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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 “disappeared”106 scans · page 2
UFO Sightings in Hawthorne Confirmed By Area Residents; Drop Bergen Theory By PHILIP J. DEL VECCHIO News Science Writer Reports confirming the sightings by Hawthorne police and residents of that borough of an Unidentified Flying Object are being investigated, indicating that perhaps the mysterious U…
Call to K, NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan; home phone: office: Northern Air Service, area code Dr J Allen Reynek spoke with him on 13 May 65 regarding his observation of 17 Jul 64. was coming back from straits, South of Kulton Lake, heading 220 deg, flying at altitude of 4500 ft. Out of my eye to the le…
1. DATE·TIME GROUP 26 July 64 17/0415Z | 2. LOCATION 15 Mi S Houghton Lake, Michigan 3. SOURCE Commercial Airlines Pilot | 10. CONCLUSION UNIDENTIFIED 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Six 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5 Minutes | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Six white lights in formation of stepped up echelon to l…
Memo from Lt. Col. Warren J. Lane, 30th Air Division, recording the telephone report of 7 April 1964 ScanCHCCR CHODC CHCVC 30 Air Div (30-CIO) 1. At approximately 1515 hours, 7 April 1964, I took a telephone report from a male individual who identified himself as Mr. Argyle, Wisconsin. He further declared himself a Major, US Marine Corps, Retired. Mr. sounded entirely sober, rational and calm. He state…
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 1. DATE 3 Apr XX 64 | 2. LOCATION Monticello, Wisconsin | 12. CONCLUSIONS □ Was Balloon □ Probably Balloon □ Possibly Balloon □ Was Aircraft □ Probably Aircraft □ Possibly Aircraft □ Was Astronomical □ Probably Astronomical □ Possibly Astronomical □ Other UNIDENTIFIED □ Ins…
3 APRIL 1964 Observers were leaving Monticello and heading westward on County C Road toward the town of Argyle when at about 2100, they noticed two red blinkers in about the ll o'clock position from the observers location. Their first reaction was that an accident had occurred and that there were po…
He said it was very close to the car, so close that he had to look at a sharp angle upward through the windshield to see it, he had started up the car again and at this time object apparently took off at a high fantastic rate of speed. In any case he lost sight of it. Phase Three: He took off West i…
1. DATE-- TIME GROUP 26 May 1964 27/0400Z | 2. LOCATION Pleasantville, Pennsylvania 3. SOURCE Civilian | 10. CONCLUSION UNIDENTIFIED Case not resolved as conventional object or phenomena. Carried as UNIDENTIFIED. 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Varied | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYS…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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,"…
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…
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…
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…
'UFOs' Stir Populace Of South Central Part Of South Dakota PIRERE (AF) — Strange lights in the sky and a sound "like a car on a gravel road" touched off a wave of interest in flying saucers in central South Dakota Monday night. Law officers wouldn't go so far as to say the objects appeared to be fly…
'SAUCER' REPORTED IN NORTHERN JERSEY WANAQUE, N. J. Oct. 11 (AP)—Residents and policemen said they saw a brilliant unidentified object flying above Wanaque Reservoir last night. They described the object an saucer-shaped, about the size of an automobile and glowing with a white brilliant light. The …
Ann Arbor News, February 17, 1983: Dexter man's passing recalls UFO sighting ScanDexter man's passing recalls UFO sighting By WILLIAM B. TREML NEWS STAFF REPORTER FEB1719 The death this week of Frank E. Mannor of Dexter Township recalled for many in Washtenaw County a series of bizarre "Unidentified Flying Object" episodes which occurred 17 years ago and which have never been fu…
Ann Arbor News, March 28, 1966: Sightings Of UFOs Continue ScanSightings Of UFOs Continue Washtenaw County's "flying saucers"—which the U. S. Air Force writes off as swamp gas or stars—were back in force over the weekend. Sheriff's deputies and city police reported they processed 11 reports of unidentified flying objects over the area Saturday night, yesterday …
Local Deputy's 'Saucer' Pictures These pictures of flying objects were made about 15 miles southeast of Ann Arbor by Sheriff's Deputy David York. The picture at left was made at 5:30 a.m. The picture at right was from the same location 45 minutes later. 'Saucer' Pictures Intrigue Nation Washtenaw Co…
Dear Sirs: I wish to report the sighting of several Unidentified Flying Objects. On June 18, my Scoutmaster and six Scouts including myself went back-packing on a mountain near Mount Mitchell, N. C. That night it rained and two boys got wet. My Scoutmaster took them down the mountain to a shelter so…
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…
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…
