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1178: Date unknown (probably in late January or early February).1973 Many people saw several globular lights on different occasions in the sky over Piedmont, and around Clearwater Lake near Piedmont, Missouri, USA, at very low altitude. One object at least was seen to enter the waters of Clearwater Lake, and another was seen to emerge from it.

This reference: The UFO Register, by Data Research.

Original reference: Medford Mail-Tribune, 26.3.1973; and Understanding Magazine, vol.18, no:5, 1973, p.14.

UFOCAT PRN – 102998 Date: Early 1973, Ref. Newsclip March 26, 1973

North America – United States, Missouri

Piedmont Latitude 37-09-16 N, Longitude 90-41-44 W ( D-M-S )

Clearwater Lake, Latitude 37-08-06 N, Longitude 90-46-16 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 37.15 N, Longitude 90.7 W ( D.% )


03-19-1973
U.S. ' FLAP.' by NORMAN OLIVER
(Extracted)
Between February and March 1973 many people in Piedmont, Missouri reported UFOs of varying types and under varying conditions.
On 19 March, two scouts on top of Bluff View saw a glowing UFO skim across the lake there and disappear.
The Piedmont Chief of Police said that altogether hundreds of reports had been received and that he had seen lights himself.
This reference: The BUFORA Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 1973, pp. 39-40.
Original reference: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 23.3.1973

UFOCAT PRN – 100659. Reference – News clip.

North America – United States, Missouri
Piedmont Latitude 37.09 N, Longitude 90.42 W
Clearwater Lake Latitude 37.08 N, Longitude 90.46 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) – 37.15 N, Longitude 90.70 W


03-21-1973
U.S. ' FLAP.' by NORMAN OLIVER
(Extracted)
Between February and March 1973 many people in Piedmont, Missouri reported UFOs of varying types and under varying conditions.
On 21 March, Mrs. Jean Coleman and Miss Cathy Leach reported a 'disc-shaped object with a reddish glow' surfacing from Clearwater Lake to soar over a mountain top.
The Piedmont Chief of Police said that altogether hundreds of reports had been received and that he had seen lights himself.
This reference: The BUFORA Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 1973, pp. 39-40.
Original reference: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 23.3.1973

UFOCAT PRN – 100660. Reference – News clip.

North America - United States, Missouri
Piedmont Latitude 37-09 N, Longitude 90-42 W ( D-M )
Clearwater Lake Latitude 37-08 N, Longitude 90-46 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) – 37.15 N, Longitude 90.70 W ( D.% )


03-23/24-1973

On the night of March 23/24, 1973, many people in the streets of La Guaira saw a UFO zigzagging from North to South, emitting great flashes of blue and pinkish light with each lateral lunge. It then became stationary over the Club Playa Azul (Blue Beach Club) for several minutes. The frightened witnesses thought at first that it was a comet or something similar. But, some fifteen minutes later, when it was out over the sea, at an estimated distance of 15 miles or so, they were able to see quite distinctly, so they claimed, despite the prevailing night mist, that the UFO was generating great waves on the surface.

This Reference Is The Original: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1975, pp. 9-10, Underwater UFO Base Off Venezuela? By Gordon Creighton,

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

South America – Venezuela

La Guaira Latitude 10-36 N, Longitude 66-56 W ( D-M )

Reference: Venezuela Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., August 1961.


03-25/26-1973

Discussing the widely held belief about underwater bases, the press interviewed a Sr. Julian Hidalgo Montezuma, a night-watchman, who said he recently saw UFOs over Macuto and Naiguata. He said he had seen several "orange lights," tubular in shape, "like our rockets," rise up out of the water far out at sea and vanish into the sky. On other occasions he had also watched them emerge and then fly off eastwards along the Venezuelan coast. Sometimes he has seen them emerge several times in one night, and, like many others in Venezuela, he advanced the view that there might be a vast submerged "mother-ship" out there.

During the night of March 25/26, 1973, the craft were seen again over La Guaira and various other coastal towns. Some witnesses spoke of seeing UFOs rise out of the sea and fly southwards over Venezuela. Others spoke of seeing them flying them East to West.

Carmelo Panfri Salazar, a municipal sanitary employee, also said he saw a UFO rise up out of the sea and move south towards El Avila Range. Nor, he added, was this the first time; indeed, anybody could see it happening, any evening, between 6 and 7 p.m. He said the craft rise from the sea far out, opposite the La Guaira Marine Passenger Terminal, and head at incredible speed southwards towards El Avila Range.

This Reference Is The Original: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1975, p. 11, Underwater UFO Base Off Venezuela? By Gordon Creighton.

UFOCAT PRN – 86749 Ref. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1975, p. 11

South America – Venezuela

Macuto Latitude 10-37 N, Longitude 66-53 W ( D-M )

Naiguata Latitude 10-37 N, Longitude 66-44 W

La Guaira Latitude 10-36 N, Longitude 66-56 W

El Avila Range Unable to locate

Reference: Venezuela Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., August 1961.

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude 10.63 N, Longitude 66.94 W ( D.% )


03-28/29-1973

On March 30, 1973, the papers carried an account of the experiences of Armando Silva of "La Salina," near Carayaca, who told the press that on March 28/29 he and his wife had had a strange experience at their country house, which is near the seashore. On the evening of the 28th, they had seen two elongated bluish objects flying at great height. Then, at about 1.00 a.m. on the 29th, they had both been awakened by a sensation of enormous heat. The wife went to the balcony and looked out towards the sea, and beheld "two long blue flying things like capsules, not very big; they were the same as we had seen the previous evening. They were of a vivid blue colour, and so close that I am absolutely sure of what I saw. When they came nearer to the shore they shone as brightly as the sun. One of them dropped into the sea, submerged, and then came out again. The second one also dropped into the sea, lay still awhile, and then moved nearer to the first one." (From Senora Silva's letter to the Editor of Ultimas Noticias, Caracas newspaper.)

Senora Silva said her sighting of these two objects lasted about fifteen minutes, and ended when she watched them both take off from the water and vanish in the sky at a staggering speed.

After the craft had departed the temperature in their house seemed to return to normal and the Silvas were able to sleep again.

The account given by the husband is even more interesting, for it seems that while his wife watched from the balcony, he went out of the house to take a closer look. As he described it to the press: "I was terrified when, at one of the small windows on the strange little object that came down from the sky and fell into the sea a few metres from the shore, I saw a tiny figure, like a five-year-old child, and wearing on its head what looked like a great gourd. I cannot say for sure that it was an intelligent being, since I only saw half of its body and its head which, as I say, looked like a gourd. Nor did I see any arms. And I didn't wait to see whether it made any movement, for I took to my heels and ran into the house, where my wife was watching, from the balcony, the two things which had come down from the sky and were bobbing up and down there in the water."

This Reference Is The Original: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1975, Underwater UFO Base Off Venezuela? By Gordon Creighton, pp. 11-12

Secondary references: Unexplained Mysteries of the 20^th Century, by J & C Bord, p. 172

published 1989.

UFOCAT PRN – 86755 Dated 03-28-1973 Ref. FSR 19750611 No location

86756 Dated 03-29-1973 Ref. FSR 19750611 No location

South America - Venezuela

La Salina Latitude 10-32 N, Longitude 67-07 W ( D-M )

Carayaca Latitude 10-36 N, Longitude 62-16 W

Reference: Venezuela Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., August 1961.


03-29/30-1973

On April 1, Ultimas Noticias reported that, according to their La Guaira office, matters had been just the same on the nights of March 29 and 30, the public being now alarmed, with much talk of a threat to Venezuela and of an impending invasion of the Earth by ultraterrestrial (sic) beings. As before, the objects were appearing from the West and flying eastwards over the Maiquetia International Airport. One witness, Sr. Jesus Rojas of Maiquetia, said he watched one UFO for an hour as it flew around over La Guaira, passing over the Airport at least three times. Then it plummeted almost vertically, and from a great height, into the sea right off the port of La Guaira.

This Reference Is The Original: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1975, p.12 “Underwater UFO Base Off Venezuela?” by Gordon Creighton.

UFOCAT PRN – 86759 Dated as 03-30-1973

South America - Venezuela

La Guaira Latitude 10-36 N, Longitude 66-56 W ( D-M )

Maiquetia Latitude 10-36 N, Longitude 66-57 W

Reference: Venezuela Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., August 1961.

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude 10.63 N, Longitude 66.98 W ( D.% )


04-??-1973

(Under Title: Beneath the clear waters of the Gulf Stream)

"One of the submersibles was seen in April, 1973, by a Captain Dan Delmonico. He is a skilled seaman, and a thoughtful observer of the highest reputation. On two separate occasions, he saw unidentifiable objects, practically identical, beneath the clear waters of the Gulf Stream. Both sightings occurred in approximately the same area: about a third of the way from the Great Isaac Light, to the north of Bimini (Bahamas) and Miami, where the waters of the Gulf Stream are particularly deep. The two sightings took place about 4 p.m. and in calm water with excellent visibility.

A gray object, light, smooth and tapering

"In both cases an object, gray, light, smooth and tapering a little, like large cigars with rounded ends," he said, ”passed at great speed across his bows, underwater. Delmonico estimated the size of the machine to be between about 120 and 160 feet, and its speed about at least sixty to seventy knots. , When the captain first saw it moving under the water he thought that a collision was inevitable, as the object appeared to be surfacing just in front of him. Apparently becoming aware of the presence of the boat, the machine dived and disappeared, passing under the keel. No turbulence or wash appeared to accompany the apparition. No rudder, fin, or any other projection broke its smooth, polished surface, which contained no portholes.

This reference: U.F.O.s and extra-terrestrials by Yves Naud, 1978. Book #4, pp.108-109

Original Reference Unknown

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

North America – United States, Florida & The Bahamas
Bimini Latitude 25-44 N, Longitude 79-15 W ( D-M )

Reference: British West Indies and Bermuda Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., September 1955

Miami Latitude 25-47-25 N, Longitude 80-07-49 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


04-01-1973

On April 2 the paper published a report of the previous day from La Guaira, containing a statement by a Customs agent named Celestino Perez Perez. "It was about 11.00 p.m., and I had just finished work in connection with cargo being unloaded from a ship, when I saw a glowing object drop into the sea right opposite the Marine Passengers Terminal. I can't rightly claim that it was a 'flying saucer,' but I can definitely say it was no aircraft such as we here are used to seeing every day of our lives at the big International Airport near here. For on two occasions I have seen accidents, in which big aircraft fell into the sea, and each time when they did so they exploded as they hit the water and the sea was covered with flames over a big area. With what I saw, it was nothing like that. The object came down as though it was well under control and its crew were going down on to the sea-bed."

This Reference Is The Original: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1975, “Underwater UFO Base Off Venezuela?” by Gordon Creighton, p. 12

UFOCAT PRN – 86760

South America - Venezuela

La Guaira Latitude 10-36 N, Longitude 66-56 W ( D-M )

Reference: Venezuela Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., August 1961.

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude 10.63 N, Longitude 66.94 W ( D.% )


05-23?-1973

273: May About 23rd. P.M. (exact hour ?). One witness reported a glowing sphere plunge out of the sky into the river near the Verrazano Bridge, Brooklyn, New York, New York State, USA.

This reference: The UFO Register, by Data Research # 273

Original reference: Saga’s UFO Report magazine (New York), Spring 1974, p.48.

UFOCAT PRN – 84197 ( No Location )

North America – United States, New York City, New York

Brooklyn – Latitude 40-39-00 N, Longitude 73-57-00 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


06-06-1973

366: June 6th. 1.39 am. D. Wildermuth watched an object with flashing lights on or just above the surface of Lake Erie off Cranberry, Pennsylvania, USA.

This reference: The UFO Register, by Data Research #336

Original reference: Erie (Pa) Times-News, 6.7.1973.

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

North America – United States, Pennsylvania

Cranberry – Latitude 41-21-N, Longitude 79-43 W ( D-M ). Note: there are two Cranberry, PA, but this is the closest to Lake Erie.

Reference:

http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?country_list=&expr=cranberry&lang=e


07-04-1973

Observations of unidentified submarine objects in Norway

by Ole Jonny Brænne

On Wednesday, July 4, 1973, Erling Bakke and his wife sighted a peculiar vessel on the water. They spotted it at 11:15 p.m. It was 25 feet long and six feet high and had a protrusion on top. "When we first spotted the strange object, which had a speed of at least 100 kph along the water," Bakke reported, "we at first thought it had to be some sort of speedboat, and we were amazed at people going that fast. But suddenly the object rose up at a 45-degree angle, and a moment later it was gone. Then my wife and I became aware of having witnessed a UFO up close. And it was a wonderful experience." The object 'was entirely black and thus clearly visible.

This reference: International UFO Reporter ( CUFOS ), 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

No Location given in this text.


07-12-1973

380: July 12th. Daytime (exact hour ?). Mark Willis watched a fairly low flying domed disc pass over Stanley Draper Lake, Oklahoma, USA, and, as it did so, saw steam rising from the lake immediately under the object. A photograph was taken by this witness of the object.

This reference: The UFO Register, by Data Research #380

Original reference: The National Insider, 25.11.1975.

UFOCAT PRN – 100784. Ref. News clip. ( No Location )

North America – United States, Oklahoma

Stanley Draper Lake – Latitude 35-19-42 N, Longitude 97-21-23 W ( D-M-S ). Below Tinker AFB,

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Reference: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hads/hsas/OUN_dcps.htm


09-06-1973 a

500: September 6th. About 10.10 pm. Mrs. R. Aldag watched a strange (but otherwise undescribed) object over Lake Michigan off Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA.

This reference: The UFO Register, by Data Research #500

Original reference: Sheboygan Press, 7.9.1973.

UFOCAT PRN – 99168. Ref. News clipping, dated 09-07-1973

North America – United States, Wisconsin

Sheboygan - Latitude 43-45-03 N, Longitude 87-42-52 ( 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 43.76 N, Longitude 87.71 W ( D.% )

09-06-1973 b
A coastal, sighting: stimulated considerable interest when a UFO was reported to have plummeted into the ocean off Tybee Island. The United States Coast guard station located there, evinced so little interest that no search craft was directed to investigate the incident. Among the witnesses were the usual contingent of law enforcement personnel plus Savannah Beach Mayor Allen Hendrix.
This reference: UFO exist!, by Paris Flammonde, pp. 375-376, © 1976
Secondary reference: A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, by George Eberhart, p. 445, 1980
Original reference: Savannah Morning News, September 7, 1973.

UFOCAT PRN 130197 ( No Location ). Dated 09-06-1973. Ref. Morning News 09-07-1973

North America – United States, Georgia
Tybee Island – Latitude 32-01 N, Longitude 80-52 W ( D-M )
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


10-15-1973 [ Monday was the 15^th. The 16^th (morning) was the date of publication ]

MORE UFOS REPORTEDLY SEEN IN LA.

PINE, La. (UPI) -- Sheriff’s deputies chased five orange-reddish flying objects 12 miles through the Louisiana piney woods late Monday night and early today. Deputy Michael Moore said the ships almost attacked a police car.

"One of our deputies was scared pretty bad, “Moore said from the Washington Parish Sheriff's Department. "He turned on his red lights, and they came down at his patrol ear. He turned them off and they just vanished like in a cloud." Moore said the ships, reported 150 miles northwest of similar sightings at Pascagoula, Miss., "come right down at you and then vanish above the treetops."

