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The 1988
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Coast Guard witnesses, large illuminated ellipse hovering over Lake Erie, landing on ice. Smaller triangular objects emerged, zipped around independently Created: July 15, 2008, updated 30 March 2022 This is currently a 9-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1988. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1988 chronology from UFOE II), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]. You will note the many foreign reports that we are now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to us. As more come in, this page will be updated. Previous chronologies (1947 to 1969) involved the expertise of two other team members: William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Bob Gribble's entries are those filed with the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington, now operated by Peter Davenport. Trace cases are now being entered with the help of Ted Phillips, Center for Physical Trace Research and retrofitted into previous chronologies as time permits. Francis Ridge NICAP Site Coordinator The 1988 UFO Chronology ___________________________________________________________________________________ Jan. 3, 1988; Grimsby, England
5:00 PM. Some very bright lights in the sky
paced a car for several miles. It was seen for
nine minutes before it departed by shooting
straight up. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report
1990, p. 11).
Jan. 4, 1988; Vetterslev, Denmark
6:45 PM. Two 35 centimeter red spheres
maneuvered low over a field starting at 6: 45
p.m. and continuing for two hours. Melted snow
and small footprints were later found in the
field. (Source: Scandinavian UFO Information
Newsletter, issue #11)
Jan. 15, 1988; Fort Wayne, IN 2:45 AM. Three minute observation of a disc 2-1/2 semi trucks long and over telephone pole near factory 200' up. Not investigated. (MUFON Indiana, FI McCormick). Jan. 19, 1988; Foreman, AR
Glowing red object followed car, moved up and down as if following contours of local terrain (UFO Evidence II, Section X). Jan. 19, 1988; Benton, LA
5:00 PM. A father and daughter were driving to
pick up the mother from work. They pulled into the
parking lot of her work and stopped to wait for her.
The lot, the street, and the nearby Interstate
highway were all in their normal hubbub of activity.
The daughter brought her father's attention to a
streak of light in the sky. Almost as soon as he
focused on it, the light seemed to appear
immediately in front of them, about 150 feet away
and about 50 feet above the ground. It was a dull
silver or steel gray disc-shaped object. Around the
perimeter were openings like wind scoops, which spun
about fairly rapidly. From the top of the disc
emerged a sheath from which extended rotary blades
like those seen on helicopters. The craft performed
this extension as they watched, although the blades
did not turn. The disc was about the size of an
automobile and about five feet tall. It never made
any noise for the minute and a half of the
performance. A strange silence permeated the
environment. "It seemed...that there were no cars
moving, [we] didn't hear a thing in the world.
Nothing. Just like the world stood still." Then the
device zipped away, and as soon as it had left "the
traffic on I-20 came alive and the parking lot
became active." (Source: Michael Swords,
International UFO Reporter, Summer 2002, p. 21).
Jan. 20,
1988; Mundrabilla, Western Australia, Australia
About 4:10
AM. Four members of the Knowles family were en route
from Perth, Western Australia, to Melbourne,
Victoria,by car, when they reported observing a
bright, egg-shaped object ahead of them along the
road. During the next very confused period of time,
they believed that the object had lifted their car
off the road, and burst one of its tires. A "black
dust" was reportedly found, both on the
inside and the outside of the car. Two
analyses of this material found nothing unusual. A
television station paid the Australian Mineral
Development to test the vehicle for radioactivity,
there was none above background. AMDEL stated that
the car tire had failed due to being under-inflated.
(Sources: (1) Personal investigation by Keith
Basterfield and other members of UFORSA and UFORA.
(2) UFO Research Australia Newsletter. April 1988.
Vol.6.No.1.pp5-20. (3) UFORAN May 1989.
Vol.7.No.1.pp3-9.)
Jan. 24, 1988; Gulf Breeze, FL
5:30 PM. Allegedly, Ed Walters took his
twenty-first UFO photograph of a domed disc shaped
object. The blurring movement of the object suggests
that when the object left it accelerated at 20 G's,
according to photometric analysis. (Source: Timothy
Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 210, citing MUFON UFO
Journal, issue # 239).
