BUFORA Vehicle Interference Report

VEHICLE INTERFERENCE REPORT

Compiled by Geoff Falla and Michael Hudson
(with assistance from Tony Pace)

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VEHICLE INTERFERENCE REPORT

Copyright © 2019 Geoff Falla and Michael Hudson. All rights reserved.

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In 1979, Geoff Falla compiled, with contributions from Tony Pace, the original BUFORA Vehicle
Interference Report. This was published to print as a booklet and can now be located within
the digitised BUFORA Journal/Publication Archive, available through the current BUFORA
website.

Almost thirty years later, in 2008, Geoff completed a comprehensive update of the report
which was advertised on the BUFORA website in 2009. Now in 2021 we have a major update
with many more cases sourced.

The illustrations are legally protected by U.S. and international copyright laws and may not
be copied and used for reproduction in any form without the explicit written authorisation of
David Sankey the original copyright artist.

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UFOs and Vehicle Interference Effects

Vehicle interference effect cases are those in which a UFO sighting has included reported
effects on the operation of a vehicle’s engine, lights, or other equipment. There may be other
physical effects on the vehicle, with magnetic effects also noted in some cases. These reports
now amount to a total of just over 1600 cases and include aircraft in with effects noted on
aircraft systems and navigational equipment.
It is already known and accepted that most UFO sightings can be explained, in particular when
there are no associated effects reported, or other confirmation of the event. Many of these
cases may be no more than strange lights in the sky, for which an explanation does not
immediately come to mind. Any analysis of the whole body of UFO evidence is bound to be
influenced by the many misperceptions of unusual sights, or objects seen and sometimes
reported as UFOs. These may include everything from unusual atmospheric effects to
balloons, orbiting satellites, or astronomical objects such as bright planets. A study of shapes
described in such cases will reveal a confusing variety of descriptions, from a star-like light to
more defined shapes.
Vehicle interference cases, together with such events as objects leaving reported physical
traces which can be examined later, and radar-visual cases which have independent
confirmation of the reported incident, are a much greater challenge to explain. These
represent the core of ‘high strangeness’ cases. The nature of reported events involving
vehicles, and the evident close proximity sightings in many of these cases provides an
opportunity to examine the reports in more detail. It is practical to analyse some of the
characteristics described, not only the vehicle effects reported but also the effects on the
eyewitnesses - the drivers and passengers, and in some cases the effects noted in the
surrounding area. The basic shapes and features of the objects reported to be producing
these effects is also more descriptive in the case of close proximity sightings.
Description of UFO Shapes
Studies of reported UFO shapes, for example in the United States as far back as 1949 (Project
Sign) and in 1973 by scientist Claude Poher in France, analysing over 1,000 reports, confirmed
that the most frequently reported UFO shapes included discs, cigar or egg-shaped objects,
and round objects including those just described as balls of light.
In reported vehicle interference effect cases, the shapes of objects seen in association with
the event are described in almost half of the total number of reports. The lack of descriptions
in other cases is due to the shortened nature of the original reports, and some simply
describing a bright light or a glowing object. When shapes are described most cases seem to
be sightings of well-defined objects, with relatively few cases of indistinct or irregular shapes.
Many of the sightings reported are of objects in apparent close proximity to the witnesses
and their vehicles. This has allowed a more detailed description in many of the cases, and a
more accurate and remarkable picture begins to emerge.
In more than a quarter of the reports the shape of the object is described as a domed disc. In
a number of cases the shape is more specific, with objects described for example as being like
a sombrero or Mexican hat, helmet shaped, like a beehive, or mushroom shaped. Other
reports describe objects like two basins or soup plates joined at the rim, with some reports of
objects like a cone or triangular in shape.

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In two cases occurring in the morning and evening of the same day, (March 10, 1969) drivers
in the North American States of Missouri and North Dakota both reported observing a domed
disc coinciding with interference effects, with both of the objects also described as emitting
a light beam from underneath. Added to the generally circular shape described in many of
the reports, objects are seen as spinning in a few per cent of cases, sometimes likened to a
spinning top in appearance. Some cases report a rotating ring, or the top and bottom parts of
the object described as spinning separately. More remarkable is that in almost ten per cent
of the cases when a shape is noted, there is also a description of a craft-like object with legs,
feet or other apparent ‘landing gear’.

Effects on Vehicles and Equipment

Interference effect cases usually involve partial or complete failure of a vehicle’s engine and
lights while the unknown object is nearby. Cases involving aircraft are also reported. The
effects are normally of a temporary nature, the vehicle returning to normal operation after
the object has moved away. In some of the reports the vehicle engine slows, and the lights
dim without total failure. In about ten per cent of the cases, only the lights of the vehicle are
affected. Some reports note only radio interference in varying degrees of intensity. The extent
of all of the effects is assumed to be related to the proximity of the object. A typical case was
related by a driver who found his car’s electrical system and engine beginning to fail. He
looked up and saw a large object with yellow and orange lights around the rim, and felt unable
to move in spite of his efforts. After about two minutes the object moved away, the effects
disappeared, and the car worked normally again.
(Archena, Spain, February 7, 1979.)

In a more recent case, a police officer driving a patrol car saw a large disc-shaped green light
which came up from behind the vehicle, and hovered around it for about a minute. As he
pulled to the side of the road to avoid hitting the object, the engine and lights failed, and he
found that the walkie-talkie radio would not work when he tried to report the incident.
(Haines City, Florida, March 19, 1992.)

It is rare for a diesel engine to be affected in these incidents. A diesel engine does not depend
on an electrical ignition system, and there have been cases reported in which both
‘conventional’ and diesel vehicles have been involved. In one report, a diesel lorry driver
found that his headlights were beginning to dim. When he stopped, with the engine still
running a large egg-shaped glowing object was seen moving across the road ahead. The object
remained stationary for a while before it moved away at increasing speed. A car driver who
had been travelling in the opposite direction found that both the engine and lights of his car
were affected during the incident, and his torch would not work even though it had been used
earlier without any problem.
(A338 road between Avon and Sopley, Hampshire, November 6, 1967.)

In another case involving two tractors, only the diesel engine vehicle was reported to have
remained unaffected during the incident. (Forli, Italy, November 14, 1954.)

Many cases also are not single vehicle events. There are a number of cases in which more
than one vehicle has been involved, amounting to about five per cent reports. In one case, a

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driver found that his car engine had stalled, and was then surprised to find two other cars
which had also stalled, at the side of the road. A silvery, triangular object with a rim and a
rounded base was then seen nearby. After about 15 minutes the object, with a white light at
its base, rose at an angle and moved away silently.
(Lorraine County, Ohio, September 25, 1988.)

In another case, reported from a U.S. Air Base in Vietnam, a bright light was seen approaching
at varying speed before it dropped towards the ground. After being stationary for a while, it
then disappeared upwards again in a few seconds. It was reported that there was a power
failure during the incident, all vehicles in the area were immobilized with engine and lights
failure, and two aircraft on the runway were unable to take off. Everything returned again to
normal a few minutes after the object had left the area.
(Nha Trang, Vietnam, June 19, 1966.)

There have also been ‘waves’ of reports concentrated in particular areas, for example in
France during October 1954, with as many as twenty separate cases of reported vehicle
interference effects, and in Texas and New Mexico on the 2nd and 3rd November, 1957, with
a total of eleven reported cases, several of which also involved more than one vehicle.
A surprising feature in a number of cases is reports that the vehicle has restarted by itself,
with no action by the driver to operate the ignition after the object has moved away. In one
such case, a driver found that the car slowed then stalled when a metallic-looking object with
a domed structure appeared over the road ahead. After the object had moved away, the
driver was startled when the car restarted by itself, gaining speed slowly as it was still in gear.
(Aische-en-Refail, Belgium, January 24, 1974.)

Aircraft incidents are included in about ten per cent of the cases, with again mostly temporary
effects reported on aircraft systems, communications, and navigation equipment. In a well-
documented incident which occurred over the Bass Strait, between Tasmania and the
Australian coast, an aircraft experienced engine problems while the pilot reported seeing an
unidentified object circling overhead. Radio communication was then lost, the aircraft
disappeared, and nothing was ever found. (Bass Strait, October 21, 1978.)

Curiously, there was a much earlier incident in the very same area in February 1944, when a
pilot reported that his aircraft was accompanied by an unknown object for twenty minutes,
coinciding with the failure of all radio and direction finding instruments until the object
accelerated away.

Interference effects are not restricted to vehicles, aircraft, and occasionally vessels at sea.
Sometimes there are reported events in adjacent areas. On one occasion an area around
Lisbon, Portugal was illuminated by a bright blue light with a central red-orange point which
was moving northwards. Motorists reported engine failures, with also a three minute power
cut reported at a radio transmitter. (July 15, 1979.)

In another incident involving several UFOs, reported to have been seen by police officers, it
was noted that police radio communications were affected, and that electricity power supply
had also fluctuated strongly during the sighting of the objects.
(Darmstadt, Germany, March 15, 1982.)

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Other physical effects on vehicles are reported in a large number of cases. Vehicles are
sometimes damaged as a result of heat or vibration effects. In some events drivers describe
being unable to control the vehicle, which can be accelerated or drawn towards the unknown
object, and sometimes even lifted. At other times the vehicle may be reported as being held
in position before the object moves away and everything returns to normal. In a South African
case, a driver saw two green lights approaching above the road. He then found that his vehicle
was starting to accelerate, up to a speed of 160 kilometres per hour even with his foot on the
brake all the time, and was only able to slow down when the unidentified lights moved away.
(Beaufort West, South Africa, April 20, 1983.)

Lifting effects reported by drivers include two Canadian cases, both in Alberta, in which the
cars seemed to be floating above the road during the sightings. (February 18, 1969, and May
14, 1971.)

Also a well-documented case from Australia when a family found their car lifted by an
unknown object, and then dropped back on to the road. (Nullarbor Plain, West Australia,
January 20, 1988.)

Two cases involving aircraft include one at Mansfield, Ohio, in which an object hovered over
a helicopter, causing a rise in altitude (October 18, 1973) and a similar report from Canada
when a pilot experienced problems with the aircraft and its controls, saw a large object ‘like
a rolling energy ball’ overhead, then found his aircraft being drawn upwards towards it.
(Ottawa, Canada, 1979.)

Magnetic Effects

Evidence of magnetic effects is apparent in many of the interference effect cases, with reports
of vehicles found to be magnetized after the incident, effects on watches, and on navigation
equipment affecting aircraft and ships.

A compass, often essential as an item of equipment for aircraft and for navigation at sea,
normally indicates the direction of the magnetic north pole - unless it is influenced by some
other magnetic source. In some UFO incidents a compass effect has been noted while the
object is nearby. Sometimes the compass is seen to be deflected to some degree, while in
other cases it is described as swinging wildly or spinning around until the unknown object
moves away. Although such compass effects are noted in just a small proportion of cases,
these are concentrated as expected in reports from aircraft and ships, with significant effects
on navigation, apart from any effects there may be on other systems or equipment. Some
reports describe particularly remarkable events. In one case, for example, the pilot of a
private aircraft observed three oval, grey objects which passed by information. He noticed
that the magnetic compass was spinning so fast that it could not be read, while the electric
compass indicated precisely the bearing of the objects (near Albuquerque, New Mexico,
August 13, 1959.) In another case, at sea off the coast of Japan, a freighter was circled for
about fifteen minutes by a bright object with a blue light. The object moved so fast that it
could only be seen clearly occasionally, when it hovered. Radio communication equipment
failed, and the captain reported that the ship’s instrument needles were spinning as the

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object circled, with watches and clocks also noted to have lost time during the incident. (Near
Kanazawa, Japan, April 17, 1981.)

It has been found in a number of cases, making up about five per cent of the total that watches
have stopped temporarily during the incident, or have suffered more lasting effects. Watches
taken for repair have been found affected by a strong magnetic field. In one case in which a
car was found to be highly magnetized after the event, the passenger travelling in the vehicle
discovered that her watch started to gain time, up to three hours in a day. (Near Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, October 15, 1979.) In another incident, when a domed object was seen
emitting light beams, effects included one watch stopping while the minute hand of another
watch was noticed to be moving around at the same speed as the second hand. (Stanford,
Kentucky, January 6, 1976.)

In the case of other equipment, car batteries and in some cases other battery operated
equipment such as portable radio is occasionally found to be affected during or after a vehicle
interference incident. Cases have also been noted in which a torch would not work, such as
an Australian case (Wingen, New South Wales, September 17, 1976) when a motor mechanic
found that his car stopped, and the lights failed, but he was unable to find any faults. He found
that his torch would not turn on, and its magnetic clamp would not hold on to the car body.
A blue ball of light passed low overhead before it disappeared over a mountain range. The car
was restarted after some difficulty, but he found continuing problems including the car
starting by itself. He had also noticed during the incident that the car speedometer was
jumping up to 40 kilometres per hour then down again while the car was stationary.

Light Beams and Effects.

Reports of UFOs emitting beams of light are found in more than ten per cent of presently
known vehicle interference cases. Sometimes the light beam is described as being very well
defined, illuminating a small area around the vehicle, and with a truncated end to the beam.
Witnesses have described the strange sight of light beams being emitted gradually, or being
withdrawn slowly back into the unknown object. One such case of a ‘coherent’ beam reported
from France (Serdon, September 1956) described a beam of light coming down to the ground
slowly ‘like a rope being uncoiled’ from an object stationary and silent in the sky. The witness
felt a slight tingling sensation during the incident. In another example a police officer found
his car surrounded by a bluish-white light as the engine, lights, and radio failed. The
temperature inside the car increased, and he then saw that the light surrounding the car was
a conical beam coming from a grey circular object in the sky. The cone of light then started to
rise, and was withdrawn into the object after about five minutes. (Haderslev, Denmark,
August 13, 1970.)

Light beams are reported to produce effects on vehicles and on witnesses. Heating effects are
described in a number of cases, and sometimes a vibration or other physical effect is felt on
the vehicle. A driver in one case saw an object emitting rays of light, then felt a bump against
the car as if the rays had struck it. An electric shock and neck pain was also felt, and a headlight
on one side of the car went out. (Shrewsbury, Shropshire, November 8, 1966.) In a more
recent incident, involving a military aircraft, the pilot described observing an object which
emitted a light beam from underneath. He felt a bump, then was forced to eject from the

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aircraft when he realized that it was breaking up, (near Moscow, April 2000) and confirmed
by the Russian Air Force.

Beams of light from unknown objects are also associated with reported lifting effects. In one
incident a driver saw an object with lights and a domed top while the engine slowed then
stopped, the lights failed, and a humming sound was heard. A light beam extended from
underneath the object, which hovered as it seemed to take control of the car, which stopped
and moved sideways until it was about fifteen feet off the road. (Ithaca, New York, December
12, 1967.) Witnesses have described feeling light in weight, and in other cases vehicles have
been lifted and dropped. One case involved a driver who was returning home with his wife
when an intense blue light beam suddenly seemed to lock on to the car. There was a swishing
sound, the car lights began to dim, and the radio emitted static interference before fading out
completely. The rear of the car was then felt lifting off the road before the light and sound
disappeared, and the journey continued normally again. (Denver, Colorado, November 19,
1980.)

Effects on Eyewitnesses
Drivers and passengers in vehicles who have witnessed close proximity UFO sightings have
described experiencing effects both during and after the incident. Most of the effects have
been temporary, as noted with interference effects on vehicles while the object has been
nearby, but some of the effects on eyewitnesses are described as being more lasting.
One of the more frequent descriptions of effects during a sighting is a tingling or prickling
sensation. One example is the case of a motorcyclist who described a tingling, numbing
sensation as a pulsating blue light descended from the sky, and his engine failed (between
Colchester and Mersea, Essex, September 19, 1965.) Sometimes the effect is described as like
small electric shocks or in other cases a more severe effect is experienced, as in the case of a
company manager who reported suffering temporary paralysis when he saw a bright spinning
object rising from the ground, after his car lights and engine had failed. (Corsica, July 21,
1973.)
A number of reports also mention changes in temperature. In some of these cases a cold
feeling is described, sometimes with a rush of air. In one case, the driver and passenger
travelling in a car on the M4 motorway were near the Wiltshire border when they saw a bright
object which was elliptical and stationary at times, giving out a low pulsating humming sound.
The weather was calm, but on getting out of the car a cold rush of air was felt towards the
object. A rough pulling of the car engine was also noticed during the incident. (October 25,
1977.)
Many more of these cases, however, describe an increase rather than a drop in temperature,
such as in one incident when a car and a motorcycle were on a rural road in Yorkshire in wet
weather conditions when both vehicles were surrounded by a brilliant light. This was seen to
be coming from a silent oval object with a solid outline. The motorcycle began to lose power
and heat was felt on the petrol tank, and on the motorcyclist’s back and legs. His jacket began
to steam, becoming quite dry, with the car being similarly affected by loss of engine power
during the incident. (Barnard Castle, Yorkshire, June 6, 1977.)
Heating effects are sometimes also described as being associated with light beams. One driver
found that his vehicle was surrounded suddenly by a pale green cone of light, and felt a

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sudden rise in temperature (near Barraga, Michigan, January 1968.) In another case a driver
described a low-flying red object which turned, and emitted a light beam. The beam came
down to the ground, producing considerable heat, while the car radio and the engine lost
power then failed. (Atlanta, Missouri, March 4, 1969.)

In a further example, also reported from the State of Missouri, a truck driver described seeing
a bright object with both the top and bottom parts spinning. There was a humming sound,
and a light like a spotlight descended on to the vehicle. The driver suffered burns to his
forehead, with one of his spectacle lenses falling out. The spectacle frame was taken to the
Southwest Missouri State University physics department for analysis, and was found to have
been melted by internal heating. (Greenville, Missouri, October 3, 1973.)
It is cases such as these already described briefly which add strength to the belief that many
UFOs appear to be craft-like objects, producing strange effects, and that they are intelligently
controlled - even without the addition of some further evidence.
Landing Reports
It is perhaps to be expected that close proximity sightings of UFOs could also include many
reports of landing incidents, and this does indeed appear to be the case. Eyewitnesses have
reported seeing objects on the ground, landing or taking off, in about fifteen per cent of all
vehicle interference cases reported. In almost half of these landing reports there is also a
mention of ground effects seen, including depressions in the ground, and vegetation effects
in the surrounding area. Some cases described by motorists include landings on roadways. In
one noted incident of this kind, two police officers reported that their car engine stalled when
they encountered a disc-shaped object about thirty feet in diameter, which was on the road
ahead of the car. The object then took off, and tar on the road surface ignited leaving it
completely disintegrated. (Silverton, South Africa, September 15, 1965.)
In another case, a disc-shaped object with a domed top was also reported to have landed on
a road in front of a car. The object in this case appeared to be standing on three beams of
light, and burn marks were found on the road surface after the object had departed. (Torrita
di Siena, Italy, September 17, 1978.) About a couple of months later, another Italian
interference effect case was reported when a patrolling night watchman found that his car
lights and radio had failed, and he saw strange lights sweeping the area. A loud whistling noise
was heard, there was a wave of heat, and a luminous triangular object was seen taking off.
The car lights came back on, the radio could be operated again, as usual in these cases, and
when the nearby area was checked strange ground markings were found. (Marzano, near
Torriglia, Italy, December 6, 1978.)
A particularly remarkable finding is that in most of the landing reports involving vehicle
effects, the presence of strange humanoid figures is also described in the vicinity of the object.
This was the case in both of the Italian incidents in 1978. In most of the accounts, the figures
seen are described as appearing to be of less than average height, with fewer reports of tall
beings. There are some reports describing a robot-like movement. Two such events were
reported on the same day. On October 19, 1973, a figure described as being like a small
metallic robot was reported to have appeared, moving around the car of a startled motorist
at Ashburn, Georgia, after the vehicle’s steering and brakes malfunctioned. At Draguignan,
France, during the evening of the same day, the headlights and dashboard lights of a car were
reported to have failed suddenly, and three figures were seen walking around in a slow,

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mechanical way. Coincidentally, these two reported incidents were timed about five hours
apart, and could have been more nearly simultaneous, taking into account the time zone
separation in the different countries.
The way in which UFOs, and sometimes their reported occupants, are described as becoming
visible or disappearing should also be noted, as this may provide further clues to a better
understanding of these cases. There is sometimes a description of the sudden disappearance
of what is being seen, as if it is ‘switched off’ instantly. In other cases, a fading out or gradual
disappearance is described, without the object moving away. In one case describing a
reported landing incident, the driver and several passengers in a car saw a glowing disc-
shaped object standing on legs, at the top of a hill. Thumps were heard on the top of the car
before the engine burst into flames. A strange tall figure was seen, disappearing suddenly and
in an unusual way - ‘like a curtain being rolled up’, as described by one of the eyewitnesses.
(Sydney, Australia, June 4, 1972.)
Reports of landing incidents are sometimes described as completely silent, as with most other
UFO sightings, even though the objects seen on the ground, landing or taking off, are in
relatively close proximity. However, a proportion of the reports, amounting to about fifteen
per cent of the vehicle interference effect cases, and rather more in the case of landing
descriptions, do mention sound being heard. Some of these reports describe a buzzing or a
more high pitched noise, but in most cases a humming sound seems to be the most frequent
description.
Conclusions
What explanations and perhaps conclusions may be drawn from all of this? Firstly, one
evident conclusion seems to be clear from reported vehicle interference effect cases, as with
other incidents where there is also substantial evidence. Reports of UFOs are in many cases
much more than the sometimes perceived notion of just unidentified lights in the sky, and
more than some kind of unknown or misunderstood atmospheric phenomenon. Some of the
more dramatic claims occasionally found in UFO reports may be explained as subjective
experiences, particularly in the case of events described by a single witness, where no
supporting evidence is available or where there are no close comparisons with other cases.
In the case of vehicle incidents, it is not common knowledge that UFO sightings are associated
with reported effects on vehicle systems, yet a pattern of these characteristic effects can be
found on a repeating and worldwide basis, now amounting to many hundreds of cases, and
over a period of more than fifty years up to the present time. While most of the incidents
have been reported at night, many of the sightings are in daylight, with the same effects and
characteristics noted.
It has already been found from the descriptions of these incidents that many sightings appear
to involve intelligently controlled objects. This has been noted in radar-visual cases involving
aircraft, as well as in the behaviour and descriptions in the vehicle interference reports.
One possible explanation which has been put forward is that some of the reports may be
misidentifications of aircraft, and that some of the more puzzling incidents may be related to
the operations of secret aircraft of some kind. The most serious problem with this suggestion
is that the sightings are reported from many different countries, and include objects operating
at low level, with landing incidents also reported. Would any country risk operating secret,
high-performance aircraft in this way? Another point, of course, is that no aircraft are known

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to cause interference effects on vehicle systems; otherwise there would surely be problems
with vehicles at every airport. Whatever UFOs are, it seems reasonable to say that a different
kind of energy source must be involved, and is the cause of the vehicle effects described. The
apparent intelligent behaviour and high strangeness evident in many of the reports has led
researchers towards the extra-terrestrial theory as a probable explanation, even though it
may at first seem highly unlikely. It is accepted by astronomers that the existence of intelligent
life elsewhere in the universe is a distinct probability. In recent years, the actual existence of
planets orbiting other stars has been indicated from the study of gravitational effects, but
interstellar travel is seen by astronomers as an impossible concept, because of the distances
involved, even though our own technology is moving forward at a rapid rate. Any other
civilisations may be far more advanced. Although interstellar travel is not something which
can at present be envisaged, this is not to say that it will always be impossible. Advanced
technology to make such journeys feasible, and in a way presently undreamed of, could
already be available to other civilisations, wherever they may exist.
There are other alternatives, and perhaps significant clues. Although it is apparent that the
objects seem to have a physical presence, confirmed by the effects produced, some of the
eyewitnesses describe strangeness in the surroundings during the event. Sometimes there is
a complete unnatural silence, and a sense of unreality, with time anomalies also experienced
for which there seems to be no reasonable explanation. In some cases a transparency is
described in what is seen. Some of this evidence suggests another, rather different possibility.
We already have scientific debate on the probable existence of ‘parallel worlds’ around us
which may coexist with our own, but in another dimension. This may have particular
relevance in our search for explanations. Is it possible that UFOs could be from another
dimension in space, materializing under certain conditions, and as a kind of ‘transient reality’?
If this is a possibility, it could also perhaps explain other described paranormal events, with
conditions in particular locations facilitating the appearance of these phenomena.
In general, scientists tend to dismiss UFO reports, not taking the more interesting reports
seriously, and putting forward instead easy explanations which do not fit the description of
what has been seen, rather than taking the trouble to examine the reports in any detail.
Everything seen may not always have a reasonable explanation in line with what is presently
known, and some astronomers have in fact seen objects which they have been unable to
explain. A survey of members of the American Astronomical Society in 1976 revealed that a
small but significant percentage of the members had observed such objects, which they would
class as a UFO.
A few scientists and astronomers have taken the subject more seriously, one of these being
Dr Peter Sturrock, former Director of the Center for Space Science and Astrophysics at
Stanford University, California, one of the leading research centres in the United States. In
1997, Dr Sturrock headed a panel of scientists investigating a selection of significant UFO
cases, and it was concluded as a result that the subject deserved more serious scientific
attention.
Vehicle interference effect report cases identify some of the most interesting characteristics
found in these unexplained UFO events. It is hoped that further study of these cases may help
towards a better understanding of these events.

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The case examples outlined here briefly are from more detailed case summaries describing
the presently known cases of this kind, prepared for the British UFO Research Association
(BUFORA).
Geoff Falla and Michael Hudson.

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19/05/09 2330 Wroxham, Norfolk, England.

A motorcyclist saw a white round ball of light travelling in a straight line overhead the
motorcycle headlamp failed at the same time as the object was observed. The motorcyclist
stopped and the headlamp began operating normally after the object had departed.
(East Anglian Daily Times 21/05/1909, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0548

-/08/28 0600 Tulsa. Oklahoma, U.S.A.

A father and his son left Tulsa before dawn for a drive to Norman, but when they were about
fifty miles west of Tulsa, the car engine began to misfire then it backfired before it stopped
completely. They got out of the car and as they began to look at the engine the whole area
was suddenly illuminated by a very bright light. As this faded, the light seemed to burst into
many colours then it became dark again. For the next fifteen to thirty minutes the two
witnesses tried to understand what had happened. No other traffic passed by, and as dawn
came they could confirm that no houses were nearby just open country. There were no clues
to explain the strange event. When the engine was then tried again, it started immediately,
with no problems for the remainder of the journey.
(Fate Magazine, October 1973, p 127-128.) 0990

-/-/35 Night near Charbonier, Cordoba, Argentina.

Manuel Reina and a friend were driving towards a nearby town and as they reached a curve
they came face to face with a luminous figure. The vehicle stopped suddenly unexpectedly
and both witnesses felt paralyzed unable to move as the strange figure stared at them.
Unable to move until the figure disappeared from sight.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1930-1949.) 1190

-/10/38 1900 Alger, Ohio, U.S.A.

A father and son were out in the cornfields with their tractor preparing the corn rows for
picking. An object came coasting up toward them until it got overhead approx. 500ft above
them. The tractor engine then died, the object hovered for a while as it lights of different
colours pulsed. The object then turned a sharp angle and moved away towards the horizon,
The tractor was then able to be restarted.
(M Swords, Grassroots UFOs.) 0624

25/12/39 0450 Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada.

A dazzling light was seen by many witnesses a truck driver for Helen mine said he was driving
up hill at the time and then object flashed like a meteor his motor stalled.
(The Windsor Star, Ontario. 06 Jan 1940 – Kay Coggin.) 1200

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Some friends were eating together when they saw a light which appeared to be on the
harbour. Thinking of sabotage, they got into their three cars and began driving towards the
light. When still some distance away, the cars all stopped and could not be restarted. They
left the cars and ran towards the light, which was a hazy orange colour and shaped like a
church bell. When they approached it, a whistling sound was heard, the object ascended over
the water and moved away at high speed with no apparent acceleration. The object looked
deep blue in colour as it disappeared, and when the area was investigated a depression four
and a half feet in diameter and three feet deep was found, with snow melted to a diameter
of more than fifty feet around it was found.
(Carl Feint. Rapportnytt, April 1979. Australian Flying Saucer Review, July 1968. Phillips
Physical Traces associated with UFO sightings, 1975.)727

-/-/43 Night. Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Two police officers while performing their duties were approached by a youth who reported
that he had seen a “flaming aircraft” fall into a nearby field. The three men went to investigate
the site and found a strange luminous disc-shaped craft on the ground. Next to the object
several tall figures appeared to be moving. The beings were described as very tall and wearing
metallic suits. Later they were able to start the car.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1930-1949.) 1191

-/-/44 Golssen, Brandenburg, Germany.

A Polish slave worker was travelling on a tractor when it stalled as he heard a high pitch whine
like a generator. The German driver of the tractor was told to wait by an SS guard. When the
noise stopped the tractor engine began working again. Later while working in the fields this
man saw an enclosure from which a vehicle was seen to rise slowly then move horizontally
before it was hidden by trees. From a distance of 150m away, he could see that it was a
circular object 60-90m diameter and about 4m high. It consisted of a stationary dark grey
upper and lower sections, with a rapidly rotating centre section. It emitted a noise similar to
the previous one but of rather lower pitch. The tractor again stalled.
(Rife 2001 p140 + Fawcett and Greenwood 1984 p177.) 1583

-/-/44-45 Auberry, California, U.S.A.

Two women grammar school teachers were driving home in the Western Sierra Nevada from
making deliveries for their church, when rounding a corner, their car engine stalled. They then
saw ahead and slightly below their position, a cigar shaped object hovering in the air. It gave
the impression of being transparent, though the forest on the mountain behind it could not
be seen through it, gave off a “rainbow” of colours, and had illuminated portholes along its
side. As the driver turned the ignition in another attempt to get started, the object began to
move away like a dirigible, rose up a couple of times, and then shot away to the west at
breath-taking speed. A garage man who came along the road could find nothing wrong with
their car’s engine, and shortly afterwards it started up by itself.
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21/06/46 Gorizia, Italy.

Several motorists driving near Gorizia village encountered a woman-shaped figure encased in
a blue halo. Several vehicles engines reportedly stalled as they came close to the figure.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1930-1949.) 1192

30/01/47 1600 Tamarack, Idaho, U.S.A.

John Ostram was driving an Army truck on Route 95 when he saw a small silver ball-like object
approaching at a downward angle of about thirty degrees. The object glanced off the roof of
the cab just above the windshield. The driver brought the truck to a halt and got out to inspect
the damage. The point of contact was clear on the roof of the cab a small area of metal about
the size of a silver dollar appeared to have been melted.
(Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, Ted Bloecher, 1967, p11, Section II, Case No 853.) 0005

07/07/47 1630 San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.

A flying disc was observed by a male military witness during which radio frequency
interference was noted along with EM effects to a vehicle. The disc appeared to be spinning.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1420

16/07/47 2100 Timmins, Ontario, Canada.

A globe of purplish light seen during which a car stalled. The object was viewed for 1 minute.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1421

-/-/47 Maffra, Victoria, Australia.

During the winter, a woman was driving home with her son. The car almost collided with a
golden ball-shaped object seen hovering just above the road. The woman was unable to stop
the car, and found it buffeted by wind. The ball then seemed to roll to one side, over a high
embankment and disappeared. The wind then stopped.
(Bill Chalker. Keith Basterfield Catalogue of more interesting UFO reports.) 0992

-/-/49 Late Evening. Nebraska, U.S.A.

A married couple travelling by car on a deserted highway when they had an encounter with a
UFO. The light began to pace the car they could see it was an object made of metal with
porthole lights in the middle. Then the car engine stopped running and the object landed on
the road in front of them. Two creatures insect like materialized in an instant the headlights
of the car were still on and the creatures seemed to do a little dance and reached out towards
the light. After a minute or two the creatures vanished followed seconds later by the saucer
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(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1930-1949.) 1193

-/-/49 Autumn near Arlington, Texas, U.S.A.

A married couple driving on a farm 13 miles from Arlington in a car experienced a failure of
the engine and lights as an object passed overhead.
(Fort Worth (Texas) STAR-TELEGRAM, 8 November 1957, Project 1947.) 1366

-/-/49 Night, New Mexico, U.S.A.

The music on a car radio was blanked out by static as a saucer shaped object passed low over
the car.
(The UFO Evidence, p73. (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, Project
1947-UFOCAT.) 0009

15/03/50 1815 near Penfield, Pennsylvania. U.S.A.

On March 15th a Dr Craig Hunter was driving his 1949 Hudson on Highway 153 near Penfield,
Pennsylvania. Up to 6:15 p.m. his trip had been uneventful. As Dr Hunter slowly drove up a
mountain road in the sparsely populated country, a warning light lit up on the dash. The car's
ammeter indicated that the battery was discharging so Dr Hunter parked and got out to check
under the hood for an electrical short. While the physician poked around inspecting wires
leading from the battery, a truck with a farmer by the name of Yeager* at the wheel pulled
up alongside and screeched to a halt. Yeager introduced himself and offered to help. It was
at that point that both men heard an odd hissing whistling sound, Dr Hunter glanced at the
sky and saw an astounding sight.

According to his testimony, he saw a weird machine a ditty aluminium greyish colour, which
had coasted into view leisurely soaring through the air about 350 feet above the ground. The
atmosphere was still and the weather crystal clear so there was no mistaking the thing for a
balloon. He estimated that the UFO was a 100 feet or so in diameter and some 30 feet thick,
trailing a streamer (?) 200 feet long and some 10 inches wide. Dr Hunter told the farmer to
look in the direction of the approaching UFO, and Yeager, when his eyes focused on the
object, stared in disbelief for a few seconds and then gasped: "MY GOD!" Stomping on the
gas, Yeager drove away at high speed, a terrified witness to a spectacular "UFO vision."

Dr Hunter, in contrast, stood his ground although he later confessed he had been as
frightened as the farmer. Overcoming his fear as best he could Dr Hunter studied the aerial
craft carefully, noticing three concentric sections on the underside that showed a slowly
rotating inner ring. He mused the possibility that he was in awe of a radical new warplane but
after the UFO passed out of sight, Dr Hunter got back in his car and drove to the city of St.
Mary's, Pennsylvania, where he checked into the Hotel Franklin and went straight to his room
to ponder whether to tell anyone about the strange object.
(Gross, L. UFOs: A History Volume 5: Jan-Mar 1950.) 1330

20/04/50 Lufkin, Texas, U.S.A.

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Car driver J. Robinson saw a disc ten feet in diameter hovering above him with a dull red glow.
The object took off with a roar, as sparks flew from a slot underneath it and the witness was
burned.
(FSR July 1959. Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Catalogue No 626.) 0010

-/03/51 2230 Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S.A.

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford W. Bowman were driving over the Union Bridge when they saw an object
with multicolored lights—pink, yellow and white—in the air about 50 feet away. The lights
must have been rotating. Bowman was so started that he said he almost wreck the car. The
object was round 30 feet in diameter and 7.5 feet high and had lights in “window-shaped
blocks.” It made a sound like an electric motor. The object stopped in mid-air at one point.
The car’s headlights went out, and he was slowly trying to stopped, then as the object
approached within about 40 feet the engine cut out. The UFO stopped and landed in a field
east and north of them, its light no longer revolving. Bowman got out and approached the
object. He then saw “something” run around the UFO and get it. Immediately after the UFO
took off. The duration of the incident was about 10 minutes.
(Project Blue Book (not listed as a case. Reported in March 1957; Project 1947) 1367

04/09/51 Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.

A J T Pamplin reported that her car had stalled at a railroad crossing also the car in front had stopped.
During which time an independent witness observed a soft-ball sized object yellowish light pass by at
great speed.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, UFO Historical Revue No,17.) 1423

-/10/51 Night Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire, England.

Ron Dartnell was motorcycling back to the RAF camp at Andover when his motorcycle engine
began to misfire and slow down. He was about to dismount and check on the engine when to
his right he saw something that resembled a black stagecoach moving at speed some metres.
As he looked the thing just disappeared, at which the bike began working normally.
(Osborne-Thomasson.) 1585

-/-/51 Night. Dugny-sur-Meuse, France.

A group of workers were attempting to re-charge the battery of their stalled truck when
suddenly an orange light illuminated the area around them and they saw a luminous orange
globe on the ground nearby. Suddenly from out of the globe a tall woman stepped out she
was Nordic in appearance. The figure vanished and the globe brightened taking on the
appearance of a “jelly fish”. The witnesses felt a strange sensation of cold the lights blinked
out and vanished.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1950-1954.) 1194

09/01/52 Kerrville, Texas, U.S.A.

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An odd "roaring" interference was heard on a car radio as a UFO was seen circling the town.
([Link], The UFO Evidence, Section VIII, 1964.) 0994

26/03/52 1815 Long Beach, California, U.S.A.

Two yellowish disc-shaped objects were seen passing by slowly. As they passed, the radio in
the car was agitated twice.
([Link], The UFO Evidence, Section VIII, 1964, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0995

29/03/52 between Glen Burnie and Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

A driver was travelling south on the Richey Highway with one passenger when they both saw
a strange object ahead, low in the sky. The object, described as a circular disc with a dome on
one side and what looked like a hatch, approached the car before hovering overhead, and
was further described as luminous silver with very bright neon-like light around the edge. The
driver, who got out of the car to shoot at the object, but was dissuaded by his companion,
reported that when it was overhead the object appeared to be at least 50 feet in diameter. It
wavered slightly in the air and made a sound like a vacuum cleaner. During the incident the
car engine failed. The wiring was magnetized, and the paintwork cracked. After about three
minutes the object turned on its edge, and appeared to roll across the sky faster than a jet
aircraft. The incident was also witnessed from another vehicle, and the driver had also got
out of the car to observe the object.
(Dr J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p196-198.) 0013

-/05/52 2000 Allyn, West Virginia, U.S.A.

An object with many lights flew parallel to the female witness vehicle for several minutes. The
car came to a gradual halt on the side of the road. The witness then found herself inside the
craft. She was examined by smallish grey creatures with large eyes. Something was inserted
into or behind her ear. There was a 3hr period of missing time.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1950-1954.) 1195

29/07/52 Enid, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

A man reported to police that he had been almost swept from his feet on U.S. Highway 81
when a flying object descended at speed and hovered directly over him. He added that the
object appeared suddenly, and the pressure it exerted had thrown his car off the road. The
object then reversed direction and vanished in a few seconds.
(Piece for a Jigsaw, p279.) 0014

24/08/52 0430 Rockdale Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Frank Holowach, the Managing Editor of the Titusville Herald was driving on Route 408 8km
southeast of Cambridge Springs, on this cold, clear morning , when a light appeared low over
the horizon to his left. It flickered then went out, reappearing on the far eastern horizon.
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again saw the light low in the sky, apparently just above a ridge. The light continued to flicker
on and off, low on the horizon. Frank then felt his car vibrating and noticed that the light was
brighter and seemed to be shining at him. He felt a force pulling him through his open
window. Unnerved he drove away, as he did so he saw the light move ahead of him
(APRO Bulletin March 1963.) 1586

13/09/52 2000 Frametown, Braxton County, West Virginia, U.S.A

A driver was travelling with his wife and young son. There was a strong smell before the car
engine then failed. A beam of wavering light lit up the car, and a luminous sphere was seen
nearby behind trees. A very tall figure was seen, which came up to the car for several minutes
before retreating. The luminous sphere took off slowly before moving away at speed, leaving
a trail of light. The car engine could then be restarted. Discolouration was later found on the
car, as if the metal had been singed.
(MUFON UFO Journal, No 293, September 1992, p 19.) 0730

31/10/52 1940 Fayetteville, Georgia, U.S.A.

A U.S. Air Force officer LT Col C Smith was travelling north on Highway 85 towards Atlanta,
when he saw an orange elliptical object coming towards him, then over the car. The radio
faded out. He got out of the car and watched the object staying overhead for about twenty
seconds, before it climbed away at a 45 degree angle, accelerating and disappearing at high
speed. There was no sound during the sighting.
(The Hynek UFO Report, p 191-192, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0731

-/-/52-53 1700 Worcester Beaufort West, South Africa.

Four bowlers left work and while driving on the outskirts of Laingsburg they saw a glowing
green ball of misty substance near the car. It appeared to be hovering as they passed. A few
moments later it came up from behind the interior of the car lit up with a greenish glow then
the object moved over the front of the car at which stage the car engine cut out and stopped.
They restarted the car and then the object went into reverse and again the engine cut out.
They got out of the car to look at the object which was now about 400m away. It appeared to
be the size of small tractor but they could make out a dim circular shape as the glowing mist
around it was quite intense. They got back into the car and the object disappeared.
(Australian UFO Bulletin 1990.06.) 1305

17/08/53 1800 Ciudad Valles, Mexico.

Salvidar Villaneuva noticed failure in the engine of his vehicle, and was trying to repair it when
he was approached by two beings four feet tall. A disc-shaped object 40 feet across was seen
and a humming sound noted. The object ascended vertically at high speed. Bushes and sticks
were found broken at the site in a circle about 40 to 45 feet across.
(Phillips Physical Traces Catalogue, p10.) 0015

23/08/53 0030 St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.

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James Byrne (41) and his fiancée were parked in a small off road field outside St John’s,
listening to music when the radio and car engine both failed. The woman then pointed out to
James a circular shadow moving on the ground ahead of them. It came from a circular object
about 15m diameter, had a rounded underside was surrounded by multi-coloured flames, 1-
3m long, projecting to the ground. As James bent to down to check the ignition he felt a
tingling in his body and the car became filled with light and James guessed that the object
was no more than 2.5m above the car. His fiancée appeared to be in some sort of trance.
Moments later the object was 6m away and at 6m altitude. After being stationary for a few
seconds the object moved off in a zigzag fashion, disappearing in seconds. James then heard
a voice in his head telling him not to say anything and that they would be back. The radio and
engine came back on again and his fiancée woke up. They realised it was now 1200hrs.. He
drove her to her nearby home and then drove to his own house in St John’s where he realised
that if was now 0400. His neck felt itchy after the incident. The relationship collapsed after
this and his fiancée moved away and married someone else. James met her in 1977 at which
time she denied any knowledge of the incident.
(Ledger 1998.) 1587

28/11/53 1835 Gjersjoen Lake, near Ski, Norway.

Mr Trygve Jansen was driving his car accompanied by a Mrs Buflot they were returning from
Oslo when they encountered an object like a rotating disc that emitted a strong greenish-
white light. It approached the vehicle then circled closely a number of times. The object then
descended directly in front of the car and the driver felt compelled to stop. Both witnesses
felt a prickling sensation and the driver's watch stopped. The object took off again straight
upwards and disappeared at speed. Arriving at his home, the driver found that his car had
changed from dull beige to a shiny, nearly green colour. The following day the car had
resumed its normal colour. The witness had his watch repaired and was told that it had been
exposed to a strong magnetic current.
(FSR - Flying Saucer Review Vol 2, No 5, p16.) 0016

- /-/53 near Dutton, Montana, U.S.A.

A large cigar-shaped silvery object in the sky was seen by a driver travelling in his pickup
vehicle from Great Falls to his home in Conrad. The object pulsated, producing fire and smoke
for about seven or eight minutes, then there was an explosion, a swooshing sound, and balls
of fire hit the road and the surrounding area. He also noted that cars coming from the
opposite direction had flames shooting out from their exhaust pipes. The driver was later
called to the Great Falls Air Base, where he was interrogated about the incident.
(FSR Vol 25, No 5, p7-8.) 0018

-/-/53 Night Trinidad, Cuba.

A former lieutenant in the Cuban Navy Senor Waldo Martinez Arbona was travelling in a jeep
one night, with several passengers. As they rounded a bend in the road the jeep's engine died
and the lights went out. A large green light then passed overhead and landed about 200
metres away. After about two minutes the light from the object diminished and went out,

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and the jeep engine restarted. They continued the journey, and on returning to the site the
next day they found a burnt circle about 15 to 20 metres in diameter.
(FSR Vol 44, No 3, p20.) 0019

-/-/53 Laingsburg, South Africa.

Four witnesses saw a glowing green ball of light a couple of metres to the side of their car. A
few moments later it came up behind them the interior of the car was glowing green. As it
passed over the car the engine stopped. When the object was 200m in front of them they
could restart the vehicle. The object went into reverse back towards them and the engine cut
out again. The object appeared to land 400m away it was about the size of a tractor beam.
The object shot away quickly and the car was able to be restarted.
(UFO AfrinaNews 198906, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1390

29/01/54 Afternoon near Santa Ana, California, U.S.A.

A car radio failed and the motor missed as a disc shaped UFO passed low over the car.
(The UFO Evidence. p73, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0020

-/05/54 La Porte, Indiana, U.S.A.

Car lights and radio went off, and motorist saw three round or oval UFOs moving as a unit
emitting beams of light towards the ground.
(The UFO Evidence, p74.) 0021

21/06/54 0100 Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada.

A hovering domed-disc object with flashing lights around its edge was spotted by the
residents of a house who went by car to get a closer look. The object crossed the road in front
of the car and landed in a field traces were left. The car engine stopped and the witnesses
watched as lights moved about in the area. The car could not be restarted, although it had
never given trouble before this incident, or since.
(Coral and Jim Lorenzen, UFOs the Whole Story, p57, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0022

20/07/54 Oslo, Norway.

Two men driving near Oslo were chased by an object for several minutes. The car was stopped
to observe the object as it hovered a short distance away. A watch was found to have stopped
working, and car paint had changed colour.
(MUFON UFO Journal, June 2005, p 15.) 0732

10/09/54 2230 Valenciennes, Nord. France.

The lights and engine of a bus went out, as a strange object passed low over it, causing a panic
among the passengers. When it had passed the lights came on again and the driver restarted
the engine.

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(Patrick Gross.) 1588

15/09/54 2300 Feurs, France.

Witnesses saw a saucer shaped object descended a car engine died.

(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1391

18/09/54 2015 Casablanca, Morocco.

While driving along the coastal road, a man suddenly noticed in his rear view mirror a grey
object diving towards him. A few seconds later the object passed by at speed and almost at
ground level. A violent gust of cold air followed the passage of the object, and in spite of
efforts to hold the steering wheel steady the car was carried to the left. The witness noticed
no sound and caught a glimpse of the object - like a small grey disc, disappearing on the
horizon in front of him.
(Piece for a Jigsaw, p127.) 0024

19/09/54 2200 Cenin-sur-Viennde, France.

Yves David is riding his moped when his headlight begins malfunctioning he sees a 9ft long
object in the road ahead and a small man in a diving suit coming towards him. It touches him
on the shoulder and returns to the object. The object then emits a green light and temporarily
stuns David before it takes off.
(Gros, L. 1954 Sept.) 1581

24/09/54 1000 Almaceda, Castelo Branco, Portugal.

Cesar Cardoso was driving near this village when he heard a buzzing sound and his car engine
stalled. Getting out to check his engine, he saw a rapidly moving sphere, emitting multi-
coloured lights land in a field 200m away. Behind a semi-transparent central section moving
shadows could be seen. From the craft emerged two beings about 2m tall, who were dressed
in shiny aluminium suits. They cut flowers and branches from trees and placed them in a shiny
box. Three local people also witnessed this. The beings approached the witnesses, making
incomprehensible sounds and by gestures invited them to enter their machine, but they
refused, and the beings climbed back into the craft, which took off at high speed, emitting
sparks. HOAX
(MUFON UFO Journal 257.) 1589

28/09/54 1845 Cuges-les Pins, Bouches de Rhone, France.

Albert Zion (or Sion), a night clerk at the Hotel Bristol, was driving between Toulon and
Marseilles along a path to the side of the road, when 10km before Cuges his cycle stalled. 15
ahead, on a hill was an object 8m diameter, 1.7m high. It was rust coloured and consisted of
two sections, rim to rim, the top being wider than the bottom, A gap appeared between them,
and a sort of shadow appeared. Albert took a couple of steps forward then felt “weighed
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He could see no sign of a landing gear. Albert stumbled to his feet and found that the cycle
now worked. He got it checked out by a mechanic who could find nothing wrong.
(Gross 1954.) 1590

-/09/54 2350 Albias, Tarne et Garonne, France.

Jean Dumons was out driving when his car headlights failed. In a nearby field he saw a high
circular machine, about 2.5-3m diameter sitting on a landing gear. Three beings were by its
side. After 2 minutes the object took off vertically then moved away horizontally
(Lumieres dans le Nuit 195.) 1591

01/10/54 2200 Branges, Saone et Loire, France.

Returning home at night, butcher, Gilbert Prudent saw a shiny object on the road 50m away.
His motorcycle engine failed. The thing had a flat bottom and a mushroom shaped top. As he
approached the object turned dark and took off with a soft whistling sound.
(Vallee Case 175, [Link].) 1592

07/10/54 0620 Saint Jean D' Asse, Sarthe, France.

The witness is driving his truck on a small road east of the national 138 Le Mans-Alençon. Near
Saint-Jean-d'Asse, while he climbs a slight hill and his engine is running fast enough, it
suddenly stalls and the headlights turn it off.
Surprised, the man brakes, disengages and activates the starter in vain. He takes his flashlight,
thinking of an ignition failure, and goes downstairs. He lifts the hood of his vehicle. At this
moment he sees a blue glow which seems to be directed at him (Guieu and Michel) or a red
and blue cigar (Vallée, press article). This luminous phenomenon lasts only a few seconds.
Getting back into his truck without having touched his engine, he activates the starter. The
engine starts again and the headlights come back on.
(FSR - The Humanoids, p13, Case 67, [Link].) 0025

08/10/54 2045 Bordas, Dorogne, France.

William Massias and his brother-in-law Mr. Vigier were driving on the National Road NR-21
returning from Bergerac to Pergiueux at a rather well known turn in the road before the
community of Bordas. A strange object was seen and they suffered vehicle engine and car
radio problems.
(Patrick Gross, UFOs at Close Sight; Project 1947.) 1369

09/10/54 2045 Paris, France.

One object observed and electromagnetic effects noted.

(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1426

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A witness got in his car and left for Cuisy to visit a friend. At 9:20 p.m., while manoeuvring to
resume the direction of Paris by backing up at high speed, the engine fully accelerated, he
saw through the window the sky largely lit by a strong yellow orange glow, which came from
the direction of Saint-Soupplets. At the same time, the engine stalled and braked the car
which, its momentum being stopped, stopped in place. The latter recounts his experience as
follows:
"At the time, I didn't think about the car, intrigued by the light, I hurriedly opened the door
and got out to see what it was about. I had just enough time. to see the phenomenon
disappear in the direction of Paris, towards the southwest. It was a kind of orange yellow
cigar, of
The friend, who was about ten meters behind the car, leaning on his bicycle, could distinguish
him very clearly as he passed above them.
"We talked about it for a few minutes, wondering what it was. Maybe a really big car flying
low? Anyway, it was gone. So I walked back to my car, and that's when I noticed that the
headlights were off. All occupied by the passage of the phenomenon, we had not noticed it.
Intrigued, I leaned towards the dashboard, the ignition was not switched off and the gearshift
lever was still in reverse gear, the engine therefore being engaged. I disengaged, I actuated
the starter, the engine
Other testimonies indicate that the object crossed the national 2, stopping several cars and
causing a magnificent traffic jam, that this object, or another, similar, had been seen by
witnesses driving in a car south of Orly, but without causing any incident, that a motorist had
observed him further west, on the road to Chartres, where he seemed to be going more slowly
and where no car was stopped.
(The UFO Evidence, p74, Project 1947-UFOCAT, MOC by Michel Aimé ** Arthaud 1958. ) 0026

11/10/54 0415 Fonfrede, Loire, France.

Alexander Trembiais was driving in his milk truck when the engine and lights failed. A shining
red and blue cigar object about 3ft long sped over his vehicle. After the light had crossed the
road the headlights came on again and the witness was able to start the truck.
(Egyptian Gazette 10.10.54, FSR The Humanoids, p14, Case 90, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0027

11/10/54 2150 Chateauneuf-sur-Charente, France.

Car motor and headlights failed. Two UFOs observed at low altitude ahead of the car.
(The UFO Evidence, p74.) 0029

12/10/54 0430 Sassier, Nievre, France.

Two merchants of Clamecy, Mr Louis Vigneron and Henri Gallois were travelling by car to a
fair at Corbigny when they felt electric shocks. The car engine and headlights failed. The men
became paralysed, and they saw a round object on the ground about fifty yards away. Three
small figures were seen beside the object before they disappeared inside it, with the object
then leaving rapidly. The car headlights then came back on, the paralysis ended and the
engine could be restarted. A nearby village resident a Mr Henri Chameau also reported seeing
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(Aime Michel. Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p 158. Terry Colvin PPB Files
10073) 0996

12/10/54 Sainte-Etienne, France.

Two people from Gueugnon, namely Messers Jeannet and Garnier, who were on their way
home when they witnessed an inexplicable phenomenon. Suddenly their vehicle was
overflown by a sort of reddish ball which passed by like a flash. The engine of the car stopped
and all the lights of the car went out. A few seconds later, when the luminous phenomenon
reached the horizon the headlights of the car functioned again and the engine restarted.
(Terry Colvin PPB Files 10073 record card). 028

13/10/54 2000 Montimont, France.

Three green glowing humanoids seen in the road a truck stalls the humanoids vanish and the
truck starts and runs again.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1392

14/10/54 1930 Chazey, near Gueugnan, France.

The two witnesses circulate on the D25 between Clessy and Gueugnon: at the height of the
last farm located to the right of the road, before the last descent to the N494, or to the north-
west of the Bois de Chazey, they see a reddish ball evolving at low altitude and flying over
their vehicle at high speed. At this moment the engine stalls and the headlights go out; after
a few seconds, the headlights come back on. the driver activates the starter of his automobile,
and the engine runs again.
(FSR The Humanoids, p15, Case 118, Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon
JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0030

14/10/54 2010 between Beauvais and Thieullay-La-Ville, France.

On the road linking Thieulloy-la-Ville to Beauvais, the witness saw an object flying over his
car; at the same time, the headlights of his vehicle go out. The object will then move north,
appearing to follow a train. (FSR The Humanoids, p16, Case 121, Ovni, Premier dossier
complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0031

14/10/54 Saint Romain, near Cueugnon, France.

At about nightfall, a car engine failed and the driver saw a circular craft in the shape of a disc.
Another witness in the same area saw a luminous object land and reported this to a scientific
journal.
(FSR The Humanoids, p16, Case 120.) 0032

14/10/54 2000 near Brasses, Thillot, Saone-Et-Loire, France.

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At dusk, the witness was riding a moped on the road linking Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon to
Brosses-Tillots, when, for no apparent reason, his engine stopped. MB pedals to restart his
moped, but in vain. He then dismounts, it is at this moment that he sees a bright light spurt
out fifty meters from him. This glow is emitted by a circular machine that the witness
compares to an upturned plate. The observer decides to turn back by pushing his vehicle. By
arriving, in the opposite direction, at the point where the engine had stopped, what is his
surprise to note the good functioning of this one. The object takes off.
(The UFO Evidence, p74, Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed.
Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0033

15/10/54 1950 Bally-En-Campagne, France.

Fours discs seen in the sky by Henri Roberts one of them descends and approaches a car as it
does the vehicle stalls and electric shocks felt. Humanoids may have been seen along with
missing time. He observes a 27ft long cigar shaped object at the of a slope it then takes off
vertically and quickly moves north. (A possible hoax.)
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, P Gross 1954 Oct 15.) 1393

16/10/54 0005 Maubeuge, Nord, France.

Mr and Mrs Mozin were driving back to Maubeuge from Doulers, after visiting sick relatives,
when, as they reached the “Belle Hotesse” inn, they saw some very bright lights by the side
of the road, about 2km away. Thinking it was an accident, they hurried to the scene at 120kph.
Suddenly, at a distance of 100m or so from the spot, the car lights went out. Silhouetted in a
doorway in a cigar shaped machine, 3m long, was a little man, 1.3m tall. He was dressed in a
very big helmet, with big gloves and boots, and a “Michelin Man” suit. The being walked
towards them, with a clumsy gait, like that of a diver. From the 1.8m high doorway came a
light that illuminated the countryside. Through the opening they saw various controls and
wires. The couple drove rapidly away, and 50m on, their lights came on again. The observation
perhaps last lasted for only 10 seconds.
(Bourret 1977.) 1593

16/10/54 1730 Mazaye, France.

The vehicle engine seemed to slow down, and the driver felt paralysed. An object of estimated
size 10 metres in length and 2.5 metres in height was then noticed in a field near the road.
(FSR The Humanoids, p16, Case 132.) 0034

16/10/54 2100 Baillolet, France.

Dr Henri Robert observed four flying objects moving slowly at about 300m altitude. One of
the objects suddenly dropped to the ground with a dead-leaf motion about 100 metres ahead
of the car. The driver felt an electric shock, the engine and headlights failed and the car
stopped as the object touched the ground. The witness felt unable to move. A figure 1.20m
in height was seen moving in the light of the object then it all went dark. Sometime later the
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(FSR The Humanoids, p16, Case 133.) 0035

16/10/54 2125 Bois de Sancourt, France.

At Bois de Sancourt 3 people ride mopeds. A red disc passes vertically, at the height of a mail
plane. The ignition and lighting of the mopeds are off. A second or two later, on their
momentum, the engines of the two machines restart and their headlights come back to work.
(UFOs seen up close by Gross Patrick.) 0265

16/10/54 2130 Arpheuilles St Priests, France.

Six witnesses observe a luminous discoidal shape. One of them, who was riding a moped at
the time, broke down when the object appeared. After the phenomenon disappears, his
moped resumes normal operation.
(UFOs seen up close by Gross Patrick.) 0269

17/10/54 0400 Sy-Cyr-Sur-Mer, Var, France.

Andre Csimir was out hunting on his moped when he saw a powerful light in the Boulevard
de la Plage. He tried to drive towards it, but his moped would not move forward. The glow
went out and he could then go on. An hour later, a local councillor, Leon Baudouvin was
driving in the area when he saw a circular object, emitting a purple light rise from the ground,
leaving a trail of flames.
(Gross 1954.) 1594

18/10/54 1730 Gelles, Puy de Dome, France.

A police van engine misfired a few times and the driver had difficulty in turning. The driver
noticed an object shaped like a cistern with pointed ends standing a few metres from the
road. Driving on, the witness felt semi-paralysed and then found himself at Coheix, a place
not on his route and not knowing how he got there.
(FSR Case Histories, No 5, p iii of cover.) 0036

19/10/54 2050 St Didier-En-Velay, France.

A fiery object flies passed a truck causing the engine and lights to die. After the object departs
both come back on.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1394

19/10/54 2100 Criteuil la Magdalene, Charente, France.

Mr Filloneau was out driving when a ball of fire 2m diameter took off the from the ground
and flew off nearby. His car stopped or he stopped it, he felt a violent blast of air and the
battery and headlights died. It appeared that the battery was flat. There was a gendarme
investigation but no details were released.
(Vallee Case 299.)
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20/10/54 0615 Marville-Moutier, France.

Michel Toutain was driving his moped towards Blanville when it suddenly stopped and would
not advance. About 500m to his right he could see a luminous object resembling a red sphere
with a green upper section resembling the lid on a boiler. He could see a light from within like
a cockpit with four silhouettes standing inside. The light was green changing to pink and as
the object disappeared gaining altitude it changed to white becoming blue. As the object
disappeared from view a luminous ball seemed to detach itself and travelled in a different
direction. A second witness, Mr Josse saw the object depart.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1950-1954.) 1196

20/10/54 1830 Turguenstein, France.

M Schoubrenner of Sarrebourg was driving when he observed a fairly bright light in the
distance. He found the road blocked by a large object as his engine suddenly died. At the same
time he found himself paralysed as thought his hands were glued to the wheel. He was
however able to apply the brakes. The object looked like an inverted cone with the lower part
phosphorescent, the middle flat in colour and the top luminous with a yellow or orange point
like an antenna.
(FSR The Humanoids, p17, Case 150.) 0037

21/10/54 2000 Criteuil la Magdeleine, France.

The engine of the vehicle driven by the witness stalled when a large ball of fire came flying
near him. A violent displacement of air was felt. The battery was dead and the headlights
burned out. The investigation carried out by the police failed to identify the cause of this
phenomenon.
(UFOs seen up close by Gross Patrick.) 0272

21/10/54 2130 Pouzou, France.

The driver of a car felt painful prickings similar to electric shocks, which grew in intensity.
Suddenly the engine died and the head lights went out. Hovering over the road was an object
emitting a strong red light, which turned orange. The object soon moved away.
(FSR The Humanoids, p18, Case 153, Project 1947 – UFOCAT.) 0039

21/10/54 Charente, Maritime, France.

Two witnesses saw a dome disc they felt a prickly heat and the car engine and lights failed.
(Awareness Autumn 1981.) 1260

22/10/54 1915 Ecaillon, Nord, France.

Casimir Szimura was riding on his motorcycle on route N-43 when he saw in front of him an
illuminated machine. His motorcycle stopped abruptly. The object resembled a submarine
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they exchanged a handshake the figures head reached the level of Szimura’s shoulder. The
humanoid spoke in a foreign language resembling Chinese. The beings returned to the object
which took off and flew away vertiginous speed.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1950-1954.) 1197

23/10/54 2200 Limzeux, Pas de Calais, France.

A merchant from Hesdin, his deliveryman and another passenger were driving near here,
when they saw a blinding light ahead of them. It passed over the vehicle, and as it did so their
motor and headlights failed and they felt something like an electric shock. The shopkeeper
and the deliveryman were both badly bruised.
(Gross 1954.) 1596

24/10/54 2100 between Effiat and Biozat, France.

The engine of a motor scooter stalled as an egg-shaped object took off silently from the side
of the road leaving a bright trail.
(FSR The Humanoids, p18, Case 157, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0040

25/10/54 2030 near Saint Quirin, Moselle, France.

A tractor engine died and the lights went out as an orange object flew over seen by 3
witnesses. The estimated diameter of the object was six metres and height three metres. The
tractor battery was found to be dead.
(FSR The Humanoids, p18, Case 162, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0041

27/10/54 1840 Cuges-Les-Pins, France.

A domed disc shaped object was seen approx 8m in diameter on a hill engine in vehicle
stopped along with a watch possible missing time.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1396

27/10/54 2130 Les Jonquerets-de-Livet, Eure, France.

A farmer saw an object with a light at each end which landed in a pasture. Two hours later a
young motorcyclist fell from his machine when it suddenly stalled. Men from the village went
to the pasture to investigate, and found that the object had moved slightly. Two individuals
were seen, about one metre in height, walking stiffly and wearing bright clothing like armour.
The object took off silently.
(FSR The Humanoids, p18, Case 166, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0043

27/10/54 Linzeux, France.

Car engine and lights failed as a bright object flew very low, while the driver and passenger
felt an electric shock.
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31/10/54 Long, Somme, France.

An oval, orange object was seen on the ground by three people. The lights of a tractor failed
as the object took off, emitting a very bright light. The object, of estimated diameter four to
five metres, then came back, turned and flew towards the southwest. The noise from the
object was compared to bees in a hive. There were three witnesses.
(FSR The Humanoids, p18, Case 170.) 0044

01/11/54 2240 Ordened, Spain.

Taxi driver Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos cab broke down when he saw a strange white spherical
object take off. It was estimated to be 6m in diameter.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1427

06/11/54 2240 between Santiago de Compostela and La Coruna, Spain.

Arriving at La Coruna, the driver Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos of a car stated that at a place called
Curva del Obispo his car stalled and the lights went out. He then saw a large glowing red object
near the road. After a while the object went upwards with a 'soft explosion'. It was later found
that at the exact time of the sighting the radio set at the Radiotelegraphic Station in La Coruna
had been affected by the worst interference and static noise ever experienced.
(FSR Vol 9, No 1, p16) 0045

08/11/54 La Tessoualle, near Cholet, France.

A vehicle engine and lights failed as a blue disc approached. The driver was surrounded with
an intense blue light, found himself paralysed for several minutes and felt prickling’s in his
hands in spite of gloves. The blue light went out, and the driver was then able to move and
start his engine. The light reappeared, now described as cone-shaped and about five or six
metres in size rose vertically and flew away with a soft whistling sound.
(FSR The Humanoids, p19, Case 179, Project 1947-UFOCAT) 0046

13/11/54 near Buchy, France.

The witness was driving on the D919. He is about to embark on the N28 from Neuchâtel to
Rouen. He had just passed a 500 m level path when he saw a greenish-white glow that seemed
to park on the right side of the road about a hundred meters in front of him. The object
immediately takes off, undulating a few meters from the ground. The glow is intermittent and
seems to precede a dark mass which advances in leaps at a speed which the witness estimates
of 150 km / h. Arriving at the landing site, the witness felt a tingling all over his body and felt
paralyzed. The car detects without the witness being aware of slowing down. The object
moves away and everything returns to normal.
(FSR The Humanoids, p19, Case 182, Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon
JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0047

14/11/54 Forli, Italy

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A beam of red light, apparently emitted by some flying machine was reported sweeping the
countryside. As the beam illuminated two tractors, one of them stalled but the other, a diesel,
continued running. A large number of people witnessed the incident, which lasted about an
hour.
(FSR The Humanoids, p19, Case 185, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0048

-/11/54 between Maubeuge and Montournere, France.

While returning with his wife to Maubeuge, a car driver saw very bright lights at the roadside
ahead and thought that there had been an accident. When about 100 metres from the spot
the car lights suddenly went out. A small humanoid being wearing a 'diving suit', and some
kind of machine about three metres in diameter was then seen, illuminated by a very bright
light. The driver continued and about 50 metres further on the car lights came back on again,
working normally. Returning on the next day with a companion, ground marks and burns were
found at the site.
(Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe, p81-82.) 0049

-/11/54 Buxieres, France.

In the week of November 9 to 12, three women driving around observed two luminous discs
rotating in opposite directions relative to each other, hovering about 40 meters above the
road. Their vehicle is stopped, the engine stops, and the headlights go out. When the
phenomenon quickly recedes vertically, the headlights come back on.
(UFOs seen up close by Gross, Patrick.) 0309

-/12/54 Giugliano in Campania, Licola, Italy.

A man and his fiancée were driving towards a beach when the engine of his car suddenly
stalled. They both got of the car and they shortly observed a large 10m wide disc-shaped
object landing on the beach. Two creatures emerged from the object similar to human males
but shorter. They had almond shaped eyes and very prominent cheek bones. The creatures
approached the witnesses and communicated telepathically. They said they were not from
this world and that humans need not be afraid. The creatures returned to the object, after
which it took off and disappeared into the sky.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1950-1954.) 1198

03/01/55 0725 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Two witnesses saw a UFO at a distance of about seventy metres, with their car engine stalling
at the same time. The duration of the sighting was about twenty minutes.
(J. Vallee. Passport to Magnolia. [Link]. Saucers come from Another World.) 0997

30/03/55 0315 near Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.

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Musician Andy Florio was driving on Highway 80 when he observed a 'disc machine', gold or
bronze in colour. The object had circular openings around its rim, from which amber-coloured
lights protruded, while bluish green lights were shining upwards from its roof. There was a
sound of electrical humming with stronger and softer volume. The object swayed back and
forth, turned over on its axis and shot a brilliant white beam of light at the witness as he stood
out of the car. The beam burned his elbow and bubbled the paint on the car. He also described
a tingling sensation and felt heat all over his body. The car radio stopped, the lights dimmed
and the engine seemed about to stall. Inspection of the car on the following day revealed that
half of the acid was gone from the battery, the engine was running on three plugs, and the
radio was burned out completely.
(Modern People, October 27, 1974. Physical Trace Catalogue, No 790.) 0053

-/03/55 between Montornes del Valles and La Roca, Spain.

Two men were travelling in their car when the engine failed. When they got out of the car to
examine the engine, they saw a grey metallic object about 250 metres away. The object had
a dome with a ring around it. Two humanoid figures could be seen inside the dome. The object
then rose rapidly at about a 45 degree angle, and disappeared almost instantly. The car could
then be restarted, and scorched grass was found later.
(V-J Ballester Olmos. Catalogue of 200 Type 1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal.) 0998

17/07/55 1130 Bexleyheath, Kent, England.

A doctor was driving a mother and her son to a surgery in Bexleyheath when the car began to
slow down, followed by stopping and starting intermittently. A dark shadow was seen over
the road ahead, and when they got out of the car for a better view they saw an oval grey mass
with three 'ball bearing-like mechanisms' inside, directly above the road. The object was
stationary, and then began rotating with a slight swishing or humming noise. It turned on
edge to reveal a domed shape, then gradually rose and disappeared from view into a cloudless
sky.
(FSR Vol 22, No 4, p30.) 0054

-/07/55 near Niagara Falls, New York, U.S.A.

Two families were having an evening picnic on the shore of Lake Erie. An object was seen
rising out of the water, then approaching in a swinging motion like a pendulum. The object
appeared to be about 100 feet in diameter, and silvery in colour. They ran to their cars, but
they could not be started. The object came closer, and the witnesses were able to see four
figures in dark garments. The object then went back over the lake, and rose vertically.
(CUFOS -U.S. Center for UFO Studies.) 0999

03/08/55 Bronwood, near Dawson, Georgia, U.S.A.

A UFO was seen, and then a jeep engine stalled. A strange, six foot tall being approached,
attempting to attack the witnesses but was driven off.
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-/09/55 near Agrinion, Greece.

Joannis Balayannis and Nikoloas Kakouras were in a truck on a mountain road reported the
sighting of a luminous object. As the object flew over, the truck's engine failed and the
witnesses felt faint.
(FSR Vol 1, No 4, p31.) 0055

14/11/55 1930 near Newton Stewart, Galloway, Scotland.

Mr Maurice Brazier was driving his van along a lonely stretch of road when he noticed a large
illuminated object flying towards him at low level. The object was shaped like a double saucer
with a ring of apparently rotating light around the outer rim. When it was about twenty yards
away, the object banked sharply and flew around the van. A high pitched buzzing sound was
heard as the object approached, and a clicking sound which became louder as the object
banked more sharply. Mr Brazier noted that the engine of his van stalled as the object
approached. He also remarked that the Galloway hills were noted for upsetting aircraft
compasses, other instruments and radio reception. In one particular spot a radio would not
work at all. Weather conditions were reported as clear, and duration of the incident was
about five minutes.
(FSR Vol 1, No 5, p 3-4, Vol 2, No 1, p8-9, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0056

-/-/55 St Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

A woman was picnicking on the shore of Lake Ontario with her two children and boyfriend
when a disc shaped object sped towards them from across the lake, hovered overhead and
then sped off towards a second family before returning to this one. The boyfriend ran to the
car but the engine would not start and they all saw through the object’s windows, as it
hovered a few metres above the ground, the faces of four hooded men, whose posture
reminded the witnesses of puppets. The object then took off rapidly up and across the lake,
soon disappearing from view.
(Clark 1998 p215.) 1598

22/03/56 1730 Hampton, Minnesota, U.S.A.

The witness was driving home from work, travelling south on Highway 52 and 56 during an
ice storm, having been sent home early because of the weather. Driving slowly because of icy
surfaces, he saw a large ball of light coming across a field towards him, and then passing over
the car and down to a field on the opposite side of the road. As this was happening, the car
engine stopped completely, but the car kept moving, with the driver thinking that he must
have used the ignition key. There was another similar event a week later at the same time,
when two spheres were seen. They were separated by a bar of golden light, and circled
around the car twice. Afterwards, all of the car's electrical components malfunctioned, and
the car was sold.
(NUFORC National UFO Reporting Center. Henry [Link] Reports, Part 1.) 1001

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About midnight, a Mr. Gary Hanna was driving on Division Road approximately 6 1/2 miles
east of La Porte, Indiana. It was late in the month of May 1956. The sky was clear with a
crescent moon. Emerging from some woods in his new 1956 Ford, Mr. Hanna noticed some
lights in the sky about 1,000 feet up and about two city blocks away. At the same time he
began to have trouble with his car.

"This UFO knocked off the radio and headlights and also possibly the ignition of the car he
was driving, but this is only an assumption due to the fact that the car was of the automatic
transmission type. However, the car did slow. "Apparently there were three component parts
of this UFO, a large moon coloured body, and two smaller parts or lights of red and green with
the red light closes to the ground. Both beams of light were directed toward the ground as
the UFO hovered over a certain area without moving.
(Gross, L. UFOs: A History 1956 May-July Supplemental Notes.) 1331

22/08/56 1540 Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.

Two witnesses in a car chase a 50ft black bell-shaped object bearing 2 bright white lights at
the top for several miles. Their engine stalls when the object hovers some 10ft away. The
underside resembles a disc with fins. A jet takes off from a nearby base and the object shoots
out of sight. The car battery is completely dead.
(Sparks.) 1575

28/08/56 Innerkip, Ontario, Canada.

A disc reported 300m overhead with a strong beam of light chases truck for 10km. EM effects
noted on truck.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1429

27/09/56 1915 Darmannes, France.

A huge domed disc blue in colour was seen along highway N65 it had portholes and beams of
light which were warm. The engine and lights on car died.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1397

-/09/56 0800 White Sands, near Holloman A.F.B. New Mexico, U.S.A.

A domed, disc-shaped object landed within 50 yards of U.S. Highway 7. Radios and ignition
systems of the nearest cars went dead. Witnesses including two air force colonels, two
sergeants, and dozens of air base employees watched the unusual object for over ten minutes
before it took off with a 'whirring sound'. A team of air force intelligence officers and C.I.A.
experts arrived from Washington to question the air base employees. An evaluation report
wired to the Pentagon stated that the object witnessed was no known type of aircraft. (Ralph
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-/09/56 0005 Serdon, Loiret, France.

Just after midnight, a student was returning home with a friend from a dinner party when the
car engine spluttered and stopped. They got out of the car, and saw a round nebulous object
stationary and silent in the sky. After about five minutes a beam of light came from the object.
The beam came down to the ground slowly, like a rope being uncoiled, then moved around.
Everything illuminated by the beam had its colours changed. Maize in the field where they
were became blue, and the student's hand when it was lit briefly by the beam became a lemon
yellow colour. There was also a slight tingling sensation. The object remained stationary in
the sky for about one and a half hours before it rose vertically without any sound, made a
right angled turn and disappeared in the direction of Les Bordes, on the River Loire. The
following day a dairyman confirmed that he had seen the object at Les Bordes while picking
up milk on his rounds. His vehicle had also been immobilized, and he had been delayed for 25
minutes, diving under the truck because he had been so frightened.
(The Crack in the Universe, p63-66, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0060

-/09/56 2320 Barentin, France.

One of the witnesses is driving on a solex. He is going through Barentin, when he sees a bright
light and thinks of a house that is on fire. After crossing the city the glow is visible again, he
decides to go and see. It falls on the N13 bis on 8 to 10 people hidden behind the plane trees
which lined the road at that time. At 60 meters is an aluminium coloured saucer with a
diameter of 12 to 13 meters and a height of 9 meters, on the top is a small antenna. The
object is parked a few centimetres from the ground that it does not touch. 3 or 4 silhouettes
of human forms are visible through the portholes and seem very busy. From the underside of
the small antenna come out flames of ten centimetres, green grey colour.
At the end of ten minutes, the flames start to grow to reach 7 meters, a very powerful
lighthouse illuminates over a distance of three hundred meters towards the south. The noise
of the object becomes very loud. The aircraft headed south and rose at an angle of 45 ° over
a distance of about 500 meters and disappeared at the speed of jet planes. During the
observation, a car coming from Rouen had its headlights stopped without the intervention of
the driver, the panicked passengers got out of the vehicle. The witness felt a great disturbance
for 15 to 20 hours after the observation.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0317

-/10/56 Oslo, Norway.

A motorist felt a prickly sensation and found wristwatch magnetized when a UFO flew in front
of the car and hovered over the road.
(The UFO Evidence, p74.) 0061

11/11/56 2200 Vaddo Island, Sweden.

The driver and passenger in a pickup truck saw a bright flying object like a flattened sphere.
The object turned suddenly towards the vehicle. The truck engine failed, and the headlights

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went out. The object glided downwards with a rocking motion, until it stopped in the middle
of the road and just above the ground. The area was illuminated, and there was a smell in the
air. After about ten minutes the light of the object got brighter, it lifted from the ground and
accelerated away. The truck engine could then be restarted, and the headlights came back
on. When the ground was examined, a small piece of shiny hot "rock" was found. This was
heavy, with later analysis concluding that the material was tungsten carbide and cobalt.
([Link]. Analysis in ten cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples.) 1002

-/-/56 Summer 2330 Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.

The traffic lights at an intersection all went red at the same time as a cigar shaped object. with
a row of windows from which came a pulsating orange glow, suddenly appeared overhead.
One of the cars’ engine failed. The object then took off at high speed.
(M Swords, Grassroots UFOs.) 1599

-/-/56 Summer Lake Darling, North Dakota, U.S.A.

A man was driving his 1954 Henry J car when he saw a barge shaped craft that looked like it
couldn’t fly. The object was described as an “oblong-square” with visible lights on the sides
and the front. The object caused his car engine to shut down once the object had passed his
car restarted.
([Link]) 1567

12/04/57 0800 Figanieres, France.

The witness is driving his vehicle on the road to Grasse, he is making the last bends in the
road. He is surprised to find that the top of the hill opposite is brown in color, as if covered
with fallen leaves, while the rest is green. In addition, this brown plate stands in the way.
Suddenly his vehicle misfires, he downshifts. He then notices that the brown plaque recedes.
He observed at that time an object resembling a metal spinning top, whose outlines are not
very clear, kinds of rods connecting an upper disc to a lower disc of larger dimensions. The
object takes off from the left of the road and moves away in the direction of Callas.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed.
Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 1398

01/05/57 0730 near Pajas Blancas Airport, Cordoba, Argentina.

A motorcyclist's engine suddenly failed, and the rider saw a 65ft diameter disc and 16ft thick
hovering above the ground ahead of him. The disc descended to a height of about seven feet
with a hissing sound, and a light descended from its base. The motorcyclist claimed that a
man then emerged, and took him on board the craft where he saw other similar men seated
before instrument panels. He had then been escorted back to his machine, and the disc took
off towards the northwest. During the next hour the same or a similar disc was seen at six or
seven places along the same course.
(FSR The Humanoids, p35, Gross, L 1957 Mar-May) 0063

25/06/57 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

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A car radio stopped playing and street lights went out as a formation of seven white discs with
red rims passed overhead.
(FSR Vol 11, No 5, p27.) 0065

22/08/57 1540 Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida, U.S.A.

The driver and another civilian chased a black bell-shaped object which had two white lights
on top, until the car engine stalled when the object hovered about ten feet away. The
underside of the object was like a disc with fins. Sound from the object was like a helicopter,
but there was no helicopter in the area. The object went out of sight almost instantly when a
jet took off from the airfield. The car battery was found to be completely dead.
(Vallee -Magonia 399, FUFOR Index -Fund for UFO Research. Don Berliner. UFO Briefing
Document.) 0734

-/08/57 Lords Hill, Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

A bright red globe of light paced a car and caused the engine to misfire and the lights to flicker.
(Hanson, J & Holloway, D. Haunted Skies Wiltshire. 2017.) 1277

01/09/57 Le Mars, Iowa, U.S.A.

A man and his wife travelling by car observed a flash of light in the sky. The car's engine and
lights failed.
(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13.) 0068

10/10/57 2000 Quebra coco, Brazil.

A large object, flying high at first and bathing the whole region in light, descended and stalled
a truck. The truck driven by Miguel Espanhol Navarrete and a companion, stated that the
object was oval in shape with a long aerial projecting from its dome. It was described as about
3ft in diameter by 40 inches high and is unevenly oval. Looking like two superimposed plates
separated by a strip some 65 feet thick. The object, now hovering, switched off its light and
the two men were then able to see seven human-looking beings in an open hatch of the craft
for several minutes. The machine then flew off southwards, releasing a small disc which
disappeared towards the north.
(FSR The Humanoids, p36, Project 1947-UFOCAT. Gross, P CE3 1957.) 0069

11/10/57 Fronfrede (Loire), France.

M Baptiste Jourdy aged 30 a milk truck driver was crossing the mountains south of St Etienne
when suddenly his engine cut died and his headlights went out. He stopped instinctively and
got out to inspect the ignition. Overhead , flying under the clouds and at right angles was a
glowing multi-coloured object. It crossed the road in front of him and went into the distance
at high speed. He watched for a minute or two then recovering from his amazement he saw

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that his headlights were on again, he climbed back into his truck and tries the started the
engine turned over as normal.
(Piece for a Jig-Saw. L Cramp.) 0217

11/10/57 Sassier, Bievre, France.

A M Henri Gallois and Louis Vigneron, grain merchants of Clamercy on their way to a fair at
Corbigny when they suddenly as through drove near Sassier they both like an electric shock
run through their bodies. At the same time the motor stalled and headlights went out.
Paralysed and unable to move, we could only sit there wondering what had happened and
watching. Then we saw that about 50 yards away from us in the meadow next to the road
there was a round object or machine and alongside it we could see three figures with quick
lively movements and gestures. But soon the figures seemed to disappear into the object
which then flew off very rapidly, Almost at once our headlights came on and the we could
move and start the car.
(Piece for a Jig-Saw, L Cramp.) 0067

11/10/57 2200 Chateauneuf, France.

Two luminous globes appeared in the sky at low altitude as a car was driving along Route D-
14. The car stalled and the headlights went out. The three witnesses Mmes Julie Juste, Maria
Barbereau and Marion Le Tanneur left the car and watched the objects for about five minutes.
The objects moved about in various directions, one becoming brilliant white with a reddish
halo, and then they descended into the valley of the Charente River. The witnesses re-entered
their car which then ran normally, and resumed their journey.
(Piece for a Jigsaw, p213.) 0070

14/10/57 2200 between Pine Bluff and Stuttgart, Arkansas, U.S.A

Mr and Mrs Simmons were driving on Highway 79 when they saw an extremely bright light
moving through the sky. As it approached, the car engine and lights failed and the car was
drawn to the side of the road as though by a magnet. After about four minutes the powerful
effects ceased and the journey was resumed.
(MUFON UFO Journal. May 1982, p 8.) 0735

15/10/57 0100 near Sao Francisco de Salos, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

A young farmer saw a 'bird-like' craft which carried blinding lights and stalled the tractor he
was driving. The machine landed on tripod legs about ten feet high. The witness claimed that
he had then been taken aboard the machine by four beings who were wearing one-piece
garments and tall helmets.
(FSR The Humanoids, p36.) 0071

15/10/57 1200 Covington, Indiana, U.S.A.

Robert Moudy a farmer from Shelby County reported his combine engine failed as a UFO
hovered over his field. The object was described as flat dish-shaped hovering some 1500ft

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over his farm. It was described as 20ft in diameter and glowing silver with a red flame shooting
out of the middle of it. The object gave off a piercing screaming noise like a screeching tyre
and it suddenly shot off into space disappearing quickly. Two cars also reported stalled at the
same time on a nearby road.
(The Columbus Herald, Columbus, Indiana, USA; The UFO Evidence, p74, Laprade, A. Shapes
In the Sky.) 0072

16/10/57 0100 Sao Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Antonio Villas Boas was ploughing his field at night when he saw a red light approaching in
the sky. The tractor engine and lights failed as the object hovered nearby. The object then
landed, and five humanoid beings forced the witness onto the object. He was then made to
have a sexual encounter with a female being, before he was shown around the interior of the
craft, and then released. The UFO then rose slowly, rotating and moving away southwards in
a few seconds.
(Charles Bowen. The Humanoids, p 101.) 1003

29/10/57 2230 Selma, Alabama, U.S.A.

One disc was observed a car engine and radio suffered EM effects. The disc was reported to
be 30m across and wobbled slowly at first then faster it was seen at 1500m altitude.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1430

30/10/57 2100 near Casper, Wyoming, U.S.A.

As two Casper residents, Hugh Pulju and Shirley Moyer came upon a round shiny object which
had a glowing portion near the upper part which appeared before them. They tried to turn
the car around to leave the area, but had difficulty as the engine kept stalling. Returning to
the main highway the engine trouble ceased. The object was described as big as a house with
two pointed peaks on it.
(UFOs The Whole Story, p159, Laprade, A. Shapes In the Sky.) 0073

31/10/57 Lumberton, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Mrs Jean Stokes of Lumberton was out driving with her husband and another couple when
they spotted a 200ft long object high in the sky. It rose straight up, shot off some type of flame
and then quickly moved away. As if flamed the witnesses car stalled it could be restarted
easily after the sighting.
(The UFO Evidence, [Link] N.C Observer 4th Nov 1957, News and Observer Raleigh,
N.C 6th Nov 1957) 0074

-/10/57 Thegra, France.

The witness is driving at night on the road coming from Thegra. Suddenly his car comes to a
stop, engine stopped, headlights off. He then saw about 60 meters on the left side an oval
object bulging at its top emitting a blinding glow. The object rises silently in successive stages,

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passing from orange to green and disappears on the horizon. The engine starts up on its own
and the headlights come back on.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0346

01/11/57 1920 Carrizozo, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Several witnesses observed a large, brilliant and rapidly moving light which approached their
car and apparently caused the failure of the vehicle's lighting system. The object approached
from the south, then changed course and disappeared into the southwest at high speed.
(Flying Saucers The Startling Evidence, p101.) 0107

02/11/57 2030 Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.

A UFO was reported on a road south of the city. Car engines stalled. Later, a pilot reported a
UFO to the control tower.
(The UFO Evidence, p163.) 0075

02/11/57 2030 near Seminole, New Mexico, U.S.A.

A motorist reported to the sheriff that he saw lights on the road. Car lights and engine failed.
The object on the road suddenly rose and sped away.
(The UFO Evidence, p163.) 0076

02/11/57 2250 Levelland, Texas, U.S.A.

Two farm workers Pedro Saucedo and Joe Salaz saw a giant brilliantly lit object flying over
their truck. As it pass overhead the truck’s engine and headlights died. Resuming to normal
after the object had passed. The object was described as some 200ft long 6 ft wide blue
rocket-shaped object with a yellow flame and white smoke coming from the rear.
(Pegasus V12 N1, Clarke, J 581-582.) 0011

02/11/57 2250 Levelland, Texas, U.S.A.

A number of motorists and police officers in different localities encountered at close range a
luminous egg-shaped object, estimated at about two hundred feet in length. Several reports
confirmed that when the object passed at close range car engines and lights failed. One report
described how two men driving in a truck watched as the object came near. The lights and
engine failed, then the object passed directly over the vehicle with a sound like thunder and
a rush of wind. The truck rocked from the blast and a lot of heat was felt. Later there were
reports of apparently the same luminous object on the ground and taking off in other areas
near Levelland. Reports of vehicle interference effects followed a similar pattern, with
engines and lights returning to normal on the departure of the object.
(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13-14. Also J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p123-127, and The UFO
Evidence, p168.) 0077

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On Route 116 about four miles east of Levelland, Jim Wheeler reported to the police that he
had encountered a two hundred foot long egg-shaped object sitting on the road and casting
a glare over the area. As he approached, his car lights and motor died. The object rose into
the sky and as its lights blinked out the car lights came back on.
(The UFO Evidence, p168.) 0078

02/11/57 2355 Shallowater, Texas, U.S.A.

A UFO sighting was reported, with failure of car lights and radio at the same time.
(International UFO Reporter, Vol 31, No 3.) 1004
02/11/57 Canadian, Texas. U.S.A.
A sighting of object described as submarine shaped, about two to three car lengths and ten
feet high. Also a series of vehicle EM effect cases in Levelland area of Texas on and around
same date.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases, January 2012, p 3.) 0736

02/11/57 Whitharral, Texas, U.S.A.

About eleven miles north of Levelland, Jose Alvarez telephoned the police with a report that
while driving on Route 51 he had approached a glowing object on the road, and his car motor
and lights had failed. A further report from a driver in the same area was telephoned to the
police soon after midnight.
(The UFO Evidence, p168.) 0079

02/11/57 Pettit, near Levelland, Texas, U.S.A.

Two grain combines, each with two engines, failed as a UFO was observed.
(The UFO Evidence, p168.) 0080

03/11/57 0005 Levelland, Texas, U.S.A.

Newell Wright was driving towards Levelland on Route 116 when his car ammeter began
jumping, the motor gradually died and the lights went out. Having got out of the car and found
nothing wrong with the battery and wires, he noticed an oval object on the road ahead. The
object appeared to be over one hundred feet long and was glowing with a bluish-green colour.
He tried to start the car without success. After several minutes the object rose 'almost straight
up', veered to the north and disappeared almost instantly. The car then started without
difficulty.
(The UFO Evidence, p168.) 0081

03/11/57 0015 Whitharral, Texas, U.S.A.

A disc-shaped object was encountered on the road, and the car headlights and engine were
affected. Each time the light from the object pulsated, the car headlights went out. Finally the

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object rose swiftly with a noise like thunder and disappeared. The car then functioned
normally.
(Piece for a Jigsaw, p 213, and The UFO Evidence, p168.) 0082

03/11/57 0045 Levelland, Texas, U.S.A.

Truck driver Ronald Martin saw a glowing red UFO descend and land on Route 116 ahead of
his truck. The object then turned to a bluish-green colour. The electrical system of the truck
failed. When the object took off it turned reddish in colour again.
(The UFO Evidence, p168.) 0083

03/11/57 0100 Levelland, Texas, U.S.A.

Fire Marshall Ray Jones was north of Levelland when he witnessed an oval red light in the sky.
The lights of his vehicle dimmed and the motor almost died, and then started up again. At
about the same time Sheriff Clem and his deputy also observed an oval red light which crossed
the road about 300 yards ahead of the car, lighting up the pavement.
(The UFO Evidence, p168.) 0084

03/11/57 0115 Levelland, Texas, U.S.A.

James Long encountered a glowing egg-shaped object some 200ft long and 200ft away 5 miles
northwest of Levelland. The engine and lights of his vehicle failed. The object rose quickly
with a 'thunderclap' and sped away.
(The UFO Evidence, p168 and p164. UFO Evidence 168) 0085

03/11/57 1900 Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

A very large blinking light passed over a car driven by Edna Ireland who was accompanied by
two friends. The object was heading in a northwesterly direction moving very fast. As the
object passed over their car the motor coughed and the headlights flickered.
(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13, and The UFO Evidence, p164, Laprade, A Shapes In the Sky.) 0086

03/11/57 1900 Sibbald, Alberta, Canada.

An object was observed during which electromagnetic effects were noted on a car. The red
light was star-like and observed by 3 witnesses.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1432

03/11/57 2100 Palo Duro Canyon, Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.

A UFO was reported, with failure of car engine, lights, and battery.
(International UFO Reporter, Vol 31, No 3.) 1005

03/11/57 2200 Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.A.

A UFO report, also with failure of car lights.

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(International UFO Reporter, Vol 31, No 3, p 9.) 1006

03/11/57 Springville, Illinois, U.S.A.

Dorothy Stevens was out driving near Virden when she saw a bright light in the South. Her car
lights dimmed and the engine stopped. After the lights went away the car functioned
normally.
(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13, Project 1947) 0087

04/11/57 0230 Elmwood Park, Chicago, U.S.A.

Three police officers in a patrol car chased an 200ft long elongated reddish UFO also seen by
a fireman. A spotlight was turned on the object as it hovered. The car's headlights dimmed
and the spotlight flickered. As the spotlight hit the object, it shot up about 200 feet and
headed off towards the west.
(The UFO Evidence p164 and UFOs The Whole Story.) 0089

04/11/57 1310 Orogrande, New Mexico, U.S.A.

James Stokes, an electronics engineer, was driving south on Highway 54 when the radio in his
car faded out, then the engine faltered and failed. Several other cars had stopped, their
drivers pointing towards the Sacramento Mountain to the northeast. The witness spotted an
oval-shaped flying object which approached, flew over the highway then turned and headed
into the northwest. Travelling at high speed the object returned, made another pass over the
highway then disappeared once more into the northwest. Interviewed after he had reported
the incident, the witness stated that he felt heat as the object passed over. His skin was
noticeably reddish, and he still felt an itching sensation on his wrists, cheek and neck. He
estimated that the object flew at an altitude of between 1,500 feet and 3,000 feet in scattered
low level clouds. He also noticed that the clouds dissipated in the path of the object.
(Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers The Startling Evidence… p94.) 0090

04/11/57 1930 El Paso Airport, Texas, U.S.A.

A Border Patrol inspector saw an egg-shaped object with a bluish glow approaching from the
southwest with a whirring sound, after the car stalled and the headlights dimmed, then failed.
The object passed over the car then headed west, changing altitude at intervals before rising
vertically at the Franklin Mountains.
(The Hynek UFO Report, p 181, FUFOR Index.) 0737

04/11/57 2200 Kodiak, Alaska, U.S.A.

Engine/lights affected. More information required. Policeman saw fiery red object trailing
greenish-yellow vapour passing low over school. Also vehicle radio interference was noted.
(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13, The UFO Evidence, p164.) 0091

04/11/57 2400 near Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.

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A young couple saw a glowing object on the road while returning to Amarillo. The object was
surrounded by fog. The engine of their car died as they approached it and entered this fog.
The battery also went dead. The car had to be pushed into Amarillo to have the battery
replaced.
(Shopick; Project 1947.) 1370

05/11/57 0450 Springfield, Ohio, U.S.A.

Police witnessed a brilliant blue light in the sky. Two cars had engine trouble.
(The UFO Evidence, p164.) 0092

05/11/57 1700 Kearney, Nebraska, U.S.A.

A car engine stopped and the driver found himself near a silvery object standing on four legs.
Approaching the object, the man stated that two men emerged and took him aboard the
machine. The occupants of the craft seemed to be working on some wiring, and when they
moved about they seemed to slide instead of walking. The man then left the craft which lifted
straight upwards silently and disappeared.
(FSR The Humanoids, p55.) 0093

05/11/57 1930 Hobbs, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Two separate reports of a light which paralleled car, and passed directly over car. Car lights
and engines failed.
(The UFO Evidence, p165.) 0094

05/11/57 2130 San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.

Car lights, engine and radio failed as Lon Yarborough saw a bright egg-shaped object hovering
above a field some 200 yards away. The object described as glaring white like a big neon sign
approx. 60ft long. He heard a whistling noise as it went overhead and felt a blast of hot air. It
disappeared in a few seconds after it had vanished his lights and radio came back on and he
had no difficulty starting his car.
(The UFO Evidence, p165, and FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13, Laprade, A. Shapes In the Sky.) 0095

05/11/57 2300 near Hobbs, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Two young men saw a red light north of the highway at a point 38 miles west of Hobbs. They
watched for 9 to 10 minutes, thinking it was an oil-flare, when the light suddenly rose straight
up. After pacing the car for a few minutes, the light turned toward the car, passed over it, and
hovered over the Permian Basin Pipe Line Plant. As it passed overhead, the car engine
sputtered, then died, and the lights went out. After the men coasted the car down the road,
the motor restarted and they drove away. The battery was found to be dead the following
morning and the dashboard clock was stopped.

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(Schopick; Project 1947.) 1371

05/11/57 Monroe, Louisiana. U.S.A.

A Lilly Billips was driving on Texas Avenue when a white light a large white light seemed to
pass over the automobile, stopping the motor. As it approached, it sounded like a whirl
wind”.
(Monroe, Louisiana News Star 6 November 1957; Project 1947.) 1372

06/11/57 0001 Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Elliptical UFO emitting a hum passed low over car. Driver Joe Martinez reported that the car
engine, clock and his wristwatch stopped.
(The UFO Evidence, p165.) 0096

06/11/57 0430 Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

William Rush reported seeing a reddish elliptical UFO moving at high speed observed as car
engine failed. After it left he was able to restart the car.
(Corsicana, Texas, USA, 6.11.1957 - Kay Coggin, The UFO Evidence, p166.) 0097

06/11/57 0430 near Pell City, Alabama, U.S.A.

James Moore a milkman saw a glow in the sky and his car engine failed. He left to obtain aid
and saw an oblong object hovering approx 200ft above the ground. It was approx 600ft long
and 150ft wide. He also noticed that the ground was slightly scorched all around.
(K Coggin, Times-Picayone, New Orleans, La. USA, The Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 07.11.1957,
The UFO Evidence, p166.) 0098

06/11/57 0540 Playa Del Rey, California, U.S.A.

The engines of several cars stopped. When the drivers got out of their vehicles to see what
was wrong they saw an egg-shaped craft wrapped in a 'blue haze' on the beach. The object
seemed to be resting on two metal rings. The drivers claimed that two men got out of the
object, asked questions of the drivers and then returned to the machine which took off again.
(FSR The Humanoids, p56.) 0099

06/11/57 1700 Plattsburg, New York, U.S.A.

Car engine and radio failed as a silvery sphere was seen overing directly overhead.
(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13, T Colvin PBB Case record 10073.) 0101

06/11/57 2300 US Highway 68 near Chardon, Ohio, U.S.A.

Mrs Olden Moore Jr reported that her husband had observed a window-less egg shaped
object with a “bluish-green” glow land as he was returning home from a business trip. His car

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stopped when he saw the object shortly afterwards the car was able to be restarted. The
couple return 30 mins later but the object had gone.
(The Sandusky Register, Sandusky, Ohio, USA. Kay Coggin) 1292

06/11/57 Alamogordo, New Mexico, U.S.A.

The witness in this case noticed a huge elliptical shaped UFO which was flying between the
Missile Centre and White Sands. As the object neared the highway the car's radio and ignition
systems cut out, as did those of ten other vehicles. The driver stated that as the object passed
he felt a tremendous wave of heat. Later medical examination found that he was suffering
from sunburn.
(Brinsley Le Poer Trench, The Flying Saucer Story, p96-97.) 0100

06/11/57 Danville, Illinois, U.S.A.

State troopers chased a brilliant white UFO for 15 miles, and experienced failure of their short
wave radio. During the chase the object changed colour to amber, then bright orange.
(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13. The UFO Evidence, p166.) 0102

07/11/57 0745 Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.A.

A car engine failed. A silvery disc was seen hovering low overhead, then it sped away.
(The UFO Evidence, p166.) 0103

07/11/57 0920 Orogrande, New Mexico, U.S.A.

About 20 miles from the area of the November 4th incident, Mr and Mrs T. Lindsey and their
son were driving south on Highway 54 when the car's speedometer was noticed to be varying
wildly between their travelling speed of 60 mph and 110 mph. A strange object was then seen
in the sky to the southwest. The object was flying at high altitude, had sharply defined edges
and looked metallic. It disappeared after about three minutes and the speedometer then
functioned normally again. The car's speedometer had never given trouble before or since
the incident. The car was 1954 Mercury with a magnetic speedometer.
(Flying Saucers The Startling Evidence, p99.) 0104

7/12/57 2145 near Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

A driver saw a V formation of three objects, glowing and pulsating in the sky. One of the
objects descended, landing nearby as the car stalled. He got out of the car, and walked to
within about twenty feet of the object, estimating it to be about 150 feet in diameter. Before
it took off, a wave of heat was emitted, causing the man to have radiation-like burns.
(MUFON Symposium Proceedings 2003.) 1009

07/11/57 2330 Moutville, Ohio, U.S.A.

A car was found pockmarked after reports of television interference. A UFO was reported on
the ground about half a mile from the television viewer's house.

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(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13. The UFO Evidence, p75.) 0105

08/11/57 1800 Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.A.

Paul Rutledge saw a strange craft 30ft above the ground near his home on the outskirts of
Waterloo. As he was putting his car in his garage when the engine died, He looked up and saw
an object which looked like a football about 30ft long with a metallic bottom and a glass top.
He said that the light protruded into the top of the object and that he saw movements around
inside. The object hovered for around half an hour and then took off towards the North with
no visible sign of propulsion and making no noise.
(Kay Coggin, The Fairbury Daily News, Nebraska, USA.) 001

08/11/57 El Paso, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Trent Lindsey and his wife and son saw an object as they were driving to El Paso. The cars
speedometer was jumping back and forth as they spotted a silvery object travelling out of the
Northeast. It was estimated to be 10000ft above them and 30 miles away. They could tell it
was not an airplane from that distance and was very large. It was cylindrical oval in shape and
they observed it for three minutes.
(Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, Tevas. USA. [Link].1957. Kay Coggin). 1032

09/11/57 0015 Sacramento, California, U.S.A

A car driver stated that the engine and headlights failed when an egg-shaped object with
delta-shaped wings was seen above the car. The object was bright blue in colour, about 150-
200 feet long and 40-50 feet wide, leaving a blue fluorescent trail. The sighting lasted for two
or three minutes.
(International UFO Reporter, Volume 34, Number 1, p 19.) 0738

09/11/57 0100 Lake City, Missouri, U.S.A.

