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The 1996
UFO Chronology ![]() This is currently an 8-page UFO chronology. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to the A-Team, in partcular, Richard Hall, 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. Francis Ridge NICAP Site Coordinator The UFO Chronology ___________________________________________________________________________________ Jan. 28, 1996; Bridgeton, MS
11:00 PM. Three nocturnal
lights were seen maneuvering in
the sky. The objects were seen to
join together and separate
repeatedly. They flew in a general
southwest direction. (Source:
Larry Hatch, "U" computer
database).
Jan. 31, 1996; near Romatambo,
Peru
8:00 AM in the morning in a
remote mountain village, several
Quechua Indian shepherds tending
their flocks watched six objects
fly over the area. According to
one of the witnesses, Silvia
Bedoya, age 40, the objects
apparently emerged from nearby
Lake Cococha. The objects formed
what seemed like a protective
circle around a larger
cigar-shaped, mother-ship style
object. The flight of the objects
illuminated the whole valley in an
eerie deep purple light. The
"mother ship" landed upriver from
the village. Soon two occupants
emerged from the object. These
were described as about a meter
tall with large oversized heads,
long spindly arms and short bandy
legs. They wore gunmetal gray
helmets and matching one-piece
coveralls. The humanoids took out
transparent containers and,
ignoring the shepherds, collected
many samples, including soil,
grass, alpine weeds, and water
from the nearby river. Soon the
UFOnauts re-entered the large
object and all the objects shot
away into space at high speed.
(Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit,
issue # 337; Joseph Trainor, UFO
Roundup, Volume 1, issue # 15;
Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid
Contact Database 1996, case #
2472).
Feb. 6, 1996; Thurso, Quebec
7:30 PM +- Farmer Louis
Boisvert, 19, saw a very large
metallic triangular craft with a
set of red lights hovering over
his barn in Thurso, Quebec while
he was plowing snow with his
tractor. This was on the same
night that witnesses saw a large
triangular vessel hovering over
the town of Buckingham, Quebec.
The craft flew very slowly over
the barn. The light coming from
the triangle did not illuminate
the ground or even the roof of the
barn. After the craft left
Boisvert and his father noticed
that their electric water pump was
not working. Troubled by recurrent
dreams, Boisvert underwent
hypnotic regression. He was then
able to remember that he had
hopped off the tractor and ran to
the barn where his father was
working. As he rushed into the
barn, he saw his father standing
there with a blank expression on
his face. Besides him stood two
reptilian looking creatures with
long faces, scaly leathery skin,
black eyes, clawed hands, and
gaunt arms and legs. Both Boisvert
and his father were taken onboard
the triangular object by the
humanoids and later released.
(Source: Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1996,
case #2481, citing CEIPI Quebec).
Feb. 10, 1996; Huon Valley,
Tasmania, Australia
2:00 AM. The witness woke up to
find her bedroom lit up, and she
had an overwhelming feeling to go
outside. From the verandah she saw
the source of light to be a bright
long elliptical shape about 50cm
away in the paddock. There was a
brilliant bluish white light and a
metallic smell you could almost
taste. Standing in the garden was
a tall thin figure over two meters
tall. The figure beckoned the
witness with its left hand. She
walked down the verandah steps
then suddenly became alarmed and
returned back home. She threw some
furniture outside, and then
everything went dark. (Source:
Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid
Contact Database 1996, case #2606,
citing the Tasmania UFOIC).
Feb. 16, 1996; south of Ojo
Caliente, NM
10:05 PM. A huge craft with 50 to 75
lights flew directly overhead of the
witness driving on Highway 285 south
of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. The
lights on the UFO were sequencing in
a clockwise direction. It made no
sound, flew straight up, then down,
then hovered again. It left flying
off toward the north. (Source:
