1972: July UFO & Alien Sightings
Date: Summer 1972
Location: BUFFALO NEW YORK
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Summary: A man fishing in Lake Erie near Buffalo saw a large, silvery disc, about 9-12m diameter, come from under the water, less than 100m away and head straight up into the sky. The wave from the object almost sank the witness’s boat.
Source: Cochrane 1980b p69
Date: Summer 1972
Location: ALMONTE, ONTARIO, CANADA
Time: Evening
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Summary: A 7 year old girl, lying on a couch, listening to her father during a storm, saw, behind him a being a 1.2-1.5m tall with oversized head and eyes, slit like nose and small mouth. Its body and arms were abnormally thing and it had long fingers. When he father turned round in reply to her hysteria the thing dodged into the kitchen so that he did not see it. Six months later she had a dream in which a brilliant object with a white being, visible through a window, was hovering outside, giving off a brilliant light.
Source: Cameron 1995 p54.
Date: Summer 1972
Location: WHITE OAK KENTUCKY
Time: Evening
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Summary: Joan Bennett and her fiancé Mr Brockman were attending Sunday service at the Free Union Separate Baptist Church on this evening, when she noticed a man in the graveyard, where none had been moments before. He seemed to be middle aged, with white hair, wearing a blue suit and carrying a baby across his shoulder, wrapped in a pink blanket. After some moments Joan looked away and when she looked back moments later, the man had disappeared.
Source: Montell 2000 p2 direct from Joan Bennett Brockman to her daughter May 1997.
Date: Summer 1972
Location: MALDON ESSEX, ENGLAND
Time: 2100
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Summary: Two 9 year old girls were walking in a field near Malden when they saw what they first thought was some new kind of electricity pylon. They then saw that it was a sort of pylon only a quarter of normal size surmounted by a silvery-orange dome shaped object. Along the edge near the base was a row of portholes that emitted a clear light. The object appeared to be about half the size of a bus. The pylon structure was dark grey, the bottom portion covered by trees; and it appeared to be transparent. There was a glow around the edges. The girls became frightened after a few minutes and walked away. They looked back once and the thing was still there, but when they looked back a second time it had gone.
Source: Jenny Randles in FSR 22,4 p30 citing investigation by Andrew Collins
Date: Summer 1972
Location: BALHAM, LONDON, ENGLAND
Time: 2355
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Summary: David Jones and a friend were looking out of their 1st floor flat window when she saw a light low above the house roofs opposite. The light divided first into two and then three. These were on a wedge shaped object, flying so low that they could a man in a high collared dark uniform in a sort of cabin. As the thing passed over the roof they just heard the sound of air being displaced. The thing then arced round and retraced its path.
Source: Hanson and Holloway 2011c p49 citing Alberto Rosales citing BUFOD (?British UFO Documentation Centre?) UFO reports.
Date: Summer 1972
Location: TIGARD OREGON
Time: 2300
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Summary: A young woman waiting for her mother to come home saw her TV develop interference just as her mother arrived home from work and alerted her to a huge dark disc shaped object hovering over a central court between the houses. The object was surrounded by lights which resembled windows. After a few minutes it moved slowly away and then was gone.
Source: Swords 2005 p87 citing John Timmerman.
Date: Summer 1972
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Date: July 1972
Location: ONEIDA NEW YORK
Time: 0100
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Summary: Awoken by the activities of a large number of helicopters a woman saw a huge blimp shaped object rise out of the nearby woods, hover for three minutes and then suddenly shoot up at terrific speed.
Source: Dennett 2008 p114 citing George Filer in MUFON UFO Journal 397 p12.
Date: July 1972
Location: MELTON MOWBRAY TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA
Time: 2000
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Summary: A 25 year old housewife was driving from Kempton to cabaret at 65kph, when she saw a light in her rear-view mirror. She first thought it was a car with a single headlight, but it made no sound and she could not see any car. The light came up and over the car, the engine starting to splutter and jerk, but when the object had passed all was well. The whole affair lasted 30 seconds.
Source: Basterfield 1997 p179 citing TUFOIC files.
Date: July 1972
Location: COLONIA HELALCO, SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA
Time: Night
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Summary: Emilio Albaire, the director of the Industrial School at Frias, was with his family at his country house near Colonia Helalco, when they observed an enormous elongated object, about 50m long, like a railway train illuminated by a greenish-blue light, which landed right on the mountain about 1km distant. A few minutes later the objected emitted a blinding light and rose up vertically, looking like an immense ball of fire.
Source: Oscar Gallindez in FSR 19,3 p11 citing La Razon 14 July 1972 + La Voz del Interior 18 July 1972.
Date: July 1972
Location: GLASGOW LANARKSHIRE now STRATHCLYDE, SCOTLAND
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Summary: An income tax inspector walking down Dalmarnock Road saw a young man with a crew cut wearing a navy coat and black trousers standing on the bridge over the Clyde, looking down. Fearing a suicide attempt the witness called out and ran towards him. However when only3m away the man jumped, but when the witness looked over the bridge he saw the man disappear before he hit the water.
Source: Green 1980 p182.
Date: July 1972
Location: Racine Quebec Canada
Time: 2030
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Summary: A farm couple, Mr and Mrs Joly, were disturbed by their cattle acting up. On going to investigate Mr Joly saw that the cattle were all looking towards a field some 600m away. In the field was a luminous red object around which were two small beings. Joly got his wife to confirm what was there, and despite her protests, began to approach the thing. He had only taken a few steps when the beings appeared to see him. These two, and a third, which was 30m away, entered the object, the latter at the great speed. Joly saw that the beings were green in colour. When the beings had entered the object it took off at a moderate pace up to tree top level, where it abruptly disappeared. The next day Mr Joly and his two small sons went to the site where they found an area of depressed grass about 8m diameter.
