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The 1996 UFO Chronology  This is currently an 8-page UFO chronology. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to the A-Team, in partcular, Richard Hall, Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]. You will note the many foreign reports that we are now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to us. As more come in, this page will be updated. Previous chronologies (1947 to 1969) involved the expertise of two other team members; Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Bob Gribble's entries are those filed with the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington, now operated by Peter Davenport. Trace cases are now being entered with the help of Ted Phillips, Center for Physical Trace Research and retrofitted into previous chronologies as time permits. Francis Ridge NICAP Site Coordinator The UFO Chronology ___________________________________________________________________________________ Jan. 28, 1996; Bridgeton, MS
11:00 PM. Three nocturnal lights were seen maneuvering in
the sky. The objects were seen to join together and separate
repeatedly. They flew in a general southwest direction. (Source: Larry
Hatch, "U" computer database).
Jan. 31, 1996; near Romatambo, Peru
8:00 AM in the morning in a remote mountain village, several
Quechua Indian shepherds tending their flocks watched six objects fly
over the area. According to one of the witnesses, Silvia Bedoya, age
40, the objects apparently emerged from nearby Lake Cococha. The
objects formed what seemed like a protective circle around a larger
cigar-shaped, mother-ship style object. The flight of the objects
illuminated the whole valley in an eerie deep purple light. The "mother
ship" landed upriver from the village. Soon two occupants emerged from
the object. These were described as about a meter tall with large
oversized heads, long spindly arms and short bandy legs. They wore
gunmetal gray helmets and matching one-piece coveralls. The humanoids
took out transparent containers and, ignoring the shepherds, collected
many samples, including soil, grass, alpine weeds, and water from the
nearby river. Soon the UFOnauts re-entered the large object and all the
objects shot away into space at high speed. (Sources: Lumieres dans la
Nuit, issue # 337; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, issue # 15;
Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2472).
Feb. 6, 1996; Thurso, Quebec
7:30 PM +- Farmer Louis Boisvert, 19, saw a very large
metallic triangular craft with a set of red lights hovering over his
barn in Thurso, Quebec while he was plowing snow with his tractor. This
was on the same night that witnesses saw a large triangular vessel
hovering over the town of Buckingham, Quebec. The craft flew very
slowly over the barn. The light coming from the triangle did not
illuminate the ground or even the roof of the barn. After the craft
left Boisvert and his father noticed that their electric water pump was
not working. Troubled by recurrent dreams, Boisvert underwent hypnotic
regression. He was then able to remember that he had hopped off the
tractor and ran to the barn where his father was working. As he rushed
into the barn, he saw his father standing there with a blank expression
on his face. Besides him stood two reptilian looking creatures with
long faces, scaly leathery skin, black eyes, clawed hands, and gaunt
arms and legs. Both Boisvert and his father were taken onboard the
triangular object by the humanoids and later released. (Source: Albert
S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2481, citing CEIPI
Quebec).
Feb. 10, 1996; Huon Valley, Tasmania, Australia
2:00 AM. The witness woke up to find her bedroom lit up, and
she had an overwhelming feeling to go outside. From the verandah she
saw the source of light to be a bright long elliptical shape about 50cm
away in the paddock. There was a brilliant bluish white light and a
metallic smell you could almost taste. Standing in the garden was a
tall thin figure over two meters tall. The figure beckoned the witness
with its left hand. She walked down the verandah steps then suddenly
became alarmed and returned back home. She threw some furniture
outside, and then everything went dark. (Source: Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2606, citing the Tasmania UFOIC).
Feb. 16, 1996; south of Ojo Caliente, NM
10:05 PM. A huge craft with 50 to 75 lights flew directly
overhead of the witness driving on Highway 285 south of Ojo Caliente,
New Mexico. The lights on the UFO were sequencing in a clockwise
direction. It made no sound, flew straight up, then down, then hovered
again. It left flying off toward the north. (Source: Christopher
O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 309).Feb. 18, 1996; near Pine Mountain, GA
5:30 PM. Driving east on Highway 18 in a roofing truck five
miles past Interstate 85, two men saw a silver, cigar-shaped object
they first thought was a jet falling through the sky. It stopped in
mid-air about 100 feet from the ground, then moved in an S pattern "in
a flash" and upward at a steep 45 degree angle. The UFO was without
wings, made no sound, and was estimated to be about the size of a
commercial jet aircraft. The duration of the sighting was between 10-15
seconds. (Source: MUFON field investigation database, case 960908SE,
field investigator John C. Thompson).
