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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.Scans matching “Sightings”294 scans · page 2
Flying Monster In Missouri May Be Bird, Plane or Witch ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 29.—(UP)—Charles Hertenstein, ace trouble shooter for Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann, planned his strategy today for capturing the night-flying "what's-it" that has terrified residents recently. Kaufmann assigned Hertenstein the t…
Freeport Journal-Standard, 7 April 1948: Boone County Farmer Reports Seeing Bird As Big As Airplane ScanBoone County Farmer Reports Seeing Bird As Big As Airplane Caledonia, Ill., April 7.—A Boone county farmer saw "a bird as big as an airplane" yesterday. The farmer, Robert Price, said he saw it. He couldn't have been mistaken. "I knew it was a bird," Price said. "The wings flapped, the neck was outs…
1949 1 - 30 NOVEMBER SIGHTINGS DATE LOCATION 589 2 Unity, New Hampshire 590 16 Oxford, Mississippi (NO CARDS) 571 17 Augusta, Georgia (NO CARDS) 572 18 Raceland, Louisiana 573 18 Biloxi, Mississippi OBSEVER EVALUATION 594 21 Chattanooga, Tennessee (NO CARDS) 595 21 Akita, Lahaina, Japan (NO CARDS) 5…
Daniel Vandervoort I am. this City Pearl line: All these from many are of reason many examples stand bright here for adventuring progression of life different times are shown here picked up on a defect at allitude now 10 000 feet reached are speech of our offspring answer - it is not of Jepay source…
Samuel Vandervort Washington, N.C. Rimelia For today have not whilst month termed on a short town halt to meet you comming on old subject On Oct. 1949 Inked your to committal on object are held dotted over documents. Your name is Clyde Gunnell Henry Stewart with District 051 to committal. Old Clyde …
In Norwood Norwood fiddle singer, reappeared Sunday night, the immediate consequence being a number of stiff necks Monday. The day's first appeared in the 800,000-candlepower search. Paul church six-weeks ago. Some nine reference Sim.…
1950 SIGHTINGS THE CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN AIRLINES-STUTTGART,ARKANSAS SIGHTING EARLY IN 1950, THE UNITED PRESS CARRIED THIS STORY, TOLD THEM BY TWO CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN AIRLINES PILOTS, CAPTAIN JACK ADAMS AND FIRST OFFICER G.W. ANDERSON. THE DATELINE WAS MARCH 21: "WE WERE HEADED FOR LITTLE ROCK, ABOU…
THE FLYING SAUCERS- FACT OR FICTION? By CURTIS FULLER Editor of FLYING When observers as experienced as airline pilots say they've seen strange objects in the sky, they deserve a respectful hearing. THE night of March 31, 1950, was dark and clear. The Chicago and Southern Air Lines DC-3 had taken of…
Flying Saucers (Continued from page 17) of the accounts are more interesting and inexplicable than those described in this article, but we have confined this to only four reports. All involve sightings by airliner crews—in each case by both pilots and copilots. We have confined the descriptions of s…
Category 11 Case Directory SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT Preliminary Rating: 5 AVCAT is a special project being conducted by NICAP, with the help and cooperation of the original compiler of AIRCAT, Dr. Richard Haines, and other sources, to create a comprehensive listing of sightings from aircraft with det…
Arkansas Has Its Share; Pilot Sticks to His Story FROM THE FIRST; Arkansas had its share of flying saucer reports. Often the Arkansas reports have been attributed to "fireballs" or "mystery ball of fires"—sightings that probably can be described as meteors. The Arkansas Gazette of July 9, 1947, for …
Scores Report Seeing Saucers' Flight in Formation Over New Mexico FARMINGTON, N.M., March 17 (U.P.)—A mass flight of flying saucers over this Northwestern New Mexico oil town of 5000 population was reported today by 50 persons, including businessmen and private pilots. Detailed accounts of the fligh…
THE KALISZEWSKI-MOORE STATEMENTS A U.P. DISPATCH, DATELINE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, I 12, 1952, CARRIED THE STATEMENTS OF TWO TOP BALLONLAND EXPERTS. THE STORY WERE LIKE THIS: J.C. KALISZSWEN, SUPERVISOR OF OLAL SPECIAL HIGH PRESS UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS WHILE MAKING TWO SEPARATE AIRPLANE TRIPS OVER MINNEAPOL…
The only information available on this incident is a letter quoted below. TIME: 06:30, 11 Oct 51. Mick Reilly and I were flying at 10,000 ft. observing the grab bag balloon when I saw a brightly glowing object to the S.K. of U. of M. Airport. At that time we were a few miles north of Minneapolis and…
UNCLASSIFIED Appendix VII MINNAPOLIS, MINN. - 11 October 1951 I. DISCUSSION OF INCIDENT The only information available on this incident is a letter quoted below: TIME: 06:30, 11 Oct 51. Dick Reilly and I were flying at 10,000 ft. observing the grab balloon when I saw a brightly glowing object to the…
New development adds to saga of 'Lubbock Lights' phenomena By Jeff South Update Staff Writer The mystery of the "Lubbock Lights," a V-shaped string of illuminated objects which flew over the muo city 26 years ago, is now more baffling than ever. In the latest development, computer-assisted scientist…
