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
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
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
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
A UFO FOR THE PRESIDENT-TO-BE One night in 1974, from a Cessna Citation aircraft, one of America’s most famous citizens saw a UFO. There were four persons aboard the plane: pilot Bill Paynter, two security guards, and the governor of California, Ronald Reagan. As the airplane approached Bakersfield, California, the passengers called Paynter’s attention to … Read more
UFO Encounters: Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations – OF SAUCERS AND SCIENTISTS “Have We Visitors from Space?” Life magazine asked in an article in its April 7, 1952, issue. It was a question people all over the world were asking in wonder or fear or both. What, short of intruders from other worlds, could explain the … Read more