A car engine died as an elongated object appeared hovering 50 feet above the ground. When
the object left everything returned to normal.
(Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p138.) 0106

09/11/57 2110 Bedford, Indiana, U.S.A

Three women reported at police headquarters in Bedford that they had seen a strange blue
and white object at low altitude, before it veered away towards the southwest. The women
followed by car, and as the object approached the ground the car engine died, and would not
start until a few seconds later when the object began ascending again, leaving a bluish trail
spotted with white. No noise was heard, and the object disappeared suddenly.
(APRO Bulletin, May 1958, p 8, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0739

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Police chased an elongated object, and a loud bleeping sound interfered with the police radio.
A television blackout was reported in the city, and motorists also reported radio failures. Jack
Osborne was driving his car along with two passengers when they reported that they saw
some flashing lights in the sky when the radio suddenly stopped playing.
(The Times, Munster Indiana, 13 Nov 1957 – Kay Goggin, FSR Vol 11, No 5.) 0108

10/11/57 1920 Carrizozo, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Dan King along with 7 other family members were driving six miles north of Carrizozo when
they noticed the car headlights dimming and then they went out. They got out of the car to
investigate the problem with the car. They noticed a brightly lit object over the mountains to
the north it had a blue-white haze around it. After the high flying light had passed the car
lights worked perfectly.
(Alamogordo Daily News, New Mexico, USA. 15 Nov 1957 – Kay Goggin.) 0107

10/11/57 1950 Sweetwater, Texas, U.S.A.

A car engine stalled, and the car lights went out at the time of a UFO sighting.
(International UFO Reporter, Vol 31, No 3.) 1008

12/11/57 2220 Rumney, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Car engine failed and lights went out. Ground observer reported a UFO at the same time.
Report of a red light moving away.
(The UFO Evidence, p167 and p75.) 0109

13/11/57 2130 Epsom, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

A Mrs Frederick Palmer was on her way to work when she saw three small red balls travelling
across the sky and her car played up. It was as if the car was running out of gas. She stopped
at a nearby farmhouse and summoned the occupants who also watch the objects. After the
spheres had left her car acted normally and she continued her journey.
(Nashia New Hampshire Telegraph, USA 14.11.57, Project 1947.) 0794

14/11/57 Jamara, Illinois, U.S.A.

Engine/lights affected. More information required. Brief report of local power failure, location
given as Tamaroa.
(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p13, FSR Vol 11, No 5.) 0110

15/11/57 1400 Cachoeira, Brazil.

Several car engines failed as drivers attempted to approach a UFO hovering low above the
ground.
(The UFO Evidence, p167.) 0111

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20/11/57 0530 60 miles N Holbrook, Arizona, U.S.A.

Bruce Leadbetter and Carl Van Girder were driving at about 60-65 mph when all of a sudden
the engine stopped. At the same time the car was rolling to a halt they noticed that it was
getting very bright outside as if daytime. In another split second this “thing” passed over them
it was about 500ft above them an disappeared from view behind a hill in front of them. The
object was brilliant white in colour and was shaped round like a basketball with a long cone-
like tail that bristled with spark and light.
(Arizona Daily Sun 21/11/1957.) 1338

23/11/57 0610 near Tonopah, Nevada, U.S.A.

A U.S. Air Force officer 1st Lt Joseph Long was returning home to Delaware from a training
course at Stead Air Force Base when his car engine stopped suddenly, and he was unable to
restart it. The weather was calm and clear, and it was around dawn with no stars or Moon
visible. He got out of the car to investigate, and heard a high pitched whining sound then saw
four disc shaped objects on the ground, several hundred yards away to one side of the
highway. He walked towards the objects until he was about 50 feet away, and described them
as luminous with a transparent dome in the centre, and three dark hemispherical landing
gears. The objects appeared to be about 10 to 15 feet high, and there seemed to be a dark
rotating ring around the outside. A humming sound increased to a high pitch, and the objects
lifted off the ground, retracting the landing gear before they moved slowly away to the north
across the highway and disappeared behind hills. The sighting lasted about 20 minutes, and
when the witness examined the landing site he found shallow impressions in a triangular
pattern. Returning to the car, he found that the engine started without any further problem.
He then drove to Indian Springs Air Force Base and reported the sighting to the base security
officer.
(The Hynek UFO Report, p182-186, PBB Files via T Colvin.) 0112

28/11/57 Hakalau, Hawaii, U.S.A.

Car motor failed and the driver felt numb as a bright flash of light appeared in the sky about
20 feet above the highway and ahead of the car.
(The UFO Evidence, p75.) 0113

-/11/57 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

A police patrol car pursued a flying object which had caused interference with the car's radio
transmission and electrical system. As the object flew south, radio dispatches about the
sighting were broadcast. An amateur radio operator at Joliet, Illinois began picking up a
strange signal, described as similar to a telemetry signal used for data transmission from
satellites and balloons. The object was tracked by several other radio operators from the area
of Chicago southwards to the Dallas, Texas area.
(UFOs The Whole Story, p85.) 0114

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Car engine/lights affected. Further information required.

(Flying Saucers The Startling Evidence, p195.) 0115

-/11/57 Tennessee, U.S.A.

Lorry engine/lights affected. Further information required.

(Flying Saucers The Startling Evidence, p195.) 0116

-/11/57 Texas, U.S.A.

An army camp was visited by a glowing disc-shaped object which came down and hovered
above the buildings. Tanks were brought in. Suddenly it became unbearably hot in the tanks
and the men came scrambling out, while in a nearby building the lights went out.
(Flying Saucers The Startling Evidence, p163.) 0117

-/11/57 Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Car engine and headlights failed twice as witness saw flashes of light in the sky. The witness
blamed the event on 'static atmosphere'.
(The UFO Evidence, p75.) 0118

-/11/57 1645 Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, U.S.A

Two men Milton Garcia and Rudy Valdez reported observing a weird object as they were
driving away from. Ghost Ranch. The car suddenly faltered and the engine died. A glowing red
mushroom-shaped object was then noticed ahead. Flames seemed to come off the object's
surface as it went across the sky at high speed, before it then disappeared suddenly.
(APRO Bulletin, May 1958, p 8.) 0740

03/12/57 1900 near Ellensburg, Washington, U.S.A.

Truck motor almost stopped, and caught again as a UFO was sighted. The sighting was
confirmed by police.
(The UFO Evidence, p75, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0119

08/12/57 1730 Woodward, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

A disc-shaped UFO with a dome, and with three "pads" underneath, came suddenly towards
a car carrying three people. The car engine began to fail, and finally stalled. Headlights, the
radio, heater and wipers also failed. The object hovered overhead, emitting a high pitched
whining sound. The witnesses estimated that the object was over fifty feet in diameter. After
about two minutes the whining sound increased in pitch, and the object then rose vertically
out of sight. The car headlights then came on again, and the engine started by itself.
(CUFOS, and International UFO Reporter, Vol 31, No 3, p 9 and 22.) 1010

08/12/57 2100 near Coulee City, Washington, U.S.A.

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Automobiles stalled, headlights flickered and went out as a large fiery object passed
overhead.
(The UFO Evidence, p75, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0120

-/12/57 0050 Bourganeuf, France.

During the second half of the month, a witness observed a disc-shaped object with an
apparent diameter of 30 arc minutes. It had an orange colour and was faintly luminous. It was
traveling at more than 2,500 km / h in a straight line and without any noise. The witness's
vehicle broke down during the sighting.
(The Universons by Poher Claude.) 0353

-/-/57 U.S. Route 54, New Mexico, U.S.A.

One night in the autumn of 1957, a sergeant stationed at Holloman Air Force Base was driving
along Route 54 when he saw in the west a light which ascended and descended out of sight
near the ground. Turning off on to another road in that direction, he had driven some distance
when suddenly his engine stopped and the lights went out. He then saw nearby a disc-shaped
glowing object which seemed to lower itself into a depression in the ground, before
reappearing a few minutes later and repeating the manoeuvre. When the object descended
out of sight the car engine would start again, and with the lights also coming back on. Rather
alarmed, he turned the car around while the object was being observed, and left the area.
(International UFO Reporter, Vol 34, No 1, p 18.) 0741

-/-/57 near Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

At Easter time, a red, blinking disc-shaped object about two feet in diameter was observed
from a car by police officers Joseph Scala and Emanuel Mavero for ten minutes. The object
was seen rising and falling in the sky, with other gyrations, and the police radio
communications did not function during the sighting.
(APRO Bulletin, September 1964.) 1011

-/-/57 East Transvaal, South Africa.

A female witness was driving on an isolated road when the engine of her car suddenly failed
and then she heard a roaring noise which increased and then suddenly a “deathly silence”.
She saw a man-like figure standing a few metres away and waved at him. He beckoned her
and said he was from Venus. She later had several contacts and allegedly visited Venus and
the dark side of the moon.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1955-1959.) 1199

-/-/57 St Etienne, France.

The observation actually took place thirty km from St Etienne, but the exact location is not
given. The witnesses, a couple are camping. They are blinded by a sort of projector of great
power and shrouded in lights. The engine of their vehicle stalls. They descend from the
latter. The projector turns off and reveals an orange elliptical shape. The object moves away

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passing gradually to a green color. The object seems to be extinguished by the edges to
leave only a large luminous point which disappears. During the observation, a noise like a
hissing, mingled with the noise of a sewing machine was heard. The witnesses had with
them 5 hunting dogs which they released immediately after their observation. The latter
descended a slope and climbed back up to a small plateau, then came back with their tail
between their legs, their hair shaggy, drooling and visibly scared. No one wanted to go out
all evening. The next day everything seemed to be back to normal except for one of them
(the oldest) who from that day was definitely distraught by the thunderstorm lightning
although he had never been before.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0337

13/01/58 2345 Casino, New South Wales, Australia.

Brian Crittenden sees a dome-shaped light with a long narrow light underneath coming
directly towards him as he is leaving a friends house. He jumps into his car and head home.
The object follows his car and his car radio develops interference when the UFO approaches
him. It follows him all the way to town some 7 miles away.
(The UFO Evidence, p75, Gross, L Jan-Feb 1958.) 0122

30/01/58 2345 Between Arequipa and Lima, Peru.

A Peruvian lawyer was driving with his wife and her brother they were 220 miles North of
Arequipa when their headlights went out and the engine died. The driver stopped the car
then they noticed an object descending from the sky when it reached a height of approx.
150ft it stopped and hovered. It had the shape of a classic flying saucer and the colour was
orange-red. It remained motionless for 8 minutes then disappeared into the cloudy sky. The
engines of a truck, bus also failed and the passengers felt a nervous shock as a UFO descended
and hovered.
(T Colvin – PBB CSI 1958, Piece for a Jigsaw, p213, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0124

-/01/58 0130 near Niagara Falls, New York State, U.S.A.

In a snowstorm and bad visibility a large shape some 50ft long was seen at the side of the
roadway ahead. The car engine slowed down and then both engine and lights failed. Two
strange beings were then seen moving around a luminous rod on top of the object. The figures
and the object spun took off and vanished. The lights of the car suddenly came on again and
the engine could be started. Examining the spot with a flashlight the witness found that there
was a hole melted in the snow and the exposed grass was warm.
(Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p15.) 0125

05/02/58 Elm Creek, Nebraska, U.S.A.

A sequel to the incident reported to have occurred on 5th November, 1957 near Kearney,
Nebraska. The same witness, Mr Reinhold Schmidt, stated that his car once again stopped

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and a hovering machine landed. He said that he was again taken on board, and flown to a
spot near Kearney, about 60 miles away.
(FSR Vol 4, No 3, p5.) 0126

17/02/58 2015 Alcalde, New Mexico, U.S.A.

A domed disc was seen in a canyon 2 witnesses suffered electromagnetic to vehicle and
physiological effects noted.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1433

24/02/58 0305 between Nazare and Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

When their car engine started missing then failed completely in a lonely spot, three men were
preparing to spend the rest of the night at the side of the road. A huge luminous object was
noticed hovering in the sky. The object, which was silvery blue in colour with a luminous ring
spinning at high speed, came silently towards the car then descended like a falling leaf until it
steadied itself about 9 to 12 feet from the ground. After a short interval the object took off in
a vertical climb and performed a series of lightning- fast manoeuvres. Two hours later, at
6.30a.m, the object was seen once more before it finally disappeared. The car then functioned
smoothly and no further problems were experienced.
(UFOs The Whole Story, p150.) 0127

-/02/58 0645 Monkland, Ontario, Canada.

A woman driving from Monkland to Strathmore with her 5 year old daughter on this cold,
clear morning heard a whirring sound and, rolling down her window, saw a large, grey saucer
or bowl shaped object, with lights around its edge, coming from the north. As the thing passed
over the car bonnet, the car engine stopped, only to restart when the object moved off to the
south. The little girl was afraid and crying. The observation lasted about 3-5 minutes.
(Cameron 1995.) 1601

-/02/58 Ica, Peru.

Dr Jose Valencia and his wife Teresa along with his nephew Manual Portocarrero while driving
in a car from Arequipa to Lima when they observed a flying saucer standing still in the air at a
height of about 1500ft. Several passengers in a bus and a truck travelling in the same direction
also saw the saucer shaped object. When they were about 350 miles North of Arequipa the
car lights began to flicker and then went out completely. They stopped th car to get out to
investigate and was soon joined by the bus and truck which were also experiencing the same
problems. They observed a strange incandescent object floating above their heads it was
saucer shaped and was quite, It remain above them for 8 minutes.
(Williamson 1959, Diario las Americas, Miami, Florida, USA Feb 6, 1958 – Kay Coggin.) 1602

-/03/58 2230 Ponta Poran, Paraguay.

Several witnesses observed a bright object which suddenly shot straight towards their car,
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the back of his head. They were directly under the object, which was larger than the car and
seemed to be made of polished metal. The car was then driven away but the object followed,
appearing to be only a few feet away. No noise or heat was noticed. After about 15 minutes
trees forced the object to climb higher in the sky. The object was then seen to dive at high
speed, landing on a hill in the middle of the road ahead. As the car climbed the hill, a strange
thing happened- the headlights were gradually raised until the beams lit the object, which
wobbled violently and shot straight up into the air. Minutes later the object began to follow
the car again at a distance. After a further ten minutes the object changed course, climbed
vertically and vanished.
(Flying Saucers, The Startling Evidence, p151.) 0128

-/05/58 near Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

Engine of car began running roughly. The driver then noticed a UFO following the car.
(The UFO Evidence, p75.) 0130

07/07/58 2000 Sous de Mataojo, Uruguay.

A dark disc was observed which caused total failure of a car electrical system it damaged the
spark plugs and headlights along with various physical effects to witness.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1400

03/08/58 0025 Rome, Italy.

A sudden violet-orange brightness illuminates the sky over Rome for around 3 seconds and
lights in the city dim. Angelo Corsi witnesses it 37miles SE in Sgurgola and his car radio fails.
The streetlight and house lights also go out he sees a long whitish trail like a fan in the sky.
(The UFO Evidence, p75, Gross, L 1958 Aug-Sept.) 0131

08/08/58 0127 between Unusue and Bolivar, Argentina.

Car engine stalled and the dashboard clock stopped at 1.27 a.m. The witness failed to restart
the car, and then noticed 300 to 400m away what appeared to be a machine advancing slowly
towards him. The object emitted a weak phosphorescent light and had a dome on top, from
which came a blinding bluish light. The witness noticed a soft whirling sound like a fan. Finally
the object rose at speed and took off towards the south. He noticed the oil gauge on his car
had gone ‘crazy’ but he was able to restart the car.
(Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, p52 – Project Blue Book Terry Colvin.) 0132

30/08/58 1730 Near Allentown, Pennsylvania. U.S.A.

The date was either 30/08 or 06/09, Robert Buchman was driving on a rural road he was alone
and listening to the radio as he drove. He suddenly became aware of a loud and intermittent
buzzing noise on the radio which began to go off and on by itself. Then the car which was
moving at 40mph stalled. He pulled the vehicle to the side of the road while it was coasting
and then he saw a green Pontiac about 25 ft away in front of him, apparently in similar
circumstances. He heard a noise like a airplane above and looked up to see a dark balloon or

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zeppelin type object in the sky overhead. It was difficult to describe as it was a dark silhouette
against a bright sky.
(Gross, L. UFOs A History 1958 Vol.4.) 1349

-/08/58 0100 Kara-Khobda, USSR.

A 19 year old delivery driver had stopped for the night by the river. He was wakened by a
fellow driver as it was starting to rain. The other man’s truck got some distance ahead, and as
the witness tried to speed up to catch up, he skidded He then saw a man with a hand held up,
on the other side of a ditch 50m away. Thinking this was another driver needing help; the
witness drove to within 10m and let down the window. Then figure rose 40cm above the
ground and floated towards the young man’s truck and then jumped on the bonnet, at which
the truck’s lights and engine failed. The being had huge yellow-green eyes. The driver hit out
at the figure with his spanner, at which a felt as blow between his eyes and passed out. When
he came to the figure had gone and the engine and lights now worked by themselves. He
drove off and when he got to base, he noticed rain just slid off the bonnet as it was covered
in some sort of grease.
(Fortean Times.)1603

20/09/58 Near Rijen, Holland.

A J D Walop was driving his motorcycle in the woods when it suddenly stopped. As he could
not find any defects in the vehicle he looked around and saw a strange disc like object flying
through the air at a height of about 75m. It had a dull red colour with a diameter of around
20-30m and was moving slowly along. While it was flying a humming noise was heard. When
the object disappeared the motorcycle function normally.
(Gross, L. UFOs A History 1958. Vol.5.) 1351

22/10/58 Cumberland, Maryland, U.S.A.

Car headlights, engine and radio failed as a UFO hovered low over the roadside.
(Piece for a Jigsaw, p213.) 0134

26/10/58 2230 Loch Raven Dam, near Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Two witnesses Alvin Cohen and Phillip Small rounding a curve in the red observe a luminous
elliptical object 100ft long stationary in the sky over a bridge some 300ft in the away. Driving
closer, and to within about 75 feet of the bridge the car suddenly stopped with its electrical
system apparently failed. The two men got out of the car and watched the object for about a
minute they thought it was a navy blimp. The object began to glow more brightly then shot
straight up into the air and vanished in 5-10 seconds. Intense heat was felt, and a loud
explosive sound was heard just before the object disappeared. The men returned to the car
which could then be driven without any difficulty.
(UFOs The Whole Story, p91. FSR Vol 13, No 6, p11, Gross, L. 1958 Oct, Sifakis, C Official Guide
to UFO Sightings State by State Encounters.) 0135

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A motorist approaching a bridge over the Grand Buech River saw in the sky a motionless
luminous disc which resembled two plates glued together. Driving up to the bridge, he got
out of his station wagon and observed that the object was now overhead. It was perfectly
circular with a smaller inside circle from which short red sparks were emitted. As he was
returning to his vehicle after two or three minutes the object suddenly emitted a formidable
stream of blinding sparks and rose vertically at speed, leaving first a fiery trail then a faint
glow which vanished. A very strong air displacement was felt which rocked the station wagon.
No interference with the ignition of the vehicle was noted. This report occurred two days after
the remarkably similar Loch Raven Darn, Baltimore case of October 26th which had received
no publicity in the United States.
(Challenge to Science, p194-197.) 0136

02/11/58 2200 Happy, Texas, U.S.A

The witness was approaching his farm home when he saw a blue object above the roadway.
As he drove under the object the ampere meter of his car jumped from charge to full charge,
and the engine stopped. The object then moved away, climbing at high speed and with a red
stream of fire behind it.
(MUFON UFO Journal, November 1988, p 21.) 0742

08/11/58 Riverside, California, U.S.A.

Charles Wetzel (24) was slowing down to avoid a flood on the road, when his car radio began
to fill with static and he saw a 1.8m tall creature bound along and stop in front his car. The
being had a scaly skin, long arms, which it was waving around and seemed to walk from the
hips, its legs coming straight form the torso. It had neither no ears nor mouth, but did have a
protuberant, “beaky” mouth. It emitted a high pitched gurgling sound and reached over the
bonnet to claw at the windscreen. Charles grabbed his gun then accelerated away as fast as
possible, running over the creature, which scraped the underside of the car. The following
night something jumped out of the underbrush and frightened another motorist.
(Fortean Times 39.) 1604

16/11/58 Upland, near Stockholm, Sweden.

Two men travelling towards Vaddo at dusk found their car stopping and the lights going out.
A shining object was then seen to descend and land about 60 yards away. The object was
circular, and blue with a yellow rim lighting up an area about 100 yards in diameter. After
about three minutes the object began to move then vanished into the air. The car then started
easily. Driving to the spot, the men noticed a ‘closeness' or heaviness of the air and saw that
the grass was flattened.
(Physical Trace Catalogue, No 124.) 0137

-/-/58 near Skrydstrup Air Station, Denmark.

An elderly motorist was making his usual journey along a small road to reach a farm, when
the car stopped unexpectedly. There was a field on his right hand side, and a pond on the left,

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with an electric fence from the pond to the road. He then saw a strong white light directed at
the car. The light moved silently along the fence, making various movements, and was then
seen to be coming from an object about 25 to 30 feet in diameter, moving about 10 to 15
metres above the ground. It then stopped in the middle of the road for a few seconds before
moving away southwards. The car then restarted, and the driver went home to the farm,
where he reported his experience.
(Scandinavian UFO Information, 31/3/2013.) 1013

-/-/58 0100 Adequate Springs, Colorado, U.S.A.

A mine operator locked the operation up for the night and began driving home. The next thing
he remembers was being on the street of the town 4 tp 5 miles away and no recollection of
driving the distance. Under hypnosis the story unfolded he saw a light around the bend of the
mountain road. Two bars of intense light straddled the road with a single bright round light
above. His car died and his headlights went out. He sat in the dead vehicle watching the lights
and three entities emerged and came towards him. The entities came to the left and right
side of him and in front. When pushed further for more information he developed a pain
above his left ear and was not able to remember anything else.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1955-1959.) 1201

-/-/58 0200 Near Dalhart, Texas. U.S.A.

A man driving outside of town suddenly experienced engine trouble, his vehicle spluttered
and died and the headlights flickered out. As he began to walk into town he heard a high
pitched tone ringing in his ears. He noticed a faint glow coming from behind a nearby rise. As
he started to walk towards the glow he spotted a large metallic disc-shaped craft sitting on
the ground. He approached the object and banged on its side several times yelling out at the
same time. Suddenly a metallic voice spoke to him asking him questions and explaining that
the craft had developed a malfunction and that it was being repaired. A second object
appeared nearby and landed. Six human-like figures appeared from the 2nd craft and
appeared to move equipment to the disabled craft.

One of the figures approached the witness and communicated using telepathy. The figure was
described as a man-like wearing a white silver one piece suit, a helmet, gloves and boots. The
figures walked back to the objects which lifted up and silently disappeared at high speed.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1955-1959.) 1202

-/-/58 2300 Bethlehem, New Hampshire. U.S.A.

During Autumn 1958 three boys out camping saw three red lights hovering overhead they
watched them for several minutes. After a while they saw a large round saucer-like object
come into view. The three smaller items then joined the larger one and seemed to disappear
inside the larger object. A couple of friends decided to go into the area to try and photograph
the object. They parked up turn the lights of the car off but left the radio on and the engine
running. They saw the larger object and the radio and the car turned off as the object hovered
nearby. After a few seconds it was gone the radio came back on but the engine did not. He
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(Gross, L. UFOs A History 1958. Vol.5.) 1352

13/01/59 0700 near Greenville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A truck driver noticed what he at first thought were the lights of an airliner making an
emergency landing. The lights came slowly closer, then appeared as one very bright light, and
hovered overhead for three or four minutes whereupon the truck's whole electrical system
failed. When the light departed it left at speed and disappeared into the west in about 30
seconds. The truck's engine, lights and radio then came back to life.
(UFOs The Whole Story, p95.) 0139

13/01/59 Bygholm, Denmark.

A car driver travelling in a westerly direction saw a round, stationary object in the sky. After
about five seconds the object started to move and approached at a height of about 100
metres. As the object passed over the car the engine failed but the lights remained on. The
object then reappeared moving westwards at increasing speed, and changed colour from
yellow-green to white-yellow, 'like a car light'. The witness estimated that the object was
about 15 metres in diameter.
(FSR Vol 5, No 5, p9.) 0140

25/02/59 0830 Hobbs, New Mexico, U.S.A.

A strange signal was picked up on the car radio as a driver travelling on State Road 18 watched
a glowing egg-shaped object. The object travelled fast about ten degrees above the southern
horizon and disappeared towards the east. The duration of the sighting was estimated at 30
seconds. The signal received was described as a steady succession of two dots and a dash.
(UFOs The Whole Story, p93.) 0141

19/03/59 2045 Kyger, Ohio, U.S.A.

A buzzing, static-like sound on car radio. Lights dimmed. An unidentified light source seen
ahead of car.
(The UFO Evidence, p75, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0142

04/04/59 1650 Roskilde, Denmark.

A luminous cylinder shaped object was observed hanging in the sky a motorcycle engine dies
when the object moved 200m away the motorcycle’s engine restarted.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1401

24/04/59 Piata, Brazil.

Senhor Helio Aquiar was riding a motorcycle when he noticed what looked like a black spot
out over the sea. The object came closer and the motorcycle engine failed. He then saw that
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under surface. The witness took photographs while the object performed aerobatic
movements in the sky. He then felt a strange pressure in the head and lost consciousness.
(FSR Vol 13, No 3, p5.) 0143

13/08/59 2145 Freeport, Texas, U.S.A.

Orville Shanks is driving with 3 passengers on Highway 332 when they see a bright object with
two satellite lights approach at low altitude. The car motor stalls and the headlights go out.
The two lights appear to land with the main object following them. The main light is
continually changing colour and varying the intensity of the light. The motor and headlights
come back on when the object crosses the road and Shanks drives on. Around midnight they
return and the object is still there, Shanks gets out and approaches. The object starts to glow
brightly and making a noise so they drive away.
(The UFO Evidence, p75, Project 1947-UFOCAT, Gross, L UFO History 1959 July-Sept.) 0146

15/08/59 2100 Mohave, California, U.S.A.

One object observed overhead which cut the car lights and motor off. The light was seen for
2 minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1434

-/08/59 1400 Skiatook, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

On a very hot day, two cars stalled near a bridge over a small creek, and a shiny circular object
was observed hovering over the creek. The object extended a hose into the water for several
minutes, with the witness noticing that the water was in a mound under the hovering object.
When the hose was retracted, and the object moved away, both cars could be restarted.
(CUFOS.) 1014

25/10/59 Cumberland, Maryland, U.S.A.

The driver and two passengers in a car observed in the sky a disc-shaped object with a bluish-
green light around its edges. The object dropped almost straight down until it appeared to be
about 50 feet above and to the right of the car, then it moved in front of the car. As the object
hovered a humming vibration was heard. The car's lights, engine and radio failed and could
not be restarted. The object then shot straight upwards, then forward, turned tightly and
climbed flying edge-on. As it vanished into the clouds the car's radio and lights came on again
and the driver was able to restart the engine.
(The UFO Evidence, p75. UFOs The Whole Story, p104, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0147

08/11/59 Alvin, Texas, U.S.A

The police chief at Alvin received a report that a truck driver was stranded after being
followed all the way from Corpus Christi by a UFO which occasionally descended lower,

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producing fog, and with rays causing his truck engine to stop running. When the police chief
went out to the location with a patrolman, it was admitted that there was an object hovering
high up in the sky, and shining brightly in the morning sunlight. The object later moved away,
and the truck driver was able to continue his journey.
(MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p 23.) 0743

16/11/59 2000 Air Base, Czechoslovakia.

Two officers of the Czechoslovak Air Force a Commander Duchon and one other named Bezak
were driving towards an air base, (location not given) and were about ten kilometres from
the airfield when the car engine stalled. A sapphire-coloured band of light was then seen
moving across the sky at high speed, the coloured light remaining behind for a few seconds –
apparently in the wake of an unknown object, but there was no sound. The car restarted after
some time, and on arriving at the air base the men were told that pilots and ground staff had
seen a ‘flaming ball’ in the sky, travelling silently over the base at speed before making a 90
degree turn, and then coming back over the base. The object had also been tracked on radar
at an altitude of 1,000 metres, and with its size indicated as being twice that of the largest
known bomber aircraft.

There were aircraft at the base held in readiness, which received orders to intercept the
object – but the aircraft were unable to take off before the object disappeared from view and
from radar. However, about a minute later the object returned, remaining stationary over the
runway for a further two minutes at an altitude of 100 metres before accelerating away at
speed and disappearing again. The object was observed through binoculars by base
personnel, and was described as a disc of at least 150 metres diameter, with a glowing band
around it.
(Timothy Good. Need to Know, p 237-238. FSR Vol 6, No 4, p 31-32.) 0708

-/12/59 0545 Proberta, California, U.S.A.

A truck radio made a snapping noise and the headlights grew dimmer. Driver Larry Jensen
stops and gets out of his vehicle to investigate further. He then sees a green crescent shape
object some 80-90ft wide and 15-20ft thick hovering 60 feet away behind his pickup truck felt
as if. He was "being sucked up into space". The crescent shape object hovered, rocking
backwards and forwards then suddenly leaves in a north-easterly direction, moving out of
view in a few seconds. The truck's battery was found to have melted, and the wires had been
burned.
(CUFOS.) 1015

-/12/59 Near Brocton, Staffordshire, England.

Mr F, was travelling from Stafford to Hednesford after a day’s work with him were his wife
and a woman friend of the family. The car a Morris “Oxford” was going along a steep bank
just after the German Military Cemetery to Pye Greene when the car began to falter and then
stalled 30-40 yards away from the top of the hill. Mr F got out and tickled the petrol pump
and managed to get the car started but it limped only a half dozen yards and then conked out
again. At this point the two woman got out to push it was quite dark and light snow covered

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the ground. They all became aware of a small figure standing on the road to their rear it was
approximately 3ft 6in high and humanoid looking in black clothing with an enormous head.
The humanoid pushed the back of the car and the “Oxford” which weighs over 1 ton went up
the hill at a crisp place. Mr F was able to blip the engine into life they turned to thank the
figure but it had disappeared,
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1955-1959.) 1203

18/01/60 near Lakota, North Dakota, U.S.A.

Car lights dimmed as a UFO descended towards field, apparently about a mile off the highway.
(The UFO Evidence, p75.) 0149

-/01/60 between La Victoria and EI Vigla, Merida, Venezuela.

Mr Adolfo Pisani a Venezuela government topographer was driving his jeep along the Andean
Highway in clear weather. He had just been overtaken by a truck when a few minutes later a
metallic disc-shaped object swooped from the sky at speed and crossed close over the truck
ahead. The object then rose again and was lost to sight in seconds. The effect on the truck
was astounding. As the object rose into the air the truck also rose a few feet in the air and
overturned, falling at the side of the road with its wheels upturned. The witness stopped his
jeep and rushed to help the truck driver, who escaped with minor injuries. The incident was
reported to the National Guard of Venezuela and the truck driver was questioned.
(UFOs The Whole Story, p228-229.) 0150

27/04/60 0300 Slagelse, Waestved, Denmark.

The witness was driving at 03.00am when he saw a brilliantly white luminous round object
that rapidly approached then stopped. His car motor died and his headlights went out. The
car stopped within 20ft of the now grey-green glowing object which was about 30ft wide and
20ft high shaped like two bowls placed together with a small superstructure on top. It was
hovering about 10ft above the ground when it put down three legs and a central cylinder.
Four persons emerged from the cylinder approx. 3ft tall wearing green outfits. They moved
like underwater. A cable emerged from the object which terminated in a square screen and
stopped when 6ft away from the car. The four beings surrounded the car each carrying what
seemed like a lantern. They had rather flat faces they mouths moved but no sound heard.
After a short while they returned to their craft along with the cable the legs retracted and the
object rose with enormous speed disappearing in seconds. The cars ignition and lights came
back on and the observer’s watch which had stopped for 4 minutes started to run again. He
got out of his car and noticed a strange smell. In the ground were three holes which were hot.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1960-64.) 1205

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A disc shaped object was observed and the moped bike stalls a humanoid figure invites
witness to tour saucer shaped object which had landed the witness could see seats, levers,
map and dials.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1403

15/05/60 2230 San Lazaro di Savena, Bologna, Italy.

The witness was parked in his vehicle in front of a local quarry suddenly both his vehicle’s
engine and the radio stopped working. The witness felt a shock on the nape of his neck that
travelled up to his forehead like electricity. He thought he was being attacked so he opened
his car door and rolled out onto the ground. He saw a multi-coloured luminous object it did
not have a well-defined shape and seemed to be pulsating and changing from a spheroid to a
vertical oval shape. It was magenta in colour and the size of a car. He saw a humanoid figure
climbing up the quarry as if on an invisible rope. The UFO seemed to flatten as the figure
reached a point just below it. Suddenly everything stopped and the scene disappeared. The
witness felt unquenchable thirst for the next 48hrs.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1960-64.) 1206

11/08/60 1510 Left Hand Canyon, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

Ray Hawks a tractor driver heard a muffled detonation and noticed a disc-shaped object which
dropped vertically out of the cloud cover. The object described as being shaped like two
concave discs joined at the rim, stopped about 200 feet above the ground and wobbled a bit
as it stabilized. Dull aluminium in colour and with a series of metal 'plates' around its
perimeter, an intermittent humming sound was heard, and one of the plates which were
giving off smoke was withdrawn inside the object, and replaced by another similar plate. The
humming sound increased to a high pitch and the disc was then surrounded by a shimmering
field like a heat haze. The object rose quickly and disappeared back into the clouds. The
witness stated that when the object appeared the tractor engine cut out and could not be
restarted. The estimated duration of the sighting was 15 minutes, after which the tractor
engine functioned perfectly.
(UFOs The Whole Story, p223.) 0151

13/08/60 2345 near Corning, California, U.S.A.

Two police officers Stanley Scott and Charles Carson were in a patrol car when they saw an
object with a row of horizontal lights and a red beam at the end in the distance. The object
suddenly rose from a height of 200 feet to 500 feet and started to move away eastwards. The
patrolmen gave chase and followed the object for about two hours, during which time it
travelled in various manoeuvres - straight, up and down, and sideways. The object finally
disappeared behind some hills. The patrolmen reported that during the sighting their car
radio was full of crackles and black-outs. Radar screens at nearby Air Force Base at Red Bluff
reported a good “hard return” of the unknown object on their screens, which indicated a solid
objects in the vicinity.
(FSR Vol 6, No 6, p26, PROJECT Blue Book Record 10073 Terry Colvin.) 0152

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A tall object was seen in a field by a couple as they were driving past. The object wobbled,
and began spinning. The car engine stalled, and the headlights dimmed as the object came
closer. The object looked square-shaped, dark blue in colour, and moved away suddenly. A
possible time lapse of one hour was reported.
(CUFOS.) 1016

-/10/60 National Forest near Marlinton, West Virginia, U.S.A.

Car engine stopped, and a few moments afterwards the witness saw a hairy ape-like figure
standing about 8 feet tall. The figure left and the journey was resumed. Soon afterwards the
engine began to falter again and sparks were noticed. The same figure was seen again at the
side of the road. Later examinations of the car showed that the points were completely
burned out.
(FSR Vol 19, No 1, p19.) 0153

-/-/60 Guaypo Lagoon, Peru.

Several witnesses travelling in a caravan is an isolated area suddenly experienced engine

trouble and their vehicles stalled. The witnesses stepped out of their vehicles and realised
that the area was brightly illuminated and they could hear the sound of dripping water.
Looking towards the nearby lagoon they could see a huge object emerging from the water.
Several human-like figures could be seen walking within the craft through some large
portholes. The craft suddenly shot away towards the southeast and disappeared.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1960-64.) 1204

-/-/60 Ottawa West, Canada.

While driving on a highway a man was surprised when his car radio began to play music since
it was not turned on and no antenna was connected. Next his car stalled and the lights went
out, He got out of his car and saw a silvery disc 8ft in diameter about 15ft in front of his car at
a height of approximately 15ft above the ground. It suddenly took off at a 45 degree angle
and disappeared within seconds.
(Saucers, Space & Science No.17.) 1284

-/-/60s. Michigan, Minnesota, U.S.A.

A couple saw an object hovering over some woods they watched from approx. 200ft away for
over an hour. It was a huge saucer-shaped and bright. When it dimmed it was grey and the
shape was very distinct. The object emitted a humming sound and they drove around
underneath the object the craft glowed and the radio shorted and the car nearly stalled.
Finally two jets appeared they circled North of them and made a big turn and hit the after
burners. The object pulsated went straight up and followed the jets for 5 seconds and then
shot out of sight.
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01/01/61 between La Victoria and El Vigia, Venezuela.

Driving on the Andean Highway in a jeep, a government topographer Adolfo Pisani saw a
bright object like a metallic disc which swooped down from the sky at speed, coming close to
the front of a truck before rising again and being lost from sight in a few seconds. As the object
rose into the air above the truck, the vehicle also rose a few feet in the air and then
overturned. The astonished topographer stopped to help, and found that the truck driver had
only suffered minor injuries. Both then searched for other people to right the truck and to get
it back into operation.
(MUFON UFO Journal October 1985, p 3.) 0744

22/01/61 1830 Cestas-Gazinet, near Bordeaux, France.

At the place called Gazinet at 6.30 p.m. a professor from the University of Bordeaux and 3
teachers observed an elongated, shiny, orange object. We noted an influence on the ignition
of the car. A witness reportedly felt a slight indisposition and heard (or otherwise perceived)
the word "Zemu" repeated twice.
(J. Vallee. Passport to Magonia, Mini chronological catalog of UFO sightings by Van Overmeire.
) 1017

08/04/61 Borley, Essex, England.

A John Saunders and two other people witnessed unexplained bright lights near the
churchyard, and heard strange footsteps. At one point torches, car headlights, and a flashlight
camera all failed simultaneously. Pinpoints of light were seen at a height of 10 to 15 feet
hovering over the Rectory garden, a phenomenon which was seen again nine years later
inside the church by three other observers. Hauntings and other paranormal phenomena
have been noted from the area of the Rectory over a period of many years.
(BUFORA Journal Vol 7, No 4, p3. British UFO Research Association, London.) 0154

-/06/61 0000 Barabon Siding, Queensland, Australia.

At midnight 4 inverted saucer-shaped objects was seen by William Ellis his car engine failing
during the sighting. The objects brilliant white in colour flashed pass and kept shooting across
the sky for nearly 20 minutes. Three of the objects appeared to be spinning above a larger
brighter object.
(UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere. Hervey.) 1018

31/08/61 near Moscow, Russia.

Several cars stalled on a highway when a UFO was reported to have hovered above an
overpass for a few minutes. The car engines could not be restarted until the UFO had left the
area.
(Beyond Top Secret, p231, APCIC V2 N2 1977) 0155

20/09/61 Lincoln, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

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The reported UFO encounter case involving witnesses Betty and Barney Hill. They noted on
arriving home that their watches had stopped, and had never worked since. The time of arrival
at their home had been 5a.m. two hours later than expected, and the missing hours had
passed unnoticed.
(Review Manchete, Brazil 29/10/66, p138, also Issue of 05/11/66, and FSR Special Issue No 5,
UFO Encounters.) 0157

-/-/61 between Warminster and Westbury, Wiltshire, England.

During the summer, Mike Stenning and his wife were driving back to Westbury and were
travelling downhill when just before reaching Biss Bottom; they saw a cluster of lights
stationary in the sky. The engine of their Ford Zephyr 6 car suddenly cut out, and the car came
to a stop. The group of lights moved away at speed towards Cley Hill and disappeared. When
the two witnesses looked at their watches, it was realized that about seven to eight minutes
had been lost. The car lights came back on, the engine was restarted and they drove home. It
seemed a mystery how the car could have stopped on a downhill slope, because the brake
was not on, and the car was not in gear. It was discovered from an article in the Wiltshire
Times about a week later that an Army captain driving along the same stretch of road a few
minutes later had reported a similar experience.
(Haunted Skies, Volume 2, p 63.) 0745

-/-/61 Night St Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada.

The witness was driving home with his young son, when his vehicle unexpectedly stopped. He
got out of the car and was confronted by several four-foot high humanoids that had been
standing in front of a landed object. He remembers being taken through a black shiny mirror
like entrance of the object. Under hypnosis he recalled seeing some type of museum of time
onboard the craft, where he encountered a range of devices from the early 20 th century to
the future.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1960-64.) 1208

09/02/62 0330 Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England.

Delivery driver Ronald Wildman was taking a new car to Swansea when he encountered a
white oval-shaped object with square black marks at regular intervals around the rim. Mr
Wildman estimated that the object was 20 or 30 feet above the ground, and at least 40 feet
in diameter. Within 20 yards of the object, the power of the car changed and the speed was
reduced to 20 mph. The accelerator had no effect, but while the engine lost revolutions the
headlights remained normal. The object, which was silent, stayed ahead of the car then
started to come lower. After about 200 yards a white haze like a halo appeared around the
object and it veered away at speed, at the same time brushing particles of frost from tree
tops on to the car's windscreen.
(FSR Vol 8, No 2, p18.) 0160

12/05/62 0430 Argentina.

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An official report released by a member of an Argentine Government team investigating a

recent wave of sightings revealed that three luminous UFOs had approached a car at close
range. The intense glow had caused one of the passengers to suffer serious eye damage.
(The UFO Investigator Vol 11, No 5, p7.) 0161

18/06/62 2030 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, U.S.A.

A bluish-green cigarette shaped object was seen it was luminous and appeared to be
transparent. At the rear of the object there appeared a short reddish flame or glow. Following
at a short distance behind was a bright white star like object. The speed of the object was
similar to a jet. No sound was heard but the radio reception in the vehicle was affected.
(Project Blue Book Files – Terry W Colvin.) 1439

27/07/62 Bajada Grande, Entre Rio, Brazil.

Ricardo Mieres (17), a student at Parana National College was riding his motorcycle near
Bajada Grande, 5km from Parana when he encountered a very tall creature with a head
shaped like a watermelon. This being had three eyes that “stared fixedly without blinking”
and very long almost white hair. Ricardo tried to drive away but his engine had gone dead.
The figure approached him and pulled the scarf from his neck, then turned round like a robot,
walking off, leaving footprints in the sandy soil. The bike now functioned and Ricardo drove
into town to collect a party to hunt the figure. All they found were the footprints and the
scarf. Several people saw something luminous fly past at about this time.
(Bowen 1966.) 1605

30/07/62 near Cruz Alta, Brazil.

J Lombero a farmer was travelling by car to his home accompanied by an employee Antonio
Garoup when their car's engine stopped unexpectedly. An unusual machine was then seen,
described as oval and rather like a bottle with two necks, about 40m in length and 15m in
width standing at the side of the road. There were two figures standing one at each end of
the object. After ten minutes the object took off and disappeared at speed. In Cruz Alta,
various persons also stated that they had seen a brightly illuminated flying object at great
height over the city.
(FSR Vol 8, No 6, p25, Project Blue Book – T Colvin.) 0162

30/07/62 Bajeola Grande, Argentina.

The witness a Roberto Mievres was riding a motorcycle when a tall being appeared as the
engine stalled. The witness stated that the being had taken his scarf. On returning to the site
with a group of people, the scarf was found on the ground, traces were discovered and an
unknown object was observed flying away.
(Phillips Physical Traces Catalogue, p26.) 0163

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Truck driver Pedro Atillo was driving towards Mar del Plata when suddenly his engine stalled
and he got out to see what was wrong. He then found to his astonishment that the engine
was working again, and saw about 300 metres away a cigar shaped object on or just above
the ground. The object seemed to be about 25 metres in diameter, and was giving off a
powerful orange glow interposed with flashes of pale violet and bright green. After a few
moments the object rose and vanished at speed, giving off a clear white light.
(FSR Vol 10, No 4, p11.) 0164

-/08/62 1900 between Metan and Salta, Argentina.

The driver and passenger in a car observed a large light approaching from ahead. As it came
closer the main body of the light was seen to have a bulging area on top, and lights around
the lower part. A truck travelling some distance ahead stopped and its lights went out. The
object began to rock gently in the air then took off at speed, disappearing in a few seconds.
Approaching the truck, the witness found the driver and his passenger tossing earth into the
truck's engine compartment, which was smoking and giving off a smell of burned rubber.
(UFOs The Whole Story, p157.) 0165

-/08/62 between Puolanka and Oulu, Finland.

Two men were on a vacation in northern Finland, and decided to drive from Puolanka to Oulu.
During the journey they came across a short man on the roadside, who asked for a lift to a
forest path several kilometres away. Continuing the journey, it was noticed that their
passenger had strange features. When the forest path came into view, the man got out of the
car and began walking along the path, but after a short distance, he was seen to jump onto a
pile of brushwood which was about three metres high. As they were driving on, a humming
noise was heard which became louder. The car engine started to misfire, and then stopped
completely. When they got out of the car, a large round object was seen which flew low over
their car, made a wide turn, and then disappeared from sight. When they had recovered from
the shock they found that the car engine could be started without any problem. On the next
day, a light phenomenon moving north was mentioned in a local newspaper.
(Finnish Humanoid Cases.) 1019

10/10/62 2000 Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A young man Enrique Leonardo Bocher was engaged in farm work when his tractor engine
stopped as a bluish light rose among trees, approached and passed overhead. A number of
burn marks were found on the ground where the object seemed to have landed. There were
three witnesses.
(FSR Case Histories, No 12, p10, Case 15.) 0166

05/11/62 2200 Trancas Rte9, Argentina.

A luminous ball object was seen at the same time a motorbike stopped the two witnesses
seemed frozen in place. A glowing ball of light passed overhead and landed on a hill.
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08/11/62 Tucuman, Argentina.

Two youths riding a motorcycle when they and a truck coming in the opposite direction were
stopped by an intense white light. The engine of the motorcycle stopped running and the men
watched an object move slowly across the highway it was described as flying saucer. The
objected landed on a hill some 500 yards away it stayed on the ground for a few seconds
before moving off. During this time the light an heat was very intense and they could feel their
skin burning. The object ascended to a height of 50 yards performed a few manoeuvres and
left the area at high speed. The bike still refused to start and they had to hitch hike to the next
town. It was found that all the oil in the bike had dried up and that the electric circuit had
burnt out.
(T Colvin, PBB, [Link] 1606

26/11/62 0100 Near Clodomira, Santiago Del Estero, Argentina.

Franciso Salas and N Arnardy were driving from Abra Grande to Clodomira when they noticed
near the railway track a lighted “railway car” projecting a brilliant light on the road. When
they reached the location they found a giant robot throwing out phosphorescent sparks,
illuminating the area with a reddish green light. As the truck approached it the robot rose to
150ft in the air and then came down further along the road. This happened time and time
again. The truck’s motor was apparently affected and could only travel at a slow pace. When
they finally neared Clodomira the robot rose up and disappeared in the sky.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1960-64.) 1209

-/11/62 near Salta, Argentina.

As Jose Enrique Torramorell and his cousin Hernan Caverlotti were travelling along on their
motorcycle the engine cut out along with the engines of other vehicles in the vicinity. A
glowing spherical object passed slowly overhead and landed on a hill. Eyewitnesses were
paralysed. The object took off vertically, performed aerial manoeuvres, and then landed
again. A similar light appeared on a neighbouring hill, and then both lights rose and moved
away at speed. Wiring of the motorcycle was found to be burned out, and the two
eyewitnesses had burns on their arms.
(FSR Case Histories, No 12, p10, Case 16.) 0167

-/-/62 near Holton Airfield, Berkshire, England.

On a clear summer night at around midnight, the driver of an MG sports car was sitting in the
car with his girlfriend when they saw a white object in the sky, like a mass of light revolving
slowly on a vertical axis. They watched for about 45 seconds as the object passed overhead
in a descending arc and went behind trees. When he tried to leave the area because his
girlfriend had become alarmed, the driver found that the ignition would not work. He pushed
the car and let it coast down a hill to the bottom, when the electric circuit came back to life,
and he found that the car could then be restarted. The following day the car was examined
but no fault could be found, and when he next spoke to his girlfriend she denied having seen
anything.
(FSR Vol 24, No 3, p12.) 0168

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-/-/62 East Peru, Maine, U.S.A.

Harvey Packard and five other men are fishing when three orange globes show up across the
pond and begin dancing about. The globes move towards the witnesses, who get scared and
jump into their car and speed away. The globes follow the car, one in the rear and the others
on each side. The car radio is filled with static, finally they veer off and fly into the woods.
(Swords ) 1561

18/05/63 0700 Beachport, South Australia, Australia

A car radio cut out as a round oval shape was seen overhead. The duration of the sighting was
about two minutes.
(Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events, [Link] Centre for UFO
Studies - ACUFOS, preliminary catalogue.) 0170

20/05/63 near Glencoe, South Australia, Australia

An object came to within about twenty metres of a driver's car, at which point the car
stopped. There was a blinding light coming from the object, and after some moments the
object rose into the air and flew away.
(J. Vallee. Passport to Magonia.) 1020

-/06/63 Pontiac, Illinois, U.S.A.

The witness a retired aerospace engineer had stopped in Pontiac on his way to Chicago he
had stopped to get fuel. He headed back to the highway but got lost and ended up on a small
country road. He noticed two bright white lights ahead approaching his direction he thought
it was a truck coming towards him with headlights on , so he turned his car around and headed
in the opposite direction. After driving 100 feet or so the engine died and the car drifted to
the left side of the road. When he came to a stop he noticed someone sitting in the back seat
of the car holding an object which was pointed at him. He ran away from the car looked back
and saw an orange coloured object shaped like a light bulb about 500ft away. The object
emitted a buzzing sound along with a noise similar to two pieces of wood being banged
together. He ran to a barn but a rapid strobe light effect lit up everything around him. There
was then an encounter with 3 to 4 beings and he was paralyzed and was on a table being
examined followed by further discussions with different types of entities. The next thing he
remembered he was back on the highway driving at 80 mph, from the road signs he could see
that he had driven over 90 miles with no recollection. He felt very ill and was violently sick
after a few days he had a red horizontal mark on his right shoulder like an incision line.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1960-64.) 1210

04/08/63 2300 Wayne City, Mount Vernon, Illinois, U.S.A.

A strange white light chased a car driven by Ronnie Austin with passenger Phylis Bruce at
speeds of up to 120 mph for about ten miles. The object stalled the car's engine as it passed
over, at one time approaching as close as an estimated 100 feet and causing the radio 'to go

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crazy'. The object also made a humming sound and produced a cooling effect as it passed
overhead. They drove towards home with the object following them it was a dull orange in
colour as they arrived home the object was some 300yds away above a nearby farmhouse.
The boys father observed the object and tried to call the local police but the phone was dead.
After a while they tried the phone again and called a doctor in all seven people had observed
the object. The car was equipped with a magnetic speedometer which was probably giving
false speed readings due to EM- effects. The police were telephoned, and one of the officers
confirmed that he could see the moving light. Another police officer stated that the light
seemed to have the shape of a cross.
(FSR Vol 9, No 6, p24. UFO Filter Center, Mt Vernon, Indiana. Ridge, F.) 0171

12/08/63 Wautoma, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Six teenagers vacationing with their parents had gone to a drive-in movie while at the movie
they observed a silver light in the sky. The light appeared and disappeared two or three times.
On the 16 mile drive back to the resort on Fish Lake where they were staying the silver light
reappeared directly over the car. The object was low and travelling at high speed it made four
90 degree turns completing a rectangle before it disappeared. While the round silver ball was
over the car, they said that from the radio they heard static and that the car spluttered and
refused to go faster than 40 mph. The six teens were Terry Harms, Connie Calussy, Barbara
Janczak, Linda Kateski, Karen Johnson and Patricia Celner.
(Morning Star, Rockford, IL, USA – Kay Coggin.) 0603

20/08/63 2132 Rome, Italy

The witness a Sr. Ostillo Fattorini, chauffer for the President of Italy. He saw the object and
stopped the car while driving a Fait 2300 going 75-80 kilometers per hour. The window was
open. The stop was rough and the Italian investigators decided that they he may have stalled
the car making a rough stop. The object passed over the car which vibrated as the object was
over it. It reversed course and hovered over some trees. (This part of the report is difficult to
read due to blurring of the microfilm.) The chauffer tried to restart the car at this point but it
would not turn over, again the investigators concluded that the car would not start due to
human error. The object again passed over the car which again vibrated. The object was
illuminated by three portholes in the front on a dome shaped structure there were no lights
on the roof. The top of the dome appeared transparent. The object made a sound like a
distant electric motor running. The object measured 12-20 meters in diameter. The object
returned to the position which it came from above some trees. It was horizontal with the
bottom parallel to the ground. It changed his position so that the bottom was at a 90 degree
angle to the ground and it rapidly took off at high vertically at high speed. When the object
moved above the ground the plants and flowers did not move. He felt no wind as the object
passed over. The investigators re-enacted the incident with the witness and determined that
the duration of the event was 25 seconds. The Italian “Stato Maggiore Aeronautical”
forwarded the report to the Italian embassy in Washington, D. C. General Corrado Ceccacci,
the Italian Air Attache, asked the USAF for their opinion on the report.
The USAF decided that might be a mirage and a reflection. (Does not explain the car vibrating
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(Project Blue Book files; Project 1947.) 1374

24/08/63 2140 Klein-Reifling, Austria.

A party of seven people observed a globular, yellowish-white pulsating light, which had
flickering peaks of light at its outer edge and flew overhead in zigzag fashion for about 50
minutes. The magnetic needle of a compass was seen to oscillate wildly several times. At
11.46 p.m. as two of the witnesses a Herr and Fran Koehler were returning by motorcycle to
Klein-Reifling, a light appeared overhead and the engine of the motorcycle failed three times.
(FSR Vol 20, No 6, p27.) 0172

02/10/63 Hyde, England.

While military jets chase “White cloud” across the sky two cars stalled.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1405

12/10/63 0330 between Monte Maiz and Isla Verde, Cordoba, Argentina.

A truck driver Eugenio Douglas was travelling along a lonely road at night during a violent
storm when he was suddenly blinded by a vivid white light which enveloped his vehicle.
Simultaneously he felt a burn on his face. He then braked but the vehicle skidded, left the
road and became bogged down in the mud. The driver found himself in the presence of three
strange beings 12-15ft tall with the gait of robots. Nearby he saw an oval-shaped object at
least 30ft high with portholes emitting a harsh light. Picking up his revolver he fired four shots
at the beings, which fled to the object. It then took off and flew around the truck several
times, each time causing the driver to feel burns all over his body. Examination by a doctor
revealed that the burns were 'curious lesions' of undetermined cause.
(FSR Vol 10, No 1, p29, UFOs A History L Gross 1963 July-Dec.) 0173

24/12/63 1925 Rowarth, near Glossop, Derbyshire, England.

Mr Chandler was driving his Landrover vehicle in the Glossop area when he saw a brilliantly
coloured object hovering near his car, and he was frightened by this. The car's recently
purchased battery seemed to be considerably flat, and cows in the area were reported to
have been agitated, not giving milk for several days.
(Haunted Skies, Volume 2, p 162.) 0746

14/04/64 0940 between Chico and Sterling City, California, U.S.A.

A driver's truck stalled, and when he got out looking at the engine, the hair on his body stood
up. Looking upwards, he saw a disc-shaped object with a dome, hovering overhead. The
object then came gradually closer to the ground at an irrigation canal. When he walked up
and touched the object, it felt warm, and there was a slight shock. A hose then came from the
craft, sucking water from the canal. When another truck approached, the object rose
vertically, and departed instantly, then returned a few minutes later -with the witness
reporting that a voice had communicated with him.
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28/04/64 Edgewood, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Don Adams is driving his car early in the morning when he reports to police that a glowing
greenish object hovered about 100ft above his car causing the engine to stall. Pistol shots had
been fired at the object with no visible effect. Six of the bullets were heard to bounce off the
object which then moved away silently.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol 11, No 11, p7.) 0176

10/05/64 2130 near La Rioja, Argentina.

Businessman Maximo Dughetti was driving his van accompanied by his son and nephew when
the van engine stopped and the lights went out. A dazzling beam of bluish white light from a
nearby coppice went out, revealing an object shaped like an inverted disc with a cupola on
the upper part. The object rose slowly into the air, producing a soft hum, and crossed the
roadway. The vehicle's engine and lights· then returned to normal. At the site on the next day
vegetation was found burnt over an area 10 metres in diameter. There were three witnesses.
(FSR Case Histories, No 12, p11, Case 22.) 0177

24/05/64 2100 Millinocket, Maine, U.S.A.

Two witnesses saw a small and fiery round object, which followed their car. When the object
came to within two or three metres of the car, the engine failed and could not be restarted.
After five minutes the object moved away, and the car could then be restarted. (J. Vallee.
Passport to Magonia.) 1022

-/05/64 0630 Yorkshire, England.

A truck driver saw a large domed disc-shaped object, which landed a short distance away,
with thirty six humanoid figures counted getting out of the craft. The figures were wearing
greenish-coloured tunics, and carried flashlights which emitted green light beams. The truck
tried to leave the area, but the vehicle engine would not start. After some time the figures
got back into the disc, which then left slowly with a droning noise. The object left an 85 foot
depression in the ground, and the truck's engine was then found to be working normally.
(Awareness, Spring 1979.) 1023

05/06/64 0400 Pajas Blancas, Cordoba, Argentina.

A doctor and his wife were driving in the same area where a previous case occurred (April
1957) when the car's engine failed and they were confronted by a huge machine blocking the
road. The object's powerful light went out, leaving a violet-coloured light. After about 20
minutes a figure approached the car and asked what was wrong. When told what had
happened the man suggested that the engine should be tried again. The engine now started,
and the headlights came on so that the machine ahead could be seen again. The stranger
joined two other figures and entered the machine, which then rose rapidly and disappeared
leaving a violet coloured trail.
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29/06/64 Lavonia, Georgia, U.S.A

A businessman Beauford E Parham was driving between Carnesville and Lavonia when he saw
a bright light coming towards his car. The car's engine seemed about to stop. The light was
then spinning like a giant top in front of the headlights, and making a hissing sound. The amber
coloured object had a tower-like projection with a dark band at the top, and what looked like
vanes. There were small portholes at the bottom through which flames could be seen, and
the top and bottom parts of the object were seen to reappearing again, keeping low over the
road just a few feet ahead of the car, and giving off heat which burned the driver's arm. When
the object moved away it suddenly went up over the top of the car. There was a strong smell
and vapour which left an oily substance on the car. The driver was very shaken by the incident
and could hardly continue driving. A group of people about 25 miles away near Turnerville
also described the same object coming close to the ground, with similar reports in the
following days.
(MUFON UFO Journal, June 1989, p 21.) 0747

-/06/64 2130 between Metan and Tucuman, Argentina.

Three travellers in a station-wagon witnessed a peculiar reddish-orange rectangular object

which dived down several times in front of their vehicle. On the first pass the object caused
such condensation on the windows that the vehicle had to be stopped and the windows
wiped. When the object reappeared it was seen to have two large paddles or blades, which
were revolving as the object moved silently above the road. A dark red light like a lantern was
noticed in the sky, and the witnesses were astonished to see the larger object pick up this
light and vanish at high speed. The newspaper La Gaceta of June 15 noted that a large number
of UFO sightings had been recorded in the same district over the past two years.
(La Cronica, and La Gaceta, Cordoba, Argentina 14/06/64. FSR Vol 12, No 3, p25.) 0179

01/07/64 0100 near Spartanburg, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Mr B. E. Parham was driving along Highway 59 when everything was suddenly lit up by a bright
object coming straight towards him. At the last moment the object turned upwards, and the
engine of the car began to fade. The object was described as being like an inverted top, with
holes underneath, and when it was low over the car the heat was stifling. There was also a
smell like formaldehyde. When the object left, Mr Parham drove to the airport at Spartanburg
where his car was examined by Federal Aviation Agency employees. Several sticky spots were
found on the top of the car where some liquid had destroyed the paint. A Geiger counter
showed the spots to be radioactive.
(Flying Saucers - Serious Business, p133.) 0180

07/07/64 Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Three men out walking took a photo of an object. It was a circular object surrounded by a
halo hovering over the street. Several people on the street also saw the object and traffic had
stopped briefly to watch. The object was some 20ft in diameter and approx. 300 ft above the
ground. It was silvery white in colour and made no sound. One of the motorists who the
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(Terry Colvin, Saucer News Vol 2 N3.) 1595

-/07/64 Shabani, Rhodesia.

A fourteen year old boy was driving a van with his father as passenger when, on rounding a
bend they encountered a metallic object hovering about four feet above the road, and 20 or
30 feet away. The object took off rapidly, throwing into the air red and black dust so hot that
it was baked into the white paint of the van. The van carried a load of electric tuning
equipment, and every diode and valve had to be replaced.
(Skylook, March 1975. Physical Traces Catalogue No 492.) 0181

30/08/64 Bennett, Iowa, U.S.A.

A couple travelling in a convertible reported the sighting of a cigar shaped hovering object.
Driving closer for a better view the object was seen to have large lights in the centre. As the
object moved silently away the car radio failed and the engine faltered.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol 11, No 12, p5.) 0182

26/11/64 2300 Adams, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Family returning from Thanksgiving Day visit to grandparents when a large bright light
appeared above the vehicle. There was no sound, but the entire electrical system including
the radio shut down. They seemed to be inhabited from speaking. The father stepped from
the car to see what was happening, but when asked what he saw he said nothing. As suddenly
as it appeared, the light vanished and the car lights and radio came back on. The father would
not discuss what he saw for years, but finally related that it was like a flood light of gigantic
proportion’s.
(CUFOS Associate Newsletter Oct. 1981, page 5; Project 1947.) 1375

-/11/64 Near El Infiernillo Observatory, Chile.

The night before the encounter the two witnesses both employees at the observatory had
felt a very strong heat wave around the building and had observed the snow around the
building glow a soft red colour. In the morning they were driving back to town when suddenly
the stereo in their vehicle stopped and at the same time the engine also stopped. One man
got to check under the bonnet when suddenly both began hearing and noticed a large metallic
disc shaped craft on the ground. A large hatch was open on top of the craft. On top of and
around the craft several humanoid figures were seen in green uniforms and appeared to be
repairing the object. One of the men shouted to the other at which point the humanoids
noticed the men and all ran into the object. The object began to rotating and emitting a loud
humming sound it then rose slowly and flew by the men, bobbling as it did and shot away at
high speed. At this point both the radio and vehicle engine began operating again.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1960-64.) 1212

21/12/64 1700 Harrisonburg, Virginia, U.S.A.

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A car driven by a Horace Burns stopped without apparent reason as an object came very close
to the ground as he was driving on route 250 near Staunton. His car stopped and the object
crossed the road ahead of him. The object was shaped like a very large inverted top “dark,
aluminium” in appearance with a blue florescent band around the base. It appeared to be
some 125ft in diameter and at least 80 – 90ft high. In additional to the general cone shape he
noticed that’s its circular sloping sides rose in six large concentric convolutions which
decreased in diameter to a dome on the top. He could see no doors or windows/portholes or
any kind of seam. After a minute the object rose up a sound like rushing air was heard and
the object disappeared quickly, his car started without difficulty.
Nine days after the event during field investigations it as found that a Geiger counter picked
up reading of 60,000 counts per minute at the meadow where the object was observed. It
was concluded that the radiation was of the alpha type. A six page report was sent to NICAP.
(FSR Vol 11, No 3, Vol 12, No 2, Report No 5, Project Blue Book Terry W Colvin.) 0184

-/-/64 Warrensburg, Missouri, U.S.A.

On a clear night, three people travelling in a car saw an orange-red ball coming towards their
car. There was failure of the car radio and clock as the object came closer, and hovered
nearby. The witnesses watched the object, but when they tried to drive away the object paced
the car, following its movement. When the object finally moved away, the radio worked
normally again, but one witness noted that her wristwatch had stopped.
(CUFOS.) 1024

15/01/65 2200 near Enfield, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Charles Knee Jr of Concord suddenly found that his car engine stall and the lights failed.
Leaving his car, the witness heard a humming sound and saw a bright light cross the sky.
(New Hampshire Paper 17.01.65, FSR Vol 12, No 2, p14. Report No 13, Sifakis, C. Official Guide
to UFO Sightings State by State Encounters,) 0185

23/01/65 2043 near Toana, Virginia, U.S.A.

Two businessmen driving on Highway 60 in opposite directions were both stopped as their
cars approached a huge cone-shaped object hovering over a nearby field. It was also reported
that two Army helicopters were sent from Fort Lee to investigate.
(FSR Vol 12, No 2, p15, Case 16.) 0186

25/01/65 Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.

Virginia State Police reported a statement that a huge aluminium coloured machine had
dropped down beside the highway and caused a car's engine to fail. After hovering for about
half a minute just above the ground the object rose swiftly, and the witness was able to start
his car again.
(Flying Saucers - Serious Business, p93.) 0187

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Virginia Police reported that about half an hour after the previous incident, the same or
similar machine had stopped another vehicle. The sighting in this case lasted only a few
seconds.
(Flying Saucers - Serious Business, p94.) 0188

-/01/65 Fishersville, Indiana, U.S.A.

A Horace Burns was near Fishersville when his car stalled he got out and stared in awe as a
old fashion bee hive shaped object the size of two houses zoomed from the sky and then
settled gently as a bubble in a nearby field. The mysterious craft rose silently and whirling at
great speed into to North Eastern skies the circular base emitting a bluish glow.
(The Indianapolis Star, Indiana, USA. 6 Feb 1965. Kay Coggin.) 1030

23/03/65 near Bangor, Maine, U.S.A.

A driver encountered a huge domed disc hovering over the road, and as he approached the
object the car lights dimmed and the radio stopped. Believing that he was in danger he fired
a pistol at the object, which then moved away at speed.
(John Spencer, The UFO Encyclopaedia, p177.) 0190

28/03/65 2130 Skeeby, near Richmond, North Yorkshire, England.

Geoffrey Brown was driving his car when the engine began to falter, and then stopped. A light
was then seen in the sky, which was at first thought to be a weather balloon. but it had
rounded corners and made a low humming noise. It was hovering a few hundred feet above
the ground before coming closer, stopping again then moving away, and with a light pulsing
underneath. The object finally moved across the sky at high speed. Nine or ten similar objects
were noticed high above it, grouped in a 'V' formation moving slowly out of sight.
(Haunted Skies, Volume 2, p 229-230.) 0749

03/04/65 2320 Near Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil.

Two travelling salesmen were driving toward Fortaleza when they saw something in the sky
that looked like a bright infrared lamp. It shined a ray of light on the car. The object then
descended just above the car and the car began to shake and its light went out. They then
saw a ray of light come down on the vehicle at the same time the driver lost control of the
vehicle it skidded sideways and came to a stop.
The object then landed in front of the car, two humanoids that resembled robots came out
from the object and began moving towards the car. Both men got out and one had a rifle and
fired at the entities. Suddenly there was a terrible explosion and the two men were
temporarily blinded but they heard no sound. 15mins later they could see again but the object
and two entities had already gone.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1965-69.) 1213

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Mr and Mrs French, of Geraldton, stopped their car after a loud noise suddenly interrupted
the car radio. Nothing seemed wrong with the car and the journey was continued. About a
mile and a half further on they encountered six or more glaring white lights, which were
shining upon a paddock from an estimated height of 12 feet. This sight was accompanied by
a shrill piercing sound. The couple did not stop long to investigate. Two miles further along
the road the car radio was again affected, while the lights could still be seen in the paddock.
(Richard Tambling, Flying Saucers - Where do they come from? p52.) 0191

02/07/65 2300 Kent, Washington, U.S.A.

Mrs A W Brundage driver of a car which suddenly stopped and the headlights went out
noticed a glowing orange object hovering very low overhead. The object seemed to be
spinning slowly and reminded the witness of a child's top. When the object moved away it
made a sound like a ‘whistling swish', the car's lights carne back on and the radio began to
play. The car was restarted with some difficulty and the next morning the battery was found
to be dead. The car clock, which had been reset on the morning of the incident, and had
always kept good time was found to be about two minutes slow.
(PBB via T. Colvin; Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour, Flying Saucers are Hostile, p41.) 0192

15/07/65 1940 Near Carnarvon, West Australia, Australia.

Two witnesses a Antonin Gulka and Audrey Lawrence on a hunting trip when they saw a slow
moving green light which disappeared behind some clouds. A few minutes later it reappeared
but its colour had changed to orange. It suddenly made a sharp turn and hurtled towards the
car they were in. They thought it was going to crash into them so the driver slammed on the
brakes, switched off the lights and engine and fled into the bush. About 15ft away they
stopped and looked back they saw it was hovering in mid-air and was green in colour and
rocking gently from tip to tip. One of the witnesses went back to the car to get a monocular
lens and they looked at the object through this. It was shaped like a squashed football and
appeared to be a gelatinous mass with an undulating surface. They watched the object for 30
minutes at times the object disappeared below the tree-line then reappeared. It hovered in a
banked position and at one stage appeared to be hovering on its edge. The object drifted
westwards and eventually disappeared. Back in the car the engine did not want to start and
it took over 30 seconds to start.
(Australian Flying Saucer Review 1966.11. No.9.) 1306

25/07/65 2200 Westmead, Sydney, NSW. Australia.

A young couple driving along a short cut suddenly the motor stalled then they became aware
of an intense beam of light from above and behind them. It was a very bright blue white light
approx 20-30ft in diameter. They tried to restart the car but to no avail. The beam of light
started to move towards them as it approached they tried to start the car again this time the
car started and they took off. At that very moment the beam of light disappeared as it had
been turn off.
(Australian UFO Review Dec 1969.) 1251

03/08/65 1238 Santa Ana, California, U.S.A.

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Rex Heflin, a highway accident investigator noticed in the sky an unusual object approaching
the road. He stopped the truck and took four photographs in quick succession with a Polaroid
camera. Three pictures were taken from inside the truck and a final picture after he had got
out of the truck as the object moved away. He also reported that he had tried to contact his
office by radio, but noted that while the object was nearby the radio would not operate. When
the object had gone the radio functioned perfectly.
(Flying Saucers - Serious Business, p301.) 0193

04/08/65 0130 25 miles south of Abilene, Kansas, U.S.A.

Don Tennopir a truck driver was travelling north on Highway 15 when suddenly the truck
lights went out and came on again twice. An object flew very low over the cab with a sizzling
or wind-like blowing sound, and then hovered over the road ahead no more than 100 feet
away. The object was orange in colour and emitted reddish coloured rays in flashes. It
appeared to be like a disc with a lump in the middle or 'like a big plate with a cup in the
middle', and was estimated to be 15 feet in diameter. The object appeared to be 2ft thick
and the dome was 4ft high. After about 20 seconds the object lifted slightly and then moved
away.
(FSR Vol 12, No 1, p29 – Project Blue Book T Colvin.) 0194

04/08/65 0130 Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.

A family saw a disc-shaped object hovering over the roadway ahead and got out of the car to
have a better look. A motor sound was heard from the object which had red and green lights,
and which flared up to brilliant colours as the object seemed to disappear straight upwards.
After the object had gone the car could not be restarted for about five minutes.
(FSR Vol 12, No 1, p29, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0195

09/08/65 2200 Lima, Peru.

The witness was driving in the outskirts of Lima when his car’s motor started to misfire and
then stopped. At that moment the car was surrounded by a beam of light from above it rose
up from the road and was carried through the sky for an unknown distance the witness was
paralyzed. The car was returned to the ground where a voice speaking in Spanish asked him
to get out. He did so and could make out little men with big ears. He then had a discussion
using a luminous screen. Then he was back in his car and being transported back through the
air to the spot from which he had been picked up from.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1965-69.) 1214

10/08/65 0436 near Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

A truck driver was taking fruit and vegetables to a storage and ripening centre in Copheap
Lane, with the route passing close to Colloway Clump. His wife and young daughter were
asleep beside him in the cab. A ball of crimson light came suddenly from the hillside and
hovered in the air, before coming directly towards the cab. The object came into contact with
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the truck, and was spinning as it moved away. The driver braked sharply, bringing the truck
to a stop. He thought that it would have stopped anyway, because the engine was seizing up
as soon as the object came towards him. The object looked like a large headlight in the sky,
and was seen hovering over the Colloway Clump hill for a few seconds before vanishing.
(The Warminster Triangle, p 20.) 1025

15/08/65 2300 SaIto, Uruguay.

Five persons travelling in a car saw a blinding light, heard a humming sound and saw an object
land on the roadway a few metres in front of them. The car engine stalled. The light from the
object changed colours then dimmed to reveal a leaden-coloured machine about three
metres high, and occupying the whole width of the road. Three of the people in the car
fainted, while the other two were able to see figures moving about inside the craft. Suddenly
bursts of flame shot from the sides of the machine and it rose to about one metre above the
ground. The humming sound started again, and the machine then took off straight upwards
and vanished.
(FSR The Humanoids, p42.) 0196

16/08/65 0530 U.S. Highway 58. U.S.A.

A Steve Anderson and co-worker Robert Bailey were returning to Portsmouth from Suffolk
when their car engine suddenly stopped the ignition key was still turned on. Anderson
described the object as a cone-shaped vehicle the size of a small plane which circled twice
and sped off from East to West very fast. It remained in view for around 13 minutes after it
passed overhead and that other stalled motorists got out of their cars to view the blue and
red flashing object.
(FSR Vol 12, No 2, p10 – Daily Press, Newport News. Virginia. USA 17th August 1965 Kay Coggin
– Project Blue Book Terry Colvin.) 0197

17/08/65 Carrizol, Venezuela.

A glowing oval object manoeuvred over a reservoir and was seen by several witnesses at a
nearby house. People driving along the highway also observed the object. One witness stated
that his car engine acted up while the object was in sight. The object moved to a grassy area,
extended several stilt-like legs and landed briefly. The legs were then drawn up again into the
object, which glowed intensely and departed.
(Flying Saucers - The Startling Evidence, p242.) 0198

18/08/65 2150 Noblesville, Indiana, U.S.A.

On the Indiana State Road 37 two students one who was Michael S Henry were driving about
three miles south of Noblesville in foggy weather conditions when an object, in the form of a
triangle of lights -a large red light and two greenish lights, appeared in the northeast direction.
The object swooped down and hovered over the car. The ignition and radio went dead. The
shape of the object could then be seen very clearly. It looked exactly like a top, a grey cone
with a slight dome. The red light was pulsating at the bottom of the cone, with greenish-white
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and there was no sound. After a minute or two a flash of light came from the object, which
then moved away almost out of sight in a second or so. It then stopped again briefly with the
red light pulsating, before disappearing. (International UFO Reporter, 34.1, p 15, and NICAP
Database 30/1/12.) 0750

19/08/65 2020 Cherry Creek, New York State, U.S.A.

On a dairy farm a newscast being heard on a portable radio was interrupted by a static-like
interference. Then Howard Butcher reported that the his tractor which he was using to
operate the dairy-machine cut out. A bull started to bellow outside the barn, and when he
ran to the window he saw a large elliptical object with a red glow or vapour underneath which
appeared to land about a quarter of a mile away. The object looked metallic and like two
'turkey platters' placed lip to lip. A steady beeping sound was heard. After only a few seconds
on the ground the object shot into the air and disappeared into the clouds that glowed a
greenish colour. Other members of the family were called. They all noticed a strange odour
in the air and the greenish clouds above. About half an hour later the object reappeared and
seemed to be circling the area. Air Force technicians later found a purple viscous substance
where the object had touched down, two narrow indentations in the ground, and patches of
singed grass and shrubbery.
(FSR Vol 16, No 6, p28. Coral and Jim Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p106.) 0199

20/08/65 2300 Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

A couple were riding into Warminster on a scooter-type motorcycle when the engine stalled
and could not be restarted. Two large spheres of light were then seen which hovered then
went spinning across the sky, changing colour and then approaching again before they finally
disappeared. The watches of the two witnesses stopped at 11.20 p.m. They both felt waves
of hot and cold air during the sighting which lasted about 40 minutes. After the object
disappeared the scooter started without difficulty.
(Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminster Mystery, p78-79.) 0200

-/08/65 2200 between Westbury and Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

Don Parratt was travelling back to Warminster with his daughter and three friends when a
mass of reddish-orange light, looking like a red-hot poker in the sky, was seen as they were
driving past Biss Bottom on the road from Westbury. The Austin 12 car suddenly cut out
completely, and everyone got out, watching the light as it moved away northwards at speed.
The car had to be towed back to Warminster, where it was found that a high tension lead
from the coil had burnt out.
(Haunted Skies, Volume 2, p 275.) 0751

04/09/65 near Damon, Texas, U.S.A.

Two officers of the Brazoria County Sheriff's Department were driving along Highway 36 just
after midnight when a huge UFO appeared and flashed a brilliant beam of light on to their
car. Earlier that evening one of the men, Patrol Deputy Robert Goode, had suffered a painful
bite on his left index finger from a pet alligator. The finger had bled copiously, and was still

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throbbing and troubling him quite badly. As the light beam from the object fell on Goode's
left arm and hand which were out of the window he felt a pronounced sensation of heat.
Shortly afterwards he discovered that the pain had entirely gone, the swelling and bleeding
had ceased, and the wound had started to heal, which it did with a speed which was quite
unnatural.
(FSR Vol 15, No 5, p22.) 0201

07/09/65 2000 Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

Between 8p.m. and 8.30 p.m. the engine of Major William Hill's car suddenly cut out while he
was driving at about 45 mph. After the car came to a halt it seemed to be shaken by aerial
vibrations and the headlights flickered. When the witness got out of the car, he felt the air
vibrations and heard a whining and crackling noise. After about three minutes everything
seemed to return to normal and the car started again without difficulty.
(The Warminster Mystery, p93-94.) 0202

14/09/65 0100 Langenhoe, Essex, England.

Paul Green, age 29 was travelling towards West Mersea on his motorcycle when he heard a
high pitched humming noise. He looked around and could see a small pinpoint of blue light
about 5 miles away to the east over Brightlingsea. The light was winking and becoming rapidly
larger as it move towards him the humming noise turning into a high pitched buzzing sound
the engine on his bike coughed and spluttered then stopped altogether.

Source: Flying Saucer Review Vol.11. N6. 1

The lights on his bike went out as well. The blue flashing light was now approximately 1 mile
away to the East all of a sudden an enormous object came into view it was the size of a
‘gasometer’ there appeared to be a dome on top with a blue flashing light inside. It slowed,
descending and tilted allowing him to see underneath the object. It was rimmed by numerous
round objects, resembling a ball race in appearance. By this time he had dismounted from his

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bike and felt spellbound unable to move or speak. He felt a tinkling sensation all over like an
electric shock. The buzzing sound became quieter and the object descended in the area of
Wick where there are several farm houses. At this point a scooter approached and the engine
started spluttering and stopped. The rider got of his bike and looked at the blue light he
neither spoke nor looked at the witness. The witness pushed his bike along the road and was
pleased when it started he mounted and raced away from the object arriving home around
2am. The following day he noticed that his hair and clothes were crackling in an unusual
manner and appeared to be charged with electricity.
(Flying Saucer Review Vol 11 no 6, Hanson, J & Holloway, D, Hyde, V, Haunted Skies Vol 2
Revised 1960-69. 2017.) 1279

14/09/65 Lulsgate, near Bristol, Somerset, England.

In the early hours of the morning, an insurance consultant was driving along the A38 road
when he saw what looked like mist, a patch of greenish blue light covering the road. The car
engine then cut out and the lights failed. The driver braked, and then sat in the car trying to
work out the problem, while surrounded by the coloured light. He then heard a high pitched
sound, and the back of the car started to vibrate. He got out of the car, and as he did so the
light went off and the sound stopped. When he tried the engine, it worked and the car lights
then came back on. He drove to the nearest telephone box and called the police, but when
two officers arrived they were unable to offer an explanation.
(Haunted Skies, Volume 2, p 259.) 0752

15/09/65 0000 Silverton, South Africa.

Two Silverton policemen Constable Kood de Klerk and Constable John Lockem out on patrol
saw a disc-shaped object 30 feet in diameter on the road ahead of their car it was like a
gigantic spinning top and was copper-coloured and shone it was visible for around ten
seconds. . Flames poured from underneath the object, and tar on the road burned for a long
period after the object had taken off. A large patch six feet wide was charred in the road
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Image from FSR Vol.11,No.6 showing the burnt road.

The policemen also reported that the car's engine stalled when they came across the object
blocking their way.
(Phillips Physical Trace Catalogue, p38, FSR Vol 11. No. 6.) 0203

15/09/65 2345 Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

A car engine stopped, and the headlights dimmed. The driver got out to check the engine, and
saw a disc-shaped object in the sky. The object had a glowing rim, and a whining sound was
heard as the object hovered overhead. The object left after some time, and the car engine
could then be restarted.
(Ray Fowler. UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors.) 1026

19/09/65 0130 between Colchester and Mersea, Essex, England.

A motorcyclist heard a strange humming noise, and then saw a blue pulsating light
approaching fast from the east. His engine failed, and as the object descended he felt a
tingling, numbing sensation. The object had a domed top, and a ring of spheres underneath
'like a ball race'. It disappeared as it descended on to marshland about a mile away, with the
pulsating lights still visible. After pushing the motorcycle along the road for a while he was
able to restart the engine, and continued his journey. One of his work colleagues also reported
seeing a blue light speeding across the sky over Colchester at about 1.15 a.m. the same
morning.
(Robert Chapman. Unidentified Flying Objects, p82-83.) 0204

24/09/65 2120 A360 Tislhead and Shrewton, Wiltshire. England.

Mr Thomas Borwood was driving with his wife when the lights, engine and radio in his car cut
out. He got out to look under the bonnet as he did he saw a red haze or mist descend from
the sky settling about 30ft behind his car. It covered an area the size of a car and was about
6-7ft in height. They became aware of a humming sound the mist rose a car came around the
bend fast the mist was gone and our radio burst into life. I tried the starter and the engine
burst into life.
(Hanson, J & Holloway, D. Haunted Skies Wiltshire 2017.) 1280

-/09/65 1945 Malaise, Brabant, Belgium.

Mrs A V was driving her sports car at 90kph along the Hoeilaart-Rixensart road, her husband
driving 500m behind her in his own car, when on turning a bend by the old chateau of the
Princes of Merode, she lost control of the steering wheel. Fearing a burst tyre she began to
slow down, only to have the sensation that the car, with her in it, was being lifted several
centimetres above the ground. At the same time, a small neon type light appeared for several
seconds a few centimetres from the right of her windscreen. It was a solid, non-dazzling tube
shaped luminosity, 4cm in diameter, 70cm long, with well -defined edges and slightly covered
on the top. During the 3-4 seconds that the light was present the car seemed to be floating
on the current of air. After the light had disappeared, the car again made a contact with the

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ground 50m further on. Nothing further could be seen and Mr V in his car had seen nothing.
A few hours after the incident Mrs V noticed a rash on the outside of her wrist, which was
two finer widths wide, composed of red, blue and black pin head sized spots, which itched.
The rash disappeared after a week but reappeared for a time in 1967. The witnesses had other
paranormal experiences.
(MUFON UFO Journal 126.) 1607

-/09/65 Mexico City, Mexico.

A UFO was reported to have descended to an estimated 30 feet, so that witnesses could note
that the object was about 25 feet in diameter with a row of glowing portholes. So many
automobiles were stopped by electromagnetic interference that traffic almost came to a
standstill. Three unexplained power blackouts at Cuernavaca, Mexico in less than an hour on
September 25th coincided with reports of UFO sightings from airport officials.
(Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour. Strangers from the Skies, p131.) 0205

08/10/65 0025 Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

The witness in this case was driving towards Warminster when she saw a bright orange glow
like a ball. The engine of the car started to misfire and the headlights dimmed, 'flicking like a
candle in the wind'. The engine stopped altogether, and then a dark object took off from near
the road and went spinning across the sky, with red and blue sparks coming from the object's
rim. It then became bright crimson in colour and left a trail in the sky. The witness stated that
she passed close to two figures standing in the road, but the car's engine had now recovered
its full power so she drove away from the area as quickly as possible.
(The Warminster Mystery, p132-133.) 0206

23/10/65 1915 Long Prairie, Minnesota, U.S.A.

As his car engine, lights and radio failed 19 year old James Townsend observed ahead of him
an object like a rocket ship, sitting on fins this was on Highway 27. His car coasted to a stop
some 20 ft away from the object he tried to restart his car but it would not start. Three figures
like robots advanced towards the car then returned to the object and disappeared. The object
then took off straight upwards with a high pitched humming sound. The car engine then
started running again by itself, and the lights and radio returned to normal.
(FSR Vol 12, No 3, p14, Sifakis, C, Official Guide to UFO Sightings State by State Encounters.)
0207

16/11/65 0334 Highway 27, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Ervin Smith was driving on Highway 27 when he noticed his car radio go dead. The engine
began to cough, and at that moment he saw a strange object flying several hundred feet
above him with streams of light shooting towards the ground.
(FSR Vol 12, No 6, p11.) 0208

16/11/65 near Cyrus, Minnesota, U.S.A.

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While driving on Highway 28 Tom Untiedt observed an object resting on the ground about a
quarter of a mile away. It looked about 10 feet long and like a stovepipe with a cone on top.
The object was surrounded by a white glow. The witness reported that during the sighting the
car's speed dropped by about 40 mph down to about 20 mph. The object rose into the air,
and disappeared in about 15 seconds leaving a trail of vapour or flame.
(FSR Vol 12, No 6, p11.) 0209

26/11/65 2000 Totem Town, St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Residents of Totem Town reported that lights went out as objects giving off orange or blue
flashes appeared overhead. Two witnesses described how at 8 p.m. a huge blue light passed
overhead and the lights in a nearby service station went out. Another witness reported that
at 8.15 p.m. all house lights and appliances went dead, coinciding with further sightings of a
blue glowing object. Observers included a motorist who reported that his car lights and radio
failed.
(The UFO Investigator Vol 111, No 5, p1.) 0210

-/11/65 2100 Hamilton, Ohio, U.S.A.

Four people driving along by a river stopped to watch as a long metallic blue cylinder, with a
row of multi-coloured lights passed slowly overhead. As it did so their radio failed and lights
dimmed, but the engine kept ticking over.
(M Swords, Grassroot UFOs. 2005.) 1609

-/11/65 Clarkson, Ohio, U.S.A.

Mrs Martha Eyster was travelling by car towards Clarkson on the Sprucevale Road in the
company of several friends when a “a big object, a funny shade of blue with a reddish-white
halo around it passed over us. The car motor spluttered and then stopped completely. We
couldn’t imagine what was going on the headlights also dimmed” After the object passed over
it appeared to be landing after it had gone out of sight they could restart the car. A survey the
following day revealed traces of the object having made contact with the ground.
(The Evening Review, East Liverpool, Ohio, USA. K. Coggin.) 1007

20/12/65 2345 near Herman, Minnesota, U.S.A.

A fifteen year old boy Edward Bruns was driving his father’s pick-up truck when he noticed a
peculiar oval shaped with a dome on top. The object was hovering nearby about six feet above
the road. Seconds later the engine died and the object began to glow red as it rose upwards
shooting out sparks. The witness then apparently lost consciousness. When he later
recovered he found that the truck was in the ditch pointing in the opposite direction, and with
no track marks into the ditch.
(FSR Vol 12, No 6, p12.) 0211

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When driving home along a quiet country road in his Morris 1000 car, during the summer of
1965, Mr Trevor Marsh saw an orange light hovering over the Norridge Wood area. The light
moved suddenly to a position overhead, forcing him to slow down because it was so bright.
As it came over the car, the engine cut out and the car came to a halt. Looking upwards, he
could then see a huge circular object with flashing light of various colours flowing around the
outside.
(Haunted Skies, Volume 2, p 232.) 0754

-/-/65 Southport, Lancashire, England.

Two people in a car were looking out over the beach when they saw a strange object like a
yellow buoy which was wobbling and rotating on the surface of the sea. When they tried to
drive away the car engine would not turn over, and when the driver went to get an airgun
from the boot it would not open. The engine still would not start, and then sand began to
spray over the bonnet and windscreen. When the engine finally started they were able to
drive away, and on looking back they saw that the object had vanished.
(Jenny Randles, Northern UFO News, No 105, p17.) 0212

-/-/65 Buenos Aires, Argentina.

One night a couple were driving on a country road suddenly the engine of the car began to
fail and soon stopped. They saw shadow behind a tree. A UFO was seen on the ground a beam
of light was emitted which stuck one of the witnesses on the cheek. Once these effects were
over the car could be restarted.
(CUFORN Bulletin Vol 16. N5 Sept/Oct 1995.) 1252

-/-/65 Flint, Michigan, U.S.A.

A family driving home saw a bright light speed across the sky ahead as the lights and engine
of their 2 year old car died. The engine would not start for a minute but the worked normally.
(M Swords, Grassroots UFOs) 1610

-/-/65 2200 Route 4a Enfield, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Charles Knee was driving along Route 4A when suddenly the radio, lights and engine of his car
all stopped. He got out of his car and then heard a strange humming noise then he saw a large
bright light in the clouds overhead. The light hovered briefly and then shot off in a southerly
direction. His radio and lights came on and he was able to restart the car.
(Kay Coggin - Manchester Union Leader 19650801.) 1623

04/01/66 Concepcion Del Uruguay, Argentina.

Lorry engine stopped, and simultaneously the vehicle overturned as a greenish light appeared
in front, emitting a 'radiant cloudiness'. There were three witnesses.
(FSR Case Histories No 15, p11, Case 12.) 0213

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07/01/66 1517 Georgetown, Alabama, U.S.A

A driver had to stop his car on Highway 63 when he found an object blocking the road. The
round, silver coloured object had an estimated diameter of ten to twelve feet, with a ring
around the centre, a hatch on the bottom part, and hovered about twenty feet away, five feet
above the ground. After a minute or two the object began moving upwards with increasing
sound. There was a sulphur-like smell, the car engine had stopped, and the driver's watch had
also stopped working.
(The Hynek UFO Report, p 42.) 0755

09/01/66 Chascomus, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Three occupants, Mario Alvarez and her two sisters Delia and Amanda Clemenzoni were
driving home from Mar del Plata when their engine failed and the lights went out, coinciding
with the sighting of a strange object flying slowly away from them. The object was emitting a
dazzling beam of bluish light and was climbing. After it had vanished from sight the car engine
functioned normally again.
(FSR Case Histories No 17, back page, Case 10.) 0214

11/01/66 1940 near Myerstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Six people were travelling to a scout hall when their car headlights kept dimming, then coming
back on, with static interference on the radio. On the return journey, a metallic-looking disc-
shaped UFO approached the car, and then accompanied it for a while on a parallel course.
The object then hoverer over a field for five minutes before leaving towards the northwest.
No interference effects were noted when the object was in view.
([Link]. Project Bluebook. [Link] Force Report on UFOs, 1956.) 1027

16/01/66 0400 Kermadien-En-Bolazec, Brittany, France.

A bright light was seen amongst trees. The witness left his car and went to investigate,
whereupon the light ascended into the air and moved towards the car, which was parked with
its lights on. The object was a few metres above the ground, did not make any noise and
moved very slowly. The witness returned to his car, where the object was directly above him
and very near. The object was low enough to pass under telephone wires about three metres
from the ground, and was described by the witness as square with bright red lights at each
corner, and two portholes on one side. The object then moved around the field, and the grass
was seen to be bent over. After two or three attempts to start the car it eventually started
and the witness headed for home. It was also reported that nearby inhabitants observed
strange lights near their homes on the nights of the 15th and 16th January.
(Isle of Wight UFO Investigation Society, UFOLOG 24 Extra.) 0215

18/01/66 Fetebrogh, New Jersey, U.S.A.

The lights of a Volkswagen car failed as an object with pulsating lights appeared nearby. When
the object began to make a pass at the car, the witness drove quickly away. ([Link]. Why
are they Watching Us?) 1028

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19/01/66 0900 Horseshoe Lagoon, Queensland, Australia.

The driver of a tractor noticed the misfire of the engine. A sharp hissing sound was heard and
a saucer-shaped object was seen rising slowly from the reeds about 25 yards away. The object,
silver-grey in colour, sharp in outline and estimated to be 25 feet in diameter and 9 feet thick
at the centre, ascended to a height of about 60 feet, tilted a little to one side and vanished in
a south westerly direction. The witness found a circular flattened area 30 feet in diameter in
the tall green reeds at the point where the object had ascended. The flattened sterns were
radially distributed in a noticeably anti-clockwise manner and the water in the area was still
swirling in a circular motion. The flattened reeds floated on the surface and had turned brown
on the upper surface. The underside of each reed still remained quite green.
(Phillips Physical Trace Catalogue, p40.) 0216

-/01/66 2330 Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.

Three witnesses were driving home when there car stalled and they could not get it restarted.
Looking down the road they could see a classic flying saucer hovering. It had lights around the
bottom perimeter and a row of windows at the base of the dome. The lights were coloured
red, green and white. A high pitched hum was heard and suddenly the object was gone.
(M Swords, Grassroots UFOs.) 0723

26/02/66 2000 Hanna City, Illinois, U.S.A.

An oval red object with a dome came within about three metres of a car, with interference on
the car radio as it passed by. The object made a strange sound like a signal, and moved away
to the north after a while.
([Link]. Passport to Magonia.) 1029

17/03/66 0440 Milan, Michigan, U.S.A.

A squad-car patrolman of the Milan Police Department reported sighting a flying object with
red, blue and white lights spinning completely around it. The object hovered over his car then
paced it for about half a mile before disappearing at high speed. The patrolman stated that
he tried to make radio contact with the County Sheriff's Department but while the object
hovered above his car he was unable to use the radio. The duration of the sighting was several
minutes.
(The Editors of Science & Mechanics. The Official Guide to UFOs, p187.) 0218

23/03/66 2350 Bangor, Maine, U.S.A.

Driver John King noticed some yellow lights off the road and stopped to investigate. An
elliptical object with a dome-like shape on top was apparently resting on the ground. The
object began moving from side to side, then forward 'like a tank', audibly scraping through
the underbrush. The driver, who was armed, reported that he fired two shots but there was
no reaction. As the object moved closer the car lights dimmed and the radio stopped playing.

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A slight humming sound was heard. When a third shot was fired the object glowed brightly
then took off at speed with a sound like spring recoil.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol III, No 7, p3.) 0219

27/03/66 0000 Texahoma, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

A car driver and passenger returning from Amarillo saw a flashing light coming from the north
and towards the front of the car. The engine and headlights died, then the object hovered
about a quarter of a mile away. After about ten minutes the car could be restarted, and the
journey continued.
(Don Berliner. Vallee -Magonia 738, FUFOR Index.) 0756

28/03/66 2000 Fayetteville, Tennessee, U.S.A.

A large illuminated object was seen about a metre above the road, on a hilltop. The object
was dark grey, oval shaped with many lights around the perimeter. The car engine and lights
failed as the object moved away, and light bulbs of the car's headlights had to be replaced
after the incident.
(International UFO Reporter, 34.1, p 19.) 0757

30/03/66 2000 near Baytown, Texas, U.S.A.

A young hairdresser and her mother were driving on Interstate Highway 10 when a glowing
object struck the roof of the car, producing two dents about fifteen inches apart and five
inches in diameter.
(Flying Saucers are Hostile, p45.) 0220

30/03/66 2035 Lewisburg, Indiana, U.S.A.

A woman and four children watched an oval shaped reddish white in colour approach the car.
A pulsating sound heard over the car radio which increased in frequency closer the
object got to the car. The object turned blue and followed the car for several miles.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1436

30/03/66 2100 Montauk, New York, U.S.A.

An object was observed during which a ford truck had total electrical failure. The object was
described as cigar shape about 80ft across. It was seen by one witness.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1437

30/03/66 between 2100 - 2330 East Hampton, Long Island, U.S.A.

A witness reported that as he was driving near two large radio towers his truck engine, lights
and radio suddenly went dead. Shortly afterwards an object rose into the sky from behind
sand dunes. The object changed direction several times, and as it passed overhead was seen
to be a torpedo shape with a brilliant white light on the nose.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol III, No 7, p3.) 0221

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31/03/66 0200 near Vicksburg, Michigan, U.S.A.

Jeno Udvardy while driving home observed a cluster of lights ahead on the highway and on
approaching more closely realized that the lights were on a disc-shaped object hovering a few
feet above the road. He started to reverse the car which was then buffeted violently as if by
a strong gust of wind. The driver noticed that the object had moved overhead taking up a new
position to the rear of the car. He also noticed that the car engine had stalled. A low humming
was heard and a few moments later the object rose abruptly and sped away, the incident
having lasted less than a minute.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol III, No 7, p3.) 0222

31/03/66 Ralston, Nebraska, U.S.A.

A driver reported that his car was struck by a UFO which left a three foot dent in the hood
and fender regions. The witness stated that he noticed the object when it was just about to
hit the car, coming in at a height of six feet. The object was black with what looked like flames
at the edges.
(Flying Saucers are Hostile, p45.) 0223

01/04/66 0300 Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.A.

Three witnesses saw a strange machine hovering in the air and drove underneath it. The
object was round and flat with a dome on top which appeared to have fluorescent lights, and
a dome on the bottom with a revolving red light. The object made no noise. Suddenly it shot
up higher and soared away. The three men followed the object which seemed to dip behind
trees and land. It then reappeared, moving towards them. The car radio was affected by static
interference as the men retreated hastily. Duration of the incident was more than half an
hour. On the following day an investigation of the site where the object had seemed to touch
down revealed a patch of grass about 20 feet in diameter which was burned and crushed.
(Flying Saucers are Hostile, p50-51.) 0225

01/04/66 2240 Tangier, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

A man saw a green UFO coming nearby from a southerly direction. The object was emitting a
high pitched noise, and the witness felt heat as it passed by, with his car engine stopping at
the same time.
(Passport to Magonia. [Link].) 1031

01/04/66 Conception Del Uruguay, Argentina.

At night, a luminous green object surrounded by haze, approached a truck. Electro-magnetic

effects were reported as the object neared. The truck slowed and overturned.
(M. Rodeghier, CUFOS, Vehicle Interference Cases, p 21.) 0758

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Motorist Ronald Sullivan reported that while driving at night along a straight stretch of road
his car headlight beams suddenly appeared to bend off to the right. He managed to stop the
car in time to see a display of coloured gaseous lights in a nearby field, and an object which
rose about ten feet into the air and disappeared. Three days later there was a fatal crash at
the same spot. Police found a circular depression about five feet in diameter in the freshly
ploughed field nearby.
(FSR Vol 12, No 3, p3, FSR Vol 32, No 4, p2-7.) 0226

07/04/66 2130 Littleton, Colorado, U.S.A.

A group of people on a picnic saw white, blue, and red lights in a wooded area, and heard a
strange buzzing sound. There were EM effects on the car when a white object followed them
as they left the area.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases, p 7, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0760

07/04/66 Grove City, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

At night, motorists saw lights rising from the ground. An unidentified object then passed over
their car, causing EM effects, noise, and physiological effects. There were independent
observations. On the same day at Ligonier, 105 miles away to the southeast, silver cigar-
shaped objects were observed flying into a storm.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases, p 7.) 0759

21/04/66 Westby, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Mrs Burl Burns observed an eerie, lighted UFO which followed her car. The object slowed
when she slowed the car, and passed her when she drove faster. At one time the object
caused the car's interior to glow brightly. Arriving at her home, Mrs Burns and her family
watched the object through binoculars for about an hour. The family agreed that the object
was shaped like a disc with a dome on top. The family dog behaved as if it was frightened. No
sound was heard from the object.
(Flying Saucers are Hostile, p49.) 0227
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25/04/66 2015 near Towanda, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

At about 8.15 p.m. a bright object crossed the Canadian border and travelled southwards over
the north eastern United States, lighting up the countryside like daylight. The object was seen
by millions of people, and photographed, and was explained as a meteor. Near Towanda in
Pennsylvania two witnesses stated that as the object passed overhead their car engine stalled,
the headlights went out and they both felt a wave of heat. After a few seconds the huge
flames of the object went out, and the men then claim to have seen in its place a dark flying
object.
(John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p145.) 0229

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A Mrs J Sheldon was driving along the Cavan Rd when she observed a long glowing orange
coloured object cigar shaped and appearing to pulsate. Suddenly the car radio started to
malfunction the volume decreased and heavy static and humming noises became very loud
on it. She looked for the object again and could see it before dissolving into some thick cloud.
The radio came back on and worked normally.
(Panorama Vo. 5 No.3 1966.) 1307

03/05/66 0120 Bainsdale, Victoria, Australia.

Mrs V Martin encountered a strange object while driving home and her car stalled.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1408

17/06/66 0030 Georgetown, Ontario, Canada.

A housewife was driving on Highway 7 when a bright, round, silver object flew in front of her
car. She watched the object for about three seconds and described it as huge, with a long trail
behind it of a lighter colour. On the following morning when the housewife and her husband
examined the car they were shocked to find it blemished by thousands of tiny transparent
blisters which had set rock hard over the fenders, grill and hood.
(Flying Saucers are Hostile, p51-52.) 0230

25/06/66 2100 Santa Barbara, Chile.

