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Year of 1966; date deleted. An
AF active-duty jet pilot with the rank of captain, who is also a NICAP
member, came to our offices and reported that a group of Service pilots had
seen a large disc-shaped object rotating under the surface of the
Atlantic Ocean. The sighting was at night, while the pilots were on a routine
mission, and the UFO was clearly visible because of its brilliant blue-green
glow. (Because of the active-duty status of the AF captain and the other
pilots, names, the date and identifying details have to be omitted.)
This
reference: UFO Investigator, a NICAP publication, Vol. 4, No. 5 p. 5, (March
1968) with Thanks to the Donald E. Keyhoe Archives. Secondary references: No Earthly
Explanation, by John Wallace Spencer, pp. 94-104, 1974 UFOCAT PRN – 69650 ( No Location ) Atlantic Ocean Oh, oh, saucers loose again! Special
to The Province
Kelowna -- Four persons have reported unidentified flying objects in
the Kelowna area. Three of the four also reported a small satellite airship,
in one case appearing from beneath the surface of Okanagan Lake. Alfred Quemby, Kelowna Courier,
printer, reported an oval-shaped saucer with a dome circling over Benvoulin
district on Kelowna’s southeast limits. It appeared to have a polished metal
finish. When he got out of his car for a closer look, "it disappeared at
an almost unbelievable speed,” he said. Quemby, said he has no opinion as to
the origin of the craft and has seen them four times in recent years, usually
in the district. Once, he said, he and six others saw a strange airship. Clifford Cole, a watchman, for the
CPR Lake and River Service, said he saw an object hovering over Okanagan
Lake. Cole reported that another smaller
craft seemed to pop to the surface of the lake, remain on the surface for a
time, then return to the mother ship, which flew away. Two
teen-agers they too had seen something. They
said they were parked on Black Mountain after dark when they saw a saucer-shaped
object. The craft at first made a noise like a transport truck, but the noise
dropped to a low hum. According to the teen-agers, a
diamond-shaped small craft emerged from the big ship while they watched,
circled the saucer and went back inside lt.
This
is an original reference: News clip from “The Vancouver Daily” Province,
March 2, 1966, Canada. In file: A smaller Newspaper article
from “The Vancouver Sun” dated March 2, 1966 which states that the two
teenagers refused to be identified. UFOCAT
PRN – NONE, However #87180 date 03-02-1966 in same lake area. North
America – Canada, British Columbia Kelowna
Latitude 49-54 N,
Longitude 119-29 W ( D-M ) Okanagan
Lake Latitude 49-55 N,
Longitude 119-30 W Reference: Canada
Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior,
Washington, D.C., November 1953 Black
Mountain Latitude 50-49-00 N, Longitude
119-29-00 W ( D-M-S ) Reference: http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sima_unique_v4?english?JAKFE?C
This
reference (Original): Web page - MUFON: UFO Reports 1/12/1998 Page2 UFOCAT PRN – NONE The
Gulf of Tonkin is bounded by Vietnam and China Gulf of Tonkin – Latitude 20-00 N, 108-00 E ( D-M
) Reference:
China Gazetteer ( Mainland ), Prepared by the Geographic Names Division,
Army Map Service, Washington, D.C., September 1968 Report From Brazil – The First UAO Sightings In
1966 3. On March 16, at 5:45
p.m., a white object, ovoid in shape, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean close
to the Cagarras Island, after a violent explosion which caused, alarm and
fear among the people who watched from the Arpoador beach its rapid fall to
the sea. An emergency call mobilized the Air Force Life Saving Service (SAR)
and the Guanabara State Coast Guard (CMS). Several patrol boats from the CMS
and two SAR helicopters searched the area until 7:15 p.m., but nothing was
found. The CMS sailor Sergio Jorge Carvalho and the sentinel at the
Copacabana Fortress witnessed the fall and explosion. They reported that the
object had a white contrail and that a smaller parachute-like object was dropped
from it just a few seconds before the crash. Other witnesses affirmed that
more than one parachute-like object had been sighted. The CMS released the
information that "at 5:45 p.m., a communication from the SAR reported
the fall of a "strange object" in the area of the Cagarras Island.
Four patrol boats were sent to search the place and nothing was found." A crowd of several thousand people remained for several
hours at the Arpoador beach, watching the search and discussing the events.
The. Cagarras is a small, deserted rocky island a few miles to
the west of Rio de Janeiro, Just in front of the well-known Copacabana and
Ipanema beaches. It was visited three days later by an expedition that made a
complete search, but again nothing was found.
This reference: The A.P.R.O. Bulletin,
March-April, 1966, pp. 5-6 With
thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO Database, see
http://www.larryhatch.net UFOCAT
PRN – 56823 Ref. UFOs Over the Americas, Jim Lorenzen, p. 54, 1968. No Loc. South America - Brazil Cagarras
Island Latitude 23-02 S,
Longitude 43-11 W ( D-M ) Arpoador
Beach Latitude 23-59 S,
Longitude 43-12 W Guanabara
Bay Latitude 22-50 S,
Longitude 43-10 W Copacabana
Beach Latitude 22-58 S, Longitude 43-10 W Ipanema
Beach Latitude 22-59 S, Longitude 43-12 W Reference:
Brazil Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of
the Interior, Washington, D.C., January 1963 Barra da Tijuca. Between10:00 and 11:00
p.m. on the night of March 16, 1966, and again at 2:45 a.m. on March 17,
doctors and nurses at the Lourenco Jorge Hospital at Barra da Tijuca watched
an object which had seemed to come up out of the sea.
KEY: (7) Marisco Point (Peak). (8) Lourenco Jorge Hospital At times it hung suspended over the sea, as
though about to fall into it, and at other times it flew around over the
Pedra do Marisco, a peak near the hospital. Green in colour at first, it
later turned blue and then red. It was seen to receive two objects, apparently
teleguided. (See SBEDV Bulletin No. 55-59, March/December 1967. See also
Gordon Creighton's article: A Small Experiment? in FSR, Vol. 13, No. 6,
November/December 1967.)
This reference: Flying Saucer Review. Vol. 17,
No. 3. May/June 1971, UFO ON THE SEA NEAR RIO by Dr. W. Buhler
Original: SBEDV
Bulletin No. 74/79, May 1970-February 1971 Translation by: Gordon
Creighton's article: A Small Experiment? in FSR, Vol. 13, No. 6,
November/December 1967.) UFOCAT PRN – NONE
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"...Captain Ardanza beheld a shining object in the sea no more than about 50 feet away on the starboard side. It was cigar-shaped and he estimated its length at about 105-110 feet. It had a powerful blue and white glow, made no noise whatsoever, and left no wake in the water. There was no sign of any periscope, or railing, or tower, or superstructure… no control surfaces or protruding parts... [ it ] paced [ the ship ] for 15 minutes... [ estimated speed ] up to 25 knots. [ It ] suddenly dived and passed right under the [ ship ] and vanished rapidly in the depths at great speed. As it went, it glowed brightly below the water... The possibility that the object seen was a whale or a conventional type of submarine is ruled out... The case has been classified by the Argentine maritime authorities as an "Unidentified Submarine Object". [ footnote 1 ]
Artist's
conception from Phenomenes Spatiaux, created by Joel Mesnard, Sept 1968
Phenomenes Spatiaux no. 15 (March 1968) p. 30
In
the" Vanguardia ", from Barcelona, dated 1st Oct. 1967, appeared an
information sent to us by Mr. Joan Crexells, whom we thank. This the
translation:
"Seagoing
saucer" To the comments and guesses which are made here about the real
existence of the flying saucers is added now a serious and trustworthy
testimony, the one from Julian Ardanza, captain of the Argentinian merchant
ship "Naviero". Upon his arrival in Buenos Aires, he fully
confirmed what he already said in his radio message sent from the sea:
"At the level of Brazil, he was surprised by a strange object which
emitted a strong bluish glow and sailed parallel to his ship during 18
minutes. At one point, the object dived and went under the ship to go back to
the surface on the other side." It was shaped like a cigar. It was like
a submarine but without conning tower or any protruding part on its surface.
It was also observed by first officer Julio Montoya and a few sailors, which
created the ensuing alert. The encounter happened at the level of the gulf of
Santa Catarina, facing the Brazilian coast. The captain denied it was a
submarine. And even less a whale. At a speed of 25 knots the object went away
leaving behind it an intense light. "Upon his arrival, captain Ardanza
was besieged by journalists and his testimony has enriched the already
copious chronicle of similar events happening in Argentina the last
days."
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Phenomenes Spatiaux no. 16 (June 1968) p. 13-14
From
diving to "sinking", by Rene Fouere
In
our last issue, we made a mistake regarding the diving "saucer".
Being too used to call "saucer" a mostly flying vehicle, while
reading the text, quite short, of "La Vanguardia" about the strange
object which sailed parallel to the "Naviero", we interpreted
"sailed" as flying. We even, in our comments, presented some
considerations based upon this interpretation about which, reading in the FSR
March-April 1968 p. 22 the article by Mr. Oscar Galindez, we found out that
it was wrong. At least apparently as if, one might think, the diving
"saucer" was of extra-terrestrial origin, it had to be in the air
before going on the water surface or in the water. Nevertheless Captain
Ardanza and the men from his crew saw it only on the sea or under the sea.
Mr Galindez's article brings us
interesting precisions [precise information? Ed.] and, first, gives us the
time of the sighting ( 18.15 local time which is 22.15 universal time ) and
the coordinates of the place: L: 28° 48' S and G: 46° 44' W, these
coordinates defining a point located approximately 220 km east of the cape
Santa Marta Grande and where the depths are more than a thousand meters. This
article tells us also that the strange "submarine" was seen very
close, at a distance of about 15 meters and had a length of about 30 meters.
It had no periscope, no conning tower, no guard rail, no superstructures.
That is to say no horizontal rudder, no vertical rudder, no protruding parts.
It was noiseless. It is not said that it went under the "Naviero"
to reappear on the other side but that, suddenly, it dived right under the
ship, at high speed, towards the depths, to disappear quickly and that while
it was going down it could still be seen under the water, brightly
illuminated. It didn't leave behind any wake (our emphasis).
We found too, about this same
incident, a few more complementary details in a document kindly sent to us by
our sevillan correspondent Mr. Ignacio Darnaude. This document is a photocopy
of an article published in the Buenos Aires newspaper "La Voz del
Interior" dated 3 August 1967. This article precises [states? Ed.] that
the night was dark and the sea phosphorescent. This last point doesn't
surprise us as the sighting happened in the open sea off the Cape Santa Marta
Grande where we ourselves observed, each time we were there, waters with an
intense, homogeneous and fairylike phosphorescence. It is said that the
object was 4 to 5 meters wide and was itself showing a very strong
phosphorescence but its color, an azure white ('blanc azure': a very light
bluish white - JLR), contrasted strongly with the Nile green color, which is
light green, of the sea.
According to "La Voz del
Interior", this phosphorescent object was on the starboard side 9 meters
ahead of the forecastle and, first, sailed parallel to the
"Naviero" at a depth of 15 to 20 meters - which is corresponding
quite well, it seems, with the distance given by Mr Galindez in his article.
According to Captain Ardanza, the object didn't follow a natural course but
"sailed", in the voluntary meaning of the word (<< para mi
navegaba no se desplazaba >>). After a while, the object speeded [sped,
Ed.] up and, starting a turn toward the port side, went under the hull of the
ship, to reappear on the starboard side at the level of the No. 2 hold and
disappeared going approximately to 145° ( S 35 E?).
It will be noted that it [was? was
not? Ed.] detected by the radar and never came to the surface during the
sighting. Even it is not clearly said, it seems the strong light emitted by
this singular "submarine" was not produced by one or several discreet
and more or less localised sources, by lights or searchlights located on some
points of its hull but by the entire surface of the hull. Furthermore the
relation of the incident as written on the logbook of the "Naviero"
specifies that << the body showed a quite clear outline ("
silueta" ) >> ( our emphasis ) and, upon his arrival in Buenos
Aires, Captain Ardanza declared that in his telegram sent from the high sea
to the Argentinian National Sea Prefecture, he should not have mentioned an
<< illuminated >>
( << iluminado >> ) object but a << luminous >> (
<< luminoso >> ) object. We must add that, the << submarine
>> sailing at 15 or 20 meters depth, if it had not been entirely
luminous, it would have been difficult to see its outline, [e] specially
through this kind of phosphorescent sea found off the Cape Santa Marta
Grande, and which is familiar to us. Usually very weak, the phosphorescence
of the sea becomes intense only with a superficial movement exciting the
innumerable animalcules responsible for it and one knows that at 15 or 20
meters deep there is practically nothing left of the surface movement. It is
thus mainly the surface which is lighted and, in our case, the veil of light
created could only hamper the sighting of a dark object below. If our interpretation
is correct and if the light - which must have been diffused [diffuse? Ed.] as
seems to be indicated by the term << phosphorescence >> - was
coming from the entire surface of the object, one cannot see how a <<
submarine >> surrounded by this strange light could have come from any
terrestrial shipyard. Furthermore it had no upper works, no helms [rudders?
Ed.] and even nowhere it is said that a propeller was observed !
Mr. Raymond Lucas, one of our
vice-presidents (of the GEPA - JLR), told us that a sperm whale might have
the same approximate dimensions than this object, but how can we imagine a
sperm whale doing [ these ] kind of moves around a ship at night? Furthermore
will remain the problem of the light, light which cannot even be attributed
to animalcules being in the depths and whose luminescence, excited by the
movement of the object, would have created around its hull a sheath of light
as the color, azure white, of the light emitted by the object contrasted with
the light, greenish, produced by these animalcules.
Still according to "La Voz del
Interior", Captain Ardanza affirmed again that the object didn't leave a
wake ( << reiterando que estela non dejaba >> ), which confirms
the indication already given in Mr Galindez's article. But how to understand
exactly this indication? According to Mr. Lucas, it is not sure that an
object with this volume, sailing at that speed ( 25 knots or approximately 46
km/h ) and that depth would leave a wake at the surface. However it should have
left one at its own level - and which could have been visible either because
caught in the rays of light coming from the object or even because of the
luminescence created in the depth by its eddy (or wash ? - JLR). In any case,
as long as Captain Ardanza said again and again that the object didn't leave
any wake, we can assume that with his experience as a sailor he was expecting
one and was surprised, even struck, not to find one. It is not forbidden to
assume too that, in his mind, this absence of wake could also mean an absence
of propeller as a propeller always creates whirls. We must emphasize that the
seriousness and objectivity of the sighting is comforted [supported? Ed.] by
the unchallengeable fact the captain of the "Naviero" was enough
worried by this unforeseeable escort under water to not hesitate to send
immediately a radio telegram to the Argentinian National Sea Prefecture. His
[worry] was even more understandable as his ship, traveling at a cruise speed
of 17 knots, transported military explosives.
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Phenomenes Spatiaux no. 23 (March 1970) p. 18
About
the "Naviero ", our investigation [continues]. We mentioned
the" Naviero" incident in our issue no. 15 p. 30. We spoke about it
again in our last issue p. 13 and noticed that the stories reported by the
different sources of information presented some significant and quite
embarrassing differences. Willing to know more, we kept our investigation
running by writing to our Argentinian collaborators who answered us with a
kindness we cannot thank enough. Mr. Gainza Paz has given us all the
necessary informations to write directly to Captain Ardanza himself. But if
Captain Ardanza answers us, it will not be soon as he was near the Ghana
coast when Mr. Gainza Paz gave us the exact address of the shipping company
employing him.
Mr. Oscar Galindez took the time to
answer very promptly and in detail to the questions we asked him. Thus we can
give to our readers, thanks to him, the following indications of which they
will appreciate the importance:
1/
The object was detected on the radar.
2/
When it was seen the first time, it was resting on the sea: captain Ardanza
mentioned an object "half submerged".
3/
The object was on the starboard side, 15 meters ahead of the forecastle and
sailed parallel to the "Naviero" for 15 minutes.
4/
It was without portholes, propellers, fins or any protruding part.
5/
It didn't leave any visible wake on the surface.
6/
It was luminous and the intensity of the light it emitted was the same
everywhere.
7/
It was shaped like a "Havana" cigar and a length of approximately
30 meters.
8/
It submerged and went under the "Naviero" but didn't emerge on the
other side of the ship. Captain Ardanza and first officer Julio Montoya were
both witnesses of the phenomenon. They didn't call the other sailors - who
were having supper - because they thought the sailors could panic, the
"Naviero" transporting explosives.
9/
The sea was phosphorescent and the phenomenon was completely noiseless. Mr.
Galindez added he thought he could get from Mr. Alberto Ramos, the radio
[officer] of the "Naviero", a drawing of the object, drawing he has
not received yet. While waiting, he tried to do for us, according to all the
informations he received, an approximate drawing of the observed object. We
reproduce this drawing.
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The following from Jean-Luc Rivera who kindly
provided all of the Phenomena Spatieux articles above...
I
hope my translation is not too bad; I didn't have time to smooth it and I am
not familiar with sailing and nautical terms. I have found in an article
entitled "Le mystere marin des UFOs" ( "The marine mystery of
UFOs" ) by Oscar A. Galindez, a passage devoted to the
"Naviero" incident with some very important new details.
Phenomenes
Spatiaux no. 23 (March 1970) p. 18
<<
.... In December 1969, the C.A.D.I.U. ( Centro Argentino de Investigaciones
Ufologicas ) was granted a meeting with the officer Jorge Montoya who,
amongst the crew members of the Argentinian cargo ship "Naviero",
was the first to see the tubular phenomenon of the Gulf of Santa Catarina,
incident which happened on 30 July 1967 [Note conflict with date from
Sanderson, above, Ed.], in front of the Brazilian coast, at nightfall. The
present magazine has dealt several times with this incident so it doesn't
seem useful to report the main story. But faced [with] the declarations of
Officer Montoya, it is necessary to bring a few complementary details. The
witness told us that, while he was going to the stem of the ship being on the
starboard side, he noticed, not deeply, some kind luminous projection of a
great length. [At] first it didn't seem important as he assumed it was the
reflection in the water from the lights going through the row of portholes of
the "Naviero". But immediately he changed his opinion because this
luminosity was near the stern where there were no portholes. Observing
closely he noticed it was some kind of << tube >>, 30 meters long
and 1 meter to 1m 50 in diameter, moving at the same speed [as] the
"Naviero" ( approximately 17 knots ) and at about 3 to 5 meters
deep (this detail is important because it corrects the version given by the
newspapers speaking of a << half submerged >> object with part of
the hull at water level). In spite of it, the outline of the phenomenon was
sharp and uniform. It didn't look like any whale or any animal. On all its
length it was the same diameter, it was of the same size. Its brightness of
light was a yellowish white (and not bluish as said in the papers) and didn't
seem to come from a precise spot as the entire surface of the object was
fluorescent. The officer didn't hear any engine noise and didn't notice any
whirl created by the object moving. For 15 minutes the object went along with
the "Naviero" being only 15 meters away from the ship. This is why
Captain Julian Lucas Ardanza - thinking about the chances of running into it
- gave orders to the helmsman to change course very gradually if he was given
such order. But it was not necessary. The << object >> turned 90°
went under the ship and gained quickly some depth at a speed of 25 knots.
