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Witness Sketches

City Youth Tells Of A Strange Ship

May, 1967 - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

"The bespectacled 14-year-old was just going to his home at 5311 106th St., when he said he noticed the “space ship” and began the vigil which has probably resulted in the most detailed report of any UFO in the Edmonton area."  View full report

Source: The Edmonton Journal, May 8, 1967 (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) (Credit: UFO*BC)   ID: 348
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Physical Trace, Children, Witness Photo, Witness Sketch

Burn marks and holes found after UFO seen close to ground

September, 13, 1966 - Gwinner, North Dakota, United States

Young Randy E. Rotenberger was waiting for the school bus outside his home when he saw "some flashing lights," then an object. "It looked like two bowls put together," the witness told an AP reporter. He saw three "pegs" on the bottom and antennae projecting from the top. Later, "some burnt marks" and tapered holes were found at the scene, each about a foot in diameter and five inches deep.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon), 'Strange Effects from UFOs', by Donald Keyhoe and Gordon Lore   ID: 578
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Witness Sketch, Landing, Children

Portage County, Ohio UFO Chase

April, 17, 1966 - Portage County, Ohio, United States

One of the most dramatic encounters by police officers with an apparently structured, low-level UFO. Officers chased the object for eighty-five miles, as it seemed to play a cat-and-mouse game with them. This case was the basis for the UFO "chase" in the film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'  View full report

Source: Richard Hall, NICAP website   ID: 79
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Police, Witness Sketch, Humming

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

Sheriffs Watch High-Performance Discs (The Michigan Sightings / 'Swamp Gas' Case) Featured Case

March, 14, 1966 - Dexter-Hillsdale, Michigan, United States

Washtenaw County sheriffs and police in neighboring jurisdictions reported disc-shaped objects moving at fantastic speeds and making sharp turns, diving and climbing, and hovering. At one point, four UFOs in straight-line formation were observed. Selfridge AFB confirmed tracking UFOs over Lake Erie at 4:56 a.m. Their stories were backed up by more than 100 witnesses  View full report

Source: FUFOR (Fund for UFO Research)   ID: 778
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Police, Radar, Witness Sketch, Group Sighting, Mass Sighting

Huge disk like object with dome top, gray metallic, with rainbow lights

1966 - Lunenburg County, Virginia, United States

I observed a huge UFO in 1966. It was gray-silver metallic...disk shape with dome top. Had windows (portholes as I call them). I could see the turning of the bottom of it going in one direction as the top rotated the other direction. It had rainbow colored lights.  View full report

Source: UFO Evidence   ID: 69
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch, Portholes/Windows

Landed saucer-shaped craft with ladder and 'turret' in Anchorage, 1966 Featured Case

1966 - Anchorage, Alaska, United States

"I was standing in the middle of our street and there was a craft on stilts or legs with a ladder down from the center. It had just snowed, and I remember windows on the upper round part... The main body was like an upside down saucer with a cylindrical 'turret' on the top. The 'turret' was approximately 3 feet across and 2 to 3 feet high and appeared to rotate."  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 892
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Landing, Portholes/Windows, Children, Witness Sketch

UFO on Australian Beach (Vaucluse Beach) Featured Case

July, 19, 1965 - Vaucluse Beach, Australia

Disc-shaped object glowed as it sat on a beach. As witness approached the object, the object lifted off from the ground, quickly climbed in the air, and disappeared. Investigation revealed landing traces and effects on the nearby plant life.  View full report

Source: UFO Casebook   ID: 27
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Animal Reaction, Landing, Witness Sketch

Sid Padrick Contact Case

January, 30, 1965 - Watsonville, California, United States

Sid Padrick described seeing a disc-shaped craft, “like two real thick saucers inverted,” some 50 feet in diameter and 30 feet from the ground. Padrick claimed that he then began to cautiously walk toward the craft. A door appeared and Padrick walked inside, and soon was conversing with a very human appearing gentleman wearing some sort of flying suit.  View full report

