By Dennis Moran, correspondent@qconline.com “It came out of the sky, landed just a little south of Moline. Jody fell out of his tractor, couldn’t believe what he seen.” — Creedence Clearwater Revival, “It Came Out of the Sky” Bill Fisher still vividly remembers the strange, bright, silvery object that appeared to be hovering over the Mississippi River on the afternoon of March 9, 1967. Mr. Fisher, then a Moline police officer, had just parked his three-wheel patrol motorcycle on 16th Avenue across from Sacred Heart School, where his son William Jr. was a student. Others saw the object, too, including…
Author: John Greenewald
IT WAS bright, swerving and dipping at an incredibly high speed. And then, suddenly, it disappeared without a trace. For teenager Josh Elton and his family in Gorokan, in the Central Coast, this brief sighting in the sky was enough to make them wonder if they had seen a UFO “We were just sitting on the lounge last Thursday night, about 7.30, and my younger brother and I saw what we thought was a plane flying really low,” Josh, 15, said. “It was swerving all around as we looked out to San Remo, and I really thought it was going…
My husband, my brother, my sister-in-law and I were vacationing at a coastal house in Bodega Bay, CA (about two hours north of San Francisco). We were watching the sun set over the ocean and preparing to watch the clear night sky, so we had big binoculars (16X70) set up on a tripod on the west-facing patio. Moments after sunset (which occurred at 7:15 p.m., [see photo “100_1605[1]sunset”], while the sky at the horizon was still orangey, we noticed a very bright orange/gold streak moving at a slightly upward angle in a north-to-south direction [see photos “100_1607[2]picture 3 unenhanced” and…
Is THIS America’s newest top-secret spy plane? Clearest picture yet of mystery aircraft spotted flying over Kansas just weeks after being seen in Texas By JONATHAN O’CALLAGHAN and MARK PRIGG and ASHLEY COLLMAN, The Daily Mail A new photo of a mysterious flying object over Kansas has been revealed. It appears to be the same aircraft as one that was snapped soaring over Texas last month. The exact identify of the aircraft remains a mystery, but rumours abound that it could be a secret jet. ‘The photo is grainy because it was taken with a hand-held maxed-out 400mm telephoto lens through…
Here is the text of the transcribed article from Nature Magazine, April 22, 1961: We are witness again to a surge of interest in, and speculation about, extra-terrestrial radio transmissions I which had an earlier flare in the late twenties. The favourable change in climate for the expression of such ideas since the turn of the century has been of particular interest to me In 1899, Nikola Tesla established an experimental station at Colorado Springs, where he would be free to pursue certain electrical investigations, unrestrained by the limits imposed by his New York City laboratory. In an article by him, published after his return to New York in…
