa ® Groendal Reserve, Uitenhage, South Africa ® Fort Beaufort, South Africa @ The Mindalore Encounter, Johannesburg, South Africa ® Durban, South Africa @ La Rochelle, Mutare, Zimbabwe 0 The Tennis Court,Rosmead, South Africa @ Matabeleland Encounters, Matebeleland South, Zimbabwe ® The Beit Bridge Encounter, Zimbabwe/South Africa border @ The Dogon Tribes, Mali, North-west Africa n Africa one is faced with a great variety of about it. ' Whatever village this was, it had no cultures and beliefs and it is essential that electricity, only the smoking fires of locally hewn such diverse attitudes be taken into account wood. Could that possibly reflect in the sky above him when dealing with any report. Whereas in looking like falling, burningembers? But whatever the WesternI culture, UFOs are treated with great scep answer, I got no further. ticism by the scientific community, the African cul In the Loxton Case in the Karroo, South Africa tures readily allow for paranormal happenings. Predic (see page 151), there were three other witnesses to tions of death or enemy attack, by Sangomas (witch Danie Van Graan's sighting of a caravan-like UFO. A doctors), are often accurate although in the former young coloured boy (eight or nine years of age) had case this is sometimes caused by severe emotional noticed the object on the ground. I le ran to call his trauma. mother, Meitjie Devenish, who was sitting with a llowever, spacecraft, the Extra-terrestrial young man nearby. They all saw the object on the Hypothesis, and UFOs, are totally alien to black ground, but were so terrified by its implications and African literature and folklore. This lack of knowledge the possibility of police questioning, that they left the is often compounded by Jack of foreign currency in the area, moving towards the S. E. Cape, to East London. developing countries to purchase books on UFOs from Dave van Rhyn tells a story about a UFO overseas. Thus, when I approach witnesses in cases encounter during the War of Independence in Zim of supposed sightings or contacts, I can be 99 per cent babwe (then Rhodesia) when he was accompanied by certain that their interpretation will be representative his black sergeant, Gilbert. It was about 8. 30 pm only of their culture. when Dave was driving the army Landrover from The one overriding factor which appears in all Chiredzi to Mutare in Zimbabwe. They had noted cultures is that of fear! The unknown can be seen as a some very bright car headlights behind them when physical threat and, despite varying interpretations of Gilbert pointed out that the vehicle seemed to be the origins of the threat, creates an overwhelming travelling above the ground. Realizing there was no traumatic abyss. landing strip in the area, Dave drew over to the side of While there is little shying away from reports of the road and stopped. They both got out to look but 'ghosts', there does seem to be a fear of ridicule when the light had disappeared; suddenly it rose up from a something occurs which is alien to a people's culture. hollow on their right hand side. Both men had a On a recent phone-in broadcast in Zimbabwe, I was tremendous fright but Dave stood his ground. The contacted hy a young African boy of twelve. 'I was in light was huge, like a football field, and it passed over my grandmother's village when I saw this "thing" them and then shot up into the sky. When Dave pa ssing over, and spewing out hot, burning material, ' looked for Gilbert, he found him under the vehicle, still he said. (The village was some distance into the bush trembling with shock. The possibility of a UFO had and isol;Jted). Later, when I contacted him, he said he entered Dave's mind, but the poor sergeant had no could not talk lo me. 'My mother and father told me idea what was going on. that what I saw was the lights of another village In the case of Clifford Muchena (see page 153) it nearby' the boy reported. They want me to forget all must be remembered that I never suggested to Clifford 144 ·llllllllllllln•· UFOs WITHIN AFRICAN CULTURE Vast, unpopulated areas of scrubland and bush make up much of shouted, the fireball moved sideways for about H20 ft Africa. It is little surprise that UFO sightings on this continent are (250 m) and disappeared behind a bush. Warrant faw and far between. Officer van Rensburg, the policeman in charge, who had been called in by Bennie Smit, the owner of the that he had seen UFO entities; aliens and UFOs were farm, said, 'I did notice that when anyone approached never mentioned at the original interview. Clifford it, it shied away behind the bushes.' alleged that the men were the 'ghosts of my ancestors' Whatever UFOs are: extra-terrestrials or time and I never attempted to make him think otherwise. I travellers, psychological in1agery or even apparitions, did, at the end of the interview, ask if he had heard let us not speculate wildly about Africa. I have that there were 'men in space' and he in1mediately interviewed many dozens of African people in the reacted. 'Do you mean astronauts?' he asked, course of my research. I only apply the UFO although he admitted that he had never seen a picture hypothesis when certain factors keep re-appearing, of one. On subsequent occasions we discussed the i.e. balls of light or the strange behaviour of lights, probability that the fireball that he and nineteen other entities which appear to be totally alien, machine-like witnesses had seen, could have been some sort of craft, ozone (and other) smells, electromagnetic omen or vehicle, not from this Earth. effects on both humans and machines, paralyzing of The largest number of reports I receive are in the witnesses, etc. As a field investigator of about fifteen fom1 of balls of light (BOLs). One teams to categorize years standing, I believe this is the appropriate way to these and with knowledge gained over the years from sift the ufological data from the varied reports. books and papers I have read (such as the work of Paul Devereux and I lilary Evans) I can give an identity to most of them. What does still puzzle me is their intelligent movement. CYNTHIA HIND is the MUFON representative for Africa. and For example, in the Fort Beaufort case in South one of the most experienced researchers on that continent. Africa, (see page 14H) the fiery object reacted to the Her efforts over the years have done much to enrich voices of the labourers as they moved about to try to knowledge of the way in which the UFO phenomenon has comer the object. When a labourer, Boer de Klerk, arisen there. 145 � 11n· · f'llluu�, DATABASE near Lake Mcllwaine, in Zimbabwe apparently a meteorite on a collision 1950s (then Rhodesia) when the two course with the Earthand Elizabeth NAME DRAKENSTEEN MOUNTAIN witnesses saw a saucer-shaped watched as the metallic UFO silver object some 11/4 miles km) apparently deflected it to avoid a DATE SPRING 1951 (2 above them, and about 6 miles (9 collision. In 1937 while flyingfrom PLACE DRAKENSTEEN MOUNTAIN, CAPE km) away. Taking a closer look they Durban to Baragwana th with her PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA saw that 'it turnedon its side and husband they saw a blue-white UFO MAP REF: K20 flew away at great speed'. approach the plane, pace it for a EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD However, as they reached the while and then disappear. KIND edge of Lake Mcllwaine they saw Her most extraordinary the object coming towards them, experience began on 27 December Juan Benitez published this classic then maintain station some ZV2 miles 1954 when she was again at the alien encounter report in 1978. (4 km) away. There were no family fa nn and was alerted to some The witness, a British en!,rineer portholes or externalmeans of activity by the great excitement of working in Cape Province, South propulsion visible; they estimated young Zulu children outside. She Africa, had been driving up the the object to be approximately 40 ft rushed to the hill where she had first Drakensteen Mountain in his car late (12 m) wide. The object disappeared seen a UFO and watched as a huge at night when a man flagged him at incredible speed. disc-like craftsome 60 ft ( 18. 3 m) down and claimed he needed water. wide descended and hovered near The man was under 5 ft (152 em) her. It was flat with a dome, and tall, was bald with a domed head and NAME ELIZABETH KLARER portholes facing her. Through one of spoke in a strange accent. The DATE 27 DECEMBER 1954 the portholes she could see a witness offered to drive him to a humanoid figure surveying her and PLACE DRAKENSBERG, SOUTH AFRICA nearby mountain stream. the landscape. Shortly afterwards MAP REF: K20 ( )n returning the man to the the craft flew off at speed. original point, the witness saw a EVENT CONTACTEE In April 1956 Elizabeth Klarer felt disc-shaped craft. The 'man' invited compelled to return to the family him inside the object and showed 'Not afraid this time?' Potentially a farm apparently aware of something him that he needed water because chilling question, not least when 'waiting for her' there. Early in the one of his rollca1-,rt1es had burned asked by an extra-terrestrial morning she climbed the hill, which himself. When the witness asked the standing beside his hovering flying she had come to call 'Flying Saucer entity where he came from the saucer when you and he are the only Hill', and discovered on top a similar entity pointed at the sky and said people at the top of a deserted hill in huge metallic craft resting on the "From there!" a desolate landscape. Fortunately ground. The entity was this time for Elizabeth Klarcr not only was standing outside the ship. He was she not afraid but felt enonnous tall, some 6ft 4in (2 m) high, had NAME LAKE MCILWAINE warmth and trust for the alien; clear 1-,1f ey, slanted eyes and high indeed she was to fall in love with cheekbones. He was wearing a one DATE 26 JULY 1954 him and have his child. piece suit. It was at this stage that PLACE LAKE MCILWAINE. ZIMBABWE In her young years, in October the alien asked 'Not afraid this time?' MAP REF: K16 1917, Elizabeth saw her first UFO. Elizabeth boarded the craft; EVENT DISTANT ENCOUNTER She was with her sister watching the inside she met a second alien similar sunset from a hill ncar her family to the first and the door was closed. On 26 July 195,1 Squ;1dron Leader A. farm at Drakensberg in South Africa She began to panic in case she was Roberts and a student pilot, R. when an orange-red globe came never to returnto Earth, and when Howarth, were !lying a Tiger Moth rushing towards them. This was she went to the windows they too 146 • 11llllllllll1n•· DATABASE 1960s were closed, but she quickly became just fifteen minutes later ;m 1960s aware that she was among friends anomalous light appeared in the sky which she was sure emanated from NAME EDWIN AND GEORGE which George pointed out to Edwin. telepathic communication. DATE EARLY 1960 It was about the size of a tennis ball The craft flew up to its at ann's length; George explained PLACE PATIERSON'S GROYNE, DURBAN, mothership, which was fu ll of the that this was a spacecraft zeromg m SOUTH AFRICA same aliens all of whom appeared to on the radio. Suddenly, to Edwin's MAP REF: K19 be very friendly. On board she was amazement, an English voice spoke shown 'videos' of the aliens' home EVENT CONTACTEE identifying itself as belonging to planet, known as Meton. Wy-Ora who was in charge of the She discovered in her dealings In 1960 Edwin was lH years old and spaceship; he and his crew with the aliens that her principal working as a radio mechanic in a apparently came from the planet contact was named Akon, that they factory south of Durban in South Koldas and one of their number was were a race of vegetarians, they Africa. While he was there, a man named Valdar. Valdar was in fact could move freely within the galaxy named George took the post of none other than George who scoured but could not cross the gulf between supervisor in Edwin's section. The Earth to findsuitable people to galaxies. They lived in a perfect two of them got on very well spread the word about their mission. world unaffectedby pollution and on together and often went fishingat George impressed Edwin in their planet they have no politics or Patterson's Groyne where their many ways; during this contact he money, no wars or hostility and have friendship grew. George was quiet apparently gave instructions to the long ago rid themselves of disease. and gave few clues about his radio to make the spacecraft In order to communicate personal life. undertake certain manoeuvres, effectively with Akon, Elizabeth One day, responding to a light which it did. On one occasion when learnt telepathy. Akon explained to hearted question, George said 'I am they were at work Edwin watched Elizabeth that he needed her for going to ,1.,r ive you absolute proof that George - who apparently thought he 'stock breeding' but she accepted lights in the sky arc not all Sputniks. was alone - physically manhandle a this happily as she was now in love Then you will know that spaceships machine into place which had just with her extra-terrestrial. She exist.' On one of their fishing trips taken a crane and five people to set became pregnant and spent four George took a black bag with him months of her pregnancy - up to the which contained some sort of Edwin surveying Patterson's Groyne, birth -living on Meton, with Akon. communication device and when where he used to fish with George (Valdar) The child was born and now lives George switched it on they both and where he first saw the UFO with which there in the care of his father. heard a strange language. George was communicating. Akon told her that he came from a planet four light years away which would seem to put it in the vicinity of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the Earth's sun. They arc surveying us to ensure that our pollution and nuclear pro!,rrcssis not too dama,1.,ring. Apparently the gradual and somewhat haphazard exposure of the human race to UFOs was an acclimatization device. The nature of the experience, and the description of many of its components, have many echoes in the claims of George Adamski (sec page 2H), Antonio Villas Boas (sec page lHl) and other claims that have been received across America and Europe in more recent years. 147 AFRICA it down. According to George there is nearly 30 ft (9. 14 m) across and 1970s were hundreds of similar aliens made of heavy brick and cement, living on the Earth, interacting with NAME FORT BEAUFORT had been shattered. Indeed large humans. DATE 26 JUNE 1972 pieces of its structure were lying One day George handed in his some 60 ft (18.3 m) from the site. PLACE FORT BEAUFORT, SOUTH AFRICA notice and told Edwin that he had to Smit stated that shortly before the MAP REF: J20 leave. Edwin took George, at his explosions occurred he had seen the request, to a beach at Richard's Bay EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND UFO again. where they fished for some time and KIND then George apparently changed from his ordinary clothes into a one In June 1972 an event was to occur NAME DURBAN piece zip-up coverall and gave Edwin near the town of Fort Beaufort in DATE 1 JULY 1972 the communication radio. As South Africa which, extraordinarily, instructed, Edwin sheltered behind exhibited an apparent sensitivity PLACE DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA a sand dune and saw the arrival of a towards the sound of the human MAP REF: L19 150 ft (40 m) wide disc-shaped flying voice. EVENT DISTANT NIGHT LIGHT saucer; he noticed a figure inside a Early in the morningthe owner of dome on top as the craft landed. Braeside Farn1, Mr Smit, sent one During a Boeing 727 flightfrom George boarded and within seconds of his labourers, Boer de Klerk, to Johannesburg to Durban the pilot the object was merely a distant dot inspect the fann'sreservoir. At 9 Captain Chester Chandler, the in the sky. o'clock de Klerk returnedin a clearly senior flight officerGraham Smith Ever since, Edwin has received agitated condition. and the flightengineer G. messages from George and based An hour earlier de Klerk had Koekemoer all witnessed the close on them has collected a cult group apparently been at the reservoir approach of a light to their aircraft as around him. Much material has been when he had noticed a ball of fire they prepared to descend for transmitted, describing the lifestyle near a ridge. Smit went back to the landing. of the aliens and the technical site with de Klerk and also saw the It was nearly 9 o'clock in the features of their craft. In particular object. It was a fiery red ball some 2 evening and the sky was clear and some of the messages indicated that ft (61 em) wide hovering at treetop dark. Suddenly the crew noticed a there were rival factions of aliens height and spitting out flames. light apparently pacing the aircraft. manipulating the Earth. Incredibly, when de Klerk shouted, . They contacted Durban approach Investigator Cynthia Hind the object appeared to back off by control and reported the sighting, listened to one of the broadcasts as some 820 ft (250 m) behind a bush approach control confirmedno other it was received. It described aspects and reappeared later. aircraft in the area and no military of the aliens' purpose on Earth. Smit left de Klerk to watch the aircraft operating. The sighting Undoubtedly, the broadcast could object while he returned tohis ended when the light accelerated have been faked, but it would have homestead to collect his rifle and and turned away. been expensive to do so and Cynthia contact the police. Two officers A check of the aircraft indicated was 1-,r iven freedom to examine the arrived at 10.30 and Smit took them no malfunction of instruments on radio receiving equipment at her back to the site where all four board (as is often reported by UFO leisure (though she admitted she together with three other labourers approaches). Chandler commented was not expert enough to comment - watched the object. They shot at that he accepted there was on its workings. ) She has it, and apparently hit it once though 'something out there' which pilots commented that the affair 'had a that seemed to have little effect; could not explain, speaking disturbing effect on me'. She eventually it crashed through the presumably not only of his own maintains a healthy questioning undergrowth and disappeared. sighting but of UFO reporting attitude towards t he UFO The following day an generally. phenomenon and she is not in mv investigation of the area uncovered opinion a gullible person. I echo her nine supposed landing traces. OPPOSITE Following UFO sightings in the own question, raised in her book On the 8 july Smit heard two loud area, the tarmac of this tennis court at lJFOs - Afnum E ncounlcrs: 'Can explosions from his farn1and Rosmead Junior School was found torn we really afford to laugh it all oft?' discovered that the reservoir, which up and scattered. 