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Today in UFO History - First Unknown in RAAF's UFO Files
January 23, 1964 — nr. Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, AUS
1/The landing craft Loellen M. is in the Gulf of Carpentaria between Cape Grey and Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, Australia, when

2/a crew member notices the compass is malfunctioning (“haywire”) and the vessel is off course, He notices an odd phosphorescence in the water on the starboard side about 6 feet away from the ship. It is a ghostly, pulsating white light that is rotating in a clockwise direction.

3/ It seems to be “miles across.” As the light wheel moves to the ship’s port side, another rotating light approaches the ship’s starboard side. This undoubtedly involves some unusual bioluminescence,

4/but it is significant that it is the first “unknown” in the RAAF’s UFO files. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Newspaper - The Australian of May 15, 1968;
Carl W. Feindt, Water and UFOs database, Report #278;
Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, 1970, p. 112;

Sources cont.:
Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, 1975, p. 204;
Michael Swords et al, UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry, pg. 390;
Mike Swords File, 74E;

project1947.com/forum/bcoz5.ht…

“UNUSUAL AERIAL SIGHTINGS”
A SEARCH THROUGH THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT’S RECORDS SYSTEMS
Compiled by Keith Basterfield
project1947.com/kbcat/kb_uasgo…

theozfiles.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-gr…

reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMy…

Pages 40-44 of this file:
documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos…

Pages 270-272 of this file (Folio 41, 580/1/1 Part 4)
archive.org/details/Austra… 4_645645/page/n269/mode/2up

UFO Seekers did a video about this case:

The RAAF and the UFO’s: some of the story
Wing Commander Paget discussed the RAAF’s investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects – UFO’s.
[the main website the audio doesnt work anymore, but if you use Wayback and press play it should work]
web.archive.org/web/2022032303…

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Jan 23

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Today in UFO History - UFO Hovering Over Field Stalls Cars
January 23,1965 — Lightfoot, N. of Williamsburg, VA
1/8:40 a.m. Two separate cars driving in different direction stall out near the intersection of US Hwy 60 and State Route 614 in

2/Lightfoot, Virginia. One of the drivers, Thomas F. Mains, sees a lightbulb- or mushroom-shaped object 75–80 feet tall and 10–25 feet wide, hovering over nearby field about 4 feet off the ground. It is metallic gray, with red-orange and blue lights and is making a vacuum cleaner

3/ noise. It suddenly accelerates horizontally to the west against the wind and disappears. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Richmond Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA), January 24, 1965, pg. 1;
Daily Press (Newport News, VA), January 26, 1965, pg. 3;

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Jan 22

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Today in UFO History - Donald Keyhoe Cut-off on Armstrong Circle Theater
January 22, 1958 —
1/The “UFO: The Enigma of the Skies” segment of Armstrong Circle Theater airs on CBS.

2/USAF Reserve Lt. Col. Spencer Whedon from ATIC says all UFOs are explainable. Keyhoe comes on and starts reading his script for a few minutes, then shocks everyone by deviating from it, saying “And now, Mr. Edwards, I would like to make a disclosure, something which has never

3/ been revealed to the public. For the last six months our committee has been working with a Senate committee which is investigating official secrecy on UFOs. If the hearings are held, open hearings, I feel it would prove beyond doubt that flying saucers are real—”. Then his

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Jan 21

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Today In UFO History - TBM Chases UFO / 'Maybe it was a spaceship'
January 21, 1952 — Long Island, NY
1/9:50 a.m. A Navy pilot lieutenant commander in a TBM Avenger chases a white, dome-shaped object over Mitchel AFB [now closed] on Long Island, New York.

2/ It accelerates rapidly, makes a 180° turn, and heads out to sea. He estimates it is traveling at least at 300 mph. It looks like a parachute canopy and has a dark undersurface. Although there is a balloon in the area, but its flight path is completely different. [Eberhart]

Sources:

Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns, Case 502, p. 118;
Project GRUDGE Rpts. No. 3, p. 8, No. 4, pp. 9-12ff.;

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Jan 21

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Today in UFO History - F-82 Attempts Intercept of UFO Over AEC Plant / Radar
January 21, 1951 — Oak Ridge, Tenn.
1/4:20 p.m. A UFO that appears to be over the restricted area at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is sighted on the radarscope of an

2/F-82 fighter. The GCI gives the go-ahead to intercept the target. The radar set on the F-82 is locked on and the run begins. The interception is unsuccessful, and the fighter returns to base. In all, three passes are made at targets, all with radar indications, but they cannot

3/be completed since the target is over the restricted area that includes the X-10 plant. [Eberhart]

Note the X-10 "plant" was the world's 2nd nuclear reactor, the graphite reactor for producing plutonium. [Brad Sparks]
Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns, Case 436, p. 104;

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Jan 21

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@ArtL7 1/I use a variety of sources to find cases for each day. George Eberhart's UFOs and Intelligence timeline I use alot these days (didnt used to, but its amazing and saves me alot of time). Sometimes I just browse NICAP chronos listings, or Brad Sparks Blue Books Unknown file. Or

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@ArtL7 2/other case catalogues. Sometimes I stumble across something randomly in a magazine or newsletter for an upcoming date, and make a note of it. Sometimes I just search my files for todays date and see what pops up. Then I try and find every single reference for that case I can

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@ArtL7 3/and provide images or whatever of those. Where I got the case from usually points me to at least a few references. Then I try and dig up more by searching through various public and private sources for that case to see if I can find anything else. Most of the time I spend is

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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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