UNKNOWN AIR TRAFFIC
1.
"Hudson Valley," or the Westchester Wing, NY 1984
Thousands
of reports, mostly nocturnal, of large, silent, hovering
object with
series of rotating lights. Reports came from many highly
credible
individuals including meteorologists, news reporters, and
police chiefs.
"Planes in formation" theory was proposed; however,
videos taken
by area resident of both the object and a formation of
planes
shows distinct differences. Intermittent sightings to this
day.
2.
"Washington Invasion," Washington, DC 1952
Several
fast-moving objects appear on radarscopes at three separate
installations,
including Andrews AFB. Interceptors scrambled, but
don't find
anything. Same thing happened the next night, this time
objects
confirmed by ground observers. Largest peace-time
press
conference
in govt. history was called to explain to reporters that
radar traces
were caused by thermal inversions, despite absence of
proper weather
conditions on the nights in question.
3.
"Travis Walton," Snowflake, AZ 1974
Five woodcutters
allegedly witness abduction of their comrade aboard
UFO. Abductee
reappears five days later, fails first lie detector,
after which
he and four other witnesses pass, one is inconclusive.
Unreasonable
controversy surrounds suppression of first lie detector
results.
4.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 1966
From March
14 thru March 21, over fifty citizens, plus twelve police
officers,
plus eighty-seven Hillsdale College students saw a cluster
of
UFOs manuvering across three counties. The case was so
strong
that
it embroiled the U.S.Congress in the
UFO research...the
formation
of The O'Brien Committee which led to the University
of
Colorado
Study. The results of that study: of 91 cases studied, 30
remained
"unidentified" -- 30%
5.
Levelland, Texas 1957
On November
2nd and 3rd, sightings of a large ( 200 ft est. ) UFO by
local citizens
resulted in eight independent, but strikingly similar
descriptive
reports, including police officers. The police conducted
an
organized, and successful 'watch' following
the initial
sightings.
6.
"The Lubbock Lights" Lubbock, Texas 1951
From
August 25 thru September 7, hundreds of people sighted
UFOs
from
Albuquerque, NM to Lubbock. It was
a huge, wing-shape.
Observers
included three college professors cross-referenced by ADC
radar
target at 13000 ft. traveling at 900mph. Photographs
were
successfully
taken.
7.
"Incident at Exeter" Exeter, New Hampshire 1965
On September
3, a large, oval UFO manuvered low over fields near
Exeter.
Primary descriptions were taken from
many citizens,
including
two police officers and a veteran news reporter. Air Force
public information
office wrote: "...we are unable to identify the
object you
observed...thank you for reporting your observation to
the Air
Force."
8.
McMinnville, Oregon 1950
On May 11th,
Paul Trent and his wife, while at their home, took two
clear
photographs of a UFO. These photos were determined
to be
"genuine",
the case...unidentified...by University of
Colorado
Study of
1969.
9.
Fairbanks, Alaska 1986
Japan Air
Lines pilot Kenju Terauchi and crew reported three, large
UFO
over Alaska. This was cross-referenced by in-flight radar
as
well as
FAA ground-radar.
10.
Papua, New Guinea 1959
From
winter into summer, New Guinea officials received more
than
sixty sightings,
including, on June 26 Father William Booth Gill, an
Anglican
priest at his parish. He, with a missionary teacher,
and
about
30 parishioners, saw a "sparkling
object...very,very
bright...above
Venus...decend toward us." Measuring the UFO as about
20 degrees
of arc, then observing the operators..."men..."
11.
The Missouri Boomerang 1980
On November
18, three policemen (Adair County deputy sheriff Charles
Cooper,
highway patrolmen Bob Lober and Mike Leavene), and at least
six
civilian witnesses, and the FAA radar station at Kirksville,
Missouri
(Franklin West, technician) tracked a large, cylindrical
UFO through
22 towns, criss-crossing two states, for four hours.
12.