148 ·illllilllllln••· DATABASE 1970s NAME THE TENNIS COURT up and scattered. The ga tes were, NAME THE BElT BRIDGE ENCOUNTER however, still securely locked. The DATE 12 NOVEMBER 1972 DATE 30131MAY 1974 police were called in. PLACE ROSMEAD, SOUTH AFRICA PLACE BElT BRIDGE, ZIMBABWE BORDER ll is worth noting at this stage REF: MAP REF: MAP J20 that there were many other UFO K17 EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SECOND reports received from the same area EVENT A MOST EXTRAORDINARY VEHICLE KIND at the same time including reports of INTERFERENCE sightings by police officers. llarold Truter, the principal of the Investigation of the tennis court l'eter and his wife Frances junior school at l 149 •llillllllllllll•· AFRICA The Be it Bridge crossing of the Limpopo speed, without headlights and During this next leg of the drive River which forms the border between completely out of Peter's control. the couple thought they might be off Zimbabwe and South Africa and the scene He could not stop, brake, steer or in course because of the strange of Peter and Frances's encounter. any way control the car. Although landscape around them; low bushes, Peter was terrifiedby this he said high grass, marshes and swamps. It road ahead and the road was noted nothing to his wife who was already appeared that they were shrouded in for its speed traps. As they passed concernedenough by the UFO a 'cone of silence'; there was no the 'policeman' they noticed that he sighting. This continued for some 11 noise from the engine andno noise seemed to be wearing a plastic or miles (18 km) until reaching a petrol of insect life. Yet again, Peter metallic-looking suit and when they station at Fort Victoria by which completely lost control of the car looked back after passing him they time the UFO had disappeared. now at a speed of something like 125 could sec nothing at all! It was 4.30 in the morningwhen miles (200 km) per hour. 'I wasn't Fifteen minutes later, at �.30 in they drove into the garage in Fort driving' said Peter. The road from the morning, Frances saw a light off Victoria and the garage attendant, Fort Victoria to Beit Bridge is very to the left hand side of the vehicle dressed in vest and shorts, curved and twisted but that night it apparently keeping pace with them. expressed surprise at their remark was absolutely straight! The car lights began to fade. Other about how cold it was. An hour later, Frances fell asleep at around 6. 15 electrical equipment in the car, such they set off again. a. m. and at 7.30 they arrived at Beit as the radio was unaffected; all Sixand a quarter miles (10 km) Bridge. It was now light but the two (]found them there was a light bright out of Fort Victoria the UFO took up UFOs were still visible high above enough to cast shadows. Both Peter its left hand position yet again and them. The clock in the Zimbabwe and Frances felt remarkably cold and there was also a second UFO customs post showed 8.30 a.m. wrapped up in coats and blankets directly above. Although this was a though both Peter's and Frances' while they were driving. potentially busy route, because of watches showed 7.30 as did the Peter was again driving fast, the daytime heat many people would clock inside their car. A radio time between 87-9] miles (ltl0-150 km) have driven at night, and the check indicated it was indeed 8. 30. per hour and he eased his foot off previous day had been a public Analysis of the car was to provide the accelerator. Nothing happened! holiday, the couple were surprised some of the most extraordinary The car continued to move at full that the roads were totally deserted. details yet! When he had left Fort 150 ·llllllllllllln•· OAT ABASE 1970s Victoria Peter had set the trip meter flight deck, etc. It was testified to usbelieve Antoine to give himself a mileage count and approximately 90 ft (27Am) wide Severin to have been hallucinating, when he looked at it at Beit Bridge it and 60 ft (1H.3 m) high. and they all take his statement showed that the car had travelled Interestingly, there was a special seriously. ' some 10'12 miles (1 7 km). Fort abduction 'unit' on board the craft; Victoria to Bcit Bridge is a distance an empty room into which abducted of 179 miles (28H km). In addition he humans could be taken where they NAME THE LANDING AT LOXTON should now have had to fill the petrol could be induced to believe they DATE 31 JULY 1975 tanks of his Peugeot t104 which were still in a (simulated) Earth PLACE LOXTON, SOUTH AFRICA should have been virtually drained surrounding. Other parts of the MAP REF: 120 by the journey; in fact they were still recall indicated that the beings were fu ll and took only 22 cents worth of physical, they had no reproductive EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD petrol. The tyres provided an even organs, they came from the outer KIND more extraordinary puzzle; in order galaxies, were like gods and to save money Peter had fitted travelled in time rather than space. On the chilly, misty morningof 31 cheap retreads for the drive, It seems that their purpose is to july 1975 Danie Van Graan was proposing to replace them with influencethe course of the Earth walking over a 10 ft (3 m) high earth decent tyres more cheaply available without making direct interference. bank, which protects his village from in South Africa. At best they should As part of their contact they flood water. In the fieldbelow him have given him about 746 miles apparently live amongst us as he saw what looked like the (1, 200 km) worth of driving. Peter businessmen, university students, aluminium roof of a caravan. showed the tyrcs to investigators; lecturers, and so on. The 'caravan' was an oval shape they had done nearly 4, 970 miles and Van Graan could see four people (8, 000 km) and were still as if brand moving about inside as if in slow new. Regression hypnosis was to NAME ANTOINE SEvERIN motion. They were small, thin, pale reveal a stunning story! DATE 14 FEBRUARY 1975 and wore cream-coloured overalls. According to Peter's recall, his They had fair hair, slanting eyes, PLACE REUNION ISLAND, INDIAN OCEAN wife's falling asleep on the road to long faces and high cheekbones - a MAP REF: 017 Beit Bridge had not been description reminiscent of the coincidence; it was quite deliberate. EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD female abductor of Antonio Villas After she had gone to sleep a 'space KIND Boas (see page 181). being' had been projected into the Van Graan could hear a humming backseat of the car and had It was just after noon on 14 sound and when he approached remained there for the rest of the February 1975 when Antoine approximately 15 ft (45 m) from the journey. The space-being apparently Severin saw a domed UFO in a field machine, the entities inside told Peter that he would be able to at Petite lie. Small entities some 3-4 suddenly looked up at him. At that sec him as anything he wanted to ft (91-122 em) tall got out of it and moment there was a slight click and see; if Peter wanted the entity to fireda white beam at Severin, a flapopened at the side of the look like a duck then it would look rendering him unconscious. For object; a bright beam of light hit him like a duck, if he wanted it to look several days Severin suffered from in the face. The light disorientated like a monster it would look like a impaired vision and lack of speech him and indeed from that time he has monster. In some strange way which a local psychiatrist interpreted suffered blurred and double vision, Peler also examined the inside of as being reaction to shock. though prior to that he had had no the spacecraft though there appears When the police published their trouble with his eyes. At the time, to be some suggestion that he made report on the incident their Van Graan also noticed that he had an out-of-body trip from the car and Lieutenant Colonel Lobet said 'It suffered a nose bleed. which was into the spacecraft, leaving his turned outthat (the witness) is later confim1ed by an acquaintance. physical fonn to run the vehicle. normally a well balanced, well Suddenly the humming noise According to the regression behaved individual of excellent became louder and the machine took hypnosis the craft was built on three character, and not given to the off very fast and vel)·smoothly. levels divided between engineering, perpetration of hoaxes.' He added Within about twenty seconds it had communications, living quarters, 'None of the persons who have disappeared from ,-iew. 151 AFRICA Subsequent investigation at the was moving at some 1,865 miles wearing suits similar to those worn site revealed landing leg traces. Of (3, 000 km) per hour. by fire fighters, some 900 yards the alfalfa field where the UFO had On Gran Canaria, a doctor and (823 m) away. Witnesses noticed rested, the landing site itself was three others in a taxi saw the UFO that they did not seem to walk but barren, the soil hard baked. Van as an enormous electric-blueball rather to glide, a feature common to Graan, echoing Maurice Masse in hanging stationary some 6ft (183 many UFO reports. France a decade earlier, stated em) from the ground, 150 ft (16m) One of the entities had a silver 'Ever since that machine landed away with two tall entities inside it. case or box with him but how it was here nothing will grow in this spot' In the twenty minutes that the four being held is unclear as none of the (see page 89). of them watched the object it witnesses could identify any arms. There is some suggestion that changed size dramatically. It was Indeed even the legs were indistinct the entities may have done a survey like an enom1ous soap bubble appearing from the knees outside the craft before Van Graan approximately the size of a two downwards almost 'like a fin'. encountered them. Investigator storey house at firstbut when the According to the investigator, Cynthia Hind located a second taxi turnedits spotlight onto the Cynthia Hind, none of the boys had witness, jan Van Der Westhuizen, object it rose, getting larger all the been exposed to UFO literature or who had seen nothing but had heard time, until it was the size of a films and did not consider the a humming noise at approximately twenty-storey building although the possibility that the entities were 7. 30 in the morning. Since he entities and equipment inside alien in any way until after the event. thought it was a helicopter he did not remained the same size. The witnesses watched the investigate. If that noise was the This was enough for the entities move over a fence and up a machine landing then it was there for witnesses who fled to a nearby hill though noticed that they did not twenty minutes before Van Graan house but remained watching the appear to move as humans would, came across it. At the far comer of object through the windows. bending forward, but rather gliding Van Graan's field there was a Suddenly the object changed shape, erectly up the hill. Before reaching virtually dried up duck pond and Van surrounded itself with a white halo the top they suddenly disappeared Graan found footprints in the ground and disappeared rapidly towards and the UFO was also gone. unlike those of any of his workers. Tenerife giving off the sound of a Although the sighting had only Although he had not seen them screaming whistle. Investigation lasted for some 60 seconds it was outside the craft it is possible that revealed that the object was also felt that their speed of movement they had made an excursion. detected on radar. was exceptional for normal people. Van Graan was asked what he felt Indeed at one point a third entity had when they left and he said, 'What I joined the other two though no-one did think, although it wasn't at that NAME GROENDAL RESERVE could remember exactly how. very moment, was what a pity it was DATE 2 OCTOBER 1978 Trackers in the reserve were that ! couldn't go up to the machine unable to offer an explanation. and talk to those people'. PLACE GROENDAL RESERVE, UITENHAGE, SOUTH AFRICA MAP REF: J21 NAME THE MINDALORE ENCOUNTER NAME THE CANARY ISLANDSSOAP BUBBLE EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD DATE 3 JANUARY 1979 DATE 22 JUNE 1976 KIND PLACE MINDALORE, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH PLACE CANARY ISLANDS On Sunday 1 October 1978 four AFRICA MAP REF· AS boys aged between twelve and MAP REF: K18 EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD sixteen were hiking in the Groendal EVENT ABDUCTION KIND Reserve and had arranged to be collected by the mother of the eldest Meagan Quezet and her son Andre There were many reports of this on the following day, Monday. At left their house and walked up the UFO as it flew on \Vhat is presumed approximately 11.15 in the morning road to bring the family dog in for to be a course from Fucrteventura the four saw a silver object between the night. It was around midnight. island to Tenerifc, via Cran Canaria. the trees about a half mile away and As they were walking along they According to the sighlings the object also two silver-suited entities, noticed that there was a pink glow 152 ·llllli DATABASEii i 19ii80siU ••· on the road and Meagan said 'Look, It must be noted that tlw dot"tor they've got lights on that road up was not supportive of the testimony there'. Andre replied that there under hypnosis and conm1entcd were no street lights up there, as he 'The impression I have is that this is knew the road well. a hysterical fantasy ...and the As they got closer they saw that material that she then produced, the pink light was emanating from an was very fanciful. ' Andre has always egg-shaped craft standing on landing resisted hypnosis and has also legs, not dissimilar to the American turned away from further lunar landing module. The overall investigation into the event. height of the object was some 12 ft C:Ui5m), the width possibly the same and each leg was about 4 ft 1980s ( 122 em) high. Apparently neither witness was afraid because they NAME LA ROCHELLE thought at the time it must be some DATE 15 AUGUST 1981 sort of experimental aircraft. PLACE MUTARE, ZIMBABWE Suddenly five orsix people MAP REF: L17 stepped out of the opening and onto Andre Ouezet's drawing of the object onto the ground. They approached and which he and his mother were abducted . EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD two of them came close to the KIND witnesses and began speaking to had also seen the object. Paul them in something that sounded like suggested phoning the newspapers. La Rochelle is a large estate just a high pitched Chinese language. Meagan agreedto take a lie outside Mutare in Zimbabwe. It They were dressed in coveralls and detector test but was reluctant to forms part ofthe Nyabara Forest one of the men had thick hair and a undergo hypnosis and summed up Training School and is a tourist beard; they were of normal height. her reluctance as 'Things happen at traction. Suddenly Meagan got the feeling under hypnosis. The hypnotist At around half past six in the that something was not quite normal might say "What happened when evening Clifford Muchcna, the and said to Andre 'Go and get you went into the craft?" and he principal witness, saw a ball of light Daddy, and run, please run'. Andre could be suggesting things to me ncar the tearoom on the estate. ran and Meagan continued her which I know I didn't do'. Many others also saw it. It was big conversation but the next thing she In fact, however. Meagan and rolling towards the tearoom. It remembered was the entities eventually did agree to regression reached the observation tower, jumping back into the craft with no hypnosis and during tllis session it seemed to roll up it and appeared to apparent difficulty even though it came out that the aliens strongly set light to the inside of the tower had no steps. There was a buzzing attempted to lure her into the craft although it later rolled back down sound and the craft rose up although and that at one point both she and the tower leaving no marks of still apparently on its legs, the legs Andre climbed in. Inside, she buming behind. The fireball extending. Shortly after this it took described chairs and 'funny lights' gathered itself and moved across the off into the sky and disappeared. and they apparently imparted a lawns to a building known as 'The Andre did not get very far before message to her that shocked and Fantasy' which was an outhouse retuming to his mother when he saw surprised her but in fact which she desi}..'lll'dfor the protection of the craft take off and together they has never been able to remember. orchids h'T O\\'n on the estate. went back to the house. Meagan Apparently before any kind of It was then that Clifford saw chose not to wake her husband, who physical examination (which might three men standing on the lawns. He would have been tired following a have been expected given 'nom1al' thought it must ha\"c been a warden. very long shift at work. It was not abduction stories) the witnesses Andrew Connollcy and others but until the next day when he was were able to jump out of the craft then realized the fi.L,'llres were too already at work, that Andre and it was at this point that Meagan tall. \\'hen Clifford called out ;\lr telephoned him and told him the shouted to Andre to run quickly and Connolley"s name the men tumecl story, telling him that his mother get his father. towards him. turning theirwhole 153 AFRICA NAME MATABELELAND ENCOUNTERS DATE 22 JULY 1985 PLACE MATABELELAND SOUTH, ZIMBABWE MAP REF: K17 EVENT DISTANT ENCOUNTER During the 22july 1985 a rash of UFO sightings occurred in the urban areas of Matabeleland South. At a quarter to six in the evening two Hawk fightersfrom the Zimbabwe Air Force were scrambled to intercept them. The fightersintercepted the .. ,· ...... ·· �.... - .. UFO at 7,000 ft (2, UO m) but it . launched itself upwards reaching I \ ' �'::• :.. ><_. \,· . 