Feb. 23, 1996; Nuevo Centro, Abasolo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
10:00 PM. Irasema Margarita Cuevas and others in her
household heard their dogs barking outside and went to investigate.
Outside they saw a red-orange dome-shaped craft floating a few feet
from the ground, near some nearby trees about 50 meters away. Soon a
small humanoid emerged from the craft, about one meter in height. It
began floating up and down in peculiar movements. From a belt around
its waist a bluish beam of light emerged. The being appeared robotic in
nature, somewhat resembling a "Power Ranger." After a few minutes the
being re-entered the object, which rose up to join a similar craft.
They both then flew towards the nearby swamps. Several witnesses then
followed the objects and were able to see a brilliant light emerge from
behind some trees and a huge column of gray smoke. Upon seeing this,
the head of the household, Guillermo Serna Marquez, told his family to
return to the house and went into the woods to investigate alone, on
the way there he ran into a farmhand who accompanied him into the
woods. They saw a luminous craft fly over the trees in the direction of
the swamp, then a two meter tall humanoid appeared, floating above the
trees and accompanied by the small robotic entity. They watched the
beings float around and then enter the dome shaped object. After awhile
they grew tired of watching and went home. The next day a large section
of the ground was scorched in three enormous circles. Strange
purplish-white, foam-like substance was also found at the site.
Numerous other strange incidents were reported in subsequent days:
small flying red spheres, more animal mutilations, and a large orange
sphere that followed some of the UFO field investigators late one
night. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case
# 2948, citing Marco A. Reynoso).
Feb. 28, 1996; highway 375, NV
Five people driving on highway 375 down an isolated stretch
of desert road watched a silent, silvery gray disc land about 50 feet
away from them. It was flat on the bottom and about 30 feet in
diameter. Three beings described as thin, gray in color and with large
heads, emerged from the craft. They shuffled around outside for a short
while and then went back inside the UFO, which promptly took off.
(Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #
2847, citing UFOs On Line).
March 6, 1996; Friol, Spain
11:00 PM. A glowing sphere hovered over Friol, Spain. The
main witness signaled to the object by flashing a light, whereupon the
UFO descended and lowered a ramp. Three humanoids exited the craft.
Footprints were found at the landing site. (Source: Richard F. Haines,
CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 89).
March 6, 1996; Bindura, South Africa
A teenaged student and a woman worker at a local teaching
center reported seeing a white ovoid UFO, about 1.5 meters in diameter,
with an antenna. A small being with a large head was also seen making a
strange clicking noise as it wandered near the school. Small round
footprints were reportedly left behind by the entity. (Sources: Cynthia
Hinds, UFO AfriNews, January 1997; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact
Database 1996, case #3386, citing Cynthia Hind).
March 7, 1996; Ferreiras, Lugo, Spain
12:00 AM +. 38-year-old Jose Manuel Castro Gonzalo was
getting ready to retire for the night and glanced out the window to
take one last look at the fields. Immediately he noticed a small orange
sphere, encased in a multi-colored glow, hovering over a nearby hill.
He decided to go out and look at the strange spectacle. At the same
time he summoned his brother Cesareo. Jose Manuel then took out a small
flashlight and began signaling the object; at the same time yelling
"come down, come down!" Suddenly the sphere descended at a very high
speed to treetop level. Jose Manuel ran upstairs to an outside terrace
where he could see the sphere better. Inside the transparent sphere he
could see five very tall men. They appeared to be floating around as
the sphere slowly rotated and emitted a low humming sound. Moments
later a shaft of "coherent" light appeared under the sphere; it reached
the ground right below the sphere. Soon after, three small humanoids
descended to the ground via the shaft of light. These beings seemed to
move in slow motion. Once on the ground the three formed a line,
grabbing each other's shoulders, not unlike a "Conga" line dance. Using
quick jumping motions they began moving towards the witness.
Frightened, he jumped into bed and hid under the covers until dawn. The
next day strange footprints were found at the spot where the small
humanoids had been jumping around. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid
Contact Database 1996, case #2559, citing Magdalena Del Amo Freixedo,
Evidencia OVNI # 12).
