UFO/UAP Event Chronology, Part 5: 1980 to Present, v1.46 - Compiled 10/3/2023
An automated compilation by Richard Geldreich, Jr. using public data from Dr. Jacques Vallée,
Pea Research, George M. Eberhart,
Richard H. Hall, Dr. Donald A. Johnson,
Fred Keziah, Don Berliner,
Larry Hatch, NICAP, Thomas R. Adams, George D. Fawcett, Chris Aubeck, Philip L. Rife, Richard Dolan, Jérôme Beau, Godelieve Van Overmeire, and an anonymous individual or group.
Some non-summarized events fall under one of these copyrights:
- Richard Geldreich, Jr. - Copyright (c) 2023 (events marked "maj2" unless otherwise attributed)
- Dr. Jacques F. Vallée - Copyright (c) 1993
- LeRoy Pea - Copyright (c) 9/8/1988 (updated 3/17/2005)
- George M. Eberhart - Copyright (c) 2022
- Dr. Donald A. Johnson - Copyright (c) 2012
- Fred Keziah - Copyright (c) 1958
- Larry Hatch - Copyright (c) 1992-2002
- Thomas R. Adams - Copyright (c) 1991
- Richard Dolan - Copyright (c) 2002
- Jérôme Beau - Copyright (c) 2000-2023
Update History:
- v1.46: Adding ~3700 events, translated from the French chronology Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI by Belgian ufologist Godelieve Van Overmeire, 1935-2021. Note these events are from the old HTML version on archive.org, not the larger (10k event) PDF version. It is unclear if these events are copyrighted. I didn’t see a copyright in either the HTML or PDF versions.
- v1.43: Added ~3160 events, translated from a French chronology to English using OpenAI, from rr0.org. I believe this chronology was composed by Jérôme Beau. Its license is here.
- v1.40: Added digitized events/newspaper clippings from Frank Scully’s papers at the American Heritage Center in Laramie, WY, summarized the events from the timeline on the Disclosure Diaries website, and added more misc. events. Fixed auto-translation issue in the search page.
- v1.38: Added a client-side search engine. There are a bunch of features I’m going to add to this engine, for now it can only search for keywords in the desc, location and and reference fields.
- v1.37: Updated intro text, added total number of events to each event year, added a few 1800’s events.
- v1.36: Extracted and summarized the events in the book It Didn’t Start with Roswell by Philip L. Rife. Also extracted the military UFO events from Richard Dolan’s book UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973.
- v1.34: Added more modern events, 1917 Mystery Airplane newspaper articles.
- v1.33: More events: Events from George D. Fawcett, short AI summaries of Stringfield’s 1978 MUFON symposium presentation, and short AI summaries of the pre-industrial era sighting events from the book Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times.
- v1.30: Added 203 Mystery Helicopter/mutilation related events (1970’s-1980’s) compiled by author/researcher Thomas R. Adams (1945-2015) (or see here), from his book The Choppers - and the Choppers, Mystery Helicopters and Animal Mutilations, minor fixes
- v1.28: Added KWIC (Key Word in Context) index.
- v1.27: Imported Anonymous PDF’s contents, originally from here, with fixed URL’s
- v1.23-1.24: Added a handful of key historical events, such as Edward Tauss the head of CIA UFO disinformation in the 50’s
- v1.22: Fixing the date of Dr. Eric W. Davis’s March, 2020 classified briefing to the Senate (I had it listed as March 2019) - info from NY Times. Basic locations added to Eberhart records using OpenAI.
- v1.20: Split up into 5 parts, to work around iPhone web browser limits. Minor spelling and grammer fixes throughout timeline.
- v1.15: Eberhart records now have basic locations, thanks to OpenAI’s Davinci-3 AI model. They aren’t perfect, but it’s a good start to geocoding them.
- v1.14: Added nuclear test data, over 2000 records, from the Worldwide Nuclear Explosions paper by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards. Note the locations in the paper are approximate, and the yields are not super accurate, which are two problems I’ll fix over time. I improved the coordinates of the earliest USA/USSR tests by looking them up from Wikipedia.
- v1.13: Split up the timeline into 4 parts. Still not the best solution, but it avoids croaking browsers.
- v1.12: Added *U* database record data, using a custom event description decoder to handle his 1k+ abbreviations and custom syntax
- v1.11: Crawled all ~10.5k unique URL’s in this timeline using curl and fixed dead URL’s to use archive.org.
- v1.10: Added NICAP DB data.
Important Notes:
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I’ve split up the timeline into 4 parts, to reduce their sizes: distant past up to 1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1979, and 1980-present.
The majority of the events in this chronology are sighting related, however it’s important to be aware that this is a timeline of
UFO/UAP related events, not necessarily or exclusively UFO sightings. This is not exclusively a UFO sightings timeline or database.
Some sighting reports or events appear multiple times in this timeline because they appear in more than one data source. I view this as a useful feature.
Currently, the events are not sorted by time of day, only by date. Some sources have separate “time” fields, but most don’t. This will be fixed once the event times are automatically extracted from the description fields.
A few events don’t have firm dates, for example “Summer of 1947”, or “Late July 1952”. In these instances the compilation code uses fixed dates I selected for date sorting purposes. (See the code for the specific dates.)
Source Code:
This website is created automatically using a C++ command line tool called “ufojson”. It parses the raw text and Markdown source data to JSON format, which is then converted to a single large web page using pandoc. This tool’s source code and all of the raw source and JSON data is located here on github.
Year Ranges
- Part 1: Distant past up to and including 1949
- Part 2: 1950 up to and including 1959
- Part 3: 1960 up to and including 1969
- Part 4: 1970 up to and including 1979
- Part 5: 1980 to present
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Event Timeline
Year: 1980, 725 Event(s), (Back to Top)
Event 42814 (D64CDDFC)
Date: 1980’s
Location: Area 51
Description: Area-51 workers and widows said that throughout the 1980s the Air Force and its contractors regularly filled 55-gallon drums with toxic wastes, emptied them into football-field size trenches, doused them with jet-fuel and burned them. They claimed that the U.S. Air Force generated and mishandled hazardous substances, and that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to take necessary action to enforce the requirements of the resource conservation act against the Air Force.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_710
Event 42815 (8267877D)
Date: 1980’s?
Description: The fake USG document AFOSI counterintelligence officer Richard C. Doty delivers to Bennewitz makes its way to the American public and is the subject of various books and media. Doty redirects attention away from AFOSI’s surveillance of U.S. citizens interested in UAP by claiming “NASA” investigated Bennewitz. It was later admitted the NSA investigated Bennewitz and Doty changed the description in the fake document.
- https://www.academia.edu/24214339/The_Secret_Pratt_Tapes_and_the_Origins_of_MJ_12_Brad%20Sparks_and_Barry_Greenwood (p122)
- https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/120/mode/2up
Note: AFOSI’s actions against U.S. citizens reduced trust in government among the domestic population over time, fueled anti-government conspiracy theories in popular media, and caused great confusion over who and what controlled access to UAP information after Project Blue Book.
Reference: Anonymous 2023 PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID: Anon2023PDF_194
Event 42816 (2CE5E82B)
Date: 1980’s
Description: AFOSI counterintelligence officer Richard C. Doty states the 7602nd Air Intelligence Group at Fort Belvoir, VA conducted psychological operations on U.S. citizens who inadvertently saw classified aerospace projects at the installation. Doty states the 7602nd would stage alien abductions and/or interactions to traumatize civilians near the base who witnessed USG or USG contractor projects.
Note: The term “milab” is used by ufologists and popular culture to describe a similar phenomena reported by some witnesses.
Reference: Anonymous 2023 PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID: Anon2023PDF_195
Event 42817 (DF098119)
Date: 1980
Location: USA, Louisiana, at sea
Description: (Translated from French) In 1980, a red glowing ball, the size of a house, descended from the sky to the level of the water in the coastal bay, then slowly circled above a dredger and brushed past fishing boats before suddenly shooting off into the distance. During the UFO’s passage, the onboard radios were dead, and upon the UFO’s sudden departure, there was a sudden explosion of noise. Full report established by the coast guard.
Reference: Mufon, Mufonet BBS 11.3.1993, taken from the Internet
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3097
Event 42818 (D2560942)
Date: 1980
Description: (Translated from French) According to some theses, collaboration between the United States and extraterrestrials is resuming, with the latter agreeing to provide more technology to the United States.
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2867
Event 42819 (DE148A4D)
Date: 1980
Description: (Translated from French) Jaime Shandera conducts research for a film on UFOs, and establishes contacts in American military circles.