Mr Cerda of Santa Barbara was driving home along an unpaved road when, some five minutes’
drive from the town, he saw a sort of ball of fire, emitting a strange luminosity, which
disappeared behind a bend in the road, which at that point bordered a brook. He saw the light
emerge again from this brook and cross the road to his car. At that moment the car engine
died and the vehicle carried on by its own momentum.
(BUFORA Journal 2, 8.) 1611

-/06/66 Adelaide, South Australia. Australia.

Two Adelaide couples reported that their car stalled just before they saw a flying saucer
crossing the road 200 yards away. Their radio died as well.
(Hervey, M. UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1409

-/06/66 2100 Guanta-Juntas, Vicuna, Coquimbo, Chile.

Abel Aguirre Diaz, his two children aged 12 and 10 and Mr Rosanal (18) saw a light on the
ground at the same moment their vehicles lights and engine failed. They saw a glowing
silhouette jumping on the side of the road. Traces 1.2 x 1.15 and 20cm deep were found at
the spot, along with two series of three prints. Abel suffered from paralysis of his arms and
legs, headaches, and swollen eyes.
(LDLN 118.) 1612

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Three teenage boys who were driving around after choir practice claimed that a mysterious
domed object hovered over their car. They were driving up a hill when they saw lights shining
on trees they heard a strange buzzing noise on the car radio and the engine died. They saw a
domed object overhead glowing sort of orange it looked like a flat bowl upside down. It
seemed to be 6-8ft across and 10ft from the car. The object disappeared straight upwards.
(Saucer Scoop Vol.1 No9.) 1285

19/08/66 1650 Donnybrook, North Dakota, U.S.A.

A Federal employee noticed violent interference on his car radio, which suddenly developed
a high-pitched whining sound and a series of beeps. He then noticed an object floating slowly
down towards the valley floor. When it was about 50 feet above the highway the object began
to move towards a farm pond. The witness described the object as being about 30 feet in
diameter and 15 feet high at the top of its dome.
(Flying Saucers are Hostile, p70.) 0232

24/09/66 2120 between Tilshead and Shrewton, Wiltshire, England.

Car engine, lights and radio died on a car being driven by a man called Gains. A red haze or
mist descended a short distance behind the vehicle and settled on the roadway. A light
humming noise was then heard and the mist started rising up and down. The most then
vanished, the car lights and radio came on again and the engine could be started normally.
Two witnesses.
(FSR Vol 12, No 6, P18.) 0234

24/09/66 Peoria, Illinois, U.S.A

Leon Gainer and his girlfriend described seeing a large blue object which lowered to a few
feet above the ground. When their car approached the object to within a few yards it zoomed
silently into the sky and disappeared. A short time later when Mr Gainer was returning home,
the object reappeared and seemed to take control of the car, which began to pick up speed.
The car doors would not open, and the brakes and steering were ineffective. The object
stayed above the car, appearing to direct its course and speed for several miles before the
driver was able to regain control. The incident was later reported to the police.
(Flying Saucers are hostile, p52-53.) 0235

-/09/66 0400 near El Campo, Texas, U.S.A.

A Deputy Sheriff was driving his patrol, car north on Highway 71 when he noticed a flaming
object which appeared to be on the highway about half a mile ahead. He suddenly realised
that a similar object was pacing the car to his left, while another object was hovering over
Thornton Airport. The witness reached for his radio but it was dead. The object on the road
drifted off the highway in a slanting motion, and seemed to ‘suck the flame up behind it’ as it
moved away. The object over the airport had disappeared in seconds. The car radio then
began to function normally.
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-/09/66 1600 Vardo, Norway.

A witness near the Svartnes Ferry area experienced total car engine failure he then noticed a
large reddish object that appeared to be on the road just ahead of the vehicle. Two man-like
figures wearing blue clothing and wide belts stepped out from behind the object and
approached the witness who had now stepped out of the car. The witness described the
figures as having yellow skin and six fingered hands. In perfect Norwegian the aliens spoke to
the witness via telepathy. The figure then walked back to the object boarded it and the object
left the area, his vehicle then restarted without any problems.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1965-69.) 1215

12/10/66 0900 East of Caracas, Venezuela.

Francisco Arrieta was driving along the highway between El Guapo and Barcelona east of
Caracas. High tension cables run along the road and he was trying out his new camera and he
stopped to take some pictures of the towers. He heard a humming sound and looked around
to see an oval shaped object following the lines of the electric cable. It appeared to pulsating
and had no define edges. The witness became nervous at this stage he took a photo of the
object. At the same time a pick-up truck which was approaching the tower suddenly stalled
and the driver was trying to restart the engine. The lighted pulsating object continued its
journey along the cable. The truck engine restarted and the driver continued on his way and
Arrieta remained standing there dumbfounded. When he reached Barcelona he heard that
for two nights in succession people had reported seeing lighted objects in the skies and that
there had been repeated power failures.
(APRO Bulletin March-April 1967.) 1326

15/10/66 0430 near Newfoundland, New Jersey, U.S.A.

A forester Jerry Simons is driving north on Split Rock Road noticed an orange-red glow in the
rear view mirror. When the glow became brighter he lowered the window to get a better view
behind the car, and was startled to see the distinct outline of an object which was almost
overhead, following the car. The object looked flat-bottomed and domed shape. The car's
engine, headlights, and dashboard lights suddenly stopped working. When the object moved
to the rear or to one side of the car, the electrical system was restored. This happened three
times, and after less than a minute he was able to restart the engine. The glowing object
stayed near the car for about ten minutes, until he had driven along the Charlottesburg Road
and reached the Reservoir Office, where he reported the incident. Returning to his vehicle
the driver found that the engine had restarted by itself. Later examination showed no
explanation, but some weeks later the engine exploded while he was driving the car. He also
suffered physiological effects for several months, with illness requiring hospital treatment.
(International UFO Reporter, 34.1, p 14.) 0761

26/10/66 2345 La Plata, Maryland, U.S.A.

A large round object seen with red and green flashing lights underneath, and a central light
beam illuminated field it seemed about to land in a clearing. Witness reported whirring sound

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and heavy static interference on a car radio. He tries to accelerate the car but does not move
the car function again when the object moves away.
(NICAP Database, p 8, IUR 31 N4) 0762

-/10/66 1500 Figueras, Spain.

Three cars stopped completely when the engines and headlights all failed, with witnesses
seeing an opaque, circular metallic-looking object in the air nearby. The object was wobbling,
and seemed to be about fifteen metres in diameter. When the object moved away at
moderate speed towards the Bay of Rosa, the cars could then be restarted.
(Catalogue of 200 Type 1 UFO events in Spain and Portugal. Vincente-Juan Ballester-Olmos,
Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1033

08/11/66 near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

Just before midnight, a driver was approaching the Montford Bridge when she saw an object
emitting rays of light, low in the sky to the north of the road. The object kept pace with the
car and at one point the rays seemed to come towards the right side and she felt a bump
against the side of the car as if the rays had struck it. At the same time she felt an electric
shock and a pain in her neck, and the left side car headlight went out. The object stayed near
the car until she arrived home, and the presence of the object was confirmed by her parents.
A very similar incident involving the same witness, and at the same location on the A5 road
occurred two years earlier in November 1964, but with no reported effect on the witness or
her car.
(UFO Magazine, U.K. July/August, 1999, p48.) 0237

28/11/66 0515 Sparks, Georgia, U.S.A.

A luminous object landed on the road during which a car stalls and the radio dies. Object
viewed for 6 minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1438

30/11/66 1755 Taylorsville, Indiana, U.S.A.

An elliptical shape approached car, then slowed, and buzzing sound heard. Car engine and
lights effects reported.
(NICAP Database, p 8, M. Rodeghier, CUFOS Report, Vehicle Interference Cases, p 31.) 0763

-/11/66 2300 Liernu, Belgium.

A motorcyclist saw the sky becoming redder in front of him, and at the same time the
motorcycle engine began misfiring and then stopped. The red glow became brighter, and a
circular object like a domed disc could then be seen, emitting a rumbling sound and passing
overhead. As the object moved away from the lone motorcyclist, the engine restarted by
itself.
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25/12/66 Monroe, Oregon, U.S.A

Three objects rose from a field with a screaming noise, manoeuvred in the sky and paced a
car. Blast from the objects at take-off knocked the witness against the car. Flattened grass as
found at the site.
(Phillips Physical traces Catalogue, No 256.) 0238

-/-/66 between Minot, North Dakota, U.S.A. and Canadian Border.

During the summer, a responsible federal official witnessed the landing on a hillside of an
object which affected the electrical system of his car. It was daylight, and at a distance of
about two hundred feet he could clearly see the object which he described as a round metallic
craft with a domed top. Several rocks were displaced by the landing and take-off of the object.
The sighting was investigated by the Air Force and by the Condon Report, and could not be
explained.
(Major D. Keyhoe. Aliens from Space, p243, Case 8.) 0239

-/-/66 0300 near Lulsgate Airport, Bristol, England.

Police officer Lester Stenner was on duty with colleague officer, PC Anthony Purkiss, travelling
in their patrol car on the A38 road between Potters Hill and Lulsgate Airport, in clear and dry
weather conditions, when they saw a vivid white and bluish light which appeared suddenly
out of nowhere. The light was oval shaped, but blurred around the edges, about 100 feet
above the ground and over the road ahead, in a southerly direction. At the same time, the
engine of their Ford Zephyr patrol car failed, along with the headlights and VHF radio. The
streetlamps lining the road also went out, and it became very cold. The luminous object,
which was bright but not dazzling, remained motionless for about ten seconds then just
disappeared. As soon as the object had gone the car engine, headlights, and streetlights came
back on again. PC Stenner later described the size of the object as being like a large tin lid held
at arm’s length, and that it made no sound. There were no other lights around, the road was
quiet at the time, and the airport was closed. After the object had disappeared the officers
drove off towards Bridgwater, and did not report the incident at the time because they were
afraid of ridicule.
(UFO Data Magazine, January/February 2008, p 28; May/June 2008, p 14/16.) 0709

-/-/66 0900 near Lake Bala, Wales.

A man serving as a British Army reservist was taking part in a military exercise. He was called
to accompany other soldiers going to investigate the area of an alleged plane crash. A convoy
of six petrol-engine vehicles including trucks, a reserve unit, and headed by a jeep, were being
driven towards an isolated valley area when the jeep engine stalled suddenly. A check found
nothing wrong, and the engine was restarted after several attempts. It was found that the
engine failed again when the jeep advanced beyond a particular point. Trucks which were
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hours, with vehicles not being able to drive further forward, and needing to be winched
backwards by the rescue unit. It was found that Army vehicles in other parts of the valley had
similar problems, with radio communication difficulty or failure also reported. It was decided
that groups of soldiers should go forward on foot, but they reported a strange mental
influence hindering their will power to proceed further. A search of the area found nothing,
but during the evening a high pitched humming and pulsating sound was heard, and a
yellowish-orange light appeared, reflected on the surrounding hills. The light, which seemed
to be from a location further down the valley, moved in one direction before returning to its
original position, repeating this movement several times with the brightness reducing to a
faint light, and with no sound being heard when the light was moving. The Army reservist
reported that the time duration when the light was seen moving was confirmed as being more
than an hour, far longer than his estimate of no more than five minutes. He was called in again
to search the area a week later. Nothing was found, and the whole event was classified as
secret with no further witness details being revealed.
(FSR Volume 21, Number 3/4, p 56-57.) 0764

03/01/67 0200 New Richmond, Indiana, U.S.A.

A professional secretary was driving on a rural road near her home, and saw a dome-shaped
luminous object which hovered over the car for ten to fifteen minutes. The roadway was
brightly illuminated, the car slowed down with the driver unable to accelerate, and there was
a loss of steering control.
(Magonia, March 2010, p 2, NICAP Database of E-M cases.) 0765

04/01/67 Columbus, Indiana, U.S.A.

Jimmy Mobeley became a UFO believer when a UFO buzzed his car as he was driving home
from work. Mobeley told police he was just south of Taylerville when he spotted the object
which he said was about 25ft long and 12ft wide travelling at 50 to 60 mph. As the football
shaped object passed over his car the lights dimmed and the motor missed. A second car
stopped to watch the object with 2 witnesses inside. The object made a humming noise like
a electricity transformer it changed speed and colour as they watched it head Northeast.
(Saucer Scoop Vol.1 No 12.) 1286

11/01/67 Aveyron, France.

Between January 6th and 11th, several sightings of a cylindrical object described as shaped
like a shell. On January 11th, the shell – brilliant white, was seen near the ground and making
a whistling noise. A white ball of light, also seen in the area on several preceding days and
apparently associated with the shell, came close to a vehicle and seemed to be the cause of
a total electrical failure of engine and lights. The witness in the car then saw an object like an
oval dish descending towards the ground. The object had a light at the rear and two domes
on top. The witness felt heat and paralysis. A road sign on a metal post was seen vibrating,
and the object made a whistling sound. After the object left, the headlights came on again,
and the car started normally. After about a week the witness had difficulties in sleeping and
experienced brief moments of paralysis.
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17/01/67 near Freetown, Indiana, U.S.A.

Mr and Mrs Phil Patton, driving on Indiana Highway 135, observed a flying object. No sound
came from the object. Both witnesses experienced a 'queer cold feeling as if they were in a
vacuum'. The object took off at speed towards the north. At the time of his report to
investigating officers, Mr Patton's eyes were still smarting from the effects of the object's
flashing lights. Earlier in the evening, at 9.30 p.m. another motorist reported an encounter
with a flying object which had swooped towards his car causing him to lose control and run
off the highway.
(Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour. New UFO Breakthrough.) 0242

20/01/67 1845 Methuen, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Two occupants of a car including Kimberley Dodge saw a string of bright red lights moving in
a north easterly direction. The lights stopped and changed configuration. A reflective surface
could then be seen above the lights. The car was stopped with the engine idling. Suddenly the
engine, lights and radio failed completely. The generator light on the dashboard barely
flickered and attempts to restart the car were unsuccessful. The object moved away slowly
then accelerated. The car then started easily with lights and radio working normally.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol 111, No 11, p3.) 0243

25/01/67 0430 Near Howard Lake, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Harold Lenz was driving to work in Winsted when the engine of his pickup truck stalled. He
got out to check under the bonnet and seeing a brightly lit luminous object, 75ft long by 30ft
wide approach and land on three legs on the highway, it made a whirring noise. Something
like an elevator descended from the bottom and a man walked out dressed in a silver-blue
coverall with a fish-bowl helmet over his head. The occupant seemed to examine something
on the object and then got back into the UFO which took off, the duration was only 3-4
minutes.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1965-69.) 1216

-/01/67 1930 Farwell, Minnesota, U.S.A.

A car was being driven along Highway 55 when the engine stopped and the headlights went
out. The driver noticed an orange flash of light to the left, then beads of light which crossed
in front of the car. There were five passengers in the car, and Mrs James Galvin confirmed the
orange and red flash of light which had passed the car on the driver's side at window level.
The car coasted for some distance, then the engine and lights came on again.
(UFOs over the Americas, p25.) 0244

-/01/67 0430 Winsted, Minnesota, U.S.A.

A man driving to work stopped to check his 1964 Chevy truck when its engine stalled. He then
saw an intense light approaching, and landing on the road, so he locked himself in the truck.
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landing gear. Something like an elevator came down, with the figure of a man of medium
height, wearing blue coveralls and a "glass fishbowl" on his head, who seemed to check
something then departed.
(Vallee Magonia 812, FUFOR Index.) 0766

-/01/67 Hammaguir, near Colomb – Bechar, Algeria.

At the military base of Hammaguir, which was used for French missile testing, a group of six
people including three astrophysicists were making preparations at night for a rocket launch
on the following morning. Three of the group were being driven by car towards the launch
tower site when a light was pointed out in the sky. All of the airfield lights went out, with the
light in the sky coming steadily closer. The car engine started running roughly before it then
stopped by itself. The light came closer without any sound, and was seen to be coming from
a very large and dark cylindrical object with pointed ends. The object became stationary,
flames of different colours could be seen along its length, and the eyewitnesses felt paralysed,
unable to speak. The astrophysicists then also arrived by car, and the object was watched for
twenty or thirty minutes as it continued slowly again in the same direction, before it angled
upwards and disappeared.
(Need to Know, p 296 – 297.) 0710

07/02/67 2230 Between New Smyrna – Deland. Florida, U.S.A.

Two cars containing five eyewitnesses reported a ‘banana-shaped’ UFO with a bubble dome
on top and with 8 windows that approached their cars from the direction of New Smyrna and
stopped their car motors along with headlight failure and interference on the radios. The
object made a sound like a high pitched squealing it hovered over the two cars above highway
44 East and was observed by the passengers for around 5-6 minutes. The UFO had bands
which rotated clockwise at an estimated 100ft above them. It appeared to be approx. 30ft
wide and 75ft long. It was covered in a greenish-blue and red light. It disappeared after
hovering in about 30 seconds when it went straight up and was out of sight.
(Saucer Scoop Vol. 2 No.5.) 1287

10/02/67 0340 Sandusky, Ohio, U.S.A.

A man out driving near the Plum Brook Naval Air Station saw a blue discoid object some 3km
from his car. He tried to contact his headquarters at the station but his car radio became filled
with static. The object appeared to land but the man did not investigate.
(UFO Investigator March/April 1967.) 1613

13/02/67 2200 Big Fork, Montana, U.S.A.

Mrs J. Thompson was driving with her two children in a pickup truck when the engine stopped
and the lights went out. Stepping out of the truck she noticed overhead a greenish-blue light
too bright to look at. The light veered away, changed colour to reddish-orange, and the truck
engine started without the starter being pressed. Mrs Thompson reported that she had felt
heat coming from the circular object.
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13/02/67 2255 between Ashington and Peg's Wood, Northumberland, England.

A witness driving alone felt a prickly feeling as he saw a UFO nearby, and there was heavy
static on the car radio at the same time.
(Contact UK.) 1035

21/02/67 1940 Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A.

A large pulsating orange-yellow ball of light was seen, which became more flat in shape and
red in colour, hovered over highway at treetop level and emitted a light beam towards the
ground. Effects were noted on vehicle speedometer and new wristwatch, which stopped for
several days. The witness, a registered nurse, reported the case by letter to the National
Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases.). 0767

05/03/67 near Hayes, South Dakota, U.S.A.

Mr and Mrs R. Carter noticed in the sky a bright light which seemed to be following their car.
The object appeared to be V shaped, and an area around the car became bathed in light. A
slight humming sound was heard, and both the Carters and their three children experienced
a feeling of numbness while the object was closest to the vehicle. The object veered near the
car then took an erratic but rapid flight out of sight.
(The New UFO Breakthrough.) 0247

08/03/67 0105 Leominster, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Mr William Roberts and his wife saw a large white light in the sky, while the car engine stalled,
the lights went out and the radio stopped playing. Mr Wallace got out of the car but then felt
unable to move for more than half a minute. The object in the sky moved away, gaining speed
and producing a humming sound. The car then functioned normally again. Mr Wallace
described how he had felt an electric shock during the sighting, whilst his reactions had been
slow and uncoordinated for at least fifteen minutes after the incident.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol 111, No 12, p7.) 0248

08/03/67 2130 Newpoint, Vermont, U.S.A

A greenish-blue oval shape hovered over a field, and moved up and down. The object changed
colour to yellow, then white, and when it began moving towards the car the engine could not
be started. The duration of the sighting was about seven minutes, with two witnesses.
(NICAP E-M Cases Database, p 9.) 0768

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Four residents of McIntosh observed four strange fluorescent green lights low over the road
ahead of their car. As they proceeded uphill the car engine stopped. The car coasted
backwards down the hill and the engine then restarted.
(UFOs over the Americas, p26.) 0249

13/03/67 2017 near San De Fuca, Washington, U.S.A.

Three teenage boys driving along the highway were passed by a speeding car which was
accompanied by an intense light. The car turned into a driveway and stopped. The boys
noticed that the bright light remained, and then suddenly their car engine died. The
headlights became inoperable and the car could not be restarted. An object was noticed
hovering on the brow of a hill, and disappearing behind trees. The object moved over the
other car, and hovered above it while giving off a pulsating light. When the object finally
disappeared the car could be restarted.
(The New UFO Breakthrough.) 0250

16/03/67 2030 St George, Queensland, Australia.

Barry Morris, an assistant storeman was driving his fiancée’s mother Mrs Vera Lidden from St
George to Mitchell, along the Mitchell Highway, when, 64km from Mitchell they observed a
greenish light, which resolved itself into a bright silvery sphere. It was lost to sight behind
trees, but when they turned a bend, they saw, in a clearing, 100m off the road, a
hemispherical object 4m high, 5m long, with a flat underside hovering about 30cm above the
ground. In its side was an opening, from which came a sort of hatchway leading to the ground.
From the interior came a bright blue-white light that illuminated the brush. As Morris
approached the thing his car radio failed, though the car lights and engine were unaffected.
He drove past the thing at speed. About 3km further on the thing began following them, only
leaving when 8km outside Mitchell, The next day Morris returned to the site and found three
rectangular holes 15x 30 x 7cm forming an equilateral triangle the sides of which were 1m
long.
(Chalker 1996.) 1615

16/03/67 near Lebanon, Ohio, U.S.A.

Mrs R. Smith was driving home with her two daughters when they saw a large flying object.
The object was round and shining, and had a white light that hurt the eyes. The light at times
turned red and there was a halo around it. The object hovered, spinning underneath like a
top. As it drew nearer the lights of the car went off. Mrs Smith reported that the object
emitted a high-pitched sound which hurt the ears, and sent the family dog scurrying away.
The family watched the object for about 45 minutes.
(The New UFO Breakthrough.) 0251

21/03/67 Hillsboro, Kansas, U.S.A.

A bright object, like 'an upside down cup on a saucer' was seen by several witnesses who had
driven to investigate the unusual light in the cloudy night sky. As they approached the object,
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badly and the engine stopped. After the object left the engine could be started again, and the
incident was later reported to the authorities in Hillsboro.
(UFOs over the Americas, p26.) 0253

28/03/67 0225 Munroe Falls, Ohio, U.S.A.

David Morris was driving home when he saw a reddish-orange cone shaped object, about 25
feet from the side of the road. The object was about 12 feet wide at the base, which was
slightly off the ground. The witness reported that his car struck one of the occupants of the
object, which resulted in dents in the front of the car.
(Phillips Physical Traces Catalogue, p47, No 560.) 0254

30/03/67 2030 Peterborough, South Australia, Australia.

Two men were in a vehicle when the engine and the lights stopped. Getting out to look they
noticed a disc shape ascending rapidly at 30SW emitting a blue to purple glow with flashes
from underneath. Upon trying their car it restarted. A hour later a stationary purple glow was
observed on a creek bed, followed another hour later by a 15-20ft diameter disc which was
seen to take off.
(Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events, p4.) 0255

-/03/67 2300 Dry Creek Basin, Colorado, U.S.A.

A luminous object with inverted bowl shape approached car to within about 100 feet. Heat
was felt, and with reported effects on the engine, radio, and lighting.
(NICAP E-M Cases Database, p 9, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0769

-/03/67 Evening Easthampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

A woman out driving saw two bright lights in a field and moments later her car was
surrounded by a bright white light, while her radio emitted a hissing sound. As the witness
accelerated the light, which appeared to be the same size as her car, kept pace with her. After
a couple of minutes this light left the car but hovered over the house she was heading to.
(Rodeghier 1981.) 1614

-/03/67 Ravenswood, West Virginia, U.S.A.

At night, a driver reported that his truck engine and headlights failed completely, and he then
saw a glowing disc-shaped object hovering overhead.
(Dell's Flying Saucers No 4, 1967.) 1036

05/04/67 1945 near Jonestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A driver travelling north noticed that his car engine started to miss, then it stopped and the
lights went out. He then saw an object flying slowly towards him. The object flew over then
hovered nearby. The object tilted, moved slowly away then accelerated fast. The car seemed

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to be pulled towards it and rocked violently, throwing the driver across the seat. A sulphurous
smell was noticed, and a sound like an electric motor which increased as the object moved
away. After it had gone the car functioned perfectly. On the following day the witness noticed
that portions of skin had peeled from his hands and feet.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol IV, No 1, p6.) 0256

06/04/67 Redvale, Colorado, U.S.A.

A motorist driving at night reached the top of a hill, and was confronted with a large orange
object, about 100 feet in diameter. The car's lights went out, and the engine backfired but
kept going. A build-up of heat was felt in the car, so the driver decided to turn the car around,
with the object following him back down the hill, and stopping over a store at the roadside.
(MUFON Symposium Proceedings 2003. M Rodeghier, Reports involving
Vehicle Interference. CUFOS, 1981.) 1037

08/04/67 Banner Elk, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Four college students noticed a greenish fluorescent glow on the ground 180 feet away. The
car engine failed and the radio was affected by static. An object passed near the car and
disappeared into the distance. Three round imprints six inches in diameter and two inches
deep were found. The imprints were three feet apart and formed an equilateral triangle.
(Phillips Physical Traces Catalogue, p47.) 0257

10/04/67 2115 Kvarnbranet, Hallnas Vasterbotten, Sweden.

A driver suddenly felt a powerful wind against his car and noticed two round and luminous
multi-coloured objects in the sky. The objects moved away at speed, but the witness arrived
home in time for his wife to observe the objects in the distance. The following day the witness
returned to the spot and found small fir twigs spread out on the ground in a thin belt
corresponding with the direction in which the objects had travelled.
(FSR Vol 14, No 2, p14.) 0258

11/04/67 2133 Loco, Texas, U.S.A.

A witness, who reported having previous contactee experiences, saw a light near his home as
his truck stalled. An egg-shaped object landed, and four small humanoids got out. The witness
was taken aboard the craft, where he was examined, and released unharmed.
(John Keel. Strange Creatures from Space and Time, Project 1949-UFOCAT.) 1039

12/04/67 2059 Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.

A bell-shaped object buzzed car, with reported effects on its engine. The object then turned
and flew away.
(Project Blue Book Files, National Archives, NICAP E-M Cases Database.) 0770

14/04/67 2100 Melville, New York, U.S.A.

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A circular object landed, and a small figure was seen in doorway of object. Car engine stalled,
and the radio which was not switched on, made strange noises.
([Link], CUFOS Report, 1981, p 34, NICAP E-M Cases Database.) 0771

21/04/67 2300 Ephrata, Washington State, U.S.A.

As four people were driving in a car ten miles south of Ephrata, they encountered a very bright
light. As the light came near it 'switched off' and reappeared to their left as a dull amber light,
switched off again and appeared behind them, white again. The light followed closely as the
driver attempted to speed up the car, which began to sputter and lose power although it did
not stop. As oncoming traffic appeared the light ascended and disappeared. When a sheriff's
deputy investigated the site within half an hour he found on the highway a sticky spot about
17 feet long and teardrop shaped with the point towards the side of the road. The spot looked
like either fresh oil or as though the asphalt had recently been very hot.
(Physical Traces Catalogue, Case No 613, APCIC V2 N5.) 0259

01/05/67 Peeltree, West Virginia, U.S.A.

A man reported that his car engine failed while he was driving at night. An elliptical object
estimated as about 40 feet long came from behind a shed and hovered 15 feet from the car.
The object then tilted towards the car. Static was heard on the radio, and the car's
temperature gauge went off the dial. The driver felt an intense wave of heat, and his hands
burned when he touched the dashboard. He also reported headaches and partial loss of
vision.
(International UFO Reporter 34.1, p 19. NICAP files, copy of letter 29/5/67.) 0772

18/05/67 0635 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Mrs Ruth Smythe observed a disc-shaped flying object with an exhaust which emitted a thin
stream of vapour. No sound was heard. The object was dark grey with a darker band around
the middle and with what looked like portholes. A domed top seemed to be rotating. After
about three minutes the object appeared to shudder, red sparks came from the exhaust and
the object shot straight up into the overcast. Mrs Smythe reported that at the moment she
observed the red sparks from the object she suddenly felt a bad toothache. A few minutes
later the ache disappeared as suddenly as it had started.
(The New UFO Breakthrough.) 0260

26/05/67 2215 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

A luminous object chased a car with three witnesses a Bobby Grant, Joseph Romero and a
Johnny Sanchez the object hovered above them. The lights were affected and the car engine
stopped, but could be restarted after the object sped away.

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(APRO Bulletin May/June 1967, NICAP Database of E-M Cases, p 10, Project 1947-UFOCAT.)
0773

-/05/67 Alamosa, Colorado, U.S.A.

A student of Adams State College reported to the authorities and to the local newspaper, the
Alamosa Valley Courier, that after sighting strange objects on a number of occasions he had
tried to approach a cigar shaped hovering object. He reported that as he drove closer to the
object, which was changing colour from blue to red, then orange and back to blue, both of
the rear tyres on his car went flat for no apparent reason.
(UFOs over the Americas, p163.) 0261

-/05/67 near Vauxhall, Alberta, Canada.

Mr and Mrs Yaroslowski were driving north when they saw a lighted object. The lights of their
car would not remain on steadily. Two miles away, Mr Wilfred Albert’s driving on a parallel
road saw the same object, and his car engine shut off. The two drivers later met and compared
experiences.
(Allende Letters Magazine, U.S.A. or The New UFO Breakthrough, G.B. Edition.) 0262

07/06/67 near Itajuba, Brazil.

A UFO was reported to have approached close to a motor vehicle and caused a failure in its
electrical system. The driver described the object as mushroom shaped. He had also seen the
faces of strange beings through the object's transparent surface which was brightly
illuminated.
(FSR Vol 14, No 6, p10.) 0263

25/06/67 Bethel, Connecticut, U.S.A.

A bright light moving horizontally was seen during the night by six witnesses. Driving closer
the witnesses observed the object to be a disc with a dome on top. Red and green lights
flashed around the bottom of the dome. The object was noiseless, although the car radio was
filled with static.
(The New Times, 15/07/67, and Physical Traces Catalogue, No 614.) 0266

26/06/67 0011 Hwy 321 South Gastonia, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Two men reported seeing a UFO as it hovered over their car which was disabled the large
bright object hovered over the car for some 5 minutes and slowly moved away. Police who
attended to the report may have sighted the object.
(Gastonia Gazette, South Carolina, USA via Kay Coggin.) 0051

05/07/67 Murray Bridge, South Australia, Australia.

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About five miles from Murray Bridge, on the road to Karoonda, there was interference on the
car radio, becoming a high-pitched whine. The radio was then switched off, and the car engine
stopped by itself. Stars were visible through a break in fog, and a "large dark shadow" was
seen, with a greyish-blue glow above it. The top of the shadow looked convex. The shadow
and light then disappeared, with banks of fog coming together, and the car engine and radio
were then found to be normal again.
(An official RAAF case. International UFO Reporter 34.1, p 19, RAAF File 580/1/1, part 8.
[Link], Australian Vehicle Interference cases p 3.) 0774

10/07/67 1750 near Meridian, Mississippi, U.S.A.

When a retired USMC captain's car engine and radio stopped working, he got out of the
vehicle and realized that a dull grey, disc-shaped object was overhead. The object was silent,
but the motorist felt the "rushing of an extreme wind". A few seconds later the object tilted,
revealing a blue metallic tint on the upper part of the craft, before it accelerated away into
the clouds. The radio then came back on, and the witness restarted the car. The USAF Project
Blue Book, UFO investigation listed the case as unidentified.
(MUFON Symposium Proceedings 2003. M Rodeghier, Reports involving Vehicle Interference.
CUFOS, 1981.) 1040

13/07/67 2330 Maumee, Ohio, U.S.A.

Driving around a bend in the road Robert Richardson of Toledo along with Jerry Quay were
in his car when they saw a large blue-white light completely blocking the road. The driver
braked and swerved but a collision was felt. The incident was reported to the police. The car
hood and bumper were damaged, and one of the witnesses produced two pieces of metal
from the site which analysis showed to be primarily of iron and low grade magnesium alloy.
(APRO Bulletin, July-August 1967. Physical Traces Catalogue No 616.) 0267

17/07/67 2325 Millerton, New York, U.S.A.

Mrs Emma Funk reported that a black shiny object about the size of a baseball flew into the
headlight beams and straight towards her car. The object seemed to brush against the
windshield then veered away. On contact with the object the car lit up like a light bulb, the
engine failed and the headlights went out. After the incident the car was headed in the
opposite direction and there was a fist-sized cracked area in the windshield. The engine and
headlights worked normally again.
(Poughkeepsie Journal, New York. 19 Jul 1967 – Kay Coggin, UFOs over the Americas, p166.)
0268

19/08/67 2145 Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Two men saw a white light hovering over a field. They manoeuvred their car to illuminate the
area with the headlights, and saw a small humanoid creature with unusual hands and dressed
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(Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report 10/4/67, NICAP files.) 0775

23/08/67 2215 Alberta, Canada.

A teenager on a motorcycle chased a red object with a vertical stripe down the middle he
followed it for 2 miles. During the chase his bike engine coughed and spluttered. He felt heat
and heard a loud whistle sound.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1441

27/08/67 2320 Texas Creek, Colorado, U.S.A.

Student Kenneth Flack started to overtake two other cars on the road ahead when his engine
went dead and the lights failed. This also happened to the other cars. All the passengers got
out of their vehicles and noticed an egg-shaped object supported on the ground by three
'legs', and standing between themselves and the Arkansas River. Mr Flack started to walk
towards the object which then rotated on the legs about a quarter of a turn. This was followed
by a flash of light and the witness felt paralysed, only able to stand and watch. The object
lifted slowly and headed north without any sound. The witness became unconscious and was
carried back to his car by the other witnesses. The vehicles then operated normally.
(APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p3-4.) 0270

28/08/67 near Rivers Air Force Base, Manitoba, Canada.

The driver and passenger in a car witnessed an object overhead which emitted shafts of light
around the car. After about ten seconds a rapid increase in temperature forced the driver to
pull away. The object followed the car for a few yards, and then hovered. After the incident
the driver complained of a headache which lasted twelve hours. Residents in the area also
reported a sonic boom.
(The Allende Letters Magazine.) 0271

-/08/67 2330 Chingford, Epping Forest, England.

Two small figures emerged from the woods near a red oval light a white light zig-zagged near
the car and the vehicle would not start. The sighting was observed by 4 witnesses for 7
minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1440

-/08/67 Albion, Michigan, U.S.A.

An Albion butcher was driving his pickup vehicle on a deserted road near his home when the
engine stalled suddenly. He looked up, and saw a large domed saucer shape hovering over
the vehicle. Minutes later at their home, the witness and his wife saw two red-orange fireballs
over a barn, also moving around slowly and silently over their home before the objects
descended over nearby woods and disappeared. There were a number of sightings in the area
during the next few months, with many other witnesses of the events.

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(MUFON UFO Journal December 2004, p 21.) 0776

05/09/67 Taber, Alberta, Canada.

Evan Evanson was on highway 36 approx 1 mile south of Highway 3 while he was returning
home in his pick-up. He noticed that the engine was running hot and he pulled over to the
side of the road to let it cool. While sat in his truck listening to the radio his attention was
drawn to a large green coloured object that looked like two flattened bells one above the
other. The music on his radio was suddenly replaced by a signal like “beep beep”. The object
abruptly disappeared and this is when he noticed that the truck engine had stalled.
(Canadian UFO Report [Link].7 1970.) 1223

06/09/67 2230 Long Island, New York, U.S.A.

Dr Edward Goldstein driving along a desolate section of road circling the Bethpage State Park
when he suddenly saw a cigar-shaped object hovering about 50ft above the ground. Minutes
later towards the south a similar object glowing this time appeared it was rose-coloured. His
car went slower and slower until it came to a stop. He then heard a faint weird chatter coming
from his car radio which was turned off along with voices. After about half an hour had
elapsed the twin object disappeared abruptly as they had appeared.
(K Goggin Researcher – Jaye P Paro, Babylon, NY.) 0991

09/09/67 2045 North Hampton, Ohio. U.S.A.

A teacher was driving when her car engine spluttered and misfires. She then becomes aware
of a football shaped object as large as a banana at arms length hovering over some trees. The
object glowed an orange colour with white pin-points of light through the center perimeter.
At this time the car was operating normally. The object begins to bob yo-yo fashion several
times then shoots straight up in the air and is gone.
(Saucer Scoop Vol.2 No.8.) 1289

14/09/67 Kanagulk, Victoria, Australia.

At night, a man saw an object shaped like an inverted bowl, flashing red and white for ten
minutes. The object hovered, then changed position and hovered again. The car radio would
not work during the sighting.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0777

-/09/67 0030 Taber, Alberta, Canada.

The driver of a pick-up truck pulled into a turn-off to let the engine cool down. The truck's
lights and radio were on, and the engine was left idling. Suddenly a large green glowing object
was seen, described as like two dishes placed lip to lip. No sound was heard from the object

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but the radio music was replaced by a beeping sound. The object quickly disappeared and the
driver noticed that the truck's engine had stopped.
(UFOs over the Americas, p32.) 0273

-/09/67 Warminster, Wiltshire, England

Businessman Leonard Pike was driving to Frome, Somerset, and was near Cley Hill when he
heard a loud humming sound, like a swarm of bees, and with the car interior becoming very
hot. The engine began to malfunction, and with the car shuddering before being brought to
a stop, still shaking, although the engine had stopped. The driver looked upwards, and saw a
white circular object spinning overhead. The object went upwards in a spiralling motion
before moving away towards Cley Hill, becoming stationary for half a minute or so before
moving northwards at speed and out of sight. The motorist was then able to restart the car,
and continued his drive homeward.
([Link]. The Warminster Triangle, p15) 1041

-/09/67 2300 Lone Rock, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

A mother and her son were driving to their nightshift work at an ammunition plant when the
car engine stopped working, and all of the lights went out, including the flashlight, leaving just
the dashboard lights. They got out of the car to check the engine. The location was between
a wood and a swampy area, but there were no usual wildlife sounds. They then saw a long
oval object with coloured flashing lights around the edge. There was no sound as it moved
away very slowly, following power lines along the river. The object was watched for several
minutes with no sound from any animals in the area, but as soon as the object went out of
sight the wildlife sounds started again. Getting back in the car, it was noticed that the lights
were back on and when the engine was tried, it started with no problem.
(NUFORC -National UFO Reporting Center 30/9/67.) 1042

10/10/67 Evening Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

A police patrol car saw a strange glowing UFO slowly moving above power lines they tuned
off their headlights. They went to use the radio and it stopped working and then the engine
of the car died. They watched the object as it disappeared from view whereas the radio and
engine began to work again. The next day the car was checked over and no faults found.
(The Canadian Ufologist Vol 3 No 4 1996.) 1253

11/10/67 1950 Aldersyde, Alberta, Canada.

Mrs Nora Tibbs reported sighting a brilliant light in the sky which coincided with the failure of
her car's lights, radio and engine. A dark shape was then seen which circled the car four or
five times. The object, described as oval with a dome shape on one side, disappeared as
quickly as it had appeared.
(UFOs over the Americas, p33, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0274

25/10/67 Asminderup, Denmark.

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Mrs Henny Olrik was just about to drive home when she saw a strange comet-like object with
a tail consisting of 2 shining yellow saucers which flew at an exact distance behind the comet-
like object. She was 2 other relatives while observing the objects they watched for about 30
seconds and while doing so the car lights came on although no one switched them on. The
lights went out again slowly as the objects disappeared from view. On checking for short
circuits the lights appeared to function normally and did not give any further trouble.
(Spacelink [Link].1 1967.) 1211

26/10/67 0430 Hook, Hampshire, England.

The vehicle's electrical system failed suddenly and a dark object was noticed stationary over
the road ahead. After a few minutes the engine could be started again, but a short distance
down the road the same failure occurred and the same dark object was noticed ahead. The
object was shaped like a squat ice cream cone with a rim in the middle. The witness noticed
a change in pressure in his ears and an oppressive smell. After a further few minutes the
object moved away silently at moderate speed, and the vehicle's engine started normally
again
(FSR Vol 13, No 6, p6-7.) 0275

27/10/67 0300 Parshall, North Dakota, U.S.A.

A police officer observed a glowing UFO, so bright that it hurt his eyes when looked at directly.
The object flew at low level and stopped near a missile base. Another witness was a cafe
waitress driving home from work who described how the large round and revolving object
seemed to rise from the ground. The car then started to sheer very hard, bumping and
swaying around on the road. The object followed the car. Vertical white streaks of light were
noticed coming from the object which finally appeared to hover momentarily before moving
away northwards.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol lV, No 7, p6.) 0276

27/10/67 Crendon Hill, Buckinghamshire, England.

At night a strange object described as looking like a generator, appeared over a car, with the
car engine failing at the same time.
(Contact UK.) 1043

28/10/67 1845 near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.

When their car stalled the occupants noticed in the sky a triangular object composed of six
bright white lights, and shaped like a church steeple. The lights seemed to give a hazy glow to
the shape, described as being of a whitish colour. There was no noticeable sound from the
object which moved off very slowly towards Brighton.
(Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, 01/11/67.) 0277

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31/10/67 2100 Boyup Brook, West Australia, Australia.

A man was driving his car at a speed of around 60-65 mph when he is approached by a lighted
object from the sky. A beam of light comes from a “tube” on the object and immerses the car.
Almost immediately the car stops dead along with the lights and radio. The tube appears to
be 2-3ft in diameter after 5 minutes the tube closes and the object disappears. Suddenly his
vehicle is travelling at 60-65 mph again. The object was only seen from underneath and
appears to be 30ft in diameter and 100 ft above him. On arrival at his destination the witness
found that his watch was five minutes slow.
(FSR Vol 14, No 4, p15, Project 1947-UFOCAT, JUFOS-2) 0278

-/10/67 Lytchett Minster, Dorset, England.

The car engine stalled a cigar-shaped object was seen with yellow lights of regular shape along
its length. The car restarted, and the object rose higher and kept pace with the car. Later the
object reappeared in a different form, split into two sections and re-joined. During the
sighting one of the witnesses felt weakness in his legs and rising hair on his arms. There were
four witnesses, including two police officers.
(FSR Vol 15, No 6, p30.) 0279

-/10/67 Elliott Lake, Ontario, Canada.

A UFO was witnessed hovering over a road and cars in the vicinity stalled, apparently from
ignition trouble. The drivers and passengers got out of the vehicles for a closer look at the
object, reported to be large, glowing, and hovering motionless - changing colour before it flew
on at remarkable speed. Returning to the cars the motorists found no trouble in restarting
their vehicles.
(Allende Letters Magazine, U.S.A. or The New UFO Breakthrough) 0280

02/11/67 2130 near Ririe, Idaho, U.S.A.

Driving south in clear weather and at a speed of 30 mph, William Begay and Guy Tossie both
23 when they see a blinding flash of light. In front of the car there is a small domed object
with green and orange lights flashing from its rim, hovering about five feet from the ground.
The car came to a stop with no action of the driver. Two small figures were seen through the
object's transparent dome which then opened. One of the figures, about three feet tall then
emerged from the object, walked across and climbed into the car which then started to move
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One of the witnesses jumped out and fled. The second being then appeared near the car. Both
of the strange figures then re-entered the object, which rose in a zigzag path. As the object
took off a whirring sound was heard and a rush of air.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol V, No 1, p5.) 0281

02/11/67 2330 between Ririe and Rigby, Idaho, U.S.A.

A truck driver reported that a UFO came down in front of his vehicle and stopped it. A small
being got out of the object and tried to get into the truck, but having failed then re-entered
the UFO which departed again.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol V, No 1, p6.) 0282

03/11/67 Geneva, Ala – Defuniak Springs, Florida, U.S.A.

Observer was driving SW on highway when he spotted a boomerang shaped object that had
large pulsating higher up than the middle and 2 small lights. The object was moving SWand
was at an altitude of 200-300ft. His car was idling and the engine sounded rough and when
the car stopped only a hum was heard on the radio later the radio worked normally.
(Project Blue Book via Terry Colvin, Thailand.) 0050

06/11/67 0100 - 0200 Avon and Sopley, Hampshire, England

In the early hours of the morning, Carl Farlow was driving his Leyland Super Comet diesel lorry
down the A338 between Avon and Sopley on his way to deliver a consignment of Aga Cookers
to a central heating firm at Christchurch, near Bournemouth. It had been raining earlier but
now the weather was fine and cool. As he approached a crossroad with a bridge over the
River Avon on his right the headlights of the lorry began to dim, and within a few seconds had

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gone out altogether. He pulled up quickly with his engine running. It was then that he first
noticed a large egg-shaped object moving slowly across the road from the right. He estimated
its height above the ground to be that of a telegraph pole, and by comparison with the bridge
its length was some 80 feet. By now the object was hovering quite motionless partly above
the scrub land on his left and completely covering the road ahead. He described the colour as
magenta with a whitish area at the bottom, and through the open window of the cab he could
hear a continuous humming sound not unlike a domestic refrigerator. For several minutes he
sat there petrified. There was a strong, pungent odour similar to the smell of an electric drill
drilling through wood. His first impression was of a massive electrical fault on the lorry. The
object then began to move off to the left, slowly at first, then accelerating at a moderate angle
to disappear in seconds. It was then he became aware that another vehicle was also involved.
A cream coloured Jaguar travelling in the opposite direction had driven up to the hedge bank.
The UFO had apparently moved between the two vehicles. The Jaguar driver, a veterinary
surgeon, came over to Mr Farlow who was still sitting in his cab, and suggested that they
phone the police. Both his engine and lights had malfunctioned as the UFO approached and
his passenger, a young woman, had become hysterical. Fortunately, there was a telephone
box between the two vehicles, and the local and Christchurch police were soon on the scene.
According to Carl Farlow the light which normally illuminated the telephone kiosk was not
functioning and when the vet attempted to use his torch this would not work either, although
he had used the same torch earlier the previous evening. From the lights of the police vehicles
Carl Farlow was able to see that the scrub land and hedge over which the UFO had hovered
appeared brown and blackened. The road over which the UFO had passed had a shiny
appearance as though the tarmac surface had been melted. Both men were then taken to
Christchurch police station where they were questioned separately and statements were
taken until about 4.30 a.m. The woman passenger was treated for shock at a local hospital
where she was kept overnight. The police arranged for hotel accommodation and later in the
morning the men were taken to the police station, this time in Bournemouth, where they
were interviewed by a man from the Ministry of Defence. In order to collect some personal
effects, Carl was driven back to Ringwood by the police on the A338 and passed the very spot
where he had encountered the UFO. As he went by the bridge he saw a man with a theodolite
and another with a Geiger counter taking measurements along the road. In the field where
the scrub land had been blackened a small bulldozer was levelling the ground, and a man was
repainting the telephone kiosk. According to Farlow on a subsequent trip to the Bournemouth
area, about a week later, he found that the road had been resurfaced with tarmac for
approximately 200 feet from the bridge where the incident had occurred. On Tuesday
lunchtime Carl picked up his lorry from the police compound at Christchurch and was told by
the engineer that all the electrics were out of commission. He was given a tow by an army
truck to start the vehicle. Travelling only by day he eventually returned to the haulage
contractor's depot in Shropshire. The lorry was immediately taken to an auto repair garage
for examination. Apart from the harnesses, i.e. the main cables, the rest of the electrical
system was virtually useless. This included the dynamo, starter motor, regulator, ammeter,
some light bulbs and the four 6 volt batteries, which had been newly fitted to the lorry four
months earlier, and this resulted in a £400 repair bill.
(Personal Investigation by A. R. Pace. Original report Daily Express 07/11/67, and FSR Vol 13,
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06/11/67 0615 Heptonstall, Lancashire, England.

A driver returning home from night shift factory work saw a round moon coloured flying
object which came from behind and crossed the road ahead of the car. The object seemed to
become flattened at the top and bottom, and surrounded by a pulsating halo. The object
appeared to follow the road for about a mile. It was then joined by a second similar object.
The car window was opened but no sound was heard. When the witness arrived at his home
the objects were still visible. Having called his wife they both watched the objects for a further
ten minutes after which they seemed to go straight up into the sky, getting smaller until they
were no longer visible. The witness reported that when he had almost reached home the car
seemed to lose power, and he had dropped down a gear from normal. When the car was
checked, replacement of a cracked sparking plug made no difference but when all the plugs
were changed the car was normal again. The car had been checked shortly before the incident
and no fault had been found.
(Halifax Courier and Guardian 07/11/67, and FSR Vol 14, No 2, p33.) 0284

08/11/67 0400 Elsinore. California. U.S.A.

A businessman driving in foggy weather conditions saw a reddish-orange disc, and felt
pressure on his head and shoulders. The car engine, radio and lights failed.
(Gillmore Case 39, 1969, p 380. NICAP Database of E-M Cases. Magonia. March 2010. p 2.)
0778

09/11/67 2345 Erin, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Two nurses were driving home from a hospital when they saw a large unknown object landing
on the highway ahead. Their car then began to move by itself until it stopped about thirty ft.
from the object, which was semi-transparent. Five small beings could be seen inside the
object before the craft then rose up and moved away. The nurses felt compelled to follow,
and they saw the craft landing on a rural road just as their car stalled. The car lights went out,
and the next recollection was of seeing the object high up in the sky.
(MUFON Symposium Proceedings, 2003. Budd Hopkins, UFO Abductions, The Invisible
Epidemic. 1981.) 1044

11/11/67 0230 Edmonton, Canada.

A small town business told how his car was stalled about 30 miles southeast of Edmonton. He
noticed that the lights on his car were going dim and the engine stalled. He thought he had a
short in the electrical system of the car and as he got out of the vehicle he saw a dome shaped
object. It was approx 150ft away and elevated 30ft above the ground and 50ft in diameter. It
was marked by three green light with the portholes having a white light shining.

He lifted the car bonnet and noticed that the battery was warm to touch. All of a sudden his
watchband, copper ring and zip on his trousers started to get warm as did the hair on his
head. He removed his watch and ring and noticed that the metal work of the car was also hot
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The object was moving back and forth slowly for around 30 minutes before it began to rotate
and climbed out of sight in around 2 seconds. He was able to start the car and when
investigated the next morning the leads to the ammeter had burnt out indicating a high
current or electrical force.
(Calgary Herald, Alberta, Canada. 23 Feb 1968. – Kay Coggin.) 1038

13/11/67 0330 Oulu, Finland.

A driver and passenger were travelling on the N20 highway to Oulu when they saw a bright
object coming towards the car. They stopped the car, to see the object more clearly. The
object had oval shapes at the side, which appeared less bright than other parts of it. The
witnesses were rather afraid and continued driving, but the object, making zig-zag
movements as it flew, then followed the car for about 45 kilometres with the car engine
faltering all the time.
(Vimana, No 2, 1969. Finland.) 1045

26/11/67 Kilometre 124, near Americana, Brazil.

A highway patrolman witnessed what he thought to be a plane crash. Driving closer to the
scene he noticed that the object had stopped in mid-air about 50 metres above the ground.
The object was described as elongated and seemed to be made of aluminium. It also appeared
to be spinning. The strange object then emitted a powerful aura of light and a vibrating
humming noise. The patrolman felt a headache, and running back to his car discovered that
it would not start. He noticed that the lights of the police cabin some distance away flickered
off when the object was nearby but came on again when it rose higher in the sky. The
patrolman found that he could then start his car. The engine of a passing truck had also
stopped during the incident.
(APRO Bulletin Sept/Oct 1968, p5, and UFOIC Newsletter No 22, February 1969, p1.) 0285

28/11/67 2220 High River, Alberta, Canada.

An elongated blue-green object, with sound like a jet engine, flew past a car. Lights and radio
of the car worked normally again after the object had gone.
([Link], CUFOS Report, p 39. NICAP Database of E-M effect Cases, Project 1947-
UFOCAT.) 0779

/11/67 Patcham, Sussex, England.

Nigel Slatterly observed a red coloured object following power lines along the South Downs
between 1-11 November a motorcyclist driving along the road had his engine cut out along
with the lights. The motorcyclist heard a humming sound coming from a field and he saw an
object on hydraulic legs. The bike was left by the road and the rider left on foot to the nearest
village.
(Email to BUFORA June 2017.) 1449

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01/12/67 2220 near Aldersyde, Alberta, Canada.

Mr Harold Lee was driving north on Highway 1A when the dashboard lights of the car began
to flicker and the headlights dimmed. He noticed a bluish-green glow above the car, stopped
at Aldersyde and heard a dull roar like that made by a jet engine.
(Allende Letters Magazine, U.S.A. or The New UFO Breakthrough, G.B. Edition.) 0286

03/12/67 0230 Ashland, Nebraska, U.S.A.

A police officer reported sighting a bright, aluminium coloured UFO. Red lights were visible
inside the object which hovered a few feet above the road. As the car approached, the object
rose higher and shot a red-orange beam towards the ground. The policeman stated that he
tried to send a radio message but the beam of light stopped him from doing anything. He then
noticed beneath the object a small figure which seemed to communicate with him "in some
manner". The object finally emitted a shrill beeping noise and disappeared straight upwards.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol IV, No 5, p1.) 0287

12/12/67 1900 near Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.

Mrs Rita Mallory was driving south on Route 34. The sky was cloudy and a strong wind was
blowing. A brilliant red glow was noticed, and then an airborne object suddenly appeared
with red and green lights underneath. The object was round with a dome on top. It hovered,
extended a white beam of light from underneath and appeared to take control of the car,
which stopped and moved sideways until it was about 15 feet off the highway. The headlights
and interior lights of the car dimmed to nothing, while the engine slowed and stopped. A low
humming noise was heard. Mrs Mallory reported that she became aware of some kind of
communication from the object. After a few minutes the car moved backwards towards the
road, and the headlights came back on. The car moved along the road again and was
accompanied by the object for about three miles before it suddenly ascended towards the
south and disappeared. On the following day news was received of a fatal accident, details of
which were identical to the communication reported to have been received by Mrs Mallory
during the encounter of the previous day.
(The Official Guide to UFOs, p69-72.) 0288

13/12/67 0215 British Columbia, Canada.

A driver experienced engine failure of his vehicle while travelling home on a cold clear night.
As he pulled off the road and got out to check the car, he noticed an object hovering about
15 metres above the ground and 100 metres away. The object was dome shaped, flat
underneath, with red and green lights, and with what looked like portholes emitting light. The
surface of the object looked like steel. He noted that his vehicle's battery felt warm, and got
back into the car, while the object came closer in a gentle rocking motion. The driver further
noted that his hair felt warm, also the rings on his fingers, his metal watchband, and fasteners
on his clothing. During a second inspection of the car he noted that metal parts of it were hot,
but not the tyres, and that the metal frame of a flashlight from a tool box was also hot, but
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(The MUFON UFO Journal No 189. British UFO Research Association, BUFORA, UFOs 1947-
1987, p205-206.) 0289

24/12/67 2030 Gates Pass, Tucson Mountains, Arizona, U.S.A.

A couple were heading towards Tucson in their car when a bright light was seen ahead in the
sky. The light descended to the ground near Gates Pass. As they approached the Pass, a red
blob of light passed over the car and disappeared behind them. The sighting lasted only a few
seconds, but the car engine, lights and the radio all stopped working, with the car coming to
a stop near a deep canyon. After the object had disappeared, the car lights, radio and engine
came back on again without further action.
(APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p1.) 0780

-/-/67 2100 Huaypo Lake, Peru.

A car stalled on a road which was bordering a lake. A flash of lit up the whole area and the
sound of falling water was heard. A 8m diameter metallic domed disc was seen emerging from
the lake it has portholes and was spinning.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1442

-/-/67 Cley Hill, Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

A businessman driving past Cley Hill felt the interior of the car suddenly become very hot, and
there was a high pitched whining noise. The car engine faltered then cut out altogether. He
got out of the car and saw a glowing white disc directly overhead. The object sped away after
a few seconds and disappeared northwards.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 7, No 3, p22.) 0290

-/-/67 Borley, Essex, England.

Four people spending the night at Borley were alarmed to see a luminous white figure in the
churchyard. The figure seemed to change shape to a luminous patch, moving slowly around
horizontally. When they tried to leave the area, the car engine could not be started, and the
car had to be pushed some distance before the engine would start. There had been no
previous problems with the engine.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 7, No 4, p3.) 0291

-/-/67 Humbolt Hill, near lola. Kansas, U.S.A.

A tractor-trailer unit carrying freight from Tulsa, was heading towards Kansas when it
suddenly lost all electrical power on the southern slope of Humbolt Hill. The driver reported
to Sheriff's officers that as he approached the hill his engine failed suddenly, and vehicle lights
dimmed and went out at the same time. He could not restart the engine, the electrical system
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About three years earlier a young lola resident had reported that his car engine failed as he
was driving across the hill one night. He was blinded by a bright light at the same time, and
the car later functioned normally. Also, about two weeks before the most recent report, there
had been an accident involving two vehicles and a herd of cattle -apparently driven by fright
from a pasture at the top of the hill, and with some of the animals killed in the accident. The
tracks of a large cat-like animal had also been found several times on the hill.
(Topeka Daily Capital, July 2, 1970. MUFON UFO Journal, September 1970.) 0781

02/01/68 1600 Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

Two drivers of snowmobiles reported the sighting of a pulsating orange-yellow UFO with
radiance "brighter than the sun". One of the drivers stated that his vehicle stopped and he
felt an unusual heat. The object quickly disappeared and the vehicle then worked normally
again.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol IV, No 6, p3.) 0292

15/01/68 Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

At night near Cradle Hill, a man was driving with a woman passenger towards Elm Hill when
a fiery object passed across the sky. The car engine began to malfunction as the object
descended in front of the car, and moved swiftly upwards again. The woman looked upwards
to see where the object had gone, but the driver suffered chest pains, and collapsed at the
wheel. He just managed to bring the vehicle to a halt, but remembered little else of the
incident.
(The Warminster Triangle, p 91.) 1046

18/01/68 Longleat, Wiltshire, England.

Witness saw a bright light while driving the light flashed past his car and the vehicle stalled.
(Magonia No. 50.) 1308

-/01/68 0400 Freiburg, Germany.

A young couple experienced complete failure of the lights and engine of their car. They then
saw a bright red light which was round and very large about 1000ft away. The bonnet of the
car began glowing and speaks came off the bonnet. Five seconds after the lights and engine
quit, and before the car had stopped moving, everything came back on. When the witnesses
looked up the light had gone. The couple notice an ozone smell in the air.
(Rodegheir, M, UFO Reports Vehicle Interference.) 1342

-/01/68 Diss, Norfolk, England.

Mr and Mrs Barren were driving along the A1066 when an unexpected gust of wind suddenly
blew their car on to a grass verge. A large cigar shaped object with a row of portholes was
noticed hovering over electric pylon lines. The object was orange in colour and seemed to
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about 20 minutes before it suddenly sped away 'like a shooting star'. The incident was
reported to the police, and the Ministry of Defence made enquiries of the witnesses almost
immediately.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 5, No 1, p9.) 0293

-/01/68 1215 near Baraga, Michigan, U.S.A.

A tractor trailer had just turned off Highway M77 on to the M28 in a heavy snowstorm when
the driver got out to clear ice from the windshield wipers. The area was suddenly lit up by a
brilliant light for a few seconds, and then he found himself in a pale green cone of light which
covered himself and the truck. It was no longer snowing within the area of the cone, and he
noticed sudden warmth. He next found that he was standing about 20 feet away from the
truck, and was completely dry and warm. He noted that the diesel engine of the truck had
stalled, and on restarting he found that the engine temperature was zero. The time by his
watch was then 5a.m., so there were about five hours not accounted for. After the incident
he had a severe headache and was unwell for several days.
(Situation Red - The UFO Siege, p65.) 0294

-/01/68 2100 Orford, Tasmania, Australia.

A family were on a weekend trip around Tasmania, and were driving to the east coast. As the
car rounded a curve, a bright yellowish light came over from the driver's side, but the source
of the light was not visible. A few seconds later the headlights dimmed, but returned to
normal when the bright light went out. Further on around another bend the same thing
happened, and by the time the car was on the straight road again the headlights had failed
altogether. The driver stopped to investigate, but the yellow light had gone and the headlights
came back on.
(ACUFOS - Australian Centre for UFO Studies. Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference
UFO Events, p5.) 0295

19/02/68 1900 Interstate 90, Hormel, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Reports of a strange object seen which stalled the witnesses car and several others on
Highway 90.
(K Coggin – Austin Daily Herald 1968.02.20.) 1378

21/02/68 0012 Winsted, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Cecilia Brewer was driving home from work, with five companions and heading in s westerly
direction, when the car engine started to misfire and a silvery domed, disc-shaped UFO was
seen in a forest clearing on the left side of the highway.
(APRO investigation, and NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0782

27/02/68 1855 between Bideford and Cullompton, Devon, England.

In a report to the police, the driver of an articulated lorry Andrew Perry stated that he was
travelling along the road from Bideford to Cullompton when he saw a bright light appear at

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the crest of a hill. On getting closer he could see that the light was coming from a mushroom-
shaped object. When about 300 yards away he stopped the lorry and got out, leaving the
engine running, then climbed on to the trailer for a better view. He was then able to see five
or six figures about four feet in height, spread out around the object. The figures suddenly
moved quickly towards the object and disappeared inside. The object had then climbed
vertically, emitting a high pitched whirring noise which caused the lorry to vibrate. The
frightened driver got quickly back into his lorry and drove away. There was intense noise as
the object passed overhead, then suddenly and for no apparent reason the lorry engine cut
out. The driver braked and stopped, and after a few seconds, with the noise gone he felt able
to look up – to see the object going away at high speed. When he pressed the starter button
the engine restarted, and he then drove as fast as he could to the nearest police station to
report the incident. The report was circulated to MoD branches, and various checks were
made with RAF and NAVY bases to attempt an explanation, but without success – with the
MoD categorizing the report as ‘miscellaneous’ and with no further action taken.
(David Clarke. The UFO Files, p 119.) 0711

-/02/68 1230 Moyeuvre Grande, France.

A woman cleaning her kitchen observed a round shape above the edge of the forest, 150m
from her. The object was the size of an airplane and was a uniform pearl gray color. The object
seemed motionless when it disappeared at very high speed on a straight trajectory going from
the South-East to the North-West. Another nearby person in a pickup truck had their engine
stopped for 30 seconds while the object was stationary.
(Lights in the Night.) 0354

04/03/68 1815 near Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.

A car driver reported a flying object with flashing multi-coloured lights. It passed over the
highway ahead and the car slowed almost to a stop. The witness also noted a strange feeling
during the sighting and could not move until the object headed away.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol IV, No 6, p3.) 0296

04/03/68 2100 Higher Chisworth, Glossop, Derbyshire, England.

The witness in this case was driving his 1967 Triumph Spitfire sports car along a narrow
country lane in the Higher Chisworth district. The night was dry and very dark. As he neared
a T-junction, a small golden coloured object, travelling at high speed, suddenly appeared
ahead of and to the right of his position. At the same instant the car's headlamps were
extinguished, the radio was silenced, the engine stopped and the car lurched to a halt. Within
about two seconds, the object travelled without any noise on a very flat trajectory across the
valley to the left and disappeared into the north. The car headlights re-lit as the object passed
to the witness's left. The engine was restarted without difficulty but the radio would not work.
Later it was found that two transistors in the output circuit had failed.
(Personal investigation by T. R. Dutton.) 0297

24/03/68 0130 between Mexico City and Tampico, Mexico.

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A bus of the Omnibus de Mexico Company was approached by an object with a powerful blue-
white light which dazzled and was painful to the driver's eyes. The second driver was
awakened. As they watched, the light quickly changed colour to red, then to violet before it
disappeared. Several of the bus passengers had also awakened anti observed the object.
Driver Salvador Flores admitted that he was very frightened by the object and described how
it had passed very close to the side of the vehicle. No sound was heard. He noticed that his
wristwatch stopped for five minutes, and was affected by the incident to the extent that on
arrival at the town of Tulancingo he was unable to continue driving.
(FSR Vol 14, No 5, p33-34.) 0298

03/04/68 2010 Cochrane, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

A schoolteacher described how a red flying object approached at speed and at low level, and
then hovered above a car that had just overtaken her. The car's lights went out and the lights
of her own car dimmed slightly. The object then approached and came overhead. As it came
near the witness noticed that the car's engine, lights and radio all failed. The window was
open but no sound was heard. Attempts were made to restart the car without any success,
until the object had moved away. When interviewed the witness recalled feeling light in
weight during the incident, and had also noticed a burning sensation in her feet for some time
afterwards.
(The UFO Experience, p116-118.) 0299

08/04/68 between Sundsvall and Harnosand, Sweden.

Mrs Margaretha Svenson noted that her car radio went dead when a glowing light of blinding
intensity approached and seemed to lodge itself on the hood of the car for several minutes.
Mrs Svenson's bare arm was outside the car and on the following day she found a burn on the
arm which gave no pain. Examination by a doctor still revealed no sensation of pain and the
burn slowly healed.
(APRO Bulletin, July/August 1968, p7.) 0300

15/04/68 0200 Overton, Nebraska, U.S.A.

A motorist on the I-80 Interchange saw a bright blue oval light in the air, like an arc welder's
light, and the car dashboard lights turned red. The duration of the sighting was about three
minutes.
(NUFORC 1/1/2000.) 1047

23/04/68 2020 between Denver and Limon, Colorado, U.S.A.

A car with a family of four was followed by a red light for some time, with the car radio making
a strange noise. A hovering white light appeared in the air not far away, followed by the
appearance of three red lights attached to an oval-shaped object. The witnesses became
frightened, and drove away quickly.
(CUFOS.) 1048

29/04/68 2245 Norridge Hill, Wiltshire, England.

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A single witness saw a globular light, and at the same time his car engine and headlights failed,
with the radio also having heavy static interference. The car operated normally after the light
had left the area.
(Contact. Awareness, Summer 1968.) 1049

29/04/68 Heyfield, Victoria, Australia.

Two witnesses saw a string of red lights in a field after their truck broke down. A dome with
a light on it was seen and an area of wilted grass was found.
(Phillips Physical Traces Catalogue, p55.) 0301

-/04/68 Tossa De Mar, Gerona, Spain.

The passengers and driver of a tow vehicle observed a bright circular object which landed in
an area of pine trees. A tall individual was then seen and all of the witnesses fled except the
driver. The individual went around the object, re-entered it, and the object flew away. The
driver reported that his watch stopped.
(FSR Special Issue No 4, August 1971, UFOs in Two Worlds, p50.) 0302

01/05/68 2300 Heyfield, Victoria, Australia.

A luminous bluish object some 60ft wide and 60ft above the ground passed over a house,
then it hovered over a nearby farm. A strange whining sound was heard. As two men Mr
Whelan and Mr Lord were driving to the farm in a pickup truck the engine, lights and a
transistor radio all stopped working. The whining sound became louder, the blue light
dimmed, and the noise subsided. The headlights then came back on, and the engine could be
restarted.
(Saucer News, Summer 1968.) 1050

10/05/68 2245 near Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

A motorist was driving home through the Norridge Wood area when a bright flashing light in
the sky came towards his car. There was static on the car radio, and he slowed the car down
to about 10mph because the light was dazzling. As the light came over the car, he could see
a large circular object underneath the light. The object was blue-green at one end, and red at
the other end. As soon as he could see properly again, he drove into Warminster as fast as
possible.
(The Warminster Triangle, p 16.) 1051

27/05/68 2145 Punta Gorda, Florida, U.S.A.

A domed disc with a green-blue glow was seen below treetop height, and landing, with effects
on the car engine and lighting reported.
([Link], CUFOS report, 1981, p 41, NICAP Database of E-M Cases, Project 1947-
UFOCAT.) 0783

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29/05/68 2200 Mosinee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Factory supervisor John Duberstein was out driving with his wife and three teenage daughters
when they encountered a bright circular object at low altitude. There were problems with the
car’s electrical system and their dogs barked furiously. The object eventually climbed away.
(Hall 2001.) 1616

-/05/68 near Chascomus, Argentina.

Two couples were returning home at night when the car of Mr and Mrs Vidal was suddenly
enveloped in a heavy fog. The next thing that the couple recalled was being on a dusty, lonely
road in daylight. They soon discovered that they were in Mexico, and that two days had
passed since their last recollection of being in Argentina. The couple went to the Argentinean
Consul in Mexico, and their car was sent to the United States for examination. Several days
later the Vidals arrived back in Buenos Aires, where Mrs Vidal went into hospital, apparently
suffering from deep nervous shock, while her husband told close friends that the Argentinean
Consul in Mexico had warned him to keep silent about the whole incident.
(APRO Bulletin, May/June 1968, p7.) 0303

14/06/68 2130 Dax, France.

A couple are driving their car, 6km before Dax, they see a flashing or turning light about a
hundred meters ahead and at the same time see a dark semi-spherical shape which occupies
the entire width of the road. The object rests directly on the ground, it is surmounted by a
red lighthouse, its height is estimated at 3m. Immediately, the driver dreading the accident
brakes hard. His car stalls just in front of the mass which seems hazy and hazy, but the car
continues on its way. The passenger shouts to brake. Instead of the expected shock, the
vehicle passes through the object. In fact, the object instantly disappears when the shock is
to take place.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0359

19/06/68 between La Rioja and Catamarca, Argentina.

A taxi driver and three passengers saw a very large bright object stationary near the road and
about five metres from the ground. The taxi's engine failed. The object then rose suddenly
and moved away at speed, emitting intense flashes of light.
(FSR Case Histories, No 16, p10, Case No 22.) 0304

29/06/68 San Luiz del Palmer, Argentina.

While driving along National Highway 5, three occupants of a car observed a circular flattened
object which emitted a vivid orange light. As it passed at a close distance the car was shaken
violently, the gears went into reverse and the car moved backwards.
(FSR Case Histories, No 18, p15.) 0305

16/07/68 0015 Andacollo, Argentina.

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Five officials of the National Gendarmerie observed an object flying slowly close to the ground
and emitting a pale blue light. The engine of their Jeep had a loss of power during the incident,
which had duration of about five minutes.
(FSR Case Histories, No 18, p16, Case No 17.) 0306

25/07/68 0200 La Pastora, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Juan Sivori, his wife and daughter observed a silver object shaped like a spinning top. The car
engine stopped. The object remained hovering about 35 metres away and 10 metres from
the ground for about five minutes, then it rose and vanished. The car engine then restarted.
(FSR Case Histories, No 16, p11, Case No 27.) 0307

29/07/68 0315 near La Atalaya, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Engine and lights of car failed as an object shaped like 'a washbasin upside down' flew slowly
and silently across the road. The object landed about 250 metres away and the car lights came
on again. Several motorists stopped to observe the object, which remained on the ground for
about 45 minutes.
(FSR Case Histories, No 13, p14, Case No 35.) 0308

30/07/68 near Colonel Dringles, Argentina.

Two families driving in the same area both made reports of observing two orange UFOs
merging into one. The object then extended a "tower" with a bright light, and with the engines
of both cars failing during the sighting. The object left in an instant, and disappeared in
seconds.
(UFO Nachrichten, October 1968.) 1052

21/08/68 Brooksville, Florida, U.S.A.

A round object approached a car travelling through woods, and the car engine would not
operate during the sighting.
(The UFO Chronicle, Vol 1, No 1.) 1053

29/08/68 between Ely, Nevada, and Delta, Utah, U.S.A.

A stationary white light was seen low above the horizon. The light turned red and brightened.
The witness was driving his truck towards the light, but the truck engine then failed suddenly.
The driver got out, and watched the light travel overhead before disappearing behind him,
with the light changing colour to green and white before going back to red. After the light had
gone, the truck could be restarted. Arriving at his home, the driver found that the journey had
taken two hours longer than expected.
(Frank [Link]. The Utah UFO Display.) 1054

31/08/68 Mendoza, Argentina.

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Two men were returning home from work when the engine of their car failed suddenly. They
got out of the car and were then surrounded by four small men who seemed to communicate
with them in some manner without speaking. One of the beings made marks with an
instrument on the side and running board of the car. The witnesses reported that blood
samples were taken from the middle finger of each of their hands. The visitors then went to
a disc-shaped object which was hovering about three feet above the ground. The object was
estimated to be about 18 feet in diameter and gave off a powerful light. The two men got
back into their car which then started without any difficulty. In another account of this
incident, it was reported that when their car stopped unexpectedly in the early hours of the
morning, the two men got out to investigate and had found themselves paralysed, unable to
move. Several creatures then approached 'as if walking on the air', and scratched
hieroglyphics on the car windows. The witnesses reported experiencing telepathic
communication before the entities returned up a beam of light into the object. Subsequent
investigation confirmed strange marks on the car.
(APRO Bulletin, Sept/Oct 1968, p1 & 3; also John Spencer, The UFO Encyclopaedia, p241.)
0310

-/08/68 Selsey, Sussex. England.

A taxi driver dropped off his passenger and was returning back when he was aware of a light
coming from the sea at low-level. It got larger and larger suddenly his car stopped it was a
brand new car. The object was hovering and the profile was like a hamburger with a row of
windows.
(UFO Newsclipping Service No. 316.) 1348

-/08/68 Cauguenes, Chile.

At night, a saucer-shaped object landed near a car. The engine and lights of the car failed
during the sighting.
(The UFO Chronicle, Vol 1, No 1.) 1055

08/09/68 2100 Beaminster, Dorset, England.

Seven people in two cars heard a loud throbbing noise in the air. Then the car engines
stopped, the headlights went out, and the car bodies became magnetized. The noise
continued into the distance as if coming from some object, but the witnesses were unable to
see anything.
(Awareness, Autumn 1968.) 1056

28/09/68 2000 Mulhouse, France.

The witness is traveling on the road along the Rhine coming from Mulhouse. Suddenly his
dashboard is lit by an outside light source. He sees in his rear view mirror that the back of his
car is illuminated by a light coming from above. He then feels numb, the vehicle's engine
stops, the car continuing on its course and ending up in a bush on the left. The headlights go
out. The witness then observed an object in the shape of an inverted seat surrounded by a
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visible. The movement of rotation accelerates, the colours of the object change passing to
orange then to white, then the object rises at a brisk pace towards the west northwest. The
witness will feel a sensation of numbness for 24 hours. The witness's watch has stopped
definitively since the sighting.
(Lights in the Night number cl11 / 70.) 0360

-/09/68 2200 Sierra Nevada, Granada, Spain.

A family of four got out of their car when it broke down. The driver's wife noticed an object
at ground level 180 metres away, oscillating slightly with a 'falling-leaf' motion. She drew her
husband and son's attention to the object as it started to rise, and they were able to see it
before it flew out of sight.
(FSR Special Issue, UFOs in Two Worlds, p51.) 0311

19/10/68 2000 Huasco, Chile.

A flash of light was seen from an ambulance then a disc appeared during which the engine
and lights died. The object rose vertically the sighting was over in two minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT. 1443

24/10/68 Hudson Bay, Canada.

The headlights of a car dimmed, went out and came back on, with this sequence observed
four times. The driver stopped and got out of the car, seeing a bright orange light with a white
tail quite high up in the sky and moving away into the distance.
(Hudson Bay Review, 30/10/68.) 1057

26/10/68 2200 Greenfield, Indiana, U.S.A.

A couple were driving near Greenfield when they saw a UFO coming down to rest, about two
miles ahead on the road. It then rose straight upwards, and landed again two or three times
at different locations on the road. When they reached the landing site, the car lights went out
for about half a minute as they reached each of the locations where the object had
landed.
([Link]. Regional Encounters.) 1058

-/10/68 0400 between Sao Paulo and Brasilia, Brazil.

A driver was travelling on the highway to Brasilia on a calm clear night when the steering
wheel shook with a strong vibration. A pulsating ball of fire was seen crossing the sky, lighting
up the tree tops, and he got out of the car to watch the object before resuming his journey.
He then found, to his alarm, that in spite of efforts to outpace it, the object followed him. At
times it was ahead or over the car, and when close by the steering wheel shook again and the
radio reception became unintelligible. The object finally moved away and disappeared when
the light of a toll gate became visible on the road ahead.
(Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure, p61.) 0312

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-/10/68 Braganca Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

At kilometre 168 on the Via Anhanguera three witnesses saw a very bright round object,
moving towards a truck which was travelling at moderate speed. A collision occurred; the
truck went out of control and fell into a ravine. The flying object vanished after the collision
leaving no traces. The truck driver, who had jumped out of the vehicle, fled from the scene.
(FSR Case Histories No 4, p12.) 0313

01/11/68 0430 Los Monegros, Aragon, Spain.

Car engine stopped, lights failed and watches stopped as a large orange disc appeared to land.
A few minutes later the object rose silently and moved away. The vehicle systems and
watches then worked normally again. Five witnesses.
(FSR Vol 15, No 1, back page.) 0314

13/11/68 Forbes Landing, British Columbia, Canada.

A round light landed on a nearby road. A motorist's car engine failed, and there was
interference on his radio while the light was on the ground.
(Saucers, Space and Science, Vol 57, 1969.) 1059

14/11/68 Zafra, Spain.

A man saw a humanoid figure about two metres tall, with long arms, but with no facial
features visible. As the figure appeared, the man's car engine began to fail, and his watch
stopped. A sound was heard, as if something was moving in the area, but he continued to
drive on and saw nothing else.
(A Catalogue of 200 Type 1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal.) 1060

19/11/68 2300 Pirassunnunga, Sao Paula, Brazil.

Four college students were driving towards Pirassunnunga when they encountered a light in
the sky which approached to within 30-40 yards of their car and caused the engine to fail.
After 10-15 minutes the light went ahead of them appearing as a bluish luminous disc about
a yard in diameter. The car would now restart but did not have any speed. Once they passed
the object the car behaved normally. Further on they saw 4 figures dressed in light blue diving
suits.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1444

23/11/68 2010 between Newton and Albany, Georgia, U.S.A.

A bank employee reported sighting a yellow-orange oblong shaped fiery object which came
over the tree tops towards his car. The radio began to pick up static. The object hovered over
the car and the lights, radio and engine failed. The witness got out of his car and looked at the

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light for about two minutes but could not make out any definite outline. The object changed
colour to red, then red-orange, shot up into the air and disappeared.
(APRO Bulletin, Nov/Dec 1968, p5, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0315

25/11/68 1800 Marcellus, New York, U.S.A.

Engine of car lost power. Object with five red blinking lights seen about 100 feet in front of
the car. Dog in car very disturbed. Heavy static was heard on the car radio. Object seen again
with similar results when the witness returned shortly afterwards along the same road.
(FSR Vol 17, No 4, p29, Case 164.) 0316

01/12/68 Gold River, Vancouver Island, Canada.

A bluish-white light in the sky was seen by a bus driver and four passengers. The driver
reported that the bus engine stalled when the light flew over. The light appeared as a beam
slanting down from a dark shape. As the object moved further away up a valley, the driver
was able to restart the bus. There was no sound from the object, and it lit up the trees below
as it passed over.
(MUFON UFO Journal, November 1971.) 0784

-/-/68 2230 Long Lake, Ontario, Canada.

Witnesses saw red light coming over the lake the light was pulsating like a heart-beat two of
the witnesses got into a car to follow the object. They managed to get in front of the object
jumped out of the car leaving the lights on and the engine running. The object flew over the
top of the car at no more than 50ft as it went past we received a static shock which lifted all
the hairs on our arms. The headlights of the vehicle dimmed the engine spluttered but did
not die. The object continued on its path and disappeared from view.
(The Canadian Ufologist [Link].3. 1997.) 1254

-/-/67/68 Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.

Two witnesses driving home when they saw a very bright light upon looking closer they could
see it was some kind of spaceship. As they got nearer the radio in the car made a humming
noise. The object had windows going all the way around it and a very bright light. They did
not stop but kept driving past when they looked back the object had disappeared.
(OHIO UFOs and Others.) 0003

-/-/68 El Padul, Granada, Spain.

A lighted object flew over a car. The object was at low altitude and alternated in colour
between yellow and blue. A blinding oval object shaped like two domes with a spinning
central section then flew at very high speed only a few metres above the car. The engine of
the car failed and could not be restarted. Two witnesses.
(FSR, UFOs in Two Worlds, p49.) 0318

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-/-/68 near Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

A farmer and his wife, of the Fazenda Paula Souza, saw a flying saucer above their car.
Suddenly it curved in front of them and landed to one side of the road. As the object passed
in front, the car engine died. The car headlights were aimed at the object, which at once took
off at speed and vanished.
(FSR Vol 14, No 6, p24.) 0319

-/-/68 between Birmingham and London, England.

A party of four people were returning on the M1 motorway from an exhibition in Birmingham
when a large bluish-white light was seen coming towards them. The brake lights of the car in
front intensified then went out, and the car slowed down. The lights and engine of their own
car then cut out and they hit the car in front, which in turn ran into another car which had
stopped. The police arrived, and when the drivers explained what had happened the police
stated that there had been several similar reports in that area. After the incident the drivers
were able to restart the car engines without any problems.
(FSR Vol 23, No 6, p20.) 0320

-/-/68 between Vancouver and Dawson Creek. Canada.

After visiting a friend in Dawson Creek at Easter time, a motorist was returning to Vancouver,
and was just north of Quesnel at a bout 7pm, when a white object was seen taking off from
a nearby field. The object passed in front of the car before climbing away at speed into the
sky. Some hours later, when just south of Cache Creek, a brilliant white light suddenly shone
down onto the car, and appeared to produce a circle of light several hundred feet in diameter.
The witness tried to drive away from the light, and needed a speed of more than 100mph,
but the surrounding light stayed with the car. After about a minute the light went out, but
returned about ten minutes later. After a while, when driving over the crest of a mountain,
the car suddenly lost all power, with no lights, but the power came back on when the car
reached the bottom of a hill. The witness had owned the car for more than five years, without
any mechanical or electrical problems before or after the incident. At the speed that the car
was being driven, reaching the Trans Canada Highway at about 2am, the witness calculated
that the journey time should have been about three and a half hours, but was actually seven
hours.
([Link]. One Man's History of UFO sightings. 2001pdf.) 1061

01/01/69 2315 Key West, Florida, U.S.A.

A deep penetrating sound from overhead was accompanied by a slow-moving sheet of

concentrated hail. The two witnesses in the vehicle noted that the hail, which was in needle-
like pieces, hit a compact area of the windshield and front part of the roof. The car engine
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weightlessness. They noted a tingling electric feeling, felt forced to look upwards and saw a
brilliant silver object. A tapering funnel-like stream of light encompassed the immediate area
of the car. The beam of light and strange effects disappeared leaving the witnesses chilled,
with their hands tightly clasped and without the power to release them until they shortly
regained their sense of awareness.
(UFOIC Newsletter, No 24, July 1969, p2-3.) 0321

25/01/69 0030 PlatteVille, Illinois, U.S.A.

A cone-shaped object approached, and outside farm lights went out. There were also
reported effects on a car engine and lights, and that the front end of the car was lifted off the
ground before being lowered again with a bump back on to the surface.
([Link], CUFOS Report, p 44. NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0785

02/02/69 Night Near Nuble, Chile.

Close to the “Los Francos” thermal springs, a strange sphere was seen passing overhead two
car engines started by themselves even though their batteries were disconnected. (CONTACT
UK, Rodegheir, M, UFO Reports Vehicle Interference, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1412

09/02/69 Chillan, Chile.

Two families on holiday stopped overnight at "Las Francas", the famous thermal water place
of Chillan. During the early hours of the morning the engines of the two cars were heard
running, and sounding apparently further away than where they had been parked. On
investigation it was discovered that the cars had been moved about 170 feet without leaving
any wheel marks on the grass or soft ground. Strange paint on the cars was being examined
when an odd type of explosion was heard. There was a blinding light as a huge silver object
rose over nearby mountains. Argentine Broadcasting reported the case on the following day,
emphasizing the fact that the engines of both cars were running while the batteries had been
disconnected.
(UFOIC Newsletter No 25, October 1969, p2.) 0322

18/02/69 Alberta, Canada.

Mrs Barbara Smyth was driving east when she observed a bright object in a field. The object
was pinkish-red in colour and appeared to consist of two rounded layers with a thin blue line
between. The two parts began spinning and the blue line seemed to disappear. Two white
lights on top flashed regularly, and the object was surmounted by a tent-like portion with
pulsating sides. After observing the object while driving about a mile Mrs Smyth noticed that
the object had 'jumped over' to the next hill. While watching the object she noted that she
seemed unable to take her foot off the accelerator, while her hands remained fixed on the
steering wheel. There was an unnatural quietness, no lumps were felt in the road and the car
just seemed to be floating along. After about three minutes the object disappeared.
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20/02/69 1930 near Norseman, West Australia, Australia.

A car driver reported the sighting of a glowing cigar-shaped object. The car's engine started
to falter but then picked up again. The object followed, dipping and lifting over the tree tops.
It then veered away and climbed at speed, disappearing in about ten seconds. As the object
left it raised a storm of sand, dust and leaves.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol IV, No 11, p4, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0324

21/02/69 Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Three people driving their car from Pelotas to Camaqua saw a luminous sphere descend very
close to the ground, at which the car engine failed.
(Rodegheir 1969.) 1621

25/02/69 Chabut, Argentina.

Four people in a car saw a disc-shaped object. The engine of their car stopped working when
the disc was in view.
(Phenomenes Spatieux, Vol 20, 1969.) 1062

04/03/69 0640 near Atlanta, Missouri, U.S.A.

A low flying red-orange object about a 100ft in diameter was reported by turned a William
Overstreet who was driving his truck it emitted a powerful beam of white light which
produced considerable heat. When the beam of light came to the ground the object changed
colour, while a band of yellow "bubble lights" gave an impression of rotation. Driving nearer
to the light beam the vehicle's radio started to lose power, and then both radio and engine
failed completely. The driver released the clutch and let the vehicle coast along. Slightly
further from the beam, radio static was heard again, the clutch was let out and the engine
restarted. Within about six feet of the beam the engine started missing again then failed,
together with the radio. The object then pulled slowly away from the vehicle and the engine
restarted once more.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol IV, No 11, p3.) 0325

06/03/69 2145 Campamento Manant, Chile.

Sr Dominnguez was driving his truck down a road when his headlights dimmed. He noticed a
4m wide disc hovering 6m away. A door on the side of the craft opened and some beings
floated out. The truck lights dimmed as he drove past. Ground traces left at the site.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1445

06/03/69 Busot, Alicante, Spain.

The electrical system of a car driven by Sr. Juan Arenillas Lopez along with his wife failed as
three unknown objects landed on the Cabeso d'Or mountain. The objects illuminated the
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(FSR, UFOs in Two Worlds, p54.) 0326

06/03/69 Glenwood, Missouri, U.S.A.

A woman drove her car into a beam of light, coming down from a UFO seen hovering over the
road. The car slowed down, and did not respond to the accelerator. The witness felt the hair
standing up on her arms, her dog tried to hide under the seat, and the woman's eyes bothered
her for three days after the event.
(AUFORN.) 1063

09/03/69 Gladstone, Queensland, Australia.

A saucer-shaped object approached two cars, hovered over one, and began pulsating. As the
object brightened, the headlights of the cars spread wider than usual. As it dimmed, the car
lights became normal. The two cars kept driving on together, with the craft again hovering
over one of them. The object rocked gently in the air while keeping its position, and after a
few minutes it flew quickly away into the distance.
(Data-Net, April 1970.) 1064

10/03/69 1030 near Lancaster, Missouri, U.S.A.

A housewife driving near Lancaster on Highway 202 saw a light beam on the road and looked
up to see a grey disc-shaped object with a dome, which was emitting the beam from
underneath. As the beam touched the car its speed dropped from 50mph to 8mph. After the
car had passed through the light beam the car functioned normally again. The witness noted
that her dog seemed very disturbed during the incident, reporting later that her eyes hurt for
a couple of days after the incident, presumably from looking at the bright light.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol IV, No 11, p3.) 0327

10/03/69 2210 near Westhope, North Dakota, U.S.A.

Police chief Lavern Janzen was driving near Westhope when he observed a disc-shaped object
with a dome emitting a greenish-blue light. The object appeared to be rotating, a light beam
came from underneath and the whole area was illuminated. The object hovered with a
wobbling motion for ten to fifteen minutes, then moved away at speed and disappeared. The
witness reported that his hand radio was affected by heavy static during the incident and as
the object moved away he experienced a feeling of lightness. He also noticed a smell like
burning rubber.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol IV, No 11, p3.) 0328

11/03/69 1645 Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The speed of the car dropped and the engine was gradually paralysed as a powerful light
moving in various directions and changing colours came to a halt in front of the vehicle. Sr.
Angelo Randi stated that he was immobilised and unable to move his limbs.
(FSR Case Histories, No 6, p11, Case 100.) 0329

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12/03/69 Merida, Badajoz, Spain.

A family of five saw a round object which they described as being as bright as the sun, and
which nearly crashed on their car as the headlights failed. The object then followed the car
for about 20 minutes, flying very low overhead. The object was also seen by another witness
who had gone outside her home because the television picture displayed very strange
interference. This witness described the object as being shaped like a sombrero.
(FSR, UFOs in Two Worlds, p55.) 0330

17/03/69 0250 Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A retired army general became stranded after his car engine failed, and moments later he
saw a light rising above a nearby hill. He began walking towards the light, and saw that it was
translucent but appeared to be metallic. An opening in the object became visible, and three
humanoid figures were seen. The witness went inside the object, in a contact experience, and
was later released back to his vehicle, which started quickly without any difficulty.
([Link]. ETs in Brazil, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1065

17/03/69 2000 Aaenekoski, Finland.

Mr Pesola and his girlfriend had just set out from Aanekoski to visit a friend in Pihtipudas
when they noticed to the front and left of the car, a round disc, the apparent size of the moon.
Near this disc they saw a cigar shaped phenomenon, five times as long as the diameter of the
disc. These objects were turquoise green and very brilliant. As the objects approached the
car, its engine began to misfire. The things then flew behind the car to the other side of the
road and nearly landed, coming very close, at which the car engine misfired more. The objects
followed the car for about 45km before disappearing round a curve behind a forest. Pesola
heard a very high pitched sound while this phenomenon was present. When the couple
arrived in pihtipudas , their friend reported that there had been a strange interference on TV
and then asked them for no apparent reason if they had been followed by a flying saucer.
(UFO Chronicle 1, 3.) 1619

17/03/69 Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.

Herbert Lancaster saw a disc shaped object land in front of his car, as his engine failed. A
human looking figure could be seen through a window.
(K Coggin, Data Net IV, 7.) 1618

21/02/69 Night Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Three people driving their car from Pelotas to Camaqua saw a luminous sphere descend very
close to the ground, at which the car engine failed.
(Rodegheir 1969.) 1621

24/03/69 2300 El Dorado, Kansas, U.S.A.

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Two witnesses had a frightening experience when they spotted 2 lights on the ground in an
open field. They were about 25ft apart and about 10ft in diameter 100 yards from their car.
He turned the car around to drive past the scene again when the car suddenly went out of
control as he had no control over the steering wheel. The car went down the road at an angle
but it did not stay on the road it travelled 150ft before the wheels seem to take hold. Each
light flashed several times while this happened. This then stopped leaving a light blue glow.
(Saucer Scoop Vol 4 N4.) 1290

31/03/69 2330 Hill City, Kansas, U.S.A.

Edwin Bohl observed an object with different coloured lights that came down over highway
24, 5 miles east of Hill City. It came down about 75ft from the ground and the engine on his
car died. The object stopped in mid-air at a 45 degree angle from the car there was no sound.
They watched the object for around 3 minutes before it moved away going east following the
highway towards Stockton.
(Salina Journal, Kansas, USA. April 1st 1969.) 1435

-/03/69 Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada.

While driving along the highway at the side of Lake Simcoe on a clear, dry evening, the driver
and three passengers saw a large round glowing object which was stationary just above the
surface of the lake. They got out of the car and watched the object for about half an hour.
Driving away, the object came towards them and they were enveloped in a thick fog. The car
stopped and the lights went out, but after a few seconds the fog cleared, the car was restarted
and they continued the journey.
(David Raisell, The Missing Seven Hours, p 60-61.) 0331

04/04/69 0400 Moreton Hampstead, Devon, England.

Mr Hunter, a university librarian and his wife Gemma, a publicity executive, were driving
through the moorland mist about 800m from Moreton Hampstead, travelling from Exeter to
Yelverton along a winding road when saw lights, like car headlights, coming straight towards
them at high speed. Fearing a collision the couple pulled over and their car landed in a ditch.
No car passed them and when they tried to restart the battery was flat. A garage mechanic
who examined the battery said it appeared to be have been drained off all its energy.
(Green 1973.) 1622

14/04/69 Hill City, Kansas, U.S.A.

A multi-coloured object came within about a hundred feet, and a car engine effect was
reported.
(Ulysses, Kansas, News April 24, 1969. NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0786

15/04/69 2300 Pichidangui, Chile.

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Two people were driving on the highway were paralyzed and their truck engine died when
they encountered a disc-shaped object ahead on the road.
The object lit up the road and flew away but came back 2 minutes later.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1446

26/04/69 0430 Kilometre 48, between Ibiuna and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

A Brazilian industrialist witnessed an unusual object standing on the ground. The object was
described as being about four metres in diameter and consisted of a luminous red cone-
shaped base with a domed upper portion. The interior of the object was brilliantly lit but the
surrounding area was not illuminated. The witness reported that his newly purchased watch
stopped precisely as he drove past the object. A watch repairer in Sao Paulo stated that the
watch had been subjected to a very intense magnetic field.
(Flying Saucer Review - FSR Vol 16, No 1, p17.) 0332

19/05/69 0305 St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.

A motorist on the Trans Canada Highway was about twenty miles west of St Johns, when he
saw an oval-shaped light in the sky ahead of his car. The light disappeared momentarily. At
the same time the car radio failed, the alternator went to complete discharge, and the engine
stalled for several seconds. About a minute later, a UFO was seen in the rear view mirror
following the car for about six miles at speeds of up to 110mph. No sound was heard from
the object, which then headed south disappearing over the hills.
(R.C.M.P. Report 22/5/69 National Research Council of Canada, RG 77, Vol 306. N69/098.)
1066

21/05/69 between Pelotas and Camagua. Brazil.

At night, three people in a car saw a globular light come low over the ground. The car engine
would not operate when the light source was nearby.
(Contact UK.) 1067

26/05/69 Kinloss, Hayes Lake. Ontario. Canada.

Richard Ackert was working on his farm in the afternoon when he experienced a sudden
stillness and found it difficult to breathe and his tractor engine at the same time kept cutting
out although it did not stop. Suddenly a strong wind came up and began to blow debris about
and bent a sign on the back of his tractor. He was unable to see any evidence of a tornado.
Shortly afterwards conditions returned to normal. While the sighting was being discussed
later an additional witness reported seeing a large white conical object in the cloudless sky
around the same time as Mr Ackert’s sighting.
(Kincardine News Ontario, Canada May 28th 1969). 1431

31/05/69 Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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A large spherical object was seen moving erratically in the night sky. The object released a
smaller sphere which flew away. Several witnesses reported that their car engines and lights
failed during the sighting.
(Contact UK.) 1068

-/05/69 Itajuba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

A car struck 'an invisible wall', the wheels spun while it remained stationary, and the lights
went out reported Sr. Clixto Borges de Mouros. An object overhead was emitting a dazzling
brightness. As the object moved away the car lights came on again. The object passed over a
nearby town at speed and the lights of the town went out.
(FSR Case Histories, No 7, p15, Case: 122.) 0333

04/06/69 1835 Eden Valley, South Australia, Australia.

As G Kock was driving along the Angaston road, and was about two kilometres northwest of
the Eden Valley when an object passed silently over the top of his car. The object had a series
of red lights in two parallel lines, connected by white horizontal rays. On the following day he
reported finding three circular scorch marks on the bonnet of his car, which had not been
there before.
(AFSRS, A Catalogue of Australian UFO Vehicle Interference Cases, Keith Basterfield, 2005.)
0787

10/06/69 2000 Mejillones, Santiago, Chile.

While driving on the Antafagasta-Mejillones highway, two electricians Franklin Baraiza and
Rene Digne, saw a cylindrical object 1m diameter, 50cm thick go past 300m away. : They were
forced to steady the car and its engine died. The object approached within 5m and a large
section of the tube became illuminated with a fluorescent white light, which spread out.
(UFO Chronicle 4.) 1624

19/06/69 0025 Bircham Newton, Norfolk, England.

Robin Peck was travelling in his car when the lights of vehicle started to dim and then went
out and the ignition stopped. Object was seen shaped like an inverted mushroom, stationary
at first, and then moved silently away it was coloured blue with an orange glow. The air
seemed full of static electricity and the witness reported that he felt his hair standing on end.
His car functioned normally after the object had left.
(FSR Vol 15, No 4, p31.) 0334

-/06/69 between 0000 - 0100 near Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.

Duration of sighting about five hours. Car followed by a very bright light. Faint humming sound
heard, and vibrations noticed. The accelerator was pressed down but the speed of the car
dropped. The car was then parked, and the object hovered on the other side of the road. One

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of the witnesses then noticed a strange figure following until dawn. There were two
witnesses.
(FSR Vol 16, No 5, p21.) 0335

-/06/69 0600 Uba, Brazil.

Sr. Angelo Cesarim was travelling by car with 6 passengers when his engine stopped for a few
moments and interference on car radio was reported as a bright orange coloured object
circled overhead.
(FSR Case Histories, No 7, p16, Case 129.) 0336

-/06/69 between Antofagosta and Mejillores, Santiago, Chile.

A cylinder-shaped UFO was seen by two witnesses travelling between the two towns, with
the engine and lights of their car failing during the sighting.
(Contact UK.) 1069

17/07/69 2230 Vermont, U.S.A.

The driver and passenger in a car observed a bright triangular shaped light, with a 'railing'
effect of light and dark areas at the top. The object then suddenly appeared in a new position
in front of the car. The driver reported a sensation of being lifted out of his seat and threw
himself forward, grasping the steering wheel with both arms.
(APRO Bulletin, Sept/Oct 1969, p6.) 0338

21/07/69 0145 near Waldo, Maine, U.S.A.

The driver of a car reported that his radio went haywire and faded into static. He then noticed
a red glare reflecting off the car and looked up to see a large glowing red object hovering low
overhead. The object followed the car for about three miles then moved away fast as the
driver reached his home.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol V, No 1, p3.) 0339

23/07/69 Paulo Lopes, Brazil.

Four businessmen were travelling by station-wagon at night near Paulo Lopes when a huge
UFO appeared. The object, described as being shaped like two basins joined at the rim shot a
beam of white light at the car, and its engine and lights failed. The object hovered over the
car, lifted it up and carried it through the air before letting it down on the road again. Further
along the highway the men came upon a cargo-laden truck, over which the object hovered
momentarily stopping the truck with a beam of light before it disappeared into the distance.
(FSR Vol 16, No 5, p32, and APRO Bulletin, July/Aug 1969, p7.) 0340

31/07/69 2000 Usovo, near Moscow, Russia.

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A doctor of technical sciences reported that while driving with several friends near the small
town of Usovo, they observed two silver discs flying overhead. All the cars in that area then
stalled.
(UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union, p138-139.) 0341

-/07/69 0100 Bocaiuva, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The driver of a car Dona Dayse Arante Carneiro and four family passengers witnessed a large
object stationary above the middle of the road. The object had a double row of windows
about 50cm in diameter from which a green light shone. As the car approached, the object
moved silently to the side of the road. The car came to a standstill. After some minutes the
object departed silently. The object was also seen by the Prefect of Bocaiuva, Sr. Helio
Carneiro and his wife, when they passed the same spot a few minutes later.
(FSR Case Histories, No 7, p16.) 0342

05/08/69 Chester, West Virginia, U.S.A.

Four witnesses in a car suddenly the area was lit up by a bright light that appeared as bright
as daylight. The car’s engine stalled and stopped in the middle of the road with the headlights
still on. They looked up throught the sunroof and saw a bright light source oval/round in
shape. They got out of the car to observe the object within a minute the light had ascended
into the sky and disappeared. They got back in the car and carried on home.
(OHIO UFOs and Others.) 0004

05/08/69 2215 north of Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.

The headlights of a car flickered and dimmed, and the radio faded into static as a large shiny
object with a bright glow underneath moved in front of the car. The object then gained height
and quickly disappeared. The car's lights and radio returned to normal.
(The UFO Investigator, Vol V, No 1, p3.) 0343

15/08/69 0250 Macae, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Luis Renato Matos was driving when he observed a blue light 200m ahead as he got closer it
appeared to be a bright blue inverted plate about 20m in diameter. It floated at an angle of 3
to 4m above the ground. His passengers were all asleep in the car. As he came around a bend
in the road he saw 5 or 6 small figures less than a 1m high scurrying rapidly around. Each
figure was carrying a illuminated pear-shaped implement held by a small rod, these glowed
like red hot irons. He sped the car up as he did so his cars headlights and motor failed. He sat
there for a while wondering what to do finally he was able to restart the car.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1447

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At an unspecified location a motorist encountered a disc shaped object about 10m diameter
hovering at treetop height. The motorist braked to get a better look, but the thing took off a
few seconds later. He then discovered that his car lights, horn and radio would not work.
Investigations showed that the car fuses had blown and the engine had overheated. police
confirmed the existence of skid marks where he had braked.
(Keyhoe 1974). 1548

27/08/69 2030 Burscough, Lancashire, England.

