Date: November 1957
Location: Provencal Louisiana
Time: 2300
Summary: Haskell Raper, Jr., was driving home on a rainy night when he saw a large, lighted object on the road ahead, which he thought was a truck. Suddenly the object flashed a beam of light directly at the car, apparently exerting a strong pressure and slowing it to a stop 5 m away. The object was then described as oval, 5 m long, 3 m high, army green in color. It bore lettering beginning with the letters UN, followed by some numbers. A sort of heat wave filled the car, and the witness ran out in panic as the vehicle caught fire. The object rose with the sound of a diesel engine. Raper ran to the town, less than 2 km away; and reported the incident. The car, a 1956 Ford, was completely destroyed.
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5:30 p.m. local. A woman heard a “crash” followed by a beeping sound outside of her house. She then went outside and observed a metallic-looking object on the roof that appeared as two hemispheres joined off center. The object was about the size of an automobile. The bottom half of the object seemed to vibrate or revolve. After a few seconds the object started to ascend straight up and was out of sight in about one minute. (Dan Wilson, BB files)
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Date: November 2 1957 BBU
Location: Canadian Texas
Time: 0330
Summary: )3 miles west of this town, military and civilian witnesses reported a submarine-shaped object, red and white, two or three times as long as a car and about 3 m high, at ground level. A figure was seen near this object, also something compared to a white flag. When a car stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with the sudden failure of the headlights.
Source: Magonia 418
Date: November 2 1957: The Levelland Sightings (Texas)
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Early evening. An unnamed man and two kids reported a large bluish object, low, going west. (NICAP list, newspaper clipping)
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Summary: Nov. 2, 1957; Between Sherman & McKinney, Texas
5:30 p.m. Mrs. James Adolf and two others reported a “strange light” alternately dimming and brightening. (NICAP list)
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Summary: Nov. 2, 1957; Clovis, New Mexico
Dinnertime. Odis Echols and parents observed a “bulky object” described as a “streak of light like a fireball in the SE.” (NICAP list)
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Summary: Nov. 3, 1957; 9 miles E of Levelland, 1 mile W of Smyer, Texas (BBU)
12:05 a.m. Texas Tech college student Newell H. Wright was driving W when the ammeter on his car dashboard started fluctuating widely, car motor gradually went out then headlights and radio died. He got out to check and saw a white or aluminum-colored oval-shaped object flat on the bottom like a loaf of bread, with a greenish tint, about 75-125 ft long. After a few mins object suddenly rise up from the road ahead and ascend almost vertically at great speed, slightly to the N, disappearing in secs. Afterward car was able to be restarted. (Hynek UFO Exp ch. 9; Tony Rullán; Vallée Magonia 419) 4 mins
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Summary: Nov. 3, 1957; Levelland, Texas
Right before the 12:15 a.m. incident. Jose Alvares was 10 mi NE of Levelland near Witherral and saw an egg about 200′ long circle a cotton field, disappeared when it stopped and its light went out. The car’s lights went out and the engine quit. (NICAP list)
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12:15 a.m. ??. Frank Williams was near Witherral when he encountered an object described as an egg, sitting on the crossroads, on and off. The car’s lights went out and the engine died. (NICAP list)
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Summary: Nov. 3, 1957; Near Smyer, E. of Levelland, Texas
12:45 a.m. In one probably significant report Ronald Martin was on Rt. 116, about 5 mi W. of Levelland when he saw the glowing red UFO land ahead of his truck, then turn to bluish- green. The truck’s electrical system failed. When the UFO took off, it turned reddish again.
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Date: November 3 1957
Location: White Sands New Mexico
Time: 0300
Summary: )At Stallion Site, an
army patrol in a jeep saw an orange, “apparently controlled,” luminous object on the ground near the site of the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sunlike source 50 m above ground, descending to ground level after 3 min, and landing several km away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two witnesses.
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1:15 a.m. James Long was 5 mi. NW of Levelland on a farm road. He reported an object that lit up, egg or oval-shaped about 200′ long, 200′ away, sitting in the road. He reported a “thunderclap”. The car’s lights and motor quit. (NICAP list)
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1:30 a.m. Wier Clem and Pat McCullough saw a flash of light 300-400 yards to the south of them. Lee Hargrove and Floyd Cavin were a mile or so behind Clem and McCullough and reported the same thing.(NICAP list)
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Summary: Nov. 3, 1957; Ararangua, Brazil
Cat. 3,11. Airliner direction finder and transmitter-receiver burnt during UFO sighting
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Summary: Nov. 3, 1957; Sao Vicente, Brazil
Cat. 3. Itaipu Fort electrical system failed, sentries received burns as UFO approached and hovered.