Moore said several deputies were out chasing the ships and one of the men tried to take pictures.

"Our deputies spotted five of them, and a bunch of witnesses saw them too," he said. In another sighting reported near Slidell, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, Lloyd Mercier said he was driving home when he saw an object "approximately 15 or 20 feet in diameter and it had a streak about a foot. wide straight through the middle. "I was driving and I said, ‘That can't be the moon, It's too large to be the moon.’

"I'd say it was approximately 125 to 200 feet in the air and gradually it disappeared. It took five to six minutes.

"All I could see was a red glow. It looked like it came straight out of the water" of Lake Pontchartrain," he said. "I've seen it tonight with my own natural eyes. I have to believe what I see. It was no moon and it was no balloon, and it was no ship."

Original Reference: News clipping from “The State-Times”, Baton Rouge, La. Oct 16, 1973.

Also, essentially same text: “The Toronto Star”, Toronto, Canada Tuesday October 16, 1973

Thanks to Barry Greenwood for the clippings.

UFOCAT PRN – 99346 Sighting dated 10-16-1973Ref. News Clip dated 10-16-1973 ( No

Location )

North America – United States, Louisiana & Mississippi

Slidell, Louisiana Latitude 30-16-30 N, Longitude 89-46-52 W ( D-M-S )

Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Latitude 30-11-19 N, Longitude 90-06-05 W

Pascagoula, Mississippi Latitude 30-21-56 N, Longitude 88-33-22 W

New Orleans, Louisiana Latitude 29-57-16 N, Longitude 90-04-30 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


10-19-1973
CISU Case # 034
Location: Off shore in Genova
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient information
***An object was seen in the middle of the sea standing still, and the waves broke against it as if it were anchored.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 70 pp. 4-7
“II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 177 pp. 17-18

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy

Genova - Latitude 44-25 N, Longitude 8-57 E ( D-M ) [Genoa]
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


11-06-1973

Strange Object’s Maneuvers Near Nuclear Shipbuilding Disturb Navy

By Robert B Klinn and David Branch

Excusive To The Register

PASCAGOULA, Miss. --- As a first step in an apparently highly serious operation to determine the cause and nature of a submerged, metallic, beam-emitting, disappearing-reappearing, course-changing object seen maneuvering Tuesday evening, Nov. 6, in the Pascagoula River, the U.S. Navy Friday dispatched to the site of the mystery Lt. Cmdr. Craig Dorman of the Naval Coastal Systems Laboratory at Panama City, Florida. These columnists learned Monday that this Navy’s concern stems from the proximity of the observations to the Navy’s nuclear shipbuilding activities—approximately 200 yards away.

In a comprehensive report being written by Dorman and to be released next week, the Navy is expected to disclose that it has absolutely no idea what the object is (or was) in the Pascagoula River.

Dorman is part of the Navy’s Seal Team, an underwater demolition, combat-trained, airborne killer unit. His trip to Mississippi was especially for this mission. Early Friday morning at the Coast Guard base at Mobile, Ala., Dorman met with Coast Guard Lt. (j.g.) Michael Donohoe. They proceeded to Pascagoula, where together they debriefed the witnesses---seven civilians and two military personnel.

According to Donohoe, with whom we spoke Monday, “The Navy was basically caught off guard. The Navy believes the observed object is something totally new and different—totally unknown. We were caught unaware and want to prevent it from happening again.” Donohoe said the Navy intends to be ready scientifically for another such sighting and is presently preparing capability in the Pascagoula River Area.

“The basic purpose is to document this story from start to finish,” said Donohoe, referring to Lt. Cmdr. Dorman’s mission. “Something in the water is causing that illumination. It remains an unidentified object, and we want to maintain a file as a reference for any future sighting,” The Navy, he said, is engaged in an objective and scientific approach toward bringing its full facilities to bear on the river area.

We note that such an approach represents a totally different attitude from that which has been displayed since 1949 by Air Force personnel in their UFO investigations.

The Navy’s complete report is expected to show where the Navy’s nuclear shipbuilding activities—a function of Ingalls Shipbuilding, a subdivision of Litton Industries—takes place with relation to the location of the sightings.

Friday, United Press International, in a story based on an early Coast Guard press report, told of the first Tuesday-night (Nov. 6), river-object sightings by twin brothers Raymond and Rayme Ryan, who were fishing on the Pascagoula River. An illuminated object was following their boat, and repeated efforts to beat the object away with an oar made the light grow dimmer. The UPI story noted that Pascagoula Coast Guard officers in a 16-foot boat had subsequently located the object in four to six feet of water and moving at four to six knots, but that they were unable to retrieve it because it would seem to go out and move away and then reappear. The story quoted the Coast Guard press report description of the object as “an amber beam, four to six inches in diameter, attached to a bright metal object.”

Neither the Coast Guard press report nor the UPI story named the officers of the Coast Guard vessel who had witnessed and pursued the object. Neither the Coast Guard press report nor the UPI story was based on a direct interview with the Coast Guard witnesses. Monday, we tracked down and by telephone interviewed these witnesses—PO Charles Crews and PO Alan Nations.

Officer Nations stated that at 9:20 p.m., he and Officer Crews were in the Coast Guard vessel and were approaching the Ryan brothers in their boat. “One fisherman was there beside the boat. From 50 yards I saw the light lighting up the boat. It was a dim light, moving in a straight line in a northwesterly direction at four to six knots. When we got directly over it, I could see that there was a light amber light source about four inches long which cast an oval-shaped beam straight ahead for four, five, or six feet. Beneath the four-inch light source and attached to it was a metallic rod a couple of feet long and about four inches wide.” Nations and Crews tried beating the object with boat oars and hooks, but it went out and reappeared 20 yards away. “The Ryan brothers chased it around in their boat and reached it again before we did. They beat it with their oars,” said Nations.

Crews also described observing the light coming up from the water and onto the Ryans’ boat as the Coast Guard vessel approached. “Three boats started chasing it,” Crews explained. “Each boat tried to get on top of it. Then it was under all three boats. I looked down and saw a metallic object three feet long, three or four inches wide, and shiny like stainless steel. It went 20 or 30 yards, then went out. Then it lit up again on the same course and we tried to hit it with oars. The light went out and then it relocated again.”

At 10 p.m. they lost it. At 8 p.m., Oct. 11, as you are probably aware, shipyard workers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were also fishing at the Pascagoula River, when three humanoid entities with pointed ears, wrinkled skin, and crab-like claws reportedly abducted them into an egg-shaped spaceship in which they were scanned by a huge glass eye and then released. Even before Hickson had passed a lie detector test, University of California engineering professor Dr. James Harder had concluded that the entities are cosmic anthropologists.

Is it possible that these Pascagoula entities are studying our Navy’s nuclear ships?

This reference: Newspaper article from “The REGISTER”, Pascagoula, Miss., Nov. 14, 1973,

p.1-2. From George Fawcett’s file on UFO’s at sea. With thanks to CUFOS.

Secondary reference: Situation Red: The UFO Siege by Leonard H. Stringfield, p. 131, 1977

UFOCAT PRN – 110169. Ref. Situation Red

North America – United States, Florida.

Pascagoula River Latitude 30-20-39 N, Longitude 88-34-03 W ( D-M-S )

Panama City Latitude 30-10-35 N, Longitude 85-48-20 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 30.38 N, Longitude 88.55 W ( D.% )


11-21-1973

l039: November 21st.7.30pm. Gracia Unger and others saw a slow moving object shaped like "a brick with the ends worn off" land in the River Brazos channel near Farm Road 979, near Calvert, Texas, USA. A dimly lit dome was just visible on top. A second similar object also landed in the river channel. Both then extinguished their lights and submerged under the water. They were not seen again, although over the next week or so UFOs, including landings by the Juarez homestead On Farm Road 1644, near Calvert, were "commonly seen" by local residents.

This reference: The UFO Register, by Data Research

Original references: Calvert (Tex.) Tribune, 20.12.1973 (photo); Flying Saucers (published by Ray Palmer), no: 85, 1974, p.40; Saga’s UFO Report magazine (New York), Spring 1975, pp.23, 66. Local dogs and coyotes in the district were greatly agitated whenever those objects visited the Calvert area.

UFOCAT PRN – 102923 News Clipping dated 12-20-1973

North America – United States, Texas

River Brazos Latitude 28-52-32 N, Longitude 95-22-41 W ( D-M-S )

Calvert Latitude 30-58-40 N, Longitude 96-40-25 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 30.97 N, Longitude 96.67 W ( D.% )


01-06-1974
CISU Case # 035
Location: Bergeggi (SV)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient information
*** A fire ball was seen falling into the sea.

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 (the journal of Misteries)” no. 72 page. 18
“ItaCat” case no. 7401
“Il Secolo XIX” of 1.08/1974

CrashCat case no. 033.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Savona

Bergeggi - Latitude 44-15 N, Longitude 8-26 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


03-??-1974

Lake Objects Reported In Scandinavia by Richard Hall

Professor Bertil Soderquist, MUFON Representative in Sweden, has reported several incidents of mysterious objects in lakes, but with no apparent UFO association. The most UFO-like occurred in March 1974 on Lake Jalka, northern Sweden (about 67.0 deg N; 19.9 deg E). Mr. R.R. was driving on the road between Gallivare and Porjus in the early morning. The weather was cloudy and chilly. As he approached the small lake (about 2.5 km by 300 m), he saw a strange mist over the ice-free lake. On closer approach, he saw that the mist surrounded a mysterious object (see sketch) resting on the water. The object was about 15-20 m long, 5 m in height, and had a superstructure ending in a point. The contour was darkish. The witness hurried away, driven by a sudden fear.

This reference: The MUFON Journal #108, November 1976, p. 11

With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATA BASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – 109945. Ref. UFO Information Sweden, July 1976, p. 6 ( Lake Jalkasjon) No

location. Witnesses name shown as Ryrlind.

Europe – Sweden

Lake Jalka ( about 67.0 deg N; 19.9 deg E ).[ Text ]

Jalkajegge Latitude 67-08 N, Longitude 19-15 E ( D-M ) [ Bog ]

Gållivare Latitude 67-08 N, Longitude 20-42 E

Porjus Latitude 66-57 N, Longitude 19-49 E

Reference: Sweden Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., February 1963


03-29-1974

Space Phenomena (Phēnomēnes Spatiaux)

By GEPA, Group for the Study of Airborne Phenomena

GROUPEMENT D’ĒTUDE PHĒNOMĒNES AĒRIENS

In Togo, Africa, 29 March 1974

The object and the depression under it in the sea, according a sketch by Mr. A.W.

The white disks indicate the projections of light pointed toward shore.

If it is affirmed that, as one would think, the case of Carlos Diaz, is a mystery, it is Roberto Banchs who will have had the distinction of allowing us discover it.

And what strengthens his admirable inquiry -- inquiry which will remain for us a model of its type -- is that not allowing itself to turn from the material aspect of the case by the seduction of its psychological aspect -- it is not limited to ask the witness, it was in returning as he did to the psychological and typological tests, but proceeded with method and tenacity to that which we will call some external verifications. External, because they make people intervene or some information without direct links with the person or the intentions of the witness, and of which one can think that they could not be influenced by it: Those who frequent the Daniel du Solier Street, information taken in the bus or train schedules, tests done by doctors of the Railroad Hospital, comparison between the hours given by the witness and those of the guard at the hospital, etc.

These are the very objective verifications and that one could qualify from place to place who furnished essential elements to allow one to determine authentication or not.

For us, who don't understand how to depend on a plan of faith, these external verifications are of the utmost importance and the fact that they have thrown a light on the case of Ingeniero White constitutes a lesson that the future investigators must never forget.

We restate our thanks to our friend Christian Vogt and to Roberto Enrique Banchs who was so helpful to us without forgetting our precious collaborator and friend Renee Corriol, who accomplished the difficult task of translating into French all the original texts in Spanish of which we have made a list in our long article.

AT TOGO (AFRICA) 29 MARCH 1974

AN OVNI BREAKS THE SURFACE OF THE SEA AND IMMOBILIZES THE WITNESSES.

By Joel Mesnard

At the end of March 1974, A.W. a French worker on vacation on the coast of Togo, said to have been one of the witnesses of a very interesting UFO sighting.

He had spent the evening of 28 March in the company of a Togolese woman, whom he had just met, From 11 PM to 1 AM they swam 2-3 km east of a large tourist hotel, Tropicana, which is built next to the sea, a few km east of Lomé. Then they spent a while on the beach, near a dune where coconut trees grew. The night was dark and the sky very clear. Many stars were visible.

At 1:45 when they began to leave the beach, A.W. and his friend noticed a sharp whistle, very annoying, coming from the sea. They saw a dark mass which approached from over water and which stopped at 200-300 m in front of the witnesses. They found themselves on dry sand but soon a large wave then washed over them.

A DEPRESSION AND A MINI-TIDAL WAVE

They then were afraid of being dragged away in the water and not being able to regain the shore. A.W. succeeded in grabbing the trunk of a coconut palm. He held on with his right arm, holding on to the woman with the other. At their feet was now a continuous barrage of strong waves, so that one instant before the sea came within 50 m of the dune !

Suddenly, three bright lights showed on the object blinding the witnesses. It was like three projections pointed in their direction, other luminous beams coming from the sides of the object, perhaps also from its upper side or from the unseen side of it. Certain of the beams seemed oriented upward, but A.W. could not confirm this, so much did the three beams pointed toward shore blind him. In all the light it was white that dominated, but there was also yellow, pink and blue-green. A.W. wore glasses that were lightly tinted. He was struck by the blue and green colors of the waves lighted by the object. The most interesting detail of his recount concerned the surface of the sea under the object. It was not flat but dug in the form of a depression. A.W. estimated its depth at a few meters, 5 or 6 perhaps. Its diameter was comparable to the length of the object, on the order of 25-30 meters.

PARALYZED BY THE LIGHTS

Still crouched by the coconut tree, legs in the water, the witnesses didn't move. It was not astonishment or fear that paralyzed them. The lights of the spotlights according to A.W. were there for something. Although before the appearance of the object the temperature was mild and agreeable, there was a heat in the lights; that Mr. A.W. described as terrifying. The woman and he were sweating profusely.

DEPARTURE OF THE OBJECT

Suddenly a relative coolness was felt: the object moved away toward the open sea very rapidly, without gaining altitude. Its lights went out suddenly, and it disappeared. The night became dark again and the sea went back to normal. It was 2:05 AM. by A.W.'s diving watch. The appearance of the phenomenon lasted about 20 min.

The witnesses started for the hotel Tropicana where they left each other. Although the whistle had ceased with the departure of the object, an annoying auditory sensation persisted in both of them. A.W. asked his friend not to speak to anyone about what they had seen. He feared being considered crazy and perhaps being thrown into jail.

EFFECTS FELT LATER BY A.W.

The next morning A.W. woke up and felt totally deaf, with an impression of lightness or emptiness.

(Photo caption p. 24 Effect produced by a helicopter hovering)

[ Illustration & caption deleted as it is of poor

quality in the duplicate, and not of great value]

The next day he was suddenly burdened by an unexplainable sleepiness and he fell on his bed like a sack of potatoes. He slept three hours and woke with a headache which bothered him greatly. The hotel receptionist gave him a couple of pills which helped quickly.

