1972: September UFO & Alien Sightings
Date: Fall 1972
Location: Summit County Utah
Time: 0430A
Summary: Rancher Lennis Gines and his 16-year old son noticed blue and yellow lights in the fields behind their rural home. The lights were silent and rotated. The family’s dog whimpered and ran inside to hide. The 16-year old son then drove his truck near the lights and was able to see an object with a doorway, windows, and shadowy figures going in and out. Nearby several nervous cows huddled together. Their milk production declined after the incident.
Source: Zack Van Eyck
Date: Fall 1972
Location: Norfolk Virginia
Time: late night
Summary: The witness had just returned to bed from the bathroom and was lying down when he looked towards the hall and heard a strange “pitter, patter” type sound. Suddenly a huge figure of a birdman-like being, rushed into the room making a loud screeching sound. It hovered and leaned over the witness staring straight at him. The witness was unable to move or scream, seemingly paralyzed. The witness could only see two huge round eyes. Moments later the creature vanished in plain sight.
Source: Witness letter in UFO Universe Summer 1989
Date: Fall 1972
Location: Trade Lake Wisconsin
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Summary: Art Baker was driving with his wife along a country road when their car stopped for no apparent reason and a huge ball of blue light surrounded the vehicle for 1-2 minutes, during which time their dog became very stiff, The light then left and the car restarted of its own accord, As the couple approached the Anderson farm the same thing happened again. They then drove straight home, on reaching which they felt unwell. Mrs Baker complained of red spots in front of her eyes, a headache and also a blue-black spot on her forehead, which lasted for several days. The dog seemed bewildered, as if in a trance and the car made odd noises, the source of which they could not detect. They traded it off the next year as they had previously planned.
Source: Canadian UFO Report 3,7 p9 citing an undated issue of Inter County Leader.
Date: Fall 1972
Location: Hiwa Hiroshima Japan
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Summary: Seamstress Mrs Reiko Harada (46) was walking home with her young son when she heard a rustling in the undergrowth and then saw a hairy humanoid, with a brown face and dark hair, standing at the side of the road. It raised its arms as if to stop her. She felt paralysed but then managed to pick up the boy and run off. A smell like a dead body was detected at the site.
Source: Bord 1980 p180 citing Jun-Ichi Takanashi + National Tattler 19 August 1973.
Date: September 1972
Location: Tucson Arizona
Time: unknown
Summary: The witness was apparently abducted again. She woke up in an examining table surrounded by four little gray men about four-foot tall. They were apparently being supervised by a taller more human like entity. They spent a lot of time examining her abdomen and pelvis area. They then inserted a long needle on a long tube that came down from the ceiling and into her stomach just above her navel area. Another device was planted under her chin. The witness had a miscarriage soon after this incident.
Source: Wendelle C. Stevens
Date: September 1972
Location: Wapakoneta Ohio
Time: Dusk Duration: minutes
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Distance: 50m away
Shape: disc shaped object with red and white lights
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Summary: At their home on the outskirts of Wapakoneta, a man had gone out to check for a threatened tornado when he saw a disc shaped object with red and white lights, moving slowly and silently 10m above the ground. It moved around with abrupt turns, behind the barn, across the road and towards them. His wife was terrified and retreated. The disc was metallic looking, 10m diameter, and 2.5-3m thick, with a central band of red and white lights. Above these lights was a band of translucent material, from which came a white light. The thing manoeuvred for some minutes, finally hovering over the wires 50m away. The thing then moved away, rose slightly, blazed up and disappeared.
Source: Swords 2005 p66 citing John Timmerman.
Date: September 1972
Location: Near Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland
Time: evening
Summary: A 10-year old girl was on her way home from church. The church was situated at about 2km from he girl’s house, so she was very happy when she approached her house. However as she neared the gate she saw a terrible appearing entity. The streetlight illuminated the witness’s house so she was able to see many details of the creature. It was approaching from a nearby orchard. The witness described it as about 40-50cm in height, oval in shape and dark in color, its limbs were very thin, the arms were longer that its legs. The legs were about 10cm long; the eyes were large, and dark. The entity was shaggy (or hairy) in appearance, probably with large pointed ears or hors, resembling a mythical goblin or a “devil”. The witness was very frightened. She was certain that she had not seen an animal. No craft was visible or seen.
Source: woe_@vp.pl
Date: September 1972
Location: St Valliere De Thiey, Alpes Maritimes France
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Summary: Mr. & Mrs. Blanco were traveling on a road in their automobile when they saw standing immobile on the side of the road a huge humanoid figure about 2.10 meters in height. The giant figure wore a silvery metallic combination suit with a helmet. The terrified witnesses did not stop and drove away from the area.
Source: LDLN # 195, Project Becassine
Date: September 1972
Location: Russellville Kentucky
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Summary: Philip Wilkins was deer stalking about 10km west of Russellville when he encountered a bipedal creature 2-2.5m tall in a soya field. The thing had a short neck and knee length arms. Philip fled from the scene.
Source: Newton 2010 p62.