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Summary: Nov. 3, 1957; Calgary, Alta. (near)
Cat. 3. Car motor missed, headlights flickered as UFO arced overhead.
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Date: November 4 1957
Location: Elmwood Park (Illinois
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Summary: )Two policemen, Joseph
Lukasek and Clifford Schau, and a third man named Daniel De Giovanni, while looking for the cause of a headlight failure, observed a fluorescent object 50 to 100 m away from them, coming down. The car head-lights functioned properly again and they drove toward the object but had to stop at a cemetery wall. They turned off all lights and watched the object for two min. It played “hide and seek” with them as they tried to reach its location.
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Summary: Nov. 4,1957; U.S., near Amarillo, Texas
After midnight. A young couple saw a glowing object on the road while returning to Amarillo. The object was surrounded by fog. The engine of their car died as they approached it and entered this fog. The battery also went dead. The car had to be pushed into Amarillo to have the battery replaced. [Shopick] (Rullan; UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference by Mark Rodeghier, p. 10, © 1981)
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Summary: Nov. 4, 1957; Orogrande, New Mexico (BBU)
A 1:10 p. m. local time, near Orogrande, NM, James W. Stokes, a high altitude research engineer, saw an elliptical UFO sweep across the highway twice. The car radio and the engine failed. Stokes claimed that other drivers were also on the road, and their engines had also failed. Stokes felt a wave of heat, and later his face appeared “sunburned.”
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Summary: Nov. 4, 1957; 3 miles SE of El Paso Airport, Texas (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 4, 1957; Kodak, Alaska
Cat. 3. A “steady dit-dit-dit” interference on police radio during UFO sighting.
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Summary: Nov. 4, 1957; Toronto, Canada
Cat. 3. TV interference (audio); viewers called out by neighbors to see UFO.
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Summary: Nov. 4, 1957; Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico (BBU)
10:45 p.m. (MST). CAA air traffic controllers R. M. Kaser and E. G. Brink saw a highly maneuverable 15-20 ft egg-shaped object with a white light at its base circle over the W [E?] end of the base at 150-200 mph and come down in a steep 30° dive as if landing on Runway 26, to the N or NW of the tower at about 1500 ft. Radar tracked part of this maneuver. Object then crossed flight line, runways and taxiways heading towards the tower at about 50 mph and 20-30 ft above ground, observed through 7x binoculars till it reached about 3,000 ft to the ENE near the NE corner of the floodlit restricted nuclear Weapons Storage Area / Area D/Drumhead Area, and a B-58 bomber service site, where it hovered for 20 secs-1 min then headed E again, at about 200-300 ft height, then suddenly shot up at a steep climb at about 45,000 [4,500?] ft/min. Controllers contacted RAPCON which tracked object on CPN-18 radar traveling E then turning S, circling the Albuquerque Low Frequency Range Station then headed N [disappearing at 10 miles and reappearing 20 mins later to circle around ?] to follow 1/2 mile behind a USAF C-46 that had just taken off to the S for 14 miles until both went off scope. Hovering radar target then appeared to the N over outer marker for 1-1/2 mins before fading. (McDonald 1968, 1972; Hynek UFO Exp ch. 7, case RV-3) 25 mins
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Eglin AFB, Florida (BBU)
At 2:37 p.m., local time, an object was tracked by an AN/FPS-16 radar set at high altitude. Later another object was detected at 45,000 feet while the the first object was now at 39,000 feet. Flight paths were not on a straight line at any time. After 1 hour and 33 minutes the objects faded from radar at an altitude of 204,800 feet heading west. (Dan Wilson
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Long Beach Airport, Calif. (BBU)
3:50 p.m. PST. Major Lewis F. Baker, A/2C William J.Nieland, and A/2C Joseph C.V. Abramavage, were outside of the Weather Station watching a thunderstorm and observed 5 or 6 disc shaped objects moving about in a helter-skelter fashion on the west edge of the storm The objects appeared to be the size of a pea held at arm’s length and a silvery metallic in color. There appeared to be no set flight path of the objects and the maneuvers were erratic and very fast. The objects were observed for approximately 90 seconds. Joseph C.V. Abramavage said that about 10 transient military personnel watched the objects before boarding a plane to Washington. Later at around 7:01 p.m. at Long Beach, Joe Zibello, a civilian, reported observing 5 or 6 very bright objects the size of a pea held at arm’s length with a high degree of maneuverability. The objects made fast up and down movements similar to the shape of a “N.” (UFOE; McDonald list; FUFOR Index)
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Date: November 5 1957
Location: New Castle Indiana
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Summary: An object looking like “a big meat platter” was seen at close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no ignition interference noted.
