UFO/UAP Event Chronology, Part 5: 1980 to Present, v1.46 - Compiled 10/3/2023

An automated compilation by Richard Geldreich, Jr. using public data from Dr. Jacques Vallée, Pea Research, George M. Eberhart, Richard H. Hall, Dr. Donald A. Johnson, Fred Keziah, Don Berliner, Larry Hatch, NICAP, Thomas R. Adams, George D. Fawcett, Chris Aubeck, Philip L. Rife, Richard Dolan, Jérôme Beau, Godelieve Van Overmeire, and an anonymous individual or group.

Some non-summarized events fall under one of these copyrights:

• Richard Geldreich, Jr. - Copyright (c) 2023 (events marked "maj2" unless otherwise attributed)
• Dr. Jacques F. Vallée - Copyright (c) 1993
• LeRoy Pea - Copyright (c) 9/8/1988 (updated 3/17/2005)
• George M. Eberhart - Copyright (c) 2022
• Dr. Donald A. Johnson - Copyright (c) 2012
• Fred Keziah - Copyright (c) 1958
• Larry Hatch - Copyright (c) 1992-2002
• Thomas R. Adams - Copyright (c) 1991
• Richard Dolan - Copyright (c) 2002
• Jérôme Beau - Copyright (c) 2000-2023

Update History:

• v1.46: Adding ~3700 events, translated from the French chronology Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI by Belgian ufologist Godelieve Van Overmeire, 1935-2021. Note these events are from the old HTML version on archive.org, not the larger (10k event) PDF version. It is unclear if these events are copyrighted. I didn't see a copyright in either the HTML or PDF versions.
• v1.43: Added ~3160 events, translated from a French chronology to English using OpenAI, from rr0.org. I believe this chronology was composed by Jérôme Beau. Its license is here.
• v1.40: Added digitized events/newspaper clippings from Frank Scully's papers at the American Heritage Center in Laramie, WY, summarized the events from the timeline on the Disclosure Diaries website, and added more misc. events. Fixed auto-translation issue in the search page.
• v1.38: Added a client-side search engine. There are a bunch of features I'm going to add to this engine, for now it can only search for keywords in the desc, location and and reference fields.
• v1.37: Updated intro text, added total number of events to each event year, added a few 1800's events.
• v1.36: Extracted and summarized the events in the book It Didn't Start with Roswell by Philip L. Rife. Also extracted the military UFO events from Richard Dolan's book UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973.
• v1.34: Added more modern events, 1917 Mystery Airplane newspaper articles.
• v1.33: More events: Events from George D. Fawcett, short AI summaries of Stringfield's 1978 MUFON symposium presentation, and short AI summaries of the pre-industrial era sighting events from the book Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times.
• v1.30: Added 203 Mystery Helicopter/mutilation related events (1970's-1980's) compiled by author/researcher Thomas R. Adams (1945-2015) (or see here), from his book The Choppers - and the Choppers, Mystery Helicopters and Animal Mutilations, minor fixes
• v1.28: Added KWIC (Key Word in Context) index.
• v1.27: Imported Anonymous PDF's contents, originally from here, with fixed URL's
• v1.23-1.24: Added a handful of key historical events, such as Edward Tauss the head of CIA UFO disinformation in the 50's
• v1.22: Fixing the date of Dr. Eric W. Davis's March, 2020 classified briefing to the Senate (I had it listed as March 2019) - info from NY Times. Basic locations added to Eberhart records using OpenAI.
• v1.20: Split up into 5 parts, to work around iPhone web browser limits. Minor spelling and grammer fixes throughout timeline.
• v1.15: Eberhart records now have basic locations, thanks to OpenAI's Davinci-3 AI model. They aren't perfect, but it's a good start to geocoding them.
• v1.14: Added nuclear test data, over 2000 records, from the Worldwide Nuclear Explosions paper by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards. Note the locations in the paper are approximate, and the yields are not super accurate, which are two problems I'll fix over time. I improved the coordinates of the earliest USA/USSR tests by looking them up from Wikipedia.
• v1.13: Split up the timeline into 4 parts. Still not the best solution, but it avoids croaking browsers.
• v1.12: Added *U* database record data, using a custom event description decoder to handle his 1k+ abbreviations and custom syntax
• v1.11: Crawled all ~10.5k unique URL's in this timeline using curl and fixed dead URL's to use archive.org.
• v1.10: Added NICAP DB data.

Important Notes:

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I've split up the timeline into 4 parts, to reduce their sizes: distant past up to 1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1979, and 1980-present.

The majority of the events in this chronology are sighting related, however it's important to be aware that this is a timeline of UFO/UAP related events, not necessarily or exclusively UFO sightings. This is not exclusively a UFO sightings timeline or database.

Some sighting reports or events appear multiple times in this timeline because they appear in more than one data source. I view this as a useful feature.

Currently, the events are not sorted by time of day, only by date. Some sources have separate "time" fields, but most don't. This will be fixed once the event times are automatically extracted from the description fields.

A few events don't have firm dates, for example "Summer of 1947", or "Late July 1952". In these instances the compilation code uses fixed dates I selected for date sorting purposes. (See the code for the specific dates.)

Source Code:

This website is created automatically using a C++ command line tool called “ufojson”. It parses the raw text and Markdown source data to JSON format, which is then converted to a single large web page using pandoc. This tool's source code and all of the raw source and JSON data is located here on github.

Year Ranges

1. Part 1: Distant past up to and including 1949
2. Part 2: 1950 up to and including 1959
3. Part 3: 1960 up to and including 1969
4. Part 4: 1970 up to and including 1979
5. Part 5: 1980 to present

Timeline Search Engine

KWIC (Key Word in Context) Index

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Table of Contents

Year Histogram

Years

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020 2021 2022 2023

Event Timeline

Year: 1980, 725 Event(s), (Back to Top)

Event 42814 (D64CDDFC)

Date: 1980's
Location: Area 51
Description: Area-51 workers and widows said that throughout the 1980s the Air Force and its contractors regularly filled 55-gallon drums with toxic wastes, emptied them into football-field size trenches, doused them with jet-fuel and burned them. They claimed that the U.S. Air Force generated and mishandled hazardous substances, and that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to take necessary action to enforce the requirements of the resource conservation act against the Air Force.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_710

Event 42815 (8267877D)

Date: 1980's?
Description: The fake USG document AFOSI counterintelligence officer Richard C. Doty delivers to Bennewitz makes its way to the American public and is the subject of various books and media. Doty redirects attention away from AFOSI’s surveillance of U.S. citizens interested in UAP by claiming “NASA” investigated Bennewitz. It was later admitted the NSA investigated Bennewitz and Doty changed the description in the fake document.

• https://www.academia.edu/24214339/The_Secret_Pratt_Tapes_and_the_Origins_of_MJ_12_Brad%20Sparks_and_Barry_Greenwood (p122)
• https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/120/mode/2up

Note: AFOSI’s actions against U.S. citizens reduced trust in government among the domestic population over time, fueled anti-government conspiracy theories in popular media, and caused great confusion over who and what controlled access to UAP information after Project Blue Book.

Reference: Anonymous 2023 PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID: Anon2023PDF_194

Event 42816 (2CE5E82B)

Date: 1980's
Description: AFOSI counterintelligence officer Richard C. Doty states the 7602nd Air Intelligence Group at Fort Belvoir, VA conducted psychological operations on U.S. citizens who inadvertently saw classified aerospace projects at the installation. Doty states the 7602nd would stage alien abductions and/or interactions to traumatize civilians near the base who witnessed USG or USG contractor projects.

• https://youtu.be/I3U56KZbswU?t=100

Note: The term “milab” is used by ufologists and popular culture to describe a similar phenomena reported by some witnesses.

Reference: Anonymous 2023 PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID: Anon2023PDF_195

Event 42817 (DF098119)

Date: 1980
Location: USA, Louisiana, at sea
Description: (Translated from French) In 1980, a red glowing ball, the size of a house, descended from the sky to the level of the water in the coastal bay, then slowly circled above a dredger and brushed past fishing boats before suddenly shooting off into the distance. During the UFO's passage, the onboard radios were dead, and upon the UFO's sudden departure, there was a sudden explosion of noise. Full report established by the coast guard.
Reference: Mufon, Mufonet BBS 11.3.1993, taken from the Internet
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3097

Event 42818 (D2560942)

Date: 1980
Description: (Translated from French) According to some theses, collaboration between the United States and extraterrestrials is resuming, with the latter agreeing to provide more technology to the United States.
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2867

Event 42819 (DE148A4D)

Date: 1980
Description: (Translated from French) Jaime Shandera conducts research for a film on UFOs, and establishes contacts in American military circles.
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2868

Event 42820 (5C876F23)

Date: 1980
Location: California
Description: Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo publish The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, a report on their investigations into a series of abductions and UFO-related events in California involving several women over a period of 25 years.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, Prentice-Hall, 1980; Clark III 415
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6066

Event 42821 (CF7B8B08)

Date: 1980
Location: NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California
Description: Richard F. Haines, an aerospace psychologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, publishes Observing UFOs, a technical book on analyzing UFO reports.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Richard F. Haines, Observing UFOs: An Investigative Handbook, Nelson-Hall, 1980
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6067

Event 42822 (AD3BC647)

Date: 1980
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Description: Alejandro Agostinelli and Juan Carlos Zabalgoitia establish the Centro de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos No Convencionales in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and publish three issues of a boletín informativo.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: CEFANC Boletin Informativo, no. 1 (Jan./March 1980)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6068

Event 42823 (E42F84AA)

Date: 1980
Locations: Russia; Soviet Union
Description: An All-Russian Research Public Organization is launched informally by Russian science-fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev, aerospace engineer Vadim Chernobrov, astronaut Georgy Beregovoy, and other enthusiasts to explore the mysteries of the universe and nature, research new ways of space technology development, and collect information about UFOs and anomalous events in the Soviet Union.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Kosmopoisk” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6069

Event 42824 (3FDFC69C)

Date: 1980
Description: Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen publish The Search for Life in the Universe, an open-minded textbook on SETI.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen, The Search for Life in the Universe, Benjamin/Cummings, 1980; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994): 147–151
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6070

Event 42825 (45E58040)

Date: 1980
Location: Mierzęcice Air Base [now Katowice Airport], Poland
Description: During interception exercises, seven MiG-12s from the Mierzęcice Air Base [now Katowice Airport], Poland, notice a saucer-shaped object with flashing lights approaching them. It has a blue-gray cupola on top and is three times bigger than any of the aircraft. It flies to each of the MiGs and maneuvers around them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 65
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6071

Event 42826 (2CE6BEF8)

Date: 1/1980
Location: Brazil, Tres Coroas
Description: (Translated from French) At the beginning of 1980, the 30,000 residents of the city of Tres Coroas, south of Rio de Janeiro, experienced the strangest concentration of UFOs ever seen elsewhere. For 20 days, balls of fire followed cars, flames erupted unexpectedly anywhere without causing fires, and squadrons of strange-shaped flying objects flew over the city at varying speeds. A flaming object followed Joao Jose de Nascimento's car when he was returning home late at night. "I had the feeling that it was trying to capture me," he said. "I was very scared." When he got home, his son Vicente told him they had seen "a flying onion" in the sky, with green, orange, and blue lights. (...) Antonio das Gacas Santos, from the military police, hurried to see what was happening at the neighbor's house, whose garden was violently lit. "I clearly saw a creature, resembling a human being, with its arms outstretched. I could not see any physical details, but I heard a faint cry, like that of a puppy. My neighbor touched the creature and fell back, shocked. I was scared, but it was an unnatural fear, I still get goosebumps when I think about it."
Reference: Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELLL: "The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 135
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3058

Event 42827 (49C2AE59)

Date: 1/1980
Description: (Translated from French) In the night, a resident of Trowbridge is awoken by a giant luminous being, claiming to come from a warring planet. (January)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2869

Event 42828 (9FB5687B)

Date: 1/1980
Time: 01:00
Location: FT. BENNING, GA
Description: Gi / guard duty. Red-orange object hovers / low altitude / 5 minute(s). Going quickly [to] up and away / 45° angle.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 78)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13848

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "94", HatchDesc: "Ft.BENNING,GA:GI/GUARD DUTY:RED-ORG OBJ HVRS/LO ALT/5min:>> UP+AWAY/45°ANGLE", LatLong: "32.350002 -84.933337", LatLongDMS: "32:21:00 N 84:56:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "5"

Event 42829 (0D90E0A4)

Date: 1/1980
Time: 23:00
Location: BELTERRA, BRAZIL
Description: 10 / beach. Disk shines beam going down / river. Going north. Water glows where beam hit.
Type: sighting
Reference: PRATT, Bob: UFO DANGER ZONE - Terror and Death in Brazil. Horus House Press, Madison, WI 1996 (Index 246)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13849

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "107", HatchDesc: "BELTERRA,BRZL:10/BEACH:DISK SHINES BEAM↓/RVR:>N:WATER GLOWS WHERE BEAM HIT", LatLong: "-2.783333 -55.000003", LatLongDMS: "02:47:00 S 55:00:00 W", Locale: "Rainforest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PRA", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42830 (5E8730C2)

Date: 1/1980
Location: Lüdenscheid, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany
Description: The Gemeinschaft zur Erforschung unbekannter Phänomene (later Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des UFO- Phänomens) publishes the first issue of Journal für UFO-Forschung in Lüdenscheid, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany, which is still in operation in 2022.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 1 (January 1980); Journal für UFO-Forschung website
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6072

Event 42831 (EA186BC3)

Date: 1/1980
Locations: Rio Tapajós; Santarém, Brazil
Description: 11:00 p.m. A Brazilian electronics businessman and 9 others see a disc-shaped object shine a light down on the water near the eastern bank of the Rio Tapajós 30 miles south of Santarém, Brazil. The man, his family, and some relatives are camping at a beach. Several teenagers are still awake, lying in hammocks and talking, when they see the UFO come across the river, stopping about 30 yards from the beach and shining a light on the water 60 feet below. The UFO hovers briefly then begins moving north, parallel to the shore. It travels more than half a mile, with the spotlight shining straight down before it disappears. The light beam leaves a trail of luminescence for several hundred yards.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, pp. 146–147; Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 22–23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6073

Event 42832 (91506D94)

Date: 1/2/1980
Time: 17:50
Location: CERPY-EN-VALOIS, FR
Description: Several separate observer(s). 22cm orange-glowing ovoid going up / field. Flash and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 210)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13850

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CERPY-en-VALOIS,FR:SVRL SEP.OBS:22cm ORG-GLO OVOID ↑/FIELD:FLASH+AWAY", LatLong: "49.233336 2.900000", LatLongDMS: "49:14:00 N 02:54:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oise", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42833 (137ED214)

Date: 1/3/1980
Time: 20:30
Location: VAN NUYS, CA
Description: 3+4 kids. Huge domed saucer drops 50' / car. Tilts. Shoots going up. 2 saucers join.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 166)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13851

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "216", HatchDesc: "VAN NUYS,CA:3+4 KIDS:HUGE DOMED SCR DROPS 50'/CAR:TILTS:SHOOTS↑:2 SCRS JOIN", LatLong: "34.166668 -118.466672", LatLongDMS: "34:10:00 N 118:28:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "15", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42834 (DA994B86)

Date: 1/3/1980
Description: In Van Nuys, California a huge, domed disc-shaped object dropped from the sky at 8:30 p.m. to just 50 feet above the car containing three female witnesses. It tilted, then shot up. Two more discs then joined it.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_66

Event 42835 (DB9760D7)

Date: 1/5/1980
Description: At around five a.m. the witness, a 33-year-old painter living in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England suddenly awoke in his bedroom to see a huge two-meter tall glowing green figure standing at the foot of his bed. It looked to him more like a holographic image than a solid figure. The being apparently communicated with the witness using telepathy. Among the many things mentioned was that his race regularly transported human beings to other planets in order to colonize them. When a planet was in danger of overpopulation they somehow started a war in order to reduce the number of inhabitants on that planet. He also warned that the Earth was in danger of "breaking in half." Apparently the witness's wife slept through the entire encounter.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case #3423, citing Jenny Randles
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_144

Event 42836 (6FFBD4C5)

Date: 1/5/1980
Description: A light in the sky flashed and changed colors as it moved over Santa Ponsa, Islas Malgrata, Baleares, Spain at 8:00 p.m. It made upward jumps in an oscillating motion, and would stop cold at times. Three powerful lights in a triangle pattern were higher in the sky, changing color from orange to blue to white, and making left-to-right moves.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 10, citing Baleares, January 6, 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_145

Event 42837 (BA45F0CF)

Date: 1/6/1980
Time: 01:00
Location: OFF AGAY, FR
Description: 6 observer(s). Silent luminous saucer going east. Drops 90° toward(s) beach. Rises / slant going east.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 203)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13852

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "off AGAY,FR:6 OBS:SLNT LUMn.SCR >E :DROPS 90° twrd BEACH:RISES/SLANT >E", LatLong: "43.400002 6.850000", LatLongDMS: "43:24:00 N 06:51:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Var", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42838 (E9965914)

Date: 1/10/1980
Time: 06:00
Location: FABBRICO, ITL
Description: Brilliant orange glow = hat saucer / 15-20M altitude. Going north silently. Separate observer(s) / same area.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13853

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "FABBRICO,ITL:BRILL. ORG GLOW=HAT SCR/15-20M alt:>N SILENTLY:sep.obs/same area", LatLong: "44.866669 10.833334", LatLongDMS: "44:52:00 N 10:50:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RE", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42839 (08DDDF6E)

Date: 1/10/1980
Time: 17:50
Location: GANGES, FR
Description: Silent plain metallic disk going [to] 100M over vineyards. Tilts toward(s) observer(s) and continues.
Type: sighting
Reference: ROUSSEL, Robert: OVNI, les Verites Cachees. Ed. Albin Michel,Paris 1994 ISBN 2-226-06646-2. 346 pp softback (Index 337)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13854

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GANGES,FR:SLNT PLAIN MTLC DISK > 100M OVR VINYARDS:TILTS TWRD OBS+CONTINUES", LatLong: "43.933335 3.700000", LatLongDMS: "43:56:00 N 03:42:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Hérault", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42840 (15CC8712)

Date: 1/10/1980
Description: The NSA’s Roy R. Banner releases two UFO-related documents to Peter Gersten, but states that the original 18 he has requested are exempt from release because of national security, adding that the NSA is reviewing 79 other documents originating with other federal agencies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, pp. 182–187
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6074

Event 42841 (4AF3E14D)

Date: 1/11/1980
Time: 20:50
Location: ST. MANDRIER, FR
Description: 2 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Silent round dome maneuvers. 1 / 5 moon-size. Going southwest to sea.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 197)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13855

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "St.MANDRIER,FR:2 OBS/BINOCS:SLNT RND DOME MNVRS:1/5 MOONSIZE:>SW TO SEA", LatLong: "43.066669 5.933334", LatLongDMS: "43:04:00 N 05:56:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Var", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42842 (AEF07E32)

Date: 1/12/1980
Location: Huayana, Bolivia
Description: A man saw a lenticular-shaped object over him. The UFO projected a beam of light and formed a dome shaped luminous form on the ground, not far from the witness. He was met there by a tall, blond-haired humanoid that had tanned skin and slanted eyes with a very prominent chin (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5273

Event 42843 (700209A1)

Date: 1/12/1980
Description: On this night in the town of Huayana, in the Potosi Valley, Bolivia a man saw a lenticular-shaped object over him. The UFO projected a beam of light and formed a dome shaped luminous form on the ground, not far from the witness. He then experienced strange sensations when he walked inside the light dome. He was met there by a tall, blond-haired humanoid that had tanned skin and slanted eyes with a very prominent chin. The man claimed he had sensations of love and serenity projected to him by the tall humanoid.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 1577, citing Luis Fernando Mostajo, The Missing Link, issue # 124
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_281

Event 42844 (220545CD)

Date: 1/13/1980
Locations: Seminary Nursing Home; Pioneer Road; Red Wing, Minnesota
Description: 9:00 p.m. Brenda Simanski and Janine Mattson quit their shift at the Seminary Nursing Home on Pioneer Road in Red Wing, Minnesota. Standing in the parking lot, they see a star making a bizarre zigzag pattern. It moves above them and they see it is a triangle 15 feet wide and 20 feet long with two white lights in front, blue lights in two of the corners, and a red light between the blue ones. Three other witnesses come out of the building and also watch the object, which leaves slowly and silently to the north-northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “5 Watch Tree-Hovering UFO for 6 Minutes, ‘Won’t Say It’s from Space,’” Red Wing \(Minn.) Republican Eagle, January 15, 1980, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 128 (March 1980): 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6075

