MISSING TIME AND ANIMAL ABDUCTIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA

APRIL 29, 1974  ……….NICHOLSON PENNSYLVANIA

My younger brother and I were riding our bikes to town as we did every Saturday to visit friends. We pass a horse farm on the way. As we came around the corner we heard a humming nose and looked in the direction. In a small corral there was one horse and a few feet above it was a disc shaped object approximately 12′ by 10′. It was grey in color with no visible openings. As we were trying to figure out what it was we observed 3 tube like arms come out of the sides and one end, all the tubes had 3 pincers on the ends. As this was happening I got really afraid and turned and told my brother we needed to leave. (I was 13 years old and he was 10) I don’t remember looking back at the object. We headed to town and and our first stop was always to stop at the town store to get snacks and drinks. I also always check the clock to see what time it was. When I looked at the clock out was 2 hours later than it normally was when we would arrive. Again I felt afraid because it didn’t seem like we spent that much time looking at this object. I told my brother we couldn’t stay long because it was almost time to head back.

When we started heading back once we got closer to the farm I again had an overwhelming fear come over me. When we reached the farm the horse was laying on the ground next to the far end of the corral. When I observed it earlier during the sighting it was in the middle of the corral. I knew that the horse was in trouble. 2 days later I was going to school and asked my friend who lives on the farm if the horse was okay. He didn’t know about it so asked his father later after school.

The next day he yells at me and wants to know how I knew about the horse, so I told him what we saw. He then told his father what we said and his father told him he was not allowed to talk to us anymore. NOTE: The above image is CGI.

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ALIEN CRAFT CLOSE ENCOUNTER ON THE BEACH IN BRAZIL

APRIL 1958  ………NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL

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At 6 am on a beach in northeastern Brazil, several witnesses observed a strange UFO descending from the sky from the direction of the ocean. They could hear a humming sound as the craft approached. When the object was at a distance of about 40 meters and about 15 meters above the water, it began to rock sideways and then became stationary. Described as being very large, the craft was shaped like two bowls placed together rim-to-rim. The top half was aluminum color with a small dome. The bottom half was dark in color. There was a band around the area where top and bottom sections met. The band had a number of square openings which were illuminated by a red light. The openings facing the witnesses were darkened as though someone was looking through them. Directly under the object the water seemed to be boiling or being sucked up without touching the underside of the craft. The UFO was watched for about an hour.  NOTE; The above image is CGI.

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PHOTO OF AN ALIEN CRAFT PACING A PLANE OVER DEVON ENGLAND

APRIL 16, 2017 ……….NEWTON ABBOT DEVON ENGLAND…….12.45 PM
 
Hi Ken : I was sky watching when I spotted a passenger plane that was approaching. I started watching the passenger plane as it flew across the sky. I then started taking photographs of the plane with my Nikon P900 Camera. It was then I spotted an object that was directly in front of the passenger plane. The object was a violet colour and definitely had structure to it.
There appeared to be what at first I thought were round black windows on the object but I then realized that they were in fact individual black objects moving around the outside of the object. Very strange indeed. I quickly took a photograph and managed to capture the strange object right in front of the passenger plane. After taking the photograph I continued to watch as the unknown object matched the planes air speed and stayed in front of the passenger plane for a while before moving off and disappearing from sight. The passenger plane pilots must of seen this object through the cockpit window. The pilots made no attempt to change course or avoid the object that was directly in front of them.
The pilots must of known or been told that the object would not collide or pose any threat to the plane. I only wish the pilots would come forward and tell the world what they witnessed up there. The Photograph was taken on the 16th of  April 2017 12:45 PM at Newton Abbot Devon England. All the Best John.
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MILITARY C-47 CLOSE ENCOUNTER OVER NEVADA