Barking dogs alerted to triangle, treetop height. (Animal Reaction Cases, Joan Woodward) Jan. 31, 1988; Eureka, PA
6:30 PM. A woman had a close encounter with a
silent charcoal black triangular object while driving
in the suburban town of Eureka, Pennsylvania. The
object passed only 30 feet above her car. It had three
bright white headlights on the side facing her when
sighted, six small white lights underneath in two
clusters of three, and a red light on the bottom
forward. The edges of the object sloped out
underneath. (Source: Stan Gordon, MUFON Field
Investigations Database, case # 880940).
Feb. 9, 1988; Oswestry, Shropshire, England
8:00 AM. In Oswestry, Shropshire, England a 45 foot
in diameter yellow cloud of something that looked like
fog was seen straddling a hedgerow. It glowed brightly
and made a noise like rushing air. A dog ran into it
and disappeared for a time. The two adult witnesses, a
man and a woman, reported feeling a tingling sensation
and smelling a sulphur smell. The dog was later found
unconscious, wet and hot; its eyes were red and it
seemed close to death. It died a few weeks later.
(Source: Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence
for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 11).
Feb. 11, 1988; Beira, Mozambique
Pilot saw hovering object, intense lights like searchlights in a triangle; climbed vertically out of sight (UFO Evidence II, Section III). Feb.14, 1988; Greensburg, PA
1:50 AM. Witness observed a large delta shaped
craft hovering at 20 feet altitude. Through several
windows, humanoid figures could be seen inside. It
emitted a dull light that extended towards the ground.
( Source: Mufon Journal # 274)
Feb. 15, 1988; Rotherham, Yorkshire, England
12:20 AM. Nocturnal lights and a domed disc
descended over a high tension tower in Rotherham,
Yorkshire, England then silently shot off. (Source:
Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 22).
Feb.16, 1988; Rosehill area of Willenhall,
England
Time not given. Two police officers saw a very
large spinning oval-shaped UFO with flashing red and
green lights around its circumference in the
Rosehill area of Willenhall, England. It made no
sound and flew off quickly toward the southeast. Two
more cops saw the same or a similar UFO from
Walsall. Their reports were sent to the Ministry of
Defence. (Sources: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine
(UK), July 2003, p. 10, citing Nicholas Redfern, A
Covert Agenda, p. 165; Timothy Good, The UFO Report
1990, p. 23).
Feb.18, 1988; Bentwaters, England
9:30 PM. (2130 hours) Two men exploring a wooded
area near an Air Force base watched several UFOs and
mysterious lights maneuvering over the area and on the
ground. They saw star-like objects overhead, green
fireballs flying through the forest, an object that
had white front lights and red tail lights rise up
diagonally and blink out as it reached the top of the
trees. They also observed several large pulsating disc
shaped objects that appeared to change size and color.
A huge floodlight was soon shining out of the forest
floor aimed at the sky. There was also an object on
the ground at the far end of the field, which had
three rectangular dark orange windows. Several human
like figures appeared to be moving in front or inside
the windows. Two security patrols from the nearby base
were apparently seen nearby, also observing the
events. (Source: Terry Ecker, UFO Magazine Vol. 6 # 2)
Feb. 22,
1988; Irwin, PATime not given. In suburban Irwin, Pennsylvania a
silent, orange disc-shaped object flew close by to
three witnesses. It had a colorful aura, and shot two
beams of light down before zig-zagging away. (Source:
Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989; MUFON field
investigations database, case 880302).
March 3, 1988; near General Belgrano, Argentina
8:30 PM. The brothers Farisano were returning home
from a soccer championship when they noticed some
strange lights above a nearby bridge. As they
approached the lights their vehicle engine suddenly
stalls, they attempted to re-start it without any
positive results. They remained in their truck
observing the lights. They could now see that the
lights were on a spherical object, with a large red
light on the top, and several white lights in a row on
the bottom section. The object appeared to hovering
close to the ground and inside the transparent
mid-section the witnesses could see a shadow like
figure moving about. The object was silent and it
suddenly moved slowly out of sight, at that moment the
truck engine re-started and then the witness drove
home. (Source: Jorge Horacio Cosso, ONIFE)
March
4, 1988; Eastlake, OH
8:35 p.m. local. Coast Guard witnesses, large illuminated ellipse hovering over Lake Erie, landing on ice. Smaller triangular objects emerged, zipped around independently (UFO Evidence II, Section I). March 5, 1988; Fairport, OH Brightly lighted ellipse descended onto ice, flve to six smaller triangular objects emerged, darted around independently (see section I) March 10, 1988; north of Sheffield, England
8:45 PM. UFO investigators on the A61 highway north
of Sheffield, England saw a large pulsating orange
ovoid UFO fly by at 400 feet altitude (Source: Timothy
Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 25).
