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Official reports, hearing transcripts, case files and releases: the paper behind the cases. 2,872 documents, 2,610 mirrored with their text, 53,529 pages indexed, so a search reads inside them and lands on the page.
New in the library The PURSUE files The Department of War's UAP release, mirrored in full: the videos, recordings and images, each beside its case file.Document scans in the stories6,738 scans · page 76
IKE'S VIEWS ON GOP EVENTS Frankenstein Snarl of Traffic Loosed by 'Monster' Hunt SISTER, LAKES, Mich., June 11: — There is a feeling here that the "Minister of Sister Lakes" may have been seen all night by the herds of people who came out to attack. The "monster" two men said is in a nice tail, weig…
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ABOVE SUSPICION-BY EONS In Prehistoric Times They Had Monsters Like This "passes" signed by a police chief 35 miles away, a man wearing a Marine Corps camouflage suit, five civil defense units—no one was sure where from—and many, many more. Sticking mainly to their cars, they drove in and out of far…
Astonished "When I went to pick up the photographs, the manageress said it was a lovely one of Elizabeth but who was the big fellow," Jim recalls. "I told her it could not be my photograph. I was absolutely astonished. There was a figure in it beside Elizabeth. It was uncanny. He was wearing exactly…
Security meeting on marsh 'a joke' By a Staff Reporter MR JAMES TEMPLETON, a Carlisle fireman, dismissed as "a joke" yesterday a report in a newspaper that he kept a rendezvous with security men on Burgh Marsh to discuss a controversial photograph he took there last May. The photograph of his daught…
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CLASS: Robotic TYPE: Metallic VARIANT: 2, aka "Tin Cans" DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC: fins DESCRIPTIVE INCIDENT DATE: October 23, 1965 LOCATION: Long Prairie, Minnesota WITNESS: Jerry Townsend At about 7:40 P.M., the witness, a rookie radio announcer, was about four miles out of Long Prairie when …
Three tiny "tin men" star in the case at Long Prairie, Minnesota, on October 23, 1965. According to his story, Jerry Townsend, nineteen, a fledgling radio announcer, was driving from Little Falls to Long Prairie at 7:40 P.M. on the night in question. At about four miles out of Long Prairie he rounde…
PROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. TIME·TIME GROUP 23 October 65 24/0115 | 2. LOCATION Z Lone-Prairie, Minnesota(1) 3. SOURCE Civilian | 10. CONCLUSION Astro(VENUS) Venus 16.53m W, 240 deg azimuth and setting at time of observation 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One w/three creatures 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5 minutes |…
John Keel, "Never Mind the Saucer! Did You See the Guys Who Were Driving!," TRUE Magazine, February 1967, p. 82; Radio announcer James Townsend of station KEYL, in Long Prairie, Minnesota, claimed that he saw three "animated tin cans" six inches high around a rocket-shaped device in the center of Hi…
Road when it appeared and I ran home and then called my chum, Tom Springs. I grabbed a .22 rifle and Tom took a .22 pistol. It was then about 260 feet off the ground and moving toward the mesa of the city. The brilliance changed to a kind of smoggy red, and we were scared. Both of us fired several s…
Townsend refused any more interviews. "I'm sorry I ever reported the incident," he said. But more than a few people took what Townsend had said seriously. UFO investigators from all over the country tried to contact him. WCCO television of Minneapolis gave him the opportunity to explain the story hi…
Tin-can aliens Four miles east of Long Prairie, Minnesota, at 7:40 P.M. on October 23, 1965, a young radio announcer named James Townsend was rounding a curve when suddenly he saw something in the road and slammed on his brakes. It was a rocket-shaped UFO resting on three fins. The car skidded to a …
Exeter ... (Continued from page 7) and merged with it. Fuller did not relate what happened to the cigar-shaped object. This sighting is important, however, in view of the relationship of the small disc to the cigar, and the phenomena of the "silver pipe." See article on the "Great Blackout." "Little…
Drawing shows rocketlike UFO and one of its can-shaped occupants reportedly encountered by James Townsend, 19, while driving along highway near Long Prairie, Minn. Arrows show strips of oil-like substance left on road surface by UFO. deserted ship, he noticed two things. The surface bore neither mar…
1965 James Townsend, 19, a Long Prairie, Minnesota radio announcer, believes he nearly ran down a spaceship and three "creatures" about 7:15 p.m. on the 23rd. He was driving on a blacktop road about four miles east of town. As he came around a curve he saw an upright, rocket-like object straddling t…
UFO's to show him that he was not alone in seeing unusual things. An aerial research group (believed to be NICAP) contacted Townsend to arrange an investigation. The same edition of the newspaper carrying the Hollywood letter printed another next to it accusing the air force of covering up on UFO's.…
The Greatest Flap Yet?—Part III by Jerome Clark IN the first two parts of this account of the UFO events which flooded North America during the late summer months of 1965, I surveyed the scene to the end of August. Before we examine the incidents of September and October, I would like to remind read…
Space Ship on a Minnesota Highway A 19-year-old radio announcer for station KEYL of Long Prairie, Minnesota, James Townsend, was moving west along Highway 27 about four miles east of Long Prairie on October 23, 1965. The time was approximately 7:15 P.M. and, as the young man rounded a curve at a goo…
On October 23, 1965, on Highway 27, four miles east of Long Prairie, Minnesota, 19-year-old radio announcer James Townsend slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting a rocket-like device resting on three fins or legs. As the car skidded to a stop 20 feet from the object, the vehicle's motor and electric…