Monday 2 March 2020

UFO News Article:
“Captain Horn’s encounter: Alaska Navy pilot
shares his story of being chased by a UFO”


22 February 2020
(Anchorage Press, Alaska)

Captain Les Horn, U.S. Navy (Ret.), encountered (night time) the unknown object (a light) between Indianapolis, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois, in 1966, according to the article.

Horn flew a version of the subsonic carrier-capable attack airplane, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk.

“I knew that this was a large object,” Horn says in the article.


Wikipedia article: “Douglas A-4 Skyhawk”:










U.S. Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk (wikimedia.org)
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Map of Indiana (lib.utexas.edu)
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UFO Report (UFO Cases):
“Sheriffs Watch High-Performance Discs
Also Tracked On Radar
March 14-20, 1966: Southeastern Michigan”


(NICAP.org)

“Original Page Source: http://www.fufor.com/case660314.htm

From about 3:50 a.m. on March 14 and for 2-1/2 hours thereafter, Washtenaw County sheriffs and police in neighboring jurisdictions reported disc-shaped objects moving at fantastic speeds and making sharp turns, diving and climbing, and hovering. At one point, four UFOs in straight-line formation were observed. Selfridge AFB confirmed tracking UFOs over Lake Erie at 4:56 a.m. Following is the log of ‘Complaint No. 00967’ signed by Cpl. Broderick and Deputy Patterson of the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department:

‘3:50 a.m. Received calls from Deputies Bushroe and Foster, car 19, stating that they saw some suspicious objects in the sky, disc, star-like colors, red and green, moving very fast, making sharp turns, having left to right movements, going in a Northwest direction.

4:04 a.m. Livingston County [sheriff’s department] called and stated that they also saw the objects, and were sending car to the location.

4:05 a.m. Ypsilanti Police Dept. also called stated that the object was seen at the location of US-12 and I-94 [intersection of a U.S. and an Interstate highway].

4:10. a.m. Monroe County [sheriffs department] called and stated that they also saw the objects.

4:20 a.m. Car 19 stated that they just saw four more in the same location moving at a high rate of speed.

4:30 a.m. Colonel Miller [county civil defense director] was called; he stated just to keep an eye on the objects that he did not know what to do, and also check with Willow Run Airport.

4:54 a.m. Car 19 called and stated that two more were spotted coming from the Southeast, over Monroe County. Also that they were side by side.

4:56 a.m. Monroe County [sheriffs department] stated that they just spotted the object, and also that they are having calls from citizens. Called Selfridge Air Base and they stated that they also had some objects [presumably on radar] over Lake Erie and were unable to get any ID from the objects. The Air Base called Detroit Operations and were to call this Dept. back as to the disposition.

5:30 a.m. Dep. Patterson and I [Cpl. Broderick] looked out of the office and saw a bright light that appeared to be over the Ypsilanti area. It looked like a star but was moving from North to East.

6:15 a.m. As of this time we have had no confirmation from the Air Base.’

Washtenaw County deputies B. Bushroe and J. Foster formally stated: ‘This is the strangest thing that [we] have ever witnessed. We would have not believed this story if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes. These objects could move at fantastic speeds, and make very sharp turns, dive and climb, and hover with great maneuverability. We have no idea what these objects were, or where they could have come from. At 4:20 a.m. there were four of these objects flying in a line formation, in a north westerly direction, at 5:30 these objects went out of view, and were not seen again.’

Deputy Bushroe told the press: ‘It would swing back and forth like a pendulum, then shoot upward at tremendous speed, hover and then come down just as fast.’ Dexter police and Livingston County sheriffs, contacted by Bushroe and Foster, ‘reported that they saw the same objects engaging in the same maneuvers.’

March 17, 1966, Milan, Michigan. 4:25 a.m. Sgt. Nuel Schneider and Deputy David Fitzpatrick saw top-shaped objects making sharp maneuvers. They alternately hovered, rose and fell quickly, darted around at jet-like speed, their light dimming and brightening periodically. In a report to NICAP, the officers stated that two objects were operating together, circling and flying in formation, while a third object hovered at lower altitude.

March 20, 1966, Dexter, Michigan. About 8:30 p.m. Frank Mannor and family, and dozens of other witnesses, reported that a domed oval object with ‘quilted’ or ‘waffled’ surface and lights in the center and on each end had landed in a swampy field. Deputies David Fitzpatrick and Stanley McFadden parked car #34 adjacent to the area and began a search with Frank Mannor.

