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UFOs and the National Security State - Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973

1967 Dec 3 - Sergeant Herbert Schirmer US22

Ashland Nebraska 2:30a.m. Wits:1 CE4

Sergeant Herbert Schirmer Nebraska State Patrol Young Police Sergeant Herbert Schirmer, 22, was on patrol on December 3rd in 1967, and at around 2:30 a.m., in the vicinity of Ashland, Nebraska, noticed some red lights along Highway 63. Thinking that it was a stopped truck he approached and shone his high beams on it. Soon he realized it was no truck. Instead it was a disc-shaped object with a shiny polished aluminium looking surface, and a catwalk that went around it. Red lights, which were blinking, were shining out from windows in the object. The UFO appeared to be a mere 6 to 8 feet above the road, and was hovering in the air with a slight tilt. Then the object began to slowly ascend, making a siren kind of noise, and issuing a flame-like display from the underside. Sticking his head out the window, Sgt. Schirmer watched the UFO pass nearly overhead. Then suddenly it shot up and out of sight. Schirmer then got out of the police car and, with a flashlight in hand, inspected the surface of the road where the object had hovered so low to the ground. Then he drove to the police station and wrote in the log book, “Saw a flying saucer at the junction of highways 6 and 63. Believe it or not!” He was puzzled to notice that it was now 3am, as the sighting seemingly lasted no more than ten minutes. As the morning wore on, Schirmer was to suffer a headache, a “weird buzzing” in his head, and would discover that he had a “red welt” on his neck. It was about two inches long and approx. half an inch wide, and was located on the “nerve cord” below one of his ears. Later, hypnosis was arranged for the disturbed young Schirmer, where he would recall how humanoid beings, between 4 1/2 to 5 feet tall, escorted him from his car and into the ship, where the “leader” gave him a tour and explained various things about themselves and their mission on earth. A wealth of detail was provided about the occupants, their motives, and their craft. (UFOs and the National Security State, pg 341-342, Richard Dolan) (UFOevidence.org, “1967 Alien Abduction Case of a Nebraska Police Officer”, case ID 659)

1966 Aug 9 - Sheriff Reveals UFO Encounter and Death of Dog US21

Richmond, Virginia

... On a bright moonlit night of Aug. 9, 1966, Henrico County Sheriff A.D. "Toby" Mathews, 65, later a two-term sheriff, was a road sergeant with Henrico police, livied alone at his farm on Charles City Road in the county's Glendale area, and had just returned home from a psychology class at the former Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University). At about 10:30 that evening his German shepherd, tied to a chain out back, began barking loudly, so he went outside to investigate. After turning him loose, Mathews said the dog ran to the edge of an adjacent cornfield, and Mathews looked up to see a saucerlike object hover over a cornfield, up above the power lines about 200 feet in the air. Mathews described the craft as white and about 30 feet in diameter, made hardly a sound and emitted no light. The object was about 4 or 5 feet wide at its widest point, which was in the middle. He was still in the military reserve, and it didn't appear to be any type of military craft at all. He ran back inside his house to get a flashlight, and when he returned and shined it on the craft, the UFO turned slightly, emitted a burst of light and "took off like a bullet, just tremendously fast." He rechained the dog and went to bed, and he got up about 5 the next morning and went out to check on his dog. He let it run loose for a few minutes, as was his routine, but the dog didn't come back. He canvassed the area, but the dog was nowhere to be found. When he returned home, he was startled to find his dog lying motionless in the middle of the road just beyond his circular driveway. He was dead. "He didn't have a mark on him -- no blood, no singe [marks], no nothing ... It looked like he almost was sleeping. And whatever killed him, they had taken his chain collar off" and dropped it on the shoulder of the road. He assumed that his dog was killed by whoever, or whatever, was in the UFO. In December 1996, Mathews told his story to then-Chief Deputy Patrick Haley, later a deputy coordinator of law enforcement accreditation for the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, during a Christmas dinner party, which he noted occurred during a time when such sightings were reported with some regularity by Richmond-area residents. More than a half-dozen people, including three other Richmond-area police officers, reported spotting similar objects hovering over the city. One Richmond patrolman, former Officer William L. Stevens Jr. in a July 21, 1966, said in 'The News Leader' that he chased the UFO in his patrol car. Mathews said the city officer who saw a saucerlike object near the State Fairgrounds a month earlier had urged him to notify the news media about his encounter, but Mathews resisted. Mathews was living alone at the time, and there were no other witnesses,. (UfoEvidence.org case 1073) (Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia), October, 1999)

