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0310C-1970 - Ethiopia
0310C-1970 - Ethiopia
On the 7th of August 1970, the small village of Sela'i Da'iro had an unusual experience. By the time it was over, houses and a road were ruined and a young girl had been killed...
It happened during the morning in broad daylight with witnesses. At 11:30am villagers were disturbed by a loud noise from the forest. The noise grew louder and louder before what was described as a red glowing ball screamed towards the village. It impacted and destroyed several houses as it flew past.
It traveled a further 150 yards before turning around and almost doubling back itself along the road. The asphalt on the road was melted and cracked by the heat...
1970 - At 11:30 a.m. in Saladare, Ethiopia a red glowing ball of fire swept through the village, destroying houses, uprooting trees, and melting asphalt. It seemed to hover in place and then back-tracked. It caused eight serious injuries and the death of a little girl. (Source: J. Allen Hynek & Jacque Vallee, The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 160)
The object left the village and then doubled back. This time, it crashed through dry stone walls and briefly came to a halt just outside of the village. It then disappeared from sight behind a nearby tree-line. Below is a melted pot allegedly from the incident...
The images are from a website called ufophysical.com. It was an interesting site, but has gone 'offline' and now only shows this message. Unusual, huh? It was focused on 'trace evidence cases' and had a lot of great pictures and cases. I'm glad I saved them to an old photobucket account last year.
Dr Hynek classed the incident as a close encounter of the second kind. Vallee classed it as a close encounter of the fourth kind due to the destruction of property and death of a girl.
Eight villagers injured, one child killed. ball of light moved parallel and close to ground. Extensive damage, uprooted trees, burned grass, demolished 50 stone houses and melted asphalt.
At 11:30 a.m. in Saladare, Ethiopia a red glowing ball of fire swept through the village, destroying houses, uprooting trees, and melting asphalt. It seemed to hover in place and then back-tracked. It caused eight serious injuries and the death of a little girl. Ground traces were found. A witness later died.
One red ball was observed in clear weather by a male witness in a city for ten minutes. A buzzing sound was heard.
EDIT to add: I first posted about this account in February 09. It was on Internos' superb thread The Height 611 UFO Crash. Armap found the correct place name. Internos' thread is currently on 99 Flags....it'd be appreciated if someone would nip over there and make it 100+
0310C-1976 - Canary Islands Mass UFO Sighting
0310C-1976 - Canary Islands Mass UFO Sighting
UFO sightings observed by many witnesses are typically the best, most noteworthy cases, as the multiple witnesses’ testimony provides corroborating evidence. Although most sightings are not mass sightings, there are several high-quality cases involving many credible witnesses, and some of these mass sightings paint the best picture showing the mysterious reality of UFOs. One such sighting occurred in 1976 in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of Africa.
The Canary Islands
In the mid-1990s, philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller financed a report that provided an overview of major UFO events and the evidence surrounding the UFO phenomenon. This report was intended to educate government officials about UFOs, and as such, it was sent to the White House and members of the U.S. Congress. The report, titled “Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence,” was drafted by Don Berliner, an aviation journalist and long-time ufologist. UFO journalist Antonio Huneeus and Marie Galbraith, the wife of investment banker Evan Galbraith (who was the U.S. ambassador to France during the Reagan administration, the Republican candidate for New York governor in 1994, and the chairman of William Buckley’s political magazine, National Review) also participated in the creation of this document. One of the incredible cases presented in the document is the mass UFO sighting that took place in the Canary Islands.
In the mid-1990s, philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller financed a report that provided an overview of major UFO events and the evidence surrounding the UFO phenomenon. This report was intended to educate government officials about UFOs, and as such, it was sent to the White House and members of the U.S. Congress. The report, titled “Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence,” was drafted by Don Berliner, an aviation journalist and long-time ufologist. UFO journalist Antonio Huneeus and Marie Galbraith, the wife of investment banker Evan Galbraith (who was the U.S. ambassador to France during the Reagan administration, the Republican candidate for New York governor in 1994, and the chairman of William Buckley’s political magazine, National Review) also participated in the creation of this document.
The Spanish navy vessel Atrevida
One of the incredible cases presented in the document is the mass UFO sighting that took place in the Canary Islands.