Date: Early September 1972
Location: Kera Japan
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Summary: One of the two brothers in the Late August case found a brilliant glowing object in the rice field. His brother and another friend went close to the thing and took a photograph of it. When the flash went off the object seemed to rise 1.5m. The picture was of poor quality and showed something like a bottle. The two brothers were said to have captures a disc on six or seven occasions, taken it home, where they kept it in their brother’s room. It mysteriously disappeared each time. They showed it to a friend’s father, a teacher at the technical highs school, who didn’t know what to make of it. Another friend’s mother saw the light through the bag in which it was kept. This thing was described as being 18,5cm diameter. 10cm high, 1.3kg in weight and was made of some lustrous metal with wavy patterns on the underside . In the middle of the underside was a square containing many small holes; this square being surrounded by a ridge. When the lads threaded wire through these holes a lid in the underside opened, which they could neither shut nor take off. The inside looked like part of a radio or TV set. The lid shut on its own accord. When they poured water in the holes it made a noise like a cicada. It was undamaged by blows from a hammer and a stone. It was luminous, the light shining through the bag in which it was kept. It appeared to have the ability to appear and disappear through the sealed bag and on the last occasion it vanished, the brother holding it was knocked off the back seat of the cycle on which they were riding. When they looked in the bag the object was gone, though the knot was securely tied.
Source: (ibid) Evaluation: See Late August for note on this non-existent place name. Probable hoax.
Date: September 1972
Location: Gerena Andalusia Spain
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Altitude: on or just above the ground
Distance: 700m to their left
Shape: enormous, dazzling yellow, oval light
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Summary: Former Seville football player Mr Valderas and his wife were driving down the long slope to the Conti farm on their way home from Seville when they saw an enormous, dazzling yellow, oval light 700m to their left, on or just above the ground. This light was completely silent and neither moved nor varied in brightness. Valderas drove rapidly away
Source: Ballester 1976 p39 case 159 citing investigation by Manuel Osuna + Ballester Olmos files.
Date: September 1972
Location: Ubirajara Sao Paulo Brazil
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Summary: About a month after his previous experience Mr Borchi (qv) was making the same journey when at the same spot he again encountered the unidentified object which disappeared almost at once. In same month Borchi encountered the thing again . On this occasion it was also seen by the occupants of the car behind him, teacher Loudres Fatima Madeira, her brother and two brothers-in-law
Source: FSR 19,2 p31 citing O Globo 1 January 1973.
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Date: September 4 1972
Location: Canton Missouri
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Shape: orange light or an object the size of a house, with white, blue, green and red lights
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Summary: Two little boys, Jeff V (7) and Bobby C (a 7th grader were playing outside when they heard a woman scream and saw an object the size of a house, with white, blue, green and red lights (one each), circling the field as if it was about to land. It then backed away. Neither boy saw any detail on the object and Bobby thought it was just an orange light. Jeff called his father Charles, who in turn alerted their neighbours, Mr and Mrs Hunold. The three adults saw the object move away to the northwest. Several people in the north part of Canton also saw the object.
Source: Data Net 6 vI,11 p17 citing Canton Press and News Record 7 September 1972.
Date: September 4 1972
Location: Imjarvi Finland
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Summary: The third of Aarno Heinonen’s 1972 “contacts” occurred while he was riding his motor scooter on the Woikoski Road. He saw a small spherical cloud passing over, which then descended and stopped about 8 feet above the ground. From this “cloud” descended the same “space girl,” this time wearing a grown pants suit. She said, “Don’t be afraid, I’m your friend from another planet.” The woman had brown shoes and wore thin gloves. When she left she smile “in a beautiful way,” then pulled on one of the antennas on the small sphere, Heinonen felt a “whirlwind,” and the girl glide up into the globular cloud, which then ascended vertically very fast.
Source: A Heinonen, Ufoika Nov. 1972
Date: September 6 1972
Location: Springdale Arkansas
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Summary: Barbara Robinson saw a figure, which police estimated to be at least 2m tall, peep in through her bedroom window.
Source: Coleman 2001 p197.
Date: September 7 1972
Location: Beausejour Manitoba Canada
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Summary: Inspector William McFarland of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, his wife Thea along with their two sons(13, 12) and daughter (7) were driving south on Hw203 just south of Beausejour, when a bright, luminous, oval object, apparent length 1.2-1.5m and 30cm thick approached from the west at an altitude of about 10m. It followed their car for 20-25 minutes, during which time the object kept pace with changes in the car’s speed and it hovered over them when they stopped and shut off the lights and engine. When they reached the house of Thea’s mother, Mrs Reimann, the object was till maintaining its position at about 10m altitude. When they switched off their lights and indicator they could see that the object was now hovering 3m above her house. When the children brought their grandmother out of the house, the object swayed slightly and rotated in a swirling motion, maintaining its position over the house, emitting a soft, bright white light. No sharp edges or details were visible. After about 5 minutes the thing moved off to the west, still rotating and eventually disappeared behind the trees.
Source: Data Net VI, 11 p18 citing Beausejour Beaver 19 September 1972. Evaluation: Astronomical.
Date: September 7 1972
Location: Taize Religious Community near Cluny France
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Summary: Messes Tanton, Petit and a group of young people playing guitars saw a green platform, 7m diameter, 10m above the ground, 30m away. They ran towards the thing but it disappeared as they reached it.
