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The 1991
UFO Chronology Created; October 15, 2008, updated June 12, 2021 This is currently an 8-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1991. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1991 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; Rebecca 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. Since I was Indiana State Director (MUFON) at that time, many of our Indiana cases are listed here. Francis Ridge NICAP Site Coordinator The 1991 UFO Chronology ___________________________________________________________________________________ 1991:
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unknown; Los Angeles, CA
This photograph was allegedly taken by one Dorothy Drudge, near the Los Angeles International Airport. She stated that it was so foggy you could hardly see. The object reportedly never made a sound, and was "gone in a heartbeat". Jan. 13, 1991; Pittsburgh, PA
U.S. Air flight crew saw a rectangular, light-reflective object that flew into clouds (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section III). Jan. 16, 1991; Gulf Breeze, FL
7:50 PM. A red ball of light was sighted over the
Sikes Bridge. It moved west, hovered, and then
drifted in the sky for five minutes. (Source: Bruce
S. Maccabee, MUFON 1991 Conference Proceedings, p.
249)
Jan. 16, 1991; Bettignies, France 8:00 PM. A car's headlights dimmed and the car
radio experience radio interference when a huge
black, delta-shaped craft passed by at a low
altitude. The UFO rose to a higher altitude and flew
off rapidly toward the east. (Source: Lumieres
dans la Nuit, January 1997)
Jan. 19, 1991; MA
10:30 PM. A 31-year-old respiratory therapist was
driving home and observed a domed disc with a large
square window emitting white light. It hovered low
(25 feet) over a tree across the street that was
only 360 feet away. Electrical interference was
reported in the form of static on the telephone.
(Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 19).
Feb. 1991; Bloomington, IN 11:30 PM.. A couple driving in the Lake Monroe area witnessed a ball of light, like a "nerf ball", pass over their auto from front to back (east to west). Described as 7-8" diameter and less than 10' from them. Observation time: 1-2 minutes. (MUFON Indiana, FI Will Ott) Feb. 21, 1991; Corydon, IN 10:00 PM. There were two witnesses in this rural sighting. "Ms. M." and her girl companion described the lights as shaped like a triangle with three lights, one light on each side, and one on top with a smaller red light in the middle. She thought there may be something connecting all these lights, some sort of structure. The light followed her car, seeming to stop and hover at times, change direction, ascend up and down. As the car approached the Louisville area, the lights disappeared from view. When closest to them the object was reportedly at around 125 yards distant, and at one point 80-100' from the ground. The only sound reported was a humming sound. Duration of sighting: 25-minutes. Both girls visibly shaken. (MUFON Indiana, FIs Delehanty, Baker & Tipton). March 2, 1991; Sosnovyy Bor, Russia
7:30 PM. A fast moving UFO flew in an erratic
pattern over a nuclear power plant. It was picked up
on airport radar in Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
(Source: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 176).
March 3, 1991; Sandy, OR
8:55 PM. A high speed white disc-shaped object
made fast turns, and ascended and descended over
Sandy, Oregon. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer
Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1043,
citing Skip Schultz).
March 6, 1991; Kingston, Ontario, Canada
7:58 A.M. Glowing blue-green cigar-shaped object crossed path of Flight 866 (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section III). March 9, 1991; south of Fortaleza, Brazil
Shortly after midnight a UFO pursued a couple
named Silva in their car on a highway south of
Fortaleza, Brazil. The domed disc emitted heat and
made a humming sound. It left, returned, left again,
then returned a second time and dropped a
transparent two-meter wide ball that blew up in
front of their car, only six feet away. They believe
the UFO intended to harm them. (Sources: Jerome
Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger
Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next?, p.
216).
March 10, 1991; Citrus Heights, CA
10:30 PM. A 22-year-old man observed a light
gray triangular object flying at 2000-3000 feet
altitude. The object was estimated to be 200 feet
in diameter, had rounded corners, and flew
silently at a speed of between 100 and 150 mph. It
flew on a straight course, going directly overhead
and finally passed beyond some trees. He could see
the lightless object due to its reflection of
lights from the ground. (Sources: MUFON field
investigations database, case 911003W, John G.
Maylone field investigator; Robert Gribble, MUFON
UFO Journal, November 1992, p. 19).
March 18, 1991; Kunshan, China Airliner encounters ring-shaped object. April,
1991;
Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-37
During the mission of the Space Shuttle Atlantis "STS-37", a metallic object arrives from the top and then swings in front of the video camera (it moves to the right and to the left, up and down). In the background we can see the earth. April 2, 1991; Faribault, MN
7:00 PM. A large cylinder with many lights flew
slowly over Faribault and hovered for a short while.
