{"id":5097,"date":"2018-03-24T07:51:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T07:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:04:46","slug":"a-list-of-ufo-sightings-by-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/a-list-of-ufo-sightings-by-astronomers\/","title":{"rendered":"A List of UFO Sightings by Astronomers (Compiled in 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>This listing is developed from one that was published in U.F.O.I.C. Newsletter, Australia, and re-printed in the Fall 1973 issue of Flying Saucers. Sources of further sightings include:\u00a0 Richard L.Thompson &#8216;Alien Identities&#8217; (orig.source &#8216;The UFO Evidence&#8217;); &#8216;Flying Saucers Over America&#8217; (collection of newspaper cuttings); Robert Loftin &#8216;Identified Flying Saucers&#8217;; &#8216;Flying Saucer Review&#8217;s World Roundup of UFO Sightings and Events&#8217;; Desmond Leslie&#8217;s section of &#8216;Flying Saucers Have Landed&#8217;; Richard\u00a0Hall &#8216;From Airships To Arnold&#8217;; Harold T.Wilkins &#8216;Flying Saucers On The Moon&#8217; and &#8216;Flying Saucers Uncensored&#8217;; Jimmy Guieu &#8216;Flying Saucers Come From Another World&#8217;; Kevin Randle &#8216;Project Blue Book\u00a0Exposed&#8217;; &#8216;165 Little Known UFO Sightings&#8217;; Loren E.Gross&#8217; series &#8216;UFOs:A History&#8217;; Lt.Col.Wendelle C.Stevens (Ret.) &amp; Paul (Moon Wai) Dong &#8216;UFOs Over Modern China&#8217;; M.K.Jessup &#8216;The UFO Annual&#8217;; Paris Flammonde &#8216;UFO Exist!&#8217;; G.McWane &amp; D.Graham &#8216;The New UFO Sightings&#8217;; Michael Hervey &#8216;UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere&#8217; &amp; &#8216;UFOs: The American Scene&#8217;; Wendelle C.Stevens &amp; August C.Roberts &#8216;UFO Photographs Around The World&#8217;; Michael David Hall &#8216;UFOs: A Century of Sightings&#8217; ; Jan L.Aldrich &#8216;Project 1947&#8217;; Peter Paget &#8216;UFO-UK&#8217; &amp; &#8216;The Welsh Triangle&#8217;; Ion Hobana &amp; Julien Weverbergh &#8216;UFO&#8217;s From Behind The Iron Curtain&#8217;; Charles Fort &#8216;New Lands&#8217; &amp; &#8216;Book Of The Damned&#8217;; &#8216;The Dictionary of Scientific Biography&#8217;; Irene Granchi &#8216;UFOs and Abductions in Brazil&#8217;; Coral &amp; Jim Lorenzen &#8216;UFOs:The Whole Story&#8217;; Jacques &amp;\u00a0Janine Vallee &#8216;Challenge To Science&#8217;; Nicholas Redfern &#8216;A Covert Agenda&#8217;; Kenneth Arnold &amp; Raymond Palmer &#8216;The Coming of the Saucers&#8217;; Michael Hesemann &#8216;UFOs The Secret History&#8217;; Paul Stonehill &#8216;The\u00a0Soviet UFO Files&#8217;; Roger H.Stanway &amp; Anthony R.Pace &#8216;Flying Saucer Report &#8211; UFOs Unidentified Undeniable&#8217;; George Leonard &#8216;Somebody Else is on the Moon&#8217;; Richard M.Dolan &#8216;UFOs and the National Security State&#8217;; Jenny Randles &#8216;The Pennine UFO Mystery&#8217;; Arthur Shuttlewood &#8216;Warnings From Flying\u00a0Friends&#8217; &amp; &#8216;The Flying Saucerers&#8217; &amp; &#8216;UFO Magic In Motion&#8217; &amp; &#8216;UFOs: Key To The New Age&#8217;; Michael Hesemann &#8216;UFOs:The Secret History&#8217;; Frank Edwards &#8216;Flying Saucers &#8211; Serious Business&#8217; ; Fred Steckling &#8216;We Discovered Alien Bases On The Moon&#8217;; William R.Corliss &#8216;Mysterious Universe&#8217;; L&#8217;Astronomie Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique De France; Flying Saucer News; Mundo Monitor;\u00a0The Emergency Press; Spacelink; UFO Chronicle; Uranus; UFO Universe; Awareness; Bufora Journal; Understanding Yearbooks 1965 \/68; Flying Saucer Review. Also: National UFO Reporting Center,edited by Peter Davenport (NUFORC) \/\u00a0UFO Roundup, ed.Joseph Trainor (UFORup) \/ Filer&#8217;s Files, ed.George Filer (FF).<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/A-List-of-UFO-Sightings-by-Astronomers.pdf\">A List of UFO Sightings by Astronomers (Compiled in 2000)<\/a> [48 Pages, 0.5MB]<\/p>\n<div class=\"ead-preview\"><div class=\"ead-document\" style=\"position: relative;padding-top: 90%;\"><div class=\"ead-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblackvault.com%2Fcasefiles%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F03%2FA-List-of-UFO-Sightings-by-Astronomers.pdf&amp;embedded=true&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Embedded Document\" class=\"ead-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%;border: none;position: absolute;left: 0;top: 0;visibility: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-loading\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;z-index:10;\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-main\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/loading.svg\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" alt=\"Loader\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Loading...<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/EAD-logo.svg\" alt=\"EAD Logo\" width=\"36\" height=\"23\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Taking too long?<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-btn ead-reload-btn\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/reload.svg\" alt=\"Reload\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Reload document\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>|<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/A-List-of-UFO-Sightings-by-Astronomers.pdf\" class=\"ead-document-btn\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/open.svg\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Open in new tab\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><p class=\"embed_download\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/A-List-of-UFO-Sightings-by-Astronomers.pdf\" download>Download [456.95 KB] <\/a><\/p><\/div><h3>Text Version<\/h3>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>November 17th, 1623: &#8216;A burning globe appeared at sunset &#8211; on 17 November 1623. It was visible in<br \/>\ndifferent places all over Germany. In Austria, it is affirmed a sound of cracking or crushing came from it, as if<br \/>\nfrom a thunderbolt, which, however, I take to be groundless.&#8217; Johannes Kepler.<\/p>\n<p>March 21st, 1676: The Italian, Geminiano Montanari, was knowledgeable in geophysics, biology,<br \/>\nmathematics, ballistics, and meteorology; but his greatest achievements are considered to have been in<br \/>\nastronomy. He reported this sighting to Edmund Halley, who commented &#8211; &#8216;I find it one of the hardest things<br \/>\nto account for, that I have ever yet met.&#8217;&#8230;.. &#8216;It appeared one and three quarter hours after sunset, coming<br \/>\nover the Adriatic from Dalmatia. It crossed over all Italy, at a height of some 40 miles, and hissed as it passed,<br \/>\nover Ronzare. It passed over the sea from Leghorn to Corsica, with a sound like the rattling of a great cart<br \/>\nover stones. I compute that it travelled 160 miles a minute. It seemed to be a vast body apparently bigger<br \/>\nthan the moon!&#8217; (FSOM\/DSB)<\/p>\n<p>May 1677: &#8216;..the famous astronomer, Edmund Halley, Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford University,<br \/>\nreported seeing a &#8220;great light in the sky all over Southern England, many miles high.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>July 31st, 1708: &#8216;..from 9 to 10 p.m., a similar apparition, thought to be 50 miles high, passed over<br \/>\nSheerness, and the &#8216;Buoy at the Nore,&#8217; Suffolk, and London. It moved &#8220;with incredible speed, and was very<br \/>\nbright. It seemed to vanish and left a pale white light behind it. There were no hissing sounds and no<br \/>\nexplosion.&#8221;&#8216; (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>1715: Unusual phenomena were observed on the Moon, at the time of the solar eclipse, by Edmund Halley<br \/>\nand J.E.de Louville &#8211; &#8216;..as it were a sort of flash or momentary vibrations of beams of light, as though<br \/>\nsomeone were setting fire to gunpowder trails as used in mining. These bright flashes were very brief in<br \/>\nduration and appeared now here, now there, but always in the shade.&#8217; (FSR 41-2)<\/p>\n<p>March 6th, 1716: Halley saw an object illuminating the sky for more than two hours from about 7:00 p.m.<br \/>\nonwards: &#8216;A man could easily read print in the light thrown out by these spears from the same body. It did not<br \/>\nchange for two hours, and then it seemed as if new fuel had been cast on a fire.&#8217; \/ Similar phenomena were<br \/>\nreported to Halley by other astronomers of his time, notably by astronomers Gottfried Kirch and Schlazius, at<br \/>\nLeipzig, Germany re. an event on July 9th, 1686 and by Montanari an Italian mathematician and astronomer<br \/>\nregarding a sighting on March 21st, 1676.<\/p>\n<p>March 17th, 1735: &#8216;A strange apparition of &#8220;an uncommon bright glade of light&#8221; was seen from the top of his<br \/>\nhouse in Buckingham Street, off the Strand, London, by John Bevis, at 8.05 pm, on March 17, 1735, when he<br \/>\nwas observing Mars, in the west: &#8220;It was quite unlike the Aurora Borealis, being steady and not tremulous in<br \/>\nmotion. The stars could be seen through it. It was not a comet; for I could see no nucleus through my 17-foot<br \/>\noptical glass. It gre dim in the middle in half an hour, and then seemed to split into two very luminous parts,<br \/>\nwhich grew dimmer till about 9.&#8221; (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>August 9th, 1762: Two Swiss astronomers saw an object in front of the sun. They were De Rostan in Basle<br \/>\nand Croste in Sole. [Article in 18th Century Sightings]<\/p>\n<p>May 1764: Astronomer Hoffman saw a large round spot traverse the sun from north to south. (MHervey)<\/p>\n<p>June 17th, 1777: Charles Messier, famous for his nebula catalogue observed a large number of dark spots in<br \/>\nthe skies, disc shaped, which were unknown to him. In his log book he wrote &#8211; &#8216;They were large and swift and<br \/>\nthey were ships, yet like bells.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>August 18th, 1783: Tiberius Cavallo, Italian chemist, inventor and writer on natural philosophy &#8211; a fellow of<br \/>\nthe Royal Society, saw at Windsor Castle what he termed a &#8216;most extraordinary meteor&#8230;North-east of the<br \/>\nTerrace, in clear sky and warm weather, I saw appear suddenly an oblong cloud nearly parallel to the horizon.<br \/>\nBelow the cloud was seen a luminous body&#8230; It soon became a roundish body, brightly lit up and almost<br \/>\nstationary. It was about 9.25 p.m. This strange ball at first appeared bluish and faint, but its light increased,<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>and it soon began to move. At first, it ascended above the horizon, obliquely towards the east. Then it<br \/>\nchanged its direction and moved parallel to the horizon. It vanished in the SE. I saw it for half a minute, and<br \/>\nthe light it gave out was prodigious. It lit up every object on the face of the country. It changed shape to<br \/>\noblong, acquired a tail, and seemed to split up into two bodies of small size. About two minutes later came a<br \/>\nrumble like an explosion.&#8217; [Article in 18th Century Sightings]. Cavallo&#8217;s book &#8216;The History and Practice of<br \/>\nAerostation&#8217; was published, in London, two year later. He was buried in 1809 in St.Pancras Churchyard.<br \/>\n(FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>Also on August 30th an object was observed at Greenwich Observatory from which eight objects emerged,<br \/>\ndescribed as satellites. \/ Other reports by scientists named by Wilkins on the following dates: March 19, 1718<br \/>\nat Oxford, December 5th, 1737 and December 16th, 1742 &#8211; both in London.<\/p>\n<p>William Herschel on Mars &#8211; &#8216;..From other phenomena it appears, however, that this planet is not without a<br \/>\nconsiderable atmosphere; for, besides the permanent spots on its surface, I have often noticed occasional<br \/>\nchanges of partial bright belts.. and also a darkish one, in a pretty high latitude.. And these alterations we can<br \/>\nhardly ascribe to any other cause than the variable disposition of clouds and vapours floating in the<br \/>\natmosphere of that planet.<\/p>\n<p>[Result of the contents of this paper] &#8230;And that planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere, so that<br \/>\nits inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.<br \/>\nDatchet, Dec.1, 1783. W.HERSCHEL&#8217; [On the remarkable Appearances at the Polar Regions of the Planet<br \/>\nMars, the Inclination of its Axis, the Position of its Poles, and its Spheroidal Figure; with a few Hints relating to<br \/>\nits real Diameter and Atmosphere. By William Herschel, Esq. F.R.S.]<\/p>\n<p>October 22nd, 1790: &#8216;The famous astronomer, Frederick William Herschel, who discovered the planet<br \/>\nUranus and its satellites and the satellites of Saturn, was looking through a 20-foot reflector telescope.. when<br \/>\nhe saw, in time of total eclipse of the moon, many bright and luminous points, small and round. But &#8220;the<br \/>\nbrightness of the moon, notwithstanding the fact that it was in eclipse&#8221;, did not permit him to view the<br \/>\nphenomenon long enough to locate these points on the lunar surface. \/ He wrote to the Royal Society &#8211; &#8220;We<br \/>\nknow too little of the surface of the moon to venture a surmise of the cause and remarkable colour of these<br \/>\npoints.&#8221;&#8216; [Article in 18th Century Sightings]. Previous sightings of lights on or near the moon were made by<br \/>\nHerschel in 1783 and 1787. (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>May 1799: A luminous spot was seen moving across the disc of Mercury by Johann Schroeter, his assistant<br \/>\nK.L.Harding at Lilienthal observatory , and other observers- &#8216;In the transit of 1799.. Schroter and Harding at<br \/>\nLilienthal, and Kohler at Dresden, saw a small luminous spot on the dark disk. The spot was not stationary,<br \/>\nfor Harding saw it change its position, and later in the day Schroter saw it sometimes on one part of the disk,<br \/>\nsometimes on another. Others saw, not one, but two small spots of a greyish colour.&#8217; (Monthly Notices 38,<br \/>\n1878\/MU)<\/p>\n<p>February 7th, 1802: An unknown body [&#8216;dark disc&#8217; DL]was seen crossing the sun by the Astronomer Fritsch,<br \/>\nat Magdeburg, in central Germany. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>October 10th 1802: An unknown dark body was seen by Herr Fritsch rapidly crossing the sun. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>January 16th 1818: A Mr.Capel Lofft, astronomer of Ipswich, England, observed a strange object near the<br \/>\nsun. It was visible for three hours and a half. (DL\/NL)<\/p>\n<p>June 26th, 1819: Three dark bodies crossed the sun together, observed by astronomer Franz Gruithuisen.<br \/>\n(NL) Pastorff saw something near the sun, which he had thought was a comet; but could not have been,<br \/>\naccording to Olbers. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>September 7th, 1820: Francis Arago, the famous French Physicist\/Astronomer describes observations that<br \/>\nday during the eclipse, at Embrun, of objects moving across the sky in a nearly military precision. He<br \/>\nmentions also that a number of other scientists have seen similar events.<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>February, 1821: A bright point of light, like a star, was seen on the Moon, in the crater Aristarchus &#8211; on the 4th<br \/>\n&amp; 7th of February, by Capt.Kater; on the 5th, by Dr.Olbers. Star-like lights on the moon also observed that<br \/>\nyear in May and November. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>October 23rd 1822: Astronomer Pastorff observes two unknown objects cross the sun&#8217;s disc. (DL)<\/p>\n<p>May 22nd 1823: Astronomer named Webb sees bright shining thing near Venus. (DL)<\/p>\n<p>October 18th, 1824: &#8216;At five o&#8217;clock, morning.. a light was seen upon the dark part of the moon, by<br \/>\nGruithuisen. It disappeared. Six minutes later it appeared again, disappeared again, and then flashed<br \/>\nintermittently, from 5:30 A.M., until sunrise ended the observations.&#8217; (NL)<\/p>\n<p>January 22nd, 1825: A star-like light was again observed in Aristarchus, on the Moon; reported by<br \/>\nRev.J.B.Emmett. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>February 13th, 1826: Gruithuisen reported that on this date, two straight lines of light, with, between them a<br \/>\ndark band that was covered with luminous points, was observed in the western crater of Messier.(NL)<\/p>\n<p>July 31st 1826: Unknown object seen by astronomers. (DL)<\/p>\n<p>May 26th 1828: Disc crossing the sun, seen through telescope. (DL)<\/p>\n<p>September 6th to November 1st, 1831: At Geneva Observatory the Swiss astronomer Dr.Wartmann and his<br \/>\nstaff saw a strange luminous body practically every night. \/ In the years following there were reports by<br \/>\nPastorff (1834, 1836, 1837), Cacciatore (1835), De Vico (1837), De Cuppis (1837), and Glaisher (1844).<\/p>\n<p>July 4th, 1832: W.L.Webb saw &#8216;a brilliant display of minute dots and streaks of light, in the Mare Crisium..&#8217; on<br \/>\nthe Moon. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>December 22nd, 1835: Another star-like light in the crater Aristarchus &#8211; reported by Francis Bailey. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>May 15th, 1836: At Havana, Professor Auber saw many luminous bodies that seemed to move out from the<br \/>\nsun, in diverse directions. (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>1844: James Glaisher reported shining discs &#8220;which sent out quickly flickering waves of light.&#8221; (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>May 11th-13th, 1845: &#8216;Erman sends me a report of Capocci about bodies, which he has seen pass in front of<br \/>\nthe sun on 11 to 13 May&#8230; he has also seen bodies of indeterminate shape like shadows pass, and for this<br \/>\nreason the idea occurred to him that there could be nearer bodies and therefore that one must pull out the<br \/>\neyepiece further in order to see them clearly. In fact, when he pulled out the eyepiece 1 to 2 centimeters, he<br \/>\nsaw these bodies pass by with a very definite outline. They had irregular shapes. A few went quickly like<br \/>\nshooting stars, others remained visible 2 to 3 seconds and so on.&#8217; (Letter from astronomer Heinrich<br \/>\nSchumacher to mathematician Carl Gauss, Sept.18 1845)&#8230; &#8230;G.A.Erman (1806-1877) worked chiefly in<br \/>\nterrestrial magnetism and related fields, and also undertook many expeditions. His father-in-law was Bessel&#8230;<br \/>\nErnesto Capocci (de Belmonte) (1798-1864) was the first astronomer at the Capidomente observatory in<br \/>\nNaples, remaining there until 1848. (I.Grattan-Guinness, FSR 23-2)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Italian astronomer working at Capodimonte Observatory, Naples saw a number of shining discs, some star-<br \/>\nshaped, others sporting a tail-like appendage. He considered them of smallish size. \/ Further reports in the<br \/>\nfollowing years came from Schmidt (1847), Brown and Sidebotham (1849) and Inglis in Switzerland in the<br \/>\nsame year.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>March 18th &amp; 19th, 1847: Large luminous spots seen upon the dark side of the moon, and a general glow<br \/>\nupon the upper limb, by Rev.T.Rankin and Prof.Chevaillier. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>Summer 1847: Benjamin Scott and his five-year-old son both observed, through a telescope, a body that<br \/>\nseemed to be the size of Venus crossing the sun. (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>December 11th &amp; 12th, 1847: A bright light that flashed intermittently, was seen on the dark side of the<br \/>\nmoon, by Hodgson. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>September 11th, 1852: A bright shining disc was visible to people in Staffordshire between 4.15 and 4.45<br \/>\np.m. Lord Wrottesley, who had an observatory at Wolverhampton, said it seemed relatively near the Moon.<br \/>\nOthers said near Venus. (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>June 11th, 1855: Astronomers, Ritter and Schmidt saw with their naked eyes a darkish body, unexplainable<br \/>\nto both of them.<\/p>\n<p>March 26th, 1859: Dr.Lescarbault, a French amateur astronomer, observed a body of planetary size cross<br \/>\nthe sun. Later given the name &#8216;Vulcan&#8217; by Urbain Leverrier, who had become aware of five other seperate<br \/>\nobservations. (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>September 1st, 1859: Richard Carrington, oberving through his telescope at Redhill Observatory in Surrey<br \/>\nsaw two luminous bodies, certainly not meteors.<\/p>\n<p>April 1860: &#8216;..4 leading astronomers, Herrick, Buys-Barlott and de Cuppis of Great Britain, together with their<br \/>\nSwiss colleague Dr.Wolf, watched from the Zurich Observatory as &#8220;a large number of small black discs which<br \/>\ncame from the east flew past.&#8221; &#8216; (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>October 1862: &#8216;Lockyer saw a spot like a long train of clouds on Mars, and several days later Secchi saw a<br \/>\nspot on Mars..&#8217; (NL)<\/p>\n<p>April 27th, 1863: Henry Waldner, a German astronomer, saw at Weinheim Observatory that day a great<br \/>\nnumber of small luminous bodies travelling at great speed. He notified Johann Wolf (professor of astronomy<br \/>\nsince 1855 at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule and the University at Zurich, Switzerland. And<br \/>\nthrough whose efforts an observatory was constructed in that city, in 1864). Dr.Wolf was convinced of the<br \/>\nreality of the phenomenon, and told Mr.Waldner of the similar sighting by Sig. Capocci, 18 years earlier.<br \/>\n(BoD\/DSB)<\/p>\n<p>October 19th, 1863: Astronomer Schmidt saw &#8216;..a bolide that was following an exceptionally slow course. He<br \/>\nwas able to study it through a comet searcher and stated that it was a double object.&#8217; (compare to Jan.3rd<br \/>\n1898 sighting)<\/p>\n<p>March 8th, 1865: M.Coumbary, an amateur astronomer of Constantinople, saw &#8216;..a black point, sharply<br \/>\noutlined, traverse the disk of the sun. It detached itself from a group of sunspots near the limb of the sun, and<br \/>\ntook 48 minutes to reach the other limb..&#8217; (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>August 10th, 1865: An astronomer named Ingall spotted &#8216;a most minute point of light glittering like a star&#8217; on<br \/>\nthe moon, just west of Picard. (Astr.Register, 3-189\/UFORup, 2-44)<\/p>\n<p>September 5th, 1865: Ingall again reported &#8216;..a conspicuous bright spot west of Picard.&#8217;<br \/>\n(Astr.Reg., 3-252\/Fort\/UFORup, 2-44)<\/p>\n<p>April 9th, 1867: &#8216;Thos G.Elger reported to the Astronomical Register, that, in the English sky, he saw a dark<br \/>\npart of the moon suddenly flame out with a light like a star of 7th magnitude. This was at 7.30 p.m. At 9.30<br \/>\np.m., it faded out. &#8220;I have seen lights on the moon before, but never so clear as this.&#8221; &#8216; Various other<br \/>\nobservations of anomalous features on the moon also detailed. (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>May 30th, 1867: Bird, a British astronomer observing Venus, saw a number of objects similar to Capocci and<br \/>\nWaldner.<\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>1867: Professor Eduard Heis saw a dark object slowly traverse eleven degrees of arc of the Milky Way. (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>June 8th, 1868: A number of British astronomers at Oxford&#8217;s Radcliffe Observatory saw a luminous object<br \/>\nmoving quickly across the sky, stopping and changing its course at least three times.<\/p>\n<p>August 7th, 1869: Observing a total solar eclipse at Iowa Observatory Professor Zentmayer and Prof.Coffin<br \/>\nsaw a number of objects moving nearly parallel across the sky. Also Prof.Himes of this observatory when<br \/>\ncalled observed some of them. They were unexplainable to all three astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>October 17th &amp; 18th, 1869: A keen amateur astronomer, Lieutenant Herschel while observing the sun saw,<br \/>\nfrom noon on the 17th until about 7 a.m. on the 18th numerous dark shadows crossing the sun, and also<br \/>\nluminous streaks going across the sky near the sun. They were nearly a continuous stream and all<br \/>\nexplanations could not solve these sightings. Some objects stopped and hovered before flying fast away.<\/p>\n<p>May 13th, 1870: Multiple lights (4, 27, 28) observed from England in the lunar crater Plato &#8211; &#8216;..it was observed<br \/>\nthat, as one of these lights.. increased in brightness, another diminished. Then another light alternately shone<br \/>\nand faded out&#8230;&#8217; (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>October 12th, 1870: &#8216;The astronomer William F.Dennis saw at Bristol a luminous ball travelling faster than a<br \/>\nballoon but slower than a meteor, and emitting sparks. The same object, or one quite similar, was seen at<br \/>\nWimbledon by a member of the Royal Society of Astronomy.&#8217; (Michel)<\/p>\n<p>August 1st, 1871: A French astronomer, E.A.Coggia, known for cometary discoveries, saw, in Marseilles, an<br \/>\nobject slowly moving across the sky, he was unable to explain. According to his description, it appeared at<br \/>\n10:43 pm, and was a magnificent red object moving slowly eastward. At 10:52:30 pm it stopped, and then<br \/>\nmoved northward, until stopping again after a further seven minutes. Its next movement was once again<br \/>\ntowards the east, finally disappearing, or falling behind the horizon at 11:03:20 pm. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>August 29th, 1871(?): Another leading French astronomer, Etienne Trouvelot, saw a great number of<br \/>\nseemingly opaque bodies crossing the sun, and similar sightings for some days until September 1st, 1871.<\/p>\n<p>June 17th, 1873: Dr.Sage, whilst watching the planet Mars, from Rybnik, Upper Silesia, saw a large object<br \/>\n&#8216;apparently issue&#8217; at incredible speed from the planet, and seemingly explode on reaching Earth&#8217;s<br \/>\natmosphere. There were other witnesses reported on by a Dr.Galle. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>1873: &#8216;..the royal British Society of Astronomy reported that for many months, flashing lights had been seen<br \/>\non the moon, which they took to be intelligent attempts by an unknown race from the moon to establish<br \/>\ncontact..&#8217; (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>April 24th, 1874: Prof. Schaffarik of Prague Observatory saw an unidentified object crossing the moon. He<br \/>\nreported that it was &#8216;..of such a strange nature that I do not know what to make of it. It was bright white and<br \/>\nmoved slowly across the face of the moon. I saw it even after it had left the disc of the moon. In other words,<br \/>\nthe object was no part of the moon because it left the moon behind and wandered out into space. What else<br \/>\ncan it be other than a flying machine?&#8217; (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>December 1875-January 22nd, 1876: Rio De Janeiro Observatory reported &#8216;..a vast number of bodies<br \/>\ncrossing the sun, some of them luminous and some of them dark..&#8217; (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>February 20th, 1877: That night, Etienne Trouvelot, French-born astronomer\/scientist, resident in the U.S.,<br \/>\nsaw a fine luminous line, like a luminous cable drawn across the lunar crater Eudoxus. (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>March 21st, 1877: An astronomer in England reported having seen a brilliant light in the lunar crater Proclus,<br \/>\nwhich was not the reflection of the sun&#8217;s light. \/ That month, another bright spot was observed in or near the<br \/>\nlunar crater Picard. (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>June 17th, 1877: &#8216;Professor Henry Harrison, in New York State, saw a light on the dark part of the moon<br \/>\nwhich looked like a reflection from a moving mirror. Frank Dennett, in England, saw, at this time, a minute<br \/>\npoint of light in the lunar crater, Bessel.&#8217; (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>November 23rd, 1877: Dr.Klein reported to L&#8217;Astronomie &#8211; &#8216;I saw a luminous triangle on the floor of the lunar<br \/>\ncrater, Plato. It may have been reflected sunlight.&#8217; On this same night, observers in USA saw flakes of light<br \/>\nmoving from all other lunar craters towards the crater Plato. They formed into a triangle on the floor of Plato.<br \/>\n(FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>July 29th, 1878: Reports from both Professor James Watson (from Wyoming) and Professor Lewis Swift<br \/>\n(from Colorado) that they had seen two shining objects at a considerable distance from the sun, during the<br \/>\ntime of the total eclipse. (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>April 12th-13th, 1879: A large luminous body, certainly not a comet, was seen by Mr.Henry Harrison, and a<br \/>\nfriend. (NYTribune\/Scientific American 40, 1879\/MU)<\/p>\n<p>January 23rd, 1880: &#8216;Something like another luminous cable, or like a shining wall&#8217; was observed in the lunar<br \/>\ncrater Aristarchus by Etienne Trouvelot. