UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – THE CASE OF THE MISSING WATER

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

UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – HIGHWAY HIJACK

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

UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – EVIDENCE IN THE TREES

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

UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – DAMAGED CAR IN MINNESOTA

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

UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – THE LITTLE MEN OF NORTH HEDSON PARK

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

UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – HOT ENCOUNTERS

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

THE DIMENSIONS OF A PHENOMENON – NOCTURNAL LIGHTS TO CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

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

UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – LANDING AND TRACES AT VALENSOLE

LANDING AND TRACES AT VALENSOLE Near the French village of Valensole, farmer Maurice Masse was smoking a cigarette just before starting work at 5:45 A.M. on July 1, 1965, when an object came out of the sky and landed in a lavender field 200 feet away. Annoyed and assuming that a helicopter had made an … Read more

UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – ALASKA MOTHERSHIP

ALASKA MOTHERSHIP When he first saw them, Japanese Airlines officer Kenju Terauchi, who was piloting a Boeing 747 cargo plane, thought they were lights from a military aircraft. He soon learned otherwise. During the next half hour he and his crew realized that things of a decidedly unearthly character had joined them in the skies … Read more

UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – ANGEL HAIR

ANGEL HAIR It was the strangest sight to ever grace the sky over Oloron, France. In the early afternoon of October 17, 1952, according to one of the many witnesses, high school superintendent Jean-Yves Prigent, there appeared a “cottony cloud of strange shape. . . . Above it, a narrow cylinder, apparently inclined at a … Read more