Event 42845 (200F8270)

Date: 1/14/1980
Time: 05:00
Location: CHERBOURG, FR
Description: 1+2 observer(s)? Box appears / bedroom. Turns into pseudo-human/entity. Stays / 15 minute(s) and vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 317)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13856

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "5", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "CHERBOURG,FR:1+2 OBS?:BOX APPEARS/BEDROOM:TURNS INTO PSH:STAYS/15min+VANISHES", LatLong: "49.633336 -1.583333", LatLongDMS: "49:38:00 N 01:35:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Manche", Strangeness: "9"

Event 42846 (A8560202)

Date: 1/14/1980
Locations: Burnley; Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England
Description: 6:05 a.m. Truck driver William Barrett is on an early delivery run from Burnley to Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, when he hears a deep humming sound. Looking ahead, he sees a machine with flames underneath hovering at a lay-by off the roadside. He slows his truck to a near crawl and moves past the object, which looks like a “toast rack” with curved sides and three red glows emerging from the edge to create a misty fuzziness obscuring the base. Now only 25 feet away, he sees that it has a bell- or tortoiseshell shape with a metallic sheen and a tube sticking up from the top. The red glows emerge from under a rim that runs around the lower part of the object. He can now see two figures standing in front of the object, one standing erect and wearing a uniform with a peaked cap, and the other crouched forward, wearing a silvery-gray jump suit. As he passes, the arc lights on the object start flickering like a disco. His headlights go out, and his mind gets hazier and he loses consciousness. He experiences missing time until he jerks awake sometime around 8:30 a.m.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jenny Randles, “Close Encounter in UFO Alley,” IUR 26, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 3–8, 28–29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6076

Event 42847 (908D0561)

Date: 1/15/1980 (approximate)
Location: NEAR SOROCABA, BRAZIL
Description: Airman and 3 / car. Phony plane going down / low altitude. Hovers. Cross-shaped and silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: BOLETIM CEPEX. (Qtrly) Centro de Estudios e Pesquisos Exologicos; Sumaro, SP, Brazil. (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13857

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "8", Duration: "76", Elev: "598", HatchDesc: "nr SOROCABA,BRZL:AIRMAN+3/CAR:PHONY PLANE ↓/LO ALT:HVRS:CROSS-SHAPED+SLNT", LatLong: "-23.483334 -47.450002", LatLongDMS: "23:29:00 S 47:27:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "São Paulo", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42848 (048867A1)

Date: 1/17/1980
Locations: Santiago, Chile; Eastern Suburbs of Santiago, Chile
Description: 10:30 p.m. Chilean astronomer Fernando Noël is at his home in the eastern suburbs of Santiago, Chile, when he sees a luminous point of light at 20° elevation moving from southwest to west. It is silent and resembles a satellite. He calls two other witnesses, during which time the object disappears. At 10:45 p.m., he sees a bright light moving slowly toward the zenith. Looking more closely, he sees it is actually a group of 30 objects in a V- formation. Each individual light of the group is pale white with a slight tint of yellow. The formation moves from 20° above the western horizon to about 20° above the eastern horizon before disappearing gradually. The duration is approximately 2 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomena Observed by an Astronomer,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 7, no. 4 (1993): 439–441
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6077

Event 42849 (76236A94)

Date: 1/20/1980
Time: 18:00
Location: LA CHAPELLE-BASSE-MER, FR
Description: 5M saucer hovers / water tower / 4 minute(s). Glows. Quickly going up [to] fast. / LDLN#194.
Type: sighting
Reference: ROUSSEL, Robert: OVNI, les Verites Cachees. Ed. Albin Michel,Paris 1994 ISBN 2-226-06646-2. 346 pp softback (Index 339)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13858

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "4", HatchDesc: "La CHAPELLE-BASSE-MER,FR:5M SCR HVRS/WATER TOWER/4min:GLOWS:↑↑ FAST:/LDLN#194", LatLong: "47.266669 -1.333333", LatLongDMS: "47:16:00 N 01:20:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Loire Atlantique", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42850 (7CE3F9CA)

Date: 1/21/1980
Location: PORTUGAL, Matosinhos
Description: (Translated from French) The witness, an employee at the hospital in this city, observed a white light projected by a UFO towards the top of a tree. The crown of leaves seemed to be drawn towards this light. The UFO had the shape of the planet Saturn.
Reference: collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenço
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3059

Event 42851 (A9F30CD4)

Date: 1/21/1980
Location: MATOSINHOS, PORTUGL
Description: Saturn-saucer beams white light going down / tree. Tree seems attracted to UFO.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 245)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13859

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MATOSINHOS,PORTUGL:SATURN-SCR BEAMS WHT LITE↓/TREE:TREE SEEMS ATTRACTED TO UFO", LatLong: "41.166669 -8.666667", LatLongDMS: "41:10:00 N 08:40:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Beira littoral", Strangeness: "8"

Event 42852 (FF56E76E)

Date: 1/21/1980
Time: 18:40
Location: SHANGHAI, CH
Description: 2 observer(s). Silent star zigzags forward. Shoots beams. Lost from sight behind buildings.
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 147)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13860

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SHANGHAI,CH:2 OBS:SLNT STAR ZIGZAGS FWD:SHOOTS BEAMS:LOST fm SIGHT BHND BLDGS", LatLong: "31.250001 121.416672", LatLongDMS: "31:15:00 N 121:25:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SHG", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42853 (B81AC84E)

Date: 1/21/1980
Locations: Council Bluffs, Iowa; Pioneer Trail; Longview Drive
Description: 11:40 p.m. Seven women are driving home in two cars from a bridge game near Council Bluffs, Iowa. The first car with six witnesses, including Marilyn Anderson, sees a cluster of lights in the western sky as they are driving on Pioneer Trail. The lights are hovering about 200–300 feet above a bluff less than a city block away. When they stop the car to get out for a closer look, the lights speed away to the southwest. The seventh woman, in a separate car behind them, does not see the lights, but Anderson tells her about them when she pulls up. She continues driving home, but when she gets to Longview Drive, her car stalls, and the radio and lights go out. She restarts the car, but it stalls out another quarter-mile away. A bright orange light appears in a cornfield about 900 feet away with an intensity that hurts her eyes. Scared, she locks herself inside the car and passes out. When she wakes up, her car is turned sideways across the road, but she is able to drive it home. She can still see the orange light from her kitchen window, but she has some blotches and redness on her skin that fades by 4:20 a.m.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Possible Abduction in Iowa,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6078

Event 42854 (0885CA7B)

Date: 1/23/1980
Description: Peter Gersten files an appeal with the NSA to release more UFO material.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p. 187
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6079

Event 42855 (DCBA11CD)

Date: 1/24/1980
Time: 19:50
Location: KEKU STRAIT, AK
Description: 300+observer(s). Red fireball slows and hovers. 90° turn and away fast. Classic saucer / (seen thru) binoculars.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 963)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13861

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "KEKU STRAIT,AK:300+OBS:RED FBL SLOWS+HVRS:90°TURN+AWAY FAST:CLASSIC SCR/BINOCS", LatLong: "56.500003 -133.700006", LatLongDMS: "56:30:00 N 133:42:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42856 (812B809F)

Date: 1/24/1980
Locations: Western Sahara; 20–30 miles off the coast of Western Sahara
Description: 1:00 p.m. A. Golotikin is working as a mechanic aboard the Brilliant, a Russian fishing trawler operating 20–30 miles off the coast of Western Sahara. He and the rest of the crew see a black, cigar-shaped object moving slowly toward the ship in complete silence. They watch it for 5–7 minutes through binoculars, then it disappears as it gets closer to the ship.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 15–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6080

Event 42857 (92728B30)

Date: 1/25/1980
Time: 01:20
Location: NEAR WELLINGTON, PEI
Description: 1 / car. Red-glow 40' saucer paces car 2k' away / 180' altitude. Several turns.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 961)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13862

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "25", Elev: "14", HatchDesc: "nr WELLINGTON,PEI:1/CAR:RED-GLOW 40'SCR PACES CAR 2k'away/180'alt:svrl turns", LatLong: "46.461113 -64.000003", LatLongDMS: "46:27:40 N 64:00:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "45", State/Prov: "Prince Edward Island", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42858 (1DB846A2)

Date: 1/28/1980
Time: 04:20
Location: LA RACINE, FR
Description: 1M orange-glow Lima-bean going northwest up D34 / several km. Follows terrain / 35M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 207)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13863

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "La RACINE,FR:1M ORG-GLOW LIMA-BEAN >NW UP D34/SVRL km:folos terrain/35M alt", LatLong: "48.100002 6.483334", LatLongDMS: "48:06:00 N 06:29:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vosges", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42859 (FE6F06F9)

Date: 1/28/1980
Time: 19:10
Location: NORTHWEST / GRANDRIEUX, FR
Description: 4M cylinder/cylindrical object-saucer follows cars up and down N377. Ringed / square windows.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 214)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13864

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "80", HatchDesc: "NW/GRANDRIEUX,FR:4M CYL-SCR FOLOS CARS UP+DOWN N377:RINGED/SQR WINDOWS", LatLong: "49.766669 4.166667", LatLongDMS: "49:46:00 N 04:10:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Aisne", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42860 (BDB0720D)

Date: 1/28/1980
Time: 21:10
Location: AURILLAC, FR
Description: Luminous orange sphere passes. Shines beam down. Separate night light hovers high overhead.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 204)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13865

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc.

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "AURILLAC,FR:LUMN.ORG.SPHERE PASSES:SHINES BEAM DOWN:SEP.NLT HVRS HI OVHD:", LatLong: "44.916669 2.450000", LatLongDMS: "44:55:00 N 02:27:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Cantal", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42861 (E309C1B2)

Date: 1/28/1980
Description: Three UFO encounters were reported in France on this day in 1980. The first occurred in La Racine at 4:20 a.m. An orange, glowing, lima bean shaped UFO flew up highway D34 for several kilometers in a northwesterly direction, closely following the terrain. At 7:10 p.m. near Grandrieux, a four-meter diameter cylinder-shaped disc followed a car up and down route N377. Several square windows ringed the UFO. Later, at Aurillac around 9:10 p.m. a luminous orange sphere flew by closely while shining down a beam of light. Meanwhile, several nocturnal lights hovered high overhead.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981, July 1981, and issue #214.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_560

Event 42862 (B1FD1A52)

Date: 1/29/1980
Description: At ten p.m. three National Telephone Company officials, Gomez, Polar, and Aguilar, on the highway between the towns of Desaguadero and Pomata, Peru saw a bright circular UFO with red and white lights on the bottom hover stationary at 1000 meters altitude. It went behind a cloud for three minutes, then was observed for five more minutes as it flew over Lake Titicaca.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 13; translating El Commercio, February 16, 1980; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 14, translating La Razon, February 15, 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_584

Event 42863 (2285F1B7)

Date: 2/1980
Location: NALCHIK, RUSSIA
Description: Saucer has halo / edge. Hovers / 3000' / 4 minute(s). Going quickly [to] up and sideways. Stops / 5 minute(s). Going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: JUSA-CISAAF TRANSLATIONs (from Russian). (Index 424)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13866

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "NALCHIK,RUSS:SCR HAS HALO/EDGE:HVRS/3000'/4min:>>UP+SIDEWAYS:STOPS/5min:>>N", LatLong: "43.533335 43.583335", LatLongDMS: "43:32:00 N 43:35:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TLC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42864 (C689D339)

Date: 2/1980
Time: 12:00?
Location: WINCHESTER, TN
Description: 12 cops and more/others / 2 counties. Saucer hovers and zips about. Impossible turns.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLUNDELL, Nigel & BOAR, Roger: The WORLDS GREATEST UFO MYSTERIES; Octopus, London 1989 & PB/Berkley Books, NY 1990 (Index 142)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13867

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "120", Elev: "294", HatchDesc: "WINCHESTER,TN:12 COPS++/2 COUNTIES:SCR HOVERS+ZIPS ABOUT:IMPOSSIBLE TURNS.", LatLong: "35.183335 -86.111115", LatLongDMS: "35:11:00 N 86:06:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42865 (C2BD848E)

Date: 2/1980
Location: Australia
Description: The Australian Centre for UFO Studies begins publishing the Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies, edited by Harry Griesberg and Keith Basterfield, until at least November 1985.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies 1, no. 1 (February 1980)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6081

Event 42866 (8A765E52)

Date: 2/2/1980
Description: Two aliens briefly paralyzed a female witness in Araguari, Brazil. The beings were described as being a little bit over one meter in height and having large heads. They used a small object that emitted a luminous beam.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Revista Brasileira de Ufologia
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_671

Event 42867 (3F0C2E97)

Date: 2/3/1980
Time: 02:00
Location: VAL D'AJOL TO/FROM RUPT, FR
Description: Orange disk going down [to] in front of car. Leads the way! Then going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 194)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13868

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "VAL d'AJOL><RUPT,FR:ORG.DISK ↓ IN FRONT OF CAR:leads the way!:THEN >>N", LatLong: "47.950002 6.616667", LatLongDMS: "47:57:00 N 06:37:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vosges", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42868 (19DA2068)

Date: 2/3/1980
Time: 02:50
Location: NEAR WECKOLSHEIM, FR
Description: 3 / car. 18M saucer going down / angle. Nearly hits road. Slowly nears car..
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 197)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13869

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr WECKOLSHEIM,FR:3/CAR:18M SCR ↓/ANGLE:NEARLY HITS ROAD:SLOWLY NEARS CAR..", LatLong: "48.000002 7.500000", LatLongDMS: "48:00:00 N 07:30:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haut-Rhin", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42869 (764AA9DE)

Date: 2/5/1980
Time: 17:40
Location: HARBIN, CH
Description: Also 8 Feb. '80. Several observer(s). Red star maneuvers and spins. Shoots streaks / gas. Retreats.
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 147)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13870

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "HARBIN,CH:+8FEB80:SVRL OBS:RED STAR MNVRS+SPINS:SHOOTS STREAKS/GAS:RETREATS", LatLong: "45.733336 126.627784", LatLongDMS: "45:44:00 N 126:37:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HLJ", Strangeness: "5"

Event 42870 (E1DD87A7)

Date: 2/6/1980
Location: PORTUGAL, Montargil
Description: (Translated from French) At 11 o'clock, the 55-year-old farmer Paveo, like every day, was with the sheep in the pasture when he heard a strange noise and his sheepdog was in a panic. Mr. Pavao then understood that something unusual was happening behind him. Turning back as quickly as possible, he was surprised to find two motionless entities, standing 2.4 meters tall, looking at him fixedly. They were completely dressed in gray, but their faces were uncovered and seemed close to human. Except for the eyes and skin color, which were different. They had huge hairy hands. The strange entities approached the witness, seeming friendly and touched his right shoulder and other parts of his body. They spoke a kind of language made of modulations resembling the human voice. At this moment the witness saw that they had teeth and that they moved their lips to speak. One of the entities pointed to the sheep and Mr. Pavao, thinking that he wanted to know the name of the animals, told them. The entities laughed and talked. (...) This event was the cause of nightmares for this witness.
Reference: collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3060

Event 42871 (F174DD88)

Date: 2/6/1980
Time: 11:00
Location: MONTARGIL, PORTUGAL
Description: Farmer meets 2 8' beings. No helmets. Vanish when dog summoned.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 246)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13871

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, GNT: Giant: Large/tall alien, CVS: Conversation/communication, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "4", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "MONTARGIL,PORTUGAL:FARMER MEETS 2 8'BEINGS:NO HELMETS:VANISH WHEN DOG SUMMONED", LatLong: "39.083335 -8.200000", LatLongDMS: "39:05:00 N 08:12:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "AAL", Strangeness: "10"

Event 42872 (603C5BD2)

Date: 2/6/1980
Time: 19:50
Location: NEAR REDBANK, NB
Description: Diamond 40M over trees / roadside follows car. Partial electro-magnetic effect (EME). Flies away.
Type: sighting
Reference: LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 130)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13872

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "nr REDBANK,NB:DIAMOND 40M ovr TREES/ROADSIDE FOLOS CAR:PARTIAL EME:flies away", LatLong: "46.916669 -65.833336", LatLongDMS: "46:55:00 N 65:50:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "45", State/Prov: "New Brunswick", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42873 (6D133C70)

Date: 2/6/1980
Description: Mr. Pavao, a 55-year old farmer from Montargil, Portugal had just left his farm and was taking his sheep to the fields at around eleven o'clock in the morning. He heard a noise and had a feeling that something was happening behind him. At the same time his dog started to panic. He turned and was surprised to see two eight-foot tall humanoids standing close to him and staring at him. The humanoids looked very strong and were dressed in gray suits. Their faces looked human except their eyes and skin appeared different. Their hands were hairy and very big. The beings approached him with friendly gestures and touched his left shoulder and several other parts of his body. At the same time they spoke in an unknown language with a modulation similar to human speech. One of the beings then pointed to the sheep, and Mr. Pavao told him the type of animal it was. Meanwhile the two beings kept talking and laughing. The witness then gave an order to his dog to fetch one of the sheep. When he looked back towards the beings he saw an intense flash of light that blinded him for a few seconds. After that the beings had vanished.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 2378, citing Victor Laurenco, PORTUCAT
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_727

Event 42874 (0F5CB9DC)

Date: 2/7/1980
Location: Glenalta horse ranch near Stirling, South Australia
Description: 9:50 p.m. Daryl Browne, a ranch hand at the Glenalta horse ranch near Stirling, South Australia, is watching TV when he hears dogs howling and timber crashing outside. His two guard dogs are howling in fear. Outside he sees a yellow half-moon-shaped object about 25–30 feet long. It is 100 feet up in the branches of a 230-foot-tall cypress tree, branches bending under its weight. The trunk shows large gouges. Browne calls the police, but the object is gone by the time they arrive. For 2 days, Browne’s dogs refuse to go near the tree.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “UFO Smashes Tree in Australia,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6082

Event 42875 (F91A4781)

Date: 2/8/1980
Time: 18:20
Location: CUGNAUX, FR
Description: 2 observer(s). Silent brilliant green cylinder/cylindrical object leaves (something behind) red trail / sky. Going quickly east rising. / FSRv24#12.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 300)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13873

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CUGNAUX,FR:2 OBS:SLNT BRILL.GRN CYL LVS RED TRAIL/SKY:>>E RISING:/FSRv24#12", LatLong: "43.533335 1.350000", LatLongDMS: "43:32:00 N 01:21:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haute Garonne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42876 (5F4DFD4E)

Date: 2/11/1980
Time: ~18:00
Location: SANTIAGO, CHL
Description: Fleet / huge pear-shapes stop / 3 minute(s). Away fast. Boat found / no crew.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 194)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13874

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ABD: Human or animal abduction

Extra Data: Country: "Chile", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", Elev: "521", HatchDesc: "SANTIAGO,CHL:FLEET/HUGE PEAR-SHAPES STOP/3min:AWAY FAST:BOAT FOUND/no crew", LatLong: "-33.450002 -70.650003", LatLongDMS: "33:27:00 S 70:39:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SNT", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42877 (C45692B2)

Date: 2/11/1980
Time: 23:40
Location: SOUTH / COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA
Description: Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Orange light / field. 30 minute(s) / missing time. Observer's face red. / MJ#262.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 964)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13875

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "35", Elev: "378", HatchDesc: "S/COUNCIL BLUFFS,IA:CAR EMEs:ORG LITE/FIELD:30min/MST:OBS'FACE RED:/MJ#262", LatLong: "41.166669 -95.833338", LatLongDMS: "41:10:00 N 95:50:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "8"

Event 42878 (AFC26531)

Date: 2/11/1980
Location: Botafuegos, Spain
Description: A man spotted a low flying whitish-orange luminous object lifting off from some nearby woods. Minutes later the object divided into three separate luminous sections, then re-united again into one luminous spot. Near the ground two huge man-like silhouettes appeared in front of the lights. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5275

Event 42879 (15E8F1ED)

Date: 2/11/1980
Location: Council Bluffs, IA
Description: Brilliant orange light in field, memory loss, physiological effects. MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, pp. 20-21; Omaha, Nebr., Morning World-Herald, Feb. 14, 1980 (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5277

Event 42880 (0FCF2FD5)

Date: 2/11/1980
Location: Rio Negro province, Arg
Description: A man was driving home when he noticed a strong glowly light over a field 200 meters away, on the left side of his truck and at about 30 meters altitude. He blacked out and remembered entities. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5278

