UFO News Article:
“Air Force Contacted: Sparkman Asks
‘Full Scale’ Investigation Of UFOs”, 
3 April 1973
(Florence Times - Tri-Cities Daily, Alabama)

Florence Times - Tri-Cities Daily reports on Senator John Jackson Sparkman’s interest in the UFO flap that occurred in the Shoals area, Alabama in early 1973:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XwMsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4sYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1594,628773

Quote from the article:
“Sen. John Sparkman is requesting the Air Force to make a ‘full investigation’ into the appearance of mysterious objects in Shoals Area skies.”

The article starts on page 1.












John Jackson Sparkman (D), United States Senator from Alabama (6 November 1946-3 January 1979) (wikimedia.org photo)

UFO News Articles:
“Lexington UFO – Still No Explanation”/
“UFO Reports Turn Landfill
Into County Tourist Attraction”, 
4 March 1973
(Florence Times - Tri-Cities Daily, Alabama)

No one has an answer for the UFO sightings that were made in the Lexington, Alabama area in early 1973, Florence Times - Tri-Cities Daily reports:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=whssAAAAIBAJ&sjid=l8YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6608,308080

The second article can be found on page 5 (Google News).
















Map of Lauderdale County, Alabama
(alabamamaps.ua.edu image)

UFO News Article:
“UFO Capers Continue, Saucer Lands In Field”,
18 February 1973
(Florence Times - Tri-Cities Daily, Alabama)

Florence Times - Tri-Cities Daily reports on several UFO sightings that occurred in the Shoals area, Alabama (the north-western corner of Alabama) in early 1973:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z_orAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wsYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1870,3120055

UFO Report Chronology: “UFO Sightings in 1973”
(UFO DNA):

http://thecid.com/ufo/chrono/chrono/1973.htm














Wheeler Dam, Alabama
(flickr.com photo)

UFO Technical Report:
“Analysis of Digital Photographs of Commercial
Airplane and Small UAP on November 8, 2009”
by Dr. Richard F. Haines, 27 November 2009 
(NARCAP)

The photographer’s location was near Cottonwood, Arizona, according to Haines:

http://www.narcap.org/reports/013/narcap_TR-13.pdf

The photos were taken at 5:16 p.m., between 5:46 and 5:48 p.m. and between 5:51 and 5:53 p.m. MST.







Dr. Richard F. Haines, former NASA Senior Research Scientist, NARCAP Chief Scientist and UFO Researcher (gstatic.com photo)














Aerial view of Cottonwood, Arizona
(wgrc1971.blogspot.com photo)

UFO Radio Interview:
“Edition 54 – Nick Pope – New UFO Release”,
3 March 2011
(The Unexplained with Howard Hughes, Liverpool, UK)

Host Howard Hughes interviews Nick Pope regarding the UK MoD UFO files (7th batch) that were released on 3 March 2011:

http://theunexplained.tv/paranormal-podcasts/edition-54-nick-pope-new-ufo-release









Nick Pope, the former Head of the UK MoD's UFO Office
(1991-1994), UFO Author, Lecturer & Researcher

UFO Case Files:
“CEFAA Case Files” (NARCAP)

NARCAP presents several of the UFO case files of the Chilean government’s Committee for the Study of Aerial Anomalous Phenomena (CEFAA):

http://www.narcap.org/international/cefaa.htm

(theufochronicles.com image)

UFO Mailing List Post:
“Military Experts Weigh On ‘Battle: Los Angeles’ ”
by Terry W. Colvin, 13 March 2011
(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

Terry W. Colvin reports on a Moviefone (blog) interview with Captain Robert L. Salas and Colonel Charles I. Halt regarding the movie, “Battle: Los Angeles”:

http://ufoupdateslist.com/2011/mar/m13-004.shtml

Captain Robert L. Salas,
U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

Colonel Charles I. Halt, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

(youtube.com image)

UFO Radio Interview:
Richard M. Dolan: “UFO Happenings”,

13 March 2011 (Coast to Coast AM)

Guest host Whitley Strieber interviews Richard M. Dolan regarding the missing files pertaining to the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest, UK, UFO incidents, among other things:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6esRbD8Gzg (1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0jy_pbvCEA (2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9B5VCE_i-0 (3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjh6rU66sIw (4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZZdnIsNg90 (5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m99wjAnLbpA (6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqI0XGbTZIo (7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSjCn9CJTMw (8)

Richard M. Dolan,

U.S. Historian, UFO Author,
Lecturer & Researcher

UFO News Article:
“UFO Reports Made In North Carolina”,
27 December 1985 (Waycross Journal-Herald, Georgia)

Waycross Journal-Herald presents an interview with George D. Fawcett, assistant state director for the Mutual UFO Network, regarding several 1985 North Carolina UFO sightings:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IVtaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oEwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4466,9153961

Quote from the article:
“Four people living near Lincolnton said they saw a Saturn-shaped object that maneuvered near their homes for about 30 minutes May 1, frightening animals and causing power failures and telephone interference. They said it vibrated their house, cast a beam of light on one of them and gave off a ‘heat wave.’ ”









Map of North Carolina (yellowmaps.com image)

UFO News Article:
“UFO spotted outside Portland”, 25 October 1988
(The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon)

The whole article:

“Four people, including a Washington County sheriff’s deputy, reported seeing an unidentified flying object west of Portland late Sunday (23 October 1988).

