The ring at the landing site is hydrophobic, or water-repellent. ibid.
September 1st 1974, Saskatchewan, Canada: ‘All the people are screaming, and it is hovering there ten feet off the ground.’ ibid. comment
‘You could see that it was metallic-looking, it was flat on the bottom, it was domed on top.’ ibid.
‘It’s not just one UFO but an entire fleet.’ ibid.
The physical evidence that he [rozzer] discovers puzzles investigators. ibid.
October 8th 1978 Missouri: A grandmother and her grandchild spot a mysterious object in the field, an object that doesn’t belong there … ‘The object leaps about ten feet straight up into the air, and this thing is only like four feet in diameter, and all the people are screaming, and it’s hovering there ten feet above the ground’ … It merges with a second much larger cylindrical-shaped UFO in the sky … The craters were about an inch and a quarter deep. ibid.
In 1979 a mysterious object not only leaves physical evidence, it nearly kills a Minnesota deputy sheriff … [Deputy] Val Johnson was found to have what they call welder’s burns to his eyes … The watch on his wrist and the car clock stopped for 14 minutes. ibid.
May 30th 1978: This UFO incident stands out as it reportedly left its physical evidence implanted in one of the witnesses. Tim Cullen and his wife Janet are driving north near Highway 59 when they encounter what they believe is a UFO. They only recall staying at the scene for a few minutes; when they return home they discover that they have been gone for more than an hour. 20 years later a routine X-ray reveals an unexplained piece of metal in Tim’s arm. ibid.
The night before Halloween 1938: Millions of people across the country are tuning into CBS expecting to hear a weekly music program. It is a radio program unlike anything else that has been broadcast before. UFO Files s4e2: Alien Hunters
The Fermi Paradox: ‘We should have seen them by now.’ ibid.
Frank Drake unveils an equation that will forever put alien hunting into the scientific mainstream. ibid.
New Mexico is abuzz with with UFO mania and talk of invading Martians. UFO Files s4e3: Roswell Secrets Unveiled
UFO sightings have reached an all-time high. Encounter: UFO s1e1, Amazon 2023
‘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
Mysterious craft with pilots from origins unknown reveal thomselves and breach our most secret and secure facilities. Encounter: UFO s1e2
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
Ordinary people who have had terrifying life-changing encounters with UFOs and alien life can now come forward without the fear of ridicule. Encounter: UFO s1e3
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
A new dimension of fear when they are seen at high altitude from the window of an aircraft. Astonishing footage of mile-high controntations captured by pilots and passengers have given us a new up-close look at the unimaginable. Encounter: UFO s1e4
‘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.
What happens when someone encounters a UFO close up, one that actually landed here on Earth? And potentially life threatening. Encounter: UFO s1e6
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.
Scattered across our planet are powerful spots that experience high levels of UFO activity and repeated visits. From an island off the coast of California to ancient English fields to a remote valley in Norway. Something about these places seems to attract mysterious visitors. Encounter: UFO s1e7
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.
Even more disturbing, there is proof that these harrowing encounters with suspected extraterrestrial craft and alien beings are real. Encounter: UFO s1e8
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. ibid.
‘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
Mysterious encounters reported in the same locations for thousands of years. Places where mass UFO sightings are a common occurrence. Areas known for even stranger and often disturbing phenomena. Could so-called UFO hotspots reveal an important clue about alien life on Earth? Ancient Aliens s19e1: The Hotspots Connection, History 2023
Ivan T Sanderson: The 12 Devil’s Graveyards Around the World. Ibid.