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Nov 28

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Today In UFO History - United Nations Meeting
November 27, 1978 - Special Committee, UN
1/J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallée, Stanton T. Friedman, Lawrence J. Coyne [UFO witness from Coyne Helicopter CE2 case], and Grenada Ambassador at Large

2/Wellington Friday speak before the UN Special Political Committee. Grenada seeks to interest the UN in a three-member panel to initiate a formal UFO study program, but its efforts are unavailing. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Jerome Clark,"United Nations and UFOs", The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rdEd, pg.1190;

Bowen, Charles. “UFOs Debated at the United Nations.” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 6 (April 1979): 5–11;

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Nov 26

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Today in UFO History - Two Objects Tracked By A/A Gun Radar - Al Chop Clearance Case
Nov. 25, 1952 - Canal Zone - Panama
1/ 6:06 P.M. to 11:47 p.m. Two objects traveling at an estimated speed of 275 mph were detected by radar attached to antiaircraft

2/ guns. The objects remained over the Canal Zone for 5 1/2 hours. Three Air Force bombers and a Navy patrol plane were sent up but were unable to catch the elusive objects. Maneuvering from 1000 feet to 28,000 feet in altitude. [Fran Ridge]
#41 on original Chop clearance list

Sources:
Gillmore, Daniel, (ed.) Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects. Bantam Books: New York, NY, 1968, pp.168-170;
NARA-PBB92-585;

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Nov 23

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Today In UFO HIstory - The Willamette Pass Photo Hoax
November 22, 1966 - Diamond Peak, Oregon
1/9:00–10:00 a.m. A biochemist and consultant to a logging company and his wife are traveling on State Highway 58 through the Willamette Pass, Oregon

2/, when he decides to stop and take photos of some scenery. He stops at the Diamond Peak overlook, takes 2 photos, then pauses to take a third. Suddenly, he claims, a disc-shaped object with a domed top ascends into his field of view. After stopping for 3 seconds, it shoots off

3/toward the right and disappears into a cloud bank. When he develops the roll of film, the photos show a blurred disc-shaped object with two black bands beneath and sitting atop a seeming column of vapor. NICAP is given the photo but is not impressed. In 1989, physicist Irwin

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Nov 22

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Today In UFO History - An Early Triangle Sighting
November 21, 1957 - nr. Gesten, Denmark
1/Merchant Hans Haugaard Hansen is driving out of Gesten, Denmark, on the road to Egholt when he sees a triangular UFO moving low over a field some

2/300–600 feet away. It is emitting a red or orange light and makes no sound. The bottom of the object is solid, but the upper part is transparent, and he can see two figures inside. He stops the car to watch as it moves about 40 mph. Similar objects are seen at Jordrup and

3/Vorbasse. [Eberhart]

Sources:
“Flying Saucer Reports Pour in from Denmark,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1958): 2;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 13th–30th, The Author, 1998, p. 56;

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Nov 22

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Today in UFO History - The Silpho Moor Saucer
November 21, 1957 - nr. Silpho, North Yorkshire, UK
1/Night. Frank Dickenson and two friends are driving up Reasty Hill near the village of Silpho, North Yorkshire, England, when their car

2/stalls and they see a glowing object in the sky that appears to fall to the ground on a ridge above Broxa Forest. Dickenson leaves the car with a flashlight, climbs up a bank, and finds in a patch of bracken a metallic saucer shaped like a “large flattish spinning top,”

3/18 inches in diameter and weighing 33 pounds. As he returns to tell his friends, he passes a young couple walking toward the scene. When the tree men return to search for it, the disc is gone. Dickenson places an advertisement in a Scarborough newspaper about the disc, and he

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Nov 21

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Today In UFO History - Humanoids on Flying Platform
November 20, 1968 - Hanbury, Staffordshire, UK
1/5:45 p.m. Milan and Doris Milakovic and their son are driving southwest out of Hanbury, Staffordshire, England, when several rabbits run across the

2/road from their left. Suddenly they see a brilliant object. They stop the car and watch as it rises from a field on their left, silently pass over the car, and move toward a solitary house about 300 feet away on the right where it stops and hovers, “quivering like jelly.” The

3/air temperature seems to drop. For approximately 5 minutes, they see what appear to be several humanoid figures walking across the bright top of the UFO, which is as wide as the house. Intermittently, some of the figures bend down as though looking at something in the part of

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