Event 42881 (AD2ECD01)

Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At around 4 p.m. a woman in Bisuschio, Italy went outside to hang some linen to dry and was looking towards a nearby hill when she saw a strange dwarf creature in a tree about 50 meters away. He was about 30-40 cm tall, and was wearing black clothing. She went back inside and looked at the creature again out a window, at the same time calling her son to come see. She also called her mother in-law on the telephone. The boy observed the tree with a pair of binoculars but was unable to distinguish any additional features. The being appeared to move from branch to branch, and then seemed to stand on a very thin branch that appeared incapable of supporting his weight. The humanoid looked to be trying to conceal his face with his hand. He soon disappeared from sight.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_834

Event 42882 (1D338677)

Date: 2/11/1980
Description: In Botafuegos, Spain later that same night five witnesses, including Rafael Tobajas, spotted a low flying whitish-orange luminous object lifting off from some nearby woods. Minutes later the object divided into three separate luminous sections, then re-united again into one luminous spot. Using a pair of binoculars, they watched the lighted object descend in a falling leaf motion. Near the ground two huge man-like silhouettes appeared in front of the lights. They were grayish in color and over three meters in height. They made huge leaps and strides over the ground, jumping easily over obstacles, but they seemed to move in slow motion and stayed in front of the luminous orbs of lights. According to Tobajas, the humanoid forms stopped briefly by a small creek and seemed to bend down several times. The humanoids suddenly began running at witnesses, who became terrified and drove away frantically from the area. The tall gray humanoid forms persisted in chasing the witness's vehicle for several minutes. Tobajas reportedly encountered similar humanoid figures at night, one year later.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Dr. Jimenez del Oso and J. J. Benitez
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_835

Event 42883 (3D77BCB1)

Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At 10:00 p.m. Carlos Vommaro, age 22, was driving home from dinner at his girlfriend's house westbound on Route 22 between the towns of Ingeniero Huergo and Cervantes in Rio Negro province, Argentina when he noticed a strong glowly light over a field 200 meters away, on the left side of his truck and at about 30 meters altitude. He described the object as having two big "L" structures with a luminous rectangular form inside. The edges of the luminous "L's" seemed to be covered in a diffused vapor that seemed to reflect the light. Perplexed, Vommaro watched the object as it came parallel to him. Vommaro then decided to escape, speeding up to about 60 mph when suddenly everything around him became dark and he blacked out. When Vommaro woke up he found himself leaning over the steering wheel. The light was now on top of the vehicle, and suddenly from the area of the luminous rectangular area a beam of light shot out, which seemed to spread out in width the further away it got. The beam of light covered the vehicle, but not its interior; it seems to be stronger at the point of origin. Terrified, Vommaro jumped out of his vehicle, running for help but the road is completely deserted. A couple of minutes later he saw a car approaching from the direction of General Roca, and he frantically tried to flag down the car. The car slowed down briefly, but then sped away. Perhaps the approaching driver had seen the luminous object still hovering above the road. After coming to his senses Vommaro now realized he was outside of the town of Cervantes, located more than 15 km away from were he had been, and he has about an hour of missing time he can't account for. When he got home his dogs reacted strangely, did not seem to recognize him, and attempted to attack him. The next day he suffered from lack of appetite, weakness, lumbar back pain, and leg pain. There was also some damage to his car. There were numerous other UFO reports that evening from Argentina and Chile.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1980, p. 14, citing Rio Negro, February 16, 1980; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 20; Alejandro Chionetti, UFO Press, issue # 12, April 1983
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_836

Event 42884 (C8D3DCCE)

Date: 2/11/1980
Description: Thirty-two people, including the mayor of Ahilinco, Neuquen province, Argentina saw an object shaped with a triangle high in the sky over the Andes Mountains shortly before 11:00 p.m. It remained motionless for three minutes, then the triangle disappeared leaving the lights visible. After several more minutes the lights gyrated and blinked out, and they could see the dark triangle again silhouetted against the background.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing Cronica, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 19
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_837

Event 42885 (E70E7E5A)

Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At 11:00 p.m. another triangular UFO was seen in Chamical, La Rioja province, Argentina. The triangular object surrounded by light blue luminosity, with reddish hues, left behind a long smoke trail. It was seen by over 200 witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing Diario Cuyo, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 20
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_838

Event 42886 (965CFDA6)

Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At 11:30 p.m. Dr. Martinez and his family in El Medano, Catamarca province, Argentina saw an enormous orange ball of light that cast three beams of light, one left and one right, and then one down. After several minutes it shot away at incredible speed parallel to the horizon.There was a total of 10 witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing El Sol, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_839

Event 42887 (1FD3F41D)

Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At 11:45 p.m. witnesses in San Vicente, Santiago del Estero, Argentina saw a trangular object shine intermittent green, red, yellow lights toward the ground. It remained motionless for five minutes, then disappeared quickly.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_840

Event 42888 (F972A8A5)

Date: 2/11/1980
Description: A woman driving on Highway G66 in Council Bluffs, Iowa encountered an orange UFO at 11:40 p.m. Her car lights and engine experienced electrical difficulties and she underwent a 32 minute lapse of time.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Omaha (NE) Morning World-Herald, Feb. 14, 1980; APRO Bulletin, April 1980, p. 5; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, pp. 20-21; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 258
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_841

Event 42889 (BF80DA67)

Date: 2/13/1980
Time: 07:10
Location: ETAULIERS, FR
Description: Customs agent / car. Silent 5M saucer-disk / 120M altitude stops. Going north / 45kph.
Type: sighting
Reference: ROUSSEL, Robert: OVNI, les Verites Cachees. Ed. Albin Michel,Paris 1994 ISBN 2-226-06646-2. 346 pp softback (Index 341)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13876

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "ETAULIERS,FR:CUSTOMS AGENT/CAR:SLNT 5M SCR-DISK/120M alt STOPS:>N/45kph:", LatLong: "45.216669 -0.566667", LatLongDMS: "45:13:00 N 00:34:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haute Garonne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42890 (020A9C9E)

Date: 2/14/1980
Description: (Translated from French) Launch of SMM (Solar Maximum Mission) for the study of solar eruptions. (February 14)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2870

Event 42891 (D8F2EAF2)

Date: 2/18/1980
Time: 21:50
Location: OVID, NY
Description: Many observer(s). Orange 5' ovoid / 30' altitude 150' away. Away quickly going up. Eyes bloodshot. / MJ#262.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 963)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13877

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "2", Elev: "324", HatchDesc: "OVID,NY:MANY OBS:ORG 5'OVOID/30'alt 150'AWAY:AWAY ↑↑:EYES BLOODSHOT:/MJ#262", LatLong: "42.677780 -76.822226", LatLongDMS: "42:40:40 N 76:49:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "9", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42892 (640ADA82)

Date: 2/20/1980
Time: 02:00
Location: BRIX, FR
Description: 1 observer. Luminous blue church-bell object going up and down [to] several times / low altitude. Departure unseen.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 203)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13878

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BRIX,FR:1 OBS:LUMn.BLUE CHURCH-BELL OBJ ↑+↓ SVRL TIMES/LO ALT:departure unseen", LatLong: "49.550002 -1.583333", LatLongDMS: "49:33:00 N 01:35:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Manche", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42893 (305CABA7)

Date: 2/20/1980 (approximate)
Time: 15:40
Location: DOUCHY-LES-MINES, FR
Description: 1 observer only. Metallic 20M cylinder/cigar-shape follows busy highway N29 going [to] east-northeast / low altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 200)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13879

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "DOUCHY-les-MINES,FR:1 OBS ONLY:MTLC 20M CGR FOLOS BUSY HWY N29 >ENE/lo alt:", LatLong: "50.300002 3.383333", LatLongDMS: "50:18:00 N 03:23:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nord", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42894 (8B269D5E)

Date: 2/21/1980
Location: Stamford, Connecticut
Description: 11:15 a.m. An 11-year-old girl getting ready for bed in Stamford, Connecticut, looks through a window and sees a large white oval of light low in the west-northwest sky, apparently four times the size of the moon. Her grandmother joins her and watches the object, which is swinging with a pendulum motion. It is still visible about 30 minutes later. The family’s German shepherd dog barks continually at it while it is visible and for 20 minutes after it is last viewed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Allan Hendry, “Unusual Backyard Visitor,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 (June 1980): 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6083

Event 42895 (9B3B8D6E)

Date: 2/23/1980
Time: 18:03:00.0
Location: -22.0000 -139.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: France Name: “Thysets” Yield: 5KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1928

Extra Data: LatLong: "-22.0000 -139.0000", LatLongDMS: "22:00:00 S 139:00:00 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "Thysets", NukeSource: "CEA/DAM", NukeType: "NUCF", NukeY: "5"

Event 42896 (F42D1E08)

Date: 2/25/1980
Locations: Youngsville, Pennsylvania; quarter mile west of Youngsville, Pennsylvania
Description: 2:30 p.m. Oil worker Rusty Pennington is watching a pump a quarter mile west of Youngsville, Pennsylvania. Suddenly he hears an explosion that lasts only a split second and sees a domed disc to the left of his truck. He estimates the object is 20 feet wide and 6–8 feet high. Flying at treetop level, it streaks silently downward from southwest to northeast and disappears in the distance.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Daylight Disc in Pennsylvania,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6084

Event 42897 (B06F0873)

Date: 2/25/1980
Description: On a cloudy day at 2:30 p.m. in Youngsville, Pennsylvania a 23-year old man, R. Pennington, heard an explosion mixed with a whining noise, and then saw a 20-foot wide disc with a transparent dome on top out of his truck window. The trajectory of the UFO continued to follow a 250 kW electric transmission line.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1980, p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1113

Event 42898 (7C5FFAC3)

Date: 2/28/1980
Time: 22:00
Location: CURRIE, NV
Description: 2 observer(s). Potato ovoid 100' overhead zaps truck-bed and paces. Gauges etc. electro-magnetic effect (EME.)
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 321)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13880

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "1768", HatchDesc: "CURRIE,NV:2 OBS:POTATO OVOID 100'OVHD ZAPS TRUCK-BED+PACES:GAUGES etc EME", LatLong: "40.266669 -114.744450", LatLongDMS: "40:16:00 N 114:44:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "8"

Event 42899 (C5F5BFCB)

Date: 2/28/1980
Time: 15:00:00.1
Location: 37.1265 -116.0885
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Tarko” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_856

Extra Data: LatLong: "37.1265 -116.0885", LatLongDMS: "37:07:35 N 116:05:19 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.37", NukeMb: "4.40", NukeName: "Tarko", NukeSource: "DOE", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"

Event 42900 (760888E2)

Date: 2/28/1980
Location: U.S.
Description: The National Enquirer runs an article, “Former Intelligence Officer Reveals ‘I picked up wreckage of UFO that exploded over U.S.’” that includes a portion of a December 1979 interview by Bob Pratt with Jesse Marcel Sr. as a pre-publication teaser for Berlitz and Moore’s forthcoming book.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Patrick Gross, “Roswell 1947: First Ufologists Investigations” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6085

Event 42901 (AE00FBE7)

Date: 3/1980
Time: 20:30
Location: VIX, FR
Description: 2 teens. Dark ovoid with 2 light beams. Hovers and rumbles and shoots going quickly northeast. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v24#2.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 300)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13881

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "4", HatchDesc: "VIX,FR:2 TEENS:DRK OVOID W/2 LITE BEAMS:HVRS+RUMBLES+SHOOTS >>NE:/FSR v24#2", LatLong: "46.366669 -0.850000", LatLongDMS: "46:22:00 N 00:51:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vendée", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42902 (85A52783)

Date: 3/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: FOIANO, ITL
Description: 2 observer(s). 50cm disk spins / tilt over oak tree / rain / 30 minute(s). Beam. Suddenly going quickly.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13882

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "FOIANO,ITL:2 OBS:50cm DISK SPINS/TILT ovr OAK TREE/RAIN/30min:BEAM:SUDDENLY >>", LatLong: "43.250002 11.816667", LatLongDMS: "43:15:00 N 11:49:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "AR", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42903 (49717106)

Date: 3/1980
Description: Nanotechnologist Robert A. Freitas Jr. advocates searching for alien probes or artifacts on planets, satellites, and asteroids because it is more cost-effective than looking for distant radio signals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Interstellar Probes: A New Approach to SETI,” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 33 \(1980\): 95–100
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6086

Event 42904 (56D621B5)

Date: Early 3/1980
Location: Bulverde, Texas
Description: 9:45 p.m. Fred Wirth Jr. steps outside his home in Bulverde, Texas, and sees a large orange glow 45° up in the northern sky about 100 feet above his property, lighting it up with an orange glow. After hovering silently, it shoots up in the air and stops, now appearing as a red, blinking dot. His wife joins him but instantly becomes nauseous and throws up. He starts sweating profusely.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Strange Reactions to Huge Glow,” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 74–75
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6087

Event 42905 (A9167A2F)

Date: 3/3/1980
Time: 01:00
Location: LODZ, POLAND
Description: 3 observer(s) / 3 hours. Classic saucer near houses. 2 beams going down. Orbs follow electric lines.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 266)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13883

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Poland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "180", HatchDesc: "LODZ,POLAND:3 OBS/3hrs:CLASSIC SCR nr HOUSES:2 BEAMS ↓:ORBS FOLO ELEC.LINES", LatLong: "51.783336 19.500001", LatLongDMS: "51:47:00 N 19:30:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LDZ", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42906 (A63D1524)

Date: 3/3/1980
Time: 03:30
Location: RIO PIEDRAS, PR
Description: Large and small webfoot figure(s) glide. Study chickens. All observer(s) drowsy / r82p73.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 325)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13884

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "27", HatchDesc: "RIO PIEDRAS,PR:LRG+SML WEBFOOT FIGs GLIDE:STUDY CHICKENS:all obs drowsy/r82p73", LatLong: "18.400001 -66.066670", LatLongDMS: "18:24:00 N 66:04:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Puerto Rico", Strangeness: "9"

Event 42907 (B7399D2C)

Date: 3/3/1980
Time: 17:56:00.0
Location: -22.0000 -139.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: France Name: “Adraste” Yield: 5KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1929

Extra Data: LatLong: "-22.0000 -139.0000", LatLongDMS: "22:00:00 S 139:00:00 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "Adraste", NukeSource: "CEA/DAM", NukeType: "NUCF", NukeY: "5"

Event 42908 (6A2599DC)

Date: 3/3/1980
Description: Four family members of a family in Buen Consejo, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico were awakened at midnight by noises on their patio where they kept caged rabbits. When they looked out they were stunned to see five strange looking beings inspecting the cages. Two of the beings were five feet tall and the others were three tall and more heavy-set. The tall thin creatures wore brown one-piece brown outfits, and had grayish skin with large ears, large eyes, and large flat noses with large thick lips. Their fingers were large and were connected by a thin membrane. Both carried a bright metallic-looking sphere in their right hands. The smaller beings were similar in appearance, except they had large bright medallions hanging from their necks and belts. A fifth witness later saw the same five beings enter a landed disc-shaped craft on a roadway near the village.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 72, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1283

Event 42909 (45953E30)

Date: 3/6/1980
Time: 13:00?
Location: WARREN, AZ
Description: 3 / truck. Disk hovers / mine tailings. Follows mountain ridge. Turns on edge. Going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: FILER's FILES: George A. Filer: MUFON Eastern Dir. (Index 930)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13885

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), TLP: Telepathy, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "8", Elev: "1511", HatchDesc: "WARREN,AZ:3/TRUCK:DISK HVRS/MINE TAILINGS:FOLOS Mtn RIDGE:TURNS on EDGE:>>S", LatLong: "31.416668 -109.866672", LatLongDMS: "31:25:00 N 109:52:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42910 (C5041C4A)

Date: 3/6/1980
Time: 20:40
Location: HUDSON, NH
Description: 1 observer. Disk drifts going east. Low steady humming. 2.5cm / arms length. 2nd object going west.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 963)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13886

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "61", HatchDesc: "HUDSON,NH:1 OBS:DISK DRIFTS >E:LOW STEADY HUM:2.5cm/ARMS LENGTH:2nd OBJ >W", LatLong: "42.766669 -71.433337", LatLongDMS: "42:46:00 N 71:26:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42911 (E97F206B)

Date: 3/6/1980
Location: Warren, Az
Description: A disc hovered over mine tailings in Warren and then flew along the ridge of a mountain. It turned on its edge and flew off to the south. The entire sighting lasted eight minutes. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5280

Event 42912 (45527F19)

Date: 3/6/1980
Location: Hudson, NH
Description: On this night a witness reported seeing a slow flying disc-shaped UFO over the town. The object made a low, steady humming sound. A second object was seen flying toward the west. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5281

Event 42913 (49034E9E)

Date: 3/6/1980
Description: A disc hovered over mine tailings in Warren, Arizona at around 1 p.m. and then flew along the ridge of a mountain. It turned on its edge and flew off to the south. The entire sighting lasted eight minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: George Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, issue 30
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1343

Event 42914 (843E55A2)

Date: 3/6/1980
Description: Later that same night a witness reported seeing a slow flying disc-shaped UFO over the town of Hudson, New Hampshire at 8:40 p.m. The object made a low, steady humming sound. A second object was seen flying toward the west.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1344

Event 42915 (6A7D4ABF)

Date: 3/7/1980
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Description: 12:10 a.m. Former Navy pilot Larry Crawford sees a star-like light moving 700–800 mph at 30,000 feet above Memphis, Tennessee. While he is watching it move for 10 seconds, it executes a hairpin turn.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Pilot: ‘No Human Could Have Survived Turns Like That!’” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 75, 78
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6088

Event 42916 (21955621)

Date: 3/8/1980
Location: BRAZIL, Casimiro de Abreu
Description: (Translated from French) Edilcio Barbosa, an ufology enthusiast, received a message informing him of the landing of extraterrestrials in Casimiro de Abreu. These visitors had promised to bring back four Terrans abducted years earlier: a Brazilian, an Argentine, a Canadian and a Dutchman. (...) The Brazilian would have been one of the crew members of a military helicopter that disappeared without a trace in August 1976. (...) The rendezvous of March 15th attracted more than ten thousand people... to whom the ETs stood up. (1980, March 8th or 15th)
Reference: Guy TARADE: "I Found the Trail of the Extraterrestrials". Ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1980, p.180, which dates this to March 8th.
Reference: Jimmy GUIEU: "Our Masters the Extraterrestrials" - Presses de la Cité 1992, pp. 54 to 56
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3061

Event 42917 (3C335F56)

Date: 3/8/1980
Time: 21:30
Location: WILMINGTON, NC
Description: 1 observer. UFO over car / 5 second(s) and gone. Brill white light. Dog howls / pain.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13887

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "WILMINGTON,NC:1 OBS:UFO OVR CAR/5sec+GONE:BRILL WHT LITE:DOG HOWLS/PAIN:", LatLong: "34.216668 -77.950004", LatLongDMS: "34:13:00 N 77:57:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42918 (194CF525)

Date: 3/8/1980
Location: Wilmington, NC
Description: Object buzzed car, jet-like sound, bright illumination; dog howled as if his ears hurt (section XII). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5282

Event 42919 (3614110D)

Date: 3/8/1980
Location: Wilmington, NC
Description: Object buzzed car, jetlike sound, bright illumination. Dog howled as if his ears hurt
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_346

Event 42920 (2176EBB9)

Date: 3/8/1980
Time: 15:35:00.1
Location: 37.1799 -116.0831
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Norbo” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_857

Extra Data: LatLong: "37.1799 -116.0831", LatLongDMS: "37:10:48 N 116:04:59 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.27", NukeMb: "3.90", NukeName: "Norbo", NukeSource: "DOE", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"

Event 42921 (63FC607B)

Date: 3/9/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: NEW CASTLE, KY
Description: 1 observer. Small bright cylinder/cigar-shape / 6m altitude 15m away. Zigzags going up and down / odd angles and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: RIDGE, Francis: REGIONAL ENCOUNTERS in the FC Files. 170pp. UFO FILTER CENTER, Mt. Vernon, IN 1994 (Index 70)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13888

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "257", HatchDesc: "NEW CASTLE,KY:1 OBS:SML BRITE CGR/6m alt 15m AWAY:ZIGZAGS ↑+↓/ODD ANGLES+AWAY", LatLong: "38.433335 -85.183337", LatLongDMS: "38:26:00 N 85:11:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "6", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42922 (CE90B6E5)

