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By Norio Hayakawa
CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE NETWORK
3-16-07
We often say we need a "mass" sighting of UFOs to once and for all convince the public that UFOs are not a figment of imagination. But just such a "mass" sighting may already have taken place in the U.S. In fact, it was reported that it went on for three days.
No, it's not Roswell.
It's not the 1997 Phoenix lights, either.
The most spectacular "mass" UFO sighting in U.S. history (or perhaps in the entire world) actually took place for three days in March of 1950 over a small town of Farmington, New Mexico, according to its newspaper, the
FARMINGTON DAILY TIMES.
Farmington is only 45 miles southeast of the Four Corners area, an area long known for frequent UFO sightings since the late 40's. Farmington is only 18 miles southwest of Aztec (the alleged site of an alleged 1948 'saucer' crash) and is 60 miles west of Dulce (alleged site of an alleged 'underground' U.S./alien bio-lab). Farmington is also 100 miles northwest of Los Alamos National Laboratory which houses the world's foremost human genome research projects, aside from many other top-secret projects.
The reason that this spectacular Farmington 'incident' did not receive much attention was mainly because by 1948 the public, for the most part, seemed to have lost interest in 'saucer' sightings, following the retraction by the military that the Roswell incident of 1947 was not a crash of a 'flying saucer'. Sure, there were still some sightings occasionally reported thereafter, here and there, but the 'saucer' craze practically died down, even though there were several 'flaps' in the mid 50's, the mid 60's and the early 70's. The Roswell 'incident' by then was long forgotten. (It was only resurrected in 1982 with the publication of THE ROSWELL INCIDENT by Charles Berlitz and William Moore.)
Here is the front-page top headline news from
FARMINGTON DAILY TIMES of March 18, 1950: (word for word):
HUGE 'SAUCER' ARMADA JOLTS FARMINGTON
Crafts Seen By Hundreds
Speed Estimated at 1000 MPH, Altitude 20,000 feet For the third consecutive day flying saucers have been reported over Farmington. And on each of the three days their arrival here was reported between 11 and noon.
Three persons called the
Daily Times office to report seeing strange objects in the air just before noon.
Persons along Main Street once again could be seen looking skyward and pointing.
High winds and a dust storm prevented clear vision.
Fully half of this town's population still is certain today that it saw space ships or some strange aircraft -
hundreds of them zooming through the skies yesterday. Estimates of the number ranged from
"several to more that 500." Whatever they were, they caused a major sensation in this community, which lies only 110 air miles northwest of the huge Los Alamos Atomic installation.
The objects appeared to play tag high in the air. At times they streaked away at almost unbelievable speeds. One witness did a triangulation sighting on one of the objects and estimated its speed at about 1,000 miles an hour, and estimated its size as approximately twice that of a B-29.
Farmington citizens stood in the streets yesterday watching the first reported mass "flying saucer" flight ever sighted. Traffic was slowed to avoid hitting sky gazers. The office of the Farmington Daily Times was deluged with calls from persons who saw the objects.
Red Leader Scores described the objects as silvery discs. A number agreed they saw one that was red in color -- bigger and faster, and apparently the leader.
Clayton J. Boddy, 32, business manager of Farmington Times and a former Army Engineers captain in Italy, was one of those who saw the startling objects.
Boddy was on roadway when all of a sudden he noticed a few moving objects high in the sky.
"Moments later there appeared what seemed to be about 500 of them," Boddy continued. He could not estimate their size or speed, but said they appeared to be about 15,000 feet high.
Boddy's account was confirmed by Joseph C. and Francis C. Kelloff, retail grocers from Antonito, Colo., who were in Farmington to inspect the site of a proposed new store, and by Bob Foutz and John Burrell of Farmington. The Kelloffs said the objects appeared to be flying in formation.
One of the most impressive accounts came from Harold F. Thatcher, head of the Farmington unit of the Soil Conservation service. Thatcher made a triangulation on one of a number of flying craft, He said if it had been a B-29 it would have been 2,000 feet high and traveling more than 1000 miles per hour.
Knows Engineering "I'm not a professional engineer," Thatcher said, "but I have engineers working under me and I know how to work out rough triangulation on an object."
Thatcher emphatically denied an earlier report that the objects could have been small pieces of cotton fuzz floating in the atmosphere.
"It was not cotton," he said, "I saw several pieces of cotton fuzz floating around in the air at the time, but I was not sighting on any cotton."
The "cotton" report was started by State Patrolman Andy Andrews, who quoted several Farmington Residents as asserting it was cotton they saw. The residents denied Andrew's report.
The first reports of flying saucers were noted a few minutes before 11 a.m. yesterday. For a full hour thereafter people deluged the Times with reports of the objects.
A second large scale sighting occurred at 3 p.m. At that time, Mrs. Wilson Jones, 27, and Mr. Roy Hicks, 33, housewives reported seeing objects to the north of Farmington, flying in perfect formation. Others reported the same sight.
Johnny Eaton, 29, a real estate and insurance salesman, and Edward Brooks, 24, an employee of the Perry Smoak garage, were the first to report the red-colored sky object.
Not Airplanes Brooks, a B-29 tail gunner during the war, said he was positive the objects sighted were not airplanes. "The very maneuvering of the things couldn't be that of modern aircraft," he said.
John Bloomfield, another employee of Smoak's garage, said the objects he saw traveled at a speed that appeared to him to be about 10 times faster than that of jet planes. In addition, he said the objects frequently made right-angle turns.
"They appeared to be coming at each other head-on," he related. " At the last second, one would veer at right angles upward, the other at right angles downward. One saucer would pass another and immediately the one to the rear would zoom into the lead."
Marlow Webb, another garage employee, said the objects to the naked eye appeared to be about eight inches in diameter as seen from the ground. He described them as about the size of a dinner plate." "They flew sideways, on edge and at every conceivable angle," he said. "This is what made it easy to determine that they were saucer-shaped." None of the scores of reports told of any vapor trail or engine noise. Nor did anyone report any windows or other markings on the craft.
In general Farmington accepted the phenomenon calmly, although it was reported some women employees of a laundry became somewhat panicky.
---end of the news article--- We are not talking about a couple of 'flying saucers'. We are talking about hundreds, up to 500 of 'them' in the sky over Farmington, New Mexico!! And this happened in March of 1950, according to the newspaper article. Unlike the Roswell 'incident', the FARMINGTON DAILY TIMES never retracted that news article.
Hundreds of residents of Farmington still attest to the reality of that incident.
I have a difficult time believing some allegation that what the people there saw were cottonballs flying in the air!!
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