APRIL 12, 1953   ……….SWEETWATER NEVADA……..3.15 PM

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At 3:15 pm on the 12th 10 disc-shaped metallic colored objects were observed near Sweetwater, Nevada changing formation while moving at a high rate of speed at an estimated altitude of 7,500 feet. The discs passed under the right nacelle of a C-47 aircraft and were observed by the pilot and co-pilot. The pilot turned the aircraft in a tight 300 degree turn for a better view of the discs which were then seen by two more members of the crew. Observers were unable to estimate the speed of the discs. On the 15th a mass of mysterious white substance drifted down from the sky over Ongaonga, New Zealand. It covered fields, buildings, wires, trees and fences for hundreds of yards around. The substance quickly disintegrated when handled.

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ALIEN CRAFT NEAR MISS OVER LAKE ONTARIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2016   ………… LAKE ONTARIO CANADA

On November 14, a Porter Airlines flight traveling from Ottawa to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport was forced to take evasive action while flying over Lake Ontario due to a near miss with an unidentified flying object.  According to reports by the Canadian Transportation Safety Board (TSB), flight POE204 was flying at about 9,000 feet (~2750 meters) when pilots spotted the object. Initially, it was believed the object was a balloon, but as the plane drew closer pilots determined it was indeed not a balloon and were forced to take evasive action. Two flight attendants were thrown around the cabin as the plane dodged the object and later taken to a hospital for minor injuries. Flight radar shows the plane making an extreme zig-zag to avoid the object which was initially speculated by the TSB to be a drone.

According to CTV News Ottawa, Porter Airlines issued the following statement following the incident:

The pilots noticed an object in the distance (and) as they approached the object, they realized it was very close to their flight path. The pilot’s’ initial assessment was that it looked like a balloon. After debriefing, there is potential that the object was drone.

However, in a recent statement, the Canadian TSB has recanted their initial speculation and have now stated that the object was definitely not a drone. According to TSB investigators, the object was too far from shore and flying too high to match current commercial drone technology. No other explanation has been put forward by the TSB. Peter Rowntree, a senior investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, told The Canadian Press that this one might remain a mystery due to a lack of further evidence:

It happened so quick, they have no idea what it was. It’s just something that they knew they were going to hit unless they took evasive action. It happened that quickly. We may never be able to determine what exactly they saw.

Some have speculated that the mysterious ping in Hudson Bay could be a crashed UFO; could this recent fly-by be another extraterrestrial spacecraft come to rescue its fallen comrade?  NOTE: The above image is CGI.

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ALIEN DISC OBSERVED OVER HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE

FORTY YEARS AGO – April 1948:
On the 5th three trained balloon observers from the Geophysics Laboratory Section, Watson Laboratories, New Jersey reported seeing a disc-shaped object in the vicinity of Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. It was very high and fast and appeared to execute violent maneuvers at high speed. The disc was about a fifth the size of a full moon.

A yellow or light colored sphere 25 to 40 feet in diameter was reported by Lt.
Commander Marcus L. Lowe, USN, just south of Anacostia Naval Air Station, D.C. while he was flying on the 30th. It was moving at a speed of approximately 100 miles per hour at an altitude of about 4,500 feet. Although winds aloft were from the north-northwest the course of the sphere was to the south.……

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THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO — April 1953:
At 3:15 pm on the 12th 10 disc-shaped metallic colored objects were observed near Sweetwater, Nevada changing formation while moving at a high rate of speed at an estimated altitude of 7,500 feet. The discs passed under the right nacelle of a C-47 aircraft and were observed by the pilot and co-pilot. The pilot turned the aircraft in a tight 300 degree turn for a better view of the discs which were then seen by two more members of the crew. Observers were unable to estimate the speed of the discs.

On the 15th a mass of mysterious white substance drifted down from the sky over Ongaonga, New Zealand. It covered fields, buildings, wires, trees and fences for hundreds of yards around. The substance quickly disintegrated when handled.

