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Wednesday, 19 August 2020

UFO Case Directory (Animal Effect Cases):
“Ossining, New York
March 24, 1983”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
Animal Reaction Feature:
David Scarpino, accountant, was walking his Golden Retriever around the Ossining Reservoir at 8:15 pm. He saw bright lights in a boomerang formation hovering over a large tree a few feet away from him. His dog did not appear to notice the object.

Joan Woodward, Animal Reaction Specialist:
Scarpino noticed the lights over his shoulder and turned to see 12 bright lights as described above. He thought the lights were on one solid object and compared its size to that of a 747. He could hear no sound. As he watched, the lights slowly turned 180 degrees ‘as if on a wheel’ and started moving south at walking speed. The object again hovered. All but one blue and one green light went out, and then those lights blinked out. Nothing more was seen.

No EM effects and no physiological effects were reported.

This was one of hundreds of boomerang sightings between 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm in Westchester and Putnam Counties.

Source:
Hynek, J. Allen, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, 1998, Night Siege, The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul MN, p. 37-38.”


Wikipedia article: “Ossining (town), New York”:





Ossining, New York
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Satellite photo of Ossining, New York (tageo.com)
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Saturday, 8 February 2020

UFO News Article:
“March 17, 1966: Ringwood Nun Spots UFO”


13 March 2011
(The Record, Woodland Park, New Jersey)

Source: ufocasebook.com

The whole article:
“ ‘Another UFO was reported in the area last week, and as a [Suburban Trends] reporter pointed out, it would have been difficult to find a more veracious observer,’ reads an editorial from March 17, 1966.

‘Mother Superior Veronica, Mount St. Francis Convent, Ringwood, reported seeing an object streak across the sky early last Thursday morning. It was ‘like a flying kite on fire,’ she said.

‘The object, reminiscent of Elijah’s flaming chariot (though the mother superior did not point this out), left ‘a red glow in its wake,’ the editorial said.

‘Mother Veronica said she later saw another, dimmer light over the cemetery, and another nun reported that same morning she saw a bright light over the Wanaque Reservoir, site of other recent 
‘sightings.’ ’

In light of the rash of UFO sightings, we said that maybe someone was trying to tell us something.

‘On the other hand, such activities did not seem to us all that unusual, what with St. Patrick’s Day upon us…’

The editorial then related a small Irish tale: ‘ ‘tell me,’ said a young man to an Irish crone many years ago. ‘Do you believe in wee people?’

‘ ‘Glory be to God no,’ answered the old woman. Then, in a confidential whisper, ‘But they’re there.’ ’ ”


Wikipedia article: “Ringwood, New Jersey”:


Wikipedia article: “Wanaque, New Jersey”:


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Satellite photo of Ringwood, New Jersey (tageo.com)
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Wednesday, 4 December 2019

UFO News Article:
“Report UFO’s”


27 March 1967
(The Kingston Daily Freeman, New York)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:
“Unidentified flying objects known as UFO’s were reported seen during the weekend [Saturday, 25 and Sunday, 26  March 1967] hovering over the campus of the State University College at New Paltz and above the Ashokan Reservoir. Reports from the college area said a UFO seen over the college was circular in shape and yellow, changing at times to green and red. From the Ashokan area came reports that a red and white object was seen over the reservoir.”


Wikipedia article: “Ashokan Reservoir”:


Wikipedia article: “New Paltz, New York”:


Wikipedia article: “State University of New York at New Paltz”:








Ashokan Reservoir with the peaks of the Catskills’ Burroughs Range in the distance. (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)


















Satellite photo of New Paltz, New York (tageo.com)
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Monday, 11 November 2019

UFO Report:
“The 1992 UFO Chronology”


Created: 15 November 2008
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“This is currently a 10-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1992. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1992 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, some of our Indiana cases are listed here.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator

Jan. 4, 1992; Saga Prefecture, Japan
Late at night a farmer that had experienced strange cattle mutilations in the past was awakened by the sound of his dog barking. The farmer went to investigate and upon entering the cow shed saw a small white ‘object’ resembling a jellyfish with numerous tentacle-like protrusions coming out of its bottom. The ‘object’ was floating in the air; it then drifted outside where it vanished. A cow was discovered on the floor. It had a badly broken leg. (Source: Jenny Randles, Peter A. Hough, World Best True UFO Stories)

March 13, 1992; Bellevue, WS
10:00 AM. Mr. Hooker, the chief photographer for WFRV-TV, videotaped a cigar-shaped UFO in Bellevue, Wisconsin, which is a suburb of Green Bay. The UFO traveled from right to left in the frame, passing behind a windmill. Its estimated altitude was 25,000 feet, and it had a speed of 7,000 mph. (Source: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 257).

