Flying Saucers Reported to Have Landed in Idaho - The Hunt is On

Following reports that a number of the mysterious "Flying Saucers" had actually been landing in mountains near St. Marias, Idaho (shown on map, right), the first official effort to track down one of the what-is-its was begun by the town’s mayor. Above is an artist's conception of what the now-you-see-them-now-you-don't discs might look like if they turn out to be man-made devices.

By The Salt Lake Tribune From The UFO Chronicles 7-7-1947

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UFO Fragments Found, More Craft Sighted | UFO CHRONICLE – 1947

Two flying disks were reported found in Texas and at least one is being investigated by military officials as the total number of Texans claiming to have seen the mysterious objects passed the 50 mark yesterday

By Abilene Reporter News 7-8-1947

The disks were reported found on a beach near Trinity Bay, near Houston and near Hillsboro.

The Houston Chronicle said a great deal of mystery surrounded the one found near there by Norman Hargrave ....

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Blinding UFO Shuts Down Texas Cars | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

A mysterious egg-shaped object, red as a blinding, setting sun and faster than the speed of sound, streaked over west Texas and New Mexico Saturday night and early yesterday, and one man said he even saw it sitting in the highway.

By The Indianapolis Star The 11-4-1957

James A. Lee of Abilene, Tex., who is a member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, rushed here to investigate and said he will send a report to Washington.

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THE MOST graphic description came from Jesse D. Long of Waco, Tex., who said the object killed the engine of his automobile and put out his headlights.

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UFO Photographed Over El Paso Mystifies Residents

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s…something unusual?

As an avid sky watcher, I’m always interested in reports of unknown aerial phenomenon. Monday night, was just the type of thing I love. As reports came in of something strange in the skies above east El Paso, I jumped in my car to see if I, too, could spot this UFO.

By Amy Cooley El Paso Herald 12-16-19

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Most of the time, UFO sightings can be attributed a misidentification of the planet Venus, but based on the most reputable report I’d gotten, this was not the case. The object seemed to change color, turning from bright white to red as the sun went down behind the mountains.

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Mysterious Sky Object Stops Cars – Air Force To Investigate

A huge, strangely-lit object which appeared over West Texas, Southern New Mexico and Chicago on Sunday night, stopped the engines and put the lights out in near-by cars, witnesses in Texas claimed.

The Air Force has begun investigating the reports. Sightings in New Mexico were near bunkers used in the first

By The Sun 11-6-1957

atomic bomb explosion and were made many hours apart by two different military police patrols.

Members of one patrol said the the object was 200 or 300 hundred ft. long and disappeared after blinking off and on.

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Another Part of the Levelland UFO Investigation

I have been reviewing the Levelland landing with its electromagnetic effects. I have said that an Air Force NCO conducted a one-day investigation and that was it. I have reported that the Air Force made a number of points about the case including that while Donald Keyhoe of NICAP claimed nine witnesses, there were only three. Interestingly, the claim of three witnesses is contradicted in the Blue Book file that contains interviews with a half dozen witnesses and information about others. In fact, in an undated and unsigned summary of the case, the Blue Book file says, “A mysterious

By Kevin Randle A Different Perspective 8-15-19

object, whose shape was described variously as ranging from round to oval, and predominantly bluish-white in color was observed by six persons [emphasis added] near the town of Levelland, Texas.”

In all, I have found witnesses, on the record in 1957, at thirteen separate locations with multiple witnesses at several of those. And I haven’t even counted the law enforcement officers who had sightings. This, as noted in an earlier post, included the sheriff and the fire marshal.

As confirmed by several sources, we all know that Staff Sergeant Norman Barth made an investigation that lasted part of one day. He interviewed a few of the witnesses. He was hung up on the weather at the time of the sightings, believing that weather had an influence. Ultimately, he and the Air Force, would latch onto ball lightning as the culprit though ball lightning is not a viable explanation.

In fact, a report signed