Created: 15 August 2007
Updated: 4 March 2018
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO report:
“This is currently a 24-page chronology of UFO
incidents and events for 1977. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our
documentation team: Richard Hall (the original 1977 chronology from UFOE II),
William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), Brad
Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns), and Jean
Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]). The latest entries were provided by
A-Team member Mike Swords. You will note the many foreign reports that we are
now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to
us. As more come in, this page will be updated.
This is the year that the MADAR Project got its real
test. Go to July 10th and listen to the datatape recording! There were seven
detections of magnetic anomalies by the Multiple Anomaly Detection and
Automated Recording system at my Mt.
Vernon, Indiana
facility, within a six week period! There were UFO sightings within 60 miles NW and 85 miles SW at the same
time MADAR was triggered.
Finally, in November, I was invited by the press to
view the motion picture ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ before it was
officially released.
Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator
April 20, 1977 - CIA Memo Declassified
Memo from CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith to
Director, Psychological Strategy Board, declassified 20 April 1977 (Good, Above
Top Secret, 511)
May 1977; France. Groupe d'Etude des
Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies (GEPAN) organized under the auspices of
the French national space agency for the study of UFOs.
July 1, 1977; Aviano,
Italy
3:00 AM. Electronic alarms suddenly sounded at the
NATO base and then home to the 40th Tactical Group. Something had set off the
magnetic and motion detectors in the high hurricane type fence protecting the
Victor Alert compound, a facility that housed fighter aircraft, their crews,
maintenance and support personnel. Simultaneously a power outage occurred at
the Victor Alert facility, and though a back-up system immediately kicked in,
minor power fluxes went on for the next 15 to 20 minutes. Soon security
personnel were reporting a strange light display off to the northwest, off
base, perhaps 200 meters
beyond the fence line, over a soybean field. Luminous round object with dome
hovered above a NATO base security zone, spinning; changed color, emitted sound
like swarm of bees (NICAP UFOE II, NICAP UFOE II, Section II).
July 21, 1977; Porter, TX
4:15 AM. Officer John W. Bruner, a deputy sheriff, was
on duty and was the first person to observe the phenomenon. Officer Bruner and
his partner Officer Coogler were parked west of the object which appeared to be
approximately 1/2 to 1 mile
away. Bruner and Coogler got out of their vehicle and tried to observe the
object better by shinning their light on it. The object moved toward the men
and the officers turned off the light because they became nervous at seeing the
object's response to their light. The object then moved back to its first
location. The two officers concurred that the object appeared to have six
portholes surrounding a type of framework. The two officers observed the UFO
for approximately 45 minutes. During that time period, the UFO appeared to
stand still in mid air, pulsated, traveled at incredible speeds and flew with
erratic mobility. The officers described the UFO's apparent size to be about
that of a grapefruit. Officer Bruner is convinced That the object he saw was
not a balloon or a helicopter. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1977, page
4)
Aug. 28, 1977; Windermere,
Cumbria, England
12:10 AM An on duty police officer PC IAN MACKENZIE
observed two very bright horizontal lights in the vicinity of Langdale Pike
that moved towards him and grew brighter. He ruled out any type of aircraft. At
the same time PS JOHN McMULLEN also spotted the UFO from his location whilst
walking through Keswick with three other officers. He described the object as
being hang glider or diamond shaped. At 0020 hours PS JAMES TROHEAR and PC JOHN
FISWICK also reported seeing the object from their position at the Fallbarrow
Park Caravan Site on the shores of Lake Windermere.
Other unnamed officers were also present at that location and saw the object.
PS TROHEAR described the object as triangular or diamond shaped. At 0022 hours
PC ALEXANDER INGLIS was driving home with three colleagues along the
A591Keswick to Bothel road when they too caught sight of the lights. As the
object approached them he pulled the car over to have a better look. Despite
their efforts they could not make out a distinct shape of the object. All they
could make out was two extremely bright lights attached to it and there was a
faint purring noise associated with it. At 0025 hours PC JOSEPH MAW and a
colleague spotted the object heading in the direction of Buttermere. It was
traveling at a low altitude over the surrounding fells. At around the same time
PC DAVID WILD spotted the UFO whilst out on foot patrol on the A592 Rayrigg Road
to Bowness. He described it as kite shaped and that it was a very large
structured craft. At 0030 hours a number of civilian witnesses also spotted the
object. At the same time following a police radio request for officer
sightings, two further officers, PS GEOFFREY MERCKEL and PC RONALD JONES
observed the same UFO from their position at Skelwith Bridge
on the A593 road. They described the object as being kite shaped as they
watched it go out to sea over Morcambe
Bay. Multiple police
witness corroboration reported from several geographical locations. On and Off
Duty sighting. 17 Officers (nine named plus a number of unspecified officers).
Source - A Covert Agenda by Nick Redfern. Pocket Books 1998. Pages 131-132.
(Reference: THE 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by Detective Constable
1877 HESELTINE British Transport Police )
Dec. 8, 1977; Los
Angeles, CA
Four UFOs tracked on radar; bright, circular objects
maneuvered around airliner (NICAP UFOE II, Section III).”
Quote from the Wikipedia article, “Porter, Texas”:
“Porter is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County
in southeastern Texas within the Houston–The
Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.”
Wikipedia article: “Aviano Air Base”:
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