Date: 3/9/1980
Time: 22:00
Location: RONFE, SPAIN
Description: 2 observer(s). Brilliant clam-saucer lands / field. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) with lanterns outside.
Type: sighting
Reference: Periodical: SAMIZDAT QUARTERLY: Scott Corrales ed.: SPECIAL REPORT The GALICIAN UFO WAVE of 1995-96. (via Arcturus Books.)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13889

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "RONFE,SPAIN:2 OBS:BRILL.CLAM-SCR LANDS/FIELD:3 OIDS W/LANTERNS OUTSIDE", LatLong: "42.833335 -7.416667", LatLongDMS: "42:50:00 N 07:25:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GLC", Strangeness: "8"

Event 42923 (B4D2C306)

Date: 3/9/1980
Time: 22:30
Location: LONGWY-BAS, FR
Description: Anonymous man / 18. Huge silent metallic trapezoid going / low altitude. 2 strong beams.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 199)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13890

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LONGWY-BAS,FR:ANON.MAN/18:HUGE SLNT MTLC TRAPEZOID >/lo alt:2 STRONG BEAMS", LatLong: "49.516669 5.783334", LatLongDMS: "49:31:00 N 05:47:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Meurthe-et-Moselle", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42924 (929A6416)

Date: 3/9/1980
Location: Newcastle, KY
Description: Lady said barking dogs drew her attention to a strange very bright object hovering motionless 20' away from ground near back of house. Three antenna-like sticks at slight angle pointing to ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5283

Event 42925 (6DB00AB7)

Date: 3/12/1980
Time: 00:50
Location: GLADSTONE, MI
Description: 2 cops chase silent round object / 26 mile(s). Going up and down. Hovers. Zigzags. Lights / sides. Going quickly west.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 965)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13891

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "70", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "GLADSTONE,MI:2 COPS CHASE SLNT RND OBJ/26mi:↑+↓:HVRS:ZIGZAGS:LITES/SIDES:>>W", LatLong: "45.855558 -87.022226", LatLongDMS: "45:51:20 N 87:01:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42926 (DC560574)

Date: 3/12/1980
Location: Gladstone, Michigan
Description: 12:45 a.m. At least 10 witnesses, including city police and county sheriff deputies, watch an odd light maneuvering, climbing, and descending in the sky above Gladstone, Michigan.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Much Ado about Little?” IUR/Probe, September 1980, p. 78
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6089

Event 42927 (303AA871)

Date: 3/13/1980
Time: 19:50
Location: SOUTH / HASELOR, ENGL
Description: 1 / car. Huge cylinder/cigar-shape south going quickly north over A422. Steering wheel burns hands!
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 317)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13892

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "74", HatchDesc: "S/HASELOR,ENGL:1/CAR:HUGE CGR S>>N OVR A422:STEERING WHEEL BURNS HANDS!", LatLong: "52.200002 -1.866667", LatLongDMS: "52:12:00 N 01:52:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42928 (61AB67A2)

Date: 3/13/1980
Location: Warwickshire, UK
Description: A 31-year-old man saw a huge cigar-shaped object with red lights at both ends fly silently south to north over the A422 highway east of Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The man's steering wheel became unbearably hot during the flyover, and it caused burns on his hands. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5284

Event 42929 (851E1929)

Date: 3/13/1980
Location: Haselor, Warwickshire, England
Description: 7:50 p.m. A subcontractor on a job is driving near Haselor, Warwickshire, England, when he sees a white, cigar-shaped object with a steady red glow on either end pass in front of his windshield. The steering wheel instantly becomes hot, causing him to lift his hands off the wheel. He maneuvers the car off the road until it cools enough to steer.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Tony Green, “Witness Burned by Passing UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 (January 1981): 32–33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6090

Event 42930 (55968E7F)

Date: 3/13/1980
Description: At 7.50 p.m. a 31-year-old man saw a huge cigar-shaped object with red lights at both ends fly silently south to north over the A422 highway east of Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The man's steering wheel became unbearably hot during the flyover, and it caused burns on his hands, including one that left a permanent mark on his left hand.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Tony Green, FSR, January 1981, p. 32
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1458

Event 42931 (22FBFCE9)

Date: 3/14/1980
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 0KT YieldMax: .001KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1574

Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NUCS", NukeY: "0", NukeYMax: ".001"

Event 42932 (1DF91F18)

Date: 3/15/1980
Location: Bannock County, OH
Description: Huge cigar UFO in Ohio. Three witnesses for one hour. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5286

Event 42933 (B53D3BC0)

Date: 3/15/1980
Location: Bannock, Ohio
Description: 8:00 p.m. A couple in Bannock, Ohio, Spot a bright light in the southwestern sky. They watch it for 20 minutes before it approaches their home. The light is a spotlight attached to a large cigar-shaped object with red and blue lights along its length. The spotlight switches off as it passes overhead and moves to the northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Chief Investigator Allan Hendry Reports: Huge Cigar UFO in Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 (August 1980): 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6091

Event 42934 (AF9802EB)

Date: 3/17/1980
Time: 23:10
Location: PRESCOT, ENG
Description: 3 / car. Cloverleaf-saucer going southwest. Cone going southwest later. 3 odd men / road to Rainhill.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 315)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13893

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "PRESCOT,ENG:3/CAR:CLOVERLEAF-SCR >SW:CONE >SW LATER:3 ODD MEN/ROAD to RAINHILL", LatLong: "53.433336 -2.783333", LatLongDMS: "53:26:00 N 02:47:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42935 (2E3A4152)

Date: 3/18/1980
Time: 22:40
Location: SOUTHEAST / TEXARKANA, ARK
Description: 2 observer(s). Power outage. 3 night lights over TV tower. Go to radio tower / backyard.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 172)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13894

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "97", HatchDesc: "SE/TEXARKANA,ARK:2 OBS:PWR OUTAGE:3 NLTS OVR TV TOWER:go to RDO TWR/BACKYARD", LatLong: "33.416668 -94.000004", LatLongDMS: "33:25:00 N 94:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "4"

Event 42936 (2DD1DC64)

Date: 3/19/1980
Time: ~18:00
Location: SECOND GARROTTE, CA
Description: 3 observer(s). Unmarked 100M blimp with portholes seen. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 284)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13895

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "876", HatchDesc: "SECOND GARROTTE,CA:3 OBS:UNMARKED 100M BLIMP W/PORTHOLES seen:NFD", LatLong: "37.805557 -120.116672", LatLongDMS: "37:48:20 N 120:07:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42937 (FF855DE0)

Date: 3/19/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: SOUTH / KEITHSBURG, IL
Description: Several observer(s). Gold UFO hovers / Mississippi River / 50 minute(s). Shifts left and right. Going down / trees.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13896

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "55", Elev: "165", HatchDesc: "S/KEITHSBURG,IL:SVRL OBS:GOLD UFO HVRS/MISS.RIVER/50min:SHIFTS <+>:↓/TREES", LatLong: "41.100002 -90.944449", LatLongDMS: "41:06:00 N 90:56:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "4"

Event 42938 (BE92589D)

Date: 3/19/1980
Description: In the evening in 1980 a 29-year-old man on a motorcycle was chased for over an hour by a small, oval-shaped UFO. The UFO was about two feet in diameter and had sparks shooting out of it in all directions. It flew low above the ground. That same evening a golden colored UFO hovered over the Mississippi River for 50 minutes near Keithsberg, Illinois. It moved back and forth, descending and ascending over the trees along the riverbank.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1980, p. 11; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1575

Event 42939 (353CC38A)

Date: 3/20/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: NEW CASTLE, KY
Description: Dogs bark. Vibrant bright cylinder/cigar-shape 6m over yard. 3 sticks beneath. Shoots going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13897

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "257", HatchDesc: "NEW CASTLE,KY:DOGS BARK:VBRITE CGR 6m OVR YARD:3 STICKS BENEATH:SHOOTS ↑", LatLong: "38.433335 -85.172226", LatLongDMS: "38:26:00 N 85:10:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42940 (05EFCC1A)

Date: 3/21/1980
Description: Two 19-year-old teenage boys, one the son of the circus owner, had burns on their bodies after a 1:15 a.m. UFO close encounter in Gioia del Colle, Italy. One had burn marks on his wrist under his wristwatch, and the other had scalding burns on his waist where his waist band had two iron studs.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Massimo Greco, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1603

Event 42941 (EFFEC17F)

Date: 3/22/1980
Time: 22:00
Location: BURLINGTON, VT
Description: Cops and Air Traffic Controllers and RADAR's. Night lights clocked / 2400kph. Maneuver and join and split. / APRO Mar'80.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 263)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13898

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "15", Elev: "340", HatchDesc: "BURLINGTON,VT:COPS+ATCS+RDRs:NLTS CLOCKED/2400kph:MNVR+JOIN+SPLIT:/APRO Mar'80", LatLong: "44.466669 -73.200003", LatLongDMS: "44:28:00 N 73:12:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vermont", Strangeness: "4"

Event 42942 (C8E18AF2)

Date: 3/22/1980
Location: Burlington, VT
Description: G, FAA & 3 UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5287

Event 42943 (888698F7)

Date: 3/22/1980
Location: Burlington, VT
Description: Three smaller objects were observed on airport radar joining a larger, brighter object, then separating again
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_347

Event 42944 (FE91FAF4)

Date: 3/22/1980
Locations: Erie, Pennsylvania; Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio
Description: Stringfield meets with two new sources in Erie, Pennsylvania, who show him three photos allegedly showing an alien cadaver encased in glass in Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio. He is suspicious and tries to verify them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6092

Event 42945 (9C199B5D)

Date: 3/22/1980
Locations: Burlington (Vermont) International Airport; Malletts Bay
Description: 10:00–11:00 p.m. Burlington (Vermont) International Airport radar tracks three small objects that join with a larger, brighter object then separate again. They are apparently over Malletts Bay. Speeds of up to 1,500 mph are recorded, and the objects quickly disappear to the west. Traffic controller Donald Kernan says the lights “did a kind of dance.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Satellite Objects on RADAR” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6093

Event 42946 (6843D010)

Date: 3/23/1980
Time: 04:50
Location: FOURMETOT, FR
Description: Glowing-ring going up [to] behind steeple. Going northeast. Stops over woods. Shoots zigzag rays.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 204)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13899

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "FOURMETOT,FR:GLOW-RING ↑ BHND STEEPLE:>NE:STOPS OVR WOODS:SHOOTS ZIGZAG RAYS", LatLong: "49.383336 0.566667", LatLongDMS: "49:23:00 N 00:34:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EUR", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42947 (AE14DBFA)

Date: 3/23/1980
Time: 19:00
Location: NYANGA, ZIMB
Description: 5 / (seen thru) binoculars. Crescent hovers. Shoots beam / light going up. Going west into clouds. / MJ#159.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13900

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers

Extra Data: Country: "Zimbabwe & Zambia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "NYANGA,ZIMB:5/BINOCS:CRESCENT HVRS:SHOOTS BEAM/LITE ↑:>W INTO CLOUDS:/MJ#159", LatLong: "-18.177779 32.711113", LatLongDMS: "18:10:40 S 32:42:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHD", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42948 (C80CC2FB)

Date: 3/23/1980
Time: 19:37:00.0
Location: -21.8610 -138.9390
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: France Name: “Thesee” Yield: 150KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1930

Extra Data: LatLong: "-21.8610 -138.9390", LatLongDMS: "21:51:40 S 138:56:20 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "5.63", NukeName: "Thesee", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCF", NukeY: "150"

Event 42949 (3913F7BB)

Date: 3/24/1980
Location: BATERIAS, ARG
Description: Longitude & latitude coords. approximate. Many observer(s)-1 goes nuts. Luminous domed object back again. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13901

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "800", HatchDesc: "BATERIAS,ARG:LL APRX:MANY OBS-1 goes nuts:LUMN.DOMED OBJ BACK AGAIN:NFD", LatLong: "-33.583335 -68.416670", LatLongDMS: "33:35:00 S 68:25:00 W", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MND", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42950 (CBDF0A02)

Date: 3/24/1980
Time: ~21:00
Location: POKER FLAT, CA
Description: = Allegheny. 1 rancher. Huge tubular UFO and several saucers. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 284)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13902

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1451", HatchDesc: "POKER FLAT,CA:=ALLEGHENY:1 RANCHER:HUGE TUBULAR UFO+SEVERAL SCRS:NFD", LatLong: "39.988891 -120.833339", LatLongDMS: "39:59:20 N 120:50:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42951 (3DC04169)

Date: 3/24/1980
Time: 21:40
Location: LEYR, FR
Description: 1 observer. Metallic 20M cylinder/cylindrical object west 2 green truncated beams going north straight and level over D913. 50M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 199)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13903

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LEYR,FR:1 OBS:MTLC 20M CYL w 2 GRN TRUCATED BEAMS >N S/L ovr D913:50M alt:", LatLong: "48.800002 6.266667", LatLongDMS: "48:48:00 N 06:16:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Meurthe-et-Moselle", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42952 (08E5C35E)

Date: 3/24/1980
Description: The NSA issues a general denial of releasing all of its UFO materials to the public as requested by Peter Gersten. 
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p. 187
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6094

Event 42953 (E6B4A177)

Date: 3/24/1980
Locations: James, Georgia; Benton Evans' home
Description: 7:30 p.m. When his dog starts barking furiously, James Balkcom notices a bright light moving along the railroad tracks in James, Georgia, at treetop level. It comes to a stop and hovers above the home of Benton Evans. The Evanses go outside to watch the light, which has colored lights blinking inside it. After 5–10 minutes, it begins moving along the tracks again with a pulsing “shh-shh” noise.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Low-Flying Georgian Globe,” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 78–79
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6095

Event 42954 (163D2248)

Date: 3/25/1980
Time: 20:10
Location: BON-ENCONTRE, FR
Description: 30cm sun-like sphere going quickly north / 3 second(s). Mopod/motorscooter/motorbike malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Sharp perfect outline.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13904

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BON-ENCONTRE,FR:30cm SUNLIKE SPHERE >>N/3sec:MOTO EMEs:sharp perfect outline", LatLong: "44.183335 0.683333", LatLongDMS: "44:11:00 N 00:41:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Lot-et-Garonne", Strangeness: "5"

Event 42955 (4CE061B0)

Date: 3/25/1980
Time: 22:20
Location: EAST / FAIRBORN, OH
Description: 1 / car. Silent domed cylinder/cylindrical object / crossed beams / 25' altitude. Going quickly northeast. Dead cow and traces.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13905

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, TRC: Physical traces, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "258", HatchDesc: "E/FAIRBORN,OH:1/CAR:SLNT DOMED CYL/CROSSED BEAMS/25'alt:>>NE:DEAD COW+TRACES", LatLong: "39.816669 -83.983337", LatLongDMS: "39:49:00 N 83:59:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "8", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42956 (4F1B4CD1)

Date: 3/25/1980
Locations: Dayton–Xenia Road; Dayton, Ohio
Description: 10:15 p.m. Debbie Harris and Sheri Gustafson are driving on the Dayton–Xenia Road three miles east of Dayton, Ohio, when Harris notices bright, beaming lights in the sky. They assume it is an illuminated tower, but when they pull over, it appears to be about 25 feet above the ground and 210 feet away. The lights seem to come from an airplane-sized object with a green light, a red light, and crossed white beams. After hovering to their north for about 2 minutes, it shoots off rapidly to the northeast and disappears behind a hill.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Ohio Close Encounter,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 3 (July 1980): 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6096

Event 42957 (1EE7A2F4)

Date: 3/26/1980
Description: (Translated from French) Creation of the European consortium Arianespace. (March 26)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2871

Event 42958 (206D9EFE)

Date: 3/28/1980
Time: 20:00
Location: BANKET, ZIMBABWE
Description: 2 observer(s). Night light hovers just over trees. Emits sparks. Acid smell. Going quickly ESE.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 159)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13906

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ODR: Odors associated with UFO's

Extra Data: Country: "Zimbabwe & Zambia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BANKET,ZIMBABWE:2 OBS:NLT HVRS JUST OVR TREES:EMITS SPARKS:ACID SMELL:>>ESE", LatLong: "-17.405556 30.405557", LatLongDMS: "17:24:20 S 30:24:20 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHD", Strangeness: "3"

Event 42959 (D876DD22)

Date: 3/31/1980
Location: BARI, ITALY
Description: Saucer with intense light. 2 observer(s) burnt. 1 under watchband. 1 under belt buckle.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13907

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BARI,ITALY:SCR W/INTENSE LITE:2 OBS BURNT:1 UNDR WATCHBAND:1 UNDR BELT BUCKLE", LatLong: "41.133335 16.883334", LatLongDMS: "41:08:00 N 16:53:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bari", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42960 (A79B997C)

Date: 4/1980
Location: USSR
Description: (Translated from French) The series resumed in April 1980 with Cosmos 1176. No doubt the Soviet specialists completely revised the propulsion system of their nuclear-powered maritime surveillance satellites so that the transfer to a high orbit was assured.
Reference: "La Guerre des Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, Famot 1982, p. 115
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3062

Event 42961 (2413119F)

Date: 4/1980
Location: USSR
Description: (Translated from French) A third phase of satellite interception experiments began in April 1980 and appears to still be ongoing. In total, no less than 47 satellites have been used in this program, including radar calibration satellites launched in parallel. The Cosmos 1171 and 1241 targets, launched in April 1980 and January 1981, were thus approached at high altitude a few days later by the Cosmos 1174 and 1243 fighters.
Reference: "The War of the Satellites" - Volume 3 - Pierre Kohler, ed. Famot 1982, pp. 149 and 154
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3063

Event 42962 (FB9D4622)

Date: 4/1980
Location: central Texas
Description: A farmer in central Texas is walking through his pasture to check on a cow that is about to give birth. Instead, he sees two nonhuman creatures carrying a calf between them, each holding one of its limbs. They are about 4 feet high and light yellow-green in color. He runs away and does not return to the location for two days, whereupon he finds the carcass of the calf. It looks as though it has been turned inside out, and only the head, feet, and hide remain. Researcher Tom Adams says the farmer is extremely reluctant to discuss the incident any further.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, July/August 1984
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6097

Event 42963 (20578623)

Date: 4/1/1980
Time: 19:31:00.2
Location: -21.8450 -138.7580
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: France Name: “Boros” Yield: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1931

Extra Data: LatLong: "-21.8450 -138.7580", LatLongDMS: "21:50:42 S 138:45:29 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "5.05", NukeName: "Boros", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCF", NukeY: "20"

Event 42964 (E6001A08)

Date: 4/2/1980
Time: 01:20
Location: PUDASJARVI, FIN
Description: Headlight beams bend / fog. Abduction / saucer. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) can't have kids. / r25p307.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 316)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13908

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, CNT: Contactee related, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, ABD: Human or animal abduction, OPR: Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, CVS: Conversation/communication, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "5", Duration: "125", HatchDesc: "PUDASJARVI,FIN:HEADLITE BEAMS BEND/FOG:ABD/SCR:3 OIDS CANT HAVE KIDS:/r25p307", LatLong: "65.383336 27.000001", LatLongDMS: "65:23:00 N 27:00:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "11"

Event 42965 (9E196830)

Date: 4/2/1980
Location: Pudasjarvi, Finland
Description: Car drove into "fog," headlights deflected upwards, driver abducted onto silvery domed object with portholes, examined on metallic table (section XIII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5288

Event 42966 (064C236B)

Date: 4/2/1980
Location: Pudasjarvi, Finland
Description: Car drove into "fog," headlights deflected upwards, driver abducted onto silvery domed object with portholes, examined on metallic table
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_348

Event 42967 (B6F8FEA3)

Date: 4/2/1980
Description: Another UFO abduction occurred on this day in 1980 in Pudasjarvi, Finland. Ms. Ivanoff, age 25, was driving her car across a bridge when her car entered a fog and her car headlights were deflected upwards. She saw a silver domed disc with portholes overhead. She next lost consciousness and experienced a two-hour period of time loss. She later recalled interacting with Grey aliens and encountering an environment in an otherworldly environment. They conducted a medical exam on her and returned her to her car.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, Volume 1, p. 100
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1803

Event 42968 (A77BF5A1)

Date: 4/3/1980
Time: 14:00:00.1
Location: 37.1499 -116.0823
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Liptauer” Yield: 20KT YieldMax: 150KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_858

Extra Data: LatLong: "37.1499 -116.0823", LatLongDMS: "37:09:00 N 116:04:56 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.42", NukeMb: "4.80", NukeName: "Liptauer", NukeSource: "DOE", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeY: "20", NukeYMax: "150"

Event 42969 (22EFDDAF)