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Date: November 5 1957
Location: New York City New York
Time: 0430
Summary: )In Van Cortland Park,
Frank C. was talking with a bus driver when they saw in the park, about 400 m away, a metallic object shaped like a disk, spinning with a soft whirring. On top was a fixed dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree-height. A yellow light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off “like a shooting star.”
Source: Magonia 423
Date: November 5 1957
Location: Scotia Nebraska BBU
Time: 1730
Summary: A man heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and perceived a “burning” odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and disappeared. The witness was “paralyzed” during the observation. The object appeared to have generated thick smoke.Nov. 5, 1957; Scotia, Nebraska (BBU)
5:30 p.m. Two (??) civilian witnesses, one by the name of Winslow, reported that a noise was heard overhead which sounded like a helicopter, and with an odor similar to burning fuel. The object looked like a balloon and appeared to be descending. Observers stated they appeared to be paralyzed for a short period of time during the sighting. Object described as elongated, coming to ground level, without touching down, and then disappearing. (Vallée Magonia 424; FUFOR Index, Dan Wilson)
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; About 200 [350?] miles S of Mobile and near Selma, Alabama (BBU)
5:16-5:23? a.m. US Coast Guard cutter Sebago heading NNE at 23° azimuth tracked radar target to the S at 188° azimuth range 22 miles traveling at 650 mph disappearing at 190° azimuth at 55 miles range. Visual object like a brilliant planet was seen at 5:21 for 5 secs traveling left to right from W to NW from 270° to 310° azimuth at about 31° elevation. A radar target seemingly stationary for 1 min at 5:20-21 to the N at 350° azimuth range 7 miles moved slowly towards the NE then accelerated rapidly off the scope at 15° azimuth (about NNE) at 175 miles. 3 USAF pilots at Selma saw a bright object flash from S to N, time uncertain. (UFOE, VIII; Hynek-CUFOS-Willy Smith files; cf. CR p. 165) 7 mins ?
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Atlanta, Georgia (BB)
6:30 p.m. EST. A witness (Ethridge) was in the house when the lights inside and on the street went dim and the radio volume decreased and static increased. The witness then went outside and saw an object moving overhead. The object was egg shaped the size of a penny held at arm’s length and glowed off and on and left a streak behind. A humming sound that varied in intensity was heard as the object moved generally to the west. The object was seen to hover at one point. The observation lasted 4 minutes. (Dan Wilson, BB files)
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
Cat. 3. Brilliant round orange object hovered, revolving; television blacked out.
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Summary: November 5, 1957; East St. Louis, Illinois
Three Alton & Southern Railroad employees saw two silvery, egg-shaped UFOs.(UFOE)
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Hedley, TX
Cat. 3. Farmer saw UFO; neighbor reported TV off at same time.
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Hobbs, New Mexico
Cat 3. Speeding car, motor failed, lights went out as UFO swooped over car.
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Haverhill, Mass.
Ground Observer Corps reported a circular or spherical glowing object which appeared to vibrate up and down and from side to side while hovering. [UFOE, VII]
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cat. 3. Apartment lights dead, electric clock stopped; bright light awakened couple. Milkman reported flaming disc.
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Ringwood, Illinois
Cat. 3. UFO followed car returning to town. TV sets in town dimmed, finally lost both picture and sound during same time period.
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; San Antonio (near), Texas (BB)
Night. Near Lackland Air Force Base, civil service employee Lon Yarborough was driving along U.S. 81 from Devine to San Antonio when he saw an extremely bright object settle down in a ravine about 200 yards from him. He. said he was a mile and a half from San Antonio at the time. The egg-shaped object was approximately 60 foot long and caused the lights and engine of his 1957 car to fail. He said his car was in perfect mechanical condition. The object, he said, rested a few minutes and finally took off in the direction of San Antonio. The sighting happened at night. (Dan Wilson, BB docs)
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Cat. 3. Car radio quit, headlights dimmed, engine stopped; UFO seen hovering low over field.