1966 Apr 17 - The Portage County Sightings US20

Portage Country, Ohio

On April 17, an amazing UFO sighting, high-speed police chase, and possible air force jet interception took place in Portage County, and across the Pennsylvania border. The case involved at least eight police officers and several civilians, incredible air force stonewalling, investigative incompetence, and several ruined careers. The case gained national attention immediately and provided a basis for the police-UFO chase scenes in Spielberg's movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". The incident ruined the career and marriage of officer Dale Spaur, who was apparently traumatised by the incident and the subject of relentless ridicule. Immediately after the event, he seemed to change. His wife "never saw him more frightened before." He inexplicably became violent and she filed assault-and-battery charges, then filed for divorce. Six months later, he had lost forty pounds, turned in his badge, and was working as a painter while living in a small motel room. Officer Huston also resigned from the force within a few months and became a bus driver in Seattle. He had been a seven-year veteran. "Sure, I quit because of that thing," he said. "People laughed at me. And there was pressure. You couldn't put your finger on it, but the pressure was there. The city officials didn't like police officers chasing flying saucers." Wilbur Neff wasn't a full-time officer, but he was also affected. His wife said, "I hope I never see him like he was after the chase. He was real white, almost in a state of shock." (UFOs and the Nation Security State, Dolan, Richard M., Hampton Roads Publishing Company Inc., 2000, 2002, pgs 302-305) (UFOevidence.org, case ID 79)

1966 Mar 14-20 1966 - The Michigan Swamp-Gas Case US19

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Deputy Sheriff Buford Bushroe Dexter Chief Robert Taylor (Photo: UFOEvidence.org) From about 3:50am on March 14 and for 2 and a half hours after, Washtenaw County sheriffs and police in neighbouring 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 4:56am. Details of the incident can be found logged as "Complaint No. 00967" signed by Cpl. Broderick and Deputy Patterson of the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department. Washtenaw County deputies B. Bushroe and J. Foster formally stated: "This is the strangest thing that [we] have ever witnessed. We would have not believed this story if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes. These objects could move at fantastic speeds, and make very sharp turns, dive and climb, and hover with great manoeuvrability. We have no idea what these objects were, or where they could have come from. At 4:20am there were four of these objects flying in a line formation, in a north westerly direction. At 5:30 these objects went out of view, and were not seen again." Deputy Bushroe told the press: "It would swing back and forth like a pendulum, then shoot upward at tremendous speed, hover and then come down just as fast." Dexter police and Livingston County sheriffs, contacted by Bushroe and Foster, "reported that they saw the same objects engaging in the same maneuvers." On March 17, at Milan, Michigan, at 4:25am, Sgt. Nuel Schneider and Deputy David Fitzpatrick saw top-shaped objects making sharp manoeuvres. They alternately hovered, rose and fell quickly, darted around at jet-like speed, their light dimming and brightening periodically. In a report to NICAP, the officers stated that two objects were operating together, circling and flying in formation, while a third object hovered at lower altitude. On March 20, at Dexter, Michigan, at about 8:30pm Frank Mannor and family, and dozens of other witnesses, reported that a domed oval object with "quilted" or "waffled" surface and lights in the center and on each end had landed in a swampy field. Deputies David Fitzpatrick and Stanley McFadden parked by the area and began a search with Frank Mannor. "While in the woods area," their report states, "a brilliant light was observed from the far edge of the woods, and upon [our] approaching, the light dimmed in brilliance....The brilliant light [then] again appeared, and then disappeared. A continued search of the area was conducted, through swamp and high grass, with negative results. Upon returning to the patrol vehicle, the undersigned officers were informed that one of the objects had been hovering directly over the area where our flashlight beams had been seen, and then [it] departed in a west direction of flight, at high rate of speed." As he and other officers were rushing to the scene, Officer Robert Hartwell of the Dexter Police Department saw a luminous object buzz his car. Robert Taylor, Dexter Police Chief, said he watched an object in the field from Frank Mannor's home on a knoll overlooking the area. It appeared as a pulsating red, glowing object. Through binoculars he saw "a light on each end of the thing." (UFOs and the National Security State, pg 298-301, Richard Dolan) (FUFOR (Fund for UFO Research), UfoEvidence.org case ID 778)