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STRANGE ALIEN ORB ENCOUNTER IN WILTSHIRE ENGLAND

SEPTEMBER 1962  …………  AVEBURY WILTSHIRE ENGLAND

Malcolm Lees enlisted in the British Royal Air Force in the early 1950s and retired in the late 1960s. In 1962 he received a posting to a RAF station in the county of Wiltshire, England, which he declined to name, and worked in the prestigious and secretive world of intelligence gathering. Most of the work, Lees explained, was routine and even mundane and he laughed heartily at the idea, spouted by many, that intelligence work was a glamorous one full of James Bond-style escapades. Nevertheless, Lees said, there was one aspect of his career that really was stranger than fiction. Early one September morning in 1962, a call came into the base from someone who had seen a UFO hovering in the vicinity of the ancient standing-stones in the historic English village of Avebury, Wiltshire.

UFO reports reached the base from time to time, said Lees. They were always handled by the RAF’s Provost and Security Services. For the most part they were mind-numbingly mundane, and related to little more than sightings of unidentified lights in the sky that could, in reality, have been anything or nothing. Invariably, he said, the reports were a week, or even more, old by the time they were received. And so, they were simply filed and passed up the chain of command – that was then at Government Buildings, Acton, and which relocated to RAF Rudloe Manor in 1977. But this particular case was a little different, said Lees.   The witness was a middle-aged lady who had lived in Avebury all of her adult life and who was fascinated by archaeological history. She would often stroll among the Stonehenge-like formations at night, marveling at their creation and musing upon their history. It was on the night in question that she had been out walking at around 10:30 p.m. when she was both startled and amazed to see a small ball of light, perhaps two-feet in diameter, gliding slowly through the stones. Transfixed

and rooted to the spot, she watched as it closed in on her at a height of about 12 feet. The ball then stopped 15 feet or so from her, and small amounts of what looked like liquid metal slowly and silently dripped from it to the ground. Then, in an instant, the ball exploded in a bright, white flash.   For a moment she was blinded by its intensity and instinctively fell to her knees. When her eyes cleared, however, she was faced with a horrific sight. The ball of light had gone, but on the ground in front of her was what she could only describe as a monstrous, writhing worm.   The creature, she said, was about five feet long, perhaps eight or nine inches thick, and its skin was milk-white. As she slowly rose to her feet, the creature’s head turned suddenly in her direction and two bulging eyes opened. When it began to move unsteadily towards her in a caterpillar-like fashion, she emitted a hysterical scream and fled the scene. Rushing back home, she slammed the door shut and frantically called the airbase, after having been directed to them by the less-than-impressed local police.
 
The Provost and Security Services were used to dealing with UFO reports, said Lees, and a friend of his in the P&SS was dispatched early the next day to interview the woman – amid much hilarity on the part of his colleagues, all of whom thought that the story was someone’s idea of a joke. On returning, however, Lees’ friend and colleague had a very serious and grim look on his face, and informed him guardedly that whatever had taken place, it was definitely no hoax.
 
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ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER OVER MINOT AIR FORCE BASE

In 1966, I was involved in an incident while stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. I was told to never speak of the incident again, and also told that as far as I was concerned, “It Never Happened.” I was a Minuteman ICBM Launch Control Officer, a First Lieutenant, and a Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander in a two man Launch Crew with my crew commander who held the rank of Major. I was attached to the Strategic Air Command, and part of the 742nd Strategic Missile Squadron, one of three squadrons of the 455th Strategic Missile Wing based at Minot. I held a Top Secret clearance, which was required for my job.

It all began one morning when I was watching TV while having breakfast, and I heard the local news announcer mention that some residents in the town of Mohall had seen strange lights overnight, which they attributed to a UFO. This caught my attention because I was scheduled for duty that morning at a Launch Control Facility, called November Flight, about 3 miles west of Mohall and about 37 miles north of Minot Air Force Base.