He had several fainting spells over the next few days. He was affected a long time by what he considered a sequel of his adventure. Since that day he has felt very nervous, although he is usually pretty calm. He has deaf spells and sometimes feelings of suffocation accompanied by anxiety.

This situation is getting better bit-by-bit. But was persisting still when I met A.W. almost two years after his observation. We don't know the long-term effects on the woman.

Mr. .A.W is not interested in the problems poised by UFO appearances. All the same, sometime after his adventure in Togo, he observed one evening, near Thionville in Northwest France, the passage in the sky of a blue ball of fire followed by a red trail. Some friends to whom he had confided his African adventure several months after, advised him to report it to GEPA, to which he sent a detailed letter. I met A.W. in February 1976 and his testimony appeared sincere and disinterested. I noted that he did not try to explain it and limited himself to describing it as objectively as possible.

SEA SURFACE DISRUPTION

Two elements in the account of A.W. present an import interest for those who try to imagine the physical phenomena accompanying eventually, the UFO sightings:

These are the descriptions he made, on one hand, the depression dug in the sea under it and on the other hand, of the advancing waves on the beach up to the dune. It is not possible, given the condition of the observations to obtain a very precise description of the profile of the depression (cup), in particular of the bottom of it. The witness can still determine its dimensions: about 30 m in diameter and that which corresponds to the estimated size of the object, which was suspended at a few meters, about 10 perhaps, over the level of the sea, and a depth on the order of 5 m. A comparison imposed with the effect produced on the sea's surface, buy the low altitude hovering of a helicopter. A sort of depression appears in the water but at the cavity so little pronounced that it is difficult to evaluate, a depression without common measure with that described by A.W.. One can then probably discard the hypothesis that this hole was caused by an effect of a vertical gust, directed toward the bottom, analogous to that wind which is produced under a helicopter. A.W. if he heard a loud whistle, heard no blowing noise, nothing which indicates a strong pressure of the atmosphere. He had noted no other development of sea spray, cloud of droplets, in the vicinity of the area flown over by the UFO. One can then think that the surface of the sea was disturbed by the effects of a force field sent out by the object, more so than by a gust of air. One cannot imagine how to create a hole of a few meters in the sea surface, simply by blowing over it, without causing the formation of a cloud of sea spray.

One thing is certain; the surface of the depression was not fixed but moved by strong waves, which spread out from the center and propagated all the way to shore. These waves made the woman say to A.W. that she had never seen the sea so agitated.

The waves advancing to the beach during the landing of the object was it a direct consequence of the depression under it? Mr. A.W. noted no swelling of the surface around the depression. Where did the 3400 cubic meters of water go which corresponds to the volume of the depression? One can suppose that the displaced water is responsible for the seas rising on the beach which remained constant during the landing of the object.

This reference: Phēnomēnes Spatiaux (Space Phenomena) a publication of GEPA, GROUPEMENT D’ĒTUDE PHĒNOMĒNES AĒRIENS (Group for the Study of Airborne Phenomena ). Dated March 1976

Need: FSR Vol. 23, #2, March/April 1977, p. 4

UFOCAT PRN – 93788. Joel Mesnard in Flying Saucer Review, April 1977, p. 4. No location

Africa - Togo

Lomé - Latitude 6-29 N, Longitude 1-13 E ( D-M )

Reference: Togo gazetteer, Prepared in the Division of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., April 1966


05-EE-1974

Around midnight one moonlit night in May, 1974, Manoel Pacheco Juca, forty-seven, and a friend, Pedro, had been fishing along the Atlantic coast two miles from his farm near Paraipaba, Ceará. They were walking to another location when Manoel looked back over his shoulder and saw something that hadn't been there minutes earlier.

About forty yards away were three men standing near what looked like a jeep near the water. Manoel and Pedro were frightened. They ducked down and watched. The strangers were dressed in dark clothing and apparently did not see them.

Five times the three strangers hurried side by side into the ocean and just as quickly returned to the jeep. They were wet and seemed to be measuring something with a rope. They said nothing, and no sounds were heard. After about three minutes, the three climbed into the jeep and disappeared into the ocean, jeep and all.

This reference: UFO Danger Zone, by Bob Pratt, p. 265, Pub. 1996

With thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO Database, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – 129937

Note: Both UFOCAT and *U* UFO Database show a date of 05-05-1974 although there is no day mentioned in the text. This is probably based on the “moonlit” night.

South America – Brazil

Paraipaba Latitude 3-26 S, Longitude 39-07 W ( D-M )

Ceará Latitude 5-00 S, Longitude 40-00 W ( D-M ) [ State/ADMD ]

Reference: Brazil Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., January 1963

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) – Latitude 3.27 S, Longitude 39.33 W ( D.% )


06-18-1974
(extract)

Underwater Bases?

According to a report published in O Dia of Rio de Janeiro on July 12, 1974, a flying saucer was seen to drop into the sea off the coast of southern Brazil on June 18, 1974. The report, from the Florianópolis representative of the paper, is as follows:

"A strange metallic object flew around over the sea off the State of Santa Catarina. It was at a distance of some thousand metres or so from the shore at Navegantes, a place 100 km. distant from Florianópolis. After hovering for some six minutes above the sea, it veered at a 90^o angle towards the beach and then dropped into the water.

“The fisherman Avelino Severiano Generosa, aged 46, at once put out in his motor-launch to the area, but found only foam on the sea where the object had disappeared. In addition to him, there were twenty other people on the beach who also saw the object, but all the others took fright and he was the only one who bad the courage to go and see what was happening.

“The occurrence took place on the afternoon of June 18, and is still the subject of much discussion in the small municipality of Navegantes. Celso Lemkuni, a diver, tried to make a dive last week with a view to locating the object, but had no success owing to the strong winds lashing the coast.

"Giving details, the fisherman Avelino said that it was at 3.30 p.m. on a sunny afternoon. He and his parents, his wife, and his nine children were all on the beach when they suddenly saw the silent, brightly shining object flying very low along the shore. Then, after remaining stationary for six minutes, it dropped into the sea.

This reference: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 March/April 1975, pp. 21-22

Alleged Kidnappings, And Other Matters By Gordon Creighton

Secondary reference: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, August 1975, p. 21

Original reference: Newspaper “O Dia” of Rio de Janeiro on July 12, 1974

With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – 86806. Ref. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, August 1975, p. 21

South America – Brazil

Rio de Janeiro Latitude 22-54 S, Longitude 43-14 W ( D-M )

Florianópolis Latitude 27-35 S, Longitude 48-34 W

Santa Catarina Latitude 27-00 S, Longitude 50-00 W [ State/ADMD ]

Navegantes Latitude 26-54 S, Longitude 48-39 W

Reference: Brazil Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., January 1963

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) – Latitude 26.85 S, Longitude 48.4 W ( D.% )


07-02-1974 [ Possible date error with 06-18-1974 ]

From "Philippe Piet van Putten"

The Navegantes case is quite interesting. Its main investigator was Brazilian UFOIogist Carlos Alberto Machado, president of the Center of Exobiological Research and Investigation (C.I.P. Ex) at Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, and a contributor for my bi-monthly bulletin Fenomenos Aeroespaciais (Aerospatial Phenomena). Here is a review of the case.

Date: July 2, 1974; Time: around 03:30 PM; Place: Nearby Navegantes Beach, Santa Catarina, Brazil; Witnesses: At least 17 persons: - Mr. Ubelino Severino; Mr. Francisco Severino; Mr. Francisco Filho; Mr. Alfredo Leopoldo da Costa; Mr. Jose Custodio; Mr. Alfredo Claudino; Mrs. Nilda Vieira; Mrs. Carmelia Severino and her nine children; Field research by: Carlos Alberto Machado (C.I. P. Ex)

Brief description: On that afternoon, fishermen were working on the beach when they spotted a disc-shaped object with small lateral protrusions approaching very fast but silently. The object fell on the ocean, 100 meters distant from the Navegantes Beach coast line.

The fishermen thought that the object could be some sort of foreign experimental aircraft in trouble, so they drove their fishing boats to the very spot where the object dove to try to rescue any survivors. The water was sort of dark, and they couldn't see anything below! There were good divers among them, but they were afraid to enter the ocean water under such low visibility.

The fishermen soon became aware of a curious fact: Itajai Airport is only 1 km far from the watery crash site. If the object was an airplane - they supposed - the airport managers should have sent a rescue team. But no team ever arrived.

In a short time, the news media discovered what had happened and started to investigate the incident. Such a stir made the local police start an investigation and the police soon concluded that the witnesses had indeed seen something unusual.

Mr. Ubelino Severino guided divers of the Brazilian Navy to the precise area of the crash. Despite claiming to have seen any object, one of the divers did 9/19/99 a second dive to mark the spot with a signaling buoy which was fixed in place with a rope tied underwater. This is very interesting, because the fisherman were used to throw their nets there and they knew that there were NO rocks nor tree branches underwater to tighten-up a rope. So, how did the diver succeed fixing the buoy ?!

The Navy's commander required that Ubelino call him immediately if anyone, not authorized, ever tried to go near the buoy. The following morning Ubelino verified that the buoy was gone! He called the commander's office and reported that the buoy was gone, but they didn't seem concerned about it (!).

Two days after the crash, two fishermen who were the best divers in the area, were found dead and naked on the nearby rocks. They were the only two who had enough courage to dive where the buoy was. They reported to their colleagues that they had seen a disc-shaped object half buried underwater. The ocean water around the disc was terribly hot, so they could not touch it.

The object "disappeared" with the buoy.

For two weeks, all fish seemed to have vanished from the area.

Brazilian Army officers, stationed at Florianopolis, Santa Catarina's Capital, interviewed the witnesses and local inhabitants.

UFOIogists suspects that the disk was retrieved by the Navy late at night.

Days later, another disc-shaped object was seen diving slowly in the exact place were the first object crashed. We also have all the details of this second observation (a CEIII) and the names of the witnesses.

This Reference: Philippe Piet van Putten Director - The Brazilian Academy of Parasciences

(ABP) National Director- Picard UFO Research International (PUFORI) National Correspodent - Sightings on the Radio (USA) Editor - Fenomenos Aeroespaciais (Aerospatial Phenomena) E-mail: abp1@uol.com.br Home page: http://www.pufori.org

Need: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, July/August 1975, p. 22 by Gordon Creighton

UFOCAT PRN – 86808. Ref G. Creighton in FSR, August 1975, p.22. Dated 07-EE-1974.

South America - Brazil

Navegantes Beach Latitude 26-54 S, Longitude 48-39 W ( D-M )

Santa Catarina Latitude 27-00 S, Longitude 50-00 W [ State/ADMD ]

Florianopolis Latitude 27-35 S, Longitude 48-34 W

Reference: Brazil Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., January 1963

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) - Latitude 26.85 S, Longitude 48.65 W ( D.% )


08-03-1974

(196) Saturday, 3 August 1974 (22:15) Benajarafe (Málaga, Spain)
Two seminarians informed the office of the local newspaper that they had seen an unidentified object on the sea emitting orange, yellow, and green flashes, which emerged and submerged several times in a row, then disappearing in the sky at great speed. The object was 200 m. away. It was also seen by the customers of a restaurant and a hotel in the area. (Sur, 4 August 1974.)

This reference: A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, p. 52

With thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – 94320. Ref. Flying Saucer Review, June 1977, p. 33 – Cape Trafalgar. No

location. Dated 08-EE-1974.

Europe - Spain

Benajarafe Latitude 36-43 N, Longitude 4-12 W ( D-M ) [ Railroad Station ]

Málaga Latitude 36-48 N, Longitude 4-45 W [ ADMD ]

Cape Trafalgar Latitude 36-11 N, Longitude 6-02 W

Reference: Spain and Andorra Gazetteer, Prepared by the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., April 1961


11-09-1974
Submerged UFO Really Identified?
On November 9, 1974, three teenagers and several anonymous callers reported seeing a mysterious glowing object fall from the skies into a small silt pond behind Russell Park in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and even though police have written off the affair as a massive hoax, doubts continue to exist.
Some of the reasons for the doubt include the testimony of a Russell Park employee who arrived on the scene 15 minutes after the alleged splashdown. He said the brightness of the object fluctuated, brightening and dimming alternately. A volunteer fireman backed up the statement, and said that the object he saw glowing in the pond could not have been the railroad lantern which was retrieved by police the next day. Police had tried to hook the thing into a net on the end of a long pole on Sunday, the 10th, but had no luck. A policeman, speaking "off the record," said that what he saw in the water could not have been a railroad lantern. Other points which lend doubt were the facts that a scuba diver from New York State retrieved the lantern, his wife said she would not comment when asked whether he had been requested to go to Carbondale by authorities there, and a police scuba diving team as well as divers from the Wallenpaupack Scuba Club (located in Carbondale) were not asked to search for the lantern.
A Carbondale merchant who sells lanterns such as that retrieved from the pond said the lantern couldn't have stayed lit for nine hours (from the time it was seen to come down until it was retrieved). Consequently, a large number of people in the Carbondale area doubt that the police retrieved the real source of the glow.
This reference: The APRO Bulletin, January/February 1975, pp. 8-9

UFOCAT PRN – None

North American – United States, Pennsylvania
Carbondale - Latitude 41-34 N, Longitude 75-30 W ( D-M )
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


02-10-1975

ANOTHER CLOSE CONTACT ON RÉUNION Part 2

Lieut- Colonel Lobet

(Extract)

XI -- Further Supportive Material

Monsieur Guy Pothin testified that at about 10.00 p.m. on February 10, 1975, at Petite Ile, he had seen a very bright object come up out of the sea ⁶ and fly overhead very fast. He had watched this object for a considerable time, and had spoken to his brother about it, but he had never mentioned it to Antoine Séverin (with whom he worked).

References (By Translator)

6. Here, on the contrary, is a detail that is of the greatest conceivable importance and interest! Réunion lies away out in the vast Indian Ocean. And here is a witness claiming to have seen a UFO come up out of the sea and fly over the island. (Compare with the many reports in FSR in past years about UFOs seen leaving or entering the sea, most especially around the coasts of South America and in the Mediterranean, as well as round the shores of the British Isles.)

This reference: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 25, No. 3, May/June 1979, pp. 8-9.

Secondary reference: Unexplained Mysteries of the 20^th Century, by Janet & Colin Bord,

p. 167 published 1989.

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

Indian Ocean – Réunion ( France )
Unable to locate Petite-Ile in gazetteers or online gazetteers. However from the map it is approximately: Latitude 21-20 S, Longitude 55-33 E ( D-M )


04-06-1975

Three UFOs Sighted From Japanese Freighter

Translated by J.I Takanashi (from Japan Flying Saucer Investigation, No. 76)

On the night of April 6,1975, at around 11:20 p.m., the Japanese freight "Shinto Maru" was navigating homeward about 180 miles southwest of Singapore, after unloading lauan wood at Diambi in Sumatra, when the Third Mate sighted a strange, lighted craft approaching the freighter from the port side. The object, which appeared to be traveling on top of the water, suddenly ascended. When the mate signaled it with the steamer's light, it appeared to respond with its own light. Then the object changed course, rose higher, and flew off on a course of 160 degrees. The surprised Third Mate sent for the Captain, who also sighted the object through binoculars. The Captain also sighted a second object, which approached the ship and flew away in the same fashion. They later sighted a third object in the distance. Some part of this third sighting was shared by three other members of the crew.