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>August 25th, 1880: Marcel A.Trecul, a member of the French Academy reported that day an extremely bright<br \/>\nyellowish-white, torpedo-shaped or cylindrical object &#8220;with slightly conical ends,&#8221; and of small size. It dropped<br \/>\nsomething that fell straight down, and then, itself, disappeared into the clouds. (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>November 30th, 1880 (?): Ricco, an Italian astronomer, saw at Palermo Observatory while watching the sun<br \/>\na number of objects crossing its surface. (date uncertain &#8211; see Nov.30 1888)<\/p>\n<p>January 13th, 1881: A light was seen in Marius, on the moon, by A.Stanley Williams, the astronomer. (FSR<br \/>\n3-4\/English Mechanic)<\/p>\n<p>May 4th, 1881: Trouvelot observed an unexplained light in the lunar crater Eudoxus. (NL)<\/p>\n<p>September 27th, 1881: Colonel Markwick, in South Africa, saw an object moving rapidly near the moon.<br \/>\n(FSR 3-4\/Journal of Liverpool Astronomical Society)<\/p>\n<p>July 6th, 1882: &#8216;..report by an astronomer, N.S.Drayton, upon an object duration of which seemed to him<br \/>\nextraordinary, duration three-quarters of a minute, Jersey City..&#8217; (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>November 15th, 1882: This letter was printed in The Times, November 20th, 1882. &#8216;Sir,-It may be of some<br \/>\ninterest to your many scientific readers, to know that at the present moment there is an enormous spot on the<br \/>\nsun&#8217;s disc, not only unusually large, but making also very rapid transformations of shape. To those who have<br \/>\npowerful telescopes these changes are of exceeding interest. I have not noticed so large a spot for many<br \/>\nyears. \/ The general contour of the &#8220;penumbra&#8221; is nearly circular and measures 56,037 miles in its longer axis<br \/>\nand 51,106 miles in its shorter axis. The &#8220;umbra&#8221; is of an extraordinary shape from its numerous<br \/>\nramifications. The greatest length of this is 39,266 miles and its greatest breadth 23,052 miles. \/ The<br \/>\ntelescope used in these measurements was an eight and a half inch equatorial, by Messrs. Cooke and Sons,<br \/>\nYork. \/ I beg to remain, Sir, yours obediently, FREDERICK BRODIE, F.R.A.S. Observatory Fernhill, Wootton-<br \/>\nbridge, Isle of Wight&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>November 17th, 1882: E.W.Maunder, Superintendent at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and others, saw<br \/>\na greenish object, torpedo-shaped and luminous. He definitely did not link it to an auroral display and after<br \/>\nseeing zeppelins in the First World War, he linked it in shape to these airships.<\/p>\n<p>February 23rd, 1883: Camille Flammarion, who is still very well-known in our day and one of the most known<br \/>\nastronomical writers of all times, saw an object remaining stationary for some time, he could not link to<br \/>\nanything known to him. He saw also at other times objects similar to this one: he even named them Bradytes.<\/p>\n<p>7<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>April 15th &amp; 25th, 1883: At Marseilles, Monsieur Bruguiere observed bodies crossing the sun that were<br \/>\n&#8216;irregular in form. Some of them moved as if in alignment.&#8217; (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>August 12th, 1883: Bonilla, director of Zacatecas Observatory, Mexico saw whilst observing sun-spots, not<br \/>\nless than 283 bodies crossing the sun. He admits the count was only approximate, as many appeared at the<br \/>\nsame time. Photos taken are still in existence &#8211; the earliest known UFO photos. Some objects were also seen<br \/>\nthe following day. (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>February 5th, 1884: &#8216;Mr.Lopez Morales, Director of the Meteorological Observatory of Almeria (Spain): On<br \/>\nsome luminous red points observed on the Moon. On the subject of an analogous observation by Mr.Jose<br \/>\nBraziliano de Souza (Brazil), the writer recalls an observation of 5 february 1884: at 2 o&#8217;clock in the morning,<br \/>\na portion of the lunar cirque in the form of a crescent appeared luminous in the walls of the crater Kepler, near<br \/>\nto Encke, the convexity directed to the South-East.&#8217; (Societe Astronomique de France, Seance du 5 mars<br \/>\n1890)<\/p>\n<p>February 7th, 1884: Astronomers at Brussels Observatory, Belgium did notice from that day until Feb.16th,<br \/>\nan extremely bright spot on the planet Venus, which moved away from it on the 16th February.<\/p>\n<p>September 16th, 1884: Professor Haywood of Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, USA, reported that<br \/>\nbetween 3.30 and 4a.m., he had observed a bright glow covering the dark part of the Moon. Though<br \/>\nconsidered by him to be an electrical manifestation &#8211; it was too bright to be earth shine and obscured the<br \/>\nfeatures of the surface of the Moon &#8211; he admitted &#8216;This latter fact is puzzling and unsatisfactory.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>February 21st &amp; 22nd, 1885: &#8216;..Lorenzo Kropp, an astronomer of Paysandu, Uraguay, writes that, upon Feb.<br \/>\n21, 1885, he had seen, in Cassini, a formation not far from Hercules, both of them in the northwestern<br \/>\nquadrant of the moon, a reddish smoke or mist. he had heard that several other persons had seen, not a<br \/>\nmisty appearance, but a star-like light here, and upon the 22nd he had seen a definite light, himself, shining<br \/>\nlike the planet Saturn.&#8217; (NL)<\/p>\n<p>August 22nd, 1885: Two amateur astronomers, Reveillere and Guiberteau witnessed at Saigon a<br \/>\nphenomenon lasting about eight minutes, an object crossing from south to southeast, red in colour, certainly<br \/>\nmuch slower than a meteor.<\/p>\n<p>November 1st, 1885: A Turkish amateur astronomer, Mavrogordato, reported an elongated object, very<br \/>\nluminous, near Adrianapole, 4-5 times larger than the full moon. The time was about 9:30 p.m. Another report<br \/>\non the next day near Skutari, Albania, forwarded through the same astronomer, described a blueish-greenish<br \/>\nobject, making a series of turns before falling into the sea after 90 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>May 11th, 1886: Marseilles, France; 8pm. From sighting report by A.Fauchier &#8211; &#8216;..observing the Moon.. my<br \/>\nattention was drawn to two points reflecting an extraordinarily brilliant light and of a kind that I had never seen<br \/>\nthere before that day and that I have never seen again since; this light was iridescent and surpassed by<br \/>\nseveral times in brightness the most luminous parts of this heavenly body seen in the same light conditions in<br \/>\nother instances&#8230;&#8217; These anomalous lights were witnessed at the south of Plato. (L&#8217;Astronomie 6) Complete<br \/>\nreport is in 19th Century sightings<\/p>\n<p>1886: Dr.Max Wolf saw something obscure a star for three and a half seconds. (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>November 30th, 1888(?): Palermo, Italy. Senor Ricci of the Palermo observatory saw &#8220;a number of spindle-<br \/>\nshaped flying objects crossing the sun&#8217;s disc at a great height.&#8221;<br \/>\n(UFOsTSH &#8211; date uncertain, see Nov.30, 1880)<\/p>\n<p>October 27th, 1890: From the Observatory at Grahamstown, South Africa, Eddie watched a comet-like body,<br \/>\nthat moved one hundred degrees during the three-quarters of an hour period of observation. John Dreyer at<br \/>\nArmagh Observatory read of this sighting, and reported a similar observation (as did others). (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>8<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>April 4th, 1892: A Dutch astronomer, Muller saw a large black disc slowly crossing the moon, unexplainable<br \/>\nto him.<\/p>\n<p>August 13th, 1892: Professor Barnard reported seeing an unknown object close to Venus. (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>March 7th, 1893: The French astronomer Raymond Coulon saw at Val de la Haye Observatory, France, a<br \/>\nclearly defined object, looking like an elongated pear, of an iridescent and luminous nature. He could not<br \/>\nexplain it.<\/p>\n<p>November 25th, 1894: &#8216;A light-reflecting body, or a bright spot near Mars &#8211; seen..by Prof.William Pickering<br \/>\nand A.E.Douglass, at the Lowell Observatory, above an unilluminated part of Mars &#8211; self-luminous, it would<br \/>\nseem &#8211; thought to have been a cloud &#8211; but estimated to have been about twenty miles away from the planet.&#8217;<br \/>\n(BoD)<\/p>\n<p>August 11th, 1895: &#8216;Remarkable Bolide. &#8212; I was the witness Sunday 11 August, at 9 in the evening, to a<br \/>\ncurious phenomenon. A bolide traversed the sky in a west to south direction between Ophiuchus and the<br \/>\nScorpion. At the altitude of Ed Ophiuchus, the meteor split in two, and formed two glowing nucleii about 1<br \/>\ndeg. distant from each other, and connected by a luminous trail. In that manner, the two bolides followed the<br \/>\nsame trajectory and lost themselves in the misty horizon. CHATELET, at Avignon.&#8217; (L&#8217;Astronomie vol.9)<\/p>\n<p>September 16th, 1895: &#8216;Celestial Phenomenon. &#8212; Today, 16 September, at the time when a very clear sky<br \/>\nadorned the town of Saint-Helier, I was watching, at 9.14 in the evening, from the window of my hotel, the<br \/>\ngiant constellation of Cygnus, which was at the time situated around the zenith altitude, when a sheet of<br \/>\nintense and blinding light ran across the sky from North to South with breathtaking speed.<br \/>\nAs a passenger on board the steamer Le Honfleur, I was stunned during the crossing, by the exceptional<br \/>\nclearness of the firmament, made altogether more strange by a vaporous mist spreading out over the whole<br \/>\nof the sea. Several people that I spoke to about this unknown light affirmed to me that they had likewise seen<br \/>\nit and that it was not an electric light.<br \/>\nPAUL ROULAND, at Saint-Helier. Island of Jersey, September 1895.&#8217; (L&#8217;Astr. v9)<\/p>\n<p>December 1895: Muller, of Nymegen, Holland saw a luminous object near Venus.<\/p>\n<p>July 31st, 1896: At Smith Observatory, U.S.A., astronomers noticed a dark circular disc-shaped object going<br \/>\nacross the moon&#8217;s surface very quickly, timed at about four seconds, which should prove its closeness to<br \/>\nEarth. \/ Coming back to the moon and various observations of lights, etc., in England in the Seventies or so of<br \/>\nthe 19th century, an astronomer, Birt, deposited at the Royal Astronomical Society over 1500 observations of<br \/>\nlights, moving objects and changes of brightness, mostly in the crater Plato, which is, with its about 60 miles<br \/>\ndiameter quite a prominent feature of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>September 20th\/21st, 1896: Echo Mountain, California, USA; evening. Dr.L.Swift observed a &#8216;luminous<br \/>\nobject&#8217; about one degree above the sun &#8211; &#8216;..Going out on the veranda, the object was seen more distinctly. At<br \/>\nfirst it occurred to me that it might be a small fire on the mountain, but this idea was quickly dispelled, as one-<br \/>\nhalf of the sun&#8217;s disk was still above the mountain, and the object still higher. Seizing an opera glass I saw<br \/>\nthat it had a very much fainter companion some 30&#8242; north, but it could not be seen without the glass. In about<br \/>\nfour minutes after the sun had set the two objects also disappeared behind the mountain. \/ Both objects were<br \/>\nseen by some fifteen people&#8230; Last evening I began a search with the comet-seeker with the sun 10[degree<br \/>\nsign] in altitude, but nothing was seen until fully one half of the sun had disappeared when I caught sight of it,<br \/>\nbut its faintness surprised me, for it was less bright through the telescope than with the naked eye the<br \/>\nprevious evening&#8230; \/ I only saw it for 5 seconds&#8230; I estimate that the object disappeared simultaneously with<br \/>\nthe sun&#8217;s upper limb. \/ The only thing that perplexes me about this strange affair is, that the sun, object, and<br \/>\ncompanion, were not in line, but must have deviated from it by 30 [degrees]or more.&#8217; (The Astronomical<br \/>\nJournal XVII)<\/p>\n<p>January 3rd, 1898: At 8.40pm, a Monsieur Georget observed something unusual in the sky while returning<br \/>\nhome &#8211; &#8216;..I saw in the northeast, at an elevation of 30-40 degrees, a luminous meteor, fairly bright, having the<br \/>\nthe same colour as the planet Mars, travelling at a relatively slow rate through the sky. It went away toward<\/p>\n<p>9<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>the north and disappeared at the horizon at a point that formed an alignment with the satrs Zeta and Eta<br \/>\nUrsae Majris, behind the hills situated to the north of Vannes, about eight or ten kilometres away, and about<br \/>\n110 metres higher than the town itself. \/ It went through a trajectory of 45 degrees in five or six minutes,<br \/>\nduring which time it steadily lost brightness, as a luminous body would if it went away. About the time of its<br \/>\ndisappearance, one could see a yellow or reddish flash. \/ I was able to examine this meteor for a few minutes<br \/>\nwith a small telescope of 30 mm.. It seemed to be formed by two luminous bodies, A and B, situated at<br \/>\napproximately the same elevation, the brighter one, A, being in front. Remarkable peculiarity: the motion of B<br \/>\nwas affected by sudden oscillations, which lasted about half a second. Four or five oscillations were counted<br \/>\nper minute. These objects gave the appearance of two balloons linked together.&#8217; When published in the<br \/>\nperiodical Comptes Rendus, this sighting was compared to a sighting by Schmidt, on October 19th, 1863.<br \/>\n(CTSc)<\/p>\n<p>April 25th, 1898: Prof. J.Michailovitch of Belgrade Observatory saw for about six minutes an object hovering<br \/>\nover Belgrade. He referred to it as a &#8216;comet,&#8217; but it obviously did not behave like one.<\/p>\n<p>June 29th, 1898: A French astronomer, Lucien Libert, who was in the habit of observing and recording<br \/>\nmeteors at every possible opportunity, saw &#8211; &#8216;..at 1hr. 03m.A.M., a bolide with very slow motion (that) glided in<br \/>\nsixty seconds from Hercules to Ursa Major. Its diameter was 25 seconds of arc, and it was very bright and<br \/>\nwhite in colour.&#8217; (CTSc)<\/p>\n<p>July 4th, 1898: Lucien Libert &#8211; &#8216;..I was in my observatory when suddenly, at 7hrs. 10m. 18s., I saw a luminous<br \/>\nbody appear above a tree at the northern horizon. It was of a beautiful golden-yellow colour and perfectly<br \/>\nspherical. Its apparent diameter was one-fourth that of the moon. This object started from the north-northeast,<br \/>\nrose slowly in the sky, went through the zenith, then started losing brightness as it went down toward the<br \/>\nhorizon. It disappeared at elevation 30 degrees above the above the west-southwest horizon, near Venus, at<br \/>\n7hrs. 22m. 44s. Its duration, therefore, was twelve minutes, twenty-six seconds. It is by far the longest<br \/>\nduration I have observed. A short time before it disappeared it increased its speed&#8230; A fairly strong noise of<br \/>\nexplosion was heard a few seconds after its disappearance.&#8217; (CTSc)<\/p>\n<p>May 6th, 1899: Monsieur Libert, again &#8211; &#8216;..at 8:30 P.M., a magnificent bolide with a very, very slow motion, of<br \/>\nyellow colour and surrounded with a shower of sparks, appeared in the constellation of the Scale. Night had<br \/>\nnot completely come and it was difficult to ascertain points of comparison. Only Jupiter and Spica were<br \/>\nvisible. This bolide had a completely peculiar shape, which I cannot compare to anything better than a<br \/>\ntadpole&#8217;s head. There was a very bright point in front, and a tail with extremely fast movements of undulation.&#8217;<br \/>\n(CTSc)<\/p>\n<p>June 7th, 1899: M.Libert &#8211; &#8216;..at 9 hrs. 25m. 32s. P.M., a yellow bolide, very slow, of the magnitude of Venus,<br \/>\nleaving no trail, went from Ophiuchus to Scorpio in twelve seconds. (CTSc)<\/p>\n<p>February 9th, 1902: M.Libert &#8211; &#8216;..at 7 hrs. 40m. P.M., I observed with MM.Schoux, Marcel Libert and Lucien<br \/>\nBriand an extremely remarkable bolide, of the magnitude of Venus. It started from the position of Capella, at a<br \/>\npoint I estimate to be about five hours of right ascension and +45 degrees declination, and went on a straight<br \/>\nline toward beta Persei, which it reached in about three seconds. Having reached the vicinity of this star, it<br \/>\nsuddenly changed direction, followed a sort of loop and went toward Aldebaran with a curved trajectory.<br \/>\nWhen it was about to disappear it split into three or four objects of approximately second magnitude. The<br \/>\nwhole observation had lasted about twelve seconds. the point of disappearance was about 4 hrs. 50m. of<br \/>\nright ascension and +20 degrees of declination. The bolide left a trail that lasted about one and one-half<br \/>\nminutes.&#8217; (CTSc)<\/p>\n<p>November 20th 1902: &#8216; (At) 9.27 a.m., Mr.Griffiths, the assistant astronomer at Adelaide Observatory and<br \/>\ncolleague were taking weather observations when a &#8220;brilliant globular light&#8221; appeared to the SSE at about 45<br \/>\ndegrees elevation. It moved slowly north and remained visible until 9.31 a.m., covering about 20 degrees of<br \/>\narc in that time, and was lost sight of about 45 degrees above the northern horizon. When it was near<br \/>\noverhead it appeared elongated &#8220;and took an elliptical form&#8221; with its axis in the direction of motion. (FATA\/Bill<br \/>\nChalker)<\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>May 25th, 1903: A body was seen on the terminator of Mars, later reported by Professor Percival Lowell, of<br \/>\nLowell Observatory. (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>December 24th, 1909: &#8216;..amateur astronomer, James Fergusen, of Limerick, Ireland, reported watching a<br \/>\nbrightly lighted object rise over the northeastern horizon, maneuvering generally southward for twenty<br \/>\nminutes, then retracing its course and vanishing below the horizon at two minutes past nine&#8230;&#8217; (FS-SB)<\/p>\n<p>May 22nd, 1911: &#8216;Curious meteoric phenomenon &#8211; On the 22 May, about 11.49 (Konigstahl mean time), a<br \/>\nfeeble meteor was observed following an oblique 4 deg. trajectory, going from east to west. It passed over the<br \/>\nstar y of the Eagle with great speed. Its breadth was around 15&#8242; and it disappeared, leaving behind it a light<br \/>\ntrail that faded immediately. Nevertheless, the star remained invisible at least three and a half seconds after<br \/>\nthe meteor&#8217;s disappearance, as if the light had been absorbed by the substance that this had abandoned in<br \/>\nspace. Dr MAX WOLF Director of the Observatory of Heidelberg.&#8217; (L&#8217;Astr. v25)<\/p>\n<p>January 27th-28th, 1912: Astronomer Frank B.Harris wrote to Popular Astronomy and The Times that he<br \/>\nsaw &#8220;a huge object of some kind, moving across the moon&#8217;s surface.&#8221; He stated that the object was opaque,<br \/>\nblack, approximately 250 miles long and 50 miles wide, and close enough to the surface to cast a shadow on<br \/>\nthe moon. Observation spanned 10.30pm-2am. (PA 20, 1912\/MU)<\/p>\n<p>December 11th, 1915: At Glenorchy, Tasmania, astronomer Bernald Thomas saw &#8220;a particularly bright spot&#8221;<br \/>\non the north shore of the Mare Crisium that &#8220;looked like a star.&#8221; (English Mechanic, 203-12)<\/p>\n<p>December 1915: In the lunar crater Aristarchus, &#8216;a.. new black wall that had not been there before..&#8217; was<br \/>\nobserved. It ran &#8216;..from the center to the rim..&#8217; (FredSt)<\/p>\n<p>May 14th, 1916: At Cordoba Observatory, Argentina, astronomers Perrine and Glancy noticed an object,<br \/>\nsimilar to a comet near the zenith, with &#8216;..proper motion of ten degrees an hour, visible one hour..&#8217; (BoD)<\/p>\n<p>1918 approximately: Mr.Erwin Schoen, a native of Austria and (subsequently) a resident for many years in<br \/>\nAustralia, while hiking near the Austrian ammunition town of Steyr with friends, saw during the First World<br \/>\nWar, a round object, similar to the size of the full moon, cruising over Steyr. he was on a mountain at the time<br \/>\nand remembers that the object seemed to rotate, afterward moving in one direction. Visible 2-4 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>1922: &#8216;Three long artificial looking mounds, or objects, appeared on the floor of the (lunar) crater Archimedes.<br \/>\nLater, three more objects were discovered not far away, composed in the form of a triangle.&#8217; (FredSt)<\/p>\n<p>circa-1936: The 100 inch telescope at Mount Wilson, USA, aimed at the lunar crater Cassendi, photographed<br \/>\n&#8216;..a remarkable &#8220;tube system&#8221;.. while some of these constructions were growing, others have been removed..&#8217;<br \/>\n(FredSt)<\/p>\n<p>October 1939: One night, at Wisconsin Rapids, in Wisconsin State, USA, &#8216;..an egg-shaped object with 8<br \/>\nspots like portholes was observed through an astronomical reflector telescope..&#8217; (FATA\/NICAP)<\/p>\n<p>May 3rd, 1947: USA; Nighttime &#8211; &#8216;An amateur astronomer in Boulder, Colorado, after training his telescope<br \/>\non the moon, saw a dark object hurtle across the disk of the moon in a horizontal straight line path.&#8217; (Pr.N47)<\/p>\n<p>June 24th, 1947: The same day that Kenneth Arnold had his sighting of &#8220;Flying Saucers&#8221;, astronomer Fred<br \/>\nJohnson in Oregon saw these objects, according to his later declaration.<\/p>\n<p>July 3rd, 1947: Harborside, Maine, USA. At 2.30 pm, astronomer John Cole of South Brooksville, Maine,<br \/>\nwatched ten very light objects, with two dark forms to their left, for 10-15 seconds. They moved like a swarm<br \/>\nof bees, and a loud roar was heard. (PrBBE) &#8216;..Air Material Command publicly explained it as birds or insects,<br \/>\nalthough the Air Force&#8217;s Project Grudge later listed the sighting as an &#8220;unusually well-supported incident&#8221; with<br \/>\nno explanation..&#8217; (Dolan)<\/p>\n<p>11<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>July 10th, 1947: An eliptical UFO was seen by astronomer Dr.Lincoln La Paz and his family near Port<br \/>\nSumner, New Mexico, (driving) by car with wife and child. He saw a luminous unknown object sort of<br \/>\noscillating beneath the clouds. Its brightness was stronger than the planet Jupiter and its shape regular and<br \/>\nelliptical. The nature of this object was unknown to the astronomer.<\/p>\n<p>Info from Life 5\/5\/52 article: &#8216;The object &#8220;..exhibited a sort of wobbling motion&#8221; and then disappeared behind<br \/>\nsome clouds. It reappeared and &#8220;projected against the dark clouds gave the strongest impression of self-<br \/>\nluminosity.&#8221; The object then moved slowly from south to north and two and a half minutes behind a<br \/>\ncloudbank. \/ According to the astronomer&#8217;s calculations, confirmed by his wife, who with their two daughters<br \/>\nwas with him, the object was 235 feet long and 100 feet thick. Its horizontal speed ranged between 120 and<br \/>\n180 miles per hour and its vertical rise between 600 and 900 miles per hour.&#8217; (JGuieu)<\/p>\n<p>June or July 1947: Jyvaskyla, Finland &#8211; &#8216;A technician who was also an amateur astronomer was reading a<br \/>\nbook after midnight and saw a metallic cigar-shaped object flying at a distance of about two kilometers from<br \/>\nnorthwest to southeast. A bluish light was seen at the end of the cigar. It was flying a lot faster than the<br \/>\nairplanes of the time. the observation lasted about 30 seconds.&#8217; (Pr.N47)<\/p>\n<p>1948: &#8216;F.H.Thornton.. saw a brilliant flash of light at the western rim of Plato. He likened it to the flash of an<br \/>\nantiaircraft shell exploding in the air ten miles away.&#8217; (SEMoon)<\/p>\n<p>April 24th, 1949: Charles Moore, a highly qualified meteorologist, whilst launching a weather balloon saw an<br \/>\nelongated object at White Sands proving grounds, crossing the horizon in about one minute. The sighting was<br \/>\nseen by five others. Similar sightings were also at the same place earlier that month.<\/p>\n<p>August 20th, 1949: Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto in 1930, saw at about 10:45 p.m. while<br \/>\nsitting outside his home at Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his wife and mother-in-law, between six and eight<br \/>\ngreenish objects which were travelling soundlessly across the sky. He reported &#8211; &#8216;In all of my several<br \/>\nthousand hours of night sky-watching, I have never seen anything so strange as this. I was so astonished that<br \/>\nmy impression of it was somewhat confused. How I wished I could have had some binoculars at hand. No<br \/>\nsound whatever.&#8217; (Michel)<\/p>\n<p>Letter from Clyde Tombaugh to Richard Hall, dated September 10th 1957: &#8216;Dear Mr.Hall: Regarding the<br \/>\nsolidity of the phenomenon I saw: My wife thought she saw a faint connecting glow across the structure. The<br \/>\nilluminated rectangles I saw did maintain an exact fixed position with respect to each other, which would tend<br \/>\nto support the impression of solidity. I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because<br \/>\nsome similarity to it should have appeared many times. I do a great deal of observing (with telescopic and<br \/>\nunaided eye) in the backyard and nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since.&#8217; (AId\/TUE)<\/p>\n<p>1949: Witness Bertrand Collin, New Zealand &#8211; &#8216;My second sighting.. I was studying the stars through my<br \/>\ntelescope when suddenly four objects in doamond formation passed overhead. They had stubby flanges<br \/>\ninstead of wings, with short thick bodies. They looked dark, and did not shine. the next morning, the<br \/>\nnewspapers carried reports of mysterious cobweb-like substance falling from the sky and draping itself across<br \/>\nfences and telegraph wires, which melted on being touched.&#8217; (MHervey)<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Eve, 1949: Witness Mr.R.Henderson, Melbourne, Australia &#8211; &#8216;As an ex-member of the<br \/>\nAstronomical Society, and with considerable knowledge of the appearance of meteors, planets, etc., I know a<br \/>\nUFO when I see one. The object I saw is still vivid in my memory&#8230; I first sighted, in my usual admiration of<br \/>\nthe stars, a UFO. At an angle of 30 degrees in a north-west direction, I saw a bright orange light travelling due<br \/>\neast across the northern section of extreme northern suburbs; this is the opposite direction of travel of stars,<br \/>\netc. \/ The UFO stopped about 10 degrees east of north, at about a 30-degree elevation. It remained<br \/>\nstationary for some time and pulsed with a regular steady beat of light, but now a dull red colour instead of<br \/>\norange it had whilst travelling along. \/ In its stationary position the dull red colour was almost hard to see; the<br \/>\nUFO was still stationary but after about twenty minutes in this position it became brighter. It went from dull red<br \/>\nto bright red, and then to bright orange. At a terrific speed it went from 10 degrees north to a position slightly<br \/>\nnorth from my east viewpoint. It slowed down from bright orange to its usual red to its pulsating dull red whilst<br \/>\nstationary again. It remained in this stationary position for about fifteen to twenty minutes. \/ From this position<\/p>\n<p>12<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>it went due south, to a position SSE and a bright orange whilst in motion, where it again became stationary<br \/>\nand a dull red colour. This time it remained only a short time and proceeded in a north-westerly direction<br \/>\nalmost overhead across the city at a terrific speed and bright orange.&#8217; (MHervey)<\/p>\n<p>February 16th, 1950: Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California &#8211; &#8216;Dr.C.D.Shane, an astronomer at Lick<br \/>\nObservatory saw and made 8 photographic plates of a queer flying object very high in the sky and moving<br \/>\nunusually fast. He considered it one of the most unusual objects sighted in the sky, and saw it only by<br \/>\nchance.&#8217; (UFOPhATW\/FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>March 2nd, 1950: &#8216;MEXICO CITY, March 11 (U.P.). The director of a Mexican observatory today produced a<br \/>\nphotograph of a flying saucer but it looked more like an amateur&#8217;s snapshot of a klieg light. \/ The photograph<br \/>\nwas a black square with a diagonal band of light across it. The caption in the newspaper Excelsior said it was<br \/>\n&#8220;possibly the only picture of a flying saucer which existed outside of the larger countries.&#8221; \/ Luis Enrique Erro,<br \/>\ndirector of the Tonantzintla Astronomical Observatory where the photograph was made, said: &#8220;The strange<br \/>\nobject crossed the sky March 2. Since that day we have wondered what it could have been. We don&#8217;t know.