I lived in the town of Minot at the time, and I drove to the airbase to attend the morning Pre-departure Briefing at Wing Headquarters, where all 15 missile crews would normally meet each day prior to “pulling alert duty” at their respective Launch Control Facilities. During the briefing, it was mentioned that some missiles at November Flight had gone “off alert” during the night, but no further information was provided. I immediately connected this to the news item that I had heard earlier in the morning regarding a possible UFO sighting near the town of Mohall.

When the briefing was over, several of the launch crews seated near me commented about the news item, which they had also heard that morning, and there was speculation about a possible connection with November Flight. My crew commander had also heard the news item, and we were both anxious and curious about what we might find as we drove out to the Launch Control Facility.

The usual procedure upon arrival was to inspect the grounds and building, but this time my commander immediately went to the security section of the building to debrief security personnel and guards. I entered the facility from the back door and then encountered the Site Manager, a Tech. Sergeant, who immediately took me into the “day room” and asked if I had been briefed on the previous night’s events. I said I hadn’t.

We then proceeded toward the windows on the west side of the day room where he described to me the large object with flashing lights that had been hovering just outside the fence that night, and he spread his arms out in front of him to indicate its size. Based on his description, I estimated that the object may have been 80 to 100 feet wide and about 100 feet from the building, maybe a bit closer.

I immediately asked if it had been a helicopter, and he said that it just hovered with no noise being heard, quite unlike the usual noisy helicopters heard from within the building. I also asked what the flashing lights were like, but he could not answer. They were unlike any he had ever seen; they were not like the usual beacon lights on planes, but something like a pulsating glow.

He then said that the object, while hovering close to the ground, then glided to the right toward the North end of the building out of sight. The object then came into view from the security section of the facility, and hovered just behind and slightly to the right of the main gate, concealed partly by the large garage located within the fenced area to the right of the gate. This location put the object almost directly above the hardened Launch Control Capsule located 60 feet below ground. This was the Launch Crew Quarters and the Launch Control Center for the ten interconnected nuclear tipped ICBM missiles located 4 to 14 miles in all directions from the facility.

Security personnel confirmed everything that the Site Manager had related to me. My commander and I then proceeded to take the elevator down to the Launch Control Center to relieve the two man officer crew below. After entering the capsule, our eyes were immediately transfixed on the Launch Control Console, which showed that all missiles were off alert and unlaunchable.

The outgoing crew briefed us on the wild events that transpired overnight, and indicated that the missiles malfunctioned at the time the object was hovering directly above the capsule and next to the main gate. We speculated on the possibility of an EMF [ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ] pulse that might have created the situation. We had no doubt, however, that the 10 outlying nuclear tipped missiles of November Flight had been compromised, tampered with, and put out of commission by the object that had paid a visit. Normally, it was quite unusual to have even one missile down, except for maintenance, and Wing Headquarters was very proud of having more than 95% up time for all 150 missiles in the Wing.

The following morning, after we had been relieved by a follow-on crew, and we had arrived topside, I attempted to further query the Flight Security Controller who had been on duty at the time of the situation, but he interrupted me and said that he had been instructed to not discuss the incident. That is when my commander told me that he had received a call while I was on a scheduled rest break below ground, and he was told that we were to never discuss the incident. When I asked where the directive came from, he said the OSI [ OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS ]

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MILTIPLE ALIEN ORB’S WITNESSED IN JOSHUA TREE CALIFORNIA

JUNE 4, 2016  ……….JOSHUA TREE CALIFORNIA…….10 AM

100 plus ppl have sighting at Contact in the Desert Conference of 10 very fast muliple colored objects.

I will attempt to be succinct in order to keep this report brief. Please call me for additional details. I am the Owner of UFO Sighting Tours in Sedona, AZ. I have completed 588 tours with the use of PVS 7, Gen. 3 Military Night Vision Goggles (NVGs). I was hired by the CITD conference to run their Night Vision Events at this year’s 2016 conference running June 2 thru 6, 2016. The previous 4 listed reports on this site from Joshua Tree, CA, were from attendees of the Saturday, June 4th event that I led. I know many additional people that were in attendance who may be contacted for reports/interviews and I may provide phone numbers.  I am a trained observer and a past MUFON investigator. I was a past member of the Board for MUFON OC, CA.