The object was about 10 meters in diameter and about 2 meters thick, in the Captain's estimate. It had one blue light and three red lights on the underside and there were many port holes encircling the dome-shaped upper part. Inside the port holes there was a yellowish-white light, and the middle of the underside appeared whitish. Steersman Yoshio Kotani, 30 years old, a deckhand, and a salon boy were the other witnesses.

This reference: The MUFON Journal, Vol. #108, November 1976

With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

Note: “180 miles southwest of Singapore”, would put the ship on dry land in Riau, Indonesia. Therefore the author must mean 180 miles southeast, which would be in the area of Sumatra.

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

Sumatra

Diambi Unable to locate although there are references to it online.

Singapore

Singapore Latitude 1-17-35 N, Longitude 103-51-21 E ( D-M-S )

Latitude 1.2931 N, Longitude 103.8558 E ( D.% )

http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=1.2931&long=103.8558&name=Singapore%20City&cty=Singapore&alt=3


05-01-1975

Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs) could pose a real threat to mankind, says Washington, D.C., ufologist, Donald Anderson, who has conducted extensive research into the phenomenon.

"This is something that ought to be taken very seriously,” warns Anderson. "The reports of objects in the sky tend to get more attention. They're 'sexier,' more sensational -- perhaps closer to home for most people. But our real worry should be at sea."

On May I, 1975, off the coast of Italy, Lt. Arthur Pezzano watched a massive, grey, pebble-shaped object with round portholes on its rim, shoot up from the ocean off the coast of Italy and circle the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before it submerged, it was also observed by 90 crew members. No explanation was provided.

Original: National Spotlite, Vol. 13, No. 12, July 1978, p. 11

Need: MUFON Journal # 153 ( Jan. 1981 ? ) page unknown

With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

NO SPECIFIC LOCATION


05-13-1975
CISU Case # 036
Location: Mosciano Sant'Angelo (TE)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Possible meteorite
*** A fire ball was seen gliding on a lake.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 63 page 23

CrashCat case no. 034; inquiry of E. Morricone of 1975.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Teramo

Mosciano Sant'Angelo - Latitude 42-45 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.


06-21-1975
CISU Case # 037
Location: Genova
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient information
*** A luminous globe was seen falling into the sea.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “Libertà” of 6/22/1975
CrashCat case no. 035.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy

Genova - Latitude 44-25 N, Longitude 8-57 E ( D-M ) [Genoa]
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


08-01-1975

UFO SUBMERGED IN N.Y. LAKE

Field Investigator Ronald Simjian has forwarded the following information pertaining to a case he investigated in 1975: The date: August 1.

At about 6:05 p.m. EDT, 14-year-old Brad Condon arrived at a lake just downstream from Trinity Lake parked his bicycle and crawled under a fence to gain access to the lake. He fished the lake until some time after 7 p.m. during which time he noted a small airplane apparently engaged in stall practice, for the drone of the engine would suddenly diminish and then return to its original intensity repeatedly. (Nearby Westchester County Airport has two flying schools.) After 7 p.m. he left that area and went to Trinity Lake, and, using some stepping stones, walked out into shallow water and continued to fish.

At about 8 p.m., the sun had sunk below some trees on the far side of Trinity Lake, and shortly thereafter, at 8:25 p.m., a movement in the sky caught Condon's attention and looking up he noted an orange-glowing spherical object with the approximate size of a marble held at arm's length. Condon's first thought was that it was a meteor and he noted the time on his wristwatch so he could later check observatories to see if they had recorded it. Then he realized it was not a meteor; it left no trail, and was moving too slowly. It did not appear to be fiery or burning as would be the case if it had been a meteor entering the atmosphere. He fully realized that he was watching something unusual when it changed direction and began circling the lake.

It was later determined by Mr. Simjian that when first noticed, the object was at an elevation of about 40 degrees and an azimuth of about 315 degrees. It traveled on a southerly track on a possibly curved course, maintaining approximately the same angle of elevation and changing azimuth to approximately 270 degrees. It then circled back to close to its original position, probably now at a lower altitude, as Brad thought it seemed a little larger. It presented a sharply defined outline against the sky, there was no haze surrounding the object and it showed no structural details and emitted a uniform glow.

After circling, the object came to an abrupt stop. The elapsed time from first visual contact until the object stopped was estimated at about ten seconds. After stopping at approximately 315 degrees azimuth, the object began an extremely slow vertical decent. As Brad watched, he became aware that the object was now a bright glowing white. He did not notice the change of color. “It was orange. Then all of a sudden, I realized that it was white.” It was still well above the trees on the far side of the lake.

The air was calm and the surface of the lake was glassy smooth. Bats flitted about, apparently undisturbed by the strange intruder.

Brad continued to watch as the object slowly settled toward the lake's surface. He said it was so slow that it was like watching the minute hand of a clock - you know it's moving, but can hardly perceive its progress. When the object was about midway between the tops of the trees and the surface of the lake, a nauseating odor "somewhat like rotten eggs" suddenly hit Brad, and he took one whiff and bent over and vomited. He retched a couple of times, then looked back up to the UFO which was by then just above the surface of the water and Brad began to hear a slight hissing sound. There was no splashdown; the object slowly settled into the water. Complete submersion took about two minutes and ripples radiated out from the object's location. When the object was totally submerged Brad glanced at his watch - it was 8:35.

As it was now a half hour after sunset, darkness was setting in. Brad took his fishing gear and retraced the route he had taken to get to the lake. A burning sensation in his eyes had begun, which he attributed to the brightness of the object. He went on home and his father, seeing his agitation asked him what had happened and Brad related his experience. The two of them went back to the lake by car but found nothing unusual.

Mr. Simjian conducted a very thorough investigation and accompanying his report is an affidavit from Mr. Condon concerning Brad's emotional agitation upon arriving home after the experience. The accompanying photo is of Brad showing, by making a circle with his hands, the approximate size of the object as it touched the water. This report is one of the few but growing number of reports of UFOs actually entering bodies of water.

This reference: The A.P.R.O. Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 11, May 1976, pp. 1 & 3

With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – 101914. CUFOS Files on site investigation. August 30, 1975.

North America – United States, New York

Trinity Lake Latitude 41.21 N, Longitude 73.55 W ( D.% )

http://ocean1.ncd.noaa.gov/ciceof/regions/nynj/obs/river/NYNJdamtable.html

Westchester County Latitude 41.07-00 N, Longitude 73-48-00 W ( D-M-S )
Pound Ridge Latitude 41-12-31 N, Longitude 73-34-31 W [ From UFOCAT]

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 41.4 N, Longitude 73.57 W ( D.% )


??-??-1975/76

Sunset Cliffs sighting

Date: August or September, 1975 or 76

Time: Sunset

Location: Pt. Loma

Witness: Shanon Cook

Summary:

This happened so long ago that Shanon is unsure of the exact date. She reports: "...two objects coming straight up out of the sea, side by side…dripping water and moving fast…straight up into the air, and the audible gasp from everyone standing at the Point Loma Cliffs, watching the sunset, that is something I will never forget." There were several other witnesses at the time as Sunset Cliffs is a popular location. She recalls "I had walked over from my house, I lived on Pt. Loma Ave. then. It was a beautiful evening, and a gorgeous sunset. People had pulled the cars in and were standing by their cars watching the sky. A lot of people were standing all along the cliff area, as they do on gorgeous end-of-summer evenings. I recall looking to my left and seeing a tri-pod. It could have been a camera, or a telescope, I didn't look closely enough. But the houses across the street had people standing outside, some with telescopes…pointing toward the sea. I would guess at least 30 people…Well 25-30, all spread apart, some in small groups, others by themselves, like me."

"When the objects surfaced it was very fast, a straight up motion, and they were identical as far as I could see. A dull silver, shiny a bit, but not too shiny. No lights or anything else sticks out in my mind. They went straight up, equal speed, and pretty close together. Certainly not touching, but I am not great with judging distance, so it is hard for me to describe, maybe 6 or 8 feet apart. They were more of an oval shape. I had the feeling we were seeing the top of whatever it was, facing us as they were going up. They went up fast, then separated, one going to the left and one to the right, at equal speeds and at exactly the same time. It was so fast that it was hard to digest what I had just seen." MUFON and Shanon are looking for additional witnesses to this event and/or any newspaper articles that might have been written. If you were a witness to this event or know of any articles that may have been written, please contact: (619) 444-4262 24 –Hour San Diego UFO Hotline, or send an e-mail report at ptloma@n6rpf.com-us.net

This Reference: WEB PAGE: http://n6rpf.com-us.net/ptloma.html

UFOCAT PRN – Nothing specific however, the coordinates are close to 140634 Ref. George

Eberhart’s “A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 102, 1980. Sec. Ref. Saga

UFO Report, p. 32, Sept. 1977. Encinitas, CA. Loc 33.07 N, 117.28 W ( D.% )

North America – United Stated, California

Sunset Cliffs Latitude 32-44 N, Longitude 117-16 W ( D-M )

http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?country_list=&expr=sunset+cliffs&lang=e

Point Loma Latitude 32-44 N, Longitude 117-14 W

http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?country_list=&expr=point+loma&lang=e


03-28-1976

CISU Case # 039
Location: Porto San Giorgio (AP)

CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A luminous object was seen surfacing from the sea.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “Carlino Marche” of 3/31/1976

“II Giornale del Misteri” no. 64, page 13.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Ascoli Piceno

Porto San Giorgio - Latitude 43-11 N, Longitude 13-48 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


04-23-1976

At 0240 hours on April 23, 1976. 1st Lt. Hedison (a pseudonym) was on communication duty aboard a navy destroyer about 700 miles out in the Atlantic just southwest of Bermuda and bound for Boston. The Horizon Lookout called his attention to an unidentified green light at "zero-zero-zero" dead ahead through light fog. Estimated at approximately three miles, it was located in the sky at a 10° angle from the horizon.

Hedison immediately checked with the ship's radar and sonar men. Radar reported no "blip" on the scope and Sonar reported no engine, crew nor mechanical underwater sound denoting a vessel in the water other than their own sound. The Lieutenant then viewed the radar screen for himself and concurred that there was indeed no visible "blip" to indicate anything at all in the vicinity.

As Hedison stepped out on the wing of the bridge, both he and the lookouts observed the green light to drop down to within thirty to forty feet of the ocean surface and appear to move-toward them. It seemed imminent to the Lieutenant that they were now on a collision course with the unknown.

Hedison quickly checked with Radar again. Radar reported, "No blip." Sonar reported, "No sound."

The Lieutenant then ordered a ninety degree turn to starboard, and as the ship heeled around, the "light" now closer and more prominent through the fog, became a solid green glow of considerable size -- and had made a similar ninety degree turn to port -- ·and was now pacing the destroyer. Hedison ordered another ninety degree turn to starboard putting the destroyer now on a reverse course away from Boston. The UFO likewise turned to starboard, came in closer to within about fifty to sixty feet and continued to pace the ship.

Suddenly the destroyer emerged from the fog and the radar shack erupted with excitement. A sudden large "blip" appeared on the scope and now half of the ship's complement had been awakened and was crawling the decks watching.

Since the destroyer's original course toward Boston was on a heading of two-nine-two, Hedison ordered the Helmsman to bring the ship back to that heading and toward Boston again.

Instantly the UFO followed around in a wide 180° arc and took up station at some distance off the destroyer’s port beam.

As the destroyer came up on course, the Skipper appeared on the bridge having been awakened by the erratic maneuverings of the ship. Simultaneously with the Captain's arrival, the UFO rose toward their bows as if going up an inclined plane and leisurely circled the ship twice. Then once again off the port beam, it descended at moderate speed, heightened its green brilliance, then tilted at an angle, it entered the water with its leading edge.

During the encirclement of the destroyer, the Captain, Lieutenant Hedison and some of the crew had been observing the UFO-USO with binoculars. Once the object entered the water, it seemed to sink at a gradual angle until only a dim green glow could be distinguished beneath the water.

The Captain immediately advised all personnel on the bridge and on deck to forget the incident, and then presently on General communications, likewise advised the ship's company to forget the entire affair. Once again the following morning by means of General Communications, the Captain reminded the crew to dismiss the previous night's incident. Then according to Lieutenant Hedison, the Captain entered the following remarks into the ship's log.

"At approximately zero-two-four hundred hours on twenty three April 1976, Destroyer DD-000 on a course of two-nine-two, at 32° north longitude, 67° east latitude, did encounter an unidentified surface vessel.

"Since the unidentified vessel was displaying its starboard (green) light and obviously crossing our bows in light fog, it was therefore prudent to pass starboard-to-starboard for safety. (Naval rules of the Road state that boats approaching on opposite parallel courses must keep to the right and pass port-to-port.) Upon passing the unidentified vessel without incident, said unidentified executed a wide 180° arc astern of us and passed on.

"Remarks: The unidentified appeared to be a Russian trawler."

This reference: The A.P.R.O. Bulletin Vol. 26, No. 11, May 1978 “Ship's Crew Sees UFO” by Donald R. Todd

With thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

Atlantic Ocean

Bermuda Latitude 32-18N, Longitude 64-45 W ( D-M )

Reference: British West Indies and Bermuda gazetteer, Prepared in the Division of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., September 1955

North America – United States, Massachusetts

Boston Latitude 42-21-30 N, Longitude 71-03-37 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: Latitude 32° N, Longitude 67° E ( From Text )


04-25-1976

CISU Case # 040
Location: Vittoria (RG)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
***A person observed an object like a ship on the sea; after thirty minutes the object plunged into the sea.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “La Sicilia” of 4/27/1976
“ItaCat” case no. 7602

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Ragusa

Vittoria - Latitude 36-57 N, Longitude 14-32 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


08-12-1976

CISU Case # 042
Location: Caligania (L I)
CISU Classification: A (Completely submerged object or lights – real USOs )
Evaluation: Insufficient information
*** Some people saw some submarine lights; then two objects came out the sea and after some maneuvers plunged again into it.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 70, page 17
ItaCat case no. 7609.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Livorno

Caligania – Unable to locate in any gazetteer or online search.


12-28-1976

While working on an unrelated project, I recently came across a news item from late 1976 which, to some, has a quasi-relevance to ufology. The story involved the sightings of a USO -- unidentified submarine object. While such sightings have been frequently reported overseas, in particular in Scandinavian regions, [see latest reports on p7 - Ed.] they are rare in Australian regions -- which may be a function of our long coastline and low population density. Anyway, although I am fairly sure that this particular USO was in fact a terresterial submarine, there is room for doubt and debate. It makes for interesting reading.

On Tuesday, 28 December 1976, a party of about 20 Aboriginals saw a "submarine" surface about 200 metres off Coomlieyna Beach, near Ceduna, in the far west of South Australia. The Aboriginals, from the Yalata Lutheran Mission, had gone to the beach for an afternoon's fishing, when, about 3 p.m., "this thing popped out of the water", according to the Mission manager, B.R. Lindner, and "scared the living daylights out of them". The party "ran from the beach to the sandhills". Press reports then differ as to whether the object stayed on the surface and sailed out to sea, or immediately submerged, then reappeared far out to sea before submerging again, The length of the sighting was not stated, but apparently all but one witness agreed the object was about 90 feet long. So far there is nothing overly mysterious about the report. However...