&#8221; \/<br \/>\nMeanwhile, dozens of reports of flying saucers poured into the capital from all over Mexico. The &#8220;saucer<br \/>\ncraze&#8221; began shortly after a Mexico City newspaper printed a series of articles which appeared in Time<br \/>\nmagazine.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>March 9th, 1950: &#8216;Next day, March 9, the saucer again visited Durango at noon. This time its movements and<br \/>\nappearance were carefully checked by a scientist. E.Nuncio, professor of astronomy in the technical school of<br \/>\nDurango, studied the saucer through a telescope and other instruments. Afterwards he gave his data to the<br \/>\npress. Nuncio said that the saucer maintained 40,000 feet altitude. It was shaped somewhat like a child&#8217;s top,<br \/>\nand had fracture bands around it where its material was joined together. The tip or point of the top was red,<br \/>\nand was tilted down and toward the east. Its altitude over the horizon was 53 degrees 20 minutes and its<br \/>\nposition was southeast. While Nuncio checked, the saucer moved toward the last 3 degrees in each five<br \/>\nminutes until it was out of sight. He pointed out that Venus and other heavenly bodies move to the west.&#8217;<br \/>\n(True 6-50 in LG6)<\/p>\n<p>March 11th, 1950: &#8216;On that day, also, the astronomical observatory at Culiacan watched a disk-like object<br \/>\nthrough the telescope, and in Tampico, Tamaulipas, amateur astronomer Gonzalo Ibanez reported watching a<br \/>\nsaucer through his telescope at 9 p.m. in the direction of the Great Bear Constellation. It moved toward the<br \/>\nsoutheast at a great velocity.&#8217; (True 6-50 in LG6)<\/p>\n<p>March 27th, 1950: Berlin, Germany &#8211; An inexplicable body of a brilliance that rivalled the North Star, was<br \/>\nseen by astronomers zigzagging its way westward, occasionally pausing.<\/p>\n<p>May 6th, 1950(?): Palomar Gardens, California &#8211; At 3.30pm, Amateur astronomer Mr.George Adamski<br \/>\n&#8216;..observed and photographed a huge bright cigar shape crossing the face of the Moon..&#8217; He also &#8216;..shot a<br \/>\npicture of 3 luminous UFOs near the limb of the Moon..&#8217; (UFOPhATW\/CotS\/FSHL)<\/p>\n<p>May 20th, 1950: Seymour Hess, an astronomer at Flagstaff Observatory, Arizona, saw a metallic looking<br \/>\ndisc, unexplainable to him:<\/p>\n<p>(From AId\/TUE) &#8216;..between 12.15 &amp; 12.20 p.m., Dr.Seymour L.Hess, a meteorologist, astronomer, and an<br \/>\nexpert on planetary atmospheres, observed a bright, at least partially spherical object in the sky from the<br \/>\ngrounds of Lowell Observatory. According to his account of the incident, which he wrote within one hour of<br \/>\nthe sighting, the object was definitely neither a bird nor an airplane, as it had no wings or propellers. Although<br \/>\nit appeared to be very bright against the sky, as it passed between Hess and a small cumulous cloud in the<br \/>\nNorthwest its colour appeared dark. Based on the object&#8217;s elevation and angular diameter as he perceived it<br \/>\nthrough 4-power binoculars, Hess calculated its size to be approximately 3 to 5 feet. Judging from the<br \/>\nmovement of the clouds, which were drifting at right angles to the motion of the object, he estimated that the<br \/>\nobject must have been moving at about 100mph and possibly as fast as 200 mph. However, he neither saw<br \/>\nnor heard any sign of an engine. Dr.Hess was head of the Department of Meteorology at Florida State<br \/>\nUniversity as of 1964.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>13<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Astronomer says disc he saw wasn&#8217;t plane FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., May 23.- (U.P.) &#8211; Seymour L.Hess, Lowell<br \/>\nobservatory astronomer, said today he saw a bright disc cutting through the clouds and that it &#8220;definitely was<br \/>\nnot an airplane.&#8221; \/ He said in a signed statement that he spotted the object in the southwestern skies around<br \/>\n12:15 p.m. last Saturday. \/ Through four-power binoculars, it looked at first like a parachute, he said. \/ &#8220;But<br \/>\nthis may have been just the section of one-half of a spherical object, the other half being in shadows. The<br \/>\nobject presented a visible disc to the naked eye. It definitely was not an airplane.&#8221; \/ Williams Air Force base<br \/>\nnear Phoenix, Ariz., disclaimed any knowledge of the object. The Air Force repeatedly has denied the<br \/>\nexistence of flying saucers.&#8217; (FSOA)<\/p>\n<p>May 27th, 1950: Palomar Gardens, California &#8211; At 8.30 pm &#8216;..George Adamski observed and photographed<br \/>\nthrough his telescope two luminous objects seen against the Moon..&#8217; \/ At 10.30 pm, he &#8216;..observed and<br \/>\nphotographed two lens-shaped luminous flying objects in the sky an estimated 75 and 100 miles distant. He<br \/>\nmade the pictures through his home-made telescope and camera set-up. In the developed print two more<br \/>\nsimilar objects may be seen much farther away.. the objects were leaving faint luminous trails behind them in<br \/>\nthe sky.&#8217; (UFOPhATW\/CotS)<\/p>\n<p>May 29th, 1950: Palomar Gdns. &#8211; &#8216;George Adamski obs. &amp; ph&#8217;d. 6 luminous UFOs in formation in the sky in<br \/>\nthe direction of the Moon. The Moon is seen in the background.&#8217; (UFOPhATW\/FSHL)<\/p>\n<p>One of a series of 5 stamps issued by Grenada, in 1978, to commemorate the &#8216;Year of UFOs&#8217; &#8211; the picture on<br \/>\nthe right-hand side of this one is based on the formation photograph taken by George Adamski on May 29th,<br \/>\n1950. (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>June 6th, 1950: Palomar Gdns. &#8211; At 2.30 am, &#8216;George Adamski obs. and ph&#8217;d. a brightly luminous object in<br \/>\nfront of the Moon&#8230;&#8217; (UFOPhATW)<\/p>\n<p>June 27th, 1950: U.S.A. &#8216;Dr.J.C.Bartlett, a well-known American amateur astronomer recorded what<br \/>\nappeared to be a conspicuous, bright central peak within the shadow-filled interior of the crater Herodotus<br \/>\nwithout attaching any significance to it. Not until four years later, after resumption of observational survey of<br \/>\nthe region and referring to his earlier work did he realise that the floor of Herodotus is almost featureless and<br \/>\nthat it certainly does not contain a central elevation! Subsequent research and consultation with his observer<br \/>\ncolleagues revealed the following: &#8211; 1) It had previously been noted by him in Nov.1949 though unwittingly. 2)<br \/>\nIt was independently seen by the English selenographer Dr.H.P.Wilkins in March 1950. 3) Recovered again<br \/>\non July 27th, 1950. It has not been seen since by Dr.Bartlett. (Uranus)<\/p>\n<p>August 25th, 1950: &#8216;(Patrick) Moore says that &#8220;flashes on the Moon are very rare indeed. However, some<br \/>\nhave been recorded, notably by the ALPO (Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers) observers and by<br \/>\nTsuneo Saheki in Japan, who, on 25th August 1950, saw what he termed a stationary yellowish-white flare<br \/>\nlasting for quarter of a second.&#8221; \/ Rare? Thousands of reports of flashes, glows, and flares add up to &#8220;rare&#8221;?&#8217;<br \/>\n(SEMoon)<\/p>\n<p>March 5th, 1951: Palomar Gdns. &#8211; At 10.30 am, &#8216;George Adamski claimed he observed and photographed<br \/>\nthrough his telescope a large dark cigar shape, seen launching smaller luminous domed disc shapes with<br \/>\nbright lights all around the rims, until five of them are seen in the last picture together with the larger<br \/>\nmothership.&#8217; (UFOPhATW\/ITSp)<\/p>\n<p>14<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>March 9th, 1951: Palomar Gdns. &#8211; At 9.00 am &#8216;George Adamski observed through his 6&#8243; Newtonian<br \/>\ntelescope and photographed through the same device.. a large submarine-shaped spacecraft operating at<br \/>\nvery high altitude above Southern California.&#8217; (UFOPhATW\/ITSp)<\/p>\n<p>August 3rd, 1951: three miles south of Pinckney, Michigan, USA; shortly after 11pm. Professor Walter<br \/>\nN.Webb, Chief Lecturer on Astronomy of the Charles Hayden Planetarium in Boston, was acting as nature<br \/>\ncounselor at a boys&#8217; camp on the shores of Silver Lake &#8211; &#8216;..He had been letting the boys observe various<br \/>\ncelestial objects through a small telescope.. (when) he noticed a glowing yellow or yellow-red light moving in<br \/>\nan undulating path over the hills at the south end of the lake.. He quickly ruled out the possibility of its having<br \/>\nbeen an inversion effect of some ground-based lights, because the conditions for such a phenomenon were<br \/>\nnonexistent&#8230;&#8217; The light&#8217;s wavelike trajectory and its very low altitude also meant that it could not be identified<br \/>\nas either a plane or planet. (FS-SB)<\/p>\n<p>December 1st, 1951: Palomar Gdns. &#8211; At 1.30pm &#8216;George Adamski shot one picture through his telescope of<br \/>\na large disc-shaped object with something like a heatwave radiation coming from the aft rim.&#8217; (UFOPhATW)<\/p>\n<p>December 7th, 1951: Sunbury, Ohio, USA. At 4.30 p.m., Carl Loar, an amateur astronomer, saw &#8211; through a<br \/>\ntelescope &#8211; a silvery sphere, with two specks on its sides. It seemed to explode and be replaced by a dark<br \/>\ncloud and many specks. (PrBBE)<\/p>\n<p>April 2nd, 1952: Fort Worth, Texas. &#8216;A fiery, spherical object crossed the sky in a flat path, within fifteen<br \/>\nseconds. Observed by an amateur astronomer who said it was not a meteor, and by two Convair aviation<br \/>\nengineers who said that it could not have been an airplane because of its silence.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>April 16th, 1952: 10pm San Jose, California. &#8216;Two glowing globular objects appeared hovering together in<br \/>\nthe sky. Under examination by a 45-magnitude telescope, they were two reddish glowing globes with a dark<br \/>\nbelt around each, moving up and down in the sky without horizontal movement. They appeared between<br \/>\nMars and Polaris, but were not stars, since they covered the stars when they moved near them. Two<br \/>\nphotographs were taken, and one showed an irregular twin track in the sky, that might have been caused by<br \/>\ntwo luminous objects moving close together. Observed by five people, including an amateur astronomer. (DL)<\/p>\n<p>May 1st, 1952: Palomar Gdns. &#8211; At 7.58 am &#8216;George Adamski observed and photographed, through his 6&#8243;<br \/>\ntelescope, a large cigar-shaped object very high in the sky.&#8217; (UFOPhATW)<\/p>\n<p>May 13th, 1952: National City, California &#8211; A Convair design engineer, an ex-Navy Pilot and an amateur<br \/>\nastronomer observed a luminescent white, circular object that descended rapidly and circled the area.<\/p>\n<p>Greenville, South Carolina &#8211; &#8216;..astronomers.. saw four oval-shaped saucers flying in a diamond-shaped<br \/>\nformation, wobbling slightly as they flew.&#8217; (Dolan)<\/p>\n<p>August 5th, 1952: Baltimore, Maryland &#8211; An experienced amateur astronomer observed two copper-like<br \/>\ndiscs.James Bartlett saw, during a daylight observation of Venus, a flight of two discs with a diameter about<br \/>\n30 minutes of arc; passed overhead and turned east. Then two more discs with dome-like protrusions in<br \/>\ncentre. (NICAP)<\/p>\n<p>September 15th, 1952: &#8216;..at about 8 p.m., there was a most interesting sighting by M.J.Grivel at Thies,<br \/>\nSenegal, French West Africa. M.Grivel, an amateur astronomer, at once communicated his findings to the<br \/>\nAstronomical Society of France which published them in the February number of its journal Astronomie under<br \/>\nthe title: &#8220;A Suspicious Object!&#8221; \/ On September 15, the report stated, a large really luminous spot appeared<br \/>\nbetween the star mu of Scorpio, moving slowly and quite noiselessly eastward, passed near to khi of Scorpio<br \/>\nand moved towards Sagittarius. Suddenly, when between the stars Delta and Gamma of Sagittarius, it<br \/>\nstopped for a moment, then resumed flight northward and then westward and finally vanished near to Phi of<br \/>\nOphincus. There were no planes at all in the sky and no sounds whatever.&#8217; (JGuieu)<\/p>\n<p>15<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>September 27th 1952: Inyokern, California, USA. Between 10-10.15 p.m., two couples, using a telescope,<br \/>\nwatched a single large round object, which went through the colour spectrum every 2 seconds, and flew in a<br \/>\nlevel path. (Pr.BBE)<\/p>\n<p>November 20th, 1952: Desert Center, California, USA. George Adamski&#8217;s historic contact with Venusian.<br \/>\n(FSHL)<\/p>\n<p>December 1st, 1952: Palomar Gardens, California, USA; 1.30pm. &#8216;Mr. George Adamski photographed a dark<br \/>\ncircular object moving in the sky and leaving a kind of misty trail seen to come from the aft part of the craft.&#8217;<br \/>\n(UFOPhATW)<\/p>\n<p>December 13th, 1952: Palomar Gardens, California, USA; 9am. &#8216;Mr. George Adamski again shot pictures of<br \/>\nthe bell-shaped circular craft, taken this time through his 6&#8243; homemade telescope.&#8217; (UFOPhATW)<\/p>\n<p>J.Allen Hynek polled forty-five fellow astronomers and discovered them all to be frightened of &#8220;jeopardising<br \/>\ntheir careers&#8221; by showing interest in UFOs. (MDH)<\/p>\n<p>1952: London, Ontario, Canada &#8211; W.Gordon Graham, astronomer saw an UFO &#8220;like a smoke ring, elliptical in<br \/>\nshape, and having two bright pinpoints of light along its main axis, move overhead from west to east.&#8221;<br \/>\n(NICAP)<\/p>\n<p>Gnivan, Ukraine. &#8216;A triangular object raced across the clear summer evening sky.. and was observed by a<br \/>\nSoviet astronomer, Mrs.Faminskaya of the Shternberg Astronomy Institute.&#8217; The object was yellowish, moved<br \/>\nat great speed, and made no sound. (TSUFOF)<\/p>\n<p>Pre-1953: New Mexico, USA &#8211; &#8216;A few degrees north of the moon, I noticed what seemed to be a bright star,<br \/>\nand then a second star appeared not far from the first&#8230; To my surprise, I could bring neither of these objects<br \/>\ninto clear focus&#8230; Both hazy discs shone with a slightly bluish light&#8230; We climbed out of the car just in time to<br \/>\nsee the saucers literally fade away as mysteriously as they had appeared&#8230; I have long wondered what it was<br \/>\nthat I actually saw&#8230; But at no time did I have even the slightest suspicion that the objects were of<br \/>\ninterplanetary origin.&#8217; Dr.Donald H.Menzel, Director of Harvard University Observatory. (FSR 9-1)<\/p>\n<p>In a study of over 40 astronomers contained in Blue Book Report No.8 of December 31, 1952, five were<br \/>\nfound to have seen a UFO &#8211; thought to be a higher percentage than applicable to the general population at<br \/>\nthe time.<\/p>\n<p>January 1953: Marham, Norfolk, UK; about 3pm. Marie L.Martin, who had &#8216;a very great interest in astronomy<br \/>\nand in any flying aircraft,&#8217; was gazing up at the sky. It was a brilliant afternoon. She noticed what she took to<br \/>\nbe a jet aircraft travelling extremely fast, and was then shocked to see what she assumed to be its two wings<br \/>\nleave the fuselage. However, it then transpired that instead of the detached objects coming &#8216;hurtling down&#8217;<br \/>\nand the jet crashing, &#8216;..without any loss of speed, they went round, one behind the other, so that in a straight<br \/>\nline they continued to race across the sky. Just as abruptly, they came to a halt in midair&#8230;&#8217; Mrs.Martin was<br \/>\nthen able to determine that the flying objects were &#8216;..round, shiny and metallic, glinting brightly in the rays of<br \/>\nthe sun&#8230;&#8217; (WFFF) For complete Marie L.Martin account, click here.<\/p>\n<p>May 29th, 1953: New Zealand &#8211; &#8216;An amateur astronomer at Palmerston North reported seeing an unusual<br \/>\nobject.. while observing the planet Venus. He described the UFO as being rather small and blue in colour. It<br \/>\ndived and manoeuvred in the sky and then made off rapidly with an irregular motion. \/ Later he saw a large<br \/>\namount of filament-like substance floating down from the sky, which he examined under a microscope. They<br \/>\nwere white in colour and ashy in texture. The filaments were also seen by a reporter belonging to the staff of<br \/>\nthe Manawatu Evening Standard.&#8217; (MHervey)<\/p>\n<p>July 29th, 1953: As John J.O&#8217;Neill &#8216;..was studying the moon&#8217;s Mare Crisium, where earlier he had seen only<br \/>\n&#8220;the clear sweep of the great sea,&#8221; he saw something which spanned an estimated 12 miles distance,<br \/>\nsomething that could only be called a &#8220;bridge.&#8221;&#8216; (Understanding 4-68)<\/p>\n<p>16<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>October 6th, 1953: Norwich, England; 7.15pm &#8211; Mr.F.W.Potter, a member of the Norwich Astronomical<br \/>\nSociety, was observing the night sky of Norwich with a 3.5-inch refractor telescope, when he saw a very<br \/>\nbright object coming from the south-west: &#8220;I focused on it and found the light given from the object was not<br \/>\nreflected sunlight, as I first believed, but an internal light being sent out from a fixed apparatus situated<br \/>\naround the dome. The rays or beams of light could be seen distinctly from the dome and attached directly<br \/>\nbeneath it was a much larger and flattened dome with a protruding band running in a circumference around<br \/>\nits edge. This was clearly seen in the telescope by the rays of light thrown out from the apertures in the top<br \/>\ndome. The underneath of the large flattened bottom dome was hollow and appeared to be glowing red, but<br \/>\nthere were no vapour trails or gases to be seen. \/ It did not rotate but kept the same portion of the dome<br \/>\ntowards the telescope until it changed its angular course. Then it gave me a chance to visualise another of<br \/>\nthe apertures that previously had been hidden from view. It was then travelling to the north-east and<br \/>\ndisappearing from view.&#8221; (ACA)<\/p>\n<p>January 3rd, 1954: &#8216;Mr.John W.Boyle, vice-president of the Victoria (Australia) branch of the British<br \/>\nAstronomical Association, saw at 11 a.m.. visible for 30 seconds, what at first looked like a &#8220;piece of paper&#8221;<br \/>\nblown by the wind, at a height of about 30,000 feet. But there was little wind, and the object resolved itself<br \/>\ninto something like aluminium, rocking from side to side and flashing in the sunlight. each time it flashed, a<br \/>\nhalo of purple shone round it.. If the object had been 30,000 feet up, he thought its speed might be 1,000<br \/>\nmiles an hour, &#8220;five degrees a second,&#8221; and its diameter about 60 feet. Mr.Boyle emphatically denies that<br \/>\nwhat he saw was a cosmic ray balloon. He does not dismiss the theory that the object was interplanetary.<br \/>\n&#8220;Anybody,&#8221; he say, &#8220;who denies the possibility that these things may be visitors from other planets, is eother<br \/>\nvery frightened, or just plain stupid. Some people as I&#8217;ve seen myself at public lectures on interplanetary<br \/>\ntravel, become seized with screaming horrors if one talks of little men landing on the earth.&#8221;&#8216; (FSOM)<\/p>\n<p>May 5th, 1954: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Astronomy students witnessed a V-formation of UFOs. (The<br \/>\nTemporal Doorway\/TUE)<\/p>\n<p>May 15th, 1954: Southampton, UK. An amateur astronomer viewed 18 UFOs in V-formation. &#8220;Windows&#8221; were<br \/>\nvisible in some of the objects through a telescope. (TTDoorway\/TUE)<\/p>\n<p>Berlin, Germany; about 10.15 pm &#8211; three round luminous bodies that flew at great height, on a zig-zag course,<br \/>\nwere observed by two amateur astronomers. The men, Wolfgang Kobski and Rudi Fibich said that what they<br \/>\nhad seen could not have been meteors, stars or an hallucination. (FSNews6)<\/p>\n<p>June 11th, 1954: (Charleston, West Virginia &#8211; Atlanta, Georgia, USA) &#8216;The late Percy Wilkins was among the<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s foremost astronomers and, quite possibly, its premier selenographer&#8230; The English scientist is the<br \/>\nsource of a remarkable account. During a plane journey along the eastern seaboard he glanced out of his<br \/>\nwindow at about 10:45 toward a cluster of cumoulous clouds a couple of miles away. Immediately above<br \/>\nthem, Dr.Wilkins sighted two radiant ovoids about which he remarked: &#8220;They looked exactly like polished<br \/>\nmetal dinner plates reflecting the sunlight as they flipped and banked around beside the clouds. Presently a<br \/>\nthird object came slowly out of a huge cloud, remaining motionless in the shadow of the cloud and therefore<br \/>\ndarker than the others. Presently it zipped away and plunged into another cloud mass. After about two<br \/>\nminutes, the first two did the same manoeuvre and I did not see them again.&#8217; (PFl)<\/p>\n<p>July 6th, 1954: Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Frank Halstead, his assistant at Darling Observatory, and sixteen<br \/>\nvisitors, all observed a straight black line on the floor of the lunar crater Piccolomini, that had not previously<br \/>\nbeen there. The observation lasted for several hours, and was confirmed by observations made at Tulane<br \/>\nObservatory, and by well-known amateur astronomer Frank Manning. (FS-SB)<\/p>\n<p>July 8th, 1954: Wigan, Lancashire, England. British astronomer, Mr.Harold Hill, saw a silvery object with<br \/>\nfifteen to twenty smaller satellite objects. (Ln) For Mr.Hill&#8217;s personal account click here.<\/p>\n<p>August 10th, 1954: USA &#8211; &#8216;Amateur astronomer Edward Heinhold was observing Saturn with his four-inch<br \/>\nreflector telescope, when he saw in that area six lights moving in a straight line. They were evenly spaced,<br \/>\nexcept for two which were near together. Going east, they covered horizon to horizon in fifteen minutes &#8211; up<br \/>\nto 11 P.M. His station is at Cedarhurst, Long Island. The front lights suddenly disappeared, then two more<\/p>\n<p>17<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>lights followed suit, and thirty seconds later, the remaining lights vanished while still above the horizon. Their<br \/>\naltitude &#8220;must have been terrific.&#8221;&#8216; (FSUnc.)<\/p>\n<p>September 5th, 1954: USA &#8211; &#8216;Three amateur astronomers at Rockford, Ill., claim to have seen through a six-<br \/>\ninch telescope, a spherical object ascending from Mare Humboldt area of the moon, of a size estimated at<br \/>\none quarter of the diameter of the lunar crater Vlaco. velocity very great &#8211; over a 29 feet 30 inch arc in 40<br \/>\nminutes. They think it travelled under power, and was ascending in space. They estimate its length as close<br \/>\nto two and a half miles.&#8217; (FSUnc.)<\/p>\n<p>September 6th, 1954: Baltimore, Maryland, USA. An amateur astronomer saw 4 UFOs, three of which<br \/>\nchanged formation. (TTDoorway\/TUE)<\/p>\n<p>October 10th, 1954: &#8216;In Alexandria, Egypt, observatories see cylindrical flying saucer, red and green.&#8217;<br \/>\n(FSUnc.)<\/p>\n<p>October 2-, 1954: &#8216;..it was on October 27, 1954.. that Yugoslavia officially announced that a serious<br \/>\ninvestigation of UFOs would be undertaken in that country. On the preceding monday a strange object had<br \/>\nbeen observed over that country by astronomers, meteorologists, and pilots, as well as average citizens.&#8217;<br \/>\n(UFOWhS)<\/p>\n<p>October 31st, 1954: India; 6pm &#8211; &#8216;..in Calcutta.. a mysterious object passed only five miles to the north of<br \/>\nDum Dum Airdrome. Reports described it speeding at more than 2,000 ft., around 500 mph. The unknown<br \/>\nremained in view on a sraight course for about a minute as observers agreed that it made no audible sounds.<br \/>\nAn officer in the control tower described it as a bright object with a long luminous tail of diffused white light.<br \/>\nArea astronomer Father F.Goreux of St.Xavier College Obs. and senior professor at Calcutta University<br \/>\nstated that it could not have been an astronomical object. He added: &#8220;that is certain.&#8221;&#8216; (MDH)<\/p>\n<p>November 8th, 1954: &#8216;Dr.Francisco Aniceto Lugo of Caracas, Venezuela, saw a reddish, star-like point of<br \/>\nlight at a spot close to the base of the western outer wall of the crater Kepler. It was obscured for an hour and<br \/>\ndescribed as artificial-looking and very obvious. Nothing similar has been seen here either before or since<br \/>\nthough often looked for. Clearly not an impact flare, it is difficult to imagine what it could have been. (Uranus,<br \/>\n12-60)<\/p>\n<p>November 24th, 1954: England &#8211; &#8216;White disc &#8220;like a small moon&#8221; moving across the sky &#8211; seen through two<br \/>\nand a half inch telescope by a member of Southampton Astronomical Society (Mrs.A.Marley), at 12.15 a.m. It<br \/>\nwas not visible to the naked eye. It was moving dead south over Southampton Water &#8211; but suddenly turned<br \/>\non itself &#8211; and came back.&#8217; (FSNews8)<\/p>\n<p>December 1954: Mr.Cloris Hamel of La Florida, Venezuela was viewing the moon through a 125-power<br \/>\ntelescope, when &#8216;a fleet of opaque objects&#8217; showed up, crossing the moon&#8217;s disc. (UFOWhS)<\/p>\n<p>March 8th, 1955: &#8216;Amateur astronomer, Mr.Lonzo Dove observed and photographed a round luminous object<br \/>\nnear the apparent edge of the Moon.&#8217; (UFOPhATW)<\/p>\n<p>March 15th, 1955: &#8216;University of Miami Senior Robert Leventhal, 200 SW 58th Street, an amateur<br \/>\nastronomer, was out in his yard with a telescope at 10.50 p.m. yesterday when he saw a &#8220;round, oval-shaped,<br \/>\nbluish-white disc.&#8221; \/ It traveled quickly from southeast in &#8220;an irregular motion in about a minute,&#8221; he told<br \/>\npolice. &#8220;It was bright as a second magnitude star.&#8221; \/ &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a plane or meteor,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and I don&#8217;t have<br \/>\nnay idea of what it actually was. But it looked like something I saw in the sky about two years ago in Ithaca,<br \/>\nN.Y., along with thirty other people.&#8221;&#8216; (TUAn)<\/p>\n<p>April 7th, 1955: Two sightings by Bill Raub of San Jose, California: &#8216;Mr.Raub has been most helpful with<br \/>\nnews items and personal sightings. He reported personally to your editor that on April 7th, 1955, at<br \/>\napproximately 9:10 p.m. he observed the moon through 7 by 50 binoculars. The moon was at first quarter. On<br \/>\nthe dark side, near the edge farthest from sunlight, he saw a light which he describes as &#8220;much brighter than<\/p>\n<p>18<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>one of Jupiter&#8217;s moons.&#8221; He watched it for several minutes, and then, suddenly, it was gone. \/ On the same<br \/>\nday, Mr.Raub and Leo Denny saw two black objects traveling very fast in the sky. Jets were nearby, and were<br \/>\nof entirely different shape. Also, the jets left vapor trails, which the objects did not. \/ The UFO&#8217;s disappeared<br \/>\nwhen they got near the sun, but the jets were seen in silhouette against the sun.&#8217; (TUAn)<\/p>\n<p>May 24th, 1955: Testimony from well-known British author\/astronomer V.A.Firsoff &#8211; &#8216;On May 24, 1955, on the<br \/>\nsouthern horn of the &#8216;sickle&#8217;-moon, two bright points were seen where the sunlight touched the peaks of the<br \/>\nLeibnitz region. Between these two bright points there was a third light, fainter than them, and it (and only it)<br \/>\nwas jumping about and sparkling. Finally, a fainter shaft of light came out of it and shot up vertically into the<br \/>\nsky above the Moon&#8217;s surface, flaring in intensity as it climbed while simultaneously dying away at the base.<br \/>\nThen it vanished. The total length of the shaft of light, exclusive of its projection, would have been some 100<br \/>\nmiles, and its upward movement lasted for two seconds or possibly somewhat longer. I tried to check to see<br \/>\nwhether it could be illusory, maybe due to the telescope, but without success, and it does seem that the<br \/>\nphenomenon was real.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;..the Moscow astronomer V.I.Timkov.. from the outskirts of the town of Ordzhonikidze in the Caucasus.. at<br \/>\napproximately the very same time, observed the upward movement of a similar shaft of light.