Released, February 15, 2008, updated 16 March 2017
This is currently a 9-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1995. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1995 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, some of our Indiana cases are listed here.

Several VERY good UFO reports (May 25, Bovina, TX has audio transmissions) in this group, and the GAO (General Accounting Office) report on the Air Force Roswell investigation was released in July.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator & Arhivist


The  UFO Chronology
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Feb. 3, 1995; Beijing, China
Saucer-shaped, illuminated object videotaped. (You Tube). Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos' FOTOCAT records confirm the date, and it appears to be a blimp. His references are: references.   Internet discussions  by Santiago Yturría,  Amy Hebert, and  Bruce Maccabee.

6:45 PM. Two truck drivers were eastbound on Rte. 136 and were located about 15 miles west of the Dixie Brothers Truck Stop, when the lead truck began to slow. The trailing truck slowed with it, although the latter driver was confused by why his partner was reducing speed. The lead truck finally pulled off the highway and came to a full stop on the shoulder; and the trailing truck did the same. At this point, the driver in the second truck looked to one side of the highway, and was aghast to witness a bizarre, unearthly object hovering motionless in a cloudy and hazy sky. He described it as at least two, and probably three "vertical slashes of light," apparently oriented vertically in the night sky (Ed.: It was not clear at the time of the call why the caller was uncertain as to the exact number of elements to the object.) The center "shaft" of light was longer than the other "shaft(s)," and it may have been of different color from the two "shafts" to each side. After the two truckers had watched the display for approximately five minutes, the center "shaft" belched out a cloud of "red dots" and suddenly disappeared from sight. The caller added that, peculiarly, the highway was notably devoid of all other automobile and truck traffic during the sighting. However, both he and his partner noted, apparently independent of one another, the fact that traffic started appearing on the highway immediately following the disappearance (departure?) of the strange object. In describing the incident, the caller said, in alluding to the incident, "It was nuts." The emotion he apparently was experiencing after the sighting was quite evident in his voice, and he had gone to some trouble to pull off the highway to make his calls to both the FAA and the Hotline. The trucker who called is based in West Monroe, LA. (NUFORC)



March 2, 1995; Selma, OH


March 15, 1995; St. Louis, MO

March 15, 1995; Washington Park, IL
10:30 PM. The witness in this report is a private businessman, who owns a nursery and greenhouse. The witness was in his greenhouse when he noticed a green glow sweep over the transparent roof of the greenhouse. The greenhouse is an oblong structure with the door facing due south. After observing the green glow move across the roof in a north to south direction he exited the building to find the source of the light. Stepping outside, he had expected to see the light source in the southern sky.  While he was looking in that direction something caught his attention in the northwest sky.  He turned and observed an object which he described as "looking just like a flying saucer from the movies." The disc shaped object was well defined within a reddish/orange glow. The object appeared to hover silently for a few seconds, before accelerating and making several sharp angular turns. The witness described the trajectory as, "making a triangle in the air." The object descended from the northwest to the south at about a 45-degree angle, it then abruptly switched direction flying parallel to the ground heading north. At this point, the object ascended.at a 45-degree angle and disappeared in the southwest sky.  The witness was unable to estimate the approximate size of the object, but did describe it as "large." The witness went on record as stating "this was no meteor." (He was personally interviewed at the sighting location by Actaeon Group investigators Dave Kokotovich, David Marler, and Debra Kokotovich.)

10:30 PM. "Sherry" related that she was driving on a rural road outside of town when she noticed an object in the sky. She described the object as oval in shape and glowing orange. Almost immedi­ately the object moved to a position in front of the car and hovered over a stand of trees near a farm house. At this point the object seemed to be egg-shaped and was glowing a fluorescent green. Further, the object appeared to be solid and surrounded by a glowing, green haze that gave the appearance of jagged, almost sawtooth-like edges. She stopped the car and turned off the engine. The object made no discernible noise as it hovered above the trees. The object rapidly rotated approximately 180 degrees. As it rotated the color changed to black. Two bright, red lights that she described as looking like automobile brake lights were all that remained visible; the red lights appeared to be attached to the object and were placed near each end. She stated the object "just disappeared." She has no memory of watching the object move away. When the witness first saw the object it was slowly moving in a west-to-east direction. It crossed in front of her car and hovered over the trees south of her position. The approximate distance from her car to the trees was 120 ft, and the estimated altitude of the object approximately 40 ft. The witness described the object's dimensions as that of a full-size car. The estimated duration of the sighting was 5 minutes. "Sherry's" father stated that when she got home that evening she was very excited and somewhat scared. On March 17th she reported the sighting to the Illinois State Police. She also called Scott Air Force Base and reported what she had seen. An Air Force spokesman told her that their radar had not picked up any unknown traffic on the 15th. (NUFORC referred to Actaeon FIs, David Marler & Tom Eckhardt)


July 29, 1995; St. Louis, MO
11:30 PM. 45-min sighting. Witness looked out the front windshield and observed a huge metallic craft passing overhead.  Her description is of a solid metallic object the size of a football field or even larger.  She describes the bottom of the craft in detail.  She estimates the distance between the object and car to be between 200 and 500 feet.  The witnesses live next to an Air Force base and are accustomed to overflight distances.  She describes a rhombus shape (diamond) which contained row after row of 18-20 foot diameter cylinders that emitted a soft yellow glow.  She said each cylinder could easily swallow a car and there were many of these cylinders aligned in this diamond shape. The diamond shape itself that surrounded the cylinders looked like I-beams.  They looked like a dark metallic to her.  Around this diamond shape were several layers of dark metal ranging from black on the inside to a light fuzzy gray on the outside.  Within these metal layers appeared to be some type of recessed lighting.  The male witness almost lost control of the car.  He crossed the left lane of the highway and almost crossed into the median.  A truck some distance back had to apply defensive driving.  They don't know If any other driver saw what they did.  The husband saw horizontal lights with a domed top.  They are unsure why she saw the bottom so clearly and he saw a side view.  They wonder if the object has tilted but they don't know.  She looks behind them to see the object hovering over a bam silo.  She sees a yellow glow on the silo but is not sure if the light is from the object or silo lights reflecting off the object After a short distance they stop the car to video more of the flashing lights.  Video of the object was not successful because the witness became contused about when the camera was on and when it was off. the witness reports losing her glasses.  They drove to the next exit, turned around, and drove back in an attempt to find them.  They were unsuccessful. The duration of the sightings on the state map was roughly between Edwardsville and Litchfield on southern Illinois. They proceeded to make a report to MUFON in Seguin, TX. (Michigan MUFON Newsletter, Linda Murphy)

8:10 PM. An Aerolineas Argentinas jet narrowly missed a UFO that darted into its path and then flew beside it as the Boeing 727 was making a landing approach at the Bariloche Airport, according to its pilot Jorge Polanco. The object was as large as a Boeing 727 and was shaped like an inverted flying saucer with a very powerful illumination. Air Force Major Jorge Oviedo said that several other people saw the UFO and there was a simultaneous power failure throughout the city San Carlos de Bariloche, forcing the pilot to abort his landing. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, Volume 40, number 3,

Sept. 15, 1995; Oklahoma City, OK
Dogs excited as disc emitted a light beam. (Animal Recation Specialist, Joan Woodward)








References:

1. NUFORC, National UFO Reporting Center, Peter Davenport

2. UFORN, UFO Research Network, St. Louis, Barbara Becker

3. MORA, Mid-Ohio Research Associates