Source: Buhler et al 1985 p163 citing Le Journal de Quebec 31 December 1983 + 7 January 1984.
Date: July 1972
Location: Lower Hutt New Zealand
Time: 0200A
Summary: An unidentified woman reported that she had been awakened in her bedroom, by a blue light shining in her second story window, and by a noise like a spinning top. Going to the window, she saw an object like an inverted soup dish hovering over the next-door building. In the top, which was a clear dome, she could see two human male figures wearing shiny blue, satin-like suits; their heads were bare. One appeared to be controlling the object; the other had his back to the witness. The far figure turned toward the one seen from the back, said something, and laughed. After about a minute, the object shot straight up and then disappeared over the Wainuiomata Hill. Her sighting frightened the witness and she said nothing about it for five years.
Source: K J Drake, Xenolog # 115
Date: July 1972
Location: Melton Mowbray, Tas – Ca.
Time: 2000 hours
Summary: A twenty five year old housewife was driving at sixty five km/h from Kempton to a cabaret, when looking out her rear vision mirror she saw a light. At first she thought it was a car with one headlight, but it was soundless and no car was to be seen. The light came up behind her and seemed to swoop over the car. The incident lasted some thirty seconds. The engine started to splutter and jerk as if stopping. The car slowed down but was alright when the light had gone.
Source: TUFOIC
Date: July , 1972
Location: Cervia de les Garrigues, Lleida, Spain
Time: afternoon
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Summary: Antonia Marti was collecting snails in a field near town when she notices a strange “car” (pseudo vehicle) driving by slowly on the road; it appeared to be a SEAT 600 white-gray in color without a driver. The car did not have any glass and in its place it had some sort is luminous celluloid type material, it hardly made any engine sound as it disappeared into the distance. Around the same time and in the same area, there were 3 other encounters with anomalous pseudo vehicles, one which resembled a tractor without tires.
Source: http://alaluzdelasvelas.iespana.es/ovnisenespana/
Date: July , 1972
Location: Near Defiance Ohio
Time: late afternoon
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Summary: A railway worker was busy working on some tracks when he looked up to see coming down the tracks a figure with an estimated height of seven to nine feet. As the figure approached more closely, the worker described seeing “fangs” like large canines, protruding from this figure’s mouth. The creature was also very hairy. He reported two very odd things, first the creature walked in a rather peculiar “side to side” manner as if it was shuffling down the track. Secondly it was carrying a big stick over its shoulder, with which it struck the railroad worker. After beating the witness it disappeared into the brush. Bruises were found on the witness.
Source: The Northeastern Ohio Bigfoot
Date: July , 1972
Location: Toledo Ohio
Time: night
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Summary: A number of people in the area, saw something which appeared to be human, with an oversized, wolf like head, and an elongated nose, between six and eight feet in height. It had huge hairy feet, fangs and ran from side to side, like a cave dweller; it also had red glowing eyes.
Source: Jerome Clark & Loren Coleman Creatures of the Goblin World
Date: July , 1972
Location: Roachdale Indiana
Time: night
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Summary: A red glowing object was seen descending over a cornfield, later a farm wife and other witnesses saw a tall hairy figure walking and then running through a muddy field, it seemed transparent as the witnesses could see through it. It seemed to jump without touching the ground as it never left any tracks. When it ran through the weeds, nothing was heard. A farmer in the area lost all but 30 of his 200 chickens to the creature, which ripped them apart, draining them of blood but not eating them, and spreading their remains over a huge area. It was shot repeatedly from about 100 feet but seemed unaffected. There were at least 40 witnesses.
Source: Don Worley, UFO Annual Tri-County UFO Study Group
Date: July , 1972
Location: Ponce, Puerto Rico
Time: night
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Summary: Astral projection had been one of Hector Aybar’s gifts since boyhood and these out of- the-body experiences eventually led him to engage extraterrestrials. He had been sound asleep one night with the windows closed and the air conditioner on when a brilliant light suddenly lit up the bedroom, bathing it in an unearthly glow. Three days later, Aybar began receiving telepathic messages from purportedly extraterrestrial entities that promised to develop his psychic capabilities.
Source: UFO PI, Private UFO Investigations
Date: July , 1972
Location: Riga, Latvia (USSR)
Time: 2300
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Summary: The witness, Sergey Vladimirovich Kotenkov had just returned from working at the local diesel-construction factory and was lying on a cot next to an opened window. His room was located on the fourth floor. Soon Sergey noticed a white “star” above the roof of the house next door, which gradually increased in size. He first thought that it was a low flying satellite but as it approached the object took the form of a female silhouette wearing a white smock-like outfit that covered her arms and legs.
Soon this figure suddenly appeared inside Kotenkov’s room standing at about 2- 3 meters from the witness. The figure was harmonious but it had a large head about half a meter in diameter. Stunned the witness rose on his elbows in order to obtain a better look at the figure which was intently observing him. From afar the figure looked like a beautiful woman, but close up Kotenkov could see a bottomless black gap where the mouth should have been, her hair was not visible and appeared to be covered with something white. On the place of the nose she had a black “spot”, her head somewhat reminded the witness of a “skull”.
The witness then immediately thought that he was looking at “Death” who had come to take him. Terrified he attempted to strike the figure but realized that he couldn’t move or shout. He then looked instead at the female figure and noticed that her eyes were much larger than humans’, positioned at a distance of about 25cm from each other. In the center of each eye was an absolutely black line which gradually brightened at the edges, the eyes also seemed to be covered with a strange haze, he did not see eyebrows or eyelashes. Her complexion was pale and she was totally silent, but Kotenkov felt her breath on his face. For an unknown amount of time the witness laid there staring at the figure which suddenly floated towards the window and at the same time began to change shape and decrease in size until it was a small luminous sphere which quickly disappeared from sight. Gradually Kotenkov regained his movement and with unsteady feet went to get a glass of water. Four years later he received confirmation as another man that lived in the same building told him about his encounter with a “flying phantom” in white.