Source: Jacques Bonabot citing Phen Spax 35 p18.
Date: September 9 1972
Location: Glasgow Scotland
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Shape: black metal spinning top with lights flashing underneath and rows of windows along the edge
Features: saw an entity with blond hair wearing a silvery suit with stripes on the arms
Summary: A single witness in suburban Glasgow saw an object like a black metal spinning top with lights flashing underneath and rows of windows along the edge. Through one of the windows the witness saw an entity with blond hair wearing a silvery suit with stripes on the arms, staring at him/her. The witness later had a mental breakdown.
Source: NUFON News 44 p6 citing a UFOIN investigation.
Date: September 9 1972
Location: Rio Gallegos Argentina
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Summary: Whole patrolling the sea coast near several air bases the pilots of some jet fighters saw a luminous object land a few kilometres from a navy base. They radioed the control tower. As other jets approached the area the object took off and vanished among the clouds. Some marks and burnt grass were found at the site,
Source: Phillips 1975 p85 case 829 citing A.G.A..
Date: September 9 1972
Location: North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Time: 11:25 p.m. local time,
Summary: one object with flashing red and green lights moving very slow to moving at 300 knots at 4000 to 6000 feet altitude was observed visually and on radar at the North Bay Airport. The visual sighting correlated with the North Bay Terminal radar return at 340 degrees at six miles range. Object appeared to turn in tight circles or hover for approximately 15 minutes. Radar contact was lost prior to visual contact.
Source: Dan Wilson
Date: September 10 1972
Location: Armidale New South Wales Australia
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Summary: Kempsey greengrocer Allan Jones was driving towards Armidale when, behind trees about 30m from the road he saw a strange purple glow. He slowed down and rolled down his window but was unable to hear any sound. As he drove on the glow was visible through his rear mirror for some time and appeared to be a beam of light that was lighting up the roadway. At 1245 that day he saw a huge cigar shaped object, emitting small discs, at very high altitude.
Source: Eileen Buckle in FSR 21,6 p4 citing an undated issue of Macleay Argus.
Date: September 10 1972
Location: Los Minas Santa domingo Dominican Republic
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Summary: A round top-shaped object was seen at very low altitude.
Source: UFO Register 9 pt2 p50.
Date: September 10 1972
Location: Canton Missouri
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Summary: Melanie J (10) went to the back door on her way to go for some ice-cream with her mother, when she saw an object with flickering lights at treetop height above their home, looking as if it was about to land . The flashing red, white and blue lights were on the top part of the object, which had a round bottom. Trees obscured a better view. Melanie called her mother and they both went to alert her father. John, who was at the water front. From there the three saw flickering lights moving away. Several other people saw the object. At about this time a power blackout occurred in the south side of Quincy.
Source: Data Net VI, 11 p15 citing Canton Press and News Record 14 September 1972.
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Date: September 11 1972
Location: Butler, IN
Time: 1:55 p.m.
Summary: 8-10′ altitude!!! City Editor of the Aubury Evening News was in the Butler Police Station when a woman walked in. “She looked nervously at us, then obviously steeled herself and spoke to the Marion County Parole Officer. ‘Will you promise not to think I’m crazy if I tell you something?” Her hands shook, her brow was damp with sweat. ‘I saw this thing. I was driving along State Rd. 1 near a woods at County Rd. 34. I came up over the crest of a high hill and there it was, about 3’ above my car. It was about a car length long, but perfectly round with what looked like red fluorescent paint along the top, and it had four feet coming out of the bottom.” Investigation showed skid-marks where she braked the car, another man report a funny noise, another witness reported a high-pitch whine.
Source: SL-60, page 5
Date: September 13 1972
Location: Burlington, Colorado
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Summary: A rural family, who police say are responsible people, reported that a UFO “as big as a house” flew parallel to their car as they were driving down a country road at night. One witness said the object landed and took off twice in a nearby field. The object, according to the witness, was round and big, and “rays” appeared to be coming out of it.
Source: NICAP UFOI, Oct 1972, page 3
Date: September 14 1972
Location: Napier Hawks Bay North Island New Zealand
Time: 0530 Duration: 5-7 minutes.
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Summary: High School pupil Bill A (16) was looking out to sea from his front veranda when he saw a bright piercing light hovering, moving up and down, to the west and back. As the thing moved into the clouds, it looked like a vertical dumbbell, with a brilliant light at each end and a soft red pulsating light in its centre. As Bill cycled down Latham Street to start his milkround job, he saw the object again, apparently about 30m above Bluff Hill. He observed the object for about 5-7 minutes.
Source: Data Net VI, 11 p18 citing Napier Daily Telegraph 14 September 1972.