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Summary: Nov. 5, 1957; Springfield, Ohio
Cat. 3. Car and cab stalled as UFO observed
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Summary: Nov. 6, 1957; Kagoshima, Japan (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 6, 1957; Whiteman AFB, Missouri (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 6, 1957; 1/4 mile west of Robins AFB, Georgia (BB)
6:30 a.m. EST. A civilian housewife observed a brilliant red round object the size of a medium size pumpkin (at arm’s length?) with what appeared to be a glowing ring around the outer edge similar to a halo. The object appeared to be at high altitude traveling east to west at an excessive speed. The object appeared to stop over western boundary of the air base and bobble up and down. The object then traveled to the south for a short distance and then back to the position it had previously stopped at and then continued west. (BB files, Dan Wilson)
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Date: November 6 1957
Location: Santa Fe New Mexico BBU
Time: 0010
Summary: J. Martinez and A. Gallegos saw an egg-shaped object coming toward them at low altitude. It moved slowly, illuminating their car and producing a humming sound. The car engine, the clock and a wristwatch stopped. The object shot away toward the southwest.
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Date: November 6 1957
Location: Seoul Korea BBU
Time: morning
Summary: ). North of Seoul a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and luminous, was seen close to the ground, reflected in a pool of water. It rose and vanished “like a light switched off.”
Source: Magonia 426
Date: November 6 1957
Location: Lake County Ohio BBU
Time: 0630
Summary: A civilian source reported an object so bright that his eyes could not sustain it. It appeared to land on a ridge, then took off again. It was round and much larger than a plane, had an “odd color,” left no trail and made no noise.
Source: Magonia 427
Date: November 6 1957
Location: Knoxville Tennessee
Time: 0630
Summary: ). 12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the ground and four occupants, two men and two women who spoke a language he thought was similar to German. They went back to the craft in a manner the witness could not understand, for he saw no door.
Source: Magonia 429
Date: November 6 1957
Location: Boerne Texas BBU 5205
Time: 1800
Summary: A civilian source reported an oval object, about 5 m long, bright orange, similar to glowing coals, hovering 4 m above ground. The witness went to call his family; the object had vanished when he returned. Unidentified.
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Date: November 6 1957
Location: Baskatong Lake Canada
Time: 2100
Summary: ). 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere hovering over a hilltop about 4 km away. From top and bottom issued light cones that illuminated the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one wavelength, modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the south.
Source: Magonia 432
Date: November 6 1957
Location: Montville Ohio BBU
Time: 2330
Summary: Olden Moore, 28, a plasterer was driving home when he suddenly saw an object looking like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 m above a field and came to the ground with a soft whirring sound, 150 m away. After observing it for 15 min, Moore then walked to the object, which he found to be shaped like “a covered dish” 15 m in diameter, 5 m high, with a cone on top about 3 m high, surrounded by haze or fog, pulsating slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were found at the site by Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke.
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Date: November 6, 1957
Location: Everittstown, New Jersey
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Summary: John Trasco leaves to feed his dog and sees an egg-shaped object in front of his barn. On the way, he meets a three foot tall being, with a putty colored face and large eyes of frog, equipped with a green costume decorated of brilliant buttons, a sort of Scottish bonnet and gloves from where at each end of the fingers, an object shone. The Entity said in bad English: “We are peaceful people, we only want your dog”. Trasco refuses in precise terms telling the being “to go back where it came from” and the being flees towards its apparatus which flies away a few moments later. According to Mrs Trasco, While trying to catch the being, her husband got some green powder on the wrist, which he washed away, but he still had some under the nails the next day.
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Date: November 6, 1957
Location: Playa del Rey, California
Time: 05:40 a.m.
Summary: Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach when his engine stopped, and so did three other cars. The man got out and observed an egg-shaped object wrapped in “a blue haze” on the beach. Two men, below average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their identity, what time it was, etc. They looked normal wore black leather pants, white belts, light-colored jerseys, and seemed to have yellowish-green skin. They went back inside the craft, which left rapidly, and the cars could then be started.