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2868
Event 42820 (5C876F23)
Date: 1980
Location: California
Description: Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo publish The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, a report on their investigations into a series of abductions and UFO-related events in California involving several women over a period of 25 years.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, Prentice-Hall, 1980; Clark III 415
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6066
Event 42821 (CF7B8B08)
Date: 1980
Location: NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California
Description: Richard F. Haines, an aerospace psychologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, publishes Observing UFOs, a technical book on analyzing UFO reports.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Richard F. Haines, Observing UFOs: An Investigative Handbook, Nelson-Hall, 1980
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6067
Event 42822 (AD3BC647)
Date: 1980
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Description: Alejandro Agostinelli and Juan Carlos Zabalgoitia establish the Centro de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos No Convencionales in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and publish three issues of a boletín informativo.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: CEFANC Boletin Informativo, no. 1 (Jan./March 1980)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6068
Event 42823 (E42F84AA)
Date: 1980
Locations: Russia; Soviet Union
Description: An All-Russian Research Public Organization is launched informally by Russian science-fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev, aerospace engineer Vadim Chernobrov, astronaut Georgy Beregovoy, and other enthusiasts to explore the mysteries of the universe and nature, research new ways of space technology development, and collect information about UFOs and anomalous events in the Soviet Union.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Kosmopoisk”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6069
Event 42824 (3FDFC69C)
Date: 1980
Description: Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen publish The Search for Life in the Universe, an open-minded textbook on SETI.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen, The Search for Life in the Universe, Benjamin/Cummings, 1980; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994): 147–151
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6070
Event 42825 (45E58040)
Date: 1980
Location: Mierzęcice Air Base [now Katowice Airport], Poland
Description: During interception exercises, seven MiG-12s from the Mierzęcice Air Base [now Katowice Airport], Poland, notice a saucer-shaped object with flashing lights approaching them. It has a blue-gray cupola on top and is three times bigger than any of the aircraft. It flies to each of the MiGs and maneuvers around them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 65
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6071
Event 42826 (2CE6BEF8)
Date: 1/1980
Location: Brazil, Tres Coroas
Description: (Translated from French) At the beginning of 1980, the 30,000 residents of the city of Tres Coroas, south of Rio de Janeiro, experienced the strangest concentration of UFOs ever seen elsewhere. For 20 days, balls of fire followed cars, flames erupted unexpectedly anywhere without causing fires, and squadrons of strange-shaped flying objects flew over the city at varying speeds. A flaming object followed Joao Jose de Nascimento’s car when he was returning home late at night. “I had the feeling that it was trying to capture me,” he said. “I was very scared.” When he got home, his son Vicente told him they had seen “a flying onion” in the sky, with green, orange, and blue lights. (…) Antonio das Gacas Santos, from the military police, hurried to see what was happening at the neighbor’s house, whose garden was violently lit. “I clearly saw a creature, resembling a human being, with its arms outstretched. I could not see any physical details, but I heard a faint cry, like that of a puppy. My neighbor touched the creature and fell back, shocked. I was scared, but it was an unnatural fear, I still get goosebumps when I think about it.”
Reference: Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELLL: “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” ed. Hamlyn 1995, p. 135
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3058
Event 42827 (49C2AE59)
Date: 1/1980
Description: (Translated from French) In the night, a resident of Trowbridge is awoken by a giant luminous being, claiming to come from a warring planet. (January)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2869
Event 42828 (9FB5687B)
Date: 1/1980
Time: 01:00
Location: FT. BENNING, GA
Description: Gi / guard duty. Red-orange object hovers / low altitude / 5 minute(s). Going quickly [to] up and away / 45° angle.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA’S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 78)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13848
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “5”, Elev: “94”, HatchDesc: “Ft.BENNING,GA:GI/GUARD DUTY:RED-ORG OBJ HVRS/LO ALT/5min:>> UP+AWAY/45°ANGLE”, LatLong: “32.350002 -84.933337”, LatLongDMS: “32:21:00 N 84:56:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Georgia”, Strangeness: “5”
Event 42829 (0D90E0A4)
Date: 1/1980
Time: 23:00
Location: BELTERRA, BRAZIL
Description: 10 / beach. Disk shines beam going down / river. Going north. Water glows where beam hit.
Type: sighting
Reference: PRATT, Bob: UFO DANGER ZONE - Terror and Death in Brazil. Horus House Press, Madison, WI 1996 (Index 246)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13849
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “Brazil”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “10”, Elev: “107”, HatchDesc: “BELTERRA,BRZL:10/BEACH:DISK SHINES BEAM↓/RVR:>N:WATER GLOWS WHERE BEAM HIT”, LatLong: “-2.783333 -55.000003”, LatLongDMS: “02:47:00 S 55:00:00 W”, Locale: “Rainforest”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “PRA”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 42830 (5E8730C2)
Date: 1/1980
Location: Lüdenscheid, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany
Description: The Gemeinschaft zur Erforschung unbekannter Phänomene (later Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des UFO- Phänomens) publishes the first issue of Journal für UFO-Forschung in Lüdenscheid, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany, which is still in operation in 2022.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 1 (January 1980); Journal für UFO-Forschung website
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6072
Event 42831 (EA186BC3)
Date: 1/1980
Locations: Rio Tapajós; Santarém, Brazil
Description: 11:00 p.m. A Brazilian electronics businessman and 9 others see a disc-shaped object shine a light down on the water near the eastern bank of the Rio Tapajós 30 miles south of Santarém, Brazil. The man, his family, and some relatives are camping at a beach. Several teenagers are still awake, lying in hammocks and talking, when they see the UFO come across the river, stopping about 30 yards from the beach and shining a light on the water 60 feet below. The UFO hovers briefly then begins moving north, parallel to the shore. It travels more than half a mile, with the spotlight shining straight down before it disappears. The light beam leaves a trail of luminescence for several hundred yards.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, pp. 146–147; Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 22–23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6073
Event 42832 (91506D94)
Date: 1/2/1980
Time: 17:50
Location: CERPY-EN-VALOIS, FR
Description: Several separate observer(s). 22cm orange-glowing ovoid going up / field. Flash and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 210)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13850
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “CERPY-en-VALOIS,FR:SVRL SEP.OBS:22cm ORG-GLO OVOID ↑/FIELD:FLASH+AWAY”, LatLong: “49.233336 2.900000”, LatLongDMS: “49:14:00 N 02:54:00 E”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Oise”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42833 (137ED214)
Date: 1/3/1980
Time: 20:30
Location: VAN NUYS, CA
Description: 3+4 kids. Huge domed saucer drops 50’ / car. Tilts. Shoots going up. 2 saucers join.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 166)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13851
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “216”, HatchDesc: “VAN NUYS,CA:3+4 KIDS:HUGE DOMED SCR DROPS 50’/CAR:TILTS:SHOOTS↑:2 SCRS JOIN”, LatLong: “34.166668 -118.466672”, LatLongDMS: “34:10:00 N 118:28:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, RelAlt: “15”, State/Prov: “California”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42834 (DA994B86)
Date: 1/3/1980
Description: In Van Nuys, California a huge, domed disc-shaped object dropped from the sky at 8:30 p.m. to just 50 feet above the car containing three female witnesses. It tilted, then shot up. Two more discs then joined it.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_66
Event 42835 (DB9760D7)
Date: 1/5/1980
Description: At around five a.m. the witness, a 33-year-old painter living in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England suddenly awoke in his bedroom to see a huge two-meter tall glowing green figure standing at the foot of his bed. It looked to him more like a holographic image than a solid figure. The being apparently communicated with the witness using telepathy. Among the many things mentioned was that his race regularly transported human beings to other planets in order to colonize them. When a planet was in danger of overpopulation they somehow started a war in order to reduce the number of inhabitants on that planet. He also warned that the Earth was in danger of “breaking in half.” Apparently the witness’s wife slept through the entire encounter.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case #3423, citing Jenny Randles
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_144
Event 42836 (6FFBD4C5)
Date: 1/5/1980
Description: A light in the sky flashed and changed colors as it moved over Santa Ponsa, Islas Malgrata, Baleares, Spain at 8:00 p.m. It made upward jumps in an oscillating motion, and would stop cold at times. Three powerful lights in a triangle pattern were higher in the sky, changing color from orange to blue to white, and making left-to-right moves.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 10, citing Baleares, January 6, 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_145
Event 42837 (BA45F0CF)
Date: 1/6/1980
Time: 01:00
Location: OFF AGAY, FR
Description: 6 observer(s). Silent luminous saucer going east. Drops 90° toward(s) beach. Rises / slant going east.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 203)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13852
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “2”, HatchDesc: “off AGAY,FR:6 OBS:SLNT LUMn.SCR >E :DROPS 90° twrd BEACH:RISES/SLANT >E”, LatLong: “43.400002 6.850000”, LatLongDMS: “43:24:00 N 06:51:00 E”, Locale: “Coastlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Var”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42838 (E9965914)
Date: 1/10/1980
Time: 06:00
Location: FABBRICO, ITL
Description: Brilliant orange glow = hat saucer / 15-20M altitude. Going north silently. Separate observer(s) / same area.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13853
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “Italy”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “2”, HatchDesc: “FABBRICO,ITL:BRILL. ORG GLOW=HAT SCR/15-20M alt:>N SILENTLY:sep.obs/same area”, LatLong: “44.866669 10.833334”, LatLongDMS: “44:52:00 N 10:50:00 E”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “RE”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42839 (08DDDF6E)
Date: 1/10/1980
Time: 17:50
Location: GANGES, FR
Description: Silent plain metallic disk going [to] 100M over vineyards. Tilts toward(s) observer(s) and continues.