70,000 ft (21,336 m) in under a '\. ,. 1 .&.. minute. Unable to chase, the Hawks l 4 ··:- I ·... ·-,,- 1 returned to Formhill Airbase where Clifford Muchena (RIGHT) with Naison, the had perhaps arrived without paying the UFO was seen disappearing at head gardener, two of the main witnesses and that Clifford has misinterpreted high speed on a horizontal path. to events at La Rochelle. what he had seen, though this Air Commo.dore David Thome seems unlikely. Of the ball of fireit made the comment that follows: 'As bodies and notjust their heads. has been suggested that this could far as my air staff is concerned, we They were wearing shiny silver have been ignited methane or believe implicitly that the suits but Clifford could not see their swamp gas or even ball lightning but unexplained UFOs are from some faces as the light shining from them none of these explanations quite civilization beyond our planet'. was so bright. Clifford fell to his bear out the details of the sighting, knees and it is not clear whether this particularly the fact that where the was from fear or because of some fire was there were no bum marks NAME THE DOGON TRIBES force emanating from the men or or even marks of heat. DATE c 200 BC TO PRESENT fireball. The men were now only 10 It is interesting to note that the PLACE MALl, NORTH-WEST AFRICA ft (:) m) away. witnesses did not attribute UFOs to MAP REF: D8 Another witness, Eunice Kachiti, their sightings. Clifford believed that also recalled seeing the fireball on what he was seeing may have been EVENT TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE the lawns near a cassia tree in the spirits of his ancestors. Clifford is centre of the lawn. She saw two described as pleasant, not highly Examination of the claims of the strange men holding what seemed to educated but able to read and speak Dogon tribesmen of Mali indicates be torches in their hands. Her reasonable English. The fact that he that they appear to have description is of them wearing does not have the technolohrical or extraordinary knowledge of the star something like blue jeans and may sophisticated background of those of Sirius. According to Robert Temple therefore not be the same sighting us in the West who study UFOs in his book The Sirius My stery, the as Clifford's. Nonetheless she was could well account for his own Dogon tribe had knowledge for over excited enough to make her report. particular interpretation of these 2, 000 years of the star Sirius B, Neither of the witnesses actually events. It might also be that our which was only discovered by specifieda connection between the technological background distances astronomers in the West in IB62. ball of light and the men though us from the truth. Perhaps we Temple believes that we must dearly two concurrent events may should be considering the spirits of consider that the information the well have been associated. our ancestors theory alongside more tribesmen have, was passed to them Suggestions have been made that technologically orientated ones such by intelligent beings from planets the men were merely visitors who as the extra-terrestrial theory. around Sirius. 156 frican ufology, like its South American coun- terpart, is hindered by the immense size of the continent and the few good researchers. available to collect the raw data. It is a fact of lifeA in areas where it has been tested that when there are people available to report to, then the reports come in. Unfortunately, reports are not the only requirement. For an effective, meaningful study the reports must be well investigated, and a few people on a large continent arc hard pressed to do the work. Cynthia I lind is one of the best, if not the best. Certainly her cncrJ.,>y in travelling, sometimes days, to investigate one report is one of the most important factors in our having any real understanding of the phenomenon in Africa at all. Furthennorc, she has a well balanced approach to the subject and an open mindedness that is always refreshing. Perhaps most importantly, she has an understand ing of the basic tribal overtones that influence the Dogon tribesman. Th1s people's knowledge of the star Sinus dates reports being received. Cynthia has taken the trouble back 2000 years and Dog on folklore suggests poss1ble contact to learn about tribal divisions and their beliefs. As a with extra-terrestnals. result of this she is able to sift out the raw data from the interpretations and provide the necessary input to ancestors. Conversely, perhaps we should also con a global view of the phenomenon. Those tribal sider that our technoloJ.,rical interpretations have no overtones arc important, though to be fair to Cynthia, more substantiation than Clifford's theory. Perhaps researchers including myself are sometimes at odds to 'our' classic cases in fact represent the spirits of our know how to react properly to them. When Clifford ancestors. Who can say for sure? This question is one Muchena saw silver-suited entities (see page 153) he that researchers must come to grips with. Each of us considered they might be the spirits of his ancestors. must recognize that we have a world Yiew which may Cynthia never suggested otherwise, which was vitally be as erroneous as the next person's. correct. We in the West, and Cynthia too, who comes The question must he raised again. can the from a Western backhrround, sift away those inter phenomenon react to the culture. rather than be pretations and - in effect - replace them with our own. dependent on it? Can it send extra-terrestrials to Silver-suited entities have time and time again been Europe and North America, and spirits to Africa, as a seen in association with flying saucers, therefore we way of being appropriately noticed? The answer to might reasonably ask if in fact Clifford saw flying that question contains the ;ms\\·er to the phenomenon, saucer entities and merely mistook them for his but will we ever be able to fi nd it? 157 'THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE IS INTERESTED IN ALL WELL REPORTED SIGHTINGS [OF UFOs], WHICH ARE INVESTIGATED ...DETAILS OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS ARE NOT MADE PUBLIC ...' IT WAS A POLICY THAT BEGAN TO CHANGE SIGNIFICANTLY DURING THE 1970s AND 1980s. KEY TO MAP OF AUSTRALASIA Q) Submarine UFO, Bass Strait, Australia (J) Gardin/Smith Encounter, Near Kalgourie, Australia ® The Beaufort Bomber, Bass Strait, Australia ® Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia CD Maralinga, South Australia ® Mooraduc Road, Near Melbourne, Australia 0 The Father Gill Sighting, Papua New Guinea, @) Jindabyne, Snowy Mountains, Australia Australasia ® The Valentich Encounter, Bass Strait, Australia ® Bougainville Reel, Queensland Coast, Australia ® The Kaikoura Controversy, Kaikoura. New Zealand ® Horseshoe Lagoon, Queensland Coast, Australia @) Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia ustralia is not just the only island continent but Marshall, Sir George jones; an indication that some also a continent of extreme contrast. Despite co-operation even at that time existed between this it has an amazingly similar record of UFO individuals from the ranks of officialdom and the reports to those of other continents. I learned Australian UFO research community. thAis when becoming associated vith the Victorian One of the first definite indications that official UFO Research Society (VUFORS) m the early 1960s. investigators were not in agreement with the overall Ever since my first voyage to Australia when serving official policy concerning UFOs came to light during a in the American Navy, I had wanted to return. meeting in Canberra, with an officer who had investi My involvement in UFO research prompted me to gated one of the most interesting Australian encoun make inquiries with regard to what was being carried ters. When we showed him a letter from headquarters out both privately and officially in this field. Recom concerning the case, he said the letter was altogether mendations came from individuals actually engaged in different from the actual report he had submitted. UFO investigations, who were not only doing private There have been many examples when personnel research but associated with the military community in all branches of the services have assisted private as well. It was from these pioneers of ufology that I researchers in trying to ascertain the whither, whence learned of the original Melbourne f.,lT Oup and follow-up and why of the UFOs. Time and time again the organization founded by Peter Norris LLB. He headed scientific community has been called on for assistance the Victorian group which is one of the most reliable in only to be told by some 'professor of possibility' (or the world. arn1chair ufologist) that UFOs are nonsense. After emigrating to Australia in 1963, I found that Restrictions on the free exchange of information I had been the recipient of good advice and have never on UFO encounters are applied. For instance, a UFO fl',I..,JY etted my association with a ,I..,JToup where the was filmed by the captain of an airliner during a flight policy is to mind its own business and to co-operate from Australia to Port Moresby (see page 163). The with individuals and groups when that co-operation is captain reported the encounter to Townsville air reciprocal. traffic control. He was instructed not to have the film Soon after my arrival, I learnedthe official attitude developed until his return to Australia. Upon his concerning the subject from The I\oyal Australian Air return two officialswere on hand to take the film from Force who stated: The RAAF is interested in all well him. Although VlJFORS was aware of the incident, it reported sightings, which are being investigated ... was a few years before we discovered the captain's Ikt;Iils of these investigations are not made public identity. . . .' It w;1s a policy that began to change over the next The most outstanding event in Australian ufology two decades. is the Frederick Valentichencounter(seepage 169). The The firstAustr alian l IF<) conference took place in incident has done more to change the attitude of some Ballarat, \'irtori;I, organized by the astronomical officials than any other UFO related event. VUFORS, society of that city. The conference was not only located near the Moorabbin Airport from where the attended by ufologists ;md astronomers but by officials ill-fated flight commenced, undertook the bulk of the from the 1\AAF as wdl, including the fonner Air investigations. Information conceming this !-,'Teatest 1 60 THE AUSTRALASIAN PE RSPECTIVE mystery iu Australian avtatton history has been Island. A journalist, Ouentm Fogarty, was on holiday published around the world. when his manager, Leonard Lee, requested hi111 to fly The most outstanding encounter with a UFO and the route and interview one of the pilots who had humanoids in Australasia occurred on 26 and 27 juue made several sightings. It came as a surprise when 1959 at Boianai, Papua New Guinea (see page 162). the crew and passengers found themselves flying ;unid Reverend Gill who witnessed the event was inter a whole fleet of lJFOs. viewed by Dr j. Allen Hynek on his visit to Australia in News of this encounter, broadcast on a Mel 197:t Many other witnesses who had close encoun bourne radio station, appeared to be similar to the ters were interviewed as well. radar/visual encounters which occurred during the While researching in this part of the world, I have Washington Flap (sec page 25). The same sort of had the pleasure of meeting top researchers from pattern was unfolding in the New Zealand case. New Zealand. My first visit to the country coincided Objects were detected on radar in Wellington and with the visit of Dr I lynek, where we met again at the Christchurch; at the same time they were being filmed home of I larold Fulton. I Iarold did much 'spade work' by the cameraman and witnessed by those on board for ufology in the late fifties and early sixties. During the aircraft. At one stage the aircraft was being paced this visit, I met another well known pioneer of ufology, by the UFOs. llenk Henflairr. The highlight of this visit was to Two days later excerpts of the film were broad receive first-hand information on the outstanding cast worldwide. Not familiar with the extent of UFO Moreland encounter from Henk who was a close activity, the news programme was mistakenly pre friend of the Morelands. senting the case as the 'first ever' film of UFOs. Soon The Morelands owned a small farm near after the broadcasts, 'explanations' were coming in Blenheim, where the encounter occurred. Mrs More from the scientific community worldwide, all contra land was on her way to the shed early one morning to dictory, none satisfactory. The leading New Zealand milk two cows. Something caused her to look up when astronomer was 99 per cent sure that the planet she saw two green lights 'like eyes' coming down jupiter was the answer. Sir Bernard Lovell at jodrell through the clouds. As the object descended she saw Bank Observatory in England, was sure the objects it was headed for the spot where she was standing so were meteorites. The objects refused to burn out. she ran several yards, frightened that otherwise she They kept buzzing the aircraft! An ornitholoJ.,rist in would be crushed. By the time she reached her new New Zealand held the view that the objects were position the object was hoveringat about 15 ft (4.5 m), mutton birds flying inland to mate. If true, they were as estimated from some pine trees. The object was anxious to get on with the job: the birds were described as having a dome and inside were two out-flying the aircraft. The New Zealand Air Force human-shaped beings. Mrs Moreland was wondering explained them as reflections from squid boats what would happen next when the object tilted, rose although no fishingboats were in the position required above the pine trees then flew away with a whining to cast such reflections. A more plausible explanation noise. At the same time there was an odour like would have been a formation flight of flying fish at ozone. 10, 000 ft (3,048 m)! The incident created confusion in the household Australasia is experiencing its share of extraordin because Mrs Moreland's husband was a security ary and fascinating phenomena and the database which !,'llard at the nearby Woodburn Air Force Base. Mr follows bears out that fact. Much of the continued high Moreland decided to contact the authorities so the profile of Australasian ufology is due to VUFORS sighting could be identified. Mrs Moreland was which operates as an authoritative, highly active body interviewed by the Air Force psycholoJ.,rist who put her adding a valuable Australasian perspectin' to any through some tests. After the news became known, international study of the subject. locals visited the fam1 in large numbers. IIenk knew the witness as a down to earth, credible person. Mrs Moreland's attitude was that of revulsion. She would not like to go through the experience again. PAuL NoRMAN, of the Victorian UFO Research Society, is one The most outstanding series of UFO encounters of the most active ufologists in Australia. He is a supporter in New Zealand took place between October 1978 and of, and valued guest at , many international congresses and january 1979 when mystery objects were observed by symposia and has contributed articles on the subject to pilots who flew along the coasts of North and South publications all over the world. 