June 30 1967.
1800hrs.
THOMPSON (MANITOBA : CANADA)
Mrs D F Le Marquands had
just entered her house when she heard a beeping sound and, looking
out of the window, saw debris swirling around the house in a circular
motion. Going outside, she saw her husband and 5 children staring
into the sky. After a while she was able to see the cause of the
disturbance, a large oblong or cuboid object, revolving in an
anti-clockwise direction. As the thing rotated, the sides alternated
between dark and aluminium coloured but there were no openings or
markings on the completely silent object. Mrs L then heard a sound
and saw a neighbour’s boy holding down her 8 year old daughter.
After the object had moved off at a 45 degree angle, levelling off,
hovering and then leaving ion a level course towards the south-east,
the children revealed that the girl had been lifted off the ground
about 1m towards the object, her skirt, blouse and hair rising
straight up. The little girl remembered nothing of the incident and
was the only one of the children not terrified.
- Saucers Space and Science 52 p6 citing CAPRO citing investigation by L Chickoski + K Barker
- Rutkowski 1993 p26 citing Beckley 1969 p84
- Evaluation: Localised whirlwind?
Summer 1967.
0430hrs.
FARNWORTH near BOLTON (LANCASHIRE : ENGLAND)
Bus conductor Mrs Trow was
on a bus heading to Farnworth when just past Unity Brook on the A666
she saw a large object resting on legs, 2.5-3m high, in a field less
than 100m away by some pylons. The thing was light metallic grey in
colour and appeared to be the width of two houses. Around its
perimeter was a row of small circular windows. When she passed the
site again later in the day the thing had gone.
- NUFON News 11 p11
Summer 1967.
Pre-dawn.
FULTON (NEW YORK : USA)
A boy woke up to see, at
the foot of his bed, two or three outline figures. As he looked at
these, “leaves” of electricity fell on him. He fell back to
sleep. The next day he and his friends, out playing, saw a 5-6m
diameter circle of depressed grass.
- Swords 2005 p219 citing John Timmerman
Summer 1967. Early
morning.
NORTH ATLANTIC
A family on a yachting
holiday were some 350km off Cape Cod when they encountered a huge
vessel surfacing. Along its coning tower was painted the name
“Thresher” and the witnesses noticed a gash along its side. Two
men on its deck were apparently looking at the yacht through
binoculars, Suddenly the object rose above the water and seemed to
implode and sink.
- Lamont-Brown 1972 p43
- Evaluation: Presented as the ghost of the lost submarine Thresher, but as MacDougal points out that vessel did not have its name written across its coning tower! I suspect that the original source was an article in Fate magazine and was a piece of literary imagination.
Summer 1967.
BARNETT
(MISSOURI : USA)
Near Barnett a farmer
observed a large disc as it landed near his home. The object was on
the ground for several minutes and was bright. After it left, the
witness and his grandson went to the landing site where there was a
circular area of smashed plants.
- Ted Phillips in Skylook 43 + Phillips 1975 p45 case261 citing his own investigation
Summer 1967.
Afternoon.
HALIFAX (YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING : ENGLAND)
A 7 year old girl was
playing by herself near Wainhouse Tower, when her attention was
caught by agitation of the trees. When she went to investigate she
saw a dull bronze metallic cigar shaped object hovering just above
the ground. She could see rivets on its side. The object took off and
she ran after it. It disappeared over a place called Devil’s Rock.
Other people were said to have seen it, and a photograph taken She
had several other strange experiences in later life.
- NUFON News 141 p10 citing letter from the witness to Jenny Randles
- Evaluation: Another case reported 20+ years. Probably a distorted childhood memory of a helicopter
Summer 1967.
1600hrs.
BOONEVILLE (INDIANA : USA)
Two boys aged 12 and 6 and
the 10 year old sister of the younger boy were playing in the back
yard of the two younger children’s house. The 12 year old pointed
out to the others an object hopvering less than 2m above the trees
that lined the yard. A few minutes later they saw another over field
behind their house, and a third somewhjat further away and higher up.
They watched this for over 20 minutes, before the two younger
children were called in. Even after they had eaten and bathed the
first object was still visible for a further hour until they went to
bed. Their mother refused to look at the object.
- Ridge 1994 p23 citing Don Worley
- Evaluation: Astronomical objects low on the horizon
Summer 1967. Evening.
ST
JOHN (NEW BRUNSWICK : CANADA)
At a river campsite, about
30km from St Johns, a cub master and his assistant had gone down to
the river to fetch water, while the boys slept. They then saw an
object like, two saucers, rim to rim, with flashing red, orange,
green and blue lights around its edge, descend and sink into the
water. The next morning, the normally clear, cool water was muddy and
lukewarm.
- Janet and Colin Bord in The Unexplained 82 p1624
Summer 1967.
Evening.
ALBUQUERQUE (NEW MEXICO : USA)
12 year old Chris
Brethwaite was one of a number of people who, on three successive
nights, saw a nebulous, luminous sphere manoeuvre, and on the third
night hover. On that third night Chris was alerted by a neighbour to
an orange humanoid figure, 2m tall with an elongated heard and dark
speckling on the roof of the Hoover-Aspen elementary school. After a
couple of seconds it disappeared.
- Dennett 2011 p155 citing Chris Brethwaite in Albuquerque Journal 15 June 2005 p4
- Evaluation: Another story reported decades after the event, could be a misperception of almost anything
Summer 1967. Night.
ELDON
(MISSOURI : USA)
Just south of Eldon Mrs
Bailly was watching TV when she noticed a bright red glow through her
living room window and went to investigate. She saw a discoid object,
illuminated by a bright blue-white light,. approaching the field. The
thing slowed, hovered for a moment at ground level and then landed.
On landing, the upper section became dark and moonlight was reflected
from from its metallic looking surface. After a short while, the
object ascended at a shallow angle and disappeared in the distance.
The next day Mr Baily and a relative went to the landing site, 45m
from the back door and found eight oval areas where the vegetation
was dry and dead. The marks were in pairs 90cm apart and 20cm
diameter, The plants were damaged for some distance along the flight
path of the object.
- Ted Phillips in Skylook 43 +Phliips 1975 p45 case 262 both citing huis own investigation
July 1967.
0300hrs.
PALMA (MALLORCA : BALEARIC ISLANDS, SPAIN)
The young daughter of the
Count of Ribas was awakened by an intense light coming from the
interior patio and saw two small figures apparently speaking
together. They either had large heads or large helmets and huge eyes.
The girl tried to turn on the lights, but they would not work, so she
went and got some candles. When she returned the apparitions had
vanished. Two small marks were found on the outside of the wall, near
the window, which marks could only be removed by scraping. The marks
even reappeared after being covered with paint.
- Ballester 1976 p11 case 48 citing first hand investigation by Antonio Ribera
- Phénomènes Spatiaux 19 p32
- Stendek 4 p7 citing investigation by CEI
- FSR 15, 1 p.iii
July or August 1967.
(WISCONSIN : USA)
At her weekend cottage,
Mimi Gorzelle observed a round machine 60m above the lake. At a
window she could see two, apparently small, men. The object consisted
of three parts, the centre disk revolving. After about 15 minutes the
craft moved off westwards at high speed. Some weeks later she had a
dream of being abducted by humanoids in a strange machine.
- Lou Farish in BUFORA Journal 4, 3 p24
- BUFORA Journal 3, 11 p6 citing letter from witness in Fate November 1972)
July 1967.
SAINT-STANISLAS DE KOSTKA (QUEBEC : CANADA)
While riding his bicycle
Denis Leger (11) was followed by a shiny object with a transparent
upper part, flying 6-7m above the ground and 150m from him. The
transparent upper part appeared to be made of thick glass, through
which he could see three small dark beings, two sitting on one side,
one on the other. It followed the very frightened boy for about 5
minutes.
- Gordon Creighton in FSR 15, 3 p20 citing Phénomènes Spatiaux December 1968 citing La Presse (Montreal) no date given and Jacques Herbert and Henri Bordeleau first hand
- Musgrave 1979 p45 (case 36) citing Bordeleau 1969 pp 77 +103 and FSR op cit.
July 4 1967.
MELBOURNE (YORKSHIRE EAST RIDING : ENGLAND)
A green glowing object
with a bright white centre appeared to land in the Melbourne area.
- FSR 13, 6 p29 citing Yorkshire Evening Post July 1967.
July 4 1967.
1645hrs.
CLIFTON (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE : ENGLAND)
At least a dozen people
saw a silvery disc travelling across the sky for 3km from Wilford
Hill to a point on the Bradmore to Plumtree road where it appeared to
land behind a barn. Witnesses included Mrs Marjorie Cowdell a teenage
girl and several boys.
- MUFORG Bulletin October 1967. p4 citing Nottingham Guardian Journal 5 July 1967.
- Evaluation: Police regarded this as an optical illusion. This and above large meteor?
July 5
1967. 0420hrs.
COVENTRY (CONNECTICUT : USA)
A motorist on Route 31,
near the Depot Road area, sighted an orange ball of light, which
appeared to be hanging from a tree. He drove into Coventry and
reported the matter to the Police but the object was
gone when they arrived on the scene. Investigators from the
University of Colorado and APRO found an area of grass some metres
from the location from the sighting, which appeared to have been
swirled flat as if subject to a rotating force. A photograph taken of
the scene turned out black.
- Lorenzen 1968 p63 + 1976 p13 both citing APRO Bulletin July/August 1967. citing Larry Fawcett
July 7 1967.
2330hrs.
MILAN (LOMBARDIA : ITALY)
Antonio Brambila and
another man saw a glow coming from a disc, 6.5m diameter, 2.5m high,
with a dome on top and four telescopic legs. It emitted a strange
vibration.
- Vallee Case 853 citing LDLN 91
July 8 1967.
MAPIRE
(ANZOATEGUI : VENEZUELA)
A fireball with a red tail
fell into the Orinoco River near Mapire. It was seen by many people
and several rushed to the river to look for it, but nothing was
found.
- Lorenzen 1968 p51
July 8 1967.
2330hrs.
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
A woman who had gone to
answer a call of nature was attracted to a copse by a buzzing sound
like a swarm of bees. She then heard a rustling sound and saw a tall
man wearing a tight fitting suit made of dark, glistening material,
and a round helmet come towards her with a heavy plodding walk. The
woman felt hypnotised by his staring eyes and almost rooted to the
spot. The man would not let her get past. When her husband ,along
with Bob Strong and Sybil Champion, arrived on the scene they also
saw the man, but when he was caught in the beam of their torches, he
vanished. The woman was hysterical and attempted to return to the
scene at one point. As they were driving away they heard a sound like
a dynamo, and saw a red torpedo shaped object take off, hover, then
accelerate away. The next day a crescent shaped depression and
strange footprints were found at the site.
- Shuttlewood 1968 p105
July 9 1967.
BANBURY
(C0NNECTICUT : USA)
A landing report. No
further details.
- Flying Saucers 57 p24
July 9 1967.
CRESTON
(BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
A 5 year old boy went
missing in the woods on this day, Two days later he reappeared less
than 100m from where he had been lost. He said that a teenager had
led him out of the woods, carried across the creek, given him a 25c
piece and shown him the cars of the rescue party.
- Fate (UK) May 1968 p10
July 9
1967.
BROOKSVILLE (FLORDIA : USA)
A trucker, asleep in his
truck, near Brooksville, had his foot grabbed by a 2.5m tall creature
resembling a gorilla.
- Newton 2011 p 57
July 9 1967.
2225HRS.
HARRISBURG (PENNSYLVANIA : USA)
Two boys aged 12 and 14
saw a circular object with red lights on its top and bottom and two
white lights in front approach at about 20m altitude with a
fluttering motion. It emitted a humming sound. When the boys shone a
torch on the object, it shone a beam of white light on them. It then
reversed course and went out of sight.
- Francis Ridge chronology citing Harrisburg Evening News 12 July 1967. + investigation by Mr Cook
July 10 1967.
0845hrs.
WHIPPINGHAM (ISLE OF WIGHT : ENGLAND)
Two schoolboys, waiting to
go into class at the primary school, saw a milky-white biconvex disc
not much higher than the line of the hedge, though far behind it. A
sort of ash was falling. At break time at 1030hrs. the two boys and a
dozen companions saw the thing again, to the west of its original
location. It appeared to be larger than a bus, descending, with a
fluttering motion, to 2 degrees elevation. It then began to climb and
was lost to sight behind trees. Later investigations showed extensive crop damage in several neighbouring fields.
- Leonard Cramp in FSR 14, 3 p3 citing his own investigation
- Evaluation: Probable whirlwind
July 10 1967. 1750hrs.
MERIDIAN
(MISSISSIPPI : USA)
Philip Lanning was driving
south of Meridian when his engine and lights failed. He got out to
examine the car when his attention was caught by a large object
passing overhead at 60-90m, making a sound like a strong wind. It was
heading eastwards and appeared as though it would crash into some
trees. Just before reaching them, the thing tilted upward and to the
right and took off at terrific speed into the clouds. The object took
like a dirty metallic grey cymbal, about the size of a house, with a
blue top. It gave off no sound save the rushing wind.
- Randle 1989 p 134 citing Blue Book Files
- Rodeghier 1981 p35 citing CUFOS files
- Note Francis Ridge citing Don Berliner and Blue Book Files gives the witness name as Harold Washington and the location as Lizelia
July 10 1967. Night.
SANTA
CLARA DEL MARCH (BUENOS AIRES : ARGENTINA)
Two motorists going to
March del Plata observed a cigar shaped object, resembling a railway
passenger coach, with window like rectangles emitting a vivid light.
The thing was on the ground 400m from the road. Later it rose rapidly
and vanished towards the Sierra de los Padres range.
- Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 13 p14 + Richard Heiden citing Banchs 1976 p33 both citing La Razon 11 July 1967
- Vallee Case 854 + Richard Heiden both citing Ribera 1968 p24 both citing Ouest France 13-14 July 1967.
July 13 1967.
BELMONT
(NEW SOUTH WALES : AUSTRALIA)
A brilliant drop
shaped light descended to 70m altitude and levelled off. It was
visible for one minute.
- Basterfield 1981 p87 citing Australian UFO Review 10 p23
July 13 1967.
2330hrs.
WATERVILLE (OHIO : USA)
Robert Richardson and
Jerry Quay (both 21) were driving between Maumee and Whitehouse at
65kph, when rounding a bend they encountered a very brilliant
blue-white light source blocking the road. It appeared to be a
triangle 2.5m tall, 7 wide Robert braked and both closed their eyes
to await the impact. They felt a bump but on opening their eyes
nothing could be seen. The local police did not take the incident
seriously. However the accident was investigated by the state police
and highway patrol, who found only skid marks at the scene. Next day
Richardson returned to the site and found a piece of metal in the
road. Marks on his car bonnet and bumper suggested a collision with
an object taking off. On the 18th and 23tdc Robert was
visited by mysterious men, those on the second occasion being foreign
looking, who made threats against is wife. The metal consisted of
iron and chromium, with traces of nickel, manganese and silicon.
- Lorenzen 1968 p 41 + Lorenzen 1976 p 58 citing APRO Bulletin July/August 1967. p1 citing investigation by Nils Paquette and Alan Utke
July 13 1967.
2350hrs.
CRONULLA (NEW SOUTH WALES : AUSTRALIA)
Spray painter Maurice
Allen (34) and motor mechanic Glen Michell (28) were out fishing
6.5km east of Cronulla when they observed a stationary ball of light
hovering over the Cronulla Hotel. It appeared to be at an altitude of
500m, to be 25m diameter and was too brilliant to look at. It first
appeared spherical, then pear shaped and then spherical again. It
then descended down to the beach, gliding along it at ground level,
illuminating the area. It turned north and disappeared behind some
bushes. This was repeated about 15 minutes later, 600m to the north.
The light reappeared again at 0120 hours. It had a bright red edge,
with a deep red centre, was very brilliant and appeared to be
flickering.
- Australian UFO Review 10 p33
- FSR 13, 6 p31 citing Sydney Sun-Herald 16 July 1967.
- Hervey 1969 p56
- Evaluation: The long-time sequence, flickering etc. is suggestive of astronomical misperception
July 14 1967.
2200hrs.
BRISTOL (VERMONT : USA)
Mrs Marjorie Pacquette saw
an unidentified object come low and, with friends, followed it in her
car, until it landed in a field off Park Road, 150m away. It had a
double set of green lights, and another witness Mrs Veronica Meyer
saw a landing gear. The object took off and no traces were found.
- Citro 1994 p 143
July 17 1967.
1500hrs.
ARC-SOUS-CICON (DOUBS : FRANCE)
A group of children
(Patricia Despoix or Depoix (aged 5 or 6), Remy Ravier (10)-the son
of the village carpenter), and Hugh and Michelle Bailly) were going
for a walk to Clavieres Wood about 500m away, when Patricia ran back
crying that she had seen three or four “little Chinamen”. They
were sitting behind a bush, talking in an sort of singsong voice. One
of them got up as if to grab the girl. A few minutes later Remy saw a
sort of beam of yellow light going straight up from behind a bush.
The children ran home, and Remy’s sister Joelle went to investigate
but saw nothing and returned home. At 1600hrs. however she went back
to the spot with her friends Marie-Reine Mainot (or Mairot), Hubert
from the first party and his older sister Monique (15). Joelle and
Marie-Reine sat on rock looking towards a plateau which was out of
sight of the other two. They saw a little black creature running
along this plateau at about 40k/h, only 25 m away. It was about 1.1m
tall, human shaped, but featureless head, as if it were enclosed in a
helmet, the upper part of which reflected light, and with a
protruding stomach. He was dressed in a tight fitting suit with a
short jacket, which trailed behind him. His legs seemed unusually
short, but nothing could be seen of his arms. He moved in large
jumps, his feet just touching the ground, and disappeared into the
hedge in the direction of the woods. The two girls went to the hedge
where he had been seen, there they heard a sing song voice and
hurried away. Late marks were found at this spot, where the grass was
yellow, hot, dry and giving off an odour. Marks were also found along
the route. On the mornings pf the 14 and 15th at about
0600hrs. a farmer had seen a black creature 1.1m tall, 30cm wide
among his cattle. On both occasions in ran off into the woods at
terrific speed.
- Spacelink 6, 3 p14 citing Raymond Veillith in LDLN 95
- FSR 15,1 p10 citing Joel Mensnard in Phénomènes Spatiaux 1Eric Zurcher in LDLN 195 p27 citing J Tryode)
July 17 1967.
Evening.
BELFAST (ANTRIM : NORTHERN IRELAND)
Eugene Browne of Ligoniel
Road was walking in a wood near Belfast when he saw a dull blue-grey
coloured dish shaped object, with a rough and pitted outer surface
hovering about 2.5m above the ground. As he stood looking at it, an
opening appeared in the middle of the craft and two silvery humanoid
beings dropped slowly and silently to the ground and went into the
wood. Some time later they reappeared, drifted back into the craft,
which a few seconds later rose without a sound and vanished from
sight.
- Letter from the witness in FSR 13, 6 p31
July 17 1967.
2325hrs.
MILLERTOWN (NEW YORK : USA)
MILLERTOWN (NEW YORK : USA)
Mrs Emma Funk was driving
on Rt 22, north of Millertown, when a black, shiny object about the
size of a baseball flew towards her car, brushed against her
windscreen and veered off to the left. As it touched the car a
brilliant light lit up the car and her engine and headlights died,
and she became stunned. When she recovered consciousness, her car was
pointing in the opposite direction, there was a cracked area, the
size of a fist, in the windscreen, and she seemed to have a time gap
of about 15 minutes, and she was saying “why did you pick on me”.
Under hypnosis she recalled static on the radio just before the
object appeared and of a “them” who turned her car around and
struck her across the chest with a sort of rod.
- Lorenzen 1968 p166 citing Larry Fawcett
- Steiger and Whritenour 1968 p49 citing William Donovan
July 18 1967.
0130hrs.
BOARDMAN (OHIO : USA)
BOARDMAN (OHIO : USA)
Rev Anthony de Polo, an
assistant pastor in the Bethel Assembly of God Church, was awakened
by a loud oscillating sound which seemed to reach into the ultra
sonic, and the feeling that he ought to go downstairs. As he reached
the foot of the stairs, he saw, through
the window, a being of
human appearance, 1.5m tall, dressed in a tight fitting silver “space
suit” with five finger gloves and a helmet through which features
could not be made out, standing in the driveway, emitting a glow. He
felt impelled to go outside, where he received three other telepathic
messages. “You have nothing to fear, I will not harm you, and I
know you will not harm me”; “Danger I must go”; and a further
message de Polo felt unable to reveal.” The sky was strangely
illuminated. When de Polo looked back to the figure, he saw that it
had changed into a formless light blob, which soon faded out. He went
back to bed without telling his wife and fell asleep immediately.
- John Keel in FSR 14,1 p25 citing investigation by himself and James Capots
July 19 1967.
1230hrs.
WISSOUS (ESSONNE; FRANCE)
WISSOUS (ESSONNE; FRANCE)
Mr L M, a 40 year old
salesman, was inspecting his gardens close to the cemetery, having
only just opened the gate, when he saw a very bright green glow
emanating from the hut at the bottom of the garden. He did not think
much about it until an exceptionally brilliant green flare burst in
front of him, and a force threw him to the ground. As he lay
paralysed, he saw two indistinct silvery shapes cross the wall into
the second garden. Recovering some of his strength he went to the
wall but could find no trace of a passage. Some metres away were two
furloughs, which met to form a V shape. Tested by a Geiger counter
some hours later, he was said to have shown symptoms of receiving a
considerable dose of radiation, “which showed no similarity to the
signals emitted by a nuclear disintegration” (?).
- Ufolog 49 p6 citing C Marbach in Ille de France 25 July 1967
- URECAT citing La Parisien Librere 21 July 1967
July 19 1967. Night.
WILMINGTON (CALIFORNIA : USA)
WILMINGTON (CALIFORNIA : USA)
Jack Hill, a night
watchman at Lumber Consolidated, was on patrol in the yard when he
saw a 25m long aerial object approach to within 15m of him. He took
out his revolver and fired six shots at the thing. The object’s
lights went out and the thing took off.
- Haines 1999 p214 citing Los Angeles Herald-Examiner 19 July 1967 + Saga Magazine 52
July 20 1967. Night.
GUERNICA (BUENOS AIRES : ARGENTINA)
GUERNICA (BUENOS AIRES : ARGENTINA)
Pedro Petrelli heard a
loud nose like a burst of hurricane force wind and saw a bright
object pass over his house and stop above some trees 50m away. The
thing seemed to be about 7m in diameter and displayed a circular
movement, giving off yellow, blue and white lights. About 20 other
people also saw this. Next morning it was found that two trees showed
cuts at a height of 5m and a third at 3m. On the ground were
fragments that resembled burnt wood, the insides of which, however,
looked like fused glass. Chemical analysis of these fragments showed
that they contained sulphur, silicon and copper and had been heated
to more than 1600c.
- Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 15 p11 case 93 citing Phénomènes Spatiaux 20 citing F P Reyna
- Richard Heiden citing Banchs 1973 p32
July 20 1967.
2330hrs.
ISLAMORDA (FLORIDA : USA)
ISLAMORDA (FLORIDA : USA)
Barbara Fawcett (18)was
driving from Pompano Beach to her mother’s house in Islamorda, when
she became terrified by a large yellow light, which appeared to
pursue her car, about 2-2,5m above the ground, emitting a high
pitched roaring sound, at speeds up to 160kph. The light appeared as
if to be about to land on the car and was covering the road. It went
away at the approach of another car. Barbara pursued herself that she
had imagined things, but on the way home, with her sister and her
poodle, as they reached the Jewfish Creek area the dog began to
tremble and they saw a large brilliant yellow light rise out of the
swamp to the west of the road. It appeared jagged and moved up and
down and side to side. It descended to less than 5m above the road,
ahead of the car, so that the girls feared a collision, but at the
last moment in veered to the right under the power lines and landed
on a sand dune by the side of the road, where it dwindled to a pin
point. Less than a minute later, however, the large light reappeared
and followed them back to Pompano Beach, where they reported it to
the authorities. A search revealed a large scorched area on the sand
dune where it had landed
- Lorenzen 1968 p 63
- UFO Investigator IV, 2 p4
- APRO Bulletin July/August 1967. p7
- Lorenzen 1976 p14
July 24 1967.
Evening.
ALWATER (LINCOLNSHIRE : ENGLAND)
ALWATER (LINCOLNSHIRE : ENGLAND)
A man out for a walk saw a
sphere, 10m diameter, sweep down to earth at about 150kph amd
disappear into a valley. It neither glowed nor made a noise. The
witness observed the thing for about 5 seconds and though he waited
for 20 minutes he did not see it return.
- UFOlog 37 p4 citing South Lincs UFO Study Group
July 24 1967.
2200hrs.
MAREUIL (DORDOGNE; FRANCE)
MAREUIL (DORDOGNE; FRANCE)
Between Mareuil and
Ste-Mermain, Daniel Bonifait and his family saw a red disk, the size
of a building, fall 300m away, behind a hill. Dark forms were
observed on the disk’s surface, and the forest seemed to be ablaze
as the witness drove away in fear.
- Valle case 859 citing Phénomènes Spatiaux December 1968
July 26 1967.
COLON (ENTRE RIOS; ARGENTINA)
COLON (ENTRE RIOS; ARGENTINA)
Near Colon several people
saw a violet coloured craft whose luminosity intensified as it
descended and landed. Small humanoid figures emerged but quickly
re-entered. During this time witnesses were paralysed. Impressions
were found in the earth.
- Oscar Gallindez in Australian UFO Review 10 p40 citing La Voz de Colon 28 July 1967
July 28 1967.
1815hrs.
