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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 77
dence right there in black and white. I got to the front of my car and stopped, with no further interest in going any further, because three little "creatures" came from around behind and stood in front of the object. I think that they were looking at me. I can not be sure because I did not see any …
Long Prairie (Minnesota). James Townsend, 19, was driving on Highway 27 when his engine, lights, and radio stopped operating. He then observed an object 10 m tall, about 3 m in diameter, shaped somewhat like a rocket, sitting on fins on the road. Three creatures with "tripod legs and matchstick arms…
UFO OCCUPANTS IN THE UNITED STATES you very much—why did you stay away too long.' Other markings were not decoded. It has been hypothesized that if the landing and 'contact' are real, it was a deliberate attempt to mislead humans, the paper and its message being a hoax by the 'spaceman'. Townsend's …
BEINGS LIKE BEER CANS TYPE: Close encounter of the third kind PLACE: Long Prairie, Minnesota, USA DATE: 23 October 1965 Most bizarre of all the perceived occupants of UFOs have been the so-called robot figures, and possibly the weirdest of all was reported by Jerry Townsend, a radio station employee…
presented in a straightforward manner by several news media. Many Minnesotans were in no hurry to discount the story without examining it. UFO sightings were numerous in that state all fall, especially during August. The Minneapolis Star reported on the night of August 2, 1965, "nearly every one of …
The tall rocket in the road looked as if it might be $ \alpha $ push over —but not the tin-can-like creatures who rushed up to defend it. ROBOTS or creatures shaped like tin cans with arms and tripod legs, appearing to be "flesh or tissue, not metal," is the latest development in the incredible UFO …
1643. | | Oct.23,1965.4 miles from Long Prairie,Minn.7:15 p.m. Radio announcer James F.Townsend driving W on State Hwy27 found road blocked by landed silver rocket-shaped object about30-40ft tall,10ft wide,after his car engine,lights and radio died,and he coasted to a stop about20ft away.He got out …
described their movements to be more like creatures than robots. Townsend had no idea how long he and the objects confronted each other, but he said it "seemed like forever." Then he retreated to his car, and the little can-like beings moved back toward their rocket. They disappeared in the brillian…
acted immediately. Although Townsend was reluctant to go, Sheriff Bain and Lubitz convinced him that he should take them to the spot where he had seen the strange craft. After driving out to the spot, all three of the men simultaneously observed a peculiar orange light moving in the northern sky. Lu…
Dear Sirs: Perhaps it would be better if I gave you a detailed description of the U-F-O that I saw and you would be better able to understand it than if I answered this questionnaire. I was driving west when I went around a bend in the road and my car engine stopped running and my headlights went of…
I include this next Blue Book case because it contains several elements that have recurred in many CE-IIIIs. On October 23, 1965, a radio announcer, of good reputation, was driving toward Long Prairie, a community west of Minneapolis. When he was just four miles from town, in rolling hill country, h…
passed across the sky from north-west to southeast. He told his parents about it, but they said nothing until after the Long Prairie encounter had been publicised and they saw its significance. Three youths hunting coons near where Townsend was confronted told the sheriff that they had seen "a light…
now. I used what I hope was common sense. I felt if they could stop my car like they did they could surly do something worse to me and I wanted to live to tell this story so the people of the United States would know that there were things of this nature. I will tell you right now that I think you a…
35. Information which you feel pertinent and which is not adequately covered in the specific points of the questionnaire or a narrative explanation of your sighting. Perhaps it would be better if I gave you a detailed description of the U-F-O that I saw and you would be better able to understand it …
HUMCAT case 65-65 ScanJames F. Townsend (19) was driving outside Long Prairie when his engine failed and his headlights went out. 20 ft ahead, in the middle of the road, was a metallic rocket-shaped object illuminated "as bright as the sunlight," 30-40 ft high, and standing an leg-like fins about 10 ft wide. He got out o…
Space 'Things' Stop His Car ★ ★ ★ ★ Looked Like Cans, Youth Says By PAUL PRESBREY Minneapolis Star Staff Writer LONG PRAIRIE, Minn. "I was going to knock one over and try to grab it, but then I got scared." That's why James Townsend, 19, radio announcer for radio station KEYL in Long Prairie, didn't…
WEIRD SIGHTING OF SIX-INCH-TALL CREATURES IN MINNESOTA: At about 7:15 on October 23rd, a 19-year-old radio announcer from Long Prairie, Minnesota, was driving along a country road near his home town when he saw an upright, rocket-shaped object straddling the road. It was 30 to 40 feet high and about…
back towards the car." The, things "scurried" into the light under the rocket. The light built up and a humming noise developed that hurt Mr. Townsend's ear drums. The ship resembled a glowing flashlight as it took off, lighting up the area "as bright as day." When it was airborne the light in the b…
1. DATE · TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION 9 December 65 09/2115Z | Indiana, Ohio Penna, Michigan, Canada 3. SOURCE Civilians (MULTIPLE) | 10. CONCLUSION Astro (NETEOR) 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Seconds | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS SEE CASE FILE 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visu…
MT. AIRY, MARYLAND 8 MARCH 1965 At approximately 1940 EST an observer and his son came out of a barn and noticed six red lights estimated to be about 1200 feet from the observer moving at a speed of about twenty miles per hour, toward the NE. The lights appeared as three pair of lights, actually lik…
Au Chili DEUX "SOUCOUPES VOLANTES" APERÇUES PAR DES CENTAINES DE PERSONNES SANTIAGO DU CHILI (AFP), - Deux ont été aperqu par des centaines de person- nes en deux points éloignés du Chili. A Valparaiso, jouraux et stations de radio ont ete assallis de coups de téléphone emanent de dizaines de temtom…
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE QUEENSLAND FLYING SAUCER RESEARCH BUREAU Newsletter of the QUEENSLAND U, F, O, RESEARCH BUREAU P, O, Box 111, North Quay, Brisbane, Qld, Australia 4000 EDITURIAL live in lines of change and they are not all good ones. Severely, they are not all good ones. We THE AUSTRALIAN FLYI…
A PROBING CONVERSATION WITH A UFO CONTACTEE By Harold D. Salkin (The author has had more than 20 years' experience investigating UFO cases. Specializing in reports of UFO landings and contacts, he has gathered a wealth of material on this aspect of the flying saucer enigma. A trained journalist, for…
24 - JANUARY 1969 SIGHTINGS 104 Alaska Flip British Columbia Idaho, Oregon Montana, Wyoming Air Via NW of Anschorage Takataku, Liberau, Cape Brownhill, Indian Mountain Pt. Tukun Kakaovel, Va Kimid, Va Koler, Va b Kobe, Va Doyton, Ohio Plum Tree lindale, Va Eau Bonch, Hawaii (Oahu) Alawalda, Va Haupt…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette clipping of 21 July 1965 carrying the AP wire story on the Canberra sighting ScanAre They Weather Balloons or . . . Something Else? 'Things' in Sky Alarm Many By JERRY BUCK Associated Press Staff Writer NEW YORK, July 20 -- Some people around the world say they are seeing more in summer skies than buzzing insects and birds on the wing. From Antarctica to England come reports of …
