Date & Location | Type of UFO | Distance Estimate | Sound & Maneuvers |
8-1-52; Sharonville, Ohio | white disc | "low" | crackling, while ascending after level flight |
9-17-54; Near Rome, Italy | top-like | 3600-6000
ft.
(radar tracked) |
series of staccato explosions [Section X] |
11-12-54; Oolitic, Indiana | white ball | - - | hovered,
exploded "like shotgun," took off
at high speed |
7-29-55; Cincinnati, Ohio | glowing ball | - - | penetrating
shrill noise while zigzagging,
making sharp turns [Section VII] |
1-27-57;
Glendora,
California |
two amber discs | - - | hovered, sped away making swishing noise |
8-2-57;
Sebago Lake,
Maine |
greenish
glowing
light |
- - | maneuvered,
rapidly at times; hovered 30
minutes, making loud humming noise |
11-2-57; Levelland, Texas | torpedo-shaped | first
on ground, rose &
sped low over truck |
rush of wind, "noise like thunder" |
11-5-57;
Near Ringwood,
Illinois |
luminous ball | 2000 ft. altitude | noise "like swishing water" |
11-6-57;
Dunn, North
Carolina |
shaped
like lamp-
shade |
- - | sharp,
explosive sound attracted witness;
saw UFO going straight up |
11-6-57; Dugger, Indiana | est. 40
ft. diameter;
no description |
1000 ft. altitude | hovered,
climbed straight up, moved away
horizontally making "whirring" noise |
8-11-58; Acright, New York | bright white light | - - | moved with skipping motion, droning noise |
9-21-58;
Sheffield Lake,
Ohio |
glowing disc | 6 ft. alt., 10 ft. distance | "whirring" or "whining" noise, constant |
10-26-58;
Baltimore,
Maryland |
glowing ellipse | 320 ft.
distance, hovering
low over bridge |
hovered,
shot straight up making thun-
derous explosive noise |
2-3-59;
Oil City,
Pennsylvania |
circular | below low cloud ceiling | high speed pass; swishing noise |
7-13-59;
Blenheim, New
Zealand |
disc | below treetops | descended,
hovered, low humming sound;
rose vertically at high speed with "thin high pitched whine" [Section XIV] |
8-17-60;
Folsom,
California |
dark,
body lights
visible |
- - | whine "like spinning top" |
8-12-60'
Dunsmuir,
California |
reddish oblong | - - | sound "like rushing wind" |
9-13-62;
Near Oldfield,
England |
grayish disc | about
height of telegraph
pole |
hovered,
made "swishing" noise as it sped
away |