Source: L.I. Schneider, Riga, Latvia & Archive of Valentin I. Golts Saint Petersburg, Russia
Date: Early July 1972
Location: TOWER MINNESOTA
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Summary: Near here, Debbie T (13) and a friend saw a white humanoid 1.35m tall in the woods. Four other people saw it later.
Source: Rather 1998 p17.
Date: July 1, 1972
Location: Bedford Park, Illinois
Time: 1500
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Summary: The 8-year old main witness and a friend were on a field near his house. There were bins that the park district used for dirt and stone, mulch, etc. There was also a garage used to store Native American artifacts from a group visiting the town and performed on this field daily. As kids he remembers that they thought the garage was ‘haunted’ or had special powers or similar. They used to go try to open the door which was always locked but they would always become frightened or felt something weird inside. On this date they were walking through the field and for some reason looked behind them to see a glowing figure of a person standing near one of the bins. He could only describe the being as a glowing light, human shaped with no facial features but just in the shape of a person. Extremely frightened they ran across the field to their homes. No one believed them and years later his friend could not remember anything about the incident.
Source: NUFORC
Date: July 2 1972
Location: FORT BEAUFORT, CAPE PROVINCE now EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA
Time: 1900
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Summary: On the Argylle Farm, Mr R L Brown, a municipal official; his stepson Billy Tidbury, Mrs Eileen Meering of Cape Town and her 14 year old son observed for 20 minutes, at a distance of 630m, an elongated flat triangle, with a tail 2m long. It was hovering and bobbing up and down in the bushes, lighting up the bush with yellow, blue blinding white and then red lights. The thing then left in the direction of Grahamstown at terrific speed. At its brightest, the object was much brighter than a welder’s torch.
Source: Data Net VI, 8 p17 citing Natal Mercury 4 July 1972.
Date: July 3, 1972
Location: South Shore, MA
Time: 7:00 p.m..
Summary: More than two dozen witnesses reportedly observed a silvery “triangular-shaped” UFO for almost one hour (7-8 p.m.) before it disappeared behind clouds. One witness, a former Air Force Lieutenant, said, “It was translucent and I thought I could see blue sky through it, but its edges were white and well defined.” A local Air Force official at Hanscom Air Force Base admitted receiving numerous reports of the UFO but said none was recorded in keeping with current Air Force policy. NICAP’s Boston Subcommittee has investigated this case, and has determined that the UFO in question could have been a weather balloon launched earlier in the evening by a local US. Weather Bureau Station.
Source: NICAP UFOI, Oct 1972, page 3
Date: July 3 1972
Location: FORT BEAUFORT CAPE PROVINCE now EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA
Time: Evening
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Summary: Nine cars full of people, including members of the town council, drove out to Braeside and saw an object take off from the undergrowth and head off towards Grahamstown.
Source: Norman Oliver in Quest UFO 10,3 p17.
Date: July 5, 1972: Maureen Puddy’s Encounter
Date: July 5 1972
Location: MOUNT ARROWSMITH TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA
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Summary: A motorist encountered bright white cigar shaped object which came to ground level and landed beside the road, at which point its light went out. The witness returned the next day to find a path of flattened undergrowth.
Source: Basterfield 1997 p180 citing TUFOIC files.
Date: July 5 1972
Location: KING WILLIAMS TOWN CAPE PROVINCE now EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA
Time: 0150
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Summary: Tony Inch and Joe Rust were returning to King Williams Town from Port Elizabeth, when 13km from the former they saw a fire in the grass a few hundred metres from the road0. While watching the fire, they suddenly became aware of a brilliant red object, shaped something like an American sailor’s cap, which took off from the ground. Inch tried to chase it as it rose slowly over the road, but it accelerated and disappeared in the direction of Stutterheim. Both men were unnerved and Inch especially was shivering and shaking when they reported the matter to the police.
Source: FSR 18,6 p15 citing King Williams Town Mercury 13 July 1972.
Date: July 5 1972
Location: VRYBURG CAPE PROVINCE now NORTH WEST PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA
Time: 2215
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Summary: Cattle farmer Jurie Wessels was driving his sister Hannie, a student at Pretoria University, home from a drive in cinema. Also in the car was his wife Helene, 15 year old brother in law and a cousin. They were driving to his mother’s house, 14km from the farm, when suddenly a huge flying ball appeared right in front of them, apparently hovering about 7m above the ground, right over Mrs Wessels’ house. Jurie slowed down, afraid of a collision. As the party watched, the thing turned from red to green and then sparks flew from its side, it then turned yellow and vanished in a flash.
Source: Data Net VI, 8, p16 + Charles Bowen in FSR 18,6 p14 both citing South African Sunday Times 9 July 1972.
Date: July 7 1972
Location: CAPE MAY NEW JERSEY
Time: 2100
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Summary: Frank Markley, a photographer for the Cape May County Gazette, was driving south on Shunpike [side road avoiding the turnpike] when he noticed unusual lights in the sky. He stopped his car and watched an unusual object hovering about 25m above a hill near the Shunpike –Tabernacle Road intersection. It was a round object, 8m diameter, with a flat bottom; studied with bright white lights and a tapering top .The sound of a motor could be heard. Frank took several black and white photographs with his 35mm camera, which are said to show the object trailing a core of exhaust.