According to newspaper headlines, thousands of residents of the Canary Islands observed an unidentified luminous phenomenon on the night of June 22, 1976. The event was reported by witnesses on at least three different islands. The Spanish Air Force thoroughly investigated the incident. Although the files associated with this investigation were declassified in 1994, they had already been leaked back in 1976. For whatever reason, the classified air force reports were given to journalist Juan José Benítez in October 1976 by an air force general. Benítez included these in his book, UFOs: Official Documents of the Spanish Government.Records indicate that the commanding general of the Spanish Air Force’s Canary Islands Air Zone assigned an investigative adjutant to the case on June 25, 1976. Depositions were taken of at least fourteen witnesses. The air force divided these witnesses into four categories, ranking them from most credible to least credible. People found to be mentally challenged, illiterate, or under the influence of drugs or alcohol were put into the very unreliable category, while people like astronomers, pilots, and aeronautical engineers were placed in the most credible category. The sighting reports, like the witnesses, were grouped into four levels to evaluate the quality and quantity of evidence for each.
The witness depositions and a review of the evidence allowed the investigative adjutant to piece together what transpired on June 22, 1976. Based on his report, the first UFO sighting of the night occurred at 9:27 p.m. The unidentified object was observed by the entire crew of the Spanish Navy vessel, the Atrevida, which at the time, was located near the coast of Fuerteventura. According to the Atrevida’s captain, he and his crew observed “an intense yellowish-blue light” moving from the island’s shore towards the ship. They initially assumed the object was an aircraft with active landing lights, but the UFO stopped and hovered in the sky. The captain further described that the light “went out and a luminous beam from it began to rotate. It remained like this for approximately two minutes. Then an intense great halo of yellowish and bluish light developed, and remained in the same position for 40 minutes, even though the original phenomenon was no longer visible.”
The captain explained that, minutes after this “halo” of light appeared, he observed the following:
[T]he light split into two parts, the smaller part being beneath, in the center of the luminous halo, where a blue cloud appeared and the part from which the bluish nucleus had come, vanished. The upper part began to climb in a spiral, rapid and irregular, and finally vanished. None of these movements affected the initial circular halo in any way, which remained just the same the whole time, its glow lighting up parts of the land and the ocean, from which we could deduce that the phenomenon was not very far away from us, but was close.
The ship’s first officer echoed the captain’s statements. And the officers also confirmed that the ship’s surface radar detected nothing at the time of the sighting.
The depositions of the naval officers were considered to be some of the most-credible testimony regarding the UFO sighting. The deposition of a physician, however, was among the more strange accounts collected during the investigation. Dr. Francisco Padrón León was in a taxi on his way to see a patient in the town of Las Rosas on Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. He explained that, when he had almost arrived at his destination, the taxi’s lights hit a luminous sphere hovering motionless just off the ground. He described that the sphere was electric blue in color and constructed of a “transparent and crystalline-like material.” He estimated that the UFO had a radius of approximately one hundred feet. Inside the sphere, Dr. Padrón saw a platform that looked like it was made of metal, and what appeared to be three control consoles. He also claimed to have seen two tall humanoid figures inside the sphere, whom he estimated were between eight and a half feet and ten feet tall. They wore brilliant red outfits and some type of head gear.
When the taxi arrived at the patient’s home, Dr. Padrón continued watching the sphere. He described it as follows:
I [then] observed that some kind of bluish smoke was coming out from a semi-transparent central tube in the sphere, covering the periphery of the sphere’s interior without leaking outside at any moment. Then the sphere began to grow and grow until it became huge like a 20-story house, but the platform and the crew remained the same size; it rose slowly and majestically and it seems I heard a very tenuous whistling.
The doctor raced into the patient’s house to inform the residents about the mysterious sphere. Everyone came outside to see the object that had ascended high in the sky. The UFO quickly accelerated, shooting away at an incredible speed. The doctor described that it “dissolved into a bluish spindle-shape with red underneath.” Similar to the description provided by the navy officers, Dr. Padrón said “a brilliant white halo was formed close to the object, which bit by bit was forming another very brilliant blue halo.”