Source: Article in the ufology bulletin CSI Newsletter, of the ufology group Civilian Saucer Investigation (CSI), December 1957.; Magonia 427
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Summary: Nov. 6, 1957; Nr. Danville, Illinois
Cat. 3. State Police chased UFO for 15 miles, unable to notify headquarters because their radio went mysteriously dead.” (UFOE)
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Date: November 6, 1957: Object beamed out an eerie, penetrating light
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Three truckers independently reported seeing reddish elliptical objects on the road.(UFOE)
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Summary: Nov. 6, 1957; Cannon AFB, New Mexico (BB)
At 8:15 p.m. MST, there occurred a radar sighting of slow moving objects the apparent size of an aircraft. Seventeen targets were tracked at various bearings over a period of 9 minutes. 07/0315Z (Dan Wilson)
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Summary: Nov. 6, 1957; Greensboro, North Carolina (BB)
8:25 p.m. EST. Kenneth Bell observed two egg shaped objects that were an estimated 100 to 200 feet long, flying one in front of the other in a northeast direction. First observed at about 90-degree elevation and seen last at about 15-degrees before they faded out. The objects held a continuous red glow with no tail, trail or exhaust, and no sound. The objects were in sight for 5 minutes. Ceiling: none. Visibility: excellent. (Dan Wilson)
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Summary: Nov. 6, 1957; Radium Springs, New Mexico (BBU 5227)
10:50 p.m. Las Cruces policeman [Barela?] and a Dona Ana County Deputy Sheriff saw a round object changing from red to green to blue to white rising vertically from a mountain top. (Berliner; FUFOR Index) 10 mins
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Cat. 3. Car motor stalled as driver attempted to approach hovering UFO low over ground.
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Summary: Nov. 7, 1957; White sands Proving Ground, New Mexico
Morning. A family driving on Route 54 near the proving gounds area, saw a large silvery cylindrical or oval shaped object traveling out of the northeast at about 10,000 feet. They watched it for approximately 3 minutes before the object disappeared over the Organ Mountains to the southwest. The object was traveling at “tremendous” speed. (Source: Albuquerque Tribune and Reno Evening Gazette, November 8, 1957)
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Summary: Nov. 7, 1957; Harlingen AFB, Texas (BBU)
9:38 a.m. CST. Faint radar target similar to a T-29 aircraft was picked up at 10 miles northeast going west to about 14 miles when target disappeared 14 miles northwest. A target reappeared 10 miles southwest going east for 10 miles and then turned west and disappeared at 15 miles. The speed of the target was estimated in excess of 1,900 mph. The length of the observation was 2 to 3 minutes. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index, Dan Wilson)
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Summary: Nov. 7, 1957; Walker AFB (Roswell, New Mexico) (BB)
7:45 p.m. MST. Several long black flat objects with a light blue tail approximately 200 to 300 yards in length were observed at Walker AFB by two military personnel in the control tower. The flight of the objects was wavering with a slight variation in altitude. The objects were seen through 7×5 power binoculars for about 20 seconds, and 30 seconds without binoculars. A second sighting took place of a long round object that looked like a large stovepipe 8 to 10 feet in diameter with a long trail 200-300 yards long and was seen for 60 to 90 seconds. The object made a complete 360 degree turn described as horseshoe-shaped. During the period 08/ 0140 – 0250Z (6:14 p.m. to 7:50 p.m.) like objects were reported from civilian air control personnel at Carlsbad and Hobbs, New Mexico, Wink, Texas, and a pilot of a Continental Airline Flight 184 near Hobbs, New Mexico. (Dan Wilson, BB files)
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Location: Meridian Mississippi
Time: 0725
Summary: Truck driver Malvin Stevens, 48, was driving to Memphis when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, he saw an object which appeared to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 m tall, in gray clothes, with “pasty white faces” that seemed friendly and willing to talk, but he was unable to understand their “chattering.” “I stood there for what seemed like an eternity.” They got back into the machine and it took off straight up. There was no ignition interference. An 8-year-old girl from Honse independently reported a round object crossing the sky toward the south.