April 2, 1996; Varginha, Brazil
11 AM. A silver disc flew in and stopped over a factory. A
second disc also flew in and merged into the first disc. (Source: Bob
Pratt, UFO Danger Zone, p. 333).
April 8, 1996; Thomasville, NC
9:15 PM. A 39-year-old man had a close encounter with a
disc-shaped object on a partly cloudy night. The object had a
bluish-green, cone-shaped beam projecting from it. The beam was narrow
at the top, but had a three foot diameter at the bottom towards the
ground, although it did not seem to be illuminating the ground. The
bottom of the disc had an inner circle of many red lights. Inside were
four rocket-like cones, giving off a red glow. The UFO came within 10
feet of the witness. The UFO made no sound. (Source: Robert Hair, MUFON
field investigation database, case 970408E).
April 8, 1996; Americana, Brazil
9:30 PM. A high altitude UFO zigzagged through the sky at
very high speeds over Americana, Brazil. (Source: Boletim CEPEX, issue
number 27)
April 15, 1996; Valencia de Alcántara,
Cáceres,
Spain
Late night. Two police officers were conducting their
nightly rounds driving on the outskirts of the city, when a
powerful light crossed in front of them on the highway. One man felt
mesmerized by the brilliant outburst of light, while his partner tried
to keep hold of the patrol car's steering wheel. When the light
extinguished the mesmerized officer told his companion that he felt a
very odd sensation of being pulled upward at the same time that he saw
two pairs of moist, black oval shaped eyes staring down at him from
large, pear-shaped heads. The police officer had not even been able to
comprehend the uncanny experience when the bizarre light staged a
return. According to the officers, nine lights identical to the first
appeared out of nowhere, and were then joined by three more that came
from across the Portuguese border. The twelve lights were elongated and
had an intense yellow glow. The lights remained suspended some 100 feet
above the highway, prompting the police officers to flee the scene in
terror. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996,
case # 2674, citing Scott Corrales, Uncensored UFO Reports # 1).
May 7, 1996; La Grange, GA
1:30 PM. While on her lunch break at West Point Lake, near
the McGhee Bridge in La Grange, Georgia, a 35-year-old woman witnessed
a gray colored, domed disc-shaped object just above the lake. After
some five to ten minutes, the object shot straight up "at least as fast
as lightning." (Source: John C. Thompson, MUFON UFO Field
Investigations Database, case 970107E).
May 21, 1996; Charleston, IL
11:58 PM. Four youths camping and saw a large white light in
the sky, then a huge triangular UFO with two red lights on one side. It
lit their campsite with a "spotlight" beam but made no sound. (Sources:
James Easton, internet list of triangular UFO reports, citing the
National UFO Reporting Center; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of
Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, citing NUFORC).
June 6, 1996; Marson, France
11:30 PM. A videotape was made of a crescent, half-moon
shaped light with a platform on the bottom. It curved away through the
night sky over Marson, France toward the east, and then split into four
parts. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 338).
June 9, 1996; Mediterranean Sea
6:00 PM. A black sphere shot at an Air France airliner from
the Mediterranean Sea, then flew 30 meters above the aircraft. The
plane requested and made an emergency landing at Ben Gurion airport in
Israel. No Israeli military launches where in the area at the time of
the report. (Sources: UFO Magazine (USA) November 1996, p. 24;
Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48).
July 8, 1996; Certesti, Romania
Police sergeant Marian Mancu and volunteer police officer
Marcel Rusu were walking on patrol on the main road that passes in
front of the police station in the village of Certesti, Romania at
around midnight. Mancu lives in the area and told Rusu he was going to
walk home to get something to eat. Between the road and the sidewalk
was a deep ditch with small foot bridges across the culvert. When the
sergeant passed the corner near his house he heard a whistling sound
from the street and felt a rush of air. He turned around immediately
and saw something on the road that "was splashed with blue and red
lights" and made a "voom-voom" sound. Mancu first thought it was the
district police car that was coming back from a routine patrol, but
getting closer he realized the object was hovering half a meter above
the paved road. There was also a small strange looking figure moving
around it. He yelled for Rusu, who was now hiding behind the ditch and
watching the strange spectacle from their. Rusu reported that
immediately after Mancu had left and gone behind a nearby apartment
house, "a fluttering from above appeared". The neon lighting in the
street seemed to change in intensity. The object descended slowly,
without noise, and came down behind him. Rusu became frightened when he
saw the object hovering above the ground, with three small human-like
creatures were moving around it. Both witnesses agreed that the object
had the form of a flat hut, five or six meters across and two or 2.5
meters high, and it was balancing about half a meter from the ground.
