Radios Affected By UFOs

A Listing Of 252+ Cases

February 1944: Bass Strait, Australia; 2.30am.
Sighting by a crew member of a bomber. The witness saw a UFO, mostly in shadow, but the back of the object was made visible by a 'flickering light or flame.' It was about 100-150 feet away from the plane, and, while in such a proximity 'all radio and direction-finding instruments' on board the aeroplane wouldn't function.
[Project 1947 Website]

July 7th, 1947: Riverside, California, USA.
'A man reported that he saw six disks "the size of small plates hovering over a power line when he went outside to find the cause of static on his radio." '
[Michael David Hall 'A Century of Sightings']

July 7th, 1947: Bergstrom Field, Texas, USA; 4.30pm.
'In Air, On Ground, They're Everywhere - Sergeant C.F.Clifton, Bergstrom Field aerial radioman reported seeing one of the "flying saucers" bound toward San Antonio as his plane was leaving there. Other members of the crew also saw the disc.

"I think it was about 18 feet in diameter and looked as though it was made of glass," Sgt.Clifton said. "It was extremely bright and kept flashing."
Sgt.Clifton said that the crew figured that it must have been flying 1,440 miles an hour because it overtook and passed their plane in such a short time. It was round and was flying at a slightly tilted angle.
"The disc seemed to be spinning as it flew," Sgt.Clifton reported. "It blurred radio receptions slightly."
Lieutenant Charles O.Anderson was piloting the plane which the disc passed about 4:30 p.m.'
[Jan L.Aldrich 'Project 1947']

Autumn 1949: New Mexico, USA; Nighttime.
A saucer-shaped object, about 50-60 feet in diameter 'dropped out of nowhere into the car headlights of a couple.' When it was about 20 feet away, the UFO rose and overflew the car. Simultanoeously 'the car radio had an abnormal amount of static...'
[Mark Rodeghier 'UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference']

January 31st, 1950: Madrid, Spain.
'In the last two days, near midnight, intense phosphorescence and the forms of strange lights have been observed at the same time. they have passed through the sky from north to south, and radio receivers have heard, during the occurrence of this phenomenon, words pronounced in an incomprehensible tongue. popular fancy supposes that these luminous signals may come from the planet Mars.'
[H.Wilkins 'Flying saucers On the Moon' / El Diario de Nueva York]

July 19th/20th, 1952:
'In terms of EM effects, another significant case was reported in the papers that weekend. It occurred to an Elizabeth City, North Carolina, watchman who reported his radio becoming disrupted just as four objects resembling saucers flew over.'
[MDH]

October 31st, 1952: Fayetteville-Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 7.40pm.
A large, orange-coloured "air blimp" came down close to the road, observed by the male car driver. As the car was driven under the object, the car radio shut off completely. The unidentified craft hovered for 20 seconds, and then flew off within a further 30-40 seconds. [Rodeghier/Blue Book]

1953: USA; 3am.
Teenagers listening to a car radio heard a 'screech' from it as they observed a 'green flash in the sky.' After two of the four witnesses had left the scene, they watched an unidentified flying disc with a blue light on top, white circle on rim, manoeuvring in various ways, for about 20 minutes (no recurrence of radio static).
[Rodeghier/CUFOS]

January 29th, 1954: 6 miles from Santa Ana, California, USA; Afternoon.
A round object 'emitting a blurry white light' was observed by a couple in a car. As the UFO flew over them at close range, the radio went dead and the motor coughed. Although the UFO then left quickly, the motor continued to cause problems.
[Rodhegier/Schopick]

May 1954: LaPorte, Indiana, USA.
Three UFOs sending beams of light down to the ground were seen by a car driver, after his vehicle's lights and radio shut off.
[Roghegier/'The UFO Evidence']

July 30th, 1954: Ozark Mountains, Missouri, USA; about 4pm.
Buck Nelson was listening to the radio in his home, when '..a high-pitched noise and what appeared to be a foreign tongue cut across the programme..' He listened, '..for a few minutes and then turned the volume down and tried to tune in to get the programme more clearly; but the noise, mixed up with the babble of the unknown language, persisted...' Meanwhile, his pony and his dog were both causing a commotion outside the house. Going outside, Buck was amazed to see '..a huge disc-like object, at least 50 feet in diameter.. hovering over the house about 100 or 200 feet up..' before it landed on the back of his 80-acre ranch, about 800 to 1,000 ft. from the house.

In a letter sent to Flying Saucer Review, dated 22.1.55, Buck Nelson stated - '..I had a very clear, close-up view when it was directly over me at the back of my house near the kitchen door. It flew low and stood still in the air for several minutes.
I rushed into the house to get my reflex camera, but when I returned it had raised up into real low clouds with two other such craft.
I took several snaps with my camera. One snap shows two space ships among the clouds fairly clear...'
[FSR 1-2 & 41-3]

March 30th, 1955: near Tucson, Arizona, USA; 3.15am.
Andy Florio saw a disc-shaped object in the sky. It was at least 100 ft. diameter, with bluish-green lights at top, and amber lights seeping through the rim. There was a sound of "electrical humming."

The radio of the car failed, its lights dimmed and it 'slowed involuntarily to 12-15 mph.' Florio stopped the car and was struck by a beam of white light, sent out by the UFO. When the car was later checked the radio was reported to be dead, there were 'only three spark plugs still firing' and there was 'a defective battery.'
[Rodeghier/CUFOS]

Easter 1957: near Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, USA.
Communications radio of police car didn't function for ten minutes while a small red blinking disc manoeuvred around in the sky.
[Rodeghier/APRO]

May 31st, 1957: near Rochester, Kent, UK; 7.17am.
Account by Captain of British airliner here.

June 25th, 1957: Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
While seven white discs with red rims flew overhead in formation, a car radio stopped playing and street lights went out.
[Rodeghier/TUFOE]

November 2nd, 1957: Shallowater, Texas, USA; 11.55pm.
For three seconds, while two married couples saw a flash of orange light, the headlights of their car went out and its radio failed.
[Rodeghier/Blue Book]

November 4th, 1957: Porto Alegre-Sao Paulo, Brazil; about 1.30am.
Captain Jean V. de Beyssac, the Chief Pilot of a Varig Airlines C-46 cargo plane, had taken the twin-engined freighter up to an altitude above a layer of broken clouds, when he spotted '..a strange red light below the plane and to the left, on his side. He told his co-pilot to lean over and get a good look at a real flying saucer. The co-pilot took a look, and they both laughed at this little joke. . .but not for very long. A few moments later when De Beyssac glanced down to his left there was the same red object, but closing rapidly. He started to bank toward it but the object beat him to the move - it zoomed toward the plane. Before De Beyssac could make any substantial change in his maneuver the red object was very near at hand. There was a strong smell of something burning - but the fire indicators registered clear. The red glow from the object suddenly began to recede. A quick check disclosed that the radio transmitter, the generator for the right engine, and the aerial direction finder system were all burned out. Captain De Beyssac swung the plane around and went limping back to Porto Alegre. There he made a full written report of the strange encounter, had the co-pilot sign it with him. . . .and, in his own words - "I went home and got drunk."
[Frank Edwards 'Flying Saucers - Serious Business']

ten miles from Orogrande, New Mexico, USA; 1.10pm. [Rodhegier]

Kodiak, Alaska, USA; night. [Rodheghier]

November 5th, 1957: San Antonio, Texas, USA; 9.30pm [Rodhegier]

November 6th, 1957: north of Ottawa, Canada.
'A group of electronic technicians and ham radio operators.. reported seeing a huge brightly lighted sphere, projecting beams of light, hovering above a hill. Two radios failed, except for a rapidly modulated strong signal tone picked up on one frequency. The UFO finally disappeared into the clouds.'
[JG.Fuller 'IAExeter]

'Battery radio and portable shortwave radio failed, then single tone signal heard on one shortwave frequency. UFO hovering below overcast. Radios worked normally after UFO departed.'
[RHall 'The UFO Evidence']

Danville, Illinois, USA; night. [Rodhegier]

circa-November 8th, 1957: Chicago, Illinois - Dallas, Texas, USA.
'..Richard Gerdes, eighteen, a ham-radio operator at Joliet, Illinois, was one of several operators who "tracked" an object by its signal from the vicinity of Chicago to the Dallas, Texas, area. There had been an object seen over a cemetary at Chicago which had interfered with radio transmission and the electrical system of the police patrol car which was pursuing the object, and as it headed south, Gerdes's mother, who was listening to radio dispatches about it, told him, and he began picking up the strange signal.

The significant part of this incident is Gerdes's description of the signal. He said it sounded like a signal carrying several channels of information, much like the radio signals used to transmit data from research instruments in satellites and balloons... Gerdes is an electronics engineer and a member of APRO.'
[C. & J.Lorenzen 'UFOs TheWhole Story']

November 10th, 1957: Hammond, Indiana, USA; 7pm.
'..hundreds of people saw a rocket-shaped machine race overhead. The police follwoed it, and the captain said a loud beeping sound blocked the radio reception; residents also reported radio and television failure as the UFO passed by.'
[Richard M.Dolan 'UFOs and the National Security State']

December 8th, 1957: Woodward, Oklahoma, USA.
A man who had been the driver of a car with two other passengers stated that his heater, windshield wiper, and radio had failed, and the engine stopped, while a disc-shaped object overflew the car. The object was about 50 feet in diameter, edged by portholes, and emitted hot air and a high-pitched sound. The driver, who was employed by an aircraft company, later spent four hours in the company of two Kirtland AFB officers.
[Dolan]

January 13th, 1958: Casino, New South Wales, Australia.
'..at 6.30 p.m., Cecil Manning saw a huge dome-shaped object high in the sky over Casino.. The same object was also sighted by Brian Crittenden, who told reporters:

I was on my way home when I spotted this dome-shaped thing with a narrow light underneath which was bright and glowing. It followed me for three miles along Benns Road, and appeared to be only fifty yards away, and about thirtyfeet high, practically touching the tlegraph poles. It easily overtook me although I wa travelling at almost seventy miles an hour, and kept swooping down over the roof of my car. It kept repeating its actions until I reached home.

