October 31st 2004, Tinley, Chicago, USA: This isn’t the first time that TJ has seen something strange in the sky … ‘He was one of thousands of people who saw something that night’ … It appears to be on the move … It comes back into view … ‘He’s thinking this thing is as big as a house’ … ‘The object rapidly took off.’ Close Encounters s2e10
One of the Top Ten encounters caught on tape. ibid.
3rd June 2008, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA: ‘This dark cloud seemed to be moving towards him’ … ‘He could see it was clearly a structured object’ … ‘No-one else reported what he had seen’ … Cliff Taylor is still haunted by the experience. But his experience is far from over … ‘He looked out his window and there it is again’ … ‘The shape appeared hexagon from his perspective’ … ‘He estimated it at least to be 3/400 yards across’ … ibid.
Bucks County: ‘We had over 300 sightings in a short period of 3 months.’ ibid.
October 18th 1973, Mansfield, Ohio, USA: A US army helicopter crew is returning to their base in Cleveland … ‘A red light … moving parallel to them’ … ‘The light is coming right at them’ … ‘A green beam bathed the whole inside of the cabin’ … They feel like they are just hovering ... ‘Suddenly everthing is operating the way it’s supposed to.’ Close Encounters s2e11
Yorkshire, Burnley Road housing estate: The officer stops within 30 metres of the object … ‘He describes it as a diamond-shaped object, approximately 16 x20 feet’ … ‘almost completely silent’ … ‘He tries his portable radio’ … ‘a blinding light’ … ‘His next conscious memory is he is suddenly a hundred metres, a hundred yards, further up the road’ … As he looks around him, the object is gone ... Nearly an hour of lost time. ibid.
‘Within the circle it was much drier than the outside.’ ibid.
September 3rd 1965, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA: ‘He’s [Norman] alone on the road when he sees something incredible’ … ‘a large red low UFO’ … ‘that very suddenly comes towards him’ … ‘He dives to the ground’ … ‘He sees it is moving off’ … ‘They drive him to the police station’ … ‘He would have two UFO experiences in the same night’ … ‘Suddenly, they could hear the sound of the animals going crazy’ … ‘Officer Bertrand was not expecting to see what he saw’ … ‘Officer Bertrand actually draws his gun’ … The object begins to retreat … ‘Officer Hunt, he shows up in his squad car.’ Close Encounters s2e12
For Norman, the sighting takes its toll. ibid.
Aberrance en Provence: He [Renato] looked up into the sky and saw an oval-shaped object’ … ‘coming rather rapidly toward him!’ … Renato takes cover … Whatever this object is, it’s right in his own backyard … ‘He had a pretty good view of the object’ … ibid.
‘They found two concentric circles … They immediately took soil and vegetation samples … Plant matter taken from the landing spot shows a significant reduction in chlorophyll levels as if the plants had aged with unnatural speed; this effect is consistent with exposure to radiation … ‘This temperature is consistent with microwave radiation.’ ibid.
January 8th 2008, near Stephenville, Texas: ‘Mike notices four very bright lights coming out of the north-east’ … ‘comparable to about six football fields’ … The lights get incredibly bright … The lights change again … ‘Suddenly, it zips off’ … ‘F-16s are trailing after it with afterburners on’ … Close Encounters s2e13
November 1968, Aix en Provence, France: Suddenly, the objects are on the move … ‘They merge into one’ … The single craft is now less than fifteen metres from the house … ‘Suddenly, the craft is gone.’ ibid.
February 21st 1973, Piedmont, Missouri, USA [viz also Mississippi]: ‘What they see, maybe 200 yards away at the most, is an object hovering very low over the field; they see four specific lights’ … Close Encounters s2e14
The Piedmont UFO Flap of 1973. Local authorities receive more than 500 reports of possible UFO sightings. ibid.
August 15th 1968 Nova Scotia, Canada: ‘So now there’s six or seven objects’ … ‘There was no sound’ … Then things take a strange turn … ‘The object seemed to move towards them’ … ‘The lights seemed to divebomb the car’ … Richard swerves to try to avoid the collision … ‘This object passes directly over the car’ … ‘The observer was someone who had good skills in identifying aircraft … [and] we have three witnesses, not one.’ ibid.
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‘These are life-altering experiences witnesses never forget.’ ibid. Zimmermann
McMinnville, Oregon, 1950: They saw this saucer-shaped craft. Paul [Trent] ran in and got his camera and took two photographs. ibid.
They reveal themselves to us with ever-increasing frequency, and they are being captured on film. ibid.