Huron Daily Plainsman, 18 September 1966, page 6 ScanBoy, 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…
Sighting Of UFO Reported PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (UPI) PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (UPI) Three policemen and a newspaper photographer early today reported sighting an unidentified flying object shaped like a giant hot dog hovering over this eastern Long Island town. blinking lights. It hovered without moving for about …
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO) INFORMATION SHEET 1. Answers to the following questions will be obtained from persons calling in regard to the observance of an unidentified flying object (UFO). If person refuses to give answers to 3a, do not complete report. 2. Complete Information Sheet in duplic…
INVESTIGATION: I contacted Mr. Kenneth R. Gulley of Nederland, Texas, by telephone (RA2-0728) this date to discuss the UFO which he allegedly saw at 0545 hours, 6 Feb 66. The following is a description of the events as they happened and as described by Mr. Gulley to the best of his recollection. On …
Sighting Of UFO Reported PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (UPI) PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (UPI) Three policemen and a newspaper photographer early today reported sighting an unidentified flying object shaped like a giant hot dog hovering over this eastern Long Island town. blinking lights. It hovered without moving for about …
Belt UFO Authenticity Stirs Lively Argument Although unidentified flying object sightings appear to be tapering off the controversy over a Belt area sighting on Good Friday night boils on with residents taking opposite views. Some, like Belt Postmaster Robert Williamson, think the UFO is a yard ligh…
DIVISION | DATE | RCMP FILE REFERENCES REF DOSSIERS GRC. H | 7 OCT 67 | SUB DIVISION. SOUS DIVISION HALIFAX | 67-400-23-X DETACHMENT DÉTACHEMENT LUNENBURG | 1. On this date a request was received from the Halifax Sub-Division Section N.C.O., via XJD 84, to contact Capt. Leo Howard MERSEY, of the M/V…
The Flying Thing leaves two constables baffled Left: A painting of The Thing. Right: the two constables who chased it at 90 m.p.h. FROM JULIAN MOUNTER BRISTOL: Oct. 24 The North Devon "Thing" revealed itself to two police constables in the bitterly cold and dark two night hours of this morning. It "…
Ghostly walks in Highgate SOME NIGHTS I walk houthe past the gates of Highgate Cemetery. On three occasions I have seen what appeared to be a ghost-like figure inside the gates at the top of Swains Lane. The first occasion was on Christmas Eve. I saw a grey figure for a few seconds before it disappe…
Werewolf Case In Defiance Not Viewed Lightly By Police Chief Cites Concern Over Reported Sightings Of Large Beast, Attack By JAMES STEGALL Blade Staff Writer DEFIANCE, O. — Some people here are jokingly referring to it as the case of the werewolf. But Defiance police are serious about it Three perso…
The 'Coromandel Man' mystifies New Zealand AUCKLAND, Tuesday. NEW ZEALAND is mystified by the story of the Coromandel man—a mysterious, elusive, strange, hairy creature lurking in a dense forest, only 48 miles from here. Everybody in New Zealand is guessing what the creature in the wild bush country…
Local Bigfoot steered clear of teen-agers Recently I received a letter from Mark Opsanick of Greenbelt, who's compiling a list of Maryland Bigfoot sightings for The Info Journal, a publication devoted to the weird and the uncanny. For those of you not in the know about Bigfoot or, as the American In…
L4 report visual, K3 reports target at 300 feet altitude and L4 reports target at 5 miles. Contact lost at 0820Z. F-106s returned to base at 0850Z with negative results. 0905Z Great Falls radar search and height had intermittent contact. 0910Z SAC teams again had visual (Site C-1, 10 miles SE Stanfo…
cuts for well-decorated cake, Three Sightings of UFO Reported Two Poland persons, David Stephens and Glenn Gray, reported to the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Department Monday morning the sighting of some UFOs in the Poland Spring area between 3 and 5 a.m. and, in turn, the ASO referred the reports…
THE OFFICIAL MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE CLEARINGHOUSE FOR U.F.O. NEWS AND INFORMATION DIRECT REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED © CUFONI NUMBER 90 OCTOBER 1976 Objects Visible Near Pt. Austin AF Confirms 'Radar Returns' On Night Of UFO Sightings Official confirmation of "radar returns" on the scopes at the 754…
Right: Graphic reconstruction, based on Rivo Faralli's description of the UFO and entities as seen from his car. Below right: The marks on the carriageway of the via Pie agli Orti. The overall garments seemed to be of one piece and they were neither close-fitting nor large; indeed, the shapes of the…
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE CD 13 Jan 81 source. Unexplained Lights no. RAF/CC 1. Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L), two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they …