1965 Sept 3 - Deputy Sheriffs Bob Goode and Billy McCoy US18

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Deputy sheriffs Bob Goode and Billy McCoy make sketches of the UFO they saw while on patrol ('Look' UFO Special 1967) About 11:00 p.m. on a Friday night, Deputy Sheriff Bob Goode, 50, was driving southbound from Damon toward West Columbia on Highway 36, and because he had suffered a bite on his left index finger earlier that day from a baby alligator, Chief Deputy Billy McCoy, 38, accompanied him in case the pain interfered with his driving. It was a clear moonlit night with Goode resting his arm in the open window when McCoy spotted a bright purple light on the horizon to the southwest which appeared to be about five to six miles away. At first they thought it might be something in the nearby oil fields, such as a drilling rig, but then a blue light, smaller than the purple light, emerged from it and moved to the right before stopping. Both lights remained in this orientation for a while then began to drift upward. This upward floating motion continued until the objects reached an elevation of about 5-10 degrees above the horizon. Goode watched through binoculars but couldn't discern more detail. They took back-roads to get closer until they stopped, and the lights then suddenly dove towards them, covering the distance in 1-2 seconds, then it abruptly stopped practically overhead. Their car and surroundings were brightly lit in purple and they could see purple and blue lights were attached to opposite ends of a massive object hovering about 150 feet from them at about a 100-foot altitude. In his statement to the Air Force, McCoy described that, "The bulk of the object was plainly visible at this time and appeared to be triangular shaped with a bright purple light on the left end and the smaller, less bright, blue light on the right end. The bulk of the object appeared to be dark gray in color with no other distinguishing features. It appeared to be about 200 feet wide and 40-50 feet thick in the middle, tapering off toward both ends. There was no noise or any trail. The bright purple light illuminated the ground directly underneath it and the area in front of it, including the highway and the interior of our patrol car. The tall grass under the object did not appear to be disturbed. There was a bright moon out and it cast a shadow of the object on the ground immediately below it in the grass." To both men, the object seemed "as big as a football field." Goode felt strong heat from the object on his left arm through his sleeve. After a few seconds, with the object hovering almost directly above, they fled and headed toward Damon, making speeds of up to 110 miles per hour, while McCoy observed the object from the rear window. For 10 to 15 seconds, the UFO continued to hover above then abruptly shot back in the direction from which it had come. "After arriving at approximately its original position," McCoy reported, "it went straight up in the air and disappeared at 25-30 degrees above the horizon." At Damon the officers calmed themselves before deciding to return to investigate again. This time they took an alternate route, but saw nothing, so they returned to the area where they had first seen the lights, and once again observed the purple light on the horizon and a smaller blue light emerge with a strange two-step motion and float upward. Fearing another close encounter, they fled again. Goode and McCoy continued on their shift until 3-4am, then stopped for breakfast at a cafe. Goode noted that his wound was no longer sore, and when he unwrapped the bandage he discovered that the swelling had gone down and that the wound was nearly healed. On the following day, the wound was practically healed with no scarring. The deputies reported the sighting to Ellington Air Force Base, and Major Laurence Leach, Jr., arrived on September 8, 1965, to interview McCoy and Goode and take a statement. Leach's report to Project Blue Book headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reflected his puzzlement, stating, "There is no doubt in my mind that they definitely saw some unusual object or phenomenon. Both officers appeared to be intelligent, mature, level-headed persons capable of sound judgment and reasoning." (Air Force unidentified case, Project Blue Book files, National Archives) (UFO Evidence Case ID 38 ) (Source: FUFOR, U.S. Air Force-Project Blue Book, Donald Keyhoe 'UFOs A New Look') [For more detailed information, see Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, NICAP, Washington, D.C., 1969, pp. 7-8; McCoy statement, Brazoria County Sheriff's Department, Sept. 8, 1965; "Ellington [AFB] Probes UFO Seen by Local Deputies," Brazosport Facts, Sept. 6, 1965; Rhonda Moran, "The Night of the UFO," Brazosport Facts, Sept. 13, 1995]