KAISERSLAUTERN (RHINELAND-PALATINATE : GERMANY)
KAISERSLAUTERN (RHINELAND-PALATINATE : GERMANY)
An American serviceman
stationed at Klaber Kaserne in this town was taking a stroll, coming
down a hill track into a valley when he noticed a red-orange light to
his right over the treetops. He thought that it was the sun until he
realised that the sun was on the opposite side of the valley. He saw
beams of light through the trees as the object came down to ground
level 350-400m away. At first the light was too intense for any
detail to be seen, but then, when the light dimmed, he saw that it
was an oval 20-25m long, 6-9m wide and 8-12m thick at the middle. The
thing was metallic grey about halfway up to a metallic ring, about
60cm wide, on which there were portholes. The object tilted left to
right and back to front as it hovered at 1m altitude. After, at most,
5 minutes, it rose up, very slowly at first , its colour getting
brighter, until at less than 30m it was dazzling again. It then
swooped over the trees at a 60-70 degree angle until it was out of
sight in less than a minute. It was silent and the witness felt a
change in the atmosphere.
- Letter from the (anonymous) witness in New Report on Flying Saucers p3.
July 28 1967.
2130hrs.
PACHECO PASS (CALIFORNIA : USA)
PACHECO PASS (CALIFORNIA : USA)
Forestry employee Randy
Higgins was in his fire lookout tower when he saw a blue-white oval
light, with a dark band around its centre, a bright white light on
top and a sponge like surface, approach. It turned and passed the
tower to the east, stopped and hovered again, illuminating the ground
with a blue-white light. The thing then circled the tower; as it did
so his CB radio emitted a whining sound, the pitch of which varied
and other interference. The object then moved away towards Mt
Hamilton, at the speed of a slow jet, leaving a trail. The
observation lasted 6 minutes.
- UFO Investigator IV, 2 p3
July 30 1967.
1800hrs.
CAPE SANTA MARIA GRANDE (SANTA CATARINA : BRAZIL)
CAPE SANTA MARIA GRANDE (SANTA CATARINA : BRAZIL)
The Argentine Shipping
Lines Co steamer Naviero was sailing some 190km off the coast of this
point when Officer Jorge Montoyo altered Captain Julian Ardanza to a
strange object near the ship. Arriving on deck the Captain saw a
cigar shaped machine about 30m long in the sea, about 15m on the
starboard side. It had a powerful blue and white glow, no visible
superstructure and made neither sound nor wake. The thing paced the
ship for 15 minutes at a somewhat faster speed, and then dived
passing right under the ship, vanishing into the depths of water. The
witnesses ruled out the possibilities that it was either a submarine
or a whale.
- Oscar Gallindez in FSR 14, 2 p22 + Australian UFO Review 10 p 40 both citing La Razon 2 August 1967. and undated issues of Cordoba + Los Principies
July 31 1967. 2215hrs.
CHURCHVILLE (NEW YORK : USA)
Sidney Zipkin (50), a
guard at the town park, was driving through the main parking lot when
he came across an object 15m long, with a round centre and extended
sides, resembling a fat cigar, with green flashing lights underneath
land. He stopped his truck within 30m of the object, and was
surprised to see two “midget like men” in shiny black uniforms
rush past his truck and enter the object, which took off vertically
into the night sky. His superior Clarence Johnson confirmed that
Zipkin was “white as a ghost” when he arrived back at the park.
Both men went to investigate but found nothing.
- Vallee Case 860 citing Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 3 August 1967.
- Lorenzen 1968 p64
- Lorenzen 1969 p277
August 1967.
TAMPA (FLORIDA : USA)
TAMPA (FLORIDA : USA)
A landing report. No
further details
- Flying Saucers 55 p33
August 1967.
MANATON (DEVON : ENGLAND)
MANATON (DEVON : ENGLAND)
Rosemary Long (17) and her
fiancée were driving past Jay’s Grave when they saw a figure
crouched over the grave. The thing stood up and it looked like a
humanoid figure draped in a blanket, with no legs, hovering above the
ground.
- Underwood 1973 p62
- Note: Jay's Grave (or Kitty Jay's Grave) is supposedly the last resting place of a suicide victim who is thought to have died in the late 18th century. It has become a well-known landmark on Dartmoor, Devon, in South-West England, and is the subject of local folklore, and several ghost stories.
August 1967. Early
morning
(LONDON : ENGLAND)
(LONDON : ENGLAND)
In south London a married
couple and a young boy next door neighbour all saw a black shape
surrounded by a yellow glow, with a flashing light on top, hover 15m
above the ground. The 6m long object then descended to just above the
ground. From its underside came an orange glow and a beam of white
light. A hairless humanoid with webbed hands and feet briefly exited
the object, then returned, at which the object took off.
- Norman Oliver in UFO Magazine 11,5 p22
August 1967.
2100hrs.
LONE BUTTE (BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
LONE BUTTE (BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
Guests at the “Big G”
guest ranch and its proprietor, Brian Grattan, saw a bright light
moving in the sky. As the light crossed the highway and settled
behind a clump of trees about 5km away, it appeared to be the size of
a DC8 and lit up the area. After the thing landed it became
surrounded by lightning, which seemed to come from a clear sky. At
0415hrs. the next morning the glow vanished in the morning light and
the storm ended. No traces were found.
- Canadian UFO Report 1,6 p5
August 1967.
2330hrs.
SHREWSBURY (SHROPSHIRE : ENGLAND)
SHREWSBURY (SHROPSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Bridget Kelly 23 and her
husband had just dismounted from a bus (or were driving home with
their three children) when she drew his attention to a light like a
shooting star in the sky. It was an object that descended rapidly
from the North East at a steep angle. It then stopped and hovered at
an angle over the rooftops. They could now see that its top portion
was a dome that glowed orange, in the lower portion of which was a
“window” from which came a sharper light that flashed on and off
as if the thing was rotating. The lower portion was dark. The object
was silent and the women noted an absence of sound during the
episode, which ended when the object swung against the direction of
travel, then “skimmed” across the rooftop to the west. Afterwards
she felt elated Bridget claimed episodes of trance like states,
premonitions etc. Under hypnotic regression in 1992 she recalled
being surrounded by people with large eyes, who performed some sort
of operation on her stomach, and recalled a tall muscular man, with
golden or red hair, wearing a grey jumpsuit standing at a console,
holding a sort of clipboard
- NUFON News 125 p9
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p162 citing own investigation and that of Phil Hoyle
- Evaluation: Reported nearly 20 years after the event. Accounts as to circumstances in which the event took place differ. Hypnotic confabulation.
August 1967.
2330hrs.
CHINGFORD (ESSEX : ENGLAND)
CHINGFORD (ESSEX : ENGLAND)
A courting couple were
sitting smoking in their car on an Epping Forest bridle path, when
they noticed some red lights near the end of the path, 140m away,
apparently moving between the trees. This was followed by a sort of
firework which through up red lights to a height of 90 cm.
Illuminated by this light was a very small figure about 90 cm tall,
with a little round head, two arms and dressed in a white mackintosh
which reached down the ground. A few moments later another firework
lit up, illuminating another dwarf. Each display lasted about 30
seconds, the whole episode 7 minutes in all. The couple had come to
the conclusion that they had seen some tiny children letting off
fireworks, when they saw a bright white light advancing towards them
at walking pace, bobbing up and down and from side to side. They
thought it was a man with a lantern, until it suddenly swooped in on
their car and they now saw it was a bright, but not blinding, light
with no disenable edges or features. When the driver switched on his
headlights he saw that this light was hanging unsupported. As the
couple tried to drive away, it seemed about 10 seconds before their
car would move. As they reversed away, a man ran from a nearby house.
It transpired that he and his wife had seen these “fireworks” for
some time and that the lady had locked herself in the bedroom in
panic. The couple informed the police that boys were letting off
fireworks in the forest, but a police search revealed nothing.
- D. J. Goring in FSR 23,1 p10
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p168 citing investigation by Barry King + BUFORA Journal 5,4
August 2 1967.
2215hrs.
RUBERY (WARWICKSHIRE : ENGLAND)
RUBERY (WARWICKSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Terry Sproson and his
girlfriend Christine Arkless were in a parked car when something
looked in first through the rear window and then glided to the front
window. When Terry went to lock the car door, the thing moved back.
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p159 citing Derek Sampson and NICAP (GB)
August 3 1967.
2000hrs.
RIO DE JANIERO (RIO DE JANIERO : BRAZIL)
RIO DE JANIERO (RIO DE JANIERO : BRAZIL)
Union lawyer, Jonil F
Vieira and his driver, Amauri B da Silva, were driving on the Miguel
Pereira Highway when, 15km out of Rio they saw two red lights to
their left, 500m away. They then saw many lights like a fairground in
an area where no lights should have been, it having only a paved
road. Though puzzled, they thought it was something to do with the
military and drove on at 80kph. The lights to the left went out. When
the two men reached Mangueira district, they saw the lights in the
sky to the right ahead of them. The object flew ahead of
them from one side of the road to another, flashing in response to
their flashing their headlights, as though someone was testing their
reactions. The object then seemed to move out of sight but on the
Bareo de Javari Road near Sito la Choumiere it reappeared. The object now hovered
about 80cm above the ground in the woods and projected one yellow and
one blue light beam. When the witnesses turned off their lights, they
saw that these strange lights were on an immense dome, moving towards
them from a spot 300m away. They saw nothing more during the rest of
their journey to the Francisco Fragoso holiday camp. There, the
administrator Nelson G Ferreira had forgotten his keys and the three
men were manoeuvring the jeep through a side gate when they saw a
brightly lit rotating cupola, with two brilliant lights, one red, the
other yellow, and sweep from behind the hills to the horizon. Both
the men in the jeep experienced painful headaches that seemed to have
been imitated by the “thought from the object”. Vieira displayed
a yellowish tinge to his face; his reflexes were inhibited and had a
curious feeling that he had lost weight, though he had not actually
done so.
- Lorenzen 1968 p16 citing the Lorenzens’ own investigation
August 3 1967.
2330hrs.
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
Horticulturist Mr de S was
sleeping was sleeping in the family car with his wife and teenage
son, in case of repetition of the earth tremors which had stuck the
area, when they both observed a luminous white object 8-10m diameter,
like two dishes lip to lip. It was hanging above the palm tree
outside their front door, illuminating the yard and greenhouse, at
30m altitude. An opening appeared in the craft and a devise
resembling a broad bottomed light bulb lowered itself to just above
the ground. Nothing could be seen connecting it to the main object. A
door opened in this devise and a small man, dressed in luminous
silvery overalls and helmet, emerged. No real details could be seen,
but they could see he was not much more than 90 cm tall, silhouetted
against the side of the house about 4m away. They saw vapour around
the creature’s head, like breath. The dwarf stooped face down,
picked up some stones from the gravel path, studied them for a
moment, then appeared to communicate with someone in the large craft.
After a while he dropped the stones, stepped back into his devise,
which then re-entered the craft. As soon as the opening on the latter
closed, it took off over the hills. During the time the object was
hovering they heard a humming sound, and saw the trees move, though
there was little breeze. The being kept looking towards them. The
next day at least three neighbours confirmed that they had seen a
glowing object over the house.
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1967. p12 + Lorenzen 1968 p44 + Lorenzen 1969 p182 + Coral Lorenzen in Fate (UK) July 1968 p25 all citing Coral Lorenzen’s first hand investigation.
August 4 1967.
0100hrs.
HEYSHAM (LANCASHIRE : ENGLAND)
HEYSHAM (LANCASHIRE : ENGLAND)
Royal Navy meteorology
observer David Spenser was walking along the promenade when he saw a
white light shoot from one cloud to another, with a humming sound, in
three seconds. He then saw before him a figure which vanished a few
seconds later.
- NUFON News 58 p5 citing an undated issue of the Morecambe Visitor
August 4 1967. Early
morning.
ARRECIFES (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUALA)
ARRECIFES (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUALA)
Engineer Hugo Sierra Yepes
was fishing in a boat 25km north of Arrecifes when he was suddenly
startled to see a disc shaped object, which appeared to be two
concavities joined by a ring, coming out of the water, some distance
from the shore. This ring had red and blue triangles on it and
appeared to be rotating. The main body of the thing was grey,
metallic, about 6m diameter. The thing hovered 1m above the sea, rose
slowly towards the east and then disappeared at terrific speed. The
whole incident lasted less than a minute.
- Lorenzen 1968 p54
- Vallee Case 863 citing UFO Investigator March 1968
- Richard Heiden citing Ciclope p171
August 4 1967.
CLYDE (OREGON : USA)
CLYDE (OREGON : USA)
Mr and Mrs Orrin Anderson
observed a yellow ring of fire in a field. The fire service was
called out but no fire could be seen. The next day a circular area of
wheat 60m diameter was found smashed down, with no tracks to indicate
an animal was responsible.
- APRO Bulletin January/March 1968 p3
August 4
1967.
TETEPANGO (HIDALGO : MEXICO)
TETEPANGO (HIDALGO : MEXICO)
Mrs A M Perez observed
three glowing discs and called her husband Antonio Neri Perez, an
office worker, and the relatives with whom they were staying. All of
them saw the take-off of the three red discs in a V formation, from a
field near the house.
- Lorenzen 1968 p65
- Richard Heiden
August 5 1967. (Approx.
date) 1400hrs.
CAPEL CURIG (CAERNARVONSHIRE later CLWYD : WALES)
CAPEL CURIG (CAERNARVONSHIRE later CLWYD : WALES)
Newspaper man Garnett
Alexander, his son John and the latter’s friend DJ (15) were
driving in a glaciated valley at 400m altitude with hills rising on
either side to 200m when an object appeared to their left, slightly
behind them, some 15-30m above the peak. The object crossed the
valley at 10m altitude, following the contours of the ground. The
thing was biconical, with blunt ends 2.5-3.5m long and 1-2m thick,
and was of metallic appearance. It flew at about 150kph, its axis
tilting at about 45 degrees. Three aircraft flew past in the same
direction 15 minutes later.
- NUFON News 40 p4 citing investigation by Jenny Randles and Paul Whetnall
August 5 1967.
2330hrs.
SAWYER (NORTH DAKOTA : USA)
SAWYER (NORTH DAKOTA : USA)
Ronald Sherven and Robert
Rodine saw a glowing white object on an east-west trajectory, north
of Sawyer. The object was hidden by a hill at first, but all of a
sudden it appeared again over a cemetery, came to ground level and
sped away to the north.
- Vallee Case 864 citing UFO Investigator October 1967
August 7 1967. (Approx.
date) 0530hrs.
RIVINGTON (LANCASHIRE : ENGLAND)
RIVINGTON (LANCASHIRE : ENGLAND)
Workman, Richard Babbs of
Westhoughton went outside to remove some pipes from a kiln when he
saw a white glistening shape on the highest point of Rivington
Castle, about 5km away. Richard saw it move to the side and then back
again and told his four colleagues, who laughed at him. However 30
minutes later one of these four also saw the object in the bushes at
the foot of the castle and altered the others. . It appeared to be
about 3m long and moved up and down the castle. It was observed until
0730.
- FSR 13, 6 p30 citing Bolton Evening News 28 August 1967
August 7 1967.
0700hrs.
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
Pedro Riera, a tenant in
the Eduvigio Building, Avila Avenue in the San Bernardino section, a
20 year old employee of a publicity agency, was awakened by the
shaking of his bed. Opening his eyes, he saw a creature by his bed,
who soared out of the open window when Pedro leapt out of bed. When
he went to the window to investigate Pedro was blinded by multi
coloured lights on the ground, forcing him to turn away. He dressed
and went out to investigate, but was deterred by the rain. Next day,
along with friends and neighbours, he found semicircular scuff marks
on the street and footprints of a reddish dust leading to his
balcony. The creature was small with a large head, agile and dressed
in a suit which appeared to be made of flexible metal, by which Pedro
had tried to seize it, before it escaped. At the same time three
neighbouring youngsters, Carmen Ortega (17), Jose Andres Pasqual (14)
and his brother Jose (8) had been awoken by bright lights and saw a
circular devise on the ground opposite Pedro’s apartment. A
policeman was also said to have witnessed the object.
- Lorenzen 1968 p77
- Lorenzen 1976 p223
- Charles Bowen in FSR 14,3 p18 citing El Mundo 19 August 1967.
August 7 1967. Afternoon.
CARACAS ( FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
CARACAS ( FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
A strange being 1.2m tall
suddenly appeared in the office Dr Sanchez Vegas, a well known doctor
respected for his charitable works among the poor, and asked for a
physical examination The being wore a silver suit, and the
examination showed he had no ear orifices , his heart made a sound
like a human fetes, his eyes were completely round, the trunk of his
body extremely long. He had 10 teeth, 5 upper and 5 lower, arranged 2
at the back, 1 at the front like those a rodent, and an unusually
high temperature. The creature explained that the doctor was not to
worry about these peculiarities, for the being was from another
world, where there was no war or disease and where methods of
reproduction were much different from those on earth. The being
claimed he had arrived in a vehicle the size of the doctor’s
examining room and did not use doors to enter buildings. He also
warned that a terrible earthquake, caused by a fissure in the earth’s
crust filling with water, would devastate the city. The being said
all this in perfect Spanish which he claimed to have learned from
monitoring radio broadcasts. Two days later Vegas suffered a heart
attack.
- Lorenzen 1968 77
- Lorenzen 1976 p223
- Charles Bowen in FSR 14,3 p18 citing El Mundo 19 August 1967.
August 7
1967. 2100hrs.
IGRIES (ARAGON : SPAIN)
IGRIES (ARAGON : SPAIN)
Engineering student
Fernando Alcazar Albajar was riding his motorcycle at km 15 between
Huesca and Sabinanigo when he saw an object fly150m above him and
land. It was disc shaped, about twice the angular diameter of the
full moon, and gave off a powerful white light as it landed, blinking
three times. Fernando panicked. There may have been other witnesses.
- Ballester 1976 12 case 49 citing investigation by CEI and his own files
August 7 1967.
2225hrs.
CODDINGTON (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE : ENGLAND)
CODDINGTON (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE : ENGLAND)
David Robinson and his
girlfriend were parked in a small clearing facing a track at the side
of Stapleford Woods, when the girl saw two circular white-yellow
lights close together 800m away. After a minute they were replaced by
a flashing red light that moved away to their right, climbing above
the trees. There was no sound and the light faded away. The girl saw
the light again, 5 minutes later, coming from the right, above the
line of trees. These lights then hovered silently about 800m away.
Puzzled the couple drove towards the lights, losing sight of them at
a bend in the road. However when they arrived
at the spot David flashed his headlights and an object came over the
trees towards them. First seen 20m away, it came to within 6m of them
at an altitude of 6m. They saw that it had a curved top and bottom,
three squares showing orange light and from either side a brilliant
beam of light was projected downwards. The thing came right up to the
frightened couple, who drove away.
- MUFORG Bulletin October 1967. p5 citing letter from David Robinson to Walter Blythe
August 8 1967.
Evening.
LAS SALINAS (FALCON : VENEZUELA)
LAS SALINAS (FALCON : VENEZUELA)
Evangelic pastor
Estanislao Lugo Contreras was at the shore when he saw a huge disc
shaped object, giving off a very bright glow, rise out of the sea
about 500m from the shore, hover for a few seconds and then rise
obliquely into the sky, with a buzzing sound, disappearing in
seconds. The object first came to the pastor’s attention when the
water began to stir and became lighter, from its usual dark blue to
an intense light blue and then white, yellow and orange. As the
object emerged its buzz was deafening and made his feet tingle. It
left towards Maiquetia.
- Lorenzen 1968 p54
August 12 1967.
0230hrs.
OGAMA (WISCONSIN : USA)
OGAMA (WISCONSIN : USA)
Robert Miedtke, his wife
and children were staying with some relatives on County Trunk Road
One, 19km east of Ogama, the children sleeping in the house with the
relatives while Robert and his wife slept in their caravan. The
couple were awoken by the barking of their German shepherd dog, which
died down after15 seconds, as though the dog was walking back to the
house. Looking out of their window, they saw a large hemispherical
object, with a fluorescent glow at ground level, in a neighbouring
pasture, shining a compact beam of light, 15m long, towards the milk
house. At this point they notice
that both the dog’s barking and the usual night sounds had stopped.
After what seemed like an hour, they both heard the sound of a heavy
person walking on the sand and gravel track. They were both very
afraid as their caravan door was slightly ajar, owing to the lie of
the ground and Robert got his gun. The footsteps were heard twice
again, each time going south to north.
An hour after the
footsteps were heard the first light of dawn appeared. The uncanny
silence was then broken by the dog whimpering like a puppy and then
barking. This was followed by a muffled sound like a huge generator
that faded away after some seconds. Everything was the normal and no
traces were found at the site. About the same time, his wife’s
uncle who lived 2.5km to the north was awakened by the barking of his
three dogs, but on investigating found nothing.
- Lorenzen 1968 p27
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1967. p11
August 12 1967. Late
evening.
RICHIBUCTO (NEW BRUNSWICK : CANADA)
RICHIBUCTO (NEW BRUNSWICK : CANADA)
A dozen teenagers saw a
“huge black monster” dressed in black, with a black face and
goggles descend from a lighted object near Richibucto
- Musgrave 1979 p46 (Case 38) citing Moncton Times 17 August 1967.
August 13 1967. 1600hrs.
PILAR DE GOIAS (GOIAS :BRAZIL)
PILAR DE GOIAS (GOIAS :BRAZIL)
Inacio de
Souza (41) manager of the Santa Maria ranch between Crixas and Pilar
de Goias a and his wife Maria (or Luiza) were returning home from a
shopping expedition, when they saw a strange object like an inverted
basin on the ranch landing strip. It was about 35m diameter. Between
the object and the couple were three strange beings who were either
naked or wearing tight fitting yellow “jersey suits”, playing
around like children. As the couple approached the beings ran towards
them as if to greet them. Thinking they were some rabble from the
city, Inacio ordered his wife into the house, grabbed his Winchester
.44 rifle and shot the nearest being in the head. At the same time a
jet of green light was fired at him from the craft, hitting him in
the chest, and he fell back to the ground. Maria rushed out to defend
her husband and grabbed the rifle, but the three beings ran back into
the craft which took off vertically, with a buzzing sound like a
swarm of bees. When the ranch owner flew in from Sao Paulo three days
later he found Inacio complaining of numbness and tingling in his
body, headaches, trembling in his hands and head and continuous
nausea. The owner was sufficiently alarmed to have him taken to a
clinic in Goiania 300 km away. There the doctor found burns on his
trunk and head forming a perfect circle 15 cm in diameter. The doctor
first suggested Inacio had come into contact with poisonous plants,
but hearing his story did blood tests which showed he was suffering
from leukaemia. Inacio died from this disease on October 11th, having
wasted away and become covered with yellow white blotches. His wife
burned his clothes and blankets on his death, according to his
instructions.
- Coral Lorenzen in Fate (UK) January 1972 p55 + Lorenzen 1976 p159 + Saucers Space and Science 55 p16 + UFOlog 59 p5 calling citing investigation by Felipe Carrion and Jader Pereira
- Charles Bowen in FSR 15,2 p13 ciitng Nigel Rimes citing an investigation by Willi Wirz) (Carrion and Pereira give wife's name as Maria, Wirz as Luiza)
- Charles Bowen in The Unexplained 64 p1279
August 14 1967.
SAINT CHARLES (NEW BRUNSWICK : CANADA)
SAINT CHARLES (NEW BRUNSWICK : CANADA)
A woman encountered a huge
black figure in black clothes, with a black face and wearing goggles.
- Musgrave 1979 p 46 (case 39) citing an undated issue of the Moncton Times
Mid August 1967.
Evening.
WELLAND (ONTARIO :CANADA)
WELLAND (ONTARIO :CANADA)
A family observed a two
lights travelling across the sky in about 3 minutes. Through
binoculars figures could be seen in one of the lights which was about
800m away
- Musgrave 1979 p 46-case 37 citing a letter to APRO
August 15 1967.
BELO HORIZONTE (MINAS GERAIS : BRAZIL)
BELO HORIZONTE (MINAS GERAIS : BRAZIL)
An unidentified object
landed beside the BR-135 highway. No further details
- Hulvio Alexio in FSR 14,6 p 11 citing CIOCANI report 254
August 15 1967.
0210hrs.
(LONDON : ENGLAND)
(LONDON : ENGLAND)
At an undisclosed location
in North London, a man getting up to go to the toilet glanced out of
his window and saw a brilliant object hovering at eye level about
300m away. Two smaller lights emerged from this main light, which
then wobbled and rose up, moving towards the witness. It was now less
brilliant and he could see that it was pear shaped. As the thing
passed over the house, the witness could that the underside consisted
of thousands of tiny lights. The object made no noise. The witness
later found that the right side of his face, his right arm and both
hands had become browned and flakey. The witness claimed that he and
others were taken to the Ministry of Defence to discuss the case, and
that the area had been cordoned off by the authorities.
- Arnold 2010 p63
August 15 1967.
0730hrs.
PORT PERRY (ONTARIO : CANADA)
PORT PERRY (ONTARIO : CANADA)
A young boy out with his
dog on a farm near Port Perry heard a strange oscillating sound and
went to investigate over a nearby hill. There he encountered a disc
shaped object about 3.5m diameter with four legs about 1.5-1.8m long,
hovering above the ground. On a platform around the perimeter were
seated about 8-10 little men, about 1m tall. They were brown with
tight fitting clothes. Later a slightly depressed circular ring about
3.5m diameter was discovered where the object had been observed
- Musgrave 1979 p46-case 40 citing a letter to APRO
August 15 1967. Night.