Christopher O'Brien, Enter the
Valley, p. 309).Feb. 18, 1996; near Pine
Mountain, GA
5:30 PM. Driving east on
Highway 18 in a roofing truck five
miles past Interstate 85, two men
saw a silver, cigar-shaped object
they first thought was a jet
falling through the sky. It
stopped in mid-air about 100 feet
from the ground, then moved in an
S pattern "in a flash" and upward
at a steep 45 degree angle. The
UFO was without wings, made no
sound, and was estimated to be
about the size of a commercial jet
aircraft. The duration of the
sighting was between 10-15
seconds. (Source: MUFON field
investigation database, case
960908SE, field investigator John
C. Thompson).
Feb. 23, 1996; Nuevo Centro,
Abasolo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
10:00 PM. Irasema Margarita
Cuevas and others in her household
heard their dogs barking outside
and went to investigate. Outside
they saw a red-orange dome-shaped
craft floating a few feet from the
ground, near some nearby trees
about 50 meters away. Soon a small
humanoid emerged from the craft,
about one meter in height. It
began floating up and down in
peculiar movements. From a belt
around its waist a bluish beam of
light emerged. The being appeared
robotic in nature, somewhat
resembling a "Power Ranger." After
a few minutes the being re-entered
the object, which rose up to join
a similar craft. They both then
flew towards the nearby swamps.
Several witnesses then followed
the objects and were able to see a
brilliant light emerge from behind
some trees and a huge column of
gray smoke. Upon seeing this, the
head of the household, Guillermo
Serna Marquez, told his family to
return to the house and went into
the woods to investigate alone, on
the way there he ran into a
farmhand who accompanied him into
the woods. They saw a luminous
craft fly over the trees in the
direction of the swamp, then a two
meter tall humanoid appeared,
floating above the trees and
accompanied by the small robotic
entity. They watched the beings
float around and then enter the
dome shaped object. After awhile
they grew tired of watching and
went home. The next day a large
section of the ground was scorched
in three enormous circles. Strange
purplish-white, foam-like
substance was also found at the
site. Numerous other strange
incidents were reported in
subsequent days: small flying red
spheres, more animal mutilations,
and a large orange sphere that
followed some of the UFO field
investigators late one night.
(Source: Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1996,
case # 2948, citing Marco A.
Reynoso).
Feb. 28, 1996; highway 375,
NV
Five people driving on
highway 375 down an isolated
stretch of desert road watched a
silent, silvery gray disc land
about 50 feet away from them. It
was flat on the bottom and about
30 feet in diameter. Three
beings described as thin, gray
in color and with large heads,
emerged from the craft. They
shuffled around outside for a
short while and then went back
inside the UFO, which promptly
took off. (Source: Albert S.
Rosales, Humanoid Contact
Database 1996, case # 2847,
citing UFOs On Line).
March 6, 1996; Friol, Spain
11:00 PM. A glowing sphere
hovered over Friol, Spain. The
main witness signaled to the
object by flashing a light,
whereupon the UFO descended and
lowered a ramp. Three humanoids
exited the craft. Footprints were
found at the landing site.
(Source: Richard F. Haines, CE-5:
Close Encounters of the Fifth
Kind, p. 89).
March 6, 1996; Bindura, South
Africa
A teenaged student and a woman
worker at a local teaching center
reported seeing a white ovoid UFO,
about 1.5 meters in diameter, with
an antenna. A small being with a
large head was also seen making a
strange clicking noise as it
wandered near the school. Small
round footprints were reportedly
left behind by the entity.
(Sources: Cynthia Hinds, UFO
AfriNews, January 1997; Albert S.
Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database
1996, case #3386, citing Cynthia
Hind).
March 7, 1996; Ferreiras, Lugo,
Spain
12:00 AM +. 38-year-old Jose
Manuel Castro Gonzalo was getting
ready to retire for the night and
glanced out the window to take one
last look at the fields.
Immediately he noticed a small
orange sphere, encased in a
multi-colored glow, hovering over
a nearby hill. He decided to go
out and look at the strange
spectacle. At the same time he
summoned his brother Cesareo. Jose
Manuel then took out a small
flashlight and began signaling the
object; at the same time yelling
"come down, come down!" Suddenly
the sphere descended at a very
high speed to treetop level. Jose
Manuel ran upstairs to an outside
terrace where he could see the
sphere better. Inside the
transparent sphere he could see
five very tall men. They appeared
to be floating around as the
sphere slowly rotated and emitted
a low humming sound. Moments later
a shaft of "coherent" light
appeared under the sphere; it
reached the ground right below the
sphere. Soon after, three small
humanoids descended to the ground
via the shaft of light. These
beings seemed to move in slow
motion. Once on the ground the
three formed a line, grabbing each
other's shoulders, not unlike a
"Conga" line dance. Using quick
jumping motions they began moving
towards the witness. Frightened,
he jumped into bed and hid under
the covers until dawn. The next
day strange footprints were found
at the spot where the small
humanoids had been jumping around.