A motorcyclist's engine stopped suddenly and an oval-shaped yellowish orange object, with
a green haze around it, was then seen hovering over a nearby field. A faint sound was heard.
The object moved away after fifteen minutes, and the motorcycle engine was then restarted.
(BUFORA, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1070

03/10/69 Pine Falls, near Whitemouth, Manitoba, Canada.

A pink coloured, intensely glowing inverted saucer-shaped object was seen, hovering with a
short rocking motion above trees. The object was silent and stationary at first before
disappearing at high speed in a few seconds. Before it moved away, a white snake-like tail
was seen extending towards the ground. No definite outline was seen, apart from the intense
glow. During the sighting the car's electrical windshield wipers stopped working, and would
not come back on, the headlights also went out and the car engine stalled. The driver got out
of the car to observe the object, and when he got back into the car all of the equipment
worked normally.
(National Research Council of Canada. N69/167.) 1071

09/10/69 Laguna Blanca, Argentina.

Senor Lotcket started the motor of his van stalled while he saw a UFO with 3 0.8m high tall
creatures inside it.
(CUFORG Vol 2. No.40.) 1309

15/11/69 0230 Corral de Bustos, Argentina.

Three people observed a luminous object which approached their car at great speed. As it
passed close to the car, the tachometer needle fell to zero, but the engine continued
operating normally.
(UFO Nachrichten, March 1969.) 1072

30/11/69 1730 Quincy, Illinois, U.S.A.

A family driving between Plainville and Payson were just to the southeast of Quincy when a
glowing red triangular object was seen to their right, then starting to pace the car. After about
two minutes, and with no sound despite its proximity, the object made a right-angle turn and
passed directly overhead. As it did so, the car seemed to rise from the highway before setting
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behind trees. An investigator found no bumps of any kind in the road, and a similar case in
the same area earlier in the year was also noted.
(APRO Field Investigation Report 6/12/69. Skylook 26, January 1970.) 0788

-/11/69 Invermere, British Columbia, Canada.

One evening, a young schoolteacher saw a green luminosity low over the ground, at the side
of a road. The car radio stopped during the sighting. She continued driving, and did not see
the light again.
(Our UFO Visitors. John Magor.) 1073

-/12/69 2200 Serra do Vulcao, Nova Iguacu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A young couple was parked in an isolate area in a known lovers lane area, when they suddenly
noticed a strong luminosity approaching their vehicle from the rear. They watched as three
huge beings approx. 3m in height approached their vehicle. The man attempted to restart the
car but the engine was dead. The beings were looking into the car and they then emitted a
sound and one of them held a baton-like object into the opened window and the baton
released a sort of gas. At this point they lost consciousness they woke in the morning and the
car was now at a different position from where it had originally parked.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1965-69.) 1217

-/-/69-70 2350 Diehlstadt, Missouri, U.S.A.

High school senior Ronnie Burton was driving home to Diehlstadt on Hw 77 when he spotted,
just beyond the next rise ,a large dark shape hanging above the road, covering all the lanes
and part of the shoulder. He thought it might have been a van which had overturned and so
slowed down and brightened his lights. He then saw that it was an object shaped like two
soup plates rim to rim. He decided to reverse rather than risk squeezing past it. As he did so
bright lights like magnesium flashes came from the top and bottom of this object, and seemed
to spread over it, until the light was too intense for Ronnie to look at. :The thing rose silently
to the height of a telephone pole, tilted and then disappeared. Ronnie’ car motor was still
running but at some point his radio had gone off. He drove home and woke his father. They
both returned to the spot to see that the grass on road shoulder had been depressed as if by
a heavy object. An elderly lady who lived nearby volunteered that she had not only seen this
object on this occasion, but seen similar several times before.
(Fate May 1977.) 1524

-/-/69 London, Ontario, Canada.

Mr P, a former German paratrooper was driving from Midland to Windsor on this freezing
cold night, when near London, he was forced onto a back road by an accident. Suddenly his
car engine, lights and radio failed and he glided to a stop. About 30m ahead, a domed object
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a humming sound as the thing took off slowly and then accelerated away. Even allowing for
the detour their appeared to be an hour of missing time.
(NUFON News 144.) 1523

-/-/69 Ngatea, New Zealand.

Two hunters returning home at night reported that they were frightened when a huge shining
object approached their truck. As the object neared them, the truck's lighting system failed
and the engine stalled. The object hovered nearby for several minutes then sped out of sight.
As soon as it had gone the truck functioned normally again. Other reports from the Ngatea
area included the case of a motorist who reported being followed for several miles by an
intense white oval-shaped object.
(APRO Bulletin, Sept/Oct 1969, p8.) 0344

-/-/69 near RAF. Fairford, Gloucester, England.

A family were out for an evening drive when the car engine cut out and the lights failed. The
engine could not be restarted. The air seemed electrified and the family dog appeared to be
frightened. Three disc shaped objects in V formation passed overhead and disappeared in
seconds. The starter of the car was tried again and the engine fired. A telephone call to RAF
Fairford confirmed that there were no aircraft flying in the area.
(FSR Case Histories No 3, p iii of cover.) 0345

-/-/69 2100 Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.

During the summer, a group of teenagers were parked near a reservoir in two cars, when one
of the cars could not be restarted. Several of the teenagers left in the other car to get
assistance. Three people left behind saw a light over the water, and figures approaching. The
teenagers hid in the car, which became hot, and shaking as if being buffeted by a wind. They
reported hearing footsteps on the car roof and marks were later found on the car.
(UFO Occupants and Critters. John Musgrave.) 1074

-/-/68-69 Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia.

A group of about ten people were travelling in a 1952 vehicle when the engine failed suddenly.
There was a smell like "hot metal" and a large, dark disc shape was seen rising silently from
nearby into the sky. The vehicle engine could then be started successfully.
(A Catalogue of Australian UFO Vehicle Interference Cases, Keith Basterfield, 1997, p 4.)0789

30/01/70 2130 Mrewa, Rhodesia.

The lights of a police vehicle failed. Three oval objects seen, with red lights underneath and a
white glow behind. The objects hovered then moved away at great speed. The lights of the
car suddenly came on again after about ten minutes. The witnesses were two policemen, and
the duration of the sighting was one and a half minutes.
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05/02/70 Chesterfield Inlet, North West Territory, Canada.

A multi-coloured domed disc was seen spinning it was glowing orange and blue at a distance
of 50-60ft away. The engines of three snowmobiles stopped working. The object shot straight
up when leaving.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1415

-/03/70 2130 Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia.

A forestry worker saw a flash of light in the sky, and his car radio was overcome with static. A
silent green object, which appeared to be three times the size of a full moon, was seen to the
rear of the car. The duration of the incident was about 15 minutes.
(ACUFOS - Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events, p6.) 0348

01/04/70 2050 Surrey, England.

A motorist driving on the A3 road saw a triangular-shaped object, and at the same time there
was heavy static interference on his car radio.
(Contact UK.) 1076

01/04/70 Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A motorist found that his car engine was stalling inexplicably. When he pulled the car over
to the roadside, he saw a hat-shaped object nearby, and took a photo of it. The object rose
into the sky after a few minutes and the car gave no further trouble afterwards.
(Contact UK.) 1075

17/04/70 Childrens Republic, Argentina.

The witness, Senior Raul Gaiton was driving his car when the vehicle began to stall he got out
thinking something was wrong with the carburettor. He saw a domed shaped disc travelling
very fast and it disappeared quickly. A photo was taken.
(Awareness June 1970.) 1262

24/04/70 2230 Mulhouse, France.

A witness observes for more than a minute, an object in the shape of a huge red and luminous
disc. You can see flashing or pulsing lights. It follows a complex trajectory without any noise,
but with regular movements passing vertically to the observer. The latter is scared and his car
breaks down.
(The Universons by Poher Claude.) 0392

-/06/70 0300 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Witnesses driving near the beach when they saw a disc shape object they saw a bright beam
of light and heard a loud noise the car engine stopped. Circular lights shot straight up.

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(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1416

29/07/70 2225 Old Forge, New York, U.S.A.

Several people saw a large oval-shaped metallic flying object, which began following their car.
At the same time, the car radio was inoperative due to heavy static interference.
(UFOLOG No 83, 1971.) 1077

09/08/70 St More, France.

Several residents reported an object in the air, while one witness reported sighting an orange
ball which ascended into the sky. At the same time a motorist saw at the side of the road a
hemispherical object, dull metallic in appearance, and felt extreme heat. Burn marks were
also found.
(Data-Net, and Phillips Physical Traces Catalogue, No 438.) 0349

10/08/70 0030 Aznalcazar-Pilas, Sevilla, Spain.

A white foggy object like a dense cloud was seen hovering two metres above the ground near
the road. The object moved away but was later seen twice more. The car headlights went
dark as the object flew over. There were four witnesses.
(FSR - UFOs in Two Worlds, p51.) 0350

12/08/1970 2250 Rainham, Brentwood, Essex, England.

A Mr Richard Jones, 20 was driving in Rainham Road with a Pauline Routledge they stopped
about 2250 after they heard loud electrical noises, he thought there was a fault with his car.
They observed an object which was about 20ft long and 10ft wide hovering for a short period
a little way above the ground before it flew towards Hornchurch. It was glowing red with 4
white lights underneath it. It was reported to the MOD who had no idea what it might have
been.
(Flying Saucer Review [Link].1) 1332

13/08/70 2250 Haderslev, Denmark.

A police officer was driving to his home at Knud when his car was suddenly surrounded by a
bright bluish-white light. The car engine stopped, the lights failed - even the ignition light, and
the radio could not be operated. The temperature inside the car increased. The light
surrounding the car was seen to be a conical beam with a base diameter of four to five metres,
the light cone coming from a large grey circular object with dome-like structures underneath.
No sound could be heard. The light cone started to rise and was withdrawn into the object
after about five minutes. The object started to move and vanished vertically in a few seconds.
The car lights returned, the engine could be started and the radio could be operated again.
Photographs of the light were taken with the fastened camera of the patrol car, the film being
delivered to the Air Force base at Skrydstrup. Weather conditions at the time of the sighting
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(FSR Case Histories, No 1, p7-8, and UFO-NYT, Denmark, Sept/Oct 1970.) 0351

16/08/70 0030 Aznalcazar, Sevilla, Spain.

Four people in a car observed a white foggy object hovering 2m over a field by the road. The
object flew away as they approached and the car lights dimmed.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1448

16/08/70 Brzesko, Poland.

A police car stopped behind a broken down truck to question the driver. The driver said he
was on his way to Debzca with a load of chemicals or paint and that an object had swooped
down on the truck just missing it. The object had very powerful lights which dazzled the driver,
the truck engine died. While the policeman was being told this the object returned it stopped
about 200 yards away from the police car for about 3-5 minutes then turned and headed
South. The object was reported as brown in colour shaped like a barge underneath
approximately 50ft long and 8-10ft in thickness. It took over 1hr to restart the truck.
(Awareness Issue 4 1985-6.) 1291

18/08/70 1645 Puits d'Edme, near Avallon, France.

A motorist returning to Joux-la-Ville from Avallon saw in his headlights a strange object
standing a few metres from the side of the road. The top part of the object was hemispherical,
of a metallic grey colour and studded with white discs. The lower part consisted of a rust
coloured column. As he drew abreast of the object the motorist reported experiencing an
intense heat which made it impossible for him to stop. On a revisit to the site later in the day
with the mayor of Joux-la-Ville traces of burning were found, and a circle of flattened and
withered grass about ten metres from the road. A report was also received that an orange
ball had been seen moving through the sky at about 5.15 a.m. near the same spot.
(FSR Case Histories) 0352

05/10/70 2100 Charney, Quebec, Canada.

Two people saw a long luminous object, with their car radio having heavy static interference
during the sighting.
(Data-Net, Vol 5, No 6.) 1078

11/10/70 0215 between Bay City and Caro, Michigan, U.S.A.

The driver of a car reported that while driving on to the M 15 Highway, two bright round discs
suddenly appeared and passed overhead at speed. The radio buzzed with static. The witness
estimated the speed of the objects as 100 to 150 mph. and described them as intensely bright
with light emanating from the centre towards the edge, where there was a greenish-blue
haze. No sound was heard.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 3, No 4, p16.) 0355

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Two men reported observing a ball of light which swept past their car, momentarily affecting
the electrical system. The incident occurred at about the time of an unexplained power failure
in the same area.
(The UFO Investigator, December 1970, p3.) 0356

29/10/70 1640 Helleland, Norway.

A man driving home after a business trip to Stavanger was suddenly blinded by a very strong
blue-white light and forced to stop. An intense light body moved over the car. After a few
seconds the light disappeared and a round shiny object was seen hovering over the car,
without any motion or noise. The driver got out of the car, and observed that the object had
a cylindrical section on the underside and a dome on top. The man reported that after about
50 seconds he suddenly felt unable to stand up and fell on his back, at the same time hearing
the sound of the car's windscreen going to pieces. The object then lifted straight up into the
air and was once again surrounded by an intense light before it disappeared in a few seconds.
(FSR Case Histories, No 4, p5.) 0357

-/10/70 2000 Tully, New York, U.S.A.

Two witnesses driving observed a bright pulsating white yellow light ahead as they
approached the light it engulfed the car and the car stopped. The rear of the car was lifted off
the ground and the headlights were pointing straight down at the road at an angle of 45 deg.
The headlights and dash lights were dimming on and off and the needles on the gauges were
going from left to right. I looked to the left and saw a saucer shaped object on the ground
with an intense white light coming from it. All of a sudden the car slammed to the ground and
the radio, lights and gauges returned to normal and we were propelled forward.
(K Coggin, email 01.09.2020 MUFON.) 1608

07/11/70 near Deland, Florida, U.S.A.

A woman reported that a strange airborne object hovered near her car causing the engine to
stall and the headlights to go out. The object pulsated with flashing lights of varying colours
and produced a throbbing sound which increased as the object moved away. The car then
functioned normally.
(The UFO Investigator, November 1970, p3.) 0358

05/12/70 1845 Everett, Washington, U.S.A.

An elderly couple were driving over a river bridge when they saw a red light passing overhead.
The car engine faltered, and the car's speed dropped from 40mph to 5-10mph. The light
continued northwards then rose vertically at high speed. The car engine worked normally
afterwards.
(APRO.) 1079

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A man woke up at his home, seeing a bright red light in the sky and hearing a pulsating,
humming sound. He saw from his window a policeman running towards a car, which started
suddenly. A sphere of pulsating light was hovering over the car; the light disappeared
suddenly, with the incident lasting less than a minute.
(UFOs Behind the Iron Curtain. Ian Hobana.) 1080

-/-/70 2130 Tronstadtsletta, Norway.

In April or May, a motorist observed a strange object pacing his car. The car headlights went
out. The object looked about seven feet in diameter, and after it moved away the headlights
worked normally.
(Contact UK.) 1081

-/-/70 Van Dyne, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

One autumn night, five women in a car saw a round, flat object hovering near the road. As
the car was brought to a stop about 25 feet away, there was only static interference on the
car radio. The object was making a faint humming sound, and after five minutes it moved
behind the car. When the witnesses tried to leave the area, the object followed, a few car
lengths behind. After four miles, the object moved away fast towards the east.
(CUFOS.) 1082

-/-/70 Honiton, Devon, England.

The witness Geoff Grater was climbing a hill when he lost power and his engine cut out he
heard a humming noise from field opposite. He observed a saucer hovering with a green light
shining down with a dome which had white flashing lights on.
(Email to BUFORA.) 1473

03/01/71 0400 Montesano, Washington, U.S.A.

At night, three small round objects hovered over a bridge as a car driven by a Keith Brown
approached. The car engine stopped, and the radio had heavy interference, but the headlights
remained on. The object then rose slightly, and moved slowly down the river. The car could
then be restarted.
([Link], May-June 1971 UFO Research Newsletter [Link].2.) 1083

05/03/71 0110 Trenal, France.

The witness is driving between Gevingey and Savigny. It has just passed Trenal on the D30. It
is in a straight line, in the distance a small wood. The night is moonlit and very cold. He
observes a glow, which he thinks to be the gleams of Condamine, but he realizes that the
latter is located before the wood on his right. Continuing to roll, he observed as that glow
actually came from eight rectangles of a bluish hue, soft and non-glare. The long side of these
rectangles is parallel to the ground. A sort of metallic-looking dome surmounts the rectangles.
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wood, he then sees three strange beings. They climb the shoulder of the ditch on all fours. He
then sees about twenty other beings. these beings are brown, almost black and their heads
look like that of an ant the size of a lion. Suddenly a huge glow fills his car coming from the
rear, the 404 continues to roll but at 20 km / h whereas the previous moment it was at 70 and
still in fourth. However, the witness had no feeling of braking. The wood is also lit by light, the
hood of its engine is fluorescent. The witness manages to join Condamine completely
disoriented. The wood is also lit by light, the hood of its engine is fluorescent. The witness
manages to join Condamine completely disoriented. The wood is also lit by light, the hood of
its engine is fluorescent. The witness manages to join Condamine completely disoriented.
Returning home, the witness realizes that his shirt bears strange traces in the form of
rectangles seven to eight in number distributed on the left side, they are shiny golden yellow
which disappeared eight minutes later. Three days later rectangles also appeared on her
undershirt, but brown in colour and disappeared after three or four washes. The paint on the
car faded leaving marks on the rags when wiped off. On the ground, a trace in the form of a
half ellipse 2 to 3 cm deep appeared at the edge of the wood. Around the track the snow had
melted over a space of about 17 meters. Footprints were taken. Shoes without heels with a
length of 40 cm. Note that the witness who suffered from migraines due to a disease of the
faith.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0398

29/03/71 2100 Draguignan, France.

Two witnesses observed a vivid light in front of and above their car. A round stationary object
was then seen emitting a red light. The object performed a series of rapid vertical movements,
each followed by an oblique descending trajectory. During the last descending movement the
object performed a pendulum movement as it moved over a vineyard, where it stopped. The
object was then observed to be lenticular in shape, dark red in colour, and with three light
sources on the upper part which gave the impression that the object had a rotary movement.
No sound was heard. After about two minutes the object performed a roll and moved away
instantly. One of the witnesses felt difficulty in breathing during the incident and reported
that his wristwatch had worked badly ever since, stopping frequently. The watch had since
been shown to be strongly magnetised.
(FSR Case Histories, No 14, April 1973, p1-3.) 0361

-/03/71 El Garrobo, Sevilla, Spain.

A witness driving home noticed a oval object pass over during which his car engine died. He
also saw along the route a strange creature.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1450

-/04-05/71 1600 Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.

Two adults were driving and had come to a stop sign when they observed a “funny plane” in
the sky. The object had a dome on top with a steady blue light and a large number of white
flashing lights in irregular patterns on the body. The object was flying some 10-15ft above the
nearby trees and was making no sound. The colour was blended in with the sky so difficult to

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make out the shape. They went to follow the object but found that the car would not start
for about 5 minutes.
(M Swords, Grassroots UFOS.) 0625

14/05/71 near Gleichen, Alberta, Canada.

Mr William Eater and his wife reported that while driving home at night a bright light
appeared to the right of their car. Mrs Eater was the first to notice that there seemed to be
no bumps in the rough road. Looking down from the window she discovered that the car was
about two feet off the road. The car continued down the centre of the road at 40 to 45 mph.
for about a quarter of a mile when the light suddenly went out and the car dropped to the
roadway.
(APRO Bulletin, March/April 1972, p1.) 0362

18/05/71 Frederiksburg, Virginia, U.S.A.

Two sisters were driving back to their home, and had just reached their driveway when they
noticed a humming sound and saw red lights coming from above the car. The car engine
stalled almost immediately, the headlights went out, and the radio also failed. The engine
could not be restarted, and a large glowing white disc-shaped object, with four red lights
underneath it, was seen hovering above the car. After about five minutes the car engine
could be started, and the driver sped towards the house. Her brother heard the car coming
and stepped outside, to see the car racing up the driveway with the object following, also
watched by an older brother as the object continued to hover over the car before moving
away.(MUFON UFO Journal, May 1991, p 17.) 0790

25/05/71 2245 Oddstone, Leicestershire, England.

A large glowing light was seen through the windscreen by Mrs Eunice Rose while driving her
car towards Hinckley. Shortly afterwards the transistor radio, operating independently of the
car, began to fade. The sound then died completely, and the car's headlights and engine
gradually lost power. The car came to a stop with the engine running very slowly and
unevenly, while the large light like a circular disc passed overhead, lighting up the interior of
the car and the surrounding area. Apart from the sound of the car engine no other sound was
heard as the object moved slowly overhead. When it had moved away an estimated 100 yards
the headlights and transistor radio began to return to normal and the engine responded
normally.
(FSR Case Histories, No 11, p9.) 0364

27/05/71 0200 Lynchford, Tasmania, Australia.

There was a barking of dogs and a strange humming sound which faded away after about half
an hour. Nothing was seen, but on the following day a flattened area of vegetation was found,
with a spiral pattern and indentations. On the next day a car stopped near the site with an
electrical fault, two visitors to the area claimed that their watches had stopped, and a kitten
died of unknown cause. The dogs also acted strangely for several days after the incident.
(FSR Case Histories, No 7, p13.) 0363

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-/05/71 2200 Strahan, Tasmania, Australia.

A family driving home saw a bright light above the road. The vehicle's lights failed and the
driver stopped. They got out of the car to look at the light, and then got back in. The car lights
came back on and they continued the journey. The light kept pace with the car, disappearing
when they had almost reached Queenstown.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Vehicle Interference UFO Events, p6.) 0365

13/06/71 2215 Larned, Kansas, U.S.A.

A double cone shaped object with red and green flashing lights, hovered near a road. A
motorist reported that his car engine ran roughly during the sighting, but he did not see how
the object departed.
(Goodland Daily News, June 16, 1971.) 1084

02/08/71 0100 Rasanac, Yugoslavia.

Three occupants of a car saw a luminous object in the sky, and the car radio suddenly stopped
playing. An intense light moved through the air at speed, stopped, and was then seen to be
round and silver-green in colour. The object then descended vertically and appeared to land.
The driver got out of the car. He then felt a strong ray of light directed towards him, and for
a moment became unconscious before he was helped back to the car and the journey was
continued.
(FSR Case Histories, No 12, p4.) 0366

08/08/71 1835 Kadina, South Australia, Australia.

A car's engine stopped as a disc estimated as 30 feet in diameter hovered about 150 feet
overhead was reported being seen by a Mr Boyce. The car would not start until the object
moved away. The duration of the incident was about three minutes, and a continuous buzzing
sound was also noted during the sighting.
(UFO Research N.S.W. and Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events, p7.) 0367

24/08/71 2030 Nuez, Zamora, Spain.

In a sighting which lasted a few minutes, the engine of a vehicle stopped. A circular object
with an estimated diameter of one and a half metres and emitting intense yellow light landed
on the roadway about two metres away. The object took off again after a few minutes. There
were several other witnesses in the surrounding area.
(FSR Vol 18, No 1, p32.) 0368

20/09/71 2245 Ojebyn, Sweden.

The driver of a car reported seeing on a clear night a strong light in the sky similar to a
northern light with vertical beams. He noticed that the beams also extended behind the car,
then felt an unnatural force from behind even though he had his foot on the brakes. He was
then surrounded by a dense blackness and no light came from the headlights. After a short

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interval a large black mass was seen to rise from the ground. The object, which was clearly
outlined then became kite shaped and moved away rapidly.
(FSR Case Histories, No 10, p1-3.) 0369

22/09/71 1900 Natividade, Brazil.

A vehicle was followed by a low-flying object. Shortly afterwards the witness noticed on the
road ahead a black object which turned red, then blinding white. The object shot a luminous
beam towards the car and the engine started to fail, and then stopped. A car-sized object was
seen, with two dwarf-like beings moving around like robots. The beings carried objects that
gave out vivid beams of red light. The witness claimed that he felt all energy and willpower
leaving him and was taken inside the machine after a struggle. After the incident, the witness
was picked up by a passing car and taken to hospital for treatment. The doctor stated that
many people in the region had seen UFOs and that many had suffered 'traumatic experiences'
as a result. The witness stated that after the incident his watch had lost 15 minutes.
(FSR Vol 17, No 6, p24.) 0370

24/09/71 0130 Caleta Buena, Chile.

Two truck drivers Manuel Contreras Santander and Orlando Torres Ardiles saw a very bright
object at close range and reported the sighting to the police station at Tocopilla. They
described how the object had hovered, illuminating parts of the beach before flying out over
the ocean. Three policemen accompanied the drivers back to the scene and they sighted the
object again, at first about one mile out and later at closer range as it approached the beach.
They reported that it seemed to be a totally illuminated vehicle about 20 metres in diameter
which moved at high speed over the sea. Its shape was oval with a 'high part' in the middle.
A police sergeant, in an interview with reporters, stated that the engine and radio of the police
patrol car had ceased to function when the UFO approached.
(APRO Bulletin, March/April 1972, p9.) 0371

25/09/71 0200 near Itaperuna, Brazil.

A driver found that he could not control the car, which slowed down and stopped. An object
on the road was emitting powerful beams of red light. The witness claimed that three dwarf-
like beings used a beam of yellow light to raise him into the air, where he remained 'floating'.
After an estimated 15 minutes he found himself lowered gently to the ground, and the craft
vanished. This incident was reported before details of the previous similar case of September
22nd had been published.
(FSR Vol 17, No 6, p26. Case 2.) 0372

03/10/71 0140 near Anapolis, Brazil.

A driver noticed that the car engine sounded different and that he was travelling at a speed
of over 160 kilometres per hour. A ball of light shaped 'like a Mexican hat' passed silently
across the road ahead several times, each time causing a change in the car's speed. Two
witnesses.
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08/10/71 1900 Wawota, Saskatchewan, Canada.

A white light was seen in the sky, coming from the north, and travelling in a southeast
direction. The object appeared to be cone-shaped, white and green, and produced a red
trailing light. The object travelled over the vehicle, with the engine stalling very briefly before
restarting.
(RCMP Report, 9/11/71.) 1085

30/10/71 0230 Tocopil1a, Chile.

A little more than a month after Case 88, another UFO was observed near Tocopilla by the
driver and two passengers in a car returning to Antofagasta. The object circled over the sea
and emitted a curved light beam. A passing truck driver had trouble negotiating the road due
to the intense light being given off by the object.
(APRO Bulletin, May/June 1972, p5.) 0374

17/11/71 2130 Bananeiras, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.

Two men were returning from a business trip to Natividade de Carangola when their journey
was interrupted. One of the witnesses stated that the car was pushed to the side of the road
where it stopped, and that a flying object projected a red beam of light at the car causing the
door to open. He was then taken inside the object where he lay on a table while a blood
sample was taken from a cut made near his elbow. The witness was later examined by doctors
at Itaperuna. The second witness did not confirm his companion's account of the incident and
was unable to explain certain aspects of the case when it was later investigated.
(FSR Special Issue No 5. UFO Encounters, November 1973, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0375

17/12/71 2000 near Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.

The witness reported that the engine of his car suddenly cut out, although the lights remained
on. He got out of the car to investigate and noticed a huge grey spherical shape resting in a
field close by. The object was shimmering as if surrounded by a heat haze. Having found
nothing apparently wrong with the engine, the driver suddenly saw lights moving across in
front of him and noticed that the object in the field had vanished without any sound. A few
moments later the car engine restarted as if there had never been anything wrong with it. On
the night that the witness was interviewed regarding the incident the car engine failed again
for about ten minutes, although it had never given trouble before or since and no mechanical
fault was found.
(Scunthorpe UFO Research Association, and Northern UFO Network Report 1970 - 1974, Case
71/13.) 0376

20/12/71 Ramla, Israel.

Dr Andrija Puharich, Uri Geller and two friends were driving towards Tel Aviv. When near
Ramla, they saw in the sky a stationary disc-shaped object with a red light on top. After about
five minutes the light of the object disappeared and the car headlights went out. A minute

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later the headlights came on again by themselves. Continuing the journey for a further five
minutes the car engine then mysteriously cut out, but restarted five minutes later.
(Andrija Puharich, Uri - Uri Geller Biography, p134.) 0377

22/12/71 0000 Osuna, Sevilla, Spain.

A married couple's car was followed by a bright light, which seemed to cause interference
with the radio. Their dog also became excited. A strange object was then noticed, hovering
near the road. The object was stationary, with a rocking motion, and making a whistling sound
coming from its rotating upper half.
(Catalogue of 200 Type 1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1086

-/-/71 2300 Podpec, near Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.

An oval glowing red object was observed by three witnesses travelling by car. The object
performed a spiral movement. A transistor radio was blanketed out with static as the object
made a sweep towards the car. The witnesses were seized with panic and felt breathless. As
the object came closer its colour was yellow, and when it took up a stationary position above
the car the colour became orange-red. The length of the object was estimated at between
seven and ten feet. After hovering briefly above the car the object flew off in the direction
from which it had come. The estimated duration of the incident was about 15 seconds.
(FSR Case Histories, No 13, p11-13.) 0378

-/-/71 Honiton, Devon, England.

A motorist returning home to Tiverton heard a crackling noise from the car engine, and found
that it was losing power. The engine then failed completely and the car came to a halt. He got
out and checked the engine, finding nothing wrong but was unable to restart the car. He heard
a loud swishing sound from a field adjacent to the road, and then saw a silvery domed disc
which passed overhead and with a light shining down from underneath it. The object hovered
over the ground not far away, and he watched for about ten minutes as it moved around in a
pattern, also making a loud humming noise. It then moved away at speed, disappearing in
about ten seconds, and on returning to the car he found that the engine started instantly with
no problem.
(FSR Vol 37, No 2, p24-25.) 0379

-/-/71 0130 Ceuers, Var, France.

A French Navy technician was returning by car to his home in Toulon when the car radio began
to crackle before fading out. He then saw an orange ball in the air ahead of the car, and the
engine started to misfire. The car slowed down, while the object came to a distance of about
50 metres ahead. He tried to brake but this did not seem to work, even after the engine had
stopped, and he then realized that the car was no longer on the road. The object came closer,
lighting up the countryside around, and there was total silence. The light then disappeared
suddenly, and the car fell back at an angle on to the road. The driver found that there was
considerable damage to the car, but other passing motorists stopped, and with the help of
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Toulon. The incident seemed to have lasted about five minutes, but it was later discovered
that there was a period of about three hours not accounted for, since he had not arrived home
until 6 a.m.
(FSR Vol 32, No 3, p8-10.) 0380

02/02/72 2200 Charnay, France.

The witness is in the car. He has just approached the bends after Charnay in the direction of
the Grange de Nom when suddenly the headlights of his car go out and the engine stops. The
witness brakes, and opens the door to go and examine his engine when suddenly an intense
light bursts into the sky, blinding him. He then observed, despite the light, an oval-shaped
mass two meters long and 1.50 meters high, flashing yellow moving silently. The object passes
ten meters above the witness at a speed evaluated at 50 km / h. The object continues its
journey about two hundred meters from the witness, the headlights of his vehicle come back
on and the witness succeeded in restarting his engine on the first turn of the key.
(They met aliens by Pacaut René ** Alain Lefeuvre 1978.) 0408

03/02/72 near Nazca, Peru.

The two owners of a feed store were travelling north, on the Pan American Highway, to make
a delivery that day to Nazca. They were crossing the desolate Pampa Carbonera, when their
pickup truck's radio began to have bursts of static interference, before this became
continuous, and with the radio finally becoming silent. The truck engine began
malfunctioning, and then stopped completely. The two men got out of the truck to examine
the engine, battery, and wiring, then noticed a silvery object some distance away in the
desert. They went towards the object, and realized that it was a highly polished disc, about
fifteen metres in diameter and four metres high, standing on a three legged landing gear. An
occupant of the craft then appeared, coming around to the front. When the two witnesses
began running forward, the figure disappeared and the craft took off with a shrill whining
sound. After the craft had gone out of sight, the two men returned to the truck. When the
ignition was tried again, the engine started immediately, and the radio also came back on
clearly.
(UFO Roundup. Vol 7, No 6, 2002.) 1087

13/02/72 2035 Pinetown, South Africa.

Mrs Kay Easson was driving with a companion when she saw what looked like a firework
rocket behaving rather strangely in the sky. A few minutes later both witnesses saw three
egg-shaped objects fly across the sky in perfect formation and at an extraordinary speed. The
objects were red at the front and white at the back, and were quite silent. Mrs Easson noted
that she went cold looking at them and felt the hair rise at the back of her neck. After another
few minutes the strange objects were seen again. Both witnesses were fliers, familiar with
aircraft and could think of nothing normal to explain these weird appearances.
The sightings were confirmed by another witness who noted that in the last of the three
sightings the objects had travelled out towards the sea, at right angles to their previous
course.
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-/02/72 Bahia Blanca, Argentina.

A car engine began to vibrate, with the radio filled with static interference. The four witnesses
decided to stop, then saw a luminous red disc with a dome. A smaller object was behind the
disc. Both objects made aerial manoeuvres for some minutes before they moved away, and
the car could then be restarted.
(UFO Nachrichten, June 1972.) 1088

10/03/72 2120 Normandy, France.

An elliptical shape with a red light landed about 200 metres away, with car engine effect
reported.
(APRO Bulletin, May-June 1972. NICAP Database of E-M effect Cases.) 0791

18/03/72 2125 Pacey-sur-Eure, France.

Mr D. Loretz was driving his car when he saw a dark object in the sky coming towards him. He
stopped the car and the object landed almost vertically in a field about 150 metres away. The
object was dark, oval in shape with two pale lights from two ‘port holes’ directed towards the
ground. The object made a noise like a large tractor. Mr Loretz started to drive away but had
trouble with the engine which coughed for several metres before it ran normally.
(APRO Bulletin, March/April 1972, p8.) 0382

20/03/72 2130 Guillon, France.

The witness was driving a car coming from Guillon and going towards Songeons, she was then
at the top of a hill three km before Songeons. His attention is drawn to his right by an object
which seems to want to block his way at the height of the telephone poles. The speed of the
object is the same as that of the vehicle is 100 km / h. The object is in the shape of a slightly
flattened semi-sphere in silver metal with three flashing lights, one red, one green and one
orange-yellow. No sound perceived. The car radio made a continuous crackling sound during
the observation. With the car being repaired seven months later, the mechanic noticed an
abnormal corrosion of the whole bodywork. The witness for two or three days could not touch
the metal part of the gear lever without feeling a tingling similar to that felt in the presence
of static electricity. The witness was in tears when she arrived home.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0422

21/03/72 Normandy, France.

A farmer’s car had a total electric power failure as an object took off from a field where it had
been seen to land. There were two witnesses.
(FSR Vol 18, No 2, p24.) 0383

26/03/72 0530 Dargies-Grandvilliers, France.

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Three red UFOs seen coming down into a field as they did so a car engine stalled. The objects
vanished when car headlights lit the area.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1417

01/04/72 2300 between Cacuso and Lucala, Angola.

Two students were driving from Luso when the engine of their vehicle cut out suddenly and
the lights failed. Batteries and fuses were examined and were found to be normal. A bright
light was seen which was joined by another moving parallel to the road. Shortly afterwards a
whistling noise was heard coming from an object about 40 metres away. The object was
described as being about 40 metres across, partly lit up and with three feet. No heat or
electrical effects were noticed. The object soon lifted to a height of about 12 metres where it
hovered briefly, retracted its legs, whistled again and turned on edge as it moved away. As
soon as the object left the vehicle lights came back on and the engine returned to normal.
(UFO Nachrichten, No 236/237, May/June 1976.) 0384

11/04/72 2000 Urubamba, Cusco, Peru.

Four nearby cars, with a total number of 17 witnesses, stalled, their engines misfiring
simultaneously as they heard an increasing loud humming sound and a silvery-blue, metallic
looking disc, with a sort of halo of orange light plunged into Lake Huaypo. After two or three
minutes the cars restarted and the witnesses drove away.
(UFO Register 9 pt.2) 1520

12/04/72 1100 Great Falls, Montana, U.S.A.

A group of military men driving back to base when approx. 30miles away suddenly their
engine stalled. They pulled over to check the engine and at the same time tried to use their
radios but they would not work either. They exited the vehicle to stretch their legs and saw a
strange cloud in the sky. After a few seconds they saw a strange silvery square craft emerging
from the cloud. It was hovering and turning very slowly away from the cloud. It was approx.
400-500 ft above us and appeared to be several football fields long. The craft was hovering as
if observing us then after 10 minutes or so the craft turned towards the South began to pitch
upwards and was gone. Suddenly the radios started to work and we were able to restart the
car.
(K Coggin, Email 06.09.2020) 1584

21/04/72 2200 Ste-Soulle, France.

The witness is in the car. Arrived at the height of a wood, in a bend, he sees on his right a light
seeming to come from a clearing at the edge of the road. Arrived near the phenomenon, he
then distinguishes a very large discoidal object surmounted by a dome and posed apparently
on four feet. Panicked, the witness wants to leave, but his headlights have gone out and his
car refuses to start. Little by little a progressive paralysis takes hold of him. There will be 45
minutes left. Suddenly, a tiny blackish being, seemingly thin, springs from the wood bordering
the clearing, jumps on the rim of the disc, then jumps again and seems to blend into the dome.
Immediately the machine takes off by performing a pendular ascent, comes to a standstill for

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a few seconds between 50 and 90 meters, then a luminous line is directed towards Marans.
The headlights of the vehicle come back on, but the witness remains dazed, crying at the
wheel. It is another person with a detector which is triggered and inspects the premises who
will discover it in this position.
It appears that another person witnessed, a simple-minded man who was in the woods at the
time. Nothing will be obtained from him by the investigators, but since that evening his
condition has worsened.
The main witness suffered for several weeks from a total loss of memory over the 6 months
preceding the observation.
Traces were noted, first of all at the place of landing, three slightly oblique cylindrical holes
about 20 cm deep and arranged in a triangle. in the middle two traces formed by a circle 1m
in diameter, 10cm deep with a 10cm deep cylindrical hole in the center.
A few meters inside the wood, where the small being appeared, many traces are visible, in
particular holes reminiscent of coring whose depth varies from 10 cm to 1 m with a diameter
of 5 to 10 cm. days later the grass under the main track withers.
Finally he was discovered in a meadow adjoining the wood from which the humanoid came
out a mysteriously dead cow. She had three neat triangular holes in the middle of the
forehead between the eyes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain
Lefeuvre 1979. ) 1418

-/04/72 2000 near Lake Huaypo, Peru.

A group of seventeen people including a former president of Cuzco's Court of Justice were
travelling in four cars along the road bordering Lake Huaypo when all the cars abruptly stalled
and stopped. The drivers and some of the passengers got out of the cars. A humming sound
was heard corning from the north followed by the appearance from behind the mountains of
a silvery blue disc surrounded by an orange halo. The object, with an estimated diameter of
10 to 15 metres flew at high speed towards the lake and dived into the water. When it
submerged, the colour of the water had the same orange tint as that associated with the
object. Two or three minutes later the car engines came back to life.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 5, No 3, p10-11.) 0385

-/04/72 Navekvarn, Sweden.

A motorist reported that he was followed for more than ten minutes by a blue-green ball of
light. The object was a metre wide, came within about ten metres of his car, and apparently
caused interference on the car radio. The silent object then flew to nearby woods and
disappeared.
(Paul Devereux, Earth Lights Revelation, p144.) 0386

13/05/72 2300 Bois-Aubert, France.

The three witnesses are in the car on the road leading to the place called Bois-Aubert. They
are located 200 m from the place called Epluques. One of the passenger witnesses sees a
gleam in a meadow bordered by hedges located to the right of the road. Alerted, the driver
noticed the phenomenon, stopped the car and got out followed by the first observer. They

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observe at about 70 m from the road a luminous object of square shape of m to 1m70 of side.
The object with the appearance of a cathedral window which lets out in all directions
rectilinear multi-coloured sparks. At 40 m from them they observe another smaller circular
object also emitting sparks. They observe for ten minutes, then as nothing happens (the
witnesses call several times), they get back into their vehicle and leave. Fifteen minutes later,
the driver passes by the same place, but alone, the phenomenon is still there. The light of the
headlights of his vehicle seem to dim noticeably, frightened the latter does not stop and goes
home.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0522

-/05/72 Volgograd, USSR.

A group of people were travelling by car west of Volgograd, when the car engine stalled, and
they all got out. A huge metallic mass was seen in the air, with a reported telepathic message
of "We come in peace", and not to be afraid. The object then moved away at speed, and when
it was out of sight, the car engine started by itself.
(The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries.) 1089

04/06/72 Bent's Basin, near Sydney, Australia.

A picnic party of six were unable to restart their car. The driver suddenly noticed a glowing
red object standing at the top of a hill. The object was discoid in shape, about 20 feet in
diameter and rested on three pointed legs. The top and bottom halves of the object pulsated
alternately, which seemed to be synchronised with a throbbing hum. Five of the witnesses,
who looked at the object over the dashboard of the car, quickly developed headaches. The
driver finally managed to start the car's engine. Several distinct thumps were heard on the
top of the car, and then the engine burst into flames. Having abandoned the car three of the
party saw a strange tall figure walking with a motion like a robot. After about half a minute
the figure disappeared suddenly, one witness describing the disappearance as like a curtain
being rolled up.
(APRO Bulletin, Vol 25, No 3, p5.) 0387

09/06/72 2230 Algodonales. Cadiz, Spain.

A pulsating yellow oval was seen on the road, about five metres ahead, and car engine effect
was reported.
(Ballester Olmos, 1976, p 37. NICAP Database of E-M Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0792

05/07/72 025 Fish River Bridge, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

A truck driver and his assistant observed in the sky a half-moon shaped object, luminous red
in colour, which appeared to have an irregular pattern on it like a net covering. Three or four
minutes later the object sank out of sight behind mountains. The witnesses noticed that the
cabin of their truck suddenly became ice cold, which had never happened before. This report
was one of a series reported from South Africa during the first week of July 1972.
(FSR Vol 18, No 5, p7-8.) 0388

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10/07/72 2215 Alcaracejos. Cordoba. Spain.

A luminous object beamed light at a car, and the engine lost power.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0793

16/07/72 0230 near Cordoba, Argentina.

Two men left Balnearia at 2.30 a.m. to drive back to Cordoba along a familiar route. Before
leaving on the two hour journey the almost empty tank of the car was filled with 40 litres of
petrol. The drive was normal with the car maintaining a steady speed of between 80 and 100
kph. Until just past Arroyito, when there was a tremendous flash of white light. A dark shape
was noticed in the sky but no importance was attached to it. It was now 3.10 a.m. and they
had travelled 76 kilometres from Balnearia. The sky was clear and the stars shining brightly.
A row of rectangular orange lights was seen and while discussing this they noticed what
appeared to be the lights of the town of Rio Primero. They found that the town was in fact
Montecristo. They had passed through Rio Primero and several other important places
without realizing it. The remaining 28 kilometres to Cordoba took 15 or 20 minutes. When
entering his home, one of the witnesses noted the curious fact that the house clock time was
3.30 a.m. This time agreed with his own watch and meant that a journey of 185 kilometres
had been completed in just one hour. Reviewing the incident, both witnesses confirmed that
they felt no fatigue after their journey. One of the witnesses described a recurring sensation
of numbness for several days afterwards. It was further discovered on the morning after the
journey that the car's petrol tank was still half full and that only 12 1/2 litres of petrol had
been used - half the amount normally used for the journey.
(FSR Vol 19, No 3, p7-12.) 0389

25/07/72 2115 between Frankston and Dromana, Victoria, Australia.

Maureen Puddy reported that while driving along the Mooraduc Road she became aware of
a blue light around her car. The accelerator had no effect, the engine cut out and the car
veered to the side of the road and stopped. The witness could see part of the rim of a glowing
object over the car, and felt as if she was in a vacuum. She reported being aware of
communications in some manner, and then after a short interval the vacuum effect
disappeared and the car engine restarted. The estimated duration of the incident was five
minutes. Several other witnesses reported a strange object in the sky at about the same time
as this incident.
(FSR Vol 18, No 6, p3-5.) 0390

-/07/72 20.00 Melton Mowbray, Tasmania, Australia.

A housewife was driving from Kempton when she saw a light in the car's rear view mirror. The
light approached and seemed to swoop over the car. The engine started to misfire as if
stopping and the car slowed down, returning to normal again when the light had disappeared
after about half a minute.
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04/08/72 2300 High Island, Texas, U.S.A.

Bright lights were seen flying in formation, and making right angle turns in opposite directions.
Sometimes there were single lights, with others then joining. Light beams were also observed.
The lights were seen by many eyewitnesses over several nights, also affecting phones, and
cars. Police, pilots, and military personnel familiar with the Gulf area had not seen these kinds
of lights before.
(NUFORC 26/5/06.) 1090

08/08/72 0300 Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Car radio develops a problem so the witness pulls over to see what the problem is and in
doing so gives a ride to a tall being with a shallow white helmet. Shortly later the engine stalls
and a UFO lands in a nearby field and his passenger left the vehicle unseen.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1451

17/08/72 0200 near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England.

Mr and Mrs Taylor were driving home through the Yorkshire Dales when they found the car
radio filled with static noise, and saw an oval-shaped object landing at the side of the road. A
fluorescent door appeared in the object, and the whole area seemed to become unnaturally
still. Mrs Taylor left the car and started to walk towards the object, but was restrained by her
husband. There was no sign of a police car which had been travelling ahead of them before
the incident, suggesting the possibility of some missing time, but on arriving home there was
a police car near the house, and they were questioned. The couple made an official report the
next morning, and were surprised when the sighting received local and national press
publicity after the police had apparently revealed details of the sighting.
(John Spencer, The UFO Encyclopaedia, p292.) 0393

19/08/72 0207 Colby, Kansas, U.S.A.

After a period of about two weeks of UFO activity reported in the north Kansas area, two
officers of the Colby, Kansas Police Department a Paul Carter and Dennis Brown were involved
in a series of low level UFO sightings in the early hours of August 19th. The object, at times
intensely luminous and with flashing lights, resembled an inverted bowl. The estimated size
of the object was 18-20 feet in height and 35 feet in diameter. At one stage when the object
was directly overhead there was an apparent failure in radio communication between the
police vehicles.
(APRO Bulletin, July/August 1972, p1 and 4.) 0394

21/08/1972 0230 Waukesha County, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Greg Faltersack an 18 year old youth reported sighting a strange object after the electrical
system in his car shorted. After dropping his girl friend at home he was driving when his lights
went out then he experienced complete electrical failure. When he got out of his car he

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looked up and saw a large orange coloured object about 20ft in diameter hovering about 40ft
above him at tree-top level. The object was making a beeping noise then it disappeared. The
water in his vehicle had boiled over and the fuse box had blown out. Greg managed to drive
home and called the police who came out and saw the damage to the car.
(Wausau Daily Herald 21 Aug 1972.) 1399

27/08/72 between Medanos and Bahia Blanca, Argentina.

In the early hours of the morning Eduardo Dedeu, an Argentinean mechanic, was driving
home when he was stopped by a stranger, who stepped into the car. The stranger made
unintelligible replies when questioned. The journey was continued in silence, until suddenly
the car lights went out and the driver was obliged to stop. He noticed on the highway an
object with a blue light in the middle and two smaller white lights at the sides. Stepping out
of the car he was dazzled by a powerful white flash of light and felt intense heat. The object,
which was then seen to have windows with white lights, and a green light underneath, moved
away. The witness got back into the car and found that the unknown traveller had left, leaving
the car door open and the door handle on the floor. At that moment the car lights came back
on again.
(ASI Magazine, Buenos Aires, 01/09/72, and FSR Vol 18, No 6, p23-24.) 0395

-/08/72 2200 Route 59, Minnesota, U.S.A.

A family of six noticed a very bright light which approached their car and appeared to mimic
a series of flashlight signals. The car radio started to be affected and the engine faltered. The
interior of the car became very hot, and then the engine failed completely. The driver got out
of the car, noted that the object was directly overhead and felt a prickling sensation like small
electric shocks. He lifted the car hood and asked his wife to try to start the engine. The engine
turned over but sparks were seen to jump from the plug leads across the coil to the metal
side of the car and back again. The man was a master mechanic and had never seen such an
effect before. As another vehicle approached, the object moved away at speed. The car
engine could then be started immediately, and the journey was continued. The object, now
surrounded by a greenish blue haze approached again. Three small discs were seen to leave
the object and move away in different directions. The duration of the incident was about two
hours.
(APRO Bulletin, Vol 25, No 2, p1 and 3.) 0396

21/09/72 0045 Mount Rouge, Quebec, Canada.

A driver saw a UFO as it landed on Mount Rouge, and he then approached the object, flashing
his car lights. The disc-shaped object, about 100 to 150 feet in diameter, took off and passed
over his car. The car engine, lights, and radio failed when the object was overhead, and the
witness felt a strong sensation of heat during the experience.
(MUFON UFO Journal, November 1997, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0795

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The driver of an Opel car, in rainy weather and with strong winds, found that his car radio had
stopped working, so he switched on the cassette recorder. A bright light appeared from
behind the car two or three minutes later, and the car engine, headlights, and all of the
electrical equipment then stopped working. No object was visible, but a blue-white circle of
light surrounded the car, continuing for about five minutes. The temperature inside the car
increased until suddenly the light disappeared, with all of the electrics returning to normal
including the engine restarting, accompanied by a strong smell.
(International UFO Reporter, 34:1, p 19.) 0796

27/09/72 2313 Santa Isabel, Cordoba, Argentina.

Enrique Moreno, an employee of the Ika-Renault car plant was delivering documents to the
dark and empty Engineering Office of the plant when suddenly two rows of fluorescent tube
lights switched on and off three times, without the least flickering. A turbine-like hum was
heard for a few seconds, although no machinery was running in that sector of the plant.
Returning by motorcycle to the Security section, the witness observed a sort of rainbow very
near the ground, and then a bluish-green figure was seen moving at the side of the road. At a
distance of about 30 metres the individual turned and simultaneously the motorcycle started
to shake, the engine faltered, and the machine slowed and stopped. The witness described
the individual who was then close by as being over two metres in height, and of very strange
features and general appearance which gave the impression of a mechanical figure. The
witness noted that the area felt hot in spite of it being a cool night. He experienced an
unbearable humming sound, and described effects including an itching sensation and not
being able to move his arms and legs. After about half a minute the motorcycle suddenly leapt
forward and the engine began to run normally again. Arriving at the Security post, the witness
found that the time was 11.30p.m. and was astonished to find that his wristwatch had
stopped at 11.13p.m. Returning to the site of the incident he found footprints impressed in
the soil, which was hot, and the depressions contained luminous particles.
(FSR Vol 21, No 3/4, p16-19.) 0397

10/10/72 2230 West Bloomfield, Michigan, U.S.A.

A disc-shaped UFO was seen nearby, with the car battery going to zero amps. The car engine
stalled, with the lights and radio also going off. The duration of the sighting was about two
minutes.
(NUFORC 7/8/07.) 1091

22/10/72 2030 Verneuil in Halatte, France.

The witness returns from work by car. Shortly before arriving in Verneuil, the engine and
headlights of the vehicle stop. He gets out of the car, opens the hood. He then observed above
the object at about 200 m, a cylinder provided with flashing lights. It projects blinding beams
of blue-green light. After a two-minute stop over the river, the object quickly started off at an
angle and disappeared. Another car coming in the opposite direction had the same
breakdown. The two cars restarted on their own after the object disappeared. The witness
had pain in the eyes during the observation but without any follow-up.

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(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0437

-/10/72 Heytesbury, near Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

A motorist was driving on the A36 road with a friend, and nearly collided with a lorry when a
large white oval object appeared suddenly from his right hand side, and moved slowly across
the path of his car. The object travelled about fifty yards before disappearing. Only a slight
whistling sound was heard, and the car radio stopped working.
(The Warminster Triangle, p 190.) 1092

10/11/72 2300 Heathfield, East Sussex, England.

A teenager on a motorcycle noticed his lights dimming. Then they went out completely just
as the engine stalled. He smelled an electrical “arcing” type smell while checking the cycle
then he saw a glowing white blob hovering nearby. It quickly sped away after a few seconds
and the motorcycle started by itself.
(Rodegheir, M, UFO Reports Vehicle Interference, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1419

19/11/72 near Itaperuna, Brazil.

A man employed as a typewriter mechanic was returning to Itaperuna with a friend when he
saw a mysterious object coming towards the car. His companion seemed deeply asleep. The
car's electrical system was neutralized and it left the road, while the object had landed. The
driver reported that he was then drawn up a luminous beam into the object, where he was
subjected to a medical examination and taking of a blood sample. He then found himself back
in the car; his companion awoke from his sleep, and took him by bus to the casualty
department of the Itaperuna hospital. He was treated for a burn injury but doctors were
astonished when the burn had completely healed just ten hours later, rather than the usual
week, leaving just a small V-shaped scar from an incision in his arm. Police confirmed that
about a month earlier the same bus driver who had brought the witness to the hospital had
also seen a strange luminous object, which had followed his bus during a night journey. On
arrival at the next town the passengers had been too alarmed to continue the journey.
(The Crack in the Universe, p121-123.) 0399

30/11/72 2315 near Murray Bridge, South Australia, Australia.

In this case the engine of the car driven by a Mr Maxwell started revving up and down, and
the lights dimming and brightening. As the driver stopped the car, the radio started to make
'beeping noises'. The driver tried unsuccessfully to restart the engine. He noticed a glow on
the inside of the car and saw a 'flying saucer' standing in a field about 40 feet away. The object
was shaped like a cut diamond with a large flat top and had three different coloured flashing
lights. Strange sounds continued to come from the radio, although nothing else electrical in
the car would work. After about 40 minutes an increasing sound like a quiet turbine was
heard, the object lifted off the ground and then moved away at great speed. The car engine
then started without difficulty.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 3, No 11, p7-8, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0400

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02/12/72 2330 Hinijos, Spain.

A fiery square-shaped object was seen flying close to the ground and lighting up the
surrounding land by four witnesses The headlights in two cars fail and the engine of one of
the cars also stalls but the diesel engine of the other car kept running..
(International UFO Reporter, 34:1, p 20.) 0797

-/-/72 between San Sebastian and Lares, Puerto Rico.

There were repeated sightings of UFOs over certain areas of Puerto Rico in 1972, witnessed
by many people. The objects were often reported to be projecting beams of light from their
sides, and making very sharp turns. On one occasion the appearance of a huge low-flying
object emitting orange and red flames coincided with the stopping of all vehicle engines.
When the object ascended vertically and disappeared, engines restarted.
(Charles Berlitz, Without a Trace, p162-163.) 0401

-/-/72 San Juan, Puerto Rico.

In the suburb of Rio Pedras, a huge object was seen at apparently low altitude, emitting a
brilliant greenish-blue light. The object moved between high rise apartment blocks, and
passing cars were stopped as their engines failed. The strange object then rose vertically in a
cloud of red fog, changed its trajectory towards a nearby power station, and disappeared
suddenly.
(Without a Trace, p163.) 0402

-/-/72 Napa, Idaho, U.S.A.

A mother and her two sons had a close encounter experience with a metallic disc near their
farm. During the encounter, recalled by one of the sons, there was a bright light which
hovered over their car, causing the engine to fail. This was followed by a floating sensation.
He was reported to have been taken from the car into a craft, and examined. The next
memory was of the car starting up after six hours. The family then drove back to their home,
puzzled by the time loss experience, but did not discuss the incident any further.
(MUFON UFO Journal, November 2001, p 19.) 0798

-/-/72 Trade Lake, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Art Baker was driving with his wife along a country road when their car stopped for no
apparent reason and a huge ball of blue light surrounded the vehicle for 1-2 minutes, during
which time their dog became very stiff, The light then left and the car restarted of its own
accord, As the couple approached the Anderson farm the same thing happened again. They
then drove straight home, on reaching which they felt unwell. Mrs Baker complained of red
spots in front of her eyes, a headache and also a blue-black spot on her forehead, which lasted
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the source of which they could not detect. They traded it off the next year as they had
previously planned.
(Canadian UFO Report 3,7.) 1517

01/01/73 0015 Santiago, Chile.

A multi-coloured disc shaped object flew over the car of a married couple the car engine
stalled when they saw the UFO. The object had a green light and a flashing red light. After the
object had gone the engine restarted.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1452

03/01/73 2200 Blacksburg, South Carolina, U.S.A.

A very low flying domed 'saucer' followed one witness in his car for a period of time during
which the headlights dimmed appreciably, normal brightness returning when the object
moved away.
(Cases 265-287. The UFO Register, Vol 5, Parts 1 and 2, 1974. Gaffney Ledger 09/02/73,
23/02/73 and Columbia, South Carolina Sun, 27/02/73.) 0403

15/01/73 0030 Queenston, Cape Province, South Africa.

Four witnesses saw a very low moving object described as 'train-like' near the Penhoek Pass.
Silent, the object caused the interior of the witnesses' car to go very cold.
(Capetown Daily Reporter, 17/01/73.) 0404

16/01/73 1900 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A.

A very low flying domed object paced a car occupied by two eyewitnesses. During this time
the car appeared to be raised up off the road, and a feeling of weightlessness was experienced
by the car's occupants.
(Winston-Salem Journal 01/10/73, and Flying Saucers - Ray Palmer, No 81, 1973, p36.) 0405

23/01/73 near Gaffney, South Carolina, U.S.A.

An oval object was seen by a lone witness when driving on Interstate Highway 85. The object
caused static on the car radio.
(Gaffney Ledger, 02/02/73.) 0406

-/01/73 Osorno, Chile.

Shortly after midnight a car engine stopped suddenly as an object flew over twice. The object
looked at first bat-shaped, but was later seen to be disc-shaped with a green light, and a
flashing red light underneath. As the object moved away the engine restarted without the
driver having to switch it on. Two witnesses.
(FSR Vol 19, No 3, p29.) 0407

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Jim Sutcliffe was driving towards Howlands just where the road goes under the M10 bridge
he saw several cars already pulled up at the side. I stopped and everyone was looking over a
gate at a big yellow glowing ball hovering over the ground. As one of the astonished witnesses
went to tell the police it shot straight up and vanished. One driver reported that his car’s
engine conked out and started when the light had left.
(UFO Research Newsletter [Link].3.) 1316

20/02/73 2000 Draytonville, South Carolina, U.S.A.

A glowing sphere which caused a car radio to go 'dead' was seen by two people.
(Gaffney Ledger 21/02/73, 23/02/73. Columbia, South Carolina Sun 27/02/73.) 0409

25/02/73 2300 Villenueve-sue-Lot, France.

A driver saw an oval shaped object blocking the road it was red/orange in colour the car
stopped and the driver felt paralyzed during the encounter.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1453

-/02/73 0300 between Hemel Hempstead and St Albans, England.

A large yellow glowing ball hovered about 20-30 feet above the ground at a distance of about
100 yards. The object shot straight up in the air and vanished. The witnesses were a number
of car drivers. One driver stated that his car cut out for no reason and restarted when the light
rose.
(FSR Vol 19, No 2, p32.) 0410

-/02/73 0045 Norah Head, New South Wales, Australia.

A man and a woman in a car noticed a street light dimming on and off before it faded to a dim
glow. They then saw a bright golden coloured ball rising from behind trees before becoming
stationary. After a few minutes the object changed colour to orange, then deep red. They
tried to drive closer but the car engine would not start; only the headlights came on dimly.
The object eventually moved away in a south westerly direction, the street lights returned to
normal brightness and the car engine started immediately.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Vehicle Interference UFO Events, p9.) 0411

-/02/73 Peppertown, Alabama, U.S.A.

At night, a man was listening to his car radio when it went dead, and he observed a saucer-
shaped object which passed over nearby trees in front of him. The object had a row of red,
square windows.
(UFOs Over the Tennessee Valley. George Faucett.) 1093

06/03/73 0200 near Waco, Texas, U.S.A.

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A waitress at a diner had finished her late night shift, and was driving back to her apartment.
After driving for about fifteen minutes, she was on a quiet section of road when she began to
feel strange. The car engine seemed muffled, and she began to feel dizzy, followed by an
intense feeling of vertigo. A bright light enveloped the car, with failure of the engine and
headlights. She stopped the car at the side of the road, and then saw a small dome-shaped
object in a nearby field, and two small humanoid figures coming towards her. She began to
feel drowsy, and the next thing she knew was that it was dawn; she was sitting in the
passenger seat of the car, and claimed that she had experienced an abduction. She had no
clear memory of the details, which returned later in dreams. (Nicholas Redfern. Cosmic
Kidnappers, On the Trail of the Saucer Spies, 2006) 1094

13/03/73 20km N of Salta, Argentina.

Jorge Roberto Herrera saw an object shaped like two plates put together descend in falling-
leaf fashion until a yard of the ground and then the object settled. It was aluminium in colour
while falling and turned to dull copper when landed. It was about 16ft wide, After 3 minutes
legs appeared which levelled the object. Beside the object was seen a 5ft 2” being dressed in
a white diving suit with an opaque helmet. The figure glided and then disappeared a few
seconds later the object retracted its legs returned to the inclined position and took off. A
small truck came up and the driver said that he had seen the UFO and that it had caused his
engine and radio to fail.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1970-74.) 1224

-/03/73 2100 Marcos Juarez Airport, Cordoba, Argentina.

The witnesses Horacio Riciardli, Air Force,Vice Commardore and an Unnamed copilot
observed an object which gave off an intense flash of light. Immediately, all the instruments
except the compass failed. After a few seconds, the instrument returned to proper functions.
The light had been observed and photographed by control tower personnel at M. Juarez the
light.
(Ferguson, Carlos Daniel, “Aviation Safety Related by Argentine Pilot Concerning Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena”, National Air Reporting Commission Air Phenomena—International Air
Safety Report IR-6, 2013; Project 1947.) 1377

10/04/73 2100 Rhode Island, U.S.A.

An orange-red object surrounded by a green haze passed over a car, with car engine and
lighting effects reported.
(APRO Bulletin May-June 1973, CUFOS E-M Effects Report, 1981, p 56, Project 1947-UFOCAT.)
0799

15/04/73 between Penn and Manor, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Approximately twelve persons watched a very low flying disc which caused car lights to dim.
(Irwin, Pennsylvania, Standard-Observer, 27/07/73.) 0412

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22/04/73 2200 Guadalcanal, Spain.

Four yellow lights seen which seemed to be on one object at the side of the road. Object
buzzed car, with car engine effect reported, and burn marks found where object was first
seen.
(Iberian Peninsula cases -Spain and Portugal, [Link] Olmos 1976 and Encyclopaedia of
Close Encounters, 1987. NICAP Database E-M Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0800

30/04/73 near Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia.

Four teenagers Alan Wilcox, Ian Hudson, Patricia Flanagan and Sue Yardley were returning to
Kempsey from a fishing trip when they observed a yellow egg-shaped object in the southeast
sky. The object then dropped at speed, with a lime green colour around the head as it dived
towards the ground, disappearing behind trees. The witnesses had driven another 200 yards
when they noticed a glow in a paddock about a mile to the east. Approaching this area the
car headlights blacked out momentarily. The witnesses then all observed the object which
appeared to have landed on open ground. The object was described as helmet-shaped and
kept changing colours. The witnesses stayed for about five minutes before driving away.
(FSR Vol 21, No 6, p4.) 0413

02/05/73 1930 Kalyan, South Australia, Australia.

A driver noticed a very bright reddish-white light low above the northeast horizon. He
continued driving along the straight road, and the object rose in elevation while appearing to
remain the same size and brightness. The truck's engine then stopped and the lights went
out, and neither the ignition nor the oil lights carne on. He braked slowly, and after a few
seconds the engine and lights came back on by themselves and the light was no longer visible.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events, p9.) 0414

10/05/73 2130 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

F Schmidt saw 9 erratically moving lights in the sky that sometimes descended to very low
altitudes and which caused the lights of his patrol car to fail.
(Skylook No 68. 1973.) 1263

14/05/73 2230 Oriente, Argentina.

A disc shaped object was sweeping the area with a beam of light this happened three times
as it did a car experienced complete electrical failure. Ground traces found after the sighting
3 rings 6-8m diameter.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1454

15/05/73 0310 Tosny, France.

The witness is in the car, he starts up his transistor and only gets whistles. He then sees a glow
above the trees. He then observes a lenticular object of metallic appearance of bright white-

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yellow colour but not dazzling. The object follows a rectilinear trajectory first at slow speed,
then faster.
(Lights in the Night number 259/260.) 0444

18/05/73 2130 Sherlock, South Australia, Australia.

Three young people returning to Victoria reported that a light had followed their car. They
stopped to watch as the pulsating light hovered over trees. When the driver tried to restart
the car, no lights came on, and the engine would only start after a few attempts.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events, p10.) 0415

18/05/73 Spiaggia Di Miliscola, Naples, Italy.

Two men saw a bright dish-shaped object with a dome, about 50 metres out from the shore,
and hovering three metres above the sea before then moving closer. The car engine and lights
failed, and the engine could not be restarted. The dome of the object was bright like a neon
light, with a red light rotating around it. After three or four minutes the object moved
upwards, and the car could then be restarted. The men reported feeling an effect like an
electrostatic field over their hair and legs.
(International UFO Reporter 34.1, p 20.) 0801

22/05/73 0300 between Itajobi and Catanduva, Brazil.

Onilson Papero was driving his car towards Catanduva when the engine started to fail and the
radio began to register considerable interference. A blue light then appeared inside the car
and a bright beam of light was seen coming from ahead. A strange object was then noticed
hovering in the sky about 50 feet away. The temperature began to rise and the witness noted
an apparent lack of air which persisted even after he had opened the door of the car and
stepped out. The object was seen to be disc shaped and dark grey. A buzzing sound was heard
and a tube was then seen corning down from the object. The witness then started to run away
from the car, but after a short distance he felt himself being pulled back. Looking back, he saw
a thin beam of light corning from the object. The beam struck the car, turning it transparent
so that the seats and engine were visible. The witness lost consciousness and was found by
two passers-by about an hour later. It was noted that his hair had changed colour from brown
to black but it later reverted to normal. It was also learned that at least six other witnesses
had apparently reported seeing the same object.
(APRO Bulletin, Vol 21, No 6, p1.) 0416

22/05/73 between Tinajas and Tierra Blanca, Veracruz State, Mexico.

Miguel A. Gonzales, a truck driver, saw several small humanoids on the road along which he
was proceeding. He stopped his truck when the engine began to malfunction. Descending
from his vehicle, a powerful beam of light was directed by the humanoids on to the truck,
which was totally destroyed.
(FSR Vol 19, No 6, p30.) 0417

07/06/73 2200 Sousas, Brazil.

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A sudden power failure occurred at a school in the district of Sousas, coinciding with the
passage overhead of a 'ball of fire', observed by a number of witnesses. Gilmar Barijan, a
student at the school, stated that he had seen the object on a number of occasions while
driving home at night. He took his two sisters by car to the spot to convince them of the reality
of the object, and the fireball suddenly appeared, came towards the car and stopped in front
of it for several seconds. He was able to note that the object was elliptical in shape, emitted
concentric rings of yellow light, and produced effects on his body and on the car. The car's
engine failed and for ten minutes he tried to get it moving again, while at the same time he
experienced an intense tingling of the skin and a headache. A number of reports were
received from other witnesses including a sighting two days later on June 9th, when the object
was reported to have flown over at speed and the light s in the town failed.
(FSR Case Histories, No 17, p7.) 0418

28/06/73 0100 Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.

Three witnesses saw a brightly glowing circular object near their mobile home. The object
illuminated the nearby trees which showed considerable motion. There were two electrical
power cuts, the telephone went dead a number of times, and three times the object moved
away into a field. On one near pass a loud crack was heard and a large tree limb was broken
down. Numerous imprints were found, and leaves were brown and wilted at the site.
(Phillips Physical Traces Catalogue, p90.) 0419

-/06/73 Tres Arroyos, Argentina.

A driver got out of his car when the engine failed. He then saw a round bright object which
rose from a nearby field and vanished into the sky. When the police later examined the spot
they found a round hole with the grass scorched and burnt, and an unknown species of fungus
beginning to grow there.
(FSR Vol 19, No 6, p29.) 0420

-/06/73 Oriente, near Mar del Plata, Argentina.

A large disc-shaped object was seen by two persons, with simultaneous failure of a car engine.
Later inspection of the landing site revealed scorched vegetation.
(Noticias Populares, Sao Paulo, 13/06/73 and FSR Case Histories No 17, p8.) 0421

06/07/73 Tallahalla Swamp, Alabama, U.S.A.

Charles Delk chased a top-shaped object in his patrol car at one stage the vehicle’s radio and
engine malfunctioned.
(Huntsville Alabama News 09.10.73.) 1264

21/07/73 2100 Gavignano, Corsica.

A company manager was driving his car along Highway 139 in a mountainous area when he
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He felt intensely cold, and saw a very bright spinning object rising from the ground ahead of
him. As soon as the object had disappeared the car started up, with no recollection by the
driver of having activated the ignition, and the lights and radio also came back on again.
Arriving home in a shocked state he told his parents about the experience, which was
confirmed by another driver who had been on the same road at the time.
(FSR Vol 23, No 6, p31-32.) 0423

27/07/73 Lake Isabella, California, U.S.A.

A dome-shaped object about 15 feet in diameter was seen at the side of the road before rising
and crossing the road. Radio and lighting effects on the car were reported.
(MUFON UFO Journal, July 1988, p 19. NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0802

-/07/73 Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan.

A University student working on summer vacation as a Night Security Guard saw from his car
a light which suddenly crossed the clear night sky and disappeared. The light reappeared, like
a light bulb switched on, expanded and contracted with great rapidity and moved erratically.
The light descended with a spiral motion and began to send out intermittent green light rays.
Near the surface of the sea a tube appeared to descend from the light, accompanied by a faint
sound. When the tube touched the surface, that part of the tube began to glow and appeared
to be sucking up water. The light began to approach the witness and as it came overhead it
was seen to be a smooth glowing white object with a row of windows. The witness felt unable
to move. He observed a further three or four similar objects nearby, all of which then
appeared to enter a drum-like object. This object was seen to disappear northwards at speed.
The car radio was noticed to be emitting meaningless sounds. The witness noted a feeling of
numbness and a headache, and estimated the duration of the incident as 11 to 12 minutes.
(FSR Vol 22, No 1, p18-19.) 0424

12/08/73 0030 Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland.

Several persons watched a star-like object as their car engine malfunctioned.

(Awareness, Contact U.K. Vol 2, No 4, 1973, p16.) 0425

-/08/73 2100 Lochmore Country Park,Scotland.

Two friends were being driven home with one of the friends parents when a car drew up
alongside at which point the car engine died and the radio went dead. One of the girls in the
backseat looked across an open field and heading towards them was two giants moving in a
mechanical manner. Both wore silver suits and they got closer and closer to the car. When
they got near the car she passed out. When she came to she saw the backs of the two giants
as they returned in the direction they had come from. Moments after they had disappeared
from view a cone of light spread around the trees at the edge of the field as if making a path
of an object headed skywards. At this point the car engine roared into life as did the radio. A
human voice was also heard the driver of the car behind had rushed up to them and shouted
“What the bloody hell was that”. All she can remember is sitting in silence driving home.
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11pm. The parent who was driving replied that they had been held back. The ten minute drive
had taken over 2hrs. The girls parents who were driving refused to discuss the incident
further.
(Halliday, R. UFO Scotland 2008.) 0174

03/09/73 Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.

Car radio "went berserk" a silver elliptical object landed on the road ahead of the car, and a
humanoid figure was reported.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0803

20/09/73 2230 Alijo-Vila Real, Portugal.

The witness was driving with his wife and sister-in-law when he heard a noise followed by a
flash that showed a small disc-shaped object of 1m diameter flying towards them, The object
flew past and vanished. He kept driving and the car started to experience some difficulties. 4
to 5km ahead the lights of the car illuminated a bullet shaped object in the middle of the road
it was green in colour and 4-5cm in length and 2cm wide. The witness slowed the car down
to drive around the object during which they observed two un-moving entities facing the
road. They were about 5ft tall wearing a bright leaded-type suit and carrying a bag similar to
a camping bag on their shoulders with some sort of aerial and red light on the top of it. They
kept on driving not stopping.
(Insolito No.39 Portugat.) 1487

-/09/73 0200 Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.

The driver of a car on the Northampton to Bedford road was suddenly blinded by a single
white light and remembered nothing more until 7a.m. when he found himself walking about
two miles from Bedford. Making his way to a friend's house, and driving back along the route,
his car was finally located in the middle of a ploughed field. The field gate was shut, and no
tracks led from the car which appeared to be unmarked.
(FSR Vol 22, No 1, p iii of cover.) 0426

-/09/73 2330 Carthage, Texas, U.S.A.

A young man driving home from a date noticed a dark shadow pass over. On slowing and
looking round he saw it was a large boomerang shaped thing, about 5m thick over the trees.
As he hurried home the thing paced him and then veered overhead. As it did so his lights,
engine and cassette player all went out and only came back when the object had gone.
([Link] . Grassroots UFOs.) 1501

03/10/73 0615 near Greenville, Missouri, U.S.A.

Truck driver Eddie Webb described the sighting of a bright object which approached his
vehicle from behind. The object appeared to be in three sections, the top and bottom ones
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glittering red and yellow lights. He leaned out of the window to look behind and seconds later
was blinded by a flash of light. His wife, who was also in the vehicle, found her husband's
forehead red and hot as if it had been blistered. One lens had fallen out of his glasses and the
frame was melted and twisted. An officer of the Highway Patrol took the glasses for analysis
to Dr Harley Rutledge of the Southwest Missouri State University physics department, where
under a microscope it appeared that the glasses had been heated internally. Other truck
drivers reported seeing a flare on the highway at about the same time. Interviewed after the
incident, the witness described the object as being about 30 feet in diameter. A light like a
spotlight had descended on to his vehicle and a humming sound was heard as the object
started to rise. His vision was still affected; he continued to suffer from headaches and
flinched at bright lights.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 4, No 2, p8-9.) 0427

04/10/73 2050 Waco, Texas, U.S.A.

Witness was driving home when they noticed a low bright light over Lake Waco. At first they
thought is was the planet Venus and went to investigate. As they got closer to the object it
started to move away it was about 100-150ft in the air. It was a clear night with enough light
for me to make out the outline. Then the craft which made no sound turned south and went
over the highway and remained stationary in the air. The object then appeared to settled
down behind some trees they drove closer and could then see the object slowly rise from
beyond the trees and come towards them. The object was triangular is shape, black in colour
was around 30ft long and 20ft wide at the rear there was a small cockpit towards the front
and there was a green hue inside. They then noticed three small round heads peering down
at them. After 5 minutes the craft shined a green light towards them and their car engine died
and could not be restarted. The lights nor radio would work either.

They tried to restart the car every 2 to 3 minutes but to no avail after around 20-25 minutes
the car engine restarted and I took off with no lights on.
(Kay Coggin email.) 1267

05/10/73 0520 Nohant-en-Gout, France.

A motorcycle stalled as a luminous oval object approached the object had smoke coming from
underneath and was hovering. A 2m high humanoid was observed.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1455

07/10/73 2025 Petal, Ovett and Tallahalla Swamp, Alabama, U.S.A.

During the evening Constable +Charles Delk chased a top-shaped object with yellow lights in
his patrol car for over 30 miles. At one stage as he got close to the object the engine and
radio of his vehicle malfunctioned. After 15mins or so he car started up and he followed the
object again it disappeared.
(Huntsville, Alabama News, 09/10/73, Hattiesburg American, Hattiesburg, Mississippi via K
Coggin, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0428

08/10/73 Laurel, Mississippi, U.S.A.

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During the evening, a policeman followed a strange, growing yellow object for some miles.
The object was shaped like a top, making an exhaust-like noise. When the policeman came
within 150-200 feet underneath the object, his vehicle engine, lights, and radio all failed. As
the object then moved away, the lights and radio came back on, but the engine could not be
restarted for several minutes.
(UFOs Over the Tennessee Valley. George Faucett.)1095

15/10/73 0530 Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A car driver noticed a reflection of lights on his car and observed in the sky an object with
bands of alternating red, green and white lights which appeared to be rotating around it. The
car then began to turn to the right. The steering wheel would not turn, and while the object's
lights rotated faster with an increasing humming sound the car continued turning and came
to rest against a tree, pointing in the opposite direction from where it had been heading. The
object then moved away. The witness noted that on sighting the lights of the object the inside
of the car had warmed up. When he got out of the car afterwards to examine it he found that
the top was very hot. Another driver arrived on the scene and confirmed that he had also
observed the object.
(APRO Bulletin, Vol 22, No 6, p1/3.) 0429

15/10/73 Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S.A.

John Lane a cab driver reported seeing a blue object which landed in front of him during which
his car stalled and radio died. He heard a tapping sound on the windscreen and saw a flesh
coloured creature with a crab like claw.
(Washington Star News, USA. [Link] 1973.) 1266

16/10/73 0020 near Mannford, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Mr Bill Hatchett was driving with his family in a pick-up truck when a very bright light was
noticed in the sky. The light moved closer and Mrs Hatchett asked her husband to stop the
truck. Both of them heard or felt a low pitched but intense and penetrating humming sound,
while the air seemed charged and oppressive. Mrs Hatchett, in spite of her fear of the object
which was now hovering in the air got out of the truck three times and had to be ordered
back each time by her husband. The object was described as emitting a white light and
appeared to change shape as it hovered. An intense white light came from the forward section
and belts of light seemed to encircle it. The journey was then continued, and the object gained
altitude and disappeared.
(APRO Bulletin, Sept/Oct 1973, p8-9.) 0430

16/10/73 0400 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Henry Brown reported that a small grapefruit-shaped object briefly landed on the hood of his
car, causing all the doors to spring open.
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16/10/73 2245 between Milverton and Wellington, Somerset, England.

Near Langford Budville, a woman Mrs Gabriella Versillim was driving ton the B3187 road near
Wellington to visit a sick friend when she saw a bright light in nearby fields, where there were
no buildings. The car then began to malfunction, the headlights dimmed intermittently before
failing completely, and the engine spluttered and then cut out. She was unable to restart the
engine, and saw that the object in the field was a steady white light, and was flat at the bottom
with a rounded top. Getting out of the car she then noted a humming sound, and saw a tall
'metallic robot' before she passed out, then found herself standing near to the object in the
field. The object was silver grey with windows around the middle, and was supported on legs.
The witness claimed to have then been subjected to a medical examination before finding
herself back in the car, and then returned home. She was later visited by two strangers who
told her to forget about the incident.
(BUFORA Journal Vol 8, No 2, p20-22, and Vol 8, No 3, p18-22.) 0432

16/10/73 Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.

William Grizer reported that a strange white object briefly landed on the hood of his car and
scratched the paintwork before zooming off into the sky.
(The Cleveland Press 18/10/73, also Flying Saucers No 85, 1974, p38.) 0433

17/10/73 1945 near Eupora, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Two UFOs were observed during the night by several witnesses in a car. One object hovered
in the sky overhead while the other landed on the highway about 100 yards away. The car's
lights went out and the engine died. A being emerged from the landed object, and was
described as having a wide mouth, flipper-like feet, webbing between the legs and featherlike
structures on its back. The car's lights and engine functioned normally again after the UFOs
departed.
(The Columbus, Mississippi, Triangle-Advertiser 24/10/73, also Flying Saucers No 85, p38,
Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0435

17/10/73 2300 Danielsville, Georgia, U.S.A.

A car radio suddenly started making strange sounds, and the driver then saw a silvery, oval-
shaped object landing about 300 feet ahead on the road. He stopped the car. Two humanoid
figures, with red faces and white hair, and wearing silver suits, appeared underneath the
object. They got back inside the object, and it took off with a whooshing sound.
(1973 -Year of the Humanoids. Dave Webb.) 1096

17/10/73 Crooked Mountain, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A small metallic object, looking about the size of a tractor tyre, hovered about forty feet over
a car. The object had rotating lights on the rim, the interior of the car heated up, and the car
suddenly made a 180 degree turn on the highway - with no turning of the steering wheel. The
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(Skylook, December 1973.) 1097

17/10/73 between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A.

A man reported to police that a huge UFO hovered over his truck while he was travelling on
Interstate 10 Highway. He claimed that his truck was pulled inside the object, and he was then
taken out of the vehicle by six strange creatures of short stature. Police seemed convinced
that the terrified state of the witness was real and that he was not under the influence of
drugs or alcohol. It was later discovered that October 17th was a peak day for landing-
occupant reports in several separate areas of the United States.
(FSR Vol 21, No 1, p6/8.) 0434

18/10/73 0345 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Henry Brown, the witness in the case of October 16th, reported that his car lights and engine
suddenly failed. No object was seen, but the report could be significant in view of the previous
incident.
(Hattiesburg American, 23/10/73.) 0436

18/10/73 1830 Pickett, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Troy T (10) was driving a small motorcycle in front of his uncle’s house when a strange object
hovered a few metres above him. The motorcycle spluttered and Troy ran into his uncle’s
house. Several other people aged between 10 and 58 came out as the object left the scene.
This object emitted a humming sound and an opening appeared in its bottom. Troy was so
frightened that he could not sleep that night and did not go to school the next day.
(Russell Spring Times Journal 25 October 1973.) 1493

19/10/73 0100 near Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S.A.

An unusual aerial object was seen and was thought to be responsible for local car engine
failures.
(Flying Saucers No 85, 1974, p41, Project 1947-\UFOCAT.) 0440

19/10/73 1530 near Ashburn, Georgia, U.S.A. (HOAX)

A woman driving on U.S. Interstate 75 was suddenly confronted with malfunctioning steering
and brakes on her car. The car rolled to a halt. A small metallic robot-like figure appeared,
moved around the car and then disappeared.
(The Huntsville, Alabama, Times 30/10/73, also Skylook No 73, December 1973, p7, and APRO
Bulletin May/June 1974, No 22, p5.) 0438

19/10/73 1900 Limont Fontaine, France.

A couple of farmers go to the fields to milk the cows, at a place called "Lost Field". They find
themselves sporadically lit by lightning, sometimes orange, sometimes bluish. In the distance
they observe a luminous phenomenon which approaches them. They then see a cigar (or

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perhaps a disc seen from the side) 15m long and 2m high. It is dazzling in electric blue color.
It emits about twenty bright orange light rays, very long from 50 to 100 m descending without
any particular rhythm. The trajectory is rectilinear with sometimes brief stops of the order of
2 seconds which are accompanied by a total extinction of the phenomenon. It arrives at a
very low altitude, flush with the small trees which enclose the meadow, which gives an
altitude of 5 m. The two farms abandon everything, run towards the tractor. The latter starts
with difficulty and drives very slowly, the headlights remain very weak. The object passes
about twenty meters from the witnesses without any noise and disappears from the sight of
the witnesses after having crossed the meadow. No panic of the herd, a simple movement of
the latter to the other end of the meadow.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, ) Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed.
Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 1456

19/10/73 2030 Draguignan, France.

A motorcyclist and his girlfriend saw an orange-yellow ball of light with a revolving halo
travelling slowly across the sky. The object disappeared near the crest of a small peak leaving
a red glow visible through the trees. The motorcyclist later met a friend who together with
three companions decided to return to the scene in two cars. On arrival at the site they
noticed a white glow and a strong modulated sound together with a sudden wave of heat. A
tall silhouette carrying a red light was then seen descending a path towards them, and a beam
of light was directed at them from the hilltop. As the cars were driven away from the scene
one of the cars encountered three figures wearing one-piece suits and walking with a slow
'mechanical' gait. The other car encountered two phosphorescent 'red legs' which crossed
the road ahead of the car. At the same time both headlights went out as well as the dashboard
light and a crash was narrowly averted. A moment later the headlights and the dashboard
lights came on again, one after the other. A little later, at a point between Malmont and
Draguignan the car was suddenly thrown off the road sideways, at right angles to the road,
and returned to the road again without any action by the driver.
(FSR Vol 20, No 4, p12-17.) 0439

20/10/73 2330 Terrell County, Georgia, U.S.A.

A man driving to see his girlfriend noticed flashing lights ahead. He thought it was a police car
but then saw it was an object 30m above the road, which projected a beam at his car,
whereupon the systems all failed. The thing pulled the car onto the pavement and then back
onto the road. The driver was then able to start and sped away. The object pursued him for
some distance, the corn waving under it.
(Miles 2000.) 1425

20/10/73 Mount Vernon, Indiana, U.S.A.

A UFO was reported to have disabled a diesel train, with effects blocking the system.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0804

20/10/73 Round Valley, New Jersey, U.S.A.

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A strange object was seen as it passed over the Round Valley Reservoir. Three witnesses, in a
car passing nearby, watched the object, with the car engine and lights failing completely
during the sighting.
(Contact UK.) 1098

24/10/73 2100 near Dobson, North Carolina, U.S.A.

David Simpson's car engine and headlights failed suddenly as a strange object about 12 feet
wide and 8 feet high landed nearby. A humanoid being appeared and looked through the car
window, whereupon the witness fainted. After the being and the object had departed the car
lights and engine came back on without the witness having to touch the ignition.
(Flying Saucers No 85, p38-39.) 0441

24/10/73 2330 near Gibsonville, North Carolina, U.S.A.

A police officer driving on Highway 100 watched a pulsating red light in the sky which caused
the radar unit in his car to go haywire.
(Burlington, North Carolina, Times-News, 27/10/73. Flying Saucers No 85.) 0442

25/10/73 0200 near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Police deputy Johnny Belton was investigating reports of lights seen in the sky he observed a
yellow light on the ground and a further red light approx. 7ft long which rose to approx. 250ft
above the ground. The object was making a whirring noise and producing yellow sparks.
During which his car radio died. The radios began working after 5am.
(The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina. USA. Kay Coggin.) 1288

25/10/73 2100 Greensburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

An object like a bright red ball was seen hovering high over a field by at least 16 people. Three
of them, one armed with a rifle, decided to drive towards the field, but as they approached
the car headlights became dim. They watched the object descending slowly, and then walked
over the top of a hill to see the object now stationary on or just above the ground. Now seen
as a white dome-shaped object about 100 feet in diameter, it illuminated the area and made
a sound like a lawn mower. Two strange figures seven or eight feet tall were then noticed
walking along beside a fence. Shots were fired at the figures which then turned back. The
object then disappeared, leaving a glowing white ring in the field. The Police were called, and
the two policemen noted the glowing ring which seemed to extend about a foot above the
ground.
(FSR Vol 20, No 1, p3.) 0443

-/10/73 2355 Dawes, Alabama, U.S.A.

A domed disc was observed which caused total electrical failure of a car.
(Skylook 197607, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1457

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-/10/73 Gardendale, Alabama, U.S.A.

Cynthia Vodovoz was with her mother in a car on US 31 near Gardendale when they observed
a big round and bright green object it had a yellow ring around it. The object was coming in
over some trees and her mother said it was going to land. The object descended in front of
them their car stalled and they saw several other cars which had stopped.
(Missing Link 1990 01 No 87.) 1407

02/11/73 0330 near Goffstown, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Mrs Lydia Morel encountered a yellow-orange globe in front of her car. The globe had an
external honeycomb design and an oval window through which the witness could see a
strange being. Possible time loss and telepathic effects were reported aspects of the case
which was still under investigation.
(Skylook, January 1974, p 5. APRO Bulletin Jan/Feb 1974, p5. UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors,
Raymond Fowler, 1974, p 22. 1973 -The Year of the Humanoids, D. Webb, 1974, p10, 15.)
0445

03/11/73 2110 Lewisville, Texas, U.S.A.

Norman Hearn reported that a very low flying saucer-shaped object caused his pickup truck
to vibrate all over and the vehicle's engine, radio and lights to malfunction. Everything
returned to normal working order after the object departed.
(Lewisville, Texas, Leader 7/11/73.) 0446

04/11/73 1200 Inkster, North Dakota, U.S.A.

On a farm near Inkster two brothers saw a stationary square light with five alternating red,
white and green lights on each side. The light was at first high up, and then near the ground.
After about ten minutes it moved north and disappeared, moving away rapidly. Two hours
before the object was seen, Mr Johnson - the boys' father, had noticed his cattle to be
extremely nervous, his truck engine would run only intermittently and his hair felt as if it was
standing on end. On the following day an area of dead vegetation was found ten feet long
and five feet wide, bounded by a half inch deep indentation one inch wide. A strong odour
was also evident. Radiation tests on soil and vegetation samples proved negative.
(Physical Traces Catalogue, No 667.) 0447

04/11/73 1845 Ross, Ohio, U.S.A.

Six witnesses in a car saw a cylinder-shaped UFO. The object had square windows, blue and
green rotating lights, and hovered at tree top level. It started a spinning motion, a red ball of
light was ejected from the base, and the car's engine and lights then failed. Landing gear then
emerged from the object, and it appeared to land in a wooded area. When the object
vanished the car engine started up again, together with all the insect sounds of the woods
which had been completely silent during the incident.
(Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p37.) 0448

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06/11/73 2100 Freeport, Long Island, New York, U.S.A.

Patrolman Thomas Brown of the Freeport Police Dept along with Patrolman Gary Steinberg
saw a strange light like a helicopter they watched it for 5-10 minutes when it slowly proceeded
to go Southeast. Steinberg said he wanted a closer look and asked Brown to leave the car but
keep in radio contact. He drove closer to the object it was more football shape round at the
bottom and flatter on top. He watched it for 10 to 15 mins. It glowed a silvery blue and every
so often had a yellow/red pulsating tint. Another object appeared this time smaller, it drifted
towards the larger object and attached itself. The object then took off in a south westerly
direction and disappeared in 2 ½ seconds. After the sighting the car lights were not as bright
and the lights fluctuated for a while as if power had been drained from the battery.
(Long Island UO Updates Vol.1 No.3.) 1255

12/11/73 2100 Lynchburg, Ohio, U.S.A.

A woman was arriving at a farm to visit relatives when a round orange coloured object
approached and hovered over her car. The car lights dimmed, and in the next instant the
object had disappeared. Her pet cat which had been with her in the car had also disappeared,
although the car windows were closed almost to the top.
(Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p140.) 0449

19/11/73 Sidrolandia, Brazil.

An orange oval shape emerged from a white cloud, and hovered near a truck. Engine effect
reported, and a small figure was also reported visible inside the object.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0805

-/11/73 Quebec, Canada.

There were numerous reported UFO landings in the Province, including reports of humanoid
figures and electromagnetic effects on cars.
(UFOE 11, Section VIII.) 0806

-/11/73 1845 near Poteet, Texas, U.S.A.

A driver reported that a UFO hovered over his car and dropped a fluid on to the vehicle
causing paint to peel. The witness also reported that occupants from the object tried to stop
his car.
(Evening Statesman of Austin, 14/11/73. 1973 - The Year of the Humanoids, p10, 16, 27.) 0450

-/11/73 Night Peninsula State Park, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Mr D A (350 a groundsman at the State Park was driving along Memorial Drive road when an
object hovered over the road in front of him. His car started jerking. A sulphurous odour was
left behind and a burn mark was found in the road.

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(Don Worley in Earthlink 4,2.) 1424

13/12/73 2050 Bradenton, Florida, U.S.A.

Car driver Patrick Thrush spotted a very low flying blue-green object in the sky over the River
Braden. The object dropped some 'slag' on the car, burning off some of the paint. The witness
secured a photograph of the object.
(The Fawcett Newsletter, February 1974.) 0451

15/12/73 1920 Chateauneuf-Sur-Loire, France.

The witness is driving on the N60 towards Chateauneuf sur Loire. She has just passed the
Chicamour crossroads when she sees straight ahead to the southwest a red and green light
flashing alternately. The light descends vertically at high speed while magnifying. It thus
becomes a fluorescent green ball with bright red and golden yellow spots, all quite dazzling.
The witness accelerates. Cars pass her and some stop. The radio which is placed on the
passenger seat and which is new began to crackle more and more loudly as the object
approached until it stopped definitively. The engine misfires without losing speed. The
witness arrives at the end of the straight line. The object is then the size of a balloon and
seems to want to land. Continuing on her way, the woman loses sight of the object. This time
she returns with her grandmother about ten minutes later. The two women observe, taking
the ball in the straight line, but a little higher moving away towards the south-east. The radio
will be permanently shut down as parts have melted inside.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, Lights in the Night number 151.) 1458

22/12/73 Brugheas, France.

In the evening, the witness is driving his car after the Bois de Randenay. Suddenly his vehicle
stalls and the headlights go out. He then sees at 50 m above the ground, and at about 200 m
an object whose apparent dimensions are 5 m long and 3 high. It looks like a huge dark
coloured egg lying down. It has a phosphor part on the top and a red light on each end that
flash in harmony. After standing still for a minute to a minute and a half, he made a wide,
high-speed curve towards Brugheas and then north.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0454

-/-/73 Near Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.A.

A woman Mary Kleros was driving her car near Norwalk when her car radio was filled with
strange static interference. She then found herself with a large space craft and standing
before her was a tall entity it conversed with her via telepathy.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1970-74.) 1225

-/-/73 near Colonel Dorrego, Bahia Blanca, Argentina.

A driver saw an unusual object in the sky which caused his car engine to fail and which seems
to have temporarily paralysed the percipient.

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(La Nacion, Buenos Aires, 22/9/73. Understanding Magazine Vol 18, No 10, p11. Case
Numbers 265-287 from The UFO Register, Vol 5, Parts 1&2, 1974.) 0452

-/-/73 Marley Woods, Missouri, U.S.A.

During the summer, and in an area where similar sightings had been reported for some years,
the witness was driving a new Dodge vehicle with a passenger, when a large white light was
seen behind the car, following for a mile or so before suddenly going over the top of the car,
and landing in front of it briefly. The light then ascended again at speed and disappeared.
After the light moved away, the car engine stalled but restarted after a few minutes. The
engine was not running well again after the event.
(MUFON UFO Journal September 2007, p 18-19.) 0807

-/-/73 2300 near Bellerby, Yorkshire, England.

During Mayor June, two soldiers were taking part in a regular radio communication exercise
when there was interference on the Land Rover vehicle's radio before it failed completely,
while the headlights faded and went out. The engine had already been switched off just
before the radio failure. They then noticed a strange object in the sky, approaching silently
before it hovered about ten feet above the ground between the road and the nearby woods.
The object was oval in shape with a row of small windows. There was vapour coming from
the lower part and a slight buzzing sound. Cows in the field remained motionless. After a few
minutes the object rose higher, moved away and disappeared over the woods. The vehicle's
lights and radio then came back on. When the two men arrived back at their base at 4 a.m.
they went to make an official report, but were met with ridicule and charged by their superior
officer for being drunk on duty. The two men later returned to the site and found a 30 feet
diameter circle of burnt grass on the other side of the wood.
(FSR Vol 24, No 1, p23-24.) 0453

-/-/73 Puy-Verday, near Bourges, France.

A motorcycle engine misfired as a bright light landed on the road ahead. This was then seen
to be a luminous, oval-shaped object with smoke underneath, and hovering just above the
road. It was reported that a humanoid wearing a uniform like aluminium, and a helmet, came
out of the object and spoke to the witness. After the humanoid had got back inside the craft,
it rose into the air with a sound like a swarm of bees, and vanished. The motorcycle engine
could then be restarted.
(1973 -Year of the Humanoids. Dave Webb.) 1099

05/01/74 2100 Glenham, South Dakota, U.S.A.

A disc shaped object pace a car which suffered EM effects it seemed to follow the witness
home. The object speeds increase as the car increase speed and when the vehicle turned
around the object did the same. After arriving home the object was still seen hovering high
over the house.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, Sifakis, C, Official Guide to UFO Sightings State by State Encounters.)
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07/01/74 2040 Warneton, Belgium.

The witness was driving his car in clear weather when the headlights suddenly went out, and
at almost the same time the engine cut out and the radio failed. When the car had stopped
the witness noticed about 150 metres away in a field an object like 'a soldier's tin hat' and
standing on three legs. He then noticed two figures about 30 metres away, walking in a slow
rigid fashion towards the car, while a third figure could be seen near the object. Both of the
closer figures seemed to be wearing one-piece suits and helmets. As the figures approached
and stopped within about four metres of the car the witness felt a slight shock at the back of
his head and then heard a low-pitched modulated sound which grew in intensity. After a while
the sound terminated and the two figures, moving rather like robots, returned to the object
which was changing colour. The object then retracted its tripod legs but remained near the
ground for a few seconds before it climbed steeply away and vanished. Another car then
arrived on the scene and the driver confirmed that he had seen the incident. His engine had
faltered a few times but the headlights had not failed. The duration of the incident was 20
minutes.
(FSR Vol 20, No 5, p6-8.) 0455

08/01/74 0300 Springfield, Ohio, U.S.A.

Night attendant John E Justice at a Masonic Home was leaving the building by car when the
headlights suddenly dimmed and the engine failed. After a few seconds lights 'like a rainbow'
descended a short distance ahead, then a bright oval light about six feet in diameter was seen
illuminating everything. The object came within a few feet of the car, and the driver was able
to see inside where there appeared to be five small occupants. After a few minutes the object
ascended at speed and the car started instantly. It was later confirmed that on the previous
evening the Home's maintenance engineer had experienced intermittent failure of his radio
pager, which could not be corrected even when he replaced the batteries.
(Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p107-108.) 0456

24/01/74 1600 Aische-en-Refail, Belgium.

A woman driving home from Perwez saw a red shape at ground level on the road ahead, and
found her car starting to slow down, while the radio also faded away. The engine stalled, and
then she saw that the object on the road was circular, about a metre in diameter, and looked
metallic with a domed structure. After a few seconds the object began moving up and down
before travelling silently over the car and away in a curving trajectory. The startled eyewitness
then found that the car restarted by itself and gained speed slowly as it was still in gear.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 7, No 4, p19-20.) 0457

27/01/74 0200 Irwin, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A woman observed two brilliant lights that “shown down towards the highway and paced the
witnesses car. As the UFO flew near the automobile the vehicle nearly stalled returning to
normal after the object had left.
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14/02/74 0425 Ely Nevada, U.S.A.

A rental truck was being driven along Highway 93 at about 55mph by two brothers when they
notice a round, orange object that paces them. They feel as if they are hit by a blast of wind
or a force field. The engine and lights go out and the steering goes and the vehicle seems to
momentarily float, come back down and coast to a stop. Ahead of them just over a hill they
see a large, round object with a domed top and wings. The other object approached again
they point a flashlight at it. They flagged a passing car and called for a tow truck to collect
their vehicle. The truck had suffered damage as the rear wheels fell off and new tyres and a
rear axle and gearing are required.
(MUFON UFO Journal No 250, February 1989, p 16, NICAP Database of E-M Effects, Project
1947-UFOCAT.) 0808

17/02/74 Warkworth, New Zealand.

A glowing bell-shaped object, like a flat plate with a dome, was seen by car driver Eric Marks
as he was going down a steep hill near Warkworth. There were many bright pencil-like rays
of light from the object beamed towards the ground. It felt as if something was holding the
car back, with the car unable to accelerate, but the driver found that he was able to accelerate
away at top speed when he reached the bottom of the hill.
(MUFON UFO Journal, February 1989, p 16-17.) 0809

22/02/74 0515 St Julien du Serre, France.

An eighteen-year-old high school student was riding a moped when his headlight suddenly
stopped. He then notices a violent glow that seems to rotate counterclockwise. The object
looks like a truncated cone like an overturned glass of red colour. From its base emanates a
red beam. The object is about ten meters above the trees. Taken with fear, the young man
turns back to go home, his lighthouse then starts working again.
(Personal archives by Burkel Claude.) 0477

25/02/74 France

Diesel engine stopped by a strange object.

(Canadian UFO Report [Link].3 1979.) 1219

27/02/74 0050 Chis N21, France.

A large ball of light with a white panel was seen hovering at low altitude while a blue
cloud/mist was covering the road. A car had EM effects.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1460

28/02/74 0200 Ecouflant, France.

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A student is driving through the countryside. Suddenly his vehicle stops for no apparent
reason. The young man descends and then sees at 500 meters on his right a huge, unbearable
shining object, having the shape of half of a rugby ball, part flat towards the ground,
phosphorescent and equipped with skylights. The glow was so bright that he had to frequently
lower his eyes to rest them. The object flew over the industrial area of Ecouflant for half an
hour then disappeared in an oblique flight. The car then restarts normally.
(Personal archives by Burkel Claude.) 0481

28/02/74 2030 Liac-Gensac, France.

A motorcycle engine died as a red oval object was seen over some hills.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1461

01/03/74 0030 Aurelihan, France.

A red ball of light followed a car for 18km the engine of the vehicle stopped.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1462

17/03/74 0030 Burra, South Australia, Australia.