Type: sighting
Reference: ROUSSEL, Robert: OVNI, les Verites Cachees. Ed. Albin Michel,Paris 1994 ISBN 2-226-06646-2. 346 pp softback (Index 337)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13854
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “GANGES,FR:SLNT PLAIN MTLC DISK > 100M OVR VINYARDS:TILTS TWRD OBS+CONTINUES”, LatLong: “43.933335 3.700000”, LatLongDMS: “43:56:00 N 03:42:00 E”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Hérault”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42840 (15CC8712)
Date: 1/10/1980
Description: The NSA’s Roy R. Banner releases two UFO-related documents to Peter Gersten, but states that the original 18 he has requested are exempt from release because of national security, adding that the NSA is reviewing 79 other documents originating with other federal agencies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, pp. 182–187
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6074
Event 42841 (4AF3E14D)
Date: 1/11/1980
Time: 20:50
Location: ST. MANDRIER, FR
Description: 2 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. Silent round dome maneuvers. 1 / 5 moon-size. Going southwest to sea.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 197)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13855
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “15”, HatchDesc: “St.MANDRIER,FR:2 OBS/BINOCS:SLNT RND DOME MNVRS:1/5 MOONSIZE:>SW TO SEA”, LatLong: “43.066669 5.933334”, LatLongDMS: “43:04:00 N 05:56:00 E”, Locale: “Coastlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Var”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42842 (AEF07E32)
Date: 1/12/1980
Location: Huayana, Bolivia
Description: A man saw a lenticular-shaped object over him. The UFO projected a beam of light and formed a dome shaped luminous form on the ground, not far from the witness. He was met there by a tall, blond-haired humanoid that had tanned skin and slanted eyes with a very prominent chin (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5273
Event 42843 (700209A1)
Date: 1/12/1980
Description: On this night in the town of Huayana, in the Potosi Valley, Bolivia a man saw a lenticular-shaped object over him. The UFO projected a beam of light and formed a dome shaped luminous form on the ground, not far from the witness. He then experienced strange sensations when he walked inside the light dome. He was met there by a tall, blond-haired humanoid that had tanned skin and slanted eyes with a very prominent chin. The man claimed he had sensations of love and serenity projected to him by the tall humanoid.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 1577, citing Luis Fernando Mostajo, The Missing Link, issue # 124
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_281
Event 42844 (220545CD)
Date: 1/13/1980
Locations: Seminary Nursing Home; Pioneer Road; Red Wing, Minnesota
Description: 9:00 p.m. Brenda Simanski and Janine Mattson quit their shift at the Seminary Nursing Home on Pioneer Road in Red Wing, Minnesota. Standing in the parking lot, they see a star making a bizarre zigzag pattern. It moves above them and they see it is a triangle 15 feet wide and 20 feet long with two white lights in front, blue lights in two of the corners, and a red light between the blue ones. Three other witnesses come out of the building and also watch the object, which leaves slowly and silently to the north-northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “5 Watch Tree-Hovering UFO for 6 Minutes, ‘Won’t Say It’s from Space,’” Red Wing (Minn.) Republican Eagle, January 15, 1980, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 128 (March 1980): 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6075
Event 42845 (200F8270)
Date: 1/14/1980
Time: 05:00
Location: CHERBOURG, FR
Description: 1+2 observer(s)? Box appears / bedroom. Turns into pseudo-human/entity. Stays / 15 minute(s) and vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 317)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13856
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO’s/occupants/observers, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “5”, Duration: “15”, HatchDesc: “CHERBOURG,FR:1+2 OBS?:BOX APPEARS/BEDROOM:TURNS INTO PSH:STAYS/15min+VANISHES”, LatLong: “49.633336 -1.583333”, LatLongDMS: “49:38:00 N 01:35:00 W”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Manche”, Strangeness: “9”
Event 42846 (A8560202)
Date: 1/14/1980
Locations: Burnley; Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England
Description: 6:05 a.m. Truck driver William Barrett is on an early delivery run from Burnley to Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, when he hears a deep humming sound. Looking ahead, he sees a machine with flames underneath hovering at a lay-by off the roadside. He slows his truck to a near crawl and moves past the object, which looks like a “toast rack” with curved sides and three red glows emerging from the edge to create a misty fuzziness obscuring the base. Now only 25 feet away, he sees that it has a bell- or tortoiseshell shape with a metallic sheen and a tube sticking up from the top. The red glows emerge from under a rim that runs around the lower part of the object. He can now see two figures standing in front of the object, one standing erect and wearing a uniform with a peaked cap, and the other crouched forward, wearing a silvery-gray jump suit. As he passes, the arc lights on the object start flickering like a disco. His headlights go out, and his mind gets hazier and he loses consciousness. He experiences missing time until he jerks awake sometime around 8:30 a.m.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jenny Randles, “Close Encounter in UFO Alley,” IUR 26, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 3–8, 28–29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6076
Event 42847 (908D0561)
Date: 1/15/1980 (approximate)
Location: NEAR SOROCABA, BRAZIL
Description: Airman and 3 / car. Phony plane going down / low altitude. Hovers. Cross-shaped and silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: BOLETIM CEPEX. (Qtrly) Centro de Estudios e Pesquisos Exologicos; Sumaro, SP, Brazil. (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13857
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: “Brazil”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “76”, Elev: “598”, HatchDesc: “nr SOROCABA,BRZL:AIRMAN+3/CAR:PHONY PLANE ↓/LO ALT:HVRS:CROSS-SHAPED+SLNT”, LatLong: “-23.483334 -47.450002”, LatLongDMS: “23:29:00 S 47:27:00 W”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “São Paulo”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 42848 (048867A1)
Date: 1/17/1980
Locations: Santiago, Chile; Eastern Suburbs of Santiago, Chile
Description: 10:30 p.m. Chilean astronomer Fernando Noël is at his home in the eastern suburbs of Santiago, Chile, when he sees a luminous point of light at 20° elevation moving from southwest to west. It is silent and resembles a satellite. He calls two other witnesses, during which time the object disappears. At 10:45 p.m., he sees a bright light moving slowly toward the zenith. Looking more closely, he sees it is actually a group of 30 objects in a V- formation. Each individual light of the group is pale white with a slight tint of yellow. The formation moves from 20° above the western horizon to about 20° above the eastern horizon before disappearing gradually. The duration is approximately 2 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomena Observed by an Astronomer,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 7, no. 4 (1993): 439–441
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6077
Event 42849 (76236A94)
Date: 1/20/1980
Time: 18:00
Location: LA CHAPELLE-BASSE-MER, FR
Description: 5M saucer hovers / water tower / 4 minute(s). Glows. Quickly going up [to] fast. / LDLN#194.
Type: sighting
Reference: ROUSSEL, Robert: OVNI, les Verites Cachees. Ed. Albin Michel,Paris 1994 ISBN 2-226-06646-2. 346 pp softback (Index 339)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13858
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “4”, HatchDesc: “La CHAPELLE-BASSE-MER,FR:5M SCR HVRS/WATER TOWER/4min:GLOWS:↑↑ FAST:/LDLN#194”, LatLong: “47.266669 -1.333333”, LatLongDMS: “47:16:00 N 01:20:00 W”, Locale: “Coastlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Loire Atlantique”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42850 (7CE3F9CA)
Date: 1/21/1980
Location: PORTUGAL, Matosinhos
Description: (Translated from French) The witness, an employee at the hospital in this city, observed a white light projected by a UFO towards the top of a tree. The crown of leaves seemed to be drawn towards this light. The UFO had the shape of the planet Saturn.
Reference: collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenço
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3059
Event 42851 (A9F30CD4)
Date: 1/21/1980
Location: MATOSINHOS, PORTUGL
Description: Saturn-saucer beams white light going down / tree. Tree seems attracted to UFO.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 245)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13859
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “Portugal”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “MATOSINHOS,PORTUGL:SATURN-SCR BEAMS WHT LITE↓/TREE:TREE SEEMS ATTRACTED TO UFO”, LatLong: “41.166669 -8.666667”, LatLongDMS: “41:10:00 N 08:40:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Beira littoral”, Strangeness: “8”
Event 42852 (FF56E76E)
Date: 1/21/1980
Time: 18:40
Location: SHANGHAI, CH
Description: 2 observer(s). Silent star zigzags forward. Shoots beams. Lost from sight behind buildings.
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO’s Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 147)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13860
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: “China”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “SHANGHAI,CH:2 OBS:SLNT STAR ZIGZAGS FWD:SHOOTS BEAMS:LOST fm SIGHT BHND BLDGS”, LatLong: “31.250001 121.416672”, LatLongDMS: “31:15:00 N 121:25:00 E”, Locale: “Metropolis”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “SHG”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42853 (B81AC84E)
Date: 1/21/1980
Locations: Council Bluffs, Iowa; Pioneer Trail; Longview Drive
Description: 11:40 p.m. Seven women are driving home in two cars from a bridge game near Council Bluffs, Iowa. The first car with six witnesses, including Marilyn Anderson, sees a cluster of lights in the western sky as they are driving on Pioneer Trail. The lights are hovering about 200–300 feet above a bluff less than a city block away. When they stop the car to get out for a closer look, the lights speed away to the southwest. The seventh woman, in a separate car behind them, does not see the lights, but Anderson tells her about them when she pulls up. She continues driving home, but when she gets to Longview Drive, her car stalls, and the radio and lights go out. She restarts the car, but it stalls out another quarter-mile away. A bright orange light appears in a cornfield about 900 feet away with an intensity that hurts her eyes. Scared, she locks herself inside the car and passes out. When she wakes up, her car is turned sideways across the road, but she is able to drive it home. She can still see the orange light from her kitchen window, but she has some blotches and redness on her skin that fades by 4:20 a.m.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Possible Abduction in Iowa,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6078
Event 42854 (0885CA7B)
Date: 1/23/1980
Description: Peter Gersten files an appeal with the NSA to release more UFO material.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p. 187
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6079
Event 42855 (DCBA11CD)
Date: 1/24/1980
Time: 19:50
Location: KEKU STRAIT, AK
Description: 300+observer(s). Red fireball slows and hovers. 90° turn and away fast. Classic saucer / (seen thru) binoculars.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 963)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13861
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “12”, Duration: “10”, Elev: “0”, HatchDesc: “KEKU STRAIT,AK:300+OBS:RED FBL SLOWS+HVRS:90°TURN+AWAY FAST:CLASSIC SCR/BINOCS”, LatLong: “56.500003 -133.700006”, LatLongDMS: “56:30:00 N 133:42:00 W”, Locale: “Coastlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Alaska”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42856 (812B809F)
Date: 1/24/1980
Locations: Western Sahara; 20–30 miles off the coast of Western Sahara
Description: 1:00 p.m. A. Golotikin is working as a mechanic aboard the Brilliant, a Russian fishing trawler operating 20–30 miles off the coast of Western Sahara. He and the rest of the crew see a black, cigar-shaped object moving slowly toward the ship in complete silence. They watch it for 5–7 minutes through binoculars, then it disappears as it gets closer to the ship.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 15–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6080
Event 42857 (92728B30)
Date: 1/25/1980
Time: 01:20
Location: NEAR WELLINGTON, PEI
Description: 1 / car. Red-glow 40’ saucer paces car 2k’ away / 180’ altitude. Several turns.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 961)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13862
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: “Canada”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “25”, Elev: “14”, HatchDesc: “nr WELLINGTON,PEI:1/CAR:RED-GLOW 40’SCR PACES CAR 2k’away/180’alt:svrl turns”, LatLong: “46.461113 -64.000003”, LatLongDMS: “46:27:40 N 64:00:00 W”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, RelAlt: “45”, State/Prov: “Prince Edward Island”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42858 (1DB846A2)
Date: 1/28/1980
Time: 04:20
Location: LA RACINE, FR
Description: 1M orange-glow Lima-bean going northwest up D34 / several km. Follows terrain / 35M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 207)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13863
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “10”, HatchDesc: “La RACINE,FR:1M ORG-GLOW LIMA-BEAN >NW UP D34/SVRL km:folos terrain/35M alt”, LatLong: “48.100002 6.483334”, LatLongDMS: “48:06:00 N 06:29:00 E”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Vosges”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42859 (FE6F06F9)
Date: 1/28/1980
Time: 19:10
Location: NORTHWEST / GRANDRIEUX, FR
Description: 4M cylinder/cylindrical object-saucer follows cars up and down N377. Ringed / square windows.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 214)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13864
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “80”, HatchDesc: “NW/GRANDRIEUX,FR:4M CYL-SCR FOLOS CARS UP+DOWN N377:RINGED/SQR WINDOWS”, LatLong: “49.766669 4.166667”, LatLongDMS: “49:46:00 N 04:10:00 E”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Aisne”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 42860 (BDB0720D)
Date: 1/28/1980
Time: 21:10
Location: AURILLAC, FR
Description: Luminous orange sphere passes. Shines beam down. Separate night light hovers high overhead.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 204)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13865
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc.
