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- THE TEN MOST COMPELLING UFO CASES IN HISTORY
- in order of compellingness(?)
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- 1. "Hudson Valley," or the Westchester Wing, NY 1984
- Thousands of reports, mostly nocturnal, of large, silent, hovering
- object with series of rotating lights. Reports came from many highly
- credible individuals including meteorologists, news reporters, and
- police chiefs. "Planes in formation" theory still in contention;
- however, videos taken by area resident of both the object and a
- formation of planes shows distinct differences. Intermittent sightings
- to this day.
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- 2. "Cash/Landrum", outside Houston, TX 1979
- Two ladies and 5-year-old boy report diamond-shaped object belching
- fire from beneath, surrounded by CH-47-style helicopters. Soon after
- sighting, all three suffered strange maladies which were likened to
- radiation poisoning. Klass explains as hoax, saying that the witness'
- pre-sighting medical conditions were not released to him for
- examination.
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- 3. "Roswell Incident," outside Corona, NM 1947
- Object crashed in remote location on a large ranch in early July, 1947.
- Debris recovered by AAF, who issued hasty press release saying "Flying
- Disk" had been recovered. Press release retracted the next day, and
- press conference held at which it was revealed the object was, in fact,
- a Rawin sonde (a device used to calibrate radar). 30 years later, AF
- intelligence officer Maj. J. Marcel claimed that the object was "not of
- this earth", that the press conference was a sham. Interviews with over
- 150 witnesses reinforce anomalous nature of object.
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- 4. "Army Helicopter", Mansfield, OH 1974
- Four National Guardsman aboard Bell UH-1H chopper report sighting
- large nocturnal object on collision course. Pilot-in-Command Capt.
- Coyne puts chopper in descent mode. Object stops in front of chopper,
- then continues westward travel, after which Coyne discovers that
- chopper actually rose 2000 ft. Klass' explanation of a bolide is not
- supported by testimony, circumstances, or scientific principles.
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- 5. "Bentwaters," Rendlesham Forest, UK 1979
- Three separate sightings of anomalous lights near a NORAD base in the
- UK. Official report filed by deputy base commander, who also taped the
- on-site investigation carried out by Air Police detachment. Occurence
- produced many witnesses, some of whom swear a craft was sighted. Invest-
- igation hampered by conflicting testimony, Britain's Secrets Act, grand-
- standing by one less than credible witness, and possibly the "Control
- Group" -- A US Senator began looking into the affair, but abruptly halted
- and would not communicate further with UFO researchers.
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- 6. "Washington Invasion," Washington, DC 1952
- Several fast-moving objects appear on radarscopes at three separate
- installations, including Andrews AFB. Interceptors scrambled, but don't
- find anything. Same thing happens the next night, this time objects
- confirmed by ground observers. Largest peace-time press conference in
- govt. history called to explain to reporters that radar traces were
- caused by thermal inversions, despite absence of proper weather
- conditions on the nights in question.
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- 7. "Great Falls Film", Great Falls, MN 1954
- Little League baseball coach films two objects streaking across sky
- near an AFB. Original explanation was that objects were F-100s on
- approach to AFB, but photo-analysis shows objects to be travelling much
- too fast.
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- 8. "Trent Photo", McMinnville, OR 1950
- Actually two photos taken by farmer with Polaroid camera, depict
- classic domed saucer. Foreground objects provide good references for
- analysis, which shows object to be around 30 ft. diameter, and at least
- 1/4 mile distant. Shadows on foreground structure may be inconsistent
- with time of day provided by photographer; however, that is immaterial
- to analysis of the image's size and distance.
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- 9. "Travis Walton," Snowflake, AZ 1974
- Five woodcutters allegedly witness abduction of their comrade aboard
- UFO. Abductee reappears five days later, fails first lie detector,
- after which he and four other witnesses pass, one is inconclusive.
- Controversy surrounds suppression of first lie detector results.
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- 10. "My wife's sighting," Fountain Hills, AZ 1989
- My wife and another witness, a friend of mine, stood in my backyard
- about 1AM and witnessed a large, silent, hovering object with bright,
- multi-colored lights that strobed in a diamond-shaped pattern. The
- object then took off to the northeast and vanished in less than a
- second. (Where was I? ASLEEP, DAMMIT!) Interviewed separately,
- witnesses gave basically the same description. Cursory check with area
- airports, AFBs yielded no clues.
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- This file was originally prepared by ParaNet for use in a talk by Maj. James
- McGaha of CSICOP. We bequeath it to the public domain.
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