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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 “ESO”141 scans · page 2
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…
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…
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Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 19 November 1966: "That Mothman: Would You Believe a Sandhill Crane?" ScanThat Mothman: Would You Believe A Sandhill Crane? By RALPH TURNER The case of the Mason County monster may have been solved Friday by a West Virginia University professor. Dr. Robert L. Smith associate professor of wildlife biology in WVU's division of forestry, told are powerful fliers they cannot …
988279 POLICE DEPARTMENT WESTERN AUSTRALIA FILE No. 642855 DINARY HOSPICE 1910 C. A. SUBJECT: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT MIDDLE SCHOOL An胶印纸 Files | DISPOSAL ACTION Resolution Distribution Reference Previous Papers | Further Papers INDEXED OTHER DEPARTMENTS FILES | RELEVANT FILES…
EN SAN BERNARDINO Un Marciano Un estudiante de 20 años de edad, sostiene hacer visto un marciano en su dormitorio, el cual huyó luego por la venta na y se desplazó en un plástilo volador. Se trata de Pedro Hiera exhibida de conter queso en el cuadro de la avena "Avila" de "San Bernardino", plena, qu…
La Punta Arenas Arenas horizontales guarda que la altura del mismo. Donta acercar en el fregata al oveja en la parte superior. Al levantar la pista al ángulo de la altura del mismo en la tilt, el fregata acercará anterior —nacimiento de un DIVA— en un altitud medio—he acercado en el oveja pesada con…
At once qu'il faut bien préciser que l'on doit être au moins un nombre de données destinées à un appel au service. - Il ne convient au microcontrôleur que de la fois que les données de l'appel au service de Christophe Argenton, une autre expérience que le bouché vous avez fait, vous avez fait en la …
Llegan más testimonios sobre objetos voladores Informa la Prefectura Marítima En horas de la tarde de sayer pudieron conocerse varias comunicaciones dirigidas a la Prefectura Nacional. Martina por decodencias de esa institu- ción del interior c1 pals. La Subrefectura de Santo Tomé informa que entre …
1968 En julio de ese año Olavaria fue el centro de extraños sucesos, entre los cuales se dio que personal del regimiento local disparo contra extraterrestres. El suceso reflejado en la enciclopedia española "Ciclope". El tiroteo habria ocurred en el Regimiento de Caballería de Tanques "C-2". Más tar…
Other witnesses ScanOtros testigos del paso de los platos voladores CONDUCIDOS A VOLUNTAD TRES DESERTARON DE LA FLOTILLA Y SOBREVOLARON EL AUTODROMO ZONDINO El cruce de la flotilla de OVNIS por Son Juan ha provocado los más diversos comentarios relacionados por su procedencia y destino, sin dejar escapar si existe o no…
len astronomía que compone la trapeción del "Apollo 8" en un espacio de prensa de recibir aquen en el Centro Estadio de Hospicio, Entudio Incluid. De la aparición de a mano el mayor de la Parmara Aeros William A. Ayars el ejemplar de la James A. Lonell y el mayor de la Parmara Aeros Jarn Ravenson. A…
Un OVNI por el planeta Tierra y piloto Tiviroli: Resignarse a creer. Los argentinos y sus platos voladores "Si no tuviera tanto respeto por los chinos diría que te traje de un almuerzo de los chinos y que no te respete de Relaciones Exteriores, Nicanor Costa Mendez. El chiste del Canciller el lunes …
EL PUEBLO GALLEGO franqueo Concertado n2 351/3 OVNIA 37 KMS. DE VIGO «E RAN las tres de la madrugada de hoy, miércoles. Lo recuerdo perfectamente porque lo primero que hice al saltar de la cama impulsado por un insoportable calor, fue fijarme en las manecillas fosforescentes de mi reloj. Los tres pe…