Created: 15 February 2008
Updated: 29 May 2018
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO report:
“This is currently a 5-page chronology of UFO
incidents and events for 1983. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to
Richard Hall (the original 1983 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: William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks
(Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns).
Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator
Feb. 19, 1983; Swansea,
Glamorgan, South Wales
Daytime. Up to 200 people observed a huge triangular
shaped UFO pass overhead in various places along the South
Wales coast. They included a class of schoolchildren and a
football team. In Swansea
two detectives, DS Mike Troake and DC Gethen Humphreys saw the object glide
overhead in total silence. DS Troake said, ‘I’m used to seeing aircraft in the
sky but this was massive-much bigger than a plane. There was a large main
cluster of lights at the front shaped a bit like a Zeppelin followed by a
triangular group of lights. They moved gracefully across the sky about 1000 feet up.’ Fearful of
ridicule neither officer reported the incident to their colleagues. UFO
CLASSIFICATION NL (NOCTURNAL LIGHT) On Duty sighting. 2 Officers. Source:
Sunday Mirror 20/02/83 (Source: THE 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by
Detective Constable 1877 Heseltine British Transport Police.
March 10, 1983; Ventilla,
Bolivia
A diesel train of 14 cars was stalled by a huge UFO.
First seen as an enormous, blinding cloud of light over the city, it then flew
toward the train changing color from bright white to glowing orange. Seventy
passengers on board were awakened and screamed in terror. A yellow ray of light
struck the locomotive and stalled the engine. Engineer Sixto Churaz said that ‘I
tried to start up the engine, but it was dead. Fifteen minutes later the engine
suddenly came to life again as the object began to move away from the-train.’
The locomotive had just been through an overhaul and was found to be in perfect
condition. Experts from the University
of Qruro, railroad
officials, and local police confirmed that a UFO had paralyzed the train and
that it was not a mechanical breakdown. On three previous nights, nearby
villagers being harassed by UFOs tried to frighten them off with gunfire. This
episode introduces the extreme challenging element of the engine starting by
itself as the UFO departed, a circumstance that has been reported on 27 other
occasions for spark-ignited engines. (McCampbell).
March 24, 1983; Happy Camp, CA
4:45 PM. California
Highway Patrol officer Harold R. Chandler was on routine patrol near the
Northern California border with Oregon
when he spotted a dark, circular object, flat with no protuberances, flying
overhead across his path. ‘I was looking up at the bottom of the object, It was
about 800+ feet above me. [Its] speed was slow, maybe 80-100 m.p.h. ....The craft
stood out clearly against the sky and appeared dark gray.’ (Investigation by
Paul Cerny; MUFON report form.)
March 27, 1983; 50 nautical miles north of Gorky, Russia
Evening. Russian Air Traffic Controllers had
radar-visual reports of a steel-gray colored UFO, the shape of a cigar and the
size of an airliner, in view and on their screens for 40 minutes. It was first
picked up 50 nautical miles north of Gorky,
Russia and
vanished about 25 nautical miles from the city. (Source: International UFO
Reporter, September-October 1984, p. 13, citing Popovich).
June 21, 1983; Dubno,
Ukraine
A wingless cigar-shaped object circled a strategic
nuclear facility at Dubno, Ukraine for 18 minutes. (Source:
Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13365, citing FSR, volume 37, no. 4).
June 23, 1983; North Sea of Japan
12:10 p.m. They (the Navy ship) were travelling in
formation with the aircraft carrier USS Midway and its battle group which
consisted with approximately 30 ships. At this point in time the USS Midway
radioed them and other ships in the battle group that they were tracking 5
unknown objects moving in a V formation from the coast of Russia and the
USS Midway just picked them up on their air search radar. (See details below)
July 6, 1983; Above the Polish coast
Daytime. Sighting of a Polish Air Force pilot and
co-pilot of a near collision with 2 cylindrical objects that were 6 meters long and a
diameter of 2 meters.
(Reference: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Eighty Years Of Pilot Sightings,
Catalog of Military, Airliner, Private Pilots sightings from 1916 to 2000
February 2001 edition 1300+ cases Dominique F. Weinstein)
Oct. 31, 1983; Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
5:10 PM. An F-5E interceptor was scrambled by the
Brazilian Air Force as many witnesses in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
reported a silvery spot maneuvering over city. The official explanation was
balloon, but UFO researchers in Brazil
don’t accept it as plausible. (Source: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, July 1984,
p. 1).
Dec. 12, 1983; Byron,
IL
A triangular flying object was sighted by three men.
It moved erratically and made no sound. It had blinking red and white lights.
Its erratic path was detected on FAA radar at the Greater Rockford, Illinois
airport. (Source: APRO Bulletin, September 1984, p. 8).”
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