When it turned there was no deformation of its linear structure which ruled
out even more the possibility of some kind of unknown animal. First Officer
Montoya promised us to give us a copy of the logbook on which were noted the
other significant details of the phenomenon.
I searched Phenomenes Spatiaux until
the end of 1972 without finding any more news about
the
“Naviero”. (JLR)
FSR Vol 14 No 2 March/April 1968p 22
CREW
OF ARGENTINE SHIP SEE SUBMARINE UFO by Oscar A. Galindez
Senor
Galindez has been correspondent of Flying Saucer Review in Argentina since
1962
A TOPIC which seems to be connected
with the UFO problem is that of the mysterious submarine bodies which have
been observed in the seas of our world. Many of these cases appear in fact to
be part of the astonishing enigma of the Unidentified Flying Objects.
Not long ago consideration was being
given by FLYING SAUCER REVIEW to these marine aspects of the phenomenon,* and
some authors have suggested the possibility of underwater UFO bases in areas
where these strange happenings have been recorded.
I would like to relate a recent
occurrence which is quite sensational in comparison with most of those
reported so far. My sources are press reports which appeared in the Argentine
newspapers La Razon Cordoba and Los Principios.
On July 30, 1967, the Argentine
steamer Naviero, belonging to the Argentine Shipping Lines Company, was some
120 miles off the coast of Brazil, opposite Cape Santa Marta Grande
(Lat. 28 48 S., Long. 46 43 W.) in the State of Santa Catarina, when an
elongated submarine craft was sighted. The time was about 6.15 p.m. Argentine
time (10.15 p.m.G.M.T.), and the Naviero was running at 17 knots.
The officers and crew were at their
evening meal at the time. The Master, Captain Julian Lucas Ardanza, received
a call on the intercom system from one of his officers, Jorge Montoya, to the
effect that there was something strange near the ship.
Arriving at once on deck, Captain
Ardanza beheld a shining object in the sea no more than about 50ft. away on
the starboard side. It was cigar-shaped and he estimated its length at about
105 to 110ft. It had a powerful blue and white glow, made no noise whatsoever
and left no wake in the water. There was no sign of any periscope or railing
or tower or superstructure, in other words no external control surfaces or
protruding parts.
The mystery craft paced the Naviero
for 15 minutes. Captain Ardanza estimated its speed at 25 knots, as against
the 17 of his own vessel (an old Liberty-type ship built in the U.S.A.).
The next development however was
disconcerting to say the least. The mystery craft suddenly dived and passed
right under the Naviero and vanished rapidly in the depths at great speed. As
it went it glowed brightly beneath the water.
The Naviero was carrying explosives
and gunpowder, and in order to stave off any panic among the crew should they
get the idea into their heads that they were being "pursued"
because of this type of cargo, Captain Ardanza and his officers judged it
prudent to assemble the crew and tell them what had been seen.
In the subsequent interviews with
reporters from the Argentine press, the Captain said that during his twenty
years at sea he had never seen anything like that before. Chief Officer
Carlos Lasca described the object as "a submergible UFO with its own
illumination".
The possibility that the object seen
was a whale or a conventional type of submarine is ruled out. The witnesses
were firm in their insistence that the "luminous cigar" looked
totally different from a submarine or a whale and could not possibly have
been either of these things.
The case has been classified by the
Argentine maritime authorities as an "unidentified submarine
object".
NOTES:
Gordon
Creighton, Argentina 1962 (Pedro Atilli's experience) and item about Soviet
submarines, FSR, July/August 1964, pp. I I and 13.
Antonio
Ribera, UFOs and the Sea, FSR, November/December 1964, P. 8.
W.
S. Robertson, UFOs and the Scottish Seas, FSR, May/June 1965, p 36
Antonio
Ribera, More About UFOs and the Sea, FSR, November/December 1965. p. 17.
H.
J. Hinfelaar, Submarine Craft in Australasian Waters, FSR, July/August 1966,
p. 28.
Hynek
Classification ?
Original Vallee Classification ?
Current
Vallee Classification ?
Minimum Distance
50 feet
Object
Luminous blue /
white cigar (though one witness claimed
yellowish
white).
Appearance
No features.
Object Behavior
Followed ship, dove underneath ship, disappeared. No
deformation
of object in turn.
Physical Effect
None - not even a wake!
However, was detected on
radar (sonar?)
Medical Effect
None
Comments
/ Conclusion Within
speed and size range for blue whale, but luminosity,
lack of
wake, lack of streamlining, and lack of deformation in mm weigh against this
possibility.
Footnotes
1.
Invisible Residents, Ivan T. Sanderson, 70-124287
This
reference: http://www.temporaldoorway.com/ufo/report/670720.htm
With My Thanks to Mark Cashman for allowing me to post his accumulated texts
on this case to my web site. Copyright 1999 by Mark
Cashman (unless otherwise indicated), All Rights Reserved
Original
references: Argentine newspaper articles in “La Razón”, “Córdoba” and “Los Principios”.
References
used in publication date order::
Buenos
Aires newspaper "La Voz del Interior" dated 3 August 1967 (Used in
P.S. #16)
"
La Vanguardia ", from Barcelona, dated 1st Oct. 1967 as translated and
published in
Phenomenes
Spatiaux no. 15 (March 1968) p. 30
FSR Vol. 14 No 2 March/April 1968p 22. Note
date error of 07-30-1967
Phenomenes
Spatiaux no. 16 (June 1968) p. 13-14
Phenomenes
Spatiaux no. 23 (March 1970) p. 18
Invisible Residents, Ivan T. Sanderson, pp.
23-24, 1970. Note date error of 07-30-1967
UFOCAT PRN
88295 Dated 07-30-1967 because reference used was FSR Vol. 14, No. 2
No location
South
America – Brazil and Argentina
Cape
Santa Marta Grande, Brazil Latitude
28-38 S, Longitude 48-45 W ( D-M )
Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Latitude 34-36 S, Longitude 58-27 W
Gulf
of Santa Catarina
Latitude 27-37 S, Longitude 48-34 W
Reference: Brazil Gazetteer, published January 1963
and Argentina Gazetteer, published February 1968. Both gazetteers prepared
in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington,
D.C.
08-04-1967 [ take your pick
]
Although press reports did not reach the United States,
Venezuela, along with her spate of reports of diminutive Saucer pilots, in
August, 1967, experienced some strange visitations involving objects coming
out of the sea. On the 4th of August, Hugo Sierra Yepes, an engineer, was on
the beach about sixteen miles north of Recife. It was early morning but the
atmosphere was clear and the visibility very good. 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. The ring, which
seemed to join the two parts, had triangles of blue and red on it, but the
main body was gray, apparently metallic, and, appeared, to be about six
meters (eighteen feet) in diameter. Once out of the sea, the object hovered
for a few seconds at an altitude of about one meter (forty inches), then rose
slowly toward the east, and finally picked up tremendous speed and
disappeared into the sky. Yepes estimated that the whole incident took no
more than one minute from the time he first spied the object until it was out
of sight.
This reference: UFOs Over The Americas, by Jim &
Coral Lorenzen, p.54, Pub. 1968
ALSO
South American Cases
In August, 1967 two Venezuelan
sightings were reported. On Aug. 4, Dr. Hugo Sierra Yepez was fishing from
his boat, north of Arrecife. Suddenly he felt a vibration, and the sea
"began to boll in big bubbles, in a … circle about six meters in
diameters." A gray-blue, flat globe then emerged, Dr. Yepez stated. As
it hovered close to the surface, dripping water, he noticed a revolving
section with triangular windows. The UFO, he said, ascended in curve, then
shot upward into space,
This reference: UFO Investigator, a publication of
NICAP, Vol. 4, No. 5, p.5 (March 1968)
Secondary reference: Invisible Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 44,
1970
UFOCAT
PRN – NONE
South America - Venezuela
NOTE:
Recife
– The report states that the sighting was in Venezuela, but a check of the
U.S. Governments gazetteer of Venezuela has
no “Recife”. This was also true of online gazetteers. However there is a
“Recife” in Brazil and it is on the ocean.
Recife,
Brazil – Latitude 8-3-0 S, Longitude
34-53-60 W ( D-M-S )
Latitude
–8.0500, Longitude 34.9000 ( D.% )
Reference:
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=-8.0500&long=-34.9000&name=Recife&cty=Brazil&alt=3
However
in the second report city is spelled “Arrecife” which is listed in the
online gazetteer.
Arrecife,
Venezuela Latitude 10-34-60 N,
Longitude 67-4-60 W ( D-M-S )
Latitude
10.5833 N, Longitude 67.0833 W ( D.% )
Reference:
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=10.5833&long=-67.0833&name=Arrecife&cty=Venezuela&alt=475
NOTE that the last name of the Doctor is spelled differently
“Yepes” and “Yepez”
in the two reports.
08-08-1967
Four days later, on the 8th, Evangelic Pastor
Estanislao Lugo Contreras of Salina, Venezuela, was at the shore shortly
after dark when he saw an object which he described as disc-shaped and giving
off a very bright orange glow. The disc rose out of the sea at about 500
meters (1650 feet) from shore, hovered for a few seconds, then, as in the
Yepes incident; rose obliquely into the sky, disappearing within seconds.
Unlike Yepes, Pastor Contreras heard what he described as a
"buzzing" sound.
When he
first noticed the phenomenon, Contreras was attracted by the fact that the
sea started to "wrinkle up" or "stir up" in a vast round
area. The color of the water in that particular area--Salina is six miles
north of the resort city of Arrecifes--is much darker than elsewhere nearby,
so the change was easily noticeable. A few moments after the stirring up was
noticed, the water began to turn a lighter hue, then a light-blue shade which
was very intense. The area continued to grow lighter, then turned whitish,
then yellowish, and lastly a brilliant orange shade. Contreras then noticed
the sound of the object, which he described as "intense and
deafening"; he also felt a tingling sensation in his feet. At this point
the huge "pancake"-shaped object emerged from the sea, hovered,
and left toward Maiquetía in a slanting ascending pattern.
This reference: UFOs Over The Americas, by Jim
& Coral Lorenzen, pp. 54-55, © 1968
Secondary reference: Passport to
Magonia by Jacques Vallee, p. 349, Pub. 1969
UFOCAT PRN – 56825, No
Location
South America - Venezuela
Salina Latitude
10-36-32 N, Longitude 62-16-39 W ( D-M-S )
Latitude
10.6089 N, Longitude 62.2775 W ( D.% )
Reference:
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=10.6089&long=-62.2775&name=Salina&cty=Venezuela&alt=0
Arrecifes Latitude 10-35 N, Longitude 67-05 W ( D-M )
Maiquetía Latitude 10-36 N, Longitude 66-57 W ( Near Caracas )
Reference: Venezuela Gazetteer,
Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington,
D.C., August 1961.
08-25-1967
( See 08-27-1967 Date error on someone’s part )
(Note:
The year is derived from previous article on the same page)
At 5 p.m., August 25, “three huge
plate-shaped disks” were reportedly sighted by witness Ruben Norato, who was
on the beach at Cartia La Mar, Venz. Norato said he first saw a "precipitous
movement" of the water” out of which the discs appeared, and then
streaked out of sight.
This reference: The UFO Investigator (NICAP), Vol. IV,
No. 5, March 1968, p. 5
With thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net
Secondary references: Invisible Residents, by Ivan T. Sanderson, p.
44, © 1970
pre.cip.i.tous adj. 1. As steep as or consisting of a
precipice; very steep. 2. Headlong and downward in motion. 3. Headlong in
disposition; precipitate; hasty.
New Illustrated Webster's Dictionary Of The English
Language © 1992
UFOCAT
PRN – 69653 ( No Location ) Ref. The UFO Investigator (NICAP), Vol.
IV, No. 5
South America - Venezuela
Cartia
La Mar – Latitude 10-36 N, Longitude 67-02 W ( D-M )
Reference:
Venezuela Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department
of the Interior, Washington, D.C., August 1961.
08-27-1967 ( See
08-25-1967 )
The next
similar incident was a daytime sighting, taking place at 5:00 P.M. on the
27th of August. Mr. Ruben Norato was on a rock on the beach at Catia la Mar,
looking out to sea. He noticed a disturbance in the water, as if the ocean
was "boiling," and thought he was about to see some porpoises at
play; he was startled when, one after another, three disc-shaped gray objects
emerged from the spot and flew off out to sea.
This reference: UFOs Over The Americas, by Jim &
Coral Lorenzen, p. 55, Pub. 1968
Secondary
reference: Unexplained Mysteries of the 20th Century, by Janet and
Colin Bord,
p.
172, Published 1989
UFOCAT
PRN – NONE
South
America - Venezuela
Cartia
La Mar – Latitude 10-36 N, Longitude 67-02 W ( D-M )
Reference:
Venezuela Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department
of the Interior, Washington, D.C., August 1961.
10-04-1967
UAO Dives Into Sea At Nova Scotia
One of the more detailed and well
documented sightings out of Canada took place on the night of October 4 at
about 11:05 p.m. At that time several individuals observed a row of lights which
glided into the water. The first report came from five young people between
the ages of 15 and 20 years old who saw three or four distinct lights
arranged in a straight row, the total of which appeared to be the size of a
large aircraft coming down at an angle of 45 degrees toward the water. The
object was lost to sight when it passed behind a low hill, after which time
the witnesses observed a single white light apparently resting on the water
at a point which they estimated to be about 200 or 300 yards off shore in the
Barrington Passage.
The witnesses, who were in a car,
immediately notified the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When Corporal Ron
O'Brian, one of three officers who went to the scene arrived, a light which
he compared to that of a flash light was apparently on the surface of the
water about 300 yards off shore. Two of the officers went for a rowboat and
one stayed and watched the light which extinguished five minutes later. About
ten minutes after the light went out the two RCMPs were at the spot where the
object was believed to have been seen. There was nothing to be seen except a
patch of yellowish foam made up of 1 to 1 ½ inch bubbles, the total of which
was between 30 and 40 yards across. Fishermen in the area felt that this foam
was not normal tidal foam.
Other subsequent reports by residents
in the general area indicated that at least a dozen people were witnesses to
the phenomenon. One observer said that he noticed a brief streak of light
coming from a point between the first and third lights and also heard a
whistling sound, A check was made with aeronautical authorities and it was
found that there were no aircraft missing in that area. The object apparently
landed in Cocherwit Passage which is between Cape Sable Island and the
mainland. Two girls in their mid twenties who were driving on Cape Sable
reported, independent of the other observers, that .they had observed three
yellow lights which tilted, then descended. After that they observed a yellow
light on the water.
On the following Friday Navy divers were organized for a
search which began on Saturday morning. To this date there is no indication
that anything was found. It should be noted here that a disc, apparently in trouble,
fell into the Peropava River in Brazil in the fall of 1963. Despite extensive
operations with diving equipment as well as metal detection equipment,
nothing was found in this instance either.
APRO's Nova Scotia members were
instrumental in getting a quick report to
headquarters after which Mr. Lorenzen notified the University of Colorado
Committee so that they could affect immediate investigation.
This reference: The A.P.R.O. Bulletin,
September/October, 1967, p. 7
NOTE:
For a more encompassing treatment of this
event, see the book “Dark Object” researchers, Chris Styles & Don Ledger,
© 2001.
Secondary reference: UFOs Over The
Americas by Jim & Coral Lorenzen, pp. 56-57, 1968
Invisible Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, pp. 44-45, 1970
Original references: Yarmouth , Nova Scotia, “Light Herald”,12
October 1967
Halifax,
Nova Scotia “Chronicle Herald”, 6 October 1967
UFOCAT PRN - 46478 Ref.
The APRO Bulletin, September 1967, p. 7
UFOCAT
PRN - 56829 Ref. UFOs Over The
Americas, C. Lorenzen, p. 57
UFOCAT
PRN – 136841 Ref Richard Dolan( R.Dolan1) #499-281
North
America – Canada, Nova Scotia
Barrington Passage Latitude
43-31 N, Longitude 65-36 W ( D-M )
Halifax
Latitude
43-39 N, Longitude 63-35 W
Baccaro
Latitude
43-27 N, Longitude 65-28 W [ Baccaro Point ]
Clark's Harbour Latitude
43-27 N, Longitude 65-38 W
Wood’s Harbor Latitude
43-31 N, Longitude 65-44 W [ From “Dark
Object” ]
Cocherwit Passage Unable
to locate.
[
From “Dark Object” ]
Shelburne Harbor Latitude
43-46 N, Longitude 65-19 W [ From “Dark Object” ]
McNutt Island Latitude
43-38 N, Longitude 65-17 W [
From “Dark Object” ]
Reference: Canada
Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior,
Washington, D.C., November 1953
Shag Harbour Latitude
43-43 N, Longitude 65-05 W ( D-M ) [ Shag Island or Shag Rock ]
http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sima_unique_v4?english?CBIDG?C
Cape Sable IslandLatitude 43-55 N, Longitude 59-55 W [ From “Dark Object” ]
http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sima_unique_v4?english?CAGEI?C
Cape Roseway Latitude
43-37-00 N, Longitude 65-16-00 W ( D-M-S )[ From “Dark Object” ]
http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sima_unique_v4?english?CBGKW?C
Government Point Latitude
43-40-00 N, Longitude 65-16-00 W [
From “Dark Object” ]
http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sima_unique_v4?english?CAOAJ?C
UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude 43.53 N, Longitude
65.62 W ( D.% ) UFOCAT 46478
UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude
43.5 N, Longitude 65.7
UFOCAT 136841
10-17-1967
Note: The following sighting was
also reported in the UFO Investigator with the date of
10-13-1967 and by Jacque Vallee in “Passport to Magonia” with a date
of 10-27-1967. However I believe that the following is the most
accurate version of it, as the source is, newspaper articles from India, and
several more villages are mentioned. (Carl Feindt).