All the witnesses agreed that whatever the object was, it had a white conning tower, with a ladder going from the tower to the deck, a black centre line and a red stripe/bottom at the water-line. Alas, the reported markings and description did not match the colours of any submarine in any of the world's navies. According to a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) spokesman, the sighting was being treated seriously, even though there were some official doubts that the object was a submarine. "Submarines tend to be black or a dark blue in colour so they can hide in deep water and not be seen from the air" according to the RAN official. "A white conning tower would stick out a mile."

Further, there were no known submarines, or underwater exploratory craft -- from the RAN or from other nations -- operating in waters off the S.A. west coast. Thus, commercial aircraft, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), shipping, and even local police patrols were alerted to be on the lookout for the mystery vessel in the Great Australian Bight. However, over a day had elapsed between the original sighting and official notification to the Defence Department in Canberra, so it perhaps should not be surprising to learn that nothing was ever seen of the strange submarine again.

Although the Defence Department did not speculate on the nature of the object sighted by the Yalata Aborigines, others weren't as reserved. The "obvious" solution was that it was Russian or from some other foreign, and one would presume unfriendly, nation, and on a spying mission. However, for the submarine to have been in that close to shore, near reefs, and caught-in-the-act as it was broad daylight, suggested to the RAN spokesman that "the sub was in trouble, or it's got a lousy captain". If the submarine had been from the RAN, the captain would have faced a court martial according to the Navy's spokesman, operating that close to reefs. Further, the remote west of S.A. doesn't smack as being a likely espionage-targeted region. Thus …

A spokesman for the Marine Operations Centre, in Canberra, suggested a theory that the object was an overturned vessel, possibly a large yacht. However, there were no reports of any vessels missing or overdue in the Bight area.

This reference: Fortean Times #42, pp. 57-58,”I Spy with my Little Eye, Something beginning with 'S' “ by John Prytz

Secondary reference: Unexplained Mysteries of the 20^th Century, by Janet & Colin Bord,

1989, p. 168

With Thanks to New Zealand researcher, Peter Hassall to contributing the article.

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

Australia, South Australia

Ceduna Latitude 32-07 S, Longitude 133-40 E ( D-M )

Reference: Australia Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., June 1957


01-10-1977

WAKEFIELD INCIDENT

It was five degrees above zero and blizzarding in the remote New Hampshire town of Wakefield (pop. 1400) at noon on January 10, 1977. Horse farmer William McCarthy was looking out his window at the falling snow when he was surprised to see a hole in his pond. The pond, 105 by 75 feet, had been frozen solid just the day before, when McCarthy's horses had played over the surface. He put on his coat and went outside for a closer look.

The hole was perfectly round and cut smoothly through 14 inches of ice. Eight inches of slush surrounded the hole, suggesting that something had melted through. Peering into the hole and through the clear water underneath, McCarthy saw something that looked like a one-foot-square box. He stared at it long enough to remove any doubt in his mind that he was seeing what he thought he was seeing. He raced back to the house and brought family members over for a look. Then he went to the barn to pick up a rake, a hoe, and a pole, hoping to use them to haul the mysterious device to the surface.

Back at the pond McCarthy saw that the box seemed to have sunk three feet into the muck at the bottom. Frustrated in his attempt to retrieve the object, he called a friend, Bob Palmer, who arrived around 2:30 P.M. Concerned that they might be dealing with radioactive satellite or aircraft debris, Palmer notified the police who soon arrived in the company of a local Civil Defense (CD) representative. The Geiger counter indicated a reading alarmingly above normal (three roentgens per hour versus normal background radiation of .001 roentgen). The McCarthys were warned to stay away from the water, and the CD man and the police left to inform their superiors. Half an hour later the police phoned with the news that State Deputy CD Director Weslie Williams would be coming to the farm to do further testing.

By 4 P.M. the circle of slush had expanded to 10 feet. No one showed up, however, and finally the family went to sleep. At 2 A.M., alerted by the barking of his dog, McCarthy woke up to see three men at the pond, whose entire surface had now turned to slush. The investigators, who included Williams, had two Geiger counters with them. One malfunctioned; the other read two to three roentgens per hour for the area around the water. The CD men left to notify their superior and through him Gov. Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

When McCarthy observed the pond a few hours later, he discovered a second hole, this one about 50 feet from the original. Not long afterwards someone from the attorney general's office warned McCarthy not to let his animals drink from the pond; he reappeared later in the day to express concern about possible water seepage. He also directed McCarthy and his family not to discuss the affair with anyone else until the official investigation was completed.

The next day the pond was frozen over again. Disregarding warnings, McCarthy walked out on it and looked down through the clear ice where the hole had been and to the pool bottom. A fresh six-inch wide trench stretched from beneath the first hole all the way to the second. To all appearances, the object that had entered via the former had left via the latter.

By Thursday morning, in spite of official efforts to keep the story quiet, reporters and curiosity-seekers were descending on the McCarthy property as rumors ran rampant. State police escorted all but the officially connected off the farm. Investigators tried unsuccessfully to drain the pond, then saw a six-by-three-foot opening where the original hole had been. Distant observers thought they saw the searchers retrieve a black object and place it inside a van, which quickly left the area.

State authorities acted quickly to deflate the story. By the end of the day, a statement from the governor's office declared that more sophisticated equipment had found no abnormal radioactivity in the pond and the surrounding area. The black object witnesses had seen, the authorities contended, was a container filled with soil and stone samples collected for analysis.

Media accounts treated the incident as a UFO case, even though no one reported any anomalous aerial phenomenon which might arguably be related to it. The reality of whatever may have happened was quickly buried underneath piles of rumor, speculation, and sensationalistic reporting. On the other side, attempts were made to explain the pond's curious melting as the effect of "water currents from springs." No springs, however, flowed into the pond, which McCarthy had created and which was filled by runoff water from rain and snow.

Whatever its cause, UFO-related or otherwise, the mystery of the hole in McCarthy's pond remains unsolved.

This reference: The UFO Encyclopedia by Jerome Clark Vol. 3 pp. 544-545 © 1996

Mr. Clark’s sources in descending date order:

Hamilton, William B., and Peter Anderson. "Shallow N.H. Pond Still Unfathomable." Boston Evening Globe (January 14, 1977).

Keeley, Robert. "NH Natives 'Saw' Mystery Object, State Officials Say They Didn't." Boston Herald American (January 14, 1977).

Sutherly, Curt. "Wakefield Wrap-up." UFO Newsfront (January 31, 1977): 1.

"The Wakefield Incident: Telling a UFO from a Hole in the Ground." International UFO Reporter 2,2 (February 1977): 8.

Sutherly, Curt. "The Inside Story of the New Hampshire UFO Crash." UFO Report 4,3 (July 1977): 22-23,60-61,63-64.

Hendry),, Allan. The UFO Handbook: A Guide to Investigating Evaluating and Reporting UFO Sightings. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1979.

Fowler, Raymond E. Casebook of a UFO Investigator: A Personal Memoir. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981·

UFOCAT PRN – 108913. Ref (NICAP) UFO Investigator January 1977, p. 2

North America – United States, New Hampshire.

Wakefield Latitude 43-34 N, Longitude 71-02 W ( D-M )

http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?country_list=;expr=wakefield;lang=e&first_hit=1

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) - Latitude 43.57 N, Longitude 71.02 W ( D.% )


03-??-1977

CISU Case # 044
Location: Sarnico (BS)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A hammer-shaped object was seen plunging into a lake and splitting into two parts; one disappeared into the water, the other took off. [Lake - Lago d’ Iseo (Sebino)]

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 75 page 13

“ItaCat” case no. 7707
“Brescia Oggi” of 4/02/1977
“La Notte (The Night)” of 3/30/1977
CrashCat case no. 040.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Brescia

Sarnico - Latitude 45-40-00 N, Longitude 9-56-60 E ( D-M-S )

http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=45.6667&long=9.9500&name=Sarnico&cty=Italy&alt=564


04-10-1977

THE STRANGE OBSERVATION OF THE M. V. DOLPHIN

NICAP received the following report through the courtesy of Mr. Dave Squires, the operations officer of SEAN, the Scientific Event Alert Network. SEAN is a division of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History and it deals with the researching of short-lived phenomena such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and meteors.

The sighting report involves the captain and seven members of the crew of the Hellenic M.V. Dolphin. The vessel was in route from Koper, Yugoslavia, to Ashdod, Israel, on the evening of April 10, 1977, when the strange observation took place.

FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE LIGHTS

The observation that Ioannis S. Michalos, master of the Dolphin, registered upon his arrival in the port of Ashdod, two days after the event had occurred, revealed that at approximately 8:10 P.M., he, a lookout, and the cook witnessed three bright objects directly above the sea's surface. The objects were in a straight line and each one was as big as a size "A" star. The captain estimated their diameter to be about five centimeters. Their height, measured by sextant, was five degrees. A bearing on a gyro compass repeater placed the objects at 181-182-183 degrees.

The three objects remained steady and visible for ten minutes. At 8:20 they disappeared one after the other only to reappear five minutes later on bearing 189-189.5, altitude 2.56 degrees. Only two of the objects reappeared and both of their lights were a very bright orange.

The two objects began to move toward one another. At 8:29 one of the objects disappeared. The other was at bearing 188 and at 8:31, it too disappeared,

The strange observation was not yet over. At 8:33 a single light became visible on bearing 189, altitude 2.56 degrees. At this time the first electromagnetic effects were observed. The captain's personal television, located in his office, stopped working. When the single light disappeared at 8:38, bearing 189, altitude 2 degrees, the television resumed normal functioning. Neither the electrician nor any other member of the ship had tampered with the A.C. motor. Also, during the five minutes of this sighting, the magnetic, compass was 20 degrees further east than normal. The compass was again working correctly at 8:38.

POSITION OF THE SHIP

On the evening of the sighting, the position of the Dolphin was approximately 32.13.0 north; 33.31.0 degrees east. Its course was 110 degrees; its speed 8 miles. The weather conditions were excellent with the wind ESE at 2-3 knots and the visibility at 15-20 miles. The ship's bearing was 075 degrees and had been checked with another vessel 18 miles away. The Dolphin's radar was working and showed a very thin cloud covering 12-14 miles 090 degrees east of the ship's course.

As the readings were being calculated, two of the objects on bearing 177-178, altitude 1.53, again appeared and began to approach one another. This time the chief engineer was called to the bridge to observe the event, and the second officer as well as the electrician followed him up to watch the sea's horizon and to witness the strange lights.

The two objects had reappeared at 8:45. At 8:52 one light disappeared. At 8:53 the second light followed the first and disappeared. At 8:56 one object again appeared, this time on bearing 180, altitude 1.13. The single light vanished at 9:01 still on bearing 180, altitude 1.23 degrees. At 9:05 three objects arranged in line formation became visible on bearing 187-187.5-188, altitude 1.53.0-1.53.5-1.54.0. The center light was moving steadily toward the left.

The three lights did not remain in position for long. At 9:08 the two end lights vanished, but the middle light ceased moving and remained visible. While the center light held its position, a second light appeared at sea level, on bearing 180 degrees. This sea level object disappeared at 9:11, but the center light remained steady. It was now on bearing 187, altitude 2.03.0. Then, at 9:21, this last light disappeared. Neither it nor any of the other lights reappeared again.

NEW OBJECT APPEARS

This was not the finale of the sighting, however. Not only had the bright orange lights gone, but the light cloud cover that had been observed on the radar screen also disappeared. Also, at 9:40, a new object suddenly came into view. It was a bright silver color, and at one second intervals, it emitted a bright bluish-white light.

The bright silver object was on bearing 082 degrees, sextant altitude 25 degrees. It remained steady for three to four minutes when it unexpectedly zoomed downward with a tremendous speed, continuously emitting the bluish-white light, heading directly toward the sea. The object reached the sea's surface at 9:45 and was on bearing 087 degrees. It remained on the surface for about two minutes still giving off its light. The ship's radar was unable to pick up a return from the object. Then, at 9:47, this object also disappeared. The crew members searched the sea's surface and the sky carefully, looking for any reappearance of the objects they had seen during the past hour end a half. The captain and crew remained on the bridge through the rest of the night and into the next day.

Only one last observation was made. At 1:05 A.M. a bright silver object appeared on the sea's surface, on bearing 092 degrees. It emitted the same bluish-white light and it vanished for the last time at 1:10 A.M.

Captain Michalos ended his report with the fact that, upon reaching Israel, he had checked with the proper authorities and had found that no Marine or Air military exercises had been executed at the time and date and position of his and his crew members' sighting.

All eight of the eyewitnesses signed their names to the captain's report of the strange lights, They included the captain, the engineer, the second officer, the third engineer, the electrician, two watches, and the cook.

This reference: The UFO Investigator (NICAP Publication), June 1977, pp. 1 & 3

With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – 103588. CUFOS Files Jan. 1977 (Error – before event).

Mediterranean Sea

Koper, Yugoslavia Latitude 45-33 N, Longitude 13-44 E ( D-M )

Reference: Yugoslavia gazetteer, Published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Washington, D.C., March 1983.

Ashdod, Israel Latitude 31-49 N, Longitude 34-39 E ( D-M )

Reference: Israel gazetteer, Published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Washington, D.C., September 1983.

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) Latitude 32.21 N, Longitude 33.52 E ( D.% )

( Text ) Latitude 32-13-00 N, Longitude 33-31-00 E ( D-M-S )


04-16-1977

CISU Case # 045
Location: Cologna Spiaggia (TE)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A sailor saw some luminous bars falling into the sea.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 114 pp. 12-14

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Teramo

Cologna Spiaggia – Unable to locate in any gazetteer


6~9-??-1977

It is in the islands around Belém, where the waters of the Tarantins and the Amazon majestically come to meet the ocean one degree south of the equator, that the 1977 Brazilian wave culminated; and it is there that for the first time the proof of the reality of the phenomenon was obtained. More specifically, as Daniel Rebisso has revealed, the culmination took place over a three-month period from July to September 1977 on the island of Colares and on the beach of Baia do Sol, on the island of Mosqueiro ( Ref. Rebisso Giese, OVNI no Para ).

We found fishermen there who had witnessed the objects, and a doctor who had ministered to the medical needs of dozens of people hit by the light from the chupa. She confirmed that one of her patients died after the experience. Several of these witnesses also told us that they had observed two teams of Brazilian military filming the objects, attempting contact.

Ground truth: there was no denying the wave of 1977. It started in June near Cape Gurupi, north of the town of Vizeu, and it moved in both directions along the coast: toward São Luís to the east and toward Belém to the west during June and July; it reached a peak in September and October.

The reason the phenomenon could not be denied was very simple: every evening the UFOs appeared, coming from the north. In some cases, they flew down from the sky, in others, they emerged out of the ocean. I saw a photograph of an object with a luminous white ring flying right out of the brackish water at dusk.

