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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.Scans matching “Repo”828 scans · page 10
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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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…
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 |…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
UFO Sighting Eugene P. Bastard Jr., was cruising on the morning of the 3rd of September at 0100 on Hole. 106 by-pass near Exeter N.H. I noticed an automobile marked on the side of the road and stopped to investigate. I found a woman in the car who turned to investigate. She was standing behind her a…
Mum, Come Quick! There's A Flying Saucer! MYSTERY OF THE FLASHING LIGHTS The residents of Leicester Road, Dinnington, are still talking about what they believe to have been a flying saucer seen going over their rooftops last week. Thirty-five-year-old Mrs. Carl Kalus told me the "Workshop Guardian,"…
reported that a circular, glowing device with a rounded base, which was mounted on the back of a few minutes before, the Bae's radar had been tracking a thirty-foot die that had robbed the automobile of a federal police officer. The officer, who the officer confirmed in a signed statement, said the …
Notes on Lynden, Washington, sighting by Pleickinger, Jan. 12, 1965. (Summary of telephone interview with Donald S. Pleickinger, U. S. Border Patrol, Minot, North Dakota, interviewed August 11, 1967.) Primary reason for contacting Flickinger at time was the Donnybrook sighting and others in his area…
found himself on flat on his back. He told authorities that he saw no one . . . no flash . . . no weapon. But something had struck him a stunning blow that left a gas which required attention. When Flynn regained his senses the object was gone. Flynn's character and integrity were vouched for by man…
New Sightings - continued In December, though many cases were hidden, NCAAP had reports that sightings were increasing. Examples: Dec. 18. At 1 p.m., Dr. Ashley W. Wickrath, McGillian in the National Institute of Health, observed three objects flying west at high speed. "I can not subject to helmets…
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20330 1 March 1967 REPLY TO ATTN OF: AFCCS SUBJECT Impersonations of Air Force Officers ADC | AFSC | HQCOMD USAF | SAC AFCS | ATC | CAC | TAC AFLC | AU | MAC | USAFSS Information, not verifiable, has re…
REPLY TO ATTN OF: AFCCS SUBJECT. Impersonations of Air Force Officers. ADC | AFSC | HQCOMD USAF | SAC AFCS | ATC | CAC | TAC AFLC | AU | MAC | USAFSS Information, not verifiable, has reached Hq USAF that persons claiming to represent the Air Force or other Defense establishments have contacted citiz…
'Flying Saucer Sighted Again BUENOS AIRES (UPI) — An unidentified flying object was spotted Saturday over the Rio Plata, the 28-mile wide river that divides Argentina and Uruguay. Six persons walking on a deserted beach near Colonia, Uruguay, spotted the object. The spotting of the object from Urugu…
November 26, 1965 8217 Ely Avenue Box 261 Gibbon, Minnesota 55335 934 Troop Carrier Group International Airport St. Paul, Minnesota. Information Officer Dear Sir: Indeed please Find a negative of a UFO that I took a picture of on October 21, 1955. Also, my report to the authorities. On October 21, 1…
'Flying Saucer Sighted Again BUENOS AIRES (UPI) — An unidentified flying object was spotted Saturday over the Rio Plata, the 28-mile wide river that divides Argentina and Uruguay. Six persons walking on a deserted beach near Colonia, Uruguay, spotted the object. The spotting of the object from Urugu…
Portugal Clocks Stop; Was It Flying Saucers? LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Strange objects moving through space were reported sighted in two widely separated areas. The Azores Weather Bureau claimed that interference from one stopped its electromagnetic clocks. Descriptions of the objects were strikingly …
Objets mystérieux dans le ciel portugais NEUER (RENEUT), — Des objets mystéritaux ont été apparaît MARIA (Acorus). Les pendules électroniques de laport sont arrêtées à 15 h. 45 (locaux) au moment où passant dans le cel un objet de forme cylindrique rapporte l'ágne L'objet aperçu a-n-desus de Mara-Ma…
From the Arkansas Gazette, August 5, 1965: "UFOs are reported in north Arkansas; cameras catch none" ScanPersons at several places in North Arkansas reported mysterious flying objects Tuesday night but a Fort Smith radio news director and his group, who had camped out to catch the phenomena on film, saw only some meteors and a beautiful sunrise.…
As he sped on the object not only continued to come toward him but seemed to go sideways and keep at the relative position about at right angles to them. Dr. sped on, saying that his thoughts were that "they can't go sideways and keep up with us." The lights got so close that they lit up the interio…
Case Directory Category 2, Close Encounters Preliminary Rating: 5 A Hynek Classification of Close Encounter is usually an incident involving an object less than 500 feet from the witness. The size of the object, viewing conditions, or stereoscopic vision (depth perception) may render the object in g…
They had been coming north on U.S. 80 from Douglas and had just gotten past the small town of Nodeo and quite near a settlement known as Apache. They had just passed a tiny side road which leads to a settlement known as Animas and which is accordinly known as Animas Road, when they saw at about thei…
Here again we need the aid of a psychologist to help evaluate how such a report can get started, and also why they seem audious to report it. If there were no tangible lights present throughout this whole experience, the psychologist has a real job ahead of him to explain how two people can have vir…
DEARBORN OBSERVATORY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY EVANSTON, ILLINOIS 60201 January 19, 1906 Major Hector Quintanilla USAF Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio 45433 Dear Major: This is the second part of my report on my trip to New Mexico. On the day after I visited…