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Today In UFO History - Boys Encounter Landed Object / CE2
November 16, 1973 - Lemon Grove, CA
1/7:00 p.m. Two 11-year old boys are outside in Lemon Grove, California, intending to play in a vacant lot or field in the neighborhood. When they arrive,

2/there is a dark object hovering about 18 inches above the field. It seems inactive. One of the boys cautiously approaches and raps it with his flashlight, making a sound like metal on metal. Instantly, the object’s dome lights up in a brilliant red light that illuminates the

3/entire area. It rises three or four more feet off the ground, and a row of green lights light up around its perimeter, flashing in sequence. The thing begins rotating and making a “woooo woooo woooo” sound. The object is easily visible now and appears as a domed disc. The dome

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Today In UFO History - USAF B-57 Sighting / Balloon?
November 15, 1960 - nr. Launceston, Tasmania
1/10:40 a.m. A USAF B-57 Canberra reconnaissance aircraft operating out of RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria, Australia, encounters a UFO 15 miles north of

2/Launceston, Tasmania. Capt. Douglas G. Ludlam and Capt. Joseph W. Ivins say it looks like a balloon about 70 feet in diameter and is flying at 35,000 feet, just below the B-57, and traveling at about 920 mph. It is in sight for 5–7 seconds before it disappears under the left

3/wing. [Eberhart]
Sources:
Bill Chalker, “Australian A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 11 (December 1982):4;
Jerome Clark, 'Cressy Sighting', The UFO Encyclopedia 3rdEd, pg.352;
Brad Sparks, BB Unknowns File, p.285 #1458;

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Today In UFO History - Former Skeptic / Airline Pilot Becomes Believer / Condon Unknown
November 14, 1956 - Capt. Joe Hull Sighting
1/10:10 p.m. Captain William Joseph Hull and his copilot Peter H. Macintosh are flying Capital Airlines Flight 77 from

2/ New York City to Mobile, Alabama. While approximately above Jackson, Alabama, they see something like a brilliant meteor flash by the aircraft. The object stops, hovers, and engages in a range of acrobatics (crazy gyrations, lazy 8’s, square chandeliers) for several minutes

3/before shooting out over the Gulf of Mexico at “fantastic speed.” [Eberhart]

Capt. Hull had previously written a skeptical article about Flying Saucers I have included. He had communicated with Capt. Nash from the famous Nash-Fortenberry case over this article. Keyhoe wrote a

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Today In UFO History - Jellyfish UFO? / Power Outages
November 14, 1957 - Tamaroa , Ill.
1/Afternoon. Evalyn Riead hears a sputtering noise like someone is pulling into her driveway in Tamaroa, Illinois. She looks outside and sees a bright,

2/moon-shaped object with a tail moving above the trees bordering US Highway 51. It disappears after 5–6 booms and 3 flashes of light. As soon as this happens, the lights in her home go out. Electrical power in a 4-mile area between Tamaroa and Du Bois is interrupted for

3/10 minutes. Power is restored when the company closes an open circuit breaker, but they could find no cause. [Eberhart]

Sources:
“Current Cut Off As Flying ‘Thing’ Appears in Illinois,” Lima (Ohio) Citizen, November 15, 1957, p. 10;

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Today In UFO History - Betz Memo / Moon Dust
November 13, 1961
1/The AFCIN-1E-0 Draft Policy letter (Betz Memo) is prepared by Lt. Col. Norman M. Rosner for Col. Ward Reid Betz. Among other things, it specifies three peacetime functions of

2/the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado: UFO investigations, Project Moon Dust (an exploitation program to locate, recover, and deliver descended foreign space vehicles), and Operation Blue Fly

3/(to facilitate delivery to the Foreign Technological Division of Moon Dust and other items of great technical intelligence interest). These three functions involve “employment of qualified field intelligence personnel on a quick reaction basis to recover or perform field

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Today In UFO/ET Histoy - Space Signals?
November 13, 1962 - Am. Rocket Society
1/Two IBM engineers, C. D. Jackson and Robert E. Hohmann, present a paper at the American Rocket Society annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, noting

2/the alleged extraterrestrial signals detected by Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, and David Todd between 1899 and 1924. They speculate that the signal source was 11 light years away, perhaps the Epsilon Eridani system. [Eberhart]

Sources:
"Rocket Society Report on Space Signals", NICAP U.F.O. Investigator Jan./Feb. 1963 Vol.II, No.7, pg.4;

The actual paper was very difficult to find, it seems to have been wiped from most places on the internet. But I have provided it here.

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