&#8217; (Alexei<br \/>\nArkhipov, FSR 41-2 [trans:G.Creighton])<\/p>\n<p>June 3rd 1955: Letter sent by Eugene Metcalfe of Paris, Illinois, USA &#8211; &#8216;Dear Mr.Jessup: After reading The<br \/>\nCase for the UFO, I have been scanning the skies more than ever with my three inch stellar telescope, mostly<br \/>\nat the moon. You are right about the small planets between the Earth and Moon. I found this to be true on<br \/>\nJune 3, 1955. There are at least four such planets that are visible to the eye, but you have to look through a<br \/>\n&#8216;scope to see they are so near! I saw four shadows crossing the Moon and watched them from 8:30 until<br \/>\n11:30 p.m&#8230;&#8217; (TUAn)<\/p>\n<p>June 16th, 1955: &#8216;An aircraft of the flying saucer class was sighted last night from Waterbury (Connecticut,<br \/>\nUSA), according to a 12-year-old boy who said astronomy was his hobby. \/ The boy, Joseph Lamontagne, of<br \/>\n28 Dixie Avenue, said he was sure the object he saw was not an optical illusion, nor a conventional airplane. \/<br \/>\nJoseph related he was outside his home scanning the sky with a four-inch diameter telescope, when the<br \/>\nnoiseless object moved into his view. \/ Carrying four yellow lights on top, and one green light below, the<br \/>\naircraft seemed to be oval shaped, the boy said. He reported the object, in view about two minutes, moved<br \/>\nfast from the south and disappeared over the western horizon. \/ Asked if he could have mistaken the yellow<br \/>\nand green lights for recognition lights on a military aircraft. Joseph reiterated that he did not think the machine<br \/>\nwas of conventional type. He said his mother could see the lights after the location was pointed out. \/ A pupil<br \/>\nin the seventh grade at Washington School, the boy has been studying astronomy to the point where he can<br \/>\npick out 15 of the 90 known constellations.&#8217; (TUAn)<\/p>\n<p>mid-August 1955: Astronomer V.V.Yeremenko made these observations with a home-made telescope &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8216;Above the surface of the Moon, parallel to its rim and at a distance of approximately 0.2 of a lunar radius,<br \/>\nthere was flying a shining body resembling a star of the third magnitude. Flying one-third of the circumference<br \/>\n(this took 4-5 seconds) the body then plunged downwards at a sharp angle and landed on the surface of the<br \/>\nMoon.&#8217; (A.Arkhipov, FSR 41-2[trans:G.Creighton])<\/p>\n<p>August 26th, 1955: &#8216;..I was observing the moon with my home-built 6-inch reflector, using an Erfle eyepiece<br \/>\nand a Goodwin Barlow lens which gave a magnification of 200 times and a 20-minute field. At 7:51 p.m. CST,<br \/>\nwhile examining the neighbourhood of the Apennines, I saw on the dark portion of the moon a bright flare that<br \/>\nremained visble for about 35 seconds. It appeared roughly as bright as a 2nd-magnitude star does to the<br \/>\nnaked eye. The terminator region of the moon had been under survey for about an hour, and I am certain that<br \/>\nthe flare was not present for many seconds before I saw it. \/ The position of the flare, as estimated in terms of<br \/>\nthe diameter of the field of view, was in the neighbourhood of the Carpathian Mountains. this seemed to be<br \/>\ntoo far inside the dark portion of the moon for the object to have been an isolated mountain peak catching the<br \/>\nsunlight. The flare remained fairly steady in brightness, fading only slightly before it abruptly disappeared..&#8217;<br \/>\nLetter to Sky &amp; Telescope from K.E.McCorkle, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. (TUAn)<\/p>\n<p>19<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>September 8th, 1955: &#8216;Shortly after sunrise.. I was looking at the moon, high in the sky, through a small 20<br \/>\npower telescope. My attention was directed to the Taurus Mountains at the western edge of Mare Serenitatis<br \/>\nwhen, at 7:35 a.m. EDT, I saw two distinct flashes of light, about a quarter second apart, that seemed to come<br \/>\nfrom the edge of these mountains. \/ There appeared to be nothing that could have caused reflections in my<br \/>\ntelescope. The sun was hidden behind trees at the time, and there were no aircraft in the sky.&#8217; Letter to Sky &amp;<br \/>\nTelescope from W.C.Lambert, Ironton, Ohio, USA. (TUAn)<\/p>\n<p>Morris K.Jessup&#8217;s first book &#8216;The Case for The UFO&#8217; was published in 1955. Here&#8217;s a biographical sketch<br \/>\nfrom the flyleaf of his later work &#8216;The UFO Annual&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;Explorer and instructor in Astronomy and Mathematics at<br \/>\nthe University of Michigan and Drake University, M.K.Jessup completed his Thesis for the Doctorate in<br \/>\nAstrophysics at the University of Michigan. He erected and operated the largest refracting telescope in the<br \/>\nSouthern Hemisphere in South Africa, for the University of Michigan. His research program resulted in several<br \/>\nthousand discoveries of physical double-stars which are now catalogued in the Memoirs of the Royal<br \/>\nAstronomical Society of London.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>November 1st, 1955: Mojave Desert, about 100 miles west of Las Vegas, USA; daytime. Frank Halstead of<br \/>\nDarling Observatory was travelling on a fast train to California with his wife Ann, when she called his attention<br \/>\nto an object moving parallel to the train, and at about the same speed, above a range of mountains. This<br \/>\napparent pacing lasted for four or five minutes. The appearance of the object was described to Frank<br \/>\nEdwards during a 1959 interview &#8211; &#8216;..At the time I thought it was a blimp, you know, one of those cigar-shaped<br \/>\ndirigibles.. But as I watched it I realised that it could not be a blimp &#8211; they are only about two hundred feet<br \/>\nlong &#8211; and this thing was gigantic. It was about eight hundred feet long. I could estimate that because it was<br \/>\nso close to the mountain ridges where trees and clumps of trees were visible for comparison..&#8217;<br \/>\nWhile Frank and Ann Halstead were watching this object, a second object suddenly appeared behind it &#8211; &#8216;..It<br \/>\nwas a disc-shaped thing. In fact, both the objects were very shiny, we noticed.. (possibly) about one hundred<br \/>\nfeet in diameter &#8211; flat on the bottom with a low dome on the top side.. My wife and I watched the pair of them<br \/>\nfor two &#8211; possibly three &#8211; minutes.. Then they began to rise, slowly at first, and a few seconds later, much<br \/>\nfaster&#8230;&#8217;<br \/>\n(FS-SB)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Elegant and immortal utterance by Dr.Richard van der Riet Woolley, F.R.S., the new Astronomer Royal, when<br \/>\nasked for his views on space travel, after alighting at London Airport, January 3, 1956: It&#8217;s utter bilge&#8230;.&#8217;<br \/>\n(Understanding 1-68)<\/p>\n<p>January 24th, 1956: &#8216;..more recently a report came from a Brian Warner.. reproduced in &#8220;Saucers,&#8221;<br \/>\nsept.1956. The incident occurred on Jan 24th, 1956, just east of the crater Liebig, the flashes actually coming<br \/>\nfrom the East wall of Cavendish. In describing the phenomenon, Warner states, &#8220;The flashes evidently began<br \/>\nwith a bright glare and continued very bright for almost three minutes.&#8221; The light slowly faded over a further<br \/>\nperiod of some 8 minutes before finally disappearing. Warner continues, &#8220;The frequency of the pulsating was<br \/>\napproximately 11\/2 flashes per second and between maximum brilliance the source could be seen as a point<br \/>\nof light slightly more intense than the surrounding walls. There were definite indications of reflection from the<br \/>\nwest wall and the floor was faintly lit by the glare.&#8221; Warner then goes into some detail in trying to explain the<br \/>\nflashing light but he himself regards the occurrence as an unsolved mystery..&#8217; (Uranus, 7\/8-58)<\/p>\n<p>April 21st, 1956: Luanda, Angola &#8211; &#8216;Astronomer C.M.Bettencourt, observing the moon through a small<br \/>\ntelescope, saw 8 luminous objects enter the eyepiece from the left proceeding from the left towards the<br \/>\nmoon&#8217;s position in the sky. He estimated them to be over 500 kilometres distant and 200 to 300 metres in<br \/>\ndiameter. He used a Butenshon 64-magnitude telescope, holding his camera to the eyepiece&#8217; (to photograph<br \/>\nthe phenomena). (UFOPhATW)<\/p>\n<p>September 1956: Baja, California, USA. &#8216;Mr.George Adamski filmed 16mm movie footage of two very large<br \/>\nround UFOs in close formation high in the clear blue sky.&#8217; (UFOPhATW)<\/p>\n<p>November 26th, 1956: Alamagordo, New Mexico, USA; night. Astronomer and photographer, Robert<br \/>\nE.Curtiss &#8216;..was making some test shots with.. a motion picture camera.. loaded with highly sensitized film<br \/>\nand.. coupled to the rangefinder of his 16-inch reflector telescope. With this setup he was able to shoot<\/p>\n<p>20<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>pictures of the moon at speeds of 24 to 48 frames per second. The telescope was covering that portion of the<br \/>\nmoon around Fra Mauro.. between Parry and Copernicus.<br \/>\nWhen Mr.Curtiss developed and printed his films he was startled by a peculiarity. Just to the left of the<br \/>\nterminator, which is the dividing line between sunlight and shadow on the moon, there was a small white<br \/>\nMaltese cross. It was on frame after frame and was unquestionably either on the surface of the moon or very<br \/>\nclose to it&#8230;&#8217; (FS-SB)<\/p>\n<p>February 13th, 1957: Steve Papina, an amateur astronomer, was walking home in Placerville, California, at<br \/>\nabout 9:40 P.M., when &#8216;..he noticed off to his left the ionized track of what he thought was a shooting star..&#8217;<br \/>\nMr.Papina watched the trail, carefully noting its movements upward in the sky.. &#8216;Suddenly a black disc<br \/>\nappeared.. directly in front of the trail,&#8217; which was about equal in diameter to the width of the trail. The disc&#8217;s<br \/>\nsurface was not smooth &#8216;..but appeared to be roughened by cross-checked canyons. In the southeast<br \/>\nquadrant was an area which seemed to have a few canyons filled with a very black material. On the<br \/>\nnorthwest quadrant another area was visible which had dark streaks but on a lesser scale..&#8217; The disc was<br \/>\nvery clear in the sky, and as it now traveled in a westerly course, it changed to a white colour, its diameter<br \/>\nreduced by two-thirds, and it took off into outer space &#8211; as Mr.Papina put it, like &#8220;letting the air out of a toy<br \/>\nballoon.&#8221; (UFOWhS)<\/p>\n<p>March 10th, 1957: &#8216;Mr.Paul M.Cornick, of 205 Manor Road, Fishponds, Bristol, was observing Jupiter on<br \/>\nSunday, March 10, at about 7 p.m. He writes: &#8220;When I took my eye from the telescope, I noticed an extremely<br \/>\nbright object that appeared to be due north of Jupiter. So bright was this object that I realised at once that it<br \/>\ncould not be a natural phenomenon. \/ I watched it for a few moments, thinking that it might possibly be some<br \/>\noptical illusion, but far from it. It was moving! \/ My first thought was to focus my telescope on the object, and it<br \/>\nresolved itself into two lights &#8211; one red and the other white. (The latter being on the left-hand side) Every so<br \/>\noften a reddish flash danced from the red light to the white one. \/ By this time the phenomenon was clearly<br \/>\nvisble to the naked eye, and I could easily see the occasional red flash as well as the lights. the course of the<br \/>\nobject was going to take it between the Pole Star and Ursa Major. \/ The object was now almost directly<br \/>\noverhead, and I listened intently for some sound, but none came. It seemed to float over like some ghostly<br \/>\nshadow, and yet it conveyed the impression of power. \/ Abruptly, as it passed the Pole Star, it faded and<br \/>\nvanished from sight. \/ It could not have been an aeroplane because of the absence of noise and the steady<br \/>\nlights (they should flash) and they were the wrong colours&#8230;&#8221;&#8216; (FSRWR)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;..many professional astronomers are convinced that saucers are interplanetary machines&#8230; I think they come<br \/>\nfrom another solar system, but they may be using Mars as a base.&#8217;<br \/>\nDr.Frank Halstead, Darling Observatory, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. (Flying Saucers, 6-57)<\/p>\n<p>May 3rd, 1957: At Forcalquier Observatory, France, &#8216;Roger Rigollet, a specialist in meteor studies for the<br \/>\nFrench National Center for Scientific Research&#8217; had set up a &#8216;shutter that revolves in such a way&#8217; in front of a<br \/>\ncamera &#8216;as to cause an interruption of the light beam eight times a second,&#8217; and also a second shutter to<br \/>\ncover &#8216;the instrument every four minutes.&#8217; That evening, two of these automatic camera arrangements were<br \/>\nput in operation &#8211; one rotating and one fixed. When the results were viewed the next day, two luminous forms<br \/>\nwere found on the film, at 10:38pm &amp; 10.41pm. (CTSc)<\/p>\n<p>21<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>This photo is from the fixed camera &#8211; compare this photographed form to Harold Hill&#8217;s illustration of the large<br \/>\nobject he observed on July 8th, 1954&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>June 15th, 1957: near Mawdesley, Lancashire, UK; 6.06pm. Astronomer, Mr.G.Marsden &#8211; accompanied by<br \/>\nhis son &#8211; observed a point of light in the distant sky. Looking through his pocket telescope, he was able to<br \/>\nview an aircraft somewhat resembling the planet Saturn, silver in colour, with a bluish tint. He estimated that<br \/>\nthis object was 25 feet in diameter, and travelling at 500-600 mph. (Uranus 4-1) For the original article click<br \/>\nhere.<\/p>\n<p>June 18th, 1957: &#8216;..an object with a fiery red tail was seen high above Glasgow (Scotland). This UFO was<br \/>\nwell authenticated and seen by many reliable witnesses. One of these was.. a member of the Royal Observer<br \/>\nCorps.. Mr.Arnot Thomson, of 157 Harlaw Crescent, an amateur astronomer, watched the UFO through a<br \/>\ntelescope. &#8220;I could see a black shape with a flaming tail,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but couldn&#8217;t make out any outline.&#8221;&#8216;<br \/>\n(FSRWR)<\/p>\n<p>July 1957: &#8220;Auroras do not behave as the objects seen at Katoomba have apparently been behaving. There<br \/>\nmust be something at Katoomba. I do not think all those people could have hallucinations.&#8221; Mr.W.Robertson,<br \/>\nAssistant Astronomer at Sydney Observatory, NSW, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>September 11th, 1957: Sicily &#8211; In the morning, Dr.H.Percy Wilkins, F.R.A.S., while studying Mt.Etna through<br \/>\nbinoculars, watched.. a brilliant oval mass, described by him as &#8220;an unidentified stationary object&#8221; poised<br \/>\nabove the edge of the crater of Etna.&#8217; (see earlier sighting by Dr.Wilkins on June 11th, 1954) (Creighton, FSR<br \/>\n14-4)<\/p>\n<p>October 6th, 1957: At about 4.15pm, Earl Sydow, reportedly an engineer and a &#8216;competent amateur<br \/>\nastronomer,&#8217; saw a large, bright object over Tucson, Arizona, along with six other observers. According to his<br \/>\nreport sent to APRO, the object measured about three minutes in diameter along the major axis and about<br \/>\none minute along the minor axis &#8211; &#8216;..Smaller objects seemed to exit from the larger object as observations<br \/>\n(using &#8216;astro scopes&#8217;) continued. A total of six objects were seen at one instant but other observers noted a<br \/>\ntotal of ten objects.. (They) appeared to be a flat white to a silver white. The shape of the smaller objects.. to<br \/>\nbe somewhat semi-wedge-shaped. The objects moved from the southeast toward the northwest. The smaller<br \/>\nobjects disappeared from the field of the telescope until in the final phases of observations there was only<br \/>\none object still in the field of view. This object was the original object sighted and it slowly disappeared from<br \/>\nview as if it were moving away from the observer. I would estimate the diameter of the smaller objects to be<br \/>\nabout fifteen to thirty seconds. the last object was observed at about 180 degrees azimuth and 80 degrees<br \/>\nelevation.&#8217; (UFOWhS)<\/p>\n<p>November 6th, 1957: &#8216;Four astronomers at the Commonwealth Observatory at Mt.Stromlo, near Canberra,<br \/>\nAustralia, on &#8220;Sputnik watch&#8221; reported a strange object moving across the sky. It was a vivid pink and unlike<br \/>\nanything seen before, it was stated. It remained in view for about two inutes, and disappeared under the<br \/>\nmoon. \/ &#8220;The strange thing is that it should disappear after passing under the moon as it was a perfectly<br \/>\ncloudless sky,&#8221; said Dr.Przybylski, who saw the object just after having completed observations of the<br \/>\npassage of the passage of the two Russian satellites.&#8217; (FSRWR)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;On the same evening, a young astronomer, M.Chaupis (? see below account), at the French National<br \/>\nObservatory at Toulouse, France, sighted an elliptical object in the sky. Other scientists said the brilliant<br \/>\ncanary coloured object could be neither a meteorite nor one of the Sputniks. The astronomer watched it<br \/>\nthrough a telescope for about five minutes. He said it appeared from W.N.W. of Toulouse and it sped to where<\/p>\n<p>22<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>the sun had set an hour and a half earlier, made two sweeping turns, and then flew in the opposite direction.<br \/>\nIt then disappeared for 30 seconds, then appeared and descended almost vertically in a clear sky and<br \/>\nvanished. \/ Then a similar, or possibly the same object was seen by observatories in two different European<br \/>\ncapitals. The object, whatever it was, and astronomers said it was not one of the satellites, was sen through<br \/>\ntelescopes and heard by radio monitors. \/ It appeared over Oslo hours before Russia&#8217;s second earth satellite<br \/>\nwas due, and was travelling south at great speed. Signals were picked up differing from the Sputniks! The<br \/>\nHague Observatory also reported seeing a UFO. At The Hague, too, scientists picked up radio signals that<br \/>\nwere different from those of the two satellites..&#8217; (FSRWR)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;..many inhabitants of Toulouse observed a mysterious shining object in the form of a bright orange disc with<br \/>\nsomething resembling a cupola on top. The disc was rotating and travelling rapidly across the sky. The<br \/>\nastronomer I.L.Chapeux (?) watched the object through a telescope. Here is the note he wrote about it &#8211; &#8220;A<br \/>\nshining yellow spot of the second magnitude, elliptical in shape, no twinkle whatsoever, its edges very clearly<br \/>\nvisible against the sky, and leaving a short trail behind it.&#8221;&#8216; ( FSR 13-6)<\/p>\n<p>1957: Letter to Flying Saucer Review, from Susanne R.Stebbing, 1961 &#8211; &#8216;Sir,- you may be interested to know<br \/>\nthat now I am an active member of the British Astronomical Association. I come in contact with observers<br \/>\nfrom various sections. \/ One observer, Mr.K.S.G.Stocker, F.R.A.S., of Wallington, Surrey, claimed a sighting of<br \/>\nan unusual UFO during 1957. He has promised to let me have details, and does seem interested in the<br \/>\nsubject. He claims that good sightings are rather rare, but as the result of his experience he retains an open<br \/>\nmind. Mr.Stocker&#8217;s work for the B.A.A. includes colour photography of the stellar heavens and tracking of<br \/>\nartificial satellites.&#8217; (FSR 7-6)<\/p>\n<p>January 8th, 1958: &#8216;An amateur astronomer and four witnesses sighted a luminous yellow-reddish object in<br \/>\nthe sky at about 8:50 pm. It was travelling in a northerly direction, then swung almost at right angles in a<br \/>\ncurve to the east. \/ Mr.B.Welstead, of Punchbowl, a suburb of Sydney, was looking for star clusters, and on<br \/>\nobserving the object with the naked eye, he called the attention of a colleague who possessed a telescope. It<br \/>\nwas then they called three other people in the house to observe the phenomena. \/ The observation lasted at<br \/>\nleast 30 seconds. the Australian Air Force later stated that there were no jets in the air on that night.&#8217;<br \/>\n(MHervey)<\/p>\n<p>August 4th, 1958: Coventry, UK; approx. 10.45-11.02pm. A unnamed schoolteacher observed five seperate<br \/>\nunidentified aerial objects. He described them as &#8216;..stellar in appearance, giving a more or less steady light<br \/>\nbut seemed to waver slightly in the air. This was a very minute effect which was like the tiniest oscillation on<br \/>\ntheir straight path..&#8217; He remembered them (twelve years later) as having passed in the same direction, WNW<br \/>\nto ESE. The following was written during the observation &#8211; Approx 10.45 p.m. G.M.T.; pale (blue?) object<br \/>\npassing.. magnitude approx.3, passed North of Altair.<br \/>\n+3 minutes. Mag.3.5., bluish object passed North of Altair as previous one (about 1\/2 degree North).<br \/>\n+3.5 minutes. Mag.3. bluish object passed 1\/4 degrees North of Altair.<br \/>\n+5 minutes. Mag.2.8. intense red object passed 2 degrees North of Altair.<br \/>\n+5.75 minutes. Mag.3.8. intense red object passed 1.5d. North of Altair.<br \/>\nCloud interrupted after this and when, five minutes later it cleared, no more objects were seen.<br \/>\n(Peter Ashby\/CUFORG, Syntonic 8)<\/p>\n<p>c.early-October 1958: Japan. &#8216;Dr.Kenzaburo Toyoda, of the Meiji University.. was scanning the surface of the<br \/>\nmoon with the aid of a powerful telescope when he suddenly focussed on two giant sets of letters under Mare<br \/>\nSerenitalis, to the left of Mare Tranquilitatia, which read: PYAX and JWA. \/ The letters were black and easily<br \/>\ndiscernable. Two of his colleagues were called upon to witness the strange writing. The mystery has yet to be<br \/>\nsolved.&#8217; (UFOs:ThAS)<\/p>\n<p>November 5th, 1958: Mt.Palomar, California, USA.<br \/>\n&#8216;New Mystery Star Baffles Astronomers.. U.S. astronomers are mystified by a new, strange celestial body<br \/>\nphotographed by telescope. Two astronomers, Dr.W.J. Luyten, of Minneapolis, and Dr.G.Haro, of<br \/>\nTonantzintia, Mexico, discovered photographic records of the object made at Palomar Observatory, California,<br \/>\non November 5, 1958.<br \/>\nWhile a blue star was found in that position in 1950, it does not appear on Palomar survey plates made in<\/p>\n<p>23<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>1954. The only observation made since the November record showed no star at that point.&#8217;<br \/>\n(FSR 5-3)<\/p>\n<p>1958: The prominent Russian Astronomer, Dr. Nikolai A.Krozyen, sighted an oval-shaped object which<br \/>\nhovered within the lunar crater Alphonsus, near the moon&#8217;s surface. It &#8216;..radiated a weird glow. This report<br \/>\nwas quickly confirmed by two American astronomers &#8211; H.F.Poppendick and W.H.Bond.&#8217; (Understanding, 4-68)<\/p>\n<p>1958: &#8216;..Quite recently we received a letter from Mr.Marsden.. in which he stated he had sighted a second<br \/>\nUFO, once again through his telescope. He described it as being cylindrical in shape and moving across the<br \/>\nface of the Moon from Mare Crisium to the crater Plato. Plato, we might mention has often been associated<br \/>\nwith flashing lights..&#8217; (Uranus, 7\/8-58)<\/p>\n<p>July 14th, 1959: Norman River, N.Queensland, Australia; approx. 6.40pm. Witnesses including C.A.Marshall<br \/>\nRenou, F.R.C.S., F.R.A.C.S., and amateur astronomer Dr.Athol Quayle, observed a UFO for about 8 seconds.<br \/>\nIt made no sound, and moved parallel to the earth at about twice the speed of a jet aircraft. It had a head,<br \/>\nbody and tail. The head was a &#8217;round.. iridescent, shimmering greenish-white light..,&#8217; while &#8216;..the body<br \/>\nconsisted of a wide and fairly long streak of intense white light..,&#8217; and the tail was a number of bright stars,<br \/>\nwhich, during the observation period blew out of the body and disappeared. The whole UFO went out abruptly<br \/>\n&#8216;..just as if someone had turned the electric light switch out&#8230;&#8217; (C.A.M Renou, FSR 6-3)<\/p>\n<p>October 6th, 1959: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. &#8216;A U.S.Army Colonel, his wife and their son saw an object<br \/>\nmaking abrupt turns at high speed. The son had been studying astronomy and pointing out the stars.. His<br \/>\nmother noted the object and pointed it out.. At first they thought it was a meteor. It was round and.. the colour<br \/>\nbetween white and yellow.<br \/>\n(It) was first seen 70 deg. above the horizon at 15 deg. azimuth (S-SE). It moved north-northwest (330 deg.)<br \/>\nfor about 12 miles and then made a quick turn (90 deg.). Shortly thereafter.. it made another abrupt turn south<br \/>\n(180 deg.).. It dimmed out and returned to bright several times&#8230;&#8217; (UFOIRC\/O.Binder)<\/p>\n<p>October 13th, 1959: Paignton, Devon, UK; approx. 7pm. &#8216;..While observing the Moon with a 36-inch<br \/>\ntelescope my attention was directed to the crater Aristarchus, then on the terminator, and brilliantly white in<br \/>\ncolour.. I was surprised to see a delicate yet bright reddish-amber glow in or near Aristarchus clearly outlined<br \/>\nagainst the white background. It was visible for only a few seconds.. After it disappeared no trace remained to<br \/>\nshow it had been there.&#8217; (E.H.Rowe, FSR 6-1)<\/p>\n<p>February 7th-8th, 1960: Hollywood, California, USA; about midnight. (Reports spanned four U.S. western<br \/>\nstates of &#8216;a bright flash&#8217;) &#8216;..amateur astronomer Floyd Rickores said he tracked a &#8220;red ball&#8221; &#8211; without a tail &#8211; for<br \/>\nnearly five minutes with his 300-power telescope. &#8220;I was looking at the moon through my telescope when<br \/>\nthere was an explosion and a bright flash lighted the room.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said that he and his wife heard a rumble. Immediately afterwards he located nearly overhead a red ball. &#8220;It<br \/>\nseemed to stay stationary between two stars for three or four minutes, then took off with fantastic speed and<br \/>\ndisappeared. I&#8217;d guess it was several thousand miles off the surface of the earth and it was brighter than any<br \/>\nstar at at that time.&#8221; &#8216; (Oregon Statesman\/FSR 6-3)<\/p>\n<p>February 13th, 1960: Grand Blanc, Michigan, USA; nighttime. &#8216;A colour photo of a UFO was taken after a full<br \/>\nmoon by Joe Perry.. whose hobby is astronomical photography. the UFO was disc-shaped with a dome and<br \/>\nleaving a greeen trail. The FBI learned of the photograph after Perry, who runs a restaurant, showed it to<br \/>\nsome of his customers. Two agents from the Flint office were sent to investigate. Perry showed the agents<br \/>\nseveral of his slides taken the same night.<br \/>\n&#8220;They did not seem to be interested until I showed this particular one,&#8221; Perry said, &#8220;and then both of them<br \/>\njumped up.&#8221; The agents took the UFO photograph and several others for study. Needless to say, the photos<br \/>\nwere not returned to Mr.Perry.&#8217; (UFOs:ThAS)<\/p>\n<p>May 4th, 1960: Bedford, Massachusetts, USA; 9.15pm. &#8216;..a dark spherical UFO was observed in the eastern<br \/>\nsky by Charles S.Oates, chief technician at Charles Hayden Planetarium in Boston, and his wife. \/ The<br \/>\nsphere was sighted shortly after Oates saw two bright white lines appear and disappear quickly, one after the<br \/>\nother, in the same area of the sky. The UFO appeared at an elevation of about 50 degrees in the east, near<\/p>\n<p>24<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>the constellation Bootes. It pulsated from red to white to red. While Oates tried to call other members of the<br \/>\nPlanetarium staff, his wife watched the object which vanished suddenly after about five minutes.&#8217;<br \/>\n(UFOs:ThAS)<\/p>\n<p>May 5th or 22nd, 1960: Palma, Majorca, Europe; 9.33 pm. &#8216;..various astronomers of the Palma, Majorca,<br \/>\nObservatory reported seeing a &#8220;mysterious triangular- shaped object&#8221; manoeuvring over the region. The<br \/>\nastronomers said that the object appeared to be spinning around on its own axis without deviating from its<br \/>\npath and had the apparent size of the full moon.&#8217; (H.Ganteaume, FSR 7-1\/NICAP)<\/p>\n<p>late-October 1960: San Antonio, Texas, USA. &#8216;A glowing, mystery flying object was reported that.. week in<br \/>\ntwo other areas. In San Antonio.. a spokesman for Trinity University&#8217;s moonwatch team said they had seen a<br \/>\nUFO and it was reported over California.&#8217; (UFOS:ThAS)<\/p>\n<p>A conversation in an observatory: &#8216;The International Bulletin 11, the journal of the Netherlands Study Group<br \/>\nfor UFOlogy, prints in its November, 1960, issue the results of an interview with Mr.Damen Sterk, of the<br \/>\nobservatory of Utrecht. The questions and answers went as follows: Question: &#8220;Do you know the<br \/>\nphenomenon of the so-called UFOs?&#8221;<br \/>\nMr.Damen Sterk: &#8220;Indeed, scientists did observe a number of solid bodies during the last few years, which<br \/>\nmoved with an unexplained speed in the sky.&#8221;<br \/>\nQuestion: &#8220;Were they aeroplanes or celestial bodies?&#8221;<br \/>\nD.Sterk: &#8220;No, decidedly not. Of about thirty of these bodies one couldn&#8217;t explain the origin.&#8221; Question: &#8220;Is it<br \/>\npossible that they are space ships with beings of other planets?&#8221;<br \/>\nD.Sterk: &#8220;That is not excluded. In fact there are so many planets on which life and even higher evolved life<br \/>\nthan on this earth is present.