UFO Report: “The 1988 UFO Chronology”

Created: 15 July 2008

Updated: 9 December 2016

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This is currently a 9-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1988. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to Richard Hall (the original 1988 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). 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.

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

Feb.16, 1988; Rosehill area of Willenhall, England

Time not given. Two police officers saw a very large spinning oval-shaped UFO with flashing red and green lights around its circumference in the Rosehill area of Willenhall, England. It made no sound and flew off quickly toward the southeast. Two more cops saw the same or a similar UFO from Walsall. Their reports were sent to the Ministry of Defence. (Sources: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 10, citing Nicholas Redfern, A Covert Agenda, p. 165; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 23).

March 4, 1988; Eastlake, OH

8:35 p.m. local. Coast Guard witnesses, large illuminated ellipse hovering over Lake Erie, landing on ice. Smaller triangular objects emerged, zipped around independently (UFO Evidence II, Section I).

March 12, 1988; Edwards AFB (near), CA

Ground radar case.”

My comment: The 24 January 1988 Gulf Breeze, Florida, case has been exposed as a hoax by several well-known UFO researchers.

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1988fullrep.htm

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Satellite photo of Eastlake, Ohio (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

Aerial view of Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, California

(wikimedia.org photo)

Satellite photo of Willenhall, UK (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

Website Searches: Focus On UFO News Articles From the Years 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991

Website: Trove (National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia):

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1987-01-01&dateTo=1987-12-31

(Search term: UFO 1987)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1987-01-01&dateTo=1987-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1987)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1988-01-01&dateTo=1988-12-31

(UFO 1988)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1988-01-01&dateTo=1988-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1988)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1989-01-01&dateTo=1989-12-31

(UFO 1989)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1989-01-01&dateTo=1989-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1989)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1990-01-01&dateTo=1990-12-31

(UFO 1990)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1990-01-01&dateTo=1990-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1990)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1991-01-01&dateTo=1991-12-31

(UFO 1991)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1991-01-01&dateTo=1991-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1991)

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(National Library of Australia/wikimedia.org image)

UFO Interview (Partial Transcript): “Interview of Witnesses to Eastlake UFO March 4, 1988”

Copyright 1988, Richard P. Dell’Aquila and Dale B. Wedge

(NICAP.org)

Text by NICAP.org:

“On March 26, 1988, two civilian witnesses to the Eastlake UFOs (W1 and her husband W2) who were on the beach with the Coast Guard March 4, 1988 were interviewed. The following is a partial transcript of that interview, conducted by Dale Wedge (DW) and Rick Dell’Aquila (RD). Several other witnesses have also been [interviewed] and photographic evidence has been obtained. To date, however, the Coast Guard has refused further information or interviews of its personnel concerning the UFO sighting that night near the CEI electric power plant. The investigation continues.”

http://www.nicap.org/reports/880304eastlake_interview.htm

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Satellite photo of Eastlake, Ohio (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

UFO Case Directory (Close Encounters): “Eastlake Close Encounter March 4, 1988 Eastlake, Ohio”

(NICAP.org)

“Fran Ridge:

March 4, 1988; Eastlake, Ohio

8:35 p.m. local. This is a very interesting close encounter and one of FUFOR’s top cases. And, this one may have a nuclear connection. A huge, gunmetal gray, football-shaped object that was rocking back and forth was first observed by five people. Then the object began moving; swinging one end toward the shore and descending. The witnesses became frightened, ran back to their car and fled. When they got home, the object was still visible from a window that faced the lake. The object moved out over the ice and continued to descend, with red and blue lights now flashing in sequence along its lower edge. At one point triangular objects darted around the parent craft, then headed east toward the Perry nuclear power plant. One witness called the Eastlake police to report a UFO, and was finally referred to the Coast Guard. Coast Guard personnel saw the object and reported that it appeared to be landing on the lake.”

NICAP.org presents a U.S. government (U.S. Coast Guard) document that pertains to the case.

http://www.nicap.org/880304eastlake_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “United States Coast Guard”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Perry Nuclear Generating Station”:

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

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Satellite photo of Eastlake, Ohio (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

Perry [Nuclear Generating Station] as seen from Headlands Beach

State Park, Ohio (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org)

(wikimedia.org photo)

Perry Nuclear Generating Station, North Perry, Ohio

(Photo: Google)

UFO Case Report (E-mail): “Subject: MacMillan Pass, NWT/Yukon Border, Canada, Mid July 1988”

By Joan Woodward, Animal Reaction Specialist, 4 April 2006

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Animal Reaction Feature:

Three men were transporting horses in a high-sided, open topped truck to the MacMillan Pass summit. Arriving in the afternoon at the unloading site, one of the men took his camera and walked 600 feet or so away to take a photograph of mountains to the south. As he looked through the viewfinder he heard an extremely loud fluttering sound approaching from behind and above.