A state police dispatcher, who refused to give his name, said the bright object was described as moving swiftly and leaving a white smoke trail.

All said the object appeared to be about 50 feet to 100 feet above the ground and appeared to travel between St.Vincent Hospital and U.S. 26.

Washington County sheriff’s spokeswoman Sherre Calouri said she had no information about a deputy sighting a UFO.

However, she said a citizen reported to the sheriff’s department at11:09 p.m. Sunday that a football-sized object appeared to be coming down in flames over the county.”

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19881025&id=-fJVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=luEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5823,6313033

Providence St. Vincent Medical Center can be found at these coordinates (Google Earth): 45°30'35.62"N (latitude) 122°46'11.20"W (longitude).

Satellite photo of Portland, Oregon (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

UFO News Article:
“Deputy sheriff, wife say UFO
forced them to take detour”,
1 December 1981 (Bangor Daily News, Maine)

Deputy Sheriff Harold Hendsbee and his wife sighted a UFO over Route 43, in Starks, Maine on 30 November 1981, according to the article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AQM0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=YyMIAAAAIBAJ&pg=3374,268209

Quote from the article:
“He (Somerset County Sheriff William Wright) also noted there have been other recent UFO sightings in the area.”
















Satellite photo of Starks, Maine
(pics3.city-data.com photo)

UFO News Article:
“Night Sky Yields Accounts of UFOs”,
17 March 1980 (Spokane Daily Chronicle, Washington)

Spokane Daily Chronicle reports on a March 1980 Idaho UFO flap:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mRETAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L_kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5290,108347















Map of the Treasure Valley Hydrologic Project Area, Idaho
(idwr.idaho.gov image)

UFO News Article:
“UFO Reported Blocking Road”, 23 April 1967
(The Gadsden Times, Alabama)

A South Hill, Virginia man encountered a UFO while driving home from work on 21 April 1967, at night-time, The Gadsden Times reports:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2KofAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ANcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=958,2823141

Quote from the article:
“ ‘You can imagine how it felt to see a big thing like that sitting in the road in front of you, and all of a sudden a ball of fire flies out and it disappears.’ ”

NOTE: The newspaper date is 23 April 1967.

South Hill, Virginia (flickr.com photo)

NASA TV UFOs:
“Amazing NASA UFO Footage
by Jaime Maussan & Santiago Yturria” (IUFOC)

This video is an excerpt from the lecture by Mexican UFO researchers Jaime Maussan and Santiago Yturria Garza at the 2010 International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada (21-27 February 2010):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMX5VxMzv-0

UFO News Article:
“Strange Objects Spotted Over City”, 
22 October 1973
(The Spartanburg Herald, South Carolina)

Several people, including Charles Jones, a U.S. Army reserve officer, sighted 3 UFOs over Woodland Heights, Spartanburg, South Carolina on 21 October 1973, at around 7:45 p.m., according to the article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qHAsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4MsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1428,4368786















Aerial view of Spartanburg, South Carolina
(tripadvisor.com photo)

UFO News Article:
“Group spot UFO”, 22 January 1975
(The Mercury, Renfrew, Canada)

Several people, including Constable Ron MacDonald, sighted a UFO west of Renfrew, Ontario, Canada in January 1975 (probably on 21 January), at around 6:10 p.m.:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DNo8AAAAIBAJ&sjid=VSsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3268,26956293

Quote from the article:
“It hovered about a mile from the Turcotte farm, its bright, white lights forming a triangular pattern on a shining, metal-like craft.

It stayed at the same location for about ten minutes, then began to descend towards a wooded area. A bright object, resembling a star, but just above the UFO, remained at a 45 degree angle to the craft.

When the object landed, it lit up the woods with its bright lights, then the light faded and went out.”














Renfrew, Ontario, Canada (panoramio.com photo)

UFO News Article:
“NW today: Vancouver UFO identified as kite with lights”,
9 March 2011
(The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington)

The reports last month of lights in the sky were caused by a large kite carrying nearly 500 LED lights, according to the article:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/mar/09/nw-today-vancouver-ufo-identified-kite-lights/

UFO News Article:
“UFO files reveal ‘Rendlesham incident’ papers missing”,
3 March 2011 (BBC News, London, UK)

BBC News reports on the UK MoD UFO files that were released on
3 March 2011:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-12613690

The Rendlesham Forest, UK, UFO incidents occurred on 26 and
28 December 1980 (early hours).

The twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge were joint Royal Air Force-U.S. Air Force bases at the time of the UFO incidents.

Map of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, UK

(2.bp.blogspot.com image)

UFO Mailing List Post:
“BBC: UFO Files Reveal Rendlesham Papers Missing”
by Robert L. Hastings, 5 March 2011
(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

U.S. UFO researcher Robert L. Hastings gives us his opinion on the missing Rendlesham papers:

http://ufoupdateslist.com/2011/mar/m05-004.shtml

Robert L. Hastings,
U.S. UFO Author,
Lecturer & Researcher
(pressdispensary.co.uk photo)

UFO TV News Report:
“UFO files released by government”,
3 March 2011 (BBC News, London, UK)

BBC News reports on the UK MoD UFO files that were released on
3 March 2011:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12631966

The TV report mentions the incident where an RAF Tornado fighter jet crew encountered a large, fast-flying UFO over the North Sea in November 1990.














RAF Tornado (nigelblake.co.uk photo)