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “60”, HatchDesc: “AURILLAC,FR:LUMN.ORG.SPHERE PASSES:SHINES BEAM DOWN:SEP.NLT HVRS HI OVHD:”, LatLong: “44.916669 2.450000”, LatLongDMS: “44:55:00 N 02:27:00 E”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Cantal”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42861 (E309C1B2)
Date: 1/28/1980
Description: Three UFO encounters were reported in France on this day in 1980. The first occurred in La Racine at 4:20 a.m. An orange, glowing, lima bean shaped UFO flew up highway D34 for several kilometers in a northwesterly direction, closely following the terrain. At 7:10 p.m. near Grandrieux, a four-meter diameter cylinder-shaped disc followed a car up and down route N377. Several square windows ringed the UFO. Later, at Aurillac around 9:10 p.m. a luminous orange sphere flew by closely while shining down a beam of light. Meanwhile, several nocturnal lights hovered high overhead.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981, July 1981, and issue #214.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_560
Event 42862 (B1FD1A52)
Date: 1/29/1980
Description: At ten p.m. three National Telephone Company officials, Gomez, Polar, and Aguilar, on the highway between the towns of Desaguadero and Pomata, Peru saw a bright circular UFO with red and white lights on the bottom hover stationary at 1000 meters altitude. It went behind a cloud for three minutes, then was observed for five more minutes as it flew over Lake Titicaca.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 13; translating El Commercio, February 16, 1980; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 14, translating La Razon, February 15, 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_584
Event 42863 (2285F1B7)
Date: 2/1980
Location: NALCHIK, RUSSIA
Description: Saucer has halo / edge. Hovers / 3000’ / 4 minute(s). Going quickly [to] up and sideways. Stops / 5 minute(s). Going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: JUSA-CISAAF TRANSLATIONs (from Russian). (Index 424)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13866
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “Russia”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “10”, HatchDesc: “NALCHIK,RUSS:SCR HAS HALO/EDGE:HVRS/3000’/4min:>>UP+SIDEWAYS:STOPS/5min:>>N”, LatLong: “43.533335 43.583335”, LatLongDMS: “43:32:00 N 43:35:00 E”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “TLC”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42864 (C689D339)
Date: 2/1980
Time: 12:00?
Location: WINCHESTER, TN
Description: 12 cops and more/others / 2 counties. Saucer hovers and zips about. Impossible turns.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLUNDELL, Nigel & BOAR, Roger: The WORLDS GREATEST UFO MYSTERIES; Octopus, London 1989 & PB/Berkley Books, NY 1990 (Index 142)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13867
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “10”, Duration: “120”, Elev: “294”, HatchDesc: “WINCHESTER,TN:12 COPS++/2 COUNTIES:SCR HOVERS+ZIPS ABOUT:IMPOSSIBLE TURNS.”, LatLong: “35.183335 -86.111115”, LatLongDMS: “35:11:00 N 86:06:40 W”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Tennessee”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42865 (C2BD848E)
Date: 2/1980
Location: Australia
Description: The Australian Centre for UFO Studies begins publishing the Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies, edited by Harry Griesberg and Keith Basterfield, until at least November 1985.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies 1, no. 1 (February 1980)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6081
Event 42866 (8A765E52)
Date: 2/2/1980
Description: Two aliens briefly paralyzed a female witness in Araguari, Brazil. The beings were described as being a little bit over one meter in height and having large heads. They used a small object that emitted a luminous beam.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Revista Brasileira de Ufologia
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_671
Event 42867 (3F0C2E97)
Date: 2/3/1980
Time: 02:00
Location: VAL D’AJOL TO/FROM RUPT, FR
Description: Orange disk going down [to] in front of car. Leads the way! Then going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 194)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13868
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “3”, HatchDesc: “VAL d’AJOL><RUPT,FR:ORG.DISK ↓ IN FRONT OF CAR:leads the way!:THEN >>N”, LatLong: “47.950002 6.616667”, LatLongDMS: “47:57:00 N 06:37:00 E”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Vosges”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42868 (19DA2068)
Date: 2/3/1980
Time: 02:50
Location: NEAR WECKOLSHEIM, FR
Description: 3 / car. 18M saucer going down / angle. Nearly hits road. Slowly nears car…
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 197)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13869
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “nr WECKOLSHEIM,FR:3/CAR:18M SCR ↓/ANGLE:NEARLY HITS ROAD:SLOWLY NEARS CAR…”, LatLong: “48.000002 7.500000”, LatLongDMS: “48:00:00 N 07:30:00 E”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Haut-Rhin”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 42869 (764AA9DE)
Date: 2/5/1980
Time: 17:40
Location: HARBIN, CH
Description: Also 8 Feb. '80. Several observer(s). Red star maneuvers and spins. Shoots streaks / gas. Retreats.
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO’s Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 147)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13870
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “China”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “2”, HatchDesc: “HARBIN,CH:+8FEB80:SVRL OBS:RED STAR MNVRS+SPINS:SHOOTS STREAKS/GAS:RETREATS”, LatLong: “45.733336 126.627784”, LatLongDMS: “45:44:00 N 126:37:40 E”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “HLJ”, Strangeness: “5”
Event 42870 (E1DD87A7)
Date: 2/6/1980
Location: PORTUGAL, Montargil
Description: (Translated from French) At 11 o’clock, the 55-year-old farmer Paveo, like every day, was with the sheep in the pasture when he heard a strange noise and his sheepdog was in a panic. Mr. Pavao then understood that something unusual was happening behind him. Turning back as quickly as possible, he was surprised to find two motionless entities, standing 2.4 meters tall, looking at him fixedly. They were completely dressed in gray, but their faces were uncovered and seemed close to human. Except for the eyes and skin color, which were different. They had huge hairy hands. The strange entities approached the witness, seeming friendly and touched his right shoulder and other parts of his body. They spoke a kind of language made of modulations resembling the human voice. At this moment the witness saw that they had teeth and that they moved their lips to speak. One of the entities pointed to the sheep and Mr. Pavao, thinking that he wanted to know the name of the animals, told them. The entities laughed and talked. (…) This event was the cause of nightmares for this witness.
Reference: collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3060
Event 42871 (F174DD88)
Date: 2/6/1980
Time: 11:00
Location: MONTARGIL, PORTUGAL
Description: Farmer meets 2 8’ beings. No helmets. Vanish when dog summoned.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 246)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13871
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, GNT: Giant: Large/tall alien, CVS: Conversation/communication, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “Portugal”, Credibility: “4”, Duration: “3”, HatchDesc: “MONTARGIL,PORTUGAL:FARMER MEETS 2 8’BEINGS:NO HELMETS:VANISH WHEN DOG SUMMONED”, LatLong: “39.083335 -8.200000”, LatLongDMS: “39:05:00 N 08:12:00 W”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “AAL”, Strangeness: “10”
Event 42872 (603C5BD2)
Date: 2/6/1980
Time: 19:50
Location: NEAR REDBANK, NB
Description: Diamond 40M over trees / roadside follows car. Partial electro-magnetic effect (EME). Flies away.
