UFO News Article: “Ripples: 3 Somers Point 6th-Graders Have Strange Encounter”

18 December 1981

(The Press of Atlantic City, New Jersey)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se

The whole article (Page 1):

“Three Somers Point students can tell you what a UFO looks like.

The children, in fact, have become something of an authority on such phenomena – because they saw one.

The three were privileged to observe – at close range – what can be described as a strange airborne object.

It did indeed hover for a while over the car in which they were riding.

And since all three agree to the letter on its dimensions and appearance – ergo, there really are such things, right here in Somers Point.

Bill Hawthorne, art instructor at the Jordan Road School in Somers Point, did some investigating into the incident. ‘One of the children told me what she had seen,’ explained Hawthorne. ‘Then another in the group also began to tell me about the strange thing which followed their car here on Bala Drive,’ said Hawthorne. By this time he was interested enough to have all the students draw a picture of the UFO which they had seen earlier this month. Amazingly, the pictures matched. ‘They drew them separately, with no knowledge of what the other two had drawn,’ said Hawthorne.

The sixth-graders who saw the object were: Jennifer Montgomery, Michele Frisko and Patti Meyers.

A credible witness confirms the children’s stories. Sixth grade teacher Lillian Frisko was the driver of the car which attracted the brightly lit UFO. She was taking the girls to a gymnastics event, and earthly traffic can be difficult enough without being distracted by an unidentified flying object. Hawthorne, being thorough in his investigation, requested Frisko also to draw the object she had seen – and it corresponded exactly with the others.

Summing up, the Somers Point UFO was disc-shaped in appearance, and colored orange. The four agreed there was a row of lights across the bottom – and it paused and moved at the same pace and in the same direction as the car.

‘We checked around and there seems to be no scientific explanation,’ said Hawthorne. ‘We’re surprised no one else seems to have seen it.”

My comment: The article does not mention when the UFO incident occurred. It is possible the incident occurred in December 1981.

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201982%2003%20-%20no%20152.pdf

Wikipedia article: “Somers Point, New Jersey”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somers_Point,_New_Jersey

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Map of Somers Point in Atlantic County. Inset: Location of

Atlantic County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

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Census Bureau map of Somers Point, New Jersey

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UFO News Article: “Oakland policeman reports seeing UFO”

3 March 1982

(Central Maine Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se

The whole article (Page 6):

“Anyone unlucky enough to be up at 4:50 a.m. Monday (1 March 1982) when thermometers around Oakland registered from 20 to 28 below zero had the opportunity for a reward of a sort — an unidentified flying object.

Two Oakland men, one an Oakland police officer who was on duty at the time, have reported seeing an unexplained light in the sky between Messalonskee Lake and the Waterville Country Club.

Police Sgt. Ralph Sabins reported the sighting in the police log as occurring at 4:50 a.m. March 1. His official description listed the light, which was brighter than any of the stars or planets visible, as being over Messalonskee Lake as sighted from the Country Club Road.

He reported it hovered there before heading toward the northeast (over his head) without any discernible engine noise. When the light passed overhead, power lines shook and fluttered even though there was no wind, Sabins wrote.

Dan Savage, leaving his house to go get breakfast before opening his variety store in Oakland reported a similar experience. He said he was out in front of his house at 4:55 a.m. Monday when he noticed the bright light in the sky and assumed at first it was an ‘airplane or something.’

When it dropped down at a 45 degree angle and then went off straight, parallel to the horizon, he knew it wasn’t a plane. ‘There was no noise, no sound,’ he said, even though it was cold, clear and still that he could hear the frozen trees popping and crackling along the edge of the lake.

He said he watched it head off over Libby Hill toward where Sabins had observed it from, and that he was mystified by the fact that it was so quiet. ‘I’ve seen falling stars,’ he said, adding that his certainly wasn’t one. He described it as being a lot brighter than any of the stars that morning.

Savage said that later in the day a woman was in his store, Dan’s Variety, when she asked if anyone had noticed anything strange at about 5 a.m. She told Savage that her house had begun to make funny creaking noises at that time and wondered if another tremor or earthquake had occurred.