On June 4th well over 100 people were gathered at Orion’s point lookout, a location at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center. At approx. 10:00 or just prior, most of the attendees witnessed what I am about to describe. There were 18 pairs of NVGs provided, as well as many individuals privately owned goggles present. Yet the following were clearly visible with the naked unaided eye and were seen by most present without equipment. The following sightings lasted approx. 20 minutes total time. I was busy leading the group and instructing them on a PA system and did not note the time, but many of those present informed me after the fact. Videos of this event are surfacing and are being gathered. A professional documentary film crew was present on behalf of CITD and achieved footage of these sightings, but I have not seen it. I will provide it as soon as it is available.

As I witnessed it: Approaching from the west and flying east across the valley in front of us, and coming low over a hill, were the following large colored lights flying extremely fast. First to appear was a blue light, then shortly thereafter a red or amber light, and then 2 bright green ones. After a brief pause of a few minutes came 2 more green ones followed by a single green one, again, flying over the hill at an extremely rapid speed. This second grouping then slowed way down and came together to form a distinct triangle formation and continued to fly across the valley maintaining this formation traveling all the way in a very slow even pace. Eventually this formation disappeared from vision right in front of us. I was not holding NVGs at the time, but those that were said this triangle formation was seen speeding up and shooting up off into space. Many said that somewhere in this mix was a purple light, but I did not see that. This was a total thus far of abou! t 7 clearly visible craft.

People were yelling out, applauding and very excited during these events. After a about 5 minutes had passed, Jimmy Church, popular radio talk show host and his wife Rita approached me. A friend of theirs’s had called them on her cell and told them to come quick! I informed them they just missed some remarkable sightings. When suddenly in comes yet another large green light from over the same hill to the west. And shortly after even another green light. They witnessed these 2 green lights (naked eye) along with other objects that they saw using the NVGs over the next 10 mins. Soon after those 2 green ones, a very large amber light came right over us all and very quickly disappeared right above us. Including this amber one, the total crafts sighted in about 20 minutes was well over 10. All 10 major sightings were way, way, way too fast to be satellites, completely silent, went from hauling in to slowing down to a snail’s pace immediately, and then completely disappea! red before us. All of which are things military jets and satellites CAN NOT DO! We started viewing that night at 8:30 p.m. and didn’t stop till 11:30 p.m. and continued to have sightings on and off the whole while. I educate everyone on all the various type of planes, shooting stars, and all about satellites in order to be able to rule those out. Then and only then are we left with unknown or unidentified objects. All these sightings were clearly unidentified! Also in use were multiple high powered green lasers. I had brought eight 5-mile, two 10-mile, and one 100-mile visible length of beam lasers and they were distributed throughout the crowd and some people had brought their own. As these 10 total objects over about 20 minutes were witnessed many people were hitting them with the lasers. We use the lasers both for pointing out objects and for flashing at them to get possible UFOs to flash back. This has proven successful on most of my tours. As these 10 objects were hit by lasers, myself and others realized that while some may have been flashing back in response, that most likely our lasers were hitting actual metallic surfaces and reflecting off of the objects! Many of the people standing near me, including Jimmy Church, thought this is what we were actually seeing. This would also mean that these objects were extremely close.

The response from the crowd had been overwhelming. Many people have expressed that this was a paradigm changing event for them. I’m spoiled. I get to see real sightings on all my tours. But this night, same as those, I loved providing that experience for others. I never get tired of people’s reactions. For me, it’s always confirmation that UFOs are real and seeing them is truly believing.

