UFO News Article: “UFOs Reported In LA Area”

23 March 1977

(The Times, San Mateo, California)

Source: NewspaperArchive.com

The whole article:

“Police, sheriff’s deputies, highway patrol officers and Air Force guards reported a rash of UFO sightings in Southern California — at least seven in a 9-hour period.

The law enforcement officers reported mysterious bright lights that hovered, cruised and zoomed in the skies over Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

All the sightings were reported Monday night [21 March 1977] and early Tuesday [22 March 1977].

A Los Angeles Sheriff’s helicopter crew — Raymond Davis, 39, and Theodore Roach, 40 — said they were about 600 feet over La Mirada Monday night when they observed two lights in the Whittier Hills area.

They tried to follow them at 80 miles an hour but the objects were faster.

About eight hours later, at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, security guards at March Air Force Base in the desert 50 miles east of Los Angeles reported mysterious bright lighted objects in the sky.

Nearby, two Highway Patrol officers, Robert Scholl and L. Orchard, noted in their log ‘a bright light with a vapour trail’ that hovered over the Box Springs Canyon area north of the air base in Riverside County.

At the same time and 50 miles to the west, Los Angeles [Sheriff’s] Deputies Lonnie Hicks, 28, and Robert Carr, 34, said they saw a bright light following another light through the sky over Firestone. A resident in the area called the sheriff’s station to report the same objects, deputies said.

About 10 minutes later and 12 miles to the south, Deputy John McSorley at the sheriff’s helicopter station at Long Beach reported two mysterious bright lights eastbound over the airfield.

Another 12 miles to the southwest, and five minutes later, two objects were reported by police in Huntington Beach.

About the same time, officers in Ventura County, some 60 miles to the northwest, reported similar sightings.

Sgt. Vincent Rupp, monitoring radio traffic at the East Los Angeles Sheriff’s Station, said there were many radio reports of such sightings between 3:45 and 4 a.m. in Southern California and some from as far away as Salinas.”

https://newspaperarchive.com/san-mateo-times-mar-23-1977-p-3/

Wikipedia article: “March Air Reserve Base”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“March Air Reserve Base (IATA: RIV, ICAO: KRIV, FAA LID: RIV) (March ARB), previously known as March Air Force Base (March AFB) is located in Riverside County, California between the cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley, and Perris. It is the home to the Air Force Reserve Command’s Fourth Air Force (4 AF) Headquarters and the host 452d Air Mobility Wing (452 AMW), the largest air mobility wing of the Fourth Air Force.[3] In addition to multiple units of the Air Force Reserve Command supporting Air Mobility Command, Air Combat Command and Pacific Air Forces, March ARB is also home to units from the Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, California Air National Guard and the California Army National Guard. For almost 50 years, March AFB was a Strategic Air Command base during the Cold War. The facility covers 2,075 acres (840 ha) of land.[2]”

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March Air Reserve Base, Riverside County, California 
(photograph by D. Ramey Logan) (wikimedia.org) 
(wikimedia.org photo)



March Air Reserve Base, Riverside County, California

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California county map (wikipedia.org)

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Map of California (lib.utexas.edu)

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UFO News Article: “To Check On Sightings Of UFOs In Pa.”

25 March 1977

(The Gettysburg Times, Pennsylvania)

Source: NewspaperArchive.com

The article reports on the UFO research work of Robert Cowell of Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Quote from the article:

“Because he is the closest to the area where the sightings were made, Cowell will travel this weekend to collect firsthand accounts of people who saw the UFO’s Saturday and Monday nights [19 and 21 March 1977].

FOLLOWED CAR

State Police Trooper Phillip Dale of the Punxsutawney barracks was dispatched Saturday to investigate a report from two frightened women who said a UFO followed their car at close range.

Dale told The Associated Press that he saw a ‘cream-colored bright light very low in the horizon.

‘I called the barracks, which was about 10 miles from where I was, and they told me they could see an object from there. I looked off in the direction they could have been looking and saw another object very high in the sky.

PULSATING LIGHTS

‘It appeared to rotate counterclockwise and had pulsating red and blue-green lights,’ Dale said.

Cowell said he is most impressed by Dale’s comments and by those of a police officer in Reynoldsville.

‘Police are trained to be qualified observers. When they see something that is unusual and report it, you have to believe them a little bit. After all, they can’t make things up and keep their jobs.”

My comment:

Once again – we have a case where a UFO follows a car with two women. See the below links to find two other news articles (both have UFO images) that describe the same scenario.

https://www.newspaperarchive.com/gettysburg-times-mar-25-1977-p-2/

Wikipedia article: “Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punxsutawney,_Pennsylvania

Wikipedia article: “Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynoldsville,_Pennsylvania

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Punxsutawney and Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania

(Photo: Google)

Location of Punxsutawney in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.

(Text: Wikipedia) (Image: wikimedia.org)

Location of Reynoldsville in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.