161 case of 1978. The pilot reported that area at the time. Unfortunately 1940s a large dark shadow was keeping because of the high security at the NAME SUBMARINE UFO pace with the plane just 100 ft (30 m) base there were no cameras or so away. Something resembling DATE SUMMER 1942 available to take photographs of the exhaust appeared to come from it. object which stayed for some fifteen PLACE BASS STRAIT, AUSTRALIA During the encounter, which minutes or so before leaving. MAP REF: G20 lasted approximately t wenly EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST minutes, the bomber's radio and KIND navigational instruments were NAME THE FATHER GILL SIGHTING knocked out. The encounter ended DATE 27 JUNE 1959 In the summer of 1942 a Royal when the object accelerated away PLACE PAPUA NEW GUINEA Australian Air Force pilot was at speed. MAP REF: 111 patrolling the Bass Strait in As Australian researcher Bill response to reports from local Chalker points out, this particular EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OFTHE THIRD fishermenof night lights over that type of plane 'figuredheavily in the KIND area. He watched as a UFO came official Royal Australian Air Force out of the overhead cloud cover. list of planes that went missing June of 1959 brought a UFO 'flap' to It was daylight, before 6 o'clock withouttrace during World War II in Papua New Guinea. There were, in in the evening, and the pilot had the Bass Strait area - an area that all, seventy-nine detailed sighting good visibility. The UFO was was not linked to any significant reports from Boianai, Banaira, described as shining, bronze in enemy activity'. Giwa, Menapi and Ruaba plain. The colour, some 150 ft (Jj6m) long and most important of these would seem 50 fl (15m) wide. On top of the to be the Boianai mission encounter UFO something like a plexiglass of 27 June although the story most 1950s canopy could be seen. For a while probably starts the night before. t he UFO paced the aircraft and then NAME MARALINGA At 6A5 p.m. on 26June pulled away at remarkable speed and DATE OCTOBER 1957 Reverend William Gill went out of dived str;1ight into the ocean. the main mission to look for Venus PLACE MARALINGA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA which should have been conspicuous MAP REF: F17 in the sky at the time. He saw Venus NAME THE BEAUFORT BOMBER EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST but also noticed a very bright DATE FEBRUARY 1944 KIND sparkling object above it that ------seemed to be descending towards PLACE BASS STRAIT, AUSTRALIA Maralinga in South Australia was the mission. He called two of the MAP REF: H20 ------one of the nuclear testing ranges mission's staff, Stephen Moi and EVENT AIRCRAFT INTERFERENCE used by the British government. Eric LanJ..,rford and later other men Following such testing in October from the mission joined them to What appt·ars to be Australia ' s 1957 a Royal Air Force coqJOraland witness the object. earliest case of vehicle inll'rference other servicemen stationed at the The object was circular with a took place in Fchruarv 1 �H 1. A base witnessed a UFO hovering wide base. It appeared to have an l�oyal Australi;Hl Air Force Beaufort nearby. It was shiny and silver-blue upper deck with something bomber w;JS tlving ;1! 1, :JOO It with portholes along the edge of its resembling legs beneath it. A blue 0.:�72 m) and ;dJJJost �:JO miles ( 100 clear metallic structure. light was beamed up into the sky km) per hour on T t ht · B;Iss St r;1it Investigation with the local petiodically and on top of the object, the scene of so nllwli l'F() 162 DATABASE 1960s humanoid entities could be seen. The Australian Department of Air was instntcled not to have the lihn Some of the witnesses reported suggested 'Most probably they were developed but to returnwit h it to seeing portholes around the side of reflectionson a cloud of a major light Australia. On his return he was the object. There were also small source of unknown ori,1.,rin'. Such an flown to Canberra where both the UFOs in the sky at the time, flying in explanation hardly seems to do filman d his own plane's flight an irregular pattern. The large justice to the sheer weight and recorder were confiscated. object disappeared at 9.30 at quality of witness reports. Captain Barker's official tremendous speed towards Giwa. statement includes the comment 'I The following night the same or a had always scoffed at these report s, similar object was seen. Again there but I saw it. We all saw it. It was seemed to be four entities on the top 1960s under intelligent control, and it was of the saucer and Reverend Gill NAME BOUGAINVILLE REEF certainly no known aircraft'. noticed that one of them seemed to DATE 28 MAY 1965 be operating equipment somewhere PLACE BOUGAINVILLE REEF. QUEENSLAND in the centre of the disc but out of NAME HORSESHOE LAGOON COAST, AUSTRALIA ----- their line of vision. Reverend Gill DATE 19 JANUARY 1966 MAP REF: J13 stretched out his arm andwaved and PLACE HORSESHOE LAGOON. QUEENSLAND the figures waved back! More of the EVENT CONFISCATED FILM COAST. AUSTRALIA mission staff started waving and MAP REF: 114 then all of the four entities waved In the early hours of the morningof back, astonishing the staff. 28 May 1965 Captain john Barker EVENT 'CORNFIELD' CIRCLES Reverend Gill used a torch to was flying an Ansett DC-6B airliner flasha series of lights at the UFO from Brisbane to New Guinea when Circles of flattened grasses are and the UFO seemed to be he found he was being paced by a perhaps most famous for their responding by making a pendulum UFO. He described the object as frequent appearances in the like motion waving backwards and oblate, with an exhaust. It was also southem counties of England. forwards. The UFO closed in on the seen by the co-pilot and stewardess. Contrary to popular mythology, in witnesses but after a while the The sighting was reported by this area they arc rarely linked with entities disappeared below deck. radio to Townsville control in actual UFO sightings. At 6.25 in the evening two of the Queensland: Barker radioed that he entities came back on deck and was taking photographs of the UFO. A 'landmg nest' of flattened grass seemed to be working by the light of When he landed at Port allegedly created by a UFO witnessed by the blue spotlight. Five minutes Moresby, in New Guinea, Barker George Pedley at Horseshoe Lagoon. later, rather bored with this limited interaction, Reverend Gill decided to go in for dinner and did not come out again for half an hour by which time the UFO, though still visible, was now away in the distance. In total, Gill and thirty-seven other witnesses at the Boianai mission saw the objects in the sky. In 1977, Gill was specifically questioned about breaking off the sighting for dinner and stated: 'We were a bit fed up that they wouldn't come down after all the waving... this is the difficultthing to get across to people ...here was a flying saucer: therefore it must have been a traumatic experience. It was nothing of the kind.' 163 AUSTRALASIA However, one such circle that theory was that the circles are the 1970s very clearly was associated with a love nests of mating crocodiles. If UFO sighting occurred in the the UFO phenomenon produces NAME KEMPSEY, NEW SOUTH WALES swamps at Horseshoe Lagoon in nothing else, it produces variety! DATE 2APRIL 1971 Australia and was witnessed by a banana grower by the name of PLACE KEMPSEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA George Pedley. NAME GARDIN/SMITH ENCOUNTER MAP REF: K1 7 While he was driving his tractor DATE 22 AUGUST 1968 at 9 o'clock in the morninghe EVENT ABDUCTION? suddenly heard a loud hissing noise PLACE NEAR KALGOURLIE,AUSTRALIA like rushing compressed air and saw MAP REF: C17 At approximately 10 o'clock in the just 25 yds (23 m) ahead a blue-grey EVENT VEHICLE INTERFERENCE evening on 2 April 1971, after a spinning UFO rising from the spate of UFO sightings in the area, a ground. It was approximately 25 ft I am grateful to Paul Norman for middle-aged aborigine at Kempsey (7.62 m) wide and 9ft (2. 74 m) high clarifying certain details of this case. in New South Wales seems to have and when it reached a height of Captains W. Gardin and G. Smith suffered a most incredible form of about 60 ft (18. 3m) it shot off at flying from Adelaide to Perth on 22 abduction. The man was in his terrific speed. August 1968 suffered kitchen obtaining water for a drink On investigation Pedley electromagnetic interference when when he suddenly saw a small entity discovered that under its landing, or encountering a fleet of UFOs. The outside the window. He felt a at least hovering, site there was a plane was an eight -seater Piper sucking force which picked him up circular area of flattened grasses. Navajo, flying at 8,000 ft (2,438 m) into the air and rendered him Other investigators to the site at approximately 200 knots; only the unconscious. discovered a total of five such circles two captains were aboard. Smith When he came to it appears that and also obtained many other was woken by Gardin and asked to he had been sucked clean through reports from other witnesses who come to the cockpit to confirmwhat the window and he was discovered had seen the same UFO. he had seen. cut and bruised some 7ft (2m) away The precise mechanism which Ahead of the plane and at from the smashed glass. More fonns the so-called cornfieldcircles approximately the same altitude was incredibly, the window was secured is not fully understood. Investigation a formation of UFOs. In the centre by an iron bar across the middle, of the mechanism in the United was a large craft and around it were which had not been broken, leaving Kingdom by such people as Dr four or five smaller objects which the only possible exit for the Terence Mcadcn of Tornadoand seemed to have flownout of the aborigine a 32 by 10 in (81 by 25.4 Storm R.esearchhas indicated that parent craft. During the sighting the em) space! they are caused by wind vortices; main craft broke into several however, there arc other energy sections and the whole formation forms associated which may well of appeared to be making strange NAME MOORADUC ROAD course be perfectly natural. One interactive manoeuvres. DATE 1972-1973 such enert,ry appears to be an Kalgourlic communication centre ionization of the air which creates a was radioed for information but the PLACE MOORADUC ROAD, NEAR glow above the area where the captains were informed that there MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA vortices are touching the ground; was no air trafficin the area. The MAP REF: H19 this could be the explanation for the captains reported the sighting and at EVENT CONTACTEE!ABDUCTION UFO that Pedley saw, though that time the radio suffered some usually it is described as red rather form of breakdown. For witness Maureen Puddy the than blue-grey. After approximately ten minutes encounter began on 5july 1972 Australia, however, came up with the UFO fonnation gathered itself when she was driving between a few unique suggestions of its own; together 'as if at a single command' Frankston and Dromana along the birds featured heavily with species and disappeared from sight at Mooraduc Road, south-east of like the blue heron or the bald remarkable speed; immediately Melbourne. From above and behind headed coot being blamed for the following their departure radio her car she saw a blue light impressions on I he ground. Another communications came back to life. approaching, which she first took to 166 DATABASE 1970s be a helicopter ambulance (quite commonly used in this reJ.,Tion of wide open spaces). She stopped the car and stepped out to look, noticing no sound from the light. What she saw was incredible. A huge object approximately 100 ft (30 m) wide was hoveringand completely overlapping the road at about twice the height of the tcleJ.,JTaph poles. It was shaped like two saucers; there were no signs of welds or rivets, windows, portholes or other details and it was glowing intensely and blue. At this time Mrs l'uddy noticed there was a faint humming noise though she could see no siJ.,'ll of movement from the object at all. Terrified, she leapt back into the car and sped off but she noticed that VUFDRS investigators Judith Magee and The Royal Australian Air Force no matter how fast she drove the Paul Norman. commented that they could not object always maintained station explain the sighting but could exactly behind her. After 8 miles (13 Mrs Puddy gripped the steering confim1 there were no aircraft in the km) it seemed the chase was over wheel in real fear. Looking upwards area at the time and, interestingly, and Mrs Puddy noticed the object through the top of the windscreen of the Flying Saucer Review (FSR) streaking away in the opposite her car she could see part of the rim report states 'She was advised to direction. of the object directly above her. She remain quiet about the incident Mrs Puddy reported the event to began to receive messages! rather than chance causing panic'. police, friendsand family though A voice - in her head rather than There were corroborative generally speaking it was received her cars - said 'Tell the media ... sightings which suggest Mrs with banter and humour and do not panic . . . we mean no harm. ' Puddy's encounter was a very real probably for this reason she decided It went on to say 'All your tests will one. A Mr Maris Ezergailis was in to say nothing more about it. The 25 be negative.' And then, 'Tell me the south-east suburb of Melbourne, july 1972 was to change her mind! dear comrade, do not panic, we Mount Waverley, at approximately On this day at more or less the mean no ham1. ' Incredibly there was three quarters of an hour after !\Irs same time and in the same place on a final message 'You now have Puddy's encounter and he states the Mooraduc Road she was driving control' at which time the car engine that he saw a flash of blue light again, home to Rye after visiting her started up. Near to panic, Mrs travelling horizontally. Mrs Puddy son in hospital at Heidelberg. Puddy drove quickly to the police herself commented on l\lr Suddenly there was a blue light all station and in an agitated and upset Ezergailis' report 'That's the way it around her car and her firstreaction condition reported her encounter. looked when it took off the first time was 'Oh hell! Not again!' The police reported the event to the I saw it'. At around the same time as Immediately thinking of the Royal Australian Air Force. Mrs Puddy's encounter another encounter of t wenty days earlier she Mrs Puddy made several couple, a 1\lrand l\lrs Heel, also accelerated to get away and to her illuminating observations about her reported seeing an unusual light horror discovered that far from own sighting to the UFO 'Something unlike anything we had succeeding the engine of the car cut researchers; she pointed out that seen before·. out, she lost control of her steering the word 'media' was not one that The repm1 in F(ving Saucrr and the car rolled off to the verge of she would be likely to use. She also Rn·ieu· ends by saying that 'l\lrs the road. commented that she did not know Puddy says she won"t dri\·e along All around, the trees and bushes what could be meant by 'tests' since that road again at night unless she were bathed in the blue light and she did not have any test results. has company'. 