(Source: Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1996,
case #2559, citing Magdalena Del
Amo Freixedo, Evidencia OVNI #
12).
April 2, 1996; Varginha, Brazil
11 AM. A silver disc flew in
and stopped over a factory. A
second disc also flew in and
merged into the first disc.
(Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger
Zone, p. 333).
April 8, 1996; Thomasville, NC
9:15 PM. A 39-year-old man had
a close encounter with a
disc-shaped object on a partly
cloudy night. The object had a
bluish-green, cone-shaped beam
projecting from it. The beam was
narrow at the top, but had a three
foot diameter at the bottom
towards the ground, although it
did not seem to be illuminating
the ground. The bottom of the disc
had an inner circle of many red
lights. Inside were four
rocket-like cones, giving off a
red glow. The UFO came within 10
feet of the witness. The UFO made
no sound. (Source: Robert Hair,
MUFON field investigation
database, case 970408E).
April 8, 1996; Americana,
Brazil
9:30 PM. A high altitude UFO
zigzagged through the sky at
very high speeds over Americana,
Brazil. (Source: Boletim CEPEX,
issue number 27)
April 15, 1996; Valencia de
Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain
Late night. Two police
officers were conducting their
nightly rounds driving on the
outskirts of the city, when a
powerful light crossed in front
of them on the highway. One man
felt mesmerized by the brilliant
outburst of light, while his
partner tried to keep hold of
the patrol car's steering wheel.
When the light extinguished the
mesmerized officer told his
companion that he felt a very
odd sensation of being pulled
upward at the same time that he
saw two pairs of moist, black
oval shaped eyes staring down at
him from large, pear-shaped
heads. The police officer had
not even been able to comprehend
the uncanny experience when the
bizarre light staged a return.
According to the officers, nine
lights identical to the first
appeared out of nowhere, and
were then joined by three more
that came from across the
Portuguese border. The twelve
lights were elongated and had an
intense yellow glow. The lights
remained suspended some 100 feet
above the highway, prompting the
police officers to flee the
scene in terror. (Source: Albert
S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact
Database 1996, case # 2674,
citing Scott Corrales,
Uncensored UFO Reports # 1).
May 7, 1996; La Grange, GA
1:30 PM. While on her lunch
break at West Point Lake, near
the McGhee Bridge in La Grange,
Georgia, a 35-year-old woman
witnessed a gray colored, domed
disc-shaped object just above
the lake. After some five to ten
minutes, the object shot
straight up "at least as fast as
lightning." (Source: John C.
Thompson, MUFON UFO Field
Investigations Database, case
970107E).
May 21, 1996; Charleston, IL
11:58 PM. Four youths camping
and saw a large white light in
the sky, then a huge triangular
UFO with two red lights on one
side. It lit their campsite with
a "spotlight" beam but made no
sound. (Sources: James Easton,
internet list of triangular UFO
reports, citing the National UFO
Reporting Center; Jay Rath, The
I-Files: True Reports of
Unexplained Phenomena in
Illinois, citing NUFORC).
June 6, 1996; Marson,
France
11:30 PM. A videotape was
made of a crescent, half-moon
shaped light with a platform
on the bottom. It curved away
through the night sky over
Marson, France toward the
east, and then split into four
parts. (Source: Lumieres dans
la Nuit, issue no. 338).
June 9, 1996; Mediterranean
Sea
6:00 PM. A black sphere
shot at an Air France airliner
from the Mediterranean Sea,
then flew 30 meters above the
aircraft. The plane requested
and made an emergency landing
at Ben Gurion airport in
Israel. No Israeli military
launches where in the area at
the time of the report.
(Sources: UFO Magazine (USA)
November 1996, p. 24;
Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft
UFO Encounters, p. 48).
July 8, 1996; Certesti,
Romania
Police sergeant Marian
Mancu and volunteer police
officer Marcel Rusu were
walking on patrol on the main
road that passes in front of
the police station in the
village of Certesti, Romania
at around midnight. Mancu
lives in the area and told
Rusu he was going to walk home
to get something to eat.