Date: September 14 1972
Location: Houston Missouri
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Summary: Mr and Mrs S were watching their portable TV when the picture began to pulsate and roll. This stopped after about 1 minute. The couple went outside and saw a bright light in the south, 30 degrees above the horizon. Through binoculars this appeared to be a round shape with a flattened bottom. It had a blue white light and moved back and forth 6 or7 times before disappearing behind trees to the west. At 0300 the next morning the couple were awakened by the barking and howling of their three large guard and hunting dogs. Mr S took one of the dogs to go and investigate, but the normally courageous animal was reluctant to move. As S searched the area with a flashlight, there was a sudden bright flash of light on or near the ground, which sufficiently unnerved to abandon the search until the morning. That morning he noticed that an evergreen tree at the site, 90m from the house, had been discoloured on one side. Beyond this side an oval area of depressed grass, about 6m by 4,3m in the centre of which were three small imprints, each showing an extension or toe. These imprints were 60mm long and one was 40mm deep. A blackened area came was found in the centre of these imprints formed a triangle. These features were still visible when the case was investigated in November despite several cm of rain and snow.
Source: Ted Phillips in MUFON 1973 Proceedings p28 citing his own investigation. Phillips 1975 85 case 327.
Date: September 14 1972
Location: W. Palm Beach, FL
Time: 4:20 a.m..
Summary: A unidentified “bogie” was detected on radar at the West Palm Beach International Airport by FAA air traffic controller C. J. Fox. Fox described the contact as a “good clear target.” The object was tracked for over an hour when at approximately 6:00 A.M., NORAD was alerted. Two F-106 jet fighters were dispatched from Homestead AFB, south of Miami, to locate and identify the the unknown object. The object disappeared from radar scopes shortly before the jets arrived. There were visual reports from the West Palm Beach International Airport by FAA watch supervisor George Morales. He viewed the object through binoculars and described the object as silver white in color and cigar shaped. Officials at Miami International Airport, which also tracked the strange object, reported no aircraft was known to be in the area where the UFO was spotted.
Source: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1972, pages 1, 4
Date: September 15, 1972: Metallic, egg-shaped object witnessed by Australian UFO researcher, Bill Chalker
Date: September 15 1972
Location: Tupelo Mississippi
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Summary: A school teacher driving along the Hw 6 near the Bissell community saw a large oval object on the road. The dull aluminium coloured object was soundless.
Source: Cox 2004 p21 citing NUFORC.
Date: September 15 1972
Location: Newark Lincolnshire England
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Summary: John Melbourne (22) was returning home to Lincoln from Newark on the A1 when he saw an extremely large round object hovering about 30m above the ground. John pulled into the nearby layby where he was joined by several other motorists. After a few seconds the object began moving rapidly and then disappeared in a “whoosh”. There were four re lights on the object, with four white lights around them.
Source: Lincolnshire Echo 16 September 1972,
Date: September 15 1972
Location: Mt. Butler near Armidale New South Wales, Australia
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Summary: Hearing noises outside their farmhouse, 3 anonymous university students discovered, upon investigating, the presence of a figure “like a monk in a shroud” “hovering” about 15 feet from the door. Terry, who saw the figure first, called Phil and Greg, his co-tenants, and they all observed the figure—“a white thing like a monk’s robe and just this sort of void for a face”—floating about in a light arc. Greg made a sudden move, and the figure disappeared in a flash, which the other two thought shot toward Greg and “entered him” at chest height. Terry and Phil looked around for a moment and then saw Greg in a state of shock; unable to articulate other than to indicate he felt “sick inside.” They took him in the house. A short time later they went back outside to look around; Greg was still in his “possessed” state then a horse trotted up, one of Greg’s favorites. He threw his arms around the animal’s neck and the other two again saw the flash, this time leaving Greg and entering the horse, which reared and bolted. Greg was apparently all right. The investigator of this case had a UFO sighting on the campsite of the University of New England, only a few miles away, on the same day, the area was the site of increased UFO activity later in 1972 and into 1973.
Source: Bill Chalker UFOIC
Date: September 16, 1972
Location: Herbault, France
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Summary: Photograph captured near Montferrier in the department of Hérault on September 16, 1972.
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Date: middle of September 1972
Location: Near Shemetova, Dolgoprudnyev region, Moscow region, Russia
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Summary: The witness was returning to the village on foot and as he near a local ravine he suddenly heard queer squeaky voices. At first he ignored it, but as he took several additional steps he spotted a glow coming from behind the ravine, at first weak, but then becoming stronger, suddenly there occurred a flash after which the light dimmed in waves and in the boundary between the light and the darkness appeared several small creatures. Stunned, the witness stopped at the unexpected contingency. As soon as the little creatures spotted him these were whisked back into the darkness from the illuminated space. The witness stood fascinated staring at the waves of bright light. He could still hear what sounded like laughter and a squeaky babble of voices coming from the darkness. Soon at the edge of the darkness the babbling and laughing little creatures again appeared. The creatures suddenly ran towards the witness who felt his body become numb and cold. The little creatures touched the witness several times and suddenly they began to squeal and jump up and down. They seemed to prefer to stay in the threshold between the light and dark, rarely venturing into the lighted areas. The witness again focused his attention on the light which to flutter in waves or strips, first soft and weak and then flaring up. He could only describe the little creatures as only about 30-60cm in height, human like bodies and faces and wearing rubber-like coveralls. They had dark unruly long hair. The witness then was able to continue to walk and was followed by the bizarre creatures to the village of Boboshino. Upon approaching a street light it seemed to flicker but did not go out, at this point the laughing and babbling little humanoids disappeared back into the darkness and disappeared.