Source: Data Net VI, 9 p12 + Mc Wane and Graham 1974 p38 both citing Cape May County Gazette 13 July 1972.
Date: July 8 1972
Location: LAVALLE SANTIAGO DE ESTERO, ARGENTINA
Time: 2345
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Summary: Driving on Hw 157 between Tapso and Frias, close to Lavalle, Carlos Altamirano, a branch manager and his two passengers, Miss Aurora Bracamonte, secretary to the Frias normal school, and Miss Maria Angelica Bracamonte, came round a bend in the road and saw, 800m to their right, an object on the ground. It was 50m long, with a row of greenish windows along tis length, at the height of an ordinary door, which gave it the appearance of a train amongst the trees. Shaken, Carols accelerated away. The area was a deserted one, with no railway lines or electricity.
Source: Oscar Gallindez in FSR 19,3 p11 citing La Razon 14 July 1972 + La Voz del Interior 18 July 1972.
Date: July 9 1972
Location: WHITHORN WIGTOWNSHIRE now DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY, SCOTLAND
Time: 2330
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Summary: Nine people travelling in a minibus saw a fiery sphere, about the size of a TV set of the period, cross ahead of them and then tack and pace their vehicle. The driver accelerated up to 130 kph but the thing kept pace, bouncing along the road about every 60m, changing colour green, blue, yellow, orange, white. One pf the passengers climber under their seat in panic. The thing eventually moved off across open country.
Source: NUFON News 95, p5 citing Bill Gibbons.
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Date: July 10, 1972
Location: Alcaracejos, Cordoba, Spain
Time: 2215
Summary:Rafael Aranda, a young travelling salesman from Seville was driving his Renault 8 at 90-100kph on a back road, approaching Alacaracejos, when, 3km from town, the car suddenly slowed down. Even pushing the accelerator down to floor could make the car do no more than 70-80kph. Seconds later, Rafael became aware of something like a great white light bulb, the beams of which were directed straight towards the car, but without dazzling Rafael at all. This light advanced, rotating in a clockwise direction. The thing was about 1-1.5m diameter and was on or near the ground to the right of the road, among the scrub oaks, which hid its lower part. Rafael came to a curve in the road to the right, and the light rotated faster but apparently without moving from its original position. Rafael now lost sight of it and was astonished to find that his car now worked normally. The experience had lasted less than a minute. The next day he took his car to a Renault dealer, but they could find nothing wrong with it.
Source: UFOE II, Section VII
Date: July 10, 1972
Location: Bristol, Tennessee
Time: about 10 pm
Summary: In 1972 I was with group of teens above my house at about 10 pm we had built a bonfire and we were just having a good time talking and joking around as teens do I when spotted a light in a distances. At first to us it appeared as a white light. As it got closer the light got longer in shape. The you could notice pulsing lights started to appear the first color was a reddish orange color then more colors could be seen in all about 5 different colors down the side of this white cigar craft. It made no noises and moved across the sky at a slow speed. We watched until it got out of sight afterwords we all had weird feeling kinda like being scared but more like being a numbing feeling in disbelief. We all had been told all our lives that there no such thing UFOs but yet we were witness to a craft we had never seen before. The very next day in the local news paper the back page news with the picture of the very craft in Texas we all seen but less than 40 minutes after we had watched it pass by us. I told my dad and he added there no such things UFOs.
Source: MUFON
Date: July 11, 1972
Location: Louisiana Missouri
Time: various
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Summary: 8-year old Terry Harrison saw “a big, hairy thing with a dog under its arm” in the family’s backyard. He yelled for his sister, Doris, who looked out the window and saw “a tall black hairy thing standing in the ditch.” Later some faint footprints with black hairs around them were found. Several days following the creature encounter,members of the family saw a series of small fireball-like objects fly over the area and land. There were further observations of the creature subsequently, as well as vaguely reported UFO activity. Elsewhere a woman heard animal sounds, growling and “carrying on something terrible”. On July 14 at 2030, a dozen witnesses saw a white ‘fireball’ soar over a hill and descend into trees. This was followed by a greenlight five minutes later. Forty five minutes after that, a man heard ringing noises followed by a loud growl. There were subsequent reports of monsters associated with a foul odor; sets of tracks; disembodied voices; a glowing light which exploded and left a stench in its wake; a low level fireball which shot spurts of red light;colored lights which appeared to signal to each other; an orange, glowing UFO with lighted windows which landed in a thicket for five hours; and a perfect gold cross on the Moon which lit up the road as light as day. On July 21 a number of witnesses saw an object on top of Marzolf Hill. It was stationary and was blinking on and off.It appeared to have square looking windows, approximately two feet in diameter,from which a yellowish orange light was visible. On July 21 shortly before several witnesses heard ‘Momo’ (the Missouri monster) emit a big, loud scream-noise from a hill, two lighted objects were seen falling from the sky. They glowed and apparently went across the tops of a stand of trees. There were several other sightings of creatures and aerial lights elsewhere in Missouri.
Source: Walt Andrus Mufon & Richard Crowe, Fate
Date: July 14, 1972
Location: Louisiana Missouri
Time: 2030
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Summary: Edgar Harrison, a deacon in the Pentecostal Church was talking to some of his congregation after the Friday prayer meeting at his house when they saw a white fireball soaring from over Marzolf Hill and descending into the trees behind an abandoned school across the street. Five minutes later a second, green, fireball performed an identical manoeuvre. This happened at a time when the area was frequented by a hairy humanoid.
Source: Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman in FSR 19,1 p20 citing investigation by Richard Crowe.
