Radios Affected By UFOs - Misc. Articles
near Rochester, Kent, England. 1957.
This account by the Captain of a British airliner was first printed in Flying Saucer Review. It was also included in 'Piece For A Jig-Saw' by Leonard Cramp (my source).
I was in command of a scheduled airline service from Croydon Airport to Holland. As we got to a position two nautical miles s. of R, my First Officer and myself became aware of a brilliant object bearing 110 degrees (T) from north and elevated about 10 degrees above the haze level. We were flying at 5,000ft above sea level, heading 082 degrees magnetic 074 degrees (T). The UFO was about two-thirds the size of a sixpence in the windscreen at first. It then appeared to come towards us. When it was about the size of a sixpence, the object became oval in shape and turned away. Then it became as before and reduced in size to about half the size of a sixpence.
Then to our astonishment the UFO disappeared completely as we watched it. We did not see the UFO go, but became aware that we were looking at an empty sky.
We were unable to contact 'London Radar' due to a complete radio failure in the aircraft, nor were we able to report to 'London Airways,' nor to 'London Flight Information.'
Radio failure, especially complete radio failure, is rare these days, and in our case was due to our circuit breakers not keeping 'in.' A radio circuit breaker 'breaks circuit' when the system is overloaded by an extra source of electrical or thermal energy. On this occasion we were not using all our equipment, so there was no cause for overloading. However, our radio equipment became fully serviceable after the UFO had gone, and all the circuit breakers stayed 'in.'
Is it too much to ask if the UFO was able, through overloading our electrical system, to prevent our reporting it or asking for radar confirmation?
When we returned to the U.K. a similar report to the account I have given you was made to both the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and to the Air Ministry.
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Mage*, Brazil. 1972.
This article was translated by Gordon Creighton, and included in his feature 'Brazil Once More,' in Flying Saucer Review Volume 18, No.5. (* There should be an acute accent on the 'e.')
O Dia, August 1, 1972.
At 9.30 p.m., last night, Mage was suddenly blacked out, and even battery radios were silenced. Thousands of people ran out of their houses and found not only that the town was in total darkness but that a 'squadron' of flying saucers, emitting flashes of light of various colours, were just passing overhead at that moment. There was panic, obviously, and while the saucers were flying around over the area there was no light and everything else electrical stopped too. The electrical clocks marked the time: 9.30. It was a mighty shock for the populace, and they were expecting worse things to come. But when the saucers were gone, all was normal again, the light came on and the radios worked.
It was a typical calm Monday evening in Mage, with many people out and about on the streets, and on the beaches.
Suddenly - the blackout. Of power, radios, TV. And even of battery-operated radios. No breakdown in the Central Generating Plant could cause that!
As thousands ran out on to the streets, powerful lights in the sky caught their eyes, and looking up, they saw a squadron of unidentified objects manoeuvring to and from over the town. There was panic and talk of flying saucers. And fear of something much worse...
About three minutes later the saucers left, with reddish or silvery trails behind them, and the light came on again. The battery radios worked once more. All was relief, and calm once more. Except for one question: would they return?
The technicians of the Central Electricity Plant of the Rio area could find no fault there, and no explanation.
Everything was back to normal once the saucers had vanished over the ranges.
'They' - the saucers - had already been, in the last few days, over Campos, over Itaperuna, over Campo Grande, and over Mato Grosso State. Always in 'squadrons.' Eight saucers in all, always flying in a straight line and obeying the commands of a mothercraft.
Over Parada Angelica, not far from Mage, many people also saw the saucers, but they were flying high, and there was no black-out there.
Said one witness, Marcos Blank, student, residing in the suburb of Barbuda:
"My mother was in the kitchen and my father was listening to his battery-radio. I was watching the TV. Suddenly the whole house was blacked out. I ran out onto the street to see if it was general. There was no light anywhere in the street but my attention was drawn to a vivid brightness in the sky. Strange objects were flying rapidly overhead, leaving coloured trails which gradually died away. When they had vanished beyond the mountains, the light came on again and the battery-radio operated again without our having touched them."
Sirlei Pereira and Floripes Lucas, two lady witnesses, told your reporters of what they had seen. Said the former:
"I am still shaken up by it. It was a ball of fire followed by seven other smaller ones. It made my eyes hurt to look at them, and it left me unable to see anything. It was a marvellous sight in the sky, but it terrified me."
Said Marcio Natal Nogueira, another witness:
"Man, I saw it too. It was a tremendous great thing like a pumpkin, pulling other things."
Alfredo de Oliveira, taxi-driver, had his mother and his aunt as passengers, when they saw "a round thing, with very bright sidelights, flashing on and off all the time. We watched it all for about 15 seconds."
Edmilson Silva Costa, bank guard, said he had seen 'it' once before at Mage, "but on that occasion the lights didn't go out."
Silva Costa, another witness, who was standing at a bus stop with her daughter, said:
"The strange objects were flying around in the sky and gave off a tremendous brightness."
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210 miles south of Matara, Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean. 1990.
This article originally appeared in Weekly World
News, April 10, 1990 - the writer is Ann Hughey.
It was re-printed in Lillian Crowner Desguin's 1992 book
Unidentified Flying Objects: Fact or Fiction?
UFO FLIES OUT OF OCEAN
A saucer-shaped UFO stunned the crew of a tanker when it blasted out of the ocean and circled their ship for fifteen terrifying minutes before vanishing without a trace back into the sea!
According to Sri Lankan newspaper reports, the incident took place in broad daylight in late March, 210 miles south of Matara, Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean.
No one was injured, but the 175-ft tanker Kim Seng suffered severe structural damage from the towering waves that were kicked up when the UFO rose out of and later returned to the water, the press said.
"It was enormous - at least five times the size of our ship," Rasika Mawatha, the 47-year-old captain of the Kim Seng, told reporters.
"I'd just come up on deck when the huge silver orb flew out of the sea and hovered just off the starboard bow of the ship. We almost sank from the waves it made as it left the water.
"At first, I was so shocked I nearly fainted from fright. My crew was terrified, too. They fell to the deck - covering their eyes and cowering like small children.
"All the ship's instruments went haywire and the needle on the compass kept spinning around and around. I couldn't even use the radio to call for help," he said.
"The spacecraft glowed and pulsated with a silvery light and another eerie beam of light shone from the bottom of the ship. It seemed as if whoever was in the craft was scanning our ship, but for what purpose, I don't know."
After about fifteen minutes, the UFO disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared.
"One minute it was there and the next it had vanished back into the sea in a blinding flash of light," said Mawatha. "It kicked up such huge waves it almost capsized the ship again."
Immediately after the UFO disappeared, the ship's instruments began working again as if nothing had happened.
"I radioed authorities about what had happened and they sent planes and ships to scan the area but they came up with nothing," said Capt. Mawatha.
Officials searched for days but not a trace of the UFO could be found.
"We spent days searching for signs of the alleged spaceship but couldn't find anything," said Adi Chandrakar, a spokesman for the coastal authority.
"Even though we couldn't find any concrete evidence of the UFO, we know that something highly unusual did happen out there because of the damage to the ship.
"Only extremely rough water like you'd experience in a severe storm could cause that kind of damage and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
"We're calling this incident an official UFO sighting because there's no other explanation for what happened."
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