INDIA
Shillong
saucer
Very few reports ever reach this
REVIEW from the Indian sub-continent, so it was particularly interesting to
read these accounts from “The Times of India” of October 18 and 19
respectively:--
"Shillong, October 17: An object
resembling a flying saucer was noticed on Friday evening near Laitkor
village, 18 miles from Shillong, the police said here today. The object was
reportedly seen racing across the sky with a loud report, According to some
villagers, trees past which the object had cut its way carried marks that
looked tike saw cuts.
"P.T.I. adds: The object is said
to have landed in a running stream, close to the dak bungalow of Dympep
village, 16 miles from Shillong, on Friday evening.
"The flying saucer was first
noticed by Laitkor villagers, where it was reported to have spun like a top
500 feet above the earth, emitting bright red and green lights.
"Reports quoting eye-witnesses
stated that the object sucked and churned the water with loud and deafening
explosions. From the stream, the object flew towards Mawkdok village, three
miles away, and then towards the dense woods.--P.T.l,"
"Shillong, October 18: Police
inquiries yesterday into the appearance of a mysterious saucer-shaped flying
object in the Khasi Hills of Assam last Friday, revealed that considerable
damage has been done to the dense vegetation in the Lum Swer forest through
which the flying object is reported to have passed before disappearing,
"The villagers of nearby area,
roughly half-way between Cherrapunjee and Shillong, testified that they heard
three loud sounds during the half an-hour while the 'saucer' was hovering
about in the neighbourhood.
"The
eastern wing of the Indian Air Force is reportedly probing into the
mysterious incident.--P.T.l,"
An explanation followed in “The Times
of India” of October 20, from which we quote the opening paragraphs:--
"The appearance of a mysterious
object, said to resemble a 'flying saucer', at Laitkorh village in Khasi
hills on Friday, has been explained as a meteorological phenomenon.
"An inquiry conducted by a
magistrate, Air Force authorities and the police reached the conclusion that
the episode was 'a meteorological phenomenon termed a whirlwind of high
intensity' but of a local nature only."
--Credit:
Jal N. D. Tata of Bombay.
This
reference: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, p. iii, January/February
1968.
Secondary references:
UFO
Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 3, Nov.-Dec. 1967, p. 3.With Thanks to the
Donald E. Keyhoe archives.
UFO
Investigator, a NICAP publication, Vol. 4, No. 5 p. 5, (March 1968) With
Thanks to the Donald E. Keyhoe
Archives.
Passport to Magonia by
Jacques Vallee, p. 354, published 1969
Invisible Residents by
Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 228, published 1970
Lumières dans la Nuit,
“Les Pins”, 92 (date unknown)
UFOCAT PRN – 108237 Date 10-13-1967 Ref. UFO
Investigator March 1968. Note – city
misspelled “Oympep”, should
be “Dympep”
UFOCAT PRN –
NONE - Ref. UFO Investigator,
Vol. IV, No. 3, Nov.-Dec. 1967, p. 3
UFOCAT PRN –
76813 Date 10-17-1967 Ref. Invisible Residents
UFOCAT PRN –
NONE - Ref. Flying Saucer Review,
Vol. 14, No. 1, p. iii, Jan/Feb 1968.
UFOCAT PRN –
46982 Date 10-27-1967 Ref. Vallee/LDLN
Sothern Asia - India
City of Shillong Latitude 25-34 N, Longitude 91-53
E ( D-M )
Village
of Dympep Latitude 25-25 N, Longitude 91-45 E
Village of Laitkor Latitude 25-30 N, Longitude 91-50 E
Village of Mawkdok (Possible misspelling ?) Mawdoh 25.40 N, 91.20 E, Mowdok 21.30 N, 92.35 E
Mawdon 25.10 N, 91.30 E.
Khasi Hills of Assam – Khasi is a state (Three villages
named Kasi found)
Cherrapunjee (Found – Cherrapunji) Lat. 25.18 N, Long. 92.42 E
Shillong
& Dympep are in the state of Meghalaya.
(Ref.
Gazetteer of India and Pakistan Vol. 1, Nov. 1950, Sheet #78 O )
UFO location (UFOCAT) Latitude 25. 57 N, Longitude 91.
99 E ( D.%)
January 20 -- Wellington, New Zealand -- Several eyewitnesses,
including airport officials, saw a large, yellow disc moving over Wellington
toward Island Bay. The UFO was said to have descended on the bay near the
Stretch of Cook.
The
local police said the object was visible from the coast by means of
binoculars, but that the sea was too rough to send a boat to investigate. A
witness who lived near the coast claimed that the UFO had burst into
flames shortly before its descent.
This reference: Flying Saucer Invasion: Target –
Earth, by Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour, © 1969, p. 93. Note: No
Bibliography in case.
With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net
UFOCAT PRN – None
Central Pacific - New Zealand
Wellington Latitude
41-30S, Longitude 174-78 E ( D-M )
Island Bay Latitude
41-33S, Longitude 174-78 E
Reference: http://www.calle.com/world/newzealand/index.html
Stretch of Cook. (Approximately) Latitude 41.30S,
Longitude 174.48 E ( Cook Strait )
Reference:
Hammond World Atlas, p. 161, © 2000.
03-15/16-1968
( See Feb 1971 continuation for correction of the date in this first
page )
NICAP STUDIES UNDERWATER UFO CASE
Search For Other Witnesses Continues
The complexity and frustration of
proper investigation of a UFO report are aptly demonstrated by recent
efforts of NICAP to secure corroborating evidence to an unreported sighting
of an object that allegedly moved above and beneath the surface of the
ocean.
The original report was
received by NICAP last May from a 24-year-old man in the Midwestern United
States who claimed to be one of at least four Navy crewmen who spotted the
strange object from their ship, which was operating in the South China Sea in
April 1968. According to the report, the object was seen at night as it
approached the ship on an underwater path, at a range that varied from
approximately ten miles when first observed to an estimated 1000 yards at its
closest point.
This is how the witness
described the incident:
"In the early morning hours of
April 1968, my ship was cruising through the South China Seas en route toward
Vietnam. We had departed Okinawa a few hours prior and I was standing
fantail watch in the after part of the ship. It was quite dark. Suddenly I
saw a huge light beneath the water moving rapidly from the northeast and
closing the ship. I reported this to the Officer of the Deck through my
headset. By this time the huge light had passed in front of the ship and both
the starboard and port lookouts confirmed my report. It was definitely round
and appeared to be revolving. The ship was not equipped with sonar detection
and radar saw nothing on the scope beings (sic) the object was deep in the
water. The lookouts and the OOD continued watching the light as it moved
with incredible speed toward the southwest. When it was nearly out of sight
on the horizon a bright light suddenly appeared above the ocean and radar
immediately picked up a blip from out of nowhere on the scope. This bright
object then retraced the path backwards that it had taken while underwater.
Only this time, remaining high in the sky, it moved from horizon to horizon
all in about 10 seconds flat. When the Quartermaster asked the OOD what to
identify the object as for the ship's log, the OOD just scratched his head
and told him to write it off as a helicopter. The incident was discussed
among the crew for weeks."
In attempting to check out this
report, NICAP first obtained additional details from the witness, including
as many names and addresses of fellow crew members as he could
remember. The man could not recall the names of the two lookouts who
supposedly witnessed the object with him, but he did remember the name of the
radar operator. Thus far, NICAP has been unable to locate this latter
individual.
The second step in the
investigation was to determine the present location of the ship and the
whereabouts of its official records, including the "log" referred
to in the report. This was especially important because the witness could not
remember the exact date of the sighting.
Inquiry to Navy sources in Washington
disclosed that the ship was stationed in Japan but was probably out of
service. Further inquiry, however, revealed that a "deck log" for
1968 had been forwarded from the ship to a government accession facility in
Maryland, where it was available for examination. In June, after obtaining
the necessary clearance, NICAP reviewed the log and was permitted to make
notes on its contents.
This examination brought the
unexpected discovery that the ship was not in the vicinity of Okinawa at any
time during April 1968, but instead was engaged in combat operations off the
coast of Vietnam. A further search, however, showed that the ship had been at
Okinawa in early March and had departed there on the afternoon of Friday,
March 15, for Vietnam. Since the witness said he was certain the sighting
occurred while the ship was en route to Southeast Asia, it would
appear that the night of March 15, or the early morning of March 16, is the
date in question. When told of what the log revealed, however, the witness
said he did not think the sighting took place in March.
Since the Officer of the Deck (OOD)
played a key role in the incident, NICAP asked the witness to recall the name
of the person who was assigned that post at the time of the sighting. The
witness said he was not sure, but he thought the name was Lieutenant P. A
check of NICAP's notes from the log showed that in fact a Lt. P.J.P. was OOD
from 8 P.M. (local time) to Midnight on March 15. Although this seems to
agree with the testimony of the witness, it raises the question of exactly
when the sighting occurred, since it could not have come "in the early
morning hours" and still happened "a few hours" after the ship
left Okinawa, because the departure time of the ship, as recorded in the
log, was 4 P.M. (four hours before Lt. P. was scheduled to
stand
watch ).
This
reference: The “UFO Investigator”, a publication of NICAP, January 1971, p. 3
UFO INVESTIGATOR FEBRUARY 1971 (continuation of
previous month)
NICAP STUDIES UNDERWATER UFO CASE
Time and Location Remain Uncertain
This continues the
discussion begun last month of NICAP's investigation of a report of a UFO
that allegedly traveled both underwater and in the atmosphere. The sighting
is supposed to have occurred in the South China Sea while the witnesses were
on a U.S. Navy ship en route to Vietnam.
As already indicated, there is some
question as to the time of the sighting. According to the primary witness,
the incident occurred during the watch of Lieutenant P.* "a few
hours" after the ship had left Okinawa. This appears to be
partially confirmed by the deck log for the day in question-- March 15, 1968
--which shows that the ship departed Okinawa at 4 p.m. (local time) and Lt.
P.J.P. stood watch as Officer of the Deck (OOD) between 8 p.m. and midnight
that same evening. The log, however, shows no report of anything unusual
during Lt. P.'s watch.
Another possible time period for the
sighting develops from the witness's statement that the incident took place
"in the early morning hours," which would suggest sometime after
midnight of the 15th. Since the log shows that Lt. P. stood another
four-hour watch from 4 to 8 a.m. on the 16th, it is possible the sighting was
made at pre-dawn, some 12 or more hours after the ship had gotten underway.
However, no unusual entry is recorded in the log for this period either.
In the absence of additional
information, there would seem no way to choose between the two time frames,
since either is a reasonable possibility, if not literally consistent with
the testimony. On the other hand, there may be no discrepancy in the
witness's statement if his references to time are assumed to be general
rather than specific. It is possible, for example, that the sighting occurred
within a short time of midnight, which would put it very late on the 15th or
very early on the 16th. To the witness, trying two years later to remember
the exact hour, this time might easily seem to have been "early in the
morning," not long after the ship had put out to sea.
[
*Full names being withheld pending completion of investigation. ]
This hypothesis is strengthened by
another datum in the report. On the NICAP questionnaire, the witness states
that the sighting occurred at "approximately 1 a.m." Okinawa time.
In making this statement, he apparently did not realize (or at least failed
to note on the form) that the ship had passed from one time zone to another
after it left Okinawa. This is known from the log. Since the ship was
traveling southwestward (with the Sun), it gained an hour when it made the
transition, which means the time on the ship was earlier than the
witness thought when he filled out the questionnaire. This puts the time of
the sighting at midnight, when Lt. P. was finishing his watch
The time might not be critical if
other things were equal, but a number of elements in the report vary,
depending on the time. Among these are the weather conditions, the location
and status of the ship, the men on duty, the activities of the witnesses,
and, of course, the date.
On the assumption the sighting
occurred during, or just after, the watch of Lt. P. on March 15, a rough
calculation can be made of the ship's position when the UFO was observed.
Since the normal operating speed of the vessel was approximately 13 miles per
hour, the ship could not have been much more than 100 miles from Okinawa at
midnight (assuming it departed at 4 p.m., as the log indicates, and
maintained steady speed on a straight course). From this it is immediately
apparent that the sighting could not have happened in the South China Sea, as
reported, because the South China Sea is some 600 miles from Okinawa. This
discrepancy may not be important since the ship was in open water in any
event, but in conjunction with other inaccuracies, it does raise the question
of the report's reliability on specific details.
The problem of date, time, and
location would have been immediately resolved if the log in which the
sighting was supposedly recorded (as a "helicopter") had turned up,
Since the deck log makes no such reference, NICAP sought other ship documents
that might supply the missing information. Since the witness said the entry
in the log was made by the quartermaster, a hunt was conducted for the
quartermaster notebooks, which usually include more detail than the deck log.
For reasons still not clear, these
notebooks cannot be located in official files. The Federal Records Center
where the ship's deck logs are now maintained has no record of the notebooks.
Nor has a similar facility in San Francisco, which told NICAP it has other
records from the ship but not the notebooks.
Puzzled that the books should be
missing but informed by reliable sources that such records are often
misplaced, NICAP decided to check the possibility the books were still on the
ship. The ship had been decommissioned in Japan in the same month NICAP
received the original report: May 1970. Normally, records are removed from a
ship when it is taken out of service, but not always. Going back to Navy
sources in Washington, NICAP learned the name and address of the officer who
had been in command of the ship at the time of its decommissioning. This man,
Lt. C.H., was contacted and asked if he knew what happened to the
quartermaster notebooks. He said he did not, but he thought they might have
remained aboard the vessel. NICAP immediately wrote the Naval facility in
Japan where the ship had been sent, and learned that "the location or
disposition of the Quartermaster Notebooks is unknown." Moreover, the
ship is no longer in Navy possession, having been "sold for
scrap" in November 1970.
This
reference: The “UFO Investigator”, a publication of NICAP, February 1971, p.
3
UFO
INVESTIGATOR MAY 1971 ( Continuation of February 1971 )
UNDERWATER UFO CASE STILL UNVERIFIED
Ship Officers Disclaim All Knowledge
Persistence has yet to pay off for
NICAP in its search for corroborating evidence to the alleged encounter of a
U.S. Navy ship with a strange object that appeared to travel underwater as
well as in the air (UFO Investigator, February 1971). Despite
success in locating ship personnel who should be able to confirm the
incident, NICAP has found no source that will admit to knowledge of the
sighting, which reportedly occurred in the South China Sea in 1968.
NICAP has now tracked down and talked
with four men who were key members of the ship's company at the time the
event supposedly occurred. The first man, Lieutenant J.J., former captain of
the ship, told NICAP he did not remember any such incident, and said his
private log backed him up. He did remember another unusual incident on almost
the same day, but it did not involve a UFO or bear any strong similarity to
the reported sighting.
This other incident, recorded in Lt.
J.'s log for the evening of March 18, 1968 (three days after the sighting is
believed to have occurred), concerned an unidentified object detected on the
surface of the ocean by the ship's radar. Not knowing what it was and being
unable to spot it visually, the captain stopped the ship and waited to see
what the object would do. When nothing happened, the ship resumed its
journey, and the incident was forgotten.
The captain questioned whether this occurrence could have been
the stimulus for the sighting report. He said it is common for a young seaman
who is new to the environment of the open sea to misinterpret or exaggerate
an unusual event. This is particularly true, he said, for seamen standing
deck watch at night, as the young man who reported the sighting to NICAP said
he was doing when the sighting happened ....
NICAP doubted that this could
adequately account for the details of the UFO report, but it was a
possibility that had to be considered. The witness admitted he had read about
UFOs prior to joining the Navy and had been involved in a sighting in 1966 in
his hometown. He also said, on the NICAP questionnaire, that when he saw the
UFO, he was "awed and shocked," and "nervous afterward."
"I felt," he said, "that I was watching something completely
fantastic and beyond my understanding."
NICAP also located the man who was
supposedly the Officer of the Deck at the time of the sighting. This man,
Lieutenant P.P., has since left the Navy and is now living in New Jersey. He
expressed complete ignorance of the alleged incident.
Similar reactions were received from
Lieutenant J.C., the man who stood watch as Officer of the Deck after Lt.
P.P.'s watch had ended, and from Quartermaster D.G., who had been on duty the
night of the sighting and presumably was the person who recorded the
incident in the ship's quartermaster notebooks. NICAP spoke with both men by
telephone‑‑and asked each if he could provide any information
that might support or refute the sighting report. Both said no.
This
reference: The “UFO Investigator”, a publication of NICAP, May 1971, p. 1
With
Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net
UFOCAT PRN – 69804 NICAP UFO
Investigator Jan 1971 p. 3 ( No Location )
UFOCAT PRN – NONE NICAP UFO
Investigator Feb 1971 p. 3
UFOCAT PRN - NONE NICAP UFO
Investigator May 1971 p. 1
South China Sea
Okinawa Group, Japan – Latitude 26-40-0 N, Longitude 128-0-0 E (
D-M-S )
Okinawa Group, Japan –
Latitude 26.6667 N, Longitude 128.00 E ( D.% )
This reference:
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=26.6667&long=128.0000&name=Okinawa%20Group&cty
=Japan&alt=6
The South China Sea is bounded
by China, Vietnam, Malaysia & the Philippines
04-??-1968 b
Sindbad the Sailor, Report No. 1
(
Extract )
The
account is taken from Lumièrese dans la Nuit (Contact Lecteurs),
Series 3, No. 5 of January 1971
A
lady correspondent of Lumières Dans La Nuit recently found out about
these happenings when she had the opportunity to spend some time at the
Mediterranean French fishing-port of Le Brusc, in the Dept. of Var
(south-eastern France, between Marseilles and Nice). She was able to
interview some of the men involved, having won their confidence, but only on
condition that their names be not revealed
The account of the informant, a fisherman,
is as follows:
"Two
years ago, in April 1968, three of us were fairly far out at sea, in
heavy weather, with cloud and strong wind. Night had not yet quite fallen
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. Then
a cloud passed in front of it, hiding it for a few minutes, but when
the cloud had gone the queer thing was still there. It seemed however
to have changed colour a bit and to be giving off pinkish flashes. Then,
after about fifteen minutes or so, it seemed to move very slowly from
east to west, dropping gradually as it did so. And as the thing came
down it seemed to change shape so that, instead of being vertical as
it had been before, the oval was now horizontal (see Fig. 1) and from
pinkish the colour had now turned to bluish.