Savage mentioned his sighting at a local breakfast restaurant immediately after he saw it, and, after getting a few raised eyebrows from other patrons, he found that Sabins, who was at the counter, had just seen the same thing.”

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201982%2004%20-%20no%20153.pdf

Wikipedia article: “Oakland, Maine”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland,_Maine

Wikipedia article: “Messalonskee Lake”:

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

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Picture of Messalonskee Lake’s northern-most bay in summer.

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UFO News Article: “Vermont’s encounter: UFO or aurora borealis?”

4 February 1982

(Boston Herald-American (now Boston Herald), Massachusetts)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se

The whole article (Page 3):

“Were three bright yellow objects from outer space holding maneuvers in the skies over this Connecticut River town (Windsor, Vermont) Tuesday night (2 February 1982)? Or were the mysterious lights, spotted by two policemen and a handful of people, just a part of the aurora borealis?

Police Sgt. Richard Polland, 47, a 14-year veteran of the force, said he spotted a ‘bright, yellow cylindrical object’ in the sky over a ridge near the river about 6:15 p.m.

‘I notified my office and learned one of my officers, David LaPlante, was also watching it,’ Polland said.

‘We watched it for four-five minutes. Suddenly, it shrunk down to the size of a star and sped away.’

A few minutes later Polland saw two bright lights over the same area. ‘They were maneuvering around. One trailed the other, came up beside it and then went under it.

‘Then one took off to the west and the other to the south,’ Polland said.

A short time later the two ‘objects’ repeated the process, he said.

Thomas Murphy also spotted the lights from his home here. ‘It just glowed. I was amazed . . . I’ve never seen an airplane or a helicopter move that fast. It was nothing like an airplane. I wanted so much for it to come closer, I’ll be watching again tonight.’

National Weather Service officials in Burlington said the aurora borealis, or northern lights, which have been bright all week, might deserve credit for such a spectacular light show over Windsor.

But Polland, who served three years with the military in Alaska, discounts that theory. ‘It was definitely not the aurora borealis. I’m very familiar with that.’

Polland added: ‘I don’t know what it was. People a lot smarter than I am are trying to figure it out.’

The local police received four or five calls from residents who said they saw the mysterious lights in the sky and the officers said they would report the sightings to the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill.”

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201982%2003%20-%20no%20152.pdf

Wikipedia article: “Windsor, Vermont”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor,_Vermont

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UFO News Article: “Police Spot More UFOs Over Windsor”

4 March 1982

(Valley News, Lebanon, New Hampshire)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se

The whole article (Page 2):

“Unidentified colored lights were again seen in the sky over town last night (3 March 1982), according to the police.

Deatails [sic] this morning were sketchy, but a police dispatcher said two officers and two firemen saw colored lights, shaped in a ‘V’ in the western sky about 11:30 p.m.

The officers, William Heinz and Ronald Walker, were patrolling on Hunt Hill Road when the colored lights caught their attention, according to the dispatcher.

The lights were also seen by firefighters Ralph Burnham and William Seeley, according to the police.

In all, three sightings were reported; from Hunt Hill Road, the Grand Union parking lot and the Windsor police station. The police and firefighters could not be reached this morning for details of last night’s sighting.

According to the police dispatcher, the description of last night’s UFO matched stories of sightings reported over Windsor last month. On Feb. 2, five UFOs were spotted hovering over the east side of town. In both incidents, observers saw colored lights arranged in a ‘V’ shape.

No explanation has been found for the February sightings, and last night’s lights remained a mystery this morning.”

My comment: On numerous occasions – we have seen that UFOs sometimes return to an area a second time (or multiple times) within a few hours, days or weeks.

NOTE: I have corrected this blog post. I initially thought the UFO incident had occurred in Windsor, New Hampshire. This is not the case. It occurred in Windsor, Vermont.