A sketch of the sphere and its occupants asdescribed by Dr. Francisco Padrón León
Photograph of the phenomenon over the Canary Islands on June 22, 1976
Although bizarre, the doctor’s testimony was corroborated by the taxi driver, as well as by witnesses at the patient’s house. But the investigative adjutant reportedly still debated whether he should accept the doctor’s deposition. It was his belief that the witnesses of the humanoid figures in the sphere, “facing the presence of an unusual phenomenon in the sky, narrated what their ‘minds’ made them see, mutually influencing each other.” He goes on to say in the records that he “doesn’t have the slightest doubt about their seriousness and sincerity. They told what they unquestionably ‘believed’ to have seen.”
Notably, there are other reports from the 1970s of sphere-like objects containing occupants. In 1970, a boy in East Aurora, New York reportedly witnessed a silent yellowish sphere moving slowly through the sky. According to his report, he clearly saw two occupants at the craft’s control panel. In 1973, a witness in Manchester, New Hampshire reported seeing an orange and gold globe that was “not totally opaque but had a peculiar translucent quality about it.” She claims that she saw a humanoid figure standing at the controls of this UFO. In 1978, a witness in San Antonio, Texas reported seeing a strange, “globular,” amber-colored object with a transparent section through which the witness claims to have seen two “creatures.”
In addition to the witness depositions, the Spanish Air Force’s file related to this case contains more than one hundred pages of questionnaires, illustrations, and other documents. The file also includes a color photograph of the UFO that was taken by a tourist. According to the lab where this photo was developed, “no trickery or modification of any kind was added.”
Following the investigation, and after reviewing all the available information, the investigative adjutant concluded that there was no aerial traffic or military exercises at the time of the incident that could account for the phenomenon, and that what witnesses observed on June 22, 1976 was, indeed, an “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.”
Similar phenomena were witnessed in the Canary Islands around the same time period. One of these other sightings occurred in November 1976 and was witnessed by the commanding general of the Spanish Air Force’s Canary Islands Air Zone while he was aboard a transport aircraft. Interestingly, a large halo also accompanied this sighting. Personnel at an air base on the island of Gran Canaria and the crew of a Spanish navy ship also witnessed this phenomenon.
The investigative adjutant assigned to the November 1976 sighting in the Canary Islands concluded that, after looking at all of the similar cases around the islands from that time period, “we should have to think seriously of the necessity of considering the possibility of accepting the hypothesis that a craft of unknown origin, propelled by an equally unknown energy, is moving freely over the skies in the Canaries.”
This article originally appeared in Open Minds Magazine Issue 26 June/July 2014.
0310C-2007 - Île de la Réunion - Bras de Pontho
0310C-2007 - Île de la Réunion - Bras de Pontho
Dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, toute une famille du Tampon a observé pendant plusieurs heures d’étranges lueurs rougeoyantes au fond du jardin. Le lendemain matin, il ne restait aucune trace du passage de cet ONI, objet non identifié.
Du bruit, les poules qui s’excitent, le chien qui aboie et enfin, une lueur. “Elle est partie depuis le sol vers le haut et a illuminé ce grand arbre que vous voyez”, raconte Marie-Cristelle Hoarau. Cette mère de famille est le témoin privilégié, avec son mari et ses deux enfants, de l’étrange phénomène survenu dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, à Bras de Pontho. Personne d’autre n’a assisté à ce spectacle. Heureusement, bien que tremblante de peur, Marie-Christelle a eu le réflexe de saisir son caméscope pour filmer la scène. “J’avais vraiment peur, explique-t-elle. Je tenais mal la caméra, je n’ai pas réussi à bien filmer. Même les photos sont ratées.” Les deux minutes de vidéo, d’assez mauvaise qualité, montrent un premier point rouge puis, après quelques secondes, une autre lueur, aux reflets grisâtres, comme pourrait l’être un morceau de lave en train de se refroidir. Soudain, sur la droite de l’objet, de petites masses apparaissent et semblent s’éloigner en direction de la première lueur. “On dirait des extraterrestres qui sortent de leur vaisseau”, s’amuse Marie-Christelle, sans vraiment croire à ce qu’elle dit.
