Date: Winter 1975
Location: Slitting Mill, Staffordshire, England
Time: early hours of a winter’s morning
Summary: It was in the early hours of a winter’s morning in 1975 when Barry and Elaine, a married couple then in their late twenties and with two small children, were driving towards their then-Slitting Mill, Staffordshire, England home, after attending a Christmas party in the nearby town of Penkridge. As the pair headed towards the small village (its population today, four centuries after its initial foundations were laid, is still less than three hundred), their car’s engine began to splutter and, to their consternation and concern, completely died. Having managed to carefully coast the car to the side of the road, Barry proceeded to quickly open the hood and took a look at the engine – “even though I’m mainly useless at mechanical stuff,” he states. There did not appear to be any loose-wires, the radiator was certainly not over-heated, and a check of the car’s fuses did not provide any indication of what might be the problem. But, as the family was less than half a mile or so from home at that point, Barry made a decision, as he explained:
“We had a picnic blanket in the boot [a British term for trunk] of the car and I got it out. I got back into the car and I said to Elaine something like: ‘Let’s cover you up and the kids with the blanket.’ They were in the back sleeping and [were] only four and six at the time. So I said to [Elaine]: ‘You stay with them, and I’ll run back home and get your car, pick the three of you up, and then we’ll leave my car here, and we can get someone out from a garage to look at it tomorrow.’”
At that point, however, their plans were thrown into complete and utter disarray. According to Barry, Elaine let out a loud scream, terrified by the sight of a small figure that ran across the road in front of them at a high rate of speed. She explains: “I just about saw it at the last second, and then another one followed it, and then a third one. The best way I can describe them to you is like a hairy troll or something like that. We had some moonlight and they were like little men, but with hunchbacks and big, hooked noses and not a stitch on them at all. Not a stitch, at all; just hair all over them. I’d say they were all four-feet-tallish, and when the third one crossed by us, you could see them at the edge of the trees – wary, or something, anyway.” Things became very hazy indeed, says Barry: “We both know from memory that they came forwards, towards us, very slowly to us, and I’ve thought since that they were interested in us or wanted to know who we were. They came very slowly, and it was a bit like we were being hunted, to me. Elaine was hysterical; and with the kids with us, I wasn’t far-off, either. “But that’s all we remember. The next, it’s all gone; nothing. Neither of us remembers seeing them go, and the next thing it was about two o’clock and the car started fine, then. It felt like something had happened to us, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on, you know what I mean? But the memory thing is the biggest problem, even now. What was it? I did have a dream later about them surrounding the car, but that’s it, really. But they were there and we did see them, right up by the Stone House [Author’s Note: A reference to a large, old abode that sits on the edge of the village of Slitting Mill and that dates back to 1584, two centuries prior to the emergence of the village in the 1700s].” Barry states that, to this day, and now both in their mid-sixties, both he and Elaine still feel very uneasy about the loss of memory that they both experienced back in 1975, but he is keen to affirm that: “I know, and we know, that we both saw them. The kids don’t remember a thing, thankfully. They were horrible little things. All that hair: Trolls, goblins, something. But they were there and they were real.” Neither Barry nor Elaine have ever experienced any further such incidents or encounters with the unknown, but they have never forgotten those disturbing events deep in the heart of Slitting Mill on a chilly, winter night all those years ago with a strange band of hairy trolls.
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Date: December 2 1975
Location: Fargo North Dakota
Time: 0400A
Summary: Sandra Larson woke to find 2 beings, of the same type she had seen on August 26th, standing beside her bed. They “floated” her through the wall to a field several blocks away, where they took her into a UFO. When she was taken out, they were in a desert like landscape of white sand, lighted by a body resembling the moon; she was taken into a square building where a humanoid—she thought of him as a “scientist”—interrogated her by telepathy. Then she was taken home again, floating through the closed door. She was thinking of taken a bath, and the entities asked her what “soap” is; she took them to the basement & gave them a cup of laundry detergent.
Source: Jerome Clark
Date: December 4 1975
Location: Arizona, exact location not given
Time: evening
Summary: The witness was alone in his leather shop when two humanoid beings entered. One male the other a female. One, the male he had encountered before. They were both nearly human, with yellow eyeballs, high cheeks, flat noses, and wide thin mouths. The man had no hair; the woman seemed to be wearing a wig. He was over 6 ft tall, she was shorter, their skin was transparent, their fingers long, especially the middle one, but their legs were unusually short. Unable to resist them, he went with them to the back room and undressed. The woman went over his body with a small metallic device, then undressed and had sexual intercourse with the witness, making animal like sounds during the process. At one point he was told by the beings that they had lost the will to resist evil, so they needed to crossbreed with humans.
Source: B Ann Slate & William McCall
Date: December 1975
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Time: Dec. 4, 1975; Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada
11:05 p.m. Wayne Major, reporter for the North Bay Nugget, observed two quiet triangular shaped objects moving SE. The North Bay Tower advised one light aircraft in the area who reported sighting something else in the area. Possibility of pictures.
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Time: Dec. 5, 1975; Clarkston, GA
Evening. An object that looked like a Ferris wheel on its side was sighted on this night. It had yellow and amber colored lights spinning around it as the object moved forward. (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, pp. 11 & 14).