Source: Alexey Priyma, UFOROM Russia
Date: September 17 1972
Location: Richardson Texas
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Shape: a red glowing round object, the size of a basketball
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Summary: Billy Erwin and some friends were followed by a red glowing round object, the size of a basketball, which hovered over their car as they drove back from Sherman. The thing followed them in to Billy’s yard, where it was seen by his mother, as it hovered 15m above the ground. The light was said to follow Billy quite regularly.
Source: Data Net VI, 10 p16 citing Dallas Morning News 23 September 1972 + Dallas Times Herald 26 September 1972 citing investigation by Dave Ozanne.
Date: Sept. 20, 1972;
Location: Howard, Indiana
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Summary: Humanoid report. No details, but witness’ name was Eastman.
Source: EGBA, Page 673
Date: September 20 1972
Location: Great Missenden England
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Summary: The handyman at the Little Abbey Hotel, Mr Allison saw a figure in a brown cloak and hood come up the stairs. He thought it was a guest but as there was only a toilet on the upper floor when the man didn’t return after a few minutes he went to check but there was no-one in the toilet and the other doors were locked,
Source: Green 1973 p35.
Date: September 1972
Location: Villa Altagracia San Cristóbal Dominican Republic
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Summary: A woman observed two short beings emerge from a strange device with lights, and grab a goat which seemed to be paralysed. They took in into the object which then disappeared at great speed.
Source: Leonte Objio and Richard Heiden in APRO Bulletin 30,1 p5 citing letter from witness to Listin Diaro (Santo Domingo) 22 September 1972 + Stendek 12 p16 + Robiou-Lemarche 1979 p218. UFO Register 9 pt.2 p51 citing Listin Diaro op cit + Skylook 68 p11)
Date: September 1972
Location: Mt Rouge Quebec Canada
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Summary: A man out driving saw a Saturn shaped object move up Mount Rouge with a pendulum motion, very close to the ground, and then land on the summit. The motorist drove up the foot of the mountain for a better look. The thing was 30-45m diameter with a row of oval windows. The driver flashed his headlights three times at which the object came straight towards him, passing overhead at about 10 m altitude, at which the car lights, engine and radio failed and he felt an increased heat. The object then sped away and the car worked normally.
Source: Rodeghier 1981 p55 citing Canadian UFO Report 3, 1.
Date: September 21, 22, 27, 1972
Location: Santa Isabel Cordoba Argentina
Time: 0540A
Summary: Teodoro Merlo, 56, maintenance man of the Ika-Renault factory, entered the previously locked washroom and encountered a “man” nearly 8-feet tall sitting on a long washbasin; he wore very close fitting dark blue one-piece garment tight at the wrists, and held his right forefinger below his now. His complexion was very white, and his baldhead bore high, pointed ears. The figure disappeared unaccountably from the room, whose temperature was abnormally high. The witness later suffered repeated headaches, and pains in his lumbar region.
Source: Dr Oscar Galindez for CADIU
Date: September 21 1972
Location: Santa Isabel, Cordoba, Argentina
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Summary: Later on that same day, the same witness, Teodoro Merlo was riding the bus on his way back to the factory. He sat on the third seat from the front on the left side of the bus. There were about 25 other riders in the bus. On top of the windshield wiper there was a large oval-shaped rearview mirror. The lights inside the bus were turned off; only the console lights were on. Suddenly as the bus drove by an area called “Los Olivares” Merlo was stunned to see on the rearview mirror the facial image of the very same type of entity he had seen earlier on that date. This time he was able to see the in more detail. Surprised he turned around and looked behind him to make sure the creature was not really riding the bus. He only saw another passenger leaning against a window, sleeping. He described additional details on the face such as the mouth, which according to Merlo resembled that of a canine (dog) the top lip protruding over the lower lip. On both cheeks he could see what appeared to be large brownish stains or birthmarks; he also noted eye and facial movement. Under each of the eyes he could see two converging dark lines angled obliquely towards the eyes. The eyelids were slanted and thin, seemingly painted on, the entity did not blink. The nose was triangular in shape very thin and bony. After three minutes of observing the bizarre being, the image suddenly vanished, being covered with what appeared to be concentric circles. The image on the mirror returned to normal now reflecting the normal bus activity behind Merlo. Apparently none of the other passengers had noticed anything out of the ordinary.
Source: Dr. Oscar A Galindez
Date: September 22 1972
Location: Villa Altagracia Dominican Republic
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Summary: A local peasant woman reported seeing two short beings get out of a strange device with lights and grab a goat that seemed to be paralyzed. They carried it into the UFO, which took off at great speed until disappearing from sight.