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201982%2005%20-%20no%20154.pdf

Wikipedia article: “Windsor, Vermont”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor,_Vermont

Imus Geographics (U.S.A.) map:

http://www.imusgeographics.com/usa-maps

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U.S. Government UFO Document: “PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD: DATE - TIME GROUP: 4 Feb 53 LOCATION: Yuma City, Ariz.”

(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the document:

“A civilian weather observer while using a theodolite to find his lost balloon sighted two solid white oblong objs. Source states that objs moved too fast to be balloons. There were jet a/c in the vicinity.”

Project Blue Book listed the case as “UNIDENTIFIED.”

http://www.nicap.org/docs/530204yuma_docs1.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/reports/530204yuma_report.htm

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UFO Case Directory (Distant Encounters): “Theoolite [Theodolite] Tracking of Two Elliptical Objects Feb. 4, 1953 Yuma County, Arizona”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Fran Ridge:

This report is case #26, on the official clearance list of 41 formerly classified Air Technical Intelligence UFO reports cleared for Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe by Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk.

Brad Sparks:

Feb. 4, 1953; Yuma County Airport, Arizona (BBU 2388)

At 1355 M.S.T., Stanley H. Brown, a Meteorological Aid employed with the United States Weather Bureau, and private pilot, while using a theodolite to follow a pilot balloon saw an object going upward and curving to the west. About 20 seconds after sighting the first object a second object came into the field of view. The first object flew to the west, while the second object swooped across or near the path of the first object three or four times. The two objects were observed through the 32 power theodolite for a period of 5 minutes. The objects were almost round, a solid, dull, pure white color, with a thin white mist completely edging each object. (Project Blue Book files)”

NICAP.org presents U.S. government (Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force) documents that pertain to the UFO case.

The UFO incident occurred in Yuma City, Arizona, according to the Project Blue Book documents.

http://www.nicap.org/530204yuma_dir.htm

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UFO News Article: “Airman Chases ‘Flying Saucer’ ”

2 February 1953

(The Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, Australia)

Source: Trove, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

The whole article:
“A Marine jet fighter pursued a ‘flying saucer’ for 25 miles near Santa Ana, Southern California (on 28 January 1953). 

The Marine Corps said that the pilot reported that the saucer was a ‘fiery object.’

Later four other flying saucers were reported seen in the area by a photographer and two pilots of the Northrop Aircraft Company.

They said the ‘saucers’ were flying in formation at an estimated altitude of 20,000ft.”

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49252111

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UFO News Article: “Objects in Sky Seen at Lock”

21 February 1947

(The Transcontinental, Port Augusta, Australia)

Source: Trove, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

The whole article:

“Writing in The Advertiser, Mr. F. W. Flavel of Lock, Eyre Peninsula, states: ‘I saw objects in the sky between 7 and 8 o’clock the same day (5 February 1947) as you received a report from Port Augusta. I was walking in a north-westerly direction to the house after feeding the pigs. There were five of the strange objects and they seemed to be coming up out of the sea, like a shadow with smoky greyish color around them. ‘They were oblong with narrow points. I saw them quite plainly. They seemed to be floating in the air from north-west to south-east and caused a shadow.’ ”

This appears to be an unidentified submerged object (USO)/UFO incident.

Lock is located 78 kilometres (48 miles) south west of the town of Kimba, according to Google Earth.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168306564

Wikipedia article: “Lock, South Australia”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock,_South_Australia

Wikipedia article: “Eyre Peninsula”:

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

“Map of Eyre Peninsula, SA” (bonzle.com):

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UFO News Article: “Objects in Sky Not Meteorites – OPINION OF GOVERNMENT ASTRONOMER”

14 February 1947

(The Transcontinental, Port Augusta, Australia)

Source: Trove, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

The whole article:

“Commenting on a report from Port Augusta that several men working in the yard at the Commonwealth Railways workshops at about 9 a.m. on Wednesday (5 February 1947) of last week, had seen five strang [sic] egg shaped objects in formation, pass across the sky at a height of about 6,000 feet, the Government Astronomer (Mr. G. F. Dodwell) said that the phenomenon did not fit in with anything astronomical and was a complete mystery to him.