(Text: Wikipedia) (Image: wikimedia.org)

UFO News Article:
“Rash of UFO sightings in Southern California”,
23 March 1977 (St. Joseph News-Press, Missouri)

Police officers, sheriff’s deputies, highway patrol officers and
U.S. Air Force guards sighted UFOs over Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties on 21/22 March 1977, according to the St. Joseph News-Press:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KvJbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=01MNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1179,4705509

Quote from the article:
“About eight hours later, at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, security guards at March Air Force Base in the desert 50 miles east of Los Angeles reported mysterious brightly lighted objects in the sky.”














March Joint Air Reserve Base (formerly March Air Force Base),
Riverside County, California (March-ARB.jpg)
(inlandpolitics.com photo)

UFO Report: “The 1977 UFO Chronology”

Created: 15 August 2007

Updated: 4 March 2018

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This is currently a 24-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1977. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Richard Hall (the original 1977 chronology from UFOE II), William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]). The latest entries were provided by A-Team member Mike Swords. 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.

This is the year that the MADAR Project got its real test. Go to July 10th and listen to the datatape recording! There were seven detections of magnetic anomalies by the Multiple Anomaly Detection and Automated Recording system at my Mt. Vernon, Indiana facility, within a six week period! There were UFO sightings within 60 miles NW and 85 miles SW at the same time MADAR was triggered.

Finally, in November, I was invited by the press to view the motion picture ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ before it was officially released.

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

April 20, 1977 - CIA Memo Declassified

Memo from CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith to Director, Psychological Strategy Board, declassified 20 April 1977 (Good, Above Top Secret, 511)

May 1977; France. Groupe d'Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies (GEPAN) organized under the auspices of the French national space agency for the study of UFOs.

July 1, 1977; Aviano, Italy

3:00 AM. Electronic alarms suddenly sounded at the NATO base and then home to the 40th Tactical Group. Something had set off the magnetic and motion detectors in the high hurricane type fence protecting the Victor Alert compound, a facility that housed fighter aircraft, their crews, maintenance and support personnel. Simultaneously a power outage occurred at the Victor Alert facility, and though a back-up system immediately kicked in, minor power fluxes went on for the next 15 to 20 minutes. Soon security personnel were reporting a strange light display off to the northwest, off base, perhaps 200 meters beyond the fence line, over a soybean field. Luminous round object with dome hovered above a NATO base security zone, spinning; changed color, emitted sound like swarm of bees (NICAP UFOE II, NICAP UFOE II, Section II).

July 21, 1977; Porter, TX

4:15 AM. Officer John W. Bruner, a deputy sheriff, was on duty and was the first person to observe the phenomenon. Officer Bruner and his partner Officer Coogler were parked west of the object which appeared to be approximately 1/2 to 1 mile away. Bruner and Coogler got out of their vehicle and tried to observe the object better by shinning their light on it. The object moved toward the men and the officers turned off the light because they became nervous at seeing the object's response to their light. The object then moved back to its first location. The two officers concurred that the object appeared to have six portholes surrounding a type of framework. The two officers observed the UFO for approximately 45 minutes. During that time period, the UFO appeared to stand still in mid air, pulsated, traveled at incredible speeds and flew with erratic mobility. The officers described the UFO's apparent size to be about that of a grapefruit. Officer Bruner is convinced That the object he saw was not a balloon or a helicopter. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1977, page 4)

Aug. 28, 1977; Windermere, Cumbria, England

12:10 AM An on duty police officer PC IAN MACKENZIE observed two very bright horizontal lights in the vicinity of Langdale Pike that moved towards him and grew brighter. He ruled out any type of aircraft. At the same time PS JOHN McMULLEN also spotted the UFO from his location whilst walking through Keswick with three other officers. He described the object as being hang glider or diamond shaped. At 0020 hours PS JAMES TROHEAR and PC JOHN FISWICK also reported seeing the object from their position at the Fallbarrow Park Caravan Site on the shores of Lake Windermere. Other unnamed officers were also present at that location and saw the object. PS TROHEAR described the object as triangular or diamond shaped. At 0022 hours PC ALEXANDER INGLIS was driving home with three colleagues along the A591Keswick to Bothel road when they too caught sight of the lights. As the object approached them he pulled the car over to have a better look. Despite their efforts they could not make out a distinct shape of the object. All they could make out was two extremely bright lights attached to it and there was a faint purring noise associated with it. At 0025 hours PC JOSEPH MAW and a colleague spotted the object heading in the direction of Buttermere. It was traveling at a low altitude over the surrounding fells. At around the same time PC DAVID WILD spotted the UFO whilst out on foot patrol on the A592 Rayrigg Road to Bowness. He described it as kite shaped and that it was a very large structured craft. At 0030 hours a number of civilian witnesses also spotted the object. At the same time following a police radio request for officer sightings, two further officers, PS GEOFFREY MERCKEL and PC RONALD JONES observed the same UFO from their position at Skelwith Bridge on the A593 road. They described the object as being kite shaped as they watched it go out to sea over Morcambe Bay. Multiple police witness corroboration reported from several geographical locations. On and Off Duty sighting. 17 Officers (nine named plus a number of unspecified officers). Source - A Covert Agenda by Nick Redfern. Pocket Books 1998. Pages 131-132. (Reference: THE 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by Detective Constable 1877 HESELTINE British Transport Police )

Dec. 8, 1977; Los Angeles, CA

Four UFOs tracked on radar; bright, circular objects maneuvered around airliner (NICAP UFOE II, Section III).”