&#8221;<br \/>\nQuestion: &#8220;So it is probable that our earth is visited by space ships of other planets.&#8221;<br \/>\nD.Sterk: &#8221; That is not improbable.&#8221;<br \/>\nQuestion: &#8220;May we conclude from your words that the unexplained solid bodies mentioned by you are UFOs<br \/>\nor flying saucers?&#8221;<br \/>\nD.Sterk: (after some hesitation)&#8221;The only conclusion can be a question mark!&#8221;<br \/>\nThis interview was submitted to Dr.C.de Jager, director of the Observatory, and he answered: &#8220;The opinion of<br \/>\nour librarian remains excusively the responsibility of our librarian.&#8221;&#8216; (FSR 7-1)<\/p>\n<p>November 27th, 1960: California, USA &#8211; &#8216;..a group of seven inhabitants of a trailer camp in California<br \/>\nmaintained a surveillance of aerial activity for more than a quarter of an hour. Among the company were two<br \/>\namateur astronomers, Mr. and Mrs.Lewis Hart, who subsequently submitted an excellent report to the Air<br \/>\nForce. Amendations to that record were published by professional ufologist Lloyd Mallan. A brief portion,<br \/>\nwhich was in response to a questionnaire supplied by the authorities, read &#8211; &#8220;In your opinion what do you<br \/>\nthink the object was and what might have caused it?&#8221; The Harts&#8217; answer &#8211; &#8220;It was unquestionably some kind<br \/>\nof intelligently controlled air or space vehicle.&#8221;&#8230;&#8217; (PFl)<\/p>\n<p>1960: &#8216;MYSTERY SPACE OBJECT SEEN AGAIN &#8211; The director of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago said that<br \/>\nhe has received reports of a mysterious object in orbit around the Earth. \/ The director, Mr.Robert Johnson,<br \/>\nestimated the object to be about one-tenth the size of the American balloon satellite Echo 1 &#8211; which is about<br \/>\n100 feet in diameter &#8211; but travelling twice as fast. \/ First sighted by Mr.Johnson and two assistants last friday,<br \/>\nit is neither an artificial satellite nor a meteor. It has not been seen on radar, he told reporters, but he<br \/>\nunderstood that an aircraft company had used a ballistic camera to track its course. \/ Amateur astronomers in<br \/>\nmany parts of the United States had reported seeing it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;..it is by no means impossible that such phenomena exist and have existed for a long time. It is only recently<br \/>\nthat man has started observing the heavens constantly with highly developed instruments.&#8221; Russian<br \/>\nastronomer Basykin, of the Moscow Observatory, quoted in Swiss magazine (Zuercher Woche) article, June<br \/>\n1961.<\/p>\n<p>May 18th, 1961: Jupiter, Florida, USA. &#8216;(On May 19th), the discovery that a mystery satellite was orbiting the<br \/>\nearth was revealed by the Smithsonian Observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, which controls a world-<br \/>\nwide network of tracking stations.<\/p>\n<p>25<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Satellite tracking stations around the world were asked to help track an unsuspected, unpredicted bright<br \/>\nsatellite. The satellite was first spotted.. at Jupiter, Florida, and was reported as being about as bright as Echo<br \/>\nOne and could be seen easily with the naked eye under right conditions.&#8221;<br \/>\nAt Haleakala, Hawaii, Clifton Marsh, head of the local observatory, said Smithsonian officials had also alerted<br \/>\nits network of high powered, telescopic cameras to spot and photograph the mystery satellite. \/ One<br \/>\nunexplained factor was introduced by a Smithsonian spokesman who stated that they had &#8220;no reason yet to<br \/>\nbelieve the satellite is anything new, because such orbiting mavericks are spotted with some regularity.&#8221; &#8216;<br \/>\n(UFOs:ThAS)<\/p>\n<p>June-August 12th, 1961: From June 1961, Jacques Vallee worked on the staff of the artificial-satellite<br \/>\nservice of Paris Observatory, at Meudon. in his diary entry for August 12th, 1961, he wrote &#8211; &#8216;..Occasionally<br \/>\nwe observe objects that remain unidentified. Thus on 11 July at 10:35 P.M. I saw a satellite brighter than<br \/>\nsecond magnitude. I had time to log a few data points. On another occasion several of us recorded no less<br \/>\nthan eleven points. The next morning Muller, who behaves like a petty army officer simply confiscated the<br \/>\ntape and destroyed it, although a similar object had just been tracked by other astronomers at Besanscon<br \/>\nand by Pierre Neiriuck, a satellite expert based in Saint-Malo. \/ &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we send the data to the<br \/>\nAmericans?&#8221; I asked him. \/ Muller just shrugged. &#8220;The Americans would laugh at us.&#8221; \/ He seems terrified at<br \/>\nthe idea that the morning papers might come out with the headline PARIS OBSERVATORY TRACKING<br \/>\nSOMETHING IT CANNOT IDENTIFY&#8230;&#8217; (Forbidden Science)<\/p>\n<p>early-October 1961: While making a sweep to re-locate 19 Piscium in the constellation of Pisces, with a six<br \/>\ninch Newtonian telescope, Derick Shelton observed an unidentified object cross his field of view for an<br \/>\nestimated 5-10 seconds, under excellent observing conditions. Concerning the appearance of the object,<br \/>\nMr.Shelton later reported &#8211; &#8216;..I could see no lights.. but there was a seeming reflection of light from the upper<br \/>\npart, which looked like a glow of some kind.. The object, though dark, stood out against the background of the<br \/>\nsky quite clearly&#8230;&#8217;<br \/>\nMr.Shelton, at the time of his report had been an amateur astronomer for 48 years since the age of 7. He was<br \/>\nable to categorically rule out the possibility that what he observed could have been any known celestial<br \/>\nphenomenon, a balloon, or a known type of aircraft. He later saw a report by another astronomer of an<br \/>\nidentical unidentified object, also in October 1961 &#8211; this man&#8217;s sighting was, however, 15 to 20 minutes in<br \/>\nduration. (Spacelink 6-4)<\/p>\n<p>November 19th, 1961: Australia &#8211; &#8216;A Somerton man has reported seeing mysterious flying objects over the<br \/>\nAdelaide Hills at 6.15 p.m. on Sunday.. He is Mr.Guy Page.. an amateur astronomer. \/ &#8220;There was a cluster of<br \/>\nabout six to eight objects, due east of Somerton. They were crescent-shaped and travelling at high speed,&#8221;<br \/>\nMr.Page said today. \/ &#8220;I had binoculars trained on the Adelaide Hills when they came into sight. They were not<br \/>\nvisible with the naked eye. I watched them for about ten minutes before they disappeared into cloud.&#8221; \/<br \/>\nMr.Page reported the sighting to the Bureau of Meteorology, but said he was mystified as &#8220;what I saw<br \/>\ndefinitely wasn&#8217;t a weather balloon. I didn&#8217;t report this before because if you do people seem to think you&#8217;re a<br \/>\ncrackpot. But when I read where two policemen saw something yesterday, I decided to report it.&#8221;&#8216; (FSR 8-3)<\/p>\n<p>April 4th, 1962: Wurtland, Kentucky, USA. G.R.Wells and J.Lewis, watched a small object through a 117<br \/>\npower telescope. Its brightness fluctuated, it gave off smoke, and didn&#8217;t move for six minutes. (Pr.BBE)<\/p>\n<p>July 1962: England &#8211; &#8216;More reports of an &#8220;unidentified flying object&#8221; over Stratford last Monday night are<br \/>\nsought by Mr.J.D.Llewellyn, who observed it twice through an earth satellite-tracking telescope. \/ Mr.Llewellyn<br \/>\nwas with another member of a Midlands interplanetary tracking team who keep a watch on earth satellites<br \/>\nwhen he first saw the &#8220;flying saucer&#8221; type object at 10.40 p.m. at his home, 80 West Green Drive. \/ He<br \/>\ndescribed it to the Herald as an &#8220;extremely bright satellite-like object with what appeared to be a powerful<br \/>\nsearchlight on top. Slow-moving, it rose from the north-east horizon at about 40 degrees, and its radiance<br \/>\ndiminished until a green pinpoint remained. From the overhead position until its exit to the north-west, it<br \/>\nresolved itself into a triangle of two orange and one green lights. \/ &#8220;I heard nothing but a faint whisper of<br \/>\nsound, similar to a high-flying aircraft, when it was about overhead,&#8221; he said. he saw it again at 11.20 and<br \/>\nsaid both times in the early part of the flight it threw out a sort of beam of light which illuminated high-altitude<br \/>\ncloud..&#8217; (FSR 8-6)<\/p>\n<p>26<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>August 17th, 1962: Meloy, Norway &#8216;..planes from Bodo Air Station went up to have a look at a luminous<br \/>\nobject which was sighted.. above meloy. A pilot found the object and had a very clear view of it from<br \/>\nunderneath. It was, however, impossible for him to estimate the size and character of the object. he followed<br \/>\nit, but it climbed, and at 33,000 ft. he had to abandon the pursuit&#8230; \/ There were no weather balloons in the<br \/>\nvicinity, and, besides, the balloons in use would not have behaved in that way. \/ A lot of people in the district<br \/>\nsaw the object. For some time it made a vertical climb and then disappeared in a northerly direction. It looked<br \/>\nlike a luminous star, but seen through binoculars it had a triangular form. The object was sighted for two<br \/>\nhours, (and) by some.. described as looking like a pyramid. An amateur astronomer who looked at the object<br \/>\nthrough as telescope, was quite sure that it could not be a balloon. He also says that it had a pyramidal form<br \/>\nand that on top it had a luminous cupola and at the bottom a luminous edge. Also the middle part.. glowed,<br \/>\nbut more weakly.&#8217;<br \/>\n(Dahle, FSR 9-1)<\/p>\n<p>October 4th, 1962: &#8216;An unidentified flying object was seen on Thursday evening by Mr. and Mrs.R.F.Wood, of<br \/>\nCopsley, Shere Road, West Horsley (England). It was first seen by Mrs.Wood when she looked out of a<br \/>\nbedroom window of her home at about 6.50 p.m. It was getting dark at the time, with the sun setting quite<br \/>\nbrightly in the west. \/ According to Mrs.Wood, the object &#8211; &#8220;an elliptical thing&#8221; &#8211; was due west of her home,<br \/>\nabout ten degrees above the horizon and at an estimated distance of twenty miles. &#8220;It was bright as the<br \/>\nMoon,&#8221; she said yesterday. \/ Mrs.Wood called her husband, who is an amateur astronomer. With his<br \/>\ntelescope he was able to pick up the object for a few seconds before it dropped behind a cloud. He described<br \/>\nit as being similar to a ball flattened in the middle with two pieces protruding &#8211; one on each side. \/ Neither Mr.<br \/>\nor Mrs.Wood can find a possible explanation for the object they saw. &#8220;It was definitely not an aeroplane,&#8221; says<br \/>\nMrs.Wood&#8230;&#8217; (FSR 9-1)<\/p>\n<p>March 21st, 1963: USA; 8.15pm approx. Sighting by an amateur astronomer, Larry Conner.<br \/>\n[see also April 4th, 1963](UFOs:ThAS)<\/p>\n<p>March(?) 27th, 1963: Norfolk, Virginia, USA; nighttime. &#8216;A.. glowing object, streaking across the sky, was<br \/>\nobserved by several people.. Among them was an amateur astronomer, Professor Albert Godden, assistant<br \/>\ndirector of Old Dominion College, Technical Institute. &#8220;It was a startling sight,&#8221; Godden stated. &#8220;It was a solid<br \/>\nwhite mass with the size and appearance of a full moon in the fall. It formed a red tail about twenty times as<br \/>\nlong as its diameter.&#8221; &#8216; (UFOs:ThAS)<\/p>\n<p>April 4th, 1963: USA; 8.15pm approx. A thirteen-year-old amateur astronomer sighted a bright UFO twice<br \/>\nwithin a fortnight &#8211; &#8216;Larry Conner said the object appeared on the Thursday night.. and also on the Thursday<br \/>\nabout the same time two weeks earlier. The object, which looked like a large star and moving swiftly in a<br \/>\nsomewhat zig-zag course, was near the end of the Big Dipper when spotted by Conner. It was travelling from<br \/>\nwest to east both times. Although he possesses an 80-power telescope, the object was moving too swiftly to<br \/>\nget a fix.&#8217; (UFOsThAS)<\/p>\n<p>October 29th\/November 27th, 1963: &#8216;In the December, 1963, issue of Sky and Telescope, Lowell<br \/>\nObservatory reports that on the night of October 29 it had detected two clusters of bright red lights north of<br \/>\nthe crater Herodotus; on the night of November 27, the red spots had vanished from their previous location<br \/>\nand were clustered in an oval formation along the south rim of the crater Aristarchus!&#8230;&#8217; (FS-SB)<\/p>\n<p>December 11th, 1963: McMinnville, Oregon, USA. At seven in the morning, W.W.Dolan, professor of<br \/>\nmathematics and astronomy, and dean of the faculty of Linfield College, saw a bright, star-like light hover,<br \/>\nslow, dim and flash during one minute.<\/p>\n<p>December 28th, 1963: Hiroshima, Japan; 3.55pm. &#8216;..T.Sato, astronomer at the Rakurakuen Planetarium at<br \/>\nHiroshima sent the.. report.. The observation was not made by Sato himself, but by seven young Japanese<br \/>\nastronomers using the 10in reflector at Rakurakuen.. They were carrying out observations in preparation for<br \/>\nthe lunar eclipse on 30 December.. at 15.55 one of the observers Y.Yamada, noted a large, distinct pink patch<br \/>\ncovering the southern part of Aristarchus, which was soon confirmed by the other six observers. It gradually<br \/>\nspread toward Herodotus until 16.26 when cloud prevented any further observation. The patch was not<br \/>\nmarkedly brighter or darker than the adjacent area&#8230;&#8217; (Spacelink 1-4)<\/p>\n<p>27<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>January 7th, 1964: San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina &#8211; &#8216;At the private observatory owned by amateur<br \/>\nastronomer Luis Ferro, this gentleman reported that he and several scientific friends, including an engineer<br \/>\nand a chemist, had.. observed a reddish-orange coloured object traverse the sky from south to north. It<br \/>\ntravelled on an apparently level course and was in view for five minutes.&#8217;<br \/>\n(Creighton, FSR 12-2)<\/p>\n<p>March 1964: &#8216;Priest-Astronomer Reports &#8216;Flying Saucers&#8217; &#8211; BUENOS AIRES (NC) &#8211; A Jesuit priest-<br \/>\nastronomer here said he has seen unidentified flying objects &#8211; &#8220;flying saucers&#8221; &#8211; in Argentine skies. \/ Father<br \/>\nBenito Reyna, is professor of mathematics at Salvador University in Buenos Aires and an astronomer with<br \/>\nmore than 30 years experience. \/ &#8220;The first time I saw UFOs I was in Cordoba,&#8221; Father Reyna told newsmen.<br \/>\n&#8220;With the help of my telescope I ws able to follow their flight clearly and to note their shape and color. Then<br \/>\nlast March I saw them on two successive nights in San Miguel. At the time Echo II was orbiting the earth and I<br \/>\nbelieve the crew of the flying saucers was closely following the U.S. man-made satellite to study its<br \/>\ncharacteristics..&#8221;&#8216; (Understanding 9-65)<\/p>\n<p>April 5th, 1964: South Norwood, London, UK; evening. A 14-year-old boy, Lee Turner, walking his dog, saw<br \/>\nan anomalous light in the sky.. &#8216;..&#8221;It moved too slowly for a shooting star and was definitely not a balloon or<br \/>\naircraft. It was like a star in the first magnitude moving north-north-east,&#8221; he said. \/ Lee ran to his uncle&#8217;s<br \/>\nhome.. Anthony Gittens, an amateur astronomer, said: &#8220;I have seen meteorites before. But this was unlike<br \/>\nanything I have seen. It took about four minutes to move across the sky before it went below the horizon.&#8221; \/ A<br \/>\ngroup of people formed to watch the object as it moved past the ITV tower at Upper Norwood.&#8217;&#8230; Mr.Gittens<br \/>\nhad previously been &#8220;quite sceptical&#8221; about UFOs , but this event &#8220;really changed&#8221; his way of thinking. (FSR<br \/>\n10-4\/Croydon Advertiser)<\/p>\n<p>August 25th, 1964: &#8216;WASHINGTON &#8211; Two scientists at the Goddard space flight center at Greenbelt,<br \/>\nMaryland, reported that they had sighted through a telescope two reddish bands and one bluish band on the<br \/>\nface of the moon. \/ Mr.Saul H.Genatt, astronomer and station manager for the Goddard optical research<br \/>\nfacility, said he and an electronic technician, Mr.Edwin Reid, saw the colored bands on August 25 from 9 p.m.<br \/>\nto 10 p.m..\/ The bands were over the crater Aristarchus, on the north-west quadrant of the moon. \/ Mr.Genatt<br \/>\nsaid that through a 16-inch telescope they saw two distinct reddish bands over the southern part of the crater<br \/>\nand a bluish band over the northern part. \/ The bands were roughly parallel and the reddish bands were of<br \/>\nequal thickness &#8211; about four or five miles. The longest reddish band was about 35 miles in length. It was the<br \/>\nmost southerly of the three. \/ The other reddish band, just above it, was only two or three miles away and<br \/>\nabout 30 miles long. \/ Mr.Genatt said: &#8220;Up in the northern part of the crater, about 20 miles from the northern<br \/>\nreddish band, was a bluish band about 15 miles long. All the bands ran an east-west direction, roughly<br \/>\nparallel to each other. The colors were very prominent at first &#8211; the reddish bands were really red and the<br \/>\nother was quite blue. As time passed the intensity of the colors weakened.&#8221; \/ Mr.Genatt said that he and<br \/>\nMr.Reid had been checking the mechanical operation of the telescope and Mr.Reid noticed the lunar colors<br \/>\nby pure chance. \/ He had no basis for any speculation what the bands were.&#8217; (Understanding 4-65)<\/p>\n<p>September 14th, 1964: At the Adarra (Adhara?) Observatory in San Miguel, Argentina &#8211; &#8216;..another impressive<br \/>\nsighting was recorded at 10.55 p.m. on September 14, 1964. The flying object, its apparent size being twice<br \/>\nthat of the Moon, was seen with the naked eye passing across the constellation Lyra. the central part of it was<br \/>\nwhite and fiery green, while the rear seemed to look like half-rings of an intense blue colour. Its speed was<br \/>\nestimated at three times the speed of sound. the sighting lasted for three minutes, the object moving throught<br \/>\nthe constellation of Lyra in the direction of Jupiter. The witnesses were astronomers Luis Ferro and Renato<br \/>\nMatteassi and three students of Astronomy.. the astronomers admitted that, whatever the object was, it could<br \/>\nnot possibly be an artificial satellite inasmuch as it had flown across the sky and then reversed.&#8217;<br \/>\n(Creighton, FSR 12-3)<\/p>\n<p>October 17th, 1964: Rainhill, UK; 8.50pm. A letter from Mr.E.A.Fairclough &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8216;With reference to the report by Mr.Robert Kemp in the Daily Post regarding the two bright objects he saw in<br \/>\nthe sky on Saturday night. \/ I confirm that one of these objects was observed by my son Martin (aged 12<br \/>\nyears) and myself at about the same time. We were in fact star-spotting with a home-made telescope when a<br \/>\nstar, as we thought, was noticed to be moving at a fairly rapid rate through the night sky&#8230;<br \/>\n..(We were) looking in a northerly direction from latitude 53.26 N. longitude 2.47 W. the object, of magnitude<br \/>\n+0.7, was seen moving from west to east from 5hr 51m at 46 degrees for a period of 2 min. 30 sec., passing<\/p>\n<p>28<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>over Capella and then vanishing.<br \/>\nIn size the object appeared about half the diameter of Jupiter.&#8217; (FSR 11-1\/Liverpool Daily Post)<\/p>\n<p>November 14th\/15th, 1964: &#8216;At midnight..astronomers at the San Miguel Observatory (Argentina) saw an<br \/>\nelongated flat reddish-orange flying object which crossed the heavens first from east to west and then back<br \/>\nagain, at a speed estimated at approximately four and a half times that of the satellites usually seen. Nor was<br \/>\nthis the first occasion, as scientists at the..observatory had already experienced two similar sightings.&#8217;<br \/>\n(Creighton, FSR 12-3)<\/p>\n<p>c.December 1964: &#8216;As this is being written Dr.Daniel W.Fry is approaching Albuquerque..his last scheduled<br \/>\nlecture stop..The tour has taken him across the Midwest, to the East Coast, down to the South and<br \/>\nSouthwest, during a period of seven weeks. Understandably with driving days and lecturing evenings, there<br \/>\nhas been little time for personal reports, but mail from his various sponsors has been both interesting and<br \/>\nencouraging..Attendance in many areas has surpassed expectations..(An) interesting letter was received<br \/>\nfrom the young men of the Rissler Observatory in Philadelphia, which contained the question &#8211; What did you<br \/>\nthink of the UFOs that were overhead that Tuesday night?..&#8217; (Understanding 1-65)<\/p>\n<p>July 3rd-7th, 1965: Amateur astronomer Ron Emanuel of Covina, California, observed a pulsating star-like<br \/>\nimage in the lunar crater Aristarchus, on July 3rd. The sighting was confirmed, during the next four days by<br \/>\nothers in a group known as the Argus-Astronets; and also by observers at Whittier College, who also reported<br \/>\na red colour in Theophilus&#8217; Central Peak. (Understanding 11-65)<\/p>\n<p>July 25th, 1965: Castalia, Ohio, USA. 9.15 pm. A sixteen-year-old amateur astronomer, M.D.Harris, watched<br \/>\na bright blue &#8220;star&#8221; cross 90 degrees of the sky in 10 to 15 seconds. (Pr.BBE)<\/p>\n<p>July 26th, 1965: &#8216;Latvian astronomers Robert Vitolniek, Jan Melderis and Esmeralda Vitolniek were studying<br \/>\nsilvery clouds from the observation station of Ogra in Latvia. \/ At 9.35 p.m., in the gathering dusk, they<br \/>\nspotted an unusually bright star slowly flying westward. Viewed through 8-power binoculars, the star<br \/>\nappeared as a small flat spot. The telescope revealed a small ball in the centre of the lens-shaped disc. \/ The<br \/>\nastronomers set the disc diameter at about 100 metres. Around the disc, at a distance of two doameters,<br \/>\nthere were three balls similar to the one in the centre of the disc. \/ the balls slowly rotated around the disc,<br \/>\nand the whole system dwindled as it receded from the earth. \/ Some 15-20 minutes later, the balls began to<br \/>\ndepart from the disc in different directions. The ball in the centre also left its place and flew aside. \/ Finally, at<br \/>\n10 p.m., all these bodies, which emitted a greenish-pearly glow, faded into the distance.&#8217; (FSR 14-3\/Soviet<br \/>\nWeekly 2.1968)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Los Angeles Times of August 28th presents an interesting account of a group known as the Argus-<br \/>\nAstronets interested in lunar observations. We offer a report of the group not only not only because of its<br \/>\ngoals and achievements but as a reminder that individuals and amateurs may still contribute much to learning<br \/>\nalthough our civilization seems to be dominated by large corporations, foundations, and computers!&#8217;<br \/>\n(Understanding 11-65) &#8211; Report here.<\/p>\n<p>Summer 1965: Chongwen District, Beijing, China. A sighting on a clear night, by Song Jiandong, 19 year old<br \/>\nstudent and lover of astronomy, and Song Jianmen, university student. They were observing stars in the night<br \/>\nsky, when Song Jiandong saw a slow-moving star-like object, which was soon followed by a larger elliptical<br \/>\none, giving off a blue-green light. He quickly got his home-made telescope. The larger object suddenly<br \/>\ndashed towards the &#8216;star,&#8217; which rushed off too. They had begun to zigzag, and were judged not to be<br \/>\nsatellites. (Beijing sky is restricted airspace). (UFOMC)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is scientific evidence that strange objects are circling our planet. It is lamentable that Governments<br \/>\nhave drawn a veil of secrecy around this matter.&#8221; Professor Gabriel Alvial, astronomer at Cerro Calan<br \/>\nObservatory &#8211; quoted by Reuters 26.8.1965.<\/p>\n<p>September 11th, 1965: &#8216;La Razon, July 14, 1968. Valparaiso, Chile. The well-known astronomer and director<br \/>\nof the private observatory at Villa Alemana, Mr.Carlos Munoz Ferrara, declared during an interview that flying<br \/>\nsaucers were harmless. When questioned whether he himself had seen any, he replied in the affirmative. \/<\/p>\n<p>29<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On September 11, 1965, at 8:30 P.M. there appeared a strange moving light in the sky. It was not a star, nor<br \/>\na planetoid, nor any known object. It went from South to North. Later between Venus and Mars there<br \/>\nappeared two disks which were transparent, for the bright stars could be seen through them. Many people<br \/>\nwho were with me saw them. When the disks came to the zenith one of them disappeared. Several minutes<br \/>\nlater we saw one of them again. It remained stationary at a certain height for five minutes. Photographs were<br \/>\ntaken, but nothing appeared on the negatives.&#8221; Mr.Munoz Ferrara concluded &#8211; &#8220;Flying Saucers are harmless,<br \/>\nbut must not be touched, because one may be affected by a kind of strange power they possess.&#8221; &#8216; (Greinart,<br \/>\nUnderstanding 10.68)<\/p>\n<p>September 18th, 1965: &#8216;At about 3 a.m., local time, in the night of September 17\/18, three astronomers (at<br \/>\nthe St.Michel Observatory) who had finished work stepped out of the cupola to take a breath of fresh air. The<br \/>\nnight sky was clear and they were able to identify with ease the lights &#8211; very familiar to them &#8211; of the various<br \/>\nvillages, far and near. But towards the ESE&#8230; precisely in the direction of the peak marked 1577m. lying to the<br \/>\nSE of the village of Aiguine, but much lower down, and on the exact level of the Valensole Plateau, they<br \/>\nbeheld a large stationary ovoid-shaped, orange-red light. They watched this light for 10-15 minutes without<br \/>\nseeing any change in its position or its appearance, nor did it flicker as the flames of a fire would have done.<br \/>\nA solid object emitting its own light would have looked no different. The three astronomers wondered what it<br \/>\ncould be, but none of them dared to suggest that they remain there until something happened and, feeling a<br \/>\nbit uneasy, they went off to bed&#8230;&#8217; (Michel, FSR 14-1)<\/p>\n<p>September 19th, 1965: Hay, NSW, Australia &#8211; &#8216;..The first time the object appeared was on September 19th,<br \/>\nat about 9.30 a.m. One of the men who saw it was Mr.G.Hamm, a member of the Royal Astronomical Society<br \/>\nand an officer in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve. He tried to measure the height of the object with a<br \/>\ntheodolite when he first saw it, but failed because of cloud. \/ He reported his sighting to the Canberra<br \/>\nHeadquarters of the R.A.N. The general concensus of opinion was that the object looked like an upturned<br \/>\nsaucer and emitted reddish flames.&#8217; (MHervey)<\/p>\n<p>September 24th, 1965: Abhazia, Soviet Union &#8211; &#8216;Astronomer-geologist L.Tshehanovici saw a small disc<br \/>\ndarting over the New Athos monastery and executing unusual manoeuvres. The monastery is high in the<br \/>\nmountains in the middle of a number of gorges. The disc&#8217;s movements &#8211; often spiral &#8211; were very complicated.&#8217;<br \/>\n(UFOFBIC)<\/p>\n<p>Novi Afon, Black Sea &#8211; &#8216;..astronomer Dr.Larissa Zechanovitch of the Moscow Planetarium was on holiday..<br \/>\nThe sun had just set, and Larissa, still swimming in the sea, saw a black object in the sky.. a disc with a<br \/>\nviewing window, from which (shone) a yellow light. It came down to about 300 feet above the water.. about<br \/>\n1,000 feet away from Dr.Zechanovitch.&#8217; (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>c.early-December 1965: &#8216;Objects from Jupiter &#8211; A Roman Catholic priest has claimed in Buenos Aires that he<br \/>\nphotographed three unidentified flying objects. \/ The priest, a Jesuit and Mathematics professor who directs<br \/>\nan observatory, said he photographed the objects passing across the surface of the moon. He added they<br \/>\nmight possibly have come from Jupiter.&#8217; (165LKUFOS)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;UFOs SILHOUETTED AGAINST THE MOON &#8211; About a year ago the Reverend Father Segundo Benito<br \/>\nReyna, a Jesuit priest who is the director of the Adhara Observatory at San Miguel in the Province of Buenos<br \/>\nAires, held a press conference and showed the newsmen a sensational photograph taken with the powerful<br \/>\ntelescope of that observatory. \/ Father Reyna a distinguished scientist who holds the degrees of Doctor of<br \/>\nScience, has kindly made a print of this photograph available for the FLYING SAUCER REVIEW. \/ The<br \/>\nhistory of the picture is as follows: At 8.30 p.m. on December 1, 1965, the Observatory began to receive<br \/>\nnumerous phone calls informing them that there was something strange on the Moon and asking if they could<br \/>\nsee it. \/ As it happened, the staff of the Observatory were indeed occupied with the Moon, but they were<br \/>\ntaking photographs of it at four-minute intervals and were not looking at the Moon itself. \/ When however they<br \/>\ncame to develop the pictures, which had been taken with a camera affixed to the telescope, the sixth of the<br \/>\nseries was found to show what looked like UFOs, one of them somewhat bell-shaped like the saucer in the<br \/>\nwell-known photo by the late George Adamski. \/ There is no question whatever that these objects were either<br \/>\nentering or leaving the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, as can be seen from their size. Furthermore, a few minutes after<\/p>\n<p>30<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>the photo had been taken, three strange luminous bodies passed very low over the city of La Plata, to the<br \/>\nastonishment of hundreds of witnesses.