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Historic UFO Encounters: Newspaper / Magazine Articles

Here's a good one which was posted on Kevin Randle's blog - filmed interviews with witnesses to the 1957 Levelland sighting, prior even to the Air Force investigation, including Sheriff Weir Clem.


Given as Levelland is a very patchily documented case, any additional information is good to see.
 
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From Wikipedia's article on the Lubbock Lights:

"The three professors became determined to view the objects again and perhaps discover their identity. On September 5, 1951, all three men, along with two other professors from Texas Tech, were sitting in Dr. Robinson's frontyard when the lights flew overhead. According to Dr. Grayson Mead the lights "appeared to be about the size of a dinner plate and they were greenish-blue, slightly fluorescent in color. They were smaller than the full moon at the horizon. There were about a dozen to fifteen of these lights... they were absolutely circular... it gave all of us... an extremely eerie feeling." Mead claimed that the lights could not have been birds, but he also stated that they "went over so fast... that we wished we could have had a better look." The professors observed one formation of lights flying above a thin cloud at about 2,000 feet (610 m); this allowed them to calculate that the lights were traveling at over 600 miles per hour (970 km/h) "
In the '40s discs were reported flying in similar formations.
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Kevin Randle's thoughts and findings on the Lubbock Lights:

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2023/02/coast-to-coast-am-lubbock-lights.html
 
Is this a clip from a lost film of a UFO landing?

"I recently rediscovered an 8-second film clip of an alleged UFO/Alien landing at Holloman Air Force Base that occurred in 1971. Some contend this incident inspired the closing scene for Director Steven Spielberg’s 1977 blockbuster movie: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”"

8-second-film-of-ufoalien-landing

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(looks like a balloon to me)
 
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Is this a clip from a lost film of a UFO landing?

"I recently rediscovered an 8-second film clip of an alleged UFO/Alien landing at Holloman Air Force Base that occurred in 1971. Some contend this incident inspired the closing scene for Director Steven Spielberg’s 1977 blockbuster movie: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”"

8-second-film-of-ufoalien-landing

(looks like a balloon to me)
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The Holloman AFB film is one of those stories that's been floating round for years with no clear resolution:

https://ufoac.com/ufo-landing-film-holloman-afb.html

I wouldn't at all be surprised if there was some actual film clip of something fairly mundane at the bottom of it all.
 
This one involving a "judge and an architect" is a classic and would be better known if it had happened in the West rather than Chile:

"Standing to one side of the disk, the judge and the architect saw the strange being anyone could imagine. It was something looking like a human being, having a head, torso and arms, but without a neck. The head sat squarely on the body, and the character was covered in hair. That is to say, it was some kind of gorilla, and the two startled mountaineers could never ascertain whether the strange being was hirsute by nature or wearing an outfit made of hair."

http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2023/04/chile-cerro-de-damas-apestronaut.html

More than a touch of 'Planet of the Apes' about it...
 
BS3 said:
The Holloman AFB film is one of those stories that's been floating round for years with no clear resolution:

https://ufoac.com/ufo-landing-film-holloman-afb.html

I wouldn't at all be surprised if there was some actual film clip of something fairly mundane at the bottom of it all.
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We have a previous thread about it.
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...-meeting-with-us-president-1950s-1960s.65531/
@Human_84 did some good work, and seems to have shown that the clip was filmed at Holloman AFB.

Still looks like a balloon to me.
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"Unidentified flying objects in classical antiquity"

The journal article referenced in the video can be found here on NASA's website.

 
that feels like one of those tall tales that grows over time... how much is true or false modern hearers cannot sy, as they haven't heard the original version of the story.
 
Does this NASA test vehicle explain the 1964 Lonnie Zamora UFO encounter at Soccoro?

"Zamora told authorities he was pursuing a speeding car south of Socorro, New Mexico when he "heard a roar and saw a flame in the sky to southwest some distance away—possibly a 1/2 mile or a mile." Believing a local dynamite shack might have exploded, Zamora said he discontinued the pursuit and investigated the potential explosion. Zamora claimed to have observed a shiny object, "to south about 150 to 200 yards (450 to 600 ft; 140 to 180 m)", that he initially believed to be an "overturned white car ... up on radiator or on trunk". The object was "like aluminum—it was whitish against the mesa background, but not chrome", and shaped like the letter "O". Zamora claimed to have briefly observed two people in white coveralls beside the object, who he later described as "normal in shape—but possibly they were small adults or large kids." Zamora claimed to hear a roar and see a blue and orange flame under the object which then rose and quickly moved away.[4]" *




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Source: By JMK - Own work, using New Mexican desert - panoramio.jpg by M Thomson, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73751502


* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Zamora_incident
 
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1967 ITN archive news report on British police encounter with UFO
 
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Was watching a film on u-tube today about Erick Winkle Brown he said when he was Commander of a RAF station in Wales a UFO was spotted over the base looking like a flying saucer, he took off in a Vampire but even at its ceiling of 44000 ft it was still above him but it left him with a open mind
 
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