They came over the islands at low altitude and circled; they descended as if to land; they made loops and accelerated suddenly; they hovered over houses and probed the inside with beams. They even emerged out of larger objects and reentered them. And this happened on schedule, every evening for three months.

This reference: Confrontations, by Jacques Vallee, pp. 198-199, © April 1990

With thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO Database, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

South America – Brazil

Belém Latitude 1-27 S, Longitude 48-29 W (D-M )

Colares Latitude 0-55 S, Longitude 48-13 W [ Ilha de Colares ]

Mosqueiro Latitude 1-07 S, Longitude 48-24 W

Cape Gurupi Latitude 0-56 S, Longitude 46-10 W

Vizeu Latitude 1-12 S, Longitude 46-07 W

São Luís Latitude 3-33 S, Longitude 43-31 W

Reference: Brazil Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., January 1963


07-??-1977 b

CISU Case # 046
Location: Roseto degli Abruzzi (TE)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A young man was bathing and saw a sphere come out of the sea and fly away.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: Bollettino Pattuglia Spectra Scouts dell’ottobre 1978
“Morgana” no. 1 pp. 22-23
“ItaCat” case no. 7716.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Teramo

Roseto degli Abruzzi - Latitude 42-41 N, Longitude 14-01 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


07-26-1977

CISU Case # 048
Location: Imperia
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** An object was seen falling into the sea and sometime after was able to come out again and disappear at the zenith.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “Notiziario UFO” of February 1979, pp. 6-7

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy

Imperia - Latitude 43-53 N, Longitude 8-03 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


07-31-1977

CISU Case # 049
Location: Imperia
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** An object was seen falling into the sea and then come out again and disappeared at zenith.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 85 page 11

“La Stampa” ed. Liguria of 8/2/1977

“Gazzetta del Popolo” of 8/1/1977.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy

Imperia - Latitude 43-53 N, Longitude 8-03 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


08-09-1977

CISU Case # 050
Location: Imperia
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** An object was seen falling into the sea and then came out again and disappeared at zenith.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “IL Resto del Carlino” of 1/13/1979

“ItaCat” case no. 7717.

UFOCAT PRN – 125739. Ref. ITACAT - Verga Maurizio

Europe – Italy

Imperia - Latitude 43-53 N, Longitude 8-03 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


12-??-1977

In December 1977, not far from the Novy Georgy Island, the crew of the fishing trawler Vasily Kiselev also observed something quite extraordinary. Rising vertically from under the water was a doughnut-shaped object. Its diameter was between 300 and 500 meters. It hovered at the altitude of four to five kilometers. The trawler's radar station was immediately rendered inoperative. The object hovered over the area for three hours, and then disappeared instantly.

This reference: The Soviet UFO Files, by Paul Stonehill, p. 73 © 1998

& Web site http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1998/dec/d14-001.shtml

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

Unable to locate Novy Georgy in online or library gazetteers for Russia.


12-22-1977

UNDERWATER UFO WITH "MOTHER SHIP"

By Donald E. Todd

Walt Hammel (pseudonym) age 48, is a TWA pilot. After a previous encounter reported to theFAA and upon ensuing company and other authoritative harassment, has sworn never to report another UFO encounter. Fortunately he has confidence in APRO's and my confidentiality and discretion.

Thursday December 22, 1977, 11:40 p.m. Captain Walt Hammel and Lt. Slim Dickson flew out of Boston's Logan International Airport. (Both names are pseudonyms)

At 4:45 p.m. Friday December 23, 1977, Captain Hammel called me to report a UFO close encounter and that he wanted to talk it out. At 5:30 p.m. Capt. Hammel and I met at the Pagoda Chinese Restaurant in North Kingtown, Rhode Island and Capt. Hammel narrated the following:

"We were out about six hundred miles over the Atlantic at 21,000 feet heading in to Logan. The weather was clear except for some widely scattered clouds beneath us. It was 11:40 p.m. and I had a guy by the name of Slim Dickson as co-pilot. We had just been having a cup of coffee and Slim had set his cup on the panel next to his right elbow. As he put the cup down, he glanced out to what would be between One and Two o'clock, and suddenly he grabs me by the arm.

"Reflexively I swiveled my head to look at him and caught this dazzle of twinkling lights coming at us from the starboard side, just ahead, and appearing maybe about fifty feet below. Instantly Slim and I realized that whatever the thing was, it was moving in a hurry, that it was entirely too close, and appeared to be about to cross in front of, or about to collide with us. And it was huge!

"I slammed on some power, hauled the nose up and prayed we'd go over top of that thing. Just as we started to climb, this thing swept straight up, did an impossible right angle turn and begins to pace us. I don't see how ANYTHING could have executed a maneuver like that -- I mean almost a simultaneous two-directional turn -- up and to the right, not to mention coming to damned near a dead stop!

"We couldn't detect any sound, see any prop or jet wash, nor see any exhaust. It just kept flashing a lot of lights around the middle. Once we leveled off again, the thing stayed just ahead of us off to our right and we had a chance to observe it. We couldn't see any hard outline or shape to it but,
you could tell it was circular because of the lights.

“The lights were mostly white." Here Walt Hammel grinned. "This is going to make you laugh and sound nutty as hell. But do you know what it reminded me of? It reminded me of an Oreo cookie.” Hammel put his hands together in a circle. “There was a red blinking light on top of the thing with all of those twinkling, silvery-white lights on around the middle. In other words, there was darkness between the red light on top and the white lights around the middle, and then darkness below the lights again.

A little later the thing rose up and there was another red blinking light on the bottom of it. So with the dark on top and the bottom, and the silvery-white lights in the middle, it Just reminded me of an Oreo cookie.

"It looked as if about every dozen or so lights around the middle, there was a reddish-purple one and in between THEM, there was a blue one. But they were all blinking off and on intermittently.

"l don't mind telling you I was nervous as hell, and Slim, be was chalk white and scared stiff. It suddenly occurred to me...what if the passengers are watching that thing? What am I going to tell them? I didn’t want panic back there, so I buzzed the stewardess. When she came on the phone I asked her how things were back there? She answered, "Okay, why?" l said, “Oh, nothing, Just checking.” l figured as long as she hadn’t made any mention of the thing out there, then evidently none of the passengers had spotted it. The object may just have been far enough forward to be out of their sight line.

"Now comes, the wacky part of the whole thing. While we were watching the UFO, suddenly this other glowing thing drops out from underneath it. The damned thing drops out from underneath it. The damned thing looked a neon-green smoke ring. It dropped away from the larger UFO down toward the water … and submerged! We saw the glowing green circle of water where it went in, and then the glow disappeared!

“Seconds later, two more green rings dropped out. The second one dropped away and submerged like the first one, but the third one dropped down and then shot straight ahead to disappear toward the coast.

"It was hard to tell sizes but, afterward over a couple of beers, Slim and I finally came to the conclusion that the BIG one must have been all of a hundred feet across, or maybe even more. By comparison, the smaller ones looked like they might have been twenty feet across.
“If I guess the big UFO paced us for about twenty minutes, then all of a sudden the lights around the middle began going out in clusters -- not in banks of say, six or eight in a row, but six or eight separate individual lights at the same time. like someone inside was throwing switches. The top and bottom blinking red lights went out too with only scattered blue lights around the middle still blinking.

"As our .eyes became accustomed to the dark again, we could faintly see the silhouette of … like two inverted shallow soup bowls put together. Then very faintly just above the mid-lateral line, we could see soft subdued green flow emanating from what appeared to be trapezoidal shaped windows...you know… wider at the bottom than at the top.

"Just about the time our eyes got focused on the windows, the thing assumed an overall bluish corona. Then it took off straight ahead like a cut cat, leaving nothing in front of us but a blue Streak in the sky. It :was positively the damnedest thing I've ever seen. When we finally came into Logan, we must have hit the runway half a dozen times I was so damned nervous."

This reference (original): APRO Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 10, April 1978, pps.5-6

UFOCAT PRN – 106633. No Location.

Atlantic Ocean off North America – United States, Massachusetts

Boston – Latitude 42-21-30 N, Longitude 71-03-37 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


03-05-1978

CISU Case # 054
Location: Massa
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** An airplane was seen falling into the sea, continued searches were useless.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “La Nazione” of 3/6/1978
CrashCat case no. 042

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy

Massa - Latitude 44-01 N, Longitude 10-09 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


06-24-1978

CISU Case # 055
Location: Civitanova Marche (MC)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Probable boat
*** A Light was seen swimming on the surface, underneath one could see an obscure object.

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. 97 page 17

“ItaCat” case no. 78025
“Notiziario UFO” October 1979, page 38.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Macerata

Civitanova Marche - Latitude 43-18 N, Longitude 13-44 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


08-16-1978

CISU Case # 120
Location: Monte del Lago (PG)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A light was seen whirling in the sky, stopping many times on the surface of the water.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: Letter of the witness to the group CRAU of May 1981

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Perugia

Monte del Lago - Latitude 43-09 N, Longitude 12-09 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


08-18~20-1978

CISU Case # 059
Location: Acciardi (SA)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Probable Meteorite
*** A Luminous Globe was seen coming down into the sea and disappearing into it.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: Inquiry of A. Marasco of 6/17/1979

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Salerno

Acciardi – Unable to locate in any gazetteer.


08-27-1978
(Extract)
Later that night-actually during the early morning hours of August 27 -a woman socialite from a very illustrious family from Wellfleet, also on Cape Cod, had awakened at 4:22 A.M. to use the bathroom and noticed a light source through her bedroom window. She glanced and saw an object with curved sides flying silently from the bay side toward the ocean, its speed slower than that of a conventional aircraft. It emitted a vaguely glowing vapor and carried a number of lights that reminded her of a neon theater marquee.
Later in the day, several hours after Arthur's UFO experience, another sighting was made by a trained observer from Cape Ann, just 40 miles up the coast. The witness was Robert L. Sampson, age 48, who has a master's degree in biology and physics and teaches physics at the local high school. He works for the Civil Defense as a radiologist, and received training in aircraft identification during his tour of duty as a radar-sonar operator with the U.S. Navy:
I had been working in my backyard and was taking a rest, sitting in a chaise on my patio. The mackerel sky and cloud formation were interesting. I spotted an orange circle towards the North, which was too low for aircraft in our vicinity to be at. When I first saw the object, it looked like an orange ball that was falling. Then, as it came into view, it looked like a target sleeve we used during navy gunnery practice, but there wasn't any aircraft towing it, The object moved from north to south. It did not veer from its trajectory and disappeared beyond the tree line. It was in sight for a period of ten seconds and traversed an arc of about 120 degrees ... I was amazed at the utter silence of the object. It was smaller than an F- 100 jet fighter at the same altitude ….I could see no apparent controls like rudder, or wings, or ailerons.
Bob estimated that at its closest point, the strange cylindrical object was about 2,000 feet away. It appeared to be on a gently descending flight path that would have caused it to enter the ocean.
This reference: Casebook of a UFO Investigator, by Raymond Fowler, p. 77 © 1981
With Thanks to Ray Fowler for permission to post this material, and to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – None ***BUT** #109572 also by Ray Fowler in MUFON Journal Aug. 1978 , p. 5, field investigated case with Radar confirmation. County – Barnstable. ?? Same day – same object ??

North America – United States, Massachusetts
Wellfleet Latitude 41-56 N, Longitude 70-02 W ( D-M ) [County – Barnstable]
Cape Ann Latitude 42-39 N, Longitude 70-36 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 of Geographic Names, Washington, D.C., 1990.


09-16-1978 b

CISU Case # 060
Location: Naples
CISU Classification: A (Completely submerged object or lights – real USOs )
Evaluation: Possible Submarine
*** Some People saw some bubbles of air in the harbor and a flash of light that passed under the boats.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: Inquiry of U.Telarico of 11/11/1978
“II Giornale del Misteri” no. 140 page 15

“Notiziario UFO” of February 1979 pp. 14-15

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy

Naples - Latitude 40-50 N, Longitude 14-15 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


09-28-1978
CISU Case # 061
Location: Pesaro
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** An object was seen falling into the sea.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “Carlino Marche” of 9/29/1978

CrashCat case no. 044.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy

Pesaro - Latitude 43-54 N, Longitude 12-55 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


10-21-1978
NOTE: This is an aside of the very famous “Valentich” case and needs no further text. Of interest to me was the water connection, which I had not been aware of. –CF-

Postscript.
This chapter attempts to recreate an actual abduction of the young pilot by an unidentified flying object (UFO). The primary intent has only been to show that both motives and means could possibly exist for such an abduction. While it is impossible to prevent inclusion of anthropomorphic projection by the author, and attempt was made to keep them to a minimum.
UFO field investigations conducted by members of the Victorian UFO Research Society have uncovered numerous eye witnesses of unexplained aerial phenomena before, during, and after the Valentich disappearance. A wide range of colors, shapes, directions of travel, and other distinguishing features characterize these phenomena. Typical of so many other UFO reports, there seem to be more differences than similarities here. Yet there is one source of information concerning a possible anomalous aerial object near Cape Otway that deserves further comment.
A Melbourne plumber, Mr. Roy Manifold allegedly took a series of still color photographs of the setting sun from the beach near Cape Otway on October 21st. The location was Crayfish Bay. With his camera set on a tripod, Manifold carefully aimed the camera so that the sea's horizon was at proximately centered vertically. The time was about 6:47 pm, some twenty minutes before Frederick Valentich first radioed Melbourne concerning his aerial encounter. Manifold set the automatic timer to produce a new exposure every twenty seconds. An article in The Standard (Melbourne), July 23, 1980, pg. 5 stated that the photographer "...did not see the object. Mr. Norman (the local investigator for the Victorian UFO Research Society) said after the photographs were processed Mr. Manifold contacted the society and told it they had been taken on the day Valentich disappeared." Photographic evidence of UFO phenomena is very common; such evidence cannot be accepted uncritically without far more documentation than is associated here.
Six frames of this film were obtained by Mr. Norman for computer enhancement by the American UFO study group, Ground Saucer Watch (GSW), Phoenix, Arizona. In their official summary report on this analysis GSW personnel state:
"Six color negatives were given to GSW for evaluation utilizing computer photographic analysis methods. All photographs reveal both foreground and background data points, in a sunset lighting mode. In frame five an anomalous image appears to be "surfacing" from the water. "In frame six, taken approximately twenty seconds later, a large cloud-like image, with a disc structure is visible above the tenuous shape. The photographer maintains he did not see the UO image. This is entirely possible as the witness was looking directly west into the sunset. There is a calm sea and the weather data supports that the wind was only in a breeze condition. "All modes of computer analysis were used to gain data in this UO sequence including: edge enhancement, color contouring, digitizing, computerizing and filtering. "The interpretations revealed the following information: 1) The first impression one is left with upon viewing the film is that the UO image is an emulsion defect. However, a close examination of the original negatives revealed that the image was not caused by any artifact on the emulsion. 2) Computer analysis revealed that the image was not any known type of cloud or weather phenomena. In fact, digital densitometry revealed a highly reflective area at the "top" of the UO image, indicative of a metallic structure. 3) There is no evidence of a hoax, especially in light of the fact that the pictures (sequence) appear to be taken in a rapid order, not exceeding 30 seconds from frame to frame. To super-impose in the last frame, a Cloud-like structure, is beyond the realm of possibility in such a short time period. 4) Color contouring, used to graphically define density revealed that the disc-like portion of the UO was very bright when compared to other features in the photograph 5) digitizing for distance factoring revealed that the UO image had similar distortion characteristics of features approximately one mile from the camera/witness. 6) The top of the UO is being back-lighted by the setting sun and a reflection or glare from /,he UO's apparent curvilinear surface is obvious. 7) High, and low pass filtering revealed a definite disc structure above the "cloud". 8) The UO image is slightly blurred due to "object" motion. The direction is slightly to the right and up. 9) The size of the UO image, based on the lens data and computer comparison of other features, reveals and approximate size of twenty feet. The aspect ratio, diameter to thickness, is 6 to 1.