April 28, 1992; Lajas, Puerto Rico
A jet aircraft tentatively identified as a U.S. Air Force F-14 Tomcat was seen pursuing a domed disc-shaped UFO. The UFO would make multiple stops, and as the jet closed in the saucer split in half. The top half flew off toward the southwest and the other half flew off to the east. The F-14 jet remained circling in the area, and then flew off to the east. (Source: Timothy Good, Alien Update, 
p. 30).

June 5, 1992; near Wanaque Reservoir, NJ
10:50 PM. Strange lights were seen and videotaped. The lights maneuvered about the sky, and faded in and out. Wanaque Reservoir has been the scene of many repeated UFO sightings, especially in the 1960s. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994).

June 10, 1992; Coatesville, PA
4:30 PM. Several workers at the Lukens Steel Company plant saw a disc-shaped UFO land on the factory grounds around quitting time. The security guard said that the object touched down briefly and then took off in the direction of the old Coatesville Hospital. The company, a defense contractor, refused to let UFO investigators talk with any of the witnesses or answer further questions about what they saw. Attempts to set up interviews outside of the plant were also unsuccessful. (Thomas Carey, MUFON; West Chester Daily Local News, June 12, 1992.)

Aug. 29, 1992; Mount Seymour, British Columbia
2:30 AM. Three cylinders were seen in the sky at close range after a home burglar alarm system and lights were effected. The policeman witness was unable to wake his wife, but their baby reacted to the close encounter, and their dog became sick. The incident lasted 30 minutes. (Sources: Lorne Goldfader, Alien Update, p. 280; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 318).

Sept. 17, 1992; north of Gardner, CO
1:30 PM. A 12-foot long metallic object with stubby wings, and a clear dome or cupola, buzzed UFO investigator Christopher O’Brien and his partner while driving seven miles north of Gardner. It made no sound. (Source: Christopher O’Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 54).

Dec. 24, 1992; southwest of Monroe, LA
6:00 PM. Twenty civilian witnesses and police southwest of Monroe, Louisiana watched a silent, boomerang shaped UFO with bright beams of light pass over cars in a forested area and bounce up and down for six minutes. The object was videotaped by one of the witnesses, a 39-year-old man. (Source: W. L. Garner, Jr., MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993).”


Wikipedia article: “Saga Prefecture”:





















Satellite photo of Monroe, Louisiana (tageo.com)
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Location of Saga Prefecture [in Japan] (text by Wikipedia)
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Monday, 28 October 2019

UFO News Article:
“Oakland policeman reports seeing UFO”


3 March 1982
(Central Maine Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se

The whole article (Page 6):
“Anyone unlucky enough to be up at 4:50 a.m. Monday (1 March 1982) when thermometers around Oakland registered from 20 to 28 below zero had the opportunity for a reward of a sort — an unidentified flying object.

Two Oakland men, one an Oakland police officer who was on duty at the time, have reported seeing an unexplained light in the sky between Messalonskee Lake and the Waterville Country Club.

Police Sgt. Ralph Sabins reported the sighting in the police log as occurring at 4:50 a.m. March 1. His official description listed the light, which was brighter than any of the stars or planets visible, as being over Messalonskee Lake as sighted from the Country Club Road.

He reported it hovered there before heading toward the northeast (over his head) without any discernible engine noise. When the light passed overhead, power lines shook and fluttered even though there was no wind, Sabins wrote.

Dan Savage, leaving his house to go get breakfast before opening his variety store in Oakland reported a similar experience. He said he was out in front of his house at 4:55 a.m. Monday when he noticed the bright light in the sky and assumed at first it was an ‘airplane or something.’