‘While in the woods area,’ their report states, ‘a brilliant light was observed from the far edge of the woods, and upon [our] approaching, the light dimmed in brilliance....The brilliant light [then] again appeared, and then disappeared. A continued search of the area was conducted, through swamp and high grass, with negative results. Upon returning to the patrol vehicle, the undersigned officers were informed that one of the objects had been hovering directly over the area where our flashlight beams had been seen, and then [it] departed in a west direction of flight, at high rate of speed.’

As he and other officers were rushing to the scene, Officer Robert Hartwell of the Dexter Police Department saw a luminous object buzz his car. Robert Taylor, Dexter Police Chief, said he watched an object in the field from Frank Mannor’s home on a knoll overlooking the area. It appeared as a pulsating red, glowing object. Through binoculars he saw ‘a light on each end of the thing.’

(Sheriffs’ statements in NICAP files. See The U.F.O. Investigator, March-April 1966, pp. 5-6; Detroit News, March 14, 1966; LIFE Magazine, Apr. 1, 1966; Newsweek, Apr. 4, 1966.)”


Wikipedia article: “Selfridge Air National Guard Base”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
Selfridge Air National Guard Base or Selfridge ANGB (IATA: MTC, ICAO: KMTC, FAA LID: MTC) is an Air National Guard installation located in Harrison Township, Michigan, near Mount Clemens. Selfridge Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917.[1]

United States Air Force

After World War II Selfridge expanded to its present size of 3,600 acres (1,500 ha), and in 1947 the Selfridge Field was renamed Selfridge Air Force Base.[22] The base grew steadily and soundly, acquiring impressive buildings and long concrete strips. In 1950, Headquarters for the Tenth Air Force, which was in charge of all Air Reserve records for a 13-state area in the Midwest, moved to Selfridge. It recalled and trained Air Reservists, and as an administrative group, the Tenth was the largest of the tenant units at Selfridge.[22]

From 1947–1970 the base hosted three successive Cold War aircraft units: the 56th Fighter Wing (28 July 1947 – 1952), which conducted the first west-to-east jet fighter transatlantic crossing (US to Scotland via Greenland, 1948); the 4708th Defense (later Air Defense) Wing from 1952–1956; the 439th Fighter-Bomber Wing (1952–7); and the 1st Fighter Wing (Air Defense) from 1956–1970.[23] The units’ Selfridge aircraft were F-51 Mustangs (439th, 1953-4), Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars (439th 1953-6, 56th), F-84 Thunderstreaks (439th), North American F-86D Sabres (1st), and F-102 Delta Daggers (1st). In April 1954, the Selfridge’s 13th Fighter-Intercepter Squadron of the 4708th Air Defense Wing won the Eastern Air Defense Force rocket gunnery championship;[24] and on 10 May 1956, a Selfridge F-86D accidentally fired 22 Mighty Mouse rockets while on the ground.[25] In November 1957, Air Defense Command (ADC) assumed control of Selfridge AFB.”

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Selfridge Air National Guard Base, near Mount Clemens, Michigan
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County map of Michigan (lib.utexas.edu)
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UFO Magazine Issues:
“Index of /Downloads/Magazines/United States/
UFO Potpourri (John Schuessler)”


Source: Archives For the Unexplained (AFU.se), Norrköping, Sweden


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John F. Schuessler, former McDonnell Douglas/NASA engineer
and MUFON International Director (2000-2006)
(jerrypippin.com photo)

UFO News Article:
“Michigan UFO Photo Released”


20 May 1966
(Pacific Stars and Stripes, Tokyo, Japan)

Source: NewspaperArchive.com

The whole article:
“The Civil Defense director of Hillsdale County, Mich., William Van Horn, issued a 24-page report [report about the 1966 South East Michigan UFO sightings], challenging an Air Force conclusion that ‘swamp gas’ caused the UFO sightings in March. He said conditions at the time were too windy for swamp gas to form. He also released this photo of an object (upper right) as it passed over the area in July, 1965.”

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(Pacific Stars and Stripes/newspaperarchive.com image)



William Van Horn, Civil Defense Director, HillsdaleMichigan,
measures radioactivity at a 1966 Michigan UFO landing site
(“UFO: Friend, Foe Or Fantasy?” (CBS, New York CityNew York) image)














Satellite photo of HillsdaleMichigan (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)