Figure
1
"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, and we did not see it again.
"The sighting had lasted a total
of 25 minutes. We heard no sound; the thing was absolutely silent despite the
fact that it was not far from our boat. It gave out no trail, no flame, no
sparks, and was absolutely bare of all marks or trappings, etc. We have no
idea what it could have been."
This
reference: Flying Saucer Review Case Histories Supplement, 14 April 1973, pp.
13-15.
UFOCAT
PRN – 68309 ( No Location )
Europe
- France
Marseilles Latitude 47-04 N, Longitude 3-00 E (
D-M )
Le
Brusc Latitude 43-04 N,
Longitude 5-48 E
Nice Latitude 43-42 N, Longitude 7-15
E
Reference: France Gazetteer, Published in the Office
of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., September
1964
04-18-1968
April 18 -- Espanola, Ontario -- A family vacationing in a cottage on
Parry Sound saw a brilliant UFO on the waters on Georgian Bay.
"It was a fiery glow at first and seemed to be moving," said the
witnesses. "It came closer and we noticed it was a craft of some type
with red, yellow, and green lights. We watched it for about an hour until it
sped across the channel and up into the sky.”
This reference: Flying Saucer Invasion: Target –
Earth, by Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour, © 1969, p. 96 Note: No
Bibliography in case.
With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net
UFOCAT
PRN – None
North America – Canada, Ontario
Espanola, Latitude
46-15 N, Longitude 81-46 W ( D-M )
Parry Sound Latitude
45-20 N, Longitude 80-02 W
Georgian Bay Latitude 45-30 N, Longitude 81-00 W
Reference: Canada Gazetteer, Prepared in
the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.,
November 1953.
05-04-1968
Object Heats Up Boat In N.S.
On the 4th of May Captain Woodrow
Atwood, skipper of the fishing boat "Which Way In" had a puzzling
experience with a lighted object at 8 p.m. about one and a half hours south
of Seal Island.
Atwood said that he was watching the compass when he spotted a light
to the north, which appeared about the size of a "match
light." "Suddenly," he
said, "it burst into a blood red light and appeared to be about 50 to 75
yards away and coming towards the boat." As Atwood watched, heat
apparently from the object became so intense that he had to move away from
the window. After that, the object floated overhead for about five minutes
and then lowered and seemed to float away from the boat and toward
"Brown's Bank." Atwood radioed anyone listening to tell of his
experience and was answered by the skipper of the "Racer" who said
that his crew had just called him to report that a huge ball of red light had
just missed the spars of the boat when it passed over. Atwood told reporters
later that the heat from the light was so intense that he had expected his
boat to be "burned" before the object left, and crew member William
Nickerson, also aboard the "Which Way In" said that it was a
"frightening experience."
This reference: The APRO Bulletin, July/August
1968, p. 4
UFOCAT PRN – 90160 (No Location)
North
America – Canada, Nova Scotia
Seal
Island Latitude 43-24 N, Longitude 66-01 W ( D-M )
Brown's Bank Latitude 42-45 N, Longitude 66-00 W
Reference: Reference:
Canada Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of
the Interior, Washington, D.C., November 1953
05-EE-1968
Current
South American Flap
Arrecifes,
Venezuela, first week in May. Five UAOs were observed diving into the
ocean off the coast of this town in northern Venezuela.
This
reference: The APRO Bulletin, May/June 1968, p. 8
Secondary reference: Encounter At Buff Ledge by Walter N. Webb, p.
213, published 1994
UFOCAT
PRN – 90147
South
America - Venezuela
Arrecifes,
- Latitude 10-35 N, Longitude 67-05 W ( D-M )
Reference:
- Venezuela gazetteer, Prepared by the Office of Geography, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D.C., August 1961.
UFO Location
( UFOCAT ) – Latitude 10.63 N, Longitude 66.92 W ( D.% )
05-20-1968
The
Glowing “Thing” in Moore Lake
By
Richard Wolkomir
Something that moves in a red aura of
eerie silence and shows a taste for horned pout -- what could if be?
At 3:00 A.M. on Monday morning, May
20, 1968, three young people whom Night Officer Victor Miller later described
as "badly frightened" burst into the station house of the Littteton
Police Department shouting about a "red glow on the water" and a
"thing" that had scared them while they were fishing. It was a few
minutes before they were calm enough to tell their story.
Since that night most persons in
Littleton, N.H., have come to believe that Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hansen and
their friend Michael Stinchfield saw something at Moore Lake in the early
hours of that spring morning, something that terrified them, but which no
one, including the three witnesses themselves, can identify.
It had been a quiet night, just like
any other quiet night in the police department. At midnight officer Victor
Miller had flipped his desk calendar from Sunday to Monday and gone back to
the reports he was writing. Outside the main street was deserted and the
houses were dark.
Most of Littleton's 4000 residents
work in the area's small factories, keep shops which serve the surrounding
farm region, or cater to tourists motoring through this attractive little
town on the Connecticut River. The nearest city of any size is Manchester,
100 miles south. Littleton is a typical New England village and as Miller
worked on his reports he had no reason to expect anything but the prevailing
quiet in which he would finish up his routine reports before going off duty.
When the young people had caught
their breath the tall dark young man identified himself to the officer as
Richard Hansen, aged 20, of Lafayette Avenue, Littleton. He introduced his
wife Cindy, a slender blond girl, and Michael Stinchfield, of 9 Bridge St., a
fair-haired heavyset 19-year-old.
After hearing their bizarre story
Officer Miller decided to drive out to Moore Lake, just four miles west of
the station house, with the young people and take a look for himself. As they
rode out of Littleton in the patrol car the three excited witnesses gave
Miller a more detailed account of what had happened.
Earlier that evening, they said, they
had been visiting together in the Hansen's apartment and eventually had
decided to go fishing for horned pout, the local name for brown bullhead.
Collecting their tackle they had driven out of Littleton on Route 18 and
then, before reaching the big dam across the Connecticut River which backs up
the waters for 11 miles to create the Samuel C. Moore Lake, they had turned
left on Route 135. After a quarter of a mile they turned right onto the
narrow road that twists through two miles of dense forest, passing only a few
isolated farms, to a lakeside picnic and boat launching site which is
maintained by the New England Electric Company.
It Was about one o'clock in the
morning when they arrived and the lake was quiet and dark. There was no moon.
They began casting into the water using silver-colored plugs as lures. By two
o'clock they hadn't caught anything but they didn't mind because it was such
a pleasant night to be on the lake. Shortly after 2:00 Stinchfield had
pointed to something--a red glow--on the water about a quarter of a mile
north of where they stood.
From their wharf the glow was to
their right and partly obscured by a rock ledge which extended out into the
lake. They thought it was odd but forgot it after a few moments. However,
they did begin to notice that the night had become queerly silent.
"There wasn't a sound,"
Hansen recalled, "no frogs croaking, no animals moving around in the
woods, no night noises at all."
For another few minutes they
continued to fish, casting the lures into the water and reeling them back
while they listened to the gurgling sound the metal plugs made in the
.strange stillness.
Suddenly Mrs. Hansen exclaimed,
"Look at that!" The red glow had moved from behind the rock ledge
and now was in front of them, about 30 feet out from the wharf. At the same
time they saw that the glow seemed to emanate from an object lying motionless
in the water. They described this object as a whitish mound about two feet
wide extending about a foot above the surface. Just above the waterline on
the object were two round markings which looked like red glowing eyes. Behind
the mound something larger seemed to loom but it was vague in the darkness.
Describing the object to a reporter
later Stinchfield said it resembled the head of an alligator submerged up to
its eyes. But the Hansens say that because of the red glow and the darkness,
it is impossible to say what it really looked like.
Frightened by the thing Mrs. Hansen
and Stinchfield left the wharf to stand on the shore, thus leaving Richard
Hanson alone on the dock. On an impulse he cast his lure out towards the
thing which up to then had been lying motionless and soundless. But now, as
he began to reel in his lure, Mrs. Hansen and Stinchfield saw the object
suddenly race toward the wharf and they heard a noise that Stinchfield
described as sounding like the bubbling of an aqualung under water.
"Dick, it's coming at you!"
Mrs. Hansen screamed. Hansen threw down his rod and the three of them raced
to their car. Without looking back they started the engine and drove down the
road. Just before rounding a bend that would take them out of sight of the
wharf Hansen stopped the car and they looked back. The area all around the
wharf was glowing red. Now as curious as they were frightened, the two young
men talked of driving back for another look but Mrs. Hansen demanded they
drive back to town immediately.
"For a week after that I
couldn't look at a red traffic light or a neon sign at night without
beginning to shake," she remembers.
They drove straight to the police
station.
When
they returned to the wharf at 3:00 A.M. with Officer Miller the red glow was
gone and Hansen's fishing rod was lying where he had dropped it. But all four
of them noticed that the strange silence still lingered over the lake.
After waiting for half an hour
without seeing anything they drove back to Littleton where Officer Miller
noted in his report of the incident that "none of the three witnesses
had been drinking and none of them gave any sign of being under the influence
of drugs. They seemed genuinely frightened."
The next morning when Mrs. Effie J. Willey, a reporter for
the Littleton Courier, interviewed the three young people she agreed
with Officer Miller that they definitely had seen something that frightened
them, although she believes it was a deer swimming in the water.
The Hansens and Stinchfietd disagree
with Mrs. Willey. "For one thing," Mrs. Hansen Points out,
"she wasn't there."
"And who ever saw a deer that
glowed red, or had a two-foot-Wide head, or chased fishing lures?"
Michael Stinchfield adds.
Other explanations offered by
townspeople, that they saw a flock of loons or a large turtle or a pike, also
are rejected by the three witnesses.
Chief of Police Stanley L. Mc-Intyre,
like the newspaper reporter, is skeptical of monsters in lakes. On the other
hand he is puzzled because both Stinchfield and Hansen are big strong young
men and experienced woodsmen. Mclntyre has known both men for some time and
he says, "They don't seem like the type to scare easily."
Adding credibility to their report
are some other odd things which have been reported as occurring around Moore
Lake.
When police went back to investigate
further in daylight Chief McIntyre says they found horned pout strewn along
the shore near the wharf. Only the heads, tails and spines of the fish
remained. And since then other persons, such as John Smith, a shop teacher in
Littleton's public school, who live near the lake have reported seeing red
lights on the lake that night. Roger Caswell, who also lives nearby, reports
noting the eerie stillness on the night of May 19-20.
A New England Power Company worker at
the Moore Dam Station says he has heard rumors of strange glowing red lights
although he himself has seen nothing.
As yet no one else has spotted the
thing the Hansens and Stinchfield report but neither has anyone offered an
adequate explanation for what they saw. Many persons who believe the
witnesses did see something strange point out that whatever it was could have
come up from the ocean.
The Connecticut River, beginning in
Quebec, flows down between Vermont and New Hampshire and then snakes through
Massachusetts and Connecticut, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Old
Saybrook. Moore Dam was built at Littleton in the early 1960's and forms a
lake that is 11 miles long, a mile wide and very deep. Something could have
swum up from the ocean before the dam was completed and then been trapped in
the lake when the dam was closed.
It would not be the first unknown
creature to be spotted in New England's large bodies of fresh water.
At Vermont's Lake Champlain, 50 miles
due west of Moore Lake, people have been reporting a monster since 1871. In
that year passengers on the steamer Curlew saw something near Barber's
Point which they said was about 40 feet long, traveled fast throwing up a
wake, had three coils and a large globular head which was dirty-white in
color. The Lake Champlain monster was seen again in 1909 by a man fishing in
a rowboat and in 1948 by two women fishing at Mallet's Bay. In 1954 a high
school principal and three other men fishing in a boat between Alburg and.
West Swanton spotted it and nearly every year since then others have reported
encountering the monster.
Whether the thing in Moore Lake is
similar to Lake Champlain's mysterious monster no one can say. For now,
intelligent observers can only agree with Littleton Police Chief Stanley
Mc-Intyre who, in expressing his official opinion on the strange experience
of the three young people, says, "We feel that they saw something and
that it frightened them. We don't know what it was."
This
reference: Fate magazine, November 1968, pp. 32-36
Secondary reference: Invisible
Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 228, 1970
UFOCAT
PRN – 76816
North
America – United States, New Hampshire
Moore
Reservoir Latitude 44-20 N,
Longitude 71-53 W ( D-M )
Littleton
Latitude 44-18 N,
Longitude 71-46 W
Reference:
The National gazetteer of the United States of America, Prepared by the U.S.
Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
Washington, D.C. 1990
UFO Location
(UFOCAT) – Latitude 44.32 N, Longitude 71.75 W ( D.% )
07-??-1968
Witnesses:
4 fishermen and a 10-year-old boy.
Location:
On a boat 30km North of Malta
Object:
Golden, glowing, missile-like object
Sound:
Whooshing sound
Notes:
The object passed over the witnesses boat, almost went out of sight and
then made a U-turn and returned over the boat. It then disappeared into the
sea and the witnesses heard what they thought was a splash. On moving closer
they saw no sign that anything had broken up on contact with the water,
i.e. no debris or bubbles.
This
reference Thanks to MUFOR (Malta UFO Research) web site at:
http://www.mufor.org/database/1968.html
Original
source: The Times of Malta, article by David Pace
UFOCAT PRN
– NONE
Mediterranean
Sea
Malta
( Island ) – Latitude 35-55 N, Longitude 14-25 E ( D-M )
Malta
gazetteer, U.S. Army Topographic Command, Washington, D.C., November
1971
07-11-1968
(extract
p. 5)
More Recent Cases
One of the most recent cases of UFO
observations with marine implications occurred July 11,1968. On that day, Sr.
Raul L Benitez and his son Ricardo were driving at 15 minutes past midnight,
after having stopped to eat supper at a downtown restaurant in Mar del Plata.
As they were driving along on Maritimo Boulevard on arriving at Duro Avenue,
Ricardo -- who was looking at the ocean -- noticed a luminosity approaching
at a high rate of speed from the sky. He pointed it out to his father, who
stopped the auto in order to observe the phenomenon in greater detail but,
since it was hidden by the pier and the Altamar pastry shop, they returned to
their vehicle and drove back toward Belgrano street, where they again
observed it. It remained stationary, emitting a brilliant luminosity. At that
point they observed a second luminous object approach from the south arriving
rapidly at the place where the first object was located. There it remained
stationary for a few minutes. Then, together, both objects began an extremely
rapid flight away to the north and were lost from sight. The Benitez men left
immediately toward La Perla (a little farther to the north) then stopped 100
meters beyond the monument to Alfonsina Storni, where the two lights were
observed making strange evolutions. They stopped, then moved on, retracing
the route from the north and then approached the coast. There, they could
clearly see that the lights had a disc shape with a diameter comparable to a
full moon. These objects appeared to be rotating around an axis while
emitting reddish and blue-violet light. Their speeds were at times greater
than that of a jet airplane.
One of the objects descended and
submerged into the sea, while the other object remained in the air at a
low altitude, after which it suddenly disappeared as if it had extinguished
its lights.
This
reference: The MUFON Journal, Vol. #130, pp.3-5 September 1978 “Are UFOs
Operating from underwater bases off the coast of Argentina” by Joseph M.
Brill.
Other Reference: Phēnomēnes Spatiaux, Issue # 18. Date
unknown.
UFOCAT PRN – 105659, Ref. Oscar A. Uriondo – Work and date unknown
South
America - Argentina
Mar del Plata Latitude 38-02 S, Longitude 57-33 W ( D-M )
La Perla, Beach Latitude 37-59 S, Longitude 57-33 W
Reference:
Argentina gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D.C., February 1968.
UFO
Location ( UFOCAT ) – Latitude 38.02 S, Longitude 57.52 W ( D.% )
08-07-1968
ENCOUNTER
AT BUFF LEDGE
******Under Construction*******
08-14-1968
ARGENTINA
Underwater
UFO bases off Patagonia?
According
to a report of July 28, 1973, from Buenos Aires, which was reprinted by the
Italian newspaper La Nazione of July 29, the Argentine Society for the
Investigation of Unusual Phenomena (President, Antonio Las Heras) has issued
a statement to the effect that flying saucers have underwater bases in the
coastal waters of Southern Argentina.
Definite
proof of the existence of the UFOs, according to the Society's statement, was
finally obtained on August 14, 1968, when 100 witnesses were able to observe
the trajectory, covering a distance of 700 kilometres, of five extremely
luminous ellipsoid objects which rose up out of the Gulf of San Matiás and
then submerged again in the Gulf of San Jorge.
Credit
and thanks to reader Mrs. Mary Boyd of Firenze, Italy, who sent us this
report and also made the translation from Italian.
This
reference: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 19, No. 6, p. 29, November-December
1973
With
thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net
UFOCAT PRN – 78753. No
location
South America - Argentina
San
Matiás Latitude 41-30
S, Longitude 64-15 W ( D-M )
Gulf
of San Jorge Latitude 46-00 S,
Longitude 67-00W
Reference: Argentina gazetteer,
Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington,
D.C., February 1968.
08-18-1968
UFO
Phenomena in Puerto Rico by Sebastian Robiou L.
(extract)
Another interesting incident in Puerto
Rico took place on August 18, 1968, at 2:30 a.m. at Ramey AFB, and involves
Sgt. Thomas Carulli, who signed a statement for APRO. The statement, which
was obtained through APRO Field Investigator John R. Artie, an Air Force
member now stationed at Beale AFB in California, goes as follows:
"At approximately
August 18, 1968, at approximately 2:30 a.m., off Borinquen Beach, Ramey AFB,
Puerto Rico, fifteen other security policemen and myself observed what was
believed to be known as an unidentified flying object.
"Visibility was unlimited. The
UFO seemed to be rising from the ocean but when first seen it was appearing
to be at a 45-degree angle above the surface and rising. While also rising it
seemed to yaw to its sides emitting a very bright, almost florescent light
which was similar to that of an unblinking strobe light.