Type: sighting
Reference: LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 130)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13872
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects
Extra Data: Country: “Canada”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “3”, Elev: “12”, HatchDesc: “nr REDBANK,NB:DIAMOND 40M ovr TREES/ROADSIDE FOLOS CAR:PARTIAL EME:flies away”, LatLong: “46.916669 -65.833336”, LatLongDMS: “46:55:00 N 65:50:00 W”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, RelAlt: “45”, State/Prov: “New Brunswick”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42873 (6D133C70)
Date: 2/6/1980
Description: Mr. Pavao, a 55-year old farmer from Montargil, Portugal had just left his farm and was taking his sheep to the fields at around eleven o’clock in the morning. He heard a noise and had a feeling that something was happening behind him. At the same time his dog started to panic. He turned and was surprised to see two eight-foot tall humanoids standing close to him and staring at him. The humanoids looked very strong and were dressed in gray suits. Their faces looked human except their eyes and skin appeared different. Their hands were hairy and very big. The beings approached him with friendly gestures and touched his left shoulder and several other parts of his body. At the same time they spoke in an unknown language with a modulation similar to human speech. One of the beings then pointed to the sheep, and Mr. Pavao told him the type of animal it was. Meanwhile the two beings kept talking and laughing. The witness then gave an order to his dog to fetch one of the sheep. When he looked back towards the beings he saw an intense flash of light that blinded him for a few seconds. After that the beings had vanished.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 2378, citing Victor Laurenco, PORTUCAT
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_727
Event 42874 (0F5CB9DC)
Date: 2/7/1980
Location: Glenalta horse ranch near Stirling, South Australia
Description: 9:50 p.m. Daryl Browne, a ranch hand at the Glenalta horse ranch near Stirling, South Australia, is watching TV when he hears dogs howling and timber crashing outside. His two guard dogs are howling in fear. Outside he sees a yellow half-moon-shaped object about 25–30 feet long. It is 100 feet up in the branches of a 230-foot-tall cypress tree, branches bending under its weight. The trunk shows large gouges. Browne calls the police, but the object is gone by the time they arrive. For 2 days, Browne’s dogs refuse to go near the tree.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “UFO Smashes Tree in Australia,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6082
Event 42875 (F91A4781)
Date: 2/8/1980
Time: 18:20
Location: CUGNAUX, FR
Description: 2 observer(s). Silent brilliant green cylinder/cylindrical object leaves (something behind) red trail / sky. Going quickly east rising. / FSRv24#12.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 300)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13873
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “CUGNAUX,FR:2 OBS:SLNT BRILL.GRN CYL LVS RED TRAIL/SKY:>>E RISING:/FSRv24#12”, LatLong: “43.533335 1.350000”, LatLongDMS: “43:32:00 N 01:21:00 E”, Locale: “Mountains”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Haute Garonne”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42876 (5F4DFD4E)
Date: 2/11/1980
Time: ~18:00
Location: SANTIAGO, CHL
Description: Fleet / huge pear-shapes stop / 3 minute(s). Away fast. Boat found / no crew.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 194)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13874
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ABD: Human or animal abduction
Extra Data: Country: “Chile”, Credibility: “10”, Duration: “3”, Elev: “521”, HatchDesc: “SANTIAGO,CHL:FLEET/HUGE PEAR-SHAPES STOP/3min:AWAY FAST:BOAT FOUND/no crew”, LatLong: “-33.450002 -70.650003”, LatLongDMS: “33:27:00 S 70:39:00 W”, Locale: “Coastlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “SNT”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 42877 (C45692B2)
Date: 2/11/1980
Time: 23:40
Location: SOUTH / COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA
Description: Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Orange light / field. 30 minute(s) / missing time. Observer’s face red. / MJ#262.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 964)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13875
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “35”, Elev: “378”, HatchDesc: “S/COUNCIL BLUFFS,IA:CAR EMEs:ORG LITE/FIELD:30min/MST:OBS’FACE RED:/MJ#262”, LatLong: “41.166669 -95.833338”, LatLongDMS: “41:10:00 N 95:50:00 W”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Iowa”, Strangeness: “8”
Event 42878 (AFC26531)
Date: 2/11/1980
Location: Botafuegos, Spain
Description: A man spotted a low flying whitish-orange luminous object lifting off from some nearby woods. Minutes later the object divided into three separate luminous sections, then re-united again into one luminous spot. Near the ground two huge man-like silhouettes appeared in front of the lights. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5275
Event 42879 (15E8F1ED)
Date: 2/11/1980
Location: Council Bluffs, IA
Description: Brilliant orange light in field, memory loss, physiological effects. MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, pp. 20-21; Omaha, Nebr., Morning World-Herald, Feb. 14, 1980 (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5277
Event 42880 (0FCF2FD5)
Date: 2/11/1980
Location: Rio Negro province, Arg
Description: A man was driving home when he noticed a strong glowly light over a field 200 meters away, on the left side of his truck and at about 30 meters altitude. He blacked out and remembered entities. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5278
Event 42881 (AD2ECD01)
Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At around 4 p.m. a woman in Bisuschio, Italy went outside to hang some linen to dry and was looking towards a nearby hill when she saw a strange dwarf creature in a tree about 50 meters away. He was about 30-40 cm tall, and was wearing black clothing. She went back inside and looked at the creature again out a window, at the same time calling her son to come see. She also called her mother in-law on the telephone. The boy observed the tree with a pair of binoculars but was unable to distinguish any additional features. The being appeared to move from branch to branch, and then seemed to stand on a very thin branch that appeared incapable of supporting his weight. The humanoid looked to be trying to conceal his face with his hand. He soon disappeared from sight.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_834
Event 42882 (1D338677)
Date: 2/11/1980
Description: In Botafuegos, Spain later that same night five witnesses, including Rafael Tobajas, spotted a low flying whitish-orange luminous object lifting off from some nearby woods. Minutes later the object divided into three separate luminous sections, then re-united again into one luminous spot. Using a pair of binoculars, they watched the lighted object descend in a falling leaf motion. Near the ground two huge man-like silhouettes appeared in front of the lights. They were grayish in color and over three meters in height. They made huge leaps and strides over the ground, jumping easily over obstacles, but they seemed to move in slow motion and stayed in front of the luminous orbs of lights. According to Tobajas, the humanoid forms stopped briefly by a small creek and seemed to bend down several times. The humanoids suddenly began running at witnesses, who became terrified and drove away frantically from the area. The tall gray humanoid forms persisted in chasing the witness’s vehicle for several minutes. Tobajas reportedly encountered similar humanoid figures at night, one year later.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Dr. Jimenez del Oso and J. J. Benitez
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_835
Event 42883 (3D77BCB1)
Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At 10:00 p.m. Carlos Vommaro, age 22, was driving home from dinner at his girlfriend’s house westbound on Route 22 between the towns of Ingeniero Huergo and Cervantes in Rio Negro province, Argentina when he noticed a strong glowly light over a field 200 meters away, on the left side of his truck and at about 30 meters altitude. He described the object as having two big “L” structures with a luminous rectangular form inside. The edges of the luminous “L’s” seemed to be covered in a diffused vapor that seemed to reflect the light. Perplexed, Vommaro watched the object as it came parallel to him. Vommaro then decided to escape, speeding up to about 60 mph when suddenly everything around him became dark and he blacked out. When Vommaro woke up he found himself leaning over the steering wheel. The light was now on top of the vehicle, and suddenly from the area of the luminous rectangular area a beam of light shot out, which seemed to spread out in width the further away it got. The beam of light covered the vehicle, but not its interior; it seems to be stronger at the point of origin. Terrified, Vommaro jumped out of his vehicle, running for help but the road is completely deserted. A couple of minutes later he saw a car approaching from the direction of General Roca, and he frantically tried to flag down the car. The car slowed down briefly, but then sped away. Perhaps the approaching driver had seen the luminous object still hovering above the road. After coming to his senses Vommaro now realized he was outside of the town of Cervantes, located more than 15 km away from were he had been, and he has about an hour of missing time he can’t account for. When he got home his dogs reacted strangely, did not seem to recognize him, and attempted to attack him. The next day he suffered from lack of appetite, weakness, lumbar back pain, and leg pain. There was also some damage to his car. There were numerous other UFO reports that evening from Argentina and Chile.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1980, p. 14, citing Rio Negro, February 16, 1980; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 20; Alejandro Chionetti, UFO Press, issue # 12, April 1983
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_836
Event 42884 (C8D3DCCE)
Date: 2/11/1980
Description: Thirty-two people, including the mayor of Ahilinco, Neuquen province, Argentina saw an object shaped with a triangle high in the sky over the Andes Mountains shortly before 11:00 p.m. It remained motionless for three minutes, then the triangle disappeared leaving the lights visible. After several more minutes the lights gyrated and blinked out, and they could see the dark triangle again silhouetted against the background.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing Cronica, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 19
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_837
Event 42885 (E70E7E5A)
Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At 11:00 p.m. another triangular UFO was seen in Chamical, La Rioja province, Argentina. The triangular object surrounded by light blue luminosity, with reddish hues, left behind a long smoke trail. It was seen by over 200 witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing Diario Cuyo, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 20
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_838
Event 42886 (965CFDA6)
Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At 11:30 p.m. Dr. Martinez and his family in El Medano, Catamarca province, Argentina saw an enormous orange ball of light that cast three beams of light, one left and one right, and then one down. After several minutes it shot away at incredible speed parallel to the horizon.There was a total of 10 witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing El Sol, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_839
Event 42887 (1FD3F41D)
Date: 2/11/1980
Description: At 11:45 p.m. witnesses in San Vicente, Santiago del Estero, Argentina saw a trangular object shine intermittent green, red, yellow lights toward the ground. It remained motionless for five minutes, then disappeared quickly.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_840
Event 42888 (F972A8A5)
Date: 2/11/1980
Description: A woman driving on Highway G66 in Council Bluffs, Iowa encountered an orange UFO at 11:40 p.m. Her car lights and engine experienced electrical difficulties and she underwent a 32 minute lapse of time.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Omaha (NE) Morning World-Herald, Feb. 14, 1980; APRO Bulletin, April 1980, p. 5; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, pp. 20-21; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 258
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_841
Event 42889 (BF80DA67)
Date: 2/13/1980
Time: 07:10
Location: ETAULIERS, FR
Description: Customs agent / car. Silent 5M saucer-disk / 120M altitude stops. Going north / 45kph.