Date: July 14, 1972
Location: Cervia De Les Garrigues, Catalonia, Spain
Time: 1100
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Summary: Jose Cami Muntancia and his father Ramon Cami (70) were driving in their Citroen pickup truck in mountainous country from Borjas Blancas to a place 4km before Cervia. Just before reaching the entrance way to their destination they noticed, in the field to the left of the road, next to the bags of olive leaves they were coming to get, was an object with a red dome, with a small green hump on either side of this dome. The pair first thought that the thing was the house owner’s tractor, but when Ramon reached the spot only 10 seconds later the thing had gone.
Source: Ballester 1976 p38 case 158 citing Stendek 18 p33 citing investigation by CEI.
Date: July 14, 1972
Location: Cervia De Les Garrigues, Catalonia, Spain
Time: 1300
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Summary: Luis Manresa (aged about 75) was 300m from the edge of town when he observed an object at the crossroads for 10 minutes, Later he found a circle 2-3m in diameter where thistles had been knocked down but not broken
Source: ibid
Date: July 15, 1972
Location: Louisiana Missouri
Time: 0500
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Summary: Pat Howard saw a dark humanoid object cross the road near Marzolf Hill
Source: ibid
Date: July 15, 1972
Location: Kekaha, Kauai, Hawaii
Time: 1300
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Summary: The witness was enrolled in a catholic school on the shoreline of Kekaha and it was reported that there were a few Humpback whales spewing water outside near the buoy. While watching from the shoreline he observed a flashing light to the west of his location on the beach near the naval base in Barking Sands. He watched the flashing lights until they disappeared. Later on his father came from the base and the witness asked what had happened at the base. He then told him that what happened was classified, but eventually the witness was able to obtain some information from his father. He was told that a UFO had flown into the airspace near Barking Sands unannounced. They had been asked to identify themselves but there was no response. Immediately 3 F-14 Tomcats were deployed to intercept the object, the aircraft were able to surround the object and force it down into the sea. The UFO was forced down into the channel between 2 islands where it remained for a few days. Soon a Soviet recovery vessel showed up in the vicinity, on a salvage mission. The United States then warned the Soviets that they were violating United States territory and asked them to leave immediately. Neither side was able to recover the UFO because the depth of the channel. As far as the witness knows the case is still classified and the object remains at the bottom of the channel to this day.
Source: NUFORC
Date: July 15, 1972
Location: East Brunswick New Jersey
Time: early evening
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Summary: The five-year old witness was playing in the sand pits near his house with a little girl who had long black hair. He could not remember who she was and none of his neighbors at that time had children that matched that description. He remembered climbing on top of the hill and seeing a landed large silvery disc shaped object sitting in the pit on three leg-like protrusions. He approached the object and heard a “pop” then a section of the object began to lower to the ground. His next memory was of running across a field towards his house. Soon after this incident he saw an unknown creature at his bedroom window, he attempted to scream but no sound came out.
Source: NUFORC
Date: July 15, 1972
Location: Near Hamilton, New Zealand
Time: 2230
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Summary: The main witness, L.A. was riding his motorbike along a field when he watched a shiny gray disc-shaped object descend and land nearby, at the same time his motorbike stopped apparently loosing all power. He rolled the bike down a hill and saw two other motorists which their cars had also stopped. He called out to them and asked them to come down to have a closer look at the craft, but the motorists refused claiming they were afraid. So the witness then jumped over the fence and began approaching the object on foot. But when he got to within 50ft of the craft the side of the object slid open and a figure appeared which beckoned the witness to come in. He hesitated briefly but then began to walk in. Inside he saw three figures, 1 woman and 2 men, which at no time spoke to him, the woman communicated with him via telepathy in plain English and told him that they lived in a “galaxy outside Pluto (sic)” and the name of their planet was “Zephyr”. They apparently then performed medical tests on the witness including a blood test. The craft was approximately 40-42ft across, the walls were like shiny tinfoil, and the “engine” which powered the ship was located in the center and was completely silent. The witness remembers asking many questions and so did the aliens. The aliens then asked the witness to come with them but he declined the invitation. During his conversation (telepathic) with the female alien she asked the witness for three pens that were sticking out of his pocket, which apparently caught her attention. The witness claims he exchanged the pens for an “object” from the ship which he still has locked in a bank safe. He later left the object and when he got home he had lost 20 minutes of time. He claims three further encounters (no details) and still maintains telepathic communication with them. (Unfortunately no detailed description of the aliens is given but these were apparently of the human-type).
Source: http://www.etcontact.net/newsite
Date: July 16, 1972
Location: Cervia De Les Garrigues, Catalonia, Spain
Time: 0900
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Summary: Two brothers Jose and Miguel Farre were travelling 3km from Ceriva on the Borjas Blancas Road when they saw a silver coloured object, 4m in size, moving slowly 400m away.
Source: ibid
Date: July 16, 1972
Location: Cervia De Les Garrigues, Catalonia, Spain
Time: Morning
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Summary: Mrs Antononia Marti Palao (70+) was just outside Cervia when she saw a strange whitish object, just over 3m in size with a celluloid like material for a windshield and no-one inside.
Source: ibid
Date: July 16, 1972
Location: Arroyito, Cordoba, Argentina
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Summary: Atilio Brunelli (52), a professor of music, composer and concert artist, along with retired industrialist Severino Porchietto (58) were driving home to Cordoba from a musical reunion Balearia, 185km away, along a route they knew well. Severino was driving at 80-100kph, when 304 minutes after passing Arroyito, they were astonished by a bright flash of light that lit up the whole countryside. Severino caught a brief glimpse of a dark object in the sky. Thinking it was a storm he speeded up. A few moments later they observed some 50m or so from the left hand side of the road, on a completely level piece of ground, a row of rectangular soft orange lights, apparently on a structure about 50m long. After about 10 seconds they had passed the thing and it was then they realised that the sky was completely clear, with no sign of a storm and that what they thought had been windows in a train had been rectangular (about 3m by 70cm) rather than square and that this “train” was much further back than the railway line.