There were many witnesses, who also attested to the
presence of many military aircraft in the sky at the
same time. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer
catalogue of UFO reports, 1988-1994, case 1060, citing
the UFO Newsclipping Service.)
April 11, 1991; Brasilia, Brazil
5:00 PM. A luminous ovoid object hovered over a
prisonl. It had a vertical orientation, and vanished
and then reappeared. (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger
Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p.
285).
April 21, 1991; Heathrow Airport, London, UK
June 8, 1991; Concepcion, ParaguayAlitalia Airlines MD-80 on final approach saw round object/missile cross its path, confirmed by radar (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section III). May 12, 1991; Huejutla, Mexico
Three elongated silver UFOs appeared in the
daylight sky during a UFO conference being held in
Huejutla, Mexico. (Source: Lucius Farish, UFO
Newsclipping Service, October 1993).
May 12, 1991; Camp Redondo, Brazil
7:00 PM. A fiery ball of light levitated a
man off the ground twice north of Camp Redondo
in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. He felt
heat and cold and suffered an eye injury.
(Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone, p. 2).
May 14, 1991; Lancaster, CA
11:00 PM. The witness was suddenly awakened
by three 4.5 foot tall Grey humanoids, with
large black slanted eyes, who began lifting her
from her bed. She began to struggle with the
beings, when she noticed a tall human in the
living room dressed entirely in black and
holding a device resembling a small TV set. She
broke loose from the Greys and yelled for her
husband to wake up. He did, and they now both
ran to the kitchen after hearing their dog
barking in the backyard. They then saw a man
wearing a blue Air Force blue uniform lying
prone on a projecting part of their roof near a
ladder. A K-9 sentry dog that appeared ready to
attack their dog, was also now on the ground
below, accompanied by the three Grey humanoid
beings. Overhead a number or red lights were
hovering. The witness yelled, "Do not kill my
dog!" Her next recollection was standing alone
in her yard next to the generator shack. A large
craft with revolving red lights hovered above
her and a thick fog was coming out of some ports
around the object. She next remembered waking up
and sitting up in her bed at 3:50 a.m. She was
later hypnotically regressed, and recalled being
taken to an underground facility, but would not
elaborate about the details. (Source: Paul
Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports,
1988-1994; William Hamilton, MUFON UFO Journal,
issue # 286; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact
Database 1991, case # 739, citing MUFON).
May 18, 1991; just offshore of St. Osyth,
Essex, England
11:40 PM. Just offshore, three fishermen saw a
saucer-shaped object on edge, hovering low over
the water. The object had six windows along its
rim and several man-like figures could be seen
moving about inside and looking out. The UFO
vanished in the sky. (Source: Timothy Good, UFO
Report 1992, p. 151).
June 5, 1991; Clacton-on-Sea, England
12:10 AM. An orange fireball with a pale halo
flew east to west along the waterfront. When it
shot up into a cloud the cloud became luminescent.
(Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p.
152).
Pilots encountered and radar tracked reddish oval
object that paced a small aircraft and hovered above
airport, E-M effects on plane (Volume II, The UFO
Evidence, Section III).
July 21, 1991; mid-MissouriJuly
7,
1991-Atlixco, Puebla, Mexico
This glowing red UFO with lights was taken by the Puebla Judicial Police after they were called out on a call from residents of an unknown object in the area. 2:00 AM. Three young girls (ages 10-12) were watching TV, and when the program concluded they went out to jump on a trampoline. They saw a white, oval-shaped light move rapidly from one side of the backyard near the tree where the "entity" was first sighted. Entity was described as small, white, and very skinny with long skinny fingers and bald, egg-shaped head. (MUJ-282) July 24, 1991; Port Crane, NY
11:35 AM. An aluminum colored domed disc, shaped
like a baseball cap without the visor, was seen by a
49-year-old housewife. It reflected the sunlight, but
then appeared to shrink to a horizontal line that
disappeared. (Source: Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal,
March 1992, p. 17, citing R. Hamilton, field
investigator, case 911101E).
July 25, 1991; Carleton, Quebec
Night. A white sphere hovered over a field. Several
times a much smaller red light emerged from the white
object, descended to the ground, drifted for awhile,
ascended, and then merged back into the large object.
(Source: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 229).
