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NEW TWISTS AND TURNS IN EQ PEGASI CONTACT CASE Controversy over the alleged alien radio signals from the star system EQ Pegasi continued this week, with many surprising twists and turns. On October 22, 1998, a UK man calling himself “Paul Dore” claimed that he had picked up a radio signal from EQ Pegasi, a…

1957 – At 1:25 a.m. Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 meters above the ground in Madison, Ohio. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was over 10 meters wide, three to four meters thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to consult a physician several…

April 23 1897 – Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. “It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japs.” (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of…

January 28 On this evening in 1953, at 6:10 p.m., 5 silent orbs flew over Corona, California in a V Formation. Flying at an estimated 2,000 feet altitude, they changed into a row formation, then back again into a V formation. Speed was estimated at 150 mph. They flew from the southeast to the northwest. Later that same evening,…

January 6 1948 – Mrs Bernice Zaikowski of Chehalis, Washington heard a “sizzling and whizzing” sound at three o’clock in the afternoon, and looked up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above her barn. She watched “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly away.…

Rank, number of UFO reports and Close Encounters, Rates per 100,000 population and latest population estimates UFOCAT Database, created September 1, 2005 Rank District District Capital State UFO Reports Rate of UFO reports per 100,000 pop. Close Encounters Rate of CE reports per 100,000 pop. Population 1990 1 Tully Tully Queensland 24 879.8 13 476.5…

August 19 1947 – On an overcast evening a procession of over 35 UFOs was seen over the city of Twins Falls, Idaho at 9:30 p.m. by several independent witnesses. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 39; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4). 1949 – Two prospectors named Fitzgerald and Garney in Death Valley, California allegedly observed a disc-shaped object…

Have you ever wondered what strange phenomena have occurred on the same day? If so, then the new feature “Encounters with Aliens on this Day” is something you should check out. Its a compilation of high strangeness UFO events by calendar day, written by Dr. Donald A. Johnson, the archivist for UFOCAT. The “Alien Encounters…

 September 1 1936 – On this day around noon in Stone, Staffordshire, England a farm girl recalls that while on her way to a well to draw some water, a cigar-shaped object with five portholes came down from the sky very close to her. This was followed by a period of missing time, and she couldn’t recall…