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Summary: Nov. 7, 1957; Pantex AEC ordnance plant, 15 miles east of Amarillo, Texas
7:46 p.m. Bright, flashing objects hovered for half an hour over Pantex Atomic Energy Commission ordnance plant. The brilliant objects were reported to the State Highway Patrol office by plant guards at 7:46 p.m. and a patrolman dispatched to the plant arrived at 8:15 p.m. and reported that he, too, saw “a strange light.” The patrolman said guards at the plant were “all shook up.” Guards said three objects had been floating over the plant 50 feet above the ground “for some time.” ‘When I got there,” the patrolman said, “the guards said one of the objects had landed on Farin Road 2373, three miles north of Highway 60. We drove to the area but nothing was there. But I’m convinced that the guards saw something land.” The patrolman said guards told him they had tried to slip up on the objects by turning off their lights “but the things would just slip away from them when they got near.” Guards were unable to estimate size of the objects. The patrolman, also said the guards seem positive “they saw more than just lights that objects were in the sky.” (Dan Wilson/Robert Hastings)
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Summary: Nov. 7, 1957; Lake Charles, Louisiana
Silvery disc hovered, car motor failed. (UFOE)
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Summary: Nov. 7, 1957; Orogrande (near), New Mexico
Cat. 3. Car traveling about 60 mph, speedometer waved wildly between 60 and 110. Then UFO sighted.
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Summary: Nov. 8, 1957; Merrick, Long Island, New York (BBU 5254)
10:10 a.m. Mrs. L. Dinner saw a bar-shaped object, 3.5 ft long, giving off blue flashes and a swishing sound. No further data. (Berliner)
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Summary: Nov. 8, 1957; Plattsburg AFB, New York
Many round silver objects were seen to pass over the air base, and jets chased them in vain. One Plattsburg jet pilot said ” we’re just glad we couldn’t catch up with them. We don’t like to chase these damn saucers, because we don’t know what they can do.” (Source: Aime Michael, FLYING SAUCERS AND THE STRAIGHT-LINE MYSTERY, page 264)
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People watched a jet chasing a UFO. (Sources: UFO Investigator Jan. 1958; Aime Michael, FLYING SAUCERS AND THE STRAIGHT-LINE MYSTERY, page 264)
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Date: November 8, 1957
Location: Edinburgh Scotland
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Summary: Fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to police that a disk- shaped object followed their truck, dived toward it, came within 20 m of them, then left toward the sea, leaving a double vapor trail.
Source: Magonia 435
Date: November 8, 1957
Location: Sloanville New York
Time: 0200
Summary: ). A cigar-shaped object 70 m long was observed less than 7 m above ground.
Source: Magonia 436; Albany Times Union, November 9, 1957,‘Saucer’ or Blimp? Thruway Mystery
Date: November 8, 1957
Location: Holly West Virginia
Time: 1430
Summary: Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated object, 12 m long, with several portholes from which fire and smoke appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and dropped to the ground. People seemed to be moving around it, but the witnesses were driven away by a hard rain.
Source: Magonia 437
Date: November 8, 1957
Location: Waterloo, Iowa
Time: night
Summary: Paul Rutledge saw an 16 meters long object flying over his garage. The top part was bright, and there were two figures visible inside.
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Date: November 9, 1957
Location: Lake City Missouri BBU
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Summary: A civilian driving his car home from work observed a hovering object 16 m long. His car engine died as he neared the object’s position, and it started again only after the object’s departure.
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Summary: Nov. 9, 1957; White Oaks (near), New Mexico
Cat. 3. Car lights failed as UFO observed
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Date: November 10, 1957: Madison, Ohio – Kuhn Frightened Dog Case
Date: November 11, 1957
Location: Nr. Los Angeles, California
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Summary: Airline passenger saw elliptical UFO flying low over ground below plane.
Source: UFOE, VII
Date: November 11, 1957
Location: San Fernando Valley, Calif.
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Summary: Rocketdyne engineers observed three UFOs climbing at high speed.
Source: UFOE, VI
Date: November 11, 1957
Location: Hazleton, Pennsylvania
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Summary: Cat. 3. TV disrupted as UFO seen.
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Date: November 11, 1957
Location: Northeast Cape AFS, St Lawrence Island, AK
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Summary: Observed target on search radar. Ground speed about 25000 kt, altitude at least 30000 ft. recorded on scope camera. observed by other radar sites across Canada I was an early warning radar operator in the USAF on St Lawrence Island. We observed a target, unidentified, in Soviet airspace heading east at high speed. Our first thought was that it was some type of missile. We turned on the scope camera and notified the site commander. The object was estimated at 25000kt. The first contact was at about 200 miles, which would make it very high or very large.