Type: sighting
Reference: ROUSSEL, Robert: OVNI, les Verites Cachees. Ed. Albin Michel,Paris 1994 ISBN 2-226-06646-2. 346 pp softback (Index 341)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13876
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “5”, HatchDesc: “ETAULIERS,FR:CUSTOMS AGENT/CAR:SLNT 5M SCR-DISK/120M alt STOPS:>N/45kph:”, LatLong: “45.216669 -0.566667”, LatLongDMS: “45:13:00 N 00:34:00 W”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Haute Garonne”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42890 (020A9C9E)
Date: 2/14/1980
Description: (Translated from French) Launch of SMM (Solar Maximum Mission) for the study of solar eruptions. (February 14)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_2870
Event 42891 (D8F2EAF2)
Date: 2/18/1980
Time: 21:50
Location: OVID, NY
Description: Many observer(s). Orange 5’ ovoid / 30’ altitude 150’ away. Away quickly going up. Eyes bloodshot. / MJ#262.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 963)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13877
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “11”, Duration: “2”, Elev: “324”, HatchDesc: “OVID,NY:MANY OBS:ORG 5’OVOID/30’alt 150’AWAY:AWAY ↑↑:EYES BLOODSHOT:/MJ#262”, LatLong: “42.677780 -76.822226”, LatLongDMS: “42:40:40 N 76:49:20 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, RelAlt: “9”, State/Prov: “New York”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42892 (640ADA82)
Date: 2/20/1980
Time: 02:00
Location: BRIX, FR
Description: 1 observer. Luminous blue church-bell object going up and down [to] several times / low altitude. Departure unseen.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 203)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13878
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “BRIX,FR:1 OBS:LUMn.BLUE CHURCH-BELL OBJ ↑+↓ SVRL TIMES/LO ALT:departure unseen”, LatLong: “49.550002 -1.583333”, LatLongDMS: “49:33:00 N 01:35:00 W”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Manche”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42893 (305CABA7)
Date: 2/20/1980 (approximate)
Time: 15:40
Location: DOUCHY-LES-MINES, FR
Description: 1 observer only. Metallic 20M cylinder/cigar-shape follows busy highway N29 going [to] east-northeast / low altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 200)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13879
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “DOUCHY-les-MINES,FR:1 OBS ONLY:MTLC 20M CGR FOLOS BUSY HWY N29 >ENE/lo alt:”, LatLong: “50.300002 3.383333”, LatLongDMS: “50:18:00 N 03:23:00 E”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Nord”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42894 (8B269D5E)
Date: 2/21/1980
Location: Stamford, Connecticut
Description: 11:15 a.m. An 11-year-old girl getting ready for bed in Stamford, Connecticut, looks through a window and sees a large white oval of light low in the west-northwest sky, apparently four times the size of the moon. Her grandmother joins her and watches the object, which is swinging with a pendulum motion. It is still visible about 30 minutes later. The family’s German shepherd dog barks continually at it while it is visible and for 20 minutes after it is last viewed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Allan Hendry, “Unusual Backyard Visitor,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 (June 1980): 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6083
Event 42895 (9B3B8D6E)
Date: 2/23/1980
Time: 18:03:00.0
Location: -22.0000 -139.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: France Name: “Thysets” Yield: 5KT
Type: atomic
Reference: “columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: “archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1928
Extra Data: LatLong: “-22.0000 -139.0000”, LatLongDMS: “22:00:00 S 139:00:00 W”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, NukeCountry: “France”, NukeDepth: “0.00”, NukeName: “Thysets”, NukeSource: “CEA/DAM”, NukeType: “NUCF”, NukeY: “5”
Event 42896 (F42D1E08)
Date: 2/25/1980
Locations: Youngsville, Pennsylvania; quarter mile west of Youngsville, Pennsylvania
Description: 2:30 p.m. Oil worker Rusty Pennington is watching a pump a quarter mile west of Youngsville, Pennsylvania. Suddenly he hears an explosion that lasts only a split second and sees a domed disc to the left of his truck. He estimates the object is 20 feet wide and 6–8 feet high. Flying at treetop level, it streaks silently downward from southwest to northeast and disappears in the distance.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Daylight Disc in Pennsylvania,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6084
Event 42897 (B06F0873)
Date: 2/25/1980
Description: On a cloudy day at 2:30 p.m. in Youngsville, Pennsylvania a 23-year old man, R. Pennington, heard an explosion mixed with a whining noise, and then saw a 20-foot wide disc with a transparent dome on top out of his truck window. The trajectory of the UFO continued to follow a 250 kW electric transmission line.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1980, p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1113
Event 42898 (7C5FFAC3)
Date: 2/28/1980
Time: 22:00
Location: CURRIE, NV
Description: 2 observer(s). Potato ovoid 100’ overhead zaps truck-bed and paces. Gauges etc. electro-magnetic effect (EME.)
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 321)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13880
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “15”, Elev: “1768”, HatchDesc: “CURRIE,NV:2 OBS:POTATO OVOID 100’OVHD ZAPS TRUCK-BED+PACES:GAUGES etc EME”, LatLong: “40.266669 -114.744450”, LatLongDMS: “40:16:00 N 114:44:40 W”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Nevada”, Strangeness: “8”
Event 42899 (C5F5BFCB)
Date: 2/28/1980
Time: 15:00:00.1
Location: 37.1265 -116.0885
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Tarko” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: “columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: “archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_856
Extra Data: LatLong: “37.1265 -116.0885”, LatLongDMS: “37:07:35 N 116:05:19 W”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, NukeCountry: “USA”, NukeDepth: “0.37”, NukeMb: “4.40”, NukeName: “Tarko”, NukeSource: “DOE”, NukeType: “NUCU”, NukeYMax: “20”
Event 42900 (760888E2)
Date: 2/28/1980
Location: U.S.
Description: The National Enquirer runs an article, “Former Intelligence Officer Reveals ‘I picked up wreckage of UFO that exploded over U.S.’” that includes a portion of a December 1979 interview by Bob Pratt with Jesse Marcel Sr. as a pre-publication teaser for Berlitz and Moore’s forthcoming book.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Patrick Gross, “Roswell 1947: First Ufologists Investigations”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6085
Event 42901 (AE00FBE7)
Date: 3/1980
Time: 20:30
Location: VIX, FR
Description: 2 teens. Dark ovoid with 2 light beams. Hovers and rumbles and shoots going quickly northeast. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v24#2.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 300)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13881
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “4”, HatchDesc: “VIX,FR:2 TEENS:DRK OVOID W/2 LITE BEAMS:HVRS+RUMBLES+SHOOTS >>NE:/FSR v24#2”, LatLong: “46.366669 -0.850000”, LatLongDMS: “46:22:00 N 00:51:00 W”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Vendée”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 42902 (85A52783)
Date: 3/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: FOIANO, ITL
Description: 2 observer(s). 50cm disk spins / tilt over oak tree / rain / 30 minute(s). Beam. Suddenly going quickly.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13882
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “Italy”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “30”, HatchDesc: “FOIANO,ITL:2 OBS:50cm DISK SPINS/TILT ovr OAK TREE/RAIN/30min:BEAM:SUDDENLY >>”, LatLong: “43.250002 11.816667”, LatLongDMS: “43:15:00 N 11:49:00 E”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “AR”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42903 (49717106)
Date: 3/1980
Description: Nanotechnologist Robert A. Freitas Jr. advocates searching for alien probes or artifacts on planets, satellites, and asteroids because it is more cost-effective than looking for distant radio signals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Interstellar Probes: A New Approach to SETI,” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 33 (1980): 95–100
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6086
Event 42904 (56D621B5)
Date: Early 3/1980
Location: Bulverde, Texas
Description: 9:45 p.m. Fred Wirth Jr. steps outside his home in Bulverde, Texas, and sees a large orange glow 45° up in the northern sky about 100 feet above his property, lighting it up with an orange glow. After hovering silently, it shoots up in the air and stops, now appearing as a red, blinking dot. His wife joins him but instantly becomes nauseous and throws up. He starts sweating profusely.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Strange Reactions to Huge Glow,” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 74–75
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6087
Event 42905 (A9167A2F)
Date: 3/3/1980
Time: 01:00
Location: LODZ, POLAND
Description: 3 observer(s) / 3 hours. Classic saucer near houses. 2 beams going down. Orbs follow electric lines.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 266)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13883
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: “Poland”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “180”, HatchDesc: “LODZ,POLAND:3 OBS/3hrs:CLASSIC SCR nr HOUSES:2 BEAMS ↓:ORBS FOLO ELEC.LINES”, LatLong: “51.783336 19.500001”, LatLongDMS: “51:47:00 N 19:30:00 E”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “LDZ”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 42906 (A63D1524)
Date: 3/3/1980
Time: 03:30
Location: RIO PIEDRAS, PR
Description: Large and small webfoot figure(s) glide. Study chickens. All observer(s) drowsy / r82p73.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 325)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13884
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or “Grey”, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “10”, Elev: “27”, HatchDesc: “RIO PIEDRAS,PR:LRG+SML WEBFOOT FIGs GLIDE:STUDY CHICKENS:all obs drowsy/r82p73”, LatLong: “18.400001 -66.066670”, LatLongDMS: “18:24:00 N 66:04:00 W”, Locale: “Coastlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Puerto Rico”, Strangeness: “9”
Event 42907 (B7399D2C)
Date: 3/3/1980
Time: 17:56:00.0
Location: -22.0000 -139.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: France Name: “Adraste” Yield: 5KT
Type: atomic
Reference: “columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: “archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1929
Extra Data: LatLong: “-22.0000 -139.0000”, LatLongDMS: “22:00:00 S 139:00:00 W”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, NukeCountry: “France”, NukeDepth: “0.00”, NukeName: “Adraste”, NukeSource: “CEA/DAM”, NukeType: “NUCF”, NukeY: “5”
Event 42908 (6A2599DC)
Date: 3/3/1980
Description: Four family members of a family in Buen Consejo, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico were awakened at midnight by noises on their patio where they kept caged rabbits. When they looked out they were stunned to see five strange looking beings inspecting the cages. Two of the beings were five feet tall and the others were three tall and more heavy-set. The tall thin creatures wore brown one-piece brown outfits, and had grayish skin with large ears, large eyes, and large flat noses with large thick lips. Their fingers were large and were connected by a thin membrane. Both carried a bright metallic-looking sphere in their right hands. The smaller beings were similar in appearance, except they had large bright medallions hanging from their necks and belts. A fifth witness later saw the same five beings enter a landed disc-shaped craft on a roadway near the village.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 72, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1283
Event 42909 (45953E30)
Date: 3/6/1980
Time: 13:00?