Ulan-Davan, China 1926
While exploring
the Himalaya Mountains, Nicholas Roerich, with eight
other
Europeans and a complement of local
guides and bearers,
observed:
'We noticed something shiny, flying very high from the NE
to the South...We
bring three powerful field glasses and watch the
huge speroid
body shining in the sun, clearly visible against the
blue sky
and moving very fast.' As they watched, the object abruptly
changed
the direction of its flight to the SW, and was soon lost to
sight. The
authenticity of the account is that it was recorded as
merely
an "interesting" occurence within the
grand, sweeping
adventure
of their journey. (Altai Himalaya)
13.
"The Tunguska Blast" Tunguska, Siberia 1908
On
June 20, at approximately 7am, an object
passed across the
Himalayas,
western China, and Mongolia, finally to explode violently
above the
Tunguska Plateau. As it approached the town of Keshma, it
changed
its, long-observed course from the south, to a heading east
toward Preobrazhenka,
then it changed course again toward the NW.
The general
flight-path was horizontal, at a speed of approximately
1600
mph. The record was collected from
hundreds of primary
witnesses
and investigated by Prof Leonid Kulik through
a long
succession
of early field expeditions to the site. Also,
Prof.
Aleksander
Kazantsev, after 1945, was the first to propose
the
'visitor'
theory, and in 1966, Soviet investigators V.K.Zhuravlev,
D.V.Demin,
and L.N.Demina issued a definitive paper describing it as
a nuclear
event. Prof. Felix Zigel (aerodynamics) and A.V. Zolotov
(geophysics)
supported the 'nuclear event' theory
through a
re-examination
of the evidence, and the geometry of the area of
destruction.
14.
Fatima, Portugal 1917
On
the afternoon of October 13, a crowd of over
50,000 people
watched
the clouds part to reveal a huge silver disk (like mother of
pearl),
spinning like a windmill and 'dancing' about the sky.
The
object
gave off heat, drying rain-soaked clothing in minutes.
It
then flew
away toward, and vanished in, the glare of the sun. The
world was
"invited" to observe this event through previous events at
the same
location. More
15.
Syracuse, New York 1965
On November
9th, hundreds of witnesses, including in-flight pilots
and flight
instructors observed a huge UFO in the vacinity during
the occurence
of The Great Blackout...which shut down all grid-power
throughout
the northeastern United States for several hours. Power
was
restored when the vehicles (others
were observed and
photographed
throughout the region) departed.
16.
Las Cruces, New Mexico 1949
On August
20th, Dr. Clyde Tombaugh -- professional astronomer and
the discoverer
of the planet Pluto -- observed the maneuvers of a
large, rectilinear
UFO while in the company of his wife and company
at an informal
gathering at his home. His descriptions were precise,
and
professionally reported to the public record. " I
have done
thousands
of hours of night sky watching, but never saw a sight so
strange
as this."
17.
Lake Anjikuni, Canada 1930
Trapper
Armand Laurent and his two sons reported a huge, cylindrical
UFO,
above the lake, to RCMP Mounties
who were heading to
investigate
a discovery at the Eskimo village at the lake. Trapper
Joe
Labelle, at the lake, discovered and
reported that every
resident
of the village was missing... 1200 people had vanished. The
case remains
unsolved.
18.
Beverly, Mass. 1966
On
April 22, Brenda Maria, and several neighbors, and
two motor
patrol police
officers observed a UFO manuvering silently about the
neighborhood
and over the local school fields. The police alerted
the
Air Force which dispatched two planes
and a helicopter to
investigate...chasing
off, and following after, the UFO.
19.
Morenci, Arizona 1981
In January,
Randel Rogers and three co-workers at the local copper
smelting
plant witnessed a large, boomerang-shaped UFO hover above
one
of the two smokestacks and beam a light into
it. Leaving,
silently,
it was observed to fly over the Morenci
High School
football
field by 100 members of the high school marching band, who
were practising.
Director Bruce Smith said "I looked up and saw all
these lights
in the shape of a V. There was no sound. It hovered for
a few minutes,
then disappeared high into the sky."