Source: National UFO Reporting Center
Date: November 11, 1957
Location: Rumney, New Hampshire
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Summary: Car motor and lights failed. Ground Observer Corps reported UFO at same time.
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Summary: Nov. 12, 1957; Houma, Louisiana (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 14, 1957; Rothwesten, West Germany (BBU)
12:01 p.m. local time. (601st AC&W Squadron) The first target was initially detected on AN/MPS-11 and AN/MPS-14 (?) radar at 22 miles SW of Merseberg Sovzone Airfield, at 100 degrees azimuth at 70 nautical miles. This radar blip split into two targets on a parallel course on separation. The flight path was to the north. The speed of the targets were from 2,000 to 3,000 nmph. At 6:42 p.m. (1742Z), a high speed target was detected on the AN/MPS-11 radar at 100 degrees at 135 nautical miles with a flight path to the north. The height indicator showed the target at 60,000 feet, changing to 63,000 feet. This sighting lasted for 2 minutes. There was an unusual amount of electronic interference which the radar maintenance officer was able to explain except for the target being reported. At 6:53 p.m. (1753Z), a high speed blip was detected on the AN/MPS-11 radar at 131.5 degrees at 136 nautical miles. Flight of the blip was to the NE at an estimated speed of 5,300 nmph. (The report form does say 5,300 nautical miles per minute.) This sighting lasted for 1 minutes plus. There was an unusual amount of electronic interference which the radar maintenance officer was able to explain except for the target being reported. All the targets painted as normal aircraft. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index)
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Summary: Nov. 14, 1957; Johnson Air Base, Japan (BB)
Approximately 6:15 a.m. A/1C James E. Smith and S/Sgt. Robert Thompson, Jr. of the 6041st Air Police Squadron observed a pale white, long, thin object described as looking like a fountain pen in the eastern sky. The apparent size of the object was compared to a nine inch pencil held at arm’s length. The object hovered in one spot for about two minutes and then began moving to the SE, climbing and gaining speed until if disappeared from view. This took approximately 10-13 seconds. (Dan Wilson, BB files)
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Summary: Nov. 14, 1957; Tamaroa, Illinois
Cat. 3. Power failed for 10 minutes in a four mile area, just after hovering UFO flashed.
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Summary: Nov. 15, 1957; Carthage, Tenn.
Highway patrolman, sheriff, others saw many flashing revolving red lights which moved around slowly, hovered. [UFOE, VII]
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Summary: Nov. 15, 1957; Cachoeira, Brazil
Cat. 3. Several car motors failed as drivers attempted to approach UFO hovering low above ground.
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Date: November 16, 1957
Location: Bage City Brazil
Time: 2230
Summary: A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed-first near the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition.
Source: Magonia 441
Date: November 18, 1957
Location: Maracaja, in the State of Santa Catarina, in the south of Brazil
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Summary: A report which is said to have had echoes in the press of the country and to have been presented by the CICOANI ufology group then appeared in ufology books and magazines, describing an daytime sighting on November 18, 1957, at 10:30 a.m., in Maracaja, in the State of Santa Catarina, in the south of Brazil. Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange buzzing sound, and saw within some 200 meters, two circular discs of aluminum color and six men of average size and slender body, who wore dark-gray tight-fitting suits, and were returning towards the discs. These discs hovered at 1 meter approximately above the ground, and seemed to be of approximately 3 meters in diameter. They rose with a strong whistling sound, and made some coconuts fold and almost break. At the same time, three other discs which had not been seen yet rose from behind trees, and the five craft went towards the southern Atlantic.
Source: Passport to Magonia 442
Date: November 18, 1957
Location: Aston Great Britain
Time: 1500
Summary: ). Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, 27, mother of two, saw the figure of a man appear near her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. Suddenly he disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar entities.
Source: Magonia 443
Date: November 18, 1957
Location: Ugines France
Time: 1430
Summary: Two engineers were driving about 200 m from the railroad crossing in Faverges when they saw a nearly spherical object at ground level, performing zig-zags on the road. They stopped and were amazed as the object simply vanished, leaving no trace.
