MENACE OF THE IINDEREARTHERS Before there were little green Martians and tall blond Venusians, there were deros. In the 1930s a Pennsylvania man named Richard Sharpe Shaver overheard them speaking through his welding equipment. And the voices—singularly unpleasant ones, obsessed with torture and sexual perversion—would not shut up. Their incessant chatter drove Shaver to desperate … Read more
THE SAUCERS OF S4 On November 11 and 13, 1989, viewers of KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, heard an incredible story from news reporter George Knapp: A scientist had come forth to reveal that the U.S. government possesses the remains of extraterrestrial vehicles. From these vehicles have come extraordinary technological breakthroughs. The scientist, Robert Scott … Read more
UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – CLOSEST ENCOUNTERS On the evening of September 19, 1961, while driving home to Portsmouth through rural New Flampshire, Barney and Betty Hill sighted a pancake-shaped UFO with a double row of windows. At one point they stopped their car, and Barney got out for a better look. As … Read more
THE CASE OF THE MISSING WATER The sounds of frightened cattle woke a rancher from a sound sleep in the early morning of September 30, 1980, near Rosedale, Victoria, Australia. When he went outside, he was astonished to see a domed disc with orange and blue lights gliding about ten feet above the ground. It … Read more
HIGHWAY HIJACK Sandy Larson, her 15-year-old daughter, Jackie, and Jackie’s boyfriend, Terry O’Leary, awoke early that morning, August 26, 1975. Mrs. Larson, who lived in Fargo, North Dakota, was planning to take a real- estate test in Bismarck, 200 miles away. At 4 A.M., 45 miles west of Fargo on Interstate 94, they encountered an … Read more
EVIDENCE IN THE TREES An odd “thrashing sound” brought James Richard, 41, and his 16-year-old daughter, Vanea, to the north window of their Columbia, Missouri, mobile home at 12:30 A.M. on June 28, 1973. Some 50 feet away and five feet apart, two brilliant silvery white beams of light shone. When these lights suddenly faded … Read more
DAMAGED CAR IN MINNESOTA Studying the brilliant light in the stand of trees two and a half miles south of him, Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson wondered if drug smugglers had flown over the Canadian border into the flat, isolated terrain of far northwestern Minnesota. The light was close to the ground, suggesting that … Read more
THE LITTLE MEN OF NORTH HEDSON PARK At around 2:45 A.M. on January 12, 1975, George O’Barski was driving home through North Hudson Park, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, when static fdled his radio. Leaning for¬ ward to fiddle with the dial, he noticed a light to his left. A quick … Read more
HOT ENCOUNTERS During the great sighting outbreak of early November 1957, a number of close encounters had a disturbing consequence: burns and related injuries to witnesses. One of the most dramatic occurrences took place at an army base at Itaipu along Brazil’s Atlantic coast. At 2 A.M. on November 4 two guards saw a luminous … Read more
UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – NOCTURNAL LIGHTS TO CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Hynek classified UFO reports into six categories: nocturnal lights, daylight discs, radar/visual cases, close encounters of the first kind, close encounters of the second kind, and close encounters of the third kind. Nocturnal lights. Near midnight on the evening of August 30, 1951, … Read more