I can't say whether the object was noiseless or not because the noise from my engine was so great, but it is a notable fact that my car radio developed interference as the object was approaching.'
[M.Hervey 'UFOs Over The Southern Hemisphere']

August 3rd, 1958: Rome, Italy.
'Luminous UFO observed passing overhead as city lights failed; one report of car radio failure.'
[Rodeghier/TUFOE]

January 13th, 1959: Pennsylvania, USA.
'Mr.Robert Collins.. was driving his half-ton pickup truck toward Greenville.. at 7 A.M. He spotted what he thought were the lights of an airliner engaged in an emergency landing on (an) ice-covered lake. He slowed his truck.. and was startled when the lights approached the road from the east. As they drew near they appeared as one light, as bright and blinding as that of an arc light. It came on, then hovered over the truck for three or four minutes, whereupon the truck's whole electrical system failed, the engine died, and the radio also quit playing. It was as if a master switch had been pulled, Collins said..

Collins was sure the light which bathed the truck and the ground for an area of about one hundred yards around the vehicle emanated from a source about two thousand feet overhead. Although the light had approached slowly at first, when it left, it shot out of sight and disappeared into the west within thirty seconds. Then the engine, lights, and radio came to life.'
[C&J Lorenzen UFOSTWS]

February 25th, 1959: south of Hobbs, New Mexico, USA.
'Jim Dobbs, Jr. .. reported a strange signal on his car radio which had the same pattern as that of the signal which flabbergasted the Federal Communications Commission later in 1959. It was 8:30 A.M. .. he said, when he saw an egg-shaped object which glowed "like the radium on a watch" while he traveled.. on State Road 18. He estimated that it was 10 degrees above the southern horizon and traveling very fast. At the moment of the sighting, he said, he had been tuning his radio to a local station and heard a steady succession of two dots and a dash. meanwhile, the object traveled across the sky in front of him and disappeared over the eastern horizon. The total viewing time was approximately thirty seconds. He heard the strange radio signals just as he spotted the object, and they faded out when the object went out of sight.'
[C&JLorenzen UFOSTWS]

March 19th, 1959: Kyger, Ohio, USA.
'Buzzing static-like sound on car radio. Lights dimmed; unidentified light source seen ahead of car.'
[Rodeghier/TUFOE]

June 1959: near Palmyra, USA.
'..Sondra Mentzer, a sceretary, tells of how she was on a dark country road.. when lights with an orange glow approached her car from the rear and hovered over the vehicle.

"There was a bright circle of light around the car. The radio went dead and we couldn't get the car started. The light blinked and it was gone in a heartbeat. I had the feeling we were being watched. It scared me to death."

"It was," she now recalls, "like a dead space." '
[UFO Newsclipping Service 184]

July 12th, 1959: near Sapulpa, Oklahoma, USA; after 8pm.
Chief Frank Buckshot Standing Horse, an Ottawa Indian, had been working hard all day preparing his Christian camp for a coming convention - '..Finally stopping at 8.00 p.m., he went into his house, too tired to eat or bathe. So he sat down and read a book until the 10 o'clock news. Soon after that his radio made a noise like a shotgun going off, and his lights went out. Going outside by the front door to the fuse box, he pulled the switch and the lights came on again. While he stood there wondering about the cause of this, he felt the presence of someone near him..'
Chief Standing Horse then encountered three men, who identified themselves as 'spacemen from other worlds.' He went with the men to an island northeast of the camp '..where a magnificent circular ship came down to the ground. The Chief judged it to be about 250 feet in diameter and about 28 feet high...'
He then entered the spaceship and was taken in it to 'Mars.. close to the moon.. Venus, Clarion and Orean. Later, on another trip, he went to Jupiter in an Arrow Ship which was 21/2 miles long...'
[W.S.Brownell 'UFOs:Key To Earth's Destiny']

circa-October 25th, 1959: USA; night.
Three witnesses - described as '..a respected, serious.. actor-teacher with Hollywood and Broadway stature; his younger brother, a respected, serious, successful commercial artist with one of the largest ad agencies in the United States; and the younger brother's fiancee, about 29 years old, an author and illustrator of children's books' - had visited the Cumberland area of Maryland, and were driving home with the radio and lights on.

A 'circular, metallic disk giving off a bluish-green mercury-type light around its edge' was sighted, and the younger brother, driving, jammed on the brakes. The disc 'dropped almost straight down.. to the right of the car.. then.. in front of them, centred over the road, still at an estimated fifty feet altitude. They heard a humming sort of vibration as it hovered..' As the two men reached for the car door handles to get away, the lights, engine and radio stopped. They then stayed in the car, and were unable to restart the engine, radio or lights.
Suddenly the disc shot up, then forward, made a 90 degree turn, and flew away 'edge-on.' The radio and lights came back on, and the car was successfuly restarted.
[UFOSTWS]

December 1959: Proberta, California, USA; 5.45am. [Rodhegier]

early-November 1961: Vukovar, Croatia.
'Mysterious radio-electric incident in Croatia.. Some days ago the broadcasts by the local radio station of the Croatian town of Vukovar were interrupted suddenly: electric lights in the studios failed or flickered for 30-40 seconds and instruments recorded an appreciable rise in the level of static electricity. At the same time a dark grey cloud drifted over the town but was soon blown away by the wind.'
[Hobana & Weverbergh 'UFO's From Behind The Iron Curtain']

May 18th, 1963: Beachport, South Australia; 7.00am. [Rodhegier]

August 4th, 1963: Illinois, USA.
'A teenager said a strange white light chased his car at speeds up to 120 miles an hour early yesterday morning. Ronnie Austin (18), of Wayne City, Illinois, told authorities the light followed him and Phyllis Bruce (18), 10 miles as they drove home from a drive-in theatre at Mount Vernon, Illinois.

Austin claimed the light stalled the car's engine as it passed over and caused the radio "to go crazy." At one time it approached as close as 100 feet, he estimated. He said it made a humming sound and had a "cooling effect" as it passed overhead. Austin bolted into the home of his father, Orville, and told him to get a gun...'
[FSR 9-6/Dublin Evening Express]

Account from Wayne County Press here

November 14th, 1963: Carson City, Nevada, USA.
'A huge, bluish-green disc was seen hovering in the northwest sky about 4:45 A.M. Mrs Blanche Pritchett said she was listening to her radio when a bright light shining through her drapes caused her to look outdoors. As she watched the hovering object, her radio went off. A brilliant shaft of light from the UFO illuminated a hilltop. Suddenly the UFO blacked out and disappeared, after which the radio resumed playing. Other residents reported odd glows in the sky that morning.'
[Robert Loftin 'Identified Flying Objects']

August 30th, 1964: Tipton-Bennet, Iowa, USA; night. [Rodeghier]

1964: Warrensburg, Missouri, USA; night. [Rodhegier]

January 14th, 1965: Enfield-Wilmot, New Hampshire, USA. [Rodhegier]

March 18th, 1965: (almost over) Himeji Island, Japan.
'Three Japanese airline pilots reported Friday night that they were "chased by a flying saucer" while they were on their scheduled flights between this city (Hiroshima) and Osaka. The first to report seeing the so-called flying saucer was Yoshiaka Inaba, pilot of the domestic TOA Airlines, as he was flying his Convair-240 with 40 passengers aboard over Himeji, near Osaka, on his way to Hiroshima, shortly after 7 p.m. -

"A mysterious elliptical luminous object appeared just after I had passed Himeji. I was flying at the time at an altitude of about 2,000 metres. The object followed for a while, and then followed along my left wing across the Inland Sea for a distance of about 90 kilometres until we reached Matsuyama on Shikoku Island. It then disappeared."

He said the object emitted a greenish coloured light and violently affected his automatic direction finder and his radio. He said he tried to contact the Osaka communications tower but was unsuccessful.

His co-pilot Tetsu Umashima tried to contact the Matsuyama tower to report on their observation of the strange object. While he was trying to do so, he heard the frantic calls from the pilot of a Tokyo Airlines 'Apache', who said he was being chased by a "mysterious luminous object" while he was flying along the northern edge of Matsuyama city.

Inaba, a veteran of 20 years with more than 8,600 hours, said it was the first time in his flying experience that he had ever seen such an object.'
[FSR 11-4/UPI release]

March 23rd, 1965: Bangor, Maine, USA. [Rodhegier]

May 23rd, 1965: Morawa-Mingenew, Western Australia. [Rodhegier]

July 2nd, 1965: Kent, Washington, USA; about midnight. [Rodhegier]

July 3rd, 1965: Antarctica. [Dolan etc.]

August 3rd, 1965: near Santa Ana, California, USA.
Los Angeles County Highway Accident Investigator, Rex Heflin, took 4 polaroid photos of a silent UFO, which seemed to have a rotating beam of white light on the underside. When Mr.Heflin tried to communicate with his superior, he found that his radio had gone dead - it revived when the UFO had gone.

August 18th, 1965: Noblesville, Indiana, USA.
A top-shaped, domed object hovered over a car. The engine and radio of the car were both affected. [Richard H.Hall 'The UFO Evidence Vol.2']

August 19th, 1965: near Cherry Creek, New York, USA.
It was nighttime, and 16 year old Harold Butcher was operating a milking machine on his father's farm, when the radio he had on suddenly became '..blurred with static. Then the tractor which ran the milking machine stopped, and a Holstein bull tied outside began to bellow and tried to pull at the pole to which it was tied.
Running to the door, the youth was startled to see a large object, shaped like two bowls placed face to face, hovering just above the ground a fourth of a mile away. He hurried toward the UFO and was about 50 to 75 feet from it when it emitted a reddish vapour, which "bounced" as it hit the ground, and then, after making a "beeping" sound, the machine shot upward into the clouds. Then Butcher heard an explosion "like dynamite."...'

The events progressed with witnesses brought to the scene, and the aerial object returning half an hour later. Physical evidence was retrieved from the ground, which was submitted to a spectrographic analysis.
[Jerome Clark, FSR 12-2]

October 23rd, 1965: Long Prairie, Minnesota, USA.
A 19-year-old radio announcer, James Townsend was driving along Highway 27, at 7.15 in the evening, when something unusual intervened as he rounded a curve: "..all of a sudden my engine stopped, my lights went out and my radio stopped playing.