&#8217; (Galindez, FSR 13-1)<\/p>\n<p>One of the Series of Moon photographs taken at Adhara Observatory &#8211; this one is an enlarged detail of a<br \/>\n&#8220;bell-shaped&#8221; object.<\/p>\n<p>1965: New South Wales, Australia. &#8216;They crossed the State from north-west to south-east, passing<br \/>\nCoonabarabran, Kandos and finally Sydney. Sightings came from many parts of the central west, including<br \/>\nOrange, Molong and Bathurst&#8230; between 7.45 p.m. and 8 p.m., and an estimated 200 callers immediately<br \/>\njammed the &#8220;Herlad&#8221; switchboard reporting &#8220;white heads and long red tails.&#8221;&#8230; Mr.H.Richardson, of<br \/>\nLeppington said: &#8220;It was a weird sight. No sound, just a steady movement of eight lights in close formation.<br \/>\nToo fast for planes and too slow for a meteor. I just couldn&#8217;t make anything of them.&#8221;&#8230; The lights passed<br \/>\nalmost overhead as 50 members of the Astronomical Society of N.S.W. were meeting at Belfield Observatory.<br \/>\n\/ The director of the observatory, Mr.Gordon Patson, said later that all the amateur astronomers had seen the<br \/>\nlights, and dozens more people had telephoned about them. \/ Mr.Patson said the lights, of which most<br \/>\nobservers counted about eight, were seen 30 degrees above the horizon, 25 degrees west of north.&#8217;<br \/>\n(165LKUFOS)<\/p>\n<p>1965: Caucasus, Soviet Union &#8211; &#8216;Dr.Ludmila Tsehanovich, geodetical astronomer, saw a glittering disc with a<br \/>\ndome in the form of a cabin.&#8217; (UFOFBIC)<\/p>\n<p>April 25th, 1966: Canada-Northeast U.S.A. &#8211; &#8216;At approximately 8:15 P.M&#8230;a brilliantly illuminated object<br \/>\nflashed across the Canadian border and sailed majestically southward over the northeastern United Staes. It<br \/>\nwas seen by millions of people along the Atlantic seaboard. Astronomers and amateur photographers took<br \/>\nexcellent color pictures of it, some of which were later published in Life, Newsweek, and newspapers all<br \/>\nacross the country. It was so bright that it lit up the countryside like daylight as it arced gracefully overhead. \/<br \/>\nIt was quickly explained as a meteor. The explanation made sense to those who saw it, and so the whole<br \/>\nincident was forgotten. \/ However, I spent many months collecting reports of this object and assembling the<br \/>\nwhole story. Thousands of actual unidentified flying objects are erroneously explained away as meteors every<br \/>\nyear. Usually no one bothers to collect these meteor reports, lay them out on a map, and study them properly.<br \/>\nAstronomers seem least interested of all&#8230;&#8217; (John Keel OTH)<\/p>\n<p>August 1966(?): Chernigov, Ukraine &#8211; &#8216;In August of last year, on a glorious starry night, I decided to watch for<br \/>\nmeteors. First of all I carried out a systematic search, then I sat down by the telescope for about an hour,<br \/>\nstudying the sky with the naked eye. Suddenly in the constellation Serpens, I caught sight of some object, of<br \/>\na conical shape. In two or three seconds, it moved into the constellation Aquarius. During that time, I could<br \/>\ndistinctly hear a sound similar to that of chirping birds. the object flew above Chernigov.&#8217; (BJ 2-3\/Vassili<br \/>\nKlemenko, Knowledge &amp; Work No.1)<\/p>\n<p>August 1966: &#8216;Reading was visited last August. Amateur astronomer Mr.Alan Eker described &#8220;fast moving<br \/>\npoints of light in the sky in a square formation. They were not like anything I have seen before.&#8221; \/ The same<br \/>\nlights were seen 30 miles away at Oxford.&#8217; (FSR 13-1)<\/p>\n<p>November 13th, 1966: Zanesville, Ohio, USA; afternoon. Barber and amateur astronomer, Ralph Ditter took<br \/>\nthree photographs (one underexposed) of an unidentified object that moved quite slowly around the sky over<\/p>\n<p>31<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>his home. It was about 20 feet in diameter, and rotating counter-clockwise. There was no accompanying<br \/>\nsound.<\/p>\n<p>One of the two photographs taken by Ralph Ditter on that fateful afternoon which came out well.<\/p>\n<p>1966: &#8216;5 UFOs in V-formation&#8217; crossing the heavens horizontally were sighted by Dr.Benito Reyna and his<br \/>\nteam at the Adhara observatory, San Miguel, Argentina. (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>April 6th, 1967: Sofia, A.P. &#8211; &#8216;On two days a mysterious celestial body has flown over the South-Eastern part<br \/>\nof Bulgaria. The phenomenon was observed from the observatory at Stara Zagora on Thursday, April 6, at<br \/>\n6.30 p.m. The object, which was triangular in shape, was followed by a trail which was only just visible, and<br \/>\nrapidly lost its luminosity.&#8217; (FSR 13-4)<\/p>\n<p>Late-April 1967: Vastmanland, Sweden &#8211; &#8216;Twenty people have seen a red-yellow object with a poerful light.<br \/>\nSometimes it has been stationary, at others it has moved horizontally and vertically with an incedible speed.<br \/>\nOne observer heard an aeroplane &#8216;buzz&#8217; in connection with it. Another at first thought the red light, or glare,<br \/>\ncame from a fire. His son &#8211; an amateur astronomer &#8211; looked through a telescope and discovered three lights,<br \/>\ntwo green and one red. A &#8216;sighing&#8217; noise was also heard.&#8217;<br \/>\n(FSR 14-2\/Expressen)<\/p>\n<p>July 18th\/September 4th\/October 18th, 1967: &#8216;..At first, reports of sightings of UFOs in the Soviet Union<br \/>\nwere the field only of individual &#8216;enthusiasts,&#8217; but last year a committee of scientists and other specialists was<br \/>\nformed to make a systematic study of the reports&#8230; On July 18, September 4, October 18 and other days of<br \/>\n1967, crescent-shaped UFOs were seen over southern parts of the Soviet Union, according to reports from<br \/>\nthe Mountain Astronomical Station near Kislovodsk, from the astronomical observatory at Kazan, and from<br \/>\nseveral private individuals. \/ The most characteristic type of UFO is a luminous orange-coloured crescent with<br \/>\na diameter of 15 to 20 ft. of arc.. flying with its outward bend first.. Sometimes a bright flaming disc preceded<br \/>\nby a crescent is observed. And sometimes the crescent is preceded and flanked by what look like first-<br \/>\nmagnitude stars, which keep at a constant distance from it. \/ Kazan astronomers, who carried out their<br \/>\nobservations from two points simultaneously, set the diameter of the crescent-shaped UFOs at 500-600<br \/>\nmetres and their speed at some five kilometres a second. \/ Assuming that the crescent is a luminous shock<br \/>\nwave, the UFOs must fly at altitudes between 30 and 65 miles. Such objects could not have been made by<br \/>\nman. They are definitely not sputniks or space rockets&#8230;&#8217; (FSR 14-3\/Soviet Weekly)<\/p>\n<p>August 8th, 1967: &#8216;..at 8:40 P.M., the astronomer Anatoli Sazanow of the Astrophysical station of the<br \/>\nacademy of Science at Kislovodsk in the Caucasus saw a huge UFO of 180 meters diameter. Many scientists<br \/>\nworking at the station witnessed this sighting.&#8217; (Understanding 12.68)<\/p>\n<p>August 30th, 1967: Stoke-on-Trent, UK; 10.45pm. Mrs.Angela Becanin and her son Michael &#8211; a keen<br \/>\namateur astronomer &#8211; saw through a bedroom window three orange lights, which were about half a mile away<br \/>\n&#8216;..in the fields opposite Hethersett Walk. Mrs.Becanin reported that two were near together and the other was<br \/>\nfurther away. They stayed there until 11.15 p.m. flashing all the time, then became very faint and<br \/>\ndisappeared&#8230;&#8217; Michael told the investigators that &#8216;..the object had the appearance of an orange 2nd<br \/>\nmagnitude star but after a few minutes became a brilliant orange. After one or two minutes it rose and faded,<br \/>\nand by 11.30 p.m. had disappeared. Michael spoke of a second smaller light which did not change in<br \/>\nbrightness, and said afterwards that there may have been a third, further from the other two. Most of the time<\/p>\n<p>32<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>both witnesses watched the lights through the telescope&#8230; They were certainly not aircraft.. and were not<br \/>\nstreet lamps since these could be seen at the same time.. Finally, the lights rose and faded as though they<br \/>\nwere under control, and moved beyond the sight of the witnesses&#8230;&#8217; (FSR-UUU)<\/p>\n<p>September 2nd, 1967: Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, UK. A prominent British amateur astronomer made his<br \/>\nfirst UFO sighting &#8211; a ten minute observation &#8211; &#8216;..The objects were two equally sized circles of light side by<br \/>\nside and close together.. Magnitude greater than any celestial body other than the sun and moon. Colour..<br \/>\nyellow.. not quite white. Each was the size of a head of a pin held at arm&#8217;s length. Reminded observer of the<br \/>\nheadlights of a landrover suspended from a helicopter.. No apparent change in position except perhaps a<br \/>\nvery slight drift north. Height estimated at approx.2-3,000 ft. Objects probably eventually obscured by cloud&#8230;<br \/>\nNo sound audible.&#8217; (FSR-UUU)<\/p>\n<p>September 26th, 1967: (possible balloon) Statement by the El Turo del Home Observatory, Catalunia, Spain:<br \/>\n&#8216;Between 4.30 and 5.30 p.m. yesterday, at a great height directly above Mt.Minseny, an unidentified object<br \/>\nwas observed. It was white, shining brilliantly, and remained stationary there until hidden by clouds.<br \/>\nExamined through binoculars, it was seen to be triangular in shape. It was higher than the cirrus-type clouds<br \/>\nand its altitude can consequently be put at 10,000 metres above sea-level.&#8217; (Ribera, FSR 14-3)<\/p>\n<p>October 25th, 1967: &#8216;..the Royal Observatory at Herstmonceux in Sussex announced &#8211; &#8220;There is something<br \/>\nup there which is not a star or a planet.&#8221;(Daily Express 27.10.67).. it seems that the disclosure was inspired<br \/>\nby a sighting by amateur astronomer Peter Baker of Hastings, during the early morning&#8230; The bright object<br \/>\nseen by Mr.Baker was on the earthward side of the clouds, and was farther north than Venus..&#8217; (Bowen FSR<br \/>\n13-6)<\/p>\n<p>October 29th, 1967: In the early hours of the morning, an amateur astronomer in Hartlepool, Durham,<br \/>\nEngland, was looking through his telescope, when he saw &#8216;..two white objects moving through the sky.<br \/>\nSeconds later a third white object appeared &#8211; &#8220;They moved across the sky in a &#8220;V&#8221; formation and then<br \/>\nstopped dead,&#8221; he said. He watched them for an hour and they never moved. Then they started to zig-zag<br \/>\ntowards the moon, changing colour first to green, then to blue and finally a bright red. He could not see any<br \/>\ndetails because the red colour seemed to enshroud them. It was very bright but he could see that they were<br \/>\noval in shape. When they &#8220;reached&#8221; the moon, all three objects disappeared and he could not pick them up in<br \/>\nhis sights again.&#8217; (Lloyd, FSR 14-3)<\/p>\n<p>November 21st, 1967: Bulgaria; 5.30pm &#8211; &#8216;..a large unidentifiable object was spotted over Sofia shedding a<br \/>\nbright, bluish light of the neon type.&#8217; It appeared at a height of 30km, and was subsequently witnessed by<br \/>\nmany people travelling slowly on a defined route. Appearance changed &#8211; &#8216;..bigger than the sun.. trapeze<br \/>\nshape.. a parachute (below) a dark disc.. around which there was a phosphorescent-green halo.. parachute<br \/>\nor &#8220;balloon,&#8221; then grew bluish-silver, changing then to an orange shade..&#8217; \/ Professor D.Simetchiev of the<br \/>\nhydrological and meteorological centre later stated that the object had flown against the wind, and had &#8216;no<br \/>\nperceptible influence&#8217; on their radar installations. Professor Bogomil Kovatchev, secretary of the astronomical<br \/>\nsection of the Bulgarian Academy said (in part) &#8211; &#8216;First and foremost I would like to stress the fact that the<br \/>\nobject which appeared over our capital was not an artificial satellite of any sort known to us. It moved more<br \/>\nquickly than a Sputnik and cast a brighter light&#8230; The colour-variations were perhaps a result of the setting<br \/>\nsun which coincided with the disappearance of our object &#8211; the latter went out right in front of our eyes as if it<br \/>\nhad been extinguished.&#8217; (UFOFBIC)<\/p>\n<p>33<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>Photo taken of the UFO by cameraman Liuben Donov, of the daily newspaper Trud&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The shape photographed here is the same as that of an object later photographed over Madrid, Spain,<br \/>\non the evening of September 5th, 1968. The object over Madrid was seen by thousands of people, and was<br \/>\nultimately tracked by radar at a height of 75,000 feet (see text\/photo in UFOsTSH).<\/p>\n<p>1967: Montevideo, Uraguay. Professor Reyes Febles, chief of the Antares observatory &#8211; in the course of an<br \/>\nobservation lasting one hour fifty minutes &#8211; took 19 photographs of an unidentified craft. He first saw the<br \/>\nobject while looking through his telescope, with the intention of photographing the sun. He was soon able to<br \/>\nmake out that the unknown craft was oval-shaped with two bays at each end, steely in appearance, and<br \/>\nspewing &#8216;some gas towards the sun.&#8217; Professor Febles took some photos before a number of objects, of<br \/>\nvarious colours, shot out from its left side. About 17 minutes later, these reappeared and entered the main<br \/>\ncraft through its right side. The craft then hovered at a height of 4,000 feet, before flying into a cloud. It<br \/>\nultimately &#8216;..disappeared into space at high speed.&#8217; (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>1967\/1968: Blaxter, far north of England, UK. &#8216;Royal Observer Corps personnel and a member of the British<br \/>\nAstronomical Association were among those present when unearthly wonders flew over Blaxter. C.O.R.S.<br \/>\nTelfer and Messrs. F.Coulson, A.Coulson, J.N.McKie, F.Corbett, V.Grieve and G.Storey testified to the<br \/>\nfollowing recent sighting &#8211; Four fiery gems in formation, breaking off and heading in different directions later,<br \/>\nfeatured in a series of exciting UFO displays one night. Speeds varied from almost stationary to fast moving,<br \/>\nfor the quartet of shining spheroids also hovering unblinkingly while in formation. Joe esimated that at<br \/>\nmaximum velocity they would have journeyed from horizon to horizon in anything between six and ten<br \/>\nseconds. \/ They turned at fast speed and what could only be described as &#8216;impossible angles.&#8217; Two observers<br \/>\ndetected a greenish tinge about one of the objects. Joseph said that, as far as he knew, no such phenomena<br \/>\nare listed in any standard works of astronomy.&#8217; (WFFF)<\/p>\n<p>May 17th, 1968: Andes Mountains, Chile; 1.35am. The team at El Infernillo observatory, which lies at a height<br \/>\nof over 13,000 feet above sea level, managed to photograph a huge blinking, shining disc that had hung, high<br \/>\nabove the Andes, for an hour. El Infernillo is aligned with the University of Chile. Commented its chairman,<br \/>\nProfessor Gabriel Alvial Caceres &#8211; &#8216;..since October of last year, our logbook alone has registered 15 UFOs,<br \/>\nunexplainable starlike objects which move in space and can come to a standstill right in the middle of flight.<br \/>\nNow we have at last succeeded in photographing one of them&#8230;&#8217; (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>July 30th, 1968: Mihai Beres (Romania) &#8211; &#8216;..observed a shing body, similar to a star, located slightly to the<br \/>\neast of the rim of the New Moon.. with a jumping motion, the object performed a movement being in the<br \/>\nshape of a quadrangle &#8211; most of this movement being on the lunar disc. As it did so, the &#8220;star&#8221; lingered for 2-3<br \/>\nseconds at the four corners of the quadrangle. After hanging for a while near the rim of the lunar disc, the<br \/>\nobject moved down towards the Moon and suddenly vanished, seemingly passing behind the western edge.&#8217;<br \/>\n(A.Arkhipov, FSR 41-2[trans:G.Creighton])<\/p>\n<p>August 2nd, 1968: Germany &#8211; &#8216;U.S.Air Force jets chased a large brilliant object over Bavaria tonight.<br \/>\nWhatever it was, it got away before it could be identified. Two F-102 jets were sent up from Ramstein Air<br \/>\nBase after hundreds of telephone calls to observatories and police by people who saw the object, mostly<\/p>\n<p>34<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>described as dragon-shaped. It made a silver glare in the night sky. \/ The object, about 40 yards across,<br \/>\nappeared at times like a giant balloon with a triangular shape suspended below it as it hung at about 75,000<br \/>\nfeet, too high for the planes to approach. One astronomer said the object hung for several hours in one<br \/>\nposition.&#8217; (FS&amp;UFOs1969)<\/p>\n<p>September 5th, 1968: &#8216;The sighting of a bright object in the night sky over Madrid caused a monumental<br \/>\ntraffic jam and sent a Spanish Air Force F104 jet scrambling to find out what it was. \/ An official Air Force<br \/>\nannouncement said the pilot climbed to an altitude of more than 50,000 feet and reported the object was still<br \/>\nabove him when he had to return to base for fuel. The pilot of another plane flying at 36,000 feet reported<br \/>\nseeing the same object. Air Force radar screens tracked the Unidentified Flying Object and said it was flying<br \/>\nat 90,000 feet and moving slowly. One reporter, sent to the Madrid Astronomical Observatory for a look<br \/>\nthrough its powerful telescope, said the object gave off a &#8220;blinding light.&#8221; A photo taken through the telescope<br \/>\nrevealed a triangular object, apparently solid on one side and translucent in some sections.&#8217; (UChron1)<\/p>\n<p>September 21st, 1968: Russia. L.Tsekhanovich, astronomer and lecturer at the Moscow Planetarium<br \/>\nobserved a UFO for a period of one hour. (TSUFOF)<\/p>\n<p>October 3rd, 1968: &#8216;..at 2:47 A.M., a flying disc, which looked like a hat, was seen over Thessaloniki, Greece.<br \/>\nThe observer said it appeared to be about 50 meters in diameter and was traveling east. \/ On October 3rd, a<br \/>\nUFO which appeared to change its form was seen from 6 to 6:20 P.M. over Thessaloniki. The changing form<br \/>\nof this object suggested to the observers that it was constantly switching its position, thus giving the<br \/>\nimpression of actually changing form. It was observed by two astronomers who described it as triangular<br \/>\nshaped and golden in color. its estimated height was about 3,000 meters and it followed a west to east<br \/>\ncourse..&#8217; (FS&amp;UFOs1969)<\/p>\n<p>December 21st, 1968: Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 6.50pm &#8211; &#8216;A brightly-lit UFO was seen.. for a quarter of an hour<br \/>\nby a group of young astronomers.. The orange-red object had a diameter less than that of the moon and was<br \/>\ntravelling south-east.&#8217; (UFOFBIC)<\/p>\n<p>News report published February 18th, 1969 &#8211; &#8216;Prague. As from today Czechoslovakia has a centre for UFO&#8217;s<br \/>\nled by scientists such as Dr.Josef Dvorak of the Medical Centre of the Air Forces, Dr.Jaroslav Sychra of the<br \/>\nInstitute of Atmospheric Physics, Dr.Svatopluk Kriz and Dr.Boris Valnicek of the Ondrejov Observatory. All<br \/>\ninformation on the subject, whether from laymen or scientists, will be classified and analysed by the Centre &#8211;<br \/>\nwhich unfortunately has very limited means at its disposal as yet &#8211; and the findings will be published. The<br \/>\nCentre will work in close contact with the Czechoslovak Air Force and will have links with foreign UFO<br \/>\ncentres. The UFO Information Centre has been established at Panska 8, Prague 1.&#8217; (UFOFBIC)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Jesuit priest, the Rev.Segundo Benito, of Argentina, and internationally recognised astronomer, issued a<br \/>\nstatement to the press not long ago saying: &#8220;Unidentified flying objects do exist. they are craft manned by<br \/>\nliving beings from another world. These alien beings are currently studying the earth and its inhabitants.<br \/>\nSooner or later they will establish formal contact with mankind.&#8217; (MHervey, 1969)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;..Aptly named Truth, a Melbourne newspaper asked its readers &#8220;What Was It?&#8221; in a front page story in the<br \/>\nissue of October 25th, 1969. Photographs of a strange bright light moving across the sky had completely<br \/>\nbaffled one of their leading astronomers.. Professor David Marshall, head of Melbourne observatory and<br \/>\nlecturer of the city planetarium, killed reports that the pictures showed the planet Saturn. The object could not<br \/>\npossibly have been this, &#8220;but I have no idea what it is. I am baffled,&#8221; he admitted. The photos.. were taken<br \/>\nnear Denilquin.. 200 miles north of Melbourne. They were not the sole evidence of mysterious flying objects<br \/>\nin the district&#8230;&#8217; (UFOs: Key To The New Age)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Do flying saucers exist? The chairman of the Irish Astronomical Society, Mr.Andrew Trimble, thinks they do,<br \/>\nand last night put forward a strong argument in support of unidentified flying objects. In an illustrated talk<br \/>\nMr.Trimble said that many astronomers privately believed in UFOs but did not say so publicly because they<br \/>\nfeared ridicule.&#8217; (Belfast Newsletter 18.12.69\/FSR 16-2)<\/p>\n<p>35<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>February 13th, 1970: England &#8211; &#8216;Several stationary &#8220;yellowish&#8221; lights in the southern sky were spotted by<br \/>\nR.Beavan, of Paulsgrove, Portsmouth in Hampshire, at about 21.30 hours. he stood watching them for some<br \/>\nminutes, noticing also that two people about 30 yards away were gazing in the same direction as himself. \/<br \/>\nThe lights, numbering approximately 6 to 10, neither moved nor vaired in their intensity and were grouped<br \/>\nroughly together, though not in any particular geometric pattern. They appeared sharply defined in the clear<br \/>\nevening sky at an angle of 35-40 degrees above the horizon. \/ Mr.Beavan (23), who is something of a keen<br \/>\namateur astronomer, was puzzled for they bore no relationship to anything he could identify and said they<br \/>\n&#8220;certainly did not originate from shooting stars, an aeroplane, or rocket stages etc.&#8221; Keeping an eye on the<br \/>\nlights he commenced to walk in a westerly direction and halted briefly at evry spot which afforded him an<br \/>\nuninterrupted view. Gradually, lights began to disappear from among the cluster, until quite soon there were<br \/>\nnone visible at all.&#8217; (UFOChron6)<\/p>\n<p>March 1st, 1970: Porto Alegre, Brazil &#8211; &#8216;..a family observed a roundish light of the brightness of the star Sirius<br \/>\nwhich went through a series of complicated manoeuvres over the city for a period of 40 minutes. The principal<br \/>\nwitness and the head of the family is an amateur astronomer of 20 years standing..&#8217; (BJ 3-4\/Apro Bulletin)<\/p>\n<p>September 1st, 1970: Cradle Hill, Warminster, UK; 9.30pm. A skywatch party included &#8216;amateur astronomer<br \/>\nJohn Edwards, of the Bryn, Wyesham, Monmouth, a grassland development officer for South Wales..,&#8217; who<br \/>\nwas making his first visit to Warminster. One of those present &#8216;..spotted a fairly distant moving light.. glowing<br \/>\nbrightly. With his 200 mm magnification lens fitted in readiness, John &#8211; who has an eight-inch telescope at his<br \/>\nhome &#8211; was anxious to get his camera in action straight away, but we waited until the object gently glided<br \/>\ncloser, much closer.. At our estimated altitude of fewer than 200ft, the glowing sphere approached.. No sound<br \/>\ncame (from it).. as it swept gracefully towards north, then east-north-east to shoot over the top of Imber. here<br \/>\nit dropped.. sharply.. through binoculars.. it was not circular but hemispherical..&#8217; There was a small round<br \/>\nspeck of light at the apex of its dome&#8230; A second object, similar but much higher followed. (UFOsKeyTTNA)<\/p>\n<p>September 4th, 1970: Greenville, Texas, USA. &#8216;..Gary Graham.. was fortunate enough to capture a UFO on<br \/>\nfilm. Graham, whose hobbies are astronomy and photography, combined both in obtaining his photograph.<br \/>\nUsing a 45-power refractor telescope with a 50-power eyepiece and a yashicamat 124 camera on a 5-foot<br \/>\ntripod he was taking 1\/2 second time exposure shots of the moon at 10pm and while waiting for the planet to<br \/>\nrise at 11pm.<br \/>\nThough Graham himself did not see the object photographed, one of three consecutive 1\/2 second exposures<br \/>\nof the moon through his telescopic camera did record clearly &#8216;a cigar-shaped UFO with rounded front and a<br \/>\ntapered back which trailed some sort of exhaust&#8217; as it was caught on the film, silhouetted against the face of<br \/>\nthe moon.&#8217; (UFOsThAS)<\/p>\n<p>November 1970: While studying the Archimedes area of the moon with a twelve and one-half reflector, Fred<br \/>\nSteckling and his son sighted three very large cigar-shaped objects on the floor of the crater &#8211; two in the<br \/>\nnorthern area and one in the south. Mr.Steckling and his son referred to the Air Force Lunar Sectional Chart<br \/>\nof the Archimedes area, and found that no evidence of these objects was recorded. Based on an approximate<br \/>\ndiameter of fifty miles for the crater, it was estimated that the cigar-shaped objects &#8211; which remained in the<br \/>\ncrater for several hours &#8211; had to have been at least twenty miles long and about three miles wide. (FredSt)<\/p>\n<p>February 24th, 1971: Nuneaton, Warwickshire, UK; 6.15am.<br \/>\nFour policemen were reported to have seen &#8216;..three single white lights in the sky.. moving at a great speed in<br \/>\na westerly direction towards Birmingham..&#8217; before turning northwards. Two days later, a follow-up report<br \/>\nappeared:<br \/>\n&#8216;More on the UFOs from amateur astronomer, Steve Melvin of Nuneaton.<br \/>\nSteve, a worker at Coventry Power Station was on top of a tower at the same time as the three policemen<br \/>\nreported seeing (mysterious objects) in the sky.<br \/>\n&#8220;I have been interested in astronomy since 1944 and have been &#8216;skywatching&#8217; since then but.. never seen<br \/>\nanything like these objects. \/ They made no noise and I can confirm that they were flying at about 30 degrees<br \/>\nin a North Westerly direction. I have no answer for it, said Steve.&#8217;<br \/>\n(Mr.G.Coxon, BJ 3-4 \/ Evening Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>36<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>June 1971: Jacksonville, Illinois, USA; 9pm.<br \/>\nWarren Davis observed from his doorway a bright light moving northwards in the sky&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;..on examining it through binoculars I discovered that it was oval-shaped, the front being indistinct because<br \/>\nof three very bright white lights being situated there. It didn&#8217;t display position lights or a rotating beacon as in<br \/>\nthe case of an aeroplane, just the lights in front which could also be observed from the side.. the sky was still<br \/>\nfairly bright so it wasn&#8217;t difficult to observe the object. It was at least a mile west of our position, flying at a<br \/>\nspeed of at least 300 miles per hour. Altitude was at least 3,000 feet. To the naked eye it looked like a satellite<br \/>\nbut it was distinct but very small.<br \/>\nI am an amateur astronomer and I am familiar with most aircraft and their lighting systems so I feel that I can<br \/>\ndistinguish between ordinary objects and objects of an unusual nature.&#8221; (UFOs:ThAS)<\/p>\n<p>August 25th, 1971: Lancashire, UK; 10.30pm approx. For two reports by astronomers (unknown to each<br \/>\nother), click here.