HUEY (ILLINOIS : USA)
HUEY (ILLINOIS : USA)
1.5km from Huey a bright
and blinding light was observed directly overhead. It moved slowly
away and appeared to land on a hill top, where it was observed for 45
minutes. The next day the witness and several others went to the
hill, where they found a circle about 2.5m diameter in a soybean
field. The beans were dried rather than burnt, the bottom of the
beans on the outer edge of the circle being still green.
- Rosetta Holmes in Skylook 33
August 16 1967.
1600hrs.
ALLENDALE (NORTHUMBERLAND : ENGLAND)
ALLENDALE (NORTHUMBERLAND : ENGLAND)
Two people were walking
towards Allendale Cottages when they saw a silver elongated object
flying slowly at treetop level towards Newcastle on Tyne reflecting
the sunlight. Openings were visible along the side. It was observed
for about 5 seconds. The wittiness’’ dog bolted just before the
object was seen.
- UFOlog 58 p1 citing Tyneside UFO Society
August 17 1967.
0045hrs.
SEDLESCOMBE (EAST SUSSEX : ENGLAND)
SEDLESCOMBE (EAST SUSSEX : ENGLAND)
A retired audiologist,
Edwin Kembury was out walking his dogs when he encountered a 27m tall
conical object with three legs. Two beings marched him away from the
object and escorted him home, where he invited them in. They staying
for about 20 minutes, examining his house. These beings were
described as being about 1.57m tall, very thin, with spindly limbs,
grey skin, like old parchment, having neither hair nor eyebrows, with
their ears just horny rings in the side of their head. They had three
fingered, claw like hands and expressionless faces, with thin lips
and very small teeth. They wore one piece suits with balaclava type
helmets. They made eight further visits in the period up to 23 September,
in some of these they stayed for some time, watching television. He
exchanged trinkets for seeds that produced a strange plant that died
and small stones that turned out to be quartz. He was never able to
communicate with them, as they old spoke in whistles, hisses,
gestures etc.
- NUFON UFO News 120 p13 citing investigations by John Timmerman and Philip Taylor
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p163 citing an unidentified newsclipping
- Derry 2013 p114 citing Daily Mirror 6 January 1988
- Randles 1993 p125)
- Evaluation: Only revealed in 1982 in a letter to the US UFOlogist John Timmerman. Delusions due to loneliness possibly based on meetings with real, possibly abusive, people?
August 18 1967. (Approx
date) 0300hrs.
ANTIMANO (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
ANTIMANO (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
Jose Gregorio Bonaci (18)
was in his room when a little man appeared. Jose was so afraid that
he ran away and began to vomit.
- Richard Heiden citing Ribera 1968 p400 citing Ultimas Noticias (Caracas) 19 August 1967.
August 18 1967.
0005hrs.
PUERTO CARAYACA (VARGAS : VENEZUELA)
PUERTO CARAYACA (VARGAS : VENEZUELA)
Luminous objects were
observed by people in this area and they saw one come down in the
hills. There also appeared on the beach strange tracks, resembling
those of a tractor coming out of the water. Mrs Luisa de Mario and
her husband saw strange luminous objects, among them one that turned
in a fashion impossible for an aeroplane. It crossed the coast until
reaching a hill, where it seemed to pause for a moment before
disappearing.
- Richard Heiden citing Ribera 1968 p407 citing Ultimas Noticias 19 August 1967.
Late August 1967.
GRAYS THURROCK (ESSEX : ENGLAND)
GRAYS THURROCK (ESSEX : ENGLAND)
Jim Fouche (15) was among
a group of schoolboys walking along a footpath through the Delafield
Playing Field when they saw what looked like a strip of light about
25m long moving over the treetops and the end of a nearby allotment.
In just seconds it drew level with them about a couple of hundred
metres away. They could now see four windows on its side, each
separated by about 15cm. Through one of these windows Jim saw a white
woman with shoulder length hair, slanted eyes and a thin pointed
nose, with no visible nostrils. The thing then tilted and moved
gradually away.
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p172 + Fry 2009 p123 both citing investigation by Dan Goring
- Evaluation: Witness really reports too much detail, i.e. the woman’s hair bouncing from side to side, than could reasonably be seen.
August 21 1967.
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
Luis Perez, a student of
architecture at the University of Caracas, returned to his home and
was shocked to find on his terrace a small humanoid with a cleavage
in his skull running from between his eyes, back over the top of his
head. His nose was a flattened replica of a normal one. The being
fled at Perez’s arrival.
- Lorenzen 1967. p78
August 22 1967. Night.
SANTA MONICA (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
Two young men, Ricardo
Hurtade and Antonio Piedra heard a strange noise, like horses
galloping, in the kitchen of their apartment. When they went to
investigate they saw two small beings leaving hurriedly. There was no
light in the kitchen so they were unable to distinguish any details,
but they felt that the late hour precluded the intruders being
children.
- Lorenzen 1976 p157
August 23 1967. (Apprx
date)
ST GERMANS (CORNWALL : ENGLAND)
ST GERMANS (CORNWALL : ENGLAND)
An object about the size
of a car, resembling a pyramid with about three quarters of the top
chopped off and one corner longer than the others, hovered over the
trees. The object, which was bright orange in colour, turned upside
down, circled and slowly disappeared.
- FSR 13,6 p30 citing Cornish Guardian 24 August 1967.
- Evaluation: Balloon ?
August 23
1967. 0400hrs.
JOYCEVILLE (ONTARIO : CANADA)
JOYCEVILLE (ONTARIO : CANADA)
Neon light salesman
Stanley Moxton (25) was driving between Kingston and Smith Falls on
his way to Montreal, and had just passed Joyceville, when, in a field
near the Glen Gove Road, he saw a green light. Thinking that
something unusual was going on he switched off his lights and turned
into a side road. When he was close to the puzzling light and facing
it, he turned on his headlights again. When he did so, they
illuminated a huge object 10m diameter, like two plates rim to rim.
Outside were two figures, about 1.2m tall, dressed in white uniforms
and helmets. When the headlights caught them, they “almost flew”
back into the craft which took off soundlessly and flew away at high
speed. No traces were found. Police confirmed that Moxton was sober.
- Lorenzen 1967. pp32 + 172
- Canadian Ufo Report 1,8 p17 + Spacelink 5,1 p16 both citing Toronto Telegram 23 August 1967
- John Cosway in Toronto Sunday Sun 8 January 1978, states that burn marks and three indentations made by great pressure were found at the site
August 23 1967.
HAMILTON COUNTY (LOUISIANA : USA)
HAMILTON COUNTY (LOUISIANA : USA)
A landing report. No
further details
- Flying Saucers 57 p24
- Evaluation: There is no parish (county) called Hamilton in Louisiana
August 23 1967.
2000hrs.
KOLMARDEN (OSTERGOTLAND : SWEDEN)
KOLMARDEN (OSTERGOTLAND : SWEDEN)
In the neighbourhood of
Kolmaarden a 15 year old boy and his girlfriend of the same age were
out strolling on a road adjacent to an industrial lot, when they
noticed a red light over the wood coming from the south and
descending close to the ground. No details were visible behind this
light. They felt trapped as though someone was watching them and
quickly left the scene, taking a short cut across a field. As they
got nearer home, however, curiosity got the better of them and they
went back onto the road. They then saw the light move away to the
east. The couple now reached an empty and padlocked cabin, around
which, to their surprise, were strange light phenomena, both inside
and outside. The former consisted of small yellow lights floating
around one of the rooms, the latter a sort of cone of light moving up
from the ground on the outer wall facing the road. They could also
here sounds like thumps on a plank. While the youngsters were still
taking this in, the red light appeared again from the west, moving on
a curved trajectory towards the north at treetop height. This red
light changed to white before apparently landing in a cornfield and
going out. The couple then ran back to his house, but finding it
unoccupied went to his sister’s house nearby.
Just as they arrived there, a luminosity suddenly appeared 3m in front of them and 3m above the ground. It seemed like a large torch which uttered a curious whistling sound. At the same time they heard fast gentle steps coming from a brook. The couple walked forward, at which a figure jumped, almost flew, out of the bushes, then stood completely still not more than 10m away. It was a being 1.3m tall dressed in some sort of dark clothing, standing with its head bent down and arms close to the body. It was difficult to make out details in the poor light, and the girl, thinking it was a friend playing a trick, stepped forward. As she did so the figure raised its head and arms in a jerky unsteady fashion. The boy then realised it was something inhuman and dragged his girl back. They both now saw that the being was carrying a box with a sort of projection which was directed towards them. A sort of gleaming light played at the top of this projection. As they stood rooted to the spot in panic, they could see that the creature had an oversized head, covered on top with a dark hood, which went down in V between the eyes, which were large, dark and had a horrible penetrating expression. The place where the mouth should have been was an X shaped marking. The arms and legs were very thin, the latter being bandy. As far as they could tell the creature wore a sort of blue-black coverall, with a kind of belt at the waist. Around its ankle joints, encircling each joint, was something resembling a cable 2m thick which flashed for an instant. The creature look paradoxically both “tough! and unsteady. The couple then got themselves quickly admitted to the house. The boy’s sisters confirmed how shaken the couple were, as did his mother when she arrived. Next day traces were found in the form of unusually damaged apples, strange footprints, 25 cm long, very deep and showing 3 toes. On the night of the 24/25 one of the sisters heard sounds outside the house and a light from an electric torch shone in through the window, footsteps were heard and two shutters were found dislodged from the window.
Just as they arrived there, a luminosity suddenly appeared 3m in front of them and 3m above the ground. It seemed like a large torch which uttered a curious whistling sound. At the same time they heard fast gentle steps coming from a brook. The couple walked forward, at which a figure jumped, almost flew, out of the bushes, then stood completely still not more than 10m away. It was a being 1.3m tall dressed in some sort of dark clothing, standing with its head bent down and arms close to the body. It was difficult to make out details in the poor light, and the girl, thinking it was a friend playing a trick, stepped forward. As she did so the figure raised its head and arms in a jerky unsteady fashion. The boy then realised it was something inhuman and dragged his girl back. They both now saw that the being was carrying a box with a sort of projection which was directed towards them. A sort of gleaming light played at the top of this projection. As they stood rooted to the spot in panic, they could see that the creature had an oversized head, covered on top with a dark hood, which went down in V between the eyes, which were large, dark and had a horrible penetrating expression. The place where the mouth should have been was an X shaped marking. The arms and legs were very thin, the latter being bandy. As far as they could tell the creature wore a sort of blue-black coverall, with a kind of belt at the waist. Around its ankle joints, encircling each joint, was something resembling a cable 2m thick which flashed for an instant. The creature look paradoxically both “tough! and unsteady. The couple then got themselves quickly admitted to the house. The boy’s sisters confirmed how shaken the couple were, as did his mother when she arrived. Next day traces were found in the form of unusually damaged apples, strange footprints, 25 cm long, very deep and showing 3 toes. On the night of the 24/25 one of the sisters heard sounds outside the house and a light from an electric torch shone in through the window, footsteps were heard and two shutters were found dislodged from the window.
- Flying Saucers 78 p18 + Saucers, Space and Science 53 p13 both citing Sven Schalin
- Phillips 1975 p51 citing APRO Bulletin September 1967
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1967. p1 citing G Kosta Rehn citing Schalin op cit
August 23 1967.
2215hrs.
LACOMBE (ALBERTA : CANADA)
LACOMBE (ALBERTA : CANADA)
A motorcyclist was driving
near a lake about 3km north of Lacombe when he saw a strange object
land. At he drove past the thing his bike engine spluttered.
- Rodeghier 1981 p36 citing Saucers, Space and Science 49
August 24 1967.
1700hrs.
WODONGA (VICTORIA : AUSTRALIA)
WODONGA (VICTORIA : AUSTRALIA)
Ron Hyde(s) was
motorcycling at 110k/h between Melbourne and Sydney along the Hulme
Highway, when about 16 km south of Wodonga, he was forced to stop by
a bluish white light which almost blinded him. After removing his sun
glasses and whipping his eyes, he was able to see, in a wide grass
clearing sloping down from the road some 30m away, a metallic object
hovering about 1m above the ground. It had a dark underside, a
polished silver top and resembled two saucers, one inverted over the
other, separated by a metallic band 25-30 cm deep. The object was
surmounted by a small dome, some 1.5m tall, on top of which was what
looked like a round, flat topped bell about 30 cm deep. On the dome
was a black, crescent shaped marking, 30 cm high, 5 cm wide. The
whole machine was between 8-9m wide and 4.5m high. Ron moved towards
the object, but his attention was momentarily caught by what he
thought was a passing car, but on looking to the road, no car was
visible. When he looked back he saw two figures 1.5m tall, dressed in
seamless metallic overalls, standing on his side of the object. They
wore opaque “fishbowl” helmets, through which no facial features
could be seen. There were no visible openings on the side of the
craft. Ron took a step towards them and the beings did the same
towards him, the one on the left taking two steps forward, raised his
hand and beckoned to him. Thoroughly frightened, Ron jumped on his
bike and sped off. As he drove off at speeds of up to 190k/h, he
heard a deep steady growl, and looking up, he saw the object,
surrounded by a pink glow, following at between 30-60m altitude. He
tried to flag down passing cars without success, and the object
overtook him. He now slowed to walking pace. The object stopped,
hovered at 45 degrees, then turned deep red, before accelerating
away, becoming almost unbearably bright as it did so, and disappeared
from view in a matter of seconds.
- Basterfield and Chalker 1976 citing Aust FSR (V) 8 p4 + Joanna Hugill in FSR 14,2 p3 + Coral Lorenzen in Fate (UK) July 1968 p23 all citing investigation by PeterNorris
- (Basterfield gives name as Hyde, other sources give it as Hydes
- Basterfield 1997 p158 adds Victoria UFO Research Society files
- Basterfield 1980 p35 case 29 citing investigation by Peter Norris and N Thornhill + AESG Case Document 4 in addition to above
August 25 1967.
1700hrs.
CATIA LA MARE (VARGAS : VENEZUELA)
CATIA LA MARE (VARGAS : VENEZUELA)
Ruben Norato was on a rock
on the beach looking out to sea when he noticed a boiling in the
water and saw three grey discs emerged from the spot and fly out to
sea.
- UFO Investigator March 1968 p5
- Lorenzen 1968 p55
August 26 1967. 0730HRS.
MAIQUETIA AIRPORT (VARGAS : VENEZUELA)
MAIQUETIA AIRPORT (VARGAS : VENEZUELA)
Marine Private 1st Class
Esteban D Cova G. had been relieved of his sentry duty at Airpostal
airlines and had just finished a shower, when coming out of the
shower room to go to his quarters, he was confronted by an ugly
dwarf, 90 cm tall, with huge head, bulging eyes, body covered in a
sort of wiry metallic hair. The creature made a deep whistling sound,
which caused the witness to feel prickling sensations in his body.
The being then said in perfect Spanish “Won’t you come with me,
we need one human being”. At this Cova fainted. When he recovered
the creature had gone. He reported the matter to his commandant, who
averred his belief in the truth of the story.
- Lorenzen 1968 p79
- Lorenzen 1976 p157
August 26 1967.
MATURIN (MONAGAS : VENEZUELA)
MATURIN (MONAGAS : VENEZUELA)
Saki Macharechi, and Arab
living in Barracas was driving to Maturin, when he saw what he
thought was a wild heron fly past and land. When he got closer, he
saw that it was a dwarf, 90 cm tall with huge eyes, standing near a
bridge. He was so frightened that he accelerated away and did not
stop until he was far away from the area.
- Lorenzen 1968 p78
August 26 1967.
2200hrs.
TEXAS CREEK (COLORADO : USA)
TEXAS CREEK (COLORADO : USA)
College student Kenneth
Flack was driving between Salinas and Canon city, when about 1km west
of Texas Creek he pulled ahead to overtake a car and camper-trailer,
when his engine suddenly failed. Both he and the drivers of the other
two vehicles pulled to the side. Flack now noticed in a field to his
left 300-400m away a silver grey oval object with a flat base and
three stilt like legs. He crossed the road, climbed the fence and
walked towards the thing, which he now saw was about the size of a
house. As he approached the oval section swivelled round to face him.
He now began to walk away from it, but as he did so a bright light
hit him, He felt as though was being hit by icicles, put his hands up
to ward it off and then passed out. The other people went to his aid
and told him that when the beam struck him he had been enveloped in a
bluish white glow, which held him for 5 minutes. It then took off,
its kegs folding under it and headed off towards Denver. As the light
went out Flack fell to the ground. The people in the camper got his
address and took him back to the dormitory. He failed to get the
addess of these and the person in the other car. He claimed to have
received a letter from the woman in the camper saying she had sent a
photograph of him surrounded by the light to the Condon Committee,
but this was never verified.
- Lorenzen 1970 p158 citing investigation by APRO Colorado
- Data Net IV, 5 p8
- Mallan 1968 p50 citing Walter Webb. These two give date as 27th as does Rodeghier 1981 p36 (incorrectly citing APRO Bulletin March/April 1969)
- Evaluation: The other witnesses were never located and the story remained an unverified anecdote
August 26 1967.
2230hrs.
CLIFTON SPRINGS (NEW YORK : USA)
CLIFTON SPRINGS (NEW YORK : USA)
Tony Moracco was walking
along Eastern Boulevard, near the intersection with East Lake Road
when he suddenly saw a large object 20m overhead. It was 75m diameter
with orange and green lights. It had an outer section 6m thick, which
was rotating. Tony could not remember anything else until a patrolman
found him in a dazed condition near Nichols ore on Eastern Boulevard
at 0150hrs.
- FSR 14,1 p.iii citing Canada Guardian 28 August 1967.
August 28 1967.
RIVERS (MANITOBA : CANADA)
RIVERS (MANITOBA : CANADA)
LAC Joe Herbert and his
girlfriend were parked in the gravel pits when the temperature rose
by over 30 degrees and solid shafts of light penetrated the cab as a
brilliant object hovered overhead. A sonic boom was heard throughout
the area and Joe suffered a headache for 12 hours.
- Gene Duplantier in Flying Saucers 58 p22 + Steiger and Whritenour 1968a p36
August 29 1967.
1030hrs.
CUSSAC (CANTAL : FRANCE)
CUSSAC (CANTAL : FRANCE)
Francois (13) and
Anne-Marie Delpauch were looking after the cattle on their parents
farm, when they noticed that the cattle seemed disturbed and were
moving to one side of the field, and into the next one. While
rounding up the cows, Francois saw what appeared to be four children
behind a hedge 40m away in the direction from which the cattle had
come. Standing on a pile of stones, he saw then four beings
silhouetted against a painfully brilliant large sphere, partly hidden
by the hedge. One of the beings was examining the soil and another,
holding something which reflected the sun, was waving his arms about.
Still thinking they were children, Francois called out to them,
whereupon one of the creatures took off vertically and plunged head
first into the sphere, the second and third did likewise. The fourth
rose up, but then dived down again for the “mirror” before
plunging into the sphere, which had already risen to 15m in the air
in a spiralling motion. As the object rose up the light grew in
intensity and it gave off a soft, sharp whistling sound, mingled with
a murmuring which the children could only compare to an unfelt
breeze.
As the object made further circles the light grew ever more intense and the sound cut out. The sphere then moved off at high speed to the north west. A smell of sulphur began to spread over the area, the cattle became agitated and the dog tried to chase the object. The children were too busy with the cattle to see the object disappear. They put the cattle away as quickly as possible, and ran home scared and crying. The sound was heard by Mr Delecher, the village constable, who went to the site and also noted the sulphurous smell. Francois’ eyes were runny and red for sometime afterwards. They described the object as a featureless sphere 2m diameter. Anne-Marie, but not Francois, saw a landing gear and 3-4 thin legs ending in pads 10 cm in diameter, which just vanished as the object took off. The beings ranged between 1-1.2m tall, were of a silky black colour and were either naked or wearing very close fitting clothing. They had unnaturally long and thin arms, their legs were short and thin with webbed feet. Their heads were in proportion, but their crania and chins were extremely pointed, and they had tufts of beard on their side of their faces and under their chins.
As the object made further circles the light grew ever more intense and the sound cut out. The sphere then moved off at high speed to the north west. A smell of sulphur began to spread over the area, the cattle became agitated and the dog tried to chase the object. The children were too busy with the cattle to see the object disappear. They put the cattle away as quickly as possible, and ran home scared and crying. The sound was heard by Mr Delecher, the village constable, who went to the site and also noted the sulphurous smell. Francois’ eyes were runny and red for sometime afterwards. They described the object as a featureless sphere 2m diameter. Anne-Marie, but not Francois, saw a landing gear and 3-4 thin legs ending in pads 10 cm in diameter, which just vanished as the object took off. The beings ranged between 1-1.2m tall, were of a silky black colour and were either naked or wearing very close fitting clothing. They had unnaturally long and thin arms, their legs were short and thin with webbed feet. Their heads were in proportion, but their crania and chins were extremely pointed, and they had tufts of beard on their side of their faces and under their chins.
- FSR 14,5 p7 + Spacelink 5,3 p17 both citing Joel Mesnard and Claude Pavy in Phénomènes Spatiaux June 1968
- Bourret 1977 p117)
August 29 1967.
1330hrs.
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
Numerous students on the
campus of University of Venezuela saw a strange luminous metallic
looking disc come from the sky and land at the rear of the Institute
of Tropical Medicine gardens. On the ground the thing gave off a
great deal of smoke and then took off towards the Avila Mountain,
after a few seconds. The landing of this object was independently
observed by radio engineer Mrs Ligia Riviere, who described it as
being of great size.
- Lorenzen 1968 p79
August 29 1967.
2015hrs.
THE GARDENS (TASMANIA : AUSTRALIA)
THE GARDENS (TASMANIA : AUSTRALIA)
A party of seven hunters
saw six round objects appear out of a gully. They were surrounded by
little lights and had bright lights on their underside. They darted
off to the east after the hunters shone a spotlight on them.
- Basterfield 1981 p87 citing TUFOIC files
August 29 1967.
2200hrs.
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
About 25 people on Cradle
Hill, including Arthur Shuttlewood, saw a conical object land near
some woods 1 km away. The object had a revolving rim which was
shooting out beams of light. Shuttlewood encountered and communicated
with an occupant, but then became afraid, and as he walked away, the
object blacked out, and he became aware of an unusually stillness and
absence of sound. This silence was broken by a heavy thumping sound,
like “the wings of a giant bird”, and he was struck by a huge
pressure which passed in a few moments.
- Shuttlewood 1968 p53
August 29 1967. 2310hrs.
OKA (QUEBEC : CANADA)
OKA (QUEBEC : CANADA)
Yvan Guindon was looking
after his two sisters, who were asleep while his parents were out. He
heard a pulsating noise, which startled the cats and made the dogs
outside howl in a peculiar fashion. . A strange light then caught
Yvan’s attention and he made out, about 50m from the house a
strange luminous object crossing the treetops left to right, about
5-6m above the ground. There was also a sound like cracking or things
falling. The object retreated until
it was about 60m away, facing and slightly to the left of the
bathroom window. The thing was 10m diameter, 5m high. The top part
gave off a steady white light, while from the circumference, red,
yellow and orange pulsating lights intermingled. Yvan then saw a very
intense luminous ray dart from the bottom of the object. This circled
around, as if inspecting the surface of the ground. It then rose to
the top the height of the window, dazzling and terrifying Yvan, who
jumped from the bench on which he was standing and threw himself to
the floor.
After 2-3 minutes Yvan’s eyes cleared and he picked himself up again. He saw that the strange object was still there and rising from its top was a luminous cylindrical column, which reminded him of one of the great hydraulic levers in the service station. When this pillar reached a height of 12m it opened up and formed a sort of transparent bell around the object, like a fountain of light, reaching to the ground in a circle of 60m. The pulsating sound increased and at the same time the powerful lights went out and the thing shot up to 300m and disappeared to the NNW in an instant. The observation ended at 2325. A few minutes later, Yvan’s parents arrived home and were shocked by his pale face and bloodshot eyes and thought he had been involved in an accident. The next day, at the spot where the object had hovered, three trees, at least 20cm diameter were found smashed into matchsticks over an area of 3-4m, while neighbouring trees were undamaged.
After 2-3 minutes Yvan’s eyes cleared and he picked himself up again. He saw that the strange object was still there and rising from its top was a luminous cylindrical column, which reminded him of one of the great hydraulic levers in the service station. When this pillar reached a height of 12m it opened up and formed a sort of transparent bell around the object, like a fountain of light, reaching to the ground in a circle of 60m. The pulsating sound increased and at the same time the powerful lights went out and the thing shot up to 300m and disappeared to the NNW in an instant. The observation ended at 2325. A few minutes later, Yvan’s parents arrived home and were shocked by his pale face and bloodshot eyes and thought he had been involved in an accident. The next day, at the spot where the object had hovered, three trees, at least 20cm diameter were found smashed into matchsticks over an area of 3-4m, while neighbouring trees were undamaged.
- Phénomènes Spatiaux 18
August 30 1967. (Approx.
date) Early morning.
BLACKPOOL (LANCASHIRE : ENGLAND)
BLACKPOOL (LANCASHIRE : ENGLAND)
A mysterious object 5.5m
long, glowing red and white, was seen hovering over a field near the
Lytham-St Anne’s/Blackpool Junction by two people in a car. The
startled travellers started their car only to find that the object
paced them as far as Peel Corner where it shot high above the clouds
and disappeared.
- FSR 13,6 p30 citing London Stage 31 August 1967.
August 30
1967. 2030hrs.