March 12, 1988; Edwards AFB (near), CA Ground radar case. March 13, 1988; near Croton Falls, NY
10:00 PM. The witness was driving home alone on a
dark road surrounded by woods and a large reservoir
when he noticed several bright white lights off to the
left just above the reservoir. The witness continued
on slowly until he stopped his car by a clearing. He
then watched the lights approached and realized that
they were connected to some type of very dark
structure. As the object passed over his car he looked
up to see a huge triangular shaped object. The object
had only lights in the front and the underside
appeared to have sections that receded inward, inside
this area he could see white flashes of light.
Suddenly the next thing he knew was he was back in the
car and driving away from the area. Later after
several restless nights the witness was hypnotized and
was able to recall that as the object passed directly
over the vehicle he was somehow levitated into the
object. Inside he found himself lying on a table in a
dark room. He was surrounded by several short gray
beings with large round dark eyes. One of the beings
was moving some type of instrument around his head.
Another being inserted an object up the witness
nostril. Later he was escorted by one of the beings to
a "control panel." He was then let go and has the
feeling that the beings will one day return. (Source:
Phillip J. Imbrogno, UFO Universe, Fall 1989)
March 16, 1988; Yukon Territory nr Carcross, Canada Dog responds and hides in close encounter. (Animal Reaction Cases, Joan Woodward) March 20, 1988; Wisconsin
John Salter, Jr., and John, III, abduction (UFO Evidence II, Section XIII). March 23, 1988; East Tamar Highway, Tasmania
Motorists saw bright light ahead, engine lost power, radio failed. Four square yellow lights and light beam visible. Car returned to normal after lights disappeared (Basterfield, 1997a). Spring 1988; Crawfordsville, IN 11:10 PM. This was a CE-2 involving two adult witnesses. A craft with no sound stalked them, passed overhead affecting a Fuzzbuster radar detector indicating the presence of microwave radiation. The witnesses were returning home, nearing a housing addition. The young lady and her mother-in-law smelled "sewage" or an odd smell, saw an airplane flying very low, which looked like it was in trouble. Witnesses stopped the 5-speed TransAm on the road, turned around and parked. They thought it was going to crash. Object moved toward witnesses, put extremely bright light on them, setting off Fuzzbuster ("m, me, me sound"). Object described as orange-red in color, football-shaped, very low. At one point, lights shot off from the object. Older witness who was very calm previously now said, "Let's get out of here!" Both witnesses were terrified. Driver (younger girl) doesn't remember turning around or driving. Car seemed to have been "towed" or that was the sensation.. Afterwards witnesses became sick, stomach hurt, were mumbling when they returned home. They should have made the trip in 15 minutes, but got home at 12:35 AM, 1-hour and 10-minutes longer than it should have taken. Both drew pictures which were identicle. Witnesses would not file a report. (MUFON Indiana, FI Roger Lamberson & Fran Ridge) April 3, 1988; Gulf Breeze, FL
2:45 AM. A mother and daughter were awakened by a
throbbing sensation and the sound of a tree falling.
They looked out and saw a flying object only 50 feet
above the ground, with a circle of orange
"porthole-like" lights around its middle. A beam of
light struck the mother, who had a strong feeling of
being watched. The entire encounter lasted over two
hours. The mother is also employed as a schoolteacher
(see the other schoolteacher reports in 1968 and 1982
for similarities). (Source: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO
Journal, March 1992, p. 18, citing field investigator
V. Lyons).
April 9, 1988; Stode, Sweden
1:00 PM. A triangular UFO hovered for three minutes
over Stode, Sweden. It vanished in a cloud of smoke.
(Source: AFU Sweden).