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Summary: Nov. 21, 1957; Houma AFS, Louisiana
12:00 a.m. to 2:50 a.m. CST A radar target 15 miles long and 10 miles wide was observed. The target had a speed of 55 knots. After some figuring the altitude was estimated to be at 31,000 feet on the initial plot. The target had decreased in altitude to 3000 feet before it faded. The 747th AC&W Squadron and the 653rd AC&W Squadron also had radar contact with this target. The target was observed on MPS-7 and MPS-14 radar equipment. The search scopes were UPA-35 and OA-175. Weather and chaff were both considered and seemed unlikely that they caused the return. The Project 10073 Record Card gives the location as Houm, Alabama. (For the record this sighting took place at Houma AFS, Louisiana, the home of the 657th AC&W Squadron.) (Dan Wilson, BB files)
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Date: November 22, 1957
Location: Gesten Denmark
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Summary: A shop owner saw a pyramid- shaped, luminous, transparent object fly fast across the road. As it was above 250 m away, he clearly saw two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the other aboard the craft.
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Summary: Nov. 22, 1957; 10 miles SE of Tarakli, Turkey (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 22, 1957; Canutillo, Texas
Silvery UFO sped back and forth, ascended. [UFOE, VII]
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Date: November 23, 1957
Location: Tonopah Nevada BBU
Time: 0630
Summary: Four disk-shaped objects on the ground were observed for 20 min from a distance of 15 m. When the witness tried to come closer, they took off with an unbearable humming sound.Nov. 23, 1957; Tonopah, Nevada (BBU)
6:10-30 a.m. (PST). 1st Lt. Joseph F. Long, fighter pilot. Car engine stalled, he heard high-pitched whining noise, saw 4 landed 50-foot saucer-shaped UFO’s to the right of the road at 900-1200 ft away. He approached on foot to 50 ft distance, objects lifted off, flew north over highway, disappeared behind hills 1/2 mile away. Ground impressions at the landing site. (UFOE, II; Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 182-6; Willy Smith pp. 71-79; Vallée Magonia 445) 20 mins
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Summary: Nov. 24, 1957; Scott AFB, Illinois (BB
6:10 p.m. A round reddish orange object the apparent size of a golf ball held at arm’s length moving on a easterly
course was observed by A/3C Ronald W. Rioux, A/3C Gareth L. Colay, and A1C Meeks. As the object went overhead it did a large “U” turn back to the west. The object was in sight for approximately 6 to 8 minutes. (Dan Wilson, BB files)
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Summary: Nov. 25, 1957; Eglin AFB, Florida (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 25, 1957; Mogi Mirim, Brazil
Cat. 3. All city lights failed as three UFOs passed overhead.
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Summary: Nov. 26, 1957; 15-20 miles W. of Joilet, Illinois (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 26, 1957; Robins AFB, Georgia (BBU 5419)
10:07 a.m. Witnesses were watching an F-100 on GCA (Ground Control Approach) and the object suddenly appeared above and beyond the jet aircraft. Eight witnesses (3 control tower operators, 1 weather observer and 4 others) saw this object described as silver and cigar-shaped. Object was on a straight and level flight path for a short distance south of the original position and then back north. Most of the time the object was stationary and was in view for eight minutes. One observer was using 7 X 50 binoculars. Suddenly, without any maneuver or warning, the object vanished. (Berliner, Brad Sparks, Dan Wilson, BB doc
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Summary: Nov. 26, 1957; West Mesa AFS, New Mexico (BBU)
8:41 p.m. MST. Blip on MPS-7 (B) radar clocked at 3000 knots, azimuth 315 degrees, range at 170 miles. The length of the observation was 1 minute 24 seconds.(McDonald list; FUFOR Index)
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Summary: Nov. 26, 1957; Sea of Okhotsk, W of Kamchatka, USSR (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 27, 1957; Yakima, Wash. (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 27, 1957; Toledo, Ohio (BBU)
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Summary: Nov. 30, 1957; Minot, North Dakota (BBU)
At 4:20 a.m. local time, a one inch blip on an FPS-6 radar scope climbed from 5,000 feet to 25,000 feet in 20 seconds. The bliptraveled 100 miles in 20 seconds when it faded from the radar. (Dan Wilson, McDonald list; FUFOR Index)
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Summary: Nov. 30, 1957; New Orleans, Louisiana (BBU 5445)
2:11 p.m. 3 U.S. Coast Guardsmen saw a round object turn [?] white, then gold, then separate into 3 parts and turn red. (Berliner) 20 mins
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