I let the car coast and then put on the brakes because I saw this thing in the centre of the highway. It was like a rocket ship. It was about 30 feet tall and about 10 feet in diameter. It was sitting on fins. then I saw them. they were standing in a big circle of light under the ship.
I jumped out of my car and was going to try to knock one over but then they came at me. They came right up to the car. there were three of them...'
[Clark, FSR 12-3]

November 16th, 1965: Minnesota, USA.
At 3.34 a.m., three weeks and three days after the James Townsend car-stop case, another such event befell Ervin Smith while he was turning off the same highway. He heard his '..car radio go dead and his motor begin to cough..' at the same time as sighting a '..strange object, with streams of light shooting toward the ground, flying several hundred feet above him...' [Clark, FSR 12-6]

November 26th, 1965: St.Paul, Minnesota, USA.
'Moments later, a little to the north, another blackout occurred. At 8.15, reported Mrs. Don Roush.. all house lights and appliances went dead. At this time, witnesses also sighted the blue-glowing UFO, or a similar one. Observers included a motorist who reported that his car lights and radio went out.'
[Clark, FSR 12-6]

January 11th, 1966: near Myerstown, Pennsylvania, USA. [Rodhegier]

February 14th-17th, 1966: near Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
In an article for Flying Saucer Review about Canadian sightings, Dan Lloyd reported - under the heading 'Radio jamming and UFO link?' - an interesting account from the Toronto Telegram: '..It tells how a Mr. and Mrs. David Brock were awakened at their country home.. early on the morning of February 15, by an extremely bright light moving back and forth across the trees. Mrs. Brock watched the object for about 45 minutes. It was disc-shaped and, whenever it changed position, a red glow was emitted from the centre. It skimmed the tree tops but made no noise.. as soon as day broke, it took off straight up at a terrific speed.

An interesting aspect of this case is that Mr. Brock, a ham radio enthusiast, had noticed frequent jamming on his short wave set the evening before the UFO visit. When, the follwing evening, Mr. Brock got another garble of signals on his set, he put two and two together and decided to get up early in the morning to see if there was any connection between the interference and the UFO visit. This he did on the morning of Thursday, February 17 - and there was the same UFO, or a similar one, in the same place. This time neighbours were alerted and the object was seen by about 14 witnesses. As on the first occasion of the sighting, the object shyly vanished at first light...'

Mr. Brock took a photograph, which the Toronto Telegram reproduced on their front page. [FSR, 12-6]

February 26th, 1966: Hanna City, Illinois, USA; 8pm. [Rodhegier]

March 17th, 1966: Milan, Michigan, USA; 4.40am. [Rodhegier]

March 21st, 1966: Fairton, USA.
'Carl F.Bea of 21 Marlyn Street, Bridgeton realtor, reported to Bridgeton police Manday that he saw a saucer-like flying object in the sky over Clark's Pond area of Fairton.

He told Desk Officer Russell Harris he was putting a sign in front of a property when the radio of his car suddenly cut out and he looked up and saw a dirty-gray object in the shape of two saucers - one atop the other - blending with the sky.

He heard a whine and the object went out of sight traveling at high speed and the radio came on again.'
[Flying Saucers International No.24]

March 23rd, 1966: Bangor, Maine, USA.
At 11.50pm, there was a landing of a lighted, ellipse-shaped object, which emitted a humming sound. A car's lights and radio were affected.
[Hall vol.2]

April 1st, 1966: Dearborn, Michigan, USA. [Hall vol.2]

April 7th, 1966: Douglas County, Colorado, USA.
Longish newspaper article about experiences of six teenagers here.

April 18th, 1966: Montreal, Canada.
'QPP Chase First UFO - No Arrest. By RICHARD LEVESQUE.
Provincial police appear to have registered their first flying saucer chase. At 2 a.m. this morning two constables at Three Rivers reported to headquarters that they were chasing a luminous spherical object.

Constables Jacques Marcotte and Ronald Gagnier, said the object was moving 250 feet above the ground 100 yards off the highway to the St.Lawrence River, near Pointe du Lac. They chased the object for several minutes and then saw it "crash" in tidal flats. The officers ran to the scene but could not find anything.

In alerting other police posts, the officers termed it an unidentified flying object. The officer in charge at Montreal headquarters said that police radio communications during the night had been bad due to an unusual amount of static.

He also said that a newspaper truck driver had called him to report a "luminous fireball" had been following him in northend Montreal at about the same time as the police sightings. The driver said he passed through certain stops on his delivery schedule because the "luminous fireball" followed his truck along the city streets. He tried to lose it by swerving around intersections but the object kept close by. Finally, he said he couldn't see it anymore and returned to his normal route.

Sightings of unidentified flying objects have been occurring frequently throughout the province in the past few weeks.
[FSs International]

August 25th, 1966: North Dakota, USA.
'..an Air Force officer reported that he was with a group of soldiers.. about 20 meters underground, when their radio apparatus suddenly went out, as if they were in a concrete tunnel. An observer on the surface said he saw the UFO high in the sky. The radio technician also saw the UFO flying at about 30,000 meters. Also a second UFO was reported to have shown up later on the radar screen.
A similar thing happened in the vicinity of the radar station several days later...' [J.Vallee&A.Kazantzew, Understanding 10-68]

September 1966: El Campo, Texas, USA; 3.30-4am. [Rodhegier]

January 1967: near Hemingford, Nebraska, USA.
'3 Teen-Agers Report UFO in Nebraska... (UPI) - A report of the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) by three teen-agers was being investigated Sunday.

The three, one of whom claimed he took a Polaroid picture of the UFO, said they sighted it four and a half miles southeast of Hemingford as they were driving along a county road. The youths - Kelly Wood, Bret Kuhn and Bill Walker - said the object was 50 to 60 feet in diameter and hovered at a height of 100 to 200 feet. they described it as round and dark gray, with a small disc on its underside from which a white light pulsated.

The smaller disc emitted a white glow, they said. The youths said the radio in their truck began buzzing shortly before they saw the object.'
[Flying Saucers International, 7.67]

January 20th, 1967: Methuen, USA.
At 6.30pm, a dome-shaped UFO, with a diameter of about 20ft., was seen to hover over a field. It then moved slowly, before accelerating away. A car's engine, lights and radio failed. [Hall vol.2]

February 2nd, 1967: Lima, Peru.
A cone-shaped object approached and paced an airliner on a nightime flight. The cabin lights dimmed, the radio compass oscillated and there was radio interference. [Hall vol.2]

February 10th, 1967: Plum Brook Naval Air Station, Ohio, USA. [Rodhegier]

February 13th, 1967: Ashington-Peg's Wood, Northumberland, UK; 10.55pm. [Rodhegier]

March 8th, 1967: near Leominster, Massachusetts, USA.
'Another extraordinary case.. Mr. and Mrs. William L.Wallace while they were driving home to Leominster.. Shortly after midnight, the Wallace's noticed a large bright glow hovering about 400 to 500 feet above St. Leo's Cemetary, so they investigated. Again Lore writes:

"Wallace told Raymond E.Fowler, of NICAP's Massachusetts Subcommittee, that he stopped his car, placed it in neutral gear and put the emergency brake on, with the motor still running. He lowered the windows. Then he got out and pointed toward the UFO. As he did so, his arm was pulled abruptly against the roof of the automobile. His car then stalled; the headlights went out and the radio ceased playing.

"I was unable to move," he said. "My wife was in panic. My mind was not at all affected. (I) just could not move, felt like shock or numbness."
"When the car went dead," Mrs. Wallace stated, "I was yelling for Bill to get back into the car, but he did not move from where he was standing. I then slid across the seat and reached for him."
Mrs. Wallace grabbed her husbands's jacket, but the startled witness, who has a reputation for being fearless, did not move. Wallace reported that he was in this immobile state for more than 30 seconds. Then he noticed that the lights and radio came back on. The UFO, which, by then, was rocking back and forth, sped upward and disappeared, emitting a humming sound.'
[T.Scott Crain, MUFON UFO Journal 10-85]

March 1967: Dry Creek Basin, Colorado, USA.
A luminous inverted-bowl shaped object was seen, at 11pm, moving slowly, then accelerating. A car's engine, lights and radio were all affected. [Hall vol.2]

March 1967: Easthampton, Massachusetts, USA; evening. [Rodheghier]

April 8th, 1967: Banner Elk, North Carolina, USA. [Rodhegier]

April 14th, 1967: near Melville, New York, USA; about 9pm. [Rodhegier]

May 1st, 1967: Peel Tree, West Virginia, USA.
A car's motor and radio failed as an ellipse-shaped object, about 40 feet in diameter emerged from behind a shed and hovered 15 feet from the car. It tilted - intense heat was effected, as well as headaches and vision problems for the witness. [Hall vol.2]

June 9th, 1967: (above) Extremadura Province, West-Central Spain; daytime -
Two pilots flying T-33A fighters, at altitude 1,2000m, saw, and then approached a stationary 'strange object corresponding to no known type.. It gave no response to the pilots' signals. They noticed that each time they passed above the.. craft their radios were blotted out by interference (similar but not identical with the noise produced by storms), which.. ceased when the aircraft moved away from the object. The two officers reported the encounter to the Talavera Air Base, from where the matter was reported to the Air Defence HQ.. (Madrid)..'