Between the road and the
sidewalk was a deep ditch with
small foot bridges across the
culvert. When the sergeant
passed the corner near his
house he heard a whistling
sound from the street and felt
a rush of air. He turned
around immediately and saw
something on the road that
"was splashed with blue and
red lights" and made a
"voom-voom" sound. Mancu first
thought it was the district
police car that was coming
back from a routine patrol,
but getting closer he realized
the object was hovering half a
meter above the paved road.
There was also a small strange
looking figure moving around
it. He yelled for Rusu, who
was now hiding behind the
ditch and watching the strange
spectacle from their. Rusu
reported that immediately
after Mancu had left and gone
behind a nearby apartment
house, "a fluttering from
above appeared". The neon
lighting in the street seemed
to change in intensity. The
object descended slowly,
without noise, and came down
behind him. Rusu became
frightened when he saw the
object hovering above the
ground, with three small
human-like creatures were
moving around it. Both
witnesses agreed that the
object had the form of a flat
hut, five or six meters across
and two or 2.5 meters high,
and it was balancing about
half a meter from the ground.
Around the periphery of the
object was a continuous girdle
of light "like a rainbow." The
colors changed from red to
blue and flared in intensity.
On the bottom of the object
was a bright white light.
Neither of the witnesses saw
any doors, portholes, or other
similar features. After about
two minutes, the UFO rose
vertically. At the moment it
moved up to an altitude of
about 30 meters its lights
became much brighter, and the
neon streetlights went out. It
then shot off to the east at
high speed. Rusu reportedly
had a better view of the
humanoid creatures than Mancu,
who only noticed one of them
from behind. He estimated
their height to have been
around a meter or less. Rusu
said he heard some noises made
by the humanoids, sounding
like "rain in a drain pipe."
Both described the creatures
as ugly; they had large heads,
very elongated behind and
covered with bumps, with no
hair, and large ears. Their
faces were white and they had
big eyes. Gray metallic shiny
scales, resembling fish
scales, covered their bodies.
They also had large, limp
protruding bellies. They also
had thin spindly arms, and no
noses or mouths were visible.
The witnesses thought that the
creatures floated just above
the ground and moved around
"as if they were drunk." A
huge sweet cherry tree nearby
had around 15 % of its leaves
shriveled as if by extreme
heat. Other witnesses in
nearby villages reported
strange lights over the area
the same night. (Sources:
Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue
340; Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database
1996, citing Dan D. Farcas).
July 9, 1996; Chillan,
Chile
A triangular-shaped UFO
landed in a field in
Chillan, Chile. It left
three circular indentations
in the ground 1.7 meters
apart and 10 cm
across. (Source:
Phenomena, issue no. 33)
July 15, 1996; Harwinton, Connecticut Bt. 2:00 & 3:00 PM. Two witnesses observed a large metallic disk about 500 feet in diameter at an altitude of about 200 feet, from a distance of about a half mile. The object was traveling 65-70 mph. The shadow of the object had previously crossed the road. A group of independent witnesses at another location did not observe the object. The combination of circumstances allow close constraints on the observation so that size, distance, altitude and speed can be estimated even without a triangulation. (MUFON connecticut) July 16, 1996; Los
Villares, Jaen, Spain
A 66-year-old retired farmer
named Dionisio was walking
through a field around noon in
Los Villares, Jaen, Spain. He
had just sat down on a rock next
to a tree to rest when he
noticed a very strong and
pungent odor in the air and
heard a low humming sound. He
next noticed an object hovering
near the ground next to some
nearby power lines. The craft
was shaped like a dome and was a
shiny metallic color. It had
several black glassy oval shaped
windows. It was about three
meters in length and a meter and
a half in height. On one side he
noticed some inscriptions, part
of which resembled "IOIO." From
the top of the object there were
also some cables that were
apparently connected to the
nearby power lines. Dionisio
also noticed a curious fact. If
he moved back about three meters
he could no longer see the
object, but when he moved
forward again he was again able
to see it. Suddenly he saw three
figures standing next to the
object. Two were men and one was
a woman, and they stood about
six feet tall. They were wearing
tight fitting, one-piece silvery
outfits. Their faces were Asian
in appearance, with high
cheekbones, very pale skin, and
slanted eyes. They had large
hands with five long, well
defined fingers and their mouths
were slit-like. They also wore
silvery boots. Suddenly he felt
something strike his chest, and
glancing up he noticed that the
woman was signaling him, and one
of the men was kneeling down
next to the craft. He began
hearing voices in his head.
