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Daylight Discs (DD)

The saucer photo in Värnamo

March, 21, 1974 - Varnamo, Sweden

Christer Sundström was lying in his bed, home from school with chickenpox. He was looking out the window of his room towards the neighbour's house. All he could see was a dark grey sky. But then the impossible happened. A dark object, which he at first thought was an eagle, started to circle above the roof of the neighbour's house.  View full report

Source: UFO Sweden, Claus Svahn, 2000   ID: 1046
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Photo

Huge ship and three smaller craft seen by salesman in Spain

March, 20, 1974 - Castillo de las Guardas, Spain

A pocketbook salesman, Adrian Sanchez Sanchez, was making the rounds of his customers, when he encountered an airship of gigantic proportions, which he calculated to be between 150 and 200 metres long. "I noticed how a large door opened in the tail end of the ship and how a formation of three smaller ships, in the shape of yo-yos, approximately 8 metres long, proceded to enter the larger one; but the last one turned and came slowly towards me."  View full report

Source: Eileen Buckle, FSR Vol. 20 No. 3   ID: 599
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Multiple UFOs, Witness Sketch

A silvered or mirrored disc shape low above houses that climbed away almost instantanously

1974 - St. Mary Cray, Kent, United Kingdom

I as working in a multistory office block in St Mary Cray, Kent, England. Looking out of the window on the 4th or 5th floor, I saw a stationary light in the sky above the houses in the Petts Wood direction. It looked like a metallic oval disc but quite small.  View full report

Source: UFO Evidence   ID: 70
Case Type: RawReport

Disc-shaped object with dome hovers over radio tower

July, 7, 1973 - Odessa, Texas, United States

Smooth stainless steel disk, right above radio tower one hundred fifty feet up in air. No windows seen, 5 witnesses, 6 counting electrician for radio company. Also had dome top. 100 foot diameter. Causing static on radio transmisson.  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 607
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch, E-M Effects

Woman observes disk-shaped object moving over field in daylight

July, 4, 1973 - West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

On the evening of July 4, 1973, Cecile (age approximately early 70's) was sitting on her patio having a smoke while her husband showered. As she sat, she noticed movement from her left peripheral view (north east). She then observed a large, disk shaped object descending from just above the tree line into the field. It then rose slowly, just high enough to clear trees, moved slowly to the south and disappeared from sight. The witness had an unobstructed view of the object from a distance of 300 feet, in daylight.  View full report

Source: Investigated by Bruce Tilden and Tony Douglas, Western Massachusetts MUFON   ID: 721
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Witness Sketch

Metallic, egg-shaped object witnessed by Australian UFO researcher and engineer, Bill Chalker

September, 15, 1972 - Australia

Australian UFO researcher and engineer "saw what appeared to be a metallic egg-shaped object traversing the twilight sky, north to south. It was moving in a horizontal trajectory, at a speed roughly equatable to that of a low flying light plane... It had an apparent angular size at arms length of about one inch, and gave me the subjective impression of a sizeable object flying at several hundred feet."  View full report

Source: Bill Chalker   ID: 1069
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Silent, Scientist/Engineer, Witness Photo

Disc-shaped UFO over Lebanon seen by several family members

August, 4, 1972 - Baakline, Lebanon

Mr. Walter Hamady, a professor of art, was one of several witnesses to the presence of a UFO over Baakline, Shuf Province, Lebanon. At about dusk Mr. Hamady, his wife Mary and Mr. Hamady's aunt pulled into the driveway of the house, and Hamady's cousins were very excited, exclaiming they had just seen a "flying saucer". The small company made their way onto the terrace and saw a bright red light moving "straight off into space".  View full report

Source: APRO, Jan/Feb 1973   ID: 680
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Portholes/Windows

Silver metallic orb, 20' in diameter, w/glowing band of symbols, noiseless and motionless in sky at treetop level

1972 - Springfield, Virginia, United States

My best guess is that I was about 7 years old when this happened, maybe younger. ...When we got to the middle of the wet street, I looked up and saw something very strange. Hanging there, just ahead and above me to my right, in the overcast sky, was a big, round, silver/metal orb.  View full report