Bainbridge Island, Washington, July 5th 2019: Tim Seanor’s day at the beach is eclipsed by the mysterious events in the sky … His scepticism is about to be shattered. ibid.
‘It did look like a saucer-shaped object; it was just sitting static up in the sky. I attempted to capture that with my phone.’ ibid. Tim
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Washington DC, 1952: ‘Numerous saucer-shaped objects were seen. They were captured on radar.’ ibid. comment
‘To be able to fly right into a nuclear facility, somehow get control of our technology, and then shut them off like a light-switch.’ ibid. Zimmermann
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Missing time, lost memory, deep emotional and sometimes physical trauma … They are all too real. ibid.
But many abductees are reluctant to tell their story. ibid.
Scotland, 1980: Helen [Moon], her parents and her three children went on their annual road-trip to Scotland. But their idyllic journey would soon turn to terror. What they say they witnessed would impact them for the rest of their lives. ibid.
‘It was a black craft. It was triangular and it just slowly rose through the trees. It was totally totally silent.’ ibid. Helen
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‘I assumed at the time they were a new formation or a new type of jet … So I was baffled by the fact that they did not have any tails … They passed almost directly in front of me.’ ibid.
‘Mass sightings are cases on steroids where we don’t just have one or two individuals, we may have dozens if not hundreds, perhaps evens thousands of people encountering something in the same time frame.’ Encounter: UFO s1e5, comment
Phoenix Lights: One of the biggest sightings in UFO history happened in the desert state of Arizona. But what hundreds of people saw was no mirage. ibid.
Farmington, New Mexico: ‘Hundreds of people saw hundreds of UFOs over their town.’ ibid. comment
‘Spherical oval-shaped objects that were intelligently moving across the sky.’ ibid.
Phoenix Lights: The massive object didn’t look or behave like anything from our planet. ibid.
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, 1967: ‘Lo and behold here comes this orange orb … ten feet above the water tracing the shoreline.’ ibid. Chris Styles
The strange foam on the water’s surface, the piercing smell of sulphur, locals start to wonder, What was this craft? ibid.
Houston, Texas, 2014: ‘I was seeing some crazy stuff up there in the sky … I knew then and there I had something extraordinary … I’m going to let the world tell me what this is.’ ibid. Andrew Pena
Validated by dozens of eye-witnesses around Houston all reporting the same thing: a cluster of bright lights in the sky. ibid.
Did these craft choose to be seen? ibid.
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This region of Wales is also known for its frequent sightings of aircraft that are completely silent. ibid.
Broad Haven Wales, February 4th 1977: Its most famous case involved an actually UFO landing that garnered a flurry of media attention nationwide. ibid.
‘The drawings that the children produced were very similar.’ ibid.
Pentyrch Incident, 2016: A triangluar-shaped craft … ‘Like it came through a veil into our world.’ … The large triangular-shaped craft appears to be landing. Caz then hears more military aircraft approaching. ibid. witness Caz Clarke
‘I was stood in shock. I was so afraid for my safety … It turned my hair white overnight. Completely white.’ ibid. Caz
Caz had the landing site tested for radiation. ibid.
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They keep coming back and we don’t know what they want. ibid.
Catalina Island, USA: ‘Off the coast of California. And for many many years inexplicable craft have been seen above the island as well as in the waters around it.’ ibid. Zimmermann
Catalina Island: ‘They were moving. It wasn’t a plane. At that point those three lights held their position. They had definitely got closer to us …’ ibid. Jonathan Fox camping with friends
Wiltshire was also home to a frightening UFO encounter. The town of Warminster: 1964: ‘The most atrocious sounds like their chimney exploded and their entire roof was ripped off. They couldn’t find a cause for it and it continued month after month. What began with these sinister sounds progressed into actually sighting UFOs.’ ibid. Zimmermann
‘It wasn’t just UFO sightings. There were all kinds of weird sounds, mysterious explosions, vibrations, buzzing noises …’ ibid.
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Ozarks, USA: ‘They were all about three, three and a half feet tall. They were all grey.’ ibid. Terry Lovelace
For Terry Lovelace a camping trip turned into a UFO abduction nightmare when he finds himself aboard an alien craft. ibid.
Colares Island, Brazil, 1977: One of the strangest and most terrifying UFO cases in Brazil’s history.
‘In 1977 people would see UFOs, and one type of craft would attack them using a beam of light. Their blood was sucked out of their bodies.’ ibid. A J Gevaerd, UFO researcher
‘These beams of light did not only burn, they left puncture wounds.’ ibid. Zimmermann