Frightened, he tried to hide
behind some rocks, and then
heard the humming sound and
smelled the pungent odor again.
When he emerged from behind the
rocks he noticed that the
humanoids and the object were
gone. Investigators found ground
traces at the site. A mysterious
looking rock was also found at
the site. During the same time
others in the region saw low
flying lights and objects.
(Source: Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1996,
case # 3040, citing Lorenzo
Fernandez Bueno & Iker
Jimenez Elizari).July 17, 1996; southeast
of Damiansville, IL
9:00 AM. On I-64
southeast of Damiansville,
Illinois a low-flying
triangular UFO approached an
interstate ramp and then
hovered over some trees for
4-5 minutes. It appeared
like "polished steel". It
made not sound and vanished
mysteriously. (Source: Curt
Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A
Reporter Seeks the Truth, p.
198)
July 17, 1996;
Langruth, Manitoba
That evening a woman in
Langruth, Manitoba saw a
disc-shaped object moving
slowly and quietly through
her farmyard. The disc was
about 3-4 meters in
diameter, about half a
meter tall, and had slit
like lights along the
edge. Three circular
patches of green growth
appeared in the area where
the object was first seen.
(Source:
International UFO
Reporter, July 1997, p.
32).
Aug. 1996; Hay Point, Queensland, Australia 3:00 AM. A cigar-shaped craft dropped a cloud of cobweb-like material on a Queensland railway terminus. The incident began when a 12-man work gang, loading coal at the Hay Point facility, downed tools to stare up at a mist-shrouded cigar shaped craft floating above them. As they watched, a cloud of cobweb-like material fell from the UFO. All the equipment immediately malfunctioned and the coal train lost its compressed air. One of the workers, Gary, said: "Near the middle of the cigar was a bubble-like protrusion with rectangular observation windows. I saw shadows standing in the viewports, looking down at the facility. The craft had no wings. At its rear was a bank of what could have been jets. A dull hum came from the UFO---and when it passed directly above us, the radio went wild. Everyone started shouting at once. The next we knew, the craft dropped sheets of cobweb-like substance. When they tried to touch the stuff it turned into a watery liquid. After a minute or so, the thing flew away. The train still had no compressed air and they had to recharge it before work could go on." HC addendum Source: John Pinkney, "Australia's Strangest Mysteries, # 2" Type: A Sept. 21, 1996;
Object tracked near the Moon
7:26 PM, Local Mt. Vernon, IN Time. The Lunascan Project telescope was imaging the Moon live with high powered image project on a CCD camera and tracked an object near the lunar limb. (TLP, Fran Ridge) Sept. 27, 1996; about 8 mi from Los Angeles, California Several hours after midnight. A DC-10 had just taken off from Los Angeles International bound for Newark, New Jersey. The flight was between 6,000 and 7,000 feet and climbing on a SSW heading, airspeed about 250 km/hr. Suddenly the Captain exclaimed, "What the hell is that?" Both the pilot and the First Officer observed what looked like the headlights of another airliner just 500-700 feet away and on a collision course. Within a few seconds it was shocking clear that the object was actually pacing them, but an airplane would have had to be flying backwards! Primary witness was able to see some apparently metallic structure in the background between thee two lights and still under the rapidly deteriorating assumption that this was some type of aircraft some type of horizontal edge between the lights with the metallic looking material both top and bottom tapering back away from this edge. After about ten seconds the object moved away and to their left like a bullet from a gun and disappared. (NARCAP) Oct. 3, 1996; south of Springer, NM 8:00 PM A number of vehicles
traveling on I-25 south of
Springer, New Mexico were
witness to a cigar-shaped
object, estimated to be at least
"two stories" tall and covered
with very bizarre lights. The
object was seen to descend out
of the night sky and hover over
an area near the highway. At
least 4-5 automobiles, and two
tractor-trailers had stopped
along the highway and their
passengers had gotten out of
their vehicles to look at the
object. At some point during the
sighting the object extinguished
its lights and apparently
settled to the ground. One young
person was emotionally upset by
the event, and was still in a
state of shock several hours
later. (Source: Peter Davenport,
National UFO Reporting Center
website).