April 28, 1988; Gulf Breeze, FL
No time given. A single witness driving on US
highway 98 east of Gulf Breeze, Florida had a
disc-shaped UFO pace his van. The UFO stayed just
ahead of the van and beamed a blue beam down onto the
road. At the same time planes were seen circling the
area. (Source: MUFON field investigation files, case
#880501; Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, August
1988, p. 6)
May, 1988; Corydon, IN 12:50 AM. A UFO again visited Corydon. The sighting was actually too brief (5-seconds), witness' age and reliability are in question without further information. The object was observed thru a window at night. No sound detected. Later, an MIB case (Men In Black) was reported in relation to this case. However, this is a typical OBOL case (Orange Ball Of Light) in Harrison county. Possible actual object, probe, or something indigenous to the area. (MUFON Indiana, FI Mike Baker) May 1988; near Leningrad, Russia
9:43 AM. A man out skateboarding alone noticed a
metallic oval shaped craft approaching him at high
speed. The witness ran in a panic but the object
caught up to him and landed nearby on a tripod like
apparatus. The witness became curious and walked
towards the object, he could see that it was an egg
shaped craft with two antennae like protrusions in
the front and a flashing red light on top. As the
witness tried to walk away several short strangely
dressed humanoids grabbed him, they dragged him
inside the object as the witness screamed. Inside he
found himself lying naked on a small table,
surrounded by the humanoids that spoke in an unknown
language. The witness attempted to steal an "object"
in order to prove the incident but it became very
hot and heavy and he had to drop it. He was finally
released. He glanced at his watch and noticed that
only 5 minutes had gone by, but to him it had felt
like 2 hours inside the object. (Source: Antonio
Huneeus, IF Bulletin, Vol. 1 # 3)
May 1988; Quantock Hills, Somerset, England
During the day the witness had been out taking
photographs of the countryside when he noticed a
large object approaching and making a low noise.
The craft flew directly over his head at very low
altitude. The craft was shaped like a saucer with
stacked decks and protruding wings. It was an
extremely complex structure. A humanoid figure was
seen standing on the rim of the craft. The witness
took several photographs but as the craft left it
emitted a strong heat wave that destroyed the
negatives. The witness developed very serious ill
aftereffects after the incident. (Source: Ken
Phillips, Judith Jaafar, Northern UFO News, # 162)
May 10, 1988; New Haven, IL 7:40 PM. Missile-like object observed by three witnesses in an auto. Object observed for a few seconds and was traveling northeast to southwest, skimming the tree-tops (50-100' up) at "tremendous speed". It resembled "a shark", was gray in color, about 25' long, but smaller than a jet. Object had no wings, made no sound, and the tail fins were different (like horizontal stabilzers). There was a jet fighter, most probably an F-4 Phantom, in the area at the time flying higher, but on a parallel (possible pursuit) course. Witnesses say jet was seen and heard less than 10-seconds later and "on the same track". "It appeared to be looking for the object." The object was further described as somewhat missile-shaped with a nose slightly turned up with some small fins where the rear horizontal stabilzers would be on a conventional aircraft. Also, there was an indentation or ring near the midpoint where it looked like the object was joined together. (UFOFC, FI Francis Ridge) May 11, 1988; Gulf Breeze. FL
8:00 PM. On the shore of Pensacola Bay, a couple
in their sixties videotaped several UFOs over Gulf
Breeze, Florida for 8 minutes. Initially there was
one yellowish-orange object, which was joined by
others. The lights brightened and pulsed, hovered,
then descended; and faded in and out of view. They
made no sound. (Source: Donald M. Ware, MUFON field
investigations database, case 901113).
May 23, 1988; Fredericia, Denmark
4:00 PM. A black cylindrical object hovered in the
northern sky for 30 minutes, as seen from Fredericia,
Denmark. It then appeared to vanish. (Source:
Scandinavian UFO Newsletter, issue #12).
Summer of 1988; Greensburg, IN 11:00 PM. A young couple was dating and they were at the lady's home, 6-miles outside of Greensburg, in the back yard talking. They saw to the southeast, five very bright orange glowing objects, hovering. They got in their car and went for a closer look. "As we approached the farm", the lady stated in her report, "all but one of the lights went out. They had been very close together all in a cluster." As they went back up Base Road toward Greensburg, it seemed to be following them. When they sped up or slowed down it appeared to do the same. "Then we cut across a side road which, if it would have stayed there, would have put us directly under it. It did stay hovering until we were approximately 1/2 a city block away. We could almost make out an outline. Then it took off toward Greensburg..." Duration: 30-minutes. (MUFON Indiana, FI Don Worley) June 6, 1988; West Point, FL
On this morning in West Point, Florida a UFO was
seen ascending straight up into the sky. (Source:
Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports,
1988-1994, case 369).