NANTWICH (CHESHIRE : ENGLAND)
NANTWICH (CHESHIRE : ENGLAND)
Two newsboys, David J (13)
and Peter H(12) were cycling along Middlewich Road near the Valley
Stream road bridge, when David, who was in the lead, drew Peter’s
attention to an object about 1.5km away to the left. It approached
rapidly and hovered about 30m directly over them. It was a silvery
oval object, surmounted by a transparent dome, on top of which was an
antenna. There was something that looked like a cross on the side of
this dome, and on the base of the object was dark grey ridge. After
about 30 seconds the thing took off at tremendous speed, horizontally
at first and then climbing steeply up. Peter dreamed about the thing
the next night.
- Stanway and Pace 1968 p26 citing their own investigation
August 31 1967.
2120hrs.
RICE LAKE (WISCONSIN : USA)
RICE LAKE (WISCONSIN : USA)
While driving home to
Barron from Rice Lake, Rev Arleigh Lutz and his wife saw strange
object beside the road and stopped to investigate, joined by the
occupants of three other cars. The thing was taking off slowly and
they estimated that it was larger than a car, with a dark upper part
and a silvery-brown, metallic looking lower section, illuminated by
two large, intense lights, one purple, the other an unusual shade of
green, on its sides, just below a sort of concave dip in the side.
The object rose at an angle of 30-40 degrees, hovered for a second or
so and then sped off to the north east at terrific speed. It made no
sound.
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1967. p8 citing investigation by Linda Hoch
August 31 1967.
2130hrs.
BENTILEE, STOKE ON TRENT (STAFFORDSHIRE : ENGLAND)
BENTILEE, STOKE ON TRENT (STAFFORDSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Three schoolgirls Carol M,
Janet B (12) and Caroline T (14) went to the field of Hanley High
School “to look for flying saucers”. They saw two lights in the
sky and the third coming rapidly from the direction of the fields,
about 3m above the ground. The thing slowed down and hovered above
the school clock for about 5 minutes. There was a whooshing sound
like the wind. The girls described the object as dome shaped with an
orange glow at the top, a brighter red section at the base. Beneath
the dome was a white disc with red, green, white and orange lights
mingling. As the object came towards them, these lights lit up the
ground beneath it. After about 5 minutes the object moved off over
the houses, its lights reducing to one faint white light, and it
rocked before taking off. On her way home 10 minutes later, Janet
thought she saw the object in the sky again and became very
frightened.
- Stanway and Pace 1968 pp10, 34 citing their own investigation
September 1967.
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Leonard Pike was driving
between Warminster and Frome when he heard a loud sound and his car
began to heat up, and its engine to misfire. Getting out he saw an
object above his car, swaying from side to side. The object turned
onto its side and moved off over Cley Hill. Leonard was then able to
start his car.
- Rogers 1994 p15
Early September
1967.
DRUMHELLER VALLEY (ALBERTA : CANADA)
DRUMHELLER VALLEY (ALBERTA : CANADA)
A couple driving through
the Drumheller Valley ducked, as an object shaped like on bowl
inverted over the other, swooped down as their car windshield and
then moved up into the hills, where they saw it shining brightly from
some time
- Flying Saucers 58 p22 + Gene Duplantier in Steiger and Whritenour 1968a p38 both citing Duplantier in Saucers, Space and Science 50
Early September 1967.
1945hrs.
WINCHESTER (CONNECTICUT : USA)
WINCHESTER (CONNECTICUT : USA)
A woman was driving north,
with her three young sons, on a country road, when her eldest (10)
called her attention to about 18 extended dim red lights, arranged in
a trapezoid fashion. They appeared to be about 4.5m high and 45cm
above the road. The woman accelerated after the lights and chased
them for about 300m until they vanished between two sugar maples to
her left. The lights disappeared as if they had been occluded right
to left. No structure was visible behind these lights.
- Condon and Gilmour 1969a p341 citing investigation by Ayer and Wadsworth.
- Evaluation: Ayer and Wadsworth considered that it was possible but not likely that the family had seen lights from a microwaves tower
September 1967. 1800hrs.
CLARE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
CLARE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
Mrs Collins saw a
brilliant white oval light about 1m above the ground about 40-60m
away. She ran to get her husband and when the couple returned the
object took off and then shot off over the hills at great speed
- Basterfield 1997 p158 citing UFO Research Far North Queensland + UFO Research South Australia
September 1
1967. 0115hrs.
BENTILEE, STOKE ON TRENT (STAFFORDSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Mrs Becanin could not
sleep and went to get a glass of water. Before she went back to bed
she looked out of the bedroom window and saw three lights in a field
800m away. They were orange coloured, one closer than the other two
at ground level. The nearer light, large and bright, was flashing and
began to throw off a vertical shower of green sparks. The thing then
rose very slowly into the air and disappeared in the NE; the smaller
lights vanished also. The observation lasted about 2 minutes. Mrs
Becanin and her son Michael had seen a similar spectacle on the night
of 30 August.
- Stanway and Pace 1968 p10, 36
September 2 1967.
0205hrs.
HANLEY, STOKE ON TRENT (STAFFORDSHIRE; ENGLAND)
Mrs Gillian Freakley had
been sitting up reading and before retiring, opened the front door to
see if she “could see anything unusual”. After 10 minutes she
decided to go in again, when, looking up the street, she saw two gray
objects moving to and fro. They were facing each other across the car
park. These objects were identical solid L shaped masses, resembling
children’s bootees. They were moving towards each other and their
fronts appeared to merge from time to time. The objects were each
less than half the size of a Mini Saloon parked in the street. Around
the top of each was an oval light, yellow then orange towards the
outside, which flickered on and off in time to the movement of the
objects. After about 10 minutes, she called to her husband; the oval
light had gone, and she could see the front of a larger object of
similar shape, into which one of the two smaller objects was backing.
She retreated out of the light of the door and when she returned a
few minutes later, with her husband, the objects had gone.
- Stanway and Pace 1968 pp1, 38 citing own investigation
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p 181 citing above
September 2 1967.
WAPPING
(CONNECTICUT : USA)
A landing report. No
further details.
- George Fawcett in Flying Saucers 57 p24
September 2 1967.
2115hrs.
BENTILEE, STOKE ON TRENT (STAFFORDSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Three young boys, David
McCue, Graham Treece and Kenneth Harrington, were playing hide and
seek when they saw a ball of fire going towards the north-west and
changing direction. The exited children called two neighbours, Mrs
Bowen and Mrs Stevenson to the scene. All the witnesses described the
object as a dull yellow-orange spinning disc, surmounted by a
stationary red dome, the apparent size of a living room. It appeared
to come to ground level over some fields about 800m away. Six
children ran after it, followed by the two women. The thing was seen
to rise over a hedge, and then return to its original position. At
this point it was the apparent size of a “grapefruit at arm’s
length”, and lit up the trees and ground like a sunset. The two
women went to call the police, but David and Kenneth saw first the
red light go out, the disc become more yellow and then go out. The
boys went to the presumed landing place but could find nothing.
Police searches were equally fruitless but they did see a white light
rise into the air and blink off. The two women and their dog were
apprehensive but the boys felt no fear. David heard a sort of buzzing
sound when the object moved over the fence.
- Stanway and Pace 1968 pp11, 40 and 46i
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p 182 citing above
September 3 1967.
1830hrs.
ESK VALLEY (HAWKES BAY, NORTH ISLAND : NEW ZEALAND)
ESK VALLEY (HAWKES BAY, NORTH ISLAND : NEW ZEALAND)
While being driven to
Napier by her husband, Mrs Gladys Kelly was looking through the car
window as they entered the Esk Valley, when she observed an oval
object enter the valley from the east. It had a round bottom and a
bulging top. It was first seen about 2km away, but then much closer.
It passed in front of the hills in the background as it descended at
45 degrees at terrific speed. It had two large vapour trails. The
sighting only lasted a couple of seconds and Mr Kelly was too
preoccupied with driving to see it.
- V J Ballester Olmos citing Spaceview August-October 1967.
September 3 1967.
Evening.
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
After coming home from
work with a severe headache, Paula Valdez retired to bed after taking
aspirin. She was in a half daze, listening to the transistor radio,
when she was roused by a whistling sound. She thought it was static
on the radio and moved to turn the dial, when she became aware of a
presence in the room. Looking to the side of the bed, she saw a small
man, with a large head and prominent eyes, leaning towards her. As
she cringed back in fear, the being said “I want you to come with
us so that you will know other worlds and you’ll realise how small
your world is”. As Paula screamed for her mother, the being ran out
of the room with a floating motion.
- Lorenzen 1968 p80
- Lorenzen 1976 p224
September 4 1967. 0510hrs.
VALENCIA (CORDOBA : VENEZUELA)
VALENCIA (CORDOBA : VENEZUELA)
Police officer Porfirio
Antonio Andrade was on duty in the city hall when he heard a humming
sound followed by footsteps coming from the garage. Grabbing his
submachine gun, he went to investigate. He was confronted by a small
man, 1.2m tall, with a large head, and bulging eyes which gave off a
red light, and was wearing a silvery metallic overall. As the officer
pointed his gun at the being, a Spanish voice from the roof said
“Don’t do him any harm, we are here on a peaceful mission, he
won’t do you any harm”. The voice seemed to come from a disc
shaped object hovering in the air and wobbling from side to side. The
little man then spoke to Andrade, urging him to come to their distant
world, which was much larger than earth and contained many
advantages. Andrade argued that his duty prevented him from taking
such a trip. The being tried to convince him that he could be easily
brought back in time, but Andrade wouldn't budge. The little man then
lifted one foot followed by the other and flew up to the object
hovering above, in which an opening had appeared through which he
floated. This door then closed, white smoke and flames issued from
four tubes, the humming noise started again and the object left.
- Lorenzen 1967. p82
- Lorenzen 1976 p25 (gives date as 9th).
September 4 1967. 2355hrs.BURGHFIELD COMMON (BERKSHIRE : ENGLAND)A number of people on sky watch organised by Arthur Eedle, a science teacher at Stoneham Grammar School, saw a large glowing object, with revolving lights, descend slowly over the Royal Ordnance Factory and apparently land in a nearby wood. A reporter and a schoolboy went to investigate but pound themselves stopped by a sort of force field.
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p 184
September 5 1967.
0030hrs.
TABER (ALBERTA : CANADA)
TABER (ALBERTA : CANADA)
Evan Evanson (18) was
driving his pickup truck home, about 1.5km south of Highway 3, south
of Taber, when he stopped in an turnoff, listening to the radio, to
allow his overheated engine to cool. Suddenly he noticed a large
green, glowing object, like two dishes rim to rim, the size of a
truck, only about 30cm away. The radio gave off a beeping sound and
the truck engine stopped. The thing then disappeared. Evan was still
trembling with fear when he reached home.
- Lorenzen 1967. p32
- Brian Cannon in Canadian UFO Report 1,7 p26
- Gene Duplantier in Steiger and Whritenour 1968b and Flying Saucers 58 p23)
September 5 1967.
0200hrs.
PORT TOWNSEND (WASHINGTON : USA)
PORT TOWNSEND (WASHINGTON : USA)
Five People saw
a white domed object come from behind a hill and apparently land on a
golf course. The next day a burned ring was found on the course.
- NICAP UFO Chronology http ://www.nicap.org/waves/1967.fullrep.htm citing Port Townsend Leader 7 September 1967.
September 6 1967.
AVON (CONNECTICUT : USA)
AVON (CONNECTICUT : USA)
A landing report. No
further details.
- George Fawcett in Flying Saucers 57 p24
September 6 1967.
2230hrs.
BETHPAGE STATE PARK (NEW YORK : USA)
BETHPAGE STATE PARK (NEW YORK : USA)
Physician Dr Edward W
Goldstein was driving along a desolate road circling the state park,
when he noticed, in the west, an illuminated cigar shaped object,
100m away at 15m altitude. It was glowing a rose colour. A second
glow then appeared in the south and the car began to slow and then
stop. Edward then heard faint chattering voices, as if from four
individuals, from his car radio, which was switched off. The incident
lasted for 30 minutes.
- Steiger and Whritenour 1969 p12
- Steiger 1976 p13
- Steiger 1974 p139)
September 8 1967. 0230hrs.
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT; VENEZUELA)
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT; VENEZUELA)
As Miss Alicia Rivas
Aguillar (23) was turning off her bed lamp, she saw a strange
creature outside her bedroom window. Before she closed her eyes and
screamed, she noticed that the creature moved as if suspended by a
balloon, and gesticulated. Her screams alerted her parents who ran
into the room, where they saw the creature soaring over the rooftops,
surrounded by a blue-yellow glow. Her brother in law Gumersindo Meire
was also roused and, going to his own window, saw the creature launch
itself from the window ledge and soar to the east, with its hands and
feet pointing backwards. All witnesses described the creature as
wearing a silvery metallic uniform, with epaulettes, though no
further features could be distinguished. A strong smell of melted
iron was noted and an area in the flower bed under the girl’s
window was found pressed down.
- Lorenzen 1968 p81
- Lorenzen 1976 p225).
September 8 1967.
0645hrs.
ATLANTA (GEORGIA : USA)
ATLANTA (GEORGIA : USA)
Near Atlanta, an object,
encircled by two bands of light and making a purring sound, hovered
over the road in front of the witness’s car and then rose and
vanished over the hill.
- UFOlog 51 p6 citing an unspecified issue of Saucer New
September 9 1967.
M6 MOTORWAY (CHESHIRE : ENGLAND)
M6 MOTORWAY (CHESHIRE : ENGLAND)
Tony Laydon was driving
with his parents to Blackpool when they observed a purple disc at 30m
altitude, projecting a cone of red light onto the grass bank of the
motorway.
- Eileen Buckle in FSR Case Histories 6 p18
September 11 1967.
2130hrs.
VILLA CONSTITUCION near ROSARIO (SANTA FE : ARGENTINA)
VILLA CONSTITUCION near ROSARIO (SANTA FE : ARGENTINA)
During the course of a
violent storm a brilliant orange light detached itself from the
clouds and swiftly descended into a grass paddock, 300m from the
house of Mrs Catalina Salvareza de Calamante. This thing was 3m
diameter, 2m high, had four antennae like extensions, and was rocking
gently to and from about 1m above the ground, emitting blinding
flashes of light. It was disc shaped and surrounded by a yellow glow
that lit up the rain soaked field. After four hours of observation by
the family and farmworkers (10 in all) the object rose slowly and
then accelerated at high speed into the clouds. It left behind a
strong smell of sulphur and grass was totally burned over an area 3m
diameter. Long marks, 5vcm wide, were found on the ground and dark
pellets of a substance with a disagreeable smell. On analysis these
were shown to contain Carbon, Magnesium, Iron, Nickle, Copper and a
few other impurities. The analysis also showed that the soil and the
wire netting of the fence were unusually radioactive. The deaths of
two cows, found with burst stomachs had also been attributed to the
incident. During the incident a transistor radio failed to function,
though it did so perfectly afterwards.
- Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 15 p11 citing G Aldunati in Bol. Fen Aereos 1968 2 p51
- Oscar Gallindez in Australian UFO Review 10 p48
- Brian Cannon in Skylook 36
- Lorenzen 1968 p69
- H B Alexio in FSR 14,6 p11 + FSR 15,1 p13 citing Tribuna 17 September 1967. + Nicolas M Ojeda
- UFO Analysis Report 1,1 p10)
September 14 1967. 1050hrs.
LA BALEIA (MINAS GERAIS : BRAZIL)
LA BALEIA (MINAS GERAIS : BRAZIL)
Fabio J Diniz (16) was
walking towards the hospital, where he was hoping to sell window
shutters, when his attention was caught by a mushroom shaped object
in the middle of the football pitch. Thinking it was some military
devise, he walked towards it. Suddenly, with a faint sound, a sort of
“transparent screen” dropped from the sides of the cupola to the
ground. Behind this screen the cylinder which was the base of the
cupola was visible. An opening appeared in this cylinder from the
bottom up in a curious manner that the youth could not really
describe, and two strange beings emerged only 5m away. They were just
over 2m tall, of human form and proportions, robust build, and clad
from head to toe in green tight fitting diving suits, leaving only a
part of the face visible. Their skin appeared green, they had two
large round eyes without the white, which were set far apart and
surmounted by thick triangular eyebrows. Their mouths and noses were
obscured by a sort of mask, from which went a tube which went right
down the chest and heel. then up to the nape of the neck. They had
swollen heels and four thick fingers. One of the beings antennae on
his head, and when Fabio tried to run away this being told him not to
run away but come. It then told him to appear there the next day or
they would take his family.
The other being walked right around the cylinder in long, rapid strides, the feet being lifted very high. The heels seemed to depress the ground. When it had competed its circuit it joined its companion and Fabio saw it was carrying something like a weapon pointed at him. The beings re-entered the cylinder, the spokesman first. The opening closed, the screen raised with a creaking sound like that of a scissors grinder. The object then slowly rose straight up. As he fled, Fabio looked back to see the object moving slowly away at an oblique angle, but when he looked back a second time the object had gone. He described the object as consisting of a central dome, brown, 6m diameter, with a row of “portholes” which revolved when the object took off. From the base of the cupola red, yellow and blue beams flashed intermittently/ The cylinder was shiny black, 3m wide and more than 2m high. The screen gave off no reflections, and on top of the cupola was a stationary triangular protuberance. Fabio ran back, caught the next bus and reported the matter to the police. Some vague marks, and scorched granular material were found at the site. An analysis of the latter showed it consisted of iron, aluminium, magnesium, silicon with traces of phosphorous and 6 other metals.
The other being walked right around the cylinder in long, rapid strides, the feet being lifted very high. The heels seemed to depress the ground. When it had competed its circuit it joined its companion and Fabio saw it was carrying something like a weapon pointed at him. The beings re-entered the cylinder, the spokesman first. The opening closed, the screen raised with a creaking sound like that of a scissors grinder. The object then slowly rose straight up. As he fled, Fabio looked back to see the object moving slowly away at an oblique angle, but when he looked back a second time the object had gone. He described the object as consisting of a central dome, brown, 6m diameter, with a row of “portholes” which revolved when the object took off. From the base of the cupola red, yellow and blue beams flashed intermittently/ The cylinder was shiny black, 3m wide and more than 2m high. The screen gave off no reflections, and on top of the cupola was a stationary triangular protuberance. Fabio ran back, caught the next bus and reported the matter to the police. Some vague marks, and scorched granular material were found at the site. An analysis of the latter showed it consisted of iron, aluminium, magnesium, silicon with traces of phosphorous and 6 other metals.
- Hulvio B Alexio in FSR 14,6 p12 + FSR 15,1 p8
September 14 1967.
2000hrs.
WICHITA (KANSAS : USA)
WICHITA (KANSAS : USA)
Mike F (11) and friends
observed a disc shaped object with windows around its circumference
land in a field near some trees. The boys ran home and did not
return. The thing was first seen as a bright light descending to the
ground. At ground level the lads saw lights rotating behind the
windows and noted that the thing was surmounted by a cupola. One of
the boys’ mother went to the site and saw the lights, but would not
let the boys return to the site.
- APRO Bulletin September October 1967. p8
September 15 1967.
KESSLERVILLE (PENNSYLVANIA : USA)
KESSLERVILLE (PENNSYLVANIA : USA)
A strange object was seen
on or close to the ground. No further details.
- George Fawcett in Flying Saucers 57 p24
September 15 1967.
Afternoon.
CORNWALLIS RIVER (NOVA SCOTIA : CANADA)
CORNWALLIS RIVER (NOVA SCOTIA : CANADA)
Four boys observed a black
circular object dive out of the sky, hover in the air, oscillating
like a spinning top and then descend into the water of the Cornwallis
River dike. The object was 4.5m diameter, 1.8m high, It made no
splash as it went into the water. The event was researched by the
National Research Council’s meteorite committee.
- Keel 1971a p159 citing Halifax (NS) Chronicle Herald 19 September 1967.
September 15 1967. 2045hrs.
WINSTED (CONNETICUT : USA)
WINSTED (CONNETICUT : USA)
Carol Luke (14) was in her
farmhouse bedroom with her friend Ruth Passini (14) when they
observed a bright glowing object, the apparent size of a Volkswagen
of that period, above and behind a barn complex about 150-200m away.
The object changed colour white-beige-pink-red-orange about 10 times,
moving up and down and side to side. After about 30 minutes they
heard a noise like the sound of a motor mower coming from the barn
area, then two small figures about 1.35m tall emerged from the barn,
and stood by the mail box. The beings seemed to be dressed alike, and
the one more clearly visible had an oversized head. The two beings
may have crossed the road for a short while, then returned with a
third. When a car headlights appeared they then ran past the barn.
When the car was in the area the lights of the object in the field
apparently dimmed, but when car went, the light flared up again. The
object then began to move away diagonally, dimming as it did so. At
2200hrs. when Mrs Luke arrived home it was barely visible. Mrs
Pinozza who lived opposite claimed to have seen a watermelon shaped
object while taking out the wash.
- Lorenzen 1968 p167 citing Larry Fawcett
- Condon 1969 p347 citing investigation by Ayer, Wadsworth and Ted Thobin
- Matthews 2009 p11)
September 16 1967.
1945hrs.
WINSTED (CONNECTICUT : USA)
WINSTED (CONNECTICUT : USA)
Mrs Ritchie was driving
with her three young boys on the hilly Plat Hill Road, when rounding
a bend they saw a conical object on the road about 100m ahead. It was
as wide as the road and as high as the utility poles. Along the sides
and on the centre of the thing were red lights that commended about
30cm above the road. The thing moved slowly away as she approached
and when she reached the site, nothing could be seen. The object made
no sound.
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1967. p9
September 18 1967.
0100hrs.
NANTON (ALBERTA : CANADA)
NANTON (ALBERTA : CANADA)
Forestry worker Russell
Hill heard a strange pulsating sound and saw a green light sweep the
walls of his cabin, which came from an object hovering in the south
west. When he attempted to radio a colleague, Russell found his radio
and lights were not functioning, though his petrol engine worked. The
object then turned white and shot into the sky. The lights and radio
then functioned.
- Lorenzen 1968 p33
September 20 1967.
2230hrs.
WINSTED (CONNECTICUT : USA)
WINSTED (CONNECTICUT : USA)
Mrs Pasko went to look in
on her sleeping son, and saw through the bedroom window a glow in the
woods. Fearing a fire she woke her son, but he said that he didn’t
think it was a fire. Rather it was an orange pink glow. Mrs Pasko
went back to her TV but returned to the window shortly afterwards,
but the glow had now gone. Three days later Mr Pasko and a forest
ranger, interested in buying timber went into the woods and
discovered a burnt depressed area, 10m across, in the shape of a tear
drop. There was a central triangular imprint and three others,
forming an equilateral triangle with 3m sides. Several high trees
were broken off near the tops and their trunks were scraped as if
they had been in contact with a falling object.
- APRO Bulletin November/December 1967. p4
September 21 1967.
0030hrs.
SANTA COLOMA (CATALONIA : SPAIN)
SANTA COLOMA (CATALONIA : SPAIN)
Jose M Edrosa (40) was
driving between Santa Coloma and La Roca on his way back to
Granollers, when he saw a “great fluorescence” which he saw was
coming from a “casserole” shaped object resting on the ground.
Going towards the craft were some small men with large heads,
resplendent in white clothing. The car reared up and Edrosa ran away
in panic. This formerly calm man suffered a nervous breakdown after
the incident, requiring 6 months hospitalisation, and later refused
to discuss the incident.
- Ballester 1976 p12 case 50 citing Alberto Adell first hand
September 22 1967. Night.
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
CARACAS (FEDERAL DISTRICT : VENEZUELA)
A racetrack employee was
awakened by a tug on his pillow, a tight grip on his arm, and as he
sat up a strong arm encircled his neck, almost choking him. He was
saved when a horse neighed in a nearby stable, and whoever or
whatever had hold of him ran out. His screams alerted his fellows,
who found him unconscious with numerous scratches and nicks in his
back and chest. 30 minutes later his assistant heard the mare they
looked after kicking in her stall. As he went to investigate, a small
man about 1m tall, with an ape like appearance, zoomed out of the
stable and was gone in seconds. The mare was skittish, nervous and
off her food for several days.
- Lorenzen 1968 p83
- Lorenzen 1976 p226
September 22 1967.
2030hrs.
GRAVOIS sic (FRANCE)
GRAVOIS sic (FRANCE)
A Catholic priest driving
south from Versailles was about 5km from Gravois when he observed a
light, he compared to the size of a large grapefruit. It was clear
and bright and so low that he thought it was a reflection in his
window from the ground. He turned down the window and pulled over to
observe the light for 15 minutes before it swung round and headed off
to the north west, then turned north and then north east. Another
motorist and his son also observed the thing, but other motorists
seemed to ignore it.
- Sagan and Page 1972 p.xxiii
- Evaluation: I cannot find this place name in Google. It may be Gravigny, Longjumeau, in the Eure Départment, which is about 25km south of Versailles
September 25, 1967.
0700hrs.
BURET (LUXEMBERG DÉPARTMENT : BELGIUM)
BURET (LUXEMBERG DÉPARTMENT : BELGIUM)
Mr Lambert saw a strange
greenish 20m diameter object with a cupola, surrounded by a blue
mist. The thing jumped from a small wood and hovered 30m away from
the front of Lambert’s summer cottage at an altitude of 15-20m. It
then ascended at terrific speed. It was observed for three minutes.
- Jacques Bonabot citing Inforspace 3
September 25 1967. (Approx date) 2130hrs.
SAN FELIU DE CODINAS (CATALONIA : SPAIN)
SAN FELIU DE CODINAS (CATALONIA : SPAIN)
Mauricio Weisenthal and
his fiancee Maria Rosa Font were driving towards Barcelona 4 km from
San Feliu, when they saw in their car headlights, and almost hit, a
humanoid creature 70 cm tall, with bright green skin, short thick
legs, and long arms. Both witnesses were shocked.