Two F-86F sabre fighters were sent up - '..the mystery object.. was now no longer stationary.. and kept stopping and then moving off again as the two (T-33) fighters approached..' The two original pilots and the newly arrived pilots, all now experienced the same thing - radio interference. The unknown object increased speed to 1,100 km/ph, before shooting straight up and away '..at an unbelievable speed.'
[J.Plana Crivillen, FSR 34-1]

circa-June 25th, 1967: Bethel, Connecticut, USA; night. [Rodhegier]

July 10th, 1967: Meridian, Mississipi, USA.
'The witness said that his car coasted to a stop and the radio faded out. He saw an object of excessive size pass about 300 feet over his car. It disappeared by accelerating at an angle, disappearing into the low clouds.'
[Kevin Randle 'Project Blue Book Exposed']

July 28th, 1967: Gilroy, California, USA.
Randy Towers, a fire tower lookout, witnessed a 'blue-white oval' approach and hover near the tower. It emitted a light beam to the ground, and there was interference on a CB radio.
[Hall vol.2/NICAP]

September 6th 1967: Bethpage, New York, USA; 10.30pm. [Rodhegier]

September 1967: near Taber, Alberta, Canada; 0.30am. [Rodhegier]

October 13th, 1967: Elnora, Alberta, Canada.
'Domed object flat on bottom paced train, circle of colored flashing lights around rim; E-M effects on radio, object sped away.'
[Hall vol.2]

October 24th, 1967: Newfield, New York, USA; 9.30pm.
'An object with "knob" and "antenna" on top approached, tilted down. Two humanoid figures and control panels were seen through windows. The UFO then tilted back up and shot out of sight in seconds. Static was heard on hand-held radios.'
[Hall vol.2]

October 25th, 1967: Hook, Hampshire, UK; 4.30am.
A domed disc hovered ahead of a truck. The driver felt pressure on his eardrums, and the truck's engine, lights and radio were all affected.
[Hall vol.2]

October 30th, 1967: near Boyup Brook, Western Australia; 9pm.
A.R.Spargo, a prominent businessman, was driving alone, when, suddenly his car stopped, and his lights and radio went dead. A brilliant beam of light seemed to be focused upon him. It came from - "a mushroom-shaped craft, 30 feet or more in diameter, hovering above the treetops at an estimated 100 feet above the ground... I seemed to be surrounded by the beam. It was two to three feet in diameter, and brillaint on the outside. Yet I could see up it, and there was no glare or anything inside the tube... I had the most extraordinary feeling that I was being observed through the tube. I couldn't see anyone - I could just make out shape of the glowing craft. I felt compelled to look up the tube. But I didn't feel any fear, and I don't remember thinking of anything in particular..."

After about five minutes, the bluish beam was switched off, going out just like the way an electric light does - "The color of the craft seemed to darken, then it accelerated very swiftly and disappeared toward the west at terrific speed." Mr.Spargo then found himself speeding along the road, without recalling having restarted the car. He also discovered, later, that his watch had lost five minutes.
[J.Keel 'UFOs:Operation Trojan Horse']

November 5th, 1967: near Sopley, Hampshire, UK; 10.30pm. [Rodhegier]

November 28th, 1967: near High River, Alberta, Canada; 10.20pm. [Rodeghier]

December 3rd, 1967: (Herbert Schirmer case - to be added). [Rodeghier]

February 1st, 1968: Terceira Island, Azores.
'Lisbon, February 2. Report from Portuguese News Agency ANI -
A Portuguese military sentry at the installations at Cinco Picos.. avers that he was attacked by an unidentified flying object on Thursday morning.

The soldier, named Serafim Vieira Sebastiao, aged 36, noticed at first a strange interference on his transistor radio, and at once looked around. The saucer was so near to the ground, he said, that he could see two of its occupants. He promptly telephoned to another sentry and told him what he had seen. he then approached the machine, and shone his torch on it. A "gaseous dust" was emitted from the saucer, enveloping him, and he fell to the ground, where the other sentry found him a few minutes later.

The doctors at the local hospital found the soldier.. sane and normal in all respects, and he was found never to have been known to suffer from hallucinations. he was then taken to the Lajes Air Base (which is under American control) to make a full report...'
[Trans.Gordon Creighton, FSR 14-4]

March 28th, 1968: Tismana, Rumania.
'In the afternoon east of town an unknown bright object was seen with an apparent diameter of 8-10 cm. The base of the conical object in the sky was turned towards the earth while the axis formed an angle in relation to the ground of 150 degrees perpendicular. The object was a whitish blue but it turned red later in the vening and disappeared at 19:30. Severe radio disturbance was recorded by several witnesses amongst whom were technical students and teachers.
One of the witnesses, a mathematician by profession, had a transistor ( a Delta) with revolving antennae and during the sighting he carried out some experiments: the radio disturbance was noticed only when the antennae were turned in the direction of the slowly-moving object and the interference on the long wave-lengths was so strong that it blocked all other transmisions. The shorter the wave-length the more the interference diminished - and on the very shortest it was barely perceptible. The object was seen by inumerable witnesses and many groups or individuals reported their findings to Ion Hobana...'
[UFO's From Behind The Iron Curtain]

April 23rd, 1968: Denver-Limon, Colorado, USA; 10.20pm. [Rodeghier]

April 29th, 1968: Norridge Hill, Wiltshire, UK; 10.45pm. [Rodeghier]

May 1st, 1968: Heyfield, Victoria, Australia. [Rodeghier]

August 22nd, 1968: Adelaide-Perth, Australia; just after 7.30pm.
UFOs were sighted from an aircraft on a charter flight by Captain Gordon Smith and pilot Walter Gardin - '..The object was first seen by Mr.Gardin. He immediately aroused Captain Smith, who was asleep.. The two pilots observed a large object in which an opening appeared permitting smaller objects to fly out of the main object and continued to manoeuvre with the larger UFO. As this operation was in progress, their radio communications failed.. The objects were last seen after they joined again, "as if at a single command" before speeding away..' Radio communications were then restored.
[Paul Norman, Bufora Bulletin 15-16]

Summer 1968: Lushun - Dalian, China.
'In the summer of 1968, when gunboats of the Lushun-Dalian Coastguard were patrolling offshore, far away, a tubular flying object emitting flashes of golden-yellow light was seen skimming at high speed across the surface of the water, and vanished on the port side. As the UFO was seen, all radar and radio equipment aboard all the vessels went dead simultaneously. Then after quite a while, the radio equipment was all normal again...'
[trans.G.Creighton/Paul Dong, FSR 29-6]

November 13th, 1968: near Forbes Landing, British Columbia, Canada. [Rodeghier]

November 22nd, 1968: Albany, Georgia, USA; 8.10pm.
A glowing yellow-white oval appeared ahead of a car. A light beam struck the car, and the vehicle's engine, lights and radio were all affected.
[Hall vol.2]

November 23rd, 1968: Newton, Georgia, USA.
'Witness encountered a brilliant light directly above the road as he rounded a bend in the road in sparsely settled territory. The light was about 200 feet ahead of him and 50-75 feet off the ground. The radio faded to static. The engine died. The light disappeared in a few seconds, going straight up, and the engine started by itself.'
[PrBBE]

November 25th, 1968: near Marcellus, New York, USA.
At 6pm, Elaine Peichy, her young son, and her dog, were travelling by car along Route 174, when Mrs.Peichy noticed five red blinking lights about 100 feet ahead of the car. The engine lost power, heavy static appeared on the car radio, and the dog became seriously distressed. Returning later along the same road (with just the dog), Mrs.Peichy saw the UFO again, with similar results.
[Creighton, FSR 17-4/UFO Investigator IV-10]

December 12th, 1968: Messina, Italy.
'A brightly luminous yellow circular object moved slowly southward, its light mirrored in the sea. It stopped above the strait and emitted small spheres that flew away to the south, later returning and merging again with the parent object. Radios blacked out during the sighting.' [Hall vol.2]

March 4th, 1969: near Atlanta, Missouri, USA. [Rodeghier]

March 10th, 1969: West Hope, North Dakota, USA; 10.10pm. [Rodeghier]

early-June 1969: Uba, Minais, Brazil; 6am. [Rodeghier]

July 21st, 1969: near Waldo, Maine, USA; 1.45am. [Rodeghier]

August 5th, 1969: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; 10.15pm. [Rodeghier]

November 1969: Invermere, British Columbia, Canada; evening. [Rodeghier]

April 1st, 1970: Surrey, England, UK; 10.50pm. [Rodeghier]

June 5th, 1970: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; about 6.30pm.
A shocked woman, and her manservant saw a large spinning 'basin-shaped' UFO crossing 'one of the busiest squares in Rio.' Her daughter's portable radio had new batteries in and wasn't on, but, on the morning after the sighting, wouldn't work. When the batteries were replaced, it was again O.K.'
[I.Granchi 'UFOs and Abductions In Brazil']

July 29th, 1970: Old Forge, New York, USA; 10.25pm. [Rodeghier]

August 13th, 1970: Haderslev, Denmark. [Hall vol.2]

August 16th or 17th, 1970: Puits d'Edme, Yonne, France; 4.45pm. [Rodeghier]

Fall 1970: near Van Dyne, Wisconsin, USA; night. [Rodeghier]

October 5th, 1970: Charney, Quebec, Canada. [Rodeghier]

October 10th, 1970: Michigan, USA.
'..Roger Jayo, an industrial worker in Bay City, Michigan, had two illuminated disks, about 25 feet in diameter, he estimated, swish down over his car top as he drove along the highway, towards his home, about 2 am. They created static in his car radio as they passed over, denoting that they were electronic in nature. (An EM effect, as electronic engineers call it, denoting an electro-magnetic forcefield about the ship AND MORE POWERFUL THAN THE INFRA-RED SPECTRUM THEREFORE, ON WHICH RADIO OPERATES:

Jayo reported the sighting to the sheriff, at once. A deputy present told him he had the same kind of sighting in the same area, the year before. HE ALSO SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE UFO INVESTIGATION TEAM WHILE IN THE AIR FORCE. THE AF APPARENTLY HUNTING DOWN UFOs, ITSELF. NOT JUST ANALYZING REPORTS SENT INTO THEM BY OTHERS. AND IF THEY DO NOT EXIST?

This sighting did not make the two large daily Detroit papers, although it made the out-state smaller papers, once again. This is what we have been up against all these years and yet people ask us, as though we were to blame, "Why don't we hear more about flying saucers?"'
[Laura Mundo 'Flying Saucer Up-Day!']

January 3rd, 1971: Aberdeen, Washington, USA; night. [Rodeghier]

May 1971: near Ibstock, England, UK.
'A mysterious light in the sky.. terrified a young Hinckley housewife as she drove alone in a car along the main Ashby to Hinckley Road. Now, Mrs. Eunice Rose.. wonders if anyone else saw a mystery object in the sky. It was, she said, about the size of a double decker bus and passed above her car moving in the direction of Oddstone and lighting up the countryside.

The frightening feature of the incident for Mrs. Rose was that as the object went over, the engine of her car began to fade out. All the car lights including the headlamps were dimmed and a transistor radio that was playing in the car at the time faded out completely for a few minutes.
"I was so frightened that I could feel the hair on the back of my neck bristling up," Mrs. Rose said. "I am not the sort of person who believes in unidentified flying objects. There must be an explanation for what happened and I should like to know what it is and also if anyone else saw this incident.