Aug. 13, 1991; near Victoria, Entre Rios, Argentina
10:00 PM. Four men staying at a local guest house
were alerted to two maneuvering lights in the sky. One
was yellow and the other red, and they first moved up
and down, then in a triangular pattern. One of the
lights then descended onto the road near the
guesthouse. Two dark human-like figures emerged from
the landed object and appeared to float above the
ground moving around back and forth. Although they
were human-like, their heads were slightly larger than
normal. Suddenly the light illuminating the object
turned off, and a white bowl-shaped object could be
discerned. A few of the witnesses were not able to see
the figures completely, and only saw their arms and
legs. Later that same evening a man reported that he
had been abducted, and awakened in a nearby garden as
a blue beam was being retracted into a departing UFO.
(Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database
1991, case # 1466, citing Roberto Banchs, Cuadernos De
Ufologia, Volume 15, Number 2, 1993; Lumieres dans la
Nuit, issue # 312).
Sept. 15, 1991; Concepcion, Paraquay "STS-48 NASA UFO, A Scientific Analysis" - Dr. Jack Kasher. A scientific analysis of UFOs appearing on video footage taken by NASA during Discovery Space Shuttle Mission STS-48. Sept. 19, 1991; Medjugorje, Yugoslavia American tourist took photo of church, unexplained
image showed up in picture when developed (Volume II,
The UFO Evidence, section, VII).
Sept. 26, 1991; New Salem, IN 6:45 PM. The Stock Commissioner and two friends were traveling east on Hwy 52, approximately one mile west of New Salem. It was still daylight. Confidential witness: "I was a passenger in the right back seat in a car headed east on Hwy 52. I was looking to the south when the craft appeared." At first he thought it might be "a large plane". He was amazed "that something that big could disappear so fast. It looked like a large aircraft with no engines or fuselage. I could not detect any movement." It was described as cigar-shaped and a dull gray with four banks of four very large bright lights. Both ends of the craft were fuzzy. The cigar shape appeared to be about 20' thick and about 200' long, although the drawing by the witness (Exhibit IN) suggests more of a 15-to-l ratio. Height above ground appeared to be about 300', range about 300 yards. "We passed a group of trees which blocked my view for about two seconds in which time it disappeared." Time in view, about two seconds. The driver didn't see the object and therefore didn't fill out a Form 1. The front passenger, James Payne, said he saw 6-8 bright lights approximately 200-300' off the ground. Duration was more like 3-5 seconds and the white round lights appeared to be in a row, rather than four groups of four. Both men had good vision and both wore glasses. Any sound produced by the object would have been masked by car and air conditioner. (MUFON Indiana, FI Don Worley) Sept. 30, 1991; Las Vegas (near), NV Nellis Video. Not available. Nov. 6, 1991; Beit She'an, Israel
3:30 AM. A shiny crescent-shaped UFO was chased by
a taxi and police east from the city. It flew at an
estimated 600 meters altitude, hovered, maneuvered,
and made turns around itself. It finally disappeared
at dawn around six a.m. (Source: Timothy Good, Alien
Update, p. 239).
Nov. 8, 1991, Elkland, MO Evening. A man had a close encounter with a much more complex UFO. While out trying to photograph a spectacular display of the northern lights, itself a rare sight this far south, he sighted an object which he described as the familiar "two saucers together rim to rim" at not much more than treetop height above the ground. The main body of the object, which he estimated to be about fifty feet in diameter and maybe twenty feet thick at the center, was dark and did not appear to reflect any light at all. Its most striking feature was what looked like a row of windows lit from the inside which circled the object. Although showing the shape of the object more clearly, the lights were too bright to allow a comfortable view of the interior. The UFO was gliding along in level flight at slow speed when first sighted, but quickly began to gain both altitude and speed. As it rose into the air the change in perspective brought into view three dim red lights in a triangular pattern on the underside. It was at this point that the startled witness remembered he was holding a camera. The single photograph he managed to take before the object climbed out of sight is nothing spectacular, probably due to the dim nature of the red lights, but it does serve to offer evidence that something out of the ordinary was there. (Amateur UFOlogy News, 1,3) Nov. 13, 1991; Douglas, GA
5:30 PM. A couple driving a car
saw a silver, triangular-shaped UFO
with rounded corners. It emitted an
arc of white light. A second
identical triangle then appeared,
and the two UFOs circled a nearby
lake. The UFOs moved erratically,
sometimes at a slow speed, sometimes
very fast. (Source: MUFON
Investigation Files Database, case
930404J.)
Nov. 15, 1991; Marshall, AS
On this night a group of coon
hunters saw a tremendously large
boomerang-shaped UFO, the size of
three football fields. It had bright
pulsating white lights. Three large
red lights separated from the UFO
and flew away. The men fled in fear.