Two young men observed a round yellowish-green light stationary near the top of a hill, and
stopped the car to watch. After about a minute they decided to leave as the light appeared
to approach, but the engine would not start and was only restarted with difficulty. The light
seemed to follow the car and was seen for several hours until it ascended into the sky and
disappeared.
(ACUFOS Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events, p10.) 0458

17/03/74 0330 Rota Naval Air Base, Cadiz, Spain.

On a foggy night, a motorist saw a bright light near the road, then a tall humanoid figure which
appeared to be wearing a diving suit. A beam of light came from the collar of the suit. As the
motorist drove past the figure, the car engine failed for a few moments, and the car shook.
(Iberian Peninsula Cases. V.J. Ballester-Olmos, 1976.) 1100

18/03/74 2030 West Newton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A light cluster swooped down to within a foot of an car roof. The driver said that his headlights
dimmed and the radio was drowned out with static and the amp meter indicated that he his
battery had completely discharged the car did not stop until the witness hit a guard rail.
(UFO Research Newsletter [Link].2.) 1318

20/03/74 1110 El Campillo, Sevilla, Spain.

A man saw a strange object fall from the sky into a valley. When he drove to the area, and
walked into the valley, he saw a cigar-shaped object about 200 metres long. Two smaller
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and below, began to follow him. He got into his car and left the area, but noticed heavy static
interference on the car radio as he was, driving away.
(V.J. Ballester-Olmos, 1976.) 1101

21/03/74 0230 Valdehijaderos, Salamanca, Spain.

Truck driver Maximiliano Igesias Sanchez was driving when he encountered a blinding white
light on the road it was 200m away his lights and engine went out. The object was faintly
luminous and wider than the road. It appeared metallic and without any visible openings and
was standing on three 0.5m legs. Another non-luminous object hovered to the right about
16m above the ground. Two beings appeared in front of the landed object gesturing with their
arms. Both figures vanished and the object ascended with a humming sound. After he had
passed the site he looked back and could see that one object had re-landed on the road.
Ground traces were found later.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1463

22/03/74 Sweden.

While driving home from a party, the witness felt a sudden force on his car that pulled it to
the right side of the road into an area near a small farm. As he passed between two runic
stones a powerful beam of light came from above and to the left. He was pulled upward by
the light beam despite strong resistant and encountered four huge transparent beings. The
witness resisted fighting to get free suddenly he felt pain in his cheek and some blood flowing.
He was transported home by the beings where his wife cleaned the blood from his face. Below
his temple was a round hole, he suffered light burns.
(MUFON Journal. No.113.) 1336

24/03/74 0330 Sanlucar Barrameda, Spain.

A disc shaped object was observed over a road along with a 2m high humanoid figure the car
engine died.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1464

25/03/74 0000 St Deniscourt, France.

Two adults and a child are driving when they see 250-300m to the right a luminous ball that
seems to be located in a field. The edges of the object seem to pulsate as the light intensity
decreases. Suddenly to the right of the ball they see illuminated a series of 4-6 rectangles of
a bright white light that go out after about 4 seconds. The radio of the car is scrambled and
the driver checks the antenna as the light moves towards them. They drive around the light
and observe it from behind but lose sight of it. After 10-20 mins they see a similar luminous
ball identical to the previous one, placed in a field 200 m from the road leading from Thérines
to Loueuse. From the base of this sphere comes a kind of luminous carpet. It is very clean as
cut with a knife. Two figures are visible with binoculars, one is behind the beam, the other
seems to glide over it towards the point and disappears into the night. The second is gradually
disappearing. The beam goes out, then the ball. The second is gradually disappearing. The

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beam goes out, then the ball. The second is gradually disappearing. The beam goes out, then
the ball.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0550

30/03/74 2130 Hombreiro, Lugo, Spain.

A blinding yellow-green object was seen beside the road, and a buzzing sound was heard. Car
engine and lighting effects were reported, and three squarish imprints found nearby.
([Link] Olmos, Iberian Peninsula Cases, 1976, and NICAP Database of E-M Cases,
Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0810

-/03/74 2200 Hergies, France.

A dense blue stationary light 40m in diameter was observed ahead as a car drove through it
the engine, lights and radio all failed. The engine restarted spontaneously afterwards.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1465

-/03/74 2330-0230 near Legunilla, Spain.

In the first incident a lorry driver Maximiliano Inglesias aged 21, saw a stationary object on
the road ahead. The object looked like a saucer placed on top of a plate. A similar object was
stationary in the air nearby. Two figures alighted from the object on the road, pointed at the
lorry then returned to the object, which took off. The lorry did not start until sometime
afterwards. At 11.30 p.m. the lorry driver was returning along the same road when he came
upon three silvery objects with a diffuse luminosity, parked in the road. The driver switched
off his ignition because the lorry would not go. There were four figures outside the objects
this time. The driver ran away when the figures came towards him. He managed to elude
them with some difficulty, and returned to his vehicle. Later he saw the figures return to the
objects, and then emerge again, using some sort of tool to make holes in the ground. The
lorry still could not be started. The objects finally took off with a powerful whistling sound.
The Civil Guard started an investigation and found a hole in the ground where the incident
had taken place.
(FSR Vol 20, No 3, p 5.) 0459

10/04/74 2100 Las Vertientes, Andalusia, Spain.

10km before here, truck driver Jose Serrando Penalver (35), from Murcia, saw a long, bright
white light, shining upwards, in an open area to the left, 300m-1km away. There was another,
smaller, ball of compact light in the foreground. Seconds later the larger light turned red. Jose
got out of his truck for a moment to watch these silent lights. When he resumed his journey
the small light continued along the left side of the truck for 10km and then disappeared for a
moment, to reappear about 20-30m dead ahead. Both Jose and the thing stopped. This
flashing white ball, about 1m diameter, turned red when a cylindrical extension, 10-15cm
wide, came out of its lower part. The light went out immediately the extension reached the
ground. After Jose left Las Vertientes the compact white light reappeared to the left and
paced truck at a distance of 60m at speeds up to 90kph, becoming hidden at times by hills,
curves etc. and was also not visible when Jose drove through towns and when passing a

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roadside inn. 3km before Puerto Lumbreras when the road went through a narrow valley with
restricted visibility, the light disappeared for good after pacing her for 65km. Jose spent the
night in PL though he was too nervous to sleep we,, and his left leg, the one nearest the light,
began to feel as though it had gone to sleep.
(Ballester 1976.) 1422

10/04/74 Whitehouse, Ohio, U.S.A.

A man spent an evening with a friend who claimed to be a UFO contactee, and asked for proof
of this. On the following night his car engine and lights failed as he was returning home from
work soon after midnight. A normal-looking man then got out of a car which had come to a
stop behind him, and offered the "proof" needed by dematerializing a rock with a
hand-held device.
(D. Elkind, Secrets of the UFOs, p 21.) 0811

15/04/74 1730 Woodside, South Australia. Australia.

On a return journey to Adelaide, six people were travelling in two cars. Both cars stopped
when an object was seen, and one of the witnesses stated that the vehicle suffered a
temporary power loss as the object went over the car.
(ACUFOS - Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events, p10.) 0460

19/04/74 2200 Valdegrana Islet, Cadiz. Spain.

A young couple saw a flattened orange-coloured object descend to within about three metres
above the ground. They drove closer, and then decided to go back, but as they did so, the car
engine failed. After a bright green light then rose quickly from the ground, the engine could
be restarted.
([Link]-Olmos. Iberian Peninsula Cases. 1976.) 1102

-/04/74 Koningslo, near Brussels, Belgium.

An object 'like a second moon' was seen low in the sky by three occupants of a car driving
between Vilvorde and Brussels. The engine faltered and then failed, and the lights went out.
The car could not be restarted. The luminous object moved away and the engine then
restarted without any action by the driver.
(FSR Vol 20, No 6, p16-17.) 0461

31/05/74 0230 near Umvuma, Rhodesia.

A Rhodesian couple were driving south from Salisbury in clear weather when a luminous blue
object appeared in the sky. The object started to revolve and seemed to keep pace with the
car. The car lights then began to fade and it became very cold, while the car driver then noted
that he appeared to have no control over the car at all. With accelerator, brakes and steering
ineffective, the car's speed was about 160 kilometres per hour. Nearing Fort Victoria at 4.30
a.m. the object moved away at speed and the car was stopped at a garage for refuelling.
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above the car. The landscape now appeared to be very unusual. Instead of being dry with
sparse vegetation, the surrounding landscape looked like a swamp with tropical vegetation,
while the road looked unusually straight. Control of the car was again lost, while the speed
increased. Nearing Beit Bridge at 7 a.m. the two objects, which were still visible in the dawn
sky, then disappeared? It was then realized that the journey from Fort Victoria to Beit Bridge,
a distance of 288 kilometres, had been achieved in a remarkably short time. Moreover the
car's speedo trip-meter, which had been reset before leaving Fort Victoria, recorded a
distance of only 17 kilometres. To add further to the strangeness of the incident, the car was
again stopped at a garage for refuelling so that the journey could be continued, but the petrol
tank would take only two litres of fuel before it overflowed.
(FSR Vol 21, No 2, p3-10.) 0462

-/05/74 0220 St Jean, France.

The witness is driving on the N502 going towards St Jean. Arrived at the level of the Martin
farm, he is suddenly blinded by a white light of very strong intensity and of short duration
which seems to him to come from an object located at the top of a hill on his left. The car's
engine stalls. He tries to leave when he is again dazzled by a projector emitting a high intensity
cream light for 5 seconds. The light is located at the front of a rectangular shaped object. At
the rear a flashing red light not very bright. The projector is as big as the full moon (the latter
is visible at the same time). The object evolves at 10 m of altitude advancing towards the road.
The witness restarts his car.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0486

06/06/74 2040 Warneton, Belgium.

In another incident(Case 445) similar in some respects to the January incident at Warneton,
the same witness encountered two more figures at the same place, standing at the edge of
the road. This time the engine faltered and the cassette player stopped. The witness again
felt a slight shock at the back of the head, with a modulated sound which ceased after two or
three minutes. The two figures then vanished suddenly and the car returned to normal.
(FSR Vol 20, No 5, p9.) 0463

08/06/74 0145 Zinnigas, Italy.

Two cars were stalled after a disc shaped object was observed nearby.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1466

09/06/74 0300 between Villa massargia and Siligua, Sardinia, Italy.

Egidio Traga was driving from Carbonia to Cagliari when his car engine stopped, but he found
that he was still moving along at the same speed. The car slowed when he braked but resumed
speed when he released the brake. He then noticed a brilliant ball of light which changed
colour from white to yellow, blue and orange. It was above the road and passed over the car,
then became stationary. The car stopped, and when the driver tried to get out he found the
car being shaken by a force of some kind. He remained in the car for about one and a half
hours until the object moved away and everything returned to normal. A similar incident was

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experienced by two other people near Siliqua at about the same time. A luminous object
moved towards their car and the engine would not start. As the object rose higher the car
began to move, but stopped again as the object descended to near ground level. They were
able to start the engine when the object moved away.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 6, No 5, p18.) 0464

29/06/74 0100 Lille, France.

An orange disc object was observed causing battery drainage on a car.

(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1467

-/06/74 0030 Middleton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

A woman saw a disc-shaped metallic object with a dome, hovering over her car. There was
heavy static interference on the car radio. The object shone a light beam into the car for
several minutes. The disc looked to be about fifteen to twenty feet in diameter, hovering
about thirty feet from the car. After five minutes the beam was switched off, and the object
moved away.
(CUFOS.) 1103

07/07/74 2200 Funen, Denmark.

A young motorcyclist was heading north towards his home when his 'motor bike' suddenly
speeded up. He then observed a flying object approaching. The vehicle suddenly failed and
the rider had to disengage the clutch to avoid toppling over. The object seemed to touch
down in a field beside the road. The witness estimated the object to be about 8 to 9 metres
in diameter and described its shape as being like two plates put together, with an orange-red
light around it. The object seemed metallic, and a strange buzz or humming sound was noted.
It appeared to be hovering just above the ground, where it stayed for about three minutes
until there was a small flash of light. The object rose slowly, and then accelerated away at
speed. Other sightings of strange objects in the area were also reported.
(Scandinavian UFO Information - SUFOI, Newsletter/75.) 0465

15/07/74 0200 Donremy-la-Pucelle, France.

A disc with flat edges was observed bringing a car to a sudden stop a strong beam of light was
also observed.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1468

26/07/74 1900 Bridgewater, Tasmania, Australia.

A woman was travelling with her daughter towards Launceston when an oval shaped light
was noticed which appeared to be following the car. The object was silent and had a red light
on top. They stopped the car two or three times but were unable to make out what the object
was. The driver felt that the object was trying to take control, and she found it difficult to
steer the car.
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-/08/74 Warminster. Wiltshire, England.

A Marine Commando, stationed with his unit at Arbroath, was travelling to Devonport, and
driving three miles south of Warminster when he saw that his car was being followed closely
by a red globe of light. The light appeared to rise from a nearby field, and sped alongside his
car. The headlights dimmed and went out the engine was misfiring this continuing for some
seconds until the globe moved away. The object then vanished as if returning to where it had
come from. The incident was reported to the police, who later said that the witness seemed
very sincere and shaken by his bizarre experience.
(The Warminster Triangle, p 189.) 1104

-/08/74 0615 Domaine de Fay, France.

The witness travels by moped between the places known as Domaine de Fay and La Croupe.
He sees a dome saucer placed on aluminum-coloured jacks it measures 20 to 30 m in diameter
by 5 to 6 high, the jacks are about 3 m. He was about 300 m from the object when his moped
slows down and comes to a stop. A mist then forms around the object which rises. At the end
of the observation, the object takes on the appearance of a fireball. During the observation,
the witness's watch stopped, not restarting until the next day. At the landing site, four holes
were visible, sixty cm in diameter by 10 cm deep, as well as a 3 m diameter circle, between
the four holes, of yellowish and scorched grass.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0487

01/09/74 1100 Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Farmer Edwin Fuhr, 36, was harvesting his rape crop at about 11:00 a.m., when he noticed a
metallic-appearing dome-shaped object about 50 feet away in a grassy area. Stopping to
investigate, he left his swather and walked to within 15 feet of the object. Noting that the
object was spinning and swirling the grass beneath it, he became frightened and backed away.
Climbing back on the swather, he looked around and saw four more domes arranged in a
rough semi-circle, all identical and all spinning, hovering about a foot above the ground.
Suddenly one object took off, quickly followed by the other four, ascending in a step
formation. At about 200 feet they stopped, each emitting a puff of gray vapor from exhaust-
like extensions at the base. The vapor extended about six feet, followed by a downward gust
of wind which flattened the rape in the immediate area. The objects then formed a straight

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line, hovered for a minute or two, then abruptly ascended into the low cloud cover and
disappeared.

Source: Flying Saucer

Review Vol.20 No.3

During the sighting his

swather was
completely frozen
and would not
operate.

Later Fuhr learned

that cattle in a nearby
field had bellowed
and broken through a
fence about the time
of the sighting. Going
to inspect the landing
area, he found five rings of depressed grass swirled in a clockwise fashion. There was no
evidence of heat or burning. (M Swords, Grassroots UFOs, International UFO Reporter 03-
4/92.) 0618

03/09/74 0300 Duxbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

During the early morning, a woman saw a red pulsating object at treetop level, and emitting
two light beams. The car engine failed, and there was static interference on the radio. The
witness reported that she received a telepathic message to drive down a particular road.
When she did this, the car engine and radio failed again, and four small humanoid figures
appeared. She was asked telepathically to open the car door, and when she refused, all four
of the doors flew open. She was then examined by one of the beings, using a small device
which left small puncture marks on her neck, and was told that there had been many other
similar contacts in the past.
([Link], Secret of the UFOS, p 22, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0812

16/09/74 near St Mary’s, Tasmania, Australia.

Mrs A. Richards was driving home from Launceston with her two children when she noticed
static interference on the car radio. The sky ahead became brightly lit, the car lost power and
stopped, and the headlights went out. After about ten seconds a deafening vibrating noise
enveloped the car. Electric shocks were felt for about a minute and the car was filled with a
choking smell. Mrs Richards and her children were forced to leave the car. Returning later,
the car started faultlessly. On the following day Mrs Richards' arms and fingers were swollen
and she had difficulty in walking. An examination of the car at a St Helens garage revealed no
faults in the electrical system.
(FSR Vol 21, No 5, p22-24.) 0467

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21/09/74 2200 Knutby, Uppsala County, Sweden.

A high ranking officer of the Swedish Army was driving with his wife and two children when
they saw a blinding light ahead. It was soon realized that this was from a strange flying vehicle
approaching slowly, at a height of about ten metres, and coming from the direction of a
clearing on the right hand side of the road. At the same time, the car engine started cutting
out and vibrating. When the car had travelled about another hundred metres, the car stopped
completely, the headlights failed and the car radio also stopped working. The flying object
crossed the road ahead, and seemed to land nearby, illuminating a large area with a
shimmering green light. When a car window was wound down, a buzzing sound like bees
could be heard. The intense light from the object dimmed gradually, and by using binoculars
an egg-shaped object about ten metres long could be seen. The object, which then looked
white, appeared to have a smooth surface with no projections. Further attempts were made
to start the engine without success.

After a few minutes the main witness, who had got out of the car, noted that the object
seemed to be stationary just above the surface. A loud roaring sound was then heard, and all
of the family took cover behind the car. The object was then seen rising slowly and vertically,
with a rocking motion and again a greenish colour, returning along the same course that it
had come from. It moved with a wave-like motion and the same buzzing sound, before it
accelerated and disappeared suddenly. When the family got back in the car, the radio was
heard working again, the car engine could be restarted and the headlights had also returned
to normal. The family reported slight physiological effects, starting more than two days after
the incident, and lasting a further three days.
(International UFO Reporter 34.1, p 16-17.) 0813

22/09/74 1720 near Tayene, Tasmania, Australia.

The area was suddenly lit up, and a glowing orange and silver object was seen approaching
slowly by the witness while the car radio developed a high pitched whistle. The object had a
dome-shaped top, and became stationary for about a minute in front of the car. The object
then moved away from the road, went straight upwards fairly fast and disappeared. The total
duration of the incident was three or four minutes. On the following day it was noticed that
the front part of the car was exceptionally clean as if it had been polished. The car radio, which
had been in perfect working order before the incident, had since been affected by distortion.
(FSR Vol 21, No 5, p23-24.) 0468

24/09/74 0010 between Bridport and Maiden Newton, Dorset, England.

A registered gliding instructor and senior member of the Air Training Corps was driving near
Eggardon Hill, with one passenger, when a yellow/blue light was seen in the sky, and the car
engine began to lose power. The lights also dimmed, without failing completely, while the
light was in close proximity. The incident was described to a reporter from the Dorset Evening
Echo, with a mention also of a cold feeling during the experience, which lasted about fifteen
seconds before the object zigzagged out of sight, and everything was back to normal.
(MUFON UFO Journal, March 1975, p 8, and November 1997, p 22, Project 1947-UFOCAT.)
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26/09/74 2200 North Zealand, Denmark.

Between 21.30 and 22.00 more than 100 persons witnessed several unusual objects and light
phenomena in the sky. Weather conditions at the time were clear with good visibility and a
light wind. At 22.00 a car driver was suddenly surrounded by a dazzling red light which
illuminated the area. The car engine, lights and radio failed. After several attempts the driver
was able to restart and turn on the lights. A cone of white neon like light came down towards
the car. A bumping noise and a sound like broken glass was heard on the roof, and then a 30
cm long spurt of flame appeared from the car radio. The engine and lights failed again, and
the radio faded out. After about six seconds a distinct 'click' was heard and everything worked
normally again. Examination of the car revealed no marks and the radio appeared to be
undamaged.
(Scandinavian UFO Information - SUFOI, Newsletter/75.) 0469

-/09/74 Renmark, South Australia, Australia.

A white light was seen approaching at speed from behind the car, and the driver steered to
the side of the road as she felt that the light wanted to overtake. When the light was on her
right hand side the car started to vibrate up and down, and the engine seemed to stop as
there was no power when she used the accelerator. The light then disappeared.
(ACUFOS Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0470

-/09/74 2100 Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A blue object was observed it was 80ft across and 300ft away it was seen by two witnesses
whose car engine and lights died. A whirring noise was heard and a tall figure was observed
with a metallic suit and holding a cube device.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1469

07/10/74 Plant City, Florida. U.S.A.

Witness on a motorcycle was travelling at 70mph when a UFO was seen behind travelling at
the same speed the bike coasted to a stop with engine failure.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1470

11/10/74 1610 Cloudcroft, New Mexico, U.S.A.

A truck driver was on his way home from Sacramento Peak Observatory. As he was rounding
a corner on the mountain road, about one and a half miles southeast of Cloudcroft, he noticed
a silver-grey object with a darker centre, moving from southeast to northwest near a wooded
ridge. After two or three seconds of level movement, the object accelerated rapidly upwards,
and became too small to see clearly in a few seconds. During the short time when the object
was being observed, the truck driver tried to accelerate, to see beyond trees in the
foreground. The engine did not respond, and stalled while the truck was travelling at 30 to
35mph, which had never happened before during the four years that he had owned the
vehicle. After several minutes the object moved away, and the truck was restarted.

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([Link]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol 8, No 3.) 1105

18/10/74 1910 Eagle, New York. U.S.A.

A yellow white ball of light was seen it came over the top of a car and hovered during which
time the car stopped and could not be restarted until the object had left.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1471

18/10/74 Steamboat Mountain, British Columbia, Canada.

A resident of Anchorage was returning with a friend from a convention in Kalamazoo,

Michigan, and had reached the summit of Steamboat Mountain when two lights were seen
in the sky. One approached before moving away and hovering, while the other, described as
looking like a derby hat with portholes, rested on the mountainside. The car was brought to
a stop, and the objects were watched for 45 minutes. During this time the landed object rose
and changed its position before landing again, and a truck driver also stopped to look at the
objects. When the car journey was then continued, something seemed to take control of the
car, which was unable to exceed 25 mph. A bright light was seen coming from a cloud quite
low overhead, and as the journey continued the two witnesses were surprised to see that the
fuel gauge remained the same. They reluctantly agreed to give a stranger a lift who then
strangely disappeared on arrival at an inn, without leaving any tracks in the snowy conditions.
On the following morning the conditions were still not normal, with the mysterious cloud
reappearing, two further strangers helping to restart the car while knowing more about the
two witnesses than would be expected from strangers. The cloud moved away when the
journey ended at Anchorage.
(Jerome Clarke, Extra-terrestrial Encyclopedia, p 111-112.) 0815

20/10/74 2145 Elkhart, Indiana, U.S.A.

A spinning orange and green ball of light was seen, the object hovered and a car engine failed.
(Paris Flammande. UFO Exist, p443, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0471

21/10/74 0255 Perry Center, New York, U.S.A.

A patrol policeman near Perry Center saw a flash of light and a yellowish light which passed
overhead. A high pitched whine came from his two-way radio as the light went over the car.
Many other people reported a strange light at about the same time. The noise was recorded
at the police headquarters, with the tape analysed by the equipment maker, but no
explanation was found. (CUFOS.) 1106

23/10/74 2130 near Lang, Saskatchewan, Canada.

A driver and passenger were travelling northwest on Highway 39 when they saw two objects
hovering not far off the ground. The driver stopped the car, and another car ahead also
stopped. The objects were dull silver in colour, reflecting light, and were shaped like an upside

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down saucer with a bubble on the top. The car had an A.M. and a two-way radio. When the
car stopped both radios stopped receiving, only making a humming sound, but returning to
normal later. The objects disappeared after about ten minutes.
(R.C.M.P. Report Number 74 MIL/261.) 1107

27/10/74 2210 between Hornchurch and Aveley, Essex, England.

During a drive home, a family were travelling south in clear weather when an oval pale blue
light was seen above houses on the left hand side. The light seemed to be travelling in the
same direction, and appeared to be stopping and starting as it moved. It was noted that there
was no other traffic on the road, which was usually busy at that time. When they were in open
countryside there was a better view, and the light appeared to pick up speed as it rose higher
and passed in front of the car. The family then noticed that although the radio could be heard
there was no sound from the car tyres or the engine. They saw a thick green mist covering
the whole road ahead, and the radio started to crackle and smoke forcing the driver to pull
the wires out. The lights failed and the car was noticed to jerk violently as it drove into the
mist at about 30 mph. They felt very cold and there was a tingling sensation. After what
seemed like a few seconds there was a jolt, the mist was gone, and they next remembered
being about half a mile further along the same road with the car functioning normally. On
reaching home they were concerned to find that the time was about 1 a.m. and that the 20
minute journey had taken about three hours. After the incident a number of paranormal
events were experienced. It was also revealed that members of the family had experienced
several other UFO events, including a vehicle effects incident on the M1 motorway in 1968
involving several cars. Strange recurrent dreams were also described, and hypnosis sessions
appeared to reveal evidence of an abduction experience.
(FSR Vol 23, No 6, p13-25.) 0472

-10/74 2130 Les Quatre Bras, France.

At the end of the month, the witness is in the car. He arrives at Quatre Bras and takes the
direction of Solre le Château. Two km after the crossing he sees in the middle of a clear
meadow a large hemispherical black mass posed for the balance three meters high by ten
wide. The vehicle's engine then failed as the headlights went out. But the car continues its
momentum as the witness tries to restart it. Suddenly when the latter is about to stop the
engine starts again while the headlights come back on. The witness continues on his way.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0501

04/11/74 2300 Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia.

A large object was observed on the road ahead during which a cars radio changed frequency
and the paint on the car changed colour. Ground traces found after.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1472

28/11/74 between Dekalk and Mendota, Illinois, U.S.A.

Pilot reported compass effect associated with sighting.
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28/11/74 between Logrono and Viana, Spain.

A group of young men were travelling at dusk to Viana when the car engine failed suddenly,
even though the petrol tank was full, and a luminous beam was projected down onto the car.
(FSR Vol 25, No 3, p31.) 0473

-/11/74 2300 The Sideling, Tasmania, Australia.

A man on his way home to Scottsdale saw a large silent object in a northerly direction. The
car engine, lights and radio cut out, and the figures on his watch lit up brightly. The object
was seen for three or four minutes, and travelled along before moving straight upwards. The
driver's watch stopped completely soon after the incident, and one of the car's mudguards
changed colour from red to orange.
(ACUFOS Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0474

02/12/74 0300 Ohio, U.S.A.

A woman her brother were driving across Ohio when the car radio and lights intermittently
went off and on. Then after a few minutes the car, radio and lights died completely. They
decided to go to sleep and planned to seek help in the morning. Around 30 minutes later they
saw a red flash that went across the fields and then the car started and the lights and radio
came on.
([Link].) 1597

12/12/74 Lindsay Ontario, Canada.

A car driver claimed to have hit a UFO with his vehicle. The object was about 50 feet in
diameter, and there was some damage to the car.
(Toronto Star, 12/12/74.) 0475

02/12/74 2230 Frederic, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Dairy farmer William Bosak is driving back to, his house when he reported the sighting of a
disc-shaped object, partly transparent by fog which is resting on the road. A strange
illuminated figure was visible inside the object. After about ten seconds the farmer
accelerated his car past the object, but as he did so the car lights suddenly went dim and he
heard a soft 'whooshing' sound.
(FSR Vol 21, No 1, p20-21, Clark 471-472) 0476

-/-/74 0030 Quakers Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

In clear and good weather, a brother and sister were travelling along Hamilton Road when
the car was suddenly shaken before stopping completely, and with nothing working including
the radio. A large grey disc-shaped object was then seen low overhead, with lights around it
and a dome on top. The object was watched as it moved slowly over a nearby dairy, but there

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was no sound. When the object then ascended quickly into the air, the car could be started
again without any problems.
(International UFO Reporter, 34.1, p 20.) 0817

-/-/74 0545 Port Latta, Tasmania, Australia.

A bright light was seen by a man driving a van at a speed of about 95 kph on a newspaper run.
The light was moving at speed in a south to north direction, and went over him in about 10
seconds before it disappeared behind tall trees. He then found that the van was slowing down
because it had stalled, and he had to stop to restart it. The van's headlights also failed for a
few seconds.
(ACUFOS Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0479

-/-/74 near Auckland, New Zealand.

An object with a circular base and bell-shaped dome was observed on several occasions. In
one incident the object, with a bright orange dome, followed a car down a hill. The driver,
with a passenger, noted that the car seemed to be held back to no more than 45 mph. while
going down the hill, but that at the bottom of the hill the car could be accelerated again to its
full speed.
(Xenolog, Timaru, New Zealand, March/April 1974.) 0478

-/-/74 The Gardens, Tasmania, Australia.

A car radio emitted unusual crackling interference as a large round white object came over
hills, approaching a car before moving away over the sea. The duration of the incident was
about 10 minutes, and the light was silent in a very clear sky.
(ACUFOS Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0480

06/01/75 2300 Lordsburg, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Three people were listening to a CB radio in their parked car when they saw lights approaching
from behind. When the driver tried to move the car, there was static on the radio and the car
engine would not start. The battery became dead a few days later.
(Mark Rodeghier, CUFOS, UFO Reports involving Vehicle Interference Effects. APRO Bulletin,
June, 1975. NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0818

10/01/75 1900 St Thomas, Ontario, Canada.

Three teenagers were driving by Lake Erie when a blue light came and hovered over their car,
then followed it along the road. They made a sharp turn in their car, but the UFO turned even
more sharply. The car then stalled, and the radio went off as the light came closer.
(London, Ontario, Free Press, 10/1/75, NICAP Database of E-M Cases, UFO Research
Newsletter Vol.4 No.6..) 0819

12/01/75 0200 North Hudson Park, New York City, U.S.A.

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George O'Barski was driving through North Hudson Park when his car radio began to emit
heavy static then cut out completely. He heard a noise then saw an object which carne in low
across the park and landed. The object had luminous vertical panels around the sides, and a
low dome with several antenna-like projections. A number of figures were seen descending
from the object while it was still about ten feet from the ground. The figures were described
as short, not more than three and a half feet tall and seemed to be wearing helmets. They
appeared to be digging up soil and putting it into bags. After about three minutes, when the
object had come down to about four feet from the ground the figures got back inside the
object, a quiet humming sound was heard and the object took off. On the following day the
witness returned to the site to verify the incident, and found holes in the ground about six
inches deep. The incident was one of a series of reports from the same area during the early
part of 1975.
(FSR Vol 22, No 4, p10-11. APRO Bulletin Vol 25, No 1, p 1, 3.) 0482

-/01/75 0200 Plymouth, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Two men out in a snowplough truck observed a circular blue object that hovered over the
truck it dove at the plough then sped skywards. The engine and lights died on the snowplough.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1474

-/01/75 0300 North Bergen, New Jersey, U.S.A.

George O’Barski was driving through North Hudson Park listening to his car radio suddenly
the radio developed static and started to fade. Then he heard a droning noise to the left and
he observed a bright large object which flew by stopped the hovered just a few feet over the
park lawn. The object was described as circular flat on the bottom with vertical sides and a
convex roof. It was about 8ft high and some 30ft across with 10-12 oblong vertical windows
spaced equally around the craft. Lights from inside the object illuminated the area. As he
watched a ladder came down and a door opened and 8-11 figures approx. 3 ½ ft tall
descended. The figures wore jumpsuits and helmets and seemed to be scooping up samples
of soil and placing them into bags. Then they climbed back into the object and departed. The
next day he returned to the site and found a series of holes in the ground 4 to 5 inches wide
and six inched deep.
(Sifakis, C. Official Guide to UFO Sightings State by State Encounters.) 703

09/02/75 1920 Carmi, Illinois, U.S.A.

The witness in this case was travelling by car with his wife when a blue coloured object was
seen in the sky, with what looked like beams of light or illuminated legs projecting down from
it. On the return journey just over two hours later at 9.30 p.m. the car lights went off and on
at random before returning to normal. The witness called the UFO Filter Center at 10.45 p.m.
after arrival back home to report the sighting adding that the power in his home had also just
failed.
(UFOFC Ridge Files.) 0820

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The witness got out of his car when suddenly the engine stalls (the witness certifies that at
that moment he had his foot on the clutch). He then observed an object moving horizontally
200 m from him under the top of a wooded hill at an altitude of 50 m. The object is estimated
to be 30 m long by 10 m thick, it is luminous and red at the front, white at the back. Arrived
above a meadow on the edge of the D112 at a place called "les Nivollets", the object
disintegrates from front to back and 5 to 6 grey shapes fall to the ground in dead leaves.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0502

19/02/75 1910 near Lindeskov, Funen, Denmark.

A woman was driving home when her car slowly stopped and all the lights disappeared, even
the red light connected to the rear window electric heater faded out. A very bright round
bluish object was seen approaching, illuminating the car which became very hot. The object
suddenly disappeared, the car engine started by itself and the lights carne back on. The
witness also noticed during the incident a prickling sensation on her face, this sensation
lasting until the following day.
(Scandinavian UFO Information - SUFOI, Newsletter/75.) 0483

26/02/75 2045 Lake Sorell, Tasmania, Australia.

The witness, who had served in the Royal Australian Air Force as a tail gunner in World War
2, was camping with a companion near the shore of the lake when he noticed three objects
through broken cloud. After a few minutes two of the objects were seen again as they
travelled towards the southwest, stopping before moving onwards. Under each object was a
red pulsating light with other red-orange lights running around the corona. One of the objects
then approached at speed to a position 500 feet above the lake. The object turned on an
intense light which was directed downwards. The light was about half the diameter of the
object and well defined. The spill of light from the main shaft illuminated a distance of one
and a half miles around the lake, while the light beam moved back and forth in an arc. The car
radio was being used, and it was noted that when the object flew close to the camp site the
radio emitted a loud static noise. No radio station could be picked up on traversing the whole
wave band. The object extinguished its light beam, leaving blue white phosphorescence
hanging about 30 feet above the lake. The object departed at speed, described as 'like
watching a tracer bullet'. The duration of the sighting was about 45 minutes, and reports were
also received from other people in the area.
(FSR Vol 22, No 6, p30, Saturday Evening Mercury, Hobart, 29/3/75.) 0484

02/03/75 Phillips, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

A police officer sighted a disc-shaped object with a hump on the top and bottom, and with
coloured lights which seemed to be shining on the ground. The object was estimated to be
about 30 feet in diameter. A spotlight was directed at the object and it ascended rapidly. The
policeman also noted that the car radio went wild, with short weird sounds. The duration of
the sighting was about five minutes.
(FSR Vol 21, No 2, p32.) 0485

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Many reports of strange lights seen in the sky 3 lights circle and hover the sherriff’s which
stopped running for 15 minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1475

-/03/75 0030 Agennne, France.

A domed disc came near a car as it did the engine, lights and radio stopped working.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1476

-/03/75 Near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A.

A house wife and her two sons saw an orange-red, domed object that was lower than nearby
telephone poles and bigger than an aeroplane. It came down towards their car and the car’s
engine stopped running and the headlights dimmed. After the object disappeared they were
able to drive home.
(UFO Research Newsletter Vol [Link].6.) 1319

06/04/75 0200 Wausau, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Two youths were driving west on Highway A when their CB radio stopped working, and a flat
bottomed object with a dome was seen at ground level north of the road. The object had a
pulsating silvery light. A few minutes later, what looked like a seven foot tall 'tree trunk' was
seen moving slowly near the road. The journey was continued to Wausau, where the car was
parked and the witnesses fell asleep, awaking at 6.30 a.m. to find that the car was in a
different parking space, that a quarter of the fuel was gone, and with no recollection of what
had happened. In the following months the principal witness, Mike, reported that his thinking
ability and memory were not as good as before the incident.
(David Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT -Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, and Richard
Heiden, CUFOS.) 0821

18/04/75 2130 Marquis, Saskatchewan, Canada.

A car driver and passenger were travelling in a westerly direction, and reported seeing an
intense white light in the western sky. The light appeared to be moving northwest of Moose
Jaw. A patrol vehicle went to the location to interview the witnesses, and during this time
there was interference on the police vehicle radio.
(R.C.M.P. Report, Moose Jaw, 29/5/75.) 1108

19/04/75 2145 Carson City, Nevada, U.S.A.

Two people in a car were stopped at a traffic light when they observed a metallic disc at a low
altitude overhead. The car radio began emitting a beeping sound. The object had an orange
glow at the bottom, with white rotating lights on a dome. After about thirty seconds the
object moved away quickly and the radio returned to normal.
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03/05/75 2115 near San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.

Alois Olenick is driving west in his Chevy pickup truck saw a strange amber-coloured object
rising quickly from a group of trees in a pasture adjoining the road. The object approached
the vehicle at speed, losing altitude, with a main light at the front of the object changing
colour from amber to a bright red. When the craft came directly over the truck, the vehicle's
lights and engine failed. The object was then stationary for about 10-20 seconds, and it could
be seen that the bottom of the object was polished metal in appearance with side projections,
suggesting a disc around it. There was a transparent top, and two occupants were visible. No
sound was heard during this time, which was followed by the object ascending vertically at
speed, buffeting the pickup before the object then disappeared in an instant, 'like turning off
a light bulb'. The witness also described a strong smell, like burning electrical wiring when the
object hovered over the truck, and with the smell persisting long after the incident.
(Skylook MUFON UFO Cases, UFO Evidence Journal, February 11, Section XII.) 0822

06/05/75 Evening Cameron, West Virginia, U.S.A.

A green-blue globe approached a car with three witnesses in the object was 25ft above them
as they tried to leave the ignition system failed.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1477

30/05/75 1430 Haywood, Manitoba, Canada.

At a detached pasture, 30klm north of their main farm the McCanns were with Mr Hill a local
vet when Anna saw a silvery circular object land behind trees to the north. Joseph was in his
tuck nearer the landing and saw the object as two domes, one over the other, separated by a
belt of clear material. The upper dome was silvery, the lower milky. His estimates for its length
ranged from 28-60m. Joseph set out to speed back home, but his newly bought truck stalled.
The object then flew off to the east. Some 15 minutes after this incident the area was hit by
a huge wind.
(Cameron 2017.) 1389

-/05/75 Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, U.S.A.

A female instructor at Southport Air Base was driving home along a gravel road when she saw
a disc shaped object flying low over a field. Her car stalled and as she coasted along she saw
that the object was rotating, showing alternate red and green lights. As there came a point
where trees separated the car from the object, the car engine started up again and she drove
off at speed.
(Cameron 2017.) 1373

04/06/75 1430 St Claude, Manitoba, U.S.A.

A truck driver, driving 3km north of St Claude, saw a huge object, shaped like two domes,
edge to edge, with a transparent central section at treetop level some 7-8m from the truck.

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The upper dome was silvery, the lower, milky white. He tried to drive away, but the truck
would not start. The object flew off to the east and was lost to sight behind trees.
(Rutkowksi 1993.) 1388

06/06/75 0130 Marcenat-Moulet, France.

The witness returns from Volvic and drives on the D986. About a hundred meters before the
joining of Moulet-Marcenat at a place called the Crater, he observes what he takes for a
motorist making calls for pahres. After passing the crossroads, the glow is bright. The warning
light stops his vehicle and lets the engine run. He opens his window and looking up, he
discovers vertically, about fifteen meters high, an enormous luminous sphere with a diameter
of 30 m surrounded by a thick bluish halo. The colour of the sphere is sparkling white. The
object remains motionless. It produces a high-pitched electric current noise. A pungent odour
emerges. The vehicle's radio stops working. Distraught, the witness leaves as quickly as
possible. The object follows him for three km. Arrived at home he finds that it is 2:20. The
sighting, which lasted a few minutes for the witness, was in fact for almost an hour. The object
is still visible when the witness arrives at his home before walking away towards
Charbonnières.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain
Lefeuvre 1979.) 1478

14/06/75 0200 Fretterans, Saone et Loire, France.

Pascal Trullard was driving from Fretterans to the pharmacy at Pierre de Bresse on this clear
night when he saw a light approaching him. As it got within 250m of him, Pascal slowed down
for a better look. The thing was as bright as the sun, with well defined edges and an apparent
diameter of 50-60cm and its colour was between yellow and pale orange and was 3-4m above
the ground. The thing had no other features. Pascal carried on with his journey and 3km
further on he saw the sphere again. When he reached the pharmacy he told the pharmacist
of his experience. On the way back along the road to Fretterans about 0230hrs. he again saw
this sphere in the same place, not having moved. There was no railway line at this spot and in
any case the light was too high up. The following night his brother Regis (21) and a friend were
out in the car to look for the thing and saw, in front of a house about 1km away, a similar
sphere, about 3m from the ground. It was a bright luminous thing with an estimated diameter
of 2m. They stopped as the friend wanted to walk back to Fretterans down a side path. At this
point the car’s headlights failed and the light from the sphere seemed to lit up the car interior.
It also lit up the house behind, so that they could erven see the shutters. This light was intense
but not blinding especially towards the side. The thing was absolutely stationary during the
observation and did not move at all and made no sound. The crops near the thing moved
about a bit, but Regis through that might have been the slight breeze. Regis got out to see if
that clarified his vision but he saw the same thing,. After about 30 seconds he got the shakes
but did not it that was due to fear or not and decided to leave.
(LDLN 1652.) 1387

04/07/75 Kentucky, U.S.A.

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Two witnesses sitting in a truck to talk on the CB radio when the lights and radio died four
descending lights were seen. Possible period of missing time.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1479

17/07/75 1830 Pedrosa Del Rey, Valladolid, Spain.

A tractor driver ploughing a field heard a discordant sound and saw a cylindrical object which
seemed to be floating above the ground. The object was emitting a vivid silvery light and
performed a circling movement around the tractor. There were two flashes of light from the
object, a high whistling sound, and a pane of glass in the tractor cab cracked. The witness
described the object as being about three metres across and shaped like a jar with a hat on
top. Antennae spread out from one side of the object. The duration of the incident was about
half an hour. Since the incident, the witness had noted that while traversing an area about
twelve metres by six metres in the middle of the field the tractor engine inexplicably speeds
up, and then reverts to normal as soon as the tractor is outside the area.
(FSR Vol 22, No 3, p8-10.) 0488

21/07/75 1900 Pedrosa del Rey, Castille and Leon, Spain.

Farmer Emaliano Velasco Baez was on his tractor in his fields when he heard a strange sound,
which he thought was caused by damage to the engine. He then saw about 80cm above the
ground, about 20m away an object that was turning on its axis. As it turned Emaliano saw that
the thing was a metallic cylinder surmounted by a cupola that reminded him of a sombrero
and a sort of V shaped structure on its underside. On its side were what looked like a window
and door. As the thing came within 3m, Emaliano was struck by a deafening whistle, and then
by a beam which drilled a hole in the tractor’s rear view mirror. He drove off in fear. His health
deteriorated after the incident and his wife blamed his death on the incident, even though it
occurred years later.
(Anomalist 12.) 1386

-/07/75 0645 Buckland, Tasmania, Australia.

A man found his car being followed by a round bright object, glowing orange and yellow, and
lighting up the surrounding countryside. The car radio seemed to reduce in volume for a while.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0490

-/07/75 2130 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

A spherical object was seen at an estimated distance of 200-300 metres. The car became hot,
then stalled and rolled to a halt. The incident duration was about two minutes, and after the
object had left the car was normal.
(UFO Research New South Wales, Australia.) 0489

05/08/75 0600 Levendale, Tasmania, Australia.

A man driving to work found his car lights dimmed and decided to return home. On the return
journey he saw a brilliant white round light coming down slowly, disappearing behind hills

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after being in view for about 10 seconds. On reaching home he found that the car battery was
flat, but it returned to normal after about 15 minutes.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0491

13/08/75 0120 near Alamogordo, New Mexico, U.S.A.

A United States Air force Sergeant was observing a meteor shower when a dull metallic object
seemed to drop out of the sky, and hovered with a wobbling motion 10 to 15 feet above the
ground. The object moved slowly towards the parked car. The witness got into the car but
was unable to start the engine. Even the interior lights did not operate when the door was
opened. The object stopped at a distance of about 70 or 80 feet. The witness estimated the
object to be 50 feet in diameter and 20 feet thick at the centre. A high pitched sound like a
dental drill was noticed, and the shadows of human-like forms were seen at a window in the
object. The sound stopped and the witness experienced a feeling of numbness. The object
lifted very fast and was gone, with no sound and with only a slight glow. After the object had
disappeared the car started perfectly. The witness estimated that the duration of the sighting
had been not more than two minutes, but on checking the time found that the elapsed time
was about one hour 25 minutes. About two weeks later the witness stated that he was
beginning to recall details of being taken inside the object.
(APRO Bulletin, June 1976, p6.) 0492

17/08/75 2223 Keams Canyon, Arizona, U.S.A.

A patrol officer was at a location 60 miles north of Holbrook, and reported observing a brilliant
white light which came from behind his vehicle and completely illuminated the area. He
slowed down, and turned to see a red and green rotating light on a dark shape, with a
spotlight also visible. The officer got out of his vehicle, all of the lights seen went out, giving
total darkness, and he then continued on his patrol. Several minutes later there was total
failure of his patrol van's engine, lights and communications for about half a minute before
everything was back to normal, and the experience was then reported to the police
headquarters for official records of the incident. There were other sightings in the area,
including one 25 minutes later and about 30 miles away to the north, when another patrol
reported two very similar objects at low altitude before they moved away after a few minutes.

Investigation of these reports included interviewing the witnesses, examining the vehicle
involved in the reported effects, the surrounding area and burnt vegetation, and noting
magnetic readings on the vehicle. The investigation indicated that there was no natural
explanation.
(MUFON UFO Journal, December 1975, p 6-7.) 0823

18/08/75 0245 Cagnes sur Mer, France.

Between La Colle sur Loup and Cagnes sur Mer, 6 witnesses (all aged 19 to 25) camp at the
"Hameau du Soleil". Two witnesses are in a tent, the others in the cars: the tent is separated
from the cars by a curtain of trees. Between 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m., the witness leaves the tent
and sees, 15 m in front of him, four phosphorescent masses, two to his right, two to his left:
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L., who in turn notices the strange phenomenon. Frightened both then rush towards the cars.
Starting a car everything starts to light up: all the electrical equipment begins to behave like
a warning in action without any intervention, to put an end to the phenomenon, it stops the
engine. Marylin M. states that the moon (which is lying at 2:02 a.m.) is behind a unique
elliptical shaped cloud in the sky. It is opaque in colour and a sort of trunk, comparable to a
waterspout, descends to the ground behind the trees. The high-voltage line running through
the premises makes a loud buzzing, no more nocturnal insects make noise, but the dogs bark
and the roosters crowing during the presence of the elliptical cloud. Three luminous points
arranged in a triangle above the ground: the proboscis descends on its left side. The next day
a material ", comparable to lime, forms an ellipse on the ground: it disappears as soon as the
sun appears. descends to the ground behind the trees. The high-voltage line running through
the premises makes a loud buzzing, no more nocturnal insects make noise, but the dogs bark
and the roosters crowing during the presence of the elliptical cloud. Three luminous points
arranged in a triangle above the ground: the proboscis descends on its left side. The next day
a material ", comparable to lime, forms an ellipse on the ground: it disappears as soon as the
sun appears. descends to the ground behind the trees. The high-voltage line running through
the premises makes a loud buzzing, no more nocturnal insects make noise, but the dogs bark
and the roosters crowing during the presence of the elliptical cloud. Three luminous points
arranged in a triangle above the ground: the proboscis descends on its left side. The next day
a material ", comparable to lime, forms an ellipse on the ground: it disappears as soon as the
sun appears.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0537

19/08/75 0020 Tail-l-Hermitage, France.

While an ovoid shaped object was seen overhead a car radio made whistling noises and after
the object had left the radio was working normally.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1480

25/08/75 0100 near Warminster, Wiltshire, England.

A Serviceman returning to his military unit stopped a police patrol vehicle south of
Warminster and reported the sighting of a bright red light which had hovered level with his
car. The car's window had been open but no sound was heard. The car's headlights had failed,
the sidelights became intermittent and the engine cut out for short periods.
(BUFORA.) 0493

25/08/75 0130 Volvic, France.

As 30m diameter sphere hovers over a road interference noted on a car radio along with a
unpleasant odor.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1481

29/08/75 2245 near Muret, Haut-Garonne, France.

The driver of a Peugeot 404 car (petrol engine type) suddenly observed at a distance of about
10 metres a dark object, with moonlight reflected from it. The object, estimated to be seven

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metres in diameter and three metres in height, then lit up underneath, glided towards the car
at bonnet level and emitted a dazzling light as it appeared to tilt upwards. The driver put his
arms up to protect himself and the car ran into a ditch. The object shot silently into the air,
taking up a stationary position and emitting an irregular red light. The light beam from the
object seemed to illuminate the immediate area of the car. A second driver who had observed
the incident arrived on the scene. Effects noted by the witness included a tightness in the
throat, while other effects noted after the incident were that his watch started to gain five
minutes daily, and he noticed increased sleepiness and troubles with his eyesight. Two other
witnesses also came forward and confirmed the sighting of an unusual object in the same
area.
(FSR Vol 22, No 2, p7-9.) 0494

-/08/75 2000 near Holmfirth, Yorkshire, England.

The driver of a mini-van travelling west on the A 635 was driving through mist at reduced
speed when he noticed ahead a white egg-shaped light. The object appeared to be in a tunnel
in the mist, with no mist visible between the car and the object. After about half a minute the
object began to move at ground level and at less than walking pace towards the car, which
was stationary. At a distance of about 20 yards the object turned slightly to cross the road
and passed to the side of the car. At this point the witness's ears 'popped'.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 6, No 1, May/June 1977, p24.) 0495

-/08/75 2200 Toll, France.

A young girl returns by Solex bike to her parents' home returning by her usual route from her
friend's house. She then observes a red glow very high in the sky. She then thinks of a
helicopter. Suddenly the solex stalls, A phenomenon makes her long hair stand straight above
her head. She feels like a huge breath. She then sees a dazzling glow in a field between 50 and
100 meters from her on the right. She then sees the object start again at an incredible speed
and the solex restarts itself without manipulation which is astonishing.
The young girl goes home, she only has 800 meters left, she is an hour late. For her it is 10
p.m. when in fact it is 11 p.m. The witness's watch stopped at 10 p.m. It appears that another
witness observed the same day a brilliant phenomenon at high speed from his balcony. The
witness will keep a great fear for a long time each time she has to take the same route to the
point of being accompanied.
(Mail Base Ovni France.) 0525

-/08/75 Gweru – Selukwe, Zimbabwe.

Witnesses reported seeing a large blue light which seemed to be hovering in the trees it was
described looking like “ a large bubble with a skirt”. It was giving off a high pitched humming
sound and the size was estimated to be around 50m in diameter. As they moved closer to the
object the car went dead. The object moved away and the car came back to life. They decide
to follow the object and the car stopped again. Witness though he saw someone looking at
them from the object, Witness blinked object had gone and the car light were very dim. They
drove away home feeling very nauseous and sick.
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05/09/75 0030 Mount Wilson, California, U.S.A.

A motorist saw turquoise-blue lights in a triangular formation as he was driving down the
mountain. When he stopped after a while to get a better view, his car radio emitted "white
noise". He estimated that the formation of lights had come within half a mile of his car, and
he lost sight of the lights after fifteen minutes.
(CUFOS.) 1110

26/09/75 2130 Maubeuge, France.

A large unknown object was seen by at least ten eyewitnesses, and was reported to be
hovering over a field near the town. Motorists tried to approach the object, but found that
their car engines failed. The engines, headlights and radios began working again as soon as
the object moved away. A separate sighting, at about the same time, was reported at the
nearby village of Asservent, also with failure of car engine and headlights.
( MUFON UFO Journal, October 1975, p 17, and July 1976, p 7.) 0824

-/9/75 2345 Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

When his car engine faltered, and the lights dimmed, the driver stopped to check the engine.
Getting out of the car, he saw a disc-shaped object with a glowing rim sparking in sequence
overhead.
(Raymond E. Fowler. UFOs - Interplanetary Visitors, p 334, 1974, Mark Rodeghier. UFO reports
involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1967.) 1111

10/10/75 2200 Pierreclos E D45, France.

As a fuzzy disc shaped object 100m in diameter hovered overhead a car engine and lights
failed.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1482

17/10/75 0420 Sorgue, France.

The witness was in the car when he saw a large glow to his left above the vineyards. The speed
of his vehicle then decreases by half without taking his foot off the accelerator. A luminous
orange sphere, around ten meters in diameter, moving without any noise then seems to
follow the vehicle. An intense white light beam comes out from under the object and
illuminates the vines as in broad daylight. The object always follows the car when the driver
turns to the left in the dirt road which joins his house, it even precedes him by about fifteen
meters and stops behind a plane tree eight meters from the front door. from his home. The
witness then prefers to knock on the shutter of the south window so as not to enter through
the door. His wife opens, sees her scared husband and discovers the sphere. The witness goes
into the house, with his wife they go to open the front door and turn on the outside lamp.
The object moves over an artificial channel and remains motionless at an altitude of about

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fifteen meters. Then the beam goes out and the object disappears while decreasing in
intensity. The main witness remained traumatized for a week.
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0540

18/10/75 0030 Flesher Pass, near Helena, Montana, U.S.A.

A truck driver John Struble saw a large object, estimated at about 50 feet in diameter, which
passed overhead 25-30ft in the air from the rear. The object then hovered ahead around 300ft
away and directed a very bright light towards him, causing the truck's lights and engine to cut
out. After about five minutes the object began moving, making a noise like a jet, then went
straight up and moved away at speed. When the object had disappeared the truck's lights and
engine came on again, and the driver noticed that his watch, which was a nonelectric one had
also stopped for five minutes.
(Clear Intent, p33.) 0496

23/10/75 Spokane, Washington, U.S.A.

A report of an object following a car, when two aircraft appearing to chase the object. Vehicle
interference and spatial distortion also reported.
(NUFORC. Robert Gribble Files.) 1112

27/10/75 0300 near Oxford, Maine, U.S.A.

Two young men David Stephens and Glen Gray are driving south on the western side of Lake
Thompson reported that the car appeared to be taken out of the driver's control, while the
ride seemed to be unusually smooth. A cylinder-like object with coloured lights was seen
rising into the air from a cornfield. The car engine was turned off, but no sound was heard
from the object. The car was then restarted and the object appeared to give pursuit. Later,
with the object still in view, the car engine failed and could not be restarted, while the car
radio faded out. During the next hour and a half two disc-shaped objects were observed,
moving in a falling leaf motion, and ascending and descending in right-angle movements. Both
witnesses described various unusual physiological and paranormal effects following the
incident. Later investigations under hypnosis appeared to confirm that during the incident
one of the witnesses had experienced an encounter with an object and its occupants.
(FSR Vol 22, No 2, p11-21.) 0497

28/10/75 2020 Le Thoronet SE D17, France.

A couple are driving on the D17 coming from Thoronet. The car goes slowly because a trailer
is towed. The driver's attention is drawn by a light point that runs along the Ubacs chain to
the left of the road. The witness goes to sleep and opens the window glass. At this moment
the engine stalls and the headlights go out. The driver gets out of the car with an electric light.
He then observes a dark object having a dome-shaped front part. It wears a yellow headlight
illuminating obliquely at the front and comes out of portholes. At the rear a red light. The
object passes over two houses in the place called the breach. The witness opens the hood to
try to find the fault when the lights come back on after the object has just disappeared
towards the south. Note the witness heard a faded noise without any comparison with that

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of a helicopter. When the object passed over the houses, the lights went out and interference
appeared on the TV sets of the inhabitants of the place.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain
Lefeuvre 1979. ) 1484

30/10/75 2230 Ostricourt, France.

The witness returned from his work on a moped when he was suddenly confronted by a
circular, luminous white object which passed at breakneck speed near him. The engine and
headlight lost power almost stopping. The object seemed to descend towards Ostricourt. The
witness remained a quarter of an hour without understanding what had just happened.
(Lights in the Night number 200.) 0542

04/11/75 0330 Madison, Ohio, U.S.A.

A group of residents contacted local police to report the appearance of strange lights. Two
patrolmen were sent to investigate and saw two clusters of lights, one moving towards the
town while the other hovered near power lines. The use of a spotlight seemed to affect the
lights, which at one point moved to a closer position until the spotlight was turned off. The
lights were green, white and red, and seemed set around a large object which became a
brilliant white each time it moved very close to the power lines. The object then moved away
at speed, resuming its previous appearance before approaching the power lines again,
returning to a brilliant white as if recharging itself. This process was repeated twenty times as
the object continued to be observed for a period of one and a half hours. During the incident
vehicle radios would not operate. The events were reported widely, and witnesses were later
visited by men claiming to be government representatives. They seemed less interested in
the actual events than in making clear that the witnesses should say nothing more about the
incident.
(Hugh Cochrane. Gateway to Oblivion, p135-137.) 0498

04/11/75 1845 Ross, Ohio, U.S.A.

A cylinder shaped object with blue, green and red rotating lights was seen hovering at treetop
level. The object started spinning, and a small red ball of light came out from underneath. Car
engine and lights failed. Landing gear emerged from object, which appeared to land in
wooded area. When the object disappeared, the car engine started and everything returned
to normal.
(MUFON UFO Journal, January 1976, p 6. NICAP Database of E-M Cases, Project 1949-
UFOCAT.) 0825

05/11/75 0430 Rangeley Lake, Maine, U.S.A.

A cylindrical object with green, red, and orange lights hovered low over an island in the lake.
The witness reported that the object projected a bright light on to the island, fully illuminating
it for about 15 seconds during which time his car radio went dead. After extinguishing the
light beam the object moved away at speed.
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07/11/75 0000 Leiria,Centro, Portugal.

A 15m diameter disc was observed by two witnesses one was a doctor it was about 10m above
the ground. The object passed over the top of the car stopping some 150m away. It was
hovering over some tree tops. The disc shaped object had 4 rectangular bright windows. The
car engine and CB radio stopped working. The top of the object was described as cone-shaped
and measured about 15m in diameter. They could smell ozone in the area.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT – Seculo Ilusrado 1.1.96 Portucat.)1485

07/11/75 Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S.A.

A truck driver reported a bright flash of light overhead which caused the electrical equipment
of his truck to go haywire. The lights went on and off three times and the alternator pulsated
rapidly. The incident occurred at night.
(Center for UFO Studies, U.S.A. News Bulletin 01/02/76.) 0500

15/11/75 Pacific, Missouri, U.S.A.

A red flying object approached a car with three passengers. Several white balls of light came
out of the object, and the metal of the car was found to be magnetized after the encounter.
(Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1976. Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports involving Vehicle
Interference Effects, CUFOS, 1981, NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0826

16/11/75 0300 between Bocos and Curiel, Valladolid, Spain.

A priest driving home from a visit to a sick person was shaken by the sight of a huge ellipsoidal
reddish object, at an estimated distance of between one and one and a half kilometres, and
lower than the peaks of the nearby mountain range. He tried to turn the car around to return
to the last town, but found that the engine died suddenly and could not be restarted. The car
lights seemed to be unaffected. The object remained stationary until its departure, when it
vanished very rapidly. The priest walked two kilometres to the next village to get help. A man
from the village returned with him to the car, when it was found that the engine could be
started without difficulty.
(FSR Vol 22, No 6, p27.) 0503

19/11/75 Harrah, Columbia, U.S.A.

Two farmers were ploughing just at sunset when brightly lighted objects passed overhead. As
they passed over the tractors without making any sound the alternator pins on the
instruments panel jumped to full charge and fluctuated until the objects moved away. When
the objects had gone the alternator pins returned to normal.
(APCIC V2 N2.) 1628

25/11/75 Goodridge, Minnesota, U.S.A.

A night time sighting of a red disc-shaped object, seen in a field nine miles west of Goodridge
by a Mead Marquis. The object estimated as eight feet in diameter, rose off the ground to

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about 200ft hovered for a few seconds and then landed again. The witness reported that he
stopped his car and turned it around to drive home when it stalled. The last he saw of the
object was that it was still on the ground. The new car which had only a few miles on the
odometer was taken back to the dealership and required an extensive tuneup. There was an
independent witness around 2 miles away who saw the light at the same time.
(31 Dec 1975 Sheaf, Warren, Minnestota K Coggin; M. Rodeghier, CUFOS. Vehicle Interference
UFO Reports. NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0827

27/11/75 0230 Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.

While driving to Culiacan a Mr and Mrs Henry Vidal and son saw a bright object approach then
at high speed. Glowing different colours it hovered silently ahead of the car which had slowed
to a crawl despite all attempts to speed up. The object was cone-shaped and the bottom
appeared to rotate rapidly like a drill. It was very large and filled most of their windscreen and
remained in position for at least 15 minutes. After which it climbed rapidly and disappeared
from view. They had 2 ½ hrs of missing time which they could not account for.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1486

-/11/75 Imperial Valley, California, U.S.A.

The witness was driving on his way to Picacho Peak on a 20m dirt road when he noticed the
dial on his radio going back and forth. This was very strange and he turned it on and off but
that made no difference. It then noticed the bonnet of his car was in the shade although he
was travelling at 35mph and there was no shade in the desert. He then looked down and saw
that the shade and that it was following him. He looked up and no more than 100ft above him
he saw a round object. He tried to slow the car but it was no longer responsive to him. He had
lost control of the steering wheel. The car eventually stopped and he was approached by two
short beings and one tall being there was then an interaction between the witness and the
beings.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1975-79.) 1226

-/11/75 2355 Goonhavern, Cornwall. England.

John Porritt, a miner, was driving home from Chasewater in Cornwall to his home in Sussex,
on this cold foggy night, when between Chasewater and Goonhavern his engine and lights
failed. As John stood inspecting the car he saw a light approaching, accompanied by a
humming sound. He first thought that it was a motorcycle, but he then saw that it was
travelling over a field and giving off a red light. He then was struck by a blinding multi-coloured
flash a metre or so above the ground. As he walked towards the thing, he saw that it was
something like an upside down haystack, covered with multi-coloured flashing lights. The
thing seemed to have a metallic, manufactured appearance. When the thing began give off a
pulsating glow, John, fearing an explosion decided to drive away, and as he tried the ignition,
the thing took off and his engine worked perfectly.
(Hanson and Holloway 2012.) 1385

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A flat and round orange object passed nearby, with effects on the car engine and lights, and
with the engine reported to have started by itself. In a separate report, three teenage girls
were travelling by car at night when they noticed a bright light in the sky. Gilda Manderund,
her sister Lori and Tammy Johnsrud were on their way home when the car engine and lights
went out and the car rolled to a stop. When the light came closer they could see that it was
an orange-coloured object, flat on top with rounded sides, with several flashing yellow lights
appearing in the middle of the object. The object appeared to cover the entire roadway about
20-30 feet in front of the car. They watched the object for about 5 minutes another car
appeared and the object began to disappear the car engine started by itself and the lights
came back on. The other car’s occupants did not see the object.
(K Coggin; M. Rodeghier, CUFOS, Vehicle Interference UFO Reports, 1981, Warren
(Minnesota) Sheaf, December 31, 1975. NICAP Database of E-M Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.)
0828

-/12/75 1900 between Castrouno and Pollos, Valladolid, Spain.

Two people driving in a car near a bridge over the River Trabancos encountered a vivid white
light shining down on the road ahead. The width of the light was about three quarters of the
road width, but the source of the light could not be seen. The car engine failed, while the
lights remained on. After a few seconds the light moved away and the car engine started
without difficulty.
(FSR Vol 22, No 6, p27.) 0504

-/-/75 0010 near Evesham, Gloucestershire, England.

A police officer was sent to investigate reports of a stationary light in the sky above the police
radio mast, located at the top of Cleve Hill. He confirmed that a large bright object was above
and to one side of the mast. His police vehicle radio and personal radio then went dead. After
a few seconds the object moved away silently. He got back into the vehicle and followed the
light, which at one point crossed the road ahead of him. When he flashed his car headlights,
the object immediately disappeared from view at great speed. This was confirmed moments
later by another police officer arriving at the scene.
(UFO Magazine, September 2002, p10.) 0506

-/-/75 0300 Minnesota, U.S.A.

Two men in their twenties had worked into the early hours. They heard an explosion type
noise and stepped outside to investigate further. They decide to take a short ride to a nearby
lake during which time the car would not respond and it felt it someone else was controlling
the vehicle. After a short while they came across a herd of cows resting on the ground the
cows were shaking their heads from side to side. They saw two white lights rising into the air
there were coloured lights around the white lights. The driver started the car and drove down
the road with the object following. The next thing they knew is that they are much further
down the road and that the car has stopped and the windows down and doors unlocked. Their
eyes were hurting and the whites of the eyes were now an orange colour.

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They drove into a nearby town then turned around and headed back on the road they had
been on the lights were not seen. They turned onto a gravel road the car’s engine stalled and
the radio stopped working. They could see in the distance a cylindrical object hovering
approximately 500 yards away. A little later 2 disc shaped objects appeared and a thick fog
was seen rising from above a nearby pond. The fog engulfed their car and suddenly the radio
came on and a voice was heard to say that the day would be bright and clear. As the object
ascended the fog went with it. The next day the men felt light headed and had burning eyes
and sore throats.
(MUFON Minnesota Journal No 139. Sept/Oct 2009.) 1364

-/-/75 0320 Poatina Highway, Tasmania, Australia.

As he was driving home from work, K Gottschalk said he experienced a strange feeling of cold.
The steering of the car seemed affected, veering to the right hand side of the road. When
slowing the car down and getting it back to normal, he noticed a bright orange light following
the car to the right and again found difficulty with the steering. The light then moved away
and the vehicle returned to normal.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0505

-/-/75 2100 Ogenia, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Three men saw a blinking light in the air, hovering close to the road. When their car was driven
closer, they could see a triangular object with red, green, and yellow lights. They stopped the
car underneath the object, which then moved quickly further down the road and keeping its
distance. The car's cruise control was found not to be working and when taken to a garage a
few days later they discovered that its transistors had been burned out.
(CUFOS.) 1113

-/-/75 Mcalester, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

A military policeman at the Naval Depot was out on patrol in a pickup truck when his engine
and radio failed. He then saw a flashing red light that he first thought was a tower light until
it started darting about at terrific speed. There were other witness, some of whom saw beams
of light projected down onto the bunkers.
(Dolan 2009.) 1376

06/01/76 2330 near Stanford, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Mona Stafford was returning from a birthday dinner party with two friends Louise Smith and
Elaine Thomas They were travelling along a narrow winding road in clear weather when an
intensely red glow was seen high in the sky to the east. The glow became more intense and
descended at an angle to the right of the car, where it seemed to hover. The glow then formed
into a disc shape with a row of windows, red and yellow lights and a bluish-white dome
reflecting on a metallic surface. The object seemed very large, and was silent, and then it
manoeuvred closer and to the left of the car before emitting three shafts of light onto the
road, and into the car. They stopped the car, noting a total silence around them, and felt a
burning tingling sensation, and headaches. The journey was resumed and the object seemed

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to disappear, but they found that there was no control over the car. The speedometer showed
85 mph, with the brake having no effect, and they were travelling along a completely straight
road with nothing recognizable. They found themselves driving normally again, but at the end
of the journey they noted that the time was 1.25 a.m. As the drive should have taken less
than an hour, there was about an hour and a half of missing time. One of their watches had
stopped, while another showed the minute hand moving around the dial at the same speed
as the second hand, and was at 6 a.m. The other witness did not have a wristwatch. On the
following day the car engine could not be started, and required a battery recharge. It was also
found that the car's signal and rear lights would not operate. The witnesses continued to
suffer from the apparent effects of burning, and with other physiological effects. Hypnosis
sessions later revealed evidence of an abduction experience, and a number of other
eyewitnesses in the locality confirmed the sighting at around the same time or earlier on the
same evening.
(Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p209-221.) 0507

20/01/76 Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.A.

During the early morning, a policeman was driving his car, also with a journalist passenger
when a strange object was noticed over the ocean. The object was white with a greenish haze
around it, and appeared to be travelling parallel with their own vehicle along the beach. They
parked the car, and when training a spotlight onto the object, the spotlight
went out.
(Center for UFO Studies, June 1976, CUFOS News Bulletin, p 4.) 1114

29/01/76 2230 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.

Johnny Sands a country and western singer was driving on Blue Diamond Road when he saw
an unusual aircraft which seemed to follow him for around 3 miles. At this point the car engine
began to splutter he pulled over check the fuel level which was fine he then lifted the bonnet
during which he looked up and saw a strange craft estimated to be approx. 60ft long and was
1000ft above him it was shaped like the Goodyear blimp. The object had windows or
portholes which were round 10ft in diameter and 5ft apart which were spaced around the
circumference of the object. The object was a rusty orange colour with red and light flashing
lights on the ends. It was moving slowly over the mountains lightning up the mountains as it
did so, appearing to land. He turned his attention back to the car and started to take off the
air filter. He turned and looked in the direction of where his headlights were shining and he
two figures approaching. The witness felt paralysed, and was questioned by the beings before
they were gone ten minutes later. After the encounter his car started no trouble at all and he
drove on into Las Vegas.
(John Schuessler. The Catalogue of Medical Injury Cases. APRO Bulletin, March 1976.) 1115

-/01/76 1500 Between Pelkosenniemi and Kemijarvi, Finland.

The witness was driving his car on the outskirts of Kemijarvi when he spotted a large disc
object descend towards the ground. As it flew over his car his engine ceased to run and the
bright ligt landed on the road some 100m away. The object was approx. 4m in diameter and
1.5m in height and shining brightly. A few minutes later 2 humanoids appeared beside the

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object wearing dark green suits and about 80cm in height. They walked towards him and then
hurried back to the object. The witness did not see how they entered the craft but the object
ascended almost at once straight up and vanished behind thin cloud. When the object
disappeared he was able to restart his car. He drove to the scene and found three landing
marks .
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1975-79.) 1227

01/02/76 Eureka, Utah, U.S.A.

A report that a half triangle, half round object followed a man in his car, with the object
causing vehicle interference, and physical effects on the driver.
(NUFORC. Robert Gribble Files.) 1116

10/02/76 2130 La Fargett, France.

A disc with an orange dome landed during which a car lights failed several witnesses.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1490

15/02/76 2010 between Olivares and Gerena, Sevilla, Spain.

Two men Francisco Gelo and Ignacio Carmona were travelling to Gerena by motorcycle were
suddenly alarmed to see a cigar-shaped object a few metres from the edge of the highway.
The object had a row of illuminated windows, and was stationary in the air about one metre
from the ground. At a distance of 100 metres from the object the motorcycle engine cut out.
Turning around and returning towards Olivares, the witnesses noticed that they were being
followed by an intense white light almost overhead which continued to pursue them for four
or five kilometres.
(FSR Vol 22, No 3, p31.) 0508

17/02/76 0330 Lyell Highway, Tasmania, Australia.

Two truck drivers in one vehicle were paced for three hours by a yellowish-white, dome-
shaped light which changed its position if the vehicle stopped. The radio was affected by a lot
of static, until the object finally climbed away and disappeared.
(ACUFOS - Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0509

18/02/76 2000 Okatchee, Alabama, U.S.A.

Two women driving through a rural area reported that lights high up in the sky paced their
car. Near Okatchee, they saw a large orange object near the ground, and their CB radio
stopped working. Two objects were seen following the car until they reached Lincoln, when
five objects could be seen. After passing through Lincoln, two of the objects, glowing and egg-
shaped, stopped following the car, and the CB radio suddenly started working again.
(M. Rodeghier, CUFOS, Vehicle Interference UFO Reports.) 0829

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A woman was returning home after driving her daughter to school, when a large luminous
object, circular and bluish in colour, approached from behind and came lower over her car.
At the same time, the car engine failed, together with all of the electrical system. The car was
a Volkswagen, and it was noted in the report that with this type of car, having a rear engine
and ventilation slots above, any radiation effects from an object would have more easily
entered the engine compartment.
(MUFON Symposium Proceedings, 1977.) 1117

20/02/76 1900 Essex County. Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Red lights were seen in the sky, and then two flattened disc-shaped objects with three
triangular lights descended close to the car of the two witnesses. During part of the sighting
there was heavy static on the car radio, before the two objects moved away out of view.
(Mark Rodeghier, CUFOS, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, Case 394, and MUFON
Case File.) 0830

05/03/76 2125 Redmond, Oregon, U.S.A.

The witness was driving home when she encountered an oval object with bright lights and
revolving red lights, hovering silently above the road. As the car approached the object, the
radio went off. The object shot up into the air and moved to the side of the road, where it
hovered once more and directed a searchlight-type beam at the ground.
(Center for UFO Studies, U.S.A. News Bulletin, June 1976.) 0510

06/03/76 1850 Crowborough, Sussex, England.

Two bright lights like car headlights, with a red light between and green and red lights to the
left and right were seen by two witnesses driving along the A26. The lights appeared to be
passing the car and came directly overhead. As the lights approached closely, the witnesses
began to feel strange, their ears popped and they felt shivery.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 5, No 2, P iii of cover.) 0511

14/03/76 2145 Lliria, Valencia, Spain.

A couple driving home saw a humanoid silhouette moving on the left side of the road (their
right hand side). The being had two small lights side by side on the top of its head and it was
wearing a shiny dark blue one piece suit with tight legs and a general appearance of the
“Michelin man”. The suit covered the thing’s face and its arms were held close to the body
and the thing did not so much walk as move its feet together in a waddling motion but floating
above the ground. As they passed the thing the car’ electrical system failed and later had to
be replaced.
(LDLN 179.) 1189

22/03/76 0545 Nemingha, New South Wales, Australia.

A couple had stopped their car in front of a petrol service station when a bright, greenish-
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direction. The light then disappeared. The car moved to the wrong side of the road, became
enveloped in a thick ball of white haze and stopped. After about two minutes the white haze
disappeared. (The car lights were assumed to be out at this stage.) A woman stepped out of
the car and used a cloth to wipe the windscreen, which seemed to be covered in a white
substance. After a few minutes she was about to get back into the car when its lights came
back on. The cloth, which she had thrown on the roadside, was seen to burst into flames. As
the car was restarted and driven slowly past, the witnesses noticed that it was covered in a
thick paint-like substance. The couple were so concerned by the incident that they wrote a
letter to the Tamworth 'Northern Daily Leader' newspaper seeking additional information
from other possible witnesses.
(APRO Bulletin, Vol 25, No 1, p6, and Vol 25, No 2, p1 and 3.) 0512

27/03/76 0645 St Denis, Reunion Island, Indian Ocean.

In the French territory of Reunion Island, the engine and headlights of a car failed near what
appeared to be a small cloud at the roadside in St Denis. The cloud then rose vertically, and
moved away quickly towards the southwest.
(Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1976, NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0831

-/03/76 2200 Tea Tree Road, Tasmania, Australia.

A man and his wife were driving home when they observed five orange coloured lights in the
sky which appeared to keep pace with the car. When the headlights were dipped for an
approaching car, both headlights failed but the parking lights remained on. The orange lights
remained visible, seemed to stop when the car stopped, and finally veered away to the
northeast, disappearing after being visible for about 30 minutes.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0513

21/04/76 2230 Stacy, Minnesota, U.S.A.

When driving through marshland, a woman saw a greenish light near the highway. She
stopped her pickup truck on a bridge, and saw that the light was pulsating and moving
towards her. The light passed overhead, and there was static interference on her CB radio as
the light came near. The light suddenly went up vertically and disappeared.
(CUFOS.) 1118

22/04/76 2300 Elmwood, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

The witness, a relief police officer, noticed a glow at the top of a hill and went to investigate.
He radioed a report that the object was a UFO, and then the radio went dead as he was
describing the object. The officer was found in a dazed state and was admitted to hospital.
Relating the incident after his release from hospital four days later, the officer described the
object as huge, hovering in the air and with legs extended beneath it. The object rose straight
up at speed. There was a flash, the car lights went out, the radio went dead and the motor
stopped.
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14/05/76 Olavarria, Argentina.

A truck driver stated that he witnessed an object which emitted a brilliant light, and that both
he and his truck had been taken inside the object. A report in the Buenos Aires newspaper 'La
Razon' of June 1st noted that the driver was still receiving hospital treatment for the
physiological effects of the incident.
(FSR Vol 22, No 3, p31-32.) 0515

03/06/76 2155 Troy, Michigan, U.S.A.

Two people in a car saw a shiny metallic object in the air nearby, and followed it. As they
followed its erratic movements, their radio emitted static interference. Several minutes later
the object accelerated suddenly into the distance.
(MUFON Symposium Proceedings, 2003. M. Rodeghier, Reports involving Vehicle
Interference, CUFOS, 1981.) 1119

04/06/76 Los Ranchos, Virgen de Lujan, Bahia Blanca, Argentina.

Jose Pascali was driving when his car failed at an intersection he saw at a height of 120m a
luminous object roughly 30m in diameter. The object remained over the area for some time
then rose taking off. When the object had left his car engine functioned normally, “like
magic”.
(MUFON Journal. No. 110.) 1337

11/06/76 0130 Romans, Drome, France.

A young woman Mlle H Giuliana was driving home to Romans after visiting a cinema in
Valenca with friends when the car engine failed and the lights went out. She then saw, about
20 metres away on the road a very bright luminous orange shape, and as she was afraid she
covered her eyes with her hands. When she removed her hands again there was nothing to
be seen. Arriving back home, she realized that it had taken more than two hours to cover the
usual ten minute journey. After recounting her experience she later agreed to a hypnosis
session, and an apparent abduction experience was revealed. She described being taken
towards the light and into a room with a rounded ceiling before being returned to the car,
when the luminous object then departed at speed.
(FSR Vol 32, No 3, p10-13.) 0516

15/06/76 2300 Steenvoorde, France.

At the beginning of the summer, a truck driver sees a luminous mass which comes to a stop
near the road. The witness stops his vehicle, gets out and approaches the object. After a while
he comes back to his truck, climbs back up, tries to start and checks that it is impossible. After
a while the object takes off, the truck then restarts normally. When he returns home he finds
that compared to the time it all took him, there is a gap of an hour and an half.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, Lights in the Night number 317 ) 1491

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A police officer saw a bluish-white light crossing the road behind his vehicle. Then the light
came closer. The officer described a glider-like object with a ray of light swinging around
behind it. When the light hit the car the engine and lights failed and the car came to a stop.
The object made a slight whistling sound and disappeared behind the local landscape.
(International UFO Reporter, 34.1, p 20.) 0832

22/06/76 2230 Galdar, Canary Islands.

A large grey-blue sphere was sighted by Dr Padron Leon, taxi driver Francisco Estevez, and the
son of a patient that the doctor was being taken to visit, as their car rounded a curve. The
object was transparent with stars visible through it, and was suspended a few feet above the
ground. Two tall red figures could be seen towards the centre of the sphere. The figures
seemed to be wearing helmets, the heads were surrounded by a glowing aura or halo, and
there were wing-like appendages at the end of the arms. The car radio suddenly went dead
and the witnesses felt very cold. The object started to rise, and seemed to grow larger as it
rose higher. The two men sought refuge in a farmhouse nearby, where the farmer reported
that his television set had suddenly gone dead. The object could still be seen clearly. The
object was observed by several other witnesses near Galdar, and by three astronomers at the
Monte Izane Astrophysical Observatory. The astronomers described the object as a brilliant
sphere with a swirling centre. The object approached the observatory, paused, made a 90
degree turn and moved away at speed. The astronomers could not explain the object, which
was seen from the observatory for between three and five minutes, and by witnesses near
Galdar for about 30 minutes.
(ABC, Madrid, 27/6/76, FSR Vol 22, No 4, p iii of cover, and FSR Vol 23, No 3, p 4-7.) 0517

13/07/76 1930 Rochester, Victoria, Australia.

Two nursing sisters were driving in a van when a motorcycle travelling ahead veered into the
side of the road as a white light approached. The light seemed to be about one metre in
diameter, and turned in front of the van before disappearing. A radio in the van had been
turned off because of static interference. On the following day the van was difficult to start,
with ignition and electrical problems persisting.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0518

15/07/76 2115 Walker's Flat, South Australia, Australia.

A red object was seen as large as the Sun, and the lights of a car were affected for about a
minute until the object accelerated away rapidly.
(UFO Research, South Australia, and ACUFOS Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference
UFO Events.) 0519

18/07/76 2000 Mitchellsburg, Kentucky, U.S.A.

As Charlie and Doris Gilpin were travelling home in a pickup truck when they observed a low
level disc-shaped object pacing the vehicle. The object came low and silently over the truck,

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and was estimated to be about 75 feet in diameter. The driver was unable to control the
vehicle, but tried to keep it on the road. The speedometer was showing 85 mph, although he
estimated the speed to be about 15 mph confirmed by the slowly passing surroundings. His
wife and family were able to leave the truck, and ran towards a farmhouse for safety. The
object moved over the house, a humming sound could be heard and a sharp breeze was felt.
When the object moved away the journey was resumed. On nearing the Gravel Switch area
they saw a number of people standing outdoors, watching the object as it moved low across
farmlands before it finally disappeared.
(Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p 222, Hilberg, R. Around and About the Saucer World.) 0520

31/07/76 2330 St Georges les Baillargeaux, France.

The witness was driving on the D20 in the direction of Jaunay-Clain when suddenly his car
radio, windshield wipers and headlights stopped. He gets out of his vehicle and observes
about 300 m from him a luminous cigar 100 m long in a vertical position which seems to be
30 m above the ground. The object motionless for a few seconds moves to the right, becoming
pale yellow, off-white then blue-green. It suddenly disappears after 4 minutes. His vehicle
then runs smoothly again. The witness will notice that his watch is delayed by 4 minutes
(Ovni, Premier dossier complet ... by Figuet M. / Ruchon JL ** ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979.) 0123

08/08/76 2200 Gaspesian Park. Quebec. Canada.

A couple were driving through the park with their two sons, on a foggy night, when a beam
of red light made a spot on the road ahead. The laser like beam was sharp sided, and stayed
just ahead of the car. The light then broke up into separate sections, with these appearing to
retreat into each other before rising back into the fog. A white light then appeared, moving
onto the road ahead. The car was brought to a stop, a wave of heat was felt and the car lights
failed, together with the radio. The engine, which was still running, then also failed and could
not be restarted. All of the family got out of the car and began walking towards the bright
light on the road, which was then seen to be like a metallic scallop shell resting on legs. The
object had windows, and was wider than the road. A dull sound could be heard, and the light
coming from the object then dimmed. Two strange looking tall beings were seen, with the
witnesses startled to see that the beings were floating above the road surface. The family ran
back to the car, there were a burst of light and another wave of heat. When they looked up
again, the object had disappeared, leaving a slightly luminous vapour. In reporting the
experience, the family described effects of itching sensations which persisted for about ten
hours.
(Joan Ferguson, Les Humanoides, Lemeac, Quebec,1977. Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT Files,
CUFOS.) 0833

12/08/76 0020 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.

A motorist noticed a break in a local radio transmission. The engine of his vehicle started to
miss, while the headlights flickered and dimmed. The engine and lights returned to normal
almost immediately. A flickering blue light was seen illuminating the tree tops, and a figure
was noticed moving towards the car. The witness reported that he became aware of some
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a gadolinium ingot package was taken from the car by the robot, which seemed to float along
in spite of the weight of the package. The witness followed and came to an object standing in
a clearing. The object was about 40 feet in diameter, supported on three legs and with light
coming from underneath. Within about 300 feet of the object the witness felt his hair stirring
and noted a low humming noise. After ten minutes the being reappeared and the package
was placed on the ground. The humming sound and light increased and the object took off,
hovering and swaying slightly before it accelerated towards the north, disappearing in a few
seconds. The witness continued his journey and delivered the package for air shipment. He
was later informed that the magnetic properties of the gadolinium were unusual and on
analysis a depletion of the lightest isotope was found.
(National UFO Network Inc, Texas, U.S.A.) 0521

15/08/76 0145 Boyer, Tasmania, Australia.

A light was seen coming closer then moving away, described as 'like a jelly bean with a dome
on top'. The interior of the vehicle was lit up, and the radio faded before the object
disappeared.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0523

18/08/76 2030 Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

A family of four were travelling near Orlando when they saw a saucer-shaped object at low
altitude over their car. The driver, an amateur pilot and trained observer, stopped the car and
opened the windows to see the object more clearly. There was no sound from the object,
described as having a dome-shaped red light on top and white window-like lights around it.
The car's CB radio was filled with static, and because of this effect the witnesses were unable
to transmit or receive calls. The object was moving around with tight turns, and was observed
for about 30 minutes before it disappeared behind trees. The experience was reported to the
local police, and the witnesses were told that there had been several other similar reports.
(The UFO Investigator, September 1976, p 2.) 0834

21/08/76 2330 St Georges Les Ballargea, France.

A 100m long cigar shaped object seen on the ground 30m away during the sighting a car raido,
lights and wipers stopped working.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1492

28/08/76 Malsjoen, Norway.

Guard Steinar Langeland was in a parked car, and was about to begin driving when he found
that there was a problem with the engine. When he got out investigating, he saw a glowing
square shaped object descending a nearby mountain slope. The object kept about thirty
metres above the ground, and passed close to the witness. There was a cracking sound from
the car engine at the same time, and the driver thought he could see the outline of a dark
object around the light. When the object had gone, the car engine could be restarted, but he
found later that two of the sparking plugs were broken.
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17/09/76 0330 Wingen, New South Wales, Australia.

A motor mechanic driving on the New England Highway found that his car stopped suddenly.
No faults could be found, but he was unable to restart the car. The lights were also
inoperative, and although the car was stationary the speedometer was jumping to 40 kph
then down again. His torch would not turn on, and its magnetic clamp would not hold onto
the car body. He then saw a large blue ball of light which passed low overhead before it
disappeared over a mountain range. He was able to restart the car after some difficulty, but
there were continuing problems including the car starting by itself.
(Australian UFO Researcher No 58/59, p4, UFO Research NSW, Case 78-049) 0524

05/10/76 1840 Rankin Springs, New South Wales, Australia.

A credit manager driving home with a friend and daughter noticed a stationary object low
down in the sky. The object then moved in a southeast to north westerly direction at about
45 degrees to the horizon. It looked like a flattened disc, larger at the front with 'portholes'.
The car radio had been on, but ceased to operate when the object appeared.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0526

-/10/76 2000 near Viborg, Denmark.

During a journey to visit relatives on a dark rainy evening, a woman and two passengers were
travelling through a moorland area when they saw four distinct lights over a swampy area,
about 15 metres from the road. The car lights and engine failed, and the car could not be
restarted. The window was rolled down but no sound could be heard from the lights, which
were shining directly downwards. After about 15 minutes the four lights were drawn upwards
into something unseen, and disappeared. The car lights then returned, the engine could be
restarted and the journey was continued.
(BUFORA. Examining the Evidence, p11.) 0527

-/10/76 2115 Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

A woman was driving in her car with her 6 year old daughter when she heard a very loud
sound as she stopped at a stop sign. Looking out she saw a large mass about the size of a
basketball court above her car. It was making a roaring noise. The object was round maybe a
disk/oval shape and was silvery grey in colour. Around its perimeter was a smear of
multicoloured lights. The object moved away and she had an urge to follow. As she followed
she felt that the object had control over her car as the speed increased and the steering wheel
felt like it was being tugged. She applied the brakes and the car barely responded and finally
came to a halt. The object was then gone.
(M. Swords. Grassroots UFOs.) 0713

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A circular object with blue lights and a dome almost collided with car and with vehicle
interference effect. There were continued phenomena for several days, with many witnesses
and animal reactions.
(NUFORC 23.50 [Link] Files.) 1121

05/11/76 0100 The Corps River, Torvilliers, France.

Four people are in the car Going to Troyes. After leaving the village of Torvilliers they observe
an object at low altitude of oval shape, slightly flattened on the underside which seems to
descend. It was metallic yellow white, very bright, surrounded by an orange halo and leaving
an orange trail in its path. He was heading towards Montgueux while descending. He passed
behind the roof of a house the length of which was less than the object. Suddenly the latter
tilted and spun vertically in the sky disappearing in a few seconds. During the observation the
cassette player in the car began to sizzle. Another witness is also said to have made the
observation.
(Lights in the Night number 161.) 0129

14/11/76 near Winchester, Hampshire, England.

The driver and passenger in a car saw a cigar-shaped orange coloured UFO. They turned onto
a side road and the object came lower and closer. The car was reported to have been moved
bodily to the side of the road, where it stopped. Three occupants were seen in the cockpit of
the object, and one came out and approached the car. The figure had pink eyes but otherwise
seemed normal. The car engine, which had been switched off, started up on its own and
'raced'.
(FSR Vol 22, No 4, p22, and FSR Vol 22, No 5.) 0528

16/11/76 1930 Junosuando, Norbotten, Sweden.

Olle Rostmark (35) was driving along a country logging road, south of Tornefors, when he
collided with a brilliantly lit sphere, about 1. 5m diameter,. The car started to vibrate and Olle
felt a burning pain. The whole incident lasted about 30 seconds. No damage could be found
on the car afterwards. Olle felt paralysed and the next day his vision was impaired. A doctor
suggested that he may have been suffering from snow blindness.
(MUFON UFO Journal 118.) 0989

22/11/76 2330 Rockford, Michigan, U.S.A.

A man observed an oblong greenish-coloured object descending towards the ground. The
object was surrounded by a haze, and there was a reddish colour at the rear. It was seen for
only a few seconds before moving behind some trees. There was interference on the car radio
during the sighting.
(CUFOS.) 1122

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Witness claimed that a UFO fly directly over his car during which time he experienced some
radio interference. He heard a humming noise and described the object as having an outer
ring which revolved around a stationary object. (Possible Hoax)
(New England UFO Newsletter July 1977. 1428

26/12/76 1930 near Whitehorse, Yukon. Canada.

Two ambulance attendants saw two oval-shaped objects in the sky, pacing their vehicle for
some time. The objects were seen intermittently as they passed behind mountains. At one
point during the sighting there was no control of the vehicle's electrical system, including the
lights and siren, with the two objects eventually moving out of view.
(CUFOS.) 1123

30/12/76 1830 Winchester, Hampshire, England.

Mrs Joyce Bowles was driving home with two friends and travelling east on the B3404 road
when a light was seen going in and out of the clouds, and a high pitched whistling sound was
heard. The car started to rock in all directions, and then they reported finding themselves
apparently in a craft of some kind with silver suited occupants. They next remembered being
in the car again in an area that they did not recognize. After driving around for about half an
hour they were able to find their way home, arriving back at 8.15 pm. Mrs Bowles and one of
the other witnesses had been involved in a previous vehicle incident also near Winchester on
November 14th.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 5, No 6, p15-17.) 0529

-/12/76 2300 Sutton, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

A police officer was driving his cruisier behind a tow truck as the two vehicles were responding
to a car accident on I89 and were travelling North in a snow storm. Suddenly a blue light lit
up the entire area this light was described as varying from bright to extremely bright and
brighter than blue strobe lights on the car. Suddenly a simultaneous power failure occurred
in the tow truck and police car. All lights, radio and ignition systems failed. With both vehicles
dead on the highway the police officer could see the tow truck operator leaning over his
dashboard as if trying to find the problem. After an undetermined time both vehicles started
running again and returned to normal operation.
(MUFON New Hampshire Newsletter No.24.) 1358

-/-/76 2350 Alliance, Ohio, U.S.A.

A woman driving home from work had a curious feeling of being watched. Her radio then
developed static and eventually failed and the car became sluggish. Looking up she saw that
her car was being paced, at telephone pole height, by a large domed disc, which started and
stopped and changed speed with her. Her watch had also stopped. The object then hovered
directly ahead, spun anticlockwise to the right of her car. It then flipped backwards and
disappeared. Everything then returned to normal, except for the watch, the battery of which
was dead.
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-/-/76 Steenvoorde, France.

The driver of a diesel vehicle was travelling southwards at night when he saw an unusual glow
in the sky to his right. He stopped to watch as the light approached. It had a hazy outline but
when it stopped it looked sharply defined and lit up the area brightly. The object was
described as orange-red with a flat base, and hovered about ten metres above the ground.
He got out and walked a short distance towards the object, then decided to return to his
vehicle. He found that the engine would not start, which had never happened before. After
the object moved slowly away again in the same direction, rising slightly, the engine could be
started up straight away. He felt strange after the incident, and on arriving home much later
than expected he realized that there seemed to be a period of missing time.
(FSR Vol 38, No 2, p23.) 0530

-/-/76 0400 Quebrantos-V. N de Gaiao-Oporto, Portugal.

Mr Lima aged 46 was driving when he observed two entities with humanoid appearance they
were about 7 ft tall and coloured blu/green. He also noticed a bright yellow light/object
behind a wall and a noise similar to a compressed air which caused the leaves on the tree to
move. The engine on his car experienced difficulties and his headlights lost brightness.
(Cassiano Monteiro – Portucat.) 1483

05/01/77 0410 near Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.

The driver of a pickup truck travelling back from a visit to his parents saw a red light in the
sky, and then watched it pass over an approaching car. The light became very large, about
double the width of the highway, and as the light came close he felt a prickling sensation in
his arms and legs. He later described the red light as coming from a domed object with two
rings rotating in opposite directions underneath it. There was severe interference on the
truck's radio, and a loss of engine power. He seemed to lose consciousness for a while, and
afterwards felt severe aching in his limbs. The other car involved stopped just ahead of his
own vehicle, and both drivers were later checked over in hospital.
(FSR Vol 24, No 3, p8-11.) 0531

12/01/77 2000 Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A.

While driving back to Pensacola on the FL267, then turning onto the Sudberry road and into
the paper company woods, the witness experienced failure of his vehicle engine. It would not
restart, although the starter and lights were operating normally. Beams of light were seen
coming from behind the trees, and when he got out and shut the door, the sound of this was
unusually loud. When he spoke, his voice was also very loud and reverberating. Footsteps
were heard approaching through the woods but nothing could be seen -even when the
footsteps moved behind him through the car lights. A bright pinkish-orange ball of light was
then seen rising slowly from behind the trees, and the witness had a feeling of deep cold. As
the light rose higher its brightness decreased, and an object which was larger on top started
forming around the bright centre, until the shape looked solid and metallic. There were red,
blue, and green lights around the perimeter. The witness reported experiencing some kind of

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telepathic communication, and described the object as appearing to become larger rather
than smaller as it rose higher, until it moved away eastwards. He reported the experience to
Tyndal Air Force Base officers, also describing a series of psychic and paranormal experiences
which had happened over a period of years before and after the 1977 event.
(MUFON UFO Journal, November 1985, p 6-7.) 0835

27/01/77 0105 Prospect, Kentucky, U.S.A.

A driver had just set out to return home when he watched a fiery coloured rectangular object
hovering just above the tree line. He no longer seemed to be in control of the car, and the
radio failed about 15 seconds after the start of the sighting. No sound was heard, and when
he was directly underneath it the object began moving away in a north westerly direction
faster than a jet aircraft. He continued home, arriving at 1.45a.m. after a drive which should
only have taken about seven minutes. His eyes were found to be entirely bloodshot, and he
continued to suffer considerable pain. Later hypnosis revealed evidence of an abduction
experience.
(FSR Vol 23, No 3, p15-16.) 0532

-/01/77 0300 Bergen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Encyclopaedia salesman Steven Woodward (18) was driving through a wooded area north of
Bergen en route from Celle to Hamburg. The radio, which was turned on, suddenly began to
emit a high pitched humming sound, which faded like the static from high tension wires. He
turned the radio off and then the car became filled with a smell like “perspiring bodies”, which
also faded. Steven turned the radio on again after about 5 minutes but it was still dead,
though he now left it on. After a further 10 minutes, Steven noticed, through the rear view
mirror, an intense circular light a short distance behind, at the height of a car headlight. He
thought it was a motorcyclist, though the light was weaving about erratically. Looking over
his shoulder, Steven was surprised to see that it had disappeared, but when he looked in his
mirror it was back again, looking to his rear it was gone again. Puzzled, Steven stopped the
car and got out. Everything seemed quiet, but when he looked at his car, he saw a circular
light moving along his roof and bonnet. It was oval and brilliant white and it suddenly
vanished. Steven then tried to walk back towards his car, but found that his feet appeared to
be stuck to the ground and, looking down, saw the same oval light engulfing his feet, legs and
a surrounding area about 35cm in diameter. After some minutes, which were hazy in his
memory, Steven had a sensation of blood rushing down his legs and the light had gone. After
standing for a minute or two in a daze, he staggered back to his car. He felt alright, but when
he got into the car, he encountered the putrid smell he had noticed earlier. He began to feel
dizzy and became aware of a metallic taste in his mouth and a cold shivering down his spine.
He drove off at speed and after a while the radio began to function again.
(Andrew Collins in Strange Phenomena 1,1.) 0952

04/02/77 0225 near Clayton, Staffordshire, England.

An A.A. motor engineer was driving his van and was in radio communication with a colleague
driving about 50 yards behind him. The radio was suddenly swamped by static interference,
a background hissing noise and a high pitched note. An orange light was then seen moving

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west parallel with the road and as the object hovered for a few seconds the radio interference
increased in volume. The object then resumed its movement to the west, and the noise on
the radio gradually faded out. Police at the Stafford headquarters later confirmed that their
radios had also been affected by severe static interference at the same time, but they had
been unable to identify a cause.
(FSR Vol 23, No 2, p30.) 0533

06/02/77 0100 Idole, Dyfed, Wales.

Mrs Mary Louise Basset was driving home from her restaurant in Carmarthen to Ferryside,
with the radio tuned to Radio Luxemburg, As she approached Idole, Mary noticed a blue
flashing light on a rounded mass by the side of the road, while her radio was increasing
drowned out by static. This light was very powerful and she saw what looked like barriers,
which made her think that it was a road accident. However, when she reached the spot there
was nothing to be seen although her radio was still acting up. On the top of the hill before
Llandyfaelog she saw the same thing again. He radio was now completely drowned out. The
amorphous mass with the flashing light was now on the other side of the road. Rather
unnerved Mary drove home. When she arrived the dogs refused to greet her and one of them
suffered from extreme anxiety afterwards, which lasted for several months.
(Pugh and Holliday 1979.) 0942

06/02/77 0200 Sims, Missouri, U.S.A.

Lawrence McCool of Pineville parked his truck on a ridge near the Sims County Store, looking
for strange lights which had been seen in the area. He saw some lights flying in formation in
the distance. After a white he decided to drive home. At 0230 he began to hear strange noises
on his CB and then the whole of truck’s electrical system went dead. Suddenly a brilliant
molten-copper red object, 5.5-6m diameter appeared at 12m altitude on the road ahead.
After 1 or 2 minutes it took off into the overcast, at which the electrical system returned to
life.
(National Enquirer 10 January 1978.) 1652

09/02/77 Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.

Report of a large object with blue lights and a dome, swooping down in front of a car, affecting
the speedometer, then pacing the car and eventually landing or disappearing.
(NUFORC -National UFO Reporting Center, 14.20 [Link] Files.) 1124

10/02/77 0045 Docetteville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

While driving alone to Southville, Tom Thibault had his car pushed back 75m by 9m X 18m
object hovering 3-3.5m above the road. A blue light emerged from the object, giving Tom an
electric shock and creating an unbearable noise. Tom suffered a memory loss and afterwards
suffered from headaches when driving past the area.
(UFO Pulse Analyser 1, 4.) 0921

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A truck driver saw a domed disc it was approx. 20ft across it caused the truck engine, lights
and radio to fail. It faded away in bad weather as it was sleeting. When it had gone the truck
was fine. The sighting lasted 12 minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1494

15/02/77 2230 Castellaccio, Livorno, Italy.

Under a clear night the witness was driving his car when the engine suddenly stopped. As he
stepped out of his car a round object was seen hovering about 50m above his car. He
estimated that the object was 40m in diameter. Suddenly a beam of light descended and a
being that approached him telling him not to be afraid. The being was then levitated back into
the object with the beam of light.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1975-79.) 1228

22/02/1977 2130 Villamarchante, Valencia, Spain.

Antonio Serena, his wife Francesca Castellanos and their 3 children are returning home when
they see a light in the sky it grew in size to the size of three full moons and very bright. As the
object approached the car the engine started to fail. The object started to go back and forth
across the road which effected the car it seemed to drain the battery. The object then went
in front of car and came down towards the road and extended some landing gear. As the
object descended a cupola was observed. The light was so bright to determine the shape of
the object. The diameter seemed to be approx. 15ft.

They stopped the car and one witness was sick other witnesses heard a noise like a rumbling
of a distant train. For 1 to 2 minutes the object remained above the car hovering approx. 25ft
away. Another car appeared the object moved away returning once the car had gone.

They then continued on the journey home. Next day the car was observed to have a
discharged battery and the cells completely dry.
(Story, R. Encyclopaedia of UFOs.) 1353

-/02/77 Formosa, Goias State, Brazil.

