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Sighting record / 1966

The Nederland Tadpole: Power Failure Under a Hovering Object in Texas

February 6, 1966 · 619 South 17th Street, Nederland, Jefferson County, Texas, United States
20Thinly documented UAP Other 9 sources

Nederland, Texas. Before dawn on Sunday, 6 February 1966. An 11-year-old boy switched on the bathroom light, and the power died. Outside, the lawn was bathed in a pulsing reddish glow. Kenneth R. Gulley looked up and saw yellowish-reddish lights coming from an object about 500 feet above the ground. It drifted west toward Jefferson County Airport. An aircraft took off and turned toward it. The object stopped and went dark. Then the plane's landing lights caught its silhouette. It looked like a tadpole. Project Blue Book could find no feasible explanation. Case 10196 was filed as Unidentified.

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Context

Nederland is a small town in Jefferson County, Texas, in the Beaumont and Port Arthur area. In 1966 America was heading into a heavy year for UFO reports. Six weeks after this night, the Michigan sightings at Dexter and Hillsdale would make headlines.

Sources (9, most influential first)

  1. Nederland, Texas, February 6, 1966 (Blue Book case) · Patrick Gross, ufology.patrickgross.org · Research organisation · org report
  2. Nederland, Texas, 6 February 1966 · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  3. Nederland, Texas, 6 février 1966 · Patrick Gross, ufologie.patrickgross.org · Research organisation · org report
  4. 1966 chronology · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  5. Blue Book unknowns, 1966 · Patrick Gross, ufology.patrickgross.org · Research organisation · org report