When it dropped down at a 45 degree angle and then went off straight, parallel to the horizon, he knew it wasn’t a plane. ‘There was no noise, no sound,’ he said, even though it was cold, clear and still that he could hear the frozen trees popping and crackling along the edge of the lake.

He said he watched it head off over Libby Hill toward where Sabins had observed it from, and that he was mystified by the fact that it was so quiet. ‘I’ve seen falling stars,’ he said, adding that his certainly wasn’t one. He described it as being a lot brighter than any of the stars that morning.

Savage said that later in the day a woman was in his store, Dan’s Variety, when she asked if anyone had noticed anything strange at about 5 a.m. She told Savage that her house had begun to make funny creaking noises at that time and wondered if another tremor or earthquake had occurred.

Savage mentioned his sighting at a local breakfast restaurant immediately after he saw it, and, after getting a few raised eyebrows from other patrons, he found that Sabins, who was at the counter, had just seen the same thing.”


Wikipedia article: “Oakland, Maine”:


Wikipedia article: “Messalonskee Lake”:


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Satellite photo of Oakland, Maine (tageo.com)
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Picture of Messalonskee Lake’s northern-most bay in summer.
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Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Google Website Searches:
Focus On Newspaper/News Media Articles
Reporting On Water-Related UFO Incidents


Website: Water UFO (waterufo.net)








Waterufo.net UFO case report:
“09-15-1962

DISC LANDING REPORTED IN NEW JERSEY – IN U.S. & ABROAD SIGHTINGS CONTINUE”

The whole UFO case report:
“(Extract-CF-)
      
A series of New Jersey police sightings after a reported disc landing in a reservoir -- important because police and several newspapers openly rejected an attempted ‘hoax’ explanation.
      
The action began on September 15. At 5 p.m., two shiny discs were seen over Oradell, N.J. At 6 p.m., two shiny, round UFOs were sighted by former Navy flying officer J. J. McVickers just across the state line. At 7:50, NICAP member Victor Cipolla saw a glowing object descend toward Oradell, and other witnesses saw it dart back and forth near the reservoir. At 7:55, three teen-aged boys saw a bright, oval-shaped object land in the reservoir with a loud splash. A man working nearby also heard the splash, according to police. After a moment the strange device took off, climbed silently at high speed.           

As McGuire AFB began an investigation, new reports came in. On September 21, four Hawthorne police officers watched a device with two beam-like headlights hover over a quarry. Officer George Jediny, in a report to NICAP, said the UFO -- which he sketched as a disc -- seemed to revolve. The quarry night watchman, Wm. Stocks, said the UFO had also appeared the night before. When he drove a Jeep nearer to check up, the object maneuvered to keep out of the headlights. (Similar reaction often reported.)
      
Just after midnight, September 24, the same or a similar device was seen over the quarry by over a dozen Hawthorne police officers and the chief reporter of the N. J. State Press, George Della Penta. When a police-car spotlight was pointed up at the UFO, it began to move. Before it left, Mr. Della Penta shot 18 feet of color film. (Analysis not completed.)
      
Later, Oradell police received a letter signed ‘The Bergenfield Pranksters,’ purporting to be from some boys who said they faked the sightings with aluminum-coated model aircraft supported by helium balloons. This was promptly rejected by the police and newspapers that checked the facts, among them:
      
The Newark Evening News, Science Writer Philip Del Vecchio: ‘It would have been impossible for them (the Bergen County boys) to put their model planes so high that they could be seen in Hawthorne... No object such as they could have put together could have moved at the lightning speeds attributed to the UFO. The light... could not have been produced by amateurs. This newspaper makes an appeal to other residents ...with the assurance that reports will be treated with dignity.
      
The Hawthorne Observer, rebuking those who accepted an unsigned letter from a town miles away, said it was time to treat the reports seriously.
      
The Riverdale Sunday Trend: ‘Suppose the real hoax is the letter purporting to explain the whole thing?’
      