Around the periphery of the object was a continuous girdle of light
"like a rainbow." The colors changed from red to blue and flared in
intensity. On the bottom of the object was a bright white light.
Neither of the witnesses saw any doors, portholes, or other similar
features. After about two minutes, the UFO rose vertically. At the
moment it moved up to an altitude of about 30 meters its lights became
much brighter, and the neon streetlights went out. It then shot off to
the east at high speed. Rusu reportedly had a better view of the
humanoid creatures than Mancu, who only noticed one of them from
behind. He estimated their height to have been around a meter or less.
Rusu said he heard some noises made by the humanoids, sounding like
"rain in a drain pipe." Both described the creatures as ugly; they had
large heads, very elongated behind and covered with bumps, with no
hair, and large ears. Their faces were white and they had big eyes.
Gray metallic shiny scales, resembling fish scales, covered their
bodies. They also had large, limp protruding bellies. They also had
thin spindly arms, and no noses or mouths were visible. The witnesses
thought that the creatures floated just above the ground and moved
around "as if they were drunk." A huge sweet cherry tree nearby had
around 15 % of its leaves shriveled as if by extreme heat. Other
witnesses in nearby villages reported strange lights over the area the
same night. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Albert S.
Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Dan D. Farcas).
July 9, 1996; Chillan, Chile
A triangular-shaped UFO landed in a field in Chillan, Chile.
It left three circular indentations in the ground 1.7 meters apart and
10 cm across. (Source: Phenomena, issue no. 33)
July 16, 1996; Los Villares, Jaen, Spain
A 66-year-old retired farmer named Dionisio was walking through
a field around noon in Los Villares, Jaen, Spain. He had just sat down
on a rock next to a tree to rest when he noticed a very strong and
pungent odor in the air and heard a low humming sound. He next noticed
an object hovering near the ground next to some nearby power lines. The
craft was shaped like a dome and was a shiny metallic color. It had
several black glassy oval shaped windows. It was about three meters in
length and a meter and a half in height. On one side he noticed some
inscriptions, part of which resembled "IOIO." From the top of the
object there were also some cables that were apparently connected to
the nearby power lines. Dionisio also noticed a curious fact. If he
moved back about three meters he could no longer see the object, but
when he moved forward again he was again able to see it. Suddenly he
saw three figures standing next to the object. Two were men and one was
a woman, and they stood about six feet tall. They were wearing tight
fitting, one-piece silvery outfits. Their faces were Asian in
appearance, with high cheekbones, very pale skin, and slanted eyes.
They had large hands with five long, well defined fingers and their
mouths were slit-like. They also wore silvery boots. Suddenly he felt
something strike his chest, and glancing up he noticed that the woman
was signaling him, and one of the men was kneeling down next to the
craft. He began hearing voices in his head. Frightened, he tried to
hide behind some rocks, and then heard the humming sound and smelled
the pungent odor again. When he emerged from behind the rocks he
noticed that the humanoids and the object were gone. Investigators
found ground traces at the site. A mysterious looking rock was also
found at the site. During the same time others in the region saw low
flying lights and objects. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact
Database 1996, case # 3040, citing Lorenzo Fernandez Bueno & Iker
Jimenez Elizari).July 17, 1996; southeast of Damiansville, IL
9:00 AM. On I-64 southeast of Damiansville, Illinois a
low-flying triangular UFO approached an interstate ramp and then
hovered over some trees for 4-5 minutes. It appeared like "polished
steel". It made not sound and vanished mysteriously. (Source: Curt
Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 198)
July 17, 1996; Langruth, Manitoba
That evening a woman in Langruth, Manitoba saw a disc-shaped
object moving slowly and quietly through her farmyard. The disc was
about 3-4 meters in diameter, about half a meter tall, and had slit
like lights along the edge. Three circular patches of green growth
appeared in the area where the object was first seen. (Source:
International UFO Reporter, July 1997, p. 32).