Date: 4/4/1980
Location: USA, near Redding
Description: (Translated from French) (cf. April 1st, 1978) Jane and Clint were examining the road that had been built through their property. They were turning around to head back west. "There was a small being on the road and its egg (oval-shaped UFO). It was less than 8 meters away from us. It took 4 steps in our direction, I put my hand on my gun, it turned around and went back the other way. It was wearing a grey outfit. It left no trace, nor did the egg. Clint couldn't move either. The being vanished and the egg rose into the air and turned west. We observed its back, it opened like the door of a horse trailer. It was about 1 meter 20 tall and it was frail (...)
Reference: Jacques VALLEE: "Confrontations" - Laffont 1991, p. 246, 247
Reference: note: Clint died of a heart attack on June 10th, 1980
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3064

Event 42970 (31379E78)

Date: 4/4/1980
Description: (Translated from French) Photo taken in Charleston. See images/1980-04-04_17-30_Charleston.jpg (April 4)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2872

Event 42971 (298B8D82)

Date: 4/4/1980
Time: 13:00?
Location: FRENCH GULCH, CA
Description: Chapins. 4' small humanoid (or Grey) enters ovoid via ramp-door. Going up [to] and going west. Mr. Chapin dies.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: CONFRONTATIONS, A Scientists Search..; Ballentine Books, NY 1990+91.PB (Index 173)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13909

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "407", HatchDesc: "FRENCH GULCH,CA:CHAPINS:4'OID ENTERS OVOID via RAMP-DOOR:↑+>W:Mr.Chapin dies", LatLong: "40.700002 -122.616673", LatLongDMS: "40:42:00 N 122:37:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "9"

Event 42972 (799A45C7)

Date: 4/4/1980
Time: 22:30
Location: SAN RUFFILLO.ITL
Description: Several observer(s). Glowing-ball dives. Stops. Maneuvers. Grazes trees / circular trajectory. Quickly going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13910

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SAN RUFFILLO.ITL:SVRL OBS:GLO-BALL DIVES:STOPS:MNVRS:GRAZES TREES/CIRC.TRAJ:↑↑", LatLong: "44.450002 11.366667", LatLongDMS: "44:27:00 N 11:22:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bologna", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42973 (E7CF8408)

Date: 4/4/1980
Location: Charleston, SC
Description: Charleston, SC (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 800404
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5289

Event 42974 (E7E36A8E)

Date: 4/4/1980
Time: 05:32:59.8
Location: 50.0000 77.8230
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: .001KT YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1575

Extra Data: LatLong: "50.0000 77.8230", LatLongDMS: "50:00:00 N 77:49:23 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "4.90", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCS", NukeY: ".001", NukeYMax: "20"

Event 42975 (F817106A)

Date: 4/4/1980
Time: 18:33:00.1
Location: -21.9210 -138.7990
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: France Name: “Pelpos” Yield: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1932

Extra Data: LatLong: "-21.9210 -138.7990", LatLongDMS: "21:55:16 S 138:47:56 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "4.30", NukeName: "Pelpos", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCF", NukeY: "20"

Event 42976 (D5B55D16)

Date: 4/6/1980
Location: Lodz, Poland
Description: Three bright spheres hovered low over a house in Lodz, Poland spreading a blinding light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5290

Event 42977 (E249E127)

Date: 4/6/1980
Location: Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Description: 9:00 p.m. William Meara and his wife Brenda are driving on I-84 just south of its intersection with I-90 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, when they see a red blur above a road sign. The blur resolves into a disc about 30 feet in diameter with smaller discs surrounding it. The object passes silently above their car, moving northeast. The duration is 3 minutes. When Meara tries to start his car 30 minutes later at home, it acts completely dead but works again normally the next morning.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Connecticut Close Encounter,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6098

Event 42978 (4338921A)

Date: 4/6/1980
Description: Three bright spheres hovered low over a house in Lodz, Poland spreading a blinding light. Frightened, the couple living in the house locked themselves in and came out only the following morning, when the three spheres had gone.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: E. Russo, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 8
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1871

Event 42979 (8620EAE7)

Date: 4/8/1980
Time: 05:30
Location: WALPOLE, WEST AUSTRALIA
Description: Car and radio electro-magnetic effect (EME). 30M saucer 1.5km away. Radio OK when glow fades.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13911

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "WALPOLE,W.AUSTRL:CAR+RADIO EME:30M SCR 1.5km away:RADIO OK WHEN GLOW FADES", LatLong: "-34.950002 116.733339", LatLongDMS: "34:57:00 S 116:44:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Australia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42980 (D04BFF2F)

Date: 4/9/1980
Location: FRANCE, Kembs (Haut Rhin)
Description: (Translated from French) Around midnight, Patricia Dzimba was followed by a luminous object as she was driving home. Panicked, the young woman rushed to the nearest dwelling where Mr. and Mrs. Ludwizak, who welcomed her, saw the object approach even closer. "It was a diamond, silent and motionless, as big as an airplane, with two white blinking lights". After a long time, the object deigned to move away and disappear towards the south. (Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 21.1.1982) (note from vog, read the story in full in:
Reference: Robert ROUSSEL: "Ovni, the hidden truths of the official inquiry", ed. Albin Michel 1994, p 107 to 112
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3065

Event 42981 (45C21D12)

Date: 4/9/1980
Location: HONG KONG
Description: (Translated from French) A woman named Ye saw this object. She saw it appear at 3:25 in the morning (...) to the southeast of the Dapu district. (...) She was sleeping alone with her daughter (...) and had left some of the windows of her apartment open. In the middle of the night, the wind picked up and she wanted to close the windows. At that moment she saw the object, as big as a large bowl, suspended in the sky. The object looked like two plates overturned on top of each other. It was spinning while staying in place. "There were a lot of clouds, but one could still clearly distinguish the spinning of the object. It was emitting a very intense yellow light. On the edge of the object there was a black zone and a white one (...) Twenty minutes later, the yellow object crossed the clouds and disappeared into the distance, but through the clouds one could still make out its yellow light.
Reference: SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 143, 144
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3066

Event 42982 (D552834C)

Date: 4/9/1980
Time: 23:30
Location: NORTHWEST / KEMBS, FR
Description: Several separate observer(s). Orange-white glowing-sphere maneuvers / roads and water tower. Follows car.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 208)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13912

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "NW/KEMBS,FR:SVRL.SEP.OBS:ORG-WHT GLO-SPHERE MNVRS/roads+water tower:FOLOS CAR", LatLong: "47.700002 7.488889", LatLongDMS: "47:42:00 N 07:29:20 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haut-Rhin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42983 (BAB7D22F)

Date: 4/9/1980
Location: Bollwiller, Alsace, Germany
Description: A woman driving through a forested area saw a bright light descending toward her car, first mistaking it for an aircraft landing light. The object then stopped and hovered ahead just off the road. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5291

Event 42984 (5031E3C2)

Date: 4/10/1980
Time: 21:30
Location: LINCOLNTON, NC
Description: 1+2 observer(s). Red saucer sweeps ground / beam. Also red sphere/orb/globe / treetops. Humming / r41p395.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13913

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "256", HatchDesc: "LINCOLNTON,NC:1+2 OBS:RED SCR SWEEPS GND/BEAM:+RED ORB/TREETOPS:HUM/r41p395", LatLong: "35.466668 -81.244448", LatLongDMS: "35:28:00 N 81:14:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42985 (F3A40348)

Date: 4/10/1980
Location: Lincolnton, NC
Description: Red disc-shaped object emitted light beam to ground; took off with intense humming sound leaving exhaust trail (section IX). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5292

Event 42986 (2D558585)

Date: 4/10/1980
Location: Lincolnton, NC
Description: Red disc-shaped object emitted light beam to ground. Took off with intense humming sound leaving exhaust trail
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_349

Event 42987 (E0F784FD)

Date: 4/10/1980
Time: 04:07:00.2
Location: 49.7960 78.0680
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed, salvo. Country: USSR Yield: .002KT YieldMax: 40KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1576

Extra Data: LatLong: "49.7960 78.0680", LatLongDMS: "49:47:46 N 78:04:05 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "5.00", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCS_SALVO", NukeY: ".002", NukeYMax: "40"

Event 42988 (0C860F63)

Date: 4/10/1980
Locations: Philadelphia Church Road; Lincolnton, North Carolina
Description: A businessman driving on the Philadelphia Church Road near Lincolnton, North Carolina, sees a red, disc- shaped object approach and hover above his car. It directs a light toward the ground. When he stops his car and rolls down the window, he hears an intense humming sound. He watches it for about 5 minutes until it takes off at a 30° angle and heads south, leaving a thin exhaust trail.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Those Funny Lights in the Sky,” Hickory \(N.C.) Focus, May 1, 1980, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 130 (May 1980): 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6099

Event 42989 (6E6EE859)

Date: 4/10/1980
Description: At 9:30 p.m. a hovering red disc-shaped object searched the ground in Lincolnton, North Carolina with a beam of light, then took off at a 45 degree angle, making an intense humming sound. A red sphere was seen later south of town at treetop level. There were three witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 25
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1943

Event 42990 (D345E7E3)

Date: 4/11/1980
Description: (Translated from French) Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States. (April 11)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2873

Event 42991 (814CF420)

Date: 4/11/1980
Description: (Translated from French) Wave of observations in China. 98 reports reach the CURO.
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2874

Event 42992 (91993623)

Date: 4/11/1980
Time: 23:10
Location: RIXHEIM, FR
Description: Huge sphere with bright lights hovers. Drops object halfway / ground. Going [to] WNW. / r145p107.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 208)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13914

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "RIXHEIM,FR:HUGE SPHERE W/BRITE LITES HVRS:DROPS OBJ HALFWAY/GND:>WNW:/r145p107", LatLong: "47.750002 7.400000", LatLongDMS: "47:45:00 N 07:24:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haut-Rhin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 42993 (DF646FC1)

Date: 4/11/1980
Locations: La Joya Air Base; Mariano Melgar Airport; Arequipa, Peru
Description: 7:15 a.m. Personnel at the La Joya Air Base [part of the Mariano Melgar Airport], Arequipa, Peru, see a strange object flying in the vicinity. The base commander orders a Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bomber to destroy the target, assumed to be a Chilean balloon. Lt. Oscar Santa María Huertas commands the scrambled aircraft. As soon as the object is in his sights some 1,800 feet above the ground, he fires 64 rounds from his 30mm guns at it. The bullets seem to hit the object without causing any damage. The UFO then hurls skyward at tremendous speed. Huertas follows, putting the Sukhoi into Mach 1.2. As he approaches, the object makes a sudden stop and the Sukhoi flies past it at 36,000 feet. Further maneuvering takes place, and Huertas finds the object chasing him at one point at 62,000 feet. He abandons the mission 52 miles away from the base. After he lands 22 minutes later, the object reappears at the base and remains visible nearly 2 hours. A Department of Defense information release gives an erroneous date of May 9, 1980.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kean, pp. 93–98, 150–151; Dolan II 214; Good Above, pp. 324–325, 503–504; Yohanan Díaz Vargas, “Peru: La Joya AFB, the Perfect UFO Case (1980),” Inexplicata, November 14, 2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6100

Event 42994 (8E9B565E)

Date: 4/12/1980
Time: 19:00
Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Description: Cloud-cylinder/cigar-shape splits / 2+separates / 2 minute(s). 1/2 shinks away. / asat launch?
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: JUSA-CISAAF TRANSLATIONs (from Russian). (Index 426)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13915

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "5", Duration: "6", HatchDesc: "MOSCOW,RUSS:CLOUD-CGR SPLITS/2+SEPARATES/2min:1/2 SHINKS AWAY:/asat launch?", LatLong: "55.750003 37.633335", LatLongDMS: "55:45:00 N 37:38:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MSC", Strangeness: "7"

Event 42995 (6E81C83F)

Date: 4/13/1980
Locations: Halifax, Nova Scotia; eastern outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia
Description: A witness is driving on the eastern outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia, when he sees an unusually bright light. As he drives 5–6 miles closer, it resolves into two lights side by side. After driving another 20 miles closer, he sees the two lights are attached to one object. When directly underneath, it appears to be 1,000–1,200 feet long and cigar-shaped with lights on the front and back and one side. A truck driver has also pulled over to watch the UFO.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Correspondence,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 3–4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6101

Event 42996 (48CD4C5A)

Date: 4/16/1980
Time: 20:00:00.1
Location: 37.1011 -116.0305
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Pyramid” Yield: 20KT YieldMax: 150KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_859

Extra Data: LatLong: "37.1011 -116.0305", LatLongDMS: "37:06:04 N 116:01:50 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.58", NukeMb: "5.30", NukeName: "Pyramid", NukeSource: "DOE", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeY: "20", NukeYMax: "150"

Event 42997 (6A65E0F5)

Date: 4/17/1980
Location: Buffalo, New York
Description: Day. Michael Romanowski, 8, sees a white boomerang-shaped object in Buffalo, New York.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Crescent Reports from New York and Illinois,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 (August 1980): 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6102

Event 42998 (499D0473)

Date: 4/18/1980
Location: USSR, SPACE
Description: (Translated from French) Above the USSR, the satellite Cosmos 1174 passed 8 km from Cosmos 1171, launched two weeks earlier. This near collision at a thousand km altitude was not the result of a mistake, but a deliberate act. Cosmos 1174 was a hunter and Cosmos 1171 was its target. However, a small error did not allow for full success, as the encounter was supposed to take place not 8 km away, but a few hundred meters. In any case, this was the seventeenth experiment of its kind credited to the Soviet Union since 1968.
Reference: "La Guerre des Satellites" - tome 3 - Pierre Kohler, éd. Famot 1982, p. 141
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3067

Event 42999 (AF82F6D8)

Date: 4/20/1980
Time: 05:30
Location: WEST / SAN MATEO, CA
Description: 2 / car / I-280. 5 bright silent metal orbs travel length / San Andreas reservoir!
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13916

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "60", HatchDesc: "W/SAN MATEO,CA:2/CAR/I-280:5 BRITE SLNT MTL ORBS TRVL LENGTH/SAN ANDREAS RSVR!", LatLong: "37.550002 -122.383339", LatLongDMS: "37:33:00 N 122:23:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"

Event 43000 (30DB12A2)

Date: 4/20/1980
Location: San Mateo, CA
Description: Five apparently metallic Saturn-shaped objects, high-speed flight in formation at low altitude, visible against local terrain (section IV). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5293

Event 43001 (911B1207)

Date: 4/20/1980
Location: Lake Norman Reservoir, NC
Description: Two roofers working in the late evening sighted a bright yellow disc-shaped UFO rise vertically from Lake Norman Reservoir, not far from a nuclear power plant in Rutherford County. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5294

Event 43002 (88DFB961)

Date: 4/20/1980
Location: San Mateo, CA
Description: Five apparently metallic Saturnshaped objects, Iligh-speed flight in formation at low altitude, visible against local terrain
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_350

Event 43003 (8F753BFF)

Date: 4/20/1980
Locations: San Mateo, California; Crystal Springs Reservoir
Description: 5:30 a.m. Richard A. Jokinen, an electrical engineer, is driving north on I-280 in San Mateo, California, on a fishing trip with his 18-year-old son. They see five bright, apparently metallic, Saturn-shaped objects flying very fast in formation at low altitude. The objects are traveling about 500 feet above the Crystal Springs Reservoir and are visible against trees of the coastal mountains west of the reservoir. The sighting lasts about 5 seconds, during which the objects cross 120° of viewing angle.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Allan Hendry, “Five ‘Saturns’ in California,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 (September 1980): 3; UFOEv II 164–165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6103

Event 43004 (0AB551DE)

Date: 4/20/1980
Location: Palatine, Illinois
Description: 8:20 p.m. Sam Puccinelli is parking his car in his garage in Palatine, Illinois, when he sees a crescent-shaped, gray-black object with flashing white lights. He looks at it with his binoculars with his 13-year-old son for 7 minutes before it disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Crescent Reports from New York and Illinois,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 (August 1980): 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6104

Event 43005 (0CEB96E0)

Date: 4/20/1980
Location: Hyderabad, India
Description: 9:00 p.m. A group of nine family members are on their front lawn in Hyderabad, India, and see a bell-shaped cloud forming at about 2,000–3,000 feet altitude. It remains stationary and they look away, but soon they see three smaller bell-shaped clouds forming evenly spaced below the first and forming an equilateral triangle. The smaller clouds then merge with the larger one and form an orange ball bright enough to throw a shadow on the roof near them. It shoots off at great speed toward the airport, then disappears after breaking into four smaller orange balls of light. The duration of the sighting is 15 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 18–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6105

Event 43006 (788624FB)

Date: 4/20/1980
Description: Barrio Aguerre, Ciudad Treinta Y Tres, Uruguay. At 12:40 a.m. 19-year-old Luis Vital Carneiro was returning home after visiting friends during a powerful electrical storm in the region. After entering a field through a gate he noticed a strange light cavorting over the field. Then, about 50 meters away near a barbwire fence, he noticed two short humanoid figures. Curious, he jumped the fence and approached the figures. At a distance of ten meters from the humanoids he noticed that they were projecting lights from the top of their heads down toward the ground. These lights suddenly turned red, and the two figures disappeared to re-appear 30 meters from the road. As Carneiro attempted to jump the barbwire fence again, a beam of light struck him that knocked him senseless. When he regained his composure Carneiro ran to his aunt's house nearby and told her what had happened.

Mrs. Orialis De Los Santos, his aunt, went out into her garden where she saw in the nearby field a group of four humanoids that seemed to quickly glide back and forth above the ground. Accompanied by Vital, they then counted a total of thirteen humanoids that "glided" about in different directions, within an area of about 100 square meters. For almost an hour the witnesses watched the strange humanoids cavort about as if playing. Vital Carneiro again attempted to approach one of the humanoids but again was knocked down by a beam of red light that seemed to come from the creature's head. He fell to the ground feeling as he had been struck by lighting. Concerned for his safety, Mrs De Los Santos ran to her stricken nephew and dragged him inside the house.