Source: Robiou Lamarche, Cuarta Dimension # 31
Date: September 22 1972
Location: Palenque San Cristobal Dominican Republic
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Summary: Virgilio Gomez was driving along a lonely road when a man wearing a light green coverall that covered even his feet stopped him; he wore no gloves, and had a sort of watch on his wrist. The man identified himself as Freddy Miller, a well-known Dominican baseball player who had mysteriously disappeared more than 15 years previously; he said that a UFO had rescued him when his 2 companions drowned, “because of my knowledge of radio technology and my intelligence.” Nearby were 2 slender men 7-foot tall, dressed like Miller; they had complexions like Chinese and short chestnut colored hill. Miller also pointed out to Gomez the craft in which they had arrived; it was football shaped the size of an automobile, with a bright “nickel plated” surface. The conversation continued for about 5 minutes, during which Miller told Gomez, that the humanoids were “supposedly from Venus.” Then Gomez was told to leave, because “they” were departing, and not to worry if his car wouldn’t function, because it would return to normal spontaneously. As he drove away Gomez saw the three men approaching the object.
Source: Danilo Rodriguez Dominguez, Listin Diario
Date: September 24 1972
Location: Las Lunas, New Mexico Time:
Summary: A farmer in Las Lunas, Mexico, returning to town, spotted several small objects “fluttering” along a few dozen feet above the desert scrub. They were small, about three feet in diameter, silver in color and made a buzzing sound. Similar domed disc-shaped objects were seen and photographed in the same area about five years later. This picture has long been thought to be a hoax, because of its clarity, and proximity to the witness.
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Date: September 26 1972
Location: Appleton Wisconsin
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Summary: A strange object was seen at close range 6.5km east of here. No further details
Source: Rath 1997 p61.
Date: September 27 1972
Location: Basel Switzerland
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Source: Ulrich Magi
Date: September 27 1972
Location: Santa Isabel Cordoba Argentina
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Summary: Enrique Moreno was delivering documents in the Ika-Renault factory when the fluorescent lights in the engineering room went on and off three times. There was an accompanying noise like that of a turbine lasting for several seconds. Then, driving his motor runabout outside the plant, he briefly glimpsed “a sort of rainbow very near the ground,” and thought no further of it until he suddenly encountered a tall figure, glowing a bluish green, moving among some piles of chassis beside his route. As he approached within 30 yards, the figure swung around, in a stiff, mechanical way, to face him, and at the same time his engine faltered, and quit when he came opposite the being. This humanoid figure, strongly built and about 7.5 ft tall had eyes like yellow light bulbs, ears that rose above the skull in a point, a square chin, and a slit-like mouth. The face appeared pale green, but this may have been a reflection of the clothing, a one-piece tight fitting coverall of luminescent bluishgreen, with a broad silvery belt. Moreno felt an intolerable hum in his ears and a sensation of heat and itching over his whole body; there was a smell of burning oil. His arms and legs were paralyzed. After 30 seconds of confrontation, his motorcycle shot off to the left on its own volition at high speed, and the witness returned to the Security Office without his conscious control. He arrived at 2330, but his wristwatch had stopped at 2313A, leaving 15 minutes unaccounted for. Moreno was in a highly agitated state, and subsequently suffered nausea and pains in the neck, as well as a burning sensation in his eyes. At the encounter site later, two rectangular “footprints” 8 x 16 were found and the soil there was hot.
Source: Dr Oscar A Galindez
Date: September 27 1972
Location: Woodstock Ontario Canada
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Summary: Mr and Mrs Smith of Hay Street were watching TV in their living room when, through a gap in the curtains they saw a yellow-orange object, the size of washtub, hovering in the sky, north of Dundas. It moved along for two or three blocks until trees blocked it from their view as it appeared to land near Ontario Hospital.
Source: Data Net VI, 12 p18 citing Woodstock-Ingersoll Sentinel Review 25 September 1972.
Date: September 27 1972
Location: Santa Isabel, Cordoba Argentina
Time: 2330
Summary: Independent witnesses, one a lady named Quiroga, saw near a local auto plant a luminous object which by means of a solid beam of blue light picked up a tall humanoid entity. It apparently took the being up through the tube of light and into the object. Others saw a luminous object rising up to the sky from the vicinity of the auto plant. In addition an unnamed official of the Renault plant also reported that the same night he had also seen a luminous object drawing up, by means of a luminous tube, a figure with precisely the features reported by both Moreno and Rodriguez.
Enrique Moreno (19) an internal document distributor at the Ika-Enault plant was coming out of the store on his round when he saw a sort of rainbow close to the ground near the perimeter of the plant. He did not pay much attention to this and hurried up, but then noticed, 10m from the road, 100m away, a blue-green figure slowly moving as if to cross the road. At first he thought it was one of the workmen but then felt that the figure was so tall that it would have to be on stilts. When Moreno got within 30m of the figure, it turned around, swinging its whole body in a manner which gave the impression that its arms and legs were inanimate and just attached to the body. At the same time Moreno’s motorcycle began to vibrate and backfire, slowed down, then, when level with the entity, stopped. The entity was among the car chassis and only its upper part was visible, but Moreno was able to see that it was 2.3-2.4m tall, with an extremely angular greenish white face. It was hairless and its ears protruded above the top of its skull. It had round, sparkling eyes, like yellow light bulbs, with no eyelids, lashes or eyebrows, a straight line for a mouth and a perfect pyramid of a nose, the whole appearance of something modelled and artificial. It wore a one piece luminous plastic blue-green suit with a large silvery belt, which had a buckle of the same colour. On the right hand side of the belt was a pouch like a cartridge pouch.