After getting a photograph of the object, the witness ran toward the truck. The horses, not yet unloaded, were panicked. They were trying to jump out of the truck, and the two ‘outfitters’ were desperately trying to calm them and to keep them from injuring themselves. Eventually the horses did calm. The outfitters did not see the unknown object, but commented that they had never before seen the horses react in this way.

The Sighting:

When the witness heard the loud sound approaching behind and above him (putting the unknown about 600-700 feet from the horses), he kept one eye on the viewfinder and caught a glimpse of the object passing above him out of the corner of his other eye. Then, almost instantly, he caught the object in the viewfinder as it rapidly flew over the valley in front of him. It appeared to slow, and he snapped a picture.  The object wavered and turned to the right and accelerated. It became silent as it changed direction. It disappeared into the distance flying up the valley.

Martin Jasek analyzed the photograph, which shows an object with a domed top and a rectangular-looking bottom.* Jasek’s calculated angular size of the object in the photograph is 0.28° (0.55 moon diameter).

Duration of the sighting was in seconds.  The unknown’s altitude when over the witness’s head was estimated as 1500-1800 feet. The peak visually nearest the unknown object (in the photograph) is about 4000 m (13,000 feet) away (email, Jasek to Woodward, March 22, 2006 and April 20, 2006).

No EM or physiological effects were reported.

Source:

Jasek, Martin, 2001, UFO Photographed at MacMillan Pass, Horses go Ballistic near the NWT/Yukon Border, Mid July 1988:  online at

http://www.ufobc.ca/yukon/macpassufophoto.htm

NOTE: Both MacMillan and Macmillan are used in Canada, according to a Google search.

http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-880700.htm

Wikipedia article: “Macmillan Pass Airport”:

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

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UFO at MacMillan Pass, near the NWT/Yukon border, Canada,

Mid July 1988 (Photo: ufobc.ca/NICAP.org)

Macmillan (MacMillan) Pass Airport, Yukon, Canada
(Photo: Google)

U.S. Government UFO Document: “SUBJ: INCIDENT REPORT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS”

5 March 1988

(U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

The whole document (not written in U.S. Department of Defense document format) (text provided by NICAP.org):

“COG: INFO

COPIES CPC DCS DGP DPA B M O OLE OSR 9 FP D9AW D9 AW DE ISN-FP021 P 051405Z MAR 88

FM COGARD STA FAIRPORT OH//CO//

TO AW/COMCOGARDGRU DETROIT MI//OPS// INFO D9/CCGDNINE CLEVELAND OH//OSR// BT UNCLAS //N16144//

SUBJ: INCIDENT REPORT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

1. UNIDENTIFIABLE FLYING OBJECTS 1/4 MILE EAST OF CEI POWER PLANT.

2. AT 2035 [4 March 1988] LCL THIS STATION RCVD A CALL FROM [Name deleted] RPTNG A LARGE OBJECT HOVERING OVER THE LAKE AND APPARENTLY ON A SLOW DECENT. THE OBJECT HAD A WHITE LIGHT AND WAS APPROX. 1/4 MILE UP. [Deleted] WAS UNABLE TO DETERMINE HOW FAR OUT IT WAS. THIS UNIT SENT 2 CREWMEMBERS TO INVESTIGATE. BEFORE THEY ARRIVED O/S, WE RCVD 2 MORE CALLS RPTNG THAT THE OBJECT HAD APPARENTLY DISPERSED 3-5 SMALLER FLYING OBJECTS THAT WERE ZIPPING AROUND RATHER QUICKLY. THESE OBJECTS HAD RED, GREEN, WHITE AND YELLOW LIGHTS ON THEM THAT STROBED INTERMITTENTLY. THEY ALSO HAD THE ABILITY TO STOP AND HOVER IN MID-FLIGHT. WHEN MOBILE 02 GO O/S, THEY RPTD THE SAME ACTIVITY. THEY WATCHED THE OBJECTS FOR APPROX. 1 HOUR BEFORE RPTNG THAT THE LARGE OBJECT WAS ALMOST ON THE ICE. THEY RPTD THAT THE ICE WAS CRACKING AND MOVING ABNORMAL AMOUNTS AS THE OBJECT CAME CLOSER TO IT. THE ICE WAS RUMBLING AND THE OBJECT LIT MULTI-COLOR LIGHTS AT EACH END AS IT APPARENTLY LANDED. THE LIGHTS ON IT WENT OUT MOMENTARILY AND THEN CAME ON AGAIN. THEY WENT OUT AGAIN AND THE RUMBLING STOPPED AND THE ICE STOPPED MOVING. THE SMALLER OBJECTS BEGAN HOVERING IN THE AREA WHERE THE LARGE OBJECT LANDED AND AFTER A FEW MINUTES THEY BEGAN FLYING AROUND AGAIN. MOBILE 02 RPTD THAT THEY APPEARED TO BE SCOUTING THE AREA. MOBILE 02 RPTD THAT 1 OBJECT WAS MOVING TOWARD THEM AT A HIGH SPEED AND LOW TO THE ICE. MOBILE 02 BACKED DOWN THE HILL THEY HAD BEEN ON AND WHEN THEY WENT BACK TO THE HILL, THE OBJECT WAS GONE. THEY RPTD THAT THE OBJECTS COULD NOT BE SEEN IF THEY TURNED OFF THERE LIGHTS. ONE OF THE SMALL OBJECTS TURNED ON A SPOTLIGHT WHERE THE LARGE OBJECT HAD BEEN BUT MOBILE 02 COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING, AND THEN THE OBJECT SEEMED TO DISAPPEAR. ANOTHER OBJECT APPROACHED MOBILE 02 APPROX. 500 YDS. OFFSHORE ABOUT 20 FT. ABOVE THE ICE, AND IT BEGAN MOVING CLOSER AS MOBILE 02 BEGAN FLASHING ITS HEADLIGHTS, THEN IT MOVED OFF TO THE WEST.