<\/p>\n<p>September 1st, 1971: &#8216;An amateur astronomer has joined the growing band of people who claim they have<br \/>\nseen UFOs over North Staffordshire. \/ John Hancock, aged 21, of 122 Ashford Street, Shelton, made detailed<br \/>\nnotes of two unidentified flying objects in Weston Coyney last night. \/ One of the sightings, he said, was<br \/>\ncylindrical in shape with a row of coloured lights. A middle light was green and it was flanked by red and white<br \/>\nlights. \/ John&#8217;s father, 44-years-old Mr.Norman Hancock, of the same address, said today: &#8220;We are deadly<br \/>\nserious about these sightings. I was with John and I can verify what he saw. I must say I was rather shaken<br \/>\nby it all.&#8221; &#8216; (FSR 18-1)<\/p>\n<p>September 16th, 1971: region of Haute-Province, France; 8.46pm. &#8216;..the Observatory of Haute-Province..<br \/>\nbegan receiving telephone calls from nearby towns calling attention to a light in the sky. Several astronomers<br \/>\nobserved two small lights very close to each other moving together. Later they appeared as only one point of<br \/>\nlight, surrounded with a faint halo, and sometimes preceded, not followed, by a short luminous tail of yellow-<br \/>\norange color. Visibility was excellent without clouds or fog. The radar station at Marignane confirmed the<br \/>\nobject and said it was moving too slow to be a conventional airplane. For various reasons, satellites and<br \/>\nweather balloons were ruled out. The possibility of a helicopter seems unlikely since there was absolutely no<br \/>\nsound from the object at any time to any of the observers. Whatever it was, no identification was ever made,<br \/>\nand the witnesses at the Observatory concluded they had indeed seen a UFO.&#8217; (Info Journal III,2)<\/p>\n<p>1971: One night, at 11.30pm, a witness at Castleford, England, saw three objects in close line formation<br \/>\ngliding across the sky, just below the cloud level. &#8216;..They approached from the north.. when they were almost<br \/>\ndirectly above me you could make out the shape of them quite easily. They were completely silent.. No lights..<br \/>\nin..sight for I would say about three to four minutes. One of the objects on the outside of the three then made<br \/>\na perfect right angle turn away from the objects&#8230; At the time of my sighting I was interested in astronomy and<br \/>\nwas building my own 6&#8243; Newtonian reflector telescope&#8230;&#8217; (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>February 2nd, 1972: Manchester, UK; 9.11pm. &#8216;Young astronomer A.Darbyshire.. had just been studying<br \/>\nMars.. when he noted a peculiar red light in the east. &#8220;I put my 40 by 40 telescope to my eye and looked at it.<br \/>\nIt turned out to be a glowing red-orange light, spherical in shape. I took down my telescope to clean the lens<br \/>\nfor better viewing and, when I gazed again, it moved to the north of the sky,&#8221; he reported.&#8217; (TFS)<\/p>\n<p>March 1972: &#8216;Mysterious red objects the size of tennis balls have been sighted in the sky over the North-<br \/>\nWest. \/ Amateur astronomer Mr.Les Morris, of Beechfield Road, Swinton, saw a strange red light in the sky<br \/>\nwhile walking home with his daughter, Marlene. &#8220;It was as big as a tennis ball and looked to be 500 feet in the<br \/>\nair,&#8221; he said. \/ Mr.Morris, who works for Shell Chemicals at Carrington, phoned Manchester Airport and was<br \/>\ntold there had been no planes in the area for at least 15 minutes before he saw the object. \/ &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen<br \/>\nshooting stars and other natural phenomena but nothing like this,&#8221; he added. \/ Swinton schoolgirls Ellen<br \/>\nChapman and Fiona Cannon, both of Tennyson Road, also saw four of the &#8216;flying red tennis balls.&#8217; \/ &#8220;One was<br \/>\ncontinually flashing and seemed to lead the others about the sky,&#8221; said Ellen.&#8217; (FSR 18-3)<\/p>\n<p>July 6th, 1972: Kaitaia, New Zealand &#8211; &#8216;Object In The Sky Puzzle. During most of yesterday a peculiar<br \/>\ntraveling light was observed over the Kaitaia Aerodrome. The object was discovered accidentally by a<br \/>\nmeteorological office man who came across it when tracking a weather balloon. &#8220;It is not fast moving enough<\/p>\n<p>37<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>to be a satellite and if it is a star it should not be able to be seen in daytime,&#8221; said C.B.Michie who is a<br \/>\nrecognised authority on astronomy. &#8220;It was in the wong position to be Venus the only star visible in daytime.&#8221;&#8216;<br \/>\n(TEP, 10.72)<\/p>\n<p>July 27th, 1972: &#8216;..At Paris, Ontario (Canada) an amateur astronomer, D&#8217;al Illes, and his friend George Peart<br \/>\nwere taking time-exposure photographs near the Nith River at about ten o&#8217;clock in the evening when the<br \/>\nobject appeared.\/ &#8220;It was a spherical ball of pale white light which slowly travelled across the sky,&#8221; said the<br \/>\nwitnesses. &#8220;It lasted for fifteen or twenty seconds.&#8221; \/ They said the object, which appeared to have a solid<br \/>\ncenter and fuzzy edges, was about fifty-five degrees off the horizon. \/ Illes who has studied astronomy for<br \/>\nseven years, claims that he saw similar objects in 1964 and 1966. This time his camera was set for a half-<br \/>\nhour exposure, so he could not record the sighting photographically.&#8217; (TNUFOS)<\/p>\n<p>October 4th, 1972: Winsford, Cheshire, UK; 10.25pm. &#8216;Witness, Mr.Bryan Bishop, was on night shift, and<br \/>\nwhile he was in the works yard he saw in the eastern sky a series of eight lights forming a diamond shape. (At<br \/>\nfirst) only five lights were visible, but as the object moved almost overhead, eight.. were visible. The centre<br \/>\nappeared hazy and it was not possible to discern whether this was eight objects or one.. \/ Mr.Bishop is an<br \/>\namateur astronomer and a keen meteor observer, he is familiar with the night sky and can recognise natural<br \/>\nphenomena and satellites, etc.&#8217;<br \/>\nHe described the lights as white, magnitude -1. Visible for four minutes, travelling into the distant east at a<br \/>\nmoderate speed. (Gordon Clegg, BJ 3-8)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;During an evening reception of several hundred astronomers at Victoria, British Columbia, in the summer of<br \/>\n1968, word spread that just outside the hall strangely manoeuvring lights &#8211; UFOs &#8211; had been spotted. The<br \/>\nnews was met by casual banter and the giggling sound that often accompanies an embarassing situation. Not<br \/>\none astronomer ventured outside in the summer night to see for himself. \/ Erwin Schrodinger, pioneer in<br \/>\nquantum mechanics and a philosopher of science, wroye, &#8220;The first requirement of a scientist, is that he be<br \/>\ncurious. He should be capable of being astonished and eager to find out.&#8221;&#8216; J.Allen Hynek &#8216;The UFO<br \/>\nExperience,&#8217; published 1972.<\/p>\n<p>February 18th, 1973: New Zealand &#8211; &#8216;Man Sees UFO, Clocks It At 1800 MPH. A UFO was sighted over<br \/>\nDunedin by several people last night. It was &#8220;huge,&#8221; bright yellow and red, cigar-shaped and travelling at a<br \/>\nminimum speed of 1800 mph. Two groups of people reported sighting the UFO at 11:20pm, one at East Taieri<br \/>\nand the other in Gilkison St., Dunedin. From Gilikison St., two men, one a professional engineer, sighted the<br \/>\nUFO travelling north for about 5-8 seconds before disappearing behind Flagstaff Hill. The engineer, also an<br \/>\namateur astronomer, calculated the minimum speed of the object to be 1800 mph &#8220;because if it disappeared<br \/>\nbehind Flagstaff it must have been at least 2 miles away and I allowed 3 in my calculations. &#8220;We watched it<br \/>\nfor 6 seconds during which time it travelled through about 60 degrees. This makes its minimum speed 1800<br \/>\nmph. the UFO was luminous and cigar-shaped with a ball of fire following it.&#8221;&#8216; (TEP, 6.73)<\/p>\n<p>Autumn (?) 1973: &#8216;Frans de Bruyn of Adamayviewm Klerksdorp, Africa, was looking at the night sky when he<br \/>\nsaw a bright, luminous object moving from east to west at an angle of thirty degrees above the horizon. \/<br \/>\nMr.de Bruyn, an amateur astronomer, ran in to call his father, who came out immediately. As they watched,<br \/>\nthe UFO moved upward at an angle of ninety degrees to its original course. It moved through the clouds,<br \/>\nwhich de Bruyn judged to be at a height of about three thousand feet&#8230;&#8217; (TNUFOS\/Skylook)<\/p>\n<p>April 10th, 1974: UFO sighting by &#8216;Jeff&#8217;, who had become an amateur astronomer in 1965; had won the<br \/>\nSVAS&#8217; Samuel S.Smythe Award in 1967, and was president of the Jr. section of the SVAS for two terms in<br \/>\n1968 and 1969. (source)<\/p>\n<p>Pre-May 1974: &#8216;..it is distinctly odd to find an interesting UFO-related report in the Soviet Academy of<br \/>\nSciences&#8217; own popular-scientific journal Khimia i Zhizu (Chemistry and Life) No.5 (May 1974). \/ The item<br \/>\nappears in an article reporting the views of some of the Soviet and foreign astronomers who participated in a<br \/>\nSymposium on Extraterrestrial Civilizations, which was held during the recent congress held in Baku, USSR,<br \/>\nby the International Academy of Astronautics&#8230; I.Kotnik, a Yugoslavian engineer.. made the following<br \/>\ninteresting statement &#8211; &#8220;But maybe contact has already occurred, and beings from other planets are already<br \/>\nwatching us? Now, look&#8230; I myself was a witness of such a happening in Zagreb, not long ago. \/ Suddenly the<\/p>\n<p>38<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>lights went out on several streets of the city&#8230; I was in the studio of the radio-station just at that moment,<br \/>\ngiving my regular weekly programme about extraterrestrial civilizations, when the lights started going out all<br \/>\nover the place. I said, into the microphone &#8211; &#8220;Flying saucers have got nothing to do with this.&#8221; \/ Then a listener<br \/>\ntelephoned to the studio, and suggested that I go down and try to start up my car. And, do you know, the car<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t move&#8230; and not only my car either&#8230; \/ We were told at the Power Plant that all their equipment there<br \/>\nwas functioning perfectly, and yet despite that, we were six whole hours without electricity. The people of<br \/>\nZagreb were quite convinced that &#8216;saucers&#8217; were flying around overhead. \/ Well, there&#8217;s an inexplicable story<br \/>\nfor you&#8230;&#8221; &#8216; (Creighton, FSR 20-3)<\/p>\n<p>May 23rd, 1974: Vernon(?), Illinois, USA &#8211; &#8216;Two boys, both 11, david Dorn and friend Troy Warren, about 5:30<br \/>\npm left home to play basketball and had a camera with them. They noticed a dark object in the sky and<br \/>\nDavid, an amateur astronomer, took six pictures of it as it came closer, dropped to a height above the tree<br \/>\ntops, hovered slightly and then rose up through the clouds and disappeared. When developed, a classic type<br \/>\nsaucer appeared. They took it to the sheriff, who submitted it to Allen Hynek, self-styled civilian UFO expert,<br \/>\nDept. of Astronomy at Northwestern University.. who ruled out the possibility of a hoax. He termed the<br \/>\nphotographs convincing evidence of a UFO sighting and said the boys were reliable witnesses. How times<br \/>\nhave changed! (a kodak x-15 camera was used). (MM, 10.74)<\/p>\n<p>August 14th, 1974: Cheltenham, UK; 1.55pm. An eight minute observation by Brian Savoury and his father &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8216;The weather was hazy over the hills around the town; otherwise.. clear.. I was observing Jupiter from the<br \/>\nbathroom roof through 16 by 50 binoculars. Turning to observe Sirius, I noticed red and green lights,<br \/>\nalternating and bright, coming through the haze over Leckhampton Hill, part of the Cotswolds. They travelled<br \/>\nsouth to the north-east and moved slowly towards where I was standing, right up to a point directly facing me.<br \/>\nBy this time I had a perfect &#8220;fix&#8221;; and it was a riot of red, green, blue, orange and white. The structure.. was a<br \/>\ndistinct crescent, and on the top.. a spherical dome&#8230;<br \/>\nGently it swung to and fro like the pendulum of a grandfather clock, then rose slightly into the air before it<br \/>\ndescended to its former position. The UFO eventually moved away slowly to the south, and I feel sure it was<br \/>\nnot of earthly origin. My father and I will never forget what we saw sparkling in the sky that night! I am a<br \/>\nregular watcher of the night sky and have seen many unexplained lights not falling into the satellite category,<br \/>\nincluding some at Warminster&#8230;&#8217; (UFOMIM)<\/p>\n<p>August 10th, 1974: Gunard, Isle Of Wight; 9.17pm.<br \/>\n&#8216;Aquarius Viewpoint includes a sighting by an astronomer in its Oct.1974 edition.. from the Isle of Wight, out<br \/>\nwith his telescope, watching for Perseids (meteors), but one object he picked up, far from rapidly burning out<br \/>\nas meteors usually do, C.Laing says &#8211; &#8220;It continued to completely traverse the firmament and disappeared<br \/>\nbelow the southern horizon while exhibiting some singular characteristics which leave me in confusion and<br \/>\ndoubt as to its nature &amp; origin. It is my firm belief it was not of human construction.. emitting an orange glow,<br \/>\ntravelling great speeds, and as it went overhead it was clearly defined as a disc or sphere.&#8221; &#8211; It altered its<br \/>\ncourse after it passed Laing, to eastward in a manner no natural phenomenon could do. he can only suppose<br \/>\nit was under some form of control, but he would not care to speculate&#8230;&#8217; (MM, 7.75 + BJ 4-4)<\/p>\n<p>December 31st, 1974: A second UFO sighting by amateur astronomer &#8216;Jeff.&#8217; (see Apr.10th, 1974)<\/p>\n<p>January 31st, 1975: Southampton, UK; 8.35 &amp; 9pm. &#8216;..these observations come from a young astronomer,<br \/>\nout star gazing and well equipped with star atlas and binoculars. The first object was red\/orange and moved<br \/>\nin stops and starts. After minutes it was only visible through binoculars. The second sighting consisted of two<br \/>\nhazy white nebulae moving on parallel paths faster than a satellite, but slower than an aircraft..&#8217; (BJ 4-9)<\/p>\n<p>March 7th, 1975: Southampton, UK; 8.30pm. A young astronomer out star gazing (see also 31.1.75) saw &#8216;..a<br \/>\nswift moving fuzzy white light the apparent size of a pea. It glided through the sky &#8220;like a ghost.&#8221; Satellites and<br \/>\nother phenomena were all logged by him and he made very accurate measurements of flight paths of the<br \/>\nunknown objects.&#8217; (BJ 4-9)<\/p>\n<p>March 18th, 1975: Waterdown, Ontario, Canada; 1.30pm. Amateur astronomer, Patric McCarthy, aged 19,<br \/>\nhad gone to an abandoned quarry to try to photograph some wild birds &#8211; &#8220;Suddenly I saw this massive<br \/>\ncircular object in the sky. I had been focussing my camera on a tree branch when I saw this thing like a<\/p>\n<p>39<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>frisbee zig-zagging around above me. I just started snapping away as fast as I could.&#8217; Although Patric had<br \/>\ndifficulty keeping the fast-moving aircraft in frame, he did succeed in getting three good shots in a sequence<br \/>\nof four attempts.<\/p>\n<p>The third of Patric McCarthy&#8217;s photographs of the huge craft that flitted about in the sky over the quarry.<br \/>\nCredit: UFO Photographs Around The World Volume 2.<\/p>\n<p>June 1975: &#8216;Amateur Stargazer Spots UFOs Dashing Around The Sun &amp; Moon. Oscar Carter, a retired<br \/>\nsalesman and baker in St.Petersburg, Fla., has developed an an interest in astronomy and grinding his own<br \/>\nlenses, assembling his own telescope, noting UFOs circling the Moon, making criss-crossings and reversing<br \/>\ndirections. Authorities, of course, won&#8217;t believe him.&#8217; (MM, 7.75)<\/p>\n<p>1975: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. &#8216;The square, Praca General Osorio, was recently mentioned again in a report<br \/>\ngiven to me by a man, E.V., who studied astronomy at the National Observatory. He, too, was at this square<br \/>\nwhen he made his observation in 1975.&#8217; (I.Granchi)<\/p>\n<p>Clyde Tombaugh, speaking with reference to his 1949 sighting, from an interview printed in Science Digest,<br \/>\nAugust 1975: &#8216;..I was working at White Sands, and I knew we didn&#8217;t have anything that could do that, so I<br \/>\nreported it to the FBI and asked them not to make my report public&#8230; But it leaked out, and I have gotten<br \/>\nthousands of crank letters since. I was accused of having hallucinations. I don&#8217;t have hallucinations. I&#8217;ve<br \/>\nactually seen two other strange phenomena since, but I didn&#8217;t bother to report them. I don&#8217;t want any more to<br \/>\ndo with it. It has become ridiculous. \/ It is still a very open question. But I can&#8217;t have my career or reputation<br \/>\ndamaged by any more association with the UFO question.&#8217; (MM, 9.75)<\/p>\n<p>late-summer 1976 (?pre-1979): Chard, UK; nighttime. Ed Harris, observing the constellation of Ursa Major<br \/>\nthrough his bedroom window, focused on Etz, then moved on to look at Arcturus. Then, he became aware of<br \/>\na &#8216;star&#8217; shining to the left of his field of view, and was amazed to see that it was moving. It was a &#8216;faintly yellow<br \/>\nobject,&#8217; and Mr.Harris watched through binoculars as it crossed over Polaris before stopping a little below<br \/>\nCassiopeia.<br \/>\nAs the object remained in this one position for close to ten minutes, Mr.Harris was able to observe it through<br \/>\nhis three-inch refractor, and was considerably excited by the appearance of &#8216;..a perfect example of a UFO &#8211;<br \/>\ncircular with raised roof..&#8217; It seemed to revolve on its axis, with its luminosity&#8217;s colour changing from yellow to<br \/>\nlight orange.<br \/>\nWhen increasing magnification to 120-power, the (apparent) craft filled the telescope&#8217;s field of view, and<br \/>\nMr.Harris realised that it was descending. He then rushed out of the house, with his binoculars. Lieing on the<br \/>\ngrass watching the craft hovering at an altitude of no more than 200 metres, his whole body relaxed, and a<br \/>\ndrowsy feeling of &#8216;complete contentment&#8217; passed over him.&#8217; (UFOMIM)<\/p>\n<p>19th November, 1976: Llanelli, Dyfed, Wales; 5.20pm. 16-year-old Brian Jones, &#8216;something of a student of<br \/>\nastronomy,&#8217; observed a very bright white light moving slowly across the sky:<br \/>\n&#8216;It varied in brightness as it moved. I realized that what I was looking at was definitely not an aeroplane, a<br \/>\nhelicopter, or any other aircraft because it travelled low and made no noise. I began to get so excited about<br \/>\nthe object that I ran to my house, and as I came to our side entrance I looked up behind my shoulder and<br \/>\nthere, closer to where I was standing, I saw that the light had brightened to a yellowish, round fireball with,<br \/>\nunderneath, a bright emission of sparks. As I was excited and a little frightened about it, I ran in at our<br \/>\nbackdoor and told my mother about the light, for her to see it. But when she came outside, it had completely<br \/>\ndisappeared.&#8217; (TWT)<\/p>\n<p>40<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>November 1976: Sea Palling, Norfolk, UK. &#8216;Did anybody see what looked like a UFO over Norfolk early on<br \/>\nWednesday week? If so, eleven-year-old Karl Rose, a Sea Palling boy, would like to hear from them. Karl, a<br \/>\npupil at the Paston School, North Walsham, saw what he thought was a flying saucer, low in the sky, as he<br \/>\nlooked through field glasses outside his house. Karl, a keen student of the stars, saw lights flashing on and<br \/>\noff as the object passed the lower right of Venus. It made no noise and appeared to be descending slowly.<br \/>\nHis mother, Mrs Janet Rose, said that Karl often sits on the lawn at night studying the sky. Bright lad!&#8217; (North<br \/>\nNorfolk News 26.11.76\/UFOMIM)<\/p>\n<p>Late-November 1976: Warlingham, Surrey, England &#8211; &#8216;An evening of no moon, broken cloud, about 10:30<br \/>\np.m. I went out into the garden. I glanced at the sky to observe Venus, large and bright with Jupiter laying low<br \/>\non the horizon in an easterly direction. \/ I have been interested in astronomy since a boy of twelve years of<br \/>\nage. I am now sixty-nine years old, and still very active, and know the difference of what I see. \/ Into the<br \/>\nheavens there appeared two red discs; not a briiliant red, more of a glow. They were about three inches in<br \/>\ndiameter, spaced about a foot apart apparently, travelling from south-south-west to north-north-east. The time<br \/>\nof the sighting and leaving my vision was no more than nine to ten seconds, disappearing over the rooftops at<br \/>\na reasonable speed. At what height I am at a loss to say, it was a dark night, but I can say they were below<br \/>\nthe cloud ceiling.. I can say with absolute certainty that no aircraft of any kind was visible in the sky that night.<br \/>\n\/ The night was quiet, and to see two glowing discs moving across the heavens silently, being held in a<br \/>\nhorizontal position, by what? Was there a solid body between them? Who knows? \/ It has puzzled me much.<br \/>\nOne thing I am sorry about and that is I have night glasses and a five-inch spectroscope; owing to it not being<br \/>\na good night for stargazing they were not at hand. Who is ever prepared when strange things occur! \/ Stars,<br \/>\ngalaxies, nebulae, meteors, these I can explain. What I have tried to describe I cannot explain. The number of<br \/>\nknown galaxies are many thousands and the stars contained in them billions upon billions. If only one star in<br \/>\nthese galaxies is a world like ours, then there are millions of worlds, larger, smaller; intelligent, some not so<br \/>\nintelligent. \/ If we are capable of sending a robot on a journey of many billions of miles or light years distant,<br \/>\nto fall or orbit a planet of which nothing is known, some insignificant globe in a far-off galaxy, then reverse this<br \/>\ntheory. And why not?&#8217; (UFO-UK)<\/p>\n<p>pre-June 1977: Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK. Pensioner Donald Taylor wrote to Arthur Shuttlewood &#8211; &#8216;I have<br \/>\nbeen interested in astronomy for many years and have passed many a cold night with my stepson watching<br \/>\nthe planets. On one of these occasions I was to see my first UFO. We had been looking through an old<br \/>\ntheodolite which I used, and a semi-toy telescope which was his.<br \/>\nSuddenly an orange-coloured object swung into our vision. We both spotted it at the same time. The speed<br \/>\nwith which it had approached was phenomenal! Before we could recover our breath it had made a right-<br \/>\nangled turn and &#8211; as quickly as it appeared &#8211; it vanished. This was the beginning, and I have now experienced<br \/>\nmany more sightings made in the Lincolnshire area&#8230;&#8217; (UFOMIM)<\/p>\n<p>July 26th, 1977: Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. Observation by Zhang Zhousheng of Yunnan<br \/>\nObservatory. He saw a &#8216;spiral-shaped&#8217; UFO. (A.Huneeus, UFO Universe, Summer &#8217;89)<\/p>\n<p>September 12th, 1978: Paignton, Derbyshire, UK; approx.11pm. An amateur astronomer was watching the<br \/>\nstars in Cassiopeia through his telescope. He was amazed when &#8216;a diffuse grey object of a precise cubic<br \/>\nshape&#8217; swam into view. No matter what focal length the witness tried, he could not get the object into sharp<br \/>\nfocus. Suddenly, it split into two seperate forms which moved off in opposite directions, and he could only<br \/>\ntrack one of these for a time until it went out of sight.<br \/>\n(Awareness, Autumn 1978)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A 1977 poll of American astronomers (conducted by Peter Sturrock), published in JSE, showed the following.<br \/>\nOut of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to whether the UFO problem deserved further<br \/>\nstudy the replies were: 23% certainly, 30% probably, 27% possibly, 17% probably not, 3% certainly not.<br \/>\nInterestingly, there was a positive correlation between the amount of reading done on the subject and the<br \/>\nopinion that further study was in order.&#8217; &#8216;UFO&#8217;s and Mainstream Science&#8217; by Bernhard Harsch, Ph.D Five per<br \/>\ncent of the respondents had experienced sightings that they could not explain.<\/p>\n<p>April 16th, 1979: At 1 a.m., Amateur astronomer Dave Darling sighted a large cigar-shaped object close to<br \/>\nthe crater Isidorus, near the Sea of Nectar, while observing the moon with a 121\/2 inch reflector. The object<\/p>\n<p>41<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>was &#8216;..about ten miles in length, and 11\/2 miles in diameter.. silvery metallic, casting a distinct shadow onto<br \/>\nthe lunar surface.. (It) landed about fifty miles from the sunset terminator&#8230;&#8217; (FredSt)<\/p>\n<p>August 12th, 1979: At 3.45 a.m., Dave Darling observed a cigar-shaped object beside the rim of the lunar<br \/>\ncrater Romer. It was &#8216;..over twenty miles long.. silvery metallic.. bearing two wing-type appendages which<br \/>\nprotruded out of each side.. Later, the object disappeared&#8230;&#8217; (FredSt)<\/p>\n<p>A statistical analysis of UFO observations produced by the Institute of Space Research of the Academy of<br \/>\nSciences, USSR was published in 1979. The report stated that 7.5% of UFO witnesses are astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>December 30th, 1979: Kunmin, China; 7.40am. A sighting by astronomers attending an astronomical<br \/>\ncongress was reported by Zhang Zhousheng &#8211; &#8216;..the weather was magnificent. Many comrades and I were<br \/>\nobserving the clear sky from the Yunnan Observatory. Suddenly, the astronomers discovered at 20 degrees<br \/>\nbelow the zenith a strange object flying from west to east. It&#8217;s velocity was similar to that of an aircraft at high<br \/>\naltitude. We could not distinguish the shape of its nose since the object was too high in the sky. What caught<br \/>\nour attention was that on its back there could be seen flowing three flames of physical particles, very brilliant,<br \/>\nwith an orange-yellow colour. From a distance, this object seemed like an electric arc. At a moment when the<br \/>\nsun had not yet risen, an object of such luminosity emerging from the deep blue sky offered a spectacle truly<br \/>\nmagnificent.&#8217; (A.Huneeus, UFO Universe, Summer &#8217;89)<\/p>\n<p>April 13th, 1980: Munich, Germany; 10.55pm. Engineer and amateur astronomer, Mauro Venturini observed<br \/>\n&#8216;Eight light yellow-coloured discs with fuzzy-looking peripheries (which) appeared at the level of the<br \/>\nconstellation Bootes and flew slowly.. from.. northeast.. to southwest&#8230;&#8217; Commented Mr.Venturini &#8211; &#8220;Since the<br \/>\nUFOs were flying in such a peculiar formation, the confusion with something else is ruled out.. before I saw<br \/>\nthis I never believed in UFOs but I honestly say that I have changed from Saul to Paul and am now convinced<br \/>\nof their existence..&#8221; (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>June 9th, 1981: Tao-yvan, Taiwan &#8211; &#8216;..Mr.Tsai Chang-hsien, Director of Taipei Yuan-shan Astronomical<br \/>\nObservatory, said he noticed (the) array of 15 light spots yesterday when he was driving along Taipei Bridge,<br \/>\nand he hurried back to the Observatory at once to study the singular astronomical phenomenon. \/ He said<br \/>\ndue to the regular rotation of the universe, there should only be two planets, Venus and Mercury, in the<br \/>\nwestern sky of Taiwan at this time of the year. Unfortunately, as the elevation angle those 15 light spots<br \/>\nformed was too low, the telescope of the Observatory could not reach them. \/ In spite of his consultation with<br \/>\nother observatories and the information that several citizens supplied over the phone, till 12:00 a.m. last night,<br \/>\nDirector Tsai was still unable to provide an answer. \/ However, as he pointed out, the so-called unidentified<br \/>\nflying objects were not necessarily flying saucers, but only mystery beyond our current knowledge..&#8217; (UOMCh)<\/p>\n<p>June 15th, 1981: Taipei, Taiwan; Afternoon &#8211; &#8216;Fifteen light spots again appeared over taipei. They were seen<br \/>\npositioned in a straight line at equal intervals of separation. They were sighted also by Cai Zhangxian,<br \/>\ndirector of the Taiwan Observatory in North Taiwan. \/ A similar array of UFOs was spotted by Yunan<br \/>\nObservatory at about the same time.&#8217; (UOMCh)<\/p>\n<p>late-October 1981: Bradford area, UK &#8211; &#8216;Amateur astronomer David Roberts, a former sceptic, revised his<br \/>\nopinions on seeing two fireballs that drifted together across the moors. He remarked to the press, &#8220;I am<br \/>\nconvinced that professional astronomers should come to observe the strange things that are now happening<br \/>\nat Woodside. I believe that young and older people on the estate could get worried if scientific observations<br \/>\nare not carried out and an answer found soon.