Mrs. Rose had been visiting friends at Oddstone and left to drive back to Hinckley at 10.50 p.m. As she went along the country road from Oddstone to join the main road at Belchar's Bar, she saw a glow in the sky in the direction of Ibstock and at first thought it could be the headlights of a ditched car shining up into the sky.
The glow persisted, and it was after she had turned right on the main road and was driving towards Hinckley that the bright object crossed the road approximately above her car.
[J.C.Tate, FSR 17-4/Leicester Mercury]

August 2nd, 1971: near Rasanai, Yugoslavia; 1am. [Rodeghier]

September 24th, 1971: Caleta, Buena, Chile; night. [Rodeghier]

Autumn 1971: Podpec, Yugoslavia; 11pm. [Rodeghier]

December 21st, 1971: Osuna, Sevilla, Spain; midnight. [Rodeghier]

February 1972: 150km from Bahia Blanca, Argentina. [Rodeghier]

July 3rd, 1972: Queenstown, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
'Mr. R. P. Golding of Sandringham said he and his wife had seen, at about 8.00 p.m., an object that "looked like two stars joined together, with a red light below and a green light on top. This object appeared to be over the aerodrome. Mr. Golding said his radio, tuned to Springbok Radio on FM at the time, "went funny." The object went up and down about ten times, then appeared to drop right out of the sky and disappear behind the house at the back of the Goldings' house. Despite enquiries by the local newsmen, nobody else in the area reported radio malfunctions.'
[Charles Bowen, FSR 18-5]

July 31st, 1972: Mage, Brazil; 9.30 pm.
Major blackout, involving thousands of people -
newspaper article here.

August 14th(?), 1972: Lisbon, Wisconsin, USA.
'Greg Faltersack was driving home from a date with his girl friend early in the morning when he saw what he described as a large orange circular object come, 20 to 30 feet in diameter hovering at tree-top level. He slammed on his brakes to come to a stop to watch it, but said after viewing it several seconds it went "beep, beep" and took off. Faltersack started his car but found the lights, horn and radio would not work.

His sighting was similar to one last weekend in Hartford, which isn't far north of where Faltersack said he sighted his UFO. A check of his car showed that all the fuses had been blown and his car was overheated. Police said he was shaken over the incident. the sighting is the latest one of several in Wisconsin this summer, including one by a Shawano County deputy who said he saw one for more than 30 minutes.'
[The Emergency Press 10-72]

Two more newspaper accounts of this event here

August 1972: Thief Falls, Minnesota-Tolstoi, Manitoba, US-Canada; about 10pm. [Rodeghier]

September 20th, 1972: near Mount Rouge, Quebec, Canada; night. [Rodeghier]

November 3oth, 1972: near Murray Bridge, South Australia; 11.15pm. [Rodeghier/Hall vol.2]

January 7th, 1973: Ellenboro, North Carolina, USA.
'The Ellenboro UFO by Ron Paris -
"I know people are going to think I'm crazy," said Billy Gowan of Ellenboro, "but I don't care. I saw it." (Gowan is the East High Reporter for radio station WBBO..) "It was about 10:15 Monday and all of a sudden my radio started acting funny, squealing. I glanced out the kitchen window and saw this thing in the air. It was tilted slightly and it was coming down toward the ground. It hovered a bit, blowing snow up and then I watched it land. It was a red and gold thing, really weird, with some kind of orange colored flame coming out of it. It was about a foot high and four or maybe five inches in diameter, but it was squarish, not round. About 50 feet is as close as I ever got. I hung up the phone, grabbed my camera and ran outside. I stopped and took a picture of it sitting on the ground, but then as I started to move closer to it, it took off. It went straight up for about 50 feet and then there was a sound like a shotgun firing and it took off real fast and flew away.

Whatever it was left a hole in the snow about 3 inches across & cleared to the ground beneath. There are all these little black particles in the snow around it, and this greenish-looking stuff in the hole in the snow. It doesn't smell very good at all."
Then Gowan said he photographed the hole and took samples of the "greenish-looking stuff". He said the thing appeared to be controlled by radio or something.'
[TEP 4-73]
Longer account of this event here

(January 27th, 1973: near Gaffney, South Carolina, USA. [Rodeghier] - see pre-May?)

February 20th, 1973: Draytonville, South Carolina, USA; 10pm. [Rodeghier]

February 1973: Peppertown, Alabama, USA; night. [Rodeghier]

March 23rd/24th, 1973: Venezuela; nighttime -
'..Thelmo Lozano, a fifty-year-old fisherman, reported that the UFOs produced disturbances to radio and television reception. While the luminous objects were overhead, his own radio gave out an intermittent whistle, after which came a noise like a badly scratched phonograph disc, and then, finally a noise such as is caused in the ether by thunder and lightning. In the TV reception he said that the image was totally lost and nothing could be seen but broken vertical and horizontal lines..'
[Gordon Creighton, FSR 41-2]

Pre-May 1973: Gaffney, South Carolina, USA.
'A teenage Gaffney girl said she observed a glowing oval-shaped object, last Tuesday week, which appeared to follow traffic on 1-85. Seen at night, yellow with "white lights blinking on and off and going around on its bottom." The girl noticed a 'bad static' on the car radio which prevented the radio from receiving signals from any radio stations, including FM.'
[TEP, 5-73]

May 22nd, 1973: Northern Sao Paulo, Brazil; 3am.
'Onilson Patero,a 40-year-old Brazilian travelling salesman, was driving back to his home in Catanduva.. He had been to Itajobi to submit his accounts to the firm for which he worked and had then made a detour to give a lift to a youth... It was raining hard, and he was driving at moderate speed.

He switched on the car radio, and heard the announcer say it was 3.00 a.m., and then came a song by the singer Nelson Ed. He turned up the volume, but suddenly the programme was overlaid by powerful interference resembling static. He fiddled with the knob, but the noise grew louder and louder, till finally the radio programme was blotted right out..'

The engine of Mr.Patero's car then began to fail. An intense ray of bluish light shone into the car, which he soon afterwards found came from an 'opaque oval-shaped object' at a height of 15-20 metres. The whole area was lit up by the light that came from it, as though it were day.
A tube came down from the object, and Mr.Patero panicked, trying to run off; but he seemed to be prevented by some force. Physical effects, including burning to the face, were suffered.

In April of the next year, Onilson Patero was allegedly taken on board the craft by its occupants, and he found that one of them was the same 'young fair-haired, blue-eyed hitch-hiker' to whom he had given the lift on the eventful night of May 21st-May 22nd, 1973!
[G.Creighton, FSR 21-3/4]

Summer 1973: Bellerby Moor, Yorkshire, UK; 11pm.
Two soldiers were in a landrover, taking part in a radio exercise. Listening to their two-way radio, it 'began to crackle and the voices began to break up.' Then the radio and headlights of the landrover both went dead. The soldiers tried to fix the radio, so that they could report in to base; but were unable to make any impression on it. They then saw a 'strange aircraft' about half a mile away from them, which flew towards them. It was shaped like a rugby football, with white light flashing through an equatorial band of circular windows. The men were 'dumbfounded,' and cows in a nearby field were 'frozen to the spot.' The craft went away after perhaps five or ten minutes, and the radio and headlights of the vehicle came back on. [Barry M.King, FSR 24-1]

July 16th, 1973: L'Estartit region, N.E.Spain; 6.30-6.42pm.
'..the pilot sighted, on the same level as his own machine, and a little bit ahead of him.. a solid, smooth object shaped like an egg with its lower part sliced off.. which began to keep company with him..' It was upright, rotating, and a greenish colour from the top to halfway down. The unidentified object was '..performing numerous sweeps around his Cessna.. (at a) maximum distance of 100m. and a minimum of 10m. from him.. at speeds of not more than 180 kms./p.h. This impressed the pilot powerfully.. He contacted his base, and said he was having "difficulties".. while continuing with his efforts to escape...' After some futile attempts to evade the object - which had changed colour to orange, with reddish lower part - it suddenly climbed away at an immense speed.

'..To his great fear.. the Cessna pilot had noticed that at various moments his radio had gone totally dead. So he had.. removed his earphones, which had enabled him to hear the vast noise (resembling powerful, sustained thunder) emitted by the object.'
[J.Crivillen, FSR 34-1]

July 21st, 1973: Gavignano, Corsica; about 9pm.
A 35-year-old man, Monsieur Yves Rinaldi was driving his car along a winding road through mountain terrain. About two and a half kilometres before reaching Saliceto (the village where his parents resided), he became unaccountably paralysed, with his car stopping dead - the lights going out and the radio ceasing to transmit. Monsieur Rinaldi felt overcome with cold and (as his eyes began to water) a sense of impending doom. Then , he perceived an object ahead of him, shining as brightly as the Sun. It was shooting upward while spinning extremely rapidly, and it then passed right over the witness's car from front to rear. When the UFO had gone, everything in the vehicle started working again.
[J.C.Dufour & P de Lormont, FSR 23-6]

July 1973: Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan.
An anonymous night security worker, in a car, with the radio switched on, saw a streak of light shoot across the sky, then reappear. The tremendously frightened witness watched the object move about in all directions, then descend with a spiral motion to just above the roof of a cement factory, where it sent out green light rays intermittently.
Then.. 'the light descended to an altitude of about 20 metres from the surface of the sea and stopped,' at which point a glass-like tube came down, touched the water's surface, glowed and seemed to suck up water.