167 '1 I lillllllllllll• AUSTRALASIA On 22 February 1973, following was not consciously fabricating . . . In the event that we conclude the publication of FSR 's report, she she was really upset'. that the abduction experience here, did again drive along that road and The entity was apparently and elsewhere, was not a with most illustriouscompany beckoning to Mrs Puddy to follow it psychological event but an external indeed. The results were and even though Ms Magee offered one imposed on the witness, then a extraordinary. to go with her the witness was possible conclusion is that the Throughout that day Mrs Puddy resolute in her detemlination not to abduction experience is more in the had heard voices saying 'Maureen, move and continued to tightly clasp nature of a message being received come to the meeting place'. She the steering wheel. Even more than of a visitation. realized that this was a further extraordinary events were ahead! telepathic message from those who Suddenly Maureen Puddy was had contacted her those months screaming that she had been NAME JINDABYNE ago. Mrs Puddy telephoned judith kidnapped and she was describing DATE 27 SEPTEMBER 1974 Magee who, along with Paul the inside of the UFO and shouting PLACE JINDABYNE, SNOWY MOUNTAINS, Nom1an, agreed to meet her at 8.30 that she could not get out because AUSTRALIA in the evening on the Mooraduc there were no doors or windows. MAP REF: 119 Road. They went to exactly the Throughout all of this she never left same place the previous events had the driving seat of the car nor the EVENT ABDUCTION occurred and Ms Magee, getting sight of the two investigators but into Mrs Puddy's car, commented 'I her a!,ritation was very real. Now Two young men, one aged nineteen was experiencing a tingling apparently inside the UFO, she and the other only eleven, were sensation like a mild electric shock. describeda mushroom-like object in hunting in the Snowy Mountains It shortly passed off. the room with a jelly moving about near jindabyne when they saw a An extraordinarypart of the inside it; she relaxed into an almost bright white light on the horizon and encounter had already taken place. entranced state and then suddenly heard a deep humming noise. Mrs Puddy commented that she had the experience was over. Approximately nine years later nearly driven off the road on the way This case, probably more than the eleven-year-old witness, now to the meeting because, as she had any other, raises questions about himself a young adult, had dreams been driving, a gold-foil-suited entity the true nature of abduction which suggested an abduction had appeared inside her car between experiences. If Mrs Puddy had been memory of that earlier time. In the the two front seats and then alone then almost certainly she dreams he recalled being drawn disappeared again! would have reported the event with towards the object, floated inside The convoy of Mrs Puddy's car all the clarity of a physical and laid on a bed or table (in a (containing Mrs Puddy and Ms experience and it is only the manner similar to Hickson and Magee), followed by Paul Norman in presence of the investigators that Parker's abduction in Pascagoula, his car, arrived at the site. Paul confim1s that this was not the case. USA - see page 59). Nonnan left his car and got into the On the other hand it would be too Tall, thin, grey entities back scat of Mrs Puddy's. There simplistic to dismiss the abduction conducted some form of examination they discussed the materialization of here as purely psycholo!,rical; for one of llim including measuring the the entity. Suddenly he reappeared tiling it follows corroborated electro-magnetic fields around his again and Mrs Puddy in a frantic sightings and for another the body. The younger witness also state grabbed Ms Magee and said witness's reaction was not one of recalls the elder witness being 'There he is! Can't you sec him? He trance throughout most of the drugged to prevent resistance. The is in the same dothes. ' The figure experience. Of particular witness told investigator Mark was walking towards the car and had importance is the fact that this Moravec 'We were not afraid but we stopped by the left headlight. abduction is very similar to many were not really conscious either'. There was a catch! Neither judith others and we have to consider how They were apparently annoyed at Magee nor Paul Norman could sec many of those others reporting a the feeling of havingbeen used like the entity though it must be stated physical presence would have been specimens. at this stage that Ms Magee was contradicted had there been On the night following their bright quite certain that the agitation fdt corroborative witnesses to say light sighting, saw the same light was real and that 'Maureen Puddy otherwise. again. Part of Moravec's 168 .,,,lilllllllln•· DATABASE 1970s investigation was to establish bet ween Valentich and Flight FS /Jdta Sierm]ulzd, amlyou whether this was the same object Service from that point to just over h confirm you mnnot idmtify the which was seen in the firstinstance. minutes later - the last time aircraft ? If this had been established there Valentich was ever heard from. DSJ Affimwtive. would have been good reason for I am hJf atcful to Paul Norman of FS Delta Sierm]ulzct, roJ.ter, .�land by. believing the UFO to be a star or VUFORS for supplying me, through HJ09:27 planet. If this were the case then the BUFORA with the following DSJ Melbourne, DeltaSiara julit:!, dreams the younger witness transcript. it's not an aircraft it is [open experienced were either shielding microphone for two seconds]. some deeper memory or the dreams 1906: 14 1909:42 were a psycholohJjcal event DSJ Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra FS Delta Szt:rraju/iet, can you triggered by a mundane sighting. juliet. Is there any known traffic below describe the - er - aircraft ? fi ve thousand fe et (1 ,520 m)? DSJ Delta Sierra juliet, as it's flyzng FS Delta Sierra juliet, no known past it's a tonK shape [open microphone NAME THE VALENTICH ENCOUNTER traffic. for three seconds] cannot identify DATE 21 OCTOBER 1978 DSJ Delta Sierra juliet, I am, seems to more than it has such speed [open be a large aircraft below fi ve thousand. microphone for three seconds]. It's PLACE BASS STRAIT, AUSTRALIA 1906:44 befo re me right now Melbourne. MAP REF: H20 FS Delta Sierra juliet, What type of 1910:00 EVENT FATAL ENCOUNTER aircraft is it? FS Delta Sierra juliet, roger and how DSJ Delta Sierra juliet, I cannot larf.{e would the - er - object be? In 1978 there occurred one of the affi nn, it is fo ur brigh t ...it seems to 1910: 19 largest UFO flaps in Australian me like landing ligh ts. DSJ Delta Sierra juliet, Melbourne. it history with a great number of 1907:00 seems like it's stationary. Wh at I'm sightings concentrated around the FS Delta Sierrajuliet. doing righ t now is orbiting and the south-eastern quarter of the 1907:31 thing is just orbiting on top of me also. continent, and the highest DSJ Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra It's got a green light and sort of metallic concentration around the Bass juliet, the aircraft has just passed over like. It's all shiny on the outside. Strait. On 21 October 1978 one case me at least a thousand fe et above. FS Delta Sierra juliet. is made all the more interesting FS Delta Sierra juliet, roger, and it is 1910:46 because of the corroboration by a large aircraft , confirmed? DSJ Delta Sierra juliet [open other witnesses and the DSJ E r- unknown. due to the speed microphone for five seconds]. It's just circumstances of the witness's own it's travelling, is there any air fo rce vanished. report. It is unfortunately also tragic activity in the vicinity? FS Delta Sierrajuliet. as it has almost certainly resulted in FS Delta Sierra juliet, no known 191 1:00 the witness's death. aircraft in the vicinity. DSJ Melbourne, would you know U'lzat At 6. 19 p.m. on 21 October a 1908: 18 kind of aircraft I' Vl' got? Is it a militmy young Australian pilot , Frederick DSJ Melbourne, it's approaching now aircraft ? Valentich, took off from Moorabbin fr om due east towards me. FS Delta Sierrajuliet. cmzfinn the - cr Airport, Melbourne; he was flying to FS Delta Sierra juliet. - aircn�ti just vanished. King Island, just off the coast of 1908:4 1 DSJ Say again. Victoria. His flight took him over the [open microphone for two seconds]. FS Delta Sierra juliet, L'> the aircraft Bass Strait, one of the most 1908:48 still zl'itlz you? ufologically active areas in Australia. DSJ Delta Sierra juliet, it seems to me DSJ Delta Siarajulil'l, it 's [open At 6 minutes and 14 seconds past that he's playing some sort of game, he's microphone for two seconds) wm· 7 o'clock that evening Valentich }lying over me, tll'o, three timl's at approaching fro m tire soutlz-zccst. (aircraft designation DSJ) radioed sPl'l'ds I could not identzfy. FS Delta Siamj uliet. Flight Service (FS) with an enquiry, 1909:00 HH 1:50 the consequences of which he FS Delta Sierrajulirt, roger, 1t'1zat is I>Sj DeltaSierra j uliff. tlzc engine is obviously was unable to foresee at your actual /eve/? rouglr-ulling, ft'l' got it set at ftt·mty the time. What follows is the I )Sj My level is fo ur and a half th ra fll'C1lfy-jilllr and the tlzlng is transcript of the communication thousand, fo urfi ve Zl'ro zero. coughing. 169 lllltn•· AUSTRALASIA FS Delta Sierra juliet, roger, what are spirit of Valentich to rest, wherever your intentions? he now is. DSJ My intentions are - ah - to go to There have been rumours, some King Island - ah - Melbourne. That dubious, surroundingValentich's strange aircraft is hovering on top of me present whereabouts; one aga in, [open microphone for two suggested that he crashed into the seconds]. It is hovering and it's not an Bass Strait and that the Cessna was aircraft . on the seabed. The claim came from FS Delta Sierra juliet. divers who stated they had taken DSJ Delta Sierra juliet, Melbourne sixteen photographs and were [open microphone for seventeen offering them for 10,000 Australian seconds]. dollars. There were few takers for [No official conclusion has been given this offeralthough a potential for the strange sound which was heard salvage operation was suggested. It that intem.Jptedthe pilot's last has come to nothing and is generally statement]. regarded as a hoax. A second story even had Neither Valentich nor his blue and Valentich alive and working at a gas white Cessna 182 have ever been Frederick Valentich. station in Tasmania. This seems to heard from again. be a not uncommon reaction among This was a case which brought Bass Strait, a green lit starfish those who try to involve themselves UFOs 'into the open' as far as the shaped object, which could well have in any major event and is in the same Royal Australian Air Force were been the object Valentich was league as suggesting that Elvis concerned. They made the request reporting. Indeed for several days Presley is still alive or that half a of a UFO witness that he be VUFORS was flooded with reports dozen gunmen were responsible for interviewed by the press in the from around the Bass Strait area shooting President Kennedy. In hopes of encouraJ.,Ting other confirmingif nothing else that truth, it is highly likely that witnesses to come forward, so something was in the sky on the Valentich's whereabouts are not concernedwere they to investigate evening of Valentich's disappearance known with any certainty by anyone. the pilot's last minutes. There was - a something not just mysterious The official reaction to the case other official activity; the Forestry enough to cause puzzlement in reveals elements of a cover-up. Bill Commission requested fire lookouts witnesses but also to cause Chalker who has been given access to report UFOs, police officers sufficient puzzlement and curiosity to the Royal Australian Air Force interviewed UFO witnesses and to make them need to report what UFO files found that this particular aircraft pilots were asked to notify they had seen. case was not among their number. It their trafficcontrollers of any The other reports suggest that a was eventually explained to him that unusual object in the sky. truly external event had played a the Valentich case was listed as an VUFORS is based at Moorabbin major part in the case. Some 'air accident investigation' rather and was ideally placed to follow up abductions and indeed even more than a UFO case, therefore not this most important investigation; mundane UFO reports arc coming within the framework of immediately it did so. They uncorroborated or there are very what they were prepared to allow uncovered no less than twenty good reasons for believing they arc him to see. people at different points around the mostly an internal, self-generated Of the air accident investigation Bass Strait who were reporting a reaction to mundane stimuli. Many report two rather obvious 1-,rrecn light in the same location and cases certainly have no statements conclude the matter as in the same time-frame that corroboration where there ought to far as the official line goes: Valcntich was describing his contact be some. But cases such as 1. Degree of injury - 'presumed with the green light or object. Valentich's prove beyond doubt that fatal'. One most interesting report there is a hard core of objective 2. Opinion as to cause - 'The came from a hank manager and his reality in the subject of UFOs, which reason for the disappearance of wife who wen· driving ncar must be resolved, if not just for the aircraft has not been Mdbounw and ohst·rvcd, over the curiosity's sake but also to put the detennined'. 172 ·llliilllllllllll· DATABASE 1970s NAME THE KAIKOURA CONTROVERSY WellinJ...Tton radar reported a series of Thirty-two miles (51 krn)out of arg ts up to 4 miles km) from Christchurch huge DATE DECEMBER 1978 t e (GA a target was the plane. reported in the :� o'clock position PLACE KAIKOURA, NEW ZEALAND At 12.22 a.m. Wellin�-,Tton radar some 12 miles (19 km) from the MAP REF: P21 reported another target and the plane hut unfortunately WcllinJ...Tton EVENT DISTANT SIGHTING Argosy confirmeda visual sighting radar was too distant to pick up the saying 'It's got a flashing light'. return. Film footage showed oval On :n December 1978 a film crew Crockett Look twelve seconds of film shaped objects with rings of light. 'A hired by Channel 0 of Melbourne showing bright oval blue-white sort of bell shape with bright filmeda UFO during its flightover images and then a further five bottoms and less bright lops. ' the Kaikoura area of New Zealand. seconds of film showing horizontal At 2.51 a.m. , 7ft (2 1:{ em) of film On 21 December 1978 Captain lights flashing on and off. was taken showing further bright Vern Powell and Capt 173 AUSTRALASIA collision. Sean, the son that had then this is the most crude form of 1980s been driving, made a U-turnand abduction we have yet seen. NAME NULLARBOR PLAIN chased the light which in due course Dust surrounded the car and changed its course and headed back came in through an open window and DATE 21 JANUARY 1988 towards the Knowles' own car. Sean there was a smell like decomposing PLACE NULLARBOR PLAIN,WESTERN turned again but this time the object bodies. One of the sons, Sean, AUSTRALIA sped up to the car and landed on its stated that he had missed some of MAP REF: E18 roof with an audible thump. the details as he had 'gone out cold' EVENT VEHICLE INTERFERENCE The car seemed to be being at one stage. Once back on the dragged upwards and the family was ground Sean stopped the car and the 1 am indebted to Paul Norman of unsure what course of action to family jumped out and hid in the VUFORS for sending me details of take. The two dogs in the car bushes along the side of the highway his report into this incident. became very agitated and one of the until the UFO was gone. The mother and three sons of the sons, Patrick, said he felt as though From outside, they describedthe Knowles family from Perth were his brains were pulled from his head. object as a white light approximately driving towards Mundrabilla when In fact the family did not really the same size as the car with a they saw lights ahead of them. As realize that the car was in the air yellow centre and making a sound they were in the outback they until it droppedback to the ground like electrical humming. The family realised these could be no ordinary bursting one of its tyres. Incredibly, changed the tyre and drove on to street lights. just a quarter of an while the object had been attached Mundrabilla where they discussed hour before the lights were seen the to the roof, the mother, Faye, had the experience with truck drivers. car radiohad begun malfunctioning. rolled down the window and reached Paul Norman and a colleague As the car got closer to the up and touched the object which felt investigated the radio and found that 'lights' it became obvious that it was warm and spongy, possibly a suction it was now operating perfectly even in fact one strangely glowing light pad. If the description is accurate, though it had been malfunctioning hovering above the ground just off during the encounter. On the roof of the side of the highway. In fact they The Knowles's family car, complete with the car they found an indentation seemed to be seeing a light that was burst tyre, being examined by matching the description given by hovering over another vehicle and investigators from VUFO RS following a the family. Of the tyre, it was in they had to swerve to avoid a close encounter on the Nullarbor Plain. good condition and should not have blown but in fact was ripped all the way round its edge. Laboratory analysis of the dust revealed oxygen, carbon, calcium, silicon, potassium and other traces and a possible trace of astatine which is a radioactive chemical that can only be produced synthetically. However, the half life of astatine is only a few hours and any normal isotope of this element would have deteriorated before the investigation was under way. Investigation by VUFORS revealed that there were other UFO reports around theNullarbor plain on the night of the encounter. Paul Norman's comment on this case remains level-headed. 'Before we know what is happening, there are more reports to check out and much more research remains to be done'. 174 uslralasia, the Asian islands, New Zealand and clumsily drop saucers all over North America - at the principally Australia, is a ufologically rich part last count there could be as many as forty saucers and of the world. The introduction by one of its over a hundred alien cadavers stored for examination most active researchers - Paul Norman of there - yet they never get clumsy over Australia. VUFORSA - and the database itself gives a good idea of (The absence of crash retrieval cases in South the variety of the reports coming from that area of the America and Africa is more understandable s.,.-i ven the world, and of the importance of such cases as Father size of the continents, the meagre scattering of Gill, the Valentich case and the Mooraduc Road case; researchers, and poor communications. ) So why is all of which have been most thoroughly investigated. this type of phenomenon absent from Australia? Is it a I would like to concentrate my summary of this factor of the people, the researchers, or the phe continent on what is not there. What is missing from nomenon itself? If it is a factor of the phenomenon Australia in particular is of t,Tfeat importance to itself then one could reach a bizarre conclusion: they researchers who seek an overall understanding of the drop saucers in the United States because they want phenomenon on a global basis. Why, for example, them to be found there! does Australia have no crash retrieval cases? It is Until we can understand the answer to that certainly reasonable to expect them 1-..