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]).”
(tageo.com photo)
