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Sunday, 23 June 2024

CE3K, Multiple Motorist Witnesses and A UFO Picked Up On RAF Radar...

 BUFORA and the other group I belonged to at the time lost every report of mine so its all gone but here is some background info.

I saw this "alien" item and managed to get the names of a couple motorists who confirmed seeing a large oval object in in the sky and the "alien".

I knew RAF Manston would still have had active radar at the time of the sighting as I used to live 100 yards away from the place at one time. So I wrote and asked whether they had received any reports at the time. What I was not expecting was an official RAF Manston headed letter from a (I am sure it was Lemon) Flt Lft. Lemon who confirmed that their radar had detected an "unknown object" at the time of the reports but that it soon vanished from screens.

I sat there and read the letter three times. A CE3K with object picked up on RAF radar and all the times matching. I was gob-smacked to say the least. I wrote up my report and sent it to BUFORA and gave the report and letter to the UFO group I was in. I then went on holiday.
On return there was nothing from BUFORA so I contacted (not sure if it was Larry Dale at the time) the NIC. Oh yes, they had the report but in the space of two weeks it was "missing".

At least I had my original on file with the UFO group.

No.

"Load of rubbish. I put it on the fire" the , uh, "secretary" of the group told me. I thought he was joking but when I found out he had burnt the whole report and RAF letter I blew and anyone passing by the house would have heard me loud and clear.

All my notes, report, letters all gone and a CE3K backed up by radar. That is why I keep all my files and no one gets to "borrow" them.

From a solid case to a newspaper clipping in two weeks.


Thursday, 20 June 2024

The Adilson Batista Azavedo Encounter -UFO or Helicopter?

 



 Date: 26th July, 1965, 

Location: Carazinho, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil 

This is based on a report by the Brasilian UFO group S.B.E.D.V.  Unfortunately (but all too common) I never received a response from the group so this account is taken from URECAT.

On the evening of the 26th July, 1965, 14 years old Adilson Batista Azevedo left his home with his friends Nelson Vieira, 17, and João Pereira, 14, to go to the movie theatre. The Adilson's residence was on the periphery of the city and so the trio had to 10 minutes long walk to get to their destination. As they got to an area of wasteland, between the streets of November 15, General Cenabarro St. and Alexandre da Mota st. they saw in the sky, coming out of a cloud, at an altitude given as approximately 500 meters, a strong light in the shape of a cone, which illuminated the ground on a 10 meters strip.

As the light descended quickly with a strange buzzing sound, the boys became frightened. Nelson and João, thought of a shooting star or a meteor, or even more dangerous, a cloud of bees, and ran away shouting "These are bees! These are bees!"

Above: Adilson Batista Azevedo (c)2024 respective copyright owner

Adilson was more curious and managed to observe that it was in fact an ovoid object of 5 or 6 metres in length and 1.50 metres in height, which landed in the ground in the wasteland, 40 metres away. He thought that the apparatus did not touch the ground but remained motionless 1 metre above the ground. Adilson continued watching until after some three minutes another object appeared, illuminated the ground and landed with the same buzzing sound, stopping within 3 or 4 metres of the first and on the same level. The two machines projecting a beam of light towards the ground, from their lower part. Although the machines looked identical  the second appeared much smaller, maybe only 2 or 3 metres long.

Two "small"  entities, 1.5 to 2.0 metres tall according to a local newspaper, came out of the largest object and walked around it. They entities made gestures and talked in an incomprehensible language full with "S" and "Z" tones, in low-pitched voices like those of old people.

Adilson remained there, observing for one or two minutes and, at a time when the entities were at the side of the object he got up and moved closer to within 30 metres and hid behind an old well.   The entities wore dark clothing and a luminous helmet. Coming out of the helmet, from the nose level down to the chest, there was a darker strip.