-i ven the availa question then no real understanding of UFOs is bility of wide open spaces, good lines of communica possible; we may still be a long way from a real tion and good researchers. The country even has perspective that will allow us to appreciate the truth. military and space pro!-,Tfamme installations. All of A study of the development of Australian ufoiO,!..,'}' in these components exist in Australia as they do in comparison with other areas of the world will provide North America. Yet 'aliens' (to take the classic line) some of the pieces necessary to complete the jig-saw. Ayers Rock. a mysterious but much admired feature in this land of vast open spaces. 175 WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH, ESPECIALLY IN BRAZIL, ARGENTINA AND CHILE, PEOPLE HAVE BECOME AWARE THAT THEY SHOULD CALL A UFOLOGIST WHEN THEY NOTICE SOMETHING UNUSUAL IN THE SKY. KEY TO MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA CD Bauni, Brazil ® Lake Maracaibo, Santa Rita, Venezuela 0 Lego Argentino, Argentina ® Familia Sagrada, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 0 Caracas, Venezuela @> The Niteroi Deaths, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil CD Ubatuba, Brazil @ Bebedouro, North of Belo Horizonte, Brazil ® Antonio Villas Boas, Minas Geraes, Brazil @ The Bananeiras Bus, Bananeiras, Brazil ® The Fortltaipu Attack, Fortlt aipu, Brazil @ Isla de Lobos, Uruguay (J) Trindade Island photographs, Trindade Island, Atlantic Ocean ® Elias Seixas Abduction, Concei�ao de Araguaia, Goias. Brazil outh America is such a large continent (Brazil is, itself, the size of a continent) that it is hazardous to offer generalizations on any one subject. Nonetheless, UFOs are a common phenomenonS around the world, and close encounters of all kinds are basically the same here as they are throughout the rest of the world. However, here the 'grays', which are the more alien-looking aliens known in North America and to some extent in Europe, are less frequently met. In the cases I have investigated, entities, even when they involve smaller beings, have not behaved in a hostile manner. Many are very human looking, and some are taller than humans. To take for example the Elias Seixas Abduction (see page 188), a human being's semen was forcibly extracted, yet the abductee has no ill feelings about this. He sees the positive side of his UFO experience. Generally, we feel that it is the human being's personal attitude towards his captors that is important. With the development of research, especially in Brazil, Argentina and Chile, people have become aware that they should call a ufolohrist when they notice something unusual in the sky. In the past they only called the national astronomical observatories, or the control towers at airports, always obtaining the same reply, 'You must have seen a meteorological balloon'. (Official astronomers seem to have no imagination - why do they never say anything else when they wish to debunk a sighting, are they complying with orders they have received?) ( )n one occasion, however, they were not in volved. On 19 May 19Rti, radar screens were saturated \viti! lights (which were also observed visually) ami echoes, first in Sao jose dos Campos, South America is rich in cultural history and images of ancient then Brasilia and the Santa Cruz Air Base in Rio de gods like these on Easter Island. Some see in these figures the janeiro. This cnhi:d confusion in the air traffic reflection of ancient astronauts . . . 178 "11i!llllll111n•· THE SOUTH AMERICAN VIEWPOINT controls, so FE Mirage jets were scrambled by the Air with his own UFO group, received a message in which Force to intercept the lJFOs. Finally the Air Minister he was told to meet extra-terrestrials at a certain himself, Brigadier Octavio Moreira Lima came for place and date. I Ic complied, and found a metallic ward on TV and stated that lJFOs had been observed sphere on his way that led him to the meeting place. and promised to give a full report within two months. There he met several extra-terrestrials who had lie did not keep his word, obviously pressure was landed in a UFO. lie had met one of them before, here brought to bear, but by whom? on Earth. There is a similarity here with the South On TV two or three days later the Brigadier African case of Edwin, who met 'George' (see page presented all the pilots and air traffic controllers, ten 147), as described in Cynthia llind's African Enroun altogether - who had participated in this unearthly ters and in Koldas by C. Van Vlierden and W. Stevens. 'hunt'. All had watched the lights, none were able to In Brazil we also accept the contactee as part of intercept them, their speed having been beyond 930 the picture and 1-,ri ve their cases as much care as the miles (1,500 km) per hour. Another interested nuts-and-bolts accounts. As to what interpretation is witness was ()zires Silva, then taking up his post as given them, thatis the researcher's responsibility. President of PETI{OilRAS, who was travelling in his Ufologists - in South America as in the rest of the private plane, when he witnessed the UFO. He has world - have different attitudes according to their now just been appointed Minister of Infrastructure in outlook and belief systems. On the one hand we have the new Collor government, so ufolo,brists have hopes 'advanced ufology', which is mystical, yet well-rooted for a more open attitude on the subject. in culture and folklore. We also have the die-hard We have good ufolo,brists in Brazil. One of them, scientific ufolo,brists, who discard all but scientific data. Engineer Claudeir Covo, interviewed all the pilots, Finally there are those, like myself, who are deeply studied every facet of the case, and published his interested in the esoteric and spiritual aspects of fm dings. Captain Basilio Baranoff, of Sao Jose dos ufology, yet work on a data-gathering basis, with a Campos, who works at Technological Aeronautics view towards future communication with our extra Institute (1. T.A.), also compiled a very extensive, terrestrial visitors. Brazilians are interested in detailed report. I myself gathered a collection of over alternative culture, which includes healing and thirty reports of lights seen in the sky on, or around homeopathy, chromotherapy, astrology, para the 19-20 May, some of which were very interesting psycholo,bry and so on, and includes ufology. I know and implied close encounters. This was published by that Europeans do not accept such a seemingly hybrid the review UFO. Then Fabio Zerpa, President of combination - but if they lived here, perhaps they ONIFE, Buenos Aires, brought out a complete would. The situation in Argentina is much the same as monograph on the subject, after he too visited Brazil here. In Argentina, Fabio Zerpa published Cuarta and met some of the witnesses. This, for him, was a Dimension, which has been in existence for the past follow up to a similar UFO flyover the preceding year thirty-one years. In Brazil, I was editor of the first in Argentina. Chile also contributed its share - scientifically oriented UFO review which closed down Eugenio Bahamonde of Ponta Arenas told me how in 1980. Now for the past few years we have had UFOs had flown over his country at that time. UFO, edited by Gevaerd in Mato Crosso do Sui, and As to the true extent of UFOs, well documented Planeta, published in Sao Paulo, that intennittently cases such as the one above do much to enlighten the fe atures information about UFOs. population, especially people with enquiring minds. I believe the difficulties for ufology are the same Multiple-witness sightings are important as at everywhere in the world, but I am also sure that times they involve thousands of spectators, however, persistence will break down all barriers. abductions are far more interesting and more frequent than imagined by even a keen ufologist. Several really outstanding cases have come my way, others were first examined by colleagues in IRENE GRANCHI is one of the most respected ufologists on the Brazil. Argentina and Chile have their share of them South American continent, and has been an active too, though I know less about Uruguay, Bolivia, researcher for many years. She is president of CISNE, the Paraguay and other smaller countries in South Amer Centro de lnvestigacoes Sabre a Natureza dos Extra ica for lack of sufficient data. However, in Colombia Terrestres. She has been involved in most of the major there is the famous Engineer Rincon case, 1973. cases on that continent. she is a regular contributor to UFO which has a wealth of interesting data. This engineer, literature and a valued speaker at many symposia. 179 suburbs of the Venezuelan capital. 1940s 1950s They stopped when they saw a NAME BAURU, BRAZIL NAME LEGO ARGENTINO glowingglobe some 10 ft (3 m ) wide hovering over the road. DATE 23 JULY 1947 DATE 18 MARCH 1950 What was to follow is a most LEGO ARGENTINO, ARGENTINA PLACE BAURU, BRAZIL PLACE unusual contact claim. Gonzalez MAP REF: E21 MAP REF: K13 ended up brawling with a hairy, EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD dwarf like entity which was wearing KIND KIND a loin-cloth, had glowing eyes and dispiayed deceptive strength. On 23 july 19<17 Jose Higgins was In the early evening of 18 March Although it was very light, it was one of a group of workers who 1950 rancher Wilfredo Arevalo able to knock Gonzalez some 15 ft witnessed the landing of a 150 ft witnessed the landing of a flying ( tl.5 m) without any obvious effort. (<16 m) wide grey-white flying saucer while a second companion The brawling ended when another saucer at Baurli in the state of Sao saucer hovered overhead, as if creature from inside the globe Paulo, Brazil. Higgins was left alone guarding the first. Arevalo walked to blinded Gonzalez with a ray from a when the other workmen fled the within <100 ft (120 m) of the craft tube he was carrying. Ponce, in the area and he was confronted by three noticing an intense smell 'like meantime, watched creatures carry entities about 7ft (213 em) tall burningbenzine'. The craft was soil and rocks into the globe after wearing inflated transparent suits giving offa blue vapour through marching out from nearby bushes. and carrying boxes on their backs. which Arevalo could see that the Gonzalez had a long scar on his Their clothing, visible through the surface of it seemed to be made of side from the fightand the two men suits, appeared to be made of something like aluminium. were placed under medical brightly coloured paper. All the Even when it landed, part of the observation for a few days. It was entities had large rounded bald disc remained revolving 'like a firstassumed that the men must heads, huge eyes, no eyebrows and gramophone record'. In the glass have been drunk but later one of the long legs. Oddly, llighrins found cabin Arevalo could see four tall, doctors treating them admitted that them beautiful. well shaped men dressed in he accepted their story because on They seemed to be t rying to lure something like cellophane. driving back from a night time call he him into the saucer but he eluded The men shone a search light at had actually seen the fightwith the them. He hid in some bushes and Arevalo then the craft tookoff, entities! The doctor was apparently then, amazingly, watched them leaving an area of burnt grass later sufficiently curious to take up appear to play. They spent half an confirmed by other ranchers. discussion of the case with American hour leaping and jumping and tossing authorities in Washin!-,Tt.on. huge stones. Event ually they re entered the craft and it vanished NAME CARACAS towards the n t h At one point they NAME UBATUBA or . DATE 28 NOVEMBER 1954 had drawn what llig}.,�ns took to be a PLACE CARACAS , VENEZUELA DATE SEPTEMBER 1957 map of t he solar system which MAP REF: F2 PLACE UBATUBA, BRAZIL seemed to indicate that t hey had MAP REF: L13 come from llra nus. EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD Of particular inkrcstwas the KIND EVENT CRASH RETRIEVAL distinct rim 180 ·illlllllllllln•· DATABASE 1950s fishermen who had then seen it looked through their bedroom their clothes at the back and s1des. explode, scattering material window. It seemed to scan their Villas Boas found himself in a everywhere. There was some doubt home hut they could not sec its small room with polished metal about the authenticity of the claim as source. walls, brightly lit and with no visible the exposure was through a On 14 October around 10 o'clock signs of the door he had entered newspaper columnist, and the in the evening, Villas Boas and his through. Eventually his captors led fishermenwere never available for brother were ploughing the family's him through several rooms to one in questioning. fields. In the high temperatures of which they forcibly undressed him. It was thought that they might Brazil it is customary for the land Curiously at the time, but perhaps have been asked to remain silent by owning class to work through the understandable with hindsight, one the govemment. night and employ labourers to work of the entities spread a thick, Some of the alleged material was during the hot daytime hours. They transparent liquid over his skin and recovered and analyzed; the analysis saw a ball of red light, which was too then he was taken into a small room indicated that it was a pure brilliant to look at directly, hovering where a blood sample was taken magnesium, of a purity beyond the approximately 300 ft (92 m) above from him. This operation left a scar capabilities of our own metallur!-,J}cal their field. Villas Boas asked his which investigators verifiedin the processes, therefore indicating an brother to accompany him to subsequent investigation. extra-terrestrialorigin. Clearly this investigate the light but his brother For over half an hour Villas Boas may be overstating the case though refused so he went alone. was left alone in a virtually it is interesting that in Ashland, As he approached the light, it featureless room sitting on a kind of Nebraska when patrolman Schirmer evaded him at high speed and for couch bed. He noticed pipes in the was abducted (see page 54) he was some time Villas Boas chased it back walls from which small puffs of told that the flyingsaucers were and forth across the field. He gave smoke were spreading, the smell of made from 100 per cent pure up after approximately twenty which made him feel sick; indeed he magnesium. Various inconclusive attempts to catch up with the UFO vomited in one comer of the room. tests were carried out, and at the and retumed to his brother. They After half an hour had passed present time it is believed that all watched as it remained around for a Villas Boas was treated to an the recovered material has now short while, sending intennittent extraordinary twist which took his been either used up or lost. rays in random directions. experience beyond the realms of the The Ubatuba retrieval has On the following night Villas Boas usual abduction phenomenon. His become a great debating point for was ploughing alone and shortly solitude was broken by the arrival of ufologists seeking either support after midnight he saw the red ball another alien. 