Location: WARREN, AZ
Description: 3 / truck. Disk hovers / mine tailings. Follows mountain ridge. Turns on edge. Going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: FILER’s FILES: George A. Filer: MUFON Eastern Dir. (Index 930)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13885
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), TLP: Telepathy, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “8”, Elev: “1511”, HatchDesc: “WARREN,AZ:3/TRUCK:DISK HVRS/MINE TAILINGS:FOLOS Mtn RIDGE:TURNS on EDGE:>>S”, LatLong: “31.416668 -109.866672”, LatLongDMS: “31:25:00 N 109:52:00 W”, Locale: “Desert”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Arizona”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42910 (C5041C4A)
Date: 3/6/1980
Time: 20:40
Location: HUDSON, NH
Description: 1 observer. Disk drifts going east. Low steady humming. 2.5cm / arms length. 2nd object going west.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 963)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13886
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “5”, Elev: “61”, HatchDesc: “HUDSON,NH:1 OBS:DISK DRIFTS >E:LOW STEADY HUM:2.5cm/ARMS LENGTH:2nd OBJ >W”, LatLong: “42.766669 -71.433337”, LatLongDMS: “42:46:00 N 71:26:00 W”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “New Hampshire”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42911 (E97F206B)
Date: 3/6/1980
Location: Warren, Az
Description: A disc hovered over mine tailings in Warren and then flew along the ridge of a mountain. It turned on its edge and flew off to the south. The entire sighting lasted eight minutes. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5280
Event 42912 (45527F19)
Date: 3/6/1980
Location: Hudson, NH
Description: On this night a witness reported seeing a slow flying disc-shaped UFO over the town. The object made a low, steady humming sound. A second object was seen flying toward the west. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5281
Event 42913 (49034E9E)
Date: 3/6/1980
Description: A disc hovered over mine tailings in Warren, Arizona at around 1 p.m. and then flew along the ridge of a mountain. It turned on its edge and flew off to the south. The entire sighting lasted eight minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: George Filer, Filer’s Files, volume 9, issue 30
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1343
Event 42914 (843E55A2)
Date: 3/6/1980
Description: Later that same night a witness reported seeing a slow flying disc-shaped UFO over the town of Hudson, New Hampshire at 8:40 p.m. The object made a low, steady humming sound. A second object was seen flying toward the west.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1344
Event 42915 (6A7D4ABF)
Date: 3/7/1980
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Description: 12:10 a.m. Former Navy pilot Larry Crawford sees a star-like light moving 700–800 mph at 30,000 feet above Memphis, Tennessee. While he is watching it move for 10 seconds, it executes a hairpin turn.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Pilot: ‘No Human Could Have Survived Turns Like That!’” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 75, 78
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6088
Event 42916 (21955621)
Date: 3/8/1980
Location: BRAZIL, Casimiro de Abreu
Description: (Translated from French) Edilcio Barbosa, an ufology enthusiast, received a message informing him of the landing of extraterrestrials in Casimiro de Abreu. These visitors had promised to bring back four Terrans abducted years earlier: a Brazilian, an Argentine, a Canadian and a Dutchman. (…) The Brazilian would have been one of the crew members of a military helicopter that disappeared without a trace in August 1976. (…) The rendezvous of March 15th attracted more than ten thousand people… to whom the ETs stood up. (1980, March 8th or 15th)
Reference: Guy TARADE: “I Found the Trail of the Extraterrestrials”. Ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1980, p.180, which dates this to March 8th.
Reference: Jimmy GUIEU: “Our Masters the Extraterrestrials” - Presses de la Cité 1992, pp. 54 to 56
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_3061
Event 42917 (3C335F56)
Date: 3/8/1980
Time: 21:30
Location: WILMINGTON, NC
Description: 1 observer. UFO over car / 5 second(s) and gone. Brill white light. Dog howls / pain.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13887
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “15”, HatchDesc: “WILMINGTON,NC:1 OBS:UFO OVR CAR/5sec+GONE:BRILL WHT LITE:DOG HOWLS/PAIN:”, LatLong: “34.216668 -77.950004”, LatLongDMS: “34:13:00 N 77:57:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “North Carolina”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42918 (194CF525)
Date: 3/8/1980
Location: Wilmington, NC
Description: Object buzzed car, jet-like sound, bright illumination; dog howled as if his ears hurt (section XII). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5282
Event 42919 (3614110D)
Date: 3/8/1980
Location: Wilmington, NC
Description: Object buzzed car, jetlike sound, bright illumination. Dog howled as if his ears hurt
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_346
Event 42920 (2176EBB9)
Date: 3/8/1980
Time: 15:35:00.1
Location: 37.1799 -116.0831
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Norbo” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: “columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: “archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_857
Extra Data: LatLong: “37.1799 -116.0831”, LatLongDMS: “37:10:48 N 116:04:59 W”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, NukeCountry: “USA”, NukeDepth: “0.27”, NukeMb: “3.90”, NukeName: “Norbo”, NukeSource: “DOE”, NukeType: “NUCU”, NukeYMax: “20”
Event 42921 (63FC607B)
Date: 3/9/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: NEW CASTLE, KY
Description: 1 observer. Small bright cylinder/cigar-shape / 6m altitude 15m away. Zigzags going up and down / odd angles and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: RIDGE, Francis: REGIONAL ENCOUNTERS in the FC Files. 170pp. UFO FILTER CENTER, Mt. Vernon, IN 1994 (Index 70)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13888
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “257”, HatchDesc: “NEW CASTLE,KY:1 OBS:SML BRITE CGR/6m alt 15m AWAY:ZIGZAGS ↑+↓/ODD ANGLES+AWAY”, LatLong: “38.433335 -85.183337”, LatLongDMS: “38:26:00 N 85:11:00 W”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, RelAlt: “6”, State/Prov: “Kentucky”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42922 (CE90B6E5)
Date: 3/9/1980
Time: 22:00
Location: RONFE, SPAIN
Description: 2 observer(s). Brilliant clam-saucer lands / field. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) with lanterns outside.
Type: sighting
Reference: Periodical: SAMIZDAT QUARTERLY: Scott Corrales ed.: SPECIAL REPORT The GALICIAN UFO WAVE of 1995-96. (via Arcturus Books.)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13889
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or “Grey”, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: “Spain”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “2”, HatchDesc: “RONFE,SPAIN:2 OBS:BRILL.CLAM-SCR LANDS/FIELD:3 OIDS W/LANTERNS OUTSIDE”, LatLong: “42.833335 -7.416667”, LatLongDMS: “42:50:00 N 07:25:00 W”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “GLC”, Strangeness: “8”
Event 42923 (B4D2C306)
Date: 3/9/1980
Time: 22:30
Location: LONGWY-BAS, FR
Description: Anonymous man / 18. Huge silent metallic trapezoid going / low altitude. 2 strong beams.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 199)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13890
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “LONGWY-BAS,FR:ANON.MAN/18:HUGE SLNT MTLC TRAPEZOID >/lo alt:2 STRONG BEAMS”, LatLong: “49.516669 5.783334”, LatLongDMS: “49:31:00 N 05:47:00 E”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Meurthe-et-Moselle”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42924 (929A6416)
Date: 3/9/1980
Location: Newcastle, KY
Description: Lady said barking dogs drew her attention to a strange very bright object hovering motionless 20’ away from ground near back of house. Three antenna-like sticks at slight angle pointing to ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5283
Event 42925 (6DB00AB7)
Date: 3/12/1980
Time: 00:50
Location: GLADSTONE, MI
Description: 2 cops chase silent round object / 26 mile(s). Going up and down. Hovers. Zigzags. Lights / sides. Going quickly west.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 965)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13891
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “70”, Elev: “180”, HatchDesc: “GLADSTONE,MI:2 COPS CHASE SLNT RND OBJ/26mi:↑+↓:HVRS:ZIGZAGS:LITES/SIDES:>>W”, LatLong: “45.855558 -87.022226”, LatLongDMS: “45:51:20 N 87:01:20 W”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Michigan”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42926 (DC560574)
Date: 3/12/1980
Location: Gladstone, Michigan
Description: 12:45 a.m. At least 10 witnesses, including city police and county sheriff deputies, watch an odd light maneuvering, climbing, and descending in the sky above Gladstone, Michigan.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Much Ado about Little?” IUR/Probe, September 1980, p. 78
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6089
Event 42927 (303AA871)
Date: 3/13/1980
Time: 19:50
Location: SOUTH / HASELOR, ENGL
Description: 1 / car. Huge cylinder/cigar-shape south going quickly north over A422. Steering wheel burns hands!