In the moments after they had seen this object their car had run unusually smoothly, with none of the usual bumps, so much so that Severino had the impression that they were a few centimetres above the ground. Before they knew where they were they were at Montecristo, just 25km from Cordoba, with no recollection of going through the other towns on the route. When Atilio arrived home, after being dropped off by Severino he found it was only0330. Both men arrived home in a curious state of euphoria. Severino found that is car had only consumed half the normal amount of fuel used on this journey. Atilio then developed an itch, alternating with numbness, over a perfectly circular area 1.5cm diameter in his right lumbar dorsal region. Severino also found a marked improvement in his blood pressure and suffered a sort of amnesia about the incident for 33 hours until a member of the family had asked if anything had happened on the journey. It appeared that an 81km section of their journey was missing. A group of people driving near Frontera saw an exceptionally white flash in the direction of Arroyito at about the same time.
Source: Oscar and Benjamin Gallindez and Albertson Maximo in FSR 19,3 p6 citing their own investigation.
Date: July 16, 1972
Location: Odendaalsrus [ORANGE] FREE STATE : South Africa
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Summary: Mr Slabbert called at the police station to report an unidentified flying object and then went with Constable J F Myburgh in the police van to the spot on the Wesselbron Road about 3km out of town. There they saw a flat rotating disc high in the sky, giving off a yellow light with blue rings around it.
Suddenly the thing came straight down at the patrol van, hovering right above it, keeping position for 15 minutes (according to some reports it rose up and down during this period). The thing now appeared to be 1m diameter and glowing red. Myburgh radioed for permission to fire on the object but was refused. The object then moved off towards Welkom. As it did so, it was seen by H F Coetzee, senior traffic inspector at Kronnstad, who reported it as looking like a zeppelin with blotches of light resembling windows on the hull. As the thing left at high speed in the direction of Johannesburg, four other traffic inspectors saw it from two separate locations.
Source: FSR 18,6 p16 citing The Friend 18 July 1972 + Die Burger 17 July 1972.
Date: July 17, 1972
Location: ELLIOT LAKE ONTARIO, CANADA
Time: 2355
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Summary: Heather Stewart (17), sister Cindy and friend Marilyn Coulis (both 16) were returning home from Elliot Lak when, as they neared Elliot Lake High School, they heard a loud buzzing noise, like an intermittent beeping sound along with sounds like magnified voices, all coming from the direction of the High School. Then Cindy drew their attention to a huge red ball, the apparent size of the full moon. As the sound lowered in pitch until it sounded like the whirring of helicopter blades, the object seemed to reduce itself to a small dot on the spit. It then went behind a hill and some trees but they could still hear the sound. Mrs Lorna Briggs and her 13 year old daughter of Hillside Drive also saw the object but did not hear any noise.
Source: Data Net VI, 11 p16 citing Espanola Standard 26 July 1972.
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Date: July 19 1972
Location: Near Kuraby Queensland Australia
Time: 0200A
Summary: Driving to work at 0200A, the witness, an anonymous Ipswich migrant, saw 6 figures in soft gray or cream-colored coveralls standing by the road. As he approached, 5 figures turned away; the 6th stepped out toward the road. He held his hand outstretched, and the witness could see that his face was masked with “a sort of faceted covering,” coming to a point like a diamond, and with no features visible. On the other side of the road, near some power lines, was a large silvery object without lights. He accelerated his car and drove by as quickly as he could. During the sighting, he kept hearing a strange, throbbing noise like “p-doing, p-doing.”
Source: Lindsay McKeon & Keith Basterfield
Date: July 19, 1972
Location: Chicago, IL
Time: 10:42 p.m.
Summary: Peter Reich, aerospace writer for CHICAGO TODAY, saw a UFO and wrote 4 column article. Incredible high-speed of object that looked like anti-collision beacon (red) over Lake Michigan. Estimated at 1/2 mile and 600 mph, object suddenly stopped, reversed course sharply and appeared to fly along a downward curve in opposite direction.
Source: SL-58, page 12
Date: July 20, 1972
Location: Springdale Arkansas
Time: 2215
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Summary: Mrs C W Humphrey, her three sons and daughter in law were awakened by a pounding on their trailer and on investigating saw a large creature that was at times bipedal and at other times on all fours. Shortly after this a neighbour Bill Hurst saw a large creature with huge eyes in his garden. When he cried out the thing ran off.
Source: Coleman 2001 p197.
Date: July 20, 1972
Location: Tyler Texas
Time: Night
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Summary: Joe Carter and Michael Chambers saw an oval object with a wedge and multi-coloured lights, including red and amber, rise slowly from the trees. The lights then went out and then reappeared a.beacon lights as the object flew in and out of the clouds.
Source: McWane and Graham 1974 p47 citing an undated issue of Tyler Courier-Times.
Date: July 20, 1972
Location: Pietermaritzburg (KWA-Zulu) Natal South Africa
Time: 1100
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Summary: Thelma Odell was driving down Commercial Road when she saw a pink circular object, with a star shape indented in it, coming from the direction of Durban. The thing was the apparent size of a dinner plate and appeared directly in front of Thelma, giving off a slight, pure white, vapour trail. It hovered over the Voortrekker cemetery and then descended into the section south of Commercial Road, appearing to disintegrate as it neared the ground. The thing was in view for a few seconds only. A second, independent, witness reported an object with a red light like a traffic signal, passing over the research farm at Cleland and descending near the centre of Pietermaritzburg.