'Her body was much for, or denial of, the Extra again. Although still hovering at more beautiful than any I have ever terrestrial Hypothesis. some 300 ft (92 m) he got close seen before. It was slim, and her Unfortunately it is one of those enough to see that it contained a breasts stood up high and well cases about which far more is bright oval shaped object. Perhaps separated. Her waistline was thin, written than is known. because of its closeness, Villas Boas her belly flat, her hips well lost his enthusiasm of the previous developed, and her thighs were night to catch up with the object and large.' This new distracting arrival NAME ANTONIO VILLASBOAS considered making a getaway in his was a human-like naked woman with DATE 15 OCTOBER 1957 tractor. He was not successful! blonde hair, pale skin, large blue The object landed some 40 ft (12 slanted eyes, reduced lips, nose, PLACE MINAS GERAES, BRAZIL m) in front ofhin1 on three metallic ears and high flatcheekbones that MAP REF: L1 1 legs; it was an egg-shaped craft with gave the impression of a sharply EVENT ABDUCTION a rotating dome. pointed chin. She was short and Villas Boas left the tractor and came towards Villas Boas in silence. The most extraordinary and now ran but was chased by five entities As Villas Boas later put it, she famous case of Antonio Villas Boas and overcome. They carried him was 'looking at me all the while as if actually started in the firstweek of aboard. The entities wore grey she wanted something from me'. October 1957. Villas Boas and his tight -fitting suits and helmets which She certainly did� She hugged Villas brother joao saw a brilliant beam of revealed only their small blue eyes. Boas and rubbed her face and body light coming from the sky as they From the helmets, tubes ran into against his. In the circumstances, 181 1 11 'IIIIIi 1111 ... SOUTH AMERICA any lack of interest from Villas Boas interpretedthis gesture as a sign At approximately 2 o'clock in the would have been quite that she would be taking his seed morningtwo guards at Fort Itaipu understandable but in fact he back and a child would be born. saw a bright light above them; they became excited by the contact, Villas Boas was allowed to dress thought they had seen a nova, or responding to her touch with and was given a tour of the craft exploding star. Quickly they realized enthusiasm. He later considered during which time he attempted to that they were looking at an object that the liquid spread over him may steal one of the instruments as a descending directly towards them at have been a sexual stimulant. proof of his experience; one of the rapid speed. About 1, 000 ft (304 m) The embrace ended on the couch aliens caught him and took the object above them the UFO reduced speed where the couple had a normal act of from him. Rather brusquely he was and descended slowly to a height of sexual intercourse which Villas Boas turfed offthe craft and left in a field approximately 150 ft (46 m). found exciting and pleasing. She to watch the object take off at The guards were able to see that reacted as any healthy woman would astonishing speed. Villas Boas had inside the constant orange glow the with one slight exception: she never spent over four hours on board. object was circular, some 100 ft kissed him (though she did bite him Later, medical examination (30 m) wide and appeared to be softly on the chin). She also had a revealed a scar where the blood under intelligent control. Although somewhat disconcerting habit of sample had been taken and what both guards were armed with growling and barking occasionally. may have been radioactive burning powerful submachine guns, neither Later, Villas Boas was to on parts of his skin. Top Brazilian made any aggressive gesture understand that they wanted him researcher Mrs Irene Granchi spoke towards the UFO. The UFO, only for breeding stock which made to Villas Boas's wife, Marlena, at the however, appears to have made one him somewhat angry and if that was time and asked her how she felt towards them. the case then presumably the object about the possibility of her husband The guards heard a humming, of the exercise had already been having an extra-terrestrial offspring. generator type sound and were then achieved. However, unfulfilledin She said she did not mind and indeed hit by a sudden blistering heat. some capacity or the other the was rather proud of the idea. There was no flame or visible ray woman did not stop at this point but The case has attracted but an instant overwhelming feeling continued petting, arousing Villas considerable speculation, the most of burningand it seemed to the Boas to a further successful act of obvious of which was the suggestion guards that their bodies were sexual intercourse. It was after the that Villas Boas was subject to an actually on fire. second act that she apparently erotic fantasy. The screams of the guards became fri!-,rid and withdrawn and it Whatever the reality, Villas Boas alerted other troops but, before was then that he realized he had never retracted his claims despite they could organize themselves, a been used, which caused him, too, being annoyed at the way his power failure plunged the base into to become frigid. experience had been exploited by darkness. Shortly afterwards, when In an interview twenty-one years the media (the encounter has even the heat disappeared and the power later Villas Boas added one detail to been the subject of a French comic came back on, the soldiers saw the the encounter which had not strip)and throughout his life his glowing UFO as it streaked away hitherto been revealed. After this recall was never contradictory. into the sky. The unfortunate guards second act of sexual intercourse the were in a serious condition and woman also extracted a sperm required considerable medical sample from him which he assumes NAME THE FORT ITAIPU AITACK attention for their bums. was preserved for later use. DATE 4 NOVEMBER 1957 Brazilian military officialswere so Before she left him the woman concernedthat a request was made pointed at her belly and then at the PLACE FORT ITAIPU, BRAZIL to the United States for assistance sky. Villas Boas said 'I interpreted MAP REF: K13 and officiallythe case has never the sign as meaning to say that she EVENT POSSIBLE UFO AITACK been closed. There is a question intended to retum and take me with that has never been answered: were her to wherever it was that she Evidence of possible hostility on the the guards the unfortunate victims lived. That is why I still feel afraid; if part of UFO occupants comes from a of a backlash of power emission from they came back to fetch me, I'd be remarkable case that occurred in the UFO or where they the target of lost. ' Researchers have also Brazil in 1957. an attack by it? 184 • 1111ilii ii11U••· DATABASE 1950s NAME TRINDADE ISLAND PHOTOGRAPHS DATE 16JANUARY 1958 PLACE TRINDADE ISLAND, ATLANTICOCEAN MAP REF: 013 EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST KIND/PHOTOGRAPHIC CASE 'A flyingsaucer sighting would be unlikely at the very barren island of Trindadc, as everyone knows Martians arc extremely comfort loving creatures.' The above comment might well have been written for a tabloid newspaper. In fact, it was part of anoff icial report by the U.S. Navy attache on a photographic case involving forty eight witnesses. The ship AlmiranteSaldanha of the Hydrographic and Navigation Barauna took six photographs within UFO photographed over Trindade Island Service of the Brazilian Navy was a fifteen second time span; the first on 16 January19 58. anchored in Trindade Island on 16 two as the object approached the january 1958 preparing to sail to Rio island, the third as it emerged from him toconceal a previously de janeiro. Trindade Island is behind Desegado Mountain, two developed filmand thereby produce approximately 750 miles (12,070 photographs that missed the object any kind of hoax photograph. This km) from the Brazilian coast. and a sixth photograph was taken as indicates the degree of seriousness Apart from the ship's norn1al the object was moving away. which followed the event. crew complement there was also a Despite the brief duration of the The Brazilian Navy undertook team of divers on board who had sighting the case has become one of photographic analysis of the film and been taking underwater the most famous and the it was pronounced genuine. Indeed, photographs around the island. They photographs have been perhaps the the photographs were released to included the principal witness, most widely published in UFO the Press by none other than Mr Almiro Barauna, a professional history. The object in the juscelino Kubitschek, the President photographer. At the time the UFOs photographs appears to be a of Brazil. Subsequent investigation approached the island there were flattened globe surrounded by a revealed that there had been at least around forty-eight witnesses on the central ring not unlike the planet seven other sightings between the deck watching the incident. Below Saturn. The image is hazy, which end of 1957 and early 1958, witnesses deck the captain, Carlos Alberto may reflect the characteristics of a to these included Captain Bacellar. Bacellar, was unaware of events. camera, but witnesses confirmed The Brazilian government As preparations were made to that the object was 'blurred'. appears to have been very open get underway, Barauna was getting Captain Bacellar took immediate about the photographsalthough it ready to take photographs of the steps to safeguard the authenticity did not make all details of its own ship-to-shore transfer boat and was of the filmBarauna had taken. He investigation public. They seem to at the time feeling unwell not having insisted that itbe developed accept that an unknmvn object was taken the seasickness pills he immediately in a washroom which observed over Trindade Island by customarily took. At just after noon was converted to a darkroom on the the \\itnesses. The paraf_.rraph \\ith a bright object was suddenly seen spot. As an extra precaution which this section opened, by the approaching the island and in the Racellar insisted that Barauna, US Naval attache in Rio, hardly general melee several people before going into the darkroom, seems respectful in view of the shouted to Barauna as if to indicate should strip to his swimming trunks Brazilian government's own sensible that he should photograph it. in order to make it impossible for appraisal of the situation. 185 I :1111111 'IIIII I I •· SOUTH AMERICA vivid red complexion and only one NAME BEBEDOURO 1960s large brown eye. DATE 4 MAY 1969 NAME LAKE MARACAIBO One of the boys tried to throw a brick at one of the entities but was PLACE BEBEDOURO, NORTH OF BELO DATE 6 OCTOBER 1961 prevented from doing so by a beam HORIZONTE, BRAZIL PLACE SANTA RITA, VENEZUELA firedfrom the entity's chest which MAP REF: L12 MAP REF: D2 paralyzed the boy's arm. The boys EVENT ABDUCTION EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST were leftunharmed as the sphere KIND floatedback into the sky. On a sunny afternoon inMay 1969 Brazilian soldier jose Antonio da Panic caused by the close approach Silva became the target of a most of UFOs can sometimes have tragic NAME THENITEROI DEATHS extraordinary UFO abduction. consequences. On the night of 6 DATE 20 AUGUST 1966 Da Silva was fishingwhen at October 1961 a large UFO flew low approximately 3 o'clock in the PLACE NITEROI, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL over the town of Santa Rita, afternoon he was aware of figures MAP REF: M12 Venezuela, its radiance apparently moving behind him. Suddenly he lighting up the entire town. It moved EVENT UNEXPLAINEDDEATHS/UFO CONTACT saw a beam of light which hit him in slowly over the nearby Lake the legs and caused a paralysis, Maracaibo causing considerable Late in the evening of 20 August bringing him to his knees. panic. Most of the fishermen leapt 1966 police at Niteroi, a suburb of He was seized and dragged away overboard and swam ashore but Rio de janeiro, received a report by the two entities that had closed in sadly Bartolme Romero, drowned. from a woman that a UFO had on him; they were approximately 4 landed on a nearby hillside. Police ft (122 em) tall, wearing dull silver climbed the hill on a routine, and suits, their heads covered by NAME FAM ILIA SAGRADA probably light-hearted, survey. metallic helmets. DATE 28 AUGUST 1963 Nearthe top of the hill lay the The entities dragged him to a bodies of two men, their faces craft describedas being a tall PLACE FAM ILIA SAGRADA, BELO HORIZONTE, covered with lead masks. A note cylinder with a saucer on top and BRAZIL was found with the bodies reading bottom, standing upright. The MAP REF: M11 'At 4.30 p.m. we will take the device was apparently 6 ft (183 em) EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD capsule. After the effectis high and 8 ft (244 em) wide. KIND produced, protect half the face with Da Silva and the entities were lead masks. Wait for agreed signal.' secured to the seats and a sensation One of the most striking features of It has been suggested that the men of movement combined with a South American humanoid reports is were preparing tomake contact with humming sound indicated to da Silva their incredible variety. In this case, the the UFO occupants and ifso it that the craft had taken off. They the descriptionof the entities was a contact that went badly wrong. landed and, blindfolded, da Silva was appears quite unique. Laboratory tests on the bodies dragged from the craft intowhat The witnesses to the event were indicated no clue as to the cause of appeared to be a different room. three boys aged about twelve who death and stated only that there was When the blindfold was removed the were playing in the garden when no medical reason 'Our lab men have beings had removed their spacesuits they saw a large, transparent, ruled out the possibility of poison, and stood before him. They were glowing globe with four entities violence or asphyxiation'. stockily built, had long beards and inside. One of the entities No officialconnection between wavy red hair falling down to below descended on a beam of light. the deaths and the UFO sighting has their waist. Their faces appeared All of the entities were tall, been admitted to, but the Brazilian almost troll-like with big noses, around 7ft (2U em), and were press suggested a modification to bushy eyebrows, largeears and wearing brown 'divers' suits' and the usual officialconclusion in such toothless mouths. Their eyes were high black boots. Their heads were cases (death caused by person or a shade of green. round and bald and they wore persons unknown) and suggested On a wide bench in the room with transparent helmets. They had no instead 'death caused by beings or them were the dead bodies of four ears or nose, a 'str;utgc mouth', a persons from the unknown'. humans and da Silva speculated that 186 ifli DATABASEllllllll 1970sl•• · this may have been desihrned to THE PALENOUE ANCIENT ASTRONAUT encourage his compliance. The entities searched through da The position of the central figure Silva's belongings retaining such in his ancien! carving from items as bank notes and his identity I Palenque, Mexico (BELow) bears card. Somehow da Silva felt they an uncanny resemblance to the were asking him to be their spy on Mercury astronaut (AsovE). Earth. Da Silva refused, which caused some consternation. Suddenly da Silva saw what appeared to be a Christ-like entity, barefoot and wearing a long monk like dark robe. The figure spoke fluent Portuguese and gave da Silva a message which da Silva stated he was told he should not pass on for several years. Even now da Silva is hesitant to give details. Da Silva was blindfolded a'g ain, led back to the craft and again taken on a journey. The same jolt announced that the craft had landed, his helmet was pulled off and da Silva was unceremoniously turfed off the craft. He drank from a nearby stream, caught a fishwhich he cooked and ate and found to his amazement that he was near the city of Victoria, some 200 miles (322 km) fr om where he had set out. Even more incredibly, it was now over business meeting, were driving in medical examination which included four days since the time of his the early evening through the town havinga blood sample taken. This abduction! On returningto Belo of Antividad de Carangola. The left a scar which UFO investigators Horizonte, da Silva reported his principal witness was one Paulo fr om the research group SBEVD story which some suggested he Gaetano, travelling with Mr E. B. witnessed and photographed some invented to explain his absence As they passed the town of days after the event. which seems both out of character Bananeiras, Gaetano felt that the car E. B. apparently did not see an and unwisely attention-seeking. was not responding properly. The extra-terrestrial craft. He saw a engine then stalled and Gaetano bus! His story of events is that when parked on the side of the road. the car had slowed down and It seems highly probable that the stopped Gaetano had got out, fallen 1970s malfunction of the c. ar was not due to to the ground and E. B. had had to a normal mechanical failure because pull him to his feet and take him by NAME THEBANANEIRAS BUS just next to where it had come to bus to ltaperuna, to a first aid clinic. DATE 17 NOVEMBER 1971 rest Gaetano noticed a red ray of Did Gaetano see a bus and for PLACE BANANEIRAS,BRAZIL light radiating from a parked object some unexplained internal reason MAPREF: PS out of which several small creatures related to his own mental make-up emerged and were now suffer a fantasy of alien abduction? EVENT CAMOURAGEDUFO? approaching! Or, did an alien abduction take place Gaetano was apparently abducted which did not involve E. B. , who had An extraordinary case occurred in from the car and taken aboard the a false memory planted in his mind 1971 when two men, leaving a craft where he was subjected to a to remove the details of the attack? 187 SOUTH AMERICA NAME ISLA DE LOBOS Because of the single-witness had used up only 0. 