Date: November 1966
Location: Bad Kreuznach Germany
Time: 0200A
Summary: Dean Fagerstrom, a soldier at the time, was sitting in his apartment working on the lottery numbers sequence when he suddenly had a feeling that he was not alone. He walked around and did not find anyone, then returned back to his seat and resumed working on the board. As he looked at the board a human-like face began to appear, the face began filling up the board and became clearer, now he was able to see two faces instead of one, those of a man and a woman. A bluish shimmer surrounded the faces. The man’s face had tawny hair and the woman’s hair was slightly darker and shorter. Both beings then communicated by voice with the witness identifying themselves and stating that there would be further contacts.
Source: Phillip Imbrogno, UFO Universe Fall 1989
Date: November 1966
Location: Owatonna, Minnesota
Time: night
Summary: Mrs. Ralph Butler and an unidentified lady friend were standing in a field outside of town watching a familiar sight—what they called little flashers: bright, blinking lights that danced around the sky almost every night. Suddenly one of the objects descended rapidly and hovered at the far end of the field where they stood, swinging back and forth a few feet above the ground. Colored lights flickered around its glowing rim. One of the women let out a little gasp and crumpled to her knees in a trance-like daze. Mrs. Butler, reached for her, but she was immobile, her head dipped down. A strange voice, stilted and metallic, came spasmodically from her lips. “What …is …your…time…cycle?” the voice asked. Mrs. Butler recovered from her surprise and tried to explain how we measured minutes, hours, and days. “What…constitutes…a…day…and…what…constitutes…a…night?” the voice continued. “A day is approximately twelve hours long—and a night is twelve hours long,” Mrs. Butler replied. There were a few more innocuous questions, and then the other woman came out of the trance.
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Date: November 1966
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Location. Point Pleasant West Virginia
Date: November 1 1966
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A national guardsman saw a large brownish man-shaped figure on the limb of a tree. No other information.
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Location. Cedar Grove West Virginia
Date: November 2 1966
Time: evening
Woodrow Derenberger was driving his panel truck home when a low-flying dark object about 35 ft wide, cut in front of him & forced him to stop; it hovered a foot above the ground, only 20 ft ahead. The object had a profile similar to a kerosene lamp chimney flattened on the bottom side. A door opened and a smiling man of dark complexion descended, who wore a topcoat over shiny blue trousers. Without opening his mouth, he addressed Derenberger telepathically, asking him to open his window. For the next 10 minutes he conducted a telepathic conversation, first asking Derenberger’s name & saying that his own was ” Indrid Cold.” He adjured Derenberger not to think of him as an “alien,” and concluded by saying “We will see you again.” After admitting Mr. Cold, the UFO rose vertically and disappeared.
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Location. Gallipolis Ohio
Date: November 2 1966
Time: 2000
The witness was out behind her building getting ready to go home when there was a sudden flash directly above her. A large cylinder shape object then appeared and landed on the nearby parking lot. The object was completely silent and the witness was unable to move as two men descended from the object and walked towards her. The men were normal looking but heavily tanned with pointed noses, pointed chins, and high cheekbones, they wore coverall like uniforms. They asked the witness several mundane questions using a singsong high-pitched voice; they then walked back to their craft, which took off at high speed. The witness lived in a farm and had been having problems with missing cattle around the same time.
Source: John A Keel, Them Mothman Prophecies
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Date: November 2 1966
Location: Near Parkersburg West Virginia
Time: night
Summary: Two men traveling by car on highway 77 watched an elongated object descend from the sky directly in front of their vehicle. They stopped the car and saw a man emerged from the object and walk over to them. The man was human looking and was grinning broadly. He was wearing a black coat and kept his arms folded out of sight under his armpits. The black-garbed stranger asked them several pointless questions before returning to the dark cylinder shaped craft, which quickly rose and disappeared into the sky. This incident occurred on the same night as the Woodrow Derenberger contact-landing case in the same general area.