“PAS SEULS DANS L’UNIVERS”
Extraterrestre ou pas, cet objet non identifié suscite la curiosité des amis, de la famille et des voisins. “On attend une trentaine de personnes juste pour aujourd’hui. Tout le monde veut voir la vidéo”, explique l’un des filles de Marie-Christelle, qui a pu observer les lueurs. La belle-sœur de Marie-Christelle est ainsi venue hier matin pour voir “la chose”. “Moi j’y crois, prétend-elle. On n’est pas seul dans l’univers”, reprend un autre membre de la famille. Pourtant, malgré la curiosité et l’euphorie provoquée par la vidéo, personne n’ose réellement faire référence aux Ovni et à tout ce qui s’y rapporte. “C’est étrange. Je n’avais jamais vu ça de ma vie”, résume la grand-mère qui dormait dimanche soir, mais qui voit comme tous les autres membres de la famille, les extraits en boucle de la vidéo. Le plus étrange, dans cette histoire, c’est l’absence de trace laissée par les lueurs. “Il n’y a aucune marque au sol, précise Marie-Christelle Hoarau. Lundi matin, j’ai même demandé au jardinier de regarder s’il ne restait pas des indices. Il n’a rien trouvé.” S’il s’agissait d’un pétard, la pelouse devrait être brûlée. Il n’en est rien. Alors quoi ? Quelle est la nature des lueurs observées de 22h30 à 3 heures du matin par toute cette famille ? Cette nuit-là, la peur a paralysé la famille et personne ne s’est approché de “l’objet”. “J’ai même interdit à mon mari d’aller voir, assure Marie-Christelle. Mais depuis la maison, on voyait très bien. Ce n’était pas une braise, ni une boule de feu, ni un pétard. C’était joli, mais étrange. Je n’avais jamais vu ça.” Depuis cette fameuse nuit, la famille a du mal à dormir. “J’espère que les lueurs vont revenir, affirme Marie-Christelle. Cette fois, je ferai de meilleures images.”
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Avec l'accord des témoins j'ai décidé de mener mon petit interrogatoire.Je vais essayer de retranscrire aussi fidèlement que possible ce qu'ils m'ont raconté.Les mots qui sont entre guillement sont les expressions exactes qu'ils ont employé.
Le phénomène a eu lieu dimanche soir dernier (28/10/07) de 22h30 à 03h du matin environ.L'observation a été faite par 4
membres de la famille Hoarau, uniquement de la fenetre de la chambre du 1er étage du logement.
Les témoins: Hoarau MC née le 19/03/67, sans profession, GSM:xxxxxxxxx
Hoarau MV née le 19/09/88,sans profession (la fille de Hoarau MC)
Hoarau JR né le 01/02/61, sans profession (le mari de Hoarau MC)
Hoarau J né le 08/01/85, sans profession (un 2em enfant)
Tous se déclarent catholiques pratiquant et pas du tout porté sur le surnaturel,le paranormal.Ils déclarent ne pas faire partie d'une secte ou d'autres mouvements assimilés.De même ils n'ont pas l'air de s'adonner à l'alcool, aux drogues.
Lieu de l'observation: France, Ile de la Réunion, commune du Tampon, XX chemin lamartine,Bras de Pontho, en face du domicile des témoins sur une petite aire de jeu pour enfants.Date du témoignage: le 02/11/07.Auteur moi même, je suis pret à donner mon identité si besoin est.
Voici leur témoignage: Vers 22h30, Hoarau JR est reveillé par le bruit que font ses animaux (des poulets d'elevage et leur chien) qui semblaient effrayés.Il apercoit de la fenetre de la chambre à coucher des "phénomènes lumineux étranges" et reveillent alors sa femme Hoarau MC qui a d'abord vu 2 objets.1 des objets semblait flotter légèrement en l'air, l'autre semblait posé par terre.Hoarau C a reveillé Hoarau MV.Hoarau a été reveillé par son père. Ils ont vu les memes objets étranges sur la pelouse de la même chambre à l'étage, la distance estimée entre 10 et 15m.D'abord une "especes de tube à l'apect satiné" qui s'est envolé et "a explosé sans bruit comme une explosion de lumière" dans la cime des arbres "comme un sapin de noel, c'était très joli".Entre 1 et 2 objet en "espece de demi lune lumineuse" etaient toujours posée sur le sol (pelouse de l'aire de jeu).Les "objet en "demi-lune" semblait plutot flotter,léviter à 20cm du sol,cela pdt tte la durée de l'observation.
Taille des objets estimée à 50cm , couleurs "un peu comme un arc en ciel,un jeu de lumières:bleu vert jaune, orange, rouge vif.Aucun bruit entendu sauf a la fin quand "les demi-lune lumineuses" ont disparu en faisant "tut-tut-tut".
Pendant toute la durée de l'évenement (soit de 22h30 à 01h30), au moins un de témoins n'a pas quitté les objets des yeux.
Au bout de 5 à 6 minute Hoarau MC est allé chercher sa vieille caméra (une cassette de mariage à l'intérieur)
et a filmé entre 2 et 3mn du phénomène (en écrasant selon ses dires un moment important du dit mariage enregistré).L'image est tremblotante, car ces personnes se disaient effrayé (et peut etre peut habiles). Ils ont également tenté de prendre 3 ou 4 photos numérique mais on y voit presque rien tout est sombre.
Pendant toute l'bservation ils ont également apercus 5 ou 6 "petites poupées de couleur blanche"qui marchaient très lentement a coté des objets et semblaient rentrer ou sortir de l'objet en forme de "demi-lune".Ils estiment la taille de ces entitées à "5 ou 6cm" pas plus.La forme humanoide n'est pas confirmée par les témoins, trop loin,trop petit (4/5cm max),"comme des petites poupées" et ilsavancaient très lentement.Ils ont
pu observer les petites entités autour des objets du début à la fin de l'observation.Pas de détails sur le nombre de jambes,bras, les yeux, nez etc.
Toujours selon eux 2 chiens se sont approché du phénomène au début de l'observation, un chien batard berger allemand et un chien coton.Le chien coton est resté un peu en retrait mais le chien "batard berger allemand" s'est approché vraiment près de l'objet en demi-lune. "Une des lumières de la demi-lune a alors pris l'apparence du chien pendant 6 à 7 seconde puis à disparu et le chien avec.Ce chien a été vu en bonne santé dans le quartier les jours suivants.
De 01h30 à 03 heures du matin les objets en demi-lune n'émettaient plus de lumière comme avant ,hormis une "couleur sombre grise".Vers 3h du matin tout a disparu.
Les témoins n'ont aucune explication à donner concernant leur observation.Leur sentiment à tous les 4 est que c'est "extra terrestre", "on est pas seul sur terre" à déclarer Hoarau MC apres cette étrange soirée.Les 4 témoins ont l'air sincère et confirment tous cette suite d'évenements.Ils disent n'avoir pas voulu s'approcher du phénomène par peur .Hoarau MC a interdit aux 3 autres témoins de s'approcher.Tous déclarent qu'ils ne s'en seraient approchés pour rien au monde car ils étaient effrayés.Ils ont également essayé de reveiller d'autres membres de la famille qui dormait dans le logement mais n'y sont pas parvenu.
Le truc qui me chiffonait, c'est qd meme que pendant tout ce laps de temps les 4 témoins n'aient pas voulu s'approcher plus que ca.C'est selon eux l'épisode du chien 'aspiré par la lumière' et qui les a regardé quelques secondes qui les en aurait dissuadé, ainsi que la frayeur bien apparente de leurs animaux.
2em point: qui a prévenu les journalistes? pas eux directement.Le lendemain de l'observation, Hoarau MC est allé raconter et monter la vidéo à sa belle soeur.Ce serait la belle soeur (ou son entourage) qui aurait d'abord contacté radio Free dom (l'équivalent radiophonique d'un Tf1 local, une radio locale qui colporte tout sur tout). Radio Fredom aurait alors contacté les journalistes et les autorités.Les témoins n'ont semble t'il pas voulu faire de publicité au départ.......
3em point: de 22h30 à 03h du mat il n'ont ont pas trouvé d'autres observateurs.....Le voisinage n'a rien vu/rien entendu.Ils auraient tenté de reveiller d'autres membre de la famille qui dormait dans le logement sans y parvenir sois disant..... A leur place j'aurais reveillé les voisins, contacté la gendarmerie etc bref.....à voir.
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