[as printed] ward from
within its structures. The reason why it seemed this way was because there
appeared to be struts or bars or (you could say) window panes. These struts
were verticle and there were about six of them. They reminded me of the crown
on the Statue of Liberty but their greatest width seemed to be in their
center.
"When it reached its zenith,
which in itself appeared to be no more than 1500 ft. off the ground, it
lingered there for a few minutes; all the while it emitted thin light which
lit up the whole area which before was in complete darkness.
"It was circular or sphere-like,
more like if you held only your fingertips and your wrists together not letting
the palms of your hands touch, in fact, if you would do this with your
hands and turn your hands to your face with the fingers at eye level this is
what the UFO most nearly looked like.
"Its size was close to a
half-dollar at arm's length. It emitted no sound. Lights around us
didn't dim either. While in its zenith the UFO seemed to pulsate and fluxed
from side to side or wobbled. Then another orb of light came from it.
"This was a light about the size
of a dime held at arm's length. It stayed by the side of the first UFO, then
it. too fluxed or wobbled and shot straight upwards until it was nearly
invisible. Then it just seemed to hang there almost indistinguishable
from the other stars. After two or three more minutes passed, the first UFO
wobbled, turned on its side and darted upwards and outwards in a
north-north-westerly direction until it disappeared.
"This whole spectacular phenomenon took
about 12-17 minutes in its entirety."
This
reference: The A.P.R.O. Bulletin, November/December 1970, pp. 6-7
UFOCAT PRN – NONE
Caribbean Sea - Puerto Rico
Borinquen Point Latitude 18-29 N, 67-10 W ( D-M )
Reference:
Gazetteer No. 38, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands and Other Islands
and Banks in the Caribbean, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department
of the Interior, Washington, D.C., April 1958.
09-15-1968
Valley
UFO ‘Sank In River’
By KEN
MILLER
Staff
Writer
WOLFVILLE
– Acadia University geology professor R. H. MacNeill has another flying
saucer report to evaluate – one that he barely missed making first hand.
As a member of the National Research
Council’s meteorite committee, Prof. MacNeill said Monday he was satisfied
four boys definitely saw something which they vividly described to him
following a hike Sunday afternoon on the Cornwallis River dyke near Port
Williams.
The flying saucer, or whatever, was
classified by the Acadia professor as another Unidentified Flying Object, at
least for the time being.
If the item was seen by others in the
vicinity he would like to hear from them. David Taylor, 14, Wolfville grade
nine student, and three companions saw the object. The others were David
Smith, 15, Gregory Cavanaugh, 12, Peter Blakeney, 11.
“We were out on the Cornwallis River
dyke at 4:30 and the object we saw was about fifteen feet across and six feet
high." David said, “It was about a quarter of a mile away.” The object
was black and hovered 100 feet above the river.
"We ran over and it was just
floating in the air and appeared to be oscillating like a spinning top. We
were 40 feet from it."
"We stood there and watched it
for about 10 minutes -- then it slowly started heading
down for the Cornwallis River. It went onto the water and moved with the
current."
There was no splash when the object
hit the water and it made no noise in the air, the youth said in an
interview.
"When we got there it was
nothing but a big black shadow under the water. It broke surface twice."
The boys returned to Wolfville and
contacted Prof. MacNeill who went to the scene. David said he went on ahead
of Prof. MacNeill and saw the object again.
"It must have detected us
because it slowly moved out and sunk into the river said David.
David
said the object could have been any substance. “It just seemed like a huge
mass. At first we thought it was birds forming up into a flock.
Then we decided it must be a UFO”
Prof.
MacNeill said he did not see the object when he arrived. "But I feel the
boys saw something. They are an intelligent group of boys."
NOT WING TANK
Prof. MacNeill classified the object
under UFO. He thought at first it might have been a wing tank dumped by an
aircraft. But such an item would not hover.
The
Acadia professor was a little skeptical of the boys' observation about their
proximity to the object. It would be difficult to gauge the closeness of such
an object approaching them, he said.
Prof.
MacNeill cruised the vicinity with a magnetometer -- an instrument for
detecting metallic substances -- with no results.
Observations of other persons
would be helpful in attempting to establish its identity, the professor said.
This reference (Original) : The Chronicle-Herald,
Halifax, Canada. Published September 18, 1968, pp. 1 & 5.
NOTE:
Many books list the date of occurrence as Sep. 1, or Sep. 14. The above date
is obtained from this newspapers printed date of Wednesday, September 18,
1968, and the text which states that the event occurred on the previous
Sunday, which would be the 15th.
Many
thanks to UFO Researcher Don Ledger, for providing the photocopies of the
paper.
UFOCAT PRN – NONE
NOTE:
This is Nova Scotia ! Home of the famous “Shag
Harbour” incident, and many more sightings.
North America – Canada, Nova Scotia
Wolfville Latitude
45-4-60 N, Longitude 64-22-0 W ( D-M-S )
Latitude
45.0833 N, Longitude 64.3667 W ( D.% )
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=45.0833&long=-64.3667&name=Wolfville&cty=Canada&alt=311
Cornwallis Latitude 44-38-60 N, Longitude 65-37-60 W ( D-M-S )
Latitude
44.6500 N, Longitude 65.6333 W ( D.% )
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=44.6500&long=-65.6333&name=Cornwallis&cty=Canada&alt=196
Port Williams Latitude
44-57-0 N, Longitude 65-16-0 W ( D-M-S )
Latitude
44.9500 N, Longitude 65.2667 W ( D.% )
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=44.9500&long=65.2667&name=Port%20Williams&cty
=Canada&alt=55
Port Williams Latitude
45-4-60 N, Longitude 64-24-0 W ( D-M-S )
Latitude
45.0833 N, Longitude 64.4000 W ( D.% )
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=45.0833&long=64.4000&name=Port%20Williams&cty
=Canada&alt=131
09-21-1968 - Misidentification
(78) Saturday, 21 September 1968
(03:00) La Escala (Gerona,
Spain)
Text deleted since subsequent
investigation showed it to be “two people with neoprene suits for underwater
fishing and a buoy” Per e-mail, dated Sept. 16, 2001, from Vincente-Juan
Ballester Olmos who published the original catalog of sightings “A Catalogue
of 200 Type-1 UFO Events In Spain And Portugal”.
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10-EE-1968
Our next mystery object was sighted near the eastern end
of Catalina Island in early October 1968.George Hiner, a commercial fisherman
of Newport Harbor, who had been after swordfish, had returned with 20 of them
aboard his boat and told the Daily Pilot of a strange object he had
spotted while fishing. He had been using his binoculars and watching for
swordfish when he spotted a white, dome-shaped object. It rose about 10 feet
above the water, sank back in for a few moments, then came up again. Under
this domelike apparatus there was what looked like a billowing parachute.
Hiner noted that there was no splash as the object again; sank under surface
of the water; it was as if it had been gently placed there. The description
of the object did not compare with the physical characteristics of any known
sea life.
This Reference: The Shadow of the Unknown by
Coral E. Lorenzen, p. 87, © Date unknown.
Original reference: Newspaper “Daily
Pilot” of California, date
unknown
UFOCAT
PRN – 76876
United
States – California
Catalina
Latitude 34-09 N, Longitude
118-07 W ( D-M )
http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?country_list=&expr=catalina&lang=e
Newport
Beach Latitude 33-37 N,
Longitude 117-56 W
http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?country_list=&expr=newport+beach&lang=e
UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude 33.42 N, Longitude 118.42 W ( D.% )
11-05-1968
Approximate date
(91) 5
November 1968 Esteros de Bartiba,
Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz, Spain)
Three army men, José Verdejo, José
Luis Durán, and José Cantos Cortes, went out at dusk to an area called
"Los Esteros de Bartiba" to hunt ducks. The guard there (a man
called Juan, about 35 years old) told them that everything had been strangely
quiet that day, with no ducks or herons or anything around. The three hunters
soon confirmed this state of affairs for themselves, and as they were leaving
their separate stations around a 120-meter long lagoon, they and the guard
(who was with Jose Cantos) saw a light take off at great speed from the
middle of the lagoon and disappear towards the south. The powerfully bright
light, the color of a fluorescent light, agitated the waters of the entire
lagoon. (First-hand, CEI, BOF.)
This
reference: A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, by
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, pp. 20-21
With
thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net and Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos.
UFOCAT PRN – NONE
Chiclana de la Frontera Latitude 36-25 N, Longitude 6-08 W
( D-M )
Reference: Spain and Andorra
Gazetteer, Prepared by the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior,
Washington, D.C., April 1961
12-15/16-1968
Strange
Object Sighted In Alaska
A well-written and detailed feature article appearing in
the Juneau, Alaska DAILY EMPIRE for the 4th of January 1969 included some
very Interesting sightings which took place in the vicinity of Hawk Inlet on
the 15th and 16th of December 1968. The following is a condensation of that
information:
Ken Marlowe, owner of the cargo-boat
Teel and Ralph Kern reported seeing a "pure white light"--ball
shaped and about 20 feet in diameter with two brightly glowing 4-foot
diameter globes above it---while at Hawk Inlet at 3:30 p.m. on the 15th. When
first seen, Marlowe passed it off as a reflection from an icy bluff or an
aluminum boat but was soon observing it more closely when he noticed that it
had begun to move slowly toward his boat. Using binoculars, Marlowe watched it
but could not identify it. By 7 p.m., the ball was floating on the water
within a quarter mile from the Teel, then suddenly rose out of the water and
slowly flew out of sight over a nearby mountain ridge.
At 6 p.m. on the following evening (the 16th) Marlowe and
Kern were docking the Teel at the cannery at Hawk Inlet, and it was snowing.
As Marlowe was preparing the evening meal he looked out into the snowstorm
and saw the same mysterious light again, this time moving slowly in the
direction of the cannery from about a half mile distance. When the ball had
hovered within a few yards of the dock, Marlowe Called the marine radio
operator in Juneau. It took about 30 seconds to reach the operator and by the
time he did, the object was directly above the Teel's mast at a height of
about 70 feet above the deck, the mast being 40 feet tall. Both men were
apprehensive, the object made no sound, and Just as Marlowe flipped the
switch to contact the operator the object dipped in the air. Meanwhile, the
marine operator had connected the line with Elmendorf Air Force and the Coast
Guard so that they could hear Marlowe's description of the sighting.
After approximately five minutes from the time that
Marlowe had connected with the marine operator, the boat's power went dead
and the connection was cut off. Marlowe did not realize that the power was
entirely off at first because the object gave off such a bright light. When
he went forward to flip on the auxiliary batteries, he realized that all the
power was off. He then ran to the cannery to make another call, noting that
the light from the object over his boat which was 200 feet away, was bright
enough to illuminate the inside of the building. Finding no radio or other
means of calling, Marlowe went back outside and stopped to turn off an auxiliary
diesel power generator which was "Just barely running." As he
reached to turn it off, the object over his boat moved away and the diesel
engine began to function normally. It finally disappeared from sight
after 15 minutes of observation by Marlowe and Kern. After it left the
batteries of the Teel were still dead but when the power was restored with an
auxiliary gasoline engine, everything returned to normal and Marlowe checked
the engine over and could find nothing wrong with it.
This sighting is of
particular interest because a diesel engine was affected. In the past diesel engines
have not been affected by the presence of UFOs.
This reference: The A.P.R.O.
Bulletin, May-June, 1969, p. 6
***** SUPPLEMENTAL *****
New
Info on Alaskan Sighting
On
page 6 of the May-June issue, the details of a sighting of a UFO in Alaska
and the subsequent interference of a diesel engine were reported. Dr. Harder,
APRO's Research Director forwarded the following: "I was interested in
the item.... For the explanation is that the engine was connected to a
generator, and if the output of the generator was short-circuited, it would
be a heavy load to the engine, slowing it down until the voltage plus the
shorting resistance was of such magnitude to equal the power output of the
engine. If it was "Just barely running" as reported, the resistance
shorting the output would be very low, and might even be calculated from the
speed of the engine. The power output from the diesel would be about
proportional to its speed. The normal load resistance for the diesel can be
calculated from the generator power and voltage, etc., so all is in hand
to calculate the shorting resistance.”
This reference: The A.P.R.O.
Bulletin, July-August, 1969, p. 7
Original
reference:
Newspaper - DAILY EMPIRE, Juneau, Alaska,
January 4, 1969.
UFOCAT
PRN – 90347
North
America - United States, Alaska
Hawk Inlet Latitude 58-07-42 N, Longitude 134-45-12 W ( D-M-S )
Reference:
The National Gazetteer of the United States of America, Prepared by
the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic
Names, Washington D.C., 1990
UFO Location
( UFOCAT ) Latitude 58.1 N, Longitude
134.73 W ( D.% )
??-??-1969 (Five year period prior to January
1970)
"Water-happenings” in Indonesia
Gordon Creighton
I am
indebted to Mr. W. L. Tobing of Bandung, Indonesia, for this report of what
looks like another underwater UFO "base". The account first
appeared in the Indonesian-language journal Intisari, No. 78, of
January 1970 (a well known popular science monthly published in Djakarta),
the author being Mr. S. Kamah.
Is it
possible that Lake Poso in North SULAWESI1 is a UFO base? The
largest lake on the Island of North Sulawesi, it is about 800 square kilometers
in area and is three times as deep as the Java Sea 2. The pleasant
town of Tentana lies beside the lake.
Not long
ago, accompanied by Mr. J. Gintu, Chief of the District, Mr. S. Walenta,
Member of the Poso Council, Mr. Togobu, Head of the Art and Culture Service,
and Mr. Pobonde, Chairman of the Adat, Mr. Kamah made an investigation of the
lake and its surroundings, for it is the belief of the local populace that
something very mysterious is going on in the lake.
According to the account given to Mr. Kamah by the four above-named
local officials, there has been some mysterious creature or phenomenon in the
lake for the past five years. Until now they still have no idea as to whether
this is some gigantic unknown beast or a ghost. What does seem certain is
that, five years ago, a certain fisherman was fishing on the lake at midnight
when he observed a vividly bright light in the centre of the Lake. At first
the man thought it must be a petromax lamp used by some other
fisherman. But then he observed that the light was moving from one bank of
the lake to the other and back again, at times extremely rapidly. Then, at
one moment, it came to a distance of only about 100 metres from him. This
terrified him so much that he went off home at once.
When he
first told the neighbours and villagers what he had seen, they all jeered and
made fun of him. Until, about a week later, the light was also seen by other
fishermen. Since then he light has been seen so often that it has come to be
regarded as quite customary. Opinions among the populace vary greatly however
as to what the explanation of the light could be.
The
local District Chief, Mr. Gintu. said: "Until 1966 I did not believe
this story that the people were telling about the light in the lake. I
thought it was just their superstitious talk. But, one night, at 9.00 p.m.,
as I myself was going home by boat, the sailors pointed out to me this vivid
light in the middle of the lake. So I saw it for myself, and I saw that it
moved with extraordinary speed from one shore of the lake to the other. An
hour later, it approached our boat and came to a distance of only 20 metres
from us. I stood watching it very attentively. The water seemed to be
bubbling. It seemed to be a body surrounded by light. Although I was able to
observe it at leisure, I was never able to make out its precise shape.
On another occasion Mr. Gintu and his
wife both saw it, quite close to them. Mr.
Togobu also said that at first be had not believed the reports about the
light, and thought it must be the flash of meteors falling into Lake Poso.
But at last he saw the light for himself, and then he was forced to conclude
that there must be some mysterious entity or creature in the lake.
Councillor Walenta said that he too had seen it. Mr.
Pobonde said he had no idea what it could possibly be, but that in his
opinion it was no ghost and no animal.Mr.
Kamah ascertained that in the course of these five years the behaviour of the
mystery light has Changed. For example, whereas to begin with it was always
seen in or on the lake itself, it has now begun to be seen flying around over
the fields and hills around the lake and then plunging back into the lake.
Moreover, there is now no longer only one light. Sometimes there are three of
them.
1 The large Island formerly known to Europeans as Celebes.
2 While most of the Java Sea is quite shallow, certainly
not more than a few hundred feet deep, there are trenches just off the whole
coast of the Celebes that are thousands of feet deep.
This
reference (original): Flying Saucer Review, Supplement Four, April 1971, p.7
UFOCAT PRN – 60592. Date ??-??-1965,
No Location
UFOCAT PRN – 60593. Date
??-??-1966, No Location
Indonesia
Island of North Sulawesi (Celebes
) Latitude 2-00 S, Longitude 121-00 E ( D-M )
Lake Poso
Latitude
1-52 S, Longitude 120-35 E
Tentana
Latitude
1-47 S, Longitude 120-39 E
Referemce:
Insonesia Gazetteer, Published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Washington,
D.C., September 1982
03-22-1969
CISU
Case # 028
Location: Porto d'Ascoli (AP)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient information
***
An Airplane was seen falling like a screw driver into the sea.
This
reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/
Original reference: Information
Dispatch ANSA 165/1 of 3/22/1969
CrashCat
case no. 076
UFOCAT
PRN - NONE
Europe – Italy, Ascoli Piceno
Porto d'Ascoli - Latitude 42-55 N, Longitude
13-53 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical
Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.
06-20-1969
SUBMERGING
UFO REPORTED
UFOs that dove into Lake
Michigan, caused electro-magnetic (E-M) effects to cars, paced an automobile,
apparently created "static electricity" in the air and frightened
witnesses were observed in at least four states and England during the last three
months. Among the witnesses were policemen, Coast Guardsmen, a harbor
patrolman and an electronics engineer.
On the evening of June 20, numerous
witnesses in and around the Michigan City, Indiana, area, bordering Lake
Michigan, saw a series of multi-colored, maneuvering lights for a period of
several hours.
The
following entry was made in the Coast Guard log:
"20 June 1969-21:35 [9:35 p.m.]
-Have unidentified objects under observation. Group [Chicago Coast Guard]
notified this time and date."
The entry was signed by Coast
Guardsman Vernon L. Kleman.
Robert
Davenport, the Michigan City Coast Guard Station's Officer of the Day, had
notified the Chicago station, but they didn't take the call seriously. What
had the Michigan City people been drinking? Five minutes later Davenport
received a call from Calumet City officials, who had been alerted by Chicago.
What was going on? No significant change. The lights were still there.