22 gallons (1 factor the investigating group, CIOVI, litre) of diesel, having covered a DATE 28 OCTOBER 1972 obtained professional help to put the distance of 89 miles (143 km). Once PLACE ISLADE LOBOS, URUGUAY witness through over nine hours of in Rio de janeiro, Guaracf placed his MAP REF: 116 psychological testing which seemed own station-wagon in front of the EVENT CLOSE ENCOUNTEROF THE THIRD to support the validity of his claims. truck, and the station-wagon started KIND blinking its lights on and off, although neither vehicle had its On the evening of 28 October 1972 engine on. On reaching home, Elias, 1980s fivemen manning a 200 ft (61 m) walking in front of his truck, saw the lighthouse were to receive NAME ELIAS SEIXAS ABDUCTION bonnet (hood), which had always extraordinary visitors. DATE 25 SEPTEMBER 1981 given him trouble in opening, lift by just afterten o'clock in the itself and bang down again. PLACECONCEIC AO DE ARAGUAIA, GOlAS, evening Corporal juan Fuentes left A wart on Elias's hand BRAZIL the others to inspect the generators disappeared mysteriously. Later MAP REF: K10 at the base of the lighthouse. As recollections revealed that semen soon as he left the quarters he EVENT ABDUCTION had forcibly been drawn from his noticed an object apparently parked penis. This caused him temporary next to the lighthouse on top of a flat I am grateful to Irene Granchi of impotence, visits to a psychiatrist terrace. Fuentes immediately CISNE for supplying this report. and a near divorce. returnedto the garrison house to Elias Seixas, his cousin and a Irene Granchi met the three men collect a gun from his room. friend were crossing the State of after a talk she gave at a As he walked towards the object Goias, near Concei<;ao de Araguaia symposium, and they asked her to Fuentes noticed shining white, on 25 September 1981. Elias was fix an appointment with Dr Silvio yellow and purple lights which driving his truck and was returning Lago for regression hypnosis. Two illuminated a humanoid figure. to Rio de janeiro, where the three sessions withhim were most Almost immediately Fuentes noticed lived. Odd things started happening: revealing: Elias described his two others, one apparently headlights blinked on and off, Elias abduction, the aliens he met, the descending from the flyingsaucer to fe lt a cold liquid pressing against the place he visited, his returnjourney. the terrace where he was. back of his head. He turnedoff the Whereas the ship he was first taken Fuentes was a decisive man and engine, but the lights continued into had only one tall, long-limbed on seeing the sight, and at some 80 blinking. He stopped the car and the man with penetrating lilac-blue eyes, ft (24 m) from the object, he raised three got out, the two others also the beings he saw after landing were his arm - pointing the gun forward having noticed a blue flash cross the the small, large-headed ones, and he ready to shoot. The entities sky. They now saw something that also saw two human beings he was prevented him from shooting at looked like a bonfire in the distance not allowed to speak to. He bears no them. How they did this, Fuentes is across the plains, but realized it ill feelings towards his captors, in unclear. The entities re-boarded the could not be a bonfire: it was a UFO, spite of everything. Shortly after craft which started rising and then pulsating light. Elias took his newly undergoing hypnosis he started disappeared at fantastic speed. acquired Super-8 camera and filmed developing paranormal powers and White as a sheet and gun in hand it for a few seconds. The film later discovered that he could heal. He Fuentes returned to the other men revealed flashesof light coming from has now been working for free for and told them he had seen a flying a 20 ft (6 m) wide fiery-red object. years with a famous Brazilian doctor saucer. They appear to have been Back in the truck, Guaracfs straw and parapsychologist, Dr Sobral, very practical men and his story was hat, wedged between his neck and where he helps to make diagnoses not well received. It was Fuentes' the seat, flewoff. There was no with a group of channellers of intention to tell his story to the wind. The three felt drowsy, and the ethereal or psychic energies. media but before doing so he journeywas long. When they The memory of Guaracf, was reported to a higher ranking officer, reached a petrol station in Guaraf, entirely blocked, but the third in the who then apparently conferred with Elias discovered that fi ve hours group gave a description which, personnel at the American were missing in their lives: it was although less detailed than that of Embassy. 4.30 a.m. Later, he found that he Elias, had certain points in common. 188 he database of South America bears out the belief that the UFO phenomenon is a uniform experience throughout the world, as far as we can understand it. This point goes hand in handT with the suspicion that 'local' cultural overtones can colour the picture. South America provides by far the clearest examples of this, which makes this aspect of its ufology rich for researchers. There is a much higher rate of reporting sexual encounters from South America. Taking the case of Antonio Villas Boas (see page 181), which while strange and perhaps frightening seems to have many pleasant, even sexually satisfying, components. Why should this be? A further characteristic of ufology in this area is that the 'entity' descriptions coming from South America are much more varied. Across Europe and North America (ufologically worlds apart in many other ways) there is some standardization in the form of dwart-like entities with large heads and prominent, alien eyes. In South America there is really no standardization: one report even has red-skinned creatures with one eye! These extraordinary images were created centuries before any What is apparent in South America is that reports form of successful airborne impulsion on a scale that can only be are frequent where there are people to report to. appreciated from air. For whom were they drawn? There seem to be great chunks of the continent devoid of large numbers of reports, almost certainly to-date has been strongly influenced by their \\'ork. because there are no easy channels of communication. Another fa ctor that almost certainly helped to bring Experience in other countries suggests that when the the South American cases to the general UFO world is investigators are available, the reports come in. the involvement of Gordon Creighton. He was fluent South America does have some of the finest in many languagesand did much to publish the material researchers in the world: Mrs Irene Granchi, who coming from that continent. wrote the introduction to this section, is very well As contributions to our understanding of UFOs as a respected and has been involved in many of the global phenomenon continue to emerge from South important cases. Our understanding of the phe America, so we edge that bit closer to the final nomenon is made all the clearer because of the work solution. But I suspect it will be a long road, with few of such people as herself. What we have teamed easy answers. 189 Italic page numbers refer to B D Gardin/Smith encounter 166 illustrations or their captions Baikonur Space Centre, USSR Dapple Grey Lane, Los Angeles Gdansk, Poland 86, 88 137, 137 56-7 Gdynia humanoid 86, 88 A Bananeiras, Brazil 187 Darbishire, Stephen 82, 82 Germany 77, 79 Abductions 62, 77 Basel, Switzerland 78 'Davis, Kathie' 66, 66, 68 Ghost rockets 69, 7 4, 80, 80 Amano case 1:34 Bass Strait, Australia 162, Day, Peter 100-1, 100 Gill, Father 161, 162-:3, 164, Anders encounter 103-4, 103 169-70 Dayton, Texas 6S 175 Andreasson, Betty 52 Batman encounter 88-9 Delphos Ring, Kansas 58, 58, 70 Gobi Desert, China 132 A vcley case 106 Bauru, Brazil 180 Denmark 77, 99 Godfrey encounter 115, 115 Bananeiras bus case 187 Beaufort bomber 162 Des vergers encounter 26 Godman Field, Kentucky 20-1 Bebedouro case 186-7 Bebedouro, Brazil 186-7 Dewilde encounter 83, 8.1 Goose Bay, Labrador 35 Cergy-Pontoise case 114, 114 Beit Bridge, Zimbabwe 149-51, Dingxian City, China U2 Great North-Eastern blackout 'Davis, Kathie' 66, 66, 68 150 Disappearing phenomena 130, 50-1, 51 Godfrey encounter 115, 115 Belgium 77, 84, 102-3 130 Greece 80 Gulf Breeze case 67 Bellingeri sighting 106 Dogon tribes 156 Green triangle case 1:31 I iigdon, Carl 6:3-3 Bentwaters/Lakenheath, UK 86 Domsten, Sweden 88 Greenhaw, Jeff 60 I !ill, Betty and Barney 42-3, 45, BernmdaTriangle 130 Drakensberg, South Africa 146-7 Greensburg, Pennsylvania61- 2 68, 69 Birch, Alex 93 Drakensteen Mountain, South Groendal Reserve, South Africa Howard, Kathryn 95 Blackford County, Indiana 61 Africa 146 152 'jennie' case 39, 41 Blue Book, Project 23, 26, 26, Durban, South Africa 148 Groth, Arne103, 104 jindabyne case 168-9 48-9, 51, 71, 71 Dyfed enigma 122 Guizhou, China 136 Kempsey case 166 Boianai, Papua New Guinea 161, Gulf Breeze, Florida 11, 12, 67 Kurz, Shane 55 162-3, 164 E Gulf of Mexico 32 Langford Budville 101 Bolazec, France 90 Eagle River, Wisconsin 42 Medinaceli case 108 Bolivia 179 Easter Island figures 178 H Mindalore encounter 152-3, 153 Bougainville Reef, Australia 163 Edwin and George 147-8, 147, Hadersley, jylland 99 Mooraduc Road case 166-8 Brazil 12, 178-84, 186-9 179 Hawaii 63 Nullarbor Plain case 174, 174 Butler, Pennsylvania 56 Electrical interference50, 108, Heilongjiang Province, China 137 Pascagoula encounter 59-60 131, 134, 137 Hessdalen lights, Norway 118-19, St Catherine's case 57 c see also Vehicle interference 119 Seixas, Elias 178, 188 Cagliari, Sardinia 108 Energy lines 103, 104 I ligdon, Carl 63-4 Sverdlovsk case 130 California 28-9, 29, 31 Everglades, Florida 48 Hill 60 case 129 Tujunga Canyon case :32-3 Callery chemical plant, Exeter, New Hampshire 48-9 Hill, Betty and Barney 42-3, 43, Villas Boas, Antonio 69, 181, Pennsylvania 56 Extra-terrestrialTheory 10, 76 45, 56, 68, 69 182, 184, 189 Canada 50-1, 51, 59, 59 Hoaxes 87, 114, 114, 122 Walton, Travis 64-5, 70 Canary Islands soap bubble 152 F Hook, UK 90-1 Wegierska G{Jrka case 8:3 Caracas, Venezuela 180 Fairbanks, Alaska 40 Horseshoe Lagoon, Australia 16:3, Adamski, George 28-9, 29, 31, Caselle Airport, Torino 101-2 Fakes 24, 93 163, 166 34-5, 68 Cash/Landrum encounter 65 Falcon Lake, Ontario/Manitoba Howard, Kathryn 94-5, 95 Aerial cattle rustling 14 Catalina Island, California 52 52-:3 Hunan Province, China l:H Aerofiot Flight 8:352 U7, 140 Cergy-Pontoise, France 114, 114 Falconbridge, Ontario 65 llynek, Dr. J. Allen 47, 49, 51, 71, Aircraft interference ser Vehicle Charlton crater 122-:3 Falkville, Alabama 60 71 , 119, 161 interference Chile 179 Familia SaJ.,Jfada, Brazil 186 Allingham, Cedric 122, 12:1 Chiles/Whitted case 22-:� Fargo, North Dakota 2:3 Amano abduction 1:14 China 126-7, 1:H, 1:32, 133, 134-7 Faulkner, Gordon 121-2, 123 lmbeault, Michel 59, 59 Anchorage Airport, Alaska 66 Cisco Grove, California 4 7 Figueras, Catalonia 86 lmjarvi, Finland 96, 98-9 Anders encounter 10:3-4, J03 Cloera, Ireland 78 Finland 89, 98-9 Ireland 78 Andreasson, Betty 52 Columbia 179 Flatter/Donathan case 61 Irish airship 78 Andersson, Mrs 104 Concei�ao de Ara�-,ruaia, Brazil 188 Flight 19 disappearance 130, 130 Isla de Lobos, Uruguay 188 Angel hair precipitation 81 Concorde, New Hampshire 42-:3 Flying elephant case 110 Italy 77, 78, 84, 101-2, 106, 108, Angdu encounter 86 Condon conunittee 24, 54 Flying saucers 14, 15-16 109 Ann Arbor, Michigan 51 Cone of silence 6:3, 106, 1 SO Flynn incident 48 Argentina 179, 180 C 190 · llllillllllllln•· INDEX KallaVl'si Lake, Kuopio HY Mount Hainier, Washington Stille l.oxton laruhngs I :12 Stondlt'IIJ.:I', lJK 76 Karroo, South Africa 14•1 15-Hi J{endlcshmn Forest r;Jse I Hi Suhmarnw UFO Jlj2 K!'lly-llopkinsvillc•, Kentucky Murhena, Clifford 144 -S, lS:I, Hoswl'!l incident I H-20 SV!·rdlovsk, lJSSH J:IO :IH-!1, 311 155, 156, 15fi, !57 Stephc·n Mirhalaq case ;,:I Swamp gas de hade :I I 1\!'mpsey, Australia IGG Mutare, Zimbabwe 15:1, 155, 15(i, tennis court rase 11H, 149 Swed(�n 77, HO, Hlj, HH, 9:•-�. Keyhoe, Major llonald E. :12, 4:1, 156 Ubatuha retrieval I HO- I l o:!-4 (i9, 71 Vaddii rPtri(·val Hli Klarer, Elizabeth 146-7 N Valensole sighting HY T Kurz, Shane 55 Nakayama, Tsutoma G:l, fi3 l'iast6w, Warsaw 110 Tc·mple, Hobert l:ilj Kuwait close encounter 1:1·1 Namur, Bd1-.rium H4, H5 PiPdmont, Alessandra IOii Tennis court case 14X, 14!J Nebraska :19, 41 l'lanets mistaken for lJFOs ·10 Thames Estuary, UK �1 L New Zealand Hi !, 17:1 Poland H 1, H3, H6, HH, 110 Tientsin Atrport, China 135 La l{ochelle 15:1, 155, 156, Niteroi deaths, Brazil 1H6 l'olaski encounter 61-2 Tioga, New York State 47 /5(i North America 9-71 Portugal IOG-7 Todmorden, UK 11:1 Lake Chaud, Minsk 137, 140 Northern Lights 40, 1:1:1 l'ushkino, USSH 1:10 Torino sighting 101-2 L;�ke Kiilrnjiirv, Sweden HO, HO Norway IIH- 19 Trent photoj..,'Taphs 24, 24 Lake Mcllwaine, Zimbabwe 14(i Nuclear research and industry 15, Q Tribal knowledge 1:!6 l..;tke Maracaibo case 1H6 20, 69 Quarouble, France 8:1 Trident sighting 106-7 Lm Xi, China 1:35 Nullarbor Plain, Australia 174, 174 Trindade Island photoJ..,'Taphs IH5, Lmhrford Budville, UK 101 R 1H5 Lanz Ilau, (;;msu 140 () Radar detection 25-6, 32, 43, 65, Tujunga Canyon, Cahfornia 32-3 Lawson, Professor Alvin 62 Ogre Observatory, Latvia 131 66, 86, 101-2, 107, I:lO, 1:15, Tunh'lls event, USSR 12H-9, 128 Le Hoy, Kansas 14 Oloron-Ste-Marie, Pays Basques 1.1.5, 152, 161, 17H Turkey 129 Lego Argentino, Argentina lHO HI, 81 Radioactivity 65, 174, 12!!-9, 128 Light phenomena 25, 25, 40, 77, Orthoteny 75 sec also nuclear research and u 100, llH-19, 119, 133, 145 industry Ubatuba, Brazil 1H0- 1 Lintiao Airbase, Gansu 134 p Rendlesham Forest, UK 116-17, UFO fleet 84 Livennore, California 34 Palenque carving 187, 187 117 Ukraine vehicle interference 132 Livingston, UK 110- 11, 111, 112 Palm Beach, Florida 26 Reunion Island, Indian Ocean 151 Umm Alaish, Kuwait 134 Lochraven Dam, Baltimore 41 Papua New Guinea 162-3, 164 Revisionists 77 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Long Crendon, UK 100-1 Paraguay 179 Rincon, Engineer 179 12, 126, 127, 128-9, 131-3, Lorenzen, jim and Coral 39, 3.9 Pascagoula, Mississippi 59-60, 60 Robbins Field, Georgia 23 137, 140 Loxton, South Africa 144, 151-2 Patterson's Groyne, South Africa Robozero Lake, USSR 128 United Kingdom 12, 74, 77, 82. Lubbock, Texas 25, 25 147-8, 147 Rome, Italy 84 M, H6, 88-9, 90-2, 100-1, 106, Penn, USSR 140 Rosmead, South Africa 148, 149 110-11, 115- 17, 121-3 M Petrozavodsk, USSR 127, 132-3 Roswell Incident 12, 18-20, 18, 19 United States of 1\rnerica 9-71, Maarup encounters 9Y Phobos 105 Ruppelt, Captain Edward j. 23, 175 McMinnville, Oregon 24, 24 Photographic evidence 27, 49, 63 26, 26 Uruguay 179, 188 Majestic 12 (MJ-12)12 Adamski, George 29, 29 Russian Park Giants 1.18, 140 Mali, North-West Africa 156 Bougainville Reef case 163 Rybinsk, USSR 131 v Mansfield, Ohio 60- 1 Catalina Island film 52 Viiddii, Sweden H6 Mantell, Captain Thomas 20- 1, 21 Oarbishire, Stephen 82, 82 s Valensole, France H9, 90 Maralinga, Australia 162 Day, Peter 100-1, WO St Catherine's Ontario 57 Valentich encounter 160- 1, Mars 105 fakes 24, 93 St George, Minnesota 49 169-70, 170, 172, 175 Maryland 29 Faulkner, Gordon 121-2, 123 Salandin, Flight Lieutenant H4 Vallentuna wave 104 Matabelcland, Zimbabwe 156 Fry, Daniel 34 Salem, Massachusetts 27 Vehicle interference 41, 61, 90-l, Maury Island, Washin1-.rtonState Greenhaw, jeff 60 Salonika, Greece 80 132, 134, 149-51, 150, 162, 14, 69 Gulf Breeze case 67 Salt wood, UK H8-9 166, 174, 174, 18H Medicine Bow National Forest, Ilessdalcn lights 119, II9 Santa Rita, Venezuela 1H6 Venezuela 180, 186 Wyoming 63 hoaxes 87 Sardinia helicopter encounter 1 OH Villas Boas, Antonio 55, 69, 1H l, Mcdinaccli, Soria 108 lmbeault, Michel 59 Sayama City, japan 134 182, 184, 189 Meier, Billy 107 Kaikoura controversy 171, 171 Schirmer, Patrolman 54 Vilvorde, Brussels 102-3, 102 'Men in black' 14, 14, 15, 69 Lubbock lights 25, 25 Schweinfurt, Germany79 Voronezh, USSR 127, 138, 140 Meteors 136, 13() Meier, Billy 107 Seixas, Elias 178, 188 Mexico IH7 Nakayama, Tsutomu 63, 63 Serra de Almos, Spain 92-3 w Michalaq, Stephen 52-3, 53 Namur case M, 85 Severin, Antoine 151 Walton, Travis 64-5, 70 Minas Gt>raPs, Brazil lHI, IH4 St>ixas, Elias IHH Shanghai, China I:JI Wam1instPr, UK 7.'1, 121-:J. 123 Mindalore, South Africa 152-3, Trent photographs 24, 24 Shanxi Airport, China 13:1 Washington flap 25-6, 26 153 Trindade Island photographs Sign, Project 22 Wt,•gierska G6rka, Poland 8:1 Missing time :13, 54, 95, 101, 106, 185, 185 SilburyIl ill, UK 75 White Sands Proving Ground, 150, IH7, 188 Washington flap26 Simonton, joe 42 New Mexico 23, 34-5 Moigne Downs, UK 91-2 Physical evidence 1 Y, 22, 46-7, Sinccny, Aisnc H4 Wilcox, Gary 4 7 Montgomery, Georgia 22-3 46, 175 Snowflake, Arizona 64-5 Wolin Island, Szczecin HI Montreal, Canada 59, 59 angel hair precipitation H1 Socorro, New Mexico IY, 23, McKJraduc Road, Australia 166-8, Aztec crash retrieval 22 46-7, 46 X 167, 175 Czluch6w sighting 110 Siiderby, Gustavslund 103-4 ·x·. Dr. 94 Moreland encounter 161 Delphos Ring 5H, 58 South Africa 144 -9, 151-:J Moth Men 88-9, 88 lle\\o;lde encounter H3 South 1\rncrica 178-89 z Mount Etna, Sicily 108, 109 Flynn incidPnt 48 Southampton, UK 110 Zhang Po County, China 132 Mount Palomar Observatory, Gdynia humanoid 86, HH Spain 77, 86, 92-3, 108, 122 Zimbabwe 146, 149-51, 153, California 29, 29 Kallavesi Lake retrieval 89 Spiral UFO 136 151i 191 As the current chairman of the International Committee for knowledge of specialist contributors. UFO Research (I CUR)- and a former chairman of the British The World Atlas of UFO's is a fine example of the UFO Research Association (BUFORA) - I am very pleased to cooperation which is beginningto develop between UFO be invited to provide an afterword. groups from all over the world. The better this is, the more The subject of UFOs, as we have seen in this World Atlas is investigators there are, and the more authoritative the a truly internationalone. The database cases reveal how certain information that is exchanged, the nearer we will be to providing types of phenomena transcend cultural boundaries. But if the explanations of phenomena. The International Committee events being reported are similar, the interpretations could not for UFO Research (ICUR) is committed to this approach. be more different. A sighting of silver-suited aliens in Africa is As a final note, I appeal for even greater cooperation interpreted as being a visitation by ancestors while the same between groups and individuals and a greater tolerance of sighting in Europe or the USA is classified as an 'alien viewpoints. Let's all pull together! encounter'. It is clear from this that an understanding of RoBEin Dl<;nv, CHAIRMAN, different cultures is paramount in the world study of UFOs and INTERNATIONAL CoMMITTEE the World Atlas of UFO's is much enhanced by the local FoR UFO REsEARCH. 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