During this time Moreno felt an unbearable hum in his ears, an itch throughout his body and a paralysis of his limbs, which did not, however, stop him from staying on his motorcycle, a feeling of heat (the night itself was cool), a smell of burning oil. After what seemed like 30 seconds the cycle suddenly shot off to the left at terrific speed, and even when it slowed down he was driving at 50k/h without any conscious control. When he reached the security gate he heard the 2330 siren, which indicated he had been observing the being for 17 minutes, though he had no recall of this. The security staff denied there were any traces, but Moreno claimed they had deliberately obliterated two hot rectangular footprints, 20cm by 40cm, 2cm deep, in which were luminous particles, like mica. Moreno suffered from nausea, burning eyes and pain in the neck. He became so ill that staff called for an ambulance, but he asked instead to be taken to his fiancee’s house. Both in the ambulance and when he got to her house he was rambling on about latitude and longitude etc, and his sleep was nervous. these were probably the after-effects of a sedative. Earlier that night at 2230 he had been unnerved by the lights in the engineering office going on and off three times of their own accord. At 2330 that night, Mrs Quirgo, a lady living near the plant, saw a luminous object, which picked up a humanoid being by means of a crystal tube. This was confirmed by Mr and Mrs Roberto Grosso who were driving past the plant when they saw a luminous body rise from the plant and high speed.
This globe was seen by many residents of Villa El Liberador.
At 0340 the next morning Luftolde Rodriguez (52) a truck driver for Egrea was delivering parts to the plant and had just finished unloading in the extreme North East of the plant when his truck’s transistor radio packed up with a loud bang and he noticed the whole area was lit up and someone was walking towards him. Looking round he saw the torso of an extremely tall individual. When this individual reached the right wing of the truck, the witness was able to see that it was 2.5m tall. bald, the top and back of the skull were flattened. It had long erect ears, reaching 2cm above the skull, no eyelids, eyebrows, lashes, round luminous eyes, very white in complexion, straight nose with flat sides and small mouth. It was dressed in a bluish-green plastic looking one piece luminescent suit. Its body was of robust but unnatural with unnaturally long arms and legs. In its left hand it had something like a billiard ball which continuously emitted a powerful white light.. On both wrists were silvery clasps and on its feet were silvery boots, with creases on the tops and thick rectangular bottoms. The being walked without bending its knees, which made it sway as it walked. As it passed, Rodriguez was paralysed in his seat, unable even to move his hands, the truck began to vibrate so much that the radio fell away from the dashboard and he heard a humming sound, like a swarm of bees, in his ears. The entity did an about right turn, looked at him, then turned round again, swinging its whole body, and as it walked off, the lights and engine on the truck went out, only to come on again when the entity was 25-30m away. Rodrgiuez just sat there stunned until some workers came up to ask what happened.
At 2230 that night, Moreno was back on duty and went to the teleprinting section to get some work tools when, getting the impression he was being watched, looked towards a window which overlooked some upon ground and saw, facing him, 3m from the window, the same entity he had seen the night before. At the same time the fluorescent lights began flashing on and off, the area filled with a soft hum and the teleprinters started up. He ran off in total panic until the security guard calmed him down.
Source: Oscar A. Galindez, FSR Vol. 21 #
Date: September 28 1972
Location: Valea Plopului Poesti România
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Summary: Vasile Carabus (69), a night watchman at the CAP plant, was on Tabacici Hill, south of the village, when he saw an object, like a bright star with a tail in the sky. The thing’s apparent diameter was twice that of Venus and the apparent length of the tail was 2m. After hovering in the North West sky for a short time, the thing descended slowly, at 45 degrees, to a place called La Odaia. At this spot a circle of burnt corn and compacted clay 582cm was found. At the centre of this circle was a hole 14cm wide, 260 cm deep, around which were heaps of soil 70cm diameter; there were also three trapezoid depressions at an angle of 120 degrees to each other. This spot was bounded by three trees and two high tension cables and it appeared that the traces had been scraped out. Grass in this area appeared scorched, the surrounding maize was riper and the local moles had come out of hibernation again. Laboratory analysis showed signs of increased radioactivity.
Source: Hobana and Weverbergh 974 p273 citing investigation by Colin Turcu et al. Skylook 79 p4 citing Joe Brill citing Colin Turcu and Mikai Matai.
