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Jan 14

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Today in UFO History - Close Encounter / Loss of Consciousness
January 14, 1980 — Burnley to Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England
1/6:05 a.m. Truck driver William Barrett is on an early delivery run from Burnley to Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, when

2/he hears a deep humming sound. Looking ahead, he sees a machine with flames underneath hovering at a lay-by off the roadside. He slows his truck to a near crawl and moves past the object, which looks like a “toast rack” with curved sides and three red glows emerging from the

3/edge to create a misty fuzziness obscuring the base. Now only 25 feet away, he sees that it has a bell- or tortoiseshell shape with a metallic sheen and a tube sticking up from the top. The red glows emerge from under a rim that runs around the lower part of the object. He can

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Jan 14

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Today in UFO History - Missing Time Abduction
January 14, 1976 - East Bethel, MN
1/Mrs. J. Stewart was driving on a highway in East Bethel, Minnesota and when she arrived home she could not account for at least one hour of her time. Under hypnosis she

2/recounted being abducted from her car by a tall figure dressed in white. There were two more such beings in the door of a translucent UFO. bottom bubble of UFO. She recalled at one point that the face of the being was very close to her own face,

3/and it had big slanted eyes. [Donald A. Johnson]
Note: Case listed incorrectly as Jan 6th in some publications.
Sources:
Richard Swanson, CUFOS case investigation files, report dated January 22, 1976;

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Jan 13

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Today in UFO History - Vehicle Interference / E-M Effects
January 13, 1959 — Pymatuning Lake, Pennsylvania
1/7:00 a.m. Robert Collins is driving a pickup truck south on Hartstown Road across Pymatuning Lake, Pennsylvania, when he sees a bright light

2/approaching from the east and illuminating the ground. It stops above his truck, hovering 200 feet above it for several minutes. The truck’s electrical system fails, the engine dies, and the headlights and radio go out. The object’s light illuminates an area about 300 feet in

3/front of him. It takes off and disappears in seconds, and the truck begins working again. [Eberhart]
Sources:
“Area Man’s Encounter with Unidentified Flying Object Called Weirdest Experience,” Greenville (Pa.) Record-Argus, January 31, 1959, pp. 1–2;

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Jan 12

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Today in UFO History - Blaine AFB Cont. / Landing On Farm Near By
January 12, 1965 — Custer, Washington
1/8:20 p.m. A Mrs. Jubert in Custer, Washington, sees through her window what seems to be the landing lights of an airplane apparently coming into her

2/yard. She herds her three teenage girls outside in the opposite direction. The four lights merge into one intense white light, which moves in a straight line toward the house, lifts several hundred feet and clears a clump of evergreens, then dips down on the far side and

3/touches the ground. A border patrol officer also sees the object after he is alerted by radio. He is buzzed by the UFO, which is low enough that he stops his car, gets out, and watches it move out of sight. Where the object lands in 16 inches of snow, they find a large circular

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Jan 12

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Today in UFO History - Driver Avoids Collision With 30' Object / Blaine AFB
January 12, 1965 — Lynden, Washington
1/1:00 a.m. Department of Justice Inspector Robert E. Kerringer [or is it Donald E. Flickinger, an agent of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco

2/, and Firearms?] is driving near Lynden, Washington, when he sees a low-flying object, 30 feet in diameter, that avoids collision with his car at the last moment. He gets out and sees it hovering for one minute, then it flies off at high speed with a sound of rushing air. He

3/learns that nearby Blaine Air Force Station [now closed] is tracking the UFO. [Eberhart]
Sources:
Brad Sparks, BB Unknowns File, Case #1596, p. 303;
Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p.304, case #630;

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Jan 12

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Today In Aviation/Nuclear Test History - Project NERVA / KIWI Test
January 12,1965 — Area 25, Nevada Test Site
1/10:58 a.m. The Kiwi Transient Nuclear Test is conducted at Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site as part of Project NERVA.

2/The nuclear rocket engine code-named Kiwi is allowed to overheat until it bursts, sending fuel hurtling skyward. Deadly radioactive fuel chunks as large as 148 pounds shoot up into the sky and last as far away as a quarter mile. A radioactive cloud rises up to 2,600 feet, then

3/drifts out over Los Angeles, California, and out to sea. The AEC calls it a “safety test,” but the USSR says it violates the test ban. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Anne Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 309–310;

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