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UFO historian/archivist , 30+yrs (10yr FT) studying the phenomena. https://t.co/3TpqfHCacE Interest: Geology, Arch/Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology

Mar 8, 2023, 8 tweets

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Today in UFO History - 11 Witnesses see Red Ball Of Fire That Leaves Burned Grass Patch
March 8, 1977 — Gatchellville, PA
1/7:30 p.m. Eleven witnesses in six groups (including Thelma Lowe, Harold Wilson, Sara Green, Mrs. Everett Miller,

2/Mrs. W. E. Runge II, and Robert Smyth) watch a red ball of fire the size of the full moon drift over their houses and alight on the ground south of Gatchellville, Pennsylvania. It leaves a large patch of burning grass (100 feet long by 30 feet wide), with a mysteriously

3/unscathed area delineated by three holes at the vertices. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Mike Swords Files, 100T;
Ted Philips, "QUARTERLY REPORT - PHYSICAL TRACE CASES ~ 1977", MUFON Journal (Sept. 1977), pg.8;
John Harney, "in search of the REAL UFOs", Magonia No. 49 (06-1994), pg.11;

Sources cont.:
Cosmology Newslink (Ed Harris) No. 41 (Summer 1988), pg.16;
“Case Number 2-4-44,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 6–7;
“Close-Out on the Gatchellville, PA CE II,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): insert;
Allan HENDRY, The UFO Handbook, London, Sphere Books, 1980, 120-121;

Odyssey Sighting Report; [1/2]

Odyssey Sighting Report; [2/2]

Read the full article "in search of REAL UFOs" in Magonia here:
files.afu.se/Downloads/Maga…

Read the article "UFOs In Perspective: Chapter Three" in Cosmology Newslink here:
files.afu.se/Downloads/Maga…

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