- Balllester 1976 p12 case 51 citing Stendek 4 p5 + LDLN 115 p15)
September 27 1967.
KINGSTON ON MURRAY (SOUTH AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
KINGSTON ON MURRAY (SOUTH AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
A highway department
drilling team observed an object approaching at fantastic speed,
coming directly towards their rig, so close that the men thought it
would crash into them. This object then suddenly changed course, rose
and stopped in a position high above the nearby trees where it was
seen for three hours. It was the apparent size of an Australian 50c
coin of the period at arm’s length, changing shape from round to
oval and back.
- UFOlog 53 p4 citing an unspecified issue of UFOIC Newsletter
- Evaluation: The second part of the observation is clearly a bright star or planet
September 28 1967.
0130hrs.
MAIQUETIA (VARGAS : VENEZUELA)
MAIQUETIA (VARGAS : VENEZUELA)
Omar Amaya T, chief
dispatcher at the administrative centre at Maiquetia International
Airport, observed three discs crossing the sky north to south.
Suddenly one of the objects lagged behind and then dived towards the
sea, veering up just before hitting the water and then resuming its
place in the formation heading towards Caraballeda.
- Lorenzen 1968 p78
September 28 1967.
SWAN RIVER (MANITOBA : CANADA)
SWAN RIVER (MANITOBA : CANADA)
A farmer saw an object
that appeared to land on his field. At the site, 12m from the
municipal road a small ball of finely shredded pure aluminium was
found.
- Saucers, Space and Science 51 p12
September 28 1967.
KINGSTON ON MURRAY (SOUTH AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
KINGSTON ON MURRAY (SOUTH AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
A huge oval object
descended rapidly towards the rig and then rose vertically. As the
thing rose a jet airliner passed beneath it, at which the strange
object appeared 5 times larger than the plane.
- UFOlog 53 p5 citing an unspecified issue of UFOIC Newsletter
September 28 1967.
1345hrs.
BRANDON (MANITOBA : CANADA)
BRANDON (MANITOBA : CANADA)
From several points, a
bright cone of flame, pointing downwards followed by a silver disc,,
was seen to descend behind a bluff north of the airport. Jim Wall of
Maple Leaf Aviation and maintenance man Wilf Coats were among the
witnesses. In an aerial search, Wall located a spot 15km north-west
of the airport where there was bush burning in the middle of a dirt
field. Willow trees nearby were burned and grass was dried up. The
centre of the bush was reduced to white ash.
- Saucers, Space and Science 51 p6
September 30 1967.
1930hrs.
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN (WISCONSIN : USA)
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN (WISCONSIN : USA)
Linda (12) and Tina (8) S
were walking through a field about 5km when they saw an oval object
suddenly appear and descend to just above the ground in the field.
The thing seemed to be about 3.5x 4.5m and changed colour from yellow
to orange and back again. The object projected a beam of light and
emitted a humming sound like bees. As they watched an object
descended from the thing’s underside and spun round. The girls fled
back to the house, where they alerted their 14 year old sister
Noreen. Through the window the three girls saw the thing take off at
speed to the hills to the east and then swerve north out of sight.
They were so afraid they contacted nuns at a nearby convent.
- APRO Bulletin Sep/October 1967. p9.
End of September 1967. Night.
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
On Cradle Hill Arthur
Shuttlewood, Bob Strong and Sybil Champion encountered a small
luminous ovoid that maneuvered very low at high speed and evaded
capture by changing shape and going through a gate.
- Shuttlewood 1976 p29
October 1967. (or
following month) 0200hrs.
HILLTOWN (SOUTH AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
HILLTOWN (SOUTH AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
Awaking to hear a buzzing
noise, a family looked out of their window to observe an oblong,
rounded, yellow-green ball of light, 2.5m diameter, with a red
pulsating light on top. The buzzing noise was audible all the time
and after 2 minutes the ball took off vertically into the sky
- Basterfield 1981p87 citing investigation by UFO Research South Australia
October 1967. Early hours.
BELO HORIZONTE (MINAS GERAIS : BRAZIL)
BELO HORIZONTE (MINAS GERAIS : BRAZIL)
An object flew over the
town, skimming the rooftops. One of the witnesses jolted out of his
sleep by the experience suffered a curious psych-physiological effect
as the object passed over.
- H B Aleixo in FSR 14, 6 p11 citing CICOANI reports 260 +261
October 1967.
ITHACA (NEW YORK : USA)
ITHACA (NEW YORK : USA)
Mr B encountered a 1m tall
being with a face like that of a hairless monkey, dressed in a black
rubber diving suit and helmet and spoke in an unintelligible
language.
- P M H Edwards in FSR 16,1 p12 citing Science and Mechanics August 1968 p39
October 1967.
ROUTE 2 (WEST VIRGINIA : USA)
ROUTE 2 (WEST VIRGINIA : USA)
Three men driving along
Rt2 saw a large man wearing a cape walking along the road. They
stopped and looked back but the figure had disappeared. There were
open fields on both sides of the road.
- Keel 1970a p185
October 1967. Night.
RESEDA (CALIFORNIA : USA)
RESEDA (CALIFORNIA : USA)
Ms KR was abducted by
beings with large bald heads and large eyes. They had grey wrinkled
skin and wore uniforms. They took her to a place with grey walls, a
round ceiling, where they did something to her brain. She fought and
struggled with them, and next morning found a scar on her right arm.
She later had periods of paralysis as luminous spheres entered her
room and seemed to communicate with her. In February 1988 her mother
had a dream in which a woman tried to get her to nourish deformed
human babies. KR developed fears of the dark.
- Preston Dennett in UFO Encounters 2, 4 p10
October 1967.
1730hrs.
LYCHETT MINSTER (DORSET : ENGLAND)
LYCHETT MINSTER (DORSET : ENGLAND)
Lance Druce of
Bournemouth was being driven back from a fishing trip by his
brother-in-law Brian George, who he was teaching to drive. As Brian
noticed a strange object in the sky, the engine of their Austin
Cambridge A60 began to splutter and then stalled. Above the St
Peter’s Finger Garage, they saw a cigar shaped object variously
estimated between 20m and 45m long, with a row of portholes, from
which came a yellow light. They got out and, joined by several other
motorists, observed the thing for about 5 minutes. Then becoming
afraid, they re-entered the car. Looking back they saw that the thing
had risen to 60m altitude and was following their car. They stopped
at a café, and the thing hovered over the police houses opposite. It
disappeared, reappeared as bands of multi coloured light, split into
two sections then re-merged before taking off at high speed. During
the observation Lance felt a weakness in his legs and Brian felt sick
on the way home.
- Leslie Harris in FSR 15, 6 p30
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p 242 citing above + additional information from Harris
October 1 1967. (Approx. date)
ELLIOT LAKE (ONTARIO : CANADA)
ELLIOT LAKE (ONTARIO : CANADA)
A large luminous object
manoeuvred around the area in an erratic fashion, at about 100m
altitude, changing colour as it did so. When the thing hovered, the
engines of several cars in the area failed.
- Rodeghier 1981 p27 citing Saucers, Space and Science 49
- Gene Duplantier in Steiger and Whritenour 1968a p38 citing John Pearson in an undated issue of Elliot Lake Standard
October 2 1967.
2030hrs.
IPSWICH (MASSACHUSSETTS : USA)
IPSWICH (MASSACHUSSETTS : USA)
Two groups of witnesses (4
and 2) independently observed an oval, domed object, which glowed
yellow around tis perimeter and carried red, green, blue and white
lights, of which the white was largest. At times it glowed red all
over. It hovered, spun and moved up and down. Dogs in the area
barked.
- Fowler 1974 p350
October 3 1967. Night.
MELVILLE, LONG ISLAND (NEW YORK : USA)
MELVILLE, LONG ISLAND (NEW YORK : USA)
Phillip Burkhardt, an
aerospace computer systems engineer, was called outside of his
Roundtree Drive house by his 14 year old son and the latter’s
friend Shawn K. The observed a silvery white metallic disc,
illuminated by a set of rectangular lights, which flashed on and off,
seemingly revolving across the lower portion of the object from left
to right. There was a steady white light on top. The thing was
hovering just above the trees a few metres away. The object went
behind a ridge and, accompanied by several others, Phillip went to
investigate. They observed it from a nearby road and watched it fly
out of sight. In the sand and gravel clearing, over which the object
had hovered a smell like burning chemicals or electrical wiring could
be detected.
- Keel 1971 p30
- Hall 2001 p161 citing NICAP files
October 4 1967.
2300hrs.
SHAG HARBOUR (NOVA SCOTIA : CANADA)
SHAG HARBOUR (NOVA SCOTIA : CANADA)
Laurie Higgins (19) and
four other young people aged between 15 and 20 observed four
yellow-white lights over Hood’s Harbour, forming a pattern
comparable to the size of a “fair sized aircraft”. The lights
descend towards the water at 45 degrees, going on and off in
sequence. One of the party heard a sort of whistling sound. Their
view was obscured by a hill for 10 seconds and when the area was in
view again they saw a single white light on the water. They kept this
under observation for 400m until they reported the matter to the
RCMP. Constable Ron O’Brien saw the light floating on the water
800m when he arrived on the scene. This light seemed to be floating
out to sea and when a boat was sent out all that could be 25m wide.
The incident was independently observed by a man 3km from the scene
who observed three horizontal red lights and heard the whistling
sound. This was also observed by three girls in a car on Cape Sable
Island. Some time before this the crew of an Air Canada plane flying
over Quebec saw a large bright rectangle at 3,700m, trailing smaller
lights. There seemed to be an explosion on board this object. The
object was also said to have been seen by the crew of a trawler near
Sambro NS. There was a futile attempt to find the object.
- Lorenzen 1968 p56
- Gilmour and Condon 1969a citing investigation by Norman Levine
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1967. p7
- UFO investigator IV, 5
- Spencer 1975 p97
- Rutkowski 2010 p157 + Randle 1997 p1 + Randle 2010 p242 all citing Don Ledger and Chris Styles
- Dittman in Rutkowski and Dittman 2006 p94
- Campagna 1998 p99 dates the case 5 October
- Ledger and Styles 2001
- Ledger 1998 p72
October 5 1967.
2200hrs.
EDEN VALLEY (CUMBERLAND : ENGLAND)
EDEN VALLEY (CUMBERLAND : ENGLAND)
A woman cycling along a
country lane was followed by an object making a humming and bleeping
sound, 6m overhead.
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p189 citing letter to Isle of Wight UFO Society from Reverend Grant
October 6 1967. Night.
BELFAST (ANTRIM : NORTHERN IRELAND)
BELFAST (ANTRIM : NORTHERN IRELAND)
Eugene Browne was walking
home from a Belfast jazz club, when on the outskirts, he saw an
object in the sky coming towards him. From it came a beam of intense
light which danced about until he became dizzy and fainted. He came
to lying on a table in a windowless oblong room, from the floor of
which came a blue light. There were metal bands around his head, and
his wrists were attached to a square metallic apparatus. Four men and
a woman, dressed in dark one piece suits and surrounded by a bluish
aura entered. The tallest of the beings was about 1.8m tall. The
beings persuaded Brown to have sex with the woman, who had blond hair,
blue eyes, high cheekbones and thin lips. When they had finished they
secured him back on the table and they told him that it would not be
the last he would see of them and that they were performing genetic
experiments. Yellow lights came on and he lost consciousness. When he
recovered he was in a field 1.6km where he been abducted. He saw the
craft take off.
- Norman Oliver in Gemini 1,2 p21
- Trench 1974 p118 citing letter from Eugene Browne in Awareness Summer 1968.
- Evaluation: Probable hoax
October 9 1967.
1000hrs.
SILVER CITY (NEW MEXICO : USA)
SILVER CITY (NEW MEXICO : USA)
Ron Vigill of Bayard was
driving to Silver City on US90 when, on reaching the Central and Fort
Bayard crossroad, he spotted a blue-green small torpedo shaped
object, apparently skimming the ground below the utility wires, and
the apparent speed of a jet aircraft. At the same time and only
in short distance away on Fort Bayard golf course, Macario Borrege
and a friend observed a welding torch blue object, with a central
fiery ring, encircled by an outer blue ring. Macario saw the thing
from as close as 10m as it travelled northward in the direction of
Twin Sisters.
- Lorenzen 1968 p169
October 9 1967. 1740hrs.
TUCSON (ARIZONA : USA)
TUCSON (ARIZONA : USA)
In a residential area east
of the city limits the 13 year old son of a prominent local
businessman was cycling home and had just negotiated a detour onto
the slope when he noticed, on the ground 13m away, a cylinder that
was stood on end and was supported by two legs angling out from the
bottom, ending on pads and joined by a curved bar just above these
pads. The object was 2.5m tall, 50-75cn wide and was [partially
obscured by a tree. The boy cycled to within 10m of the thing, at
which the aluminium coloured object rose into the air with a slight
rocking motion, and disappeared from sight in 12 seconds, going
straight up. As it did so, the object made a deep low pitched hum.
Though the object reflected the sunlight, it did not reflect the
surroundings. The boy, who was considered very reliable, found two
marks on the hard surface at the bottom of the wash, 105cm apart,
diameter 335mm.
- Lorenzen 1968 p11 citing James McDonald
- Lorenzen 1976 p15
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1967, p1 citing investigation by the Lorenzens and Dr James McDonald
October 10 1967.
0045hrs.
LOCKWOOD (COLORADO : USA)
LOCKWOOD (COLORADO : USA)
A motorist coming home
from work was flagged down by a 1.8m tall man with a goatee beard and
jacket with four gold bars on each shoulder. This man made a number
of condescending comments about earth, asked for the location of the
North Star. He would not say where he came from, but said he and
colleagues would return. The stranger then walked for a metre or so
and suddenly disappeared. The witness then heard a whirring sound and
saw a 100m long object rise up to two other objects in the sky. All
three then flew off.
- Bartholomew and Howard 1998 p336 citing Blue Book files
October 11 1967.
0010 OBEREHRENDINGEN (AARGAU : SWITZERLAND)
Othmar Willi (37) a worker
at the Brown and Boweri plant was looking at the sky, while smoking
his last pipe when he observed three vertical cylinders, each topped
by a small cone. They were coming down to an altitude 5m in a corn
field 50m away. They were 10m high, 5m wide and were revolving
slowly. He could see, in the upper part of each cylinder, two rows of
small squares, emitting an indescribable light. There was also a
sound like a swarm of bees. Suddenly an opening appeared in one of
these objects and a container was lowered on the end of a rope, to
the height of the corn ears. The container became lit at that moment
by a peculiar light that did not illuminate the surroundings. After
about a minute this container was pulled up again and the three
cylinders departed to tremendous speed.
- Roger Perrinjaquet in FSR 14,4 p.iv
October 11 1967.
1230hrs.
LIMACHE (VALPARAISO : CHILE)
LIMACHE (VALPARAISO : CHILE)
Emilio Grellana was
travelling in his truck near Limache with his 15 year old son when
they observed a powerful light that passed over Limache and seemed to
land on “El Roble” hill, throbbing rhythmically. They watched it
for about 30 minutes and their continued on their journey without
waiting for it to leave.
- Richard Heiden citing Pablo Petrowitch citing El Mercurio (V) 13 October 1967.
- Evaluation: Bolide + astronomical?
October 11 1967.
2000hrs.
ALDERSYDE (ALBERTA : CANADA)
ALDERSYDE (ALBERTA : CANADA)
After his car engine
and headlights failed a motorist saw oval object surmounted by a sort
of turret circling his car. It did this four or five times at about
100m altitude, before flying off. While the object was close the
motorist felt cold. When the thing left to car started up by itself.
- Rodeghier 1981 p37 citing CUFOS files
October 12 1967.
0300hrs.
WHITE ROCKS (UTAH :USA)
WHITE ROCKS (UTAH :USA)
Jay Anderson saw a figure
in a metallic suite, surrounded by a luminous glow, in his doorway.
The figure stood, turned and walked out.
- Salisbury 1974 p251 citing Joseph “Junior” Hicks
October 12 1967.
1830hrs.
DUBUQUE (IOWA : USA)
DUBUQUE (IOWA : USA)
A group of neighbourhood
children at a back yard picnic table when they saw a silvery ovoid
object, estimated at 3m long, 1.5m wide, with red lights, a dome on
top and things like poles hanging from its underside. It came down to
about 15m and then rose again. The children tried to follow it but it
was too fast.
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1957 p10
October 13 1967.
0150hrs.
ALMORA (ALBERTA : CANADA)
ALMORA (ALBERTA : CANADA)
Engineer William Benwick
and his crew on the CNR train 433, travelling at 80kph, observed,
1.6km north of Almora, a conical object, which came within 100m of
the train. The thing was 12-15m diameter, 5-6m thick with a black
top, a series of red, green, orange and yellow flashing lights around
the rim and a circle of light 3m diameter on its underside. The
object paced them into Mirror, stopping with the train at Alix. It
was also observed by the station master at Mirror where it hovered
for two hours. A woman at Mirror was awakened by a humming sound and
saw an object speeding across the sky.
- Brian Canon in Canadian UFO Report 1,7 p27
- Lorenzen 1968 p173
- Keyhoe and Lore 1969a p10)
- Evaluation: The main sighting is clearly an astronomical misperception
October 13 1967.
Evening.
DYMPEP (ASSAM : INDIA)
DYMPEP (ASSAM : INDIA)
An object, first seen
travelling across the sky at Laitker 3km away, was observed to land
in a running stream by the dak bungalow. It churned up the water with
deafening explosions and then flew off towards Mowdok, 5km away and
thence into the Luk Swer forest where considerable damage was caused.
Some of the trees looked as if they had been cut by a saw. At Laitker
the thing was observed at 150m , giving off bright red and green
lights. An investigation concluded it was a whirlwind of high
intensity.
- FSR 14,1 p.iii citing Times of India 18, 19, 20 October 1967.
- UFOlog 54 p5 citing Pakistan Observer 24 November 1967
- Phillips 1975 p52 case 606 citing UFO Investigator November/December 1967. : : clarifies date and provides original sources
October 13 1967. 2130hrs.
BOYUP BROOK (WESTERN AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
BOYUP BROOK (WESTERN AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
Mr A R Sprago, the
employer of a large labour force, was driving between Kojonup and
Boyup Brook, on a paying off expedition. When driving at almost
100kph some 10km from Boyup Brook his vehicle’s electrical system
suddenly failed and the car instantly stopped, though be experience
of deceleration . The car was now the focus of a brilliant beam of
light, 50-80cm diameter, coming from a mushroom shaped object, 10m
diameter, hovering at altitude, over the trees, glowing bluish. . The
tube came out of the thing’s underside at 45 degrees. Sprago could
see straight up this tube, which did not glare. He felt to compelled
to look up this tube, and that he was being watched. . He later
recalled that while the tube was on him, he could not heard the night
sounds or even his own heartbeat. After about 5 minutes the light
switched off, the thing seemed to darken and accelerated away in a
second or so. The moment this object had left, Sprago found that the
car was moving along the road at the same rate as before, again with
no sense of acceleration. When Sprago arrived at Boyup her found that
his excellent watch was 5 minutes slow, as if it too had been
stopped.
On the same night Grayden
Pascoe, farmer on Whistler Road was disturbed by the agitation of his
animals and when he went out to investigate he was blinded by a
brilliant light, which when he put up his hands to shield his eyes
seemed to penetrate his hands like an X-ray. The light then just went
out.
- Joanna Hugill in FSR 14,4 p15
- Paul Zeck in A.F.S.R. 8 p18
- FSR 17,3 p29
- Keith Basterfield 1997 pp45, 160 citing his own investigation + Victoria UFO Research Society files + Zeck op cit.
- UFO Investigator IV, 7 p6
- Hack 2000hrs. p56
October 13 1967. 1245hrs.
LE MAS (LOZERE : FRANCE)
LE MAS (LOZERE : FRANCE)
Mrs C from Marquise
observed three small beings dressed in red overalls who either walked
on or glided just above the grass. The sighting appears to have been
foretold by a medium.
- Alain Gamard citing LDLN 92 p15
October 14
1967. 0230hrs.
MENDOTA (CALIFORNIA : USA)
MENDOTA (CALIFORNIA : USA)
Solid state physicist
Lewis Hollander and his wife sighted a glowing object hovering close
to the ground. It began to ascend at increasing speed and disappeared
at high altitude. Lewis noted a white glow, which he thought was an
ionisation trail behind the thing. The observation lasted for three
minutes. (Keyhoe and Lore 1969a p1 : : Hynek 1972 p238 gives no
details but says there were three witnesses)
October 14 1967.
1945hrs. HALFWAY HOLLOW (UTAH : USA)
While driving on the road
to Duray, At Halfway Hollow Junction Orville Rudy and his father Czar
observed , about 800m away a fire on the road, which was lost to site
and then reappeared. It was an orange-red hemisphere that moved at
incredible speed, leaped around and crossed the face of the full
moon, which it eclipsed. It kept its flat side down and disappeared
in the North West
- Salisbury 1974 table citing Joseph Hicks files
October 17 1967.
PALMYRA (MISSOURI : USA)
PALMYRA (MISSOURI : USA)
Messes Weaver and Shane
saw an unidentified object at low level. No further details.
- Data Net V, 7 p10
October 17 1967.
2200hrs.
ROOSEVELT (UTAH : USA)
ROOSEVELT (UTAH : USA)
Sandy and LaJean Rickman
observed a large orange ball hover 50m away over their corral. A few
minutes later it was joined by another similar thing. The two
departed out of sight to the east.
- Salisbury 1974 table citing Joseph Hicks files
October 19 1967.
Evening.
PRARIE DU CHIEN (WISCONSIN : USA)
PRARIE DU CHIEN (WISCONSIN : USA)
A domed shaped aerial object, the size of a car, was observed by eighteen different people, including WPRE station announcer Michael Leyh. He was watching TV when a couple stopped and told him that an unusual object was over his house. He went outside and saw that the thing was moving to the north at 12m altitude, spouting orange flames. It disappeared from site a few kilometres outside the town.
- Lorenzen 1968 p170
October 19 1967. Night.
SOWERBY (YORKSHIRE : ENGLAND)
SOWERBY (YORKSHIRE : ENGLAND)
A Siddal youth observed a
cigar shaped object stationary above the trees. It then began to
climb horizontally very slowly, growing brighter as it moved away,
and then took off vertically and suddenly disappeared. The thing was
soundless.
- Dan Lloyd in FSR 14,2 p36 citing Halifax Courier 23 October 1967.
Late October 1967.
ESTACADA (OREGON : USA)
ESTACADA (OREGON : USA)
Power saw operator
Glenn Thomas was walking in a trail at the 1,500m level in the hills
behind Estacada in somewhat misty conditions. He came to a clearing
where he encountered three hairy humanoids, two adults (male and
female) and a child. They were looking among the rocks for marmots,
which they promptly eat. Glenn watched the creatures for some minutes
until they wandered off. The female was about 1.8m tall, the male
taller, and the youngster did not come up to her waist.
- Hunter and Dahinden 1975 p131
- Green 1973 p87
Late October 1967.
2100hrs.
MELFORT (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
MELFORT (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
Donald Marshall was
walking home after visiting a cousin, when, nearing his house, he saw
a light at its rear. Approaching he saw that the light was a strip 5m
long, 1.2m wide, 3m above the ground, on a large object, perhaps 15m
long. As Marshall came within 60m of the object a bright spotlight
came on and he saw three small humanoid creatures coming from the
machine. They moved very fast and wore green uniforms with some sort
of headgear. The creatures disappeared into the night, and the craft
took off slowly (about 8km/h). Marshall did not investigate that
night for fear of meeting the little men. Next day some trees were
found broken.
- Mary Lou Guenther in Saucers, Space and Science 51 p4
October 20 1967. 2230hrs.
ITHACA (NEW YORK : USA)
ITHACA (NEW YORK : USA)
Anna X, (65), a local
government social worker was sitting alone watching TV when she heard
a thump on her north porch. The TV pictures became distorted and her
dogs began to bark. She went to the bathroom and opened the window to
call in her retriever when she saw an object, with a blue-white neon
light 10m above her yard. The object was circular and the size of a
large tractor tyre. When she went to investigate this object just
disappeared right in front of her eyes. In a swamp at the back of her
house cat-tails were found beaten down in a circle 9m diameter. No
sound was heard during the incident. The woman’s two sons were
sceptical of the affair.
- T M Wright in Fate (UK) June 1969 p34 citing William Donovan
- Condon and Gilmour 1969 pp376, 378 citing investigation by Roy Craig and John Ahrens
- Phillips 1975 p53 case 268 citing Lloyd Mallan in an unspecified issue of Science and Mechanics
October 21 1967.
2200hrs.
DUNCAN (OKLAHOMA; USA)
DUNCAN (OKLAHOMA; USA)
Ivan Ritter, Jerry Bennett
and two other youths were driving east out of Duncan on State Route 7
when they noticed something on the highway out of range of their
dimmed lights. When the driver put the lights on full they saw 3 men,
about 1.2m tall, with blue-green shiny skin or tight clothing, with
human faces but with large ears. The beings “almost flew off the
road and disappeared”. The four boys were frightened by this and
reported the matter to the police. Next day Ritter and Bennett
returned to the scene, but the only evidence was a footprint about
90m from the road in the muddy bottom of a creek bed. It was only the
size of a baby’s, but with an oversize heel and only four toes.
- Lorenzen 1968 p84
- Lorenzen 1976 p227
Week of October 22-28
1967. Night.
WESTERN USA
WESTERN USA
On two occasions during
this week a couple of campers observed a strange glowing object on
the side of a mountain. On each occasion they observed small lights
which danced as if unaffected by gravity. Through binoculars each of
the lights was seen to have a tiny human figure below it.