Is It Real Thing? Air Force Checks 'Saucer' Photo GEN. JOHN A. SAMFORD Not sold on saucers. Bucks Lead Bums Picture Taken By Coast Guard Other saucer stories on Page 5. WASHINGTON, July 30—The Air Force is checking the authenticity of a photograph which purports to show five flying saucers in format…
BARNES THEN STATES: 'BEFORE NOTIFYING THE AIR FORCE...OUR TECHNICIANS HAD CAREFULLY CHECKED THE EQUIPMENT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT IT WAS OPERATING PERFECTLY...' "THERE IS NO OTHER CONCLUSION I CAN REACH BUT THAT FOR SIX HOURS ON THE MORNING OF THE 20TH OF JULY THEY WASHINGTON, THEY WERE NOT ORDINARY AI…
LES « SOUCOUPES » NE TIENDRAIENT... QU'A UN FIL OLORON. — II y avait un che veu! ... II y en avait même plu- sieurs autour de ces soucoupes d'Oloron plient avoir aperqués dans le celé de leur région. Ces soucoupes aurient été conduites par un « cl igare volant » et aurient la laché à passage une gra…
CONFIDENTIAL 100 DD 11 2016 DETAILS: SECURITY INFORMATION 1. Investigation requested by Commander, Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, upon receipt of information that an unidentified Aerial Object had been sighted at Brush Creek, Butte County, California, on 20 May and 20…
DETAILS: (Conta) INFORMATION some of the reporting sighting on 20 July 1953, to be on hand in the event the said miners reported another sighting. CHRISTENSMEN further stated that through news medium, many people have read of the previous sightings and it is expected that a large number of sightseer…
MAY 1953 SIGHTINGS DATE LOCATION Goose AFB, Labrador 130 M1 SW Goose AFB, Labrador Harmon AFB, Newfoundland Harmon AFB, Newfoundland France (France) DeBeaufort Tehran, Iran Seattle, Renton, Washington Dayton, Omaha Omaha, Omaha Elsiniki, Finland Stockholm, Sweden Ojibwa, Wisconsin Inycken, Californi…
and Wolfer wasn't sure how he'd get back to civilization. Standing next to Wolfer was Eric Mayell, of San Francisco, a cameraman for United Press Movietone films. Mayell was the most faithful skywatcher of them all. Not once during the afternoon did he leave his post. His eyes were glued t…
Flying Saucers Descend Flying Sauce On Europe By A STAFF CORRESPONDENT IN LONDON The flood of reports about flying saucers which came out of Europe last week has no precedent. Every country has seen them—from Asia Minor around through the Mediterranean as far up as Scandinavia. THE reports vary from…
Preliminary Rating: 0 A | Aythyck Classification of Distant Encounter is usually an instance involving an object more than 500 feet from the witness. A night is a light as a "nocturnal light" (NL) and during the day as a "daylight" (Dl) size. The object or the viewing condition may render the object…
1. There were four other sightings of this object at OAK RIDGE (CUNY) and ENN. The object was distributed to be filled on the ground. They stated that the object had to be cleared by AEC security personnel before they could be forwarded. It was understood that this would involve a minimum delay. OAK…
- FIRST SIGHTING ON RADAR - FIRST MOVEMENT AND STOPPING PLACE SEEN ON RADAR INTERCEPT POINT BY RAF INTERCEPTOR - POINT ALSO AT WHICH RAF PILOT REPORTED RADAR GUNSIGHT LOCKED ON UFO…
Air Force Set To Study3 of 46 'Objects' Associated Press The. North American Air Defense Command at. the U.S. Air Force ported, yesterday it, had received 46 reports of unidentified, objects from throughout the Nation but only three, including one" from Kearney, studying a fighter jet stud. Capk: An…
AS, NEW MEXICO Nov. 5 (P)—lights were seen over other parts reported seeing of Texas, near Chicago and in egg-shaped ob- Virginia. Nov 5 GP—1 reported seeing egg-shaped obd autos in New at about the Air Force started into similar re- mystery object the countryside identific military texico over the …
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ADDITIONAL REPORTED SIGHTINGS (NOT CASES) DATE | LOCATION | SOURCE | EVALUATION Oct | Universe | Science News Ltr | Oct | South Iee, Massachusetts | Newsclipping | Late Oct | Fiji Island | Newsclipping | 15 | Pernardville, New Jersey | Newsclipping | 18 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Newsclipping | 19 |…
Dazzling Flying Object Sighted in Fiji Islands HONOLULU (UF) — The FIJI government, in a report received here Monday, said a white clergyman and four natives reported nigritism in Pacific skies which generally matched the description of an unidentified object reported in Texas. The report issued fro…
NOVEMBER 5, 1957 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES ARMY SIGHTS BRIGHT MYSTERY OBJECT Hovers Over Hovers Over New Mexico Testing Site Patrol Reports Phenomena Landed Near Old Bunker Where First A-Bomb Fired…
Mystery Object Seen Near Atom Bomb Site WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND, N. M. UP] — The Army yesterday reported that a huge, oval object "nearly as bright as the sun" was spotted Sunday hovering near bunkers used in the first atomic bomb explosion. The sightings were made 17 hours apart by two different…