Source: John A Keel, The Mothman Prophecies
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Summary: Nov. 4, 1966; Alton, VA
10:30 p.m. EST. While watching television, a woman saw her set experience severe interference, then black out completely (EM effects). She glanced out the window and saw a huge red light that appeared to be rotating behind a glassy surface of some kind. Above the light was a very large object surrounded by a halo of white light. The entire phenomenon was close to the ground when first sighted, then rose to a height of about 100 feet, then quickly descended to its original position. It bobbed up and down in this fashion three times, finally moving across the road, under some utility lines, and glided away across a field. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. HI, No. 11, Jan.-Feb. 1967, p. 3)
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Date: November 5 1966
Location: Arlington Indiana
Time: night
Summary: Mrs Kathleen glanced out the kitchen door and saw a lighted object, which moved toward her & hovered 50 ft away, 20-30 ft up. It was a big as a house, & shaped like a ball with a ring around it (Saturn shaped); in the middle were brightly white-lit windows. Kathleen could see in these windows one man & two women, who appeared to be on different floors. The man, muscular in build, was staring directly at her, which frightened her; he was manipulating something like a steering wheel. The woman who was on the lower level handed him a small object “like a coup of coffee.” After about 3 minutes the object began to move westward, then rose steeply, emitting a multicolored exhaust, at a speed greater then a jet.
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7:30 p.m. Chief Engineer of radio station WFAS and his Asst. saw rectangular object emitting steady bluish light moving slowly to the N while beaming light towards stations parking lot. No sound. Object had blue-black sky appearing through the middle [?]. [Plastic hot-air balloon?] (Tony Rullan)
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Time: Nov. 8, 1966; Saginaw, MI (BBU 11135)
Night. College graduate Annis saw a group of lights flash and change color while hovering, almost touching the road, then abruptly vanished. (Berliner)
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Date: November 9 1966
Location: Woonsocket Rode Island
Time: 23:00
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Date: November 10 1966
Location: Furbara Italy
Time: 0330A
Summary: It was reported that a disc shaped object landed at the local military airport. It carried flashing police type lights on its top and bottom. From the object emerged four men or pilots (not described) that walked around the ground briefly then returned to the object. The object then circled the area and left.
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Time: Nov.10, 1966; Pinellas Park, FL
9:20 p.m. EST. A young boy saw a very bright red, self-luminous, cigar-shaped object emerging from clouds. Then 10 smaller objects like dishes approached and entered the larger object. The parent object had what looked like portholes near its upper edge. (NICAP report in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives.)
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Time: Nov. 12, 1966; Montevideo, Buenos Aires, South America
Local astronomer took twelve slides of the sun and a saucer like object was visible in the foreground. (See Dec. 19, Dept. of State AIRGRAM)
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Time: Nov.12, 1966; Fort Ontario, NY
9:35 p.m. EST. A number of witnesses including a former Navy radar man reported a dark domed disc with a row of orange portholes along the lower portion. The object, illuminated by a faint glow, first hovered and then shot upwards out of sight. (NICAP report form.)
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Date: November 12 1966
Location: Clendenin West Virginia
Time: daytime
Summary: Five men were digging a grave in a cemetery near Clendenin when something that looked like “a brown human being” fluttered from some nearby trees & maneuvered low over their heads. It was in sight for about a minute.
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Time: Nov.13, 1966; Fords, NJ
5:35 p.m. EST. Several witnesses including a private pilot saw a very bright, round, pulsating orange light that hovered over a school emitting a humming sound. (NICAP notes.)
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Date: November 13 1966
Location: Zanesville, Ohio
Time: daytime
Summary: Photographed by barber Ralph Ditter at his house in Roseville, a suburb of Zanesville, Ohio, in 1966. For years, Ditter exhibited this and another UFO picture taken at the same time in his barber shop. The Condon Committee examined both exhaustively, and concluded they were faked. Ditter failed to respond to requests for “clarification” of the differences between his account of the sighting and the apparent facts.
Source: UFO: The Complete Sightings, Peter Brookesmith
Date: November 14 1966
Location: Salem West Virginia
Time: 2230
Summary: Newell Partridge was sitting at home when suddenly the TV blanked out. A real fine herringbone pattern appeared on the tube, and at the same time the set started a loud whining noise, winding up to a high pitch, peaking and breaking off, as if you were on a musical scale. It sounded like a generator winding up. Outside on the porch, his dog Bandit began wailing. Partridge picked up a flashlight and went outside to investigate. The dog was sitting at the end of the porch, howling down toward the hay barn in the bottom. Partridge shined the light in that direction, and it picked up two red circles, or eyes, which looked like bicycle reflectors. There was something about the eyes that was difficult to explain. The eyes were huge, plainly visible at a distance of 150 yards. As soon as the flashlight picked out the “eyes” Bandit snarled and ran toward them. A “cold chill” swept over the man and he felt a wave of fear, which kept him from following the dog. That night he slept with a loaded gun beside his bed. The next day he went looking for his dog. They found tracks. At the approximate position of the “eyes” he found a large number of dog tracks. The tracks were going in a circle, as if the dog had been chasing his tail. Then the tracks vanished, the dog was never seen again.