(Source: Timothy Good, Alien
Update, p. 240)
Nov. 15, 1991; Tazewell, VA
8:00 PM. A West Virginia coal
miner was driving on US highway
460. He saw a silent metallic
ovoid UFO, 40-50 feet in length,
glide into a cloud. (Source: Bob
Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close
Encounters in the Mountain
State, p. 139).
Nov. 23, 1991; Riga, Latvia
On this day a hunter shot at
a UFO at close range, which
changed color from gray to white
and then dematerialized.
(Source: Richard F. Haines,
JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p.
150).
Dec 1, 1991; 200 miles above the Earth "STS-50 NASA UFO, A Scientific Analysis" - Richard Motzer. A scientific analysis of UFOs appearing on video footage taken by NASA during Space Shuttle Mission STS-50. As far as we know this footage is explained. Dec. 1, 1991; Laboulaye,
Argentina
Late night. Three young farm
hands were playing cards in a
small shack on a farm when a
bright light outside caught their
attention. Frightened, they looked
out and saw a huge luminous object
resting nearby on the ground.
About 15 small humanoid figures
were walking about near the
object. The beings wore helmets
with lights on them, resembling
those worn by miners, and seemed
to be wearing small capes on their
shoulders. The UFO and the short
humanoids stayed in the area most
of the night. The next morning a
circular ground trace was found at
the landing site. A dog reacted
during the incident. (Source:
Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid
Contact Database 1991, case #
2764, citing Carlos Iurchuk, FAO).
Dec. 6, 1991; Teynham, Kent,
England
9:45 PM. A large oval UFO was
observed by the Yates family a few
dozen feet above the Teynham
Church. Something shot off from
it, then lots of different beams
of light started flashing. The
object had an oval on top with
red, yellow, green and blue lights
on the bottom. (Sources: UFO
Newsclipping Service, September
1993, citing the East Kent
Gazette, January 12, 1992; Timothy
Good, Alien Update, p. 243).
Dec. 6, 1991; Beth Shean,
Israel, to the Jordanian border
Evening. Israeli police and the
IDF followed a boomerang-shaped
UFO from Beth Shean, Israel, to
the Jordanian border. (Source:
Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The
Secret History).
Dec. 26, 1991; Bekes, Hungary
The 21-year-old witness had
heard a very loud voice in his
room on the night of December 4,
2001, telling him "you will meet
us soon." This was repeated for 11
nights in a row. He could not
locate the source of the voice. On
this night he was returning home
from the movies when he caught
sight of a hovering shiny gray
disc-shaped object over the
courtyard. He was suddenly
compelled to walk under the object
and a beam of light descended on
him from the bottom of the craft,
and he was apparently brought up
inside the beam. He found himself
inside the object looking out a
window at his courtyard. Two
four-and-a-half-foot tall beings
stood in the room with him. The
beings were human-like except they
had large heads and eyes. They had
long arms ending in hands with
three digits. One of the beings
communicated with the witness
telling him that they had been
watching him for three years and
that they travel via
inter-dimensional portals. A beam
of green light hit the witness on
his forehead and after that he
only had vague memories of
traveling to a moon-like planet
and of seeing pyramids from above.
He later found himself in his
courtyard suffering from a
terrible headache and feeling
dizzy. (Sources: Lumieres dans la
Nuit, issue 326; Albert S.
Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database
1991, case # 330, citing Gabor
Tarcali, Hungarian UFO Network;
Larry Hatch, U computer database,
case 15612).
Dec. 27, 1991; Longwy, France
Evening. Five young witnesses
watched a large silvery sphere
land in a field very close to
them. Two human looking figures
with blue eyes emerged from the
sphere. They wore gray
coveralls, and one figure was
carrying something resembling a
transparent cylindrical
canister. That humanoid
proceeded to walk around the
object and collect various plant
and soil samples, placing them
inside the canister. After
awhile the humanoids re-entered
the sphere, which then rose up
silently and shot away at high
speed. Ground traces were found.
(Source: Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1991,
citing Ecol # 91, Denys Breysse
Project Becassine).
Dec. 28, 1991; London,
Ontario, Canada
12:40 AM. There was both
airborne radar contact and
visual confirmation of an
echelon formation of three
objects that flew over London,
Ontario, Canada. The case is
rated as a high reliability
unknown by the Canadian UFO
Survey group. (Source: Richard
F. Haines, Project Delta: A
Study of Multiple UFO, p. 192).
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 5. UFORN, UFO Research Network, St. Louis, Barbara Becker 6. MORA, Mid-Ohio Research Associates |