From inside the house they could still see the short humanoids gliding about, plus at about 500 meters distance, behind some trees, a large bright silvery light appeared on the ground that began slowly rising up and down. The witnesses described the humanoids as 60 cm in height, with very large heads, triangular faces, large pointed ears, and rounded eyes. Their bodies were small and "rectangular" in shape. They wore a kind of gray uniform and a rounded cap from where the beams of light originated. They seemed to communicate among themselves in quick bursts of "buzzing sounds." They glided quickly across the ground and according to Mrs. De Los Santos they stood on small rounded platforms. However, Carneiro does not recall seeing the platforms.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 12; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case 62, citing Shoney Santana, Bettina Allen & Fabio Zerpa
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2163

Event 43007 (6CE1100E)

Date: 4/20/1980
Description: At 5:30 a.m. in San Mateo, California two witnesses in a car on I-280 watched five bright metallic Saturn-shaped objects silently travel the length of the San Andreas Reservoir. They flew straight and fast to the southeast. They reflected sunlight, and were seen against the background of hills and the overcast sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Allan Hendry, CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1980, p. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 25 & 155
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2164

Event 43008 (8C6EFA03)

Date: 4/20/1980
Description: In the suburbs of Palatine, Illinois at 8:20 p.m. a father and son viewed a grayish-black, crescent-shaped UFO with white lights at the ends of each curve. The white lights flashed every 3-5 seconds. The craft made abrupt changes in direction as it flew. They viewed it through binoculars for most of their seven minute sighting.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John Timmerman, CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1980, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2165

Event 43009 (5014D296)

Date: 4/21/1980
Location:
Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_351

Event 43010 (6E6DC300)

Date: 4/22/1980
Locations: Springer, New Mexico; Cimarron Mountains
Description: 10:00 p.m. Police Officer Manuel Medina and dispatcher Sedilla of Springer, New Mexico, are parked on a traffic watch when one of them notices a bright star in the west at about 45° moving like a balloon with a start- stop motion. Medina shines his car’s spotlight on the object, which drops to a lower elevation. He turns the light off and the object ascends again. He turns the red cruiser light on, and the object seems to respond with a reddish hue. The light disappears over the Cimarron Mountains 20 miles away at 11:10 p.m.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Allan Hendry, “Familiar Description,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 (June 1980): 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6106

Event 43011 (319C2DFD)

Date: 4/23/1980
Description: At 7:40 p.m. on this evening Sr. N. Sayago was driving his car on the outskirts of the city of Santa Rosa, La Pampa province, Argentina when he noticed something falling from the sky near some high-tension power lines. His vehicle suddenly stopped and could not be re-started again. He next felt a chilling breeze at this heet. He looked up and saw a very tall being gesturing at him. He was approached by two of these seven foot tall creatures, who he described as seven feet tall, with webbed hands, long pointed ears, protruding mouths, and almost no hair. They both wore shiny, almost luminous black diver suits. Their faces resembled very gaunt skulls, with hollow eyes and no visible noses. The beings moved their lips but did not speak. One of them took his hand with both of his cold hands, and Sr. Sayago beganto feel weak and dizzy. He then passed out. When he awoke he and the car were ten blocks away from where the encounter had taken place. He was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, June 1980, p. 9, citing the Buenos Aires Herald, April 24, 1980; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, HC# 243, citing Fabio Picasso, Strange Magazine, #8 (listing the date as April 22nd)
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2263

Event 43012 (4229EEFD)

Date: 4/24/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: NEAR LAKE NORMAN, NC
Description: 2 roofers. Bright saucer rises / lake. Makes loop and away. / FSRv35#2.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13917

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "235", HatchDesc: "nr LAKE NORMAN,NC:2 ROOFERS:BRITE SCR RISES/LAKE:MAKES LOOP+AWAY:/FSRv35#2", LatLong: "35.500002 -80.916671", LatLongDMS: "35:30:00 N 80:55:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "7"

Event 43013 (482EBD69)

Date: 4/24/1980
Description: Two roofers working in the late evening at 9:00 p.m. sighted a bright yellow disc-shaped UFO rise vertically from Lake Norman Reservoir, not far from a nuclear power plant in Rutherford County, North Carolina. It made a loop in the sky and flew away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: George D. Fawcett, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; UFO Magazine (USA), June 1990, p. 33
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2284

Event 43014 (9D92A067)

Date: 4/25/1980
Time: 03:57:00.0
Location: 49.9810 78.7560
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed, salvo. Country: USSR Yield: 0KT YieldMax: 40KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1577

Extra Data: LatLong: "49.9810 78.7560", LatLongDMS: "49:58:52 N 78:45:22 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "5.50", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCS_SALVO", NukeY: "0", NukeYMax: "40"

Event 43015 (604B945A)

Date: 4/26/1980
Time: 19:50
Location: PALMA, QLD, AUS
Description: Several observer(s). Flattened sphere with 2 curved wings maneuvers / 60 minute(s). / r229v2#2.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 816)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13918

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "PALMA,QLD,AUS:SVRL OBS:FLATTENED SPHERE W/2 CURVED WINGS MNVRs/60min:/r229v2#2", LatLong: "-17.316667 145.933340", LatLongDMS: "17:19:00 S 145:56:00 E", Locale: "Rainforest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Queensland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43016 (B318415F)

Date: 4/26/1980
Time: 23:00
Location: HOLTON, IN
Description: 2 observer(s). Luminous triangle hovers / seconds. Then shoots going up / 45° angle going quickly northwest. / A. Hendry.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13919

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "280", HatchDesc: "HOLTON,IN:2 OBS:LUM.TRIANGLE HVRS/secs:THEN SHOOTS ↑/45°ANGLE >>NW:/A.Hendry", LatLong: "39.077780 -85.388893", LatLongDMS: "39:04:40 N 85:23:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43017 (5793666F)

Date: 4/26/1980
Time: 17:00:00.1
Location: 37.2484 -116.4224
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: Britain Name: “Colwick” Yield: 20KT YieldMax: 150KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1778

Extra Data: LatLong: "37.2484 -116.4224", LatLongDMS: "37:14:54 N 116:25:21 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "Britain", NukeDepth: "0.63", NukeMb: "5.50", NukeName: "Colwick", NukeSource: "DOE", NukeType: "NUCUG", NukeY: "20", NukeYMax: "150"

Event 43018 (9740FB7A)

Date: 4/26/1980
Location: Holton, Indiana
Description: 11:00 p.m. Two witnesses in Holton, Indiana, watch a luminous flashing form in the northwest sky. Golden- colored and triangular in shape, it appears larger than the full moon. The object hovers, then shoots straight up in seconds. It zigzags before vanishing in the northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Golden Triangle in Indiana,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 (September 1980): 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6107

Event 43019 (E9464ADF)

Date: 4/26/1980
Description: A disabled man and a woman neighbor in Holton, Indiana watched a luminous, golden-colored triangle, that appeared and passed in front of the full moon at around 11:00 p.m. It hovered for awhile, then shot straight up, and finally zigzagged before vanishing at a 45 degrees angle above the horizon in the northwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Allan Hendry, CUFOS News, September 1980, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2348

Event 43020 (C5055904)

Date: 5/1980
Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy’s attorney Peter Gersten brings a lawsuit against the National Security Agency to compel it to release 135 documents it has withheld from FOIA requests. The suit also includes the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration (which it claims conducted an inadequate search for its UFO records).
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Fred Whiting, “CAUS Goes to Court,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6108

Event 43021 (E3B466A3)

Date: 5/1980
Location: Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City, South Dakota
Description: Early afternoon. Thousands of base personnel and their families are congregating at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City, South Dakota, to watch an SR-71 Blackbird take off after a refueling stop. A1C John W. Mills III and a few other airmen are on top of the barracks for a view. They see an odd, triangular object above the B-52 Alert Pad about half a mile away. It begins to move down the flight line, and they see it is a gray-black delta shape at an altitude of 500 feet. For some reason it is not visible through the pair of binoculars they have. It makes a right turn and suddenly disappears above a parachute-rigging building. The SR-71 does not take off. Later in the day, an official “flash” message goes out to base personnel telling them not to talk to the press in case they had seen anything.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Nukes 387–392
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6109

Event 43022 (6462DACF)

Date: 5/1980
Locations: Wuhan University; Beijing; Shanghai; Guangdong; Sichuan; Shanxi; Hubei; Guangxi
Description: The Chinese UFO Studies Association is established under the auspices of Wuhan University, with branches in Beijing, Shanghai, and the provinces of Guangdong, Sichuan, Shanxi, Hubei, and Guangxi. It is headed by Cha Leping, a 26-year-old astrophysics student. The association later is incorporated into the China UFO Research Organization as an official branch of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Paul Dong, “Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): 3; Good Above, p. 206
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6110

Event 43023 (D260021D)

Date: 5/1980
Locations: Manlius, New York; Griffiss Business and Technology Park, Rome, New York
Description: Late afternoon. Two witnesses are driving through Manlius, New York, when they catch a glimpse of a disc- shaped object the size of a football field hovering above a patch of trees. The driver stops the car and steps outside. Yellow, red, and green lights are rotating around its perimeter. A commercial aircraft and news helicopter are also visible in the sky. The object is still not moving and soundless. Then two jet fighters, apparently scrambled from Griffiss AFB [now the Griffiss Business and Technology Park] in Rome, New York, fly toward the object, which takes off like a bullet and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Dolan II 211
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6111

Event 43024 (5C4D2C9D)

Date: 5/2/1980
Time: 10:20
Location: MT. HAMILTON, CA
Description: Silver sphere/orb/globe going south. Going up and down. Stops / 10 second(s) over lick observatory. Continues going south.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO Evidence II: HB: Scarecrow Press Lanham, MD. http://www.scarecrowpress.com ISBN 0-8108-3881-8 (Index 226)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13920

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "1263", HatchDesc: "Mt.HAMILTON,CA:SLVR ORB >S:↑+↓:STOPS/10sec OVR LICK OBSERVATORY:CONTINUES >S", LatLong: "37.344446 -121.644450", LatLongDMS: "37:20:40 N 121:38:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 43025 (3BAB9A8D)

Date: 5/2/1980
Location: San Jose, CA
Description: Shiny sphere flying with rapid up and down motions observed through binoculars; stopped, spinning, over Lick Observatory, accelerated rapidly and sped away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5296

Event 43026 (C144639F)

Date: 5/2/1980
Location: San Jose, California
Description: Shiny sphere flying with rapid up and down motions observed through binoculars. Stopped, spinning, over Lick Observatory, accelerated rapidly and sped away
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_352

Event 43027 (7BDD0E72)

Date: 5/2/1980
Time: 18:46:30.1
Location: 37.0560 -116.0190
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Canfield” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_860

Extra Data: LatLong: "37.0560 -116.0190", LatLongDMS: "37:03:22 N 116:01:08 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.35", NukeMb: "4.50", NukeName: "Canfield", NukeSource: "DOE", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"

Event 43028 (D816F4F2)

Date: 5/2/1980
Locations: Santa Clara County; San Jose, California; Lick Observatory
Description: 10:15 a.m. A Santa Clara County park ranger and another county employee are in the hills east of San Jose, California, when they see a shiny, mirror-like spherical object moving north to south. They take turns studying it through binoculars. The object has a blue-green band in the center and is orange at the bottom. It makes rapid up- and-down motions as it moves forward and spins faster as its speed diminishes. The object stops and spins toward Lick Observatory to the east of their position for 10 seconds. Then it accelerates rapidly and speeds away to the south. The sighting duration is 3–4 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv II 226
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6112

Event 43029 (C0532D6B)

Date: 5/4/1980
Location:
Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_353

Event 43030 (7B061C04)

Date: 5/5/1980
Location: USA, Redding (Northern California)
Description: (Translated from French) The observation had taken place from 9:05 PM, the time of the karate class ending, to 10:10 PM, the time they arrived at their friends' place. A woman driving in a street of Redding, accompanied by her two daughters (15 and 14 years old) and another girl of 13 years old, had been frightened by a sudden puff of smoke or fog that enveloped her van. All the noises seemed to have stopped around the 4 women while they "floated" inside this cloud. Worried, they went to their friends' place as soon as they left the cloud. They discovered they had "lost" 30 minutes, time during which they could not account for their activities. During the following hours they suffered from various physiological reactions and the next day marks, resembling strange bites, appeared on the skin of two of the girls. They had dreamt of men pointing various kinds of weapons towards their heads. The witnesses reported the case to the police who advised them to address a private organization for UFO research. [note from vog: the author links the observation and the troubles to causes such as an exacerbated religiosity and a form of hysteria, though..] (1980, May 5 or 7)
Reference: Jacques VALLEE: "Confrontations" - Laffont 1991, p. 102 to 113
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3068

Event 43031 (2EF2F855)

Date: 5/5/1980
Time: ~18:00
Location: CIMARRON, NM
Description: UFO seen. 4 hours / missing time. Calf mutilated / alien base. Body parts / red liquid!
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome: High Strangeness: UFO's from 1960 through 1979. The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA Volume 3. 1996 Omnigraphics Inc Detroit, MI ISBN 1-55888-742-3 (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13921

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, ABD: Human or animal abduction, OPR: Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, CVS: Conversation/communication, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "240", Elev: "1959", HatchDesc: "CIMARRON,NM:UFO SEEN:4hrs/MST:CALF MTLd/ALIEN BASE:BODY PARTS/RED LIQUID!", LatLong: "36.511113 -104.916672", LatLongDMS: "36:30:40 N 104:55:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "11"

Event 43032 (B7F4F122)

Date: 5/5/1980
Locations: Oklahoma; Eagle's Nest, New Mexico; Cimarron, New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Manzano Weapons Storage Area at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque
Description: As she is driving home from Oklahoma to Eagle’s Nest, New Mexico, Myrna Hansen and her 6-year-old son see several UFOs in a field near Cimarron, New Mexico, after which they suffer confusion and a 4-hour loss of time. Paul Bennewitz, an Albuquerque, New Mexico, owner of humidity equipment company Thunder Scientific and a UFO investigator, on May 11 brings psychologist R. Leo Sprinkle in to meet Hansen. He hypnotizes them and gets a detailed abduction story from the mother, who also remembers watching the aliens mutilate a calf. Hansen also remembers being taken by the UFO to an underground area in New Mexico (leading Bennewitz to suspect it is the Manzano Weapons Storage Area at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque) where she sees tanks of water with cattle body parts, as well as a human arm.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe Productions, 1989, pp. 112–116; Linda Moulton Howe, Facts and Eyewitnesses, The Author, 1993, pp. 234–245; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 15–28; Marcus Lowth, “The Chilling and Bizarre Abduction Encounter of Myrna Hansen,” UFO Insight, May 19, 2018; Clark III 359–360
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6113

Event 43033 (4DE66C58)

Date: 5/5/1980
Description: In San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay construction workers and truck drivers at a meat packing plant that was under construction saw a red and green luminous ball hovering overhead. It emitted a dull noise, and its presence interrupted electrical light power and also caused battery-operated radios to go dead.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing La Razon, May 16, 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2553

Event 43034 (28CA6CC5)

Date: 5/6/1980
Description: Leonard Stringfield finds an article in UFO Sightings by David McCarthy titled “Quest for Teleportation,” which features a photo of an alien cadaver similar to the ones he was given in March.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David McCarthy, “The Quest for Teleportation,” UFO Sightings 1, no. 1 (July 1980): 40–45; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6114

Event 43035 (ADFFD360)

Date: 5/7/1980
Time: 15:50
Location: DACHSTEIN ALPS, AUSTRIA
Description: KLM and Lufthansa and more/others. Grey sphere/orb/globe. 3 jets chase. Very fast. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v26#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 265)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13922

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, RDR: Radar traces/blips

Extra Data: Country: "Austria", Credibility: "12", Duration: "120", HatchDesc: "DACHSTEIN ALPS,AUSTRIA:KLM+LUFTHANSA++:GREY ORB:3 JETS CHASE:VFAST:/FSR v26#4", LatLong: "47.500002 13.666667", LatLongDMS: "47:30:00 N 13:40:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VIE", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43036 (3A744491)

Date: 5/7/1980
Time: 17:20
Location: VALDESE, NC
Description: 1 observer / I40. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). 12m domed hat-saucer. U-turn in front of car. / r41p452.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13923

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "367", HatchDesc: "VALDESE,NC:1 OBS/I40:RFI:12m DOMED HAT-SCR:U-TURN IN FRONT OF CAR:/r41p452", LatLong: "35.738891 -81.561115", LatLongDMS: "35:44:20 N 81:33:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43037 (9E40085C)

Date: 5/7/1980
Time: 21:10
Location: REDDING, CA
Description: 1+3 observer(s). Fog envelops car. 30+min missing time. Observer(s) works / nuclear research. / r5p69.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 966)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13924

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MST: Missing time or time anomaly, NUC: Nuclear facility related, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "168", HatchDesc: "REDDING,CA:1+3 OBS:FOG ENVELOPS CAR:30+MIN MST:obs works/nucl.research:/r5p69", LatLong: "40.566669 -122.383339", LatLongDMS: "40:34:00 N 122:23:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "9"

Event 43038 (69145685)

Date: 5/7/1980
Location: Valdese, NC
Description: Disc with dome maneuvered near car, E-M effects on radio (section XII). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5297

Event 43039 (73377E80)

Date: 5/7/1980
Location: Valdese, NC
Description: Disc with dome maneuvered near car, E-M effects on radio
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_354

Event 43040 (8654D427)

Date: 5/7/1980
Location: Valdese, North Carolina
Description: Day. X-ray technician Ruth Weaver experiences interference on her car radio while driving near Valdese, North Carolina. It blacks out completely and she sees a huge object move beneath the cloud cover directly ahead of her car. It makes a U-turn, then it banks, revealing the shape of an upside-down soup bowl with a dome on top. A red triangle is on the underside. It looks like a Stetson hat as it moves away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv II 452; George D. Fawcett, Human Reactions to UFOs Worldwide (1940–1983): What We Have Learned from UFO Repetitions, The Author, 1986, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6115

Event 43041 (1D0A3462)

Date: 5/7/1980
Locations: Dachstein Mountains in the Austrian Alps; Air Control Center in Vienna
Description: 3:50 p.m. A Dutch KLM airliner is flying just over 30,000 feet above the Dachstein Mountains in the Austrian Alps. The pilot sees a gray spherical object flying overhead, which he reports to the Air Control Center in Vienna, which contacts the Austrian Air Force. Maj. Karl Schwarz orders three Saab 105 aircraft to intercept. Once they make visual contact, two of the jets attempt the intercept while the third takes film footage. The UFO’s erratic movements, however, make it impossible to follow, and the object is soon out of sight. At 5:50 p.m., a German Lufthansa airliner comes in close contact with a similar object, Schwarz orders two more fighters to scramble. The Saab 105 pilots think the object’s variable speed means it is playing with them. It is flying some 9,800 feet above them, but they cannot maneuver well enough to catch it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Terry Hooper, “UFO Interceptions Attempted,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 4 (November 1980): 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6116

Event 43042 (F2765193)

Date: 5/7/1980
Description: At 5:20 p.m. an object described as an "upside down soup bowl" with a dome on top came out of cloud cover directly ahead of the witness's car driving on I-40 near Valdese, North Carolina. It was estimated to be 40 feet in diameter and had a red rectangular area on the bottom. It made a U-turn, then banked away. The car's radio experienced interference during the close encounter.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 25, 452, citing Tarheel UFO Newsletter, June 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2627

Event 43043 (90FB9822)

Date: 5/7/1980
Description: At 9:05 p.m. a woman with the last name of Riley was driving her car in Redding, California accompanied by her two teenage daughters (15 and 14 years old) and by another 13-year-old girl, when they were frightened by the sudden appearance of a patch of smoke or fog that suddenly enveloped their van. All normal noises ceased, while the women seemed to "float" inside a "cloud". Very worried, as soon as they were able to leave the "cloud" they drove to a friend's house, where they discovered that they could not account for 30 minutes of time. During the hours that followed they suffered from various physiological reactions and the following day, marks resembling strange punctures appeared on the skin of two of the girls. Soon afterwards they experienced strange dreams in which "men" were pointing strange weapons or objects at their heads. The witnesses reported the strange event to the police who advised them to contact a private UFO organization.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 79; APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 22, citing APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2628

Event 43044 (826CAA1F)

Date: 5/9/1980
Time: ~07:00
Location: MARIANO MALGAR AIR FORCE BASE / LA JOYA, PERU
Description: PAF SU22 jets fire / saucer over Air Force Base. Same / 10 May.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 237)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13925

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Peru", Credibility: "9", Duration: "12", Elev: "1289", HatchDesc: "MARIANO MALGAR AFB/LA JOYA,PERU:PAF SU22 JETS FIRE/SCR ovr AFB::SAME/10MAY", LatLong: "-16.722223 -71.855559", LatLongDMS: "16:43:20 S 71:51:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arequipa", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43045 (11A4DCB1)

Date: 5/9/1980
Locations: Bargersville, Indiana; Empty Fields
Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman is driving home with her daughter in Bargersville, Indiana, when bright red flashes of light illuminate the inside of her truck and the surrounding area. The flashes are caused by red balls of light about the size of lemons in the empty fields around them. The balls blink on and off in succession, climbing up one telephone pole. Moving down, and crossing the road to perform the same motion on another pole. They approach the truck, forcing her to back up the truck. Finally, the phenomenon ceases and she drives home. When they get there, her German shepherd dog starts whining and barking. Her husband steps outside to see what’s going on. Suddenly, their two daughters start screaming as small red balls of light move across their mother’s back and behind her hair. She does not feel anything, but the dog runs to the barn and stays there all night.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Allan Hendry Reports: A Spooky Experience in Indiana,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6 (October 1980): 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6117

Event 43046 (20EB95FA)

Date: 5/9/1980
Description: At 7:00 a.m. a Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi-22 warplane was scrambled to intercept a UFO flying near the Mariano Melgar AFB, near La Joya, Arequipa Province, Peru. It fired on the round object, but the UFO zipped off unharmed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 324; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 43
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2693

Event 43047 (9093B013)

Date: 5/9/1980
Description: Red balls of light the size of lemons climbed up, across, and down telephone lines in Bargersville, Indiana then went up another pole on a clear evening at 9 p.m. A dog whined and barked as more red balls of light moved across a woman's back and the hair on her head. The balls of light made no noise
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John Timmerman, CUFOS News Bulletin, October 1980, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2694

Event 43048 (ED461D6C)

Date: 5/10/1980
Location: Area 51
Description: DoD Report: The FAP (Peruvian Air Force) spotted a UFO twice and tried to intercept and destroy the UFO without success.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p503)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_711
See also: 7/1952

Event 43049 (FA62CA21)

Date: 5/11/1980
Time: 03:20
Location: GIULIANOVA, ITL
Description: 5 observer(s). Hiss! Dark 6M cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] 100M away. Curves back out to sea.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13926