Source: UFO Evidence   ID: 71
Case Type: RawReport

Silver, football-field sized boomerang-shaped UFO over Fort Stockton, Texas Featured Case

1972 - Fort Stockton, Texas, United States

"There was an Elementary School just a few yards from the corner of Main and Colpits and right up above the school was a Silver object about the size of a Football Field. It hovered about 50 feet above the school and it was shaped like a boomerang. From my position I figured that it was about 10 to 15 feet thick. But the strangest thing about the incident was, how the people in Ft. Stockton reacted to it."  View full report

Source: UFO Info (UFOInfo.com) / HBCCUFO.org, Brian Vike, Director   ID: 1147
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Children, Witness Sketch

UFO seen and photographed in Uruguay Featured Case

July, 11, 1971 - Floridad, Uruguay

When Hector Rufino Delgado saw a strange, disc-shaped craft approaching him, flying on its side, he grabbed his camera - and shot a series of six pictures when the object changed its position and passed him and disappeared in the opposite direction.  View full report

Source: Michael Hesemann   ID: 252
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Photo, Humming

Rudi Nagora Photographs Featured Case

May, 23, 1971 - St. Lorenzen, Austria

On May 23, 1971 at about 12:30 P M, one of the most convincing photographs of a UFO was taken by one Rudi Nagora, a Munich musician. Nagora, along with his wife, were vacationing near St. Lorenzen, Styria, Austria.  View full report

Source: Michael Hesemann   ID: 251
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Photo

Three scientists see two circular UFOs with cabin on top

August, 1970 - Tanami Desert , Australia

"We saw 2 UFOs same design size with pulsing flame or lights yellowish flashing from underneath "exhaust" at about a second between each flash the distance was about only 300 yards from our position at about eye level with an above ground level altitude of only several hundred feet."  View full report

Source: AUFORN (Australian UFO Research Network) - Diane Frola   ID: 451
Case Type:     Features:  Scientist/Engineer, Multiple UFOs, Portholes/Windows

Military sighting of ball of opaque light started out small, grew to 5 times moon size

1970 - Ft. Gordon, Georgia, United States

Our company had fallen out for morning formation. we were waiting for the 1st seargent to join us when someone in our ranks started saying "what is that?" What I saw was an object that first appeared to be a full moon only larger by half than I had ever seen it. As I continued watching it, it steadily grew in size untill it was at least 5 times larger than I have ever seen the moon be.  View full report

Source: UFO Evidence   ID: 74
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Military

Three fishermen in Le Brusc, France observe oval, mirror-like object at sea

April, 1968 - Le Brusc, Var, France

In April 1968, three fishermen from the French fishing-port of Le Brusc were fairly far out at sea, "when suddenly, in a break in the clouds, a sort of 'thing' appeared--ovalish in shape--which was just hanging there in the sky. It looked like a mirror and it was shining, and it did not move... The thing remained stationary over the sea for two or three minutes and then vanished before our eyes as though swallowed up by the waves."  View full report

Source: Waterufo.net / Flying Saucer Review Case Histories #14   ID: 795
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Water-Related

Two-hundred people observe and hear disk-shaped object overhead (Redlands Sighting)

February, 4, 1968 - Redlands, California, United States

On February 4, 1968, about two hundred residents of Redlands, California, either saw or heard what was apparently the same huge, low-flying, disk-shaped object as it passed overhead. A minister conducting services in a church in Redlands was recording his sermon at the time and obtained a recording of the sound, which many people present described as a high-pitched, modulated whining sound.  View full report

Source: APRO / Ronald Story, 1980 / NICAP website (nicap.org)   ID: 777
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Mass Sighting, Group Sighting, Clergy, Body Lights, Rotary/Spin Motion, Sound

'Flying Cross' shaped UFO hovers near witness and dogs (Moigne Downs / Angus Brooks case)

October, 26, 1967 - Moigne Downs, United Kingdom

Angus Brooks, a former flight administrative officer for British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), was walking his dogs at Moigne Downs, Dorset, England. He saw what appeared to be a contrail high in the sky. Then the contrail disappeared and in its place, a UFO descended "at lightning speed" to 200 or 300 feet altitude. One of the dogs, back from foraging for game, stood "distraught" beside the witness.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon), 'Strange Effects from UFOs', by Donald Keyhoe and Gordon Lore   ID: 566
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Animal Reaction