July, 1988; Plainfield, IN
4:00 AM. Male of unknown age (but self-employed)
was in his bedroom, noticed a "blinking" light on
his bedroom wall. At first he thought the lights may
have been coming form a police unit or possible a
fire truck. He looked out his bedroom window to
notice five objects 1.50 to 2 feet in diameter
"floating" approximately 5 to 6 feet away from the
window and about 6 to 7 feet off the ground.
Somewhat scared he watched the objects change from
white discs to "big bubbles" with pulsing blue
lights coming from within the objects. The objects
then changed color to orange and shot up "and took
off at a high rate of speed." The objects were first
seen in a corn field to the east of the house and
were last seen in the yard on the north side of the
house. The location was in a rural area of Hendricks
County. The sky was reported as clear with no other
weather conditions reported. (MUFON Indiana, FI
Norma Croda)
Summer, 1988; Greensburg, IN
11:00 PM. Couple was dating and they were at the
man's home 6-miles outside of Greensburg, in the back
yard talking. They saw to the SE five very bright
orange glowing objects, hovering. They got in their
car and went for a closer look. "As we approached the
farm", the lady stated in her report, "all but one of
the lights went out. They had been very close together
all in a cluster." As they went back up Base Road
toward Greensburg it seemed to be following them. When
they sped up or slowed down it appeared to do the
same. "Then we cut across a side road which, if it
would have stayed there, would have put us directly
under it. It did stay hovering until we were
approximately 1/2 city block away. We could almost
make out an outline. Then it took off toward
Greensburg... " Duration: 30-minutes. (MUFON Indiana,
FI Don Worley)
July, 1988; Plainfield, IN
4:00 AM. Mate of unknown age (but sefl-employed)
was In his bedroom on the morning of the sighting,
he noticed a "blinking" light on his bedroom wall.
At first he thought the lights may have been coming
form a Police Unit or possible a Fire Truck. He
looked out his bedroom window to notice a five
objects 1.50 to 2 feet in diameter "floating"
approximately 5 to 6 feet away from the window and
about 6 to 7 feet off the ground. Somewhat scared he
watched the objects change from white discs to "big
bubbles" with pulsing blue lights coming from within
the objects. The objects then changed color to
orange and shot up "and took off at a high rate of
speed. The objects were first seen in a corn field
to the east of the house and were last see in the
yard on the north side of the house. The location In
in a rural area of Hendricks County. The sky was
reported as clear with no other weather conditions
reported. (MUFON Indiana, FI Norma Croda)
Horses panic as object flies by UFO. (Animal Reaction Cases, Joan Woodward) July 1, 1988; Aegna Island, Tallinn, Estonia
11:30 PM. Two young witnesses saw an approaching
disc shaped object in the sky, soon the object stopped
over the harbor. Frightened the boys hid in their
summerhouse. Soon curiosity took over and both went
outside again. They saw that the silvery object
emitted colorful rays of light in three different
directions and was hovering now 20 to 30 meters in the
air. A hat shaped object bout 3 meters in diameter now
emerged from the bottom of the larger object and
descended, landing next to a rock. In the glowing
light a small emerald green colored humanoid with a
helmet like headgear and a black box-like instrument
in its hand could now be seen. It seemed to hop from
stone to stone in the shallow water. The humanoid then
stopped and placed the black box in the water. After
retrieving the black box, the humanoid sort of slid
backwards and re-entered the small hat shaped craft,
which quickly rose and entered the larger hovering
object. This object then flew away at incredible
speed. For about a week after the incident both boys
were troubled with headaches and general malaise,
which soon disappeared. (Source: Erkki Alo Kirde, and
Igor Volke, Estonian UFO Network)
July 24, 1988; Kopparberg, Sweden
2:40 AM. On Lake Ojesjon in Kopparberg, Sweden
three brilliant hat-shaped discs followed a boat for
five kilometers. The four witnesses reported that
there was an "oppressive silence" that surrounded the
UFO. (Source: Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden Newsletter,
issue # 34).