3. THE CREWMEMBERS WERE UNABLE TO IDENTIFY ANY OF THE OBJECTS USING BINOCULARS AND AFTER CONTACTING LOCAL POLICE AND AIRPORTS, THIS UNIT WAS UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE OBJECTS, AND RECALLED MOBILE 02.BTTOR-03:05:14:44”

http://www.nicap.org/docs/880304eastlake_docs.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/reports/880304eastlake_docs.htm

Wikipedia article: “United States Coast Guard”:

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

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(wikimedia.org image)

Satellite photo of Eastlake, Ohio (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

UFO Video Report:
“UFOs: Facing the Contradiction”, 1988

This is a video report regarding an alleged UFO landing trace incident that occurred in Spalding, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1988:

http://saskfiles.com/1988.html

Spalding is situated 148 kilometres (92 miles) east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (north of Quill Lakes).






















Map of Saskatchewan, Canada (freeworldmaps.net)
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UFO TV News Report: The 20 January 1988 Nullarbor UFO Incident

(Unknown date)

(Unknown TV channel)

Source: QUFOSR (YouTube channel)

The UFO incident occurred between Madura and Mundrabilla

(the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia) on 20 January 1988,

at 5:30 a.m. (according to The Age and 7 News).

The UFO was also sighted by other persons who were driving on the highway.

The crews on board two fishing trawlers off the Nullarbor Plain sighted the same or a similar UFO.

Madura is situated 114 kilometres (71 miles) west of Mundrabilla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PstRjA3JKI4

Wikipedia article: “Nullarbor Plain”:

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

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Satellite photo of Mundrabilla, Australia (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

Google Website Searches: Focus On “Revista UFO” (Brazil)

(Revista UFO (Brazilian UFO Magazine), Campo Grande, Brazil)

A. J. Gevaerd is editor of the magazine.

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1988+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição (Issue) 1988 (Revista UFO Issues 1988) site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1989+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1989 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1990+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1990 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1991+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1991 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1992+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1992 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1993+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1993 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1994+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1994 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1995+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1995 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1996+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1996 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1997+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1997 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1998+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1998 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+1999+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 1999 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2000+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2000 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2001+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2001 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2002+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2002 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2003+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2003 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2004+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2004 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2005+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2005 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2006+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2006 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2007+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2007 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2008+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2008 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2009+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2009 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2010+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2010 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2011+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2011 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2012+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2012 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2013+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2013 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2014+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2014 site:ufo.com.br)

https://www.google.no/search?q=Edição+2015+site:ufo.com.br

(Edição 2015 site:ufo.com.br)

A. J. Gevaerd,
Founder and Editor of
Revista UFO (Brazilian UFO Magazine) &
UFO Researcher
(paradigmresearchgroup.org photo)

UFO News Articles: “UFO was after us, says Perth woman”/ “The ‘visitors’ make a UFO expert’s day”

22 January 1988

(The Age, Melbourne, Australia)

The articles report on the Knowles family UFO encounter.

On 20 January 1988, at 5:30 a.m. (according to The Age and 
7 News), Faye Knowles and her sons, Patrick, Sean and Wayne, encountered a UFO while they were driving between Madura and Mundrabilla (the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia).

“The ‘visitors’ make a UFO expert’s day” reports on the UFO research work of Colin Norris.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19880122&id=uZNVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BZcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6197,495314

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Satellite photo of Mundrabilla, Australia (tageo.com)

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