((NUFORC Note: We would like to convey our gratitude to Melinda Leslie, a UFO researcher, and one of the speakers at the Contact in the Desert 2016 Conference, for sharing the information in this report. PD))

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MILITARY MAN’S UFO TRIANGLE CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN IDAHO

JUNE 19, 2016 …….IDAHO CITY IDAHO………..1.17 AM

20 minute large triangle no lights no noise only pulsing/pressure then segmented.

Camping in wilderness 10 miles NW of Idaho City, ID., sleeping in tent in sleeping bag. At 1:17 am I woke up, feeling pressure pulsing sensation no noise just pressure. Weather was clear and in the high 40’s.  I exited the tent to find out what was causing the pulsing pressure sensations. I looked all over the small valley and saw nothing. It was dark but the moon was pretty bright almost full I was suspecting a earthquake, but then I noticed that there were no stars visible in the sky above the valley, and the moon was visible through the break in the trees to my left. I could see stars all around the valley sky except for the area along Elk Creek where I was camped. The entire valley was in a shadow and the starlight was being blocked.  I could not make out by what as the object was so large that its span reached from the top of the hill on my left to the top of the hill on my right a distance of about 1500 feet, and may have reached further. I could not detect its shape until it stopped pulsing and started to lift up then I could tell its shape.  It was dark no lights no visible windows or ports, while it was pulsing it was about 2000 feet above the forest, it rose without a sound to about 5 to 6 thousand feet about me, then segmented into several identical shapes and was gone. I waited for several more minutes but nothing else appeared. The entire episode lasted about 20 minutes.  Observer is a retired US Navy Radar operator. Also worked as Civilian Radar ATC for US Air Force.

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AMATEUR ASTRONOMER SPOTS ALIEN CRAFT NEAR THE MOON

JUNE 23, 2016  ………JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA…………12.31 AM

A fast-moving, pentagon-shaped object rapidly transiting across the northern face of the moon.

Observation of a Fast Moving Lunar Transit Anomaly Jacksonville, Florida, June 23, 12:31 EDT. At about 0:31 hours (12:31 EDT, to the nearest minute) this morning, I was observing the waning gibbous moon from our driveway with a 4.25” f/6 reflecting telescope. At the time, I was using a magnification of about 100X with a # 21 orange filter. Although the rising moon was still low in the SE, seeing was quite good, and there were no clouds or haze.  While observing features on the lunar terminator near Mare Serenitatis, I noticed a fast moving, solid black pentagon-shaped object traversing from west to east [moving from the terminator roughly in the direction of Mare Imbrium] across the lower (mid-northern) portion of the moon. The estimated time of passage before it swept out of the eyepiece’s field of view was – my best guess – well under five seconds. As I was not wearing a watch, I immediately went inside and looked at a wall clock (known to be accurate within a minute or so), and recorded the time.

The most unusual aspect of this observation was the shape of the object. Because it swept across the field of view so rapidly, I am not 100% sure that I am getting this exactly right, but my recollection is that its silhouette was something between a pentagon and a five-pointed star, as shown on the accompanying drawing. This rendering is based on a quick pencil sketch that I made within a few minutes of seeing the object. The thing that sticks in my mind is that this object was inky black and perfectly symmetrical – with no change of shape or tumbling effect as it crossed the face of the moon.  As to the object’s size, I have tried to relate it to some of the named lunar craters in this area, and – again, to the best of my ability – it seems to have had an apparent angular size midway between that of Menelaus (27 km) and Manilius (39 km), so my best guess would be an apparent size of about 30 km, as projected against the lunar disc.  Based on its eastward trajectory, moving roughly in line with the ecliptic, my suspicion is that this is some kind of large, earth orbiting satellite – but what could it be? Although I have never witnessed a lunar transit by the International Space Station, I am familiar with its appearance, both as it has been imaged in telescopes and as it has been photographed traversing the moon, but the object that I observed looked noting like this.  Has anyone else seen anything like this?

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