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GIULIANOVA,ITL:5 OBS:HISS!:DARK 6M CGR > 100M away:CURVES back out to sea", LatLong: "42.733335 13.966667", LatLongDMS: "42:44:00 N 13:58:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TE", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43050 (935FC7F2)

Date: 5/12/1980
Time: 18:00
Location: BULAWAYO, ZIMB
Description: 2 observer(s). Brilliant blue saucer hovers / low altitude / 10 minute(s). Shoots going up. Stops. Going up [to] again and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13927

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Zimbabwe & Zambia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "BULAWAYO,ZIMB:2 OBS:BRILL.BLU SCR HVRS/lo alt/10min:SHOOTS↑:STOPS:↑AGAIN+AWAY", LatLong: "-20.200001 28.700001", LatLongDMS: "20:12:00 S 28:42:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BLW", Strangeness: "7"

Event 43051 (D1B335E0)

Date: 5/12/1980
Location: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Africa
Description: A brilliant blue disc hovered at a low altitude for ten minutes over Bulawayo. It shot straight up, stopped, then shot up again and was gone. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5298

Event 43052 (2FABEA74)

Date: 5/12/1980
Description: A brilliant blue disc hovered at a low altitude for ten minutes over Bulawayo, Zimbabwe at six p.m. It shot straight up, stopped, then shot up again and was gone.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1990
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2771

Event 43053 (65266E61)

Date: 5/13/1980
Location: Belgium, Eben-Emael
Description: (Translated from French) Near the intersection of the borders with the Netherlands and Germany, close to the Albert Canal, the mushroom farm was located almost in a strategic military place and the galleries established in the caves of the rocks. Around 10 o'clock the owner of the place was coming out in the courtyard of the farm (about 20 m x 15 m), face to face with a circular object of a diameter of about 5.20m, hovering 50 cm from the ground. From the dome of the craft an staircase unfolded to the ground and a man came out from above, descended the staircase and remained motionless at the foot of the craft. Two other men did the same and the trio headed towards the witness. They had an absolutely human appearance, pale face, slightly slanted eyes and a stature of about 1.60m. They wore green suits. One of the characters said (or exclaimed) "What are we doing here?". The brave witness explained as if it was a question asked, that he cultivated mushrooms and asked if they wanted some. They wanted some. Flanked by the three visitors, the witness went to the cellar and took a crate of mushrooms that he wanted to offer them. But the leader of the trio only wanted one mushroom from the pile. As soon as the mushroom was placed in his hand he turned around and the three individuals rejoined their machine, climbed the staircase, and the machine took off very quickly in the direction of the Netherlands. Finally the gendarmerie of Bassenge was notified and the witness interrogated. In the afternoon he received a visit from two military men in navy blue uniforms, who made him understand "it's better that he had seen nothing". These military men spoke French with a Liège accent. [note from vog: The secret NATO base Cannerberg, the 2nd ATAF Joint Operation Center, is located in the municipality of Maastricht, on the Belgian border. It is an underground base, buried under a mountain that counts 85 km of galleries and which hosted between 1960 and 1992 more than 4000 military personnel from several countries. What is done in this base? It's top secret, but as it was said in the Dutch press in 1995 "the military worked there in the field of communications" - excerpt from the article "Contaminated Soldiers, Cannerberg. There was asbestos in this secret NATO base installed two steps away from Eben Emael..." by Jean Michel Crespin]
Reference: investigation and counter-investigation by J.L. Vertongen, Frank Boitte and others
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3069

Event 43054 (F1EA1C38)

Date: 5/13/1980
Time: 03:30
Location: US49 NEAR MAGEE, MS
Description: 2 / car. Glowing-disk over car. Beams light going down. Car lights flicker. / r25p309.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 149)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13928

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "131", HatchDesc: "US49 nr MAGEE,MS:2/CAR:GLO-DISK OVR CAR:BEAMS LITE↓:CAR LITES FLICKER:/r25p309", LatLong: "34.083335 -89.716671", LatLongDMS: "34:05:00 N 89:43:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "8"

Event 43055 (75441F93)

Date: 5/14/1980
Location: Simpson County, MS
Description: Glowing disc shone light beam on road, E-M when car entered light beam. BiloxiGulfport, Miss., Daily Herald, May 14, 1980 (L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5299

Event 43056 (10CBD1B5)

Date: 5/14/1980
Location: Simpson County, MS
Description: Glowing disc cast light beam onto road. Car entered beam, headlights flickered off and on several times, afterwards worked normally
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_355

Event 43057 (9AA34298)

Date: 5/14/1980
Locations: US Highway 49; Simpson County, Mississippi
Description: 3:30 a.m. Howard and Julia Pickrel are driving on US Highway 49 through Simpson County, Mississippi, when they see a glowing disc high in the sky. A beam of light from the disc makes a spot of light on the ground as wide as their car. As they drive through the light beam, their lights go on and off 7–8 times. After they are out of the beam’s path, the lights do not flicker again.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 307–308
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6118

Event 43058 (758D73B4)

Date: 5/14/1980
Location: Mars Hill, Maine
Description: 9:15 p.m. John Ray spots three dark discs while he is driving in the rain through a rural area near Mars Hill, Maine. Each is larger than the full moon and has numerous white lights on the bottom. They pass silently above his car and hover ahead of him in close formation about 500 feet up. Suddenly they take off and disappear.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Close Encounter in the Rain,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7 (November 1980): 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6119

Event 43059 (E166B829)

Date: 5/14/1980
Description: Simpson County, Mississippi - A glowing disc high in the sky cast a light beam on the roadway at 3:30 a.m. When a car with witnesses Mr. & Mrs. Pickrel drove through the light beam the "car lights went on and off about 7-8 times". The headlights and console lights later functioned normally.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 307, citing the Biloxi Daily Herald, May 14, 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 25, 258; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2836

Event 43060 (F043C152)

Date: 5/14/1980
Description: On a rainy night shortly after 9:00 p.m. while driving through a forested area in Mars Hill, Aroostook County, Maine 33-year-old Mr. Ray reported that three dark discs flew silently over his car. They then stopped and hovered ahead of him in close formation, at 500 feet altitude. They suddenly took off at an incredible speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, CUFOS Newsletter, November 1980, p. 2
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2837

Event 43061 (1A384D2C)

Date: 5/15/1980
Time: 00:40
Location: M25 / MORETON, ENGL
Description: Teacher / car. Double-bullet / 45° angle / low altitude. 2 truncated beams going down.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 326)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13929

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "19", HatchDesc: "M25/MORETON,ENGL:TEACHER/CAR:DOUBLE-BULLET/45°ANGLE/LO alt:2 TRUNCATED BEAMS ↓", LatLong: "53.400003 -3.116667", LatLongDMS: "53:24:00 N 03:07:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 43062 (F7624FCA)

Date: 5/15/1980
Description: At 12:40 a.m. a Mr. Hughes, driving on the M53 Motorway in Wirral, Merseyside, England sighted an object shaped like two curved artillery shells side-by-side close to the ground. Two shielded beams of light were projected downward from the object onto the ground.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Alan Bell, FSR, August 1981, p. 13
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2869

Event 43063 (8976670B)

Date: 5/16/1980
Location: CHINA, Beijing
Description: (Translated from French) …very late at night (…) I went out into the courtyard to breathe the fresh air. Suddenly I noticed that the landscape became very clear all of a sudden. (…) I immediately saw an orange-red object floating above the roof of the house across from me. I felt scared by this unexpected foreign object. At first glance, this object seemed oval, resembling a heated electric iron. This red iron suspended in the sky of Beijing began to zigzag from southwest to northwest. It flew slowly, its big nose slightly raised and there was no trail behind it. We did not know at what altitude it was, it made no noise. (…) it was composed of several luminous bands of hemispherical shapes. Initially oval in appearance, it gradually revealed itself as a cone whose sharp outline was enveloped by a layer of yellowish mist. (…) it was as big as two full moons, but much less luminous. (…) between the dome and the main body, there was a belt of white light. In the blink of an eye it passed the agglomeration and the roof of the houses in front of me prevented me from continuing the observation. I saw it for three minutes, the clock marked 1:14 am on May 16.
Reference: SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials", ed. Mercure de France 1983, p 144, 145
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3070

Event 43064 (163B2943)

Date: 5/16/1980
Locations: Działoszyn, Poland; Wielún
Description: 3:00 p.m. A civilian pilot is flying a Pirat glider near a cement mill in Działoszyn, Poland, when he notices an object maneuvering across the fumes from factory chimneys below. Seconds later it moves in front of the glider, and he takes evasive action. It is an isosceles triangle shape with a side length of 30 feet and a dull brownish- green. At one point it turns up one of its corners at an angle of 45° in an apparent attempt to correct its flight. Then it changes orientation to the horizontal, shrinks in size, and disappears. A similar object is seen the same day near Wielún.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 69
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6120

Event 43065 (E43C9B1E)

Date: 5/22/1980
Time: 13:00:00.1
Location: 37.0031 -116.0314
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Flora” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_861

Extra Data: LatLong: "37.0031 -116.0314", LatLongDMS: "37:00:11 N 116:01:53 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.34", NukeName: "Flora", NukeSource: "DOE", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"

Event 43066 (18F2F5BC)

Date: 5/22/1980
Time: 03:57:00.1
Location: 49.7800 78.0370
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed, salvo. Country: USSR Yield: .004KT YieldMax: 80KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1578

Extra Data: LatLong: "49.7800 78.0370", LatLongDMS: "49:46:48 N 78:02:13 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "5.50", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCS_SALVO", NukeY: ".004", NukeYMax: "80"

Event 43067 (B48C53C1)

Date: 5/22/1980
Locations: Gran Canaria Airport; Canary Islands; Ocean
Description: 11:05 p.m. The Air Transit Control Center at Gran Canaria Airport in the Canary Islands detects some unidentified traffic toward the southwest moving at 685 mph. A few minutes later, an aero-taxi pilot reports a bright object passing to his left and descending toward the ocean. A Spanish Air Force officer investigates and concludes the object is unknown, even though its position observed by the pilot matches that of Venus. A false radar echo is also possible.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 436, 528–529
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6121

Event 43068 (F2808CF6)

Date: 5/23/1980
End date: 5/25/1980
Locations: Laramie; University of Wyoming campus
Description: The first Rocky Mountain Conference on UFO Investigation, organized by psychologist R. Leo Sprinkle to bring contactees together, is held in Laramie on the University of Wyoming campus. Barely 20 people show up, but Sprinkle notes they are average, normal people, though highly susceptible to hypnotic suggestion. Most claim some psychic abilities, and many report a feeling of being monitored or experiencing continuing contact with UFO entities. They feel anxiety about the state of the human race and worry about a coming cataclysm. The conferences continue to at least 1996, attracting as many as 200 attendees.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 300–301
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6122

Event 43069 (B07248C5)

Date: 5/26/1980
Time: 12:20
Location: OFF CABO / GATA, SP
Description: Submarine/submerged crew. Big RADAR blip going northeast 3km away. Low altitude. Absolute(ly) invisible!
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 328)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13930

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off CABO/GATA,SP:SUBM.CREW:BIG RDR BLIP >NE 3km AWAY:LO alt:ABS.INVISIBLE!", LatLong: "36.683335 -2.266667", LatLongDMS: "36:41:00 N 02:16:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "ALM", Strangeness: "8"

Event 43070 (9DFB5C5E)

Date: 5/26/1980
Time: 19:00
Location: HUNINGUE, FR
Description: Airman and 1 / ground. Metallic ovoid wobbles / 3 minute(s). Rises going quickly east into Germany.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 228)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13931

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "HUNINGUE,FR:AIRMAN+1/GND:MTLC OVOID WOBBLES/3min:RISES >>E into GERMANY:", LatLong: "47.600002 7.583334", LatLongDMS: "47:36:00 N 07:35:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haut-Rhin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43071 (E984AC91)

Date: 5/28/1980
Locations: Denver; Houston, Texas; Trinidad, Colorado
Description: Denver KMGH-TV investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe releases A Strange Harvest, a 2-hour documentary that suggests unusual wounds found on cattle are the work of extraterrestrial beings who harvest body parts required for their survival or research, and that the US government is complicit. The documentary wins a Regional Emmy award in 1981. She interviews Denver surgeon Arlen Meyers on excising tissue with a laser; and Lou Girodo, chief investigator for the District Attorney’s Office in Trinidad, Colorado. The show also features a hypnotic regression session by R. Leo Sprinkle on Judy Dorarty, who says she witnessed a mutilation outside Houston, Texas, in May 1973; under hypnosis, she describes seeing a calf drawn up in a pale yellow beam of light into a UFO.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Internet Movie Database, “A Strange Harvest”; Clark III 363; “Alta Loma 1973,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 1, 2003
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6123

Event 43072 (B2E2642D)

Date: 5/30/1980
Description: The CIA moves for summary judgment in Peter Gersten’s lawsuit for UFO documents. The court grants it, despite the 57 remaining UFO documents the CIA admits it is withholding. CAUS appeals on June 24.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “CAUS Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): 15–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6124

Event 43073 (3FFE9F30)

Date: 6/1980
Location: ARGENTINA, Rosario
Description: (Translated from French) Carpenter Juan Gomez claimed to have traveled aboard a UFO after receiving a visit 12 days earlier from 4 extraterrestrials dressed in yellow and equipped with diving suits. These four creatures announced by a blinding light were about 50 cm tall and emitted unintelligible sounds. Juan Gomez explained that an intense light had "absorbed" him while he was walking in the outskirts of Rosario. He regained consciousness 15 hours later in a distant locality of that city. A black spot was printed on the index of his right hand, as if he had undergone a blood test. During this period several inhabitants of Rosario said they had observed several UFOs. (June 1980)
Reference: Jean-Marie DOUCHET - Nostra - 28.1.1982
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3072

Event 43074 (57CBCC94)

Date: 6/1980
Time: ~01:00
Location: SHERMAN, TX
Description: Odd sounds and lights. Allagash-Jim levitated / bed. Possible missing time. (Rpt abductee.)
Type: sighting
Reference: FOWLER, Raymond: The ALLAGASH ABDUCTIONS. Wild Flower Press; Tigard, OR 1993. 347pp. (Index 232)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13932

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "30", Elev: "227", HatchDesc: "SHERMAN,TX:ODD SOUNDS+LITES:ALLAGASH-JIM LEVITATED/BED:POSS.MST:(rpt abductee)", LatLong: "33.633335 -96.583338", LatLongDMS: "33:38:00 N 96:35:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 43075 (DC0F4643)

Date: 6/1980
Time: 23:00?
Location: SPROSTON GREEN, CHESHIRE
Description: 2 / car. Brill lights. 2 7' figure(s) glide up. Telepathy battle of will.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLES, Jenny: ALIEN ABDUCTIONS - the Mystery Solved; Inner Light, NJ 1988. (Index 74)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13933

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, GNT: Giant: Large/tall alien, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, ABD: Human or animal abduction, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "8", Elev: "40", HatchDesc: "SPROSTON GREEN,CHESHIRE:2/CAR:BRILL LITES:2 7'FIGs GLIDE UP:TLP BATTLE of WILL", LatLong: "53.194447 -2.394445", LatLongDMS: "53:11:40 N 02:23:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "10"

Event 43076 (04D7F521)

Date: 6/1980
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Description: NICAP is disbanded after the last issue of the UFO Investigator is published, and its files are eventually turned over to the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFO Investigator 11, no. 6 (June 1980); Clark III 794
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6126

Event 43077 (113D1044)

Date: 6/1980
Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is reorganized after the departure of W. Todd Zechel, with Peter Gersten as director and Lawrence Fawcett as assistant editor.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 240
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6127

Event 43078 (33D11446)

Date: 6/1980
Location: University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine
Description: Kenneth Rommel releases Operation Animal Mutilation, a long report that devastatingly debunks popular theories. The animals have died of natural causes, he contends, and the mysterious aspects can be explained prosaically. He cites ornithologist Kenneth Sager: “The larger the animal, the more difficult it is for the scavenger to gain access to the food supply below the tough surface. [Thus they attack the] softer points of entry, namely the eyes, anal openings, and the soft underbelly areas, especially the udders of female bovines.” L. D. Kuttner of the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine says that many scavengers can make as clean a cut as “might be done by a surgeon with a knife.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Cattle mutilation”; Kenneth M. Rommel Jr., Operation Animal Mutilation, Report of the District Attorney, First Judicial District, State of New Mexico, prepared for the US Criminal Justice Department, 1980; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Animal Mutilation documents, 1974– 1980, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5; Clark III 133 Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6128

Event 43079 (43B85675)

Date: 6/1980
Description: Leonard H. Stringfield publishes The UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome: Status Report II, New Sources, New Data, presenting the accounts and rumors he has heard of crashed UFOs retrieved by the military. He has contacted four different military sources claiming to have seen a movie film depicting a crashed saucer and small alien bodies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Leonard Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 147
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6129

Event 43080 (3A083745)

Date: Early Summer 1980
Locations: Matsbo; Hedemora; central Sweden
Description: Two women see a green, miniature airplane outside a house in Matsbo, near Hedemora, in central Sweden.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clas Svahn, “Green Miniature Airplane Hovers in Front of a House,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 6–7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6125

Event 43081 (8BF6C697)

Date: 6/2/1980
Location: University of Pennsylvania
Description: Stringfield receives eight more prints showing an alien cadaver encased under glass. One photo shows a hand with four fingers and clawlike nails. His source claims they were obtained from a secret study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980; Leonard Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 147–148
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6130

Event 43082 (E87C1388)

Date: 6/3/1980
Locations: Albuquerque, New Mexico; Wyoming
Description: R. Leo Sprinkle arrives at Paul Bennewitz’s house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for another hypnotic session with Myrna Hansen. Bennewitz, now very paranoid, meets him at the door with a gun, saying he needs to protect himself from aliens. A strained and brief hypnosis session follows, after which Sprinkle returns to Wyoming.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 24–25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6131

Event 43083 (E55B109F)

Date: 6/4/1980
Description: In 1980 two brothers commuting to work in Abasto, Argentina saw a strange luminous object in the pre-dawn sky at around 5:30 a.m. It made no noise, was 12 meters in diameter, and emitted white and reddish flashes of light. The UFO flew over fast, halted above the two men, then shot off to the north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing La Razon, June 5, 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3279

Event 43084 (B0FCD813)

Date: 6/5/1980
Description: In 1980 a series of strange UFO-related events occurred in both Malaysia and the San Luis Valley of Colorado. At dusk in Moffat, Colorado a mustard yellow, old-fashioned "whirlybird" copter was seen rising from a pasture. The next morning a prize-winning bull was found dead. No nearby airport had ever seen such a craft. At 2:20 a.m. in Port Klang, Malaysia a spinning, luminous bluish-red ball hovered just 30 feet over a large oil installation. It emitted beam of light that struck a house near the petroleum tanks, and the house caught fire. Nearby airport radar confirmed the presence of a UFO.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Chris O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 42; Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 96
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3304

Event 43085 (79DCDD67)

Date: 6/11/1980
Time: 16:30
Location: OFF AGUILAS, SP
Description: Spanish submersible crew via periscope. Silver metallic 100M saucer hovers / 200M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 328)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13934

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off AGUILAS,SP:SPANISH SUB.CREW via PERISCOPE:SLVR MTLC 100M SCR HVRS/200M alt", LatLong: "37.316668 -1.250000", LatLongDMS: "37:19:00 N 01:15:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "60", State/Prov: "ALM", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43086 (137BA3EF)

Date: 6/11/1980
Location: Venice, Italy
Description: An unknown cigar-shaped object passes close to a commercial aircraft near Venice, Italy.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 162
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6132

Event 43087 (290030F9)

Date: 6/12/1980
Time: 13:20
Location: NEAR ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE, ALTA
Description: DC9 crew and pass. Metallic disk hovers. "Net" beneath. Balloon?
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13935

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", Elev: "1001", HatchDesc: "nr ROCKY Mtn.HOUSE,ALTA:DC9 CREW+PASS:MTLC DISK HVRS:"NET" BENEATH:balloon?", LatLong: "52.366669 -114.916672", LatLongDMS: "52:22:00 N 114:55:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43088 (3EDA05BD)

Date: 6/12/1980
Time: 16:00
Location: NORTH / HOPSTEN AB, GERM
Description: USAF F111 pilot and more. Plain torpedo-tank shape passes 15M away!
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13936

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "N/HOPSTEN AB,GERM:USAF F111 PILOT+:PLAIN TORPEDO-TANK SHAPE PASSES 15M AWAY!", LatLong: "52.950003 7.550000", LatLongDMS: "52:57:00 N 07:33:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LSX", Strangeness: "7"