"The objects appeared solid and
yet were a source of their own light," Vernon Kleman stated in his
report to NICAP. "They appeared as if from nowhere and could brighten up
to a size much larger than when originally seen. They moved at a variety of
speeds, some fast, some slow and at times they were stationary for a minute
or more... The objects were colored white, green or orange and they
changed colors at will... The objects were viewed over Gary, Indiana,
Chicago, Illinois, and Lake Michigan."
At about the same time, another Coast
Guardsman, Gus P. Tarantino, also noticed the objects, which he described as
"solid with colored lights around them."
At 10:15, Davenport contacted Calumet
Harbor personnel to inquire if they had noticed the lights. They had.
A few minutes later, Davenport, Kleman,
Tarantino and a fourth Coast Guardsman, Charles Dolan, saw, from the large
picture window in their radio room, a huge, brilliant, white object out over
the lake. They rushed to turn off the inside and outside lights for a better
view.
The roughly oval-shaped UFO appeared
to have a rotating rim with red, green and yellow lights around its center.
Increasing in intensity, the object was in view for about a minute before it
"quickly diminished in size and brilliance" and disappeared.
"It seemed very close to the
station," Kleman said.
The
station's personnel continued to observe the maneuvering lights.
Object Enters Lake
"Once a smaller object seemed to
enter the water," Kleman continued. "It was submerged for 4-6
seconds. Then it traveled straight upward at an excessive speed."
It was about 10:25 when members of
the alerted Michigan City Police Department and Port Authority began to see
the UFOs. Robert G. Howington, harbor policeman, said the objects he saw
disappeared to the "northwest with terrific speed." Officer Ted
Stantz saw lights that erratically "went back and forth across the
sky." Policeman James R. Coughlin and others saw the objects at the same
time.
"We saw about 9 or l0 such
objects over a span of about two hours," Police Sgt. Lance M. Hilberg
stated in his report to NICAP. "One. seemed to approach very close. The
others were quite high and very distant. All objects appeared very bright and
solid. The closest one was extremely bright [ and ] faded away at tremendous
speed--much faster than any aircraft..."
Officer Tony C. Ragle said he was
cruising in his squad car when he got a call to assist personnel at the Port
Authority. Looking through his windshield, he saw the large bright object
that "hovered over Lake Michigan for approximately 90 seconds, then went
up and darted toward Chicago.”
Bill Allen, a photographer-reporter
for The (Michigan City) News-Dispatch, saw an object over the lakefront at
11:30.
"It looked like [an] upside down
saucer," he reported to NICAP, "with [ a ] pulsating red light
around [the] bottom. [The] top was [an] orange-yellow color."
At 11:35, the Chicago Coast Guard
Station called Davenport. This time they were serious. They had talked with
Calumet Harbor personnel, who had confirmed the sightings. The Chicago group
said they would check the local airports. At about 11:45, they called back to
report that no known aircraft were in the vicinity.
"I've stood many observation
watches," Kleman concluded in his report. "It's a part of my job,
but this is the most unusual thing I have ever seen. The objects were not
illusionary or any kind of reflection. In my opinion, they were material”.
NICAP's
Chicago area Subcommittee member Bill Laas investigated the sightings.
This
Reference: The U.F.O. Investigator, Published by the National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena. Vol. V, No. 1, September-October, 1969
With
Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFODATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net
UFOCAT
PRN – NONE
United States – Indiana, Illinois
Michigan
City, Indiana Latitude 41-42-27 N,
Longitude 86-53-42 W ( D-M-S )
Gary,
Indiana Latitude 41-35-36
N, Longitude 87-20-47 W
Chicago,
Illinois Latitude 41-51-00 N,
Longitude 87-39-00 W
Calumet
City Illinois Latitude 41-36-56 N,
Longitude 87-31-46 W
Lake Michigan Latitude 44-00-00 N, Longitude 87-00-00 W
Reference: The National Gazetteer
of the United States of America, Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey
in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Washington D.C.,
1990
07-04-1969
Location:
Ossipee, NH
Description:
The prime witness was fishing in a boat and heard a splash behind him. As he
swung around to investigate he looked up to see a silver object about 30 ft
in diameter about 300 ft above him, which rose to about 3000 feet and
hovered.
This
Reference: Raymond Fowler's book UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Bantam Books,
1974,
p.
339
UFOCAT
PRN – 78930 Ref. Ray Fowler on site investigation Dec. 23, 1969
North America - United States,
New Hampshire
Ossipee Latitude 43-41-07 N, Longitude
71-07-02 W ( D-M-S )
Reference:
The National Gazetteer of the United States of America, Prepared by
the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic
Names, Washington D.C., 1990
UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude 43.8 N, Longitude 79.15 W ( ?
) ( D.% )
08-23-1969
Approximate date
(114)
23 August 1969 (00:00) Mataró (Barcelona, Spain)
Text
deleted since. Subsequent investigation lead to belief that this is “not a
close encounter, distant sighting, closeness to water because of illusion,
probably in the horizon. Deleted from the landing catalog” This per e-mail
from Vincente-Juan Ballester Olmos who
published the original catalog of sightings “A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO
Events In Spain And Portugal”.
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??-??-1970
CISU
Case # 029
Location: Sigonella (CT)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient information
*** A group of objects were seen coming from the sea in front of the NATO
base of Sigonella.
This
reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/
Original reference: R. Pinotti “UFO:
scacchiere Italia” ed. Oscar Mondadori, page. 101.
UFOCAT
PRN - NONE
Europe – Italy, Catania
Sigonella
– Latitude 37-24 N, Longitude 14-55 E ( D-M )
Sigonella AFB is within the territory of Lentini (SR), near to Catania
(CT) and Motta Sant'Anastasia (CT) [Contrada Fontanazza]. The above
coordinates are of the Meteorological
station of that airport. Thanks to Edoardo Russo of CISU, Italy for
this information.
04-??-1970 a
UNIDENTIFED SUBMARINE OBJECT OFF PAPUA
The Revd. Norman E. G. Cruttwell
On a
night in the month of April 1970 a remarkable submarine object was seen by
Mr. Albert Robins, Store Manager, of Rabaraba, Milne Bay District. He was
travelling in a small coastal motor boat from Rabaraba to Cape Vogel, about
one hour north of Rabaraba on the waters of Goodenough Bay; The time was
about 2.00 a.m. and the night was clear. The sea was reasonably calm. There
were five Papuan crew on board who also witnessed the object.
A
brilliant light appeared beneath the sea on the starboard side and a huge
brilliantly lit object rose slowly from below the water: even so it seemed
that about three-quarters remained submerged Mr. Robins estimates its size to
be about 80ft. in length. Its width and thickness were difficult to estimate
because of the submersion, but it would have been at least four times as long
as high (and wide). It was cigar-shaped, with both ends pointed; the top was
somewhat flattened. He saw no detail of surface, or any irregularities or
protrusions. The object was self-luminous, dazzlingly bright so that it hurt
the eyes to look at it.
Diagram
showing object partly submerged, as observed by Mr. Albert Robins.
It was travelling at exactly the
same speed as the boat, i.e. 7 knots, and paced it for four minutes. Mr.
Robins and all the Papuan crew were, needless to say, terrified, and tried to
take evasive action by turning to port, but the object did likewise and
followed them relentlessly, keeping about 20ft. away from the boat on the
starboard beam. They turned two complete circles before shaking it off. The
crew were shouting with amazement and fear, but apart from this and the sound
of the sea, they heard no sound from the object, which seemed to be
completely silent.
The object then suddenly
started to descend into the depths until its light faded and it was gone. The
sailors immediately turned back and made with all speed back to Rabaraba, and
did not set out again till after daylight.
The people knew of this
object and called it a "floating reef" They said it appeared quite
frequently all over Goodenough Bay, It has apparently been seen off Cape
,Vogel and also, from Dogura, in Bartle Bay. It was witnessed before off
Rabaraba by Mr. Otto Alder, then A.D.C. in 1968.
I shall make further investigations into this object
and report again if I find anything else significant.
· I have personally interview
Mr. Robins and he has filed a sighting form from which I have taken this
information, l have known Mr. Robins for five years and can vouch for his
reliability.
As readers will see,. this is right in the middle of the area of the
l959,New Guinea wave,.*
Explanations given by non-observers for the
unidentified submarine object are:
(i) bioluminescence
in the sea
(ii)
a school of porpoises stirring
up phosphorescence
(iii) a whale or whale shark, with luminous
sea streaming off him.
Hardly
adequate to account for what the Robins party saw Mr. Robins and his crew are
accustomed to normal sea phenomena. Furthermore, the question has to be
asked: can bioluminescence be blindingly bright?
* This
fantastic wave is presented in detail in the Revd. Norman Cruttwell's
contribution to FSR's 4th Special issue, UFOs in Two
Worlds—editor.
This
reference: Flying Saucer Review Vol. 18, No. 3 May/June 1972, p. 17-18
UFOCAT PRN – 71521
Papua New Guinea
Goodenough Bay Latitude 09-50-00 S, Longitude
149-52-00 E ( D-M-S ) [Approximate]
Milne
Bay Latitude
10-23-00 S, Longitude 150-27-00 E ( D-M-S ) [Approximate]
Cape
Vogel Latitude
09-40-00 S, Longitude 150-02-00 E ( D-M-S ) [Approximate]
Bartle Bay Latitude 10-06-00 S,
Longitude 150-08-00 E ( D-M-S ) [Approximate]
Goodenough Island Latitude 9-22-0 S, Longitude 150-16-0 E ( D-M-S )
Latitude
9.3667 S, Longitude 150.2667 E ( D.% )
Rabaraba Latitude
9-58-0 S, Longitude 149-49-60 E ( D-M-S ) [
Raba Raba ]
Latitude
9.9667 S, Longitude 149.8333 E ( D.% )
Dogura
Latitude 10-5-60 S, Longitude 150-4-60 E (
D-M-S )
Latitude
10.1000 S, Longitude 150.0833 E ( D.%)
Reference: http://www3.calle.com/
UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude
10.0 S, Longitude 149.83 E ( D.% )
04-??-1970 b
In order
to put this into some perspective, I will give you a little background. I
joined the U.S. Coast Guard in February 1969 and by January of 1970 I found
myself onboard a 378' High Endurance Cutter (U.S.C.G.C Mellon) in the Gulf of
Siam off the coast of South Vietnam.
It was
around mid April that we were anchored approximately 4 miles off shore and
the Captain authorized swim call. I can't really remember the depth that we
were anchored in but I would have to say it was a couple of hundred feet
deep. The time was late afternoon and I had the watch on the bridge. The
normal operating procedures for this endeavor called for mounting a shark
guard on the flying bridge, placing a cargo net over the side off of the
fantail and putting a rubber raft in the water. The swimming party would then
dive off of the main deck into the water and swim to the raft and climb back
onto the ship using the cargo net.
As I
said before, while on duty on the bridge, I went out to the port bridge wing
along with 7 or 8 other crewmen as well as the OOD and the ships Captain and
the shark watch who was armed with an M-16 rifle. As we were watching the 20
or so crew members that were swimming our attention was drawn to a large
object that slowly emerged moving directly under the ship and the swimming
men. The object was basically nothing more then a dark shadow, elliptical
shaped that was by our estimate approximately 90' in length and may 30' wide
and appeared to be maybe 50' deep. It course took it directly under our ship
and it was on a course perpendicular to the axis of our ship.
The entire sighting lasted no more
then 20 or 30 seconds and the men in the water had no idea that a large
object cruised directly under them. We basically ruled out the possibility of
a whale shark or whale because there was no gyration of tail or any other
appendages visible. We did not alert the swimmers because we just didn't know
what the object was. Because of the clear weather conditions, the angle of
the sun and a slight chop to the water, we soon lost sight of the object and
to this day, I have no idea what we saw on that day 30 years ago.
In
closing, after I got back to Honolulu, I left my ship to attend a couple of
Class "A" schools at Pearl Harbor. The training classes lasted
approximately 2 months. I was billeted at Ford Island very near the Arizona
memorial. While there I made friends with a Navy Yeoman who was attached to
FICPAC (Fleet Intelligence Central - Pacific). One day we were playing tennis
and I mentioned to him about our sightings. His comment I found most
interesting. He said "that's nothing! We receive thousands of reports
like that just from U.S. Navy ships". He went on to say that there were
all types of reports of objects taking off out of the water and flying directly
in front of ships. He said that there were many reports of objects also
flying into the water.
This
reference: Original. Initially an e-mail to this web site, with a follow-up
of MUFON forms. Now on file with MUFON HQ.
Other references: The UFO Investigator
(NICAP), July 1973
UFO
Magazine ( UK ), June/July 1999
UFOCAT PRN - NONE
South
East Asia
Gulf of
Siam ( is now the Gulf of Thailand ), off the coast of South Vietnam
would be approximately – Latitude 8.75 N, Longitude 104.7 E ( D.% )
06-27-1970
Extract
UFO ON THE SEA NEAR RIO
Dr. W.
Buhler
When in London last year, Dr. J. Allen Hynek spoke of the obvious
importance of multi-witness cases. This Interesting Brazilian episode, which
certainly falls within that category, was reported to us by Dr. Buhler when
in England soon after its occurrence. Gordon Creighton prepared the material
for publication; but this was delayed as we needed clarification on a few
points. We are now able to present, with a few addenda to the concluding
section on previous occurrences in the Tijuca area, a much more detailed
version after perusal of the original Portuguese text by the author which
appears in SBEDV Bulletin No. 74/79 for May 1970-February 1971.
This
incident, which took place in broad daylight, at 11:40 a.m. on June 27, 1970,
is notable because it was certainly observed by, at least eight witnesses,
and because it illustrates graphically how, the UFOs, are
approaching ever closer to our densely populated urban centres. A great
metallic disc came down on the surface of the South Atlantic Ocean, not much
more than 500 metres or so from the Avenida Niemeyer, a famous coastal road,
cut out of the cliffs, which affords a beautiful view over the, sea and runs
in a south-westerly direction from the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Leblon.
KEY: (1) Leblon. (2)
Copacabana Fort. (4) Avenida Niemeyer. (5) Gávea Beach.
(7) Barra da Tijuca. (9) Island Group
The disc remained on the surface of
the water for half an hour, and two crewmen were seen inside it, wearing
helmets and bright grayish aluminum-colored garments resembling the garb of
our astronauts. When the disc took off, it left behind it on the sea a sort
of ring or hoop which had apparently served some function, perhaps as a float
or stabilizer on which it had rested.
The
Avenida Niemeyer is at a height of some 30-40 metres above the sea along the
section in question, and the particular house from which the witnesses made
their sighting is located even higher up, above the road. It was a Sunday,
and in fine weather no less than 1,800 cars, so we estimate, would have been
passing there hourly. Earlier on the morning in question I had been in that
area myself, and I recall that at 7.00 a.m. the sky was still fairly clouded
over.
( it should be borne in mind that in the southern
hemisphere June is in the less sunny part of the year ).
Three of
the adult witnesses, whom I have interviewed, are Senhor Aristeu Machado and
his wife Dona Maria Nazaré Machado, who live at No. 318, Avenida Niemeyer,
and their neighbour and visitor, Sr. João Aguiar, who is an official of the
Brazilian Federal Police and resides nearby at No. 210 on the same Avenue.
The fourth adult witness is the Machado's eldest daughter, Creuza, aged 23.
The remaining four witnesses were the rest of the Machado girls, Consuelo,
aged 14; Rosemary, aged 10; Margarida, aged 8; and Cátìa, aged 5 (I did not
interview any of the five girls, but only their parents and Sr. João Aguiar).
It was in fact Dr. Carlos Netto, of the Rio newspaper “Diário de
Notícias”, who notified me immediately of the occurrence, with the
result that I was able to accompany him to the spot and talk to the witnesses
at four o'clock on the afternoon of the same day. (Incidentally, it may be
noted that the “Diário de Notícias” was the first Rio de Janeiro newspaper to
treat the UFO Problem seriously and with a certain degree of consistency.)
The episode begins, and occupants seen
The
Machados’ account is as follows:
Dona
Maria Nazaré Machado was in the kitchen, preparing the lunch. From time to
time she would step out on to the veranda, where the rest of the family, with
Sr. Aguiar, were amusing themselves with a party game. At one point she
enquired what the time was. It was 11:38. About two minutes after that, Sr.
Aguiar happened to glance out over the sea, and quickly called the attention
of the others to what he thought was "a motor-boat striking the
water," for, as the object descended, it threw up spray on all sides
around it
At once
they all abandoned their game and began a vigorous discussion as to what to
do about it, and as to whether or not the "motorboat" was in need
of assistance, for they could see two "bathers" inside the craft
who seemed to be signaling with their arms. Sr. Aguiar was positive that
there were two persons in the craft, wearing shining clothing and
"something on their heads." They seemed to be "thickish set
and quite small."
The two
persons in question appeared to be working on the deck of the craft, which was
of a grayish metallic colour, and looked as though it might have been between
4 and 6 metres in length. It was covered with a transparent cupola (Fig. 1).
It was decided that Sr. Aguiar should run to the nearby
Mar Hotel to telephone to the rescue authorities, while the rest of the party
continued to watch the object closely. It had come down on the sea just where
the water always looks darker, at the dividing line between the darker
in-shore water and the clearer water of the open ocean .
The newspaper report in “Diário de
Notícias” of June 28, 1970, states that the area of the sea
where the disc came down was about 500 metres from the shore, although later
examination of the case suggests that it could well have been rather more
than that, perhaps 700, or even 1,000 metres. In any case, remarkably close
to the shore!
In my
subsequent enquiries I learnt that the disc at one time moved in about 100
metres nearer to the shore. No sound was heard from it at any time, nor did
it display the characteristic type of "bobbing" movement to have
been expected from a boat.
Disc
takes off
The time
spent by Sr. Aguiar in going to and from the Mar Hotel (1 kilometre distant,
towards Leblon) was, at the outside, 23 to 35 minutes. When he returned to
the Machedos', apartment, the disc was still on the sea, and he was one of
those who saw it take off again. We may say therefore that the duration of
its stay on the water was about 40 minutes.
Sr.
Aguiar informed us that when the disc took off, it did not rise straight up,
but skimmed along for about 300 metres on
the surface of the sea, throwing out the usual sort of bow-wave such as we
see with our own fast motor-boats. In fact, it was only when the machine had
become airborne and was moving away in a low arc out to sea towards the
south-east that the witnesses realised that it was not an ordinary
boat, but a flying saucer... ( Fig. 2
)
Dona Maria Nazaré showed herself to be an excellent
observer for, as the disc took off, she noted that, on its under-side (Fig.
