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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 “TIME”564 scans · page 8
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…
ABOVE SUSPICION-BY EONS In Prehistoric Times They Had Monsters Like This "passes" signed by a police chief 35 miles away, a man wearing a Marine Corps camouflage suit, five civil defense units—no one was sure where from—and many, many more. Sticking mainly to their cars, they drove in and out of far…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
1. DATE · TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION 9 December 65 09/2115Z | Indiana, Ohio Penna, Michigan, Canada 3. SOURCE Civilians (MULTIPLE) | 10. CONCLUSION Astro (NETEOR) 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION Seconds | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS SEE CASE FILE 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visu…
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…
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,"…
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…
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…
'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 …
Une soucoupe volante dans les Basses - Alpes ? Les gendarmes ont relevé d'étranges traces à l'endroit où un cultivateur de Valensole affirme l'avoir vue SUITE DE LA 1^T PAGE Ayant quitte son domicile de valensole vires 5 heures du matin, matière au quartier de l'Olivo et il comme a biner sees plants…
La «soucoupe» de Valensole : Dépression nerveuse pour l'auteur du récit VALENSOLE (C. P.) = valensle connaît depuis dunanche une affluence peu commune et le quartier de l'Olivol est devenu un lieu de pelerinage célébre. C'est la, en effet, au beau milieu de la campagne eclatante de couleur, ou le do…
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…
At approximately 8:00 P.M., 25 September 1965, two objects first appeared near the base of a small 6000 foot mountain, nine and one-half miles northeast of Rodeo, New Mexico. The objects appeared to be on or near the surface, moving westward on an intersecting course with the observer's north bound …
PROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. DATE·TIME GROUP 25 September 65 26/002 Rodeo, New Mexico | 2. LOCATION 5002 Rodeo, New Mexico 3. SOURCE Civilian | 10. CONCLUSION UNIDENTIFIED 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Two 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 6. Minutes | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS The white objects side by side. Size of…
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…
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…
'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 …
Los Angeles Times As a public service, The Times presents on this page columnists whose opinions reflect those of our diverse readership, not necessarily those of The Times itself. WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1966 UFOs Reported Seen in New Jersey, S. Dakota Objects Like Lighted Merry-Go-Rounds' D…
Inspection of the photos taken at the time of this sighting (Plates 17 and 18) reveals considerably more detail than just a point of light. If the distance from the spacecraft to Proton III is given by the NORAD calculations, then we may infer the physical separation of the several objects in the ph…
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…
30. Have you ever seen this, or a similar object before. If so give date or dates and location. No 31. Was anyone else with you at the time you saw the object? (Circle One) Yes No 31.1 IF you answered YES, did they see the object too? (Circle One) Yes No 31. 2 Please list their names and addresses: …
1. PAGE TIME GROUP 18 June 66 14:05:30Z | 2. LOCATION Jurnsville, North Carolina 3. SOURCE Civilian | 10. CONCLUSION Unidentified 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Seven 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5 hours | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Four Boy Scouts were camping in the mountains and they noticed a bell shaped …
20. Do you think you can estimate the speed of the object? (Circle One) Yes No IF you answered YES, then what speed would you estimate? 21. Do you think you can estimate how far away from you the object was? (Circle One) Yes No. 22. Where were you located when you saw the object? (Circle One): a. In…
8. IF you saw the object at NIGHT, what did you notice concerning the STARS and MOON? 8.1 STARS (Circle One): a. None b. A few c. Many d. Don't remember 8.2 MOON (Circle One): a. Bright moonlight b. Dull moonlight c. No moonlight - pitch dark d. Don't remember 9. What were the weather conditions at …
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…
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…