- Lorenzen 1976 p190
October 22 1967. Near
dawn.
NEWMAN (GEORGIA : USA)
NEWMAN (GEORGIA : USA)
Patrolman Dale Spradlin
and Officer Gerald Mascon chased a blue ball of light, about 20 cm
diameters, at treetop height for13km down a country road outside of
Newman. When the light began to accelerate away, the officers turned
back, whereupon the light turned, pursuing and overtaking them at
115kph. The thing emitted a beam of blue light that illuminated the
ground and then pulled up into the sky, where it remained moving
erratically for two hours. The couple parked in a nearby lot saw the
light directly over the patrol car. Lights had been seen in the sky
earlier by patrolman Jerry Goldin.
- Lorenzen 1968 p171
- Evaluation: Astronomical?
October 22 1967.
2115hrs.
CHARLESWOOD (MANITOBA : CANADA)
CHARLESWOOD (MANITOBA : CANADA)
Several residents reported
lights in the sky, observed from 1845hrs. onwards. The principal
witness, a house salesman and former RCAF technician was returning to
his office from one of the houses on the lot, across a field when he
observed two small purple lights about 225m away in the field. They
were tilted at 45 degrees, 45m apart. The first light was hovering at
telephone pole height, the other was at ground level. On walking
closer, he observed a third, slightly brighter, light on the ground
between the first two. The woman who worked with him then joined him,
and as she did so, the lights increased to a diameter of 60-90 cm and
began to pulsate, brightening and dimming at 2-3 second intervals out
of sequence with each other. The lights began advancing and
retreating. The salesman went to get his binoculars and flagged down
a car. Two couples and two small children from this car saw four
lights, then a fifth which descended through the clouds, lighting
them with a reddish glow. The other lights then began to drift 30m
northwards. As aircraft passed overhead the three lights at ground
level then formed themselves into a perfect triangle, and headed
away. When they reached a power line, they changed to a line
formation, lighting up the wires as they sped over them, hovered over
a TV broadcasting station and moved off into the Northwest. Next day
the salesman and a foreman went to the site and found three clusters
of small footprints which radiated away in pairs for 60m. It appeared
that eight beings were involved leaving footprints 175 mm long and 69
mm wide, with heels pressed down more than the toes. When the foreman
bent down over a pile of stones at the centre of this, he felt a
sudden headache. The salesman developed reddening of the face and
hands, aching in his legs and hot and cold feelings in his thighs. He
later suffered from symptoms of dehydration, as did the sales lady.
His car took longer than usual to start in the morning. There were a
total of 19 witnesses.
- Saucers Space and Science 52 p9 citing Winnipeg Free Press 24 October 1967. + CAPIO Winnipeg
- Brian Cannon in Canadian UFO Report 1,7 p27
- Rutkowski 1993 p28 citing Winnipeg Tribune 25 October 1967. + Bondarchuk 1981 p46
October 22 1967. 1945hrs.
HUMBOLT (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
HUMBOLT (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
About 10km south west of
Humbolt, a farmer and his friend had gone to pick up some bales of
hay from another farmer’s field when they observed some lights in
the south-west, near a drilling rig. The lights, about 1.5km away,
appeared as three lights, one of which resembled a railroad flare
These lights were flickering at high frequency, were about 1.2m
diameter, with diffuse edges, the outer ones being orange-amber in
colour and the centre light brilliant red. . This red light, the
shape of an inverted tear drop, moved up and down in a regular
fashion. The two drove across the
field to within 200m of the lights, where they became blocked from
view. As they drove the truck down the road at the estimated position
of the lights, the farmer felt that he was driving under something.
Looking back after a short period, they saw the lights descend to
ground level, the centre lights being at about 1m altitude. The
lights followed the truck and then moved off at more than 60kph and
then turned around. About 400m from an
intersection the lights moved off 50m to the left into a field and
went out. The men drove to a high spot on the road, where about 20
minutes later they saw several sparks jump from scattered points on
the fields, arcing up from about 50cm to 25-30m. Sparks were also
seen on a driveway and the farmer’s companion saw a dark object,
without lights, the apparent size of a railway locomotive, moving
north on the road.
- D F Clausen in Canadian UFO Report 1,7 p27
October 24 1967. 2100hrs.LUMSDEN (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)Four teenagers (16-18) were driving on a country road 3km south-east of Lumsden when the driver called the attention of the others to s bright light, first thought to be the moon, which they then saw was a lens shaped object, 12m wide, 5m high, of brilliant red colour, with a dark band around the centre. As they speeded into Lumsden the object moved slowly to the east and disappeared in a wooded ravine about 2.5km away. The two girls in the party were hysterical and both boys very shaken when they reported the matter to Corporal Parsons of the RCMP. Constable Ferguson was dispatched to the area and a t a point 5km south-east of town he saw a red object with white flashing lights at 400m altitude to the south-east. This took off like a jet after 3 minutes. After seeing their girls home, the two boys drove through the wooded ravine where they saw two white lights flashing on and off alternately on the wooded southern slope. Stopping they confirmed that these were bright round, white lights 12m apart, flashing in sequence.
- Lorenzen
1968 p174 citing investigation by D W Coulthard and J K Crosby
October 24 1967. 2130hrs.
ITHACA (NEW YORK : USA)
ITHACA (NEW YORK : USA)
Pat Crosier (or Crozier)
(10) was sitting on his front porch with a friend, Donald Chiszar(s)
(12-13), when he noticed a bright object approaching from the north,
from behind some houses, then stop in mid air 45m away above the
White House Tavern. They could see that it was a craft with a dome,
out of which came a sort of rod. Pat became afraid and ran inside as
the object tilted towards them. Donald saw that it was about 10m in
diameter, about 2m thick and was dull silver in colour. It had an
oblong portion on the underside, which was circled by red, green and
white lights which flashed in sequence. At each of two square
windows, separated by a bar, he could see the silhouette of a
creature of small size, with wide hips and brown body covered in
lumps. The two creatures stood totally motionless, “like robots”
and behind them a complicated pattern of lights and knobs could be
seen. Below the windows was some strange writing. The boys were about
to call for help, when the object tilted back towards the horizontal
and disappeared on the spot. Donald looked at his watch and noted
that the incident had lasted 2 minutes.
- Lorenzen 1968 p179 (incorrectly gives location was Newfield
- T. M Wright in Fate (UK) June 1969 p40 citing investigation by William Donovan
- Condon 1969 p378 investigation by Ahrens and Roy Craig.)
October 24 1967. Late.
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Peter Lawless observed a
small, round, spinning object land gently at a spot known as Heaven’s Gate on the Longleat Estate. A circular pattern of slightly depressed
grass, about 10m diameter, was found at the site next day.
- Shuttlewood 1968 p89
October 25 1967.
2045hrs.
MALVERN (WORCESTERSHIRE : ENGLAND)
MALVERN (WORCESTERSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Three boys, Clive Robinson
(14), Richard Corben (14) and David Jennings, observed a dome shaped
object with a smaller hump on the top land behind a pavilion at the
Girl’s College Playing Field. It was first seen as two glimmering
white lights, which merged sides together and then landed 200m away.
No openings were visible nor were there any legs. The boys were
afraid that the thing might be radioactive and began to move away.
Looking back, they saw the light take off diagonally. They returned
to the site with a Mr Tandy on the 27th and found an arc
of triangular marks, 5cm long, marked out.
- FSR 14,1 p31 citing Malvern Gazette 2 November 1967. + Betty Allan
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p213 citing above
October 25 1967.
2130hrs.
ROOSEVELT (UTAH : USA)
ROOSEVELT (UTAH : USA)
Keith Reynolds observed a
very large orange ball travelling towards Vernal very fast at low
altitude. It made no sound, though a jet plane at much higher
altitude, which passed a few minutes later, could be plainly heard.
- Salisbury 1974 table citing Joseph Hicks files
October 25 1967.
2350hrs.
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Miss Dorothy Fear and her
son Clive saw an orange glowing object, with a hemispherical top,
land on Battlesbury Hill
- Shuttlewood 1968 p89
October 25 1967.
2355hrs.
ALBEY ST BATHANS (BERWICKSHIRE : SCOTLAND)
ALBEY ST BATHANS (BERWICKSHIRE : SCOTLAND)
The last guests had just
left Middle Moneynut Farm, when Mr and Mrs Morrison heard a noise
like an approaching car and then saw a strong light appear behind the
barn 150m away. Fearing thieves, Mr Morrison went towards the light,
but fear overcame him after two or three steps. 10 minutes later this
light took off down the valley, alarming the livestock as it went
away, decreasing in brightness. A cigar shaped object had been seen
heading towards the village of 1000 hours.
- UFOlog 42 p 4 citing an undated issue of Berwick Advertiser
October 26 1967.
0430hrs.
HOOK (HAMPSHIRE : ENGLAND)
HOOK (HAMPSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Mr C, the owner of a small
transport company in Sussex, was driving his 1966 Ford Transit
Minibus on the A32 towards Reading, when 10 minutes after crossing
the Hooke Interchange, his vehicle’s electrical system failed. He
inspected the battery and leads but could not see what was wrong and
returned to the driver’s seat. He caught a glimpse of a dark object
motionless over the road as he re-entered the van, but thought
nothing of it. After a few minutes he found that he was able to
restart the engine and radio, but 400m further along, the electrical
system failed again. As he got out once more, he noticed a change of
air pressure and an unpleasant pervasive smell like that produced by
an arcing electric motor. He inspected the engine again, making sure
that the smell did not come from there. Looking around, he saw
about 90m away, a dark motionless object at 15-30m above the trees,
moonlight glinting on its upper right hand surface. It was 18m wide,
9m thick, with a curved upper part and conical underside, joined by a
flange like rim, giving the impression of a very squat ice cream cone
made of dull material. After several minutes the
object moved away to the right, horizontally and without any sound,
disappearing over the trees. He now found that he could re-start the
bus. He completed the rest of his journey in an unusually fast time,
without stopping, despite the strange route. He found difficulty in
co-ordinating his driving. He later noticed a throbbing in his
fingertips and that his toothache had stopped. He now found that he
could recall his dreams clearly, which he had not been able to do so
before.
- R H B Winder and Bernard Finch in FSR 13,6 p6 citing their own investigation
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p 216 citing above
- Chapman 1969 p36)
October 26 1967.
0600hrs.
MERIDEN (WARWICKSHIRE : ENGLAND)
MERIDEN (WARWICKSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Mr F. Woodcock was
awakened by a brilliant light. Near the ground was an object shaped
like a shining cross, with its upright arm twice as long as its
crosspiece, close to the ground. After 2 minutes it suddenly
accelerated away.
- Tibbitts in FSOAN 1,2 p9
October 26 1967.
Morning.
GODALMING (SURREY : ENGLAND)
GODALMING (SURREY : ENGLAND)
While delivering
newspapers in the Hog’s Back area, a newsboy saw a dimly glowing,
green circular object descend behind a group of nearby trees. Shortly
afterwards a brilliant white sphere, the apparent size of the sun,
hovered and circled.
- FSR 14,2 p.iii citing Surrey Advertiser 28 October 1967.
October 26
1967.
MOIGNE DOWNS (DORSET : ENGLAND)
MOIGNE DOWNS (DORSET : ENGLAND)
Angus Brooks, a retired
flight administration officer, was walking his dogs on the Downs when
he decided to seek shelter from the gale blowing in a hollow. As he
lay on his back his attention was first caught by a contrail and he
then saw an object descend at terrific speed at 60-90m altitude, some
400m away. The thing was about 50m long, with a central circular
nucleus, from which extended four arms, which arranged themselves in
the form of a cross. He observed this thing, which appeared to be
made of a translucent material, for avbout 20 minutes, after which
the two central arms merged together and the thing took off in the
direction of the Winfrith atomic research station.
- Clarke and Roberts 2002 p205 citing investigation by Leslie Ackhurst, Dr John Dickison and Alex Cassie for the MOD
- Chapman 1969 p25
- Evaluation: REM intrusion? Sparked by floater in eye
October 26 1967. 2325krs.
LIVERPOOL (LANCASHIRE later MERSEYSIDE : ENGLAND)
LIVERPOOL (LANCASHIRE later MERSEYSIDE : ENGLAND)
Peter Murphy (35) a garage mechanic from Kirkby was driving along Croxteth Hall Road when a black shiny
object flashed past his windscreen and disappeared into a nearby
field. He thought that hooligans may have been throwing things at the
car and reported the matter to the police. A search was made in the
field but nothing was found While this search was going on, however,
Murphy and D C David Jackson saw star shaped object, the size of a
very large plate, about 120m above Norris Green. It fell to the
earth. A second search was fruitless and some minutes later the two
men saw what appeared to be the same object travelling fast over the
East Lancs Road.
- MUFOB 1,1 p6 + FSR 14,2 piii both citing Liverpool Echo 27 October 1967.
October 27 1967.
0300hrs.
MARSHALL (NORTH DAKOTA : USA)
MARSHALL (NORTH DAKOTA : USA)
A café waitress on her
way from work saw a large, round, revolving object which seemed to
rise from the ground. Her car began to bump and sway and she was
followed by the object as she tried to escape. She could see two or
three whitish streaks of light coming down from this object. As she
neared home the thing stopped and hovered momentarily before moving
out of sight over a warehouse to the north. At this point police Lt
Glen D Brunsell also observed the object. He saw it bounce above
trees a block away, giving off such a bright light that it hurt his
eyes. The object stopped near a missile base where it shot into the
sky, disappearing in three seconds.
- Keyhoe and Lore 1969a p6
- UFO Investigator IV,7, p6
- Hynek 1972 pp69, 230)
October 27 1967. 0330hrs.
MAX (NORTH DAKOTA : USA)
MAX (NORTH DAKOTA : USA)
Chris Helgesen was
collecting milk from farms near Max when he noticed a reddish light,
coming from the east. As he started out for the next farm the object
began pacing him to the left of hisi truck. As he left that farm the
round, spinning object was almost over his truck. He heard no sound
when he switched off his motor. The object continued pacing the
truck, hovering over nearby fields when he stopped. At the fourth
stop the thing turned a bluish colour and raced away.
- UFO Investigator IV, 5 citing Donald Flickinger
October 27 1967. Night.
CRENDON (BUCKINGHAMSHIRE : ENGLAND)
CRENDON (BUCKINGHAMSHIRE : ENGLAND)
A motorist going up
Crendon Hill saw a strange object resembling a generator as the car
engine failed.
- Rodeghier 1981 p37 citing Contact UK
October 28m 1967.
0015hrs.
MERTHYR (GLAMORGAN : WALES)
MERTHYR (GLAMORGAN : WALES)
A housewife observed a
silvery grey shape, with a bright silver streak down the middle and
four lights on the bottom, hanging motionless amid trees. She was
frightened and told no-one about it and it was gone in the morning.
- FSR 14,3 p31 citing Merthyr Express 2 November 1967.
- Evaluation: The Meteorological Office suggested that it was a balloon caught in the trees.
October 28 1967.
SOUTH SHIELDS (DURHAM now TYNE AND WEAR : ENGLAND)
SOUTH SHIELDS (DURHAM now TYNE AND WEAR : ENGLAND)
Three boys observed a
bullet shaped object, with a glowing green outline, hovering above an
electricity sub-station for a few seconds . The thing rose quickly
and noiselessly, a white spot glowing on its underside as it did so,
and disappeared. Brown marks, like burn marks, were left on the roof
of the building.
- FSR 14,3 p31 citing Shields Gazette 30 October 1967
October 28 1967.
Evening.
SOUTHEND ON SEA (ESSEX : ENGLAND)
SOUTHEND ON SEA (ESSEX : ENGLAND)
A taxi driver observed an
object with a dome, on which was a flashing red light, about 60m
above the trees. As the object went away over fields, he saw huge
green and white flashing lights. Later that night he saw it at a
distance of 500m. At one point it dipped behind the trees and then
returned and hovered. When first seen this second time the thing
appeared ringed by fluorescent light. When it rose again, all the
witness could see was the red flashing light. After about 5 minutes
it rose into the cloud cover at astonishing speed.
- FSR 14, 3 p31 citing Southend Standard 2 November 1967.
October 28 1967.
1930hrs.
MATURITA (COLORADO : USA)
MATURITA (COLORADO : USA)
David Barnard (30), his
two sons (10, 8), along with his brother in law Jack Kerns (41) along
with his 15 year old son were returning home from a hunting trip,
southeast of Maturita, travelling along a mountain road. Near Lone
Cone Mountain they observed a fiery orange ball moving above the
treetops in the distance. It then seemed to come down the ridge
towards them and the party stopped to watch it. . The two men
observed the object from 300m range in their rifle scopes. It
appeared round, with a dome on top, from which protruded an antenna
and had coloured lights, which appeared to be square windows, around
the bottom. Around its base were a group of 7 or 8 flickering,
apparently revolving, blue lights. The object appeared to pace them
to State Route 80, where it disappeared from sight.
- Lorenzen 1968 p177 citing an undated issue of Denver Post
October 28 1967.
2055hrs.
CARLISLE (ONTARIO : CANADA)
CARLISLE (ONTARIO : CANADA)
Two schoolboys, Eddie H
and Anthony T (15) saw an oval object, the size of a car, with 2
flashing red lights, and 2 steady white ones, hovering about 10m
above the ground some 25m away, over the roof of a house on Alderson
Road. As they did so, Eddie’s dog acted up. The object then
approached and hovered overhead before rising to 60m and taking off
to the north by north west at great speed and then turned sharply,
stopped for a moment and then shot out of sight.
- APRO Bulletin January/February 1968 p4
October 29 1967.
1645hrs.
NORTHAMPTON (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE : ENGLAND)
NORTHAMPTON (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Two teenage girls out
playing saw an orange coloured cigar shaped object approaching. It
flew around them and descended to a metre or two above the ground.
Its colour was constantly changing from orange to yellow to white and
then to dull grey. It was surrounded by a fuzzy green haze, which
disappeared as the thing took off.
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p 238 citing Northampton Chronicle 30 October 1967.
October 29 1967.
1845hrs.
STORRINGTON (WEST SUSSEX : ENGLAND)
STORRINGTON (WEST SUSSEX : ENGLAND)
Paul Quick (21) was
pushing his motor cycle 3km to his home in Hampers Lane, through a
wooded area when he saw an oval object, which he estimated to 1 ½
times the size of a double decker bus, illuminated with a bright
white light. The thing was first seen at about 75m altitude and
descended towards him, disappearing behind a clump of trees in 15
seconds. When he reached home, his
sister Leone (22) drew the rest of the family’s attention to a
large bright coloured sphere floating down on to Chanctonbury Downs
about 3km away. The thing now resembled an inverted horse shoe and
its colour changed to ruby red, before it separated into three parts,
one remaining stationary, the others moving to the left. These parts
were green and blue. After about a minute the three portions
reunited.
Paul, his younger sister,
Michele (16) and his mother, Suzette, ran to a clearing 500m away to
get a better view. They saw the thing now as a sort of horizontal
“ice cream cone” about 30m long, the wider end of which was red.
After 20 minutes the thing started moving down the hill and they lost
sight of it. The thing was also seen by a Mr Slattery from Patcham.
They reported the matter to the police.
- Charles Bowen and Gordon Creighton in FSR 14,2 p4 citing Sun 31 October 1967. and investigation by Omar Fowler
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p238 citing above + Worthing Herald 3 November 1967. + Brighton Evening Argos 30 October 1967.
- Evaluation: Later shown to be earth moving equipment.
Late October/Early November 1967. 0145hrs.
MISSANCOURT (AISNE : FRANCE)
MISSANCOURT (AISNE : FRANCE)
Two woodcutters were
waiting for a third to pick them up car and commenting on the unusual
absence of small game to hunt that moonlit night when they saw what
they first thought was a car on fire 150 to 200m away. Fearing a car
crash they went to investigate but as they got closer they noted the
absence of headlights, only the silent light. They then realised that
it was not a burning car but something resembling a sort of stalkless
mushroom. It was about 7 or 8m long, 2.-2.5m high and dazzling white
expect for a sort of doorway in the side, 1m tall, 1.3-1.4m wide
emitting a red light like the colour of the rising sun. The thing was
hovering, silently, about 20-30cm above the ground, The two men
continued to approach but then suddenly they found themselves rooted
to the spot, paralysed about 25m from the thing. As the men stood
there the thing, or at least its white part, seemed to expand towards
them, like smoke or a cloud rolling in. Fearing it would burn his
eyes one of the men turned away from it and neither saw nor heard
anything for about 7-8 seconds, while his companion stood tooted to
the spot, gun in hand and when he came to he was babbling
incoherently, but it appears the thing passed within 1.5m to 2m from
them.
- Barthell, Brucker and Marechal in LDLN p139 p4 citing their own investigations
October 30 1967. 2100hrs.
MELFORT (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
MELFORT (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
A man walking home near
Melfort observed an object about 15m long, though which he could see
a rectangular light about 1,2m high and .8m long. Suddenly a bright
spotlight came on, and three small entities, dressed in green suits
and wearing headgear, emerged. The object took off with the little
beings still on the ground. Some broken trees were discovered the
next morning.
- Musgrave 1979 p46 (case 43) citing Saskatoon UFO Bulletin no2
October 30 1967. Late
night.
GREEN LAKE (BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
GREEN LAKE (BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
Mrs Hills was preparing to
go to bed, and was looking through her lodge bedroom window, south
over the lake when she noticed an unusual red glow appear over the
hill on the other side. She then saw two red lights come over the
hill, followed by a third, much larger one, which moved between them,
followed by two smaller lights. The large light then had two smaller
ones on either side. The formation cleared the hill and crossed the
lake on a collision course with the lodge. Mrs Hills was then joined
by her husband Ernest and her son. The lights moved towards
neighbours, Bert Gammie and family, who confirmed the story, and then
shot off 11km to the southwest and then began to dart around the
lake, too fast for anyone to follow. The huge red object, the
apparent size of an office building, came to rest just above the
water that reflected the red glow, which also illuminated clouds in
the area. Through binoculars the family saw two horizontal lines of
white light on the face of the object. The four small balls suddenly
darted off in different directions. After a time a beam of light
would come from the large object and then one of the red balls would
sail right back into it. The family eventually retired to bed to
watch the strange performance in comfort and fell asleep. When they
awoke the spectacle had vanished.
- John Magor in Canadian UFO Report 1,6 p9
October 31 1967.
0200hrs.
FYLINGDALES (YORKSHIRE NORTH RIDING : ENGLAND)
FYLINGDALES (YORKSHIRE NORTH RIDING : ENGLAND)
On the moors, 11km from
Fylingdales, 7 white and one red-white objects were observed by a
teacher, B M Goldrick of Solihull and his family as they were driving
along. These were little more than point sources of light. One of the
lights appeared to be at ground level, while the others remained at
some altitude. The object at ground level appeared to hover over the
heather, emitting a “clear and discernible” beam of light
skywards. It then turned and faced due south and began to move
towards the observers for about 100m, flashing on and off. At a point
about 50m away it disappeared.
- Paul Wagg + Hanson and Holloway 2011b p 240 both citing NICAP (GB) files
- UFOlog 41 p7
Late 1967.
0130hrs.
FANJEUX (AUDE : FRANCE)
FANJEUX (AUDE : FRANCE)
Mr and Mrs Pons were
driving home from the opera when, rounding a curve, they saw a grey
metallic looking object, with two lights that kept changing colour
cross the road 70m ahead, reflected in their headlights. Mr Pons
thought it was a truck crossing the road from left to right, but his
wife disagreed and told him to slow down, . They quickly reached the
crossing point where Mr Pons stopped the car and got out but there
was nothing to see. The thing had been only a metre or so above the
ground and Pons remembered that at the point on the left where the
thing was first seen there was a small path. After they had gone on
about 1km they saw, low in the sky, a series of luminous squares,
like railway carriage windows lit up at night, but Mrs Pons reminded
him there was no railway line in that area Unnerved, the couple did
not hang around to take in much detail but noted that the ”windows”
were illuminated by a white light. These lights were in the direction
of Fanjeux village, no more than 500m from the road and came to
within 100m of the cross roads, where it seemed to be obscured by
some obstacle and was never seen again. Further on, at the
crossroads they saw a luminous red ball, leaving a trail, like a
shooting star but much bigger and on an opposite trajectory, crossing
the sky at speed.
- Pierre Planard in LDLN 201 p12
November
1967.
LOWESTOFT (SUFFOLK : ENGLAND)
John Rand from Aldeby was
walking home when, as he came up to a disused railway line, he heard
a vibrating sound. He thought it was a train on the nearby Beccles
line, but when he looked up he saw that it came from a dark object,
with a dome on top and a bulge on the bottom, hovering over an apple
orchard 20m away. Along the dome were a number of slits of light,
which illuminated the nearby trees. The noise increased in pitch as
the thing took off. John was very frightened by the experience.
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p 246 citing Ivan W Bunn
November 1967. (Approx.
date) 1820hrs.
LAC LA MACHE (BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
LAC LA MACHE (BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
Herman Sten, a heavy
equipment maintainer, was driving home from Lac La Mache to 100 Mile
House, 50km away, on a Friday night. That traffic was unusually
scarce that night. Soon after Herman left Lac La Mache, he noticed a
flashing light in the sir ahead of him, which he thought was from a
helicopter. By the time he reached a small lake at the 178km point
the thing was abreast of him and he got a closet look at it. The
object resembled two plates pressed together end to end, with a dome
on top, surmounted by a steady red light, with another light
revolving around the circumference. The thing was about 30m diameter
and hovering 60m above the lake. Herman wondered if it was
some sort of air-sea rescue mission, but the object then crossed the
road, hovered over a small hill on the other side and then began to
descend among the trees, its light illuminating them. Herman now
became uneasy and drove away. About 5km further on he saw the object
climbing in a sweeping curve towards the west. Reaching 100 Mile
House, he again saw the flashing light disappearing into the
darkness.