&#8221; &#8216; (PUFOM)<\/p>\n<p>early-1980s\/1970s: Presquile and The Sandbanks Provincial Parks, Lake Ontario, Canada. &#8216;..Throughout the<br \/>\nyears, on clear starry summer nights, being amateur astronomers, we would stare up while sitting around the<br \/>\ncampfire. We would see aircraft lights, satellites and the occasional meteorite fly by. On a number of<br \/>\nevenings, we would witness what at first appeared to be the familiar white light of a satellite. The only thing<br \/>\nthat would set it apart would be its ability to stop dead and change direction (90-180 degree turns), with no<br \/>\nchange in speed (which was already faster than a conventional aircraft). Sometimes, we would see a<br \/>\nformation of lights doing this and on one occasion, that I can recall, we were looking at what appeared to be<\/p>\n<p>42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>the Pleiades Cluster, but then split apart into seven separate lights that flew off in two different directions&#8230;&#8217;<br \/>\n(S.R.Liddle, UFOUn, Winter &#8217;95)<\/p>\n<p>1982: Chinasaki, Japan. While riding a train, amateur astronomer Yasumo Mizushima, and many other<br \/>\npeople, sighted a cylindrical &#8220;..bright orange object very bright in the sky.&#8221;<br \/>\n(A.Huneeus, UFO Universe, Spring &#8217;93)<\/p>\n<p>1983: Japan. Yasumo Mizushima reported that, while looking through his telecope, he saw &#8220;many objects<br \/>\npass across the southeastern part of the Moon. Five objects shaped like a small piece of &#8216;rice&#8217; crossed the<br \/>\nlunar surface..,&#8221; and that &#8220;..other people back then caught this object at the same time in other places.&#8221;<br \/>\nMr.Mizushima estimated that the objects had a diameter of about 400-500 metres. In the years to come, he<br \/>\nwas to observe these objects cross the moon a further seven times. (A.Huneeus, UFO Universe, Spring &#8217;93)<\/p>\n<p>July 3rd, 1984: South Coast of England. &#8216;U.F.O. mystery baffles South&#8217; article here.<\/p>\n<p>pre-August 15th, 1984: Darlington, England; Night. Christopher Wardell saw &#8216;triangle-shaped series of green<br \/>\nlights&#8217; through his telescope &#8211; &#8216;Chris spots UFO!&#8217; article here.<\/p>\n<p>May 4th, 1985: Japan. Yasumo Mizushima filmed an anomalous object near the moon. (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>October 1985: Japan; 12.30am. Yasumo Mizushima had been filming the moon, with his video camera<br \/>\nconnected to two Celestron telescopes (C-14 and C-8), when he noticed and filmed two unidentified objects<br \/>\n&#8216;manoeuvring around the southeast side of the moon&#8217;s surface. Their shadows on the moon were clearly<br \/>\ndiscernable, which excluded the possibility of their being somewhere &#8220;out in space&#8221; between the Earth and<br \/>\nthe moon. They flew close above the sea of craters..&#8217; Later, Mr.Mizushima estimated the objects to be 1,200-<br \/>\n1,500 feet in length. (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>Summer 1987: Trenton-Lake Ontario, Canada. &#8216;..I was sititng at a park in the vening with my fiance.. We<br \/>\nlooked up and saw a formation of lights travelling completely silently from the direction of CFB Trenton<br \/>\ntowards, yet again, the Lake. The following week, there were reports of similar formations causing problems<br \/>\nfor the local airbase. They were witnessed hovering at a high altitude over the airbase on different occasions,<br \/>\nalways causing the searchlights to come on and aircraft to be scrambled&#8230;&#8217; (S.R.Liddle, UFOUn, Winter &#8217;95)<\/p>\n<p>May 1989: Yokohama, Japan. Akira Ishiguro photographed three black oval objects over the surface of the<br \/>\nsun. They changed position from one shot to the next. (UFOsTSH)<\/p>\n<p>April 1991: Yokohama, Japan. Akira Ishiguro while making test photographs of the sun using a Polaroid<br \/>\ncamera attached to a telescope with a 60mm diameter lens and a 660mm focal lens, obtained a single shot<br \/>\nof an unidentified object that has been described as &#8216;..something like a huge space station.. above the disc of<br \/>\nthe sun, a space platform on which apparently 5 cigar-shaped objects had docked&#8230;&#8217; (UFOsTSH +<br \/>\nA.Huneeus, UFO Universe, Spring &#8217;93)<\/p>\n<p>September 8th, 1991: About 40 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; approx.2pm. &#8216;..an astronomer<br \/>\nwho was a passenger on board a commercial aircraft reported seeing three disc-shaped objects moving at<br \/>\ntremendous speed and flying in a spread-out triangular formation..&#8217; (Stan Gordon)<\/p>\n<p>March 15th, 1992: Moscow astronomer E.V.Arsyukhin saw something extraordinary on the Moon &#8211; &#8216;At 1645<br \/>\nhrs, and lasting for 21\/2 seconds, I observed the rapid flight, over a zig-zag course, of a square black body.<br \/>\nThis body appeared literally &#8220;out of nowhere&#8221;. It flew at first towards the east, and then towards the west, and<br \/>\nthen it vanished in the bowels of the Crater Alphons. The length of its flight was about 500 kms, and its speed<br \/>\nwas in the neighbourhood of 200 kms per second. The length of the body was about 5 kms. Its speed was<br \/>\nuniform. I am totally confident of this. The quality of the viewing at the time was excellent.&#8217; (A.Arkhipov, FSR<br \/>\n41-2[trans:G.Creighton])<\/p>\n<p>43<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>October 7th, 1992: Kharkov, Russia. Yu A.Lutsenko saw something mysterious on the Moon &#8211; &#8216;At 23.14 and<br \/>\n40 seconds, against the background of the Sea of Rain, I saw an extremely bright patch, with an assymetrical<br \/>\noutline, which was moving. It was seen slightly to the south of Plato and it travelled almost along the<br \/>\nmeridian&#8230; for 41\/2 minutes. When it vanished, it was not instantaneous, but lasted some 2-3 seconds, dying<br \/>\nout as it were.&#8217; (A.Arkhipov, FSR 41-2[trans:G.Creighton])<\/p>\n<p>March 31st, 1993: 1) Truro, Cornwall, UK; 1.09am. Phillip Young, &#8220;astronomer for some years,&#8221; observed, for<br \/>\n30-40 seconds, two very bright objects travel from the area of Ursa Minor, going parallel with the pointers in<br \/>\nUrsa Major. They were blue-white and &#8220;..left a ropey trail, like a vortex from a plane wing, though.. it was not a<br \/>\nplane because it had no navigation lights and was.. silent&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n2) Sligo County, Ireland; 1.10am. &#8216;Seen by Astronomer NW to SE.. two bright orange stars leaving fiery train<br \/>\nbehind them. Other smaller, fainter objects with trails also.&#8217; (Aw 19-2 &amp; 19-3)<\/p>\n<p>March 24th, 1994: Ossett, Yorkshire, England; approx.9pm. A father and son, both astronomers, made an<br \/>\nobservation through a telescope set up in their garden. &#8216;There seemed to be hundreds of these lights moving<br \/>\ntogether. As I focussed the telescope on them, I suddenly saw that the lights were attached to much larger<br \/>\nobjects. There were seven cigar-shaped objects &#8211; enormous. Three lines of small yellow\/white lights<br \/>\nappeared to be running along the full length of them. At the front was a small red light. This continued for at<br \/>\nleast thirty minutes. I have never seen anything like this in my life.&#8217; (UFO 7\/8-94)<\/p>\n<p>May 11th, 1994: Brooklyn, New York, USA; 10pm. &#8216;While viewing the full moon through my Tele Vue<br \/>\nGenesis-sdf refractor telescope, I saw a small, perfectly round, black object pass over the lunar disk. The<br \/>\nobject took approximately 10 to 15 seconds to make the transit. The object was in sharp focus, not fuzzy at<br \/>\nall. The moon was also in focus at the time. It appeared as if out of nowhere on the eastern edge of the<br \/>\nmoon, travelled across the moon&#8217;s face from east to west, then disappeared into the black sky at the moon&#8217;s<br \/>\nwestern edge. I looked to see if it was visible with the naked eye after it had passed the moon, but it was not.<br \/>\nI do not recall exactly which eyepiece I was using at the time, but I am sure the magnification was somewhere<br \/>\nin the 30 to 60 power range. I am currently 34, and I have been an amateur astronomer ever since receiving<br \/>\nmy first telescope at age 7. I am thoroughly familiar with the night sky, and I have perfect vision.&#8217; (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>June 15th, 1995: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; 7.30pm. &#8216;..Three disk shaped objects were observed to<br \/>\nthe north of the city and moving to the south. Objects were arranged in a triangular formation and appeared<br \/>\nblue in color, almost matching the color of the sky. When objects reached the zenith they abruptly veered to<br \/>\nthe east and rapidly disappeared from view. When close to this observer, the objects were approx half the full<br \/>\nmoon&#8217;s diameter. This observer is an amateur astronomer and has been for past 40 yrs. Prior to my<br \/>\nretirement i have been employed as an electro mech design engineer at various firms for over 40 yrs. I have<br \/>\nbeen furnished a Q clearance while employed at the Sandia corp during the early &#8217;50&#8217;s.&#8217; (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>December 19th, 1995: Joliet, Illinois, USA; 3.20pm. &#8216;While driving east on U.S. Highway 30, an observer well<br \/>\nversed in astronomy and weather saw two objects in a clear sky, hovering. One.. appeared to float around the<br \/>\nother. They were coloured dull aluminium on top and black on the bottom. Both the tops and bottoms of the<br \/>\nobjects were less than perfect circles. (They) were observed for about 8 miles of travel.&#8217; (J.Rath &#8216;The I-Files&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>1995: North Vancouver, Canada. An astronomer told the RCMP that she had seen &#8220;a dark arrowhead-shaped<br \/>\nobject &#8211; three times the size of a jumbo jet &#8211; with orange-yellow lights at the tips.&#8221; She reportedly told the<br \/>\nHerzberg Institute of Astrophysics that there &#8220;..was absolutely no sound, and the speed was incredible. This<br \/>\nwas no aircraft or weather balloon. I found the experience a little disconcerting to say the least.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Can.Nat.Archives\/UFORup, 1-7)<\/p>\n<p>February 13th, 1996: Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland. &#8216;Amateur astronomer Alan White, 17, saw the object<br \/>\nthrough a friend&#8217;s telescope.&#8217; (UFO 5\/6-96)<\/p>\n<p>February 18th, 1996: Brighton, England; 10.40pm &#8211; &#8216;I know that UFOs exist &#8211; two orange discs flew over my<br \/>\nhouse.. These had the apparent size about two-thirds the diameter of the full Moon, and were travelling at<br \/>\nabout 1,000 ft and a speed of 200 miles per hour. They were completely silent. \/ I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time<br \/>\nstargazing as an amateur astronomer and have seen some very unusual sights (green meteors etc.), but<\/p>\n<p>44<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>these objects were totally different and inexplicable. They were in sight for about 12-15 seconds and I could<br \/>\nestimate their altitude and speed from the height of the mist which was spreading across the sky at the time.<br \/>\nHowever, I have severe doubts about the extraterrestrial hypothesis..&#8217; (Dr.Alan P.Morse, UFO 5\/6-97)<\/p>\n<p>April 10th, 1996: near Huntsville, Alabama, USA; 8.30pm. A female amateur astronomer and her six-year-old<br \/>\ndaughter looking into the sky directly overhead saw &#8220;..a fuzzy white light.. like the Comet Hyakutake&#8221;<br \/>\ndescending in an arc toward the horizon, moving very rapidly. It stopped falling just above some trees, and<br \/>\nthe woman viewed it for 15 minutes with her telescope. It &#8220;..did not decrease in its intensity&#8221; as a meteor<br \/>\nwould, and was &#8220;much larger than a star.&#8221; The UFO stopped, travelled horizontally to the left, stopped again,<br \/>\ntravelled to the right a short distance, stopped once more, then moved straight up and straight down. Finally,<br \/>\nit veered leftward and was gone. (UFORup, 1-9)<\/p>\n<p>May 5th, 1996: Wayne, New Jersey, USA; 10.12pm. A party of amateur astronomers set up their telescope<br \/>\non a hillside, hoping to get good views of Venus, then prominent on the western horizon. The first astronomer<br \/>\npeering through the telescope&#8217;s eyepiece saw &#8220;..a bright flash near Venus.&#8221; S\/he said, &#8220;At first I thought it was<br \/>\nsome sort of meteor exploding in the upper atmosphere.&#8221; Another member of the group described the<br \/>\nexplosion as &#8220;A whitish-green colour.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen the first astronomer looked again, s\/he could make out a grey saucer shape with &#8220;..two bright lights on<br \/>\nthe top of the dome. It was about the size of a two-bedroom house.&#8221; There were two transparent &#8220;glass<br \/>\nblisters&#8221; fore and aft of the object&#8217;s dome. While in view for about 20 seconds, it hovered and then flew away<br \/>\nto the north very fast. (UFORup, 1-13)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been stargazing since the age of six. I&#8217;m now 73 and in all that time I&#8217;ve not seen one UFO. Astronomers<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t generally see UFOs. We leave that sort of thing to housewives and policemen.&#8221; &#8220;Anyone who believes<br \/>\nin UFOs must also believe in Father Christmas.&#8221; Patrick Moore, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UFOs are a figment of the imagination.&#8221; Richard Taylor, President Interplanetary Society, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>early-November 1996: Bombay, India. &#8216;..In the Thane-Panvel district of the city, eye-witness Ms. Brooks<br \/>\nspotted a glowing &#8220;frisbee-like object&#8221; seen moving in an arch around 9.00pm.. \/ &#8220;It disappeared in a few<br \/>\nseconds but not before emitting a beam of light. I had my binoculars and telescope which I use for star-gazing<br \/>\nfrom my farm, but before I could get to them it vanished. \/ I am a regular skywatcher and I know what an<br \/>\nartificial satellite looks like &#8211; something like a zero candle bulb. This was something else &#8211; brighter, golden<br \/>\nwithout the blinking, coloured lights you see on aeroplanes. It was something like the planet Saturn seen from<br \/>\nthe side without its rings,&#8221; said Ms.Brooks.&#8217; (G.W.Birdsall, UFO 3\/4-97)<\/p>\n<p>May 22nd, 1997: Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada; 10.30pm. Amateur astronomer Nicholas K. set up his<br \/>\nSchmidt Cassegrain telescope in his backyard. He was looking &#8220;to find galaxies in the Big Dipper&#8221; when he<br \/>\nnoticed &#8220;a giant white cloud and against it as a background.. a cigar-shaped object about the size of an<br \/>\naeroplane, black or brown in colour.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe UFO was &#8220;unlit (and) it had four or five wings at right angles to and along its body. Flew at speed of<br \/>\nplane. No sound.. No idea of height but beneath cloud. It hadn&#8217;t rained.. Didn&#8217;t see craft through telescope&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n(Joe Daniels\/UFORup, 2-23)<\/p>\n<p>July 31st, 1997: Barrie, Ontario, Canada; 10.10pm. An amateur astronomer observed an unusual meteor<br \/>\nwith &#8220;a brilliant green trail and a trail of sparks like conventional fireworks&#8230;It made a noise as it passed<br \/>\noverhead. Not a whistle, not a whine, a rushing noise and a series of pop, pop, pop noises, like an out of tune<br \/>\ncar engine backfiring. As an amateur astronomer, I know meteors are usually silent unless they are bolides<br \/>\nand explode in the atmosphere or on impact. I have seen lots of meteors before, and all were silent.&#8221; (UFO<br \/>\nTimes 45)<\/p>\n<p>October 5th, 1997: Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA; 7pm. An amateur astronomer witness, who spends many<br \/>\nhours observing the sky, noticed a &#8216;comet&#8217; heading north. It looked like it was moving at the speed of a<br \/>\nsatellite, with the tail fading to nothing &#8211; &#8216;I know comets don&#8217;t move like this.&#8217;<br \/>\n( NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>45<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>December 24th, 1997: Kimsar, Rajahstan State, India; 11pm &#8211; &#8216;A Swiss family and a dozen local residents<br \/>\nwatched as a UFO performed aerobatic manoeuvres high above the town of Kimsar.. Eyewitness Alex<br \/>\nCarrara said his family had left their home in Geneva, Switzerland to spend the Christmas holiday in India.<br \/>\nAlex was standing outside their rented home with his parents, brother and sister when they saw a crowd of a<br \/>\ndozen or so local people looking at the sky. \/ &#8220;We were struck by the sight, and there was no sound,&#8221; Alex<br \/>\nsaid. The UFO was bright yellow or orange and seemed to be surrounded by a yellow-orange aura as it<br \/>\nfollowed three different courses. &#8220;I know the sky well and have been studying astronomy for years,&#8221; Alex said.<br \/>\n&#8220;I know this was not a star.&#8221; \/ Alex also pointed out that it couldn&#8217;t have been a distant electric light because<br \/>\n&#8220;there are no lights in Kimsar &#8211; there is no electricity.&#8221;&#8216; (UFORup, 3-3)<\/p>\n<p>March 2nd, 1998: Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina. &#8216;..the Rev.Pizzi, astronomy professor and director<br \/>\nof the Colegio Cristo Rey observatory in Rosario, reportedly saw &#8220;a strange object of a yellow colour with an<br \/>\naura of the same magnitude as the planet Venus.&#8221; \/ Rev.Pizzi said the condit ion of the sky was clear as he<br \/>\npeered through the eyepiece to watch the object which &#8220;hovered in the sky for a period of ten minutes&#8221; before<br \/>\nshooting off at speed towards the Andes. \/ The professor declined to call the object a &#8216;UFO&#8217; but did concede:<br \/>\n&#8220;Evidentially there is an enigma in the skies of our planet.&#8221; (UFORup, 3-10\/UFO Argentina)<\/p>\n<p>March 24th, 1998: Another UFO sighting by long-time amateur astronomer &#8216;Jeff.&#8217;<br \/>\n(see Apr.10th&amp;Dec.31st, 1974)<\/p>\n<p>April 29th, 1998: Singleton, W.Australia; around 7.30pm. Two families &#8216;..reported seeing a strange orange-<br \/>\nyellow object travelling quickly across the sky in a southeasterly direction. The light was quite large, made no<br \/>\nnoise and was travelling at quite a low altitude. One of the.. witnesses is an amateur astronomer.&#8217; (UFORup,<br \/>\n3-23)<\/p>\n<p>July 12th, 1998: Sutersville, Pennsylvania, USA. An amateur astronomer doing some backyard observations<br \/>\nsighted a UFO. The witness &#8216;..owns a telescope and is familiar with the planets&#8217; and states that he was<br \/>\nwatching some aircraft when he saw a &#8220;bright, star-like source of light approx. west-southwest.. in the<br \/>\ngenerally clear sky.&#8221;<br \/>\nAfter fetching\/focussing his telescope, the witness could see &#8220;..what appeared to be a solid white globe, but<br \/>\nthe centre of it appeared to be more transparent.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t move, but there was another smaller sphere just<br \/>\nabove it &#8220;..making a continuous back-and-forth motion, in a somewhat circular fashion.. (This one) moved<br \/>\nfrom a 10 o&#8217;clock position to a 2 o&#8217;clock position and then would reverse the motion.. continued for over two<br \/>\nminutes.&#8221; (Stan Gordon\/UFORup, 3-29)<\/p>\n<p>July 25th, 1998: Aalst, Belgium. &#8220;I&#8217;m a 14 year old amateur astronomer that was observer with the Aalst<br \/>\nAstronomy Club on July 25, 1998. Suddenly, there were some objects with green lines visible in our<br \/>\ntelescopes in the constellation of Sculptor. These objects were also visible in the finderscopes. They were<br \/>\nslowly moving away. Their structure was irregular (something like aeroplane gases). Magnitude: about m7.0.<br \/>\nheaven-horizon. They were about 10-13 degrees long. we saw four of them. P.S.: I&#8217;m not very interested in<br \/>\nUFO&#8217;s, but this was something strange.&#8221; (Lennart\/J.Thompson, ISUR)<\/p>\n<p>October 22nd, 1998: Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia. &#8216;Witness is an amateur astronomer who described three<br \/>\norange lights larger than star but with less magnitude. The lights had no sound and maintained a regular<br \/>\nformation for the 5-10 seconds that she could see them. They were no longer visible when she reached<br \/>\nanother window to follow the object. She knows of meteorites and other astronomical phenomena. She also<br \/>\nmentioned that the lights were lower than local aircraft in and out of Moorabbin Airport.&#8217; (Diane<br \/>\nHarrison\/Ufomind)<\/p>\n<p>November 6th, 1998: Bend, Oregon, USA; 5.55pm. A formation of five sky objects in a straight line following<br \/>\none another, was seen by 50 year old ex-Air Force Weather observer, who had been an amateur astronomer<br \/>\nfor about 15 years. (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>November 16th, 1998: Austin, Texas, USA; 2.30am. &#8216;Triangular object w\/three hemi-spherical &#8216;projections&#8217;<br \/>\nfrom the bottom, travelling N-S reflecting pink glow of city lights&#8230; I am an amateur astronomer with a degree<br \/>\nin Physics. I am very sceptical about what I saw, but have no explanation. I have to count out normal balloons<\/p>\n<p>46<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<\/p>\n<p>or weather balloons due to the extremely fast movement of the object and the lack of any wind whatsoever. I<br \/>\nwas very startled to find a similar report in your database dated 10\/8\/98, also in Austin.&#8217; (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>November 18th, 1998: Stafford, South Australia; 3.20am. During the Leonid Meteor Shower, an amateur<br \/>\nastronomer saw &#8220;a bright light going from left to right, then straight up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>January 13th, 1999: Northern Territory, Australia. Astronomer Matthew Pearce, 23, spotted a UFO with his<br \/>\ntelescope while skywatching &#8211; &#8220;I observed an object due south, around 10 kilometres from Yulura. The object<br \/>\nresembled a star, silvery blue in colour. I heard no noise. Height around 15 degrees, southeast of Yulura, near<br \/>\nUluru. Visibility clear. It looked like a planet where there shouldn&#8217;t be one. I watched it for around two minutes,<br \/>\nthen the object blinked out.&#8221; (UFORup, 4-7)<\/p>\n<p>July 6th, 1999: Kankauna, Wisconsin, USA; 10.50pm. &#8216;A silent, triangular shaped object with a faint reddish<br \/>\nlight in each of its 3 corners flew directly over me&#8230; I am &amp; for over 30 years have been a backyard<br \/>\nastronomer. I have always had a fascination for the night sky. As a boy I spent many weekends &amp; summers in<br \/>\nthe remote north woods of Wisconsin learning the night sky. I know more about the stars &amp; planets than the<br \/>\naverage person so there is no mistaking what I saw, the only question I have is, what did I see?&#8217; (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>July 10th, 1999: Sunshine, Victoria, Australia. Four witnesses, including two policemen, observed four<br \/>\norange-red lights about magnitude +1-0, for about 15 minutes.. The objects were moving SW to SE at a<br \/>\ndistance of 50 (..) from the observers. They faded off into clouds in formation. One policeman commented,<br \/>\n&#8220;That is freaky!&#8221; Another witness with an astronomical background stated: &#8220;Those objects did not look normal<br \/>\nand the police officers were alarmed as well.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Australian UFO Bulletin\/Auforn 18)<\/p>\n<p>August 28th, 1999: Bronx, New York, USA; 10pm. &#8216;..I had decided I was going to try to video tape the moon<br \/>\nthru my Meade ETX90 telescope.. I was looking thru my 8mm camcorder, which is looking thru the scope at<br \/>\n48X.. The moon was East\/SouthEast at the time.. approximate point in the sky.. was Right Angle 0hr15.0m<br \/>\nand Declination -3*37 degrees.. I then see a round object with no lights or distinguishing marks move across<br \/>\nthe face of the moon in a straight type of motion. It made no sound, no strange anything at all, just a<br \/>\nround\/disclike object going across the moon.. I was recording, so I have it on tape..&#8217; Witness continued to<br \/>\nobserve the moon, and saw the same thing or an identical object cross the moon in the same direction. Both<br \/>\nwere &#8216;..round, black..&#8217; and recorded on tape. Stated the witness &#8211; &#8216;..I do not claim this to be a spacecraft, or<br \/>\nmeteor, or satellite.. or anything else. I am just a amatuer astronomer who saw something weird. I have tried<br \/>\nto use some deductive reasoning to come to some conclusion. And my conclusion is that it simply is a UFO.<br \/>\nNo doubt about it.&#8217; (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>October 11th, 1999: due south of Kirbyville, USA; 8.35-10.35pm. A detailed sighting by a very serious<br \/>\namateur astronomer; his friend with years of shared stargazing &#8211; who called from 60 miles distant; (the<br \/>\nreporting witness&#8217;s) daughter, and at least five others. (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>October 12th, 1999: Three Rivers, Michigan, USA; 7.40pm. The witness has been an amateur astronomer<br \/>\nsince 1970. Saw two &#8216;jet contrails,&#8217; then spotted &#8216;two round star like objects about 10 or 20 degrees above the<br \/>\nhorizon.&#8217; They had the same colour &#8211; &#8216;pinkish orangeish&#8217; &#8211; as the jets. Witness does not believe they are stars<br \/>\nor planets and took photos. (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>November 30th, 1999: Cumming, Georgia, USA; 10pm. &#8216;A brilliant amber, circular object trailing sparks<br \/>\nmoving from zenith to western horizon (traveling approximately due west) very quickly, in about 1 second.<br \/>\nOne object trailing sparks or debris, surprisingly large, the circular shape was clearly visible. 1\/8th the<br \/>\napproximate diameter of the moon? debris trail cover about 15 degrees of arc. Observer is a civil engineer,<br \/>\namateur astronomer.&#8217; (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>December 1st, 1999: At Santo Domingo, it was 11pm, when an experienced amateur astronomer &#8216;..saw<br \/>\nthrough a 5&#8243; telescope a black tear shaped object against the moon&#8217;s disc. It moved spinning its backward<br \/>\ndirected narrow end..&#8217; (NUFORC)<\/p>\n<p>47<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"basic-text\">A List Of Sightings By Astronomers<br \/>\nApril 23rd, 2000: Sighting at 9.30pm, from Scarborough, Toronto, Canada. &#8216;I was looking west watching a<br \/>\ncommercial jet overhead and noticed three disc shaped objects that formed a triangle move quickly and<br \/>\nsilently north&#8230; I am 36 years old, married and have been an amateur astronomer for 2-3 years now&#8230;&#8217;<br \/>\n(NUFORC)<br \/>\nMay 3rd, 2000: Toonagabbie, NSW, Australia; 6.35pm. Stuart saw a white\/silver ball emitting light. It was<br \/>\nmoving 3 to 4 times faster than a plane, and travelled in a straight path for about 3 seconds to a position<br \/>\nbehind trees, about 200m distant. &#8216;It appeared to be sitting on a hill and Stuart could align telegraph poles<br \/>\nwith the object.. (it) appeared small with no tail or sonic boom. Stuart is an amateur astronomer.&#8217; (K.Burden,<br \/>\nUFOR(NSW)\/Auforn 19)<br \/>\nOctober 1st, 2000: near Shackleton, W.Australia; midnight. John C. was camping with his friend, when he<br \/>\nnoticed &#8216;..a 45 degree triangular formation of star-like objects all with the intensity and brightness of Sirius.<br \/>\nThe three.. objects were perfectly still and about 15 degrees above the horizon before just fading out over a<br \/>\nperiod of one or two minutes. As an amateur astronomer he knew there were no stars in that area of the sky.<br \/>\nJohn continued to watch.. but they did not reappear.&#8217;<br \/>\n(D.Moffet, AUFORN\/OZ Files)<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>48<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background This listing is developed from one that was published in U.F.O.I.C. Newsletter, Australia, and re-printed in the Fall 1973 issue of Flying Saucers. Sources of further sightings include:\u00a0 Richard L.Thompson &#8216;Alien Identities&#8217; (orig.source &#8216;The UFO Evidence&#8217;); &#8216;Flying Saucers Over America&#8217; (collection of newspaper cuttings); Robert Loftin &#8216;Identified Flying Saucers&#8217;; &#8216;Flying Saucer Review&#8217;s World Roundup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[790,268,792,793,791,578],"class_list":{"0":"post-5097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufos","8":"tag-astronomers","9":"tag-compilation","10":"tag-database","11":"tag-listing","12":"tag-ufo-sightings","13":"tag-ufos"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A List of UFO Sightings by Astronomers (Compiled in 2000) - The Black Vault Case Files<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is a listing of UFO sightings dating from 1623 through the year 2000. 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