A family of four decided to drive to the Itiquira Waterfall in the city of Formosa. On arriving
there, the night was very clear, and the car lights were then turned off so that the stars could
be seen. The family were very surprised when a larger star crossed the sky and came closer,
until it was seen to be an object shaped like a hat with several lights underneath. The light
became so bright that they had to shield their eyes, and they were very alarmed by the
appearance until the object moved away again. The car was then driven away from the area,
but about five minutes later the object was back again, positioned over the road ahead. This
time the object could be seen more clearly. It was estimated to be about ten metres in
diameter and three metres tall, mushroom-shaped with the top part spinning, with red lights
at the edge and white flashes coming from the body of the object. After a further five minutes
it accelerated away and disappeared once more. As a result the legs and the car were found
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(UFO Matrix, Vol.1. Issue 3, p 79-80.) 0716

-02/77 Flora, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Police Chief Herbert Roberts was called to see a strange bright light hovering it caused
interference on the card radio. It was reported that at least 200 cars were converged on the
rural road watching the object.
(APCIC V4 N3.)

07/03/77 1000 Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England.

Mrs J. Bowles, who had been involved in the previous Winchester cases of November 14th
and December 30th, 1976, was driving with a companion when the car engine spluttered. A
humming noise was heard and a bright, glowing oval object was seen. A 'man' was then seen
and Mrs Bowles reported that a message was communicated to her. The being returned to
the object which took off with a whistling and humming sound, moving parallel to the ground
while gathering speed.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 6, No 1, p iii of cover.) 0534

09/03/77 0310 Nelson, Lancashire, England.

Two night shift workers Brian Grimshaw and his friend Jeff stopped their car when they
noticed a series of bright lights in the sky. A cigar or oval shaped object with a shiny black
body was then seen to drop from the clouds and start to move slowly towards the car. The
object had bright lights at each side, coloured lights below, and was surrounded by a grey
mist. The object made a low humming noise and came directly above the car, where it
hovered. Several attempts were made to start the engine without success. The car lights
dimmed. The witnesses stood outside the car to watch the object for about ten minutes
before it moved away and disappeared. The car engine could be restarted when the object
had moved into the distance, but the radio had not worked since the incident.
(Burnley Evening Star, 11/03/77, FSR Vol 23, No 2 p3-5.) 0535

13/03/77 2030 Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia.

A bluish-white globe of light moving in a straight line was observed by two teenagers. Their
car engine failed during the sighting, which lasted for only a few seconds, but the headlights
stayed on. The object vanished in the distance, moving at a steady rate, and the car engine
could then be restarted with no problem.
(ACUFOS.) 1125

16/03/77 2230 Moonie, Queensland, Australia.

Two people travelling from Brisbane in a converted utility vehicle stopped near the town of
Moonie for a short sleep, and woke up about an hour later to find the vehicle lights still on.
After a further hour the lights were on again, and the battery was flat. A feeling of immobility
was experienced, with a strange electrifying sensation. A strange object was seen hovering

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some distance away, and an acrid smell was noticed. The object rose higher and moved
quickly away as a truck approached, and the driver stopped to assist. The vehicle was push-
started, but it ran very erratically as the journey was continued to St George. The lights and
generator were stopping and starting, with large variations of the temperature gauge. The
vehicle was found difficult to control at times, as if there was a sideways force against it.
Several unknown lights were seen amongst the stars, local residents also saw strange objects
in the sky at around the same time, and the truck driver who had helped the couple reported
that his truck did not behave normally afterwards.
(MUFON UFO Journal, August 1980, p 4-5.) 0836

17/03/77 2000 Volos, Thessaly, Greece.

A woman driving near here saw a luminous object with red and white lights, and a sort of
yellow cross hovering. The car’s electrics malfunctioned and the engine failed. The object
made a right turn into a field and disappeared in a few seconds. The car seemed to move
forward of its own accord and the woman had difficulty getting it to slow down. During the
next 30 minutes there was no traffic on the otherwise busy road.
(Evans 1989 p145.) 0901

17/03/77 2005 near Haverfordwest, Dyfed, Wales.

Mrs Pauline Coombes was driving with her three children when a strange light dropped out
of the sky, passed overhead then turned and followed the car. The object, like a yellow ball
with a torch-like beam from its base, hedge-hopped alongside the car for about a mile. Just
as the family were reaching their home the engine and lights of the car suddenly died. The
incident was one of several reports from the same area.
(Western Telegraph, Haverfordwest, 14/04/77. Randall Jones Pugh and F.W.
Holiday, The Dyfed Enigma.) 0536

20/03/77 2000 Nuoro, Italy.

While a disc shaped object circled a car beam of lights observed the car engine died and radio
interference noted.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1495

23/03/77 0540 Farmland, Indiana, U.S.A.

On a snowy morning, blue lights were seen ahead and were thought to be a snow plough, but
one light which was blinking flew across in front of the slowly moving car. Between six and a
dozen blue lights took up position just two or three feet ahead. The car was illuminated by a
blue light and there was static interference on the radio.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0837

-/03/77 2205 Pineville, Missouri, U.S.A.

Ron Cargile was driving through a wooded area when his CB became filled with static and he
saw a glow to his left. This passed over to a tree ahead. It was a brilliant domed disc 1.5-3m

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diameter, with a metallic looking band around its centre. Its light was illuminating the ground.
Ron drove away and as he did so his radio reception improved.
(Randle 1989.) 0885

22/04/77 2345 Yatala Vale, Adelaide, Australia.

A woman driving home at about midnight saw an oval shaped light heading towards her. As
the light passed overhead the car headlights failed, the engine stopped and the radio cut out.
A few seconds later everything returned to normal, and she continued her journey home.
(FSR Vol 24, No 5, p29, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0538

-/04/77 2300 Grass Valley, California, U.S.A.

A witness was driving home when they experienced a period of missing time they had
observed one strange object and a grey being was seen. The car levitated and had EM effects.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1496

-/04/77 Idole, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

A woman driving back to her home in Ferryside observed a bright blue, flashing light. The
music on the car radio was immediately replaced by static interference. The light disappeared,
and the radio returned to normal.
(BUFORA, Journal TAP Vol 1, No 1, p12.) 0539

-/05/77 1800 Rocianna del Condado, Spain.

Witness on a motorcycle observed a large disc object with portholes overhead the motorbike
lights burnt out.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1497

-/05/77 Pic St Loup, Herault, France.

A man was out driving when his car broke down and he saw a luminous disc in a field and by
it a being of normal human size and appearance. The witness returned the next day and found
traces at the site.
(LDLN 195.) 0884

06/06/77 near Barnard Castle, Yorkshire, England.

A motorcyclist was travelling at night on a rural stretch of the B6278 road in wet weather
conditions when he saw to the south two purple coloured objects like car headlights, which
disappeared after about 30 seconds. As a car then started to overtake him, both the car and
the motorcycle were surrounded by a brilliant light corning from a silent oval shaped object
with a solid outline, which was above and behind the vehicles. At this point the motorcycle
began to lose power, and the throttle had no effect. Heat was felt on the petrol tank, and on
the motorcyclist's back and legs, and his jacket began to steam. After about a hundred yards

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the object disappeared. The car was similarly affected by a loss of engine power, which could
not be explained by the much shaken motorist when they both stopped at the side of the
road to discuss the incident. The motorcyclist also found that in spite of the rain his clothes
were now dry. The incident happened on the same night that a brilliant coloured spherical
object was reported by residents as it hovered and travelled silently over gardens at Waltham
Abbey, Essex.
(FSR Vol 23, No 5, p6-7, FSR Vol 23, No 3, p25-27.) 0541

09/06/77 Long Melford, Suffolk. England.

A man and a woman travelling in a Jaguar car suddenly experienced engine trouble while
driving home. The woman having seen a bright light traverse the lower part of the sky shortly
before. After a while the car’s engine started normally.
(Awareness Winter 1977.) 1265

16/06/77 0515 between Noupoort and Middelburg, South Africa.

A glow was seen at a quarry area, and an object was then seen which dived down onto a
newspaper delivery van, and enveloped it in light. A buzzing sound was heard, the van engine
cut out, and the lights failed. A moment later the engine was reported to have restarted by
itself.
(MUFON UFO Journal, September 1977, p 17. NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0838

23/06/77 0515 South Africa.

Between Noupoort and Middelburg a driver of a newspaper delivery van saw a dull glow at a
quarry beside the road. A glowing phosphorescent UFO then came out of the quarry and
hovered in front of the van as its engine and lights went out. After a few moments the UFO le
ft, making a buzzing sound. The engine of the van started by itself, then stopped, the started
again when the driver pressed the pedal.
(MUF0N Journal, September, 1977; Project 1947.) 1379

24/06/77 0100 La Caleta, Dominican Republic.

A UFO was seen hovering over the sea off the coastal town of La Caleta. The object extended
a tube from underneath, sucking up water, and two occupants could be seen through
windows in the craft. The car engine failed, and the witness a Snr Cruz felt a numbing
sensation in his arms and legs.
(APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p 6. Stendek, September 1978, p 5, and NICAP Database of E-
M Cases, USO Research) 0839

-/06/77 Hanover, South Africa.

A car driver saw in the sky a very bright light with an elongated shape, which was coming
towards him. He turned the car around, but the object followed until it climbed at a very steep
angle and disappeared. During the sighting the radio was full of static interference, and could
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(Cynthia Hind. UFOs - African Encounters, p158-159.) 0543

02/07/77 2300 Tasmania, Australia.

The occupants of a car observed a bright red light which appeared to be about three metres
above the road, and 200 metres behind the car, which lost engine power for 15 to 20 seconds.
After the light had disappeared the car could be restarted using the clutch. The same thing
happened again later, but this time no lights were observed.
(FSR Vol 24, No 5, p30, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0544

08/07/77 1845 Howard County, Maryland, U.S.A.

A silver domed disc with green windows came over a field during which time a tractor stalled.
It was approx. 70ft altitude.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1498

08/07/77 Jessup, Maryland, U.S.A.

A report of a silver disc-shaped object with a dome, moving erratically around a farm for
twenty to twenty five minutes, before then flying slowly away. There was a reported effect
on a tractor engine.
(Mark Rodeghier, UFO reports involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p 71.) 0840

13/07/77 0140 Arthenac, France.

As a huge disc object stopped overhead illuminating a 200m like it was daylight. A tractor’s
electrical system failed.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1499

03/08/77 0330 Thaxted, Essex, England.

The driver of a rented car was travelling home on the A 130 road, and had just passed through
Thaxted village when he noticed a coloured glow to his right. Stopping the car for a closer
look, he saw that there were two orange-red objects which appeared to be hovering silently
about 50 feet above open fields. The glowing objects were of different shapes, and seemed
to be casting light skywards. With the car engine ticking over, the witness noted that one of
the objects momentarily increased in brightness, while the other deepened in colour and
glided slowly towards the car in a slight arc. Deciding to drive away, he found that even with
full use of the accelerator he could not exceed 35 mph until about a quarter of a mile away,
when the car suddenly surged forward to more than 50 mph, forcing him to brake. The
incident was reported to the police at Chelmsford, but a search could not find any trace of
the objects. Weather conditions were calm at the time, and London Weather Centre reported
no atmospheric abnormalities. A magnetic check of the vehicle by investigators, comparing it
with another identical car from the same rental company revealed considerable differences
in compass readings, particularly around the engine.
(FSR Vol 23, No 4, p25-27. BUFORA Journal Vol 6, No 5, p16-17.) 0545

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12/08/77 Sedro Woolley, Washington, U.S.A.

An object making a sound was reported to have followed a car before landing and departing.
One occupant of the object was observed, by many witnesses. Vehicle interference and
physical effects also reported.
(NUFORC. 09.28 [Link] Files.) 1126

17/08/77 2300 Arthur, Nebraska, U.S.A.

A Janet Magnuson along with Barb Mendenhall were driving north on a gravel road about 5
miles east of Arthur when they spotted a brilliant dark red object over a hill to their left. Janet
who was driving applied the brakes to stop the car but the car engine had stopped. The object
had vertical oval-shaped windows about 6ft high that emitted a brilliant red light. There was
a dome on top which was also red it was a huge object as big as a football field.

The object slowly inched its way upward at an angle then levelled off and hovered before
them rocking to and for with no sound. After 4-5 seconds the object began to move away
from them and then shot off towards the northeast and disappeared behind a grove of trees.
(Kay Coggin, Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska, USA, APCIC V2 N10.) 0002

20/09/77 Arvada, Colorado, U.S.A.

A report of two witnesses observing a red rectangular object with a pulsating light, and
emitting a humming sound. Physical effects, vehicle interference, and time distortion
reported.
(NUFORC. 22.10 [Link] Files.) 1127

-/9/77 2000 Grass Tree Hill, Tasmania, Australia.

A motorist saw a bright light in a north-easterly direction, and in a few seconds the light was
above the car, lighting up the whole area. The light seemed to be flat and rectangular in shape,
and the witness had a tingling feeling on the face, and with static heard on the car radio,
before the area went dark.
(Catalogue of Australian UFO Cases. TUFOIC TA 85084.) 0841

-/09/77 2210 between Yeovil and Chard, Somerset, England.

A family were returning to their home in Chard after visiting relatives in Yeovil, when they
observed a large bright orange light in the sky at Windwhistle Hill. The light, which was partly
obscured by cloud, was cigar-shaped and stationary. It was almost overhead when the car
engine failed, and the headlights went out. The engine could not be restarted, there was a
strange silence which prevented sounds from being heard, and everything seemed to move
in slow motion. A deep, humming vibration was also noted. After a while they were able to
resume the journey, and arrived home at 10.50p.m. After what should have been only a ten
minute drive from the area of the strange incident. It was then realized that a period of about
half an hour seemed to be unaccounted for. A few days later the family were making the same
return journey to Chard when two figures were seen at the side of the road. One of these

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figures, described as abnormally tall, and with impossibly long legs, then stepped across the
road just in front of the car.
(BUFORA Bulletin, No 24, p17-19.) 0546

-/09-10/77 Marsh Gibbon, Oxfordshire, England.

On three occasions in October and November families driving between Marsh Gibbon and
Twyford found their car engines cut out and they stopped. From the hedge an entity in a silver
suit emerged, it walked around the car once and then disappeared into the opposite hedge.
Paint work in the rear of the car in each case was scorched. One of these events led to a
fruitless police investigation.
(UFO Magazine 11, 6.) 0852

07/10/77 near Colchester, Essex. England.

A family from Aveley travelling home by car on the A 12 road were between Gallows Corner
and Brentwood when they noticed a bluish coloured 'star like' light in the sky to the left of
the car. The light stayed in view for 40 to 50 miles appearing to vary in speed and height, and
was then seen to be oval in shape. The car radio crackled before the station was lost
completely, and the car's engine and lights also behaved strangely. The light finally climbed
high into the sky ahead of the car and disappeared at speed.
(FSR Vol 23, No 6, p21.) 0547

18/10/77 2000 near Trehorningsjo, Norway.

Kurt Nilssen, the owner of a short wave radio transmitter installed in his car, was having
communication problems, and decided to drive north to the isolated mountain location of
Hemliden. When he arrived near the top of the mountain, there was heavy interference on
the radio, but he was able to contact a distant colleague. He then saw a pale blue object at a
lower level, and realized that it was a machine about a couple of metres in diameter. Three
figures, about one metre tall and dressed in greyish 'spacesuits' were in front of the object.
The witness switched on his car's headlights to see more clearly, but everything then
disappeared, returning into view after about a minute. Being frightened and deciding to drive
away, the car stopped after a short distance and three figures were seen in the middle of the
road. One of the figures was holding a spade-like implement. When this was turned towards
the witness, the car engine and lights failed instantly. When the car light switch was turned
off, and the ignition switch then tried, the engine started. After a couple of minutes the lights
also worked. When the figures had disappeared, the witness drove quickly back home, telling
his wife what had happened. It was then noticed that the driver's watch was losing time by
about twenty minutes. When the location was investigated a couple of days later, a birch tree
was found with part of the bark removed, and footprints were also found.
(Research Norway, Nordic Newsletter No 1, 1981.) 1128

21/10/77 0100 Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada.

A Valeria Baker and husband saw a saucer shaped object hovering in the air it had no lights
or sound, We stopped our car to observe the object as it lights went on and it started to make

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a humming sound. It moved away and we followed it towards a wooded area our car stalled.
The object was elliptical, metallic blue in colour and 30ft in diameter. It was later sighted again
about 35 miles away above an airport. Lights flashed on and off at the rear of the object. We
visited the site the next day and found a circular scorch mark in the pasture.
(Canadian UFO Report Vol. 4 No. 3 1977.) 1246

25/10/77 M4 Motorway, near Wiltshire border, England.

A driver and passenger observed a very bright light in the sky ahead. As the light approached
rapidly, it was seen to be an elliptical object with three bright white lights, surrounded by red
and green lights underneath. The object moved to the left of the motorway and began to pace
the car. They stopped and got out of the car, with the object stationary at an estimated 500
metres away. It was giving out a low pulsating hum, and there was a cold rush of air towards
the object. The weather was otherwise calm, with a low ground mist. After five to ten minutes
the object moved away slowly, and circled over distant fields. The journey was continued, but
the object returned alongside the car. Stopping the car again, the same effects were noted,
also what seemed to be an electric discharge from the top of the object. Two small red
spheres then appeared, and came towards the witnesses before veering away. The object
then moved away, and the journey was resumed again. It was noted that on both occasions
when the car engine was restarted, a rough pulling of the engine was experienced. The light
of the object continued to be visible until about 10.30 p.m. in different positions, but at a
greater distance from the car as the journey continued beyond Monmouth.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 7, No 1, p11-13.) 0549

30/10/77 1930 Sonora, California, U.S.A.

As Martha Throne was driving with her husband Ernest near Sonora when suddenly a cloud
of blue smoke engulfed the car, and the engine and lights went out. The woman lost
consciousness, and then woke up to find several humanoid beings carrying her to a landed
oval shaped object, standing on legs.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases, APCIC V12 N12.) 0842

02/11/77 2030 near Wareside, Hertfordshire, England.

After seeing an oval shaped amber light in the sky, the witness decided to investigate. Driving
past the estimated spot at Wedbury Hill, the car lights and radio failed suddenly, but not the
ignition. After about 15 seconds the lights and radio came back on. The driver reported that
during the incident there was a high pitched whistle in his ears.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 7, No 1, p20-21.) 0551

10/11/77 Bloomfield, New Mexico, U.S.A.

A woman reported that a large blue object landed in front of her truck, then took off again.
There was reported vehicle interference and time displacement, with possible abduction.
(NUFORC. 09.36. [Link] Files.) 1129

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Two men observed an object descend behind a factory. As they drove towards it and
approached the factory gate the car's engine cut out and would not start for several minutes.
They did not see the object again.
(Skyquest 2.) 0847

15/11/77 0650 Corny, France.

A motorcycle engine fails as a cigar shaped object seen at 50m altitude an orange ball of light
exited the cigar object.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1500

07/12/77 1930 Tatapouri, New Zealand.

A red disc-shaped object came over the land from the direction of the sea. A car with three
people in it was followed by the object, with the car lights dimming during the sighting, which
ended when the UFO veered away.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases. [Link], Vehicle Interference Cases.) 0843

14/12/77 0605 Merlins Bridge, Haverfordwest, Dyfed, Wales.

William Paul Flood, a worker at the Kraft Food factory at Haverfordwest, was driving home to
Merlin’s Bridge, after coming off his shift, when the engine of his 1968 Morris 1800 suddenly
cut out. He managed to get home, however and was parking his car, when he observed a
bright blue sphere, about the size of a soccer ball, light blue in the centre, darker on the
outside, gliding along at 15m altitude, noiselessly, descending southwards in an arc and
landed in a field. William was too nervous to investigate. When he examined the field the next
day there was no sign of the thing.
(Pugh and Holliday 1979.) 0753

16/12/77 2200 Uzes, France.

A report from witnesses on two separate motorbikes near Uzes, with both stalling near a UFO
with a red ring around it.
(Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1978. NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0844

17/12/77 1600 Kenyon, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

A blue-white glowing object was seen, with windows and a small dome on top. Mrs
Marguerite Camp one of the witnesses was reported to have suffered eye irritation and skin
burns also reported. Two vehicles were involved, a pickup truck and a car, with reported
engine effects on both vehicles. The object was 600-700ft away to the west of the road and
some 1000ft above them. It was motionless with the lower circular gondola section appearing
blurry as if spinning. The object appeared to be 3 to 4 times the size of a B-29 and 2 to 3 times
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Through the you could make out 4 to 5 rectangular windows. After ten minutes or so the
object sped away rapidly,
(APRO Bulletin, July-August 1978, M. Rodeghier, CUFOS Report, and NICAP Database of E-M
Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0845

18/12/77 Guadalajara, Spain.

At just after midnight, the driver of a pickup truck found that his vehicle's lights and radio
failed suddenly. He reported that a man dressed in a diver's suit approached and told him by
telepathy to come aboard a hat-shaped UFO.
(Cronica 26/1/78, NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0846

30/12/77 0130 Keith, South Australia, Australia.

A car driver saw what looked like a shooting star, then a white circular light which paced the
vehicle. The driver slowed down for a better look, but found that his engine began misfiring.
There was no effect on the car radio. After the light had disappeared behind trees there was
no further problem with the car.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0552

11/01/78 0420 Armor-Plage, France.

A glowing domed shaped object was seen in a field the light was rotating during the sighting
car motor stopped.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1502

18/01/78 0300 Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, U.S.A.

An Air Force Security policeman reported that there were a number of UFO sightings for a
period of about two hours over the airfield and the Fort Dix Army Camp. While on routine
patrol he was despatched to the rear of the Air Base, where a State trooper requested access
to a runway area. He reported that a military policeman from the Fort Dix Camp had pursued
a low flying oval object, glowing bluish-green in colour, which hovered over his car and cut off
the radio transmission. A strange being then appeared in front of the car and the policeman
had fired several shots at it, and one at the object, which ascended and joined a number of
others seen in the sky. The being ran into a wooded area near the boundary fence, several
search patrols were involved and the body had been found near the runway. It was reported
that a team from Wright Patterson Air Force Base arrived to remove the body.
(FSR Vol 31, No 2, p25-26.) 0554

02/02/78 Van Buren, Arkansas, U.S.A.

Two newspaper reporters had a strange experience as they were driving along in a VW when
they heard a beeping noise and suddenly the car’s electrical system went dead. The car
stopped its lights went out and the radio stopped. A ball of light appeared over the car and
the beeping was constant. The light vanished in a flash and the car’s electrical system returned
to normal.
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05/02/78 0600 near Barahona, Soria, Spain.

The driver of a car making a long journey from Madrid on a cold clear night was the subject
of a reported abduction experience, with details later revealed by hypnotic regression. The
account included the reported sudden failure of his car engine, lights and radio. The electrical
system of the car required expensive repairs after the incident. The driver also found that
parts of his cassette player tape had been erased which was not possible accidentally, and
that his wristwatch had stopped from the time of the incident and could not be repaired.
(FSR Vol 30, No 3, p4-11.) 0555

13/02/78 San Justo, Argentina.

A strong white light approached a car the engine died completely a tall being was seen in
black approaching. The being turned around walked back into the light.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT). 1503

20/02/78 2000 San Teodoro Posado, Sardinia, Italy.

Graziano Muzzetto and Maria Grazia Corona were out driving when their radio stopped
working and their engine died as they saw a white luminous object.
(CUN Catalogue 1978.) 0729

20/02/78 Flaxcomb, Saskatchewan, Canada.

While driving on highway #7 the witness sighted a round object flying over an approaching
truck. As the two trucks approached the UFO flew over the oncoming vehicle passing between
both trucks. The UFO was about the size of a large car appearing dark brown with an orange
glow around it. A fairly loud sound was heard and when the UFO passed over him his radio
stopped working. The UFO continued on the path of the other truck when it was
approximately 2 blocks away the trucks electrical equipment returned to normal.
(The UFO Register Vol. 3 Part 1 & 2. 1972.) 1295

23/02/78 Sesto Fiorentino, Toscana, Italy.

The witness and his wife were listening to their car's stereo when they began getting heavy
interference on the radio. Getting out investigating, the witness was enveloped in a violet
cloud of light which felt warm, and described seeing four humanoid shapes and other lights
around him. The witnesses also reported twenty minutes of missing time which they could
not explain.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases. David Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT Catalogue. Lumieres
dans la Nuit, No 209.) 0848

28/02/78 2115 Yuma, Arizona, U.S.A.

Witness and a friend were driving along a canal road when the car radio began to fade and
crackle. They noticed a sudden increase in the light coming through the rear window it was a

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bright green in colour and rapidly grew in intensity until I could read the lens on a camera I
had grabbed. I tried to move the car but the engine had stopped and the headlights seem
dimmer than usual.
The object was hovering and seem to wobble around on its axis. The object was described as
25-30ft around the widest (bottom part) and was about 10/11ft high. The top section was
about 12ft in diameter and had a small domelike structure on top which was emitting a faint
blue light from inside. I was about 100yds away when I took a picture, the flash went off and
the UFO disappeared almost instantly in the opposite direction.
(UFO Research Newsletter Vol 4. No 12.) 1324

-/02/78 Valle de Faedis, Friuli, Italy.

Two friends out driving saw a red flash and their car headlights dimmed. Getting out of the
car they approached the area where they had seen the flash ans suddenly saw an objhect
resembling an inverted soup tureen. They fled, one of them falling and hurting himself in the
panic. The next day they found a circle of burnt grass at the spot.
(CUN Catalogue 1978). 0748

-/02/78 Marchena, Spain.

A silent red sphere was observed it descended into the road a truck engine stopped working
and the two witnesses lose consciousness.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1504

-/02/78 San Fe, Argentina.

Jorge Daniel lamazon and Hario Hartinez were 10Km south of San Justo when they saw a very
bright and white light about 500m away. After a minute or so they say a humanoid dressed in
black clothes standing by the light. The figure got closer to their car for a while then went
back to the white light. The witnesses car could not be started until the object had left.
(APCIC V3 N4)

16/03/78 Tucuman, Argentina.

Motorist stopped at a police checkpoint area suddenly a brightly illuminated sphere at low
altitude appeared following the course of the Huacra River from East to West. Heat was felt
from the object. The object crossed high-tension electric power lines. Lights in the police
building went out and the car engine stopped. The lights came back on as the object
disappeared into the distance.
(Hall, R. The UFO Evidence. Vol. II.) 1354

18/03/78 0130 Wellsford, Auckland, New Zealand.

A young man was driving from Wellsford to Warkworth when, on a downhill section, his car
engine stalled. He slowed down to park on the verge when a brilliant white light descended
and hovered above and to the right of him. He therefore let his car coast down the hill, the

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light keeping pace with him for 3km before disappearing. At this point he was able to restart
the car.
(Dykes 1981.) 0733

25/03/78 0030 St Armel, France.

A young man is driving home. He was driving at a speed of sixty km / h in third. Suddenly the
vehicle stops rolling, as if held back by an invisible force. The engine does not stall. The driver
himself finds himself paralyzed, both hands on the steering wheel, his foot on the accelerator,
unable to react. At this moment there appears at about ten meters in height, a luminous disc
of orange colour with a diameter estimated at about two meters moving in its direction. The
witness noted that the outline of the disc was sharp without discoloration. The object moves
slowly, passes over the car. The paralyzed young man cannot turn around to see the object
disappear. Suddenly the vehicle leaves, without calling. The witness returns home, he is livid
and in a state of shock.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, UFO, army speaks by Bourret Jean Claude ** France Empire 1979.)
1505

29/03/78 2130 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.

On highway 465 three 18-wheeler semi-trucks in a caravan together with a Ford super cab
truck 78 were engulfed by a tremendous beam of light from an unknown source. The light
was so brilliant that none of the truckers could see beyond the bonnet of the trucks. Then all
noise seem to stop for 3-5 seconds the motors of the trucks spluttered as if they were
stopping. Then like a light switch the mystery light turned off and the motors operated
normally. Shortly later a blue light settled over the trucks for approximately 15 seconds.
Several other witnesses had observed the sighting and they were all talking over the CB radio.
After the event one of the trucks his battery took over one and half hours to be charged and
that his watch now losses about an hour every day.
(Awareness Spring 1979, APCIC V10. N11.) 1268

30/03/78 2230 Pompey, New York, U.S.A.

Joe La Bella was driving home after dropping his girlfriend off when he found that he was
getting a lot of static on his car radio. He then noticed, through his mirror, a light in the
distance behind him. It was a single light like a motorcycle headlight, about 800m behind him.
Joe thought little of it, carrying on trying to get a station on his radio, when the car was lit by
a brilliant flash. Looking out of the window, he saw an object gliding over the field 30-50m
away. The thing resembled a boxcar, 12-18m long, 3-6m high, with a multitude of flashing
lights, like those on a Christmas tree and was pacing him. It had a middle section containing
many bright white lights, and the top and bottom sections contained duller blue white lights.
Though his car was bouncing because of potholes on the road, the object stayed steady. After
two minutes the thing ascended in a blur of speed. The witness was a junior at Brockport
College studying computer science and physical education.
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-/03/78 Tokomaru Bay, North Island, New Zealand.

Returning to their home after a day visit to the city of Gisborne, a man was driving with his
wife over the top of a hill when they were surprised to see a massive area of bright light
coming up from the valley floor, unlike anything they had ever seen. The car stalled, with the
couple worried that the car might not start again, but unwilling to continue the journey until
the strange intense illumination had gone. They felt a numb, tingling sensation, and there was
a buzzing sound. After some time they realized that the light had gone, and they continued
the journey back to their home. Their hearing was also affected the following day.
([Link], UFOCUS, New Zealand Research Network.) 1130

07/04/78 0130 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Raymond Shearer saw 1 domed object he was abducted had headaches and red welt on his
neck. Car engine and lights failed.
(Awareness Autumn 1981.) 1269

23/04/78 1930 Goleta, California. U.S.A.

A woman driving on Highway 101 found that her car engine lost power, and the radio went
off. There was bright light in the sky and a “zinging" sound, with the light dimming to reveal
four revolving green and blue lights on an object with an estimated diameter of ten metres.
The sighting duration was about three minutes.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases. M. Rodeghier, CUFOS Vehicle Interference Cases.) 0849

16/05/78 2000 Arendal, Norway.

The witness a 22 year old man was driving towards Arendal when the engine of his car stalled.
As he got out of the car he became aware of two things an oncoming Opel car with the same
problem and a large object with searchlights hovering over the tress some 10m away. The
man stood paralysed for some 10 minutes while the driver of the other car a lady did not get
out of her car. Suddenly the light went out and the object turned over Songvatn lake and
disappeared in the sky with a whizzing sound. The lady drove off and was not heard of again.
The male witness felt unwell for several days and he wristwatch stopped working 24 hours
after the incident. The object appeared to be about 50m long, 15m wide and 10m high.
(UFO Norway News No. 1. 1996). 1294

24/05/78 2115 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.A.

A college student driving in the city saw a metallic object nearby, with his car radio having a
burst of static interference at the same time. The object was a glowing yellow-white colour
with orange, green, and yellow lights rotating at the bottom.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases. M. Rodeghier. CUFOS Vehicle Interference Cases.) 0850

10/06/78 0230 Nr Abergabenny, Wales.

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A Mr D J Hood and his wife noticed a light low in the night sky it looked like a hovering
helicopter with a shining light underneath. After about 20 minutes the light started to move
towards them. They open a door to listen but no noise heard so discounted the helicopter
solution. A sound similar to a jet aircraft coming in to land was heard as the object appeared
to be travelling at 30 mph and at a height of approx. 300ft. They turn the car around and
switched off the engine to watch the object. At about 0430hrs the light started to move away
from them and after a few minutes it disappeared. At 5am they started on their journey again
only to find that the engine of the car had developed a fault and was running uneven. They
stopped the car after 2hrs and clean the carburettor but this did not cure the trouble. Later
they stopped to change the spark plugs but again no real improvement. Later they stopped in
a garage and a mechanic had found that a HT lead to a cylinder had burnt out.
(Pegasus June 1989.) 0006

19/06/78 2215 Near Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England.

The Johnson’s a family of five were driving home when they all saw a huge multi-coloured
disc shaped object hovering over a field. The driver panicked and sped off and lost control of
the car which began driving itself. Then car stopped and the family seemed to snap out of
dream state. They had lost about 45mins of time.
Under hypnosis later they recalled being floated into the object and meeting three men in
metallic suits with blue eyes and pale faces with helmets. Two members were given medical
tests and told by the men they came from a planet called Janos which was dying.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1975-79.) 1230

06/07/78 Mendoza, Argentina.

The witness reported that the car was levitated and moved to a different location.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0851

16/07/78 2100 Farningham, Kent, England.

A metallic grey cigar-shaped object was seen descending over the highway, causing a car to
stop. The witness reported that the car was levitated in a beam of light and taken inside the
craft, with marks also reported to have been left on the car.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases. MUFON UFO Journal, December 2005, p 19.) 0853

24/07/78 0330 Mendoza, Argentina.

Two witnesses in a Taxi observed a strange luminous object which they followed. As they
approached to within 80m from the object they could see several illuminated windows and
behind the windows they could see several human like figures. The figures wore black divers
outfits and appeared to be observing the witnesses.
During the length of the encounter the witnesses reported interference on the cars radio
which gradually stopped as the object retreated from the area.
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27/07/78 0045 Union, Missouri, U.S.A.

Clora Winscher is driving at around 45mpg when she notices in her rear view mirror a brilliant
light approaching from behind at high speed. She feels a terrific shove and the rear end of her
car is lifted off the ground and gets moved along the road for around 300ft completely out of
control. Two dents are found in the car later 22 inches apart.
(UFOEv 11. NICAP. The 1978 UFO Chronology.) 1131

27/07/78 2205 Kenyon, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

An older woman in a pickup truck observed an "ovoid, plate-like" object and pulled off the
road for a better look. Another car also drove up and that driver got out and watched, too.
The object was three or four times the size of a B-29 in diameter and gave off a blue-white
glow. It also had four or five windows and the bottom half was blurred, as if spinning. Both
cars stalled out after several minutes when the object rose on its edge vertically, but then
returned to its former position. After 10 minutes, the object rapidly moved to the west. The
truck and car could be restarted immediately after they stalled out. One of the witnesses
reported eye irritation after the sighting.
(APRO Bulletin, July, 1978; Project 1947.) 1380

27/07/78 2245 Sheffield Village, Ohio, U.S.A.

An elongated object with flashing lights and a humming sound was seen close to the ground,
moving up and down for about 15 minutes before it moved away. There were reported effects
on the car engine and lights, with difficulty restarting the car engine.
(International UFO Reporter, September 1978. Rodeghier CUFOS Report, 1981, p 72. NICAP
Database of E-M Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0854

-/07/78 1900 Near Teresina, Piaui, Brazil.

Two men were travelling when they saw a strange light over some nearby bushes the light
seemed to flare up and then vanished. After about a 100m the car engine suddenly began to
splutter and lost power forcing the men to stop. The radio also stopped working at the same
time. While they checked the engine they noticed a bright light approaching them on the
road. The lights though appeared not to be on the road as first thought and they thought it
might be an aircraft in trouble that had landed on the road. They could see an oval shaped
craft from which a corridor of light beamed up to their car like a portal. They saw 2 being
approach there was interaction between the beings and the witnesses.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1975-79.) 1231

09/08/78 2235 Wandearah West, South Australia, Australia.

Driving home, a mother and her daughter saw a bright red light with three black spots along
the bottom. The object came towards them, and the car lost power to nearly stopping point,
even with full use of the accelerator. The car gathered speed when it was turned on to another
road, and the light moved away to the northwest.
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11/08/78 Roosevelt, Utah, U.S.A.

A silver dome-shaped object with a green glow was seen hovering overhead before it then
began circling. Dogs in the area whined, and electromagnetic effects reported. The object
finally moved away at high speed.
(NICAP Database of E-M Cases.) 0855

11/08/78 2245 Buffalo Shoals, North Carolina, U.S.A.

A glowing yellow disc-shaped object with a dome passed nearby, stopped for about a minute,
then went straight upwards with a humming noise. Reported effects on motorcycle engine
and lighting. When the object left the area, the motorcycle lights came back on automatically,
but the starter switch would not work.
(North Carolina Times, August 16, 1978. MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988, p 16. NICAP
Database of E-M Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0856

22/08/78 Neuquen, Argentina.

A large object was seen when the craft approached a car the car stopped and could not be
restarted.
(La Razon paper 25.08.78.) 1310

24/08/78 2200 Ottumwa, Iowa, U.S.A.

A red-orange object flew in front of car, fogging up the windshield. Reported effect on car
engine, which stalled, bringing the car to a stop. After a few seconds the engine restarted by
itself.
(International UFO Reporter, December 1978. Rodeghier, CUFOS Report, 1981, p 73 NICAP
Database of E-M Cases.) 0858

24/08/78 2340 Ginghamsburg, Ohio, U.S.A.

Two 19 year old girls watch two oddly shaped coloured orange lights twice the size of aircraft
landing lights. A humming sound can be heard from both the lights and the car radio. The
driver cannot get the car too go faster than 20mph. A beam of light is directed towards the
car by one of the lights. They look away briefly but do not notice how the lights
(International UFO Reporter, December p 73, NICAP Database of E-M Cases, Project 1947-
UFOCAT.) 0857
(International UFO Reporter, December 1978. Rodeghier, CUFOS Report, 1981, p 73 NICAP
Database of E-M Cases.) 0857

24/08/78 Tunja, Boyaca, Columbia.

Bank manager Serrano Silva was driving between Tunja and Bogota when his car was buzzed
by an unidentified flying object. The car’s engine and headlights died and Silva and his
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(Fate November 1979.) 0726

30/08/78 2030 Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.A.

A man returning home from work was crossing the 20m long Newtown Road Bridge on this
clear night when his radio became filled with static and the car engine failed, though the lights
were unaffected. . The driver got out to inspect the engine and became aware of a flickering
red, yellow and green light above the bridge. The light then began to descend, and as the man
got back into his car, filled the area with its brilliance. It was a rapidly rotating sphere, which
shot out flares all around before splitting into three parts. These lights were amber and
basketball in size; one going under the bridge, the other circling over it and the third circling
his car. The three spheres then merged again which then just disappeared.
(Imbrogono 2010.) 0725

30/08/78 2330 Nisula, Michigan, U.S.A.

A cone-shaped object with lights on it flew overhead, with reported effect on the engine of a
pickup truck.
(International UFO Reporter, December 1978. Rodeghier CUFOS Report, 1981, p 73. NICAP
Database p 19, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0859

31/08/78 0200 between San Juan and San Luis, Argentina.

Two men were driving in a truck on Highway 147 when they were circled closely by a group
of UFOs. The truck engine stopped and they got out, throwing themselves on the ground and
hiding in the roadside vegetation. The truck could not be restarted, with the battery totally
discharged. At dawn, dead goats and birds were found at the site.
(NICAP Database of E-M Effect cases, p 19. Cronica, Argentina 1/10/78.) 0860

03/09/78 0430 Venado Tuerto, Sante Fe, Argentina.

Carlos Healion was driving when he noticed to his left about 2k away a very bright light. As he
approached the area he saw seven large and bright disc shaped object on the ground and
around them dozens of humanoid figures performing various tasks. He left his vehicle and
approached the area reporting the objects as large saucer shaped crafts with concave
bottoms and semi-spherical domes on top. The objects emitted a bright white light which
illuminated all the area around them. He returned to his car and he was driving the speed was
nearing 90kmh at which point a beam of light is shone onto his vehicle. The car loses velocity
while the craft follows him for 600m it suddenly leaved and the car regains its normal speed.
The witness leaves the area.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1975-79.) 1233

13/09/78 Blumenau, Brazil.

A motorist was driving at night on the outskirts of the town, when the car suddenly seemed
to lose speed, and a circular shape descended over the vehicle. The car was felt rising into the
air, and the driver lost consciousness. She awoke to find herself in the presence of a tall

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humanoid figure, and was later found by the Federal police, sleeping in her vehicle near
Florianopolis and with no idea how she had arrived at that location.
([Link]. ETs in Brazil.) 1132

17/09/78 2100 Torrita di Siena, Italy.

Several witnesses heard an intense noise and saw a bright light in the sky at about 8.15 pm.
Two of the witnesses were outside their home and described a coloured object with a trail,
which vanished suddenly. Two other witnesses of the noise and light were inside their home,
and reported that the electric light had suddenly gone out, and then had come back on again.
A visitor to the house left at about 9 pm, but his car stalled and stopped, with the electrical
system failed. A strange bright object with a beam of red light in front landed on the road
ahead of him. The object was disc shaped with an orange hemisphere on top. It appeared to
be standing on three beams of coloured light, and was about three metres in diameter. The
witness reported that a doorway opened on the object and two short humanoid beings
emerged. They walked around the car before re-entering the object, which then took off,
leaving a bright horizontal trail. As the object disappeared the headlights of the car came back
on automatically, and the car started to move forward in gear without any action by the
driver. It was reported that at about 9.30 pm in the next street, several television sets had
gone off for about a minute, then returned to normal operation. Several apparent burn marks
on the road were later examined at the scene of the incident. Soil samples taken for analysis
did not reveal any conclusive results.
(FSR Vol 25, No 4, p3-6.) 0557

22/09/78 Near Pedro Luro, Bahia Blanca State Chile.

Two Chilean rally drivers completing in a race encountered a brilliant light which approached
them from the rear. It caused their lights and engine to fail and lifted the vehicle off the
ground. The car was carries through the air for some 15km and deposited by the side of the
road.
(Awareness Spring 1979.) 1270

25/09/78 0300 near Carmen De Patagones, Argentina.

A car participating in a road rally was on its final lap of a cross country endurance race when
it was brightly illuminated by a yellow and violet light approaching from behind, too fast to
be a competitor. The driver and passenger were blinded, the engine and lights failed, and
control was lost, with the car lifted off the road, before it was set down again further along
the road.
(MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978, p 11, October 1979, p 8-9, and
December 2005, p 19. NICAP Database, p 20.) 0861

26/09/78 0005 Strongsville, Ohio, U.S.A.

A disc-shaped object with a dome moved back and forth, there was heavy static interference
on the car's FM radio, and the headlights went out briefly.

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(International UFO Reporter, July 1979. Rodeghier, CUFOS Report, 1981, p73. NICAP
Database, p 20, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0862

28/09/78 0200 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.

Two steel company employees were travelling in a car through a residential area when they
passed a dark cone-shaped object with three white rotating lights on the underside. The tape
cassette in the car's tape player erased as they came close to the object, but other cassette
tapes in a cardboard box on a car seat were found to be undamaged.
(International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p 13. NICAP Database p 20.) 0863

-/09/78 Santiago, Chile.

Two witnesses encountered a very low altitude strange object and were lifted up inside their
vehicle. The car was deposited back on the road both witnesses in extreme shock.
(Awareness Spring 1979.) 1271

-/09/78 St George, west of Brisbane, Australia.

Several hundred UFO sightings dating from 1967 were reported from this small town. In one
incident, in September 1978, an orange object which flashed red and green lights flew in front
of a truck. The driver, who had two passengers, stopped the truck and fired a rifle, shot at the
object. The vehicle was then driven away at speed, but the object followed, and at one stage
the truck's engine inexplicably cut out.
(The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries, p140.) 0558

03/10/78 0200 Mouzon, France.

The witness tried unsuccessfully to engage several times taking advantage of his momentum,
but the engine did not restart. The object stood perfectly still and silent, suspended about
100 yards above the cornfield about 50 or 60 yards from the side of the road. After moving
slowly and parallel to the road, the machine darted abruptly by making a turn and crossed
the road barely 40 m in front of him, at a lightning pace, like lightning. When it had
disappeared above the trees to his left, the motorbike's engine and lights started working
again on their own without any intervention on his part. He had not turned off the ignition
during the observation.
(UFO in the Ardennes by Ligeron Jean Michel ** 1981.) 0144

03/10/78 2030 near Sayama City, Japan.

An amateur radio operator had driven to the top of a mountain near the city, to obtain better
radio communication with his brother in another part of Japan and with local radio friends.
His two year old daughter was also with him in the car. As he finished his conversations and
decided to drive back down the mountain, the car's interior fluorescent light became a very
much brighter light. His daughter, who had been standing on the seat beside him, was now
lying down, and he then noticed a round orange light on his stomach coming from a beam of
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pressing a metallic tube-like device against his head. When he tried to leave, the car engine
would not start properly and the headlights also did not operate. After several minutes the
humanoid figure began to fade gradually until it disappeared, the orange light vanished and
the car's interior light returned to normal brightness. The headlights came back on, the radio
started to play, and the driver found that the engine could be restarted. He also found that
his wristwatch had stopped at 9.37 p.m. The incident was reported to the police, but they did
not believe the story. The witness underwent hypnotic regression to recall more details of the
incident, and the account was featured on a television programme about a month later.
(FSR Vol 24, No 6, p16-18.) 0559

07/10/78 San Cataldo, Sicily, Italy.

A woman was driving in a car with her nephew when there was a puncture in a tyre, but when
it was repaired the car could not be restarted. A silver object like a plate turned upside down,
about twenty metres in diameter, was seen above the car at an estimated height of fifteen
metres. The object emitted a strong light, and there was a transparent part at the bottom
where several shadows could be seen passing behind it. After about five or ten minutes the
object moved away quickly with a humming sound.
(International UFO Reporter, Vol 34, No 1, p 20.) 0864

16/10/78 1800 Jackson, Missouri, U.S.A.

A girl was in her mothers car with her sister delivering papers as they got out to deliver some
static was heard on the car radio. When they came back to the car several people from the
local houses were outside asking who had power as they had been a blackout.

Some people were pointing to an object in the sky when the girl looked she thought she saw
the good year blimp with lights along the side. She got back in her mother’s car and it would
not start along with several other vehicles which had stalled. When she looked back up in the
sky she could now see 3 objects one behind the other about 50ft away and 100ft above them.
The first object shaped like a pentagon and was gun metal black with blue lights around its
perimeter with a pulsating red light in the middle it seemed to have a searchlight which shone
down. The second object was trapezoid in shape and seemed to have a second story with
windows. It had orange and green lights on its perimeter and jet black in colour. The last
object was shaped like a diamond with blue, green and white lights and seemed to be
tumbling or rotating on its horizontal axis. Behind this object was a small red ball of light
moving along with the other objects. Once the objects were about a mile or two away the
power return to the cars and can be started. The sighting took approx. 30 minutes.
(MUFON Online Database.) 1402

18/10/78 0220 Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Seven members of Brazil's military police force were in two police cars. The commander of
one of the cars, which was parked in a quiet area of the city and carrying three soldiers, saw
two large and very bright lights over the car. The object emitting the lights was silent, and
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he felt a half-paralysed sensation. When he tried to drive away, he found that the engine
would not start, and the radio was not working. As the men were deciding what to do, the
UFO began moving away. At the same time, the car engine could be restarted and the radio
began working again. When the police commander contacted his central office, he was
ordered to follow the object, which had moved some distance away. When driving closer and
arriving at the location, the car engine and radio stopped again, with the car shaking, and the
same sensations felt. It was decided to release the brakes to let the car roll downhill. The
object then moved away into the distance. It was noticed that when the object's lights
blinked, the city lights also blinked at the same time, and the whole district blacked out. With
the radio working again, the power and light company reported a power failure in the area,
and that there was no explanation. The other police car, about one kilometre away with three
officers, also reported an object with large lights passing by.
The next day on patrol, several people were found talking about having seen the object, and
although there were other sightings from several police cars, none of these officers
experienced the same effects.
(Interview with Sergeant DeSousa at Military Police Headquarters, Belo Horizonte, APCIC V4
N8.) 1133

20/10/78 0230 Poowong, Victoria, Australia.

Bill Guest was motorcycling from his home in Poowong to Wonthaggi when he saw, about
15m from the Loch Road, a luminous object about 20m long sitting in the grass, Bill stopped
and turned his light on the thing and stood watching it for about 20 minutes. He was
distracted by a passing car and when he looked back to the thing it had taken off and was
approaching him. As it did so his motorbike headlights began to flicker. The thing began to
spiral and become distorted, so Bill drove rapidly himself.
(Pinkney 2003.) 0722

22/10/78 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

Report of a car interference case which left a speedometer broken.

(MUFON Journal.; No. 176.) 1340

24/10/78 Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Margaret Roberts was driving home from El Paso when a large bright metallic object, with
two flashing green lights, one at the back, the other in front, descended on her car. The engine
stalled and a portion of her front windscreen shattered. The object then rose straight up. The
incident was reported to the Las Cruces police who found no further evidence. Joyce suffered
from anxiety and problems in sleeping since the incident.
(UFO Examiner 2,4.) 0720

29/10/78 2315 Woolston, England.

Janet Fletcher is stopped by some traffic lights when she gets static on her radio for a few
seconds. She sees a bell-shaped object hovering to the east above a railway line. It has a bright

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light on top and rings of light circling the base which has three glowing inset lights or bumps.
After 30 seconds, it tilts at an angle and begins to move away apparently descending. She
moves forwards when the lights change but does not see the object again.
(IUR 4 N1.) 0553

30/10/78 2130 Carma Da Cachoeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

A number of men were travelling by jeep to a local farm when some unknown force halted
the vehicle suddenly, before pulling it backwards on to the side of the road. A UFO was then
seen passing overhead at a very low altitude, before it descended and hovered a few metres
away. Light from the object temporarily blinded the witnesses, and after a while strange
sounding voices were heard. The frightened witnesses began shouting for help when they
started to feel a bizarre effect, as if they were floating.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0865

07/11/78 Portsdown, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

A family of four were travelling towards Droxford when a bright light was seen in the sky. Two
red lights were noticed, and then the shape of a large dome-shaped object became visible
with green lights around the bottom, like windows. The object then appeared to hover low
over the car. The driver then found that even using full accelerator and going downhill, no
speed could be gained. After a few seconds the object moved away at speed.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 8, No 2, p14-15.) 0561

08/11/78 2030 North Kingstown, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

Two witnesses mother and son were returning home on route 1 when they observed an
object it was circular in shape and had a bluish-green glow and was hovering over some trees
on the west side of the road. The object appeared to be pulsating and sitting motionless and
tilted at an estimated 500-800 feet altitude. It was described as the size of a fighter plane with
a sort of dome on top. They stopped the car to observe the object and noticed that her car
idled and then the engine became erratic, spluttering and misfiring. After a minute or so the
object dissolved into a soft green glow and rose up to become a small green dot “like a star
in the sky”. Once the object had left the car engine functioned normally again.
(New England UFO Newsletter No.16. 1979.) 1411

08/11/78 2030 North Kingsdown, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

A man and his wife driving south on route 1 observed over the trees on the west side of the
road an object glowing bluish-green and it was drifting slowly southwards. As the driver
decreased speed to observe the object he was aware of his engine faltering he turned his
radio on but all he could hear was static. Suddenly the object shot straight up and left after
which the car engine function normally and the radio static had gone and they could hear
local radio stations. The object was described as 50ft in diameter, circular and appearing sort
of double-decked with the upper section smaller than the lower section.
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09/11/78 0315 Risdon Vale, Tasmania, Australia.

A luminous, light green triangular shape moved out from the roadside. The shape appeared
to be solid, an estimated 1.5 metres tall, and seemed to float low over the ground. The driver
braked hard, and then heard a high pitched noise and the object vanished. A considerable
amount of static interference was also noted on the car radio.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0562

10/11/78 between St Lunaire and St Anthony, Newfoundland, Canada.

Two women observed a bright yellow light which approached the car from behind, then came
alongside and accompanied the car for about 25 minutes, before the object ascended into
the sky. The object was described as being shaped like a snow shoe, with revolving coloured
lights. The interior of the car was illuminated as the object passed by, and the passenger felt
an increase in temperature with numbness in her arm because of the heat. (Journal UFO
Canada, Vol 1, No 3, p31.) 0563

12/11/78 0130 Saluzzo, Piemonte, Italy.

A yellow-red domed disc was observed with four legs the tape deck in the car stopped
working. The object was observed by 4 witnesses.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1506

17/11/78 0400 Northwich, Cheshire, England.

A van driver for a security firm noticed two white lights in the northern sky. The two way VHF
radio had severe static interference as soon as the lights were seen. The interference could
not be removed, so the set was turned off. A few moments later the lights disappeared into
cloud.
(Jenny Randles. UFO Reality, p126.) 0564

19/11/78 0330 Italy.

While trying out a CB radio in a car, the three witnesses heard a noise like a harvester or
reaper. The CB radio then stopped working and the area around the car was illuminated by a
red, glaring light. As they started to drive away, they noticed the car had moved 20 meters
from where it had been parked and was pointing in the opposite direction. As they left, they
observed a sphere traveling away in the distance as the red light faded.
(IUR, September-October, 1979, Project 1947.) 1381

22/11/78 1715 Church Stowe, Northamptonshire, England.

Travelling along the AS road near Daventry in clear weather conditions, the witness saw two
bright red and green lights stationary in the sky ahead. As she then approached, the shape of
the object became visible and was described as being like an egg timer on its side, with a light
under each end. The driver then travelled underneath the object, which was estimated to be

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at a height of 150 feet. Shortly afterwards the car started to slow down, even with full use of
the accelerator, and the engine failed, although the lights still functioned. The car was
restarted, but after a short distance the driver found herself in total darkness, with the engine
stopped and no lights. The car was then surrounded by white circles of light about a metre in
diameter, which flashed on and off, and moved around the vehicle before the last one
disappeared into the air. The driver's next memory was of driving normally again, and arriving
home at 5.45 p.m. when she could still see a flashing yellow light in the sky in approximately
the same location. It was also found that the journey appeared to have taken up to twice as
long as normal.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 8, No 2, p15-17. BUFORA Bulletin, No 9, p7-13.) 0565

22/11/78 1930 Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England.

Four women were travelling by car from Byfield to a Women's Institute meeting in
Northampton when the driver saw two parallel sided beams of light coming out of a cloud. A
few moments later a red and green light appeared below the cloud and crossed the road
ahead. The lights then passed the car to the right. The car engine started to falter, before the
two lights merged into one white ball then just seemed to 'switch off'. The duration of the
incident was about three minutes.
(UFO Reality, p91.) 0566

26/11/78. Guadalajara, Jaisco, Mexico.

Two luminous flying objects were seen by local residents and patrolman Francisco Diaz Cortez
near here. One of these objects hovered about 10m above the ground and emitted a red light
that turned on the car’ siren and made it spin round. The object descended rapidly behind
some nearby hills and when Diaz gave chase he encountered another flying object. He and a
colleague fired on the objects, which then took off, after rapidly emitting red lights.
(EarthLink 3,2.) 0718

28/11/78 0400 near Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England.

A van driver who had reported an incident on November 17th, involving unexplained lights
and radio interference, was travelling from Birmingham to Warrington on the M6 motorway
on a clear, cold night, and was in the Sproston Green area when he saw a bright light in the
northwest sky. The light was described as larger than a Full Moon and brighter than Venus,
which was visible in another part of the sky. The driver stopped, and got out of the van. The
light started to move towards him, and he heard the VHF radio emitting severe interference
in spite of the open surroundings. The object behind the light, oval shaped with a fin at the
rear, passed slowly overhead with only a slight whooshing sound. The object had two beams
of light at the front, and moved away to the southeast. The driver noted that he had often
driven his security van near major airports, without experiencing any interference effects
from low flying aircraft, and Manchester Airport also confirmed that there were no aircraft
nearby at the time of the incident.
(UFO Reality, p128-129.) 0567

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Three people travelling in a car reported being followed down a rural road by a cigar shaped
object with a flashing light. At one point, a blue flame was emitted from the front of the
object, and the car engine and lights failed. Afterwards the object was seen circling a house
and the surrounding fields, moving at low altitude.
(MUFON UFO Journal, No 140, p 13, NICAP Database of EM Effect Cases, APCIC V4 N1. 0866

01/12/78 0610 Giulianova, Italy

A small dark disc-shaped object and luminous underneath was seen flying slowly along the
coast, heading south. In Milan, about four hours later, the entire electrical system of a car
failed when a luminous orange and green saucer-shaped object was seen flying overhead.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0867

01/12/78 1900 Pettaquamscutt Point, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

Two mothers along with two children were driving westward on route 138 towards route 1
as they went across Narrow River Bridge they saw an object to the left. It was hovering some
60-70 ft over Pettaquamscutt Point. The object was described as round but dome-shaped
and large like a jet plane. The object glowed orange-yellow and a whitish vapour trail was
seen flowing from it. The upper dome appeared black within the glow while the lower part
appeared orange. They pulled over to observe the object for about 90 seconds during which
time a car approached slowed as if to observe the object and then took off at high speed. The
car was left running during this time and both adult witnesses reported that their eyes began
smarting.

Suddenly the object rose straight up into the air during which time the car stalled the object
disappeared very quickly and they were able to restart the vehicle.
(New England UFO Newsletter No. 16 1979.) 1414

06/12/78 2345 Marzano, near Torriglia, Italy.

A night watchman Fortunato Zanfretta had just driven through Marzano on a cold, clear night
when he noticed near one of the villas four lights which were moving to and fro just above
the ground, like torch lights. Suspecting that this might be a case of housebreaking, he
switched off his car engine, and tried to report by radio to his headquarters, but found that
the radio would not operate. Then the headlights failed, as well as the dashboard and internal
lights. Getting out of the car to investigate, the watchman still saw the mysterious moving
lights. He then encountered a very tall humanoid figure with luminous eyes, before the figure
vanished suddenly. Returning quickly towards the car, he then heard a loud whistling noise,
felt a wave of heat, and turned to see a very bright triangle of light taking off into the sky from
behind the villa. The car lights had come back on, and the watchman was able to make a
desperate radio call for assistance before he collapsed beside his car. He was found by his
colleagues about 50 minutes later, some 80 metres from the car, and unable to remember
what had happened after he had made the radio call. A horseshoe-shaped impression with a
maximum diameter of 2.5 metres was found nearby in the field, with another similar marking
in a field on the opposite side of the villa. At night this marking was still detectable if

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illuminated, and a degree of radioactivity was also found behind the house from where the
luminous triangle had been seen rising into the sky. Subsequent hypnotic regression appeared
to confirm the detailed testimony of the witness and evidence of an abduction. Other
witnesses in the area also reported seeing a luminous object in the sky during the night of the
incident.
(FSR Vol 26, No 1, p4-9.) 0568

07/12/78 2355 Navelli, Abruzzo, Italy.

Alfonso Marinelli was out driving near here when his car engine failed. When Alfonso got out
the car he saw two lights approaching at 12m altitude. When they got closer he saw that they
were two little beings dressed in tight shiny suits and helmets, flying along in a vertical pose
with lights o their chests, The objects moved on for a while and then turned round and
traversed their path till they were out of sight, at which Alfonso could start his car again.
(Gerhart 2013.) 0717

11/12/78 2200 Navelli, Abruzzi, Italy.

A taxi on a road near the town of Novelli was forced to brake when two luminous globes were
found to be blocking the road ahead. The vehicle’s engine then failed, and two humanoid
figures were seen gliding across the surface without touching the ground.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases, M. Verga, ITACAT -Italian UFO Catalogue.) 0868

12/12/78 2215 Marzocca, Italy.

A luminous UFO emitted a light beam onto a car, with the tape player then malfunctioning.
Car engine and lighting effects report.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0869

12/12/78 Burghausep, Germany.

A woman was driving her car to work when she saw a hemispherical white disc-shaped object,
which was hovering over nearby trees. Six beams of green light came out from the object, and
she felt slightly paralysed by one of the beams. She found that her watch had stopped, and
the car's ignition key -which she thought had been in her hand during that time, was found to
be bent.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0870

12/12/78 Ragusa, Italy.

A truck driver suddenly found that there was radio interference. When he stopped to fix it,
he then saw two very tall humanoid figures standing about five metres away, followed after
a few seconds by a dome shaped craft seen taking off with a bright flash of light.
(MUFON UFO Journal No 153. NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0872

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A man was driving on a desolate stretch of road, and was feeling in a daze when suddenly the
car engine failed completely and the car came to a stop, but with the headlights remaining
on. He was unable to restart the car, then heard a crackling noise and saw a large dark
rectangular object slightly ahead, to the right of the road and about fifty feet away. A section
at the front of the object lit up, and a green light came through the windshield. He felt that
he was going into a trance, with a tingling sensation like pins and needles, but remained fully
aware although not able to move at all. The object moved away, rising at an angle. On the
way home he felt very cold, and the next morning he found skin peeling away from his nose,
face and ears. This was followed by severe headaches.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases. David Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT Catalogue.) 0871

15/12/78 2350 Licodia Eubea, Sicila, Italy.

Truck driver Angelo Capuzzello was listening to the radio as he drove home, when the radio
went off by itself. He stopped to repair it and saw a bright flash fall from the sky, a few metres
from his truck. Two human shapes, 2m tall, wearing tight fitting overalls and large flattened
helmets approached the truck. When they were 5m away, two bright beams, like soldering
iron lights, came from their helmets, lighting up the truck cabin. They came within a few
centimetres of Angelo and spoke in a clear low voice, in an incomprehensible language.
Thinking they were asking where the town was, Angelo showed them. They then went back
and disappeared into the darkness. A few seconds later a domed shaped object took off with
a bright flash. The radio was working again. He detected a strong sulphurous odour.
(CUN Catalogue 1978.) 0715

16/12/78 Abbington, Indiana, U.S.A.

A car driven by a Mrs Ester Drew with four other passengers observe a dark object, looking
about three times larger than the Moon, it came over trees and hovered near their car causing
the engine and radio to stop working. As it hovered in front of the car, the object was seen to
have three red lights and with a large white light at the rear. The object was rectangle in shape
and as it flew over a cornfield it took off with a whooshing sound. The cars motor which had
stopped starting again without her having to turn the key and the radio came back on.
(Palladium, Richmond, Indiana 07 Jan 1979 Kay Coggin , NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0873

17/12/78 2330 Bocconi, Emilia, Italy.

Three people were out driving when their car stopped as they saw an intense white ball
crossing the road 3m above the ground 15-20m away. It then hovered and opened up in slices
with white flashes. There were independent sightings in the area.
(CUN Catalogue 1978.) 0714

21/12/78 0245 La Rioja, Argentina.

A large glowing disc-shaped UFO was seen, heading a formation of three other objects moving
south, at an estimated altitude of 1,000 metres. The objects were reported to have lit up the

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sky like daylight, and were described as white with a green halo, leaving behind a bluish trail.
A truck driver reported that his vehicle's radio stopped working at the same time.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0874

26/12/78-79 Fresno, California, U.S.A.

The witness was having a break after driving as was parked in behind a walnut grove, he woke
up suddenly to light which was as bright as daylight and thought he had overslept. He got out
of his car and the light went off. He looked up and 100ft away he observed a disk coming
slowly and silently nearer. It was very low only 8ft off the ground radiating a neon blue light
which changed to a powdery orange with a white light. A noise was heard and a rectangular
window slide open with three to four persons looking out. The object changed colour again
to a milky white and blue and then another a noise was heard and a door seemed to fold
down out of the side. The witness panicked and jumped back into his car which would not
start. Finally after many attempts the engine fired and he drove off. As an aftermath he had
persistent eye burning and itching and his nose felt raw for some 3 to 4 months after the
event.
(M Sword, Grassroots UFOs.) 1012

28/12/78 2350 Marzanon Di Torriglia, Italy.

Fortunato Zanfretta was out patrolling a housing complex when he suddenly yelled over hos
radio that he had lost control of the vehicle it was speeding down a mountain road on its own
accord. The car stopped and the witness got out to investigate a nearby strange light. Under
hypnosis he recalled being taken on-board by giant humanoids and examined.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1975-79.) 1234

29/12/78 0400 Wattsville, South Carolina, U.S.A.

A large bright light approached a jeep it hovered nearby. The witness could not get the car to
move in any gear although the engine was running. The object pulsated and sped off then the
jeep functioned OK.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1508

-/12/78 Villadacti, Peimonte, Italy.

A youngster was out driving when his car stopped and he saw a tall luminous green man cross
the road. He fainted and was unable to remember anything more. There were psychological
and/or physiological after effects
(CUN Catalogue 1978.) 0712

-/-/78 Chile.

A man reported that while driving through a region about 1,000 kilometres from Santiago the
engine of his vehicle stopped, and he was astonished to see a large object with bright lights

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hovering over his car. He then reported having an abduction experience which lasted about
four hours.
(FSR Vol 37, No 1, p16.) 0569

-/-/78 1930 Near Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.

The witness was driving in a remote area when he suddenly lost control of his vehicle. His car
continued until it came to the top of a hill and was commanded to stop. He left the car and
found himself walking in a valley that was filled with light. He then climbed a mountain which
took 5 hrs and cannot recall much after that and had one hr of missing time. Under hypnosis
he recalled a bright bean of light shone oh him while in the valley and he saw ten beings
dressed in white. He was taken on-board an object where he was examined and when
released he saw two hovering objects one larger than the other.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1975-79.) 1229

-/-/78 Yorkshire Moors, England.

Two soldiers of the Royal Armoured Corps were driving a Land Rover across the moors when
they saw a silver dome-shaped object hovering in the air about 50 yards away. It was making
a strange buzzing sound, and seemed to be several times larger than their vehicle. The object
was described as having portholes with flashing lights inside. They tried to start the vehicle,
but the engine seemed to be totally dead. After about five minutes the object departed at
speed, and power then returned to their engine. Returning to the area on the next morning,
accompanied by a sergeant, they found a large circle of burnt grass where the object had
been hovering.
(Nicholas Redfern. A Covert Agenda, p133-134.) 0570

-/-/78 Lorna del Chapar, Argentina.

Three hunters travelling in their truck were followed closely by a UFO, until the truck engine
failed and the lights went out.
(La Voz del Pueblo -Argentina newspaper, November 18, 2007.) 1134

-/-/78 Gujan-Mestras, France.

Two youths Franck Pavia and Jean-Marc Guitrd were forced to stop their car due to engine
trouble. According to their testimony the lights around the town-hall switched off and a
humming noise was heard. They observed in the sky some 200m high a object shaped like a
oval larger that a conventional aircraft. It was a red phosphorescent colour with white flames.
It then went higher and disappeared.
(APCIC V3 No10.

01/01/79 Broerup, Jutland, Denmark.

A man was on his way to pick up his son from a New Year's party, when he saw two round,
glowing balls of light in the southern part of the sky. When driving back to their home, the
lights were seen again, and they got out of the car. After a while it got colder, but when it was

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decided to continue the journey, the car engine could not be restarted. The lights continued
moving around in the sky, and when the lights finally moved away, the car engine could then
be restarted without any problem.
([Link]. Fifty Years of UFOs, Scandinavian UFO Information, 2007.) 1135

03/01/79 1845 Hialeah, Florida, U.S.A.

Cuban exile and gift shop owner Filberto Cardenas was driving with three neighbours
(Fernando Marti (46), his wife Mirta (36) and daughter Isabel (13), on the Okeechobee road,
16 km North West of Hialeah. Suddenly either the engine went out or could not be restarted.
The two men went to examine the engine, when the car was swept by a blinding red, maroon
and yellow light accompanied by a sound like the buzzing of bees, which went as quickly as it
came. When the Marti family had recovered their wits, Filberto had disappeared though there
was nowhere on the desolated terrain he could hide. The car could now start, thought it was
almost out of gasoline. Filberto was reported missing, but turned up in a dazed condition in
the middle of the road about 25km south of where he had vanished, at 2000hrs. He claimed
he had been swept about 1m of the ground by the light and had then lost consciousness. He
complained on his return of various medical problems and a fear of being contaminated by
radiation. Under hypnotic regression he talked of being taken by three human like entities,
dressed in tight white suits, to a beach, where a lock on a rock was opened, revealing a tunnel,
from where they rushed down to the sea at great speed. One of the entities spoke to Filberto
in Spanish with a Portuguese accent, gave him various prophecies and pseudo-scientific talk,
and with a message that “they” would return in August.
(Frontiers of Science July/August 1980) 0088

03/01/79 1700 Krakow, Poland.

A man was driving with his son and had passed under a railway bridge when the car engine
began misfiring. The car slowed down, and an intense luminous sphere was seen which
seemed to be about one metre in diameter, at an altitude of 100 to 150 metres. The light was
behind a bright crimson glow. Following the incident, a technical examination of the car
revealed no defects with the car or the battery.
(B. Rzepecki, Ufological History in Poland 1947-1987, Scandinavian UFO Information.) 1136

03/01/79 Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

A 45 year old man was driving on the Okeechobee Road, just north of Miami, with three family
friends when the car engine failed suddenly. When he got out of the car with another man to
check under the car hood, a large luminous object which was emitting a humming sound
descended over the vehicle. The witness vanished in plain sight of the others, apparently
taken up into the object by a beam of light. A police officer found him two hours later, dazed
and about sixteen miles away from the original location.
(MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p 3. NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0875

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Three red triangular objects were seen close by, hovering over Route 90 by Ann Emery. There
were reported heat, paralysis, and physiological effects, with the car slowing to a stop and
levitation reported. Effects on the car radio were also reported. After about two minutes the
objects ascended in turn, moving away at speed and disappearing towards the northwest in
about thirty seconds.
(MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p 8-9, and December 2005, p 19. NICAP Database of EM
Cases.) 0876

06/01/79 2300 Ruffia, Piemonte, Italy.

Three nocturnal lights seen overhead by two witnesses during which a car headlights failed.
The lights rotated and left in three separate directions.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1510

07/01/79 0035 Sturbridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

A reported CE 2 type case, with reported electro-magnetic effects on the car. Three luminous
diamond-shape craft hovered over the road in front of the car. CB radio and engine died.
(MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p 8, Investigation Report by Raymond Fowler, NICAP
Database of EM Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0877

10/01/79 0500 Viterbe, Lazio, Italy.

Messes Crescenzi, Notazio, Roman and a policeman in his car noticed, during a thunderstorm,
a vivid reddish light in the fields, 5km from Viterbe. It took off in the form of a red luminous
sphere. The car radio experienced interference for 5 seconds.
(Approche 22.) 0695

13/01/79 Viterto, Italy.

Vittorio Mancini a farmer was looking after some animals in a pasture in the afternoon of the
13th Jan. 1979. When he saw a great ball of fire land approx 1600 feet away. The object looked
metallic and was in the shape of a saucer. It was only 80” in diameter and a small creature
20” tall dressed in a silvery suit emerged inspected the area often bending down as if picking
something up. Frightened the witness rushed towards his car but discovered that the engine
would not start.
(UFO Research Newsletter Vol 6. No.6.) 1323

16/01/79 0600 River Exe Estuary, Exeter, England.

A Cyril Stanlake heard a humming noise and looked up to see a brightly coloured object like a
dart moving across the sky at around 200ft. He reported trouble his engine cut out and
difficult to restart.
(Alpha Magazine No.08.) 1311

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While driving home from work a Ms Martin reported that she saw a round golden object
behind trees. The object looked similar to the Moon, which was visible to her right. The car
headlights began blinking on and off, then failed completely. There were no effects on the
engine or interior lights, and at some distance past the object the headlights carne back on.
No fault could be found when the car was later examined by an electrician, but the headlights
became dimmer over the next two weeks, requiring the repair of an earth wire.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0571

17/01/79 1840 Albany, Wyoming, U.S.A.

An orange light paced two snow mobiles which suffered engine failure.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1511

18/01/79 2330 Lusiana, Italy.

A report that a car engine failed and his lights turned off and the car doors opened by
themselves when an orange oval shaped UFO landed nearby. The witness a 42 year old wood
cutter reported that a door in the craft opened, with two humanoid figures emerging, each
with vibrating antenna-like attachments at the side of their heads. They invited the witness
onboard the object by using gestures, he went with them and into a room filled with
instruments and a screen. The beings began undressing him, but the witness became
frightened and implored them to let him go. Finally a door opened and he got out of the craft.
He returned to his car and found his headlights on.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases. David Webb and Ted Bloecher, Italian UFO Catalogue, HUMCAT
-Humanoid reports, Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO Observations.)
0878

19/01/79 pres de Bastia, Liguria, Italy.

The witness was on his way to town and was turning on a curve when his vehicle engine
suddenly stalled. As he looked under the bonnet he noticed two figures looking at him from
behind a nearby electrical pylon on the side of the road. One of figures looked to be around
2.50m in height and massive in appearance the other figure somewhat shorter. Both wore
shiny tight fitting outfits. The figures stared at him for a few minutes before walking back into
the woods. Soon after this he was able to restart his vehicle. The same night another witness
reported seeing a bright bluish light descend into the same woods.
(Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Choronological Catalogue of UFO Observations.) 0017

24/01/79 0245 Walton, Merseyside, England.

A huge orange fireball was observed by many people in the Merseyside area as it passed over
a taxi driver in Walton his vehicle lost all power. Other motorists reported a similar
experience.
(Phenomena magazine Issue 138.)

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A 20 year old driver got out of his car briefly when he was struck by a blue beam of light,
causing his hair to stand up -as in the effect of a standing electricity charge. Two UFOs were
reported to have appeared, and the witness reported a six hour memory lapse, his next
recollection being back in the car and noticing that the engine restarted when a ringing noise
sounded.
(MUFON UFO Journal September 1979, p 3. NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0879

24/01/79 2200 Wimereux, France.

A 2m long peanut shaped object was seen over some sand dunes during which a car suffered
engine failure. The object flew overhead towards the sea.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1512

24/01/79 Toquilla, near Tunja, Colombia.

A dentist and three students were travelling by car when the engine stalled suddenly, and
they saw two metallic disc shaped objects landing nearby on tripod landing gear. Three men
wearing silvery outfits and large helmets were seen coming-out from a hatch in one of the
objects. There was a sudden whirlwind that surrounded their vehicle and they no longer could
see the figures and objects. When the whirlwind went away the figures and object were no
longer there.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases, Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO
Observations.) 0880

-/01/79 Ona, Florida, U.S.A.

Jules and Matilda Klanger were driving along Rte 64, when turning a sharp curve, they saw
an object “as large as an office building” over the road, about 100m away. Their car went
dead. The thing then rose at terrific speed. Police found small round holes at the site of where
the thing had hovered.
(UFO Update Fall 1979.) 0685

-/01/79 Taubate, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

A local college teacher was driving at night along a street, when his vehicle stopped suddenly.
As he got out of the car, two dark-skinned men appeared, saying that they had been looking
for him for some time, because of his better than average intelligence and knowledge. He
went with them to a large object on the ground nearby, and went inside it. There was
conversation about life on Earth, the witness was given a drink, and he fell asleep. He later
woke up in a wooded area outside of town, and walked home where he discovered that two
years had passed and that his wife had remarried.
([Link]. ETs in Brazil.) 1137

-/01/79 England.

A Territorial Army commander claimed je saw a cigar-shaped object hovering one night over
a field. His car stalled and so did vehicles belonging to other people in the area.

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(Revue, 15.02.80.) 1261

05/02/79 2150 Lawitta, Tasmania, Australia.

Just after the car radio faded out, a driver found his car enveloped in an intense white light,
and he was unable to see beyond the bonnet. The engine and lights failed at the same time.
His next memory was of being stopped by the police for driving without lights. He was later
examined in hospital and found to be in a state of shock.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0572

07/02/79 2200 near Archena, Murcia, Spain.

A driver on the road to EI Parque found that his car's electrical system and engine was
beginning to fail. Stopping at the side of the road to look at the engine, he was suddenly aware
of an intense brightness, and looked up to see a large object with yellow and orange lights
around the perimeter. He felt unable to move, in spite of his efforts, and experienced an
itching sensation over his body until the object moved away to the southeast after about two
minutes. The car engine then worked normally again.
(Journal UFO Canada, Vol 1, No 4, p15.) 0573

09/02/79 2100 Cowley, Queensland, Australia.

Peter Hathaway noticed a light at the edge of the road, then a dark beehive-shaped object
behind it. The light rose vertically, followed by a blinding flash of light. The driver then found
that his headlights, dashboard lights and engine had all ceased operating. The car was put
into neutral, and coasted to the side of the road. After about half a minute all the lights came
back on, and the engine was restarted without any problem. The object had disappeared.
(A.C.O.S. Bulletin. Australian Centre for UFO Studies, No 20, p19.) 0574

18/02/79 0230 Lardit, Aveyron, France.

The witness was driving between Mur de Barrez and Entraygues when suddenly he was
surprised by the bursting of a flash of flame on the hood of his vehicle on the outward journey
(Entraygues / Mur). He stops, checks the engine, finding nothing abnormal, and continues on
his way. On the way back, just after having passed the scene of the outbound incident, he
observed a large, motionless spot of light on Couesque Lake, about a hundred square meters.
While continuing his journey, he then sees columns of fog rising from the lake. Arriving at
Couesque, he felt a sort of paralysis in his left shoulder, and had the impression that he was
going to lose consciousness, he then saw in his rearview mirror, at the height of his car and at
an estimated distance of 30 paces, a flat disc with a diameter of About 1m50 red-white in
color, with a brown ring in the middle. The frightened witness continued on his way
zigzagging. The witness felt in great physical shape for the next 5 days. According to the
newspapers at the time of this observation inexplicable voltage drops took place in a power
station two kilometers away.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases. Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1979, Lights in the Night
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20/02/79 2340 Stjarnholm, Sweden.

Mrs Elvy Jogereo and her husband were driving near Stjarnholm when they saw above the
treetops an egg-shaped object bluish-white in colour. The light approached and illuminated
the interior of the car. The car’s engine stopped and they could not continue. It was a very
cold night with temperatures of 20deg below 0C. After the object left the car was restarted.
(AFU Newsletter No.25.) 1345

-/02/79 0050 Claye-Souilly, France.

A turnip shaped object was seen it changed into a discoid shape durinmg which a car engine
failed. A photograph was taken.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1513

-/02/79 between Oxelosund and Nykoping, Sweden.

It was reported that a blue-white egg shaped light caused a car engine to stop. This was in an
area where a number of other unexplained sightings had been reported over many years.
(Earth Lights Revelation, p144-146.) 0575

02/03/79 0515 Maywood, Nebraksa, U.S.A.

Bob Shirley was driving when he observed a bright flashing blue light in the northwest.
Whenever the lights flashed there was static on his car radio. As he pulled off the road his car
engine stopped. The object then sped south and what looked like a streak or streamer came
down from the object.
(UFO Research Newsletter Vol 6. No.7.) 1322

06/03/79 0130 Arles, France.

The witness in the car heading towards Arles, observes a huge luminous crescent, which
takes the shape of a cone before moving away at high speed. The car radio is disturbed.
(Lights in the Night number 184.) 0145

17/03/79 1900 Hertford, Hertfordshire, England.

A car was being driven along the A 10 bypass towards Puckeridge, with two passengers. The
evening was cool and dry, with scattered cloud. One of the passengers first noticed towards
the west a bright, well defined ball of light in the sky, like a floodlight. The object then seemed
to be encircled by smoke, and the ball quickly reduced in brightness to a dim outline
surrounded by four ordinary white lights. The object started to move northwards, rotating
slowly anticlockwise as indicated by the white lights, and descended towards the car. As the
object approached, then passed over and behind the car no sound could be heard. Two red
lights appeared underneath, and four dark legs could be seen rotating with the object. The
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reported that a few minutes before seeing the object, the car headlights had dimmed
appreciably although there was no defect. The witnesses also all reported feeling unwell
when the object was nearby, but there were no lasting effects. The same object was also
apparently seen by another family travelling by car, reporting similar effects of car lights
dimming and cassette music fading just before the sighting.
(FSR Vol 25, No 4, p26-27.) 0576

18/03/79 Picket Plain, Hampshire, England.

A police officer, John Forder, was driving through the New Forest when a brilliant luminous
sphere passed over his car, flooding it with light. At this the engine stalled and John jumped
out of the car. The thing seemed to descend below the tree line. The car engine then worked.
(Price 1990 p23.) 0684

23/03/79 Route 24 & 106 Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Jerry Lopes reported sighting a UFO it was shaped like a plate. It had a bright red light on top
and a powerful white light on the bottom like a headlight. There was also a line of red and
white lights around the edge. As the object flew overhead the power in his car went out and
the engine stalled. Witness reported other cars had stalled.
(Enterprise , Brockton, MA., USA. 04.04.93.) 1312

27/03/79 2000 Oak Bluff, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Wesley Gruman was driving when he noticed a green glow coming from behind the sand
dunes. The radio in his car picked up a low frequency hum. As he approached the glow he
could see a luminous yellow-green cylinder that was floating in the water some 200ft away.
He stopped his car to have a closer look and the object was about 30ft long rounded at both
ends and no visible openings. The object then rose out of the water and began to rise into the
sky.
(MUFON Journal 198710, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1514

07/04/79 0800 Bigand, Santa Fe Province, Argentina.

Residents of the area were questioned, reporting that a luminous object started moving in
the sky, and that several cars had experienced electrical system failures on Highway 33, with
engines stopping for no apparent reason. A farmer reported the landing of an object on a
soybean plantation; police were called and found part of the plantation burned in a circle
eight metres in diameter. Earth and grass samples were taken for analysis in Rosario, but no
results of this were reported.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases. La Razon, Buenos Aires, 12/4/79, MUFON UFO Journal,
November 1979, p 12.) 0882

-/04/79 0020 Gormanston Saddle, Tasmania, Australia.

A taxi driver saw a green light with a purple edge, which came straight towards his vehicle
before passing over it, lighting up the interior like daylight. The engine lost power and would

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not accelerate, and the driver found that he could not call for help as the radio was also dead.
After the light had moved away, everything returned to normal.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0577

05/05/79 Pampulhas. Belo Horizonte. Brazil.

At night an object with porthole windows and a blinding red-orange light landed within fifty
metres of a police car. The two police officer witnesses reported a failure of the car engine
and radio for about a minute. The object then took off vertically at great speed.
(Cronica. Buenos Aires. Argentina. 5/5/[Link] UFO Journal. November 1979. p 11, NICAP
Database of EM Cases.) 0883

06/05/79 0030 Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia.

During a car journey by two men and their wives, bright orange lights were seen ahead. The
interior of the car then lit up, and the bonnet of the car appeared to be a different colour. The
alternator light came on, the instrument panel lights dimmed, and the engine began misfiring.
The group of lights then moved upwards at speed, and the car recovered.
(ACUFOS, Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Events.) 0578

09/05/79 1845 Lobethal, South Australia, Australia.

A car driver saw a blue light flashing in the sky ahead of his vehicle, and about fifteen minutes
later he saw a white light, which was flashing occasionally. After turning a corner, the car
headlights went off, but the engine continued working. When another car came into view,
the car headlights came back on again.
(P Horne, South Australian UFO Reports) 1138

15/05/79 0100 Jura, France.

A cultivator driving around is accompanied for a few moments by an object like a sort of big
round headlight, the size of the sun and dazzling like 5 or 6 truck headlights. The headlights
and the engine of the car stopped working for a few seconds and the witness felt a great
shiver at that time. Three other people saw the disc.
( Alert in the sky by Garreau Charles ** Alain Lefeuvre 1981.) 0148

18/05/79 0100 La Cumbre, Argentina.

Witnesses saw 2 cone shaped lights one truck suffered complete electrical failure while the
second one 500m behind suffered failure of lights only. The first witness was found
unconscious.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1515

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A young woman is rolling on the CD 25 between Antilly and Quincey when she observes in
her rear view a ball bigger than the Moon, of a strange red color. The object follows the car
to Quinsey. There completely panicked, the young woman stops in the village and starts
honking to rouse people, but no one reacts. A light in a farm, the young woman leaves to ask
for help, but the couple does not believe her. She then takes the road again followed by the
object to her home in Argilly. The glow of the object is unbearable and each time the young
woman looked in her rear view mirror her sight blurred. The dashboard lighting went out and
the radio was interfered with by noise. Duration of the chase 7 to 8 minutes.
(Alert in the sky by Garreau Charles ** Alain Lefeuvre 1981.) 0156

-/06/79 0100 Twenty-Nine Palms, California, U.S.A.

A man stationed at the local marine base was driving through the National Monument Park
outside of town on a deserted road when his vehicle engine stalled. He then had a strong urge
to walk out into the desert. He soon become disoriented and saw a flash of light up ahead.
The light approached his position and the witness suddenly felt dizzy and fell onto the sand.
Before passing out he saw a row of lights approaching him. When he woke up he saw the
figure of a tall woman with long blond hair and bright blue eyes with a clear ivory complexion
looking down on him. She helped him up and at this point he noticed a large metallic disc on
the ground nearby, with a ramp leading to the ground. Two figures were seen coming down
the ramp, these were human like almost 7ft tall wearing tight fitting silvery suits with dark
boots and gloves. They also wore a large mirror polished helmet that covered their faces. The
witness was shown inside the object and given a brief tour. In a room he was shown what
appeared to military weaponry.
(Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO Observations.) 0012

15/07/79 0124 Lisbon, Portugal.

Lisbon and other areas were lit up by a bright blue light, several hundred witnesses describing
night becoming like a bright day. The crew of an aircraft reported to Lisbon air controllers that
the light was moving in a northerly direction, and was blue with a red-orange point at its
centre. The sighting coincided with a three minute power cut at the Pegoes radio transmitter,
and motorists also reported power failures in their vehicles.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 8, No 4, p32.) 0579

15/07/79 2230 Yakima, Washington, U.S.A.

A man was driving towards Yakima when he saw an object in the air in front of his car, and
about twenty feet off the ground, with coloured lights rotating around it. The object suddenly
moved away northwards, and disappeared over a hill. The car lights went out, and came back
on again before going off and on once more, with the duration of the sighting being about
five minutes.
(NUFORC, February 2, 2003.)1139

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A police officer William Shaughnessy reported that a white ball-shaped object had made two
passes over his vehicle with the reported failure of the police car's two-way and portable
radios. The object was 600-800ft over his car it stopped over some tree tops makes a
complete right turn and disappears to the west 12 minutes later. It then comes back, hovers
flies over his car again and is gone quickly.
(International UFO Reporter, September-October 1979, Rodeghier CUFOS Report. 1981, p 74,
NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0886

12/08/79 2200 near Rolla, Missouri, U.S.A.

Two teenaged brothers out practicing driving saw a red light and a blue light come over the
car, revolving around each other. The boys head a whooshing sound as the lights passed over
the car. They felt pressed against the seat and thought the car was floating. Their chests felt
warm. The lights blended into a white light which disappeared in the western sky. On the trip
home, there was heavy static on their AM radio and they couldn't hear the engine. The car
seemed to be going very fast and steered with difficulty . They also had trouble speaking and
breathing. After 10 minutes, their symptoms vanished.
(IUR, September-October, 1979; Project 1947.) 1382

15/08/79 2300 Lussac, France.

A man driving near the village suddenly saw a short long armed humanoid figure by the side
of the road that raises their arm and the car experienced engine failure. The being then run
into the bushes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT, Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO
Observations.) 1516

20/08/79 between Queenstown and Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.

A retired police officer was driving on the Murchison Highway when her car was suddenly lit
by a bright green light from behind. The car slowed to about 50 kph, and use of the accelerator
and gears had no effect on the engine revolutions. The foot brake also had no effect on the
car. After about eight to ten kilometres the light disappeared, and the vehicle immediately
picked up speed again. She later found that her wristwatch had stopped at 9.28 pm, and that
her car petrol gauge was registering an empty fuel tank, although it had been full on starting
the journey from Queenstown.
(FSR Vol 26, No 2, p29.) 0580

27/08/79 0140 near Stephen, Minnesota, U.S.A.

A Deputy Sheriff was driving along a remote stretch of the Minnesota 220 Highway when he
saw a bright, white light in the sky. The light was stationary for a moment before it seemed
to approach suddenly. There was a sound of breaking glass, and a very bright light lit up the
inside of the car. The man lost consciousness for a reported 39 minutes before recovering, to
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of the vehicle a red light was broken; two antennae were bent, one in the middle and another
at the top. The officer's wristwatch and the dashboard electric clock were found to have
stopped for 14 minutes, and he felt burning on his face and eyes, which required the attention
of an eye specialist.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 8, No 5, p32.) 0581

28/08/79 Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.A.

Just before midnight a truck driver Harry Joe Turner found that his lights, engine, radio and
CB radio all cut out suddenly. He saw bright lights in his rear view mirror, and a dark object
flew over the top of the vehicle. Although still travelling at over 70 mph, the door was pulled
open. The driver fired a shot at an entity which he saw at the side of the vehicle, with no
apparent effect. He then found himself parked at Fredericksburg, about 17 miles away, with
one of the trucks radio aerials burned and another sheared off. The driving cab was covered
with a thin film of material. He remembered his truck being lifted into the air, and that some
kind of operation had been performed on him by humanoid beings.
(John Spencer. UFO Encyclopaedia, p299.) 0582

-/08/79 2100 Mount Tibrogargan, Queensland, Australia.

A couple were returning to Brisbane after visiting Caloundra, when there was a sudden noise
like a giant humming top. The car lights faded out and the engine stopped. The driver
managed to steer the car onto a grass verge. The noise lasted about ten seconds before
decreasing, the car then being restarted and driven back onto the highway. The noise came
again before moving away, but with no further effects on the vehicle. There were no lights
in the sky, as would be seen coming from an aircraft or helicopter, but the driver's wife
reported that the car's interior was lit up with an orange glow.
([Link], Catalogue of Australian UFO Vehicle Interference Cases, 2005, p 14.) 0887

03/09/79 2130 Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

On their way from a cottage two couples in their 30’s watched a red disc larger than a silver
dollar hovering stationary in the clear western sky. The car’s dashboard and engine lights
failed in the 1974 Dodge sedan. Yet the engine continued to run. They stopped the car and
checked the fuse box, no sound could be heard from the object. Then the lights came back on
the car moved forward and the lights quit again. This happened 5-6 times in less than a
minute. They drove on in darknest and lost view of the object behind a hill at which point the
lights came on again and they continued to drive. When they crested the next hill they could
see that the disc was off the SW now and then moved further SW at incredible speed.
(International UFO Reporter Vol.4 No.6.) 1346

07/09/79 near Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England.

At about midnight, and while listening to the news on his car radio while on a journey between
Alsager and Kidsgrove, Timothy Machin stopped his car to observe an object in the sky
approaching slowly from his right. The object was spherical with a red light on each side. It
turned and came closer before hovering for a few seconds. The object then moved away at

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speed, disappearing behind trees to the left of the road. During the sighting, which lasted for
about five minutes, the driver noted interference on his car radio. This was loudest when the
object was in front of the car, and stopped when the object had disappeared.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 10, No 2, p15.) 0583

11/09/79 0200 Canton-Flora, Mississippi, U.S.A.

A motorist reported seeing an object hovering in the sky it was reddish-blue funnel shaped
object her car quit playing.
(Eden Bulletin Vol.7. No.1.) 0062

20/09/79 0530 Poplar Grove, Illinois, U.S.A.

A 28 year old woman driving to her work at a nursing home was in a rural area a couple of
blocks from her home, when about 20 degrees up in the northwest, over cornfields to her
right, she saw a blue, pear shaped light, surrounded by a white haze. Half the angular
diameter of the moon, it hovered it hovered for 15 seconds and then suddenly swept down
in a curve towards her windshield, engulfing her van in blinding light. The area was illuminated
like daylight and her AM radio was filled with static. She tried to accelerate away, but her
speedometer never exceeded 65kph. She then felt a sensation of lightness, as though she and
the van were floating several centimetres above the road, the wheels freely turning. The next
thing she recalled was driving along in her car, 11km further along the route. She stopped a
police officer in an extremely distressed state. When her husband called to collect her, she
was warm despite the cold night. She slept abnormally long hours after the incident and
exhibited bouts of hysteria. When her eyes were tested the probe conjured up a vision of two
staring eyes. She suffered a 20 minutes time loss, the time it would take to drive the 11km.
(International UFO Reporter 4,5.) 0682

28/09/79 0145 Frating – Weeley, Essex, England.

A Miss Beryl Chambers was driving on the A133 between Frating and Weeley when she
suddenly became aware of a bright light visible in her rear-view mirror. The object was
described as being blood orange in colour and very intense in colour. She increased her speed
from 40 to 65 mph in an attempt to put some distance between her and the object. After a
few minutes the light veered off to the left across some fields at about the same height and
speed and was lost to sight. Her car began to splutter as if about to run out of petrol and
continued to do so until she reached home 15 minutes later. The following day the car was
fine. Another witness has reported seeing strange lights along the same stretch of road and
also experienced car trouble.
(Earthlink V3 N4.) 0596

-/09/79 Warren, Minn. U.S.A.

A Warren deputy sheriff reported a brilliant light attacked him on a country road, knocked
him unconscious, burnt his eyes, stopped his watch and damaged his car.
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04/10/79 0315 Viggiu, Lombardia, Italy.

A 38 year old refuse worker was leaving home for an early shift on his scooter. He wheeled
the vehicle up his garden path, where he encountered, 10m away, two dwarfs 70-90cm tall,
going in his direction, floating 20cm above the ground. The beings were blue in colour and
very thin and hairless, with luminous eyes, like those of a cat. They seemed to be engaged in
silent conversation. As the witness walked towards the beings, his scooter engine and light
died. He went to catch one of the dwarfs but it disappeared down a grill. When he turned to
the other, it too had disappeared. The scooter motor and light then came back on of their
own accord.
(Evans and Stacy 1979.) 0676

06/10/79 2130 East of Barnum, Minnesota. U.S.A.

Two witnesses were driving on I-35 to Duluth when they spotted a ball of light rolling toward
them from low over the trees in the Northwest. The object was smaller than the full moon
and was coloured blue and white. The ball of light was rolling and bouncing as it flew it rushed
over the top of the car doing so the car cruised a further 500ft before stopping. There was not
enough power to operate the lights. Another car appeared and tried to jump start the stopped
car but to no avail. They eventually managed to get the car towed to a local garage and the
alternator had failed. The interior of the alternator looking like it had been through a fire while
the outside was fine.
(International UFO Reporter. Vol.4. No.5.) 1355

15/10/79 2130 between Rio de Janeiro and Saquarema, Brazil.

During a car journey in wet weather conditions on a coastal road to Saquarema, a driver and
passenger saw three lights over the sea, and a large domed object. The car engine began to
falter, and the headlights flashed on and off. On the return journey the lights were still visible,
and an object was seen appearing to emerge from the sea. The car began to jump about, the
doors rattled, and it was noted that the sound from the radio was distorted. The petrol was
found to be running low, even though the tank had been filled before setting out. A very large
cigar shaped object, orange in colour, was then seen with a row of openings on its side. Three
bright lights came down towards the car, illuminating everything. Their next memory was of
being in the car on another road some distance away, and at the end of the journey it was
found that about three hours were unaccounted for. The passenger in the car suffered eye
problems and other effects after the event and found that her wristwatch started to gain
time, up to three hours in a day. The car was later found to be highly magnetised on the side
where the light beam had illuminated it. Regressive hypnosis was reported to have revealed
evidence of an abduction experience.
(FSR Vol 29, No 1, p6-13. Above Top Secret, p213.) 0584

18/11/79 Le Mas, Billom, France.

A motorist is on the road to Billom at a place called "Le Mas" when he sees a bluish ball in the
sky. She seems stationary and not very big. Suddenly it grows larger and envelops the car in
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starts to accelerate and the magnetic tape unwinds to the end. The motorist stops. Above
him he hears an impressive crackling or hissing sound. Then everything dissipates suddenly.
The next day the witness noticed a certain sensitivity to static electricity.
(Alert in the sky by Garreau Charles ** Alain Lefeuvre 1981.) 0158

20/11/79 0030 Quebec Highway 20, Canada.

An oval dull grey object was reported flying about 15 feet above the ground. The object was
silent, and the car driver reported that as it passed over his car all systems ceased to function.
The duration of the incident was about five minutes.
(Journal UFO Canada, Vol 2, No 1, p12.) 0586

-/11/79 Tennant Creek, Queensland/Northern Territory border, Australia.

A truck driver was travelling from Tennant's Creek with a passenger, and was near the
Northern Territory border when they saw strange lights like a swirling ball, changing to a hazy
blue colour. When they moved, the lights changed to a light green colour. An ozone-like smell
was noticed, and with horses being carried on a float becoming agitated. There was extensive
static on the vehicle radio, like a high speed engine, and a buzzing noise. The extraordinary
phenomenon lasted for several minutes before the lights moved away across a paddock and
down towards a gully.
([Link]. Min Min Lights, 2001, pdf.) 1140

-/11/79 1810 Alice, Texas, U.S.A.

Two school teachers reported that they were travelling about five miles east of Alice on Route
665, when they saw a bright object which seemed to be rising from the ground before rapidly
approaching their car. The object looked glowing, a bright reddish-orange colour, and as it
passed very low overhead there was a loud 'boom' sound and the car engine failed. The
ignition switch was still on, and the driver reported that she had to switch it off and back on
again to restart the car. She felt paralysed for several minutes during the sighting, and had
shaken nervously for about four hours during and after the event. There had also been trouble
with the car overheating since the incident.
(MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p 8.) 0888

07/12/79 Laveaga Park, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California, U.S.A.

An unidentified ranch employee driving a pick-up along with two family members in another
pick-up just after sundown when they spotted a huge oval “bright like a flame” object
hovering over the ridge. The object was reported to be larger than a railway carriage and was
lit up. After two minutes the object disappeared behind some hills. The witness drove on but
then her pick-up stalled and she saw the object again. It circled, hovered and then was gone.
After the object had left she was able to restart her vehicle.
(UFO Research Newsletter Vol [Link].11.) 1321

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A small unidentified object, described as about 20 inches in diameter, seemed to hit the
corner of a guard house checkpoint. The lights in the building dimmed, and then came back
on again. Radio communication was lost, and the transceiver in a security car approaching the
site also failed.
(Journal UFO Canada, Vol 2, No 1, p13.) 0587

-/12/79 Dans, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

In the early morning the witnesses were driving through a rural area when their car was
engulfed in a bright white light which apparently caused their car engine to stall and radio to
stop. They were not able to restart the car and began the walk to the nearest town. A short
time later they observed a bright white light behind a small hill near the road. They walked
over towards the hill and observed a hovering saucer shaped object with several small men
doing something around the object. The terrified witnesses hid behind the hill until the small
men returned to object which shot straight up and was soon lost from site.
(Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO Observations.) 0175

-/12/79 Lles de Rioul, Bouches du Rhone, France

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-/-79 2100 75 miles NE of Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.

The witness was driving heading west out of Irwin, Iowa and as they came to the top of a hill
going south their car stopped working and in front of them was a craft floating between the
hills.
(K Coggin – MUFON 1979 Online report.) 1625

Undated 1970s between TownsvilIe and Mount Isa, Queensland , Australia.

In darkness and with no traffic on the road a driver was enveloped suddenly in a large white
light. All of the dashboard gauges behaved wildly, with the speedometer very variable, going
up to 200 mph and back to zero. This lasted for only around half a minute, and the light stayed
with the car during that time. When the light moved away, the speedometer and temperature
gauge returned to normal.
( AUFORN Yearly Reports 1801-2012.) 1141

Undated 1970s Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.A.

A mother and daughter were driving near a wooded area as they neared a corner they saw
two saucers one stacked on top of the other hovering over a cornfield their radio and engine
died. As the objects went off into the woods the car was able to be restarted.
(M Swords, Grassroots UFOs.) 0640

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A 40m wide diamond shaped object was seen over some trees along the roadside it then
followed a car and the engine of the car falters. The object flew away after three minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1518

14/01/80 0615 Heald Moor, Lancashire, England.

A 54 year old truck driver and former Royal Marine, William Clifton Barrett, was delivering
early, when approaching a lay-by, he heard a low humming sound and saw a dark structure
on the ground in the lay-by. It was a roughly dome-shaped object from which three red
beams of light were projecting. On top was a sort of bent pipe. Two men stood in front of it,
one had a peaked cap and two-piece uniform, the other, who was stooping, had a one piece
silver-grey suit. The driver passed this object, thinking it was some sort of military vehicle.
Shortly afterwards the truck lights went out, though the engine continued to run. He had no
visual impression of the strange object now and his mind seemed to go hazy. He came to
with a jolt some distance along the road. His memory of much of the rest of the journey
seemed vague. He found an unexplained bruise on his leg and felt great fatigue.
(NUFON News 114, Hanson and Holloway, 2013.) 0671

17/01/80 0135 Desamparados, Costa Rica.

A Sgt Elias Sibaja reported seeing many coloured lights and was able to observe a gigantic
disc shaped object during which his car engine stopped and lights went off. After moving
away westwards his car was able to be restarted along with the radio and lights.
(Huneeus, A Costa Rica UFO Dossier 2011.) 0058

19/01/80 2015 Cumberland, Wisconsin. U.S.A.

Tim Hoyt was driving when he spotted two red lights. As he turned around his car “headlights”
became very dim and almost went out and his engine began to misfire. The object was
described as big as a house yellow in colour and was shaped like a basketball.
(UFO Research Newsletter Vol [Link].11, APCIC V5 N3.) 1320

-/01/80 1500 near border of Kemijarvi and Pelkosenniemi, Finland.