- John Magor in Canadian UFO Report 1,6 p13
November 1967.
LIEPAJA (LATVIA then part of the USSR)
LIEPAJA (LATVIA then part of the USSR)
A huge luminous hemisphere
was seen at low altitude emerging from the sea, its light so powerful
that it hurt peoples’ eyes.
- Stonehill and Mantle 2016 p171 citing Sovetskaya Latvia 2 December 1967.
November 1967.
1830hrs.
MOUNT ADAMS (MASSACHUSSETTS : USA)
MOUNT ADAMS (MASSACHUSSETTS : USA)
Mrs Gigliotti was driving
home from church when she saw, coming towards her, a circular mass of
bright lights. Just before it reached her the thing swept up and then
hovered over a 15-21m tall tree. A few seconds later the object left
at speed, emitting a glow from his rear.
- APRO Bulletin January/February 1968 p6
- Evaluation: Probably bolide seen over much of New England that night.
November 1967.
2030hrs.
ST GEORGE (QUEENSLAND : AUSTRALIA)
ST GEORGE (QUEENSLAND : AUSTRALIA)
While driving along the St
George-Mitchell highway, Barry Morris (21) and his fiancée’s
mother Mrs Vera Lidden observed an object 4.5m long, 3.5m high,
hovering about 30cm above the ground, in a nearby field. In the front
of the thing was an opening and a fold up hatchway that led to the
ground. When first seen the object was a green-blue colour which
changed to silver as they drove closer. The thing took off and went
behind some trees but they observed it again when they turned a bend
in the road. They were too afraid to stop.
- Hervey 1969 p120 citing James McDonald
November 2 1967. 0530hrs.
LA HYADA (SALTA : ARGENTINA)
LA HYADA (SALTA : ARGENTINA)
Mrs Irma Antonia Fortuna
de Colina, wife of an official of the town of Villa San Lorenzo) and
her son Ricardo Marcelo, were returning by taxi in heavy rain.
Suddenly the taxi driver was forced to pull up on sighting, some 25m
from the highway, a circular body shaped like a cardinal’s hat and
emitting a blinding orange light. The thing was about 5m diameter,
1.5m high, with things like star shaped peepholes on its side. It was
hovering 2m above the ground in total silence. It remained visible
for 15 minutes, vanishing when a truck approached in the opposite
direction to the taxi.
- Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 15 p12 case 8 citing Ribera 1968 p225
November 2 1967.
2130hrs.
RIRIE (IDAHO : USA)
RIRIE (IDAHO : USA)
Billy Begay and Guy
Tossie, two Navajo employees of the Earl Hunter Ranch, were driving
southwards on Highway 26 towards Ririe when they were blinded by a
sudden brilliant light. Although Begay did not apply the brakes, the
car stopped. A small domed object, with flashing green and orange
lights revolving round its rim, appeared just above the highway in
front of them. In the transparent dome they could see two humanoids.
After a moment the dome swung open and one of the creatures drifted
lightly to the ground. He was a dwarf, 1m tall, with a rough, deep
scarred, face, large high ears, round eyes, his mouth a lipless slit,
and with no visible nose. To the horror of the youths, the creature
approached the car, opened the driver’s door and climbed in as the
men sat huddled on the other side. This being drove, or the object
somehow drew, the car into a field of stubble. When the car stopped,
Tossie, in the passenger seat, managed to dive out of the car and run
to a nearby farmhouse for help. When the farmer and his son returned
with him they found Begay paralysed with terror. When he recovered,
he reported that the being had made a series unintelligible high
pitched warbling sounds, as if trying to communicate with him. It was
then joined by the second, identical, dwarf. The two beings returned
to the object, which then took off with a flame coming from its
bottom. Cattle, owned by Mrs Claude Mann stampeded in panic on two
occasions, and dogs in the area were terrified. The police confirmed
that the youths were sober and suffering from great terror.
Investigators were impressed by the consistency of their story. The
same night, the driver of a pickup truck was near Ririe by a strange
flying devise, from which two beings emerged. He was so overcome by
the experience that he feared that he was going out of his mind.
- Canadian UFO Report 1,6 p15 + Gordon Creighton in FSR 17,3 p29 both citing UFO Investigator V, I p5-8
- Keyhoe and Lore 1969a p31
- Magor 1977 p78
- Donderi 2013 p 78 citing own investigation
- Hall 1988 pp 65, 264 citing Keyhoe and Lore op cit
- Clark 1998 p798)
November 2 1967.
1210hrs.
POINT PLEASANT (WEST VIRGINIA : USA)
POINT PLEASANT (WEST VIRGINIA : USA)
Mrs Virginia Thomas was
working in her kitchen when she heard a loud squeaking sound like a
malfunctioning fan belt. The stepped outside and noted that the noise
seemed to come from an igloo in the deserted TNT area. A shadow
crossed the grass. It was thrown by a huge grey figure, much taller
than a man, which walked unnaturally fast, as if gliding, and
vanished into the trees.
- Keel 1975a p244
- Keel 1970a p225
November 3 1967.
1815hrs.
WELLINGTON (TEXAS : USA)
WELLINGTON (TEXAS : USA)
Mrs Hazel McKinney, Mrs
Paterson and another person were driving south along US 83 en route
on work, when their attention was caught by a light, which they
thought was car a headlight, in an unoccupied wheat field. The light
grew larger and then turned south and travelled parallel to the car.
It then suddenly turned and flew in front of the car, and then took
off at an angle. It appeared to be a silent, silver grey cigar shaped
machine, large enough to drive the car into and with a fluorescent
glow in its rear.
- APRO Bulletin March/April 1968 p8
November 4 1967.
2130hrs.
CUTMILL (SURREY : ENGLAND)
CUTMILL (SURREY : ENGLAND)
Mr M Chadd and his
girlfriend were driving past Cutmill, when they both saw a glowing
disc shaped object hovering about 3m above the trees and bushes.
After about 15 minutes the glow diminished and the object
disappeared.
- UFOlog 42 p7 + Spacelink 5,1 p1 citing SIGAP Newsletter 7
November 5 1967.
0340hrs.
CENTENO (SANTA FE : ARGENTINA)
CENTENO (SANTA FE : ARGENTINA)
An employee of a dairy
farm managed by Carlos Spini had set out to do his duties, when he
perceived, coming from the west, an object enveloped in a brilliant
blue luminosity, which landed at a spot 600m away and remained there
for 3-3 minutes. He called out to a companion in the house
(presumably Carlos Spini), who looked out. Both men were able to
observe the departure of the object towards the west. No sound was
heard. Next day they discovered an oval mark 4m by 6m. The grass at
the spot, was dry, dehydrated and flattened, more so at the centre
than the periphery. It seemed to have been caused by pressure from a
convex surface.
- Roberto A Ferrari in FSR Case Histories 6 p13
- Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 13 p14 case 99 citing above + La Razon 19 November 1967. + La Nacion 20 November 1967.+ investigation by CEF
- Note: There are differences in the Ferrari and Uriondo accounts, presumably the second, using more sources is the more accurate
November 5 1967.
2130hrs.
MAPLE RIDGE HILL (ONTARIO : CANADA)
MAPLE RIDGE HILL (ONTARIO : CANADA)
Terry Goodmurphy (20) of
North Livingstone and his friend Stephen Griffen (19) were driving
west on Hw 17 when, as they neared the top of Maple Ridge Hill, they
saw an orange glow in the sky, which they thought was caused by a
fire. They stopped to watch and saw the light was moving. They drove
on for about 1km and then saw the thing more clearly as it manoeuvred
at 30m, went down to the highway, rose again and travelled towards
them. It appeared to be an orange-red hemisphere 30m diameter. They
backed the car around and headed east to a nearby restaurant. By this
time the object could no longer be seen. The next day a horse was
found mutilated at the Wolgenuth farm in nearby Sowberry.
- Vallee 1969 p48
- Gene Duplantier in Flying Saucers 58 p24
- Keel 1970a p170
November 5 1967.
2330hrs.
FORDINGBRIDGE (HAMPSHIRE : ENGLAND)
FORDINGBRIDGE (HAMPSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Carl B Farlow (25) was
driving his Leyland Super Comet diesel lorry on the A 338 between
Avon and Sopley when he saw a pale green light about 400m away, above
the trees, coming towards the road. Carl kept a watch on the object
until he reached the crossroads with a bridge over the River Avon to
his right, when he saw the object hovering 3m above the road. As he
got within 20m of the thing, which was moving slowly across the road
from the right, his radio and lights went out, though his engine
continued running. The object appeared to be glowing a brilliant
magenta colour, with a whitish area at the bottom. It seemed to be
egg shaped, 3-4.5m high, 4.5-6m wide, and 25m long. It appeared to
have a circular top and paraploid base. Carl noted a pungent odour
like an electrical drill going through wood. An opening appeared in
the underside, and a pipe, 7.5cm, diameter with a sphere at the end,
emerged. As it did so, a hum, increasing in pitch as the sphere moved
further out, was heard. Other pipes were noted on the underside. This
main pipe appeared to search the ground and suck up debris, like the
nozzle of a vacuum cleaner. As the pipe was withdrawn, the hum became
low again, and the opening closed. The thing then moved away to the
east, rising slightly first. After travelling about 400m, the object
began to climb vertically and disappeared.
As the object moved away
Carl became aware of a white Jaguar car that had been stopped on the
other side. The driver of this car, a veterinary surgeon, Robert
Carslake, said that his car had been stalled by the object. They went
to phone the police, noticing that the telephone booth lights and the
vet’s torch were both out of action. When police investigated, Carl
noted that the vegetation appeared flattened and charred and that the
road surface appeared to be melted. Years later he told investigators
that his lorry’s electrical system had been destroyed by the event,
though he seems to have said the opposite at the time. There were
alleged investigations by the Ministry of Defence. Also years later
Farlow added the information that spheres with spikes attached came
out of the underside of the thing
- Roy Winstanley in Spacelink 5,1 p,ii citing his own investigation
- Anthony Pace in BUFORA Proceedings 1976 + Falla 1979 p44 (case 181) citing own investigation
- FSR 13, 6 p 4 citing Daily Express 7 November 1967
- FSR 14, 2 p32 citing Southern Evening Echo 6 November 1967
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p250 citing above + investigation by David Sankey and Erica Williams
- Randles and Warrington 1985 p105
- Evaluation: Another case with varying details depending on source, and it should be noted that the alleged second witness was never interviewed by investigators. Attempts by Hanson and Holloway in 2008 to contact him were also rebuffed
November 6 1967.
0615hrs.
BURNLEY (LANCASHIRE : ENGLAND)
BURNLEY (LANCASHIRE : ENGLAND)
Wilfred Heaton (37) from
Hebden Bridge was driving home from his night shift at a tyre factory
in Burnley to his home in Heptonstall along the moorland road, when,
going up Wicket Hill, he observed a white sphere come from the north,
cross over in front of his car at an elevation of 30 degrees and
position itself slightly to the right of the road, and ahead of him.
It paced the car, following the road exactly. It now appeared
flattened and surrounded by a pulsating halo. At the Long Causeway
straight section, about 1.5km long the thing appeared to hover over a
distant car. When Heaton flashed his lights to attract this driver’s
attention, the object appeared to move, come alongside and then
accelerate back to its original position, hovering over a hollow,
until he drove close to it, at which it accelerated away. At a branch
in the road a second object appeared from behind, passing over the
first. The objects stayed in front of him, their distance varying.
Towards the end of the journey his car began to lose power; this was
later found to be caused by a faulty spark plug. When he reached home
Heaton was able to show his wife the objects low in the south-east.
After 10 minutes they ascended vertically into the sky.
- Trevor Whitaker + Malcolm Bull in UFOlog 51 p2 + FSR 14, 2 p33 citing own investigation
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p257 citing above + Halifax Evening Courier 7 November 1967.
- Evaluation: Probably astronomical
November 7 1967.
VEKSOE (ZEELAND : DENMARK)
VEKSOE (ZEELAND : DENMARK)
Several people saw a
strange object on the ground. No further details
- Steiger and Whritenour 1969 p105
November 8 1967.
0345hrs.
LAKE EISINORE (CALIFORNIA : USA)
LAKE EISINORE (CALIFORNIA : USA)
A business executive was
driving through a remote region when his car engine, lights and radio
failed and he felt a strange pressure from above pressing down on his
neck and shoulders. . Through a break in the fog he saw a red-orange,
hazy, disc shaped object that passed over him and hovered over the
highway ahead, lighting up the area. The thing wobbled as it hovered
and moved and had rotating lights. The witness was unable to estimate
the diameter of this object, though he gave estimates between 9 and
15m and estimated its altitude as from 15-50m. After about 90 seconds the
object took off into the fog ahead and the electrical equipment began
functioning again. The FM band of the radio however was only giving a
hum on all channels. Investigators found that this was due to damage
to stereo tapes and pitting of the car’s paint. However no evidence
that the car had been subjected to an electro-magnetic field was
forthcoming. The witness became religious and was afraid to visit the
site alone, almost passing out when he did so with investigators.
Both a waitress and milkman to whom he had talked, both confirmed his
fright. His watch was found stopped at 0345hrs. but this could not be
tied definitely to the incident.
- Condon and Gilmour 1969 p380 citing investigations by Roy Craig and NICAP
November 9 1967.
2345hrs.
ERIN (TENNESSEE : USA)
ERIN (TENNESSEE : USA)
Two nurses driving home
from Waverley Hospital were stopped at a traffic light, when they saw
a large, semi-transparent object land on the road ahead. The car
seemed to be pulled towards the thing, getting within 10m of it. The
women could see in the transparent section five small beings looking
at them. The women felt transfixed and when the object took off they
followed it to a rural area, where it landed again. Their car lights
went out and they next saw the object departing, high in the sky.
- Ridge 1994 p23 citing MUFON Proceedings 1981
- Budd Hopkins in MUFON Proceedings 1981 p48
November 12 1967.
0300hrs.
CENTENO (SANTA FE : ARGENTINA)
CENTENO (SANTA FE : ARGENTINA)
A youth on his way to
Centeno saw an egg shaped object coming down fairly slowly into a
field of maize in a vertical position. The thing had clearly outlined
edges and shone with a metallic reflection. It gave off two orange
bursts of flame, without smoke or noise and it disappeared behind
trees. No marks were found on the ground.
- Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 17 p.iv case100 citing investigation by CEI
November 13 1967.
0030hrs.
CRANLEIGH (SURREY : ENGLAND)
CRANLEIGH (SURREY : ENGLAND)
Carpenter Phillip Freeman
(22) and his girlfriend Angela Carter (20) were returning to Woking
from Phillip’s brother’s house in Cranleigh, when at a spot in
the Winterfold Forest, about 3km from Cranleigh they stopped to
de-mist the windscreen. As Phillip opened the car door they noticed
an extremely unpleasant odour like that of a stink bomb. When Phillip
re-entered the car he was alarmed to see a kind of face 25 cm long,
20 cm wide close to the window. It was blank, white, with no features
at all and may have been faintly luminous. There was also a sort of
arm which reached up to the car roof and a dark bell shaped body
which was illuminated by their rear lights,. it having moved towards
the rear as Phillip fumbled to start the engine. It appeared to be
the same size as their Triumph Vitesse car (1.35m). When they had
driven from the scene the foul smell vanished. Angela would not agree
to return to the site. Phillip’s parents confirmed his agitated
state when he arrived home.
- Charles Bowen in FSR 14,1 p16 citing his own investigation
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p264 citing above + an undated issue of Woking Review + SIGAP
November 13 1967.
0400hrs.
PUDASJARVI (NORTHERN OSTROBOTHNIA : FINLAND)
PUDASJARVI (NORTHERN OSTROBOTHNIA : FINLAND)
Mrs Arja Achren and her
brother Hannu Pelkonen, en route from Kuusamo to Oulu, were driving
on the main road between Pudasjarvi andKipina, when they suddenly
noticed a strange object above the skyline. The thing was helmet
shaped and appeared to be motionless at first. They then realised
that it was flying over the forest towards their car, from the south
to the north east. They stopped to get a better look as it passed
over and were astonished to see that the object had stopped also.
They saw it was an enormous helmet shaped object, shining with a
bright white light with two dark marks of the same shape, which
looked like openings, quite clear in the middle of the white light.
The siblings, alarmed, continued on their journey, only to find that
the object was following them. It then began to rise, grew brighter,
the dark markings disappearing, and continued pacing the car over the
trees at a speed of 110kph. A strange noised seemed to come from the
car’s engine, affecting the performance, before the object
disappeared from site.
- Ellis W Grahn in FSR Case Histories 13 p5
- Evaluation: The moon?
November 14 1967.
0600hrs.
LIEPAJA (KURZEME : LATVIA then part of the USSR)
LIEPAJA (KURZEME : LATVIA then part of the USSR)
A number of people saw a
large, very bright, hemispherical object in the air, quite close to
the ground for several minutes before rising and taking off
- FSR 19,2 p.iii citing Communist 1 December 1967.
November 14 1967.
BARINAS (BARINAS : VENEZUELA_
BARINAS (BARINAS : VENEZUELA_
Orlando Gonzales and two
friends saw an oval object 1.5m high resting in the middle of a
highway. The approached within 75m at which the thing took off
vertically and disappeared within seconds.
- APRO Bulletin November/December 1967. p8
November 15 1967. 1930hrs.
COVENTRY (WARWICKSHIRE now WEST MIDLANDS : ENGLAND)
COVENTRY (WARWICKSHIRE now WEST MIDLANDS : ENGLAND)
John Edwards saw a white
object, 1.5m diameter, fly above him at 12m altitude while he was out
walking.
- R Tibbets in FSOAN 1,2 p10
November 15 1967. (or
following day) 1830hrs.
YERECOIN (WEST AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
YERECOIN (WEST AUSTRALIA : AUSTRALIA)
Farm manager Alan Poole
(43) was returning home after mustering the sheep, when about 1.5km
from the farm, he heard a high pitched sound like a generator. He
thought it was a malfunction of his Land Rover engine and then saw an
object 800m away at 120m altitude, which approached rapidly and
landed next to his vehicle, about 1-1.5m away. The object appeared to
be an inverted saucer, metallic grey in colour, 3.5-6m diameter,
about 1.8m high, hovering a few centimetres above the ground. There
were two round and two square portholes on the side facing him. The
hum was now so strong that he could feel its vibrations. When Poole
yelled at the object, to his astonishment, the words were echoed back
to him. As Poole moved to get out of his vehicle the object took off
vertically. The incident had lasted about 10 seconds. There were no
traces on the ground. At about this time Mrs Poole noticed
interference on her TV. Poole’s employer spoke highly of him.
- Australian UFO Review 10 p32
- L J Locke in AFSR 8 p13
- FSR 14,1 p32 citing West Australian 17 November 1967.
- Hervey 1969 p162
- APRO Bulletin November/December 1967. p5
- Basterfield 1981 p88 + 1997 p160 citing Locke op cit)
November 16 1967. 1700hrs.
STORRINGTON (SUSSEX : ENGLAND)
STORRINGTON (SUSSEX : ENGLAND)
Mrs Suzette Quick was
walking towards the downs when she noticed an obstruction on the
horizon resembling a steam roller. Through opera glasses she saw it
had a trumpet shaped front, domed centre, two tails from the right
hand side and was 8-9m diameter. It swivelled round several times,
disappearing for 10 minutes the reappeared. After sunset it gave off
a flickering deep red light. It changed position at high speed then
went off towards the sea, but reappeared 10 minutes later but went
behind a clump of trees. At one point a tall figure, perhaps 2.5-3m
tall approached the object with a gliding motion. Mrs Quick estimated
the object was 4m thick at the centre and was on or just above the
ground 400-800m away. It was grey coloured with sharp outlines.
Another woman also witnessed the incident for a short time.
- Charles Bowen, Gordon Creighton in FSR 14,2 p4 citing investigation by Omar Fowler
- Evaluation: Probably earth moving equipment
September 16
1967. 2355hrs.
LANUS ESTE (BUENOS AIRES : ARGENTINA)
LANUS ESTE (BUENOS AIRES : ARGENTINA)
Mr Poloni was awakened
suddenly by a sensation of great heat and intense itching. Through
one of his windows shone a powerful light, the source of which
appeared to be at the back of the house. Fearing a fire, Poloni ran
round, to see a strange light suspended over the servant;s sleeping
quarters. He quickly called his wife, three children and two brothers
from the house and went to get his rifle. As he did so, he was struck
by a sort of tube of solid light, which paralysed and rendered him
speechless. The object then rose and vanished into the air at high
speed.
- Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 16 p10 case 101 citing Font(?) p368 Not found in Eberhart or AFU
November 17 1967.
1745hrs.
CALGARY (ALBERTA : CANADA)
CALGARY (ALBERTA : CANADA)
David Seewalt (14) was
walking home from visiting a friend, when he was chased by a large
object. He arrived home at 1830hrs. in a state of shock. Under
hypnotic regression he recalled that he had heard a buzzing sound and
seen a large object with a band of coloured lights around its centre.
He was taken up in a beam of orange light to a “computer room”
with a console and blinking lights, where he was undressed by naked
beings with rough brown crocodile like skin, and with holes for noses
and ears and slit like mouths. They had an unusual number of fingers
and toes and voices “like a kazoo”. When he arrived home one of
his shoes was missing.
- W. K. Allan in FSR 20,6 p25
- Musgrave 1979 p47 case 44 citing the FSR article + B Ann Slate in Saga UFO Report 3, 1 p26
- De Herrera 1978 p26
- Magor 1977 p183
- Bondarchuk 1979 p85 citing investigation by W K Allan
November 18 1967.
0300hrs.
PIENCIA (PAIS VASCO : SPAIN)
PIENCIA (PAIS VASCO : SPAIN)
About 10 fisherman spread
across several boats in the Concha area saw an oval dark grey object,
10m diameter, coming down t great speed and swinging from side to
side, sometimes at sea level They observed it for 2 minutes at a
distance of 2km . Later it rose too fast for the eye to follow.
- Ballester 1976 p12 case 52 citing El Correo Espanol 21 November 1967.
November 19 1967.
0100hrs.
GULL LAKE (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
GULL LAKE (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
While driving home from
Winter Ranch, Bruce Macpherson ran out of fuel when about 11km west
of Gull Lake. He pushed his car into a ditch at the side of the road.
Just then he heard a strange whistling sound and turned around to see
a ball of fire coming at him from the east. The thing, which was as
bright as the sun, hovered over his car at the height of a microwave
tower for about 5 minutes. It then took off in the direction from
which it had come at incredible speed. After sitting for 15
minutes, Bruce picked up the courage to walk to a nearby farm, where
he saw the object returning
as a bright light in the sky, 6km away, casting a reflection on the
ground. The off key whistle was heard again and the object came
directly over the car, before returning to hover in the east, where
he observed it for about an hour.
- Gene Duplantier in Flying Saucers 58 p24 + Saucers, Space and Science 50 + Steiger and Whritenour 1968a p39
November 19 1967.
SWIFT CURRENT CREEK (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
SWIFT CURRENT CREEK (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
While driving to work in
Shaunaven , Cedric Cunningham of Gull Lake saw a blinding ball of
fire hover over a field and then land near Swift Current Creek. After
the light had disappeared Cedric checked the field and found a large
circular burnt area.
- Gene Duplantier in Saucers, Space and Science 51 p6 + Steiger and Whritenour 1969 p24
November 19 1967.
2115hrs.
SCRIBNER (NEBRASKA : USA)
SCRIBNER (NEBRASKA : USA)
Three boys out hunting
near Maple Creek, about 8km south of Scribner saw a rapidly moving
American football shaped object at about 30m altitude. They tried to
follow it, but it was too fast for them. One side of the thing had
red glow, the other a bluish-white.
- APRO Bulletin January/February 1968 p6
November 20 1967.
2200hrs.
ROOSEVELT (UTAH : USA)
ROOSEVELT (UTAH : USA)
Dave Roberts saw a round
object with pulsating, rotating green, red and amber lights and a
shadowy area below them. Dave observed it from a distance of about
100m, through night binoculars, as it maneuvered fast and slow. No
shape was visible behind the lights and there was no sound.
- Salisbury 1974 table citing Joseph Hicks files
November 23 1967.
1930hrs.
MATSEVO (sic) (MONTENEGRO? then part of YUGOSLAVIA)
MATSEVO (sic) (MONTENEGRO? then part of YUGOSLAVIA)
While driving on the
Kalasin (sic) and Matsevo (sic) road, lorry driver Milika Scepanovich
and his companions Milija Vujisich and Milivoje Milasevich saw two
objects travelling north-south from Mojkovac to Komovi. One of the
objects became very brilliant and began to descend vertically. It
almost blinded the witnesses and emitted bursts of fire. After 15hrs.
minutes the thing rose up and continued in the direction of Komovi.
Villagers at Kralje (sic), Bave (sic) and Jublan (sic) also saw the
objects.
- UFO Commentry 2,3 p4
- Evaluation: The place names marked sic cannot be found on Google; as Mojkovac and Komovi are in Montenegro, that is where I have placed the event. Cf November 26 below, which may refer to the same event. Bolide?
November 24 1967.
0300hrs.
POINT PLEASANT (WEST VIRGINIA : USA)
POINT PLEASANT (WEST VIRGINIA : USA)
A resident of the north
end of town saw an unidentified object land in the area of the Ohio
Valley junior high school. He called neighbours who witnessed the
same thing. After 20 minutes the object rose slowly and went out of
sight towards Henderson.
- John Keel in FSR 14, 4 p14 citing Athens Messenger 24 November 1967.
November 24 1967.