A little later during this event, the man was able to observe 'eerie, shadow-like figures' within the craft, when it was airborne over his head. Then, he also saw three or four objects similar to the first one, and watched, terrified, as all these 'glowing balls.. were sucked into (a) huge drum-like object' (that he'd just become aware of). The witness's more detailed and vivid account concludes - 'I still remember that as this terrifying phenomenon receded from me I began to feel my whole body numb, as if I had been sitting for a long time in a yoga practice. It was then that I perceived that my car radio was emitting meaningless sounds and at the same time I felt my head aching heavily. The duration of the experience, although it felt as if it were very long at the time, may have been only 11-12 minutes in all. I could not sleep that night and was only too eager to be replaced by another man at dawn, awaiting it most impatiently.'
[Jun-Ichi Takanashi, FSR 22-1]

early-October 1973: Forrest County, Mississippi, USA.
'..Among several law enforcement officers who reported seeing UFO's was Charlie Delk of Petal, a Forrest County constable who said he followed a bright glowing object with four lights for several miles. When he got close, he said, his car stopped and his two-way radio went dead.
"It was just like someone had cut off the motor," Delk said. "In about 15 minutes my car started up again like nothing was wrong." '
[Flying Saucers, Winter 1974]

October 8th, 1973: near Laurel, Mississippi, USA; evening. [Rodeghier]

October 17th, 1973: near Athens, Georgia, USA; 11pm.
Paul Brown was driving home on U.S.Route 29, when 'the interior of his car suddenly lit up with an intensely bright white light; his radio also became a jumble of static.'
Very soon, a bright light descended onto the road, about 100 yards ahead of Mr.Brown. It was an object of about 15 ft. diameter, and it blocked his way, so that he had to brake. Three aliens wearing silvery suits came out of the craft; but they got back in after the frightened man moved to confront them with a gun.
[Richard Haines 'CE-5']

October 18th, 1973: Mansfield, Ohio, USA; just after 11pm. [Dolan]

October 20th, 1973: Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA; 1am. [Rodeghier]

November 3rd, 1973: Lewisville, Texas, USA; 9.10pm. [Rodeghier]

1973: Gravellona Toce, Novari, Italy.

January 7th, 1974: Warneton, Belgium; 8.40pm.
A car driver '..experienced failure of his engine, lights, and radio, and then saw an object shaped like a World War 1 British helmet in a field..' resting on tripod legs. An encounter with humanoid beings followed.
[Hall vol.2]

January 24th, 1974: near Liernu, Belgium; 4pm. [Rodeghier]

March 20th, 1974: El Campillo, Sevilla, Spain; 11.10am. [Rodeghier]

April 15th, 1974: Adelaide, Australia.
'..at 8:05 pm, 2 motorists reported a UFO "bigger than a Jumbo Jet" 600 feet above the road. It was spinning and sending out "three beams of white light." When the UFO approached their car "a power failure" occurred and their car motor, headlights and radio went completely out. (Editor: often reported.) After the UFO left, the car again functioned normally.'
[Mundo Monitor 10-74]

c.end of May 1974: Dickerson, North Dakota, USA.
'A Regent farmer, Clarence Krogh and his 17 yr old son reported seeing an UFO near their farm home Thursday night. Krogh's son (who later called his father) was returning home in a pickup about 10:45 pm when he noticed a large object (about two and a half times as large as the quonset hut on the farm), with red, white and blue lights hovering over a field about 2 miles from the farm, and 1,000 feet above the ground.

It was about 200 feet long and 75 feet wide. It had a huge red light on one end, which alternately grew and faded in intensity, a blue light near the center and a white spotlight that aimed at his pickup. He and his father both heard a humming noise (it had caused young Krogh's radio to go off the air). Silver-gray in color. Sheriff is investigating.'
[MM 10-74]

early-June 1974: Middleton, Massachusetts, USA; 0.30am. [Rodeghier]

September 16th, 1974: north of St.Helens, Tasmania.
Mrs.A.Richards was driving home with two of her children - Janine (8) and Kathleen (5). It was evening, and the radio was playing with good reception, until approaching a bridge on St.Anson's Bay Road, it 'went static.' Then the sky ahead lit up, and, as they crossed the bridge, their car lost power and 'stopped dead.'
Everything went down on the car, and it was 'enveloped' by an extremely loud 'vibrating noise.' Profound electric shocks then struck the three within the car, followed by 'an invisible choking smell - a penetrating gas.' Mrs.Richrds and Janine escaped from the vehicle, taking out the 'dazed, half awake' Kathleen also.

Mr.Richards, back at the family home, had seen 'lights in the sky and heard a distant roar.'
[W.K.Roberts/TUFOIC, FSR 21-5]

September 22nd, 1974: Tayene, Tasmania.
Witness, Mrs.W., was parked in a car, waiting for a relative to show up. Just after she had heard the time given as 5.20pm on her car radio - 'the whole area lit up, the bright light penetrating the interior of the car. At the same time, the radio developed a very high pitched whistle.'
Leaning over to turn the radio off, Mrs.W saw 'a glowing orange and silver object' coming slowly down a hill, between two trees. The UFO continued to approach, as the witness started her car and backed up the road. The car then stuck, and the craft stayed still in front of the terrified woman for about one minute. It was domed, about 12 feet wide, and gave off an 'intense orange-yellow light.'
[Roberts/TUFOIC, FSR 21-5]

October 21st, 1974: near Perry Center, New York, USA; 2.55pm. [Rodeghier]

January 6th, 1975: near Lordsburg, New Mexico, USA; 11pm. [Rodeghier]

January 12th, 1975: North Bergen Park, New Jersey, USA; 2.30am. [Rodeghier]

March 2nd, 1975: Phillips, Wisconsin, USA.
Five minute observation investigated by L.Spiegel, MUFON; D.Flickinger, CUFOS.
Police officer sighted disc-shaped object with hump on back and bottom. Bright white and blue lights seemed to be shining on ground. Red or orange lights were on the bottom edge of the object, about 30 feet in diameter. The witness shone a spotlight on the craft, and it rapidly ascended. Before this sighting, and others, the police officer's car radio "went wild.. the noises were short weird responses."

April 3rd, 1975: Lumberton region, North Carolina, USA; 2.20am.
'The first inkling that the UFO must have been bent on jamming radio frequencies in the Lumberton environs came when.. Officer Jim Driver of the Roseboro (Sampson County) Police Department, alone in his patrol car, noticed a series of lights in the sky, hovering over some Pecan trees. This was the third sighting of the night, but the importance of it was that Driver became the first lawman to tell of the object's interference with his radio transmission.
Said Driver: "I got out of the car at that point and could not hear any sound coming from the object. When I tried to radio headquarters my car radio became all scrambled, so I had to use my walkie-talkie instead. The light on the object swung away and lit up the pecan trees that were 200 feet away.'
[T.G.Beckley, UFO Universe, Summer 1992]

June 21st, 1975: Scotch Plains, New Jersey, USA; 7.30pm.
Dozen people saw a large cone in the sky. It had a single red light on top, with white lights circling the base. About 150 ft. from witnesses, then moved off rather quickly, with no sound.

'All the radios and televisions in the immediate area of the sighting were briefly disrupted by static.'
[CUFOS, FSR 21-6]

July 4th, 1975: Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA; 12.05am.
Disturbance in police radio system coincided with sighting of a translucent, domed, 60-80 ft. diameter, slow-moving aircraft. The top of the object was lit by a dull green light, and a bright light from its base seemed to 'be sweeping the area below..'
There was no accompanying sound, and the people who saw the craft were awed by its size, structure and graceful motion.
[E.Jahn/NICAP, FSR 21-6]

August 17th, 1975: Kearns Canyon, Arizona, USA; 10.23pm. [Rodeghier]

September 5th, 1975: near Mt.Wilson, California, USA; 0.30am. [Rodeghier]

November 5th, 1975: Rangeley Lake, Maine, USA; about 4.30am.
'George Yeaton Jr., Civil Defense director for Farmington, Maine, saw a cylindrical object with green, red and orange lights hovering low over an island in Rangeley Lake... The object projected a "bright light" on to the island and fully illuminated it for 15 seconds, during which time his car radio went dead. He was less than a mile from the island. Not long after extinguishing the light beam, the object "zipped off at an unbelievable speed."'
[B.M.Raynes, FSR 22-2]

November 15th, 1975: near Pacific, Missouri, USA; 8.05pm. [Rodeghier]

December 14th, 1975: Ocala National Forest, Florida, USA.
'Three hunters.. were looking for a lost deer hound at 9 PM.. They spotted a hemispherical object 25 ft. high with five "legs" about 12 to 15 ft. long. Emitting a bright blue-white light, it hovered over a power line and then moved away as the witness approached to within 250 yards.

During the half-hour observation, their CB radio failed, a humming sound was heard, a strange odor hung in the air, and "they had a funny metallic taste in their mouths." '
[.J.McCampbell, MUFONUFOJ 5-85]

February 17th, 1976: Tarraleah-Berridale, Tasmania, Australia; about 4am. [Rodeghier]

February 18th, 1976: near Okatchee, Alabama, USA; 8pm. [Rodeghier]

Lincoln area, Alabama, USA; 8.30-9.00pm.
Miss Charlotte Staples and Mrs Geneva Carruth had their car chased for more than 18 miles by up to five 'reddish-orange objects.'
Miss Staples stated - "We were riding along talking when I saw this light over to my left, in the woods, real close to the road. I wouldn't have thought anything about it except for the colour. I have never seen anything like it in my life.. they just popped up in front of us, like a light switch had been turned on.. They got to within 200 to 300 feet of us and were coming towards the car.. We got scared and took off fast..."
Mrs Caruth - "..I honestly think they were trying to catch us.. Miss Staples had a citizens' band radio unit in her car which she said had been quite active only moments before the encounter. It was weird! There was nothing on the radio at all. I mean those things have static and noise going on all the time and you can monitor other people talking constantly, but we couldn't pick up anybody..."
[Jerry Harris in Fate / UFOMIM]

February 20th, 1976: Essex County, Massachusetts, USA; 7pm. [Rodeghier]

March 5th, 1976: Redmond, Oregon, USA; 9.25pm. [Rodeghier]

April 21st, 1976: near Stacy, Minnesota, USA; 10.30pm. [Rodeghier]

June 3rd, 1976: Troy, Michigan, USA; 9.55pm. [Rodeghier]

June 22nd, 1976: Las Palmas, Canary Islands; 10pm.
There were hundreds of witnesses to a UFO, which reportedly landed for twenty minutes at Galdar, in the northwest of Grand Canary Island. One observer described the object as transparent and circular, with two larger-than-human figures visible inside.