Mr. Dodwell discounted the probability of the objects being meteorites. He said that meteorites, being very small, and travelling at such high speeds, did not cast shadows, whereas the objects which passed over Port Augusta did. The presence of falling meteorites would have been accompanied by a deafening roar.”

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168306511

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UFO News Articles: “List: UFO’s And ‘Flying Saucers’ in the Australian Print Media”

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

Quote from the web page:

“A collection of Reports on UFO and Flying Saucer Sightings, Explainations [sic], and Theories which have been published in the Australian press.

132 items

created by: jamierussell on 2010-11-21 21:50:14.0”

The articles cover the years 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=3265

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UFO Report: “1951 UFO Chronology”

Created: 2 January 2006

Updated: 29 April 2017
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This chronology is currently a 20-page report. I want to thank all the members of the A-Team who made this possible. Finally, but certainly not least, I want to thank Loren Gross for thoughtfully and diligently collecting data many years ago for his UFO Histories and supplemental notes, in particular here the year 1951. A big thanks to CUFOS and Mary Castnor for housing them on the CUFOS site …

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

Feb. 9 (not 10th), 1951; off Newfoundland, Canada

On the night of the UFO encounter, a four engine Navy R5D transport was flying west over the Atlantic. On this trip the 30-year-old pilot was bringing two flight crews home from special duty in Europe. Including his own crew there were over twenty-five pilots, navigators and flight engineers aboard the transport. The National Archives turned up a number of supporting documents on this case, including Air Intelligence Information Reports by five of the crew members. Although it isn’t documented, reports indicate the object was tracked by ground radar. (NICAP, BB, Dan Wilson)

Feb. 21, 1951; Bt. Newfoundland and Iceland (BB)

3:00 AM. The Incident #26 report describes the event in more detail. Lt. George Williams was piloting a Navy Fleet Logistics airplane cruising at 10,000 feet. At first he thought the object was a ship and then called the copilot forward. Nine witnesses saw the object approach at terrific closing rate. It veered to their port side and hovered momentarily, then rose at extremely rapid rate and disappeared off their port quarter. Size was estimated at 200 feet in diameter, flat elliptical or cigar shaped by side view and seemed to be producing a ring of red-orange exhaust all along the edge. (Jan Aldrich, Project Interloper report).”

UFO incidents involving U.S. military personnel occurred thick and fast in 1951.

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm

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The Graham E. Bethune Case, 9 [not 10] February 1951, 

off Newfoundland, Canada (nicap.org image)

Map of Canada (canada-maps.org)

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U.S. Government UFO Document: “NAVAL MESSAGE”

10 February 1951

(U.S. Navy, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

The document pertains to the 9 February 1951 Lieutenant Graham E. Bethune UFO incident. Bethune was the pilot of the R5D Navy transport airplane.

The whole document (not written in U.S. Department of Defense document format):

“VR-1 PILOTS OFF LIGHT N-125 ENROUTE KEFLAVIK TO ARGENTIA ON COURSE 225 TRUE AT 10000 FEET REPORTED AN UNIDENTIFIED RED AND YELLOW OBJECT AT 100055Z INITIALLY BEARING 060 RELATIVE. OBJECT APPEARED TO BE CLOSE TO SURFACE. SHAPE INDEFINITE WHEN FIRST SIGHTED LATER APPEARING CIRCULAR. DIAMETER ESTIMATED IN EXCESS 400 FEET. OBJECT APPROACHED PLANE TURNED AND DISAPPEARED OVER HORIZON ON COURSE 290 TRUE AT TREMENDOUS SPEED. 100055Z POSITION LATITUDE 49-50 NORTH LONG 50-03 WEST. SIGHTING REPORTED TO GANDER ATC PLAIN LANGUAGE.”

The document was sent from Naval Station Argentia, Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada.

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Wikipedia article: “Naval Station Argentia”:

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

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