Sept. 21, 1996; Object tracked near the Moon 7:26 PM, Local Mt. Vernon, IN Time. The Lunascan Project telescope was imaging the Moon live with high powered image project on a CCD camera and tracked an object near the lunar limb. (TLP, Fran Ridge) Oct. 3, 1996; south of Springer, NM
8:00 PM A number of vehicles traveling on I-25 south of
Springer, New Mexico were witness to a cigar-shaped object, estimated
to be at least "two stories" tall and covered with very bizarre lights.
The object was seen to descend out of the night sky and hover over an
area near the highway. At least 4-5 automobiles, and two
tractor-trailers had stopped along the highway and their passengers had
gotten out of their vehicles to look at the object. At some point
during the sighting the object extinguished its lights and apparently
settled to the ground. One young person was emotionally upset by the
event, and was still in a state of shock several hours later. (Source:
Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center website).
Oct. 5, 1996; east of Pelotas Airport, Brazil
10:30 AM. A huge pyramid-shaped object was seem from an
Embraer-712 aircraft 35 miles east of Pelotas Airport, Brazil. A disc
was seen emerging vertically from the top of the bigger object.
(Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p 48).
Oct. 25, 1996; Gypsumville, Manitoba
2:00 PM. A bowl-shaped disc with square windows was sighted
in Gypsumville, Manitoba. It was seen through binoculars as it directed
a beam of light down at the lake. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer
database, case 17473; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, #
37).
......video footage taken from the space shuttle Columbia (STS-80) which, in some respects, is more interesting than the previous STS-48 footage and will be harder to explain in terms of so-called "ice crystals. For about a 4-minute interval, all kinds of anomalous objects traverse the earth above the clouds and out into orbital space. One particular object appears to be a glowing disc that moves from right up the screen to about the center and "parks". A few seconds later, a second object bursts through the storm clouds below and starts trekking across the screen. Meanwhile, the first parked object begins to move back along the way it came, and rises out of the earth's atmosphere and looks like it comes up to meet a "blinking" object that seems to be moving in orbit. Other objects are seen that are dimmer, and blinking objects are seen moving above the clouds. Fast moving objects with tails (presumably meteors) are seen streaking every which way. The STS-80 was in orbit 220 miles above the earth and passing over areas of the earth where there was a lot of thunderstorm activity on December 1st. (Source: Bill Hamilton) Dec. 11, 1996; Yukon Territory At least 31 people in the Yukon Territory of Canada witnessed a giant UFO. Indications are that it may have been the size of several football stadiums. The sightings principally took place in four locations in the central Yukon; Fox Lake, the Village of Carmacks, the Village of Pelly Crossing and the Village of Mayo, with 6,9,8 and 8 witnesses respectively. Dec. 13, 1996; Bogata, Columbia
1:00 PM. a Colombian Air Force pilot videotaped six silver
disc-shaped UFOs exiting from a cloud and moving toward Bogota,
Colombia in two groups. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1997).
Dec, 16, 1996; Stevens Pass, WA
Two skiers at Stevens Pass in Washington watched an orange
colored disc-shaped UFO appear in the sky during the evening. Over the
next two minutes they then sighted two more of the objects. (Source:
Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter).
Dec. 17, 1996; Redmond, WA
2:00 AM. A single witness reported that a flat-topped
disc-shaped object hovered overhead. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, UFO
Intelligence Newsletter).
Dec. 19, 1996; between Beijing and Wuhei, China
Early in the afternoon on this date a silver gray metallic
object struck the top of a Boeing-757 cockpit belonging to a Chinese
Southern Airlines aircraft on a flight between Beijing and Wuhei, China
cracking the outer windshield. The plane made an emergency landing.
(Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48, citing
J. Trainor, UFO Roundup).
Dec. 29, 1996; Hartsburg, MO
7:00 PM. Two men out trapping in the woods witnessed a
silent, black triangular object overhead. It had 3-4 white strobe
lights, and also blue and red lights. It made no sound. (Source:
Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter; Larry Hatch, U computer
database, case # 17508).
References: 1. Volume II, The UFO Evidence, A Thirty-Year Report - Richard Hall, 2000 2. CUFOS report, Mark Rodeghier, 3. Ted Phillips, Center for Physical Trace Research. 4. Regional Encounters; The FC Files, Francis Ridge 5. UFORN, UFO Research Network, St. Louis, Barbara Becker 6. MORA, Mid-Ohio Research Associates |
