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  Fred Merritt article, International UFO Reporter 28(3), p. 10 Scan

  IUR / CUFOS ·from Mount Mitchell State Park Boy Scout Sighting (1966)

  June 18-19, 1966 (0000 to 0500), Mount Mitchell, North Carolina. Four Boy Scouts saw three pulsating red lights approach and hover for five hours over the trail, 180 meters from their camp. Lights blinked at different speeds, with the center one turning white every fifth pulsation. At sunrise, the o…

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  Project Blue Book case file, page 8 Scan

  USAF / National Archives ·from Mount Mitchell State Park Boy Scout Sighting (1966)

  34. Date you completed this questionnaire: 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. There were 3 miles, about 5 feet apart in triangular shape, on the ground. The undergrowth …

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  Project Blue Book case file, page 15 Scan

  USAF / National Archives ·from Mount Mitchell State Park Boy Scout Sighting (1966)

  Contact was made with the witness or. Observer reported seeing an object with blinking red lights come up the trail. The trail was about 15 feet in width. The object hovered above the trail and moved from side to side and was there for about 20 minutes before settling to the ground. It was about 3 o…

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  Project Blue Book case file, page 12 Scan

  USAF / National Archives ·from Mount Mitchell State Park Boy Scout Sighting (1966)

  14. Did the object disappear while you were watching it? If so, how? 15. Did the object move behind something at any time, particularly a cloud? (Circle One): Yes No Don't Know. IF you answered YES, then tell what it moved behind: 16. Did the object move in front of something at any time, parti…

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  Passport to Magonia, case 776 Scan

  Jacques Vallée ·from Mount Mitchell State Park Boy Scout Sighting (1966)

  June 18,1966 Mount Mitchell (North Carolina). Four campers saw an object with three flashing red lights land on the ground 200 m away. It remained there all night, rose at dawn, was then observed through binoculars as a red-colored, bell-shaped craft. Broken trees and other traces were found. (Atic)…

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  Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1681 Scan

  Brad Sparks ·from Mount Mitchell State Park Boy Scout Sighting (1966)

  1681. | 10663 | June 18, 1966. Burnsville-Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina. 12:30 a.m. 4 Boy Scout campers, including Sterrett, using binoculars saw a red bell-shaped object with 3 flashing red lights hover then land 700 ft away, remaining all night, joined by 6 other objects, then rose at dawn. Broken …

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  Scenery of Mount Mitchell State Park Scan

  from Mount Mitchell State Park Boy Scout Sighting (1966)
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  PC Colin Perks's own sketch of the object, from his 1966 report Scan

  The National Archives, AIR 2/17983 (Crown copyright) ·from PC Colin Perks's Wilmslow Sighting (1966)
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  Diagram from the Wilmslow police officer's three-page report, from the national UFO archives Scan

  The National Archives (Crown copyright), via Sheffield Hallam University ·from PC Colin Perks's Wilmslow Sighting (1966)
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  Header image of Nick Redfern's article "A British Socorro?" Scan

  The UFO Chronicles ·from PC Colin Perks's Wilmslow Sighting (1966)
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  Zanesville barber Ralph Ditter points to the object in one of his prints Scan

  Bettmann/Contributor, Getty Images ·from Ralph Ditter's Zanesville Saucer Polaroids (1966)
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  Untitled image accompanying the 2025 article, likely illustration or later coverage Scan

  from Richmond-Henrico Turnpike Police Chase, Patrolman William L. Stevens Jr. (1966) (1966)
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  Patrolman William L. Stevens Jr. Scan

  from Richmond-Henrico Turnpike Police Chase, Patrolman William L. Stevens Jr. (1966) (1966)
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  The house on East Drive (modern photo) Scan

  Rue Morgue ·from The Black Monk of Pontefract: the Pritchard family poltergeist "Fred" (1966)
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  Exterior of 30 East Drive, Pontefract (modern photo) Scan

  Rue Morgue ·from The Black Monk of Pontefract: the Pritchard family poltergeist "Fred" (1966)
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  Cover of the Scared Sacred hardback edition Scan

  Rue Morgue ·from The Black Monk of Pontefract: the Pritchard family poltergeist "Fred" (1966)
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  Poster for the 2012 film When the Lights Went Out Scan

  Rue Morgue ·from The Black Monk of Pontefract: the Pritchard family poltergeist "Fred" (1966)

  RELANCE ENTERTAINMENT, STARLIGHT FILM PARTNERS AND SOLAR FILM PARTNERS PRESENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH KNIPTON PICTURES, BENT NAIL AND BIL BUNGAV, A FILM BY PAT HOLDEN. KATE ASHFIELD, STEVEN WADINGTON, 'WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT', A DEEPAK NAYAR AND BIL BUNGAV PRODUCTION, CRAIG PARKINSON, ANDREA LOWE, MA…