1430hrs.
RIO DE JANEIRO (RIO DE JANEIRO : BRAZIL)
RIO DE JANEIRO (RIO DE JANEIRO : BRAZIL)
Radio technician Ugo
Battaglia (39) and his helper Carlos A do Nacsimento (14) were
working in an 8th floor apartment in the Rua Gomez Carneiro. Carlos
was standing by the window when he heard a sound so high pitched that
it made the window glass vibrate. Looking out, he saw a brilliant
metallic disc apparently landing among the trees just beyond the
skyline. The object struck a tree, scattering its leaves and causing
it to explode. The object hovered close to the ground and Carlos
called Ugo over to see three white clad men climb out of the object,
which had a spinning cupola with slat like openings above its main
body, with a red light on either side of the bottom. The beings
walked together, their arms hung down beside them, and wore white or
yellow clothing. After 5 minutes they re-entered the machine, Ugo
believed this was some sort of helicopter and calmed the boy’s
fear. After finishing their job they walked back to their workshop at
1455hrs. and saw the object still on the hill. A few moments later it
was gone. Next day they went to the site with a colleague. There they
found the grass trampled down, the damaged tree burned and charred
and apparently wrenched apart. They were astounded to discover that
such was the height of the grass the men must have been floating
above it to be visible. A third person reported to the police after
fainting at the sight of the object and its crew. Carlos suffered a
headache for the rest of the day.
- Coral Lorenzen in Fate (UK) July 1968 p5 and Lorenzen 1976 p17 both citing Irene Granchi
- APRO Bulletin November/December 1967. p3 citing investigation by Irene Grnachi
- Granchi 1995 p56
November 26 1967. Early
hours.
AMERICANA (SAO PAULO : BRAZIL)
AMERICANA (SAO PAULO : BRAZIL)
A highway patrol officer
on duty at Km 124 on the Anhanguera Highway saw what looked like an
unlit aircraft descending. He ran to assist what he feared was an
aircraft crash but saw instead that this was an immense object, the
size of a 15hrs. story building, hovering at 50m altitude. It was
aluminium looking with what looked like rivets, and hatches on its
underside, and appeared to be spinning. The officer was about to
return to his post when the ibject emitted blindingly bright lights
and an intense hum that gave him a headache. He was unable to restart
his patrol car and he then realised that the lights in the police hut
and a nearby petrol station were also out. The object then took off
and was lost to sight in the sky, at which the lights came back on
and he could start his car. In garage owners home, the TV and
fluorescent lights all burned out. He also discovered that the engine
of a passing truck had also cut out.
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1968 p5 citing Flavio Pereira citing investigation by Methodios Kalkaslief and Max Berezavsky
November 26 1967.
KOMOVI FOREST (MONTENEGRO then part of YUGOSLAVIA)
KOMOVI FOREST (MONTENEGRO then part of YUGOSLAVIA)
A forest fire, which took
24 hours to bring under control, was said to have been caused by a
round object, which flew low over the forest, sending out flames. The
witnesses were farm workers.
- Hobana and Weverbergh 1974 p197
- Evaluation: Appears to relate to same event as 23 November
November 26 1967. Late
afternoon.
ADLERMINSTER (WARWICKSHIRE
: ENGLAND)
A woman driving along
Shipston Road saw a square object in the sky in the gaps between
trees. Its base jutted out rather, had rounded corners and when seen
in open air it resembled the wings of a large bird. It disappeared in
seconds.
- Hanson and Holloway 2011b p267 citing J D Llewellyn
November 27 1967.
2100hrs.
FAYETTE COUNTY (PENNSYLVANIA : USA)
FAYETTE COUNTY (PENNSYLVANIA : USA)
Four people in a rural
area saw an object descend, and three people driving on a country
road north west of the Philco-Ford plant saw it as a sivlery domed
disc, larger than a house, with masses of red lights on its
underside. They stopped and saw, through windows in the object’s
dome, lights like those on a computer. They drove off at high speed.
- Ridge 1994 p24 citing Don Worley
November 28 1967.
0230hrs.
AMERICANA (SAO PAULO : BRAZIL)
AMERICANA (SAO PAULO : BRAZIL)
The same patrolman as on
the 26th saw the huge metallic looking object approach
again, so he hid in a ditch and saw the thing descend to 30m
altitude, 50m away. From the object came a sort of open fronted
elevator, in which were two figures, dressed in tight fitting suits,
like frogmen, lit up by a dull light. They had wide belts on which
were shiny objects. One of the figures then turned around and spoke
and gestured to the patrolman, telling him not to be afraid and that
they would return. The patrolman wanted to get up and greet them, but
his legs would not work. The object then took off and disappeared.
- APRO Bulletin September/October 1968 p5 citing Flavio Pereira citing investigation by Methodios Kalkaslief and Max Berezavsky
November 29 1967. 0200hrs.
QUINAN near YARMOUTH (NOVA SCOTIA : CANADA)
QUINAN near YARMOUTH (NOVA SCOTIA : CANADA)
Percy McBride was out
camping and lying looking up at the sky when he saw an object pass
overhead and land. He got up and walked to within 400m of the thing,
which appeared to be the size of a station wagon but rather thicker.
It was white and had flashing coloured lights and two aerials. From
its underside was a sort of square box hanging down from a pole The
thing was emitting a clicking sound. He shouted at the thing a couple
of times and on the second occasion, the aerials and box retracted
and the thing, giving off a howling sound, took off and disappeared
within 90seconds. Percy was very frightened by the 5 minute
observation.
- APRO Bulletin January/February 1968 p3 direct from witness
December 1967.
HANNA (ALBERTA : CANADA)
HANNA (ALBERTA : CANADA)
A machinist saw a saucer
shaped object, with lights and portholes, sitting in a field. The man
returned to town and returned with two friends. The three watched the
object for some time but did not stay to see it take off.
- Saucers, Space and Science 51 p8 citing Calgary Albertan 18 January 1968
December 1967
JACKSON HOLE (WYOMING : USA)
JACKSON HOLE (WYOMING : USA)
Two students from Iowa,
Lyle Bingaman and Mike Burton shot what they thought was a bear, but
they found it was a humanoid creature. They left the area for fear of
being accused of murder.
- Newton 2015 p32 citing Jonathon Steele citing Robert Lindsey citing Peter Byrne
- Evaluation: Another urban legend?
December 1967.
Afternoon.
FROME (SOMERSET : ENGLAND)
FROME (SOMERSET : ENGLAND)
An elderly and rather deaf
man living in a cottage near a wooded area in a village outside Frome
saw a circular object come down to between 1-2m above the ground
about 25m away and two figures wearing helmets emerged and walked
into the woods. The witness followed them and noted that they wore
blue, close fitting suits and were talking but he could not make out
what they were saying. When he got within about 20m one of the
figures raised a gloved hand and both figures vanished. Looking
around the witness saw the object covered with a sort of vapour.
- Shuttlewood 1979a p145
December 3 1967. 0230hrs.
ASHLAND (NEBRASKA : USA)
ASHLAND (NEBRASKA : USA)
City Patrolman Herbert T
Schirmer (22) was making his rounds on Highway 6, 800m south of
Ashland. As he passed a ridge near the Hw 63 intersection, he saw an
object with lights which he thought was a stalled truck. He then saw
it was an aluminium coloured object, about 7m long hovering about 2m
above the ground. As he drove to within 12m of the object, his engine
died. He then observed the object take off in a shimmering fashion,
with a twanging sound which became a beep as the object rose to
15hrs.m. As a brilliant red-orange light shone from its base, the
object took off, showing a glowing square protrusion on its base.
Schirmer’s flashlight refused to function. The car then started
normally. An abnormally high radiation count was noted at the site.
There was an apparent time lapse and under hypnotic regression by Dr
Leo Sprinkle for the Condon Committee, he recalled that a brilliant
white light had shone on the car from the object and that a blurred
white figure had approached and communicated with him, the alleged
communication concerned the origin and propulsion of “ space ships
from another galaxy”. The psychological examination also revealed
that Schirmer suffered from a headache after the incident and
subsequent psychological disturbances. These latter persisted after
the Sprinkle regression, and a second regression was undertaken by a
hypnotist under the aegis of a popular ufo writer. This was said to
reveal an abduction by beings 1.35-1.5m tall wearing close fitting,
grey uniforms, with a winged serpent chest emblem and gloves and
boots. They had long, thin, grey white faces, with flat noses, slit
mouths and slanted eyes. They showed him the workings of the ship and
said they were planning the peaceful invasion of the earth. The only
physical trace of the incident was a weal below Schirmer’s ear.
- Coral Lorenzen in Fate UK July 1968 p30 + Lorenzen 1976 270 both citing Leo Sprinkle
- Blum 1974 p109
- Norman 1970 p169
- W Smith 1977 p87
- Vallee 1979 p57
- Clark 1998 p817 with extensive bibliography
December 3 1967.
1945hrs.
CRYSTAL SPRINGS (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
CRYSTAL SPRINGS (SASKATCHEWAN : CANADA)
John Hrytzak and his wife
were returning from visiting her brother, Barry Kostiuk, when, on
Highway 20, 6.5km from Crystal Springs a large radiant object passed
almost in front of their car, forcing them to stop. They phoned back
to Harry, who arrived on the scene with his father. For the next two
hours and move they observed several objects that seemed just to
appear and disappear. A domed object was observed 150m away, lighting
up the area and then a glowing red object, with flashing red and
orange lights, came down the road and over their car at 20-30m
altitude.
- Gene Duplantier in Flying Saucers 58 p24 + Saucers, Space and Science 50 + Steiger and Whritenour 1968a p39
December 4 1967.
0300hrs.
EAGLESHAM (RENFEWSHIRE : SCOTLAND)
EAGLESHAM (RENFEWSHIRE : SCOTLAND)
A man crossing the village
green was startled by an orange light. Four beams of light were
coming from a giant circular object, which appeared to be about to
land. As the witness approached, the thing moved off north. The
witness became paralysed. The object then turned south and
disappeared behind some buildings. By the time the witness followed,
the thing had disappeared.
- Zenith no 7
December 6 1967.
Morning.
SAINT LEONARD (CORREZE :FRANCE)
SAINT LEONARD (CORREZE :FRANCE)
An occupant report. No
further details.
- Alain Gamard citing J Giraud.
December 6 1967.
(AUBE
: FRANCE)
Paul P and his wife were
driving their car along D15 near to the intersection with the St
Hilaire road and N 20 when they saw a dwarf about 1.1m tall that
glided along the slope as though it was weightless. It was bulky like
the “Michelin man”, with its head covered by a sphere. The thing
raised its hand twice. The couple drove off at speed.
- Erich Zurcher in LDLN 195 p27 citing Quy Quincy
December 7 1967. Evening.
HARESKOVEN WOOD (COPENHAGEN : DENMARK)
Hans Lauritzen was on a
walk with some friends, when he found himself unable to keep up
because of his hepatitis. He then saw two large dim yellow globes
about 100m away, which were also seen by another member of the party.
Separated from his friends, he appeared to fall into a trance like
state in which he held conversations with alien entities. Another
member of the party was blinded by a blue light. After about 1 hour
Hans came to and they began to walk down the slope. Hans then began
to run and thus found he had recovered from his hepatitis, but later
suffered from severe psychological problems.
- Trench 1974 p94
- Evaluation: Psychological
December 8 1967.
0030hrs.
DEPUTY (INDIANA : USA)
DEPUTY (INDIANA : USA)
A woman saw a large orange
bowl shaped object and observed it for 30 minutes. At some point she
was levitated by the thing and had no recollection of how she got
home. She suffered unspecified physiological effects and claimed
visitations by small beings and that there was an implant in her
head.
- Ridge 1994 p24 citing Don Worley
December 8 1967.
1940hrs.
IDAHO FALLS (IDAHO : USA)
IDAHO FALLS (IDAHO : USA)
Marilyn Wilding (15) was
on her front step, waiting for a friend, on this cold overcast night
when her attention was caught by a strange light in the sky,
reflecting on the snow. Going further out , she saw a brilliant
circular object, the apparent size of a small car, hovering low over
the house, so close that she felt she could have hit it with
something if she threw it. It tilted, revealing a transparent dome in
which the vague outlines of two figures could be seen, but details
were obscured by the glare. Marilyn ran inside to get her sister, but
she refused to come as she had no shoes on. By the time Marilyn went
out again the thing was beginning to rotate in a clockwise direction,
giving the impression of a wobbling motion. In this manner it moved
away to the north, its light dimming and turning orange. Her sister
and brothers saw the thing departing from inside the house.
- Keyhoe and Lore 1969a p 29 citing investigation by C Reed Ricks
December 10
1967. 0100hrs.
WASHINGTON (DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA : USA)
WASHINGTON (DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA : USA)
Tom Monteleone, (21) a
psychology student at the University of Maryland was driving home
from work along the interstate when his route was blocked by an
unidentified object that landed on the road. By it stood two human
like beings, one of whom, who had a sun tanned complexion and bulging
eyes, approached Tom, claiming to be an alien called Vadig. Vadig
left saying “see you in time”. Tom claimed later contacts from
Vadig, who took him on a visit to his home world of Lanulos and its
nude inhabitants.
- Jerome Clark in International UFO Reporter 20,1 p21 citing Keel 1970, 1971, 1975 + John Keel in FSR 15,3 p9 + Derenberger and Hubbard 1971 + Karl Pflock in Fate November 1980 p 40 + Thomas Monteleone in Omni May 1979 p 146
- Keel 1971a p187
- Mark Opsasnick in Strange 15 p18
- Evaluation: Admitted Hoax
December 10 1967.
1945hrs.
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
WARMINSTER (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Engineering foreman Bill
Horler was walking through a field near Gas House Lane, when he
observed a long, white, brilliant, cylindrical object pass overhead
and land about 200m away. Bill felt as though he had lost strength,
fell down and began crawling away from this object, which gave off a
powerful, pulsating, white light. At the end of the field Bill’s
strength returned and he ran home. His eyes had become red and sore
and it was some days before he was able to stand strong light.
- Shuttlewood 1968 p58
December 10 1967.
2335hrs.
CHAPMANSLADE (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
CHAPMANSLADE (WILTSHIRE : ENGLAND)
George Radbourne, a
foreman fitter at a firm of agricultural engineers, and his wife Ruth
had driven through the crossroads and Chapmanslade on the Thoulston
Bends-Warminster Road, when they observed a cigar shaped white
object, with a green sheen at the centre, travel from left to right,
moving up and down in a jerking fashion. The thing descended in a
curve, its light going out just above Cley Hill, where it apparently
landed.
- Shuttlewood 1968 p68
December 11 1967.
2200hrs.
CHICO (CALIFORNIA : USA)
CHICO (CALIFORNIA : USA)
A strange object was
observed at ground level by someone named Sigler. No further details.
- DataNet V, 7 p7
December 12 1967.
1930hrs.
NORTH LANSING (NEW YORK : USA)
Beautician Rita Malley
(25) was driving home to Ithaca from North Lansing with her 5 year
old son in the back seat along the Auburn-Ithaca road. She was
exceeding the speed limit in order to get home to cook her husband’s
dinner, despite the poor weather, light snow and strong winds
severely buffeting her 1962 Ford convertible, though there was little
traffic on the road. Between North and South Lansing, Rita noticed a
red glow to het rear, which glow was getting brighter. She thought it
was a police car and was thinking of ways to explain her speeding,
but then an object came into sight over the telephone pole to her
left. . The thing was circular, with a dome on top, brilliant red and
green lights underneath and was about 16-18m diameter and it tilted
at one point. Its light was too strong for her to look at for any
length of time. She looked back to see her
little boy sitting bolt upright, his eyes staring, and mute when she
spoke to him. As the object hovered at a height two to three times
the height of the telephone poles a white light came down from the
object and seemed to take control of her car, which stopped when the
light stopped moving. Her car was then moved over on to the side of
the road and into a field, a distance of about 5m.
As the object hovered at
35m altitude, 55m away Rita’s car lights began to dim down. She
tried various times to get control of the car, without success. The
object then began to emit a humming sound like a swarm of bees and
then a sort of chorus of broken voices came from the thing, informing
her that the brother of a woman she had been to beauty school with
had been killed in a traffic accident, and that her son would not
remember this period of time stop. After six or seven minutes
the car returned to the road, the steering wheel moving as if on its
own accord. Though the car lights came back on, Rita felt she was
still under the influence of the light to her left. The white light
then went out, leaving blending red and green lights. Traffic then
appeared coming from the opposite direction and the object shot away,
Rita now being back in control of her car. The little boy remembered
nothing of these incidents. When Rita arrived home she
was late, had a headache and became hysterical. The next day her
sister mentioned that the man referred to by the voices, had indeed
killed as described.
- Mallan 1968 p67 citing Lloyd Mallan and William Donovan
- T M Wright in Fate (UK) June 1969 p32 citing investigation by William Donovan
December 12 1967. 2105hrs.
KIRKUP (NEW SOUTH WALES : AUSTRALIA)
KIRKUP (NEW SOUTH WALES : AUSTRALIA)
Meryn Dickson went outside
after interference had developed on his TV. He observed a glowing
light and two orange objects descending through the trees 150m away.
District Forestry Officer J Mahony saw an orange glow in the area.
Other residents noted interference on their televisions.
- UFO Analysis Report 1, p5 gives date as 4th December
- Data Net IV,5 p.i gives 12th
December 13 1967.
0200hrs.
EDMONTON (ALBERTA : CANADA)
EDMONTON (ALBERTA : CANADA)
A man was out driving when
his lights and engine failed. He pulled over to see what was wrong.
As he was inspecting under the bonnet he saw a dome shaped object
hovering about 150m away and at 15m altitude. The thing was metallic
looking, with lights around its edge. The motorist found that his
battery was warm. He returned to his car and watched the object
oscillate back and forth through some 3-5m for about an hour, during
which time both he and the car began to heat up. He found that his
flashlight would not work either. After the thing finally shot up
vertically at terrific speed, the car headlights came back on, but
the car could only be started with difficulty.
- Rodeghier 1981 p39 citing CUFOS files
December 14 1967.
0220hrs.
CORDOBA (CORDOBA : ARGENTINA)
CORDOBA (CORDOBA : ARGENTINA)
Francisco Meuri, Miguel A
Colazo and Mario E Benegas were working at the food processing plant
on 24th September street when the lights suddenly went
out. They then saw a powerful light come from the street, which lit
up as in daylight. The went out to see a huge ball radiating an
intensely bright white light, which then commenced changing colour to
red, green and then back to white. It remained hanging there for 5
minutes, at the height of the street lamps and then moved slowly into
the air and away.
- Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 16 p10 case 103 citing La Vox del Interior 15 December 1967. + investigation by CADIU
December 14 1967.
1720hrs.
ECHO BAY (ONTARIO : CANADA)
ECHO BAY (ONTARIO : CANADA)
Three residents, who did
not give their names for fear of ridicule were returbning home from
the city were on Root River Bridge when they were startled by an
object, with three lights, which appeared before their car, forcing
them to slam on the brakes. The long, narrow object went over the car
at low altitude. They pulled down their windows to get a better look
but the object disappeared into the snow storm.
- Saucers Space and Science 51 p4 citing Sault St Marie Star 16 December 1967.
December 19 1967.
0400hrs.
MAHOMET (ILLINOIS : USA)
MAHOMET (ILLINOIS : USA)
Dressmaker Mrs Maryellen
Kelley and her husband had, since October, been plagued by a strange
whining sound and electrical disturbances which had led to a large
bill. On this morning their dig became agitated and Maryellen had
twice heard someone whistling outside the front door. The dog’s
continued agitation led her to get up and lock the front door. She
saw an orange-yellow light and when she went outside she saw it
crossing the road to the north. It cleared the trees and rose
rapidly, at an angle, to the north. When her husband arrived in
response to her cries the thing was visible only as a bright blinking
star. Maryellen suffered headaches, seemed to get electric shocks
when she touched things, developed sore eyes, reddening of the
exposed parts of her skin, earache and nosebleeds. Later she
developed dizziness, severe thirst and chest pains. She observed the
object some months later at 15m altitude, 30m away. It was about 8-9m
across, with three dark pods on its orange-red underside.
- Maryellen Kelly in Fate (UK) September 1969 p53
Late December 1967.
2000hrs.
GALLIOPE RANGES (QUEENSLAND : AUSTRALIA)
GALLIOPE RANGES (QUEENSLAND : AUSTRALIA)
Silvo Milne was returning
home from Gladstone when he observed three men dressed in silvery
uniforms standing by the roadside, 100m from Ballantyne’s Lookout.
Silvo was unable to prevent his car hitting one of the men and he
reversed out of the area. Investigation showed only a dent in the
boot lid. An hour later he was followed by a car driven by three men
in silvery suits and two girls, who ran off in terror when this car
stopped. A claim that a police car first burst a tyre and then
stalled at this spot could not be confirmed. Ambulance driver Sonni
Dale said that a patient he was taking to Rockhampton told the driver
that he had seen an overturned car on the ranges and four men in
silvery uniforms who got out and righted it.
- Basterfield and Chalker 1976 citing Rex Warren
December 21 1967.
GREEN BAY (WISCONSIN : USA)
GREEN BAY (WISCONSIN : USA)
A CE1 No further details.
Witness Ed Batz
- Rath 1997 p70
December 22 1967.
HOLMES COUNTY (OHIO : USA)
HOLMES COUNTY (OHIO : USA)
Four boys and two girls
aged between 14 and 17 were driving in two cars when they observed a
silvery disc with multi-coloured rotating lights some 100m away. It
rose to 15-18m and approached the cars, the passengers becoming
unbearably warn as the thing hovered overhead. The object, about 20m
diameter, with a pointed projection on top, then took off straight up
and disappeared. The teenagers were first alerted to the situation
when they came across a car in a ditch, the driver of which was
gazing at the landed object.
- George Fawcett in Flying Saucers 58 p19
December 22 1967.
Afternoon.
POINT PLEASANT (WEST VIRGINIA : USA)
POINT PLEASANT (WEST VIRGINIA : USA)
Mrs Mary Hyre was
approached in her newspaper office by two short Asian looking men,
who seemed almost like twins, and who enquired about UFO reports and
what her reaction would be if she were told to stop publishing such
stories. They left but then later that afternoon another man, about
1.7m tall, Asian looking man came in. He was not wearing a coat
despite the cold weather and also enquired about UFOs and her
reaction to being told to stop publishing reports of them, claiming
to be a friend of ufologist Grey Barker. He spoke in a strange,
hesitant fashion.
- Keel 1975a p13
December 23 1967.
2155hrs.
VANCOUVER (BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
VANCOUVER (BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
John S Martin saw, from
his bedroom window, a large sphere with a smooth surface, lit by an
internal light, travel across at 50-75kph, between 15-30m above the
buildings on the opposite side of the street. When the thing turned
its coloured changed to a blue white and it accelerated to 160kph and
became oval shaped. The observation lasted between 30-60 seconds.
- Letter from Martin in Canadian UFO Report 1,2 p3
December 24 1967.
Evening.
TUCSON (ARIZONA : USA)
TUCSON (ARIZONA : USA)
A couple driving near
Tucson saw an amorphous red light, which approached their car. The
car engine and headlights both failed. The thing went over their car
and left to the south, at which the engine and lights came back on.
- Rodeghier 1981 p39 citing CUFOS files
December 24 1967.
1800hrs.
MOUNT AIRY (NORTH CAROLINA : USA)
MOUNT AIRY (NORTH CAROLINA : USA)
In the Green Hill Section,
Linda Dobson and her 12 year old sister watched an oval object with a
dome on top and with a large number of red and yellow light scattered
across its surface, about 9m long, 3m high, hover 15m above the
ground for 15 minutes before taking off to the south-west. Both
sisters were shaken and upset by their experience.
- George Fawcett in Flying Saucers 80 p10
December 27
1967. 2100hrs.
WELLS TOWNSHIP (PENNSYLVANIA :USA)
WELLS TOWNSHIP (PENNSYLVANIA :USA)
Two high school seniors
were driving home along a dirt road in a truck when they observed a
triangle of lights in the distance. They first thought that it might
be a radio array, but then the lights approached. They stopped and
saw that the lights were on a disc 30m or more in diameter, at about
90-120m altitude. It turned, revealing its underside of square light
panels. At first only three were lit, but then the whole underside
lit up, as if made of hundreds of panels. The thing turned level
again and its domed top now lit up and approached them down the road.
They got back into their truck and drove off, as the object banked
and headed off towards Elmira, New York.
- Swords 2005 p67 citing John Timmerman
December 28 1967.
0400hrs.
ANDALGALA (CATAMARCA : ARGENTINA)
While out driving with his
wife in a place called Subida de la Chilca, Mr Clerici saw a violet
light almost touching the ground ahead of his car. The thing turned
to green for a few moments on occasion. Clerici drove the car onto
the verge and turned off its engine and lights. Then a spherical
luminous object about 2m diameter rose up and vanished towards the
mountains.
- Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 16 p10 case 104 citing La Razon 29 December 1967
- Richard Heiden citing Banchs 1973 p33 citing La Razon, says date is approximate
December 31 1967.
0230hrs.
WEDNESBURY (STAFFORDSHIRE
: ENGLAND)
A 23 year old man was
walking down Woden Road after seeing his girlfriend home when, just
past Wednesbury Youth Centre a bright red object swooped down at
fantastic speed from ahead of him. The thing appeared to be composed
of hundreds of tiny, pill sized, green lights, flashing in unison
like a beacon. A bright red glow appeared from the top of the thing
and the man had the uncanny sense of being stared at. A few seconds
later the object floated over his head and appeared to land in a
field to his left. There was a faint burring sound. The man fled home
in terror.
- UFOlog 50 p4 citing BUFORA