1965 Sep 3 - The Incident at Exeter US17

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Patrolmen David Hunt and Eugene Bertrand, and dispatcher Toland. (Photo: Manchester Union Leader) At Exeter on September the 3rd, 1965, at 2am, teenage Navy recruit Norman Muscarello was walking down a quiet country highway, when suddenly a huge object loomed above him. He threw himself to the ground to avoid being hit, then huddled against a stone wall. Officers Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt, as well as dispatcher and supervising officer Reginald "Scratch" Toland, were on duty when the teenager came to the police station with his claim of a UFO sighting. Earlier in the night, Bertrand had already come upon a lone woman parked on the side of Route 101 two miles outside Exeter, who had claimed she saw a huge silent red and brilliantly glowing airborne object that had chased her from the town of Epping about 12 miles away. It had been only a few feet from her car before it departed at a tremendous speed before disappearing. Toland also spoke to the woman, who told him she had been chased by a "low-flying, large, round object with flashing red lights." An hour later, Bertrand received a call from Toland to report back to the station immediately because "a kid had come in who had seen a UFO." The officer retreived Muscarello from the station and was led back to the site. After parking the cruiser for several minutes, Muscarello shouted, "Look out, here it comes!" and they watched a luminous object rise from behind tall evergreens. The craft, about 100 feet away, silently sped so close to Bertrand that he dropped to the ground and drew his service weapon. "There was this huge, dark object as big as that barn over there with red flashing lights on it," Bertrand later told an investigator. "It barely cleared that tree right there, and it was moving back and forth... It seemed to tilt and come right at us. Norman told me later that I was yelling, 'I'll shoot it! I'll shoot it!' I did drop on one knee and drew my service revolver, but I didn't shoot." Bertrand dragged fear-frozen Muscarello back to the cruiser from where they saw the object with no tail, no wings and no sound. Already en route, Hunt arrived within minutes and saw the UFO as it "floated, wobbled and did things that no plane could do" before it departed towards Hampton. They returned to the station and wrote their report. Toland received a call shortly after from a Hampton telephone operator who said that a distressed motorist attempted to contact the police from a pay phone. He yelled at the operator, saying he was being chased by a flying saucer that came right at him and that it was still out there, before he was disconnected. A Hampton Police Department's blotter entry for that night reads: "September 3, 1965: 3am. Exeter Police Department reports unidentified flying object in that area. Units 2, 4 and Pease Air Force alerted. At 3:17am, received a call from Exeter operator and Officer Toland. Advised that a male subject called and asked for police department, further stating that call was in re: a large unidentified flying object, but call was cut off. Call received from a Hampton pay phone, location unknown." The official report to Project Blue Book from the director of administrative services of the Pease Air Force Base at Portsmouth concluded that "At this time, have been unable to arrive at a probable cause of this sighting. The three observers seem to be stable, reliable persons, especially the two patrolmen. I viewed the area and found nothing in the area that could be the probable cause." Bertrand, an Air Force veteran, described the object as a "huge, shapeless object with five sequentially pulsating-from-left-to-right bright red lights, so bright you couldn't look at it." The Pentagon persistantly denied the sightings, but the incident was read into the congressional record in April 1966 by Raymond Fowler, representative of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena in Washington. It was the first open congressional hearing on UFOs. Renowned UFO researcher and author, Fowler related, "Muscarello's mother purportedly saw confidential drawings of a UFO landing site pattern that was handcuffed to an Air Force investigator who visited her house. The neighboring farmer was instructed by the Air Force to plow under landing marks in his field. The hens in the neighborhood stopped laying eggs. The air-base intelligence officer was seen buying up all the newspapers carrying stories about Sept. 3. A base commander was seen in civilian clothes rather than uniform while investigating," he related. Because of the viability of the testimonies of those involved on the night of Sept. 3, 1965, and because of Fowler's testimony into the Congressional Record in April 1966, the United States Air Force admitted that the Incident at Exeter involved an unidentified flying object. (UFOs and the National Security State, pg 287-290, Richard Dolan) (Book, The Incident At Exter John G. Fuller.) (The Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, NH), Sept. 2, 2005) (UfoEvidence Case ID 426, "UFO Sighting Terrified Locals 40 Years Ago", By Bonnie Meroth.) (UFOs and the National Security State, pg 287-290, Richard Dolan)