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  Image from the Rue Morgue article, contents unknown Scan

  Rue Morgue ·from The Black Monk of Pontefract: the Pritchard family poltergeist "Fred" (1966)
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  The Goldsboro News-Argus item "Fishermen Spot UFOs Along Coast," 26 September 1966. Scan

  Goldsboro News-Argus, 1966, via Patrick Gross ·from The Bogue Inlet Fishermen's Three Red Lights (1966)
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  La Montagne clipping of 19 January 1966, page 14, reporting the Bolazec encounter Scan

  La Montagne, via Patrick Gross's archive ·from The Bolazec Low-Flying Craft (Eugène Coquil) (1966)

  Un jeune Breton affirme : "J'AI VU UNE SOUCOUPE VOLANTE" BREST — Un laune menusilier de Bolaezac, pastit bourg siluie au sud-st de Morlalk, à la limite du Finistère et at des Côtes-d'Armor, à la mer des evolutions d'une soucoupe volante dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche, celle-ci étant venue se pose…

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  Figure from the Metabunk thread (exact content unconfirmed) Scan

  Posted by Charlie Wiser, Metabunk ·from The Burkes Flat Bent Headlight Beams, Victoria, 1966 (1966)
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  Figure from the Metabunk thread (exact content unconfirmed) Scan

  Posted by Charlie Wiser, Metabunk ·from The Burkes Flat Bent Headlight Beams, Victoria, 1966 (1966)
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  Figure from the Metabunk thread (exact content unconfirmed) Scan

  Posted by Charlie Wiser, Metabunk ·from The Burkes Flat Bent Headlight Beams, Victoria, 1966 (1966)
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  Figure from the Metabunk thread (exact content unconfirmed) Scan

  Posted by Charlie Wiser, Metabunk ·from The Burkes Flat Bent Headlight Beams, Victoria, 1966 (1966)
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  Figure from the Metabunk thread (exact content unconfirmed) Scan

  Posted by Charlie Wiser, Metabunk ·from The Burkes Flat Bent Headlight Beams, Victoria, 1966 (1966)

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  Figure from the Metabunk thread (exact content unconfirmed) Scan

  Posted by Charlie Wiser, Metabunk ·from The Burkes Flat Bent Headlight Beams, Victoria, 1966 (1966)

  The Melbourne Age Apr 12, 1966, p.6 "Saucer" not death cause Police do not believe there is any connection between a fatal accident near Maryborough on Thursday night and a reported flying saucer sighting at the same spot four days earlier. * Page 2—The Sun, Tuesday, April 12, 1966 Did a light lure …

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  Figure from the Metabunk thread (maps, 1966 newspaper photo, plaque, drawing or tower; exact content unconfirmed) Scan

  Posted by Charlie Wiser, Metabunk ·from The Burkes Flat Bent Headlight Beams, Victoria, 1966 (1966)
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  Physicist Edward U. Condon, director of the University of Colorado UFO study. Scan

  National Institute of Standards and Technology ·from The Condon Report and the NAS Review, 1966 to 1969 (1966)
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  Prof. Condon papers on the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects. Scan

  University of Colorado Boulder Libraries ·from The Condon Report and the NAS Review, 1966 to 1969 (1966)
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  Illustrative header photo, not from the event Scan

  Jason Carpenter on Flickr ·from The Cook County and Finland AFS Sighting, Grand Marais, Minnesota (1966)
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  Ade Toftey Scan

  WTIP / Cook County Historical Society ·from The Cook County and Finland AFS Sighting, Grand Marais, Minnesota (1966)
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  Dr. James McDonald Scan

  WTIP ·from The Cook County and Finland AFS Sighting, Grand Marais, Minnesota (1966)
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  Loren Leng and Ade Toftey (right), 1960s Scan

  WTIP / Cook County Historical Society ·from The Cook County and Finland AFS Sighting, Grand Marais, Minnesota (1966)
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  A copy of A Fighting Chance by John Ridgway and Chay Blyth Scan

  Anna Iltnere / Sea Library ·from The English Rose III Sea Serpent: John Ridgway's Night Encounter in the North Atlantic (1966)
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  Close-up of the memorial plaque at Kilronan Scan

  Aran Islander ·from The English Rose III Sea Serpent: John Ridgway's Night Encounter in the North Atlantic (1966)
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  A copy of A Fighting Chance by John Ridgway and Chay Blyth Scan