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 317)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13892
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations
Extra Data: Country: “Great Britain and Ireland”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “74”, HatchDesc: “S/HASELOR,ENGL:1/CAR:HUGE CGR S>>N OVR A422:STEERING WHEEL BURNS HANDS!”, LatLong: “52.200002 -1.866667”, LatLongDMS: “52:12:00 N 01:52:00 W”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “England”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 42928 (61AB67A2)
Date: 3/13/1980
Location: Warwickshire, UK
Description: A 31-year-old man saw a huge cigar-shaped object with red lights at both ends fly silently south to north over the A422 highway east of Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The man’s steering wheel became unbearably hot during the flyover, and it caused burns on his hands. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5284
Event 42929 (851E1929)
Date: 3/13/1980
Location: Haselor, Warwickshire, England
Description: 7:50 p.m. A subcontractor on a job is driving near Haselor, Warwickshire, England, when he sees a white, cigar-shaped object with a steady red glow on either end pass in front of his windshield. The steering wheel instantly becomes hot, causing him to lift his hands off the wheel. He maneuvers the car off the road until it cools enough to steer.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Tony Green, “Witness Burned by Passing UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 (January 1981): 32–33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6090
Event 42930 (55968E7F)
Date: 3/13/1980
Description: At 7.50 p.m. a 31-year-old man saw a huge cigar-shaped object with red lights at both ends fly silently south to north over the A422 highway east of Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The man’s steering wheel became unbearably hot during the flyover, and it caused burns on his hands, including one that left a permanent mark on his left hand.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Tony Green, FSR, January 1981, p. 32
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1458
Event 42931 (22FBFCE9)
Date: 3/14/1980
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed. Country: USSR Yield: 0KT YieldMax: .001KT
Type: atomic
Reference: “columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: “archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explosions”, by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1574
Extra Data: LatLong: “50.4375 77.814167”, LatLongDMS: “50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, NukeCountry: “USSR”, NukeDepth: “0.00”, NukeSource: “RFAE”, NukeType: “NUCS”, NukeY: “0”, NukeYMax: “.001”
Event 42932 (1DF91F18)
Date: 3/15/1980
Location: Bannock County, OH
Description: Huge cigar UFO in Ohio. Three witnesses for one hour. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5286
Event 42933 (B53D3BC0)
Date: 3/15/1980
Location: Bannock, Ohio
Description: 8:00 p.m. A couple in Bannock, Ohio, Spot a bright light in the southwestern sky. They watch it for 20 minutes before it approaches their home. The light is a spotlight attached to a large cigar-shaped object with red and blue lights along its length. The spotlight switches off as it passes overhead and moves to the northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Chief Investigator Allan Hendry Reports: Huge Cigar UFO in Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 (August 1980): 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6091
Event 42934 (AF9802EB)
Date: 3/17/1980
Time: 23:10
Location: PRESCOT, ENG
Description: 3 / car. Cloverleaf-saucer going southwest. Cone going southwest later. 3 odd men / road to Rainhill.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 315)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13893
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like
Extra Data: Country: “Great Britain and Ireland”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “20”, Elev: “50”, HatchDesc: “PRESCOT,ENG:3/CAR:CLOVERLEAF-SCR >SW:CONE >SW LATER:3 ODD MEN/ROAD to RAINHILL”, LatLong: “53.433336 -2.783333”, LatLongDMS: “53:26:00 N 02:47:00 W”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “England”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 42935 (2E3A4152)
Date: 3/18/1980
Time: 22:40
Location: SOUTHEAST / TEXARKANA, ARK
Description: 2 observer(s). Power outage. 3 night lights over TV tower. Go to radio tower / backyard.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 172)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13894
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “5”, Elev: “97”, HatchDesc: “SE/TEXARKANA,ARK:2 OBS:PWR OUTAGE:3 NLTS OVR TV TOWER:go to RDO TWR/BACKYARD”, LatLong: “33.416668 -94.000004”, LatLongDMS: “33:25:00 N 94:00:00 W”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Arkansas”, Strangeness: “4”
Event 42936 (2DD1DC64)
Date: 3/19/1980
Time: ~18:00
Location: SECOND GARROTTE, CA
Description: 3 observer(s). Unmarked 100M blimp with portholes seen. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 284)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13895
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “876”, HatchDesc: “SECOND GARROTTE,CA:3 OBS:UNMARKED 100M BLIMP W/PORTHOLES seen:NFD”, LatLong: “37.805557 -120.116672”, LatLongDMS: “37:48:20 N 120:07:00 W”, Locale: “Mountains”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “California”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42937 (FF855DE0)
Date: 3/19/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: SOUTH / KEITHSBURG, IL
Description: Several observer(s). Gold UFO hovers / Mississippi River / 50 minute(s). Shifts left and right. Going down / trees.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13896
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “55”, Elev: “165”, HatchDesc: “S/KEITHSBURG,IL:SVRL OBS:GOLD UFO HVRS/MISS.RIVER/50min:SHIFTS <+>:↓/TREES”, LatLong: “41.100002 -90.944449”, LatLongDMS: “41:06:00 N 90:56:40 W”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Illinois”, Strangeness: “4”
Event 42938 (BE92589D)
Date: 3/19/1980
Description: In the evening in 1980 a 29-year-old man on a motorcycle was chased for over an hour by a small, oval-shaped UFO. The UFO was about two feet in diameter and had sparks shooting out of it in all directions. It flew low above the ground. That same evening a golden colored UFO hovered over the Mississippi River for 50 minutes near Keithsberg, Illinois. It moved back and forth, descending and ascending over the trees along the riverbank.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1980, p. 11; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1575
Event 42939 (353CC38A)
Date: 3/20/1980
Time: 21:00
Location: NEW CASTLE, KY
Description: Dogs bark. Vibrant bright cylinder/cigar-shape 6m over yard. 3 sticks beneath. Shoots going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13897
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “2”, Elev: “257”, HatchDesc: “NEW CASTLE,KY:DOGS BARK:VBRITE CGR 6m OVR YARD:3 STICKS BENEATH:SHOOTS ↑”, LatLong: “38.433335 -85.172226”, LatLongDMS: “38:26:00 N 85:10:20 W”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Kentucky”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42940 (05EFCC1A)
Date: 3/21/1980
Description: Two 19-year-old teenage boys, one the son of the circus owner, had burns on their bodies after a 1:15 a.m. UFO close encounter in Gioia del Colle, Italy. One had burn marks on his wrist under his wristwatch, and the other had scalding burns on his waist where his waist band had two iron studs.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Massimo Greco, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1603
Event 42941 (EFFEC17F)
Date: 3/22/1980
Time: 22:00
Location: BURLINGTON, VT
Description: Cops and Air Traffic Controllers and RADAR’s. Night lights clocked / 2400kph. Maneuver and join and split. / APRO Mar’80.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 263)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13898
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “10”, Duration: “15”, Elev: “340”, HatchDesc: “BURLINGTON,VT:COPS+ATCS+RDRs:NLTS CLOCKED/2400kph:MNVR+JOIN+SPLIT:/APRO Mar’80”, LatLong: “44.466669 -73.200003”, LatLongDMS: “44:28:00 N 73:12:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Vermont”, Strangeness: “4”
Event 42942 (C8E18AF2)
Date: 3/22/1980
Location: Burlington, VT
Description: G, FAA & 3 UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5287
Event 42943 (888698F7)
Date: 3/22/1980
Location: Burlington, VT
Description: Three smaller objects were observed on airport radar joining a larger, brighter object, then separating again
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID: HallUFOE2_347
Event 42944 (FE91FAF4)
Date: 3/22/1980
Locations: Erie, Pennsylvania; Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio
Description: Stringfield meets with two new sources in Erie, Pennsylvania, who show him three photos allegedly showing an alien cadaver encased in glass in Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio. He is suspicious and tries to verify them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6092
Event 42945 (9C199B5D)
Date: 3/22/1980
Locations: Burlington (Vermont) International Airport; Malletts Bay
Description: 10:00–11:00 p.m. Burlington (Vermont) International Airport radar tracks three small objects that join with a larger, brighter object then separate again. They are apparently over Malletts Bay. Speeds of up to 1,500 mph are recorded, and the objects quickly disappear to the west. Traffic controller Donald Kernan says the lights “did a kind of dance.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Satellite Objects on RADAR”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6093
Event 42946 (6843D010)
Date: 3/23/1980
Time: 04:50
Location: FOURMETOT, FR
Description: Glowing-ring going up [to] behind steeple. Going northeast. Stops over woods. Shoots zigzag rays.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 204)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13899
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations
Extra Data: Country: “France”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “5”, HatchDesc: “FOURMETOT,FR:GLOW-RING ↑ BHND STEEPLE:>NE:STOPS OVR WOODS:SHOOTS ZIGZAG RAYS”, LatLong: “49.383336 0.566667”, LatLongDMS: “49:23:00 N 00:34:00 E”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “EUR”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 42947 (AE14DBFA)
Date: 3/23/1980
Time: 19:00
Location: NYANGA, ZIMB
Description: 5 / (seen thru) binoculars. Crescent hovers. Shoots beam / light going up. Going west into clouds. / MJ#159.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO AFRINEWS; Twice annually. Cynthia Hind, editor; PO Box MP 49, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13900
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO’s/occupants/observers
Extra Data: Country: “Zimbabwe & Zambia”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “30”, HatchDesc: "NYANGA,ZIMB:5/BINOCS:CRESCENT HVRS:SHOOTS BEAM/LITE ↑:>W INTO CLOU