Source: Charles Bowen in FSR 18,6 p16 citing Queenstown Daily Representative 21 July 1972.
Date: July 21, 1972
Location: Bowling Green, Missouri
Time: night
Summary: A young, pregnant housewife saw two balls of fire land in a cow pasture near her home. Later she smelled a nauseating odor (like something dead) and she and her family heard grunting and screaming noises, ‘like nothing we’d ever heard before’.
Source: Mark Moravec “The UFO Anthropoid Catalog”
Date: July 21, 1972
Location: Pinelands South Africa
Time: 2030
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Summary: Mrs Muriel Alexander of North Walk was returning home when she saw an object that appeared to be only a few metres above the ground. The thing was large, bright red in the centre, orange to gold towards the outside. Muriel called at the neighbours’ house and they watched the object as it completed a large circle and shot off at high speed towards Pearl. There were other, independent, witnesses.
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- Charles Bowen in FSR 18,6 p16 citing Cape Argus 22 July 1972)
Date: July 22, 1972
Location: Ashburton South Africa
Time: 0100
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Summary: Two motorists, Mr C McDuling and Mr R Barker were returning to the capital when they enco0untered a huge dazzling white light, which appeared to be settled on the Mpushini Bridge. They first thought that it was the light of another vehicle. As they approached the thing, Barker flashed his car lights but got no response and they were soon so blinded by the light that they stopped the car. An object, standing as high as their car was sitting on the bridge, blocking the entire road. Its light resembled a giant neon light. Before the two men could recover the object shot straight up into the sky and vanished. Two police constables, Chris Claasen and Nico Foourie were sent to investigate and they arrived on the scene 30 minutes later. They found nothing on the bridge but when they turned back to the capital, about 2km from the bridge, among some trees in a valley to the left they saw a strange object. They went after it, but when they had to get out to open a gate the object vanished.
Source: Data Net VI, 8 p18 citing Natal Mercury 24 July 1972.
Date: July 22, 1972
Location: St. Louis, Mo
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Summary: Sixteen witnesses. Large UFO observed over highway intersection I-55 and Union Rd. by three children. KXOK received 13 calls. Object descended from North, hovered and appeared to rotate slowly as it launched five smaller objects. The larger object was described as a “football”, with other objects 1/12th as large. Larger object took off straight up, others went different directions with crackling sound
Source: SL-72, page 10
Date: July 24, 1972
Location: Winsted Connecticut
Time: Early morning.
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Summary: Teenager Chapman was at home talking to a friend Wayne Hall, when theyb heard a peculiar animal like sound and looking through the window to the lake, saw a black hairy biped about 2.5m tall come out of the woods, wander around and then disappear out of sight.
Source: Citro 1997 p181.
Date: July 24, 1972
Location: Salvador Bahia Brazil
Time: 1700
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Summary: Tax inspector Jaime Marinho and two friends encountered an “extraterrestrial” on the beach. No further details.
Source: Gordon Creighton in FSR 18,5 p25 citing O Dia 29 July 1972.
Date: July 25, 1972
Location: Bagnacavallo Italy
Time: 0440
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Summary: Giordano (38) and Lina (36) Orioli had been wakened by their dog at 0125 but had seen nothing, Awakened again, they saw a dark rectangular object, 6-7m long,1.5-3.6m high and thick, on the ground in the garden 6-7m away. It had two rows of portholes and bent antennae and emitted a sound like gas coming out of a canister.
Source: Jacques Bonabot citing CUN.
Date: July 25, 1972
Location: Cairo Illinois
Time: Evening
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Summary: Leroy Summers, while out jogging, saw a 3m tall, white hairy being standing upright by the Ohio River levée. Police found nothing.
Source: Coleman 2001 p198.Taylor 2011 p15.
Date: July 25, 1972
Location: Between Frankston & Dromana, New South Wales, Australia
Time: 2115
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Summary: Mrs. Maurene Puddy was driving home from visiting her son in the hospital when a blue light flooded the road; peering up, she saw the rim of a large glowing object hovering over her car. She tried to speed up but the engine died and the car slowed down and moved to the side of the road, as if by its own volition. (She had no control over the steering wheel). She then heard a voice in her head, speaking in English, it said, “All your tests will be negative…Tell the media. Do not panic, we mean no harm…You now have control.” After the third sentence the motor started by itself and she sped away. Four weeks earlier (7/3) her car had been followed for 8 miles by the same or a similar object, blue luminous “like 2 huge saucers, one inverted on top of another”, and 50 feet wide. On this occasion she at no time saw any physical beings, although in the spring of the next year, she would experience a “contact” type encounter.
Source: Bill Stapleton & Garry Little of UFOIC
Date: July 25 1972
Location: Sinop Turkey
Time: 23:00
Summary: Early 1970’s – Sinop, Turkey. In the mountains on the north coast of Turkey we would experience nightly light shows. White sphere shaped balls of light would “pop” up into the air. Sometimes a large “ball”, as I’ll call it, would rise with a smaller one orbiting around it. Others would come up and down out of the mountains and just sit there. Usually that’s all they would do – just sit there. Occasionally they would leap-frog over each other but would never leave the mountain tops or approach the base. One night working the midnight shift, I had to drive to a remote part of the base to another building. As I was waiting for clearance to enter the building the large “ball” came up with it’s smaller companion orbiting around it. I mentioned it to the MP in the guard shack who just smiled and said, “Yeah, they’ve been real busy tonight.” No one ever talked about them and my captain didn’t want to hear of it. They usually would string the mountain tops like christmas lights. These things never did anything and would just sit there till dawn when daylight would fade their light. They were all over Vietnam too. Put out a call to GI’s who have been in remote areas of the world, Turkey, Vietnam, Korea, Alaska etc.. You won’t believe some of the stories. I know a Marine combat veteran who has photos. No name ATT.