1964 Aug 1-3 - Thousands Watch Formations in the South US16

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Shortly after pm on August 1st, police squadrons in Oklahoma reported seeing diamond-shaped formations of UFOs for more than half an hour, moving northerly and changing colours from red to white to blue-green. In Oklahoma City, a police dispatcher said headquarters had received over 35 calls between 8 and 10pm. A police officer in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, reported a 45 minute UFO sighting, which was captured on radar by Tinker and Carswell Air Force Bases. The Weather Bureau at Wichita said it tracked objects south and west of Wellington. Observers described the objects as red, which "exploded in a shower of sparks and at other times floated like a leaf." Even the New York Times reported the sightings. On the night of August 2-3, tens of thousands of people from South Dakota to the Mexican border watched formations of brightly coloured lights speeding through the skies, occasionally stopping for a few seconds. The sightings at times were awe-inspiring, changing formation, speed, colour, and size. According to state police reports, many of the objects were tracked on civil and military radars. In the Minneapolis area, fifty police and sheriff squad cars radioed and reported UFOs between 12:20 and 2:20am. Several objects were photographed. Two deputy sheriffs in Justin, Texas, saw a very bright object land while they were on a patrol near Wagle Mountain Lake. The police investigated but found nothing. During the following morning, Los Angeles County Highway Accident Investigator Rex Heflin took four clear Polaroid photographs of a hat-shaped UFO near a lonely stretch of road near Santa Ana, California. (UFOs and the National Security State, pg 285-286, Richard Dolan)

1964 Apr 24 - Sergeant Lonnie Zamora US15

Socorro, New Mexico

Sergeant Lonnie Zamora The case of Police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora is a hallmark case in UFOlogy. In April 1964, Zamora happened upon three small childlike humanoid figures moving about an egg-shaped craft on three legs in a gully, who, upon seeing Zamora, scuttled into the craft which then took off in a burst of blue flame and moved off silently parallel to the terrain. The event scared Zamora to the point of panic. Together with State Police Sergeant Sam Chavez, the two found a half burned bush, four angular impressions in the sandy soil where the "legs" had been, and several small footprints and other impressions, before other authorities thoroughly investigated and studied Zamora’s claims. (NICAP) (UFOEvidence.org Case ID 90) [See also documentary on Youtube] (KRQE News 13) (UFOs and the National Security State, pg 273-277, Richard Dolan)

1963 Sep 26 - Disc-shaped UFO Seen by Police and Others US14

Sunnyvale, California

... 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. (UfoEvidence.org case 645) (NICAP / Richard Hall, 1964 (reported in San Jose Mercury News and SF Chronicle) )

1962 Sep 15/21/24 - Disc Lands in Reservoir US13

Oradell, New Jersey

... A series of New Jersey police sightings after a reported disc landing in a reservoir. The action began on September 15, when two shiny discs were seen by multiple independent witnesses. On September 21, four Hawthorne police officers watched a device with two beams like headlights. Just after midnight, September 24, the same or a similar device was seen over the quarry by over a dozen Hawthorne police officers and the chief reporter of the N. J. State Press, George Della Penta. (UfoEvidence.org case 796) (Waterufo.net, NICAP UFO Investigator, Oct/Nov 1962)

1961 Jan 21 - Police Witness USO Explode & Fall Into Lake US52

Michigan & Illinois, Lake Michigan, 5:40pm.

Many people, including police officers, watched an object which appeared to explode and fall into Lake Michigan. (Invisible Residents, Ivan T. Sanderson, pg 229) (Benton Habor News Palladium, 22 January 1965; Chigago Tribun and Manitowac Herald)

1960 Aug 13 - Red Bluff Incident US12

Red Bluff, California

... California Highway Patrol Officers Charles A. Carson and Stanley Scott were on patrol when they sighted what they thought was an airliner about to crash. When the UFO had descended to about 100 or 200 feet altitude it suddenly reversed direction and climbed to 500 ft. IT was described as round or oblong surrounded by a glow and having definite red lights at each end. They continued to watch the UFO as it performed "unbelievable" aerial feats. Each time the object neared them, they experienced radio interference. The officers radioed the Tehama County Sheriff's Office and asked Deputy Clarence Fry to contact the local Air Force radar station at Red Bluff. Deputy Fry reported back that the radar station verified that an unidentified object was visible on radar. (UfoEvidence.org case 107) (Loy Lawhon, About.com) (NICAP, 1964)