Pilot 'flees' from giant cone-shaped UFO pacing plane

September, 20, 1966 - Near Sebring, Florida, United States

A Winter Haven, Florida, private pilot reported he fled from a giant cone-shaped UFO which kept his plane in shadow for about three minutes on the morning of September 20, 1966. "That thing had not changed in size at all, but was still with me and pacing me. It was still as big as a football field."  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon),   ID: 552
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Pilot/Aircrew

Experienced pilot and passenger sight disc-shaped UFO with dome on top

May, 21, 1966 - Near Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, United States

An 18,000-hour pilot and his passenger made a clear daylight sighting of a disc-shaped UFO with a dome on top on the afternoon of May 21, 1966 near Willow Grove, Pa. "It was as clear as seeing a Cadillac drifting by at 100 yards," said William C. Powell. Currently active in executive-transport flying, Powell was a pilot for the Dutch KLM airlines, and before that for the U.S. Air Force and RCAF.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon),   ID: 551
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Pilot/Aircrew

Over 200 students witness saucer-shape object, physical traces left behind (Westall Incident) Featured Case

April, 6, 1966 - Westall, Australia

More than 200 students and staff from two schools watched as the object landed in a nearby paddock, lifted off and vanished. It was a low-flying, silver/grey shining object, either of classical flying saucer shape or close to it, "a cup turned upside down on a saucer". The UFO appears to have left a circle of scorched grass.  View full report

Source: The Age (Australia), October 2, 2005   ID: 591
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Group Sighting, Children, Witness Photo, Landing, Witness Sketch

Saucer-shaped UFO with dome seen in Western Pennsylvania

October, 1965 - Pennsylvania, United States

"I saw this saucer shaped disc with a dome on top about 500 to 800 feet up in the sky in front of me. It was silver yellow in color and about 30 feet in diameter. It went vertical for about 1000 feet, then made a sharp angle and disappeared at a high rate of speed, 2 or 3 seconds, no noise."  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 765
Case Type: RawReport

Rex Heflin UFO Photographs Featured Case

August, 3, 1965 - Santa Ana, California, United States

Rex Heflin, an Orange County highway inspector, was at work in a county vehicle at 12:37 P.M when he saw a hat-shaped (disc with dome) object hovering above the road. He grabbed his Polaroid camera and took three photographs of the metallic-appearing object and a fourth of a black "smoke ring" left behind by the object.  View full report

Source: STUDIOVNI   ID: 253
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Photo

Idaho 'Mining UFOs'

1965 - Spring Creek Ridge, Idaho, United States

Two men were camped on a bluff overlooking a valley. When they awoke in the early morning they noticed a shiny spot on the ore dump of a Spring Creek Mine across the valley. Using the scopes affixed to their rifles, they observed the "shiny object" which actually was one of four which were hovering over the ore dump. Protruding from the top of the objects were four hose-like devices which were inserted into the slag piles and were moving around.  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 22 No. 2 (Sept/Oct 1973)   ID: 300
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Multiple UFOs

Immense cone-shaped object crosses low over highway

December, 21, 1964 - Near Staunton, Virginia, United States

Horace Burns, a gunsmith in Harrisonburg, saw an immense cone-shaped object cross low over the highway ahead of him. "It was 125 feet in diameter, at least, and 80 to 90 feet high," he later reported. Its circular, sloping sides rose toward the top in six large, concentric convolutions that decreased in diameter and were surmounted by a dome.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon),   ID: 553
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Landing, Physical Trace

Disc-shaped UFO, larger than full moon, seen by police officers and others

September, 26, 1963 - Sunnyvale, California, United States

During the early morning of September 26, 1963, a UFO was sighted by people in scattered locations around the San Francisco Bay area. Officer Galen Anderson of Sunnvale Police Dept. observed the UFO for 45 seconds and submitted a particularly detailed report. This object appeared larger than a full moon, according to Officer Anderson, about basketball size at about 8 feet away.  View full report

Source: NICAP / Richard Hall, 1964 (reported in San Jose Mercury News and SF Chronicle)   ID: 645
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Police, Group Sighting
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