Source: John A Keel, The Mothman Prophecies
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Summary: Nov.15, 1966; Gaffney, MA
7:15 a.m. EST. Two hunters in a boat off the coast saw two cigar-shaped objects hovering in a horizontal position over the Beverly Farms area. (Fowler 1974, p. 342.)
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Location. Point Pleasant West Virginia
Date: November 16 1966
Time: 2100
Mr. & Mrs Raymond Wamsley & Mrs Marcella Bennett were driving to the house of Ralph Thomas, they saw a big red light maneuvering over the TNT dump area. When they arrived & gout out, a “big gray thing bigger than a man, with glowing red eyes” rose up from the ground. They ran into the house, but the creature shuffled onto the porch & peered into windows. It was gone by the time police arrived.
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Date: November 16 1966
Time: midnight
Mr. & Mrs Steve Mallette & Mr. & Mrs Roger Scarberry reported that their car was followed about midnight by a gray “bird like creature” 6-7 ft tall with a 10 foot wingspan. When the car headlights struck, its eyes, 2″ in diameter, glowed red. It finally scurried into a field and disappeared.
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Location. Collegeville Pennsylvania
Date: November 17 1966
Time: 0130A
Margaret Marchute saw on the ground a luminous object that seemed to be made of polished metal. After about half an hour, a red flame shot upward from the object; then 2 very bright lights approached it from the distance; when these were near it, something like a luminous balloon sprang up from it & hovered in the air. At this point she could see 3 or 4 figures moving about the large object on the ground, which was pulsating from dim to bright. They were dressed in a “gold shiny material.” She watched for about 2 hours before going to bed.
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Summary: Nov.17, 1966; Gaffney, SC
4:00 a.m. EST. Two police officers saw a round, glowing object with a wide, flat rim around the center resting on the ground. They estimated the diameter to be about 20 feet. As they watched from less than 50 feet away, a door opened and a small humanoid being descended. The observation lasted several minutes. Footprints later were found at the site. (Phillips 1975, p. 44.)
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Location. Gaffney South Carolina
Date: November 17 1966
Time: 0400A
Two police officers, C Hutchins & A Huskey, were driving in an outlying section of Gaffney known as the West Buford Street Extension when as they neared a right angle bend in the road, they suddenly saw a metallic object directly in front of them. This object was descending when they first saw it, Hutchins said, and was about twenty feet above the ground. He described it as being spherical, like a ball, with a wide, flat rim around it. There were no lights or portholes visible on it. It was completely dark, reflecting a dull gold color in the headlights of the police car. The car did not stall. As the object settled to within a few feet of the ground, both men gout out of their car in a state of benumbed amazement. Later Hutchins estimated that the object must have been about twenty ft in diameter. A small door suddenly opened noiselessly on the underside of the sphere, he said, and a short ladder, four to six feet long, dropped down. White light poured out of the opening, but neither man could see anything in the interior. A figure appeared in the doorway, descended the ladder, and walked slowly and deliberately toward the two police officers. When the figure reached a point about fifteen to twenty feet from the two men, it stopped. “He didn’t move stiffly,” officer Hutchins said. “He moved just like anybody else, but kind of slow…like he was taking his time. He wasn’t scared of us or anything like that.” In appearance, the humanoid was about the size of a twelve-year-old boy, maybe four feet. He wore no helmet or headgear and was dressed in a gold suit with no buttons or zippers. His costume was shiny, like metal, in the reflection of the headlights, it was not self-luminous. The humanoid asked numerous questions and ignored the witnesses when they asked any questions. Hutchins could not remember seeing the feet of the creature. It was standing on high grass and the feet must have been hidden. Both men could not really remember the full context of the “conversation”. Hutchins claimed the alien spoke perfect English, “Didn’t have any accent or anything. He acted like he knew exactly what he was saying and doing…didn’t make any quick moves or false moves. He just stood there and talked to the witnesses.” He wanted to know why both me were dressed alike. His speech was very precise. He pronounced each work very carefully. When asked where he was from he just laughed. The meeting was brief, perhaps only 2 or 3 minutes. Then, Hutchins say, the creature announced, “I…will…return…in…two…days” he turned, walked slowly back to the ladder and climbed into the object. The door closed quietly and the craft began to whirr, a soft whirring sound, like an engine with a muffler on it. The object rose slowly and vanished into the sky. A local councilman found numerous footprints at the site where the little man had stood. There was no return visit by the alien.