1959 Sep 24 - The Redmond, Oregon, Incident US11

Redmond, Oregon

Shortly before dawn Police Officer Robert Dickerson was driving through the streets of Redmon when he saw a large, bright object descend over the city, stop abruptly, and hover at two hundred feet. The object was low enough that nearby treetops glowed. Minutes later, Dickerson drove to the Federal Aviation Administration officer at the Redmond airport. Meanwhile the object rapidly moved to an area northeast of the airport and once again hovered. Its color had changed from bright white to reddish-orange. Through binoculars, Dickerson and others perceived it as flat and round. Tongues of flame occasionally extened from its edge. The nearby airforce base was contacted and a pursuit ensued. (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg xxii)

1958 Dec 20 - Two Patrolmen See Glowing Red UFO in New Jersey US10

Dunellen, New Jersey

Patrolmen LeRoy A. Arboreen and B. Talada were on night patrol when they saw an object coming from the west. "At first it looked like a red hot piece of coal about the size of a quarter held at arm's length. In a matter of seconds it was as large as a ruler held at arm's length... The body of the object was solid bright red and it gave off a pulsating red glow... The object hovered a few seconds, then made a left turn and again hovered for a few seconds, then went straight up like a shot." (UfoEvidence.org case 639) (NICAP / Richard Hall (1964) from NICAP case report) ...

1957 Nov 24-25 - Police UFO Chase Ensues US9

Pierre, South Dakota

Air force jets were scrambled at least once during a multi-day UFO sighting near Pierre from November 24 to 25, and possibly longer. At one point during the series of sightings, state police chased the object. (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg 196)

1957 Nov 10- Police Follow Rocket Machine US8

Hammond, Indiana

During the evening of November 10 in Hammond, Indiana, hundreds of people saw a rocket-shaped machine race overhead. The police followed it, and the captain said a loud beeping sound blocked the radio reception. Residents also reported radio and television failure as the UFO passed by. (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg 206)

1957 Nov 4 - Police Observe Luminous Object US7

Elmwood Park, Illinois

In Elmwood Park, Illinois, at 3:15 am on November 4, two police officers and a third man were looking for the cause of a headlight failure. At that moment, a luminous object descended about two hundred feet from them. The car headlights functioned properly again, and the they drove toward the object but had to stop at a cemetary wall. They turned off all lights and watched the object for two more minutes. (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg 205)

1957 Jun 22 - Two Patrolmen Observe Plunging Object US51

Rye/Long Island Sound, NY.

Two patrolmen at Rye, NY, watched a large object with two white lights and one red light plunge into Long Island Sound. (Invisible Residents, Ivan T. Sanderson, pg 39) (Port Chester, NY, Item, 22 June 1957)

1956 July 19 - Kansas State Police Confirm Sightings US6

Hutchinson, Kansas

On July 19 in Hutchinson, Kansas, a naval air station tracked "a moving unidentified object" on radar. The state police observed it visually as a teardrop-shaped lightsource. The object moved horizontally and vertically over much of the sky. (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg 187)

1955 Aug 21-22 - The Hopkinsville Encounter US5

Hopkinsville, Kentucky

During the famous Hopkinsville encounter, a family were harassed by an apparent alien. When the family managed to get assistance from the local police. The Deputy Sheriff arrived to investigate and saw a fast-moving lighted object in the sky. (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg 179)

1954 May 31 - Police Witness to Glowing Sphere US48

Spokane-Portland

An AP story describes a glowing disc seen by a pilot, an air traffic controller, police, and residents from Spokane to Portland. (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg 151)

1954 May 6 - Two Officers Watch UFOs at Airport US3

Washington National Airport

Two Police Officers at the Washington National Airport saw two large, glowing, oval objects approach the airport and maneuver over that part of the city. Military Air Transport confirmed its presence, and the object was seen for over an hour. An air force spokesman in the Pentagon told reporters it was an "Unidentified Flying Object." (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg 151)

1947 Aug 19 - Residents and Police Observe Strange Formation US2

Twin Falls, Idaho

In Twin Falls, residents and police saw a group of twelve strange objects "flying in formation over the city ... at terrific speed." The airforce explained this as birds. (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg 35)

1947 July 4 - UFOs Watched In Afternoon US1

Portland

In Portland many people including police saw a large number of UFOs in the middle of the afternoon, in formation and alone. (UFOs and the National Security State, Richard Dolan, pg 19)