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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 “Alton”43 scans
MASON'S PATENT New Hampshire, as granted by authority of the English Crown to Captain John Mason in 1629, was bounded on the west and north by a curved line 60 miles distant from the sea. The course of this proprietary boundary, called the "Masonian Curve", coincides with the nearby town line betwee…
gem dos creentes foi aumentando de mez para mez, a ponto de se juntarem na charneca de Fátima, em 15 de outubro, umas cincoenta mil pessoas, consoante os calculos de individuos desaiponxa- Consulte os efeitos de milíduos desapaxionados. Nas precedentes reunidos de fie's, não falton quem tivesse supo…
Convict with Knife Takes over NM Bus SOCORRO (AP) A paroled Arizona convict, free only four days, held 25 passengers of a New Mexico bus in a grip of terror early today for more than an hour. Knife in hand, he stalked the aisle of the north-bound vehicle, mouthing curses and obscenities, threatening…
Did Monster Fly Over This Way? CARROLLTON-A bird with a 30 footwingspread, that used only the tips of its wings in flight, was seen Wednesday along the Missouri River in southern Carroll county by Harold Brotherton and his two uncles. The monstrous bird, believed to be the one spied in the St. Louis…
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…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10 April 1948: Mysterious Huge Bird Reported Seen Over Glendale and Alton ScanMysterious Huge Bird Reported Seen Over Glendale and Alton A mysterious bird *et* gigantic size, similar to the one reported yesterday near Caledonia, Ill., was observed flying over Alton last Sunday by a former Army colonel, and over Glendale three months ago by James Traares, 12-year-old son of Mr…
FLYING WHAT-IS-IT IS SEEN CHASING PLANE OVER CITY Police Also Get Look at It One Says It Appeared Like a Witch. New accounts of the huge bird seen over St. Louis and Alton heightened the mystery of the flying what-is-it today. Mrs. Kristine Dolezal, 2055 Russell boulevard, heard an airplane flying l…
'Monster Bird' Comes To Rest; Farmer Sees Giant Heron In Field Beloit. Wis., April 16.—The "monster bird" came to rest in a Clinton pasture yesterday. That at least is the belief of S. W. Merrick, a Clinton farmer, Merrick said he saw a giant heron, with a wingspread of at least six feet, standing i…
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…
The Gigantic Bird Mystery That Thing in the Sky—Is It Really a Bird, or Is It a Plane or a Witch? AROVE IS A STYLIZED DRAWING OF THE "BIRD" SEED BY MR. AND MRS. CLYDE SMITH, AND BY MR. AND MRS. CLYDE SMITH. BLOW IS AN APPROXIMATION OF WHAT DR. KRISTINE DOLLAE SAWL. E. M. COLEMAN OF ALTON THOUGHT A S…
UNCLASSIFIED Inocident g123 -- Alton, Illinois -- 11 April 1940 There is nothing of astronomical character in this incident. If one considers Johnel Stagnund's statements apart from the considerably less reliable ones of other observers, it would seem that the object may really have been a bird.…
After 21 Years Col. Siegmund Has Served Olin, Retired on July 1 EAST ALTON, July 2—Col. Walter F. Siegmund, former general sales manager, Olin Industries, Inc. retired from the company July 1, after 21 years of service. Col. Siegmund joined Western Cartridge Co., in November, 1931, as a special repr…
GESELL SOLVES BIRD MYSTERY OR DOES HE? A solution to the "bird as big as an airplane" mystery was offered today by Bill Gesell. "It was an airplane towing a glider," Gesell said. "I saw it myself." Gesell operates a farm two miles north of Belvidere on state route 76. He said he was working in a fie…
'Enormous' Bird Is Sighted Again, Flapping Over City ALTON, 111., April 24 (UP)-An "enormous" bird, first reported seabird seen flying over the outskirts of Alton shortly before noon today. E. M. Coleman, a former salesman, and his 15-year-old son James, said the bird was flying at about 500 feet an…
"Monster Bird" Reported In Flying Saucer Area By United Press BELVIDERE, Ill., April 9. — A farmer and a truck driver reported today that they had seen a bird "bigger than an airplane." They believed it might be a visitor from another planet. The giant bird was reported by Robert Price and Veryl Bab…
ONE SCHOOL OF THOUGHT HOLDS THE BIRD TO BE A WANDERING ALBATROSS, PICTURED HERE IN FLIGHT, WHICH SOMETIMES HAS BEEN A MISTAKEN. ACCORDING TO BIRD EXPERTS, IS THAT A WANDERING ALBATROSS WOULD NEVER WANDER THE FAR FROM THE OCEAN. THE GREAT BLUE HERON HAS ALSO BEEN ADVANCED AS THE SOLUTION TO THE MYSTE…
Companion To Flying Saucer, "Monster Bird" BY PAUL DIX ST. LOUIS, April 10.—(UF) A retired Air Force colonel and a 12-year-old boy tonight locked up the report by two Beloved, BL, residents of spotting a "monster bird." It was either the same mysterious bird of gigantic size they saw or one just lik…
ARGUS MEN CORNER THE * Hero is Mr. Ern Featherston's impression of the Wonthaggi "monster." Four bashed by "knuckle gang" A GANG of eight, apparently using knuckle dusters, knocked one man unconscious and victually bashed three others in Dryburgh st., North Melbourne, last night. Three of the injure…
Four Skindivers Missing In Gulf PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP)Four teen-aged skindivers are missing after abandoning their tide-swept rubber raft in the Gulf of Mexico. A fifth youth swam two miles to shore about dark Saturday. The four missing were Bradford Rice, 14, Warren Felley, 16, Eric Ruyle, 16, and La…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