A travelling salesman was driving towards Vuostimo, when a bright disc shaped object flew
over his car, and the engine stopped working. The object landed about 100 metres away on
the road, with the salesman estimating the object's size as four metres in diameter and one
and a half metres high. Two small human-like creatures, less than a metre tall, then appeared
beside the object. They started to walk towards the car but suddenly turned around and went
back, with the object then ascending into the air, and moving away without any sound. After
the object had disappeared, the salesman found that he could start the car without any
difficulty. He then drove the car to where the object had been standing, and found three
landing marks two and a half metres apart.
(Finnish Humanoid Cases.) 1142

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A brilliant orange light was seen in a field, then car engine, lights, and radio failed. Some
memory loss, blotchy reddening on the face and hands, with other physiological effects also
reported following the incident.
(Omaha, Nebraska, Morning World-Herald 14/2/80, MUFON UFO Journal 262, February 1990,
p 20-21, NICAP Database of EM Cases, Project 1947-UFOCAT) 0889

26/02/80 0430 Vervins, France.

Three people (the taxi driver, a woman and her 18-year-old son) are in a Taxi coming from
Maubeuge to go to Paris. The vehicle drives on the N2 and arrives at the crossroads with the
D363. The car radio works, the lights of the town of Vervins are visible. The woman notices a
yellow light in the rear view mirror following the taxi, but attributes it to a vehicle following
them. Suddenly, the engine stalls, the car radio turns off, and the taxi is enveloped in a black
matrix, the landscape, the city lights are no longer visible, they can barely see the hood. of
the vehicle. The phenomenon began with a sound like a click. The woman tries to get out of
the vehicle, but as soon as she opens the door and leans out, she feels tingling in her limbs,
his fingers and the foot on the outside seem to be losing their sensitivity. She closes the door
badly with difficulty, feeling like she has no strength. In the midst of this unfathomable
blackness, the witnesses observe an orange ball, motionless, the periphery of which is
surrounded by multiple phosphorescent sparks, greenish white. After a good minute, the
object moves slightly, the click is heard again, the landscape reappears, the car radio restarts,
and the vehicle's engine starts again by itself, coughing. They then observe the object which
moves away while rising. Then suddenly vanished into the sky. During the ascent the sparks
had disappeared around the object. The closest object size was estimated at 4cm at arm's
length. exterior seem to lose their sensitivity. She closes the door badly with difficulty, feeling
like she has no strength. In the midst of this unfathomable blackness, the witnesses observe
an orange ball, motionless, the periphery of which is surrounded by multiple phosphorescent
sparks, greenish white. After a good minute, the object moves slightly, the click is heard again,
the landscape reappears, the car radio restarts, and the vehicle's engine starts again by itself,
coughing. They then observe the object which moves away while rising. Then suddenly
vanished into the sky. During the ascent the sparks had disappeared around the object. The
closest object size was estimated at 4cm at arm's length. exterior seem to lose their
sensitivity. She closes the door badly with difficulty, feeling like she has no strength. In the
midst of this unfathomable blackness, the witnesses observe an orange ball, motionless, the
periphery of which is surrounded by multiple phosphorescent sparks, greenish white. After a
good minute, the object moves slightly, the click is heard again, the landscape reappears, the
car radio restarts, and the vehicle's engine starts again by itself, coughing. They then observe
the object which moves away while rising. Then suddenly vanished into the sky. During the
ascent the sparks had disappeared around the object. The closest object size was estimated
at 4cm at arm's length. In the midst of this unfathomable blackness, the witnesses observe
an orange ball, motionless, the periphery of which is surrounded by multiple phosphorescent
sparks, greenish white. After a good minute, the object moves slightly, the click is heard again,
the landscape reappears, the car radio restarts, and the vehicle's engine starts again by itself,
coughing. They then observe the object which moves away while rising. Then suddenly
vanished into the sky. During the ascent the sparks had disappeared around the object. The
closest object size was estimated at 4cm at arm's length. In the midst of this unfathomable
blackness, the witnesses observe an orange ball, motionless, the periphery of which is

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surrounded by multiple phosphorescent sparks, greenish white. After a good minute, the
object moves slightly, the click is heard again, the landscape reappears, the car radio restarts,
and the vehicle's engine starts again by itself, coughing. They then observe the object which
moves away while rising. Then suddenly vanished into the sky. During the ascent the sparks
had disappeared around the object. The closest object size was estimated at 4cm at arm's
length. the object moves slightly, the click is heard again, the landscape reappears, the car
radio restarts, and the vehicle's engine starts again by itself, coughing. They then observe the
object which moves away while rising. Then suddenly vanished into the sky. During the ascent
the sparks had disappeared around the object. The closest object size was estimated at 4cm
at arm's length. the object moves slightly, the click is heard again, the landscape reappears,
the car radio restarts, and the vehicle's engine starts again by itself, coughing. They then
observe the object which moves away while rising. Then suddenly vanished into the sky.
During the ascent the sparks had disappeared around the object. The closest object size was
estimated at 4cm at arm's length.
(Lights in the Night number 223/224.) 0159

28/02/80 Currie, Nevada, U.S.A.

At night, two men were travelling to Idaho in a pickup truck loaded with belongings, and had
stopped at about 10pm to brew a cup of coffee. They saw odd shadows outside, and on
getting out of the truck, they saw a dark oval shape overhead. They returned to the truck,
started the engine and began driving away, but the engine spluttered and the object followed
them. Both the fuel gauge and the speedometer were no longer working, and the engine
finally failed as they were moving, suggesting a lack of fuel. The driver coasted down the road
while attempts were made to switch over to a second fuel tank. This succeeded after a while,
the engine and gauges began working, and on looking above, the men saw that the object
had disappeared.
(MUFON UFO Journal No 321, January 1995, p 15-16.) 0890

13/03/80 Alcester, Warwickshire, England.

A man saw a huge cigar-shaped object, with red lights at both ends, flying silently northwards
over the A22 highway. The witness reported that his vehicle's steering wheel became
unbearably hot as the object flew over, causing burns on his hands.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0891

-/03/80 1930 near Halton, Cheshire, England.

A bright light was seen in the sky, and appeared to hover over a railway bridge. The object
seemed to be a dark triangle with flashing lights. The driver reported that other cars slowed
down, and that there was unusual interference on his car radio while crossing the bridge.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 10, No 2, p19.) 0589

02/04/80 0115 Pudasjarvi, Finland.

The witness Aino Ivanoff was driving across a bridge when she entered a peculiar fog and the
car headlights were somehow deflected upwards. She stopped the car and saw a silvery

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domed object with portholes. She was apparently taken inside the object and examined by
three men wearing dark clothing. She felt drained of energy for a week after the incident.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1980-84.) 1235

06/04/80 2100 Sturbridge, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Sales engineer William Meara (29) and his wife Brenda (24) were driving southwest on
Highway 86, when, a block past the toll bar, they observed a red blur in the sky. As it got closer
it resolved itself into an illuminated form. It consisted of a main disc 9m in diameter and two
smaller outboard discs. As it passed directly over their car at about 10m altitude it filled their
field of view. William stuck his head out of the window but could hear no sound. The couple
got out and observed this object ascend at 45 degrees until it was out of sight. When William
tried to restart the car 30 minutes later it was completely dead, though it started well the
next morning. Despite there being a number of other cars on the road, there were no
additional witnesses. The car continued with intermittent trouble for some months.
(Allan Hendry in Frontiers of Science September/October 1980, p.15.) 0674

09/04/80 2330 Kembs, France.

A young woman drives on the D56 returning from a friend's house in Kembs observes a bright
spot. Suddenly the latter begins to grow to take a size greater than the sun remaining stable
above the trees. The young woman panics, brakes suddenly and turns around to return to
Kembs. The object during the manoeuvre comes closer still.

She returns to the village. At the level of the stadium, she leans over and observes the
phenomenon passing behind a house. The object is now very low and much bigger and
brighter. Arriving in front of the house behind which the object is located, the car stalls.
Despite several attempts, the engine refuses to restart as if the battery was empty. She then
gets out of her vehicle and rushes home. She rings, a couple leaves to whom she tells that a
ball follows her. The husband goes out and pushes the abandoned car in the middle of the
road to clear the way, he then observes a ball in the sky to the left of the water tower. A few
moments later the object is no longer visible. The three people enter the house. The man
comes out and starts the witness's vehicle and walks around the neighbourhood. The couple
decides to accompany the young woman to the friend who lives 200m away. The three get
into the vehicle. The driver starts, after five meters, the man observes the lights, the driver
brakes, he goes down and sees flashing red and white lights behind the house, he walks on
the road and observes the phenomenon which goes towards the is and dives behind a house.
The lights form a diamond of about 8 m. Note a neighbor who was watching TV at the time of
the observation had interference and interference at the time of the observation. Basel
Mulhouse airport confirms an unidentified radar echo at the time of the observation. At the
same time in German-speaking Switzerland, a witness observed an object at Kembs, moving
towards the South West fast.
(Lights in the Night number 208, UFO, the hidden truths of the official investigation by Roussel
Robert ** ed. Albin Michel 1994.) 0169

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Patricia Dziomba (27) was motoring in the Mulhouse area when a brilliantly lit object shot out
of the sky at terrific speed straight at her. She became frightened and turned round to go back
the way she had come, only to find, shortly afterwards, the glowing sphere right in front of
her. At a bend in the road, her car stopped and engine died, and she was unable to re-start it.
Seeing a house about 200m away, she ran to it. The object was till there, flying around the
house. When the owner, Michel Ludwizak, opened the door, he saw the sphere himself, in
the distance. An unusual object was also seen by control tower staff at the Mulhouse-Basel
Airport.
(FSR 26, 4, p.32.) 0668

14/04/80 2350 near Cunningham, South Australia, Australia.

A group of very bright lights was seen in the sky to the north by a driver travelling from
Adelaide to South Kilkerran. The lights were yellow and in a straight line, flashing in sequence.
After a few kilometres the lights moved to a position more to the rear of the vehicle before
disappearing into the distance. The driver reported that before the lights had moved away he
tried to accelerate the car without success. The engine had also cut out briefly several times
during a period of 15 to 20 seconds before reacting normally again, allowing him to accelerate
and drive away. The car had never suffered similar problems before.
(UFO Research Australia Newsletter No 2, p14-15.) 0590

19/04/80 2145 Aston, Oxon, England.

A man saw for a few seconds a single red light which was hovering noted radio interference
on car radio.
(The UFO Register Vol. 15. 1994.) 1296

21/04/80 Melilli, Siracusa, Italy.

A driver returning home with his wife and daughter found that his car engine failed suddenly.
A disc-shaped object with an orange beam, and blue lights on the upper part, was then seen
approaching the ground. The car worked normally again after the sighting.
(Notiziario UFO, Vol XVI, Issue No 99.) 0591

22/04/80 Santa Rosa, Argentina.

A motorist noticed something falling out of the sky, and at the same moment his car engine
suddenly stopped working. When he got out of the car to check the engine, he saw two tall
strange-looking humanoid figures, with webbed hands and dressed in shiny black diving suits.
One of the humanoids put its cold hands around the head of the witness, who passed out. He
recovered a few minutes later -but half a mile from where he had been before. (Jerome
Clarke. Extra-terrestrials Encyclopaedia, p 139-140, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0892

07/05/80 1720 Valdese, North Carolina, U.S.A.

A disc-shaped object with a dome was observed manoeuvring in the sky near a car, with
reported interference effects on the car's radio.

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(NICAP Database of EM Cases. The UFO Evidence Vol 11, Section V11,lX, Project 1947-
UFOCAT. ) 0893

14/05/80 0330 Simpson County, Mississippi, U.S.A.

A glowing disc-shaped object shone a light beam onto the road, with a reported effect on the
car's lights which went off 7-8 times when it entered the light beam reported Howard and
Julie Pickrel.
(Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi Daily Herald, 14/5/80. NICAP Database of EM Cases, Project 1947-
UFOCAT.) 0894

13/06/80 0000 Idaho Falls, Idaho, U.S.A.

Witness saw one cigar shaped object which caused EM effects on car.
(The UFO Register Vol.15. 1994.) 1297

15/06/80 1610 Fullerton, California, U.S.A.

The driver of a car reported that his car radio, electrical and engine began spluttering and
turning off/on then stalled. They reported seeing a dull orange oval object hovering nearby
witness reported feeling nauseated each time the object moved. After 3-5 mins it flew off in
a NW direction towards Long Beach.
(MUFON Online report.) 1328

17/07/80 0025 Ellistown, Leicestershire, England.

Mr White was driving home from his girlfriend’s when his engine failed and the petrol gauge
read empty. He began to walk to the village to get some petrol, when he realised that his LDC
watch had stopped. He then passed a very tall (c 2.1m) man who was just wearing a polo neck
sweater. He had a long thin pale face and long dark hair. The stranger said nothing. White
then passed a field where he saw an object resembling an inverted pudding basin projecting
a beam of light into the sky from the top. He connected this with the man and became
alarmed, hurrying into the village to get the petrol. However he would not walk back to the
car, preferring to walk on another 5km to stay with his grandparents. When he returned to
the car next day the gauge showed full and worked straight away. The watch remained
stopped however. Several other people reported the tall stranger to the police.
(NUFON News 78, p.6.) 0656

31/07/80 0115 Ayamonte, Spain.

A red light moved over a motorcycle during which the motorcycle engine died and could not
be restarted.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1519

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A Security Guard was driving east on the Coyote Canyon access road near the Air Force Base
for a routine building check when he saw a bright light near the ground, and observed an
object which he at first thought was a helicopter. On coming closer he saw that it was a round
disc-shaped object. He tried to radio for a back-up patrol but found that his radio would not
work. He then approached the object on foot before it took off vertically at high speed. The
guard was a former U.S. Army helicopter mechanic, and stated that the object he had seen
was not a helicopter.
(FSR Vol 31, No 5, p14. Clear Intent, p225.) 0592

17/08/80 0115 Lima, Oho, U.S.A.

Security guard Phil Battle is driving his truck and sees an unusual light in the sky. He steps out
of the vehicle and watches a round, silvery form about 270ft away. It has little holes on the
surface, a flashing yellow light and white floodlights all around it. It hovers for about 5 minutes
moving back and forth. His BC radio does not work when he tries to alert others. Suddenly a
yellow light shoots out and hits him knocking back against his truck. He hurts his knee and
back and his left eye reddens. The object takes off he and another guard look for the object
and see a light 1200ft to the north slightly larger than the moon which drifts westwards after
15-20 seconds.
(IUR/Frontiers of Science2 No 6.) 1509

21/08/80 1900 Lake Fork Creek, Texas, U.S.A.

A woman was driving home with her young daughter when there was interference effects on
the car radio, the lights dimmed, and the car was felt to be lifted off the highway. An unknown
flying craft with rows of lights was then seen overhead, with the mother and child reported
to have been taken on board the craft in an abduction experience.
(MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p 3-7. NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0896

-/08/80 Santa Rosa, Argentina.

A driver was returning home when a black shape hovered over his car. The engine stalled, the
lights failed, and on getting out of the car he felt unable to move. He claimed that two glowing
figures appeared, and that something was attached to his head before he lost consciousness.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 10, No 1, p22.) 0593

-/08/80 Near Linz, Austria.

Peter Housner a 33 year old photographer was on a long drive through the countryside on a
warm summer’s day. As he drove past an empty field he seemed to lose control of his car,
without a sound the vehicle seemed to remain in one place as the tires still moved. Suddenly
Peter and his car were lifted from the ground like an elevator and floated above the treetops
at high speed. Looking up Peter saw at a distance of 15m a huge luminous sphere. A square
opened at the bottom of the sphere and Peter inside the car found himself in a luminous room
with 8 beings very slim and with smooth grey skin and large eyes. He underwent a medical
examination and was then escorted back to his vehicle and was transported back in the same
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(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1980-84.) 1236

-/08/80 2300 Bialczyn, Poland.

A man was driving from Gdynia to Krzekty with his wife. When passing Bialczyn, the car lights
went out, and soon afterwards the engine also stalled and could not be restarted. The driver
felt tired, and was settled down for a sleep when his wife saw what looked like two large
moons high up in the sky. She woke her husband, who confirmed the sighting, and the object
came closer before stopping not far ahead, at the height of the treetops along the highway.
The object's surface looked divided by two dark bands with curved ends, showing that the
object was rounded. The object brightened, with an intense orange-red light. After several
minutes, the woman became afraid, and got out of the car. It was then discovered that the
time was 6a.m. with the husband holding the car's ignition key. The engine started without
any difficulty, and they drove away. The two witnesses were unable to explain the incident,
and kept it to themselves until 1986, when they decided to report their experience, having
hypnotic treatment to reveal the details.
(B. Rzepecki, Ufological History in Poland, 1947-1987. Scandinavian UFO Information.) 1143

-/08/80 2100 near Winton, Queensland, Australia.

A Mount Isa mining trade’s assistant was driving on the road through Winton and Longreach
at the beginning of his holidays when he saw yellowish lights coming towards him on the road.
His first thought was that the lights were from a road train, but the object suddenly took off
from the ground and flew directly towards him. As it approached, his car engine stopped, the
headlights went out, and the cassette player also stopped working. The witness was alarmed
at the experience, with the object passing over his car. He got out for another look at the
object, and after it had passed over the car, the lights came back on and the cassette resumed
playing. Driving quickly away from the area, he then met a truck flashing its lights. When
stopping, the driver and his wife reported that they had also seen the flying object which they
thought was a UFO.
(AUFORN. Isa News, 28/8/80.) 1144

15/09/80 2200 near Elko. Nevada, U.S.A.

A man was driving to Denver with his son, and carrying two dogs in the back of the car when
a pattern of blinking lights was seen in a meadow. The lights then disappeared. The car engine
stopped, and footsteps were heard coming towards the car, but the dogs did not bark and
nothing was seen. When the engine was tried again, it restarted and the car was driven slowly
down the mountain road. A round orange light was seen floating above the road and following
the car down the mountain, until the light disappeared at the bottom of the road. (NUFORC
13/12/03.) 1145

21/09/80 2030 near Middlewich, Cheshire, England.

A family were returning home to Middlewich on a clear, cool evening, when they saw two
white objects low in the eastern sky. The car was stopped, and a VHF transceiver in the vehicle
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while the other seemed to descend and come closer. The interference on the transceiver
became so great that the set had to be switched off. Finally, when an aircraft was seen
approaching, the remaining object moved away with a red glow at its rear.
(UFO Reality, p130.) 0594

28/09/80 2228 Conceicao de Araguaia, Brazil.

Three people were in a truck when the headlights began to blink, and the driver heard a voice
in his head. When arriving at their destination it was found that ninety minutes of time was
missing. Under hypnosis one of the men recalled being taken inside an object and that his
arms were paralysed.
(UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. T E Bullard, 1987. APRO Bulletin, April 1982.)
1146

-/09/80 0600 Currency Creek, South Australia, Australia

A couple were out driving when a strange object passed over the vehicle. As it did so the
driver felt something like an electric shock, the dashboard gauges went down to zero, and the
headlights, dashboard and perhaps then engine momentarily failed. They drove away, afraid,
the object instantaneously going from directly above them to some distance behind, making
them suspect missing time.
(UFORA Research Digest 24.) 0696

-/09/80 0115 Krefeld, North Rhine, Germany.

Wilfred Wirtz(26) had stopped at traffic lights on his way home from a night's bowling, when
he found that he was driving his car without conscious deliberation to an open field, where
the car stopped of its own accord. He was unable to restart the car and then saw an orange
light in the distance, seemingly rotating around some circular object. While he was taking this
in, he saw, standing 4m to his right, a small being no more than 1.35m tall, dressed in a silvery
suit. A metallic voice came through his radio speakers said that the being would not come
nearer and that it came from Zeta Reticulli and that they would meet again in 1981. The being
then walked away through the corn, the light grew brighter and took off before suddenly
disappearing. The car then started normally. He drove home, where his wife asked him not to
speak of the incident, which was only revealed through a work colleague.
(International UFO Library Anniversary Edition.) 0639

-/09/80 0310 Perton, Staffordshire, England.

Peter and Pamela Blakey were driving home when they observed a stationary light low over
a field, which they assumed was a tractor headlight. However as they drove on the light
followed them and at one point their car was illuminated by a brilliant silvery light. The drove
home in terror and rushed into the house, to see the luminous sphere shoot up into the sky.
From their bedroom window they saw it was a triangular object that hovered over a small
coppice before taking off vertically. Pamela suffered health problems, their electrical
equipment developed faults and the red paint on their car turned yellow after the incident.
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10/10/80 1815 Odense, Denmark.

A husband and wife were driving to Naesby, in dark and drizzly weather, when their car engine
stopped working and could not be restarted. Lack of fuel was not a problem, as the petrol
tank had been filled that afternoon. A large, shiny oval object, emitting bright yellow-red light
was then seen over a nearby barn. After a while, two dark holes appeared suddenly at one
end of the object, and large flames of coloured light were emitted. No sound was heard from
the object, which moved away and disappeared very quickly. Afterwards, the car started
normally and was driven away. (SUFOI Newsletter No 16, 1997.) 1147

15/10/80 2330 County, Illinois, U.S.A.

A deputy sheriff had stopped his car to stretch his legs when a large triangular object ten
times the angular diameter of the moon came out of the eastern sky. It came to within 75m
at 60m altitude and was soundless. Through a long window in one facet of the triangle five
figures were visible from the waists up. They appeared to be 1.5m tall, nude, with white skins,
long necks, elongated heads, large slanted eyes and slit like mouths. He thought their eyes
betrayed fear and tried to telepathically reassure them. They replied telepathically; “why do
you hate the Iranians”. The object then drew closer before flying off into the NE darkness.
During the experience the officer’s FM radio displayed intermittent interference that ceased
when the object left. The car’s engine and lights pulsated and dogs in the area howled. During
this time, the witness suffered from light headedness, sluggishness and watery eyes. He
continued to feel sluggish with a headache, afterwards. He absolutely refused to let his name
be used.
(Frontiers of Science March/April 1981.) 0629

19/10/80 1950 Albion, Michigan, U.S.A.

Donald Shive was driving a Ford van westwards, with his wife and two young children, when
an unknown flying object was seen outlined with white, red, and blue lights in the dark sky.
When the object flew overhead, with no sound heard and the van window open, the vehicle's
engine and lights failed abruptly. After about half a minute the engine could be restarted, and
the lights of the UFO could be seen moving away eastwards.
(Frontiers of Science, Volume 3, 1980-1982.) 1148

-/10/80 Near Toluca, Mexico.

Three witnesses were driving in a desert area 30km from Toluca when the engine of their
vehicle stalled for no reason. A bluish flash of light streaked from the sky down to about 50m
from the car. They then saw a large conical shaped object resting on the ground on 4 “feet”
like protusions. Four figures emerged from the object they had tentacle-like protrusions. The
figures were collecting rock and soil samples. Minutes later the figure went back into the
object and there was a bright blue flash and object disappeared and the vehicle began
operating normally.
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01/11/80 1730 Lake Langen, near Hovsta, Sweden.

Kristina Rydholm and her younger sister were driving on a small road along the Lake Langan,
near Hovsta when they spotted something strange in the sky. The object stops, descended
and started to hover. It was vibrating slightly and is round. It then starts moving again and
then stops to hover once more. They stop the car to observe the object as it moves to within
10-15m from them.

They believe the object to be oval in shape and can make out a window and inside could see
two humanoids moving about. On the front of the object were two bright lights which
suddenly went out.

They change seats in the car and start to drive away but the car stops and the lights go out.
The car begins to shake and vibrate like when passing a large truck. The vibration stopped and
the object moved away we could restart the car. The object had red and possible yellow lights.
(AFU Newsletter No.22.) 1344

19/11/80 2345 Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

A driver was travelling home to Longmont with his wife when an intense beam of blue light
appeared suddenly, and seemed to lock on to the car. The light was accompanied by a very
loud whip-like swishing noise. The car lights began to dim, and the radio emitted static
interference before fading out. The rear of the car was then felt lifting off the road before the
light and sound suddenly disappeared, and the car continued its journey normally. The
witnesses checked the time on their watches at 12.55am, and realized that there was more
than an hour of missing time. The driver suffered a loss of balance after the incident, and later
hypnosis sessions were reported to have revealed details of an abduction experience.
(FSR Vol 29, No 2, p21-26.) 0597

29/11/80 0500 Todmorden, Yorkshire, England.

Police constable Alan Godfrey reported that he had seen a strange object about 20 feet wide,
with windows, hovering low over the ground. The lower part of the object was spinning, and
trees and bushes at the roadside were shaking. When the policeman tried to make contact
with his police station neither his VHF nor UHF radios would work. He made a sketch of the
object, and then found himself suddenly further down the road, and the object had
disappeared. He decided to file a formal statement after four policemen in Halifax reported
that they had also seen the unidentified object.
(Above Top Secret, p116-117. The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries, p50-52.) 0598

03/12/80 2030 McLain, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Travelling in their car on Highway 57, Mr and Mrs Lowrey saw a luminous bluish-white ball of
light which came briefly over the car, with failure of its FM radio and heater, and dimming of
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(International UFO Reporter, January 1981, p 12. NICAP Database EM Cases) 0897

03/12/80 Murray, Queensland, Australia.

G Peel was travelling in his car with another person when he saw a light in the sky to the rear
of the vehicle. Suddenly, the car engine and radio stopped working, and the lights flickered.
A beeping sound came from the radio while the object was present, until it finally left the
area.
(Project 1947, Keith Basterfield. A Catalogue of Australian UFO Vehicle Interference Cases,
2005, p 15.) 0898

04/12/80 0200 Carmel, Indiana, U.S.A.

Witnesses were stopped at a traffic light where he observed a bright light 80ft across which
approached him zig-zagged and then moved away and then returned finally leaving. During
which the fuses in his car were found to have blown.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1535

12/12/80 2130 New Milford, Connecticut, U.S.A.

A reported UFO landed which caused cars to stall one witness saw figures on the ground near
an object.
(Long Island UFO Update Vol 1 No 3.) 1259

28/12/80 Rendlesham Forest, near Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

Two Security policemen at Woodbridge Air Base reported seeing a brilliant glowing light
which appeared to crash into the forest in the early morning of December 27th. The area was
investigated by base personnel who reported seeing a metallic triangular object, about two
to three metres across its base with coloured lights, and noted that the air seemed to be full
of electricity. The object was observed for about 20 minutes, changing its position before
ascending into the sky at speed and producing a cold blast of air. It was reported that Eastern
Radar and Heathrow Airport had also picked up an unidentified object, which had
disappeared in the area. On the following night unidentified objects were seen in the sky,
moving rapidly with sharp angular movements and displaying coloured lights. RAF Watton
reported an uncorrelated radar target which disappeared near Rendlesham Forest, confirmed
by other air cases. Military personnel sent to investigate found that their jeep engine and
lights failed as they approached the landing site. It was also reported that two floodlight units
taken to the site could not be switched on, as if the energy had been drained from both units.
Other effects were also noted, with one of the personnel finding when checking his watch
that everything was at half speed, even voices. Examination of the site revealed a triangular
pattern of markings left in the ground by the object, radiation traces were found, and some
of the personnel who witnessed the events reported experiencing physical effects. The
Deputy Base Commander, who was also a witness of the events, confirmed the incident in an
official memorandum to the Ministry of Defence.
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29/12/80 Huffman, Texas, U.S.A.

On a cold night with the car heater on, three people were travelling near Huffman. The car
was brought to a stop, and driver Betty Cash got out to look at an unknown glowing object in
the sky. Feeling intense heat on her skin, she was coaxed back to the car after five or ten
minutes, finding the door handle so hot that she had to use her leather coat to grasp it. The
car interior had also become so hot that the heater was turned off and the air conditioner
switched on. She found that skin under the ring on her finger was burned, and in later
investigation it was suggested that this was caused by infrared radiation or, in particular,
microwaves. Comparisons were made with a previous case at Bari, Italy, on March 31st, when
after a UFO sighting by two witnesses, one man found a burn on the following day directly
under his watch, which had stopped, and with the other witness also finding a burn under his
"cowboy belt". Similar heating effects were also reported in a much earlier vehicle
interference effects case in British Columbia, Canada, on December 13th, 1967.
(MUFON UFO Journal, November 1981, p 3, and November 1983, p 12-13.) 0899

-/12/80 Woodbridge, Suffolk. England.

A local resident driving home spotted a black triangular flying craft which was dripping what
he described as water. All he could see was a underbelly of an object his car engine spluttered
and died on him. He was left in darkness with no headlights or internal lights. He could see
white and blue lights underneath the object. The stalled engine burst into life once the flying
triangle had got about 100 yards away.
(Pike, A, The Rendlesham File. 2005.) 1273

-/-/80 West Germany.

A young woman reported that as she was driving, a brilliantly lit object swooped down
towards her car. She turned the car and began driving back in the opposite direction, but then
found the glowing sphere suddenly in front of her. The car stopped with the engine failed,
and could not be restarted. She then ran to a nearby house, with the object still circling, and
the resident of the house was also able to see the object clearly, although by then at some
distance. The incident was reported to the police, and it was later confirmed that staff at
Mulhouse-Basel Airport control tower had also seen a strange object that same night, which
they said could not possibly have been an aircraft.
(FSR Vol 26, No 4, p32.) 0600

-/-/80 Winchester, Hampshire, England.

A local resident, while out walking with his dog at Cheesefoot Head one summer evening saw
an object land in one of the cornfields. He described the experience to the Winchester Gazette
some years later, in connection with the appearance of mystery rings in the fields. He
reported that he had heard a humming sound before seeing a large grey object moving across
the cornfield before landing for about five minutes. It then took off and moved away much
faster than an aircraft, leaving a flattened ring in the field. There were two other
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a nearby rubbish bin. All of the vehicles there, his own car, the woman's car, and the refuse
van would not start while the UFO was standing in the field.
(FSR Vol 32, No 6, p15-16.) 0601

1980/1981 undated 0600 Currency Creek, South Australia, Australia.

A man was travelling with a woman by car when an object was seen passing overhead. The
car's dashboard gauges dropped to zero, the headlights and dashboard lights flickered, went
off for a second, and then came back on again. The driver also felt a twinge like an electric
shock, before accelerating away, and with the car behaving normally again.
(Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Effects Cases, p15.) 0900

26/01/81 1600 Laprade, Nr Carcassonne, France.

A orange cigar shaped object was observed it had three white circles on the side it changed
direction and altitude and speed estimated to be 50kph while observed a car stalled and could
not be restarted for 24 hours.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1521

26/01/81 1630 Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenes, France.

A police car stalls while observing a 5m long cigar shaped object hovering 4m over some fields.
The object had portholes and observed for 1 minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1522

-/01/81 1900 between Southport and Manchester, Lancashire, England.

A woman was driving with her mother on the East Lancashire road, which seemed at that
time to be strangely quiet and traffic free, when they saw a huge light on the right hand side
travelling in the same direction and at tree top level. The car could not be made to go faster,
and then it started to malfunction, 'bouncing along' and slowing to about 5 mph. It was then
noticed that the light had become a large structured object hovering overhead. A car ahead
seemed to disappear, and when they reached a filling station with the strange light still visible,
some distance away; they pointed it out to a man there. Arriving home, it was found that
there was a time lapse of about two hours, and a subsequent hypnosis session revealed an
apparent abduction experience. Several psychic experiences also occurred following the
incident.
(BUFORA Bulletin, No 18, July 1985, p14-15.) 0602

15/04/81 0020 Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Two police officers were in their car when they saw a strong reddish light descending from
the sky. The engine and electrical components of the car then became inoperative as a saucer-
shaped object, about three metres in diameter and one metre in height, landed on the street
about fifty metres away from the vehicle. The witnesses reported that a small door opened
on the craft, two human-like forms emerged and began "jumping around". After a few
minutes the figures returned to the object, which then rotated before ascending into the sky,

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emitting a loud noise and disappearing quickly. The witnesses could then start the car again,
and left the area.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases. CISU, UFO Notizie No 48.) 0902

12/05/81 0500 Astoria, Oregon, U.S.A.

A truck driver was on his way from Seattle to Astoria with his girlfriend, to pick up a
consignment of crab for a seafood company. Near Clatskanie, and when going down a hill, the
driver found that the truck was moving more slowly than usual before returning to its normal
speed. He then saw in the mirror two small flame-like orange objects, also seen by his friend.
The lights seemed to stay in the same place, and were then joined by a white light, forming a
triangle. The lights drew closer, and it was seen that they were flashing every couple of
seconds. After not being visible when the driver lowered the window and looked behind, the
lights reappeared after a while, an estimated truck length behind him. He decided to stop the
truck and get out, and he then saw. The triangle shape again hovering over a ravine and trees.
The object was then seen as three orange lights flashing in a circular sequence, before a bright
beam of light appeared and focused on the witnesses, without any noticeable effect. The
driver quickly got back into the cab and drove into Astoria, after a total sighting time of about
twenty minutes.
(MUFON UFO Journal January 1982, p 15-16.) 0903

-/05/81 0100 Botafuegos, Garganata del Capitan, Algeciras, Spain.

A family of four drove to an isolate road where mysterious phenomena had been seen before.
As they drove along the car stopped without any apparent cause and could not be restarted
so all occupants left the car. A figure appeared and spoke to the witnesses who then walked
away when they looked around the figure had disappeared. They then walked back to their
vehicle and started it without any problem. When sitting in the vehicle they saw a light
descend from the nearby mountain and land in a field. They exited the vehicle again and
began looking at the light which suddenly went off. As they stood there they saw their vehicle
rolling towards them the vehicle was moving on its own and appeared to be floating off the
ground. It then stopped they jumped in it and drove away.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1980-84.) 1238

01/06/81 0545 Cavan, Australia.

Witness saw a object described as sphere/globe shape with bright glowing lights the car radio
suffered interference and the engine failed.
(The UFO Register, Vol. 16 . 1995.) 1298

12/06/81 1410 Alice, Texas, U.S.A.

A vacuum truck driver was heading west on Route 665 towards Alice, when he noticed a bright
object in the sky which he thought was an aircraft, until it increased in brilliance and stopped
in mid-air. The disc-shaped object was white with a dark ring around the outer perimeter, a
dark inner ring around the centre, and a slight “cap" on top. The driver then noticed that the

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truck was starting to slow down. He tried pressing the accelerator, then found that the truck
seemed to be about a foot off the road. The AM radio had stopped playing, so he used his CB
radio to report the incident. The unknown object then went into clouds and disappeared.
Later, on arrival back at his shop, it was noticed that the AM radio was playing again.
(MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p 8.) 0904

-/06/81 2300 Weeki- Wachaa, Florida, U.S.A.

Witness was driving home from work when they noticed a bright light following for around 5-
6 miles. They stopped their car and the could no longer see a light but could see an object
approaching to within a few feet of the vehicle. The object was dark and smooth and flat and
was round. The object was hovering in front of them as the dash board lights and headlights
dimmed and then the engine stalled. A noise described as a “whoosh” was heard and the
object took off North then turn West and disappeared in a matter of seconds. The car started
up once the object had left.
(MUFON Online reports.) 1395

16/07/81 0200 Telford, Shropshire, England.

Three women Rosemary Hawkins, Valeria Walters and Vivian Hayward were returning to the
town by car in the early hours of the morning when they saw across the fields a flying object
with red and white lights. The object seemed to be pacing the car, and the engine lost power
when they tried to accelerate away from it. They also noticed that there was no other traffic
on the road. As the lights dimmed and vanished, the car seemed to regain power. They drove
to the local police station and realized that there was about 20 minutes of missing time. A
later hypnosis session seemed to indicate a possible abduction experience
(John Spencer. UFO Encyclopaedia, p140, APCIC V8 N8.) 0604

30/08/81 2235 El Cajon! California, U.S.A.

A computer engineer was driving home along a rural road, when he saw in his headlight
beams an object which he thought was perhaps a low-flying helicopter. A collision seemed
imminent, but the car stopped without the brake being applied. The interior of the car was
illuminated, with the frightened witness unable to open the door or windows. He then felt
that he had been handled and had left the car, before finding that he was back in the car
again. As he drove away, a light followed and circled the car. He had a gun in the car and fired
shots at the object, arriving home in an agitated state. He noticed red dots like puncture marks
on his wrists, and his digital watch malfunctioned after the event, with some of the details
emerging under later hypnosis.
(MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p 13.) 0906

31/08/81 Near Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, Pyrennes Orientales, France.

Writer Eduardo Pons Prades was driving around the Catalonian Mountains when he took a
wrong turn and ended up in a wooded trail. His vehicle stalled so he then left the vehicle and
went to find help. In a clearing he came upon a huge metallic disc shaped object. Outside was

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a tall blond human like figure who invited him inside. Once inside he met other figures he was
given a message and was allowed to go back to his vehicle which now restarted easily.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1980-84.) 1239

25/09/81 Conceicao de Araguaia, Goias, Brazil.

A truck driver was returning to Rio de Janeiro, accompanied by a relative and a friend when
the vehicle's lights started blinking on and off. When the engine was turned off the lights
continued blinking. They all got out of the vehicle, the two passengers having noticed a blue
flash crossing the sky. An object with a pulsating light was then seen in the distance, and the
driver used a newly acquired camera to film it for a few seconds. The film later showed flashes
of light coming from a fiery red object. When the journey was resumed they felt drowsy, and
on reaching a petrol station at 4.30am, there was found to be about five hours of time missing.
The driver also found that he had used only a litre of diesel fuel during the 89 mile journey.
When back in Rio de Janeiro he placed his own vehicle in front of the truck and found that it
also started blinking its lights, although the engines of both vehicles were turned off. Other
strange events were reported. The driver described an abduction experience, and started
developing paranormal powers including a healing ability.
(John Spencer. UFOs - The Definitive Casebook, p188. ) 0605

11/10/81 2315 Nailstone, Leicestershire, England.

Two brothers returning in a car after dropping off a girlfriend suddenly found the car slowing
and stopping. They tried to start it without success so one man set off for petrol thinking that
they had run out. The other brother went to a phone box to call his wife noting as her did a
strange large white light like a cluster of small lights hovering above a nearby colliery. The
other brother returned they put the fuel in but the car still did not start. They then noticed
that the odd light had moved away. They tried the car again and it started.
(Awareness Vol.21. No.1.) 1299

25/10/81 2235 Clare, South Australia, Australia.

A woman was driving from Snowtown to Clare on a clear night when she saw a bright, oval
white light following her car. The car radio made a humming noise at one point, also cutting
out several times. It was also reported that a beam of light from the object lit up the
surrounding countryside. The duration of the sighting was about half an hour.
(UFOSA. [Link], South Australian UFO reports.) 1149

-/10/81 1100 between Bath and Stroud, Gloucestershire, England.

A salesman was driving from Bath to Stroud, and was listening to the radio news headlines
when he found that his car was passing underneath an orange cloud-like object. He then
noticed that his watch showed the time as 8am, his digital pen indicated 9am, and the car
milometer started going backwards, losing 300 miles.
(The World's Greatest UFO Mysteries, p34.) 0606

01/11/81 Puno, Peru.

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A large oval shaped white light with an incandescent point at its centre was seen in the
evening by thousands of people as it passed over southern Peru, northern Chile and the
central part of Argentina. The object was also seen by aircraft pilots, and at Puno in Peru it
was reported to have passed over at low altitude, stopping the engines of a convoy of lorries
for a few seconds.
(La Tercera, Santiago, Chile, 02/11/81. Earthlink, UK. October 1982, p27.) 0607

11/11/81 2230 Canada.

Two witnesses drove into town along the way they saw a car headlights in the distance. But
as the lights came closer they turned out to be a large disc shaped object. As the object passed
over the car the car’s engine stopped. Underneath a series of red, blue, yellow and green
lights were seen. The craft glided away it was estimated to be 100-125 feet in diameter.
(CUFORN Bulletin Vol 13. N1. 1992.) 1256

12/11/81 France.

Louis Turi and his brother had an encounter with a huge metallic disc that hovered over their
car in Southern France. The Mercedes car they were in stalled and they watched the object
before it disappeared into the distance.
(The Missing Link No 120 Sep 1992 P3.) 1410

24/11/81 2130 Marshall, near Darco, Texas, U.S.A.

A domed, disc-shaped object with red, blue , green and amber lights on it moved across the
road, and then hovered was observed by Dale Spurlock. Lights were beamed onto a truck cab,
and effects on the alternator and battery were noticed on the following day.
(MUFON UFO Journal No 170, p 6, and February 1984, p 14.) 0907

-/11/81 2200 Stowe, Vermont, U.S.A.

A truck was clearing snow on a mountain road when it suddenly lost power and lights. Two
long objects were seen at a low level, with illuminated windows. There was no sound, and the
air felt as if there was electricity in it. The truck driver, with a passenger, began walking to a
nearby resort, before being picked up and driven back to the truck, where they found its lights
on, and the engine could then be started.
(NUFORC, 10/1/01.) 1150

03/12/81 1800 Chiavari, Genoa, Italy.

Mr Umberto Gioboloni while driving home from work in his truck when he observed a blinding
light and then inside the truck between himself and the left door appeared seven little flames
which emitted heat and burnt his hands when he touched them. The truck would not respond
to his actions. Finally the lights disappeared and he found himself 15km from the restaurant
and facing the wrong direction to where he was heading.
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15/12/81 0330 San Luis Del Palmar, Argentina.

The driver of a dumper truck, on an unmade road, observed a bright object approaching. The
truck began vibrating, with the driver having a tingling sensation and unable to move. It was
reported that the truck lifted, became transparent, and the driver lost consciousness.
(Ruben Meneses Case, NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0908

15/12/81 2135 Havsa, Turkey.

Object seen and car engine stopped.

(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1526

19/12/81 2300 Areal, Brazil.

A silo-shaped object with three legs was reported to have landed on the road ahead of a car,
with car engine and lighting effects reported. After about five minutes the object rose straight
upwards and the driver had difficulty in restarting the car. He then drove to Aguas Claras,
about six kilometres away, with the object following him, and on arrival the sighting was
confirmed by local residents before the object moved away after about fifteen minutes.
(MUFON UFO Journal, February 1987, p 14-15. NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0909

19/02/82 2030 Allen, Rio Negro Province, Argentina.

A mushroom-shaped object was reported above a car, with electronic-like sound heard, and
the driver blacking out after the car engine and lights failed. The car was found near Arroyito,
about a hundred kilometres away. When the witness was found by police, his watch had
stopped at 9.15pm. He was then taken to hospital in Neuquen, where he was treated for
physiological effects and burns to his neck and fingers.
(La Razon, 23/2/82. MUFON UFO Journal, February 1983, p 18. NICAP Database of EM Cases.)
0910

20/02/82 Rio Negro Province, Argentina.

A truck driver was travelling along a secondary road when the truck engine failed. He saw a
UFO nearby with what looked like alien figures, and reported that his eyesight had been
affected. (NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0911

24/02/82 Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A bright, round illuminated object flew over a car, with reported radio interference effect.
(Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p 14-15. NICAP Database of EM Cases.)
0912

04/03/82 2230 Hellifield, North Yorkshire, England.

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A business woman was driving home on the A65 road, and was passing through Coniston
Cutting -where the road cuts through the hillside, when the car was lit up by a bluish light. In
the mirror, the driver could see two lights which were red and blue, hovering in the air behind
the car. After following the car for half a mile or so, a beam of light appeared. The beam was
narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, forming a circle of light about fifteen feet in
diameter, coming from above the car and lighting up the surrounding fields. The witness
began to feel very cold, and the car engine began revving as if it had been levitated off the
road. The lights disappeared as a lorry approached from the opposite direction. On returning
home, the witness found that she had lost about thirty minutes of time, and afterwards
suffered a series of symptoms, with a skin rash and energy loss. In later investigation she
underwent regression hypnosis, when further details were reported.
(Paul Devereux. Earthlights Revelation, p 112. MUFON UFO Journal, December 2005, p 19.)
0913

15/03/82 2135 Darmstadt, West Germany.

A yellow-green flying object, then later four additional white objects, was observed by eight
police officers in several patrol cars. The white objects disappeared suddenly, while the
yellow-green object moved away in a southerly direction. During the sighting, which lasted
about 20 minutes, it was reported that switched off loudspeakers in the patrol cars crackled
tremendously as the objects were followed for several kilometres. Many other eyewitnesses
saw the objects, describing them as elliptical, with searchlights and enveloped in flickering
green light. The electricity in Darmstadt also fluctuated strongly during the incident. At the
police station it was reported that the car radio link broke down, the light flickered, and the
television screen was affected. The nearby U.S. Air Force base was also reported to have seen
unidentified objects on radar screens for about half an hour.
('Bild', Hamburg, 17/03/82. Earthlink, UK. October 1982, p28.) 0608

15/03/82 2330 Gonnosfadiga, Italy.

A car’s engine and lights died when a luminous object was observed.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1527

15/03/82 San Dimas, California, U.S.A.

A mother with her two children was driving on a busy highway near San Dimas, when they
saw a rectangular glowing object with a cross in the middle, hovering over the area. As the
car came closer, the mother heard a low humming sound, felt dizzy, and had difficulty in
driving.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0914

22/03/82 0330 Slanesville, Virginia, U.S.A.

The witness was outside his home, investigating a commotion among his dogs and cats when
he saw two lights descending from the sky, and landing. He tried using his car to approach the
area, but the car stalled, and when he continued on foot holding a flashlight, he saw a figure
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should use 'atomic' power, and the witness was slightly burned when a beam of light came
from the object. The being re-entered the craft, which then took off, and the witness was left
with mental images of pyramids.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases. Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions, The Measure of a
Mystery.) 0915

28/03/82 0300 Esperance, West Australia, Australia.

It was reported by two women Miss F Collins and a Miss N Yeed that the engine of their van
was affected by the close approach of a brilliant object. The object was silent, and
investigations of the report concluded that the object was the planet Venus.
(Keith Basterfield, Catalogue of Australian UFO Vehicle Interference Cases.) 0916

-/03/82 Springfield, Missouri, U.S.A.

The witness was travelling in her car when she suddenly lost control of the steering and felt
the vehicle being pulled by some unknown force, towards a light seen hovering directly ahead
at treetop level. She soon found herself in a clearing in a wooded area, with a silvery disc-
shaped object nearby, resting on three legs.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0917

-/04/82 Todmorden, Yorkshire, England.

Around the time when the Todmorden Times published, on April 23rd, the details of a large
number of UFO reports in the area, there were also reports that CB radio operators were
having communication problems in and around Todmorden. A car which came close to a
‘dancing’ UFO was found to have blown all of its fuses, and street lights were also reported to
have dimmed.
(Jenny Randles. The Pennine UFO Mystery, p 229.) 0719

-/05/82 Near Comodor Rivadavis, Chubut, Argentina.

During the Falkland Island/Islas Malvinas conflict several Argentina soldiers riding in a
UNIMOG vehicle spotted several short man-like figures with large heads moving towards a
dark hovering disc shaped object. The craft hovered a few cm above the ground. As the
vehicle approached the object its engine began to splutter without any apparent cause. The
figures entered the craft via a shaft of light from underneath the craft. The object rose and
disappeared into the distance.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1980-84.) 1218

01/07/82 2210 Carlsbad, New Mexico, U.S.A.

An object with red and blue lights around it made a hissing sound as it flew at an estimated
height of 500 feet and moved away at speed. A vehicle driver reported that his engine and
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(Current Argus, Carlsbad, 02/07/82. Lucius Farish, UFO News clipping Service No 159, p1.)
0610

06/07/82 1930 near Highclere, Tasmania, Australia.

A man driving home from work saw an object hovering over a field close to the road. The car
lost power and came to a halt, and the object disappeared towards the west after a few
seconds. The driver described a blue haze around the object, and noted that a roadside fence
appeared to be giving off electrical charges. The car had not had any previous problems, and
could be restarted after the object had disappeared.
(Advocate, Burnie, Tasmania, 07/07/82. UFO News clipping Service No 157, p 9.) 0611

20/07/82 1500 Vejer de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain.

A local cattleman was on his motorbike when his engine suddenly stopped and he came to a
halt and would not restart. The witness then walked to what he thought was a tanker truck
100m away. When he was 30m away he saw two human like figures standing in the road
wearing shiny suits and round clear helmets. These two figures walked back to the object and
entered the object through an opened hatch. It then took off towards the North silently.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1980-84.) 1240

03/08/82 1600 Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Several witnesses in a Toyota Land Cruiser were on a dirt road on the outskirts of Sierra Leone
when they saw a very bright light. The object came closer and they could make out a glass
sphere object at tree-top level. It finally came and hovered over their vehicle which then
stalled. The sphere was about 20” in diameter and above some palm trees, after a short while
the object disappeared and they had to jump start the car because the battery was dead.
When they arrived at the next settlement which should of taken no more than 3 hrs they
found that they had lost 3 to 4 hours of time. The battery of the vehicle was totally drain and
they had to purchase a new one.
(MUFON Reports Database.) 1350

09/82 Corby, Northamptonshire. England.

Late at night, Ros Reynolds and her boyfriend were driving to visit friends when their car was
suddenly surrounded in light and an object flew overhead. The object then began following
the car and travelling alongside. Suddenly the car engine failed and the car came to a stop.
The witness seemed to lose consciousness, and was only able to remember getting back into
the car. By the time of arrival at her friend's home it was discovered that there were almost
three hours of missing time.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0918

-/09/82 Girard, Pennsylvania! U.S.A.

At around dusk, a man was driving on the 190 road when he saw an object hovering above
the trees. The object looked wedge-shaped and triangular from below. The vehicle engine ran

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roughly before stalling, and the inside lights flashed as the object approached. The witness
was able to see two figures which appeared to be clothed in silver-like material. There was a
silver metallic globe shaped device on the bottom of the object which resembled a convex
department store mirror. There was a large window in the top of the object. It had red/white
and green lights which seemed to pulse with a dull purplish brown colour on the bottom. The
object moved silently always at about 20 mph and was lost from sight. There was a second
witness in the vehicle.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases, Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalog of UFO
Observations,) 0919

08/11/82 Hamburg, West Germany.

A bus driver reported observing a bright quadrangular object in the sky with red and green
lights. The radio equipment in the bus was disturbed when the object was seen.
('Bild', Hamburg, 09/11/82. UFO News clipping Service No 160, p13.) 0612

03/02/83 Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.

The witness was driving home after visiting a friend and had just turned off the highway when
she heard an explosion at this point her car began to vibrate and the vehicle became difficult
to steer. She brought the vehicle to a halt opened the door and looked down to see if she
could see any problems. After checking and not seeing anything she continues her journey
and the vibrating had stopped. She noticed that the woods ahead were brilliantly illuminated
and at first thought that a helicopter search was in progress. She again stopped the car and
at this point she sighted a huge object about ½ mile west of her. She now feels that the
explosion was a result of the strange object coming down over a clay and gravel pit in the
vicinity.

The object was described as huge estimated to be 70 to 80 ft high and 210ft wide and moving
toward her at 4-5 mph. The evening was clear and cool and she had been driving with the
window closed. After the explosion she noted a “chopping wind, a high-pitched sound and a
roaring sound”. As the object neared the ground it stopped and all of the noise stopped it was
completely silent. The duration of the sighting was around 5 minutes. As the craft appeared
the witnesses attention was drawn to a top deck with a long window which she estimates 53ft
long and she could see 20-30 persons walking about oblivious of her presence. The beings
were pale skinned and dressed in white one piece suits having no hair with chests larger than
ours and having the lower half of their ears similar to ours. The craft was moving slowly over
some woods with white spotlights and to the side blue and red lights that intermingled. The
witness had previously prayed that she might have an encounter and had extensive dreams
prior to and after the event.
(MUFON Ohio Newsletter Vol.32 No.2.) 1360

06/02/83 0100 Agen, France.

A motorcyclist was returning to his home on the outskirts of Agen, with no other vehicles on
the road when he was suddenly blinded by a brilliant light coming from a silver object, shaped
like two soup dishes stuck together. The motorcycle engine stopped, and at the same time

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the lights also failed. The motorcyclist then heard a very high pitched sound. A cat, which was
being carried in a pouch on the motorcycle as a present for his children, was then seen to
disappear in a luminous halo and could not be found. He was helped by a passing motorist
who did not believe the story until he received an electric shock on touching the motorcyclist.
He also reported that on arriving home and using a spoon to dissolve an aspirin in a cup of
coffee, the spoon stuck to his hand as if it was magnetised. The incident was later reported
to the police.
(La Depeche du Midi, 08/02/83. UFO News clipping Service No 166, p16.) 0613

26/02/83 2000 Kent Cliffs, Putnam County, New York, U.S.A.

A mother was driving with her daughter in the area of the frozen White Pond when they saw
a silent multi-coloured object shaped like a boomerang. The object had many lights and was
estimated to be 200 to 300 feet wide. The car radio was affected by interference during the
incident. (NICAP Database of EM Cases. J. A. Hynek & R. F. Haines, CE-S: Close" Encounters of
the Fifth Kind, p 156.) 0920

-/02/83 1845 Little Houghton, Northamptonshire, England.

A motorcyclist was travelling towards Little Houghton in the early evening when the engine
cut out and he dismounted, thinking that a replacement fuse was needed. He then noticed a
round white light in a nearby field. The light was oscillating, and then shot vertically into the
air. He found himself holding the ignition key, although he remembered leaving it in the
ignition, and found on arrival at his destination that there seemed to be a missing time period
of one and a half hours.
(John Spencer. UFO Encyclopaedia, p251, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0614

03/03/83 1930 near Northam, Western Australia, Australia.

Two people travelling by car on the Great Eastern Highway saw a round hovering object with
bright pulsating lights. The car radio was suddenly affected by static interference. The car was
brought to a stop, and other cars also slowed to look at the object which was seen for about
three minutes before it moved away rapidly.
(Independent, Perth, Western Australia, 03/04/83. UFO News clipping Service No 167, p10.)
0615

26/03/83 Careme, Tarn-Garonne, France.

In the evening, two witnesses were travelling in a car when they encountered a sudden fog,
then saw a huge disc-shaped UFO. Their car then turned unexpectedly onto an unknown dirt
road. The incident lasted fifty minutes, with a possible missing time experience reported.
(Lumieres dans la NUit, Issue 317, NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0922

10/04/83 2030 near Ross, Ohio, U.S.A.

Two drivers reported seeing a large, bright oval object which appeared to land. The property
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the object then ascended slowly before moving away at speed. The eyewitnesses were
interviewed separately, the drivers reporting that their car lights had flickered and that the
engine had nearly stalled. The landowner reported flickering house lights, and problems with
his television set's vertical hold causing the picture to roll. Investigation of the landing site
indicated that a heavy circular object about 50 feet in diameter had landed, producing a three
feet burn mark in the centre of the area.
(Post, Cincinnati, Ohio, 21/04/83. UFO News clipping Service No 166, p8.) 0616

20/04/83 2145 Bermerain, France.

The witness is in a car coming from Quesnoy going towards Bermerain on the D114. In a slight
bend he brakes suddenly because in the middle of the road is a disc-shaped object seen
through the edge in the shape of a rugby ball. The disc is the size of the road for about 1 m
high it remains 50 cm above the tar. The colour is very bright orange red but does not
illuminate around. The witness engages reverse gear and reverses in a small dirt road on his
left. There he stops. He tries to turn on his car radio, but no station can be heard. The motor
of its electric window races. The disc then moves coming towards the witness, the latter
totally panicked again without even looking back. The next day he noticed that all the
electrical equipment in his vehicle were defective and that the paint on the front hood had
turned green (new vehicle).
(Lights in the Night number 233/234.) 0224

20/04/83 Beaufort West, South Africa.

A motorist making an early morning journey to work at Beaufort West Airport Met Office saw
two green lights coming towards him above the road. At first he thought that this was an
aircraft in difficulty, but he then found his vehicle starting to accelerate, reaching a speed of
more than 160 kph, even with his foot on the brake all the time. Steering and other controls
did not seem to be affected, and after about two kilometres the vehicle suddenly
slowed down. He managed to stop, and the lights had by then disappeared.
(Sunday Times, South Africa, 24/04/83. UFO News clipping Service No 167, p14.) 0617

-/05/83 Bristol, England.

Two female police officers saw a light hovering over a hilltop it followed the police vehicle for
many miles it then stopped and a 2nd object appeared. The car battery was damaged.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1528

17/06/83 0645 Thornlie, Western Australia, Australia.

A motorcyclist was on his way to work when he saw what he at first thought was an aircraft.
There was no sound from the delta-shaped craft, which had two bright white lights on each
wing. Suddenly his motorbike engine stopped working, and he rolled to a halt, still watching
the mysterious object which then disappeared at a speed faster than an aircraft.
([Link], Catalogue of Australian UFO Vehicle Interference Cases, p15. Perth UFO
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-/07/83 Charlton, Victoria, Australia.

An object described as hat-shaped and orange-red in colour, approached a car and lit up the
ground. The car engine faltered, but did not fail completely. After about ten minutes, the
object was lost from view as it went behind a hill.
(Catalogue of Australian UFO Vehicle Interference Cases, TUFOIC, TA86003.) 0924

01/09/83 2345 Weaverham, England.

A dark wedge-shaped object hovered directly above a motorcyclists who had a period of
missing time, EM effects noted.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1529

13/10/83 2030 Altoona, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Catherine Burk is driving to her home when she sees a large silvery disc pass about 30ft above
her car. The force of the object lifts the right side of her car briefly off the road causing her
lights to go off and the engine to stall. She suffered hearing loss in her right ear along with a
severe headache.
(UFO Evi 11 MUFON Journal Nov 1983.) 0560

14/10/83 0615 near Reading, Berkshire, England.

A bright light was seen in the sky, moving from one side of the road to the other, and then
becoming stationary. The driver's car lights and radio went off, and the object came towards
the car in circular motions. The object was grey, circular in shape with a domed top, and with
large green and purple lights at the side. A very bright light lit up the road, and the object
hovered and circled silently overhead for about half a minute before it ascended vertically
into the sky and disappeared. The car lights and radio then came back on again, and the driver
was able to continue the journey. The car clock was found to have lost about 15 minutes, and
it was also discovered that the journey home had taken twice as long as the usual 20 minutes.
(FSR Vol 29, No 2, p18-19.) 0619

15/10/83 2050 near Bellwood, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Catherine Burk was driving home after visiting her family in Altoona when she saw a bright
silvery disc-shaped object coming towards her from a south easterly direction it was
approximately 24ft in diameter and no more than 30ft above the ground. The object emitted
a humming sound, and as it passed overhead the car was lifted on to two of its side wheels
for several seconds. The car dropped back to the road with a bounce as the object moved
away. It took more than 20 minutes to restart the car, and the engine cut out several times
during the remainder of the journey home. The driver also suffered physical injuries from the
experience including a bruised shoulder, spinal problems and a loss of hearing in her right ear
which required hospital treatment.
(FSR Vol 29, No 6, p22-23.) 0620

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A bright light passes over a car, at the same time as the car headlight change colour and there
is interference with the car engine and radio. Within a few seconds several round lights seem
to fall from the sky just ahead of the car and hit the road just disappearing on impact.
(APCIC V9 N2.) 1629

-/10/83 Hollesley, Suffolk, England.

An unidentified triangular shaped object was seen one night hovering over the area for about
20 minutes, projecting three powerful white lights on to the ground. One eyewitness
described the lights as being in a triangle, with a high-pitched whine heard as the object began
to move away. Another witness driving in the area described how her car began to
malfunction near the object, with the headlights dimming and the engine cutting out.
Villagers demanded a meeting with personnel of the nearby RAF Woodbridge air base in an
attempt to explain the sighting, but were only able to confirm that nothing had been seen on
radar.
(Nicholas Redfern. A Covert Agenda, p160.) 0621

-/11/83 Stanley River Rd, Tasmania, Australia.

A man was driving when his car was lit up by a blue-white light, He braked his car but it did
not slow down. Finally the UFO disappeared his car ran fine.
(Canadian UFO Research Network Vol.7 N 6. 1986.) 1257

-/-/83 Sudbury, Suffolk. England.

Ros Reynolds-Parnham and her then boyfriend were driving in the Sudbury area late
afternoon under some high tension wires when they observed a horse-shoe pattern of bright
lights which swooped down low over their car. A strange silence filled the air and at the same
time a blue electric light illuminated everything around them. A strong foul odour similar to
rotten eggs seemed to be coming from the object. It followed them into open country-side
where the car engine and lights cut out. The object now hovered some 60ft away it appeared
to be surrounded by numerous small lights. As they stood next to their vehicle the lights came
back on and they were able to restart the engine, They drove away and saw the object
apparently shoot up into the sky and vanish. Years later under hypnosis sessions she described
being abducted by 4 to 5 small alien creatures about 4ft high.
(East Anglian Daily Times, 8. 10.1993, Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO
Observations.) 0008

08/01/84 0315 Cozad, Nebraska, U.S.A.

Three people were travelling in a van on Interstate Highway 80, when a brilliant disc with
many coloured circular lights around the rim was seen hovering over the highway. The object
was estimated to be a hundred feet in diameter, and an intermittent beeping sound was
heard on the van's CB radio.
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23/01/84 2250 Neasden, England.

While driving through Neasden, Albert Figgis observed a dark object overhead. As it
descended to 10m altitude his car stalled and the lights and radio faded out. Through an
opening in the object he could see a humanoid figure. The object rose at terrifying speed and
disappeared in under 3 seconds. Later a patch of burnt and depressed grass was found at the
point where the object hovered.
(Merseyside UFO Bulletin Vol.5 No.4.) 1313

26/01/84 2015 Caney City, Texas, U.S.A.

A mother was returning with her son to their home in the Cedar Creek Lake area, driving east
on the FM85, when she noticed an unusual amount of static interference on the car radio.
Shortly afterwards the headlights started going off and on again, making it difficult to drive.
Before she could pull off the road for safety, all of the car lights failed, and the engine. With
her foot on the brake, the car continued forwards and it seemed as if some force was taking
control of the car. Her son said that something seemed to be pulling on him like a magnet,
and his mother reported that her hair stood straight up. It felt as if she was being raised out
of her seat. The car came to a stop in a shallow ditch at the roadside. The engine could not be
restarted, with nothing working. A glowing white light illuminated the car, with both
witnesses believing that they lost consciousness for a while, recovering to see red lights over
the car before they moved away. The car could then be restarted, and they found themselves
driving away after a frightening experience.
(MUFON UFO Journal, September 1984, p 10-12.) 0926

03/02/84 01.00 Tingsryd, Sweden.

Truck driver Dan Johnson who was travelling home by car saw a huge object about 250 feet
wide and 30 feet high which was hovering just above the road. He reached home, and then
telephoned the police from a roadside call-box. The object reappeared over the road and
landed, the car engine stalled, and he almost crashed into the object. He reported that
occupants of the craft pulled him out of the car, but he was saved when a lorry approached
and the object took off. The police arrived, and found him in such a terrified state that he was
taken to hospital. He passed lie detector tests by the military authorities, and the other truck
driver confirmed the incident having also alerted the police.
(FSR Vol 33, No 1, p18, APCIC V10 N2, C Svahn UFO-Sverige.)

-/02/84 El Yunque, Puerto Rico.

In the evening several witnesses were in a caravan of five vehicles were travelling on an
isolated road and were observing the scenery when suddenly all five vehicles began to
splutter and in a few minutes all vehicles had stalled. As the men looked under the hoods one
of them saw a short figure standing in the woods. The being suddenly noticed the witness
looking and fled from sight. The being wore a tight fitting suit with a blue design on the chest.
As soon as the being left the area the cars restarted.
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04/05/84 2145 Rio Seco, Tucuman, Argentina.

The driver and four co-workers of a rubbish collection truck were near the Rio Seco River
when they saw a strange light like a fireball. At the same time, the truck stopped and it was
later found that the fuses had burnt out. The object, with the upper part giving off a red light
and the lower part a blue light, hovered over the truck for about 20 seconds. The object then
moved away silently and disappeared in a few moments. Residents of Rio Seco also noticed
the strange light, which illuminated the village.
(FSR Vol 31, No 1, p14.) 0622

22/04/84 2300 Via Flamnia, Near Pesaro, Italy.

Two people are driving when their car engine stops. After hearing a strange sound, they see
3 discs 65ft in diameter with domes and tripods standing on the left of the road. They had
white and blue light and after hovering for 20 seconds the discs emit a strong whistle,
accelerate and disappear.
(IUR 33 No.4) 0064

16/06/84 0050 Shchedrino, Yaroslavl, Russia.

A man observed as he was returning home a luminous, dome-shaped object in a clearing. The
object was about 20 metres in diameter, and vanished when he threw a matchbox towards
it. He felt a vibration, and then experienced a vision of being in an unfamiliar town. On the
same night two police officers of the highway patrol reported seeing a red glow approaching
the road about 200 metres away from the reported landing site. As the object descended and
the glow diminished, they were able to see its outline more clearly. They were unable to reach
the landing site because their motorcycle engine stalled. It was later reported that the object
had also been tracked on radar.
(FSR Vol 36, No 1, p7-9.) 0623

-/06/84 0030 Spalding, Nebraska, U.S.A.

A bright light was seen in the sky, moving around at close range before hovering in the air.
There was no sound. The car engine stopped suddenly, as if the ignition had been turned off.
The driver found that the headlights, and all of the dashboard lights, were also not working.
On the following morning, the car and all of its equipment was then found to be working
normally. (NUFORC, 18/2/01.) 1151

12/07/84 2300 Danbury, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Hundreds of residents and motorists observed a large UFO meandering around in the sky. An
aerospace engineer reported seeing seven white lights, which went out, and reappeared, as
a faint blue colour before intensifying. The object "looked transparent, with the sky visible
above it." Another driver described a series of colours, with the object changing into several
different shapes.

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(MUFON Symposium Proceedings International, 2003. [Link] Hynek Ph.D, and Philip
[Link], with Bob Pratt, Night Siege. The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, 1987. Ballentine
Books, Random House Inc, New York.) 1152

24/11/84 2215 Eynsham, Oxford. England.

The witnesses a man and his wife were returning home after visiting relatives. They observed
a very bright orange ball approaching them from the NE direction. It was described as large
as 4 houses at least 120ft in diameter. It was described as globular in shape and made up of
millions of glowing orange balls mounted on a dark background. There was a dark central
core. It changed colour to dark red and green as it approached to within 150yards and 100ft
above them. Suddenly it changed course at speed shooting up vertically at great speed in a
mass of blue and yellow flashes. The witnesses further described the object like a fairground
Big Wheel. The car they were driving experience misfiring and the lights dimmed. His watch
was also showing the incorrect date the next day although the time was correct.
(Awareness Issue 2 1984-85.) 1274

14/12/84 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

A grey elliptical shape with blinding light coming from underneath, landed ahead of a car,
dragging it towards the object. ( Jerome Clark publication 1990, p 21, Bill Chalker, 1996, p 182-
183.) 927

-/-/84 2030 Harvey Creek, Queensland, Australia.

Two women travelling in a car saw a huge light ahead of their vehicle, with the car engine and
lights failing at almost the same time. Then the light passed over the car, temporarily blinding
them. After a few seconds the headlights came back on, and with the engine restarting as
soon as the ignition key was turned.
(International UFO Reporter, Vol 33, No 4, p 19.) 0928

-/-/83/84 Pole City, Florida. U.S.A.

Three witnesses travelling in a Ford truck with fog lights and the radio turned on when
suddenly the fog light went out and the radio played up and then the truck stopped. Looking
out of the window a huge bright light was directly over the truck. As time went passed they
lost 45 minutes of time and then the truck along with the fog light turned on.
([Link].) 1582

16/03/85 1930 Dotsero, Colorado, U.S.A.

A hovering disc 2000m away was observed it suddenly shot up and hovered again. It was
described as an intense white light with red, green and blue lights. Witnesses car stalled while
driving to neighbours ranch. Object seen for approx. 45 minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1530

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A powerful light fell on a car and illuminated the road shaking the vehicle in an unusual way
the radio began to buzz with interfering noise and the vehicle stopped. Leaning out of the
window he saw a huge object with a diameter of approximately 30m hovering over his car
and illuminating it with a strong stream of light so brilliant it hurt his eyes. The encounter
lasted 15 minutes then the radio began to function normally and the man started the car and
left the scene.
(Hall, R. Uninvited Guests.) 1347

05/05/85 Rio Seco, Tucuman, Argentina.

Five workers on a garbage truck see a strange light like a fireball their truck stops and later it
is found that the fuses have burnt out. The upper part of the object was giving off a red light
and the lower part blue it hovers over the truck for 20 seconds. It then moves away silently
and disappears some residents of Rio Seco also observed the light.
(UFO Evi 11 232.) 1507

14/05/85 Piancavallo, Italy.

Two young people driving to a mountain ski resort in the evening during a heavy snowstorm
encountered a strange yellow fog that suddenly descended over their vehicle. The snow
around seem to melt and the car engine failed. As they coasted downhill their headlights
picked up two figures that stepped out of the bushed right in front of their car. The figures
were over six-foot tall and very wide. They wore silvery outfits and helmets with square black
visors. The couple ran to a nearby village leaving the car behind.
(Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO Observations. 0189

27/05/85 Rookport, Texas, U.S.A.

A UFO with rotating rings was reported by many and it stalled a car engine – the car restarting
once the object had left.
(Northern UFO News. No.114.) 1300

11/06/85 2230 near Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

An object passed over, causing a vehicle power failure, and agitation of horses being
transported in a tractor-trailer. The engine ran roughly, with the lights dimming, before the
engine and lights failed. A dark triangular shape was seen almost overhead, moving slowly in
a southeast direction. After about ten minutes the vehicle started again, and the lights
gradually came back on. (NUFORC, 11/5/05.) 1153

13/06/85 Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia.

In one of a large number of separate reports around that date, John Barber a farmer driving
his car was followed by a bright orange object for about 40 kilometres. He reported that at
one stage both the car and his body heated up. Two days later he reported to police that his

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eyes had started to burn, and that there were other effects which lasted about a week.
Medical tests showed no exposure to radiation.
(FSR Vol 31, No 2, p26-27.) 0626

24/08/85 0000 Ituzaingo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A married couple driving on a country road saw a very bright light ahead. Their vehicle
suddenly stopped. Soon standing next to their vehicle was a human like figure. Interaction
between figure and couple and the figure returned to the light where several other figures
waited. The figures entered the shiny object which began to gyrate at a high speed it suddenly
took off and was lost from sight in a matter of seconds.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1985-89.) 1241

15/09/85 2100 Bagshot, Surrey, England.

David McMurray and his wife Susan were driving home after visiting friends in Guildford with
their two young children. As they rounded a slight bend they saw an object with an intense
light hovering over the road. As they approached it, another similar object appeared and
travelled alongside just behind trees at the roadside, while the first object disappeared
rapidly. In the Bagshot Heath area, the driver got out of the car and heard a buzzing noise
from the object 'like an electric sewing machine'. He described the object as circular, and that
it appeared to be flat underneath with brilliant red and green lights on either side and dazzling
white lights around it. After about one and a half minutes the object suddenly accelerated
away and disappeared. On the following morning he was unable to start the car. There was
no sound from the engine, and he found that the battery was completely flat. He experienced
physiological effects after the incident and was sent for a hospital check-up, his wife also
reporting similar effects. Other witnesses in the area also reported seeing strange objects
with red and white lights crossing the sky in the same area that evening.
(FSR Vol 31, No 2, p2-3, Sunday Mirror 29th Sept 1995) 0627

18/11/85 0330 Swansea, Tasmania, Australia.

The driver of a log truck noticed three white lights, and further on he saw a white dome-
shaped object about one hundred metres away. The object continued to be visible for ten
minutes, and during this time the truck's CB radio emitted loud static and electrical
interference.
(TUFOIC TA85076 ) 0929

-/-/85 Italy.

A couple reported seeing a UFO that had landed and the engine of their car died.
(UFO Potpurri No 305.) 1275

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A motorist reported to the police that his car engine faltered as a triangular craft hovered
overhead. The object made no noise, and had strange lights at intervals around it.
(More than 30 years of Triangle Sightings. [Link], MUFON.) 1154

22/04/86 2300 between Fossombrone and Pesaro, Italy.

Two people in a car which stopped on the Flaminia highway the car could not be restarted.
After a strange sound was heard, three disc-shaped objects about twenty metres in diameter,
with domes and tripod legs, were seen standing to the left of the road. The objects had white
and blue lights, and after hovering in the air for about twenty seconds, they emitted a
whistling sound before accelerating away with various manoeuvres, and disappeared.
(International UFO Reporter, Vol 33, No 4, p 19.) 0930

20/06/86 0400 Vaidessus, France.

A man was driving on a brushy isolated area searching for a swarm of bees when he made a
turn under some tree and came upon a large transparent brightly lit bluish disc shaped object
that was partly resting on top of a large boulder. Inside the object he could clearly ss six-
human like figures of average height. They were all standing around an oval table bent over
it. The witness attempted to drive away but his engine stalled. At the same time he heard a
high pitched humming sound. He was finally able to restart the car and drove away, briefly
glancing back at the object.
(Van-Overmeire, G, Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO Observations.) 0023

03/08/86 2115 Richmond, Indiana, U.S.A.

A woman driving a truck found that the engine slowed, and then stopped working. A bright
object approached from a westerly direction, and she had to shield her eyes. The reported
incident lasted fifteen minutes. The truck engine restarted after the luminous object moved
high up into the sky, but the engine did not run smoothly. The driver was so frightened that
she then decided to take the longer way home. This would have been about five minutes
away, but she got back at 10.15pm. A 45 minute time loss was indicated from the experience.
(Regional Encounters: The FC Files. (Ridge) Book Ref 4.) 0931

31/08/86 0230 Monsuno, Italy.

A man was returning home when his car engine stopped. He got out of the car to investigate,
and then heard a whistling sound and dogs barking in the area. He then noticed two bright
objects which could not be seen clearly, until they lowered in altitude, and then remained
visible for more than fifteen minutes. The objects were rectangular with a luminous trail, and
the car engine came back on as soon as the objects had disappeared.
(International UFO Reporter, Vol 33, No 4, p 19.) 0932

07/09/86 2140 Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A ball of light rises from a field by three witnesses and paces a car on SR201 for 3 minutes
during which radio interference effect noted on FM radio.

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(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1531

20/10/86 2130 Edmonton, Queensland, Australia.

An oval shaped blue-green object was seen moving in the sky, keeping on a parallel course to
a car. A buzzing sound was heard, and forward movement of the car was affected, with engine
and lighting effects reported. Power and lighting were restored about four kilometres further
on, and the buzzing sound stopped.
(NICAP Database of EM Cases. Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference Cases. Bill Chalker,
1987, p 176.) 0933

16/11/86 2100 between Nocero Umbra and Valtopina, Italy.

Two witnesses saw a dark disc-shaped object, estimated to be about eight metres in diameter
and with a blue dome, flying over their car. The car stopped, but restarted after the object
had gone away. The witnesses were shocked by the incident, and it was found that in the
same area there were six other witnesses who had seen the same object. (International UFO
Reporter, Vol 33, No 4, p 19.) 0934

-/-/86 19.00 La Coruna, Galicia, Spain.

Fernando Flueme a motorcyclist who regularly took part in cross-country rallies was riding his
motorcycle to a quarry area to try it out, as it had just been overhauled. He saw a large light
in the sky, then seven orange coloured triangles emerged in formation and one came towards
him. He had stopped in the quarry, and when he tried to restart the motorcycle he was
unsuccessful. The object approached to within about two metres from the ground, and a
beam of light came from underneath it. He reported that two beings then came down the
beam and took him into the craft. He fell asleep, and then awoke to find himself back next to
his motorcycle again. The object had disappeared, and the motorcycle started up first time.
He returned home, arriving at 11pm, where he found his family concerned at his late arrival.
The only indication of his experience was a puncture mark on his right arm.
(FSR Vol 33, No 3, p18-19.) 0630

-/-/86 1900 San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The witness was driving toward San Juan when the car was engulfed in a bright white light
from above the driver stopped the car. The witness did not look at the light source and drove
to work. When he came to leave work the car would not start and when he looked under the
bonnet he found burnt cables.
(M Swords, Grassroots UFOs.) 1339

16/06/87 2215 Lawrenny, Tasmania, Australia.

An ambulance vehicle’s lights went out and it lost power, but the driver found nothing wrong
when he stopped at his destination. On the return journey the same thing happened at the
same place and the driver saw a semi-circular yellow shape with an adjacent glow, stationary

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on a nearby hillside. After a couple of seconds the engine picked up again and the vehicle’s
lights came back on.
(TUFOIC. K Basterfield. Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference Cases.) 0935

19/06/87 2330 Croton Falls, New York. U.S.A.

Two couples were returning home when they took a short cut via a dirt road near a reservoir.
They crossed a bridge and then their car stalled and the headlights went out. They were
unable to restart the vehicle. While they sat in the car they heard the sound of people walking
to the right of them. One witness went to investigate with a flashlight and he yelled as he saw
three 4ft high humanoids standing in a row nearby. He pointed the flashlight at the beings
and their eyes glowed bright orange in colour. The beings then ran down a hill disappearing
into a hole on the side of the hill. At that point a large triangular shaped craft with bright
yellow lights appeared over the road. Hovering silently above the area where the beings had
vanished. A period of missing time was reported.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1985-89.) 1242

11/08/87 Peterborough, South Australia, Australia.

A bus driver reported seeing a green light travelling parallel to the bus on the bus all electrical
systems failed.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1532

24/09/87 2150 Corydon, Indiana, U.S.A.

A teenage driver saw a domed, disc-shaped object passing by. The upper and lower dome
shapes were seen to have windows. The object emitted a yellowish-green glow; there were
red-orange lights around the perimeter, and a blue light on the lower portion. The driver's
engine coughed and the headlights dimmed momentarily as the object moved overhead, and
then tilted to avoid a barn and a farmhouse before speeding off into the night, after an
estimated fifteen seconds of observation.
(MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989.) 0936

24/09/87 Waterbury, Connecticut. U.S.A.

Many witnesses saw objects a number of cars had engine problems.

(Project 1947.) 1383

-/10/87 2100 Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

The witness was driving along the Trans-Canada highway when his car started acting up, they
didn’t appear to be any power. I put my foot on the accelerator and the car did not respond
my headlights were dimmed to almost yellow. I stopped the car got out to look at the engine
there was nothing wrong so closed the bonnet. He heard a buzzing noise overhead and looked
up to see three lights forming a triangular. A pulsating red light came from one part of the
triangle along with a blue one and a green one from other parts of the triangle. The lights

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were fairly well spaced apart. The structure they were attached to look like steel or
aluminium. The object appeared to be 30-40ft up just above the trees.

I got back into my car and limped along with yellow lights, I put my foot down and the car
choked and faltered. Then the light disappeared one minute it was there the next gone. My
car and lights returned to normal and I kept on driving. The incident lasted for about 10-
12minutes,
(Cameron, V. UFO Experiences in Canada.) 1343

-10/87 1800 Brookfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.

A man driving when he sees a low flying aerial object that passes over the trees to his left.
After making a turn he notices four cars stopped with no lights on he flashes his headlights
and as he does he car radio and electrical power dies. All the other drivers are out of their
cars and advise him that their vehicles all stopped as a large white and amber object flew
overhead. The object was triangular in shape. He sees a glow in the woods and grabs a
flashlight to investigate further. He sees a lighted object shaped like a triangle hovering
silently in the trees. He hears a noise and observes a figure approaching the object. As he
watches the figure raises a hand as if to say goodsbye and vanishes in a flash of red light. The
object then just blinks out.
(Night Siege 201-203.) 0066

14/12/87 2130 near Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

An oval shaped grey object swooped down, landing on the road ahead of a Mercedes car. The
car's engine and lights failed instantly, and the driver braked to a stop. There was intense light
from the base of the object, painful to the driver's eyes. He left the car and was sick, hiding
behind a tree from where he watched his car being dragged about ten metres, as if attracted
by a magnet and leaving tyre marks on the road. A Landcruiser truck then approached the
scene. Its lights failed but the diesel engine continued to operate, as has been noted in other
cases where a vehicle does not have an electrical ignition system. The object took off with a
whirring sound, and the two drivers exchanged notes on what had been seen. The car was
covered with specks of melted bitumen, and serious electrical faults had to be rectified after
the incident.
(Jenny Randles and Paul Fuller. Crop Circles, p205.) 0631

-/-/87 01.00 Tingsryd, Sweden.

Truck driver Dan Johnson who was travelling home by car saw a huge object about 250 feet
wide and 30 feet high which was hovering just above the road. He reached home, and then
telephoned the police from a roadside call-box. The object reappeared over the road and
landed, the car engine stalled, and he almost crashed into the object. He reported that
occupants of the craft pulled him out of the car, but he was saved when a lorry approached
and the object took off. The police arrived, and found him in such a terrified state that he was
taken to hospital. He passed lie detector tests by the military authorities, and the other truck
driver confirmed the incident having also alerted the police.

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(FSR Vol 33, No 1, p18.) 0632

-/-/87 Gibson Desert, Western Australia, Australia.

While looking after an oil rig site at Patience, near the eastern edge of the Gibson Desert,
Doug Hodgekiss reported seeing a strange light moving over the desert on several
occasions. The light varied in shape, and often made a sound like a power drill. One night he
prepared to chase a cube shape of flashing lights, but the almost new heavy-duty battery in
his patrol van was completely flat. On the next night the strange light appeared again, the
generator lost power and the camp's lights dimmed then failed, with the 20 ton diesel
generator bouncing up and down. Photographs of three objects travelling in formation
proved unsatisfactory, the film processor stating that the film had been subjected to heat
and radiation. Animals and birds also seemed affected. A rock discovered in a scorched area
about 14 metres in diameter was examined by the West Australian Institute of Technology,
and was found to have been heated to a temperature of 1400 degrees Centigrade.
(FSR Vol 33, No 2, p5.) 0633

-/-/87 between Lancefield and Romsey, Victoria, Australia.

A woman was driving with a daughter when they saw a large boomerang shape in the sky,
and the car engine stopped as the object hovered overhead. The daughter reported seeing
humanoid figures inside the object before it moved away at high speed.
(Australian UFOlogist, Vol 7, No 1, p 6.) 0937

15/01/88 0740 White Rock, New Mexico. U.S.A.

Debbie Plonsky from Cannon Falls, NM was driving ½ mile N of White Rock when she spotted
a glowing florescent pink object. Her 5 year old daughter also observed the object. It was the
shape of a spaceship you see in cartoons with a cap on the top. It was a long as two barns she
stopped her car to have a look at the object. As soon as she did her car radio stopped working
she observed it for 15 minutes when the object disappeared straight up leaving a vapour trail.
Her car radio started to work properly as soon as the object left the area.
(Manak,A , Hilberg, R. UFO Chronolgy Map Index Guide Book.) 0007

21/01/88 0500 Eyre Highway, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, Australia.

A family were heading east towards Mundrabilla when the car radio started to produce a lot
of static and other noise, and a group of unexplained lights was seen. A glowing light was then
seen low over the road ahead. Soon afterwards a light was seen over a car travelling in the
opposite direction, and the driver decided to turn and follow the car to see what the light
was. The light changed course towards them, and the driver changed direction again to
resume the journey east, travelling at speed to escape from the object. The car was
overtaken; the object landed on the roof and began pulling the car upwards. One of the
passengers was reported to have reached out and touched the underneath of the object,
which felt like a sponge. The car was then dropped back to the ground, and one of the rear
tyres burst. A fine black dust came from the object, there was a strange smell, and the family
noted that they seemed to talk in slow motion during the incident. The car was brought to a

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stop, and they hid in bushes at the side of the road. The object, described as a white light with
a yellow centre and making a humming sound, then moved away. The incident was later
reported to the police, who received other reports of unexplained sightings in the same area.
(Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p140-156. FSR Vol 33, No 2, p1-2.) 0634

21/01/88 2300 Oak Harbor, Washington. U.S.A.

The witness noticed a bright light in his rear view mirror. When he turned to look, the light
shot past him. Engine stalled on the next turn, car stalled frequently since the encounter,
dashboard displays (temperature gauge, oil, and radiator readouts) malfunction.
(Investigated by Dr. Don Johnson; Project 1947.) 1384

05/02/88 Mundrabilla, Western Australia, Australia.

Bus driver observed a light in the distance during which his vehicle suffered interference to
the CB radio.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1533

03/03/88 2030 General Belgrano, Argentina.

Two brothers Farisano were in a truck, approaching some strange lights when their engine
stalled, and could not be restarted. The lights were then seen to be on a spherical object
which appeared to be hovering near to the ground. An occupant of the object was observed,
and the truck engine restarted when the object left the area.
(International UFO Reporter, Vol 33, No 4, p 19.) 0938

23/03/88 East Tamar Highway, Tasmania, Australia.

Motorists saw a bright light ahead, with car engine power lost and radio failure. Four square
yellow lights and a light beam were visible; with the car returning to normal after the lights
disappeared.
(TUFOIC Newsletter No 55, June 1988. [Link], 1997, NICAP Database of EM Cases.)
0939

30/07/88 0130 Accrington, Lancashire, England.

The witnesses were driving past Baxenden Golf course when they saw 4 white lights in a ring.
The car headlights dimmed and the car became reluctant to move forward.
(NUFON No. 134.) 1301

-/07/88 Gloucestershire, England.

A Gloucestershire farmer was driving past a field on a warm evening when the electrics of his
car failed suddenly. He got out of the car to investigate the problem, and was trying to restart
the engine when he heard a strange whirring sound. He then saw in a nearby wheat field a
dull red ball of sparks about the size of a football, which was being fed by sparks coming from

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the top of the wheat. He watched for a minute or two, while the strange sound continued.
The object then disappeared suddenly, and at the same time the car's electrics returned to
normal. He did not inspect the field, but when he returned in the morning a 20 foot crop circle
was found in the same place.
(Keith Tutt. Unexplained Natural Phenomena, p220.) 0635

22/09/88 1930 Walcha, New South Wales, Australia.

A motorist found that his car had a loss of power for ten minutes before full power returned.
Moments before the loss of power he saw a bright reddish-orange light in front of the car. On
the return journey the same thing happened at the same place, and with the temperature in
the car dropping to cold.
([Link], Catalogue of Australian UFO Vehicle Interference Cases, May 2005.) 0940

25/09/88 2230 Lorraine County, Ohio, U.S.A.

A motorist was travelling along Route 113 on a clear night when his car stalled. He was
surprised to find two other cars stalled on the other side of the road. He got out of his car,
and had been talking to the four people from the other cars for a few minutes when they
realized that there were lights nearby in the woods, coming from a silvery triangular object
with a rim and a rounded base. The treetops over the object seemed to be moving although
it was a calm night, and after 15 to 20 minutes the object rose at an angle, and moved away
slowly and silently, passing overhead. The object seemed wider than the road, and from the
centre of the base there was a white light like a fluorescent lamp.
(FSR Vol 34, No 2, p11-12.) 0636

28/09/88 0030 Atherton, Indiana, U.S.A.

A bright object, which was at first assumed to be an aircraft, approached a pickup truck. The
truck engine could not be started until the object had passed overhead, with a humming
sound. The object then reversed its course, and came towards the truck again. The three
witnesses including a child were very frightened, and the truck was then driven quickly away.
It was reported that the truck clock and a wristwatch had lost time, the object had come very
close to the truck, and the radio had also failed.
(Mike Palmiter, Field Investigator, MUFON Indiana.) 0941

10/10/88 1800 Akirkeby, Denmark.

A tractor lights flickered when a triangle light passes overhead and were fine once object had
left.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1534

-/10/88 Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York. U.S.A.

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An incident involving a disc shaped object that buzzed a postal truck and several police cars.
Several witnesses saw the incident. The first police car on the scene suffered electrical
problems and was taken out of service.
(Long Island UFO Update Vol 2 No 1.) 1258

09/11/88 2130 Westcliff, Essex, England.

Robert Rossi and Paul Thwaites were driving when they saw a blue flash of light which seem
to come from the church opposite. A few seconds later this was repeated and the vehicles
electrics failed.
(Hanson, J & Holloway, D. Haunted Skies Vol 10 1987-88, 2014.) 1281

-/-/88 1935 Godmanchester, England.

Witness observed a black square object moving across the sky during which a vibrating sound
was heard along with the the smell of rotten eggs. Car radio stopped working.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1536

-/-/88 near Mundrabilla, Western Australia, Australia.

A driver travelling eastwards saw what he thought at first was a truck with one headlight
coming from the opposite direction, but the beam was too powerful to be a headlight. His
own headlights dimmed, and the radio started to squeal with static, making it inoperative.
When he reached the spot where the light had seemed to be, it had vanished completely.
(FSR Vol 34, No 2, p8.) 0637

-/01/89 0050 Moscow, Ohio, U.S.A.

A car driver reported that he observed a giant triangular object, which was brightly lit
underneath. The car headlights became dimmer, there was radio static. The engine stopped
and a humming sound was heard.
(MORA, Mid-Ohio Research Associates.) 0943

06/02/89 2330 St Martory, France.

A couple and their child are in the car when suddenly they are dazzled by a bright blue-green
light, illuminating the whole landscape as in broad daylight. It is an object in the shape of a
rugby ball about thirty meters long that can be parked in the air. The headlights of the car go
out. Other witnesses as far as Limoux and even Carcassonne would also have seen the light.
(The Southern, The Parisian.) 0228

07/02/89 2230 Sassovivo, Italy.

Several people were travelling together in a car, on an isolated section of Route 4 in Sassovivo
when they began seeing circular flashes of light ahead of their vehicle. Coming closer, they
saw five circular objects near the side of the road. The vehicle engine stalled as five small
humanoid figures, wearing astronaut-like white suits, emerged from the objects and moved

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rapidly around the vehicle, preventing it from moving for some time. The humanoids returned
to the objects, which then disappeared from sight. It was reported that the driver had died
soon after the incident, but there was no information on the cause of death.
(Albert [Link], Humanoid Contact Database, 1989.) 0944

03/03/89 0130 Mayet, France.

A red/orange ball of light was seen during which the headlights and engine of the witnesses
car to cut out.
(Project 1947-UFO CAT.) 1537

04/04/89 Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A.

While driving in the city a woman felt a strong energy then observed a huge glowing ball of
light pass low and quickly overhead. The car radio was mistuned.
(MUFON UFO Journal No.260, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1538

10/05/89 0001 Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.

Two witnesses reported seeing a large greenish-silver disc shaped object which followed their
car for about two hours. The car radio and the electrical system stopped working during the
encounter and later that morning the entire electrical system in the car was found
unworkable.
(NUFORC, Henry [Link] Files, Project 1947-UFOCAT) 1155

27/05/89 2300 Charovsk, Russia.

A car experienced brief electrical system failure when a mushroom shaped UFO was observed
nearby.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1539

-/05/89 Heywood, England.

An ambulance crew reported the failure of their engine in the presence of a multi-coloured
light.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1540

04/07/89 2130 Tbilisi, Georgia, Russia.

Just after driving away from a restaurant, a driver found that his car engine stopped suddenly.
He did not remember anything like this before, and felt that some kind of energy was taking
him somewhere. 'The road was dark, and after walking about two hundred metres he saw a
"flying saucer" type of object, standing on three legs, and surrounded by coloured lights.
There were illuminated windows, and stairs at the bottom of the object, with four figures
standing about fifteen to twenty metres away from it. There was some contactee exchange
with the beings, and the witness was taken inside the craft, where he saw a machine which
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The witness returned to his car, and saw the craft taking off with a low humming sound. The
car could then be restarted, and the witness went home.
(T. Manasbpulo and R. Nutsubidze, Contact of the Third Kind in Georgia, pdf.) 1156

-/07/89 2230 Hawker, Western Australia, Australia.

A mother was driving to Hawker with her two children when they saw a yellow light, bigger
and brighter than the Moon. She was very frightened as the light seemed to be coming down,
and she tried to turn the car around. The car engine stopped and would not restart, but the
car lights still worked. They ran along the road away from the light, and were picked up by
another motorist a few minutes later. The driver was returning to Hawker, and had also seen
the light. She took them back to their own car, which could then be restarted.
(FSR Vol 35, No 2, p21.) 0642

15/08/89 2330 Ironton, Ohio, U.S.A.

Mrs Schumann was driving east on State Route 52 toward Ironton to meet with some friends
when he was about five miles west of Ironton he came across a car that had his brakes on.
But when he got closer the car “took off like a shot” his car began to stall and die and he
coasted to a stop. He got out of his car and raised the bonnet to see what was wrong. He
looked up and saw a strange high fog bank at tree top level. He felt as if he was being watched
and he heard a low hum or vibration that he felt throughout his body. About 50ft above him
he saw a blue white glowing light. Off in the distance he saw another similar light that
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His eyes followed the outline of the lights and he could make out a huge 300ft each side
triangle with the lights at each corner. It had a smooth black surface and he heard no sound
as he stood 50ft underneath it for 15 minutes. The object slowly moved north east and he
returned to his car started it and drove away.
(MUFON Ohio Newsletter 2009.11.) 1362

27/09/89 2300 Gyomaendrod, Hungary

A local farmer was ploughing fields late at night when he saw a large orange sphere hovering
over nearby trees. The object began emitting a crackling sound, and started to approach the
tractor. As the object then stopped nearby, the tractor engine malfunctioned suddenly, and
could not be restarted. The farmer could see coloured lights rotating on the object's rim, and
there was a door on the craft's hull. Three figures were then seen, including a tall human-like
female. He recalled seeing two short figures near the tractor as its lights also failed, then
found himself on board the craft where he had a contact experience with the occupants, until
he was returned to the tractor about four hours later.
(Journal of Humanoid Studies, Volume 2, NO 2.) 1157

-/09/89 Voronezh, Russia.

At the end of September a factory worker was being driven to the southern suburb of the city
when the car headlights failed suddenly, together with the engine and the radio. Turning the
ignition key had no effect, and when the driver got out of the car he pointed out a sphere of
pinkish yellow light above the roadway behind the car. A beam of light then came down,
producing a bluish sparkling effect on the ground, and occasional flashes of light as the beam
moved slowly along the ground towards the car. As the ray of light moved over the car the
engine started to smoke, the car moved and it felt as if something was entering the vehicle.
As the ray then moved away it remained dark for several seconds before the car dashboard
lit up, the radio came back on and the driver was then able to restart the engine. The driver
did not seem to recall what had happened, but the factory worker reported feeling unable to
move during the incident. Afterwards his fingers had received a strong electric shock with a
spark from a metal door handle, and later on also at home when opening the door with a key.
This was one in a series of reported UFO incidents around that date in the same area.
(UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union, p50-51.) 0643

21/10/89 Shikotan Island, USSR.

A strange object described as a red sphere with a black nucleus separated into three parts by
silvery rays, was observed by inhabitants of the Kuril Islands and by the crew of the ship
'Egvekinot'. The object flew over Shikotan Island, with the glow from the object reflecting in
the sea water. During the object's flight, interference effects were also noted on the ship's
radar screen.
(UFO MATRIX magazine, Vol 1, Issue 6, p 23.) 0945

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Lazaro Parra was working with his tractor on a field when a large illuminated craft landed very
close to his position. The luminous object clearly illuminated the church tower in the nearby
town. The tractor engine stalled and the lights shut off. He was able to see inside of the
circular craft through what appeared to be large glass windows. He saw 4/5 beings inside it
then took off at high speed in total silence.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1985-89.) 1243

02/11/89 Yemtsa, Russia.

A truck was being driven by K Oleg with a passenger B Nikolai from Archangel when the
headlights picked out a huge metallic-looking object at the side of the road. When the truck
was about 25 to 30 metres away from the object, the diesel engine stalled and the truck came
to a halt. The battery powered headlights remained on. The driver asked his co-driver to stay
in the truck while he went closer to the object for a better look at it, but he found an increasing
air resistance as he approached to within 10 to 12 metres. The object was disc shaped, about
35 to 40 metres in diameter with a dome, and standing on leg-like supports. The driver
claimed that he was then able to enter the craft for a while, and reported that he had
experienced telepathic communication. Returning to the road, he saw the object starting to
rotate, different parts spinning in opposite directions. It then started to glow, lifted slowly at
first then disappeared silently into the sky.
(FSR Vol 43, No 2, p23-24.) 0644

30/11/89 0315 New York City, U.S.A.

Linda Cortile reported a remarkable abduction experience which has been covered in several
books. During the course of later hypnosis by abduction investigator Budd Hopkins she
recalled being taken out of her apartment by small beings, through a closed window high
above the street. She was then floated up a light beam to a large object hovering over the
building. A few weeks later, the investigator received a letter from two police officers who
had been part of a unit escorting an important diplomat to a heliport. They confirmed
witnessing the abduction, and had then seen the UFO moving silently over the Brooklyn
Bridge before plunging into the East River. Cars in the special convoy suffered loss of power
during the incident. Other drivers who witnessed the event from the Brooklyn Bridge were
also brought to a halt by failure of their vehicle engines, and street lights were reported to
have failed.
(FSR Vol 38, No 2, p1-4. P. Hough and J. Randles, The Complete Book of UFOs, p261-266.)
0645

-/-/89 Lajosmisze, Hungary.

A motorist suddenly became aware of a light which at first was moving parallel with the car,
and was then above it. There was a powerful light beam illuminating an area on both sides of
the road. The driver tried to brake when he reached a bend, but the car continued at the same
speed then cornered at a 90 degree angle, without skidding. He felt that he had no control
over the car, until the effect ceased abruptly about 200 yards further on.
(FSR Vol 35, No 4, p iii of cover.) 0646

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-/-/89 Sibirsk, Russia.

A police car was patrolling the city when suddenly a very, bright object was seen overhead,
directing a beam of light onto the car. The engine stopped, and the two policemen in the car
were paralysed, unable to move. After some time the object moved away and the car engine
could be started. Police headquarters was called and an official report on the incident was
completed. The policemen were given a test for alcohol, and sent to a doctor for a medical
check.
(MUFON Symposium Proceedings, 1990.) 1158

-/-/89 0300 Kharovsk, Vologda Province, Russia.

The surroundings suddenly became as bright as day when a man's car stalled. He examined
the engine but could find nothing wrong. When he tried again the engine started, but he then
saw about five metres away an object like a giant mushroom. The object was about two
metres high, standing on legs, and emitted a vivid greenish-yellow light. He left the area in a
terrified state, and met another driver about seven kilometres further along the road.
(FSR Vol 35, No 3, p7.) 0641

-/-80’s Trail, Oregon, U.S.A

A lady in her eighties was driving on a country road when a brilliant reddish light illuminated
her car from above. The engine stopped and her car rolled to a park position near a corral.
She was momentarily blinded by the light and then the light went out. She restarted her car
and drove home a neighbour reported the same experience an earlier date.
( M Swords, Grassroots UFOs.) 0628

09/01/90 Toquilq Valley, Colombia.

Ivan Naranjo and two other passengers were travelling in a jeep when they began to
experience engine trouble the vehicle ground to a halt and the electrical system went dead.
One of passengers saw a series of red, green and yellow lights heading their way. They watch
in sheer astonishment as the colours lit the night sky and grew closer. Within seconds a huge
disc shaped object appeared. Then suddenly another massive craft appeared. Both craft
landed and two humanoids emerged from one of the craft. The saucers began spinning and
vanished in a whirlwind of dust.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1990-94.) 1244

20/01/90 0120 Boyle, Mississippi, U.S.A.

A silvery object moving slowly at tree top height was observed by a man driving home. The
cone shaped object had blue and green lights around the perimeter of its base. The object
picked up speed, and kept just ahead of the car for two or three miles, moving from side to
side avoiding larger trees along the roadside. The car's engine, lights and instruments failed,
and the driver pulled to a stop as the object continued on. After the object turned smoothly
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(Timothy Good. The UFO Report 1991, p237-238.) 0647

18/03/90 Weare, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

A woman driving North in Rt 114 towards Weare observed a bright white light hovering over
a garage. Just before observing the light her car radio malfunctioned. She stopped her car to
look at the object suddenly it shot off to the North.
(MUFON New Hampshire Newsletter No.12.) 1359

20/03/90 2100 Carney, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

A woman and three adolescents were driving home when a red beam of light approached and
halted over a nearby field. The driver and passengers got out of the car, and were able to see
white conical beams within the red light beam. Returning to the car, there were found to be
effects on the radio, lights and wipers, and that the car interior was noticeably warm.
(MUFON UFO Journal No 265, May 1990, p 20. NICAP Database of EM Cases.) 0946

27/03/90 2230 Kokomo, Indiana, U.S.A.