Oct. 5, 1996; east of
Pelotas Airport, Brazil
10:30 AM. A huge
pyramid-shaped object was seem
from an Embraer-712 aircraft
35 miles east of Pelotas
Airport, Brazil. A disc was
seen emerging vertically from
the top of the bigger object.
(Source: Dominique Weinstein,
Aircraft UFO Encounters, p
48).
Mid-October, 1996; Sheffield/Yorkshire, Great Britain Bt. 3:00 am & 4:00 am. An uniformed Police Officer with South Yorkshire Police working in Sheffield observed a black triangle. At the time of the incident stationed at Deepcar Police station.This is in the north of the City and covers a rural area which borders the Peak District National Park. In the early hours of a night shift he was out on mobile patrol duties unaccompanied in a marked Police vehicle (a diesel engined Land Rover Defender model) and in St.Margaret Avenue Deepcar when he had noticed a male on foot near some dwelling houses who he decided to confront about his presence on the street at that time of day. (Click on full report, MUFON 62960) Oct. 25, 1996;
Gypsumville, Manitoba
2:00 PM. A bowl-shaped
disc with square windows was
sighted in Gypsumville,
Manitoba. It was seen
through binoculars as it
directed a beam of light
down at the lake. (Sources:
Larry Hatch, U computer
database, case 17473; Joseph
Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume
1, #
37).
......video footage taken from the space shuttle Columbia (STS-80) which, in some respects, is more interesting than the previous STS-48 footage and will be harder to explain in terms of so-called "ice crystals. For about a 4-minute interval, all kinds of anomalous objects traverse the earth above the clouds and out into orbital space. One particular object appears to be a glowing disc that moves from right up the screen to about the center and "parks". A few seconds later, a second object bursts through the storm clouds below and starts trekking across the screen. Meanwhile, the first parked object begins to move back along the way it came, and rises out of the earth's atmosphere and looks like it comes up to meet a "blinking" object that seems to be moving in orbit. Other objects are seen that are dimmer, and blinking objects are seen moving above the clouds. Fast moving objects with tails (presumably meteors) are seen streaking every which way. The STS-80 was in orbit 220 miles above the earth and passing over areas of the earth where there was a lot of thunderstorm activity on December 1st. (Source: Bill Hamilton) Dec. 11, 1996; Yukon Territory At least 31 people in the Yukon Territory of Canada witnessed a giant UFO. Indications are that it may have been the size of several football stadiums. The sightings principally took place in four locations in the central Yukon; Fox Lake, the Village of Carmacks, the Village of Pelly Crossing and the Village of Mayo, with 6,9,8 and 8 witnesses respectively. Dec. 13, 1996; Bogata, Columbia
1:00 PM. a Colombian Air Force
pilot videotaped six silver
disc-shaped UFOs exiting from a
cloud and moving toward Bogota,
Colombia in two groups. (Source:
Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1997).
Dec, 16, 1996; Stevens Pass, WA
Two skiers at Stevens Pass in
Washington watched an orange
colored disc-shaped UFO appear in
the sky during the evening. Over
the next two minutes they then
sighted two more of the objects.
(Source: Francis L. Ridge, UFO
Intelligence Newsletter).
Dec. 17, 1996; Redmond, WA
2:00 AM. A single witness
reported that a flat-topped
disc-shaped object hovered
overhead. (Source: Francis L.
Ridge, UFO Intelligence
Newsletter).
Dec. 19, 1996; between Beijing
and Wuhei, China
Early in the afternoon on this
date a silver gray metallic object
struck the top of a Boeing-757
cockpit belonging to a Chinese
Southern Airlines aircraft on a
flight between Beijing and Wuhei,
China cracking the outer
windshield. The plane made an
emergency landing. (Sources:
Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, p. 48, citing J.
Trainor, UFO Roundup).
Dec. 29, 1996; Hartsburg, MO
7:00 PM. Two men out trapping
in the woods witnessed a silent,
black triangular object overhead.
It had 3-4 white strobe lights,
and also blue and red lights. It
made no sound. (Source: Francis L.
Ridge, UFO Intelligence
Newsletter; Larry Hatch, U
computer database, case # 17508).
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