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Abduction on the North Canol Road - Yukon, Canada Featured Case

September, 3, 1987 - Yukon Territory, Canada

Witness saw cigar-shaped object of green color, with portholes along side of it, flying low. Soon after, 2 beings/creatures were seen briefly nearby on the ground, and then abduction experience followed. Scoop marks found on hands afterwards.  View full report

Source: Martin Jasek, M.Sc., P. Eng.   ID: 100
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Abduction, Humanoid/Occupant, Humming, Portholes/Windows, Physiological Effects, Witness Sketch

Two large saucer-shaped objects encountered by family in car in Surrey, UK

September, 15, 1985 - Bagshot Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom

David and Susan McMurray were driving home across Bagshot Heath, Surrey, to Famborough, Hampshire, with their two children when they encountered a "huge saucer-like craft about 50ft. long with brilliant lights coming from portholes around the centre. Then it suddenly took off." When a second craft began to tail the family's car David stopped, got out and went to investigate. But it too, took off.  View full report

Source: Bill Davey, Sunday Mirror (London, UK), Sept. 29, 1985   ID: 947
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Vehicle Encounter, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo

Cigar-shaped object with three lighted windows seen by driver in Sweden

June, 1985 - Uppsala to Orsundsbro, Sweden

A woman driver who prefers to remain anonymous was driving home to Orsundsbro from Uppsala (Sweden) on route 55. After one mile, she saw two policecars blinking bluish lights, or so she thought. Later she saw the object again. It appeared larger than an ordinary helicopter. It had three lighted windows and a blindingly strong white light. It had been seven to eight minutes since she first saw the object.  View full report

Source: Enkopings Posten (Encoping, Sweden), July 12, 1985   ID: 946
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Witness Sketch

Oblong shaped flying object witnessed by 3 women near Ascutney, VT

February, 5, 1985 - Ascutney, Vermont, United States

Three women were driving to a high school basketball game, when they noticed a bright object in the night sky. They described it as basically oblong in shape, with an extremely bright white light at the front end. There seemed to be a sphere or halo of a grayish-bluish hue around the middle of the object, and lots of tiny flashing lights at the rear. One of these, a. small white light, was stationary for a while but suddenly detached itself from the rest of the lights and sped rapidly away.  View full report

Source: Windsor Chronicle (Windsor, VT), Feb. 7, 1985   ID: 950
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Body Lights, Witness Sketch

Man sees unusual object with lights in night sky over Amherst, Ohio

1985 - Amherst, Ohio, United States

Arthur Schindler and his wife, Eva, had just returned from Lenten services at St. Paul Church, when he saw a light in the sky. He watched the object for more than an hour. "It looks like a huge dish with two sets of yellow lights around the rim. On top of the dish, it looks like a castle. Kind of like a pyramid. There are lights all over it. The blue and white beams shoot out from the front of it."  View full report

Source: Lorain Journal (Lorain, OH), June 13, 1985   ID: 945
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Body Lights, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo

Large black triangle seen by four witnesses in Munich, Germany in 1984

July, 1984 - Munich, Germany

On a warm summer night, four witnesses were lying on the banks of the Isar River when they saw three multicolured lights with a triangle dark shadow between the edges hovering in the sky from west to east. The sides of the object (the distances between the lights) were 30 or 40 meters in length. The object was flying at low speed and there was absolutely no noise at all.  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 928
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Silent, Witness Sketch

The Alfred Burtoo Encounter Featured Case

August, 12, 1983 - Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Alfred Burtoo was fishing along an isolated canal when a disc-shaped UFO landed nearby. The beings were humanoid, 4'6" tall, dressed in green overalls and wore helmets with visors. The beings gestured at the witness to follow them and he went up a stairway into the craft. He was made to stand under an amber light. The beings spoke to him in broken English telling him that he was too old and infirm for their purposes, he was then let go.  View full report

Source: CJ website   ID: 707
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Witness Sketch, Animal Reaction, Contact, Communication, Witness Photo

Large 'inverted trapezoid' seen by several witnesses in Plymouth, Devon, UK

January, 1983 - Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

Large, low flying , silent and slow inverted trapezoid witnessed by two other people that I know of (who chased it in a car through Stoke village) as well as two other members of my family. [It had] lit up windows on it and it was apparently following a Dash 7 commercial airplane on route to land at Plymouth airport. The local paper the next day reported that a couple of women in a car had also observed this object and attempted to follow it as far as they could in their vehicle.  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 918
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch

Large object with windows cruises by house

1982 - National Park Road, Canungra, Australia

"I saw this huge object slowly crusing towards us then past us at eye level. It was very close, about 200 meters away... The part that I could see was like the brim of hat with a row of glowing windows on top of it... It cruised past at the equivalent pace of a car going 15 to 20 kph. It's length was longer than a semi-trailer."  View full report

Source: AUFORN (Australian UFO Research Network), Australia   ID: 621
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch, Portholes/Windows

Bell-shaped object with flashing lights seen by 10 people in Queens, New York

September, 5, 1981 - Queens, New York, New York, United States

At least ten people in Corona, Queens, said they saw a bell-shaped UFO with flashing multi-colored lights making a beeping noise on Sept. 5, 1981, at 10:00 p.m. Reportedly, as the UFO hovered over a tenement block, a triangular-shaped ray of green light shot out from the bottom of the object and shone on the face of a teen-aged girl observing the object from the window of her friend's house.  View full report

Source: News World (New York, NY), Sept. 19, 1981   ID: 941
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Group Sighting, Light Beam, Body Lights, Children, Witness Sketch, Sound

Cigar-shaped object with portholes seen by 7 witnesses over Northern Texas

May, 13, 1981 - Denison, Texas, United States

At least seven persons spotted an unidentified flying object over Texomaland last Wednesday morning. Jim Shelton, mechanic at Jim Graham International, described the sighting and drew a sketch. "It was a flying object with lit portholes. Fire was streaming in sparks from the rear, and it had green and yellow pulsating lights," he said. "It was real. I saw it, and if they lock me up, I still saw it. It was long, a cigar-like shape."  View full report

Source: Irene Flaherty, Denison Herald (Denison, TX), May 17, 1981   ID: 948
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Silent, Witness Sketch

Low-flying cigar-shaped object sighted over Los Angeles in 1981

April, 19, 1981 - Los Angeles, California, United States

A large, low-flying cigar-shaped object with white lights shining from a row of "windows" and bearing green-blue and white "running lights" was sighted by a West Los Angeles resident on the night of April 19, 1981 at about 11:30 p.m. Taff estimated the object, which made no sound, was about 65 feet in length and about 15 feet high.  View full report

Source: News World (New York, NY), Dec. 12, 1981 / APRO Bulletin, 1981   ID: 943
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Witness Sketch, Silent, Portholes/Windows, Body Lights

Large low-flying object with square windows seen by couple in car over Bethesda, MD

March, 15, 1981 - Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Martin Buxbaum was driving with his wife and noticed an unusual object silhouetted against the dark blue evening sky. The object had the wingspan of a 717 but was flying low, he says. It was accented by a row of square windows in the front and two "cherry red" exhaust lights to the rear. But most mysterious of all, the object made no sound at all  View full report

Source: Mike M. Ahlers, Montgomery Journal (Chevy Chase, MD), March 25, 1981   ID: 949
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Silent, Witness Sketch

Trans-en-Provence Physical Trace Case Featured Case

January, 8, 1981 - Trans-en-Provence, France

On the afternoon of January 8, 1981, a strange craft landed on a farm near the village of Trans-en-Provence in the Var region in southeastern France. Physical traces left on the ground were collected by the Gendarmerie within 24 hours and later analyzed in several French government laboratories. Extensive evidence of anomalous activity was detected.  View full report

Source: ISSO   ID: 110
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Landing, Witness Sketch

The Rendlesham Forest Incident Featured Case

December, 26, 1980 - Rendlesham Forest, United Kingdom

What is widely considered Britain’s most extraordinary encounter took place between 26 and 28 December 1980. It involved at least a dozen civilians from villages surrounding Rendlesham Forest, a large pine wood in south east Suffolk eight miles from the large town of Ipswich. However, it also gained a high profile because of its military witnesses, part of a huge USAF contingent at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge located beside the forest.  View full report

Source: Jenny Randles   ID: 279
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Physiological Effects, Military, Nuclear Facility, Witness Photo, Witness Sketch

Police constable Alan Godfrey's abduction in West Yorkshire, England

November, 28, 1980 - Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Police officer Alan Godfrey was on routine patrol when he encountered a metallic disc with a dome and a row of windows. Suddenly, there was a burst of light, and he found himself 100 yards farther down the road, and the UFO was gone. Under hypnosis later, Godfrey recalled being struck by a beam of light which floated him into the craft, and meeting a human-like being named Joseph, whose clothing was very Biblical in nature. Aboard the craft, he was physically examined and asked questions.  View full report

Source: Jenny Randles   ID: 722
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Abduction, Missing Time, Police, E-M Effects, Portholes/Windows, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo
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