"CONCLUSIONS: Based on the computerized data of the pictures, it. is the consensus of the GSW technicians that the images represent a bona fide unknown flying object, of moderate dimensions, apparently surrounded by a cloud-like vapor/exhaust residue?

According to the above analysis, frame five contains the anomalous image allegedly coming up out of the sea yet in the sixth frame, taken some twenty seconds later, the surface of the sea is just as calm and undisturbed as in frame four! While lack of significant cloud motion from frame to frame supports the contention shat the original negative strip was probably obtained without interruption (to introduce a deliberate superimposed image) and over a fairly brief period of time, such evidence does not rule out a hoax. Indeed, one could readily contrive a partially reflecting glass plate filling the camera's field of view which could reflect into the lens the "anomalous" image. Frame to frame exposure densitometry must be done to check on this possibility.
It is also unclear why Manifold did not see the strange aerial object at alt. The published photograph of frame six shows an extremely dark cloud-like structure in the air but no corresponding reflection of it in the water. The intense sunset sky-glow would be expected to produce such a reflection if the cloud was actually present when the film was originally exposed. One reason given for the photographer not having seen the cloud-like image was that he was looking into the bright setting sun. This reason is not convincing since the apparent location of the cloud was at least 15 to 20 degrees arc above the horizon where the sun's disc would be. The human eye can easily perceive objects against a light sky background this far from the sun's intense disc, i.e., if the object is there in the first place.
It is the opinion of the writer that the dark cloud-like image of frame six was somehow added after the exposure was made at Cape Otway. Deputy picture editor for The Sun newspaper of Melbourne, Bill Tindale said, "The alleged UFO is just a dark grey, blurred blob on the negative."
The possibility that UFO reports for the Cape Otway and King Island areas for October 21, 1978 will help substantiate the hypothesis that Frederick Valentich was involved in an encounter with a UFO remains problematic. No matter how convincing these other sighting reports may be they cannot prove that Valentich had confronted a UFO.
This reference: Melbourne Episode: case study of a missing pilot, by Dr. Richard Haines, pp. 157-160. © 1987
With thanks to Dr. Haines for copies and permission to post to this site, and with thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATA BASE for help in locating it. See http://www.larryhatch.net

Other references:
"Foreign Forum." International UFO Reporter 3,12 (December 1978): 2-10
"The Missing Cessna and the UFO.", by Bill Chalker, in Flying Saucer Review 24,5
(March 1979): 3-5.
"Did UFO Abduct Aircraft?" by Rocky Wood, Fate 32,3 (March 1979): 61-65.
“The Devil's Meridian”, by Kevin Killey and Gary Lester, 1980
“Let's Hope They're Friendly!” by Quentin Fogarty London, 1982.
"Results of Sound Spectrum Analysis of the Metallic Noises of a Tape-Recorded Radio
Transmission Between Cessna VH:DSJ and the Flight Service of Melbourne,
Australia." Journal of UFO Studies 3 (old series, 1983): 14-23.
"Vanished?—The Valentich Affair Reexamined." Flying Saucer Review 30,2 (1984): 6-
12.3
“Aliens Over Antipodes.” by Murray Stott, 1984
“Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up” by Timothy Good 1988
“The UFO Encyclopedia, Vol. 3 “High Strangeness: UFOs from 1960-1979, by Jerome
Clark, pp. 537-543, © 1996

UFOCAT PRN : The following are in reference to the “Valentich” encounter.
101532 Ref. International UFO Reporter, Dec. 1978, p. 2
Location – Latitude 39.0 S, Longitude 143.7 E ( D.% )
110539 Ref. International UFO Reporter, Dec. 1978, p. 10
Location – Latitude 39.0 S, Longitude 143.7 E
113295 Ref. - MUFON Journal, Oct. 1979, p. 6, by Paul Norman ( Onsite
Investigation ) Location – Latitude 39.0 S, Longitude 143.7 E
113294 Ref. - MUFON Journal, Nov. 1979, p. 6, by Paul Norman
Location – Latitude 39.0 S, Longitude 143.7 E
110072 Undated by Richard Haines, document not specified.
Location – Latitude 39.0 S, Longitude 143.7 E

Australia, New South Wales & Tasmania
Cape Otway Latitude 38-52 S, Longitude 143-31 E ( D-M )
Crayfish Bay Latitude 42-43 S, Longitude 148-05 E
Melbourne Latitude 35-14 S, Longitude 147-05 E
King Island Latitude 39-50 S, Longitude 144-00 E
Reference: Australia Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., June 1957


10-23-1978 a

OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS

THE ADRIATIC TRIANGLE: WHALES OR SUBMERGED UFOS?

Some unusual marine events in the Adriatic sea were quickly tied in to the UFO flap by the Italian press. Magazines like L'Espresso and Gente made mention of a column of water rising from the sea four miles out of Pedaso. Federicco Ricci, 35, and his son, Gabriele, I7, estimated the column to have hovered 100 feet high by 15 feet wide for a few seconds before falling fanlike back into the sea, leaving a large area of foam. The weather was clear and calm that morning, and the column of water was only about 500 feet away from them, yet there was no undertow. The two fishermen were to see this phenomenon again on the 23rd, along with another boat, the Patrizia, a little south of the first one.

This reference: The International UFO Reporter, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 17

Secondary reference: Unexplained Mysteries of the 20^th Century, by Janet & Colin Bord,

p. 167 published 1989.

UFOCAT PRN – 111310. Ref – IUR Oct. 1979, p. 17 (see above)

CISU – None

Europe - Italy

Pedaso Latitude 43-06 N, Longitude 13-50 S ( D-M )

This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956, pp. 100, 242 and 272.

UFO location ( UFOCAT 111310 ) Latitude 43.10 N, Longitude 13.85 S ( D.% )


10-23-1978 b

CISU Case # 062
Location: Cupra Marittima (AP)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A luminous ball was seen flying at 30 meters and under the sea there was a dark object.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: Bollettino Pattuglia Spectra Scouts
“ItaCat“case no. 78046
“Morgana” no. 1 page 30
Inquiry of E. Morricone of 7/18/1979
“II Giornale del Misteri” no. 108 page 20

“Notiziario UFO” of February 1979, page 9

“Notiziario UFO” of November 1979, page 37
R. Pinotti “UFO: scacchiere Italia” ed. Oscar mondadori, pp. 113-114.

UFOCAT PRN – 125395. Ref. Lumieres dans la Nuit #210

Europe – Italy, Ascoli Piceno

Cupra Marittima - Latitude 43-01 N, Longitude 13-51 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


10-24-1978

OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS

Extract

The two fishermen were to see this phenomenon again on the 23rd, along with another boat, the Patrizia, a little south of the first one.

The next day, at 11 AM, two more fishermen reported seeing a dark body longer than their boat emerge from the sea and stay afloat for 30 seconds before disappearing again. The idea of a whale or a submarine was discounted because of the shallowness of the water.

This reference: The International UFO Reporter, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 17

Secondary reference: Unexplained Mysteries of the 20^th Century, by Janet & Colin Bord,

p. 167 Published 1989.

UFOCAT PRN – 111311. Ref. IUR Oct. 1979, p. 7 (As above ) – Location – Adriatic Sea

UFOCAT PRN – 125396. Ref. LDLN #210

CISU # 063
Location: Grottammare (AP)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Probable cetaceous
*** An Obscure target, similar to a whale, was seen still in a 12meter deep sea.
Original references: R. Pinotti “UFO: scacchiere Italia” ed. Oscar Mondadori, page 115
“Notiziario UFO” of February 1979, page 10
“Notiziario UFO” of November 1979, page 37
“II Messaggero” of 11/01/1978
Inquiry of E. Morricone of 07/18/1979
“II Giornale dei Misteri“ no. 109 page 22
“ItaCat“ case no. 78047.

Europe - Italy

Grottammare Latitude 42-58-60 N, Longitude 13-52-00 S ( D-M-S )

Latitude 42.9833 N, Longitude 13.8667 S ( D.% )

http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=42.9833&long=13.8667&name=Grottammare&cty=Italy&alt=3

UFO Location ( UFOCAT #125396 ) - Latitude 42.98 N, Longitude 13.87 S ( D.% )


10-27-1978 a

Note: Possible date error by IUR, shown as 07-26-1978. See CISU references below IUR text. – CF-

OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS

Extract

On October 26, the crew of the Triglia spotted a third column of water, and also caught sight of the mysterious dark body in the sea again. Its rapid reemergence into the depths caused the boat to list. Also on the 26th, Capt. Merlini of the Nello saw the sea divided as if by a very fast phantom motorboat. Add to this the mysterious deaths at sea of two fishermen, Gianfranco and Vittorio DeFulgentis on Oct. 12. The men died in a very calm sea in the vicinity of the water columns and dark bodies, where their boat submerged. Thus was born the "Adriatic Triangle" and the speculative "extraterrestrial" connections with the UFO flap.

This reference: The International UFO Reporter, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 17

Secondary reference: Unexplained Mysteries of the 20^th Century, by Janet & Colin Bord,

p. 167 Published 1989.

UFOCAT PRN – 111313. Ref IUR Oct. 1979, p. 17 (See above). Location Adriatic Sea

UFOCAT PRN – 111312. Ref LDLN #210. Location Adriatic Sea

CISU Case # 064 10-27-1978
Location: Grottammare (AP)
CISU Classification: A (Completely submerged object or lights – real USOs )
Evaluation: Probable cetaceous
*** A dark shape was seen plowing the sea at high speed.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “Notiziario UFO” of February 1979, page 10

R. Pinotti “UFO: scacchiere Italia” ed. Oscar Mondadori, page 115

Bollettino Pattuglia Spectra Scouts
“II Messaggero” of 11/01/1978
Morgana no. 1 page 31
“II Giornale del Misteri” no. 109 page 23

Inquiry of E. Morricone of 7/18/1979

“Notiziario UFO of November 1979, page 38
“ItaCat” case no. 78049.

UFOCAT PRN – 125400. Ref. Lumieres dans la Nuit #210

Europe – Italy, Ascoli Piceno

Grottammare - Latitude 42.59 N, Longitude 13.52 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 42.98 N, Longitude 13.87 E ( D.% )


10-27-1978 b

It should be noted that such observations of submerged objects, although rare, are not unknown in the UFO literature. For example, on October 27, 1978, at 6:40 P.M., two Italian fishermen in Falcone (Piombino) saw a luminous, bell-shaped object come out of the sea with a metallic sound and fly to within 150 feet of their location.

This reference: The UFO Enigma by Peter A. Sturrock, pp. 211, Pub. 1999

Original reference: Cappa, P., and Winter, A. (1979). “E Nel Livornese,” Notiziario UFO, 11, No. 2, p. 15

Secondary reference: Confrontations by Jacques Vallee, p. 52, published 1990. NOTE:

Wrong date – 09-27-1978

UFOCAT PRN – None ( Note: #125400 refers to USOCAT case # 063 )
CISU Case # 065 10-27-1978
Location: Piombino (LI)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** An object was seen coming out the water and making some maneuvers.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “Itacat” case no. 78050
“Notiziario UFO” of February 1979, page 15
“Notiziario UFO” of November 1979, page 38
R. Pinotti “UFO: scacchiere Italia” ed. Oscar Mondadori,

Pp.111-112.

“II Tirreno” of 10/29/1978.
“Ufologia” no. 1 page 40
“II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 109 page 23.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Livorno

Needs clarification as Falcone & Piombino are widely separated.

Falcone Latitude 38-07 N, Longitude 15-05 E ( D-M )

Piombino Latitude 42-55 N, Longitude 10-32 E

This reference: Italy Gazetter, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956, pp. 100, 242 and 272.


10-31-1978

CISU Case # 066
Evaluation: Acquaviva Picena (AP)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Location: Insufficient Information
*** A red globe was seen plunging slowly into the sea and disappearing.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Messaggero” of 11/3/1978
“II Giornale dei Misteri no. 110 page 16
“ItaCat” case no. 78051.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Ascoli Piceno

Acquaviva Picena - Latitude 42-56 N, Longitude 13-48 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


11-03-1978
TYPE: NL
DATE: Nov. 3
TIME: 4 AM
DURATION: 2 hours
WITNESSES: 1
PLACE: At sea, near San Benedetto del Tronto
SOURCE: Oggi magazine (Dec. 2), Gente magazine (same date)
Fisherman Antonio Pallesca caught sight of a reddish light at sea following his boat. Frightened, he drew up his nets and directed his ship towards land. The light stayed with him, first behind him, then beside him, then in front of him. As it circled around his boat, he couldn't discern it as anything but a light. It left him shortly before he arrived in port. On Nov. 7, he had another run-in with an orange light and a dark floating object. Pallesca has been a seafarer for 30 years.
This reference: The International UFO Reporter, Vol. 4. No. 3, p. 18

UFOCAT PRN – 111317
UFOCAT URN – 111317 - IUR as above
UFOCAT URN – 110309 – ARPO Bulletin, December 1978, p. 4 [date of sighting LL-??-1978]

UFOCAT PRN - 159187
UFOCAT URN – 159187 News clipping by Jane Tomas, March 13, 1979, [date of sighting
11-EE-1978]

Europe – Italy
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.

UFO Location (UFOCAT) Latitude 42.95 N, Longitude 13.87 E (D.%)


11-07-1978 a

CISU Case # 067
Location: Grottammare (AP)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A boat came across two lights at night and a sailor perceived an object at rest on the water.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “Notiziario UFO” of January 1979, page 8

“Notiziario UFO” of November 1979, page 38
“Notiziario UFO of February 1979, page 10
“Il Messaggero” of 11/8/1978
“Corriere Adriatico” of 11/10/1978
“Morgana” no. 1 page 36
Inquiry of E. Morricone of 7/18/1979
“Gente” of 12/3/1978
“II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 112 page 15
messaggio telegraphic del COM. GRUP. DRAG. 5
R. Pinotti “UFO: scacchiere Italia” ed. Oscar Mondadori, page 116
“ItaCat” case no. 78053.

UFOCAT PRN – 111320. Ref. IUR October 1979, p. 18

At 2 AM, two miles off the coast of Grottammare, fisherman Antonio Pallesca watched a very vivid orange light with a white light “a few meters below at eye level". He watched them for about ten minutes before heading back due to storm warnings and fear of a very large, dark, floating object a few meters away from him.

Europe – Italy, Ascoli Piceno

Grottammare - Latitude 42-59 N, Longitude 13-52 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


11-07-1978 b

CISU Case # 068
Location: Silvi Marina (TE)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A fisherman saw a red flash on the sea.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “La Nazione” of 11/13/1978
“Gente” of 12/3/1978
“Il Giornale dei Misteri“ no. 112 page 15
“ItaCat” case no. 78054.