Quote from the Wikipedia article, “Porter, Texas”:

“Porter is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County in southeastern Texas within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.”

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1977fullrep.htm

Wikipedia article: “Aviano Air Base”:

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

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Satellite photo of Aviano, Italy (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

Map of Texas highlighting Montgomery County

(text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org image)

Satellite photo of Windermere, UK (tageo.com)

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UFO News Article: “UFOs Sighted In Two Counties”

25 March 1977

(Observer-Reporter, Washington, Pennsylvania)

The article reports on a March 1977 Jefferson and Clearfield Counties (Pennsylvania) UFO flap:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19770325&id=MnFiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EHcNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5599,3592462

Quote from the article:
“The 31-year-old (state police) trooper (Phillip Dale) then followed the second object about seven miles and watched it hover over a radio tower near Luthersburg.”

Satellite photo of Luthersburg, Pennsylvania (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

UFO Case Directory (RADCAT): “Object Tracked on Radar by B-1 Bomber March 29, 1977 FA - Pacific Ocean, W. of California”

(NICAP.org)

Text by NICAP.org:

“Fran Ridge:

3:22 PM. The document has been scanned and presented below and is listed as Case number 310 177. The details from the observer are in the pdf file below the first document.”

http://www.nicap.org/770329POceandir.htm

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A B-1B flying over the Pacific Ocean (text by Wikipedia)
(wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)

UFO News Article:
“UFO hunters gaining respect, says authority”,
24 March 1977 (Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Washington)

The Tri-City Herald interviewed Dr. J. Allen Hynek on the same day he held a UFO lecture at Kennewick High School:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3G4tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wokFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2523,7303745

The lecture was called “UFO Close Encounters.”









Dr. J. Allen Hynek, U.S. Astronomer, the U.S. Air Force's Scientific Consultant on UFOs (1948-1969) & UFO Researcher

UFO News Article:
“Pilots report UFO's”, 
15 January 1978 
(The Gadsden Times, Alabama)

Article on the three UFO sightings made by Gustavo Ferreira, senior pilot for the Colombian airline Avianca:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=f34jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SdYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1170,2253920

Gustavo Ferreira sighted a UFO over San Andres Island, Colombia on 10 March 1977. The UFO disappeared at a 45-degree angle straight down towards the sea, according to the pilot.

The article also reports on the UFO sighting made by helicopter pilot Captain Lawrence Coyne (U.S. Army Reserves) and his crew over Mansfield, Ohio on 18 October 1973, at 11:05 p.m. and the Travis Walton case.

















Satellite photo of San Andres Island, Colombia
(hiltonpond.org photo)

UFO News Article: “Top officer backs UFO ‘plot’ claim”

4 September 1995

(The Press and Journal, Aberdeen, UK)

Source: BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk

The whole article:

“ONE of Britain’s highest-ranking military officers is backing a claim that the Government is concealing evidence of an unidentified flying object.

In a book A Deadly Concealment, to be published next year, author Derek Sheffield tells how on March 30, 1990, four [NATO] air defence radar stations, three in Belgium and one in Germany, tracked a fast-moving triangular craft across Western Europe.

At one stage, it came within six minutes of entering UK airspace, he claims.

Two F-16 fighters from the Belgian Air Force were scrambled to intercept the target but could not keep up with it.

Mr Sheffield says the Ministry of Defence denies any knowledge of the incident despite his claims that British-based tracking stations would automatically have been alerted.

That view is shared by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton, who between 1974 and 1977 was the chairman of [NATO’s] military Committee.

Lord Hill-Norton said: ‘The fact is that, if these European tracking stations detected a UFO, two fighters were sent up to intercept it and it came to be six minutes from British airspace, there is no doubt in my mind that the UK air defence organisation would automatically know about it.’ ”

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19950904/059/0006

Wikipedia article: “NATO”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, /ˈneɪtoʊ/; French: Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 North American and European countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.[3][4] NATO constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. NATO’s Headquarters are located in Evere, Brussels, Belgium, while the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Mons, Belgium.”

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The late Admiral of the Fleet Baron (Peter John) Hill-Norton

(in 1962), former Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) of the

United Kingdom and former Chairman of the NATO Military

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Map of Belgium (vidiani.com)

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