A taxi-driver and two passengers 'hurrying to visit a sick man' were also among the witnesses. They saw it on the ground - Dr.Julio Padron Leon reported seeing people within the craft - '..the doctor was immensely impressed by the "majestic appearance" of the beings.. and the perfection of their linear curves. He said there was nothing sharp or angular about them, and that it was a sight beyond anything he had ever seen..'
They also, he stated, experienced a severely cold sensation at the time, and the taxicab's radio stopped working.
[Creighton, FSR 22-6]

August 15th, 1976: New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia; 1.45am. [Rodeghier]

September 17th, 1976: Wingen, New South Wales, Australia; 3.30am. [Rodeghier]

September 1976: Teheran, Iran.
'(A.F.P. report, 21.9.76) Iranian authorities confirmed here last night that two air force Phantom jets chased a 'flying saucer' over the capital on Saturday. The two pilots reported they were chased in their turn by the mysterious object.
The interceptors took off after Mehrabad civil airport controllers spotted a round object giving off red, blue and green light. When they intercepted the saucer at 1,800 metres, it shot off at 'several times the speed of sound', only to return and pursue them.
When the pilots tried to open fire on it, their electronics and radio-communication systems were 'suddenly paralysed.' '
[A.P.Nield, FSR 22-5]

November 20th, 1976: Stanhope, New Jersey, USA.
'..Sixteen scientific investigators, members of an investigative society called Vestigia set up radar, infrared sensing devices, radiation detectors, geiger counters, a methane detector, magnetic & photographic eqipment, & a parabolic listening device.. The equipment and personnel were set up on a stretch of the Conrail railroad tracks where the mysterious light had been seen on a number of occasions.

At 11:35 pm, 3 of the investigators reported seeing a glowing reddish light. At the same time the geiger counter indicated an abnormally high amount of radiation. The electrical capacitance showed a reading indicating there was something metallic between the rails. At the same time, there was a communications blackout between the investigators. William Wagner, an electronics engineer from Hopatcong, N.J., and a member of Vestigia, said -

"At the same time there was a communications blackout for about 30 seconds. We couldn't communicate on our radios. The 3 people at the post said later the light was visible for one to two minutes. It wasn't very bright & it appeared to move from side to side."

At one point Wagner noted the geiger counter went "right off the scale." Later the counter was checked and found to be in perfect working order. The strange light is similar to others reported in 47 other sections of the U.S.'
[Eden Bulletin 4-2]

November 22nd, 1976: Rockford, Michigan, USA; 11.30pm. [Rodeghier]

December 20th, 1976: Acarigua, Venezuela.
'The swift flight of an unknown object over this city, coincided with a general blackout which lasted approximately 10 minutes. Commotion was caused in the city as many people observed the flight of the luminous object. The incident occurred at 8.05 p.m., according to the declarations made by various persons who called the local radio stations. The blackout also silenced the radio transmitters.

When Radio Acarigua came back on the air, a woman identified as Lucinda de Rodriguez spoke with the reporter/commentator Fernando Gonzalez and told him that where she lived - Cerrito de Araure - the luminous object passed at a considerably low altitude, giving off blue flashes.

According to declarations made by various persons, the unknown object crossed the air space in a south-northerly direction, and was lost in the distant mountains of Lara state. No specific reasons for the blackout were given.'
[Mike Da Silva, FSR 23-2]

January 27th, 1977: Prospect, Kentucky, USA; 1.05am.
Lee Parrish, 19 years old, was driving his Jeepster west on Highway 329, when he saw a perfectly rectangular fiery object 'hovering just over the treeline, between 100 and 220 feet away from the road and at an altitude of 100 to 150 feet.' The apparent craft was about ten feet in height, and 40 ft. long.
Mr.Parrish wanted to look at the object, which was described as 'the colour of the setting sun,' but its intense brightness made direct observation very difficult. His car moved forward towards the UFO, although it was not being driven by the witness. 'About 15 seconds into the sighting, the car radio failed.'
When the car and its human occupant were directly underneath the craft, however, it abruptly sped off 'first at the speed of a jet, then even quicker'.. completely without a sound!
The witness later found that his eyes were badly bloodshot, and that a 7-minute journey had taken 45 minutes (departure and arrival times confirmed by girlfriend and mother). Through hypnosis it was discovered that during the missing time, Mr.Parrish had first been 'transformed' to an all-white luminous circular room containing red, black and white objects, that were perceived as being sentient.
[Carla L.Rueckert, FSR 23-3]

February 4th, 1977: near Basford, Staffordshire, England.
'Mr.Paul Exton.. is an AA engineer. In the early hours of the morning.. he was driving his van along the A500 towards the junction at Basford. A colleague was driving about 50 yards behind him and the two were communicating with each other by radio on a frequency of 72.8 MHz.

At 2.25 a.m. their conversation suddenly became swamped by static. This was composed of two definite levels of noise. There was a general background hiss, and a high-pitched note. Both men heard the sound and had to tune their sets down because of the volume of this interference.
Looking out to the side of the road one of the men saw an orange light moving westwards parallel with the road. At first it was seen over the Shelton Iron and Steel Plant, but it then hovered for four to five seconds. As it did so the noise on the radio increased in volume. The object then continued its path westwards towards the M6. As it moved away the noise on the radio gradually faded out.'

Investigator Derek James was able to discover that on the same night the radios of the police at their Stafford HQ '..had been heavily inundated with very bad static between 2.15 and 2.25 a.m. They had been unable to find any cause for this. Their radio operates on a frequency of 102 MHz.'
[UFOIN, FSR 23-2]

early-February 1977: Carmarthen-Portiscliff, Wales, UK.
'Mrs Louise Bassett of Portiscliff, whose husband David operates a restaurant in Carmarthen, said today that she had reported her weekend sighting to the South Wales co-ordinator for BUFORA, who told her that from her description he was 99 per cent that what she had seen was a UFO. Mrs Bassett said that she had seen a blue light flashing on the hillside in the direction of St. Clears and Haverfordwest, and thought there had been an accident.
"My car radio seemed to go berserk and I had to turn it off," she said. "Later, as I went over the brow of a hill, the flashing light went out of sight, but I saw it again before I reached Towy Castle, and this time it seemed to have changed its position and was flashing from the direction of Trimsaran and Llanelli." '
[South Wales Evening Post, 9.2.77 / UFOMIM]

February 9th, 1977: near Flora, Mississippi, USA; 8.30pm.
Deputy sheriff Ken Creel and Deputy James Luke were dispatched to investigate a 'strange aerial light' that had been reported by a man. When within the specified area '..a UFO quickly flew to a position directly above their cruiser. It hovered at from twenty to fifty feet altitude, keeping pace..' with them. 'It illuminated the vehicle with an intense light and their radio communication experienced interference..' Other witnesses, in different places, reported seeing the same UFO - very bright, with portholes on its sides.
[Haines 'CE-5']

April 19th, 1977: St.Brides Bay, Wales; 2am.
Hotelier, Mrs.Rosa Grenville witnessed a landed craft and two humanoid beings, through binoculars, that apparently visited close to her home. She had been made aware of the visitation by a humming sound. According to the investigators - 'Further questioning on subsequent occasions brought to light the fact that both the witness's bedside radio (a mains power set) and her bedside clock (mechanical) stopped running on the night of the encounter. The clock may well have run down since it stopped at 3.30 a.m. However Mrs Grenville insists that the radio cut off before she got out of bed and it was because of this that she heard the humming. This sound, she says, undoubtedly came from the UFO and it stopped the moment the UFO went.'
[R.Jones Pugh & F.W.Holiday, FSR 23-2]

April 22nd, 1977: South Australia.
'..at about midnight a young lady driving home had car trouble of an unusual kind. She saw an oval-shaped light heading towards her car and, as it passed overhead, the headlights died, the engine stopped and the car radio cut off by itself. Four seconds later all returned to normal. Thoroughly frightened she continued on her way home.'
[K.Basterfield, FSR 24-5]

August 13th, 1977: Denmark; 10.50pm. [UFOMIM]

October 7th, 1977: near Colchester, Essex, England.
A family of five were travelling along the A12 between Gallows Corner and Brentwood, when they '..caught sight of a large bluish "star-like" light travelling in a similar direction to that of the car. This light kept in view on the left-hand side of the car until they almost reached Colchester, some 40-50 miles from where they had first seen it.'
The bluish light varied in both its speed and height. At its lowest altitude the family could see that it was oval-shaped, and at the same time noticed the car radio begin to crackle, with the lights and engine of the vehicle also acting 'oddly.' Eventually, the radio station they had on 'was lost.'
[Andrew Collins, FSR 23-6]

January 13th, 1978: Farm Hill, Australia.
'..a frightened young man claimed that a dome-shaped craft followed him for about three miles, a mere 30 feet above the ground, and perhaps 150 feet away. It then flew silently by, interfering with his radio.'
[Dolan 'UFOSNSS']

February 23rd, 1978: Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy; 11.45pm.
'An engaged couple in a car got interferences on their radio. The man got off and found himself enveloped in a "warm, violet light." He saw "four shapes" and lights all around. After completing his walk around the car he got back in where he found his girfriend crying for he had left her alone for 20 minutes.' (missing time; considered possible abduction)
[Paulo Fiorino, Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici]

March 29th, 1978: near Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; 9.30pm.
'A number of trucks with trailers were trailing together on Interstate 70 outside of town when all were illuminated by a "bright blue light" which lasted several seconds. During this period their diesel engines began to sputter, the Citizen's Band radios which had been in use stopped working, and a "complete silence" was reported. One of the drivers shouted intio his CB microphone, "Hey UFO, if you have your ears on, I want to go with you!" Suddenly, the blue light returned and again surrounded all the trucks for about fifteen minutes, resulting in the same effects as before.'
[Haines 'CE-5']

April 23rd, 1978: Goleta, California, USA; 7.30pm. [Rodeghier]

May 24th, 1978: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA; 9.15pm. [Rodeghier]

August 22nd, 1978: Perth, Australia. [Hall vol.2]

August 24th, 1978: Ginghamsburg, Ohio, USA; 11.40pm. [Rodeghier]

September 26th, 1978: Strongsville, Ohio, USA; 0.05am. [Rodeghier]