3), it had a hexagonal-shaped object which she said looked like the Brazilian
fruit known as the carambola.*
* Translator's Note: The
carambola, also known as the pitanga, or the Surinam Cherry (Averrhoa
Carambola, L.). A juicy, quince-flavoured fruit. Its segments, I recall, are
most strangely shaped, very angular, like nothing I have ever seen elsewhere.
But although we had carambola trees in our Brazilian garden, neither my wife
nor I can now (at this distance in years) make a sketch of these segments
from memory, and I have discovered no handy source in England where an
illustration may be found—G. CREIGHTON.
This object seemed as though
retracted up into the craft, and there were a number of coloured lights on
the carambola-like object, flashing always in the same sequence, viz.:
green, pale yellow, and red. (Other reports have suggested one rotating light
changing colours through this sequence.)
Occupants seen again
As
stated, the disc appeared to be made of aluminum when resting on the sea, but
once airborne, it looked transparent. At this point Dona Maria Nazaré could
clearly see the two occupants sitting inside the craft.
There
was little traffic along the Avenue at that hour, and consequently not much
traffic noise. Nevertheless, as indicated above, none of the witnesses heard
any sound that they thought came from the disc. Once airborne, the disc was
speedily out of sight.
The "hoop" appears
On the
area of sea where it had rested there was a "white, hooped-shaped
object, of the size of a trunk or a chest" (Dona Maria Nazaré’s own
description). After a short while this "hoop" sank. Then it
reappeared, and from it there separated off a yellow, oval-shaped object the
diameter of which, across its widest point, was approximately 40 centimetres,
and which was floating with about 20 centimetres projecting above the surface
of the water.
After
remaining stationary for about three minutes, this oval, yellow object began
to move slowly towards the beach, with its longer axis pointed in the
direction of the witnesses' house. At the further end of the object there was
a greenish flange which later separated off from the main (yellow) body and
continued to follow it "at a distance of about 80 centimetres."
After a
lapse of time which Dona Maria Nazaré estimated at about 15 minutes, the
yellow object had come to a distance of about 120 metres from the shore. It
then performed a right-angled turn left-wards, and headed off towards the
beach at Gávea, still keeping always at more or less the same distance out
from the rocks of the shore. This movement (westwards) was in fact contrary
to the maritime current prevailing in the area at the time.
Dona Maria Nazaré then went down on
to the road in front of her house and tried to observe the further movements
of the yellow object. With her there were some boys who happened to come
along at the time, and she pointed out the object to them. The boys tried to
hit it by throwing stones at it, but without success. This phase lasted a
further ten minutes or so, after which time it vanished from their view
around the rocky promontory, some 500 metres from where they were standing.
Meanwhile the "white hoop" was still in view, after having
disappeared temporarily several times, and it was steadily approaching the
Gávea beach as though it were going to join up again there with the yellow
object. They watched the white hoop for a total period of 20 minutes or so as
it kept vanishing and then reappearing, until it too was finally lost to
sight.
The
family, who had been interrupted in their parlour game when they first saw
the disc just before noon, only returned to the veranda to finish the game at
3.00 p.m., when the sighting was all over, and they did not get their lunch
until 5.00 p.m.
As for
the phone call made by Sr. João Aguiar, it was to the Harbour Police, whose
headquarters are near the Calabouço Airport, in the central part of Rio de
Janeiro. So it would have been at least an hour before, normally, one would
have expected a Harbour Police patrol boat to have got to the scene. When he
called them, the Harbour Police checked up on Sr. Aguiar's own telephone
number (he of course being a Federal agent himself) and they promised to send
help to the parties involved in the presumed mishap off-shore. Sr. Aguiar was
consequently quite surprised when, after only about 20 minutes, he saw a fast
motor-launch heading out towards the islands (Ilha das Palmas and Ilha
Comprida).
This
motor-launch was no doubt one normally stationed at the Fort de Copacabana.
We do not know whether its crew saw the UFO take off, but it may be assumed
that they did, for they would have had the UFO in view long before
they reached the area from which it took off and where the "white
hoop" remained floating.
When
they got there, the motor-launch stopped at a distance of about 1 kilometre
from the shore. Then the witnesses saw the crew of the launch hoist
aboard, with great difficulty, a cylindrical red object (the difficulty being
due no doubt to the great weight of this object). Having done this, the
motor-launch returned at high speed to its point of origin.
Commits and theories
We cannot, a priori, guess the purpose of
such a descent on the sea by Extraterrestrials. Could it be that they aimed
to investigate certain local conditions by means of some sondes (the
objects floating in the sea which they released?) or were these latter
perhaps spare parts, destined for one of the Extraterrestrials'
submarine bases, and which would have floated off, under automatic control,
towards that base? Or could they perhaps have been automatic devices which,
either afloat or submerged, could transmit information about the
psychological reactions of the witnesses, say, in the house at No. 318,
Avenida Niemeyer and, later, also of the folk bathing on the beaches at Gávea
and Barra da Tijuca? Would these sondes perhaps have been recovered
later, or would they have gone floating off to be lost in the sea ?
Or could they be some sort of devices
which might have a long-term effect on human (i.e. terrestrial human
psychology ?
This reference: Flying Saucer Review. Vol. 17,
No. 3. May/June 1971, pp. 3-7 “UFO ON THE SEA NEAR RIO” by Dr. W. Buhler
Need: SBEDV
Bulletin No. 74/79 for May 1970-February 1971
UFOCAT PRN – NONE
South America – Brazil
Barra da Tijuca Latitude 23-01 S, Longitude 43-18 W ( D-M )
Rio de Janeiro Latitude
22-54 S, Longitude 43-14 W
Copacabana
Fort Latitude 22-58 S, Longitude
43-10 W [ Beach ]
Ilha
das Palmas Latitude 23-02 S,
Longitude 43-12 W
Ilha
Comprida Latitude 23-02 S, Longitude
43-12 W
Reference:
Brazil Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of
the Interior, Washington, D.C., January 1963
07-??-1970
CISU Case # 030
Location: San Benedetto del Tronto (AP)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Possible missile
***
An object similar to a priest’s hat was observed coming out the sea.
This
reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/
Original reference: Inquiry of A. Loreto
of 1/28/1975
AAW
“UFO in Italia”, vol. 3, ed Upiar, pp. 172-173.
UFOCAT
PRN - NONE
Europe – Italy, Ascoli Piceno
San Benedetto del Tronto - Latitude 42-57 N, Longitude
13-53 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical
Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.
07-27-1970 ( Note: date based on date object was seen to fly )
UNUSUAL UNDERWATER OBJECT by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
This is a report compiled for CEONI
(Circulo de Estudios Sobre Objetos No Identificados) of Valencia, Spain, by
its President, our contributor. Translation from the Spanish by Gordon
Creighton.
At
about 1.00 p.m. on Sunday, July 26, 1970, a 24-year-old aqualung diver was
engaged in hunting fish off Alcocebre (Castellón) at a spot (40° 14' 45"
North Latitude, 3° 58' 40" East Longitude) just off the urban settlement
of "Las Fuentes". The water was some 8 to 10 metres deep and the
spot was some 60 or 70 metres from the shore-line.
Discovery of the object
The
sea-bed at this particular region is of very fine sand with softly eroded
rock outcroppings. As is the usual practice in underwater fishing in Spain,
the man was using aqualung containers of compressed air.
Suddenly,
at some distance from him, he noticed, on the sea-bed, a strange metallic
object. It was sticking up over the top of a rocky outcropping. So he went
nearer to observe it, and he found that, lying between two of the outcrops
which were about 9 metres apart, there was a metallic object sunk about 8
inches or so into the sand. Its length was about 7 metres, its width about 3
metres, and one of its ends was slightly conical. The other end, which was
slightly convex, was pointed out to sea. Near the conical end, and on the upper
part of the object, there was a break in the continuity, about 1 centimetre
wide and
2 centimetres deep, running right round the cylinder,
enclosing a circular area about 1 metre in diameter. There was a similar
groove running round the convex end.
The underwater object in detail
The surface
of the cylinder was metallic, polished, of a colour resembling the colour of
dull stainless steel. It had no rivets or anything resembling rivets and it
did not look as though it had been under the water very long, for there were
no calcareous deposits on it, no uneven nesses, nor was it rusted at all. He
estimated that, since it was so absolutely clean and lacking incrustations,
it could not have been there even as much as a week.
The submarine capsule between two fingers of rock
(sectional view)
He
tested and found that it was not magnetic, for when he put his knife
(magnetised, as is the usual practice) against it, there was no magnetic
effect. Then he tried to scratch the surface of the object with the knife,
but neither knife nor cylinder showed any mark from the scratching.
He used his underwater gun to measure the
cylinder. When we were talking to the diver about the affair we discussed the
question of whether it could have been a container of dumped industrial or
radioactive waste.
He replied that he was unable to say
yes or no to the idea since he had no knowledge of such matters, but
nevertheless he repeated, emphatically, that it would have needed "a
tremendous storm" to have shifted it from the particular place where it
was on the sea-bed, and there had been a total absence of any such storm over
the period in question. Furthermore the gradient of the sea-bed at that
particular place is minimal or indeed to all intents and purposes nil, which
suggests precisely how difficult it would have been for the thing to have
shifted by itself.
The young
diver attempted in vain to move the object and he dwelt on the fact that in
water it is almost impossible to exert force or pressure, even with a point
of support. In fact he used as his support a rock (on the nearer of the two
Location of object on sea bed in relation to
coast (lateral view)
outcroppings) but it had no effect on the object.
He
drew our attention also to the fact that no sound was given off by the object
and that, apart from what has been recorded above, it had no other notable
features.
The
witness was quite unable to say how long he had remained under water
examining the object. He reminded us that "down below" one
completely loses the notion of "time" and he regrets that he cannot
furnish us with this piece of information.
A strange "something" seen from boat
At
about 3.00 a.m. on the following morning, the witness was out in a small
rowing-boat in the same area, just off-shore opposite the "Las
Fuentes" urban settlement, with a lady friend a German girl aged about
20, who was on a camping holiday in Spain with another girl. Suddenly the
German girl noticed something leaving the water.
When we questioned the witness about this incident in the boat with
the German girl, he told us that the course of events was more or less as
follows:
She
(in broken Spanish, but quite comprehensible):
"Something came out over there!"
He:
"It must have been a fish." She: "No! No!"
He
(again): "It was a fish."
She: "No! No! It wasn't a fish. It was bigger than that."
He then
looks to where she was pointing (on the surface of the water), and she says:
"Up, above." But he sees nothing. He estimates that it would have
been about a little more than 10 seconds between her first words and the time
when he looked over to where she was pointing. Besides seeing nothing, he
heard no sound and saw no luminosity. And, although the direction in which
she was pointing (to a distance of some 200 or 300 metres from the boat) was
precisely the area where, on the morning of the previous day, he had found
the strange cylindrical object, he attributed no importance to this fact at
the time.
Discussing
this point with us, the witness remarked that, at the time, whatever it was
the girl had seen seemed to him to have been of little interest, for she said
nothing more about it afterwards, had not continued to watch for a long time,
and had not been alarmed at all. He, for his part, had not asked her for any
further details, inasmuch as he did not think that what she had seen was
anything remarkable.
The
many questions which arise in our minds now about this episode cannot be
answered because it is not possible to contact the girl. Her name is not
known, nor the name of her home town in Germany, nor anything else about her.
So the manner in which she saw the (presumed) object vanishing from sight,
and the details of the object will probably remain only in the memory of the
girl. Let us remember, however, that whatever it was that she saw, she too
did not attribute overmuch importance to the incident; indeed practically
none.
Object
gone
At
9.00 that same morning (Monday) the young diver went down again, out of pure
curiosity, to take another look at the strange object, and it will be
appreciated that his surprise was enormous when, arriving at the precise spot
where it had been, he perceived that it was no longer there.
The
witness, who has been skin-diving for six years, has known the whole area
thoroughly for even more years than that, since it is the place where his
family have traditionally spent their summer holidays. But, in order to make
absolutely sure that he was not mistaken, he explored all the rocky
Location of object on sea bed
in relation to coast (plan view)
outcrops along that part of the coast for a
further hour, with no results. Then, and only then, did he begin to link the
cylinder and its disappearance with what his friend the German girl had seen.
Since that date he has dived again at the same place several times and
always without finding any trace of the object, and he again emphasises that
the area is one very well known to him, so there can be no possibility of his
being mistaken as to where it was, or being at fault in his bearings. We for
our part would emphasise the fact that he is a very experienced diver.
When we asked him about the time of the day when, after his night trip
in the boat he was back in the sea and diving again, we expressed our
astonishment that he must have slept so few hours that night. He smiled
broadly and replied that this is very common with under-water divers. Very
often these young fellows spend a whole night dancing in some town near the
coast and then, at six in the morning, without having slept at all, or
perhaps having merely lain down for a couple of hours, they take their gear
and go off down to the sea again. Such is their passion for this marine sport,
we repeat, that a sleepless night is something very, very normal for them.
The
witness, who at the present time is employed as a car salesman, is a
draughtsman, unmarried, and of the Roman Catholic faith. Never before had he
seen any strange object or strange phenomenon, either aerial or aquatic. He
has no particular interest in such matters as UFOs, science fiction, or
suchlike, and has never read any book about them. He has of course seen the
occasional UFO report in a paper or a magazine, as is normal.
The
original CEONI report bears the full signature, name and surnames, of the
witness, in support of the authenticity of his statement, but he has asked
for a certain amount of discretion to be used, and we have decided not to
publish his name.
The
enquiries conducted in this case by the CEONI members were as follows:
1. At
a personal interview with V-J. Ballester, arising out of the latter's
lecture, at the Alejandro Salzar High School, on UFO landings in the Iberian
Peninsula· The witness came to the lecture, having seen an announcement about
it in the press.
2. At
an investigatory interview with the witness by various CEONI members, in
April 1971, Don J. Cezón of the C.E.I., Madrid, also being present.
3. At
a final interview, at CEONI Headquarters, in May 1971, at which the finishing
touches were given on various points and details that had arisen in the
course of our discussions of the case.
The
sighting as a Type I, Class B UFO report
Reports of unidentified flying objects associated with large expanses
of water--oceans, lakes, rivers--are not uncommon in our subject. One book
published recently (Ivan T. Sanderson: Invisible Residents. World
Publishing Co., New York and Cleveland, 1970) is devoted entirely to the
problem of UFOs leaving or entering the seas, which is a good indication of
the proportion of cases of this type within the general UFO Phenomenon.
Whenever the investigator possesses sufficient details to be able to
eliminate every category of known conventional identification (meteorite,
break-up or decay of man-made artefact, balloon, and so on) sightings of this
kind are catalogued under the category of UFO Landings, since this
type of sighting meets the requirements laid down for that category·
In the Catalogue of Spanish Type- 1 Reports
currently being published as part of the list of world-wide sightings which
is kept up-to-date by Dr. Jacques Vallée (whose enormous contributions and
efforts are a source of such great encouragement), we have noted several
examples of this UFO activity in relation to the sea. The most clear and
precise of these cases include the following: Camarasa (Lérida), April 14,
1950; Santoña (Santander), September 1953; La Escala (Gerona), September 21,
1968; and Cabo Cope (Murcia), October 11, 1969. The interested reader will
find these items in a summarised version listed individually in the Hundred
Landing Cases Reported and Studied for the Iberian Peninsula (Ballester and
Vallée, 1971. See FSR Special Issue No. 4, UFOs In Two Worlds, Cases
Nos. 5, 8, 59 and 94).
In
the particular case of the object at Alcocebre with which the present article
deals, we are confronted with a cylindrically-shaped submarine object bearing
no identification marks, in circumstances where the state of the sea and the
water were such that no object of such a size and weight, resting on the
sea-bed, could possibly have moved by itself. Secondly, we have a poorish
visual sighting over the surface of the sea, with a low-level strangeness-index,
a sighting which, while it might not have appeared of any importance at the
time, immediately becomes a fact of significance and worthy of mention in the
light of the subsequent discovery of the sudden disappearance of the
mysterious object from the sea-bed. These features of the case have prompted
us to include the incident in our listing of Type I UFO Reports.
As
regards the lack of markings on the mystery object, we know that even every
secret type of man-made device employed in our oceans bears signs, letters,
or wording indicating its origin. An example was the object recently found in
the Mediterranean by a Spanish fishing-boat.
It
is our intention to follow up on this case. In particular, we shall secure
all possible information regarding the types of receptacles most commonly
designed for containing industrial or radioactive waste materials, although,
for the reasons just adduced above. we feel that this particular hypothesis
of the industrial or radioactive waste container is a weak one. However, we
shall be glad to receive from readers of FSR their suggestions as to any
possible explanation for this strange "deposit", and we hope
that they will be published in these pages.
This
reference: Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supplement #6, August 1971,
pp. 5-7.
UFOCAT PRN 73996
NOTE:
According to an e-mail received from Mr. Ballester Olmos , he has deleted
this case from his original catalog of Spanish UFO cases. He feels that the
object could be:“any type of container or tank. Nothing calls for a serious
relationship of this curious finding with the UFO phenomenon”.
I
have decided to continue carrying it as it might have a relationship with
future cases. C.F.
Europe - Spain
Alcocebre ( Alcocéber ) Latitude 40-15 N, Longitude 0-17 W ( D-M ) [ Castellón, Spain ]
Las Fuentes Latitude
39-00 N, Longitude 1-19 W
Reference: Spain and Andorra gazetteer, Prepared
in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.,
April 1961
UFO Location (UFOCAT) – Latitude 40.23 N, Longitude 3.98 E ( D.% )
05-31-1971
(extract
p. 5)
Another incident recorded in
Argentina regarding this aspect of the UFO problem occurred on May 31, 1971,
and had for its principal witness the psychologist Zulema Bruno, who stated
to the Press that on that day while driving along the Pinamar coast (Buenos
Aires province), he observed coming out of the Atlantic Ocean a strange
object with the form of a flattened top that was rotating around a axis and
emitting orange-colored rays of light. It accompanied his auto for about 300
meters and then at a dizzy speed made a turn and climbed up quickly until it
was lost from sight.