  Anna Iltnere / Sea Library ·from The English Rose III Sea Serpent: John Ridgway's Night Encounter in the North Atlantic (1966)
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  Memorial plaques at Kilronan harbour Scan

  Aran Islander ·from The English Rose III Sea Serpent: John Ridgway's Night Encounter in the North Atlantic (1966)
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  Cork Examiner clipping of 29 January 1966: "Strange object in sky over West Cork" Scan

  Cork Examiner, via Patrick Gross ·from The Eyeries Groaning Half-Moon Object (1966)

  STRANGE OBJECT IN SKY OVER WEST CORK While returning from night class at Castetownhere Vocational School about 10 o'clock on Wednesday night, Mr. Jerome McCarthy, Clash, Eyeries, saw a dazzling object in the sky about a half-mile and a half-mile, it was about three feet long and a groaning sound was…

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  Landing site photo 1, presumably showing the impressions Scan

  uapdiscovery forum (jeffknox) ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)
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  North Dakota Air National Guard UFO Report, page 4 Scan

  NDANG, via uapdiscovery forum ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)

  No aircraft, experimental or operational, is known at this station which would account for such impressions that were left in the field or, assuming the observer's story to be valid, would account for the flight path or appearance. The possibility exists that the impressions could have been made by …

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  Witness sketch of the object, from Keyhoe and Lore's Strange Effects from UFOs Scan

  uapdiscovery forum (jeffknox) ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)
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  North Dakota Air National Guard UFO Report (Gwinner, North Dakota), page 1, 25 September 1966 Scan

  NDANG, via uapdiscovery forum ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)

  ASSISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL FOR AIR NORTH DAKOTA AIR NATIONAL GUARD Box 5536 State University Station Fargo, North Dakota 58103 REPLY TO ATTN OF: ND-AAG .25 September 1966 SUBJECT: Report of UFO Sighting 538- 2203 TO: AFSC (FTD) 1. A report of UFO sighting is submitted in compliance with AFR 200-2, p…

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  Landing site photo 4, presumably showing the impressions Scan

  uapdiscovery forum (jeffknox) ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)
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  Landing site photo 2, presumably showing the impressions Scan

  uapdiscovery forum (jeffknox) ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)
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  Huron Daily Plainsman, 18 September 1966, page 6 Scan

  Huron Daily Plainsman, via uapdiscovery forum ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)

  Boy, 11, Sees 'Flying Saucer' Land; Finds 3 Mysterious Holes In Field GWINNER, N. D. (AP) Gwinner farmer Emanuel Rolenberger wonders what made those three mysterious holes in his field. So do a lot of other people. Rotenberger's 11-year-old son, Randy, says he saw a "flying saucer or something" land…

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  Evaluation of Depressions Found in Fallowed Field Scan

  uapdiscovery forum (jeffknox) ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)

  DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE AIR FORCE FLIGHT DYNAMICS LABORATORY (AFSC) WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO 45433 REPLY TO ATTN OF: FDFM/R. J. Parker/55027 26 October 1966 SUBJECT: Evaluation of Depressions Found in Fallowed Field Near Gwinner, North Dakota in Connection with Reported UFO Sighting…

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  Landing site photo 3, presumably showing the impressions Scan

  uapdiscovery forum (jeffknox) ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)
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  North Dakota Air National Guard UFO Report, page 2 Scan

  NDANG, via uapdiscovery forum ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)

  c. (1) Ground-visual. (2) Optical-aid -- Telescope mounted on rifle. (3) N/A. d. (1) 1313152 September 1966. (2) Day. e. Ten (10) miles west, two (2) miles north of Gwinner, North Dakota. f. (1) Randy Rotenberger, ll, Gwinner, North Dakota. Reliability considered excellent for age of observer. (2) N…

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  North Dakota Air National Guard UFO Report, page 3 Scan

  NDANG, via uapdiscovery forum ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)

  in the field. He suggested that someone be sent out to observe the tracks and possibly explain them. At 2130Z, Brig Gen Homer G. Goebel, Lt Col Thomas E. Marking, Capt Edward A. Skroch and MSgt Everett E. Brust arrived at the scene of the reported sighting. At the point where the observer said the o…

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  Project Blue Book case card, Gwinner, North Dakota, 13 September 1966 Scan

  Project Blue Book, via uapdiscovery forum ·from The Gwinner Landing: A Boy, a Silver Disc and Three Holes in the Field (1966)

  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION 13 Sept. 66 1315Z | Gwinner, North Dakota one witness 8. SOURCE Civilian | 10. CONCLUSION Unidentified 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5 minutes | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Observer noted elliptical shaped object with a glass bubble protrudin…