UFOCAT PRN - 111320. Ref. IUR October 1979, p. 18
Roberto Cichella, owner of the "lgea" fishing boat, saw a reddish flash or streak rise into the sky. At the same instant, his ship's radar stopped functioning. He radioed Giorgio Mazzoni who was following him in his own boat. Mazzoni turned on his own radar and saw that the radar line (indicating the axis of his boat) was fragmented into seven or eight segments. Both men also refer to an area of churning sea in front of the coastal area between Silvi and Giulianova.

Europe – Italy, Teramo

Silvi Latitude 42-34 N, Longitude 14-05 E ( D-M )
Giulianova Latitude 42-45 N, Longitude 13-57 E

This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


11-08-1978

CISU Case # 069 & # 070
Location: S. Benedetto Del Tronto (AP) & Porto d'Ascoli (AP)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A sailor saw a ball coming out the sea and plunging into it again after making a parabola.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Messaggero” of 11/9/1978
“Morgana” no. 1, p.39
Inquiry of E. Morricone of 7/18/1979
“II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 112 page 16.
“Notiziario UFO” of November 1979, page 38
“ItaCat” case no. 78055.

UFOCAT PRN – 125405. Ref. Lumieres dans la Nuit #210

Europe – Italy, Ascoli Piceno

San Benedetto Del Tronto Latitude 42-57 N, Longitude 13-53 E ( D-M )
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.


11-09-1978

TYPE: NL - EM?

DATE: Nov. 9

TIME: 8:45 PM

DURATION: 3-4 seconds

WITNESSES: 3

PLACE: 5 miles off coast of Silvi

SOURCE: Gente, Oggi, and Il Messagero magazines.

The crew of an Italian Navy boat, CP2018, set out to sea to investigate the unusual phenomena reported, by the Adriatic fishermen. Its captain, Nello di Valentino saw with two other crewmen a very intense reddish light about 1000 meters off the prow rise rapidly to an estimated height of 300-400 meters and disappear toward the east. There was some disagreement over the presence of a blue smoke trail. No radar signal was returned.
At the precise instant of the sighting, communications with the Pescara Naval authorities were extremely disturbed. They were restored three minutes later. The idea of an emergency flare was ruled out, as was the presence of a normal submarine with the water depth being 23 meters. No traces were found in the area. Naval authorities openly conjectured about espionage as a cause of the strange sightings and interferences.

This reference: The International UFO Reporter, Vol. 4. No. 3, p. 18 ( Oct. 1979 )

UFOCAT PRN – 111321. Ref. IUR Oct. 1979, p. 18 (above)

USOCAT (CISU - Italy) - #071 Silvi Marina (TE) C Insufficient Information

Original reference: “Il Giornale del Misteri” no. 277 page 64
“Notiziario UFO” of January 1979 12-12
R. Pinotti “UFO: scacchiere Italia” ed. Oscar Mondadori, page 118
“Gente” of 12/3/1978

“Il Messaggero” of 11/11/1978
“Corriere Adriatico” of 11/11/1978
“La Notte” of 11/11/1978
“Notiziario UFO” of November 1979, page 38
“II Giornale del misteri” no. 112 page 16
“ltaCat” case no. 78056.

*** The Crew of the motor patrol boat CP/2018 saw a red rocket coming up from the sea and then fading off in the sky.

Europe – Italy, Teramo

Silvi Marina Latitude 42-34 N, Longitude 14-06 E ( D-M )

This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956, pp. 100, 242 and 272.


11-13-1978

CISU Case # 072
Location: Giulianova (TE)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** An object was seen 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: “La Stampa” of 11/29/1978
“Morgana” no. 1; Inquiry of E. Morricone 7/18/1979
“II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 113 page 20
“Notiziario UFO” of November 1979, page 38.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Teramo

Giulianova - Latitude 42-45 N, Longitude 13-57 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


11-23-1978

CISU Case # 073
Location: Silvi Marina (TE)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A green light was seen standing still on the sea.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Tempo” of 11/26/1978
“Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno” of 11/26/1978
“Il Giornale del Misteri” no. 115 page 12.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Teramo

Silvi Marina - Latitude 42-34 N, Longitude 14-06 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


11-28-1978

CISU Case # 074
Location: San Remo (IM)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** Some smoke was seen in the sea and from the center an object took off at a great speed.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “La Stampa” of 11/30/1978
“Gazzetta del Popolo” ed. di Novara 11/30/1978
“Ufologia no.2 page 39
“Il Giornale del Misteri” no. 115 page 13.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Imperia

San Remo - Latitude 43-49 N, Longitude 7-46 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


11-29-1978

CISU Case # 075
Location: Ventimiglia (IM)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** Nine white lights were seen taking off from the sea collected in groups of three every five minutes.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “ItaCat” case no. 78062
“Il Secolo XIX of 12/1-3/1978
“Notiziario UFO” of February 1979, page 5
“Notiziario UFO” of Nov. 1979, page 40
“Ufologia” no. 2 page 39
“Ufologia” no. 6 page 36
“Il Giorrnale dei Misteri” no. 115 page 13
“II Giornale dei Misteri no. 116 page 13.

UFOCAT PRN – 125416. Ref.: Lumieres dans la Nuit #212. Date shown – 11-30-1978

Europe – Italy, Imperia

Ventimiglia - Latitude 43-47 N, Longitude 7-36 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


12-13-1978

CISU Case # 076
Location: Catania
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** Some people saw a luminous object coming out from the sea .

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “La Sicilia” of 12/15/1978

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy

Catania - Latitude 37-30 N, Longitude 15-06 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


12-21-1978

CISU Case # 078
Location: Bellaria (RN)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A flaming object was seen and photographed while it was motionless on the sea, till it slowly moved on.

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 120
“Notiziario UFO” of February 1980, page 47
“Notiziario UFO” of February 1979, page 8
“Panorama” of 1/9/1979.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Rimini

Bellaria - Latitude 44-09 N, Longitude 12-28 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


12-28-1978 a

CISU Case # 079
Location: Avignana (TO) Note: Unable to locate in gazetteers or online. Probable misspelling of Avigliana which is near a large lake in Torino
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** An object was seen while gliding on the lake and then disappearing.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “Notiziario UFO” of February 1980, page 48
“II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 138 page 15
“La Stampa” of 12/29/1978
“Ufologia /Clypeus” no. 5 of Sept./Oct. 1979.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Torino

Avigliana - Latitude 45-05 N, Longitude 7-23 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


12-28-1978 b

CISU Case # 080
Location: Santa Tecla (CT)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** The sea was seen rapidly boiling and then an object came out and took off towards the mainland.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Diario” of 12/29/1978
“II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 116 page 12
“ItaCat” no. 78102; relation of D. Lolicato.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Catania

Santa Tecla - Latitude 40-41 N, Longitude 14-55 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


12-31-1978

CISU Case # 081
Location: Posada (NU)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A luminous sphere, as big as a car, was seen landing on a swamp.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “L'Unione Sarda” of 1/9-12-13/1979
“II Giornale del Misteri” no. 103 pp.5-7
Report of G.P. Spano
“ItaCat” case no. 78104.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Nuoro

Posada - Latitude 40-38 N, Longitude 9-43 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


??-??-1979

CISU Case # 121
Location: Roseto degli Abbruzzi (TE)
CISU Classification: D ( Objects on the waters surface )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A sailor took five snapshots of an object standing still on the water before it plunged into the sea.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “Il Messaggero d'Abbruzzo” of the first days of 1979.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Teramo

Roseto degli Abbruzzi - Latitude 42-41 N, Longitude 14-01 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


02-14-1979

UFOs Go Into River

I learned about the Colares-area cases in December 1978 and have gone to Colares three times, in February 1979, July 1981 and July 1993. On the first visit, people said they'd seen UFOs going into and out of the Amazon River near Colares. Some had also seen glowing blue objects moving about under the surface of the water. They were frightened and felt threatened by them.

Rosil Aranha De Oliveira, thirty-six, who owned a store on the beach at Colares, told me: "I often go fishing at night, and I get out to this spot, and we can see these lighted things coming at great speed, and when they get close, they just stop. Sometimes they go into the water and sometimes they don't."

He had seen UFOs going into the river three times, twice in 1978 and the third time on February 14, just two days before the interview. At three o'clock in the morning, he said, he and his brother, Sebastiao, eighteen, were in a boat when a blue light went into the river about one-hundred-fifty yards from shore.

"Some men were fishing in other boats nearby, and they seemed to be frightened by it," Rosil said. "I could hear them shouting: ‘The Thing ! Here comes the Thing'

"I have seen a blue spot moving around in the water, It just goes up and away, a blue light, going north toward the ocean. Once I saw one sitting on another beach south of here for about fifteen minutes. I tried to figure out the shape, but all I could see was just the lights. Then it took off and went north, going up and down in a wavy motion as it went away."

This reference: UFO Danger Zone, by Bob Pratt, pp. 183-184, © 1996

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

South America - Brazil

Colares Latitude 0-56 S, Longitude 48-17 W ( D-M )

Reference: Brazil Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., January 1963


02-15-1979

CISU Case # 083
Location: Fano (AN) Note: I believe that (AN) - Ancona ) might be an error as the Euro-Atlas of Italy, shows Fano in (PS)-Pesaro e Urbino, which is the province above Ancona. –CF-
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A luminous cupola came out the river and disappeared in the sky.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Resto del Carlino” of 2/16/1979
“Notiziario UFO” of May 1979, pp. 19-20
“II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 148 page 13
“ItaCat” case no. 7922.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Pesaro e Urbino

Fano - Latitude 43-50 N, Longitude 13-01 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


03-12-1979

CISU Case # 084
Location: Siracusa
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** Five objects were seen in the sea, a sixth one of conic shape came out from waters and reached the others.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Giornale del Misteri” no. 149 page 18
Letter of the witness to Gdm dated 3/29/1979
ItaCat” case No. 7924

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy

Siracuse - Latitude 37-04 N, Longitude 15-18 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


03-27-1979

LUMINOUS UFO HAS STRANGE EFFECTS

By Mildred Biesele

(Investigated by Joe Santangelo)

MUFON State Director for Massachusetts, Joe Santangelo, reports a sighting he investigated which occurred along the road between Senackentacket Pond and Joseph A. Sylvia State Beach on the evening of March 27, 1979.

Wesley Gruman, 19, was driving north towards Oak Bluff, Mass., about eight o'clock when he noticed a green glow shining from behind the sand dunes between him and the shore. As he approached the glow, which he assumed at first was coming from "light sticks" on the beach, he noticed that his AM car radio picked up a low frequency hum. When he reached a point on the road where he had an unobstructed view of the shore, he saw that the glow emanated from a luminous yellow-green cylinder that was apparently floating in the water about 200 feet away. Stopping his car to examine it more closely, he observed that it was about 30 feet long, was rounded at both ends, and had no visible openings or protrusions.

When he stopped, the object began slowly and silently to rise out of' the water. As it emerged he could see that the action of the water was as through a boat or any other large physical object were being lifted. From the driver's seat he watched it go up until the top of the window cut off his view, and then he opened the car door and stepped out on the road, leaving the lights on and the motor running.

The beach and the water were now illuminated by the object, which was beginning to gain speed in its ascent. Gruman decided to reach into the car for a 12 volt quartz lamp he had with him but he found that he could not move any part of his body except his head.

When the cylinder had risen out of sight, Gruman got back into his car (the motor was still running) and drove directly to the Oak Bluff police station to report the event. An officer returned with him to the site and from there called a State Trooper who joined them. The state patrol log documented the call at 20:30 hours, the weather clear and dry with no wind. No attempt was made then or the next morning to search for traces or for artifacts.

One strange aftereffect, Santangelo reports, was noted by the witness the next day. His calendar wrist watch, a stainless steel water-resistant Timex, hand wound, had been running fast on the night of the sighting and was showing a date 3 days ahead; that is, it indicated the day of the month as "30" instead of "27." He had not bothered to correct it because to advance it through 29 daily increments would take some time. However, the day after the sighting the watched showed "28," which was, of course, correct. And when Santangelo filed his report, Gruman's watch was still keeping good time.

This reference: The MUFON Journal, #140, October 1979, p. 12

With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

North America – United States, Massachusetts

Oak Bluff Latitude 41-27-15 N, Longitude 70-33-45 W ( D-M-S ) [ Oak Bluffs ]

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


05-??-1979

CISU Case # 085
Location: Genova-Olbia (SS) Note: Olbia is in (SS)- Sassari and I think the Genova-Oblia refers to a sea-lane in the direction of Genova. –CF-
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A conic object of the dimensions equal to that of a skyscraper were seen to come out of the sea.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 105 page 10

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Sassari

Olbia - Latitude 40-55 N, Longitude 9-31 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


06-??-1979

CISU Case # 086
Location: Cinque Terre (SP)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A enormous object, rapidly fell down into the sea and then after reemerging out, disappeared at high speed.

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. 105 page 9
“ItaCat” case no. 7928.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, La Spezia

Cinque Terre is a region containing a national park. I chose a town towards the center of the area by the name of Corniglia to obtain approximate coordinates of the area.
Corniglia - Latitude 44-07-00 N, Longitude 9-41-60 E ( D-M-S )

http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=44.1167&long=9.7000&name=Corniglia&cty=Italy&alt=0


06-22-1979

CISU Case # 087
Location: Gorgona (LI)
CISU Classification: C ( Objects that come out of the water )
Evaluation: USO
*** An enormous object was seen by 17 people surfacing from the sea and then plunging back and disappearing.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Giornale dei Misteri” no. 105 pp.5-9
“Gazzetta del Lunedi” of 7/23/1979
“Notiziario UFO” of R. Pinotti “UFO: visitors from other parts” ed.

Rizzoli, pp. 148-149

R. Pinotti “UFO: scacchiere Italia” ed. OscarMondadori, pp. 98-99
Letter of P. Soati of 8/20/1979
Inquiry of the group GORU of 9/7/1979.

UFOCAT PRN – 125809. Ref. ItaCat-Verga Maurizio

Europe – Italy, Livorno

Gorgona - Latitude 43-26 N, Longitude 9-54 E ( D-M )
This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.


07-??-1979

CISU Case # 088
Location: Penisola del Sinis (OR)
CISU Classification: A (Completely submerged object or lights – real USOs )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information
*** A diver saw under the water a red ball which before was still and then disappeared lunging towards the surface.

This reference: USOCAT by The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU) © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/

Original reference: “II Giornale dei Misteri no. 167 page 16
Letter to SUF dated 5/1/1985.

UFOCAT PRN - NONE

Europe – Italy, Oristano

Penisola del Sinis – Is a peninsula on the island of Sardinia. The body of water could be in any of the several lakes in the area or the Gulf of Oristano (to the south) or the Mediterranean Sea of the west coast. I could not locate a major town near the center of the area, so I took the city of Cábras, which is close by, to determine the approximate coordinates of the area.-CF-
Cábras - Latitude 39-55-60 N, Longitude 8-31-60 E ( D-M-S )

http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=39.9333&long=8.5333&name=Cabras&cty=Italy&alt=42