Source: Brent Raynes   ID: 963
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Witness Sketch, Contact, Humanoid/Occupant

Huge disc shaped object with bright light around edge

January, 1965 - Dorrington, Brisbane, Australia

"The object had come below the cloud cover and we couldn't believe what we were looking at. This huge disc shaped object with very bright light around it's circumference. It was travelling very slow (about 20 miles an hour), then the noise started.It was a screaming high pitched sound which had my wife in agony, hands over her ears and crying with pain."  View full report

Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (www.hbccufo.org)   ID: 449
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch

County councillor reveals sighting of dome-shaped UFO in Cornwall, UK

1965 - Karslake, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Joan Vincent, County and Restormel Borough Councillor, revealed that she and her husband Roy had observed a mystery craft late at night during 1965 in a then rural area. The matter remained "virtually a family secret" over the years because the couple feared that they would be ridiculed if they told their story. The UFO was "a large, dome-shaped object that looked as if it were made of glass," estimated to be 50-70 feet across and 30-40 feet high.  View full report

Source: Ian Shepherd, Cornish Guardian (Bodmin, England), Nov. 26, 1998   ID: 729
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo

Socorro / Zamora UFO Incident Featured Case

April, 24, 1964 - Socorro, New Mexico, United States

The experience of Lonnie Zamora on April 24, 1964 stands as one of the most profound ufo events in the modern history of the phenomena. Lonnie Zamora saw a highly unusual device of unknown origin, what can only be described as a "craft" of some kind, and he reported seeing what he believes were occupants.  View full report

Source: Chris Lambright   ID: 90
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Physical Trace, Landing, Police, Witness Photo, Witness Sketch

Large, metallic saucer-shaped craft at Mattagami River, Ontario

November, 23, 1963 - Mattagami River, Ontario, Canada

From the witness: "We just sat there in silence watching it, as it was watching us... It was huge, with the diameter being... about 30 yards... It appeared to be constructed of dull aluminum and was shaped like a saucer with the exception that the top and bottom halves did not join in a sharp edge. All the way around the center it looked like dark windows, 6 feet tall. As Robert and I watched, the craft tilted with the closest side to us down and the rear of the saucer up. It appeared that whoever was inside was trying to get a better look at us. "  View full report

Source: Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research (hbccufo.org)   ID: 1029
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch, Portholes/Windows

Oval object rolling end over end

April, 1963 - Statesville, North Carolina, United States

"I recall looking up.. to see a strange oval shaped object rolling end over end passing directly overhead. I recall the object giving off different colors in a pulsing, vibratory sort of way... I would estimate it's altitude to be less than 300 feet off the ground... I do not recall hearing any sound whatever from the object but my brother and sister say it was somewhat like a humming sound."  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 473
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch, Humming

The Willow Grove Close Encounter

February, 15, 1963 - Near Moe, Australia

Charles Brew, with his 20 year-old son Trevor, was at work in the milking shed on their farm, 'Willow Grove', when he saw a strange object appear and descend very slowly towards the milk shed, to a height of about 30 metres. The object was metallic grey, measured 8 meters in diameter, and had a transparent dome with a 2-meter mast or aerial. After hovering for a few seconds the object began climbed away into the clouds.  View full report

Source: Bill Chalker (1996)   ID: 623
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Animal Reaction, Witness Sketch, Physiological Effects

Disc-shaped UFO hovers, then evades pursuit by pilot

October, 2, 1961 - Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

A grayish disc-shaped object which hovered, wobbling on its axis, then evaded pursuit, was sighted October 2, 1961 at Salt Lake City, Utah airport. Private pilot Waldo J. Harris, a real estate broker, investigated the object in his light aircraft as 8-10 ground personnel at the airport watched. The object was disc shaped, 50 feet in diameter, and 8-10 feet thick.  View full report

Source: NICAP / Richard Hall (1964) from NICAP case report   ID: 638
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Witness Sketch, Pilot/Aircrew, Group Sighting
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