Event 43089 (BDA8050F)

Date: 6/12/1980
Time: 17:15:00.1
Location: 37.2817 -116.4539
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Kash” Yield: 20KT YieldMax: 150KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_862

Extra Data: LatLong: "37.2817 -116.4539", LatLongDMS: "37:16:54 N 116:27:14 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.65", NukeMb: "5.60", NukeName: "Kash", NukeSource: "DOE", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeY: "20", NukeYMax: "150"

Event 43090 (B59BCD0A)

Date: 6/12/1980
Time: 03:27:00.1
Location: 49.9860 78.9980
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 20KT YieldMax: 150KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1579

Extra Data: LatLong: "49.9860 78.9980", LatLongDMS: "49:59:10 N 78:59:53 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "5.60", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCS", NukeY: "20", NukeYMax: "150"

Event 43091 (638F6FB1)

Date: 6/13/1980
Description: (Translated from French) An UFO is spotted near Toula (USSR). (June 13th, 10 PM)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2875

Event 43092 (4EAD0398)

Date: 6/14/1980
Location: USSR, Moscow
Description: (Translated from French) From 23:50 to 00:30 (or 00:30 on June 15) a half-moon of red-orange color followed by a luminous trail appeared above Kalinin to the north of Moscow, flew over Klin, Moscow where it stayed for 5 minutes, Ryazan 180 km to the south, then Gorki to the east where it also stopped for 5 minutes before finally disappearing in the direction of Kazan. During its passage, cows mooed, dogs barked and the population was panicked. Migs took off to try, in vain, to contact it. Thousands of Russians watched for 40 minutes this huge vessel which was visible on a trajectory of 800 km traveled at a speed estimated at 1500 km/h. According to the calculations of astronomer Felix Zigel, the diameter of the central part of the craft was 120 meters and its average altitude 90 km. It often changed speed and altitude and from time to time expelled smaller objects which spread in the sky. Two of these small objects were seen in Moscow. Lieutenant Colonel Karyakin noticed a saucer of about 4 m in diameter which stayed suspended for 2 minutes buzzing at 30 m above his house, then directed 3 jets of blue-green light towards the ground and flew away in a few seconds. Another witness saw in the craft a small figure in a space suit. In Certanovo, a southern suburb of Moscow, a television director named Koeshov distinguished a dark and buzzing mass placed in the street, with a small man walking around it. A few moments later a blinding light passed in front of his window and his wife felt a burning sensation on her arms on which red patches appeared and then disappeared. [note from vog: the underlined part of the text is not found in any other author....]
Reference: Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Enigma of the ETs" - ed. Guy TREDANIEL 1995, p. 67, 68
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3071

Event 43093 (EDFA58D8)

Date: 6/14/1980
Description: (Translated from French) The headquarters of the KGB is alerted by its president himself, Iouri Andropov, who has just seen the UFO spotted at 10 PM the night before. The object is heading towards Moscow, where the sighting is confirmed by the astronomer Gindilis on duty that night at the observatory. The air defense radars have not detected anything, but the military think of a surprise attack by the Americans and trigger the alert. The UFO flies over the main airport of Moscow where it causes panic. Hundreds of witnesses see it emit a luminous crown and transform into a giant jellyfish: it moves away and expels 3 small UFOs which the Migs will vainly chase. Andropov orders the Institute of Studies of Magnetism and Earth Radioactivity to seriously study these UFOs still called anomalous atmospheric phenomena. (June 14, 4 AM)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2876

Event 43094 (C858BEEF)

Date: 6/14/1980
Time: 01:00
Location: LIBERTAD, URU
Description: 2 green pseudo-human/entity try / enter house. Observer(s) grabs arm. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). Tripod physical traces. / FSRv28#1.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 308)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13937

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "Uruguay", Credibility: "5", Duration: "3", Elev: "58", HatchDesc: "LIBERTAD,URU:2 GRN.PSH TRY/ENTER HOUSE:OBS GRABS ARM:EME:TRIPOD TRCs:/FSRv28#1", LatLong: "-34.583335 -56.650003", LatLongDMS: "34:35:00 S 56:39:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "SNJ", Strangeness: "8"

Event 43095 (ACB05ADF)

Date: 6/14/1980
Time: 19:00
Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARG
Description: Hundreds / observer(s). 8-min wave / saucers cigars and triangles. Photographs. No further details / news report.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 197)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13938

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "12", Duration: "8", Elev: "27", HatchDesc: "BUENOS AIRES,ARG:100s/OBS:8-min WAVE/SCRs CGRs+TRIANGLES:FOTOS:NFD/news rpt", LatLong: "-34.616668 -58.483336", LatLongDMS: "34:37:00 S 58:29:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Buenos Aires", Strangeness: "7"

Event 43096 (1D174542)

Date: 6/14/1980
Time: 23:50
Location: KALININ, RUSSIA AND MORE/OTHERS
Description: Grey ovoid grows. Turns transparent. Going southeast. Cosmos 1188 launch? / r117p428.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 328)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13939

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "KALININ,RUSS++:GRY OVOID GROWS:TURNS XPARENT:>SE:Cosmos 1188 launch?:/r117p428", LatLong: "56.916669 35.916668", LatLongDMS: "56:55:00 N 35:55:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MSC", Strangeness: "4"

Event 43097 (63C8EDBA)

Date: 6/14/1980
Location: Cordoba and Rosario, Arg
Description: Flurry of UFO sightings by numerous witnesses, including airport personnel and meteorologists, with extensive newspaper coverage. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5300

Event 43098 (50DA4319)

Date: 6/14/1980
Location: Santiago, Chile
Description: An LAN Chile airline pilot reported that a UFO made a head-on pass at his plane at 50,000 feet altitude. The glowing yellow object was moving faster than his aircraft. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5301

Event 43099 (2D5CF7E1)

Date: 6/14/1980
Location: Moscow, Russia
Description: Evening. Many residents of Moscow, Russia, see a huge, reddish-orange, horseshoe-shaped object accompanied by swirling luminous gases. Some 250 miles to the west, Lt. Col. Oleg Karyakin hears a low- frequency booming noise and sees a bright object less than 500 feet away. He runs toward it, feels some resistance, but continues until he is about 150 feet away. It gives off a high-pitched sound and briefly emits three white rays, then ascends rapidly, hovers for 2 seconds, then moves to the northwest and vanishes. Shortly afterward, he sees a large, reddish UFO above some treetops. Another bright object is accompanying the first, flying horizontally and leaving a fiery trail. Some 30 others witness this event. Soviet investigators conclude that the objects were the launches of two communications satellites, a Gorizont and Kosmos 1188.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 59; Good Above, pp. 238–241
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6133

Event 43100 (904911B3)

Date: 6/14/1980
Locations: Córdoba; Jorge Newbery; Ezeiza; Buenos Aires; Rosario; Argentina; Pajas Blancas Airport; Uruguay; Brazil; Chile; Paraguay
Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. A flurry of UFO sightings by numerous witnesses takes place in Córdoba, Jorge Newbery and Ezeiza airports in Buenos Aires, and Rosario, Argentina, including airport personnel and meteorologists, with extensive newspaper coverage. Objects appear singly and in “fleets” and are described variously as “luminous oval-spherical,” “spinning top,” spindle-shaped, and a sphere that emits “an intense luminous ray that illuminated the surface of the river.” At Pajas Blancas Airport in Córdoba, a UFO causes operations to be stopped for several minutes after it follows the landing pattern of aircraft into the airport. Sightings occur around the same time in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay. CUFOS suspects many of the observations might be due to a high-altitude barium cloud produced by a rocket launch.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The UFO ‘Flap’ in South America,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 15–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6134

Event 43101 (5F05AB1E)

Date: 6/14/1980
Description: There were over 30 reports of luminous ring-shaped UFOs from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil this evening. At around 7 p.m. twenty kilometers west of Junin, Argentina a circular object approached a car with five people inside from behind, forcing the driver to pull over. The object was dark in the center with luminous white points around the rim. It descended by the highway with a vertical motion and hung about 1.5 meters above the ground. It left a trail of white smoke.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 12, citing La Razon, June 18, 1980, translated by Jane Thomas
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3487

Event 43102 (D452C1C5)

Date: 6/14/1980
Description: At the same time pilots, crew, and passengers of some commercial airplanes were forced to delay their takeoffs while a UFO flew toward the Ezeiza, Argentina runway. It nearly crashed into a building, but gained altitude and flew away. It was tracked on radar at the Jorge Newbery airport in Ezeiza.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 11, citing Cronica, June 17, 1980, translated by Jane Thomas
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3488

Event 43103 (41D5BF93)

Date: 6/14/1980
Description: At 7:05 two reporters for the La Capital newspaper in Rosario, Argentina said that a "fleet of flying saucers" was seen by several witnesses and themselves from Independencia Park. One was shaped like a "teething ring", the second was smaller and white in color, and the third object was like a dot with a halo around it.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing Cronica, June 15 & 16, 1980, translated by Jane Thomas; Alan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1980, pp. 15-16
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3489

Event 43104 (C7557D2E)

Date: 6/15/1980
Time: 00:00
Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Description: 1000' saucer in dogfight / jet. Going quickly southwest. Separate report(s) / saucer and small humanoids (or Greys)! / r150 / r120p238.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 328)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13940

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "13", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "MOSCOW,RUSS:1000'SCR in DOGFIGHT/JET:>>SW::SEP.RPTs/SCR+OIDS!:/r150/r120p238", LatLong: "55.800003 37.666668", LatLongDMS: "55:48:00 N 37:40:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "8"

Event 43105 (6E09C736)

Date: 6/15/1980
Location: Oak Park, Illinois
Description: 2:00 a.m. A 70-year-old woman in Oak Park, Illinois, sees an object like a white half-moon with a serrated edge. At first she thinks it is the moon, but it begins moving to the east and disappears in 5 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Allan Hendry Reports: A Lunar Impostor,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 (August 1980): 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6135

Event 43106 (35034B5C)

Date: 6/15/1980
Locations: RAF Bentwaters; Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
Description: 2:30 a.m. Security Policeman Charles P. Wagner and two others at RAF Bentwaters [now closed], near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, watch a 2-foot diameter spherical object maneuver above several A-10 aircraft parked at the base. Moments later, the orb suddenly splits into three smaller spheres, all of which vanish in a flash of light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Robert L. Hastings, “New Bentwaters UFO Witness Goes on the Record,” UFOs & Nukes, November 22, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6136

Event 43107 (1F5A3FFC)

Date: 6/15/1980
Location: Rio Del Mar, California
Description: 11:30 p.m. Students Kevin Smith and Jill Harper are walking along Hidden Beach in Rio Del Mar, California, when a 4-foot-long, 10-inch-wide cigar-shaped object passes about 30 feet above them moving southwest over the water and landing in the ocean without a splash. As it bobs about, a light comes on in the interior. Smith yells at it and the light goes out.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Romance under a UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6137

Event 43108 (74302C9A)

Date: 6/16/1980
Time: 22:00?
Location: ROSARIO, ARG
Description: 4 50cm small humanoids (or Greys) / bedroom! Unintelligible. Possible abduction / observer(s) 12 days later.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13941

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", ABD: Human or animal abduction, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "5", Duration: "3", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "ROSARIO,ARG:4 50cm OIDS/BEDROOM!:UNINTELLIBIBLE:POSS.ABD/OBS 12 days later", LatLong: "-32.916668 -60.783336", LatLongDMS: "32:55:00 S 60:47:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "STF", Strangeness: "8"

Event 43109 (AB7A41FE)

Date: 6/16/1980
Time: 06:00:00.0
Location: 52.9000 56.5000
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USSR Name: “PNE:Butane 2-1” Yield: 3.2KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1580

Extra Data: LatLong: "52.9000 56.5000", LatLongDMS: "52:54:00 N 56:30:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "1.40", NukeName: "PNE:Butane 2-1", NukeSource: "SULTANOV", NukeType: "NUCS", NukeY: "3.2"

Event 43110 (5A5CFADA)

Date: 6/16/1980
Time: 18:27:00.0
Location: -21.8700 -138.8990
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: France Name: “Eurypyle” Yield: 150KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1933

Extra Data: LatLong: "-21.8700 -138.8990", LatLongDMS: "21:52:12 S 138:53:56 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "5.30", NukeName: "Eurypyle", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCF", NukeY: "150"

Event 43111 (B55861A7)

Date: 6/17/1980
Locations: Interstate 75; Grayling Army Airfield; Grayling, Michigan
Description: 11:00 p.m. Two women driving with four young children north on Interstate 75 near Grayling Army Airfield in Grayling, Michigan, when they see two lights moving from right to left in front of their car. Two minutes later, three more lights (two blinking, one steady) appear to the right and pace the car at 85 mph, moving closer until they are about 100 feet directly above them. They are completely silent and possibly attached to an oblong-shaped object.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Michigan Close Encounter,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 3 (July 1980): 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6138

Event 43112 (6B458699)

Date: 6/18/1980
Description: A schoolgirl saw what looked like a big monkey-like creature shrink to something only a few inches tall outside her house in Lumut, Perak State, Malaysia at 7:00 a.m. She screamed and then fainted. At 10:30 a.m. that morning two more schoolgirls went to the local school and saw two minature figures less than 7 feet away from them. One was dressed in a white spacesuit, the other in black. They were very hairy and only about two inches tall. Both carried backpacks and some sort of weapons. Their feet did not touch the ground. That evening at around 8 p.m. two teachers and several students searched a field and saw three more of the tiny entities, dressed in white. They also found a U-shaped mark on the ground.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, cases 97, 98, & 99
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3539

Event 43113 (235799FA)

Date: 6/20/1980
Location: In air space, Kuwait
Description: While descending through 15,000 feet for a landing, a senior Kuwait Airways pilot and crew observed a huge, brightly illuminated hemispherical object with a flat base moving steadily eastward at a slightly lower speed than his aircraft. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5302

Event 43114 (6BFDF7FD)

Date: 6/20/1980
Locations: Kuwait City; Wafra
Description: 9:00 p.m. While descending through 15,000 feet for a landing, a senior Kuwait Airways pilot and crew observe a huge, brightly illuminated hemispherical object with a flat base moving steadily eastward over Kuwait City at a slightly lower speed than his aircraft. “When I turned north at Wafra, the phenomenon was still clearly visible and remained so until we descended below the haze layer and started to approach the runway.” The crew of another airline flight 90 miles away reports sighting the same phenomenon. Radar does not detect the object.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: American Embassy, Kuwait, “Investigation of Unusual ‘Light Phenomenon’ Seen in Kuwait’s Skies,” telex, July 1980, in “U.S. State Department ‘UFO’ Documents, Reviewed and Released 7 Feb 2000” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6139

Event 43115 (C16EAFE1)

Date: Summer 1980
Location: Soviet Union
Description: Ex Soviet test pilot Lev Vyatkin plane collided with an aircraft emitting a “hard beam”. The pilot managed to land successfully, but the wing, touched by the beam, continued to glow for several more hours.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_712

Event 43116 (70699E74)

Date: 6/21/1980
Time: 17:01:00.0
Location: -22.0000 -139.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: France Name: “Ilus” Yield: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1934

Extra Data: LatLong: "-22.0000 -139.0000", LatLongDMS: "22:00:00 S 139:00:00 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "Ilus", NukeSource: "CEA/DAM", NukeType: "NUCF", NukeY: "20"

Event 43117 (8160B9AD)

Date: 6/21/1980
Location: Assumption, Illinois
Description: 1:30 a.m. Janet McLeod notices two large, orange, domed discs circling low about four blocks west of her home in Assumption, Illinois. They stop and hover at treetop level. The top one gradually fades out from top to bottom. The lower one turns on its side and shines a beam toward the ground for 5 minutes. Then it goes back to the horizontal and fades out in the same way. When she steps outside 5 minutes later, she notices it is dead quiet, the natural sounds resuming after 2 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Twin Domed Discs in Illinois,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6140

Event 43118 (CD0D3F8D)

Date: 6/21/1980
Description: In Assumption, Illinois at 1:30 a.m. Ms. McLeod reported that two low flying, slow orange colored domed discs circled and hovered for five minutes while directing a beam of light toward the ground. There was an unnatural quiet and the witness's dog never barked during the sighting. Two minutes after the UFO left natural sounds returned to the area.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1980, p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3587

Event 43119 (98C5F66C)

Date: 6/22/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: NORTHWEST / KUWAIT CITY
Description: 10 mile hemisphere seen / several airline crews! Going quickly east / 300MPH.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 91)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13942

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Kuwait", Credibility: "10", Duration: "14", HatchDesc: "NW/KUWAIT CITY:10 MILE HEMISPHERE SEEN/SVRL AIRLINE CREWS!:>>E/300MPH", LatLong: "29.183335 47.916669", LatLongDMS: "29:11:00 N 47:55:00 E", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KUW", Strangeness: "11"

Event 43120 (5451A62F)

Date: 6/24/1980
Time: 15:10:00.1
Location: 37.0233 -116.0341
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Huron King” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_863

Extra Data: LatLong: "37.0233 -116.0341", LatLongDMS: "37:01:24 N 116:02:03 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.32", NukeMb: "4.50", NukeName: "Huron King", NukeSource: "DOE", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"

Event 43121 (07B5E2B1)

Date: 6/25/1980
Time: 02:27:00.0
Location: 49.8258 78.0994
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: .001KT YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1581

Extra Data: LatLong: "49.8258 78.0994", LatLongDMS: "49:49:33 N 78:05:58 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "KRR", NukeType: "NUCS", NukeY: ".001", NukeYMax: "20"

Event 43122 (737A6518)

Date: 6/25/1980
Time: 06:00:00.0
Location: 52.9000 56.5000
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USSR Name: “PNE:Butane 2-2” Yield: 3.2KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1582

Extra Data: LatLong: "52.9000 56.5000", LatLongDMS: "52:54:00 N 56:30:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "1.39", NukeName: "PNE:Butane 2-2", NukeSource: "SULTANOV", NukeType: "NUCS", NukeY: "3.2"

Event 43123 (3D5AFDC3)

Date: 6/26/1980
Time: 00:20
Location: SIMANDRE TO/FROM CUISERY, FR
Description: 2 / car. Dark silent 20M sphere passes / 60kph. Spins. Spots / side.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 202)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13943

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SIMANDRE><CUISERY,FR:2/CAR:DARK SLNT 20M SPHERE PASSES/60kph:SPINS:SPOTS/SIDE", LatLong: "46.583336 5.000000", LatLongDMS: "46:35:00 N 05:00:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Saône-et-Loire", Strangeness: "6"

Event 43124 (940BF904)

Date: 6/27/1980
Time: 19:00
Location: YINCHUAN, CHINA
Description: 2 girls. Ring / light = 5 cm / arms length. Hovers by cloud. Vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13944

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "YINCHUAN,CHINA:2 GIRLS:RING/LITE=5 cm/ARMS LENGTH:HVRS by CLOUD:VANISHES", LatLong: "38.550002 105.333338", LatLongDMS: "38:33:00 N 105:20:00 E", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NNX", Strangeness: "4"

Event 43125 (C5869DAD)

Date: 6/28/1980
Locations: Mona Passage; Puerto Rico; Dominican Republic
Description: Two civilian pilots, José L. Maldonaldo Torres and José A. Pagán Santos, are flying an ERCO Ercoupe 415-D at 1,500 feet over the Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. They send out a mayday message saying they are looking at a “weird object” that makes them change course three times. Their plane disappears and no wreckage is found.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, pp. 312, 320
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6141

Event 43126 (0E5AD6A8)

Date: 6/29/1980
Time: 02:33:00.2
Location: 49.9510 78.8150
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed, salvo. Country: USSR Yield: 20KT YieldMax: 190KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1583

Extra Data: LatLong: "49.9510 78.8150", LatLongDMS: "49:57:04 N 78:48:54 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeMb: "5.70", NukeSource: "AWE-JED", NukeType: "NUCS_SALVO", NukeY: "20", NukeYMax: "190"

Event 43127 (69AC8207)

Date: 6/30/1980
Time: 22:30
Location: AUZEBOSC, FR
Description: 3 observer(s). 20M fireball hovers over house. Hides / cops! Returns. Splits / 3. Rejoins.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 236)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13945

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "AUZEBOSC,FR:3 OBS:20M FBL HVRS OVR HOUSE:HIDES/COPS!:RETURNS:SPLITS/3:REJOINS", LatLong: "49.600002 0.733333", LatLongDMS: "49:36:00 N 00:44:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Seine Maritime", Strangeness: "8"