Source: John A Keel
Date: November 1966
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Date: November 17 1966
Location: Cheshire Ohio
Time: night
Summary: On Route 7, a gray man shaped creature with red eyes & a 10-foot wingspread pursued a boy’s car. No other information.
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12:25 a.m. PST. Several witnesses in a car reported an elongated greenish-white oval that hovered or moved slowly at low altitude. The driver felt and heard a deep vibration. (NICAP report.)
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Date: November 18 1966
Location: Point Pleasant West Virginia
Time: night
Summary: Capt. Paul Yoder & B Enochs saw a huge bird like creature, with big red eyes, in the TNT dump area. No other information.
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9:30 p.m. EST. Several witnesses including the chief of police saw a dark gray or black disc, with red, blue, green, and white body lights around its perimeter, hovering silently. It had a length to width ratio of 4:1. After a while the object started to move away, and receded into the distance where six more objects were visible (rendezvous). After 5-10 minutes, the objects suddenly disappeared. (Hitt, 1999.)
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Date: November 20 1966
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Six teenagers saw a gray man sized creature with red eyes flying over the area. No other information.
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Location. Charleston West Virginia
Date: November 21 1966
Time: 2215
Richard West called police to report that a “batman” was sitting on a roof next to his house. “It looks like a man 6 ft tall & has a wingspread of 6-8 ft,” he said. “It had great big red eyes. It flew straight up like a helicopter.
Source: John A Keel
Date: November 22, 1966: UFO Encountered, Photographed
Date: November 22, 1966
Location: Cassville, Missouri
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Summary: Taken over Roaring River on November 22. A hunter and two of his friends were camping on the river when an unknown flying object was seen rising from near their campsite. Their tent had just been destroyed, with some of their possessions on fire, as well as a tree or two close by. It is believed that the UFO was the cause of the destruction. One of the men was able to take two photos as the UFO sped away, with one being too blurred, and the one you see here, which is of good quality.
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Date: November 24 1966
Location: Point Pleasant West Virginia
Time: 0715A
Summary: Mr. Thomas Ury was driving home in daylight when the “Mothman,” a bird-like creature 6 ft tall and with a 10 ft wing spread, circled over his car. He speeded up to 70-75 mph, but it kept up with him. He had been in the area of the TNT dumpsite.
Source:John A Keel
Date: November 24 1966
Location: Point Pleasant West Virginia
Time: night
Summary: Mary Myer, a reporter, saw the glowing red eyes of the “Mothman” when she visited an abandoned power plant in Point Pleasant, where it had been seen before.
Source: John A Keel
Date: November 26 1966
Location: Lowell Ohio
Time: afternoon
Summary: Marvin Shock and 3 others saw 4 giant birds; standing 4-5 ft tall and with a 10-foot wing spread & bills 5-6 “long. They kept them in sight for 2 hours.
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Location. St Albans West Virginia
Date: November 26 1966
Time: evening
Mrs Ruth Foster saw the “Mothman” standing on her front lawn. It was about 6 ft tall and had a “funny little face” with “big red eyes that popped out.” She screamed and ran into the house.
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Location. New Haven West Virginia
Date: November 27 1966
Time: 1030A
Miss Connie Carpenter saw the “Mothmen,” a tall figure in gray, standing on a golf course. It unfolded 10-foot wings & flew directly at her windshield; she saw its red eyes; then it veered off & disappeared. Her eyes were red, swollen, & itchy for 2 weeks afterwards.
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Location: St. Albans West Virginia
Time: night
Summary: 13-year old Sheila Cain and her sister were walking home when they saw a being standing by the road; it was 7 ft tall, and gray & white with big red eyes. They screamed & ran home; it flew low over them.
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Location: Nov. 30, 1966; New Kingston, PA
Time not reported. A private pilot watched a disc with a blinking red light hover alongside his Cessna 150, then shoot straight up and out of sight. (Pittsburgh NICAP Subcommittee report.)
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5:55 p.m. CST. An elliptical object approached a car, whose engine and headlights were affected. The driver heard a buzzing sound. (CUFOS report, Rodeghier 1981, p. 31.)
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Date: November 30 1966
Location: Near Brooksville Florida
Time: night
Summary: A young woman was changing a tire on a lonely road when she was approached by a huge hairy biped creature with large green eyes and encased in an eerie greenish glow. No other information.
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