Date: September 28 1972
Location: Santa Isabel Cordoba Argentina
Time: 0340A
Summary: Luftolde Rodriguez, a truck driver making a delivery to the Ika Renault plant 4 and half hours after the Moreno encounter, had driven into the northeast sector of the plant to unload. He was driving a 1957 tip-truck Dodge. Having unloaded his cargo, he was just starting off when he noticed the whole area lit up. Hearing someone approaching from behind, he looked out the right side window and saw, in profile, the torso of a very tall figure pass close by. Only when this figure had moved into a position seen through the windshield could Rodriguez see its head. At that point the being stopped, did a right about turn, stiffly, and looked straight at the witness. He did another right turn, and moved slowly and awkwardly ahead, finally crossing diagonally to the left and disappearing behind some piles of frames. He had been in view from 60 to 90 seconds. The entity, dressed in a tight one-piece coverall of luminescent/blue green color, was similar to the one described by Moreno. He was fully 2.5 meters tall, as compared to the pile of frames he passed behind, and his head was bald, flattened at the rear, with the same long, narrow ears that rose to a point above the pate. His eyes were numerous circles with no eyelids or eyebrows. The nose was straight, and the mouth rudimentary. His complexion was very white. Legs and arms were extremely long, and he did not bend his legs as he walked; in his left hand he held a small white sphere the size of a billiard ball. He had a wide silver belt and large, square, silver boots. A number of physical effects occurred simultaneous with its appearance; the truck engine and lights died just as the figure strode by; these effects lasted until it was 25-30 meters distant. Rodriguez was immobilized in his seat; although he could follow the movement of the figure, he could not move either his hands or legs. He heard a humming noise, similar to bees, while the figure was in view. He sat there for several minutes after the figure vanished, not knowing what to do. Finally, some other workers approached to ask what was wrong and he told them what he’d seen. A search disclosed no sign of the intruder, nor where there any traces. Subsequent inquiries disclosed there were a number of independent UFO observations in the area during the evening of September 27-28.
Source: Dr. Oscar A Galindez
Date: September 28 1972
Location: Santa Isabel Cordoba Argentina
Time: 2230
Summary: A second encounter by Moreno occurred almost 24 hours after the first. After completing a chore in a department adjacent to the Teleprinting Section, he suddenly had the impression he was being watched. Looking out an open window on the plant grounds, he saw, facing him, and only 3 meters from the window, the same entity he had seen the night before. At the same moment, the fluorescent lighting in the office flashed on and off, and the whole area was permeated with a soft hum. The teleprinters all started up simultaneously and, filled with an excess of dread, Moreno fled towards the Security Office, shouting for someone to come and corroborate the entity’s presence. One of the guards had to subdue him physically and warned him of any further outbreaks. They assured him that they would not report this latest incident, indicating clearly that they believed he was hallucinating.
Source: Dr Oscar A Galindez
Date: September 29 1972
Location: South Weymouth Massachusetts
Time: 1930
Summary: John J. Stanga, his best friend Dave, Dave’s sister and a young girl had gone behind an old farm behind the Union Street Elementary School in order for Dave’s sister to smoke a cigarette. The farm was abandoned at the time. As Dave was talking to his sister, John heard something at the edge of the field and at the same he saw something. The shape was backlit by the lights on the elementary school. It was an enormous creature creeping on all fours like a gorilla. It sort of looked like a gorilla, but was huge. It had huge shoulders and head. The shoulders appeared to be six to eight feet off the ground; it lacked a neck since the head just went directly into its shoulders. It looked hairy, but it was really just a dark shape against the lights. It seem to creep in short movements, it put its arms out, hands down on the ground and the back legs then moved forward about the same distance. Afraid, both men ran off without telling Dave’s sister what they saw. When she asked why they ran, they told her and she thought they were kidding. Ten minutes later both John and Dave were standing around a house under construction that boarded the field hoping to see the creature again. Soon they heard some noises and concerned, decided to leave and see if they could find some friends in order to return to area with additional people. As they were walking back to a house where their friends usually hung out they suddenly saw, perpendicular to the way they were walking, right in front and above them, they saw a beam of purple light. It resembled a solid rod of light, almost like a black light stretched across the sky. It only lasted a few seconds if that, but not only did they see the beam, they heard it. It emitted a humming sound.
Source: Direct from witness at besjjs@bellsouth.net
Date: September 30 1972
Location: Coquille Oregon
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Summary: Dewey Strong was driving along Lee Valley Road, south of Coquille when, on turning a corner, his headlight caught a bipedal creature with a large head and wide shoulders about 3m away. The thing was about 2m tall with an ape like face.
Source: Wasson 1979 p6 citing her own investigation.
Date: Late September 1972
Location: Camden New South Wales Australia
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Summary: A three year old girl saw a thing described as a “boat” with a large light on or above her house. The next morning her father noticed a dark patch of grass on their front lawn about 1.8 x 2.45m. A strange grey powder was found at the site.
Source: Basterfield 1997 p176 citing investigation by Dr Geoff Stevens, report of 19 March 1995 + UFO Investigation Centre Newsletter 43.
Date: Late September 1972
Location: Lyme Park Cheshire England
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Summary: Two men fishing saw a huge purple globe descend over the water and then take off again.
Source: Investigation by Ivor Beeston.
Date: Late 1972
Location: San Juan Puerto Rico
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Summary: A businessman and minister, who had been hearing strange beeping sounds for a number of years heard the sound again and saw a strange flying object. He then became aware of a humanoid being about 1.6m tall, dressed in a thin one-piece overall stood beside him. The being had a thin lips and a small nose and appeared to lack teeth. Its eyes were elongated ovals. It wore a sort of turban with a star on it. This being took the witness by the hand and led him over 600m to a 15m diameter luminous object and took him inside to a transparent room with leathery chairs and various dials and gauges. The object took off and entered the sea to place where there were about 700 beings. Here he was given a strange but nourishing meal, neither sweet nor salty. After this experience the witness developed various “wild talents”.
Source: Sanchez-Ocejo and Stevens 1982 p146.
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