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Time: Dec. 5, 1975; Montville, NJ
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Time: Dec. 7, 1975; Choteau, MT
5:57 p.m. Slow-moving UFO. RAPCON on radar. (NIDS UFO 22)
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Location. Siskiyou Mountains California
Date: December 8 1975
Time: unknown
A young man & 4 of his friends saw “a green cloud like vapor, not so much floating as sliding over a cut in the mountains, over the top of the stumps of trash. Inside the greenish glow, I could see the outline of a man.” Several other observations of this area known to the investigator, in on case the object emitted a high-pitched screeching sound; in this case it came right up to the car with 5 witnesses.
Source: Paul Cerny
Date: December 1975
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Time: Dec. 8, 1975; Simms area, MT
6:00 a.m. UFO landed on ground, like bean. (NIDS UFO 33)
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Time: Dec. 9, 1975; Freezout Lake, MT
5:00 p.m. UFO flying near B-52. (NIDS UFO 35)
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Time: Dec. 9, 1975; Coming from Missoula, MT
8:43 p.m. UFO, tan or orange, 500′. (NIDS UFO 28)
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Location. Toppenish Washington
Date: December 11 1975
Time: 2330
Bud Le Duc was driving home from Toppenish when his headlights fell on 3 men standing beside the road. One of these jumped in one bound to the middle of the roadway, a distance of about 15 ft; the leap appeared to be in slow motion. The man then slowly raised both arms above his head. Le Duc swerved & passed within 2 or 3 ft of him. The man was 7-8 ft tall and very thin, with long arms & matted reddish shoulder length hair. His very long face had a long pointed nose & dead white skin. The upper lip was pulled back to show the teeth; the lower lip was very thin. He wore a black one-piece garment with white bands at the wrists & ankles and a patch of white at the neck, & black boots. The other 2 men were dressed the same way. The man in the road held in his left hand “something red-purple with a wire on it.” Le Duc drove on past, but shortly afterwards saw an elongated luminous object behind his truck, which blinked on & off several times. Soon afterward, a bright light illuminated the truck cab & its surroundings, and stayed with the truck until Le Duc reached his home. (Other sources (Long) indicate that at the same time that Le Duc encountered the strange men on the road, the image of a very close friend that had been recently killed in a car accident appeared sitting in the passenger seat.)
Source: David W Akers & William Vogel for Cufos
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Time: Dec. 11, 1975; Great Falls, MT
7:00 p.m. Great Falls International Airport. UFO sighted, oblong object 10′ above ground. (NIDS UFO 44)
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Time: Dec. 15, 1975; La Neuvelot, France
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Location. Americana, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Date: December 17 1975
Time: night
16-year old Salles de Andrade encountered an intense beam of light while walking home at night and woke up the next day in a thicket, 28 kilometers away. He had no recollection for the time that he had been missing, but he had strange marks on his forehead and arms, and experienced headaches.
Source: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal August 1976
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Time: Dec. 18, 1975; Ancy, France
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Time: Dec. 18, 1975; Dutton, MT
??? a.m. UFO, radar lock, Penroy. Pentagon notified of UFO. (NIDS UFO 40
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Time: Dec. 19, 1975; Roy to Fergus, MT
11:30 p.m. SAC men witnessed UFO on ground. (NIDS UFO 43)
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Time: Dec.23, 1975; Great Falls, MT
6:00 a.m. Great Falls International Airport. Egg-shaped UFO on ground. (NIDS UFO 46)
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Time: Dec. 23, 1975; Goodridge, MN
Flat, round, orange object passed nearby, engine restarted by itself. Rodeghier, 1981, p. 67 (E,L) car
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Time: Dec. 23, 1975; Goodridge, MN
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Time: Dec. 24, 1975; Bar-sur-Aube, France
8:00 p.m. (+) A huge disc covered the entire N19 highway. It vanished at 8:10 p.m. when a car approached. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976).
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Date: December 24 1975
Location: Cotes-du-Nord, France
Time: 10:00 p.m.
Summary: Power circuit breakers were tripped four times when a glowing ball of light came down near the ground in Ploubazlanec, Cotes-du-Nord, France. A 0.2 meter area of burnt grass was found at the site were it apparently touched down.
Source: Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d’un Phenomene, p. 75
Date: winter 1975
Location: Tyumen region, Russia
Time: daytime
Summary: Two men, Yuliy Vasilievich Russkih and his grandfather were hunting in the taiga (dense pine forest). One day the grandfather did not return to their wooded cabin at night and concerned, Yuliy began searching for him, but without results. His grandfather suddenly turned out the next evening, moribund with frostbitten fingers and narrated an amazing story. According to the man while chasing an animal he went too far into the forest and decided to spend the night near a bonfire. Suddenly he noticed some lights among the trees, like a group of figures holding flashlights walking towards him. Badly frightened the man somehow thought that he was dealing with wolfs (?) and fired 2 shots in the direction of the group with his rifle. The lights then died out, and moments later a powerful and broad beam of light blinded him from somewhere above him. The beam was emitted by a dark object, shaped like a cross that was hovering above the forest. The man remembered nothing more. Apparently he blacked out and was possibly subjected to an abduction in which all the memory was erased from his mind.
Source: Alexander S. Kuzovkin & Nikolay N. Nepomnyashziy in: “UFO Requests Landing” Moscow 1991
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