There are other similar cases many of
which have occurred off the coast near and around Bahía Blanca throughout
recent years. Some serious UFO organizations in Argentina have stated the
possibility of underwater UFO bases off the coast of their country. Although
this is not the only coastal region that has experienced these sort of
manifestations around the world, it is important to bear in mind that this
region has been an area of continuing observations of this sort throughout
the years.
This
reference: The MUFON Journal, Vol. #130, pp.3-5 September 1978 “Are UFOs
Operating from underwater bases off the coast of Argentina” by Joseph M.
Brill.
With
thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net
UFOCAT
PRN – 105661 Ref. Oscar Uriondo. Name of work unknown ( No location )
South
America -Argentina
Pinamar Latitude 37-07 S, Longitude 56-50 W
( D-M )
Buenos
Aires Latitude 34-36 S, Longitude
58-27 W [province]
Bahía
Blanca Latitude 38-43 S, Longitude
62-17 W
Reference: Argentina gazetteer, Prepared in the Office
of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., February
1968.
08-04-1971
CISU Case # 031
Location: Milazzo (ME)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** Three vortexes came out from the sea and from inside them an object
with some visible entities appeared.
This
reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/
Original reference: “Il Giornale del Misteri”
no. 100, pp. 17-18
UFOCAT
PRN - NONE
Europe – Italy, Messina
Milazzo
- Latitude 38-13 N, Longitude 15-14 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical
Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.
09-??-1971
(146)
September 1971 ( 19.30 ) Arroyo de la Miel (Málaga, Spain)
A
very responsible young lad of 17 years, an insurance agent, was camped out 40
m. from a small lake, playing his guitar. The sky was clear, and there was a
very relaxing natural silence, suddenly, he heard a great sound produced by a
body which fell and plunged into the waters of the lake. Not giving it any
importance, he took a cigarette and lit it. Then he heard a noise again, and
observed a round object 1 m. in diameter coming out of the lake, producing
the normal rise of the water, and it rose skyward at an angle of about 45°.
The object was a luminous white, of blinding light. Behind the moving object
was a type of smoke "like that from the exhaust pipe of a car." In
a matter of seconds it became a point and disappeared. There was another
witness, an English camper named Eduik who was walking around in the area.
(First-hand, Enrique Campos, BOF. LDLN, July 1972, 9.)
This
reference: A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, by
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, p. 34
UFOCAT PRN – NONE
Europe
- Spain
Arroyo de la Miel Latitude
36-36 N, Longitude 4-32 W ( D-M )
Málaga
Latitude
36-43 N, Longitude 4-25 W
Reference:
Spain and Andorra Gazetteer, Prepared by the Office of Geography, Department
of the Interior, Washington, D.C., April 1961
09-23/24-1971 (See 09-25-1971 Note-error on date and first name
of the ship)
(extract)
1971
was a year with only three known cases, all of which were officially reported
and of good quality. A FACH communiqué informed of yet another Antarctic
sighting, registered on May 15 at the Presidente Frei Metereological Station.
A Police CE-1. Quite more
dramatic was a CE-1 near Tocopilla, Antofagasta region, reported to and
investigated by the police. This case is well documented; besides press
accounts, I have obtained--courtesy of investigator Luis Riquelme of Orion--a
copy of a report written and signed by a retired police colonel who was in
active service at the time of the incident. Beginning around, 10 p.m. on the
night of September 23, a stationary light over the ocean was seen by numerous
witnesses in Tocopilla. One of them, who saw the object with binoculars,
described it as artificially constructed, with intermittent lights and round
windows like a ship's porthole. That was just the beginning. At 1:30 a.m. on
September 24, two different truck drivers traveling from Antofagasta to
Tocopilla came across a brightly lit object hovering on the coast.
The truck drivers rushed to the
nearest police station in Tocopilla. Though skeptical at the beginning, a
police van with a sergeant and two corporals was dispatched to "KM 33,”
the site where the trucks had stopped to look at the UFO. The carabineros confirmed
the UFO immediately and kept it under constant watch until 5:30 a.m.; they
reported by radio its maneuvers to the Tocopilla "comiseria"
(station). A report of the event was filed later with the Carabineros
Northern Headquarters in Antofagasta. The police report informed:
"It was possible to confirm that
at more or less 2 km. from the coast, such artifact remained totally lit,
changing places at great speed…later on it came close to the beach of Caleta
Buena…At a distance of 150 meters, it could be seen that the object had an
approximate diameter of 20 meters, with a helicopter-like cabin totally lit
and with sections like windows. It was approximately 30 meters above the sea
level, being impossible to identify its origin."
(Reference17)
The colonel's handwritten report to
Orion, dated May 12, 1979, goes into still further details. The colonel
reveals, for instance, that the sergeant walked towards the cliff armed with
a rifle. "When he arrived to the place where he couldn't advance further
(the edge of the cliff), the sergeant yelled toward the sea; not obtaining a
response he made a series of shots towards the luminous object, states the
second report. "Suddenly, this object moved extremely fast in the
direction of the rocky cliff, arriving at a distance no more than 50 meters
from the place where the police were" At that point continues the
report, "the whole area became illuminated like at daytime." The
document quoted also the description of one of the corporals, according to
which the UFO was "a sort of rectangular building with many windows that
could be seen clearly but with no one inside." The UFO then passed over
the van and continued toward the mountains, where it "remained suspended
in the air, throwing a light beam once in a while which would illuminate the
area." (Reference 18)
Eventually, the UFO returned to the
coast where, around 6:10 a.m., it was seen and reported by radio from the sea
by Manuel Malatesta, captain of the fishing vessel "Martin
Pescador." The ship was some 20 miles from the coast between Antofagasta
and Iquique, when "a red ball" flew around it for several minutes.
The ship's owners, Guanaye Fishing Co., issued a press release about the
sighting. After the evolutions over the ship, stated the communiqué,
"the unidentified body sank in the sea at a distance of more or less
three miles from the ship. The phenomenon was observed by the entire
crew." (Reference 19)
I have taken extra space to analyze
this CE-1 because I think it is one of the catalog's best TRUFO candidates.
The object was observed continuously by many geographically-independent
witnesses for a period of about 8 hours. The close observations were made by
three policemen. The colonel added also in his report to Orion that neither
of the policemen had consumed a drop of alcohol. The case remained unsolved.
It was appropriately titled by the newspaper La Tercera, "The
OVNI with a 'Birth Certificate’ in the North."
Reference #17 – Las
Ultimas Noticias, “OVNI con ‘Certificado de Existencia’ en al Norte,”
September 25, 1971
Reference #18 – Personal report
submitted to Luis Riquelme of the Orion Group, Santiago, May 12, 1979.
Reference #19 – Las Ultimas
Noticias, “reaparecio el OVNI del Norte,” Informacion Aeronautica, October
1984.
This reference:
The MUFON 1987 UFO Symposium Proceedings, pp. 191-192. “A Historical Survey
of UFO Cases in Chile”, by J. Antonio Huneeus.
Secondary references: Unexplained
Mysteries of the 20th Century, by Janet and Colin
Bord, p. 170, published 1989.
SEE
UFOCAT AT END OF NEXT DATE
ALSO
09-25-1971 (See 09-23/24-1971 Note-error on date and first
name of the ship)
UFO
Wave Over Chile
(Conclusion)
Another
UFO was observed for several minutes the next day, September 25, 1971, by the
entire crew of a schooner which was en route from Antofagasta to Iquique. Mr.
Dietrich Barz, manager of the Guanaye Fishing Co. received a
radio message from Manuel Malatesta, the captain of the Martir Pescador, describing
the event. At 10:00 a.m., local time, the Guanaye Fishing Co. released the
following press statement: "Our schooner Martir Pescador, sailing
from Antofagasta to lquique observed today at 6:10 hours a red ball of light
which hovered over them for several minutes. At that time, they were 20 miles
south of the mouth of the river Los, 5 miles from the coast. Afterwards, the
unidentified body sunk in the water about 3 miles from the ship. The
phenomenon was observed by the entire crew which sails under the command of
Captain Manuel Malatesta."
This
reference: The A.P.R.O. Bulletin,
May-June, 1972, p. 5
With
Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net
NOTE:
Larry Hatch informs me “The name of the fishing boat was the ‘Martir Pescador’
(fisherman-martyr). It doesn’t look like a typo, but rather a
religious-oriented name, typically Catholic, probably referring to some early
Christian saint.”
Need: The APRO Bulletin Mar/Apr 1972
p. 9
UFOCAT PRN – 92887 date 9-23-72 Auth. Pablo Petrowitsch Ref. APRO Mar/Apr
1972 p. 9 based on city - Tocopilla
UFOCAT PRN – 92889 date 9-24-72 Auth. Pablo Petrowitsch Ref. APRO Mar/Apr
1972 p. 9based on city - Caleta Buena ( no
location )
South America - Chile
Antofagasta Latitude 23-39 S. Longitude 70-24 W
Caleta Buena Latitude 19-53 S. Longitude 70-09 W
Iquique Latitude 20-13 S. Longitude 70-10 W
Reference:
Chile Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D.C., January 1967
UFO location ( UFOCAT ) - Latitude
22.08 S. Longitude 70.16 W ( D.% ) UFOCAT #92887
12-19-1971
UFO emerges from the sea (December 19, 1971)
According
to a report in O Globo (Rio de Janeiro) for December 21, 1971, from
their representative at Pôrto Alegre a Sr. Victor Soares has given details of
a strange flying object which alarmed many people in various towns in the
southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul during the night of Sunday,
December 19, 1971.
Measured against a ruler held at arm's length, he said it was 5
centimetres wide and enveloped in a sort of mist. It was flying towards the
N.E. Many other people also said they had seen it.
One witness, a young man named
Lino Osvaldo Saul, said he was at the beach resort known as Praia da Asuncão
with his girl friend when they both actually saw the object emerge from the
sea. and come flying towards them. They both fled. They were able to observe
however that it was still climbing as it passed over them and that it emitted
no sound.
Other
people living at São Leopoldo, Viamão, Carazinha, and also people on the
beach at Guaiba also saw the object and said that it was orange-coloured and
flying very low. (Credit to Dr. W. Buhler.)
This reference: Flying Saucer Review, Supplement 11,
August 1972,“Case Histories”, p. 13 “South American Round-up, 1971 – part 2
by Gordon Creighton
Original: APRO Bulletin
January 1972, p. 4
UFOCAT PRN – 92848. Ref. APRO Bul.
Jan. 1972, p. 4 – No Location. City – Praia Assunção
UFOCAT PRN – 71579. Ref. FSR as
above. Location – below. City - São Leopoldo
UFOCAT PRN – 71580. Ref. FSR as
above. Location – below. City –
Viamão
South America - Brazil
Pôrto Alegre Latitude 30-04 S, Longitude
51-11 W ( D-M )
Rio Grande do Sul Latitude 32-02 S, Longitude 52-05 W
Viamão
Latitude 30-05 S, Longitude 51-02 W
Carazinha – Not found – but there is a Caràzinho
in the area with coordinates close to the others
Latitude
28-18 S, Longitude 52-48 W
Guaiba – Not found – but there is a Rio Guaíba, with
coordinates close to the others in the area
Latitude 30-15 S, Longitude 51-12 W
Reference: Brazil Gazetteer, Prepared in the
Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., January
1963
São Leopoldo Latitude 29-46-0 S, Longitude
51-8-60 W ( D-M-S )
Praia da Asuncão – Not found -
but there is a Vila Assunção with
coordinates close to the
others.
Latitude
30-5-55 S, Longitude 51-15-30 W
UFO Location ( UFOCAT )
Latitude 29.75 S, Longitude 51.18 W ( D.% ) based on city of São
Leopoldo.
UFO Location
( UFOCAT ) Latitude 30.08 S, Longitude 51.00 W based on city of Viamão.
04-??-1972
NEAR
LAKE HUAYPO, PERU, April 1972:
A group of seventeen people including
a former president of Cuzlo's Court of Justice were traveling in four cars
along the road bordering Lake Huaypo when all the cars abruptly stalled and
stopped The drivers and some of the passengers got out of the cars. A humming
sound was heard coming from the north followed by the appearance from behind
the mountains of a silvery blue disc surrounded by an orange halo. The
object, with an estimated diameter of ten to fifteen metres flew at high
speed towards the lakes and dived into the water. When it submerged, the
colour of the water had the same orange tint as that associated with the
object. Two or three minutes later the car engines came back to life.
This
reference: http://maxpages.com/mapit/UFO_PHENOMENA
With
thanks to my counterpart in Turkey – Sefer Murat Aksoy for advising me of
this case.
BUFORA
Journal. Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 10-11
SOBEPS News report summary No. 3 ,p. 53
UFOCAT PRN – 126832 Ref. ( No Location) CUFOS file,
SOBEPS News report summary
No. 3 ,p. 53
South
America - Peru
Lake
Huaypo – Latitude 13-24 S, Longitude 72-08 W ( D-M )
Reference:
Peru Gazetteer, Published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Washington,
D.C., September 1989.
6/8-??-1972
While
some put their faith in images transported in layers of air, one Buffalo man
rejects the whole idea completely.
One
afternoon in the summer of 1972, this man (who has requested
that his name not be used) decided to do some fishing. He took his boat out
into the eastern end of Lake Erie, close to Buffalo, and started to fish.
This day, however, the fish were not cooperating and the only thing
disturbing the otherwise calm surface was the plop of his lure. But
the lake did not remain placid for long. Without warning, what appeared to be
a large silver disk-like object burst from under the water and shot straight
up into the summer sky with such a force that the wave it created almost
swamped the fisherman's boat!
Later,
this man said that the silver craft was about thirty to forty feet across and
had come out of the water less than a hundred yards from his boat. The event
had been so sudden and stunning that he could only sit gaping as the craft
disappeared high in the sky.
As a result of this close encounter the man no
longer fishes in Lake Erie. The thought of what might have happened if the
strange craft had been closer to his boat still leaves him in a cold sweat.
There is an interesting follow-up to this case that once
again points up the element of strangeness present in this region. In this
particular case the fisherman was reluctant to have his name revealed for fear
of ridicule. However, he did reveal to an investigator from MUFON (Mutual UFO
Network) - a privately funded UFO investigation group that his was not the
only UFO encounter to occur in his family, his wife also underwent a very
upsetting experience when she became involved with one of these strange
flying objects a week or so later.
This reference: “Gateway to Oblivion” by Hugh
Cochrane, pp. 69-70, Published 1980
Original: MUFON File
UFOCAT PRN – NONE
North America - United States, New
York
Buffalo – Latitude 42-53-11 N, Longitude 78-52-43 W (
D-M-S )
Reference:
The National Gazetteer of the United States of America, Prepared by
the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic
Names, Washington D.C., 1990
07-02-1972
CISU Case # 032
Location: Loano (SV)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient information
*** An Object plunged into the sea after receiving strange luminous
submarine signals.
This
reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/
Original reference: “Il Giornale dei
Misteri” no. 22 page 17
“ItaCat”
case no. 7203
UFOCAT
PRN – 76369. Ref. UFO Nachtrichten, February 1973
Europe – Italy, Savona
Loano
- Latitude 44-08 N, Longitude 8-15 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names,
Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.
UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude 44.13 N, Longitude
8.27 E ( D.% )
11-12~22-1972
Observations
of unidentified submarine objects in Norway
by Ole Jonny Brænne
Between
November 12 and 22, 1972, an extensive search was conducted in the
1300-meter-deep Sogne fjord. Thirty Navy vessels, plus NATO forces,
participated. The excitement began when the military received a report of a
U-boat. The next day, the thirteenth, two witnesses watched an
"aircraftlike object" maneuver along the fjord. The same night four
other witnesses observed a "bright object" on the water. On
November 20, at 1 p.m., a U-boat was seen near Kyrkjebø just as it headed
away from Mårenlandet toward the fjord's southern end. Fifteen minutes later
it was seen by five police officers at Kvamsøy, a small island about 50 kilometers
north of Kyrkjebø, Here frigates dropped mines on the object If these were
two observations of the same object, we have a speed of 200 kph--a speed of
which no known submarine is capable.
This reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO Reporter,
January/February 1995 pp. 12-13 & 17
Ole
Jonny Brcenne is associated with UFO-Norway, that nation's leading
UFO-research group. An earlier article of his, "Legend of the
Spitsbergen Saucer," appeared in the November/December 1992 issue of
IUR.
UFOCAT PRN – NONE
Europe
- Norway
Sogne fjord Latitude
61-06 N, Longitude 5-10 E ( D-M )
Kvamsøy Latitude
62-13 N, Longitude 5-23 E
Reference:
Norway Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D.C., May 1963
Kyrkjebø Latitude
61-10-0 N, Longitude 5-55-0 E ( D-M-S )
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=61.1667&long=5.9167&name=Kyrkjeb%f8&cty=Norway
&alt=0
Mårenlandet [ Måren ] Latitude 61-8-60 N, Longitude 6-4-0 E
http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=61.1500&long=6.0667&name=M%e5ren&cty=Norway&
alt=0
11-21-1972
Observations
of unidentified submarine objects in Norway
by Ole Jonny Brænne
On the
night of November 21, four witnesses sighted four "rockets"
shooting up from the water at Hermansverk. The rockets were silent and
resembled small red balls of light. On the afternoon of the next day, an
antisubmarine missile was fired at the intruders. The water's depth at the
site was only 25 meters, and the shock waves of the explosion were so
powerful as to throw small boats onto land 10 kilometers away. Any
conventional submarine would have been severely damaged and forced to
surface; yet this vessel escaped apparently unscathed.
At the
same time other odd events were occurring. Aircraft experienced unexplained
electronic problems. Yellow and green objects were seen flying along a
mountainside. Navy vessels registered sonar contact with something in deep
water. Surveillance aircraft encountered unidentified
"helicopters" which executed breakneck maneuvers in fierce storms.
This reference: IUR, January/February 1995 pp. 12-13 &
17
Ole Jonny
Brænne is associated with
UFO-Norway, that nation's leading UFO-research group. An earlier article of
his, "Legend of the Spitsbergen Saucer," appeared in the
November/December 1992 issue of IUR.
UFOCAT PRN – NONE
Europe - Norway
Hermansverk – Latitude 61-11 N, Longitude 6-51 E ( D-M
)
Reference: Norway Gazetteer,
Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington,
D.C., May 1963