Saturday 18 April 2020

UFO Report:
“The 1990 UFO Chronology”


Created: 15 September 2008
Updated: 30 May 2017
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“This is currently an 11-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1990. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1990 chronology from UFOE II), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]. You will note the many foreign reports that we are now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to us. As more come in, this page will be updated. Previous chronologies (1947 to 1969) involved the expertise of two other team members; Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Bob Gribble’s entries are those filed with the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington, now operated by Peter Davenport. Trace cases are now being entered with the help of Ted Phillips, Center for Physical Trace Research and retrofitted into previous chronologies as time permits. Since I was Indiana State Director (MUFON) at that time, many of our Indiana cases are listed here. My file alone was over 3" thick. The computer database shows 69 cases in the region, with 55 of then Indiana cases. Twenty-one of the total were close encounters.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator

March 21, 1990; Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Russia
Jet interceptor scrambled to identify radar target, saw two flashing white lights, locked radar gunsight on object (UFOE II, Section I).

March 30, 1990; Wavre (nr), Belgium
11:00 p.m. G,A,V, RV military pilots. Gendarmes reported luminous, high speed objects; jet interceptors scrambled, multiple radar tracks of fast-moving objects (UFOE II, Section II).

March 31, 1990; [Wavre] (nr), Belgium
12:05 a.m. G,A,V, RV military pilots. Gendarmes reported luminous, high speed objects; jet interceptors scrambled, multiple radar tracks of fast-moving objects (UFOE II, Section II).

July 20, 1990; Pensacola, FL
7:30 PM. A retired Navy pilot and his wife saw a huge bluish-white glowing orb in the sky over Pensacola, Florida. It arced down and dove toward Pensacola Bay. (Source: C. Joseph Barron, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1990).

Nov. 14, 1990; Behshahr, Iran
5:20 PM. A police report was filed that a brilliant, one meter long cylinder flew east to west over a microwave transmission center in Behshahr, Iran. It flew silently and slowly, at a low altitude.  (Source: FSR, July 1991; Lumieres dans la Nuit, volume 307).

Nov. 25, 1990; Milton, FL
12:40 PM. A Navy technician sighted a dull silver-gray wingless fuselage flying from north to south at airliner speed. (Source: Paul Ferrughilli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1405).”


















Satellite photo of Wavre, Belgium (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

UFO Report:
“The 1989 UFO Chronology”


Created: 15 August 2008
Updated: 19 December 2013
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“This is currently a 14-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1989. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1989 chronology from UFOE II), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]. You will note the many foreign reports that we are now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to us. As more come in, this page will be updated. Previous chronologies (1947 to 1969) involved the expertise of two other team members; Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Bob Gribble’s entries are those filed with the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington, now operated by Peter Davenport. Trace cases are now being entered with the help of Ted Phillips, Center for Physical Trace Research and retrofitted into previous chronologies as time permits. Since I was Indiana State Director (MUFON) at that time, many of our Indiana cases are listed here.

Of possible interest, the MADAR Project (which I headed for 20 years) had 5 anomalistic EM readings which are listed chronologically here.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator

June 4, 1989; Palmdale, CA
7:45 PM. A security guard and an air traffic controller at Air Force Facility 42 in Palmdale, California witnessed a silver flying object and three orb-shaped UFOs during testing of the B1-B bomber. There was also a rumor of an abduction occurring on this date at the same facility. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990).

June 11, 1989; near St. John’s, Newfoundland
7:00 AM. A Canadian Airlines International crew watched a dark grey or black ovoid object, estimated to be about 2 meters in length, make complex maneuvers in the sky not far from St. John’s, Newfoundland for three minutes. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, International UFO Reporter, July 1990, p. 10).

July 22, 1989; Trenton, ME
3:30 PM. Over Blue Hill Bay -- At 3:30 p.m. Randy Rhodes, a police dispatcher for the City of Ellsworth, and Bill Reiff, an attorney, took off in a Beechcraft Bonanza from the Bar Harbor-Trenton airport. At around 3:45 p.m. they spotted a huge metallic disc, shining like polished aluminum, at the 9 o'clock position. It was at the same altitude as their plane--approximately 5100-5200 feet. The object suddenly moved dead ahead to the 12 o'clock position and it took on a reddish or rose color. Not very enthusiastic about continuing on with this thing in front of them, they turned back for the Bar Harbor-Trenton airport. The Aerial Direction Finder was working at the time but the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) was not receiving. It had never before given them a problem, and 3-4 minutes after the object disappeared the DME came back on. When they landed they discovered that there had been power surges and outages on the ground, and they recalled that when they last observed the object it was headed in the direction of the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power plant in Wiscasset. However, a spokesman for the Bangor HydroElectric Company later reported that three limbs falling over a transmission line when a resident cut down a tree caused the outage. (Source: UFOE Vol. II, Section III; Leland Bechtel, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 19)

July 28, 1989; Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan, Russia
11:20 PM. A domed disc-shaped object was seen over a high security rocket weapons depot in Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan, Russia, by four military witnesses, including the two main witnesses named Voloshin and Tishchayev. The UFO glowed a phosphorescent green. It circled the depot three times, accelerated and then stopped abruptly. It shot away when a Soviet fighter jet appeared. (Sources: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 79; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, & Antonio Huneeus, (editors), Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, p. 103; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 58).

Oct. 1989-May 1990; Belgium
Concentration of triangular UFO sightings, jet interceptor chases, radar-visual sightings (see November 29, 1989; March 30, 1990).

Nov. 19, 1989; Northwestern, AR
1:35 AM. Shocking and extremely interesting close encounter witnessed by five people, one a deputy sheriff. See full report. (AUN-3,1)

Nov. 29, 1989; Eupen, Belgium
Police patrol car illuminated by brilliant light beam, hovering dark triangular object, humming noise, alternately moved and hovered (UFOE Vol. II, Section I; source link ufocasebook.com info not [verified]).”



















Satellite photo of Eupen, Belgium (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)