Sept. 22, 1988; Walcha, New South Wales, Australia
About 7:30
PM local time. A man was driving his car alone at
100-105 kms/hr, when the engine suddenly lost power
and slowed to 60 kms/hr. This loss persisted for 10
minutes, after which full engine power returned. Some
minutes before the power loss he had noticed a bright
reddish-orange light in the sky at 20 degrees
elevation. On the return trip, with two passengers the
same thing happened at the same locations. This time,
the air temperature in the car changed from normal to
chilly. The engine temperature gauge dropped to
zero.The same or another red point source of light was
seen at 20 degrees ESE. (Source: Dickeson, B.
& McGhee, M.'A possible vehicle interference
case.' UFORAN. Vol.7.No.1.pp14-21.)
Sept. 25, 1988; Lorain County, OH
10:30 PM. Three separate cars stalled on State
Route 113. The occupants of the cars then spotted a
silent, silver, delta-shaped object in some woods.
They noticed that the treetops near the object were
swaying despite the fact that there wasn't any wind at
the time. (Source: Thomas M. Olsen, FSR, June 1989).
Sept. 28, 1988; Atherton, IN
12:30 AM. An object approached three witnesses in
a pickup truck (evidently one of the witnesses was a
child), appeared to react to the door being opened on
truck and interior lights coming on, approached them,
engine would not start. Object passed over them with a
humming sound. Engine then was able to be re-started,
object reversed course and headed toward truck again
"like a flip of a dime". The witnesses fled the scene.
As they rounded a curve, they lost the object. Primary
witness stated they were terrified. Wrist watch &
truck clock lost time. Witnesses apparently were not
UFO enthusiasts. They assumed at first that the object
was just an aircraft. The light evidently was very
bright and hurt their eyes. The next events, if true,
truly eliminate manmade sources. The object came
within 25' and exhibited a humming sound and E-M
effects. This was apparently not an example of a
scared witness hitting the gas pedal, "flooding" the
engine, for even the radio failed. In add. (MUFON
Indiana, FI Mike Palmiter)
Oct., 1988; Greensburg, IN
9:00 PM. Approx. 5-miles south of Greensburg, IN,
(nearest place is Milhausen), lady standing in
driveway with a neighbor (who saw object first). She
ran into the house screaming. Her husband who had been
sleeping ran out to see what was going on. Observed
slowly-moving object in southern sky. Fields and
buildings illuminated by yellow light from great
lights on object. Followed object to field near
Napoleon. Object slowly moved south and out of sight.
Object was described as "humongus", shape unknown,
with 5 or 6 round (about 16' in diameter) lights in a
circle. Object made a faint "whoooo" sound. There were
four witnesses. (MUFON Indiana, FI Don Worley)
Oct. 24, 1988;
Valparaiso, FLOct. 19, 1988; Bloomington, IN
11:15 PM. Witness was downtown on Kirkwood
walking up alley beside the Runcible Spoon and was
just getting ready to cross 6th Street to get to
her car. She looked up in the sky and saw some
kind of fairly large object flying slowly over the
vicinity of the public library. It was very cloudy
and the object was close to the moon. It had
several small lights on it. "I kept thinking it
must be an airplane but it didn't look like an
airplane, too many lights I thought. I looked away
and looked back again and then I saw a white
spotlight or beam of light heading down from the
craft at about a 30 degree angle. The beam was
about the length of the object. It was moving
almost due south I thought so I drove to the South
side of town to try to catch a glimpse of it, but
no luckl While I was watching for it I saw a dark
vertical line or band of clouds moving across the
sky but that makes no sense at all to me in terms
of this sighting. It almost looked like the tail
of the twister and it gave my heart quite a
shock." (MUFON Indiana, FI Will McCracken)
Dog and cat wanted to approach rectangle above
treetops. (Animal Reaction Cases, Joan Woodward)
Dec. 25, 1988; Clinton, IN 7:30 PM. Ten-minute sighting
by two witnesses, a close encounter. These same two
people who showed fear during and extreme fatigue after
their first encounter (Sept. 28) this time strangely
under-reacted to an object as big as a house. The couple
said that on Christmas night they were driving to Mr.
