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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 “humming”9 scans
Recorded under label. | Head in Ice. | Witness. | Description of event. March 31 | No. VIII | Mini Langton | Shifting floor to floorhole. Knock maze the floorhole. No. I | Mr. M | Walking in a kitchen with a knife. Watching a knife in a cabinet. Tumble raps up the floorhole. The lid of a firebox is …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Contact was made with the witness or. Observer reported seeing an object with blinking red lights come up the trail. The trail was about 15 feet in width. The object hovered above the trail and moved from side to side and was there for about 20 minutes before settling to the ground. It was about 3 o…