The Hawthorne News Record: ‘To imply so flippantly that our police officers spent almost half an hour looking at a balloon and then watched it speed away at an incredible rate -- all in quite an opposite direction from Oradell--is insulting.’
      
The Newark Sunday News: ‘Flying saucers are still a big mystery...are seen with great regularity by sane and logical inhabitants of the planet Earth. What they are and where they come from and what their mission is has not yet been satisfactorily explained.’

Regardless of the final outcome, these New Jersey sightings have shown that an increasing number of newspapers no longer accept quick brush-off answers to sightings by competent witnesses.                                            
_______________________________________________

This reference: UFO Investigator (NICAP), Vol. 11, No. 6, October/November 1962, pp. 3-4. With thanks to the Donald E. Keyhoe Archives.              

NOTE: There are many more references to the 15th’s sighting, but only three have a reference to the water. I have highlighted these in yellow below.-CF-”


I also reported on this case in 2011:




















Satellite photo of Oradell, New Jersey (tageo.com)
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Tuesday, 22 March 2016

UFO News Article:
“Probe Into UFO’s At Lake Is Asked”


6 March 1969
(The Gazette-Virginian, South Boston, Virginia)

Source: Fold3.com, Lindon, Utah

The whole article:
“A federal investigation into the mysterious light objects which have appeared over Buggs Island Lake for the past two months have been called for by Mecklenburg County Sheriff W. E. Newman.

Sheriff Newman, armed with newspaper clippings of the sightings around John Kerr Dam, wrote Fifth District Congressman W. C. (Dan) Daniel asking for an investigation into the strange lights which have flown over the dam area.

The investigation would presumably be made by the U.S. Air Force which has charge of investigating unidentified flying objects.

The first reported sighting came February 9 when an ex-Army Sergeant living near the dam reported what he thought was a small plane crashing into the lake. The last reported sighting came as recently as Tuesday night (4 March 1969).

Newspaper reporters from Mecklenburg returned to the dam Tuesday night in an effort to see the light and as they were approaching on Route 4, some three miles from the dam, the light could plainly be seen in the clear sky overhead.

The time of the sighting was placed about 8:30 p.m. As reporters raced closer to the dam to get a better view, the object dropped down out of sight.

Reporters then crossed the dam, and at about the dam’s midpoint, the object appeared again, this time flying directly overhead at an altitude of about 500 feet. The object made no sound and was estimated to be cylindrical in shape and slightly longer than an automobile.

They stopped their car for a better look and watched the object for more than a minute as it travelled south down the lake.

They said that the object had two bright lights on its extremities which pulsated in sequence. Both were white. As they blinked, a dimmer light seemed to pace back and forth from the two brighter lights. It was travelling at a speed well below 100 miles an hour, they said.

As the object disappeared, the reporters left the vicinity of the dam to travel east on Route 4, about a mile from the dam to a country store.

There ex-Army Sergeant Phillip Spencer, who has claimed to have seen the light on numerous occasions, was waiting with a 35 mm camera. While reporters were loading the camera with film, several persons standing nearby spotted the object again over the dam. Only this time it was moving in an opposite direction from which it was observed only minutes before.

Reporters went back to the dam in an effort to photograph the light, but when they reached the dam, the light had vanished.

Hundreds of Mecklenburg County persons have viewed the lights, some as long ago as last November, but the sightings have come with increasing frequency in recent months. All descriptions of the objects have been identical, particularly those who saw the object at close range.

Basically the description is as follows:

The object is slightly larger than an automobile; it has lights which pulsate and sometimes change colors from bright red to white to blue; it makes no sound; it is capable of flying at speeds far faster than jet aircraft and yet hover; it is most frequently seen around the John Kerr dam; it appears in the early evening hours.”

https://www.fold3.com/image/6530176

Kerr Lake Guide article: 
“History of John H. Kerr (Buggs Island) Lake”:
Wikipedia article: “Kerr Lake”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr_Lake








Aerial view of Kerr Lake (officially John H. Kerr Dam and Reservoir, also known as Buggs Island Lake) (Clarksville, Virginia, is located just west of Kerr Lake) (wikimedia.org)
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Satellite photo of Clarksville, Virginia (tageo.com)
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