A young man was driving south when a very bright light was seen in the sky, approaching from
a south-westerly direction, coming closer and making the driver slow down to take avoiding
action. At the same time there was a buzzing sound on the radio. A tape being played was
then taken out, but the buzzing continued. When the driver looked up, he saw an oval shaped
object with two yellowish orange lights, hovering over a field at the side of the road. He
quickly drove the car away from the area until about a mile away, with the object no longer
visible and no interference noise on the radio. Duration of the sighting was about 45 seconds.
(MUFON Indiana Field Investigator K. Learner) 0947

07/04/90 2345 New Albany, Indiana, U.S.A.

Two witnesses travelling by car saw an object with two bright lights hovering low in the air.
The object was diamond shaped and silent, with some kind of structure or windows visible
underneath. The car radio kept changing stations and giving off static interference during the
five minute observation.
(MUFON Indiana Field Investigators J. Delehanty and M. Baker.) 0948

25/05/90 Mary, Turkmenistan.

A very large disc-shaped object hovered over the town in daylight. The object was reddish-
orange in colour, with what appeared to be portholes on the rim, and was observed by
military personnel. The airspace in the region was under strict control on account of the war
in Afghanistan. An order was given to fire three ground to air missiles, but the object then
made a horizontal manoeuvre, and beams from its side disintegrated the missiles. Two
interceptor aircraft were sent up, but reached a point about 1,000 metres from the object
when they crashed to the ground, killing the crew. The military commander was removed
from his post, but further investigations were suddenly halted, and information connected
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(Timothy Good. Alien Update, p184-185.) 0648

10/07/90 Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England.

A heavy buzzing noise was heard during the night, and on the following morning many
residents found that they could not drive to work because they could not start their cars. The
batteries of cars, vans and tractors were found to be dead. It was then discovered that a huge
and elaborate formation of crop circles had appeared in a field adjacent to the village. A few
miles away an almost identical pattern had also appeared.
(UFO Magazine, June 2001, p21. 0649

03/08/90 2130 Tamasi, Tolnn County, Hungary.

A man sitting in his car saw a large reddish sphere descending over some nearby trees. The
next moment the witness apparently blacked out and came to surround by bright light. He
saw two short creatures nearby he tried to exit the vehicle but could not open the door. He
would the window and managed to open the door. The vehicle lights appear to be
malfunctioning. He saw a strange creature he tried to drive away but the vehicle would not
start he blacks out again. When he wakes he finds himself at home in his garage with no idea
how he got there.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1990-94.) 1245

17/08/90 0300 Piraeus, Greece.

A driver was returning home from his job, with no traffic around, and with the car radio on.
Suddenly, a large light covered the car, and everything stopped working. Nothing else was
seen in the sky to explain what had happened.
(NUFORC 28/8/03.) 1159

30/08/90 Chile.

The Santiago newspaper La Tercera reported that an agricultural engineer and his family had
seen an unknown object land. They were surprised to find the electricity and telephone cut
off, so that they were unable to alert the police. The engineer could not start his pickup
vehicle, as the engine was also dead. He reported that a metal plaque with strange engraved
signs was found at the landing site, and that an object had also been seen landing silently
earlier that month, leaving a dried up area within a 100 metre radius.
(FSR Vol 39, No 2, p25.) 0650

15/09/90 2150 Mooroobool, Queensland, Australia.

A pink ball of light was observed during which the car lights went off and on continuously and
flickered during the sighting by three witnesses for 10 minutes.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1541

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A gamekeeper living in an isolated area was listening to the radio in his car when suddenly
the radio, CB equipment and dashboard lights all went off, and he was unable to restart the
engine. An intense glow then appeared from behind, enveloping the car, and so bright that it
hurt his eyes. After several seconds, as he was starting to get out of the car, the intense light
went out. No sound was heard. At the same time the car's ignition came back on and
everything worked normally again. The witness stated that there had been no reports of
lightning, which he normally recorded in a log book, on the night of the incident. The
gamekeeper also reported that he had experienced other night sightings of luminous moving
objects in November and in the spring of the same year.
(BUFORA, UFO Times No 22, March/April 1993, p21.) 0651

05/11/90 1905 Troyes, France.

A woman is driving from Troyes on the N60 suddenly after having passed the locality her
attention is drawn by a black mass with light spots and beams sweeping the ground. The size
is estimated to be 20 times the full moon, the object is moving from southwest to northeast.
Light spots are distributed without apparent logic of white color and rather distributed on the
edge. Basically 5 or 6 orange-colored light spots each emitted an orange beam which swept
across the ground while crossing. Each beam forms a clear line of light. The witness's car
crosses one of these beams, the latter being the width of the road. At this moment the car
radio begins to crackle and all the preset stations are lost.
(Lights in the Night number 318.) 0231

-/-/90 1900 Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

While he was going by bicycle one afternoon to tend fish traps in a lake Sr Juan Lopez saw
what appeared to be three small children standing in an area of reeds. When he returned
about an hour later they were still there, and when he called out to them they turned around
in unison. He reported that they had red eyes which then emitted red light beams, paralysing
him for a while before he felt able to move again and to escape. About three weeks later he
returned to the area with a friend, using his van. After attending to the fish traps, they saw
that the van seemed to be illuminated by a strange yellow light, causing the metalwork to
flash. After a while the light ceased, and they returned to the vehicle. When it started and
was put into top gear, there seemed no need to use the accelerator. As they were passing
near an area of masts and antennae supervised by the Arecibo Radio Observatory, the engine
cut out momentarily before returning to normal again. After what had happened became
known, the man was visited by two strangers who told him not to talk about what he had
seen.
(FSR Vol 45, No 4, p8-11.) 0652

-/-/90 Zuera, near Zaragoza, Spain.

A man was testing a car which was under repair at a garage when the engine failed suddenly.
He looked up and saw a large pear-shaped object standing on the ground nearby. The object
took off at speed after a few moments.
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-/-/90 Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

A woman travelling by car at night saw a bright light above and in front of her car. The car
engine started to "miss", and then stopped. The battery then went dead, needing a new
battery to be fitted, with a repeat of the event a year later at the same place.
(INUFOR Digest, Vol 2, No 1.) 0949

03/01/91 2220 Olivella, Catalunya, Spain.

Schoolteacher Andrew Burton was driving home from night school tuition on a clear moonlit
night when he saw a yellow light shining through the trees ahead. Approaching bends in the
road, and thinking that there could have been an accident, he slowed down but the car engine
then cut out, and the car lights flickered and went out. After sitting in the car for about a
minute the light ahead went out, and at the same time the car ignition and lights came on
again. He was able to restart the car, and continued his journey. The next morning he found
that the car's dashboard digital clock had stopped, and could not be restarted. The clock had
its own battery, independent of the car's electrical system.
(FSR Vol 37, No 3, p24.) 0654

16/01/91 2000 Bettignies, France.

The witness was driving on the N2 coming from Gognies Chaussée going towards Maubeuge.
The twilight sky suddenly darkens, a vast shadow seeming to settle. At the same moment the
headlights of his vehicle weaken and the car radio becomes inaudible. The witness parks, cuts
off the car radio, opens the door and gets out of the vehicle. He is then under an enormous
flying object of black colour which covers a large portion of the sky. The object moves slowly
with a very slight noise like a whisper. The trajectory is appreciably oriented from east to west.
Suddenly the object starts up at a prodigious speed while ascending and disappears. Note
that the object according to the witness covered practically the entire field of vision on his
left, the size is estimated at about fifty meters.
( Lights in the night.) 0950

22/02/91 0045 near Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, England.

Three youths driving home from a school reunion noticed a white cigar shaped object which
was glowing with a multitude of lights. The object came closer and seemed to have an
unsteady, jerky motion. The car was then parked in a field to watch the object, which
approached to within an estimated 100 feet. As they tried to leave, the engine and lights failed
to respond, and there was no sound at all from the ignition as repeated attempts were made
to start the car. A brilliant beam of light then enveloped the car, and a faint humming sound
was heard. The light beam and sound disappeared suddenly, together with the object, and
the car could then be driven away.
(Timothy Good. The UFO Report 1992, p141-142.) 0655

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In the evening, the witness who resides at La Croix Sornay prepares to close his shutters when
his attention is drawn by lights in the meadow located in front of his house at about 100 or
150 m. He calls his daughter and his wife who recovers by passing binoculars. The latter then
observes 5 small beings dressed in a metallic grey scuba-type suit with boots of the same
colour. The head is covered with a kind of helmet with a rectangular porthole in the middle.
They seem to be busy collecting grass and dirt. In the centre of their chest carries a white
torch. They look like Michelin men. Some bend over to pick up plants. A few meters behind is
a shiny orange dome-shaped object. During the observation a car passes near the meadows
and stops. Following a witness call, an anonymous witness indicated that while he was
traveling by car, it had stopped dead.
(Lights in the Night.) 0240

09/03/91 0130 Fortaleza, Brazil.

The witnesses were driving home after work on their motorcycle when suddenly a large light
came down above their heads. It was 10-15m above them the motorcycle stopped running,
The light stayed above them for two minutes and it had lights going around it they felt quite
hot. The object was two storey’s high and had a rainbow coloured tail. On top was a
transparent, luminous dome after a couple of minutes the object disappeared rapidly. The
object then reappeared and disappeared again. They were able to restart the motorcycle and
travelled a couple of miles before the object reappeared.

It came back a third time but it didn’t stop and as it passed over it dropped a transparent ball,
like a big soap bubble 1.5m in diameter. The ball exploded in front of them and was dark blue
in colour and made no sound. The object then went away and was not seen again. The
sighting was collaborated by other witnesses in the area.
(Pratt, B. UFO Danger Zone.) 1333

16/03/91 0200 Serra de Maresias, Brazil.

A truck driver Carlos Alberto de Jesus was travelling on Route BR 101, when he saw a
luminous oval craft at the side of the road. The truck engine stalled, and another vehicle
also stopped behind him. After a few seconds, two small humanoid figures emerged from
the object. They were wearing one piece clothing, with a 'diver's helmet', and there were
tubes coming from their backs to the helmet. The two figures then turned around, and
floated towards the landed object. A cone of light was projected from the object,
enveloping the humanoids, and they disappeared. The object then rose into the air, rotated
and moved away at high speed. The truck engine then restarted and was driven away.
([Link]. ETs in Brazil, E-Book.) 1160

19/03/91 2200 Lefroy, Tasmania, Australia.

Two witnesses were travelling home, and were about 16 kilometres from Lefroy when they
saw a bright orange light at a low elevation in the, sky. The light then just "switched off", but
further on a similar light was seen again. The car engine seemed to falter as the light moved
away behind a hill, and for about half a minute a bright orange glow was visible over the hill.
(TUFOIC TA 91009.) 0951

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19/04/91 Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Two militiamen on patrol notice a flare at the top of Kok Tobe Mountain they watch as flames
go up and down and see an array of red light beams. They drive to within 650ft of a hovering
object. At this point a few of the rays sweep across the car and it stops dead. The object then
dims its lights and disappears. The men return to the police station but cannot recall how they
did so.
([Link] 1489

-/06/91 Near La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

A family of five was driving along a rural road when they experienced vehicle trouble and
unable to restart the car. They decided to stay in the car overnight. Moment later they saw
numerous army vehicles head to a remote radar station. Twenty minutes later they saw a
high multi-coloured light hovering next to the radar aerial. It was a huge disc shaped object,
They saw a humanoid figure a beam of light hit the witnesses and they found themselves
inside the disc. Several examinations later they were released.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 1990-94.) 1247

08/07/91 2200 near Selkirk, Scotland.

A truck driver was travelling along the A7 road when he saw a brightly lit disc-shaped object
hovering overhead. The object had coloured lights, and seemed to have a dome on top. The
truck's instruments went haywire. The driver stopped and watched the object for about 15
seconds before it disappeared at speed into the night sky.
(Alien Update, p228, Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 0657

22/07/91 2150 Amery, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

A car malfunctioned as a 50ft wide object was seen approx. 200ft away the object was ringed
with red lights.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1542

25/07/1991 2100 Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.

A couple were driving with their young daughter when their vehicle suddenly stalled alongside
a cane sugar field. The exited the vehicle and then heard some footsteps coming from the
nearby brush. A human-like figure walked out of the bushes towards them he was described
as 5ft 9in with long blond hair, rosy skin and hazel coloured eyes. He wore a white uniform
with a wide blet and hanging from his neck was a large round metallic medallion with a
bearded face printed on it. The being then climbed over a wire fence and the witnesses felt a
strange calm and were floated over the fence. They followed the being through the can field
there they came upon a silvery metallic triangular shaped object hovering some 4ft above the
ground. They all floated inside the craft the floated out and taken to their vehicle which
promptly started. They quickly drove away from the area.

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(Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO Sightings.) 0052

-/07-08/91 2000 Halls Creek, Western Australia, Australia.

A motorcyclist saw an unusual object, which was also seen by occupants of two cars who had
stopped to watch it. At the same time, the motorbike engine cut out, and the rider got off to
look for a fault. He remembered kick-starting the motorbike to continue the journey, but
found on arrival at his destination -which should have taken ten minutes, that it was two
hours later and that he had a fresh scar on his left ankle.
(B. Richards, UFORUM. UFORA 93056.) 0952

11/09/91 1930 Loudon, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

A mother was driving home with her two children, and was nearing the house when the car
radio started to give out a lot of static interference and had to be switched off. She parked in
the driveway, and while briefly going into the house the children called out to her to see two
large white disc-shaped objects, which were moving slowly past. The discs had pulsating
multi-coloured lights around the edge, and a triangular pattern of dark circles underneath. A
low pitched humming sound was heard. The altitude of the objects was estimated to be about
100 feet, and the ground was illuminated as they moved slowly out of sight. The witnesses
reported suffering some effects after the incident.
(Alien Update, p232-233.) 0658

01/10/91 1830 Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A.

A triangular arrangement of lights was seen coming down towards the road, then moving to
the side of the road, and stopping over a dam. Some cars nearby began showing red lights on
their dashboards, with the cars then leaving the road, and going towards the lights. The driver
lowered his car windows, but no sound could be heard coming from where the lights
were seen.
(NUFORC 5/8/12.) 1161

-/11/91 Daviston, Alabama, U.S.A.

The witness was riding around some back roads at night time when he saw a bright light in
the trees some 150 yards away. Next he saw the light coming out of the trees and then he
noticed a round, but flattened cloud emerged from behind the light. The cloud followed the
bright light and flew over the witness and his vehicle. The vehicle engine then went
completely dead. The next thing he remembers was travelling further down the road and
noticing behind him the white ball and two clouds this time. Upon reaching home his family
noticed a smell of “burnt cinnamon”. He also found reddish purple stains on his hands that
he could not explain. His vehicle had two 4-5 inches long and wide splotches on the front
drivers side, he also reported health problems weeks after the incident. Later under hypnosis
he reported interaction with a 4ft tall humanoid.
(Van-Overmeire, G. Mini Chronological Catalogue of UFO Observations.) 0057

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A woman who was driving near Duri, in intermittent rain, saw a strange light in the sky, and
after passing through Currabubula saw lights which passed over the car. A strange sound was
heard, and she reported that the car had two brief episodes involving loss of power and lights.
(Bill Chalker, UFOIC.) 0953

24/01/92 2300 Cyprus.

A brightly lit object, estimated to be about 50 metres long with a tail of coloured lights, was
observed by many residents of Larnaca, Palechori and Limassol. The object was seen between
11p.m. and 1.30a.m. The next day, and was described as silent, or by some as emitting a low
humming sound. One of the eyewitnesses interviewed on television stated that as the object
passed overhead, he noted that the underside reflected the ground like a mirror, and that his
car had been picked up and moved.
(FSR Vol 37, No 3, p26.) 0659

-/01/92 Lake Balaton, Hungary.

A young woman driving home one evening saw a fuzzy white light coming towards her car.
She remembered that the engine and lights had faded before she found herself some time
later in a field, and totally surrounded by snow. There were no track marks to indicate how
the car had reached its position some distance away from the road, surprising those who were
called to retrieve the vehicle.
(Time Storms, p24.) 0660

02/02/92 2247 Union Grove, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

A man is driving west to Union Grove on Highway 11; saw a large glowing object coming
towards the front of his car. The car engine stopped working and he coasted to a stop. After
getting out of the car he watched the object for about three minutes, feeling that he could
not look away from it. The object made a high pitched whistling noise, then glowed brighter
and the car restarted. The driver thought that if the car had not been in the "park" position,
it could have rolled away when restarting. He then continued his journey, later discovering a
triangular rash on his arm and three scars.
(MUFON UFO Journal 298, January 1993.) 0954

-/02/92 0400 Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia.

Five people in a car were coming around a bend in the road when they encountered a huge
area lit up from above, and at the same time the car engine, lights, and dashboard lights all
cut out. They stopped the car, restarted it and carried on with the journey, but in the next
few minutes the same thing happened twice more.
(International UFO Reporter, Volume 33, No 4, p 20.) 0955

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Crackling noises started coming from the car radio speakers as a mother was just leaving
home with two daughters and a friend, even though the radio was switched off. As they were
returning home about half an hour later they noticed what was at first thought to be a bright
star, but they realised that it was moving and had a red tail. The object increased in size, and
was described as saucer shaped. After a few minutes it descended and hovered above the
roadway ahead and very close to the vehicle. The object had a metallic appearance, and was
shrouded in steam or vapour. There were blue fluorescent type lights around the base, and a
yellow-white light at the centre. Passing underneath the object, the car seemed to be floating.
No sound was heard, although the car windows were open. The object was then seen moving
away and upwards at speed. The incident was reported to the police, and the family was later
visited by a local taxi driver who reported a similar experience.
(Alien Update, p254-255.) 0661

11/03/92 1030 Delavan, Illinois, U.S.A.

A round silver object flew 30-40ft above a car during which electromagnetic effects were note
on car.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1543

19/03/92 0352 Haines City, Florida, U.S.A.

Police officer Luis Deigado was driving a patrol car when he saw a large disc-shaped green
light which came up from behind, and hovered around the vehicle for about a minute. As he
pulled to the side of the road to avoid hitting the object, the car engine failed, the lights went
out and the walkie-talkie radio would not work when he tried to report. The patrolman was
later found in a distressed state at the site by another police officer.
(Alien Update, p257, The Missing Link No 118. Page 10) 0662

-/03/92 Lynn, Norfolk.

Mrs Marilyn Preston and her 2 daughters were travelling in a car when they saw a bright star-
like object as they got closer the light got bigger and the object appeared to be hovering over
the local Campbells factory. The object was silent and appeared to be hovering they drove
underneath the object it looked like something out of “Star Trek” And as they drove on the
object flew straight up in the air. Oddly her car was making a strange noise earlier that evening
an static was coming out of the speakers. 0585

02/04/92 0015 Costa Rica.

On a clear, cloudless night, several thousand people observed a domed white object with a
number of smaller disc shapes moving in a southerly direction across the country. This
coincided with power failures in towns and villages nearby. The larger object was reported to
have slowed becoming stationary at times, while the smaller discs appeared to carry out
manoeuvres. Near one village which was affected by a power cut, and with the police station
using an emergency generator, a policeman was directed to pursue one of the objects. He
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observe the large object in detail, and later participated in a two hour interview programme
on national television. The large object was reported to have circled over the capital city of
San Jose. It then moved back to Arenal at about 12.30a.m. When a light beam struck the
republic's main generating plant, producing a total failure of electrical power which was not
restored until 3a.m. Two weeks later more objects were seen, again coinciding with power
failures, and it was reported that flying discs had been seen by day and at night at Lake Arenal,
sometimes also seen descending into the water.
(FSR Vol 40, No 1, p18-19.) 0663

12/04/92 2320 Deming, New Mexico, U.S.A.

The witness was driving on US Highway 180 in a desert area when his CB radio suddenly
became silent, and he noticed a patch of white light at the side of the road. He seemed to
hear a voice in his head telling him to look out for smoke, and then saw a luminous cloud of
smoke stretching across the highway ahead. Driving through the vapour for an hour, he
stopped the car and walked to the side of the road, but was unable to see anything. He then
felt paralysed, and was approached by two persons who took hold of his arms, guiding him
towards a shiny metallic object with an opening on the side. His next recollection was of being
inside the craft, where he saw two thin beings and felt that a small object was put into his
nose. He was then let outside again and floated horizontally towards his vehicle. He continued
his journey, with the vapour-like fog quickly disappearing.
([Link], PhD, and [Link]. Close Extra-terrestrial Encounters.) 0956

-/04/92 Provins, France.

A truck driver and his passenger in the region of Provins one evening in April when they
observe a triangular object enveloped in a white light. The object descends towards them.
From that moment on, the truck no longer responds to the driver's solicitations and moves
smoothly on its own towards the side of the road. The two witnesses are immobilized,
paralyzed as the object lands. Three very tall beings dressed in silvery suits advance towards
them, pointing some sort of lamps. They have weird eyes. The two witnesses then do not
know what happened.
(Lights in the Night number 317.) 0245

17/08/92 2300 Harperrig Reservoir, Midlothian, Scotland.

Two men were travelling by car across a moorland area west of Edinburgh with clear weather
and stars visible. A dark mass and a curtain of mist were seen ahead at low level over the
road. All sounds disappeared when the car entered the dark mist, and the car radio faded out.
Inside the mist there was complete darkness, with no light from the car headlamps. The car
was then felt hitting the road with a heavy jolt, as if it had been dropped. The black curtain
had disappeared, and the stars were visible again. They found that the car was travelling some
distance further along the road, and on continuing to their destination at Tarbrax it was
discovered that several hours were not accounted for. The men both experienced headaches
and muscular pain after the incident, together with a feeling of disorientation, the effects
lasting into the following day.
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23/08/92 2330 Wiltshire, England.

Witness was driving when he saw a white glow from around the bend and thought it was
another car coming towards him he started to slow down. As he neared the bends a single
bright light raced around the corner travelling 50-60mph. Witness thought it was a motorcycle
but the light was only 12-18in above the ground. As it got to within 10-20ft in front of him it
suddenly flew up and over the roof of his car. As the object flew over the car the car stalled it
was idling before. Witness wound down the window to look but the object had disappeared.
(Enigma Magazine No. 01 1993.) 1315

-/-/92 near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England.

Paul Vigay was driving south from Alton Barnes, and was near Honey Street when he saw a
bright glow approaching from the opposite direction. He thought that the light was from a
motorcycle travelling at excessive speed, so he stopped the car, but left the engine idling. As
it came close the object changed direction, and then passed over the roof of the car. As it did
so, the car engine stalled, which had never happened before with the engine idling. The car
headlights remained on. He noted that the object seemed to be emitting light all around it,
and was very bright. A few seconds later, when looking to the rear, he found that the object
had totally disappeared.
(Lucy Pringle. Crop Circles, p104-105.) 0665

01/01/93 0130 Hethersgill, Cumbria, England.

A taxi driver was returning towards Brampton in clear weather when her car CB radio began
to have crackling interference, before it failed completely. The car then suddenly came to a
standstill, and the lights went out. She got out of the car, and then saw a ball of light which
came up from the rear of the taxi. The light, which was about a foot in diameter hovered
before it moved over the top of the taxi, then travelled away at speed. When she got in again
and tried the ignition, the car suddenly jumped forward, and the lights came back on. The CB
radio returned at full volume, and she heard the voice of her sister who had been trying to
contact her for half an hour. The incident had only seemed to last five or ten minutes.
(BUFORA Bulletin No 3, June/July 1998, p10.) 0666

22/03/93 2315 Armadale, Western Australia. Australia.

A motorist saw a bright light like a white flare, dropping towards the ground. As she came
closer, it was seen to be a spherical shape with a smaller sphere on each side. The car radio
started to crackle, and then failed, and the car lights dimmed. After pulling the car over to the
side of the road for a better view, she drove away, with the car radio returning to normal. The
object just disappeared after the sighting had lasted about three minutes.
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25/03/93 Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex. England.

Witness was driving a car when they could see a disc shaped object in the sky they stopped
the car to observe. I got back into my car to follow the object and then my fuel gauge and
speedometer dropped to zero and then back to normal. It was a disc shaped object flying and
was white to deep blue in colour it then vanished.
(The UFO Register Vol.22 .) 1302

14/05/93 0400 Mildura, Victoria, Australia.

A white glowing oval object passed over, heading in a north easterly direction, with temporary
failure of car lights and radio reported.
(Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16046.) 0958

27/06/93 0300 Ashley, North Dakota, U.S.A.

Donald Klumb was driving home when he spotted strange lights near a ditch as he approached
his pickup shutdown and after about ten seconds everything restarted. When he returned to
the area the next day he found a circular shape flattened in a circular shape.
(UFO Newsclipping Service Number 296.) 1334

-/06/93 0010 Myaree, Western Australia, Australia.

A computer technician was driving his car when moving lights coloured green, red, and blue
were seen, and described as being like an inverted bunsen burner. The object dropped behind
trees then rose higher, coming towards him, and the car engine then failed. He reported that
an aircraft was following the object. After about twelve minutes the object moved away
towards the southeast, and the aircraft also departed.
(Catalogue of Australian Vehicle Interference UFO Cases. [Link], UFORUM. ) 0959

07/08/93 2245 Beux, France.

The witness was driving between Dain en Saulnois and Beux. Arriving at the intersection of
the CD 71 and 71A, he notices a blue-green light violently illuminating the ground in the
middle of the intersection over a diameter of about 20 m. The light is stationary and intensely
masks the vehicle headlights from the witness. The source of this light is an indefinite form
located at a certain height. The warning light stops his vehicle and cuts the engine. No noise,
and even some silence. After a minute the light goes out and the dark form leaves at high
speed towards Dain en Saulnois with a slight whistle. The witness goes home. A little later he
felt pain in all the muscles of his body. The witness testified with the gendarmerie. Each time
the latter returns to the scene, he experiences severe headaches when he is outside his
vehicle. An area of scorched grass (not burnt) is discovered in the meadow about forty meters
from the crossroads but nothing can say if the two things are related.
(Lights in the Night.) 0264

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A family of three travelling by car they crossed a deserted area and for no apparent reason
the car stopped and the headlights went out. They opened the bonnet to check and when
turning on a flashlight an electric shock was felt and was dropped to the ground. All of a
sudden they seemed to be hit by an unknown force of ‘air’. To the side they saw a milky fog
like screen that seemed to be pulsating with a yellowish white light. It was rectangular in
shape with a length of 10m and a height of 2.5-3 m and was floating 0.5m off the ground.
They jumped back in the car but it would still not start at this point the light started to pulse
every 2-3 seconds. After about 20 minutes the ‘screen’ began to move slowly away it changed
shape to be a narrow band of light 30m long and 1m wide. It then started to fade in less than
ten seconds all that remained was a ‘egg shape light 3m long and 2m wide. It became very
bright and suddenly ascended into the night and disappeared. After a second or two the car
was started and the left in a hurry.
(Farcas, D. UFOs over Romania. 2016.) 1282

05/09/93 Oklahoma City, U.S.A.

Several eyewitnesses described a triangular flying object which made a buzzing noise as it
passed nearby, moving in a northerly direction. The object had red and white lights
underneath, moved at a speed of about 10mph, and it was noted that a couple of car alarms
went off as it passed by.
(FSR Vol 39, No 4, p9.) 0667

26/09/93 0145 Osceola, Missouri, U.S.A.

A young man driving in rainy conditions saw lights near the side of the highway. On stopping,
he saw that there were four lights, which then rose into the air and passed over his vehicle,
causing a squealing sound on his AM radio.
(Amateur UFOlogy News, October 1993.) 0960

-/-93 0400 Barreme, France.

During the winter, the witness drove in the direction of Barrème, coming from Nice. Six km
before the village, he is at the top of an elevation and observes below lights similar to rotating
beacons. He first thinks of an accident, but as he approaches he realizes that they are in a
field. Arrived at the height of the phenomenon, he observed two objects resembling round
hats with a size estimated at 10 12 meters. One of them was very low, about 3-4 meters from
the ground. The dome emitted a red glow, the disc on which the dome rested had an electric
blue light and a strong white light emanated from below the object. The disc seemed to
vibrate or spin extremely fast. The second object was above but it got me there was no white
light below. When the witness's vehicle was closest to the object, the lighting dimmed
significantly for a few seconds. The taller object followed the van parallel to it for a few
moments. The witness felt itching all over his body for the next week.
(Lights in the Night.) 0252

01/01/94 2030 Monroe City, Indiana, U.S.A.

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Three witnesses in the Lucky Point area saw a black triangular shape not far away for about
ten seconds, and static interference was heard on the car radio.
(UPRO Investigation, Field Investigator Kerry Teverbaugh.) 0961

01/02/94 2030 Badalucco, Liguria, Italy.

The vehicle engine stalled as a cigar-shaped silvery craft hovered over the road. The witness
reported that several beams of light were then directed towards the ground, and a humanoid
figure was also seen standing on the road nearby. (NICAP Database of EM Cases. [Link],
Humanoid Contact Database 1994, Case 2506.) 0962

15/02/94 2300 Grillby, Sweden.

Kerstin Hellman was driving home from work in her 1983 Volvo 245 car when she saw a
sudden brightness in the sky. She looked up and saw a very oblong yellow light over a group
of trees, with "spikes" on the upper part of the shape. At the same time the car lights
weakened, and the speedometer went down. When she looked up again, the light "took off
and just disappeared". The car continued for about 100-200 metres, with the lights becoming
dimmer, until the vehicle came to a complete stop. She managed to roll the car to the side of
the road to wait for help. A milk-truck driver came by, but was unable to restart the car. The
woman's husband was telephoned, and when he turned the ignition key, the car started at
the first attempt with no trouble. A few days later the car was checked, but no electrical faults
were found which could have caused the reported failures.
(International UFO Reporter Vol 22, No 4, p 12, Vol 33, No 4, p 16-17.) 0963

21/02/94 Badalucco, Liguria, Italy.

A cigar-shaped object illuminated the car with a light beam, and with electromagnetic effects
reported.
(The UFO Evidence Volume 11, A Thirty-Year Report, Section 1.) 0964

08/04/94 2340 Quiet Dell, West Virginia, U.S.A.

A silent saucer-shaped UFO, dull metallic in appearance with diamond shaped windows and
big red lights, was seen crossing Route 20. The witness reported that her car made a
screeching sound as the engine faltered, the lights dimmed and the car's digital clock had its
setting erased.
(Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p 160.) 0965

14/04/94 2130 Brushy Fork, West Virginia, U.S.A.

Two witnesses driving home noticed three lights in a nearby field. They slowed down and
pulled over to the side of the road to observe. They saw a white light searching the ground
and saw three lights in the sky one red and two green. These three lights approached the
vicinity of their car and they noticed the lights were on a triangular shaped craft
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They saw a red glow in the centre of the craft. They tried to start the car and it was slow in
starting the object veered away and they drove home.
(Teets, B. West Virginia UFOs.) 1335

23/04/94 Mount Rainier, Washington, U.S.A.

A man was driving a truck at night in the foothills of Mount Rainier, when the engine stopped
suddenly. A large object then came down, and landed about thirty feet in front of the vehicle.
The object appeared to be a creature of some kind, about nine feet tall, part human-like, but
also with features of a bird. It began using its wings, rising into the air, and flying away towards
the mountain. Shortly afterwards, the man's truck started up again by itself.
(Jerome Clark. The UFO Encyclopaedia. Omnigraphics Inc, 1998. J. Lewis, UFOs and Popular
Culture, An Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Mythology.) 1162

06/05/94 0330 Guarantingueta, Sao Paula, Brazil.

Four witnesses travelling in a car observed a light in the sky following the it was bright red in
colour. The light changed colour from red to yellow to white to green and even blue. We
slowed down from 80-90mph to 40mph . They stopped the car to get out to observe the
object. They could make out a domed disc shape object which was hovering low. A lot of static
was heard on the car radio.
Several other witnesses saw the object from other cars and trucks.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1544

24/06/94 0240 La Ferte Sous Jouarre, France.

A triangle object was seen by 3 gendarmes above the road they stopped their vehicle and the
object slowly positioned itself above their car. The object is described as a stationary object
with three yellow-white lights. It is triangular with a central pyramidal spire that points
downwards. They stop the car and the object moves slowly towards them until it stops
directly above the vehicle. There is no noise, smoke or odour. As they restart the car the object
moves west at high speed and becomes a speck on the horizon within a second. The police
radios equipment in the car failed and the car becomes hot even though the windows are
open.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT – Swords. 449) 1545

28/06/94 0230 Derby, Derbyshire, England.

Alan Beardmore was driving his van when suddenly his headlights went out and almost at the
same time he saw a series of lights hovering over a nearby field. He pulled up to a stop and
peered out of the window, everywhere was deserted apart from a formation of three bright
lights hovering over a nearby pylon. He was able to make out what appeared to be a triangle
of lights and close to the “nose” he noticed a bright red light which was positioned next to
the bright white light. The object slowly moved away, he turned his car to follow the object
but it was now out of sight, suddenly his headlights came on.
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30/07/94 2345 Armadale, Scotland.

A power worker was interested in seeing an electrical storm, and went to an area outside the
town to watch. He then saw a dark pyramid-shaped mass near to the ground, heard a strange
noise, and felt that his car was being bumped. When he shone a halogen lamp towards the
mass it seemed to reflect the beam back, and the bulb exploded. He then found that the car
engine would not start, and there was a rush of air as something went past him. He had called
the police, using his mobile phone when he first saw the object, and when they arrived an AA
patrol was called out to assist. As the patrolman was talking to him, puzzled by the engine
failure and about to tow the vehicle, the headlights came back on but the engine still would
not start. Arriving home, the engine could not be restarted but later returned to normal. The
police and AA records of the phone call timings indicated a period of about two hours not
accounted for.
(Time Storms, p220-221.) 0670

08/08/94 2340 Quiet Dell, West Virginia, U.S.A.

A silent dull metallic saucer with diamond shaped windows and large red light crosses the
road ahead. As it did so the radio screeched and the engine faltered, lights dimmed and the
digital clock erased in car.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1546

21/08/94 0300 Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

While head had stopped on Highway 114 between San German and Mayaguez, Sr Pablo
Pagan saw an object overhead. It looked circular and metallic, and was at very low altitude.
There was a pattern underneath it of six octagon shapes which seemed transparent, with
white lights shining through. He tried to drive on, but the engine was dead. There was
evidence for a period of 'missing time' and some recall of seeing several strangely dressed
figures, indicating a possible abduction experience. The driver had experienced another
incident about three months earlier on the same road, when he had seen a bluish-white light
moving around in the sky for several minutes.
(FSR Vol 42, No 4, p18-19.) 0672

-/08/94 Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.

Two witnesses returning home after an evening out when their car began to splutter and then
stopped altogether. One of them got out of the vehicle to see what was wrong when suddenly
the sky was illuminated by a very bright light. As this white light passed over the car it
restarted.
(BUFORA UFO Times) 1617

28/10/94 2130 San Luis Valley, Colorado, U.S.A.

Two men in a pickup truck were sky watching when an object emerged from a fog, hovered
and came closer. One of the witnesses was alarmed and fired a rifle shot at the object, which
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(Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p 267.) 0966

05/11/94 Rochdale, Lancashire, England.

A driver and passenger in a car were listening to the radio when they noted that the
dashboard clock could be heard ticking loudly, over the sound of the radio. The driver found
that the door panel was hot, and then saw to the rear a large luminous cloud approaching,
with flashing lights inside it. There was a droning sound, and with the cloud overhead
illuminating the area he decided to drive away. The window button would only raise the
window about an inch before stopping. On driving away, the car was sluggish even with full
use of the accelerator, confirmed by the dashboard rev counter. The car then suddenly shot
forward at speed, almost causing the driver to lose control, and when he looked in the rear
view mirror again the object had disappeared.
(FSR Vol 40, No 3, p16-17.) 0673

30/12/94 2130 Alturas, California, U.S.A.

A oval object seen during which a truck with three witnesses had engine problems.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1547

-/-/94 Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia.

A couple were driving to Campbelltown for a family birthday barbecue, when they saw a
group of oval amber-coloured lights in the sky, varying in number between twelve and four.
Other people travelling in nearby cars were also seen looking up at the strange lights moving
around in the sky. Near Glenfield, a bright amber ball of light was seen ahead of the car, which
was then pulled over to the side of the road, with other cars doing the same. There was static
interference on the car radio. The light was coming closer, and because they were afraid of
the situation, it was decided to drive away. After several attempts to start the engine, the car
was driven quickly away, with the strange light moving away at a fast speed, and disappearing.
When the couple arrived at their destination about two hours late, they were in a nervous
condition from' the experience, because the journey should have taken less than an hour.
Many other people also reported the sightings on the same night, which resulted in a
television programme and interviews. (UFO Research New South Wales and Newsletter,
Volume 4, 2008.) 1163

30/03/95 0830 Northwest Province, South Africa.

A farmer Jan Pienarr, 45 was driving around a curve in the road when he saw the figure of a
black man shielding his face with his arms, and at exactly the same time the engine of his new
truck stopped working. Looking up, the witness then saw a huge craft on the road ahead and
standing on three landing pads. The object had the form of two inverted soup plates with a
bowl on top, and covered the whole width of the road. The upper portion of the object had
seven porthole-like windows. Getting out of his truck, and with the object making a buzzing
sound, the farmer found himself unable to move, as if he was being held to the spot by a
magnet. After several minutes the craft rose suddenly into the air, and then moved away at

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high speed. After some time regaining his senses, the farmer got back into his truck, and found
that the engine could be started immediately.
(International UFO Reporter Vol 33, No 4, p 17.) 0967

07/05/95 1220 Massillon, Ohio, U.S.A.

A red disc object observed ahead of car the car engine quit and radio was affected.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1549

11/08/95 Cutral, Argentina.

Witness filmed a 500m saucer shaped object at low altitude it descend to 3m above the
ground cars suffered EM effects.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1550

26/08/95 0145 Gressviksletta, Norway.

Three woman driving from Fredrikstad towards Moss when one of them observes a UFO that
stop and get of the car to have a look. The object looks like a flying star and moves out of sight
behind a cloud. We drive on and notice that the headlights no longer work a short time later
they come on again. As they near Rode, a rocket shaped object suddenly approached them is
stops mid-air for a moment before racing off at incredible speed. As they drove on the
headlight fail again and the engine starts to fail and they also notice that all the street lights
are off. The object at times was 10m away from the car and appeared to be 10-15m long.
When they reached Moss the journey had taken over 1hr 35 minutes normally it would only
be 35-40 minutes.
(UFO Norway News 1996 No.1) 1303

29/08/95 Radnor, Tasmania, Australia.

A motor mechanic was travelling by car eastwards, near Port Arthur, when suddenly a white
mass of light was seen to the south of the road. The car behaved erratically for a moment.
Later, when returning on the same stretch of road, a rectangular object was seen in the sky.
The vehicle engine failed, and the lights went off. The driver got out of the car to check for
any faults, but he could not find anything wrong, and the car restarted as the object moved
away.
(TUFOIC. [Link], Catalogue of more interesting Australian UFO Reports.) 1164

29/09/95 2130 Vejle, Jutland, Denmark.

A man was driving to visit his parents, in light traffic and dry weather conditions when the
dashboard instruments began to behave erratically.' The windscreen wipers, which were
switched off, started working, and he was unable to turn them off. The headlights soon
changed in intensity, and the engine began to misfire before failing completely, and the car
came to a stop. Attempts were made to restart the car without success. A very powerful light,
pulsating at regular intervals, then came on over the vehicle. Looking up, a large disc-shaped

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object was seen overhead, just a few metres above the car and with circles of light under the
object. The boundary of light from the object was sharply defined, coming straight down
rather than spreading out, so that the circle of light on the ground was the same as that of
the object above. After a short time the light intensity decreased and it could be seen that
the object, with a rounded edge and triangle shapes underneath, was moving forward slowly.
It tilted to one side to avoid nearby trees before moving on and disappearing in a few seconds.
After several minutes regaining his composure the car engine could then be started
immediately, with the lights and instruments working normally so that the journey could be
continued.
(International UFO Reporter Vol 33, No 4, p 17-18, and MUFON UFO Journal October 2005, p
9-11.) 0968

02/01/96 1500 Swanage, England.

A blue glow seen coming from behind some trees car radio suffered interference and possible
missing time and abduction.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1551

07/01/96 1730 Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Snowmobile engines died when a multi-coloured UFO was seen hovering over a lake by two
witnesses.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1552

25/02/96 0230 Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A young man was driving his van when he witnessed three peculiar “meteors” in the sky his
van suddenly stops and he experienced several anomalous sensations.
(National UFO Reporting Center.) 1553

27/02/96 0150 Lugo, Spain.

A car was seen to levitate by several witnesses as a strange light seen the car clock stopped.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1554

22/03/96 2320 Armadale, Western Australia, Australia.

A strange light was seen descending towards the road and as the car approached it moved
aside the car suffered radio and electrical interference.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1555

27/06/96 2000 between Los Sauces and Angol, Chile.

The witness was driving in clear weather conditions, when he saw a bright light, which
descended and followed his car. He tried to accelerate, but the car lost speed. When the light
came onto the car, this was so intense that he felt anguished and then passed out. When he
awoke, the car was about twelve kilometres from where the encounter had taken place. His

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legs were trembling, his head felt painful, and he found that his wristwatch had stopped,
although almost an hour had passed.
(EFE News Agency 17/5/02. UFO News UK, Vol 1, No 20.) 1165

-/06/96 0330 Cap-Pele, New Brunswick, Canada.

Three black triangular objects were seen, with three lights at the front, two at the sides, and
two or three on the base of the triangles. There was no sound as the objects flew slowly
nearby, and the car engine stalled.
(Ufology Research of Manitoba, Canada.) 1166

08/08/96 1545 Medford, Oregon, U.S.A.

Several motorists reported that their car engines had stalled as three oblong-shaped, silvery
objects were seen flying over the Table Rock area on Highway 62.
(UFO Roundup, Vol 1, No 28, 1996.) 1167

29/08/96 2000 Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.

A mechanic found that his car was behaving erratically, and then he saw a white mass of light.
The light vanished and the car returned to normal, but on the return trip the white mass
returned and followed the car for several kilometres. The car engine began faltering, and all
of the lights went out. He could then see a cigar shape about 200 metres away, and got out
of the car to check the engine, but could find nothing wrong. The object moved away, and the
car then started at the first attempt.
(International UFO Reporter Vol 33, No 4, p 20.) 0969

25/10/96 1650 King's Lynn, Norfolk, England.

A security engineer was driving near King's Lynn when he saw a blue light flashing in his rear
view mirror, and thought that he was being followed by a police car. When he stopped the
car and got out, his car lights went off before coming on again. He then saw that the blue light
had gone overhead and was now some distance ahead, spinning in the air. He immediately
turned the car back, and reported the incident at the Bethel Street police station.
(Cosmic Crashes, p162.) 0677

04/11/96 1920 Dumfries, Scotland.

Driving to a friend’s house as they drove over a hill they saw a UFO the car engine stalled.
Suddenly a bright orange UFO came at high speed and circled the larger object several times
then shot off at great speed in a NW direction. The larger object then ascended slowly to
approx. 1000ft and then shot away at great speed.
(MUFON Online Reports.) 1325

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Two drivers travelling north on the Klondike Highway saw a huge object with a row of lights
moving slowly eastwards over the Fox Lake. The object passed almost directly over one of the
vehicles, and was seen to have rings of light underneath rotating in opposite directions. A
number of other eyewitnesses observed the object from different locations, also describing
it as huge with a row of lights, and with beams of light sweeping the ground. One witness
described looking up from her car to see multi-coloured lights, and noted that the car's
interior lights dimmed and that the music from the tape player slowed down. The object was
silent, and was seen for several minutes before it disappeared.
(FSR Vol 45, No 3, p2-10.) 0678

-/-/96 1900 Tijucas, Brazil.

The witness was driving on Route BR 101, near a bridge, when she saw a light in the distance,
and felt the car being pulled towards it. The car began to shake, and she lost control as the
car slowed to a crawl. She was on a wooded hill, and a tall, dark-skinned humanoid figure
appeared suddenly in front of her. The figure had green glowing eyes, and she then seemed
to black out. Her next memory was of walking into a police station. The police later searched
the area but could not find anything.
(A. Faleiro, ETs in Brazil.) 1168

05/02/97 2000 Los Sauces, Chile.

A 15-20m red diameter circular object appeared in front of a car at low altitude it then
hovered over a car and surrounded the car in a beam of light. The car engine lost power and
speed dropped and no steering. Witness said a period of time could not be encountered for.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1556

09/03/97 2130 Bussy, France.

A grey fat cigar shaped object was seen hovering over some silos. It was at an altitude of
approx 20m and had orange lights along the side. A car steering locked up and headlights
died.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1557

18/05/97 2300 Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.

Three witnesses observed an object hovering in the distance they drove over to where the
object was and they could see eight LITS which blinked on. They decided to flash their
headlights on/off to get a response. Two objects began to approach the car and the car’s
electrical system went dead as they hovered overhead.

One witness was able to make out a disc-shaped metallic object with a dome section on top.
There was a blue glow underneath the object that lit the roadway below. There was also a
bright white strobe light flashing rapidly on top. Around the middle section was a row of
square windows from which a yellowish light was observed. After a few minutes the object
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(UFO Roundup Vol.2. No.22.) 1356

25/06/97 2345 Taunton, Somerset, England.

A driver with one passenger found that her car radio was suddenly giving out a lot of static,
with interference on all channels. Stopping the car to see what the problem was, they saw a
large dark object rising slowly from a nearby field and coming towards them. The object,
described as triangular with a white light at each corner and a line of flashing red lights from
front to rear, passed overhead about ten feet above the car. A low humming sound was heard
before the object came to a stop, hovering in the air. After about two minutes the object
moved away slowly, and as it disappeared the car radio began working normally again.
(UFO Magazine, March/April 1998, p17-18.) 0679

24/07/97 0020 Antofagasta, Chile.

A bus was on a journey from Arica to Santiago, with 42 passengers, and was near Cerro
Moreno Mountain when the bus suddenly lost all electrical power. The driver was unable to
get the bus restarted. Passengers then saw four lights in the sky, three round ones, and one
having a long cigar shape. All of the lights were changing colour, from violet and orange, to
white. The cigar shaped object moved, making a right-angled turn, while the other objects
remained still. When a few of the passengers went to a nearby military base to ask about the
lights, they were told that the lights were weather balloons. The lights disappeared abruptly
soon afterwards. The bus driver was then able to restart the bus, and the journey to Santiago
was resumed.
(Chilean newspaper La Cuarta, 25/7/97, and UFO Roundup, Vol 2, No 32,1997) 1169

04/11/97 1800 between Mine head and Pollock, Somerset, England.

A man driving home from work in foggy weather conditions saw three white beams of light
which suddenly penetrated through the fog from above, and converged into a circle on the
bonnet of his car. All of the vehicle electrics failed, and the driver found himself sitting in
darkness unable to restart the car. After about five minutes the light beam disappeared
suddenly, and the car headlights came back on. The driver was then able to restart the car,
and resumed his journey. Arriving home, he found that both his watch and car clock were five
minutes slow, and later discovered that a compass placed near the car showed a reading 90
degrees out of true.
(UFO Magazine, March/April 1998, p16.) 0680

-/-/97 2030 Utuado, Puerto Rico.

Sr Miguel Calderon was driving his jeep towards Caonillas when he suddenly saw ahead of
him two small figures, looking like boys dressed in tight-fitting silver overalls. One of them
raised an arm towards him, and the jeep engine instantly cut out, together with the radio.
The starter would not operate, but the lights remained on very faintly. The figure then
lowered its arm before both of them rose silently straight up into the air and vanished. The
jeep engine then sprang back into life, and the driver left the area at speed. He reported that

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although he had not seen any flying object, residents in the area had constantly reported
seeing lights moving around in the sky, and making sharp right-angle turns.
(FSR Vol 45, No 2, p15-16.) 0681

27/01/98 1840 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Two men were driving in a pickup truck in the Nicholasville area, when there was a purple
flash above the clouds. Electricity was affected for about five minutes, failing in nearby
homes, with the truck engine also having lost power. Everything returned to normal
afterwards.
(UFO Roundup, Vol 3, No 5, 1998.) 1170

-/02/98 Niemodlin, Poland.

Two friends who were driving from Opole to Niemodlin where they planned to meet up with
friends. Suddenly the car radio went off and the engine of their car stalled. At the same time
a very large object passed over them they were unable to make out a shape because it was
too bright. After the object had passed over them and flown away the lights, radio and engine
just turn back on by themselves. The object was still in view at an altitude of 2500-3300 ft and
accelerated towards Niemodlin. The witnesses fought off their fear and drove to a nearby hill
to see if the object could still be seen. They stopped at the top of a hill and saw the object
again it was spherical shape and was emitting a dazzling light hovering just over the top of the
forest 1 – 1.2 miles away. It remained stationary. They flashed their headlights at the object
and all of a sudden it approached them at tremendous speed flying some 65-100ft above the
ground. They drove off quickly as they were scared.
(UFOs over Poland , Cielebias, P.) 0121

25/04/98 0400 Sao Vicente, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Dalton Eustaquio de Castro was driving through the deserted streets of the town as he was
followed by an object in the sky for about an hour. The object seemed to have two circular
lights, a larger yellow one surrounded by a ring of small yellow lights and a smaller diameter
blue light above it. He stopped at a relative's house and sought refuge in an outbuilding. The
object remained nearby, slightly higher in the sky. He noticed that as a few cars began to pass
by on the road, their engines all began to cough and falter as they came near to the object's
position. As dawn came, the object began to rise higher until it vanished.
(FSR Vol 44, No 4, p11.) 0683

29/05/98 2230 Bancroft, Ontario, Canada.

As a v-shaped object flew over a house the car lights and spotlight turned on by themselves.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1558

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A motorist saw a green glow in front of his vehicle he had a total breakdown of his car. He got
out of his car and saw a 5m cone shaped object which was 2m high. He also saw some
humanoid figures.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1559

05/08/98 2100 East Machias, Maine, U.S.A.

The lights in a truck flickered and the engine almost stalled as a light in the sky got brighter.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1560

11/08/98 Launceston, Cornwall, England.

At around mid-morning, the witness in this case was driving her car when the engine began
faltering, nearly stalling several times before failing completely. She got out of the car, and
saw a strange object in the sky before it moved away quickly, leaving a fine vapour trail. When
she got back in the car, it started immediately, allowing the journey for an appointment to be
continued, but she then found herself very late and unable to understand where all the time
had gone.
(Cornish and Devon Post, Launceston, September 24, 1998.) 0970

-/08/98 0100 near Zaandam, Netherlands.

A man was driving his Opel Kadett car slowly through a nature park area, letting his dog out
of the car for some exercise, when the car suddenly came to a stop for no reason. He got out
of the car to check the engine and wiring, and when turning around he saw two bright lights
shooting almost vertically into the sky, without any sound. The lights disappeared in a couple
of seconds. A few minutes later he tried the engine again, and it started immediately without
any problem.
(UFO Roundup, Vol 4, No 7, 1999.) 1171

-/09/98 0130 Jamestown, Ohio, U.S.A.

Two witnesses driving in Jamestown when there car came to a complete standstill and then
stalled and the radio cut out. They tried to start the vehicle several times but were unable to
do so. In the distance they could hear a faint low humming that was getting closer. From the
north-west a large orb appeared it had a faint silver glow to it. The orb passed over in front
of them heading south. The vehicle started back up on its own and they started to follow the
object. The object was hovering over a small patch of woods then it moved away and then
just disappeared.
(MUFON Online Reports.) 1368

01/11/98 Bologna, Italy.

Driving at night near Bologna, a truck driver saw a bright light approaching, and then his
engine stalled suddenly. A period of missing time was reported, and another witness in the
area remembered being struck by a light beam and losing consciousness for two hours.
(Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, 1998.) 0971

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16/11/98 2300 Lake Vidraru, Corbeni, Poland.

Two witnesses as they approached the Lake their car stopped without any cause. Two
shepherds appeared shortly after saying they had seen a light as big as a house rise into the
sky accompanied by loud noise like thunder. Then an oncoming car stopped and the
occupants claimed to have seen the same luminous object. Described it as having a green light
and that the shape like two overlapping saucers. The object they said rose from the water of
the lake.
(Cielebias, P, UFOs over Poland. 2015.) 1283

-/11/98 0500 Benbrook, Texas, U.S.A.

A deputy sheriff was driving to work when he saw a glowing, pulsating light in the sky, with
laser-like beams projecting upwards. A news report on his car radio was also asking for
confirmation of the sighting. The car's electrical system then cut out completely, and the car
rolled to a stop. The cell phone also would not work, even though it had separate battery
power. He then felt some kind of energy flow down his body for several minutes. The car
could then be restarted, the cell phone also worked and the car radio was operational again,
but had lost all of its programming.
([Link] Paranormal, 1999.) 0972

01/12/98 1750 Evreux, Eure, France.

A motorist was driving through the city when he saw a strange triangular object, hovering
nearby. The object had eight luminous windows along its edge, and a red rotating light
underneath. The witness stopped his car, and watched as the object passed silently overhead,
moving towards the Evreux-Fauville Air Base. As the object passed over, the car engine,
headlights, and radio all stopped working. At first the car could not be restarted, but after
about half a minute the driver was able to start the engine again.
(UFO Roundup, Vol 4, No 3, 1999.) 1172

-/-/98 1930 Emerald, Queensland, Australia.

Driving towards Capella, a motorist saw a bright, ball-like object floating in the air, outside
the passenger window. The object seemed to move around slightly, and there was a problem
with the stereo equipment reception. The object then moved suddenly and silently in front
of the windscreen, before being next to the driver's head, and moving back to its original
position. The object then went into and out of the trees, and disappeared.
(Journal-UFO Research Queensland, June/July 2002, No 206.) 1173

20/02/99 Alicante, Spain.

Several men were travelling by car on a mountain road near Alicante when car engine failed
suddenly, and it was then noticed that their two cell phones and the car's digital clock had
also stopped working. A humming sound was heard when they stepped out of the car, and
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immediately, and the car was then found to be working again, together with the clock and
the cell phones.
(UFO Roundup, Vol 4, No 10, 1999.) 1174

15/07/99 0215 Nangwarry, South Australia, Australia.

Three lights in a triangular formation were seen in the sky, with a black shape inside the lights.
The car radio cut out, and the car was slowed down, with the object's lights seen shining on
the tops of pine trees. The witness then stopped the car, and saw that the object was moving.
The car was accelerated, with the object ahead and gaining height. It then went into a cloud,
which lit up, and when the object then disappeared, the radio came back on. There was no
sound from the object, and no effects were noted on the car engine or lights.
([Link], The South Australian UFO Story.) 1175

02/08/99 2230 Brackley Beach, Canada.

The car lights went out, and two oval objects were seen overhead.
(Ufology Research of Manitoba, Canada.) 1176

11/09/99 2145 Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.

A father was with his son doing security work outside at a church when a light in the sky was
seen approaching from a north easterly direction. As the light came closer, it became evident
that this was not an aircraft heading for the airport. The object was a large white diamond
shape, with a red and blue light angled inwards towards the centre. The object continued its
approach before hovering overhead, and seemed to be wobbling or doing a falling leaf
motion, then continued on its way and disappeared from sight. Investigation of the sighting
revealed that there were electromagnetic effects involving the car battery and radio effects
in the report, and a possibility of missing time.
(MUFON UFO Journal, March 2000, p 17.) 0973

30/10/99 2330 Deception Bay. Queensland, Australia.

A car losses power and the radio cuts in and out as four bright orange lights pass by.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1562

02/01/00 2220 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

A nurse was on her way home from work, where she observed a black V-shaped object, with
three red lights, hovering over houses in Frankston. She noticed some interference on the car
radio, pulled across to the side of the road, and turned off the ignition. It was a very clear
night, and she described the object as very large with no sound coming from it. It was not hot
that night, but there was a feeling of the car and herself becoming very hot. The object was
watched for a few minutes before it disappeared suddenly.
([Link], AUFORN, Victoria. AUFORN Yearly Reports.) 1177

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A man driving his car is suddenly dazzled by a light of very strong intensity it enters via the
sunroof. The engine and radio stop working after a few moments radio recovers and engine
can be restarted.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1563

21/01/00 Near Pavlovskiy area, Saint Petersburg Region, Russia.

Truck driver Victor Kamenskiy was on his route when suddenly the truck engine stalled and
then completely cut out. He decided to fix the vehicle himself rather than wake the other
driver. Looking outside the window he saw something grey-blue on the snow covered
meadow. The object suddenly shot up in the air and landed about 10m from the highway it
was a strange figure. Moment later a greenish beam of light shone from inside the nearby
forest and struck the grey-bluish figure. The beam seemed to suck the figure inside and then
everything vanished. The trucks engine began to work properly and the witness continued on
his journey.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 2000-09.) 1248

30/03/00 0500 Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada.

Leah Isaac , a friend and their small boy were driving with and were near the lake when they
saw a disc-shaped object hovering about 300 feet away before it moved at high speed across
the road, making an abrupt stop briefly before moving away again at speed and at a 90 degree
angle. It was reported that the car's lights and tape deck stopped working when the object
was nearby.
(UFO Research Manitoba, 2000. Canadian UFO Survey case 50; UFO Magazine, (USA) July
2000, p 24.) 0974

09/05/00 Tandil, Argentina.

The witness Hugo Macias who was 60 years old was out delivering papers in the early morning
when he felt a loud unusual sound approaching him from behind. He stated that a cylinder of
light encircled his vehicle and placed the lights diameter at some 50m. The beam of energy
seemed to pierce the rooftop. At this point the the car radio shut down followed by the engine
and headlights. The beam of light seemed to transport the car a further 600m before
disappearing and leaving the car by the roadside. Suddenly everything came back to life and
he could see a cylinder shaped light heading towards the nearby mountain range. The whole
ordeal lasting only a few seconds.
(Inxplicata No. 7. USA.) 1304

14/05/00 1700 Millston, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

A motorist was driving on U,[Link] 12 when the car engine failed suddenly, and the driver
had to coast to a stop. The car could not be restarted. The driver then heard a humming
sound, and saw a disc-shaped object like a large spinning top on the road before going straight
upwards into the air. The frightened driver did not tell anyone about the event, but reported
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(MUFON UFO Journal, July 2000, p 18.) 0975

23/07/00 0100 Ashtabula, Ohio, U.S.A.

Three people were travelling in a new Cadillac car when it was suddenly surrounded by
numerous small lights, following the car at high speed for about 40 miles. During the incident
the car's alarm went off and on, the radio was reset, the clock lost time, and a sticky residue
formed on the windshield.
(MUFON UFO Journal, June 2005, p 16, and November 2006,p 19.) 0976

05/09/00 2150 Billingham, England.

Three lights seen in sky by witness one of them hovered over car for 2 minutes. The object
described as cigar shaped and was observed for 5 to 10 minutes during which the car lost
power and the engine cut out.
(National UFO Reporting Center.) 1564

13/09/00 1900 Hagerstown, Maryland, U.S.A.

While driving on the interstate the witness saw a bright white light in the form of a tube which
was long and thin the ends were orangish with the centre being white. The car engine shut
off as it appeared over the vehicle.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1565

11/10/00 2055 Jones Beach, New York. U.S.A.

A couple stop their car and watch as 2 diamond shape objects approach them from over the
ocean and land on the beach. A red beam engulfs the car and they cannot open the doors.
The light changes to blue and the car “bounces around.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1566

01/01/01 New Plymouth, North. Island, New, Zealand.

At around midnight, several motorists reported seeing five disc-shaped objects flying along
the western shore of North Island, near New Plymouth. One of the objects changed colour
from orange to violet as it paced a car, hovering over the vehicle and causing radio static
interference. After several minutes the objects formed into a line, and moved away rapidly
towards the south.
(UFO Magazine, USA, April 2001, p 20.) 0977

09/01/01 1100 Arnolds Park, Iowa, U.S.A.

A silver sphere was seen as a car drove underneath the car stopped.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1568

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The witness was driving home from work with a few colleagues when his car stalled at a stop
sign. He got out of the car to look under the bonnet doing do he noticed a long lighted flying
object which was there for a few seconds and then disappeared. The car then started
normally.
(SUFOG Newsletter No 147/148.) 1276

-/01/01 Queensland, Australia.

On a quiet country road about four hours drive inland from Rockhampton, a family was
followed by a bright light and with a spotlight lighting up the whole area. The car engine was
reported to have malfunctioned, and on the following day one of the witnesses was found to
have what looked like sunburn on his face.
(MUFON UFO Journal, March 2001, p 17.) 0978

09/03/01 0336 Simi Valley, California, U.S.A.

A green fireball the size of an orange at arm’s length flew over a car. Fuses in car had blown.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1569

08/04/01 2000 Portage, Indiana, U.S.A.

A blue object stopped a car engine turn red and disappeared.

(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1570

-/05/01 0400 Salta, Argentina.

Two police officers were driving to Salta to deliver a prisoner to the local jail when they saw
a huge round object in the sky, lighting up the countryside. The object was emitting many
flashes of coloured light. It came close by, and at first stalled their vehicle's engine before
flying parallel with it for about an hour at a distance of around 300 metres, and without any
sound being heard from the object. A few weeks later a local journalist also reported seeing
a large unknown object in the sky while he was taking his wife and sick daughter to hospital
in Salta. The round or oval object was surrounded by a greenish outline, and was also emitting
coloured beams of light. He filmed it from several locations for more than half an hour, with
the object moving slowly at first before it moved away at high speed.
(EI Tribuno, Salta, June 25, 27, July 2, FSR Vol 46, No 4, p24.) 0686

30/06/01 2230 McCamey, Texas, U.S.A.

A yellowish oval object was seen for 5 mins as a car drove into town the car died.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1571

-/06/01 2030 between Dayton and Kingman, Ohio, U.S.A.

Two sisters were returning home to Kingman after a shopping trip in Dayton, and were
travelling on State Road 73 in clear weather when a bright light was noticed in the western
sky. The white light grew in intensity and approached at speed, passing in front of the car

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before hovering over nearby tree tops and casting a glow over the entire area. The car was
pulled over to the side of the road, and although the light was large and close by, no sound
could be heard. Another identical light then swooped down and hovered a short distance
away. Trying to drive away it was found that the car could not be restarted, and that the lights
and radio were also dead. An odd silence was also noticed, with no traffic on the road which
was usually busy at that time. They continued to watch the strange lights until suddenly both
objects shot straight upwards and disappeared. Normal sounds returned immediately, and
the car started running again by itself, with lights and radio also working. The incident had
lasted more than 20 minutes according to their wrist watches, but when they arrived home
the time was found to be not after 9p.m. as indicated by their watches but only 8.35p.m., as
if the time spent looking at the lights had never happened in spite of what their own watches
both showed.
(FSR Vol 52, No 1, p24.) 0687

27/10/01 2200 Sebastopol, California, U.S.A.

The witnesses while driving home saw a disc shaped object for 10 minutes. As the object got
near them the car stalled. It disappeared and came back several times. It looked the size of a
house,
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1572

07/11/01 Nebraska, U.S.A.

A motorist was driving home on a track through farm land after visiting her parents, when an
area of distorted air was noticed like heat waves corning from a hot surface. The car
headlights began to flicker, the radio failed, and the engine stopped. A red glowing object was
seen hovering above the road and about twenty feet ahead of the car, with the object staying
there for about five minutes before it changed colour from red to silver and moved upwards
at high speed. The car began working normally again and when the witness arrived back home
she told her husband what had happened. He checked the car, and found spots on it where
the paint had bubbled as if burned. The car radio was found to be workable but not the CD
player or the digital clock, and the witness continued to experience headaches and spinal
pain.
(MUFON UFO Journal, November 2006, p 18-19.) 0979

11/11/01 2311 Puerto Rico.

A driver was travelling with a passenger along the north shore of Puerto Rico when there was
the sound of static on the car radio, the lights dimmed, and the engine faltered then stopped.
Looking out over the sea, a black disc shape was seen corning out of the water, with red and
orange pulsating lights. The object moved away upwards in a northerly direction, and
disappeared from sight in about fifteen seconds. A highway patrol policeman also saw the
incident, and reported it to his headquarters.
(MUFON UFO Journal, February 2006, p15.) 0980

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A woman and her son were returning home at night, after a party, when a strange light was
seen approaching their vehicle from behind. The light flew overhead, and stopped about a
hundred yards ahead. A round object could be seen, with lights on the lower part, and a
protrusion on top. Three small humanoid figures came out of the object. As the figures
approached, the vehicle engine stalled suddenly and the witnesses became very alarmed. The
humanoids turned, and levitated back to the object, which took off and disappeared. About
three minutes later, the engine could be restarted, and the witnesses left the scene.
([Link]. ETs in Brazil.) 1178

13/01/02 1745 Honey Island, Louisiana, U.S.A.

A driver was travelling with his wife through a swamp area near Pearl River when they saw a
circular, strobing light which appeared behind trees, and carne over the tree line before
passing directly over the car. The object was then seen to be triangular and black, with an
amber coloured globe at the centre, a red light at the front, and a white light at each of the
rear points. The object was in view for a few minutes before they left the area. As they
approached the interstate highway, they saw that the object had stopped over the swamp,
and was then seen to be heading in a south-westerly direction, moving very slowly before
stopping again, turning and passing overhead again. The witnesses got out of the car to
observe the object, but no sound was heard. The object continued to move around the area
coming to a complete stop several times. Two other similar craft appeared, also making slow
circular and stopping movements. Finally, as one of the objects flew overhead, the car engine
started to cough, as if it was going to stop, the lights on the car flickered on and off, and the
cell phone started to ring, but then registered a dead cell and went blank. The two witnesses
both got painful headaches, and had a feeling of being ill.
(MUFON UFO Journal, March 2002, p 15-16.) 0981

02/02/02 0253 Clermont, Florida, U.S.A.

The witness, a 26 year old college graduate, reported that as he was driving his car downhill
near a lake, he noticed a bright light in the valley. The light then started to come up closer
until it was directly overhead, about 15 -20 feet above the car, and with the light so bright
that nothing else could be seen. The engine of his 1999 Ford Mustang car then failed
completely, and the battery. The window was partly wound down, but no sound could be
heard, and the light remained stationary for half a minute or so before starting to move to
one side, where it was in direct view. The light then began rising out of view before darting
away at high speed. The car could still not be started, but after about another minute the
witness was able to restart it. He immediately called his parents and a friend to report what
had happened, believing in rational explanations to such events, but unable to think of any,
leaving him scared. The car was in perfect working order, never with any problems and the
battery was fully charged.
(National UFO Reporting Center, International UFO Reporter, Vol 33, No 4, p 18, MUFON UFO
Journal April 2002, p 18.) 0983

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A driver was travelling across the downs towards Devizes, with a friend, and approaching the
North Wiltshire golf course when they saw a row of lights hovering across the road and fields.
The lights were very bright, and as the car passed underneath the object, they both felt a lot
of static, with pins and needles. Another car came from the opposite direction and the object
disappeared without trace. The car radio and a mobile phone were not working and the pins
and needles feeling remained for a few days. They were reported to be in a panic and in a
visibly shaken state when they returned home.
(UFO News UK, Volume 1, No 17) 1179

01/07/02 Entre Rios, Argentina.

After two weeks of unexplained sightings in the centre of Entre Rios Province, five police
officers in two squad cars were at a truck stop, on the junction of Route 39 and Route 6 when
they saw a powerful light manoeuvring in the night sky. The light came closer, producing
bright flashes of coloured light, and then pulled back. As it did so, the officers found that their
car engines stopped working, and could not be restarted. The car lights also went out. After
half an hour, when the strange light had gone, the police siren came on suddenly, and the
vehicle engines could be restarted. The officers could find no explanation for what had
happened. When the bright object had come too close to their vehicles, the officers were
prepared to use their firearms. The object continued to move around close to the cars, until
it moved away after a while.
(UFO Roundup, Volume 7, No 30, 2002. UFO News UK, Volume 1, No 23.) 1180

12/07/02 0100 Kincardine, Ontario, Canada.

Two green spinning objects seen hovering over a lake car would not start.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1573

15/07/02 2100 Indianapolis, U.S.A.

Two witnesses coming home for work saw a bright light over the tree tops they thought it was
a firework at first it was moving very fast and darted in different directions. A second craft
came into view within a few minutes. They were coloured white and a humming noise was
heard coming from them. The lights and radio stopped playing in the car they were in.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1574

21/07/02 2300 Achiras, near Chajan, Argentina.

A policeman was on patrol near Chajan, about 60 kilometres from Rio Cuarto when other
police officers reported by radio that strange lights over the town of Achiras were heading in
his direction. The officer near Chajan could then see a formation of seven lights moving slowly
in the distance. To get a closer look, he drove his pick-up truck on to a rough unpaved road
towards where the lights seemed to be. After driving about ten kilometres he was surprised
when his vehicle engine faltered and cut out. The electrical system them went completely
wrong, with the dashboard lighting switching on and off, the police radio moving rapidly
through all of the available channels, and the noise of vehicle alarms and broken
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light and the brake light – which had not worked for a while, were fully alive again and joining
all of the other electronic happenings. When a burning smell began filling the vehicle, the
officer got out quickly for his own safety. A bright source of light then appeared suddenly
coming from a field alongside the road. A large triangular object was then seen rising from
the ground, with light coming from what looked like many portholes. Everything in the
surrounding area became clearly visible as if in daylight. Although very frightened by what
was going on, the officer was able to estimate that the object was about 200 metres in
diameter, also that there appeared to be non-human figures moving around behind the
portholes, and that beams of light were coming from the objects undercarriage. There were
many other reported cases involving vehicles, power blackouts and other events in this region
of Argentina around that time.
(UFO Matrix, Volume 1, Issue 2, p 67.) 0721

29/10/02 Kursk, Russia.

Four teenagers were driving south near Kursk when they saw a red object like a glowing star,
circling slowly in the sky. As the object came closer the car radio was affected by long bursts
of static interference. When the strange object continued its flight southwards the car radio
returned to normal.
(UFO Magazine, January 2003, p29.) 0688

09/11/02 2115 Lougratte, France.

The witness, a woman, was driving quietly on the departmental road between Montauriol
and Lougratte. On a dark, starless night, as the car is moving at moderate speed, Mrs. T. sees
on the right side of the road, "at a fairly far distance, beams of light in the sky. The more I
drove, the closer they got. . And then, all of a sudden, nothing. I didn't know what it was, but
I wasn't too worried and I continued driving on this road towards Lougratte. put a luminous
machine behind a mound of earth which runs along the road. It was a round dome with
portholes. After this vision, I continued to drive. And from the place of this landing a white
glow s 'is cleared and approached my car. She planted herself behind the glass of the door
and filled the cabin of the car with bluish reflections, scintillating. "The glow will remain like
this for several hundred meters causing panic fear in the driver who had the feeling" to be
blocked, not to move forward. I even had the impression that the radio had stopped.
Suddenly, after a few minutes, nothing. The complete black hole. Mme T. returned in broad
daylight behind this hill. There was no visible trace. impression that the radio had stopped.
Suddenly, after a few minutes, nothing. The complete black hole. Mme T. returned in broad
daylight behind this hill. There was no visible trace. impression that the radio had stopped.
Suddenly, after a few minutes, nothing. The complete black hole. Mme T. returned in broad
daylight behind this hill. There was no visible trace.
(The Midday Dispatch.) 0138

28/11/02 Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Two policemen in a patrol car saw a large light manoeuvring in the sky for some time, and
emitting coloured sparks before it approached their car. As the light then reversed its course
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the police car siren suddenly came on, and the engine restarted. It was also noted that when
their vehicle was able to move again the object 'paced' them for a while to one side before it
finally disappeared. A total of five police officers were involved in the incident.
(New BUFORA Journal, No 6, p17.) 0689

06/01/03 0400 Moundville, Alabama, U.S.A.

A car driver's headlights and engine failed when an oval-shaped object approached, and two
other egg-shaped objects were seen later, moving in a Z-shaped pattern in the sky.
(National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2003.) 0984

13/02/03 0230 Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

A crime investigator was driving his car in slightly rainy weather when the radio turned on by
itself, tuning in to different stations, and the lights inside and outside the car started flashing.
He looked up and saw a huge triangular object above the car. There was a blinding light before
it all stopped, and he found the car parked at the side of the road with everything switched
off. He then realized that more than half an hour of time was unaccounted for.
(New BUFORA Journal, No 8, p12.) 0690

13/05/03 1200 Anahiem, California, U.S.A.

A man was driving home from his work when his new car stopped suddenly. The cars behind
him also stopped, with some of the drivers getting out to ask what was going on. A humming
sound was heard, and two cylinder shapes were seen stationary above in the sky. The objects
landed, then took off and disappeared. When they had gone, the cars were restarted.
(MUFON. [Link] and [Link]. Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, Filer's Files.) 1181

12/07/03 2200 Ashland, Kentucky, U.S.A.

The witness was driving home with her mother when a moving light was seen in the sky. At
first this was thought to be an aircraft, but it then increased its speed and began moving
rapidly between the positions of two stars several times, before stopping. The car engine then
stopped, with the light no longer visible until it then reappeared at a closer distance. Many
lights were then seen moving across the sky, disappearing in a bright flash, and with no sound
heard during any of this time. The daughter reported that she had fainted, and that her
mother continued watching as the light became larger and brighter. Within the light she
claimed to have seen dark figures carrying instruments of some kind. When the daughter
recovered, the car was found to be about twenty feet away from where it had been
previously, and around half an hour had passed. The mother was then also found to have
passed out and was outside the car, but appeared to be unharmed, although she had a scar
on the back of her neck, which she assumed was from the back of the door as she "fell" out
of the car.
(National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2003.) 0985

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Two women were out in an isolated area looking at the stars when they saw three white stars
in a triangle shape which then started moving together, changing to a green colour and to a
position just ahead of their car. They then saw several figures about four feet tall coming
towards them, and quickly got back into the car. Everything then seemed to slow down, and
the engine ignition failed. The car finally started and they drove away at speed, both of them
describing a tingling sensation. When they looked at the car clock they found that almost half
an hour had passed, although the incident had only seemed to last a few minutes.
(FSR Vol 48, No 3, p22.) 0691

23/08/03 0100 Poland, Maine. U.S.A.

The witness driving back to his hotel when suddenly he was enveloped by a blinding light
coming from all directions. His truck engine stalled and he just drifted off the road onto a
sandy shoulder abutting the field. The truck then levitated 6ft above the ground and then
deposited 90ft off the road. He left the car and then he saw a basket ball sized orb of light
which suddenly flew towards him and it stopped inches in front of him. The orb began to spin
it was multicoloured. The witness lost consciousness and had an experience with six beings.
He later drove back to his hotel and had round suction like marks on his torso.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 2000-09.) 1249

19/01/04 1945 near Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, England.

A car sales manager was driving home, with wet weather conditions on a rural stretch of the
A614 road, when the car radio went off suddenly with no reception on any of the channels.
He then noticed about 30 or 40 bright pulsating lights in groups, which seemed to be moving
in and out of the clouds. He slowed down, with other traffic also travelling slowly behind him,
then turned into a side road where he wound the window down, and watched the objects for
about seven minutes before they suddenly 'blinked out'. The car was new, and the radio was
working normally again on the following day.
(UFO Magazine, March 2004, p20.) 0692

09/02/04 1800 Wallingford, Idaho, U.S.A.

The witness was driving on HW 4 when he saw a small blue ball of light to the west of the
road coming towards me. He slowed down and the ball of light rolled across the bonnet of
the car and then over the windscreen. The engine died and the radio went out the car
continued to roll with its own momentum. All the dashboard lights and headlights went out
as the ball passed over the roof and rolled down the back window. I turned the key on an off
and the engine restarted although the lights remained slightly dimmer.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1576

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The witness reported seeing an unusual object with lights around it and one light at the
centre, which rose from a paddock and followed her car. A series of five bright flashes then
lit up the area, and the car engine stopped as the object passed overhead. On reaching home,
it was noticed that the journey had taken about half an hour longer than expected.
(AUFON Compiled Sighting Reports, Issue 41, May 2004.) 0986

27/03/04 0400 East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Witness observed three cigar shaped object flying in formation they had red, white and blue
lights on them. They were black in colour and flying low and hovered over a field for 12
minutes. Our car engine died while we watched them.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1577

11/06/04 2000 Nelson, New Zealand.

A teardrop-shaped object was seen from the beach area at Ruby Bay, making a humming and
thundering sound, and with spinning red lights beaming light down into the water. The object
moved closer to the beach, sending beams across the bay. It moved at high speed,
disappearing and reappearing at different places, then moved higher in the sky. There were
other sightings of objects during the night, described as like large spheres of amber light,
which moved around the area. Some residents of a camping ground area also reported flat
batteries in their cars and dead fish being washed up on the beach.
(FSR Vol 49, No 2, p16-17.) 0693

19/10/04 1130 Veracruz, Mexico.

A large group of unknown objects was seen travelling and hovering over the port city of
Veracruz. There were 23 of the objects, described as semi-spherical in shape and silver in
colour. They also changed colour at times, and travelled in V-formation. When changing
colour the objects also changed position within the formation, finally breaking formation and
disappearing in all directions. The objects were in view for about 45 minutes. It was reported
that cell phones were affected, and that animals reacted violently to the passage of the
objects. A police patrol viewing the phenomenon tried unsuccessfully to contact its
headquarters by car radio, and the objects were also reported by the crew of an Aero Mexico
flight which had just taken off, and was over the Gulf of Mexico.
(FSR Vol 49, No 3, p20.) 0694

08/11/04 Crane River, Manitoba, Canada.

A bright light seen behind a truck the truck lost engine power.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1578

24/11/04 1950 Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

A white object of irregular shape was seen, with a beam or ray of light, and a vehicle engine
lost power.
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05/07/05 2050 Sargent, Texas, U.S.A.

Returning to her home after a fishing trip, the driver of a Volvo car had just changed the car
radio onto a different wavelength when the car's lights suddenly blinked twice and the engine
failed. The car came to a stop, and the driver was frightened, because she was travelling alone
and in the middle of nowhere. Before she could check anything, or turn on her cell phone to
report what had happened, a bright bluish glow was seen starting to light up a wooded area
at the side of the highway. She quickly realized that the light was not from another vehicle as
the woods suddenly got brighter. The light started moving slowly upwards out of the trees
until it was in clear view, with stars in the background. The object was a huge ball of blue light,
with a darker centre. The outer part seemed to be vibrating slightly as it continued to rise
straight upwards, slowly at first then faster until it disappeared. The witness sat in the silent
darkness for a few seconds before trying the ignition key, which was still in the switch. The
car started immediately, and she continued her journey home.
(UFO Roundup Vol 10, No 28, July 13, 2005, and International UFO Reporter vol 33, No 4, p
18.) 0987

19/07/05 0330 Ravenshoe, Queensland, Australia.

A woman was driving on a lonely stretch of road when she was startled to hear her car radio
and mobile phone emitting strange noises. A blinding light then suddenly encircled the car,
and the engine cut out briefly before returning to life and roaring loudly as if supercharged. A
swirling mist then surrounded the car, with a whirring noise before there was complete
silence. The frightened driver recovered from apparent unconsciousness after about 30
minutes, with no recollection of what may have happened during that time. It was also noted
that this area of Queensland has a history of strange events, including the Tully area with
remarkable UFO sightings in a swamp area and swirled vegetation effects.
(Fortean Times No 202, October 2005, p28.) 0697

31/08/05 2111 between Cabanes and Castellon, Spain.

After many reports of a large object like a ball of fire, with a yellowish-green centre, seen
moving quickly through the sky in a northeast direction, there was also a report from a driver
a few minutes later. He reported that the car engine had failed suddenly as he watched the
object heading eastwards towards the Mediterranean.
([Link]. UFO Roundup, Vol 10, No 36, 2005.) 1183

08/10/05 0315 Leadhills, New Forest, Hampshire, England.

An on-duty police officer parked up in a police vehicle when he heard a buzzing noise he got
out of his car and in doing so he saw a triangular shaped object below the height of a nearby
hill. The object shone down a beam of light across the landscape moving from a fast to slow
as it passed over the ground. The object appeared to interfere with his radio which prevented
him from notify his headquarters. He watched the object for 5 minutes until it moved away
the object was described as being triangular shaped approx. 25ft in diameter and the colour
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-/-/05 Kolgu, Estonia

Maris Long was travelling with her sister between Vanakaius to Kaiu when the car they were
travelling in stalled. Nearby above some houses they observed a flying saucer with lights
around the edge.
(Raplamaa Sonumid Estonian Newspaper 14.05.2014 via Kay Coggin.) 705

08/01/06 Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland.

Two friends had attended a wedding party, and were travelling in a car on route E30 towards
the small town of Miedzyrzec Podlaski when they saw a large metallic-looking object flying
overhead. A moment later the car engine failed, and at the same time a minibus travelling
close behind also came to an unexplained stop. Both drivers got out of their vehicles to check
under the bonnets for a possible explanation. The car driver was a mechanic. A shiny object,
described as looking like two metal cooking dishes stuck together, and with a central rim, was
seen moving slowly and silently across the nearby fields. The object then manoeuvred around
the two vehicles for about eight minutes. As soon as the object disappeared from view, the
vehicle engines could be started again as if never having stopped. Several photographs of the
object were also obtained.
(UFO Data Report, No 3, p22-24.) 0698

23/03/06 2110 Kosicosco County, Indiana, U.S.A.

Driving west on County Road 900, the witness noticed an unusual blue light which seemed to
be staying in place, in an easterly direction. After about eight minutes, when phoning a
relative, the phone suddenly went dead and the car stereo became full volume, followed by
nothing but static. All of the gauges varied erratically, and the car totally shut down. The
brakes were used to stop the car, and when the driver got out, nothing could be seen in the
sky. The car then came back to normal, with all of the systems as if nothing had happened.
The witness later called Bremen Police, and Indiana State Police, and was told that nobody
else had reported what had happened.
(MUFON UFO Journal, May 2006, p15,) 0988

15/06/06 2145 Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.

Two single, white lights travelling S to N at moderate speed & altitude caused electrical
disturbance to car.

At 9:45pm on 06/15/06 the witnesses were driving E on 275, going 55mph, about 1/4 mile
before the I-4 junction in two separate cars. When all of the interior lights went out in the
first car, so he called his girlfriend behind to ask her if his tail lights were still on. As it rang,
the lights came back on and he saw a single light cross the over car from S to N. His girlfriend
told him when they got back to the apartment that she never saw his tail lights go out and
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The lights were white, steady and round. They were in moderate traffic so wasn't able to give
the lights more than a glance so couldn't estimate speed or altitude. They assumed other
people saw them because the traffic in front of them slowed down to 45mph as this was going
on.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1579

30/08/06 2030 Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.

A loud sound, like a jet engine starting, was heard on the roof of a couple's home. The sound
lasted for about five to ten seconds, and neighbours living not far away. Reported seeing a
UFO-like object hovering in the area of the house, as they were driving to their own home.
The road was quiet at the time, and they had stopped the car to look at the object. The
electrics in their car turned off, also their mobile phone.
(UFO Research New South Wales, including Newsletter, Volume 4, 2008.) 1184

26/09/06 Near Iksha, Moscow, Russia.

The witness was returning back to Moscow on a rural road suddenly his engine stalled.
Witness jumped out the car opening the bonnet to see what had happened. All of a sudden
he heard a rustling noise coming from a field next to the road moments later he saw a light
shining from un unknown source. He started to walk towards the source he could see a figure
about 1.6m high with a large head and a tight fitting suit. Seconds later a 2nd figure appeared
he tried to approach but they warned him back with a gesture of the hands. They then had
some kind of telepathic message between them. The conversation lasted 30 mins after which
the figures returned to the craft which had been the source of the light seen earlier.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 2000-09.) 1250

09/12/06 0611 Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

A motorist was driving on Highway 1, when the truck's CD player seemed to slow down,
becoming "warbly". There was thought to be a problem with the vehicle's battery. A fast
moving dark shape was then seen in the sky ahead, crossing the path of the truck briefly. The
object was at a very low altitude, with no lights. It was silent, except for a low sound as it
passed close to the top of the vehicle, disappearing, and with the stereo then back to normal.
(UFOs British Columbia, Canada, 2006.) 1185

16/07/07 0615 La Peche, Quebec, Canada.

An orange coloured diamond-shaped object appeared. Street lights went out, and a car was
affected.
(Ufology Research of Manitoba, Canada, Data Tables.) 1186

-/11/07 0130 Irene, Argentina.

Two police officers were on routine patrol in a pick-up truck, and stopped so that one of the
officers could carry out a check around the area. The other officer stayed in the vehicle, and
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thought that this was another vehicle, but the light suddenly became much brighter as it
seemed to be closing the distance rapidly. When the light was only about ten metres away, a
figure was noticed moving in the light, and the outline of what looked like a little man could
be seen. The figure was less than a metre tall, and was described as being of greenish colour,
with a large head and prominent eyes. The officer tried to contact his companion’s cell phone,
but as he pressed the numbers his hand felt paralysed. Three more figures were then seen
emerging from the light. The other officer, however, had seen what was happening, and when
he shouted out at the figures they all quickly entered the light or craft, which sped away with
a sound like a thunderclap, leaving behind a green glow and a strong sulphurous smell.
Corroboration of the events came from two other police officers who were on patrol only a
few kilometres away. They were on a road between the villages of Aparicio and Nicolas
Descalzi when they were enveloped by a large white light which exerted an electromagnetic
effect on their vehicle – the engine failed and their cell phone would not work. When the
alarmed officers looked up, a powerful light seemed to stop over the truck before
disappearing in an instant. When radio communications were restored, the officers reported
the event to their superior officer, who was driving another vehicle but had not seen anything
unusual. One of the officers felt no effects as a result of the incident, but noted that his
companions hand had been immobilized by some unknown force.
(UFO Matrix, Volume 1, Issue 2, p 66 – 67.) 0724

10/12/07 2045 San Jacinto, California, U.S.A.

All the lights in a truck dimmed and the radio turned off and the engine died. A black pointed
object flew across the road and disappeared into an open field. Afterwards the lights in my
truck came back and the radio started and I was able to restart the car.
(Project 1947-UFOCAT.) 1580

17/02/08 2140 Loveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

The witness was driving in rural countryside near Loveland, Ohio in Warren County off State
Route 48 on Butterworth Road when his car stopped suddenly. He got out of the vehicle to
check under the bonnet and heard a rustling noise from a nearby corn field. He then felt a
strong gust of wind and looked to the North East and saw a massive dull light rising up out of
the field. It was then seen to be an object which was faded black in colour. It was about 10-
15ft across and 10ft high. As it was rising up he could see many smaller round lights in front
the object hovered for a moment then flew almost overhead 15ft away.

He could hear a soft humming sound and he observed underneath the object it was made up
of neon tubes like fibre optic cable that glowed softly from white to yellow to orange then
red. Its outer surface seemed a deep blue in colour that shimmered like water. The sides of
the craft appeared to have louvers across it horizontally. The object hovered for a few
minutes. It then tilted at an angle and the humming stopped. It rose upward slowly and shot
off like a dart turning completely red. It went due east stopped, shot straight down stopped
again made a zig-zag pattern stopped flew eastwards stopped again before darting off. The
witness states that he got back into his car which started and he drove home. The event lasted
20 minutes.
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28/03/09 Minnesota, U.S.A.

The witness parked 300ft North of Highway 46 and got out of his car he had seen a object 500
ft away and 50 to 100 ft above the field where the object was hovering. The witness heard no
sound during the sighting it was a warm still night and no wind. He did hear a bumping sound
from his car radio and he turned it off.
(MUFON Minnesota Journal No 137.) 1365

11/09/09 2022 Northbattleford, California. U.S.A.

The witness reported seeing a huge object which was very bright and hovering moving in very
fast when there car stalled and would not restart.
(MUFON Online reports.) 1327

25/11/09 0015 Port Jervis, New York. U.S.A.

A mental health professional is driving home as he comes around a bend in the road he sees
an object about 1 mile away. As he comes to the next turn, he slows down to 25mph to get a
better look but by then he is surprised to see that the object is almost on top of him. He stopes
the car on the side of the road leaving it in park with the engine running. The object is cigar
shaped and turning clockwise slowly as it approaches. It is moving light a hot air balloon. He
hears a noise like a cat purring at a low frequency. The object passes overhead and his vehicle
suffers a complete power failure. His mobile phone is also dead, he opens the drivers door
and looks up and the lights on the object immediately turn off. The car starts again
spontaneously.
(IUR 33 N 4.) 1488

20/05/10 Laconia, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Two New Hampshire teenagers sitting in a parked car were approached by a black-coloured
object lifted into the air and then dropped back down onto the pavement 180ft away. The
two teenagers were sitting in the car looking at the moon when they spotted a weird black-
shaped object. They saw an object coming toward them from the sky and they began to panic.
They attempted to drive away when the car they were in was lifted up off the ground. An odd
smell was noticed during the incident. When the car hit the pavement some 180ft away the
windshield cracked and the air bags deployed. There was no damage to the bodywork of the
car but there was about $5,000 to the underneath of the vehicle. The object was described
as ball shape when slowing down and moved around quickly and when it wanted to go fast
and straight it turned into a flat plate with maze-shaped lined lights. The lights were on all the
time. We did try to drive away but the front end got picked up and the car would not move.
We steered left and right but the car kept going up into the air. When the car hit the ground
they drove away quickly.
(MUFON Michigan Newsletter 2010.07.) 1357

02/01/13 Ventura, California. U.S.A.

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The witness along with 3 friends reported seeing an orb up close during which his car
electronics played up and the music was skipping tracks. A huge orange orb was seen in the
sky.
([Link].) 1600

05/03/11 2340 near Eagle Butte, South Dakota, U.S.A.

A security guard for a casino was driving home after work, when he began seeing red balls of
light spinning around the car, and keeping pace with the car for a couple of miles. The car
then began to slow down, to about 40mph, and could not be made to go any faster. When
the lights disappeared suddenly, the car's speed returned to normal, at around 60mph. The
witness reported that he then felt a tingling sensation, and described seeing two glowing
humanoid figures. After more than ten minutes, the witness drove away and was reported to
have arrived home in a very agitated state.
(Journal of Humanoid Studies, Vol 2, No 3.) 1187

22/02/13 0130 New Washington, Indiana, U.S.A.

Four men were driving through pastures checking on crops and cattle when suddenly a
strange fireball-like object swooped down and landed in the pasture. At that moment their
truck radio went to static and all their watches stopped working. They drove closer to the
object and as they neared they were overwhelmed by its size and began to feel sick. As they
looked around they noticed that the cattle were hiding behind a nearby barn. As they turned
back they saw a human-like figure ‘eject’ from the rear of the craft and land in the pasture.
The figure was glowing white and hard to see any details. One of the witnesses left the truck
and began to search for his rifle when the figure began to make strange noises. The figure
then apparently began to move around the pasture as if looking for the cattle. It never seemed
to acknowledge that the witnesses were present. It then began to walk towards the barn and
one of the witnesses screamed and ran towards the figure. As the witness approached it, the
figure took off in a sprint jumped into the air and into a craft which took off and disappeared
towards the south at high-speed.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 2010-2015.) 1220

23/12/13 0500 Merrill, Oregon, U.S.A.

The witness was driving along highway 39 out of Klamath Falls and as he was entering the
town of Merrill he noticed a pure bright white light coming from an object silhouetted by the
houses behind it 50-60 feet away from the witness off the main road. The object appeared to
be pie shaped and about 20ft in diameter with a sort of dip missing from one side. On that
side he notice between 2-4 small figures around the object the impression was that they
working on the object. Hu suddenly felt that they could sense him and they stood still. He
entered the town and lost sight temporarily of the object and figures. He was driving a U-Haul
truck with trailer so difficulty to do a U-Turn. He returned to the site after approx 3 minutes
and the object had gone only a kind of haze or fog remained. He looked towards the sky and
saw a red blinking beacon the beacon was approx 50ft above a closed store with no visible
support. The flashing stopped and then red and white lights came on all around the
circumference of it in sequence, white then red then white. The front was tilted downwards

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by about 20 degs and it began to slowly fly off like at the speed of a helicopter. There was no
noise heard. He drove around the area for a while investigating the edge of town where the
craft had landed. He drove to some wooded area and his truck lost power and slowed almost
to a stop for no reason. He tried to make a telephone call and send a text but he had no signal
whereas normally it worked well.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 2010-2015.) 1221

-/-/13 2030 Cobo, Castel, Guernsey.

After seeing a photo published in May 2015, showing a luminous UFO-like shape which
appeared unexpectedly on a mobile phone film, taken during a Cross-Channel ferry crossing,
an island resident reported seeing an unidentified object also over the sea, as she was driving
home about two years earlier. She drove into a car park, and stared at the object, which was
stationary in the sky, for a minute or two. She used her mobile phone to take a photo, showing
a dark oval shape, before the object moved away quickly and hovered again. Becoming
nervous, she decided to drive away, but the car would not start. Turning the ignition key, it
seemed as if the battery was flat, but eventually she was able to start the car, and went home.
Arriving there, her daughter asked why she was so late. She did not think she was late, but
found that it was an hour later than it should have been. The next day, when going to work,
she found that her car clock was wrong. The motorist still does not know what happened that
day, and has since suffered a strange medical complaint. A very itchy lump behind one ear
flares up occasionally, and strange fibres can be pulled from it, her doctor reporting that he
had never seen anything like it before.
(Guernsey Press, 11/5/15 and 16/5/15.) 1188

08/07/14 2130 Joplin, Missouri, U.S.A.

A former police officer, a commercial pilot and a licensed nurses aide saw a boxy shaped
object overhead about 300ft off the ground. It was off white in colour and appeared to be
illuminated by a yellowish light from within. The object appeared as large as a house and there
was no noise heard. It was flat on the bottom with round orange and red randomly flashing
lights. The speed seem to be around 100mph. All of a sudden the lights turned off and the
object started to descend slowly as if it was going to land nearby. It stayed perfectly level as
it descended behind the trees on the horizon. The three witness got into a jeep and drove
towards the object they used a spotlight that plugged into the electrical system of the jeep to
try and locate the object. They were not successful in finding the object again although twice
during their search the spotlight faded and the jeep had electrical problems.
(MUFON Case files 57853.) 1406

07/05/15 2345 Gray Court, South Carolina, U.S.A.

The witness was driving back to Greenville, S.C and while rounding a curve in the road a bright
light engulfed her car. At this point her car shut down and would not start. The next thing she
remembers is coming to in her car at the same location and it was pitch black. The time was
now 2.37am she had lost 3 hours of time. She then started her car and drove to a friends
house and was terrified. The police were called and told her she had seen a shooting star. The

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light seen was very bright and was blue. A strange rhythmic sound was coming from the light
and her car was shaking. Horses in a nearby field seem agitated when the light was present.
([Link].)

23/09/15 0400 Yachats, Oregon, U.S.A.

Three people travelling south on Highway 101 headed to Coos Bay. The battery light came on
in the car. As they headed south the cars lights and electronics were flashing on and off as
they pulled over near MP168 the cars lights and engine died. They could not restart the
vehicle and left the car to see if the battery had a bad connection and concluded that they
had a faulty alternator. They tried to call but had no signal and low battery level. Finally they
got through to someone who would come and collect them. The witnesses saw approx 15
star like objects that could suddenly change direction, colour and altitude. The witnesses had
some kind of hypnotic interaction with a craft and green beings. The car appeared to pick
them up and they left the area.
(Rosales, A S, Humanoid Encounters 2010-2015.) 1222

16/03/16 2245 Kalama, Washington, U.S.A.

Witnesses in a truck observed a bright white orb which hovered at least 200 ft above the
highway. The lights in the truck flickered and an odd mechanical sound was heard. When it
was almost directly overhead the light dimmed it had a red/orange aura or glow about it.
([Link].) 1627

03/04/16 2315 Wirral, England.

The witness was driving their sister home when they turned into her road pulling over with
the engine running ahead in the distance above the houses they saw a large irregular shaped
object. It was covered in coloured lights and was slowly moving towards some trees when all
of a sudden it was had disappeared. The sister went into her house and the driver of the car
pulled away when the engine stalled (maybe as they panicked) the engine restarted and they
drove quickly home.
(MUFON Reports Database.) 1314

15/10/17 2140 High Ridge, Missouri, U.S.A.

Witness was driving south on Antire Rd between 44 and High Ridge on the way home when
they noticed 2 red/orange lights in the distance. They were both moving in different directions
and one of them sped up this is when I noticed the larger object where the smaller light went
into and vanished. The larger object was 3-4 large trees high above the ground and was
accompanied by 3 deep green lights attached underneath. It looked like a bus flying in the
sky. The lights in my car dimmed and my radio lost signal like it was interference until I was
approx. 2 miles away, this has never happened before.
(MUFON Reports Database.) 1341

16/02/18 2249 Guildford, Connecticut, U.S.A.

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The witness was driving past Malissa Jones Elementary School when they noticed a pulsating
orange-yellow ball of light above the tree line it started to descend towards the ground.

Although it never landed the object stayed above the tree lines and moved around in a
smooth deliberate manner going left and right and diagonally. The car radio started to receive
static noise coming in and out – crystal clear one moment and static the next. The engine
started misfiring also witness reported filming the object,
(MUFON Reports Database.) 0595

03/06/18 0130 Springville, New York, U.S.A.

The witness was driving away from a hovering saucer shaped object as the vehicle’s radio cut
out. Original the witness though the object looked like a stars covered with clouds but realized
that the object was far too near the ground. The lights were pulsating as if trying to get the
witness’s attention. The lights were changing colour from white to red the incident lasted 5
minutes or so.
(MUFON Case 92447.) 1293

Undated. Mariental / Keetmanshoop area, South Africa.

Every year, at night or in daylight, an orange light of near-blinding intensity appears in this
area and hovers or moves around a few metres above the ground. Anyone who has chased
the light by car has failed to get close to it because as soon as the car approaches within a
certain distance its engine cuts out.
(FSR Vol 18, No 6, p14.) 0699

Undated. San Luis Valley, California, U.S.A.

A series of mysterious events in this area, including one incident in which three vehicles were
simultaneously affected by engine and headlight failures. One of the drivers left his car to
investigate a light in a field and found that the light originated from an object standing on
three tripod legs. He claimed that a ray of light was then emitted towards him and he lost
consciousness. The other passengers witnessed the incident and although they did not see
the ray of light they did see the man enveloped by an aura of light and appear to become
paralysed. The object rose into the air and moved away at high speed.
(FSR Vol 18, No 6, p21.) 0700

Undated. Stuart Highway, Northern Territory, Australia.

Three ladies witnessed a bright flying light which overtook their car. The engine of the car cut
out and the object continued on its way, following the roadway. The car was eventually
restarted and the journey continued. The object was sighted again, beaming a shaft of light
on to the road. The pool of light was then slowly withdrawn from the road and ascended into
the object which was stationary and stretched across the road.
(Flying Saucers - Where do they come from? p60.) 0701

Undated. Borregaard, Sarpsborg, Norway.

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The vehicle's headlights started to pulsate, then dimmed and finally went out. The driver
stopped the car and switched off the engine. He then noticed hovering in the sky two large
oval objects which looked like airships, with windows along the sides. There was no sound
and the, objects emitted a white light. The sighting lasted three or four minutes and the
objects were seen by two other passengers in the car.
(BUFORA Journal, Vol 3, No 11, p4.) 0702

Undated. Kazakhstan.

A night watchman at a relay station was roused by his dog barking, then he saw a large round
and luminous object standing on the ground about 50 metres away. He reported that several
beings emerged from the object and fatally paralysed his dog with a blue ray. He was able to
telephone the Karatau police station before being also knocked down by the same blue ray.
The police found that their car engine cut out when they were about a kilometre away from
the relay station, and a back-up car was similarly affected. The engines could not be restarted,
but both cars started up unexpectedly about an hour later. A circle of carbonized rock was
found at the reported landing site.
(FSR Vol 40, No 1, p25.) 0704

Undated. EI Yunque, Puerto Rico.

Senora Mariana Rivera and her family were on a festive outing one afternoon, travelling in
five cars down from the El Yunque mountain region, when suddenly all of the cars started to
have engine trouble. The cars stopped, and while the men were trying to discover the cause
of the problem, one of the women suddenly noticed a strange looking figure like a small man,
wearing a tight-fitting garment like a white overall and standing by a nearby waterfall. When
the figure suddenly scrambled up the rocks and disappeared, the car engines all immediately
came back to life again.
(FSR Vol 43, No 1, p7.) 0706

Undated. Bayamon, Puerto Rico.

A mother and her daughter were travelling by car on Highway 2 at 7p.m. one evening in 1979
or 1980, when everything suddenly became dark and the surroundings vanished from view,
including the street lamps. A humming sound was heard, and the car felt light as if it was no
longer on the road. A bluish-white light then came into the car, and they next remembered
the surroundings reappearing again at Arecibo, with the time about two and a half hours later
and no memory of what had happened during that time. Later hypnosis produced evidence
from both witnesses that the car had been lifted from the road by a large object, with an
abduction experience also being described.
(FSR Vol 43, No 1, p10-20.) 0707

Undated. Alberta, Canada.

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