Source: National UFO Reporting Center
Date: July 26, 1972
Location: Cradle Hill, Wiltshire England
Time: 2115
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Summary: Robert Mason and Stephen Barnett had reached a field beyond the copse of Cradle Hill, it was still light out. After a while both looked back towards a barn and caught sight of a figure resembling that of a small man or boy in the clearing, just in front of the barn. Upon being noticed the figure dodged behind the side of the barn out of sight. Stephen looked through binoculars to see if the figure would pass the line of trees leading back down the road to the gate, but saw nothing. They searched all around the copse but found no one.
Source: Ken Rogers, The Warminster Triangle
Date: July 26, 1972
Location: Queenstown Tasmania Australia
Time: 1800
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Summary: An object resembling an inverted parachute, with green-yellow squares half way up it, floated low near the ground and was chased by workmen. It was observed for 2 minutes.
Source: Basterfield 1981 p96, citing TUFOIC files. Evaluation: Parachute, kite or balloon?
Date: July 27, 1972
Location: Garden City Kansas
Time: 0130
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Summary: Henry Guerrero was sat in his car with his workmate Bob Apsley, near to their workplace (Master Feeders II) 50km south of Garden City when they noticed a strange bright amber light travelling at 80-95kph close to the ground about 1.5km away. It was much larger and brighter than a truck clearance light and there were no roads in the area where it was visible.
Source: Data Net VI, 9 p13 citing Garden City Telegram 27 July 1972.
Date: July 27, 1972
Location: Sudbury Ontario Canada
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Summary: Mrs Joan Laws, her two children, Peter Hamilton and Michael Martel were returning home from Blueberry picking when a large round glowing object flew across the sky from north to south swooped down towards the bush and then flew up and gradually disappeared. The thing had a lot of blinding lights underneath and a fiery tale.
Source: McWane and Graham 1974 p46 citing an undated issue of Sudbury Star. Evaluation: Bolide?
Date: July 27, 1972
Location: Tyler Texas
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Summary: Joe Carter, Michael Chambers (qv) and three of their friends were sitting on the balcony of their apartment when they saw an object that appeared to rise from a group of trees across the street. It was oval shaped with two search lights in front and on its bottom was a triangle, comprising a mass of blinking white lights, with red, green and blue lights located at each corner. It came out of the trees, hovered for about two minutes, disappeared, reappeared, came across the road towards the apartment and then went behind a cloud, came out again and then disappeared. No sound was heard. During the performance the group rushed downstairs to the parking lot where they joined two other witnesses,
Source: McWane and Graham 1974 p46 citing an undated issue of Tyler Courier –Times.
Date: July 27, 1972
Location: Peoria Illinois
Time: Night
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Summary: Two people described as “responsible citizens” saw a 3m tall being with long grey U shaped ears, a red mouth with sharp teeth, and double joined thumbs. The thing gave off a musky smell.
Source: Coleman 2001, p198.
Date: July 30, 1972
Location: Louisiana Missouri
Time: 2100
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Summary: Mrs Lois Shade saw an orange glowing object, with illuminated windows, which landed in the thicket on the top of a bluff and remained for 5 hours until it took off vertically and disappeared.
Source: Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman in FSR 19,1 p22 citing investigation by Richard Crowe.
Date: July 31, 1972
Location: Belleville, IL
Time: 9:45 p.m.
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Summary: Four people observed a yellow discoid object, 50-60′ in diameter at 300′ altitude while driving. The object disappeared toward the East of St. Louis. Lights in the middle flashed on and off, but the object had large square windows in the bottom. There was an unconfirmed radar track at Scott AFB.
Source: SL-59, page 13
Date: late July 1972
Location: Near Portland, Oregon
Time: night
Summary: The witness had been working the swing shift at the local sawmill and got off work at 0200A, at about 0300A he was headed into the local town and came around a corner. He saw a bright light above a house. He thought it was the moon, but the moon was behind him. He had taken pictures of the moon that night. The object was about 600-1000 feet away from him. He pulled over and stopped. The object was hovering over a small house about 20-30 feet in the air. The object was round and lighted up the whole area. It was about twice the size of the house, maybe 100 feet in diameter. He saw and watched it from several minutes and took several pictures of the object. It then flashed twice and dimmed down in brightness and started to move. He jumped into his car and gave chase. It stayed about 200 feet off the ground and made no noise. He chased it for over 2 miles at close to 100 mph and it kept getting farther away. The witness stopped a little store and called the local sheriff’s office and reported it. Three days later he was in bed asleep when his mother woke him up. She said he had visitors. He went downstairs and there were two men in the front room. They were dressed in black, including hat and sunglasses. They were very pale in color. They asked him about the sighting and asked if he had pictures. He said yes, but hadn’t got them developed yet. They told him never to talk about the event ever. The next thing he remembers was waking up in bed. The camera, which had been in his car, was gone, along with all the film.
Source: http://www.earthfiles.com/news
Date: Late July 1972
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Time: 2050
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Summary: A woman was waiting with her daughter to collect her son from work, when their attention was caught by an object shaped like one saucer inverted over another coming from the direction of the cemetery and memorial park at about treetop height. It appeared metallic, with a flat underside, a red light on top and a row of small windows around its centre. These were illuminated by yellow, pink and pale green lights and through them could be seen figures in green overalls walking about and working with various equipment. The thing emitted a beeping sound that seemed to come from the top light. The mother got out of the car and ran toward the thing, alarming her 30 year old daughter. The object moved off with a circular motion. Other motorists appeared not to notice it.
Source: Billig 1982 p227 citing (anonymised) letter from the older witness.
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