XXXX parents home in the Clinton area. It was a clear
evening and they noticed lights in the sky through the
windshield. He said the object itself was dark but had
three lights on each side in a line. The lights were
green, red, and white. He said the object was as big as
a house, about 150 feet off the ground, and about a half
a block away. They said there was no sound associated
with the object which they observed for about ten
minutes. It then went away very quickly as they arrived
at the parent's house. (MUFON Indiana, FI Mike Palmiter)Nov. 6, 1988; Vittsjo, Sweden
10:00 PM. A silent, mysterious low-flying
"airplane" and a mushroom-shaped disc were sighted
in Vittsjo, Sweden. Television interference and
flashing lights were reported at the same time.
(Source: AFU Sweden case file catalogue, case 34).
Nov. 28, 1988; Banning, California After midnight. A woman woke up and rolled over in bed to see a white ball of light overtop of her dresser. It was about fifteen inches in diameter, slowly moved about six inches across the top. It was a dull graying white light with a soft glow. Before she could scream, she passed out.(Mike Swords) Nov. 29, 1989; New Haven, IN 1:30 AM. A 17-year-old female witness spotted two, large, bright white lights while driving on a rural road. The lights approached her car and positioned themselves behind the car, and then pursued the auto for 25 minutes. Frightened, the driver turned onto a private driveway and switched off the headlights. At this point the two bright lights passed directly overhead illuminating the car, house and the surrounding area. The young mother, whose baby was asleep in the car, could clearly see a disc-shaped craft, bigger than a small airplane, pass overhead at treetop level. She heard no sound. As the craft moved out of sight, she drove away with the headlights off. About a quarter of a mile down the road she turned on the headlights and the vehicle once again pulled alongside her car and paced her for another five minutes. It then moved out of sight. (MUFON Indiana, FI Fran Ridge) Nov. 29, 1988; Cleveland, OH
9:30 AM. While out walking on a clear sunny
morning, a 72-year-old retired engineer observed a
"huge" cigar-shaped object with a surface like shiny
chrome.The craft remained stationary at low altitude
about a mile away for 15 to 20 minutes. While
watching the vehicle, the witness alao observed
another bright object move across the sky at
fantastic speed at high altitude. It did not leave a
vapor trail. (NUFORC)
Dec. 4, 1988; Indianapolis, IN
2:00 AM. While driving home from his restaurant
at Carmel to Indianapolis this Sunday morning, Jim
and his girlfriend (she was driving) were stopped at
a red light near Hwy 465 when they observed a white
light in the west. Mr. Tucker is quoted: "After
watching it for a couple of seconds, it just took
off at an unbelievable speed to the south, almost
out of sight, then back to the north, rig-ragging,
then to a complete stop, almost to the same area
where we first spotted it." Then they turned going
south and the light was observed from (his)
passenger side and appeared to be following them at
a slow speed, as if it were pacing them. About a
mile and a half down the road the primary witness
either saw the object or sensed it and he yelled for
her to pull the car over. They pulled off at a spot
that overlooks 465. At this time a large object was
coming straight for them, about 500 above, passing
directly over their car. "It was filled with round
lights on the bottom, but I didn't notice any beams
of light shining down. The lights were very bright."
(Exhibit 2K). Object
looked something like the space shuttle, with a
tapered rear-section. There apparently wasn't any
noticeable sound associated with it, except for
sound of the rush of air, which may or may not have
been associated with the object itself. It passed
over very quickly across the highway and seemed to
disappear behind a billboard which looked to be
about 200 yards away. He then pushed in the
cigarette lighter,which for some reason refused to
"pop out". He then noticed that the radio wasn't
working, which had been on prior to the sighting. He
later found that all the fuses in the 4-month-old
car were blown, except for the ones for the
headlights. Five minutes later they saw the object
appraoch one more time, stopped for a few seconds,
then withdrew. (MUFON Indiana, SD/FI Francis Ridge)
Dec. 4, 1988; Harrisburg, PA Silvery oval object hovered, brilliant illumination, physiological effects. UFO maneuvered erratically, emitted silvery white trail when flew away (UFO Evidence II, Section V). References:
1. Volume II, The UFO Evidence, A Thirty-Year Report - Richard Hall, 2000 2. CUFOS report, Mark Rodeghier, 3. Ted Phillips, Center for Physical Trace Research. 4. Regional Encounters: The FC Files, Francis Ridge |