October 21st, 1978: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
'..Two lads were out in the street communicating with their walkie-talkies when they saw a star-shaped object appear at a low altitude over their heads. It was moving slightly faster than an aircraft as if on an approach run to the airport. During the observation both witnesses recall a sound like a low pulsating hum was associated with the object. Each of the walkie-talkies, first became jammed with static then communication was lost altogether, even though the lads were only a short distance apart. Communication was restored when the UFO flew away. Their description was of an object with bright white lights placed intermittently at each tip of a star-fish shaped object and at various points along the arcs to the tips.'
[P.Norman, BB17]

(Melbourne - King Island) Bass Strait, Australia; 7.06-7.12pm.
Frederick Valentich, piloting a blue and white Cessna 182 aircraft, informed Melbourne Flight Service that he had sighted a large aircraft at below five thousand feet altitiude. He couldn't identify it and in a communication at 19:08:48 stated that "..it seems to be playing some sort of game, he's flying over me two, three times at speeds I could not identify." About 11/2 minutes later, Mr.Valentich reported that the object appeared to be stationary, and he described it - "..it's got a green light and sort of metallic like. It's shiny on the outside." After approximately another 11/2 minutes, he reported that "..the engine is rough-idling, I've got it set at twenty-three twenty-four and the thing is coughing." Then asked his intentions, Mr.Valentich responded - "My intentions are.. ah.. to go to King Island.. ah.. Melbourne. That strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again (open microphone for two seconds). It is hovering and it's not an aircraft."
Frederick Valentich's final radio communication did not get beyond giving his aircraft designation and the word 'Melbourne,' before being overruled by interference.
[P.Norman, FSR 31-2]

November 9th, 1978: Risdon Vale, Tasmania, Australia; 3.15am. [Rodeghier]

November 19th, 1978: Italy; 3.30am. [Rodeghier]

November 28th, 1978: M6 motorway, Cheshire, UK; about 4am
'..a security van driver.. saw an object approach from the north. He stopped his van as static filled the two-way radio communication band. Getting out he watched as the object came right over his head, extremely low. It moved so slowly that time seemed to stand still. He said it looked like a manta ray.' At the front were two "headlights" '
[Randles 'Pennine UFO Mystery']

January 5th, 1979: Auburn, USA. [Hall vol.2]

February 5th, 1979: Lawitta, Tasmania; 9.50pm.
A car was engulfed in an intense white light, affecting the engine, lights and radio. The driver was dazed, suffered loss of memory, and was hospitalised.
[Hall vol.2]

April 1979: Gormanston Saddle, Tasmania, Australia; 0.20am. [Rodeghier]

May 5th, 1979: Pampulhas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
At nightime, a UFO with portholes, emitting a blinding red-orange light, landed within 50 metres of a police car. The car's engine and radio were both affected.
[Hall vol.2]

May 26th, 1979: Idaho, USA. [Hall vol.2]

June 1979: A34 near Oxford, UK. [C.Potter, P.Mantle & A.Walmsley, UFO Universe, 5.1990]

August 1st, 1979: Lewisboro, New York, USA; 1.35am. [Rodeghier]

August 12th, 1979: near Rolla, Missouri, USA; 10pm. [Rodeghier]

October 1979: Ellendale, Delaware, USA; 8.30pm.
Steve Newman and three friends were driving to Milton, when, at the Ellendale town limits, two large rectangular-shaped objects surrounded with green, white and red flashing lights, were seen at just a little higher than tree-top level. They were flying very close together, and made no sound. The friends watched the UFOs through binoculars.
When Mr.Newman (a driver-salesman at Milton Sausage and Scrapple Company) tried to use his CB radio to check for any other witnesses, he found that it wouldn't work - "My transmission was backing up. It jammed my CB. But as soon as it got out of reach, my CB worked just fine."

February 11th, 1980: Council Bluffs, USA; 11.40pm.
A brilliant orange light was observed in a field. A car's engine, lights and radio were affected. [Hall vol.2]

May 7th, 1980: Valdese, North Carolina, USA. [Hall vol.2]

June 12th, 1980: Middle Valley, Tennessee, USA; 1.00am.
'..camping between two ridges approximate location between moses road and I-27 nearer railroad tracks.. cross of thrasher pike. object was 150 feet on a side, with a sharp lined depression in its center approx. 10 feet in depth of octagon shape. the center of which was glowing magenta. approximate width of object was 20 to 25 ft. rounded corners on the outside. white to yellow.. fading in and out. No apparent source of lights/glow could be seen. nor any means by which it could stay aloft. skin of object was grey to black and seemed to absorb light.. With the exception of the center depression no other features could be seen. Event timeline- Flashlights and radio went dead soon followed by the surrounding quieting of crickets ect and the wind stilling somewhat. two of our watches lost three hours for some unknown reason. (mine and my girlfriends. My other friends were approx. 25 feet from us at the time so assume some sort magnetic field killed ours. object floated into view rotating counter clockwise slowly facing one of the triangle points with another. paused shortly over camp, center magenta light seemed to brighten for a moment then faded back. Object then floated on over the opposite ridge. flashlights, radio, and watches all began working again at this time. that was about it.'
[NUFORC]

June 12th, 1981: west of Alice, Texas, USA.
'Robert Gomez was driving a "vacuum" truck.. in the early afternoon.. when he encountered a hovering, disc-shaped, and brightly-glowing object. As his truck slowed down, he depressed the accelerator to maintain speed and reported that the exhaust stacks were blowing smoke. The truck seemed to be about 1 ft. above the road. His AM radio failed but he was able to report to his dispatcher on a CB. The AM came back on when the UFO disappeared into some clouds.

Gomez was carrying 165 gallons of water under no pressure at the time of the sighting but the tank was later found to be pressurized to 55 psi. Upon attempting to drain the tank, no water came out. Only steam...'
[McCampbell, MUFONUFOJ 3-85]

December 21st, 1981: Aksaray, Turkey; 7.30pm.
'..another UFO was sighted above the building site of the Aksaray Engine Factory, and it was observed by the towanspeople and by Captain O. Celen, the foremost military authority in the town. According to Mr. Dag, a grocer, at around 07.30 p.m. "a huge glittering silent object was seen giving off greenish light above the building site. When Capt. Celen rushed to the site it was still hovering over there." After a while it shot away in the same direction as before. Its altitude was estimated to be around 800-1000, and it was described as an 'egg-shaped' object. An interesting EM effect was noticed: when Capt. Celen tried to contact his headquarters through his walkie-talkie, to his amazement he saw that it had gone silent...'
[Haluk Egemen Sarikaya, FSR 29-3]

Beginning of 1982: Aksaray, Turkey.
'..Sightings in Aksaray occurred again during the first days of 1982. The TV sets and radios in some of the districts of the town are said to have malfunctioned during the appearance of the UFOs. The daytime appearance of a UFO over Aksaray on January 2 excited the whole town, and a large percentage of the townsfolk had a chance to observe it...'
[H. E. Sarikaya, FSR 29-3]

February 26th, 1983: near Kent, New York, USA.
'..Monique O'Driscoll, a petite blonde employed by Putnam County's mental health services department, was confronted by brilliant strobe lights in the sky as she drove home from her mother's house in Kent, N.Y...

"I can't describe the brilliance of the lights, bright blues, reds and gold," she told the crowd, noting the UFO was massive, silent and V-shaped. As she followed the object it stopped above a house, 15 feet above the telephone line. No one responded as she blew her car horn and her CB radio was filled with static.

"I wanted it to stay," she admits, "But then it went zip and was gone."...'
[UFONS 184]

July 19th, 1984: New York, USA; about 11pm. [P.J.Imbrogno, UFO Universe, 11.1988]

September 1984: Lansing, Michigan, USA.
'The Onlooker By JIM HOUGH -
Dave Machtel, host on WJIM-AM radio, recently had a program in which listeners called in to talk about UFOs. Dave, not much of a believer in those things, made a flippant comment on Tuesday and challenged a UFO to stop in and pick him up.

That's when some strange things began happening. A buzzing and clicking noise began interfering with the station's NBC network pickup from the satellite. Brian Halter, WJIM prgram director, began making phone calls to check it out. NBC said they had no problem with the signals from their end.

"The problem has continued for several days," Halter said, "and someone came into the station the other night to report a strange sighting in the sky over this area. It's pretty darned eerie, if you ask me. Has the Onlooker had any such reports? Do you believe in UFOs?" Halter asked.

I don't know, Brian, but if I were you, I'd tell Machtel to apologise to that thing right away. Either that or have your call letters changed from WJIM to WUFO. Come on, Dave, don't stir up that UFO junk again. It makes life miserable for every reporter in town. If you've seen a UFO lately, call Dave, not the Onlooker. He's on the air each afternoon at 2:05 p.m.'
[UFONS 184]

March 1985: Aculeo Lake - Santiago, Chile; 9.30pm. [A.Huneeus, UFO Universe, 11.1988]

November 17th, 1986: Fort Yukon, Alaska. [Hall vol.2]

April 4th, 1989: Pensacola, Florida, USA.
Seven second, soundless observation, during evening - 'Witness felt energy, saw ball of light, car radio affected..'
[MUFON 1989 sightings]

May 10th, 1989: Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA.
At around midnight, two witnesses saw a 'large greenish-silver disc-shaped object' that 'turned on end' and then paced their car for about two hours. The 'car radio stopped working and electrical system quit working.'
[MUFON1989s]

October 24th, 1989: North Arbury, Cambridge, UK.
'Mr P aged 15 was on his doorstep at 22.05 with his friend. Two white lights appeared on top of each other. Only the lower one flashed. They discussed the possibility of aircraft but concluded it was moving too slowly. His friend had to go home so he went up to the bedroom and followed it with binoculars for another 2 minutes. It eventually just disappeared. the boys had already seen the light briefly earlier in the night and claim that their radio started to crackle during its presence. They tape recorded the crackling, which sounds like normal static. Reputedly the family cat seemed scared at this point as well.' The same light was seen by Mr P, for six minutes on the following night, and later on, a shaft of white light came into his home...
[NUFON 144]

February 8th, 1990: Twentynine Palms, California, USA; morning.
'..After twenty minutes of watching the strange and silent craft, I could tell that the men were bored. I went inside.
Entering the house, I immediately noticed a strange sound coming from the bedroom. There, I found our clock radio's snooze alarm had turned