Above: Adilson showing where he hid at the encounter location (c)2024 respective copyright owner

After 5 minutes Adilson noticed three entities, of similar appearance, had left the smaller object and moved towards the first group; speaking in the same whistling idiom. One from this second group held a luminous object in the right hand and walked to and fro. A little later, the two small men of the first group made three circuits of their object before entering by the lower section, bending down sufficiently for that.

The craft took off vertically, increasing its buzzing sound and disappearing within a few seconds until lost among the stars. The three crew members of the second apparatus continued to talk for three more minutes, then made the same movements as the previous group, bending over to re-enter the object. which rose, at high speed and disappeared quickly.

Adilson left the area and then joined up with his friends  then joined his at the movie theatre, where he remained only half an hour because he felt a strong headache. He went to a pharmacy, bought a tablet of Fontol for headaches but this did not have any effect. The next day, his father, Gumercindo Batista Azevedo, impressed by the story, took him to a doctor, who prescribed him sedatives that also were of no use. His headache continued during 5 days and 5 nights, and then ceased suddenly.

Patrick Gross on URECAT suggests that this was all confusion and that what the witness saw were...helicopters!

If an explanation fits -even if 50-50 then I will go with it. Case solved on to the next one.  However, looking at URECAT the number of cases in which it is suggested that the object and entities seen were helicopters and crew borders on the ridiculous. Helicopters in 2024 with all their sophisticated design are bloody loud and I have heard 1960s helicopters (on the ground with rotors spinning) and they are deafening.

Yes, FSR account is not great and entity size could be down to the lad's "guestimate" or even, as we have seen many times before, conflicting newspaper reports. Why give an absolute 100% size when you can only guess?  Reporters are there to push stories to sell newspapers and are NOT UFO investigators (then most UFO investigators are not either).

Although you could use the activity described to fit helicopters landing the objects do not match the shape of a helicopter and although ducking down was a common sight when someone got onto one they did not have to bend over and enter under the helicopter.

It is an interesting report and the physiological effect noted could or might not have been caused by close proximity to the objects. However, this is a single witness case and unless the Ufologists found other UFO witnesses (Adilson's two friends ran off) this one would get a Low strangeness rating.

Wednesday, 19 June 2024

3 unexplainable alien encounters


Unexplainable?
Case 1 -never happened and only one claimant who only remembered AFTER reading Hopkins book. False memory.

Case 2 -No evidence. Interesting but that's it. But WHY keep showing images of "Greys" when the described entity was NOT a "Grey"??

Case 3 - Never happened. Anonymous letter. It should be noted that from the late 1970s on some UK Ufologists deliberately faked reports and despite being exposed (in the 1990s) for doing so even by 2024 they have not stated WHICH reports were faked or reason for faking them. The narrator here even says case 3 is suspected to be a hoax so...

"Unexplainabl;e" No.

Tuesday, 18 June 2024

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 But not one of those readers has any interest in any of the books on this subject?



Sunday, 16 June 2024

16th November 1967 Storrington, W Sussex



Storrington (FSR vol. 14 no. 2, 1968: Charles Bowen and Gordon Creighton “The Storrington Reports”.

To make this brief, at 18:45 hrs on Sunday, 29th October, 1967, Paul Quick (21) saw an oval-shaped UFO flying over woods near the West Sussex village of Storrington. Quick watched amazed as the craft headed for the ground on the Sussex Downs. The object was also observed by his mother and sister despite a search of the area by police, no sign of the UFO was found. This was the first of a number of sightings in the county that were investigated by the late Omar Fowler. The main incident of relevance here took place on the afternoon of Thursday, 16th November involving Mrs Quick (Paul’s mother).

“…I happened to be walking towards the Downs as the sun was setting

in the West. I had stopped to admire the view, when I spotted an obstacle

on the horizon which struck me at first as looking rather like a steam-roller.

So, thinking it would be more than a strange to see a steam-roller on the

Downs, I decided to go home and collect my opera glasses –all I had to aid

me in the sighting.


“I now learned that it was a different thing altogether, so I stood watching a

most strange performance. The shape was very unusual –trumpet-shape at

what appeared to be the front. The centre was dome-shaped, with two tails

from the right-hand side. I would say that length was about 25 to 30 ft. It

swivelled several times before disappearing over the Downs for at least ten

minutes, only to reappear and continue the same movement.


“After the sun had set behind the Downs, a light appeared in front of the

craft. It flickered from very bright to a smaller light, then an extremely deep

red (blood red) glow showed from the object. It changed from light red to

a deeper red glow. It changed its position once or twice at great speed, and

then finally took off at an incredible speed towards the sea, possibly in the

Worthing direction.


“Ten minutes later, it reappeared, but disappeared again behind a clump of

trees. After that we saw no more.


“I had a witness –someone who had been shopping and had seen me looking

towards the Downs with the glasses— so naturally she was interested and asked

me what I was looking at. She also looked through the glasses, also seeing

exactly the same object, behaviour, lights, and departure. By this time she was

convinced that this was no ordinary event, and so nervously decided to return

home to inform her son.


“I noticed a dark figure approaching the craft at one moment, possibly gliding.

It looked slightly larger than a human as we know them. It disappeared suddenly.”


Above: how Paul Quick described the object (top) and Mrs. Quick (below) Brighton Evening Argus 30th October, 1967


Above: object sighted on 16th November Omar Fowler’s redrawing of Mrs. Quick’s sketch.


Bowen and Creighton wrote:


“As for the vaguely-described “creature” figure, it seems that Mrs. Quick

suggested it was 8 to 10ft. tall, and appearing to float rather than walk,

before it disappeared. Mr. Fowler also remarks that after the incident, the

witness, who lives alone with one of her daughters, had a feeling that

someone was outside the house, a feeling she shared with her daughter…the

second incident in particular has features which bear a degree of resemblance

to descriptions we have come across on many occasions. In this connection

our thoughts range to Saltwood, and even Casa Blanca, to quote extreme cases.”


It should be noted that the Saltwood case started as a ghost sighting and then became a UFO incident and both based on a misidentification which, in 1967 both Bowen and Creighton knew; John Hanson is Haunted Skies (volume 2) covered the incident quite thoroughly. Mrs. Quick did not describe bat-wings and why the writers decided to use the word “creature” when there is only a tall humanoid figure described I have no idea –perhaps it was to try to make the story more sensational for its readers; and not for the first time. The 1955, Casa Blanca, California case involved an entity roughly the size of a 4 year old child so that comment loses me in this context.

So what happened to this case –I asked Charles Bowen who referred me to the FSR issue in question because it seems that was where their interest ended. Omar Fowler told me that he did not think that there was much more to it as Mrs. Quick had already reported a UFO once and he couldn’t find any of his papers on the case. 

Remember; in those days if you saw two objects you could not identify and so made two UFO reports you were a crank. A UFO sighting (with other persons present) and then another with a second observer and an entity was seen you were a loon. Omar could not recall talking to the second witness.





The Entity waved

 This sighting has been so misreported over the years that it is interesting to read what actually happened.

June 1966, Northwich, Cheshire

Haunted Skies vol. 3 pp. 63-64

John Hanson

Peter Leather (now an ex-pro jockey) noted a sighting from Daniels Road, Northwich:

“I was chatting to my grandfather in the rear garden on a hot summer’s day, in June, when ‘out of the blue’, appeared a gleaming metallic cigar-shaped object, just hovering above our heads, with the top and base constantly spinning.

“We stood there, shocked, hardly able to move. I looked up and saw what appeared to be a woman, with long blonde hair, looking out of one of the windows, set into the centre section of the UFO. Time seemed to stand still. We gazed at each other.

“She raised her right arm, as if acknowledging our presence, then the ‘craft’ moved slowly away and was soon out of sight.

“We raced into the house, so excited we could hardly get our words out, and told the rest of the family what we had just seen.

“They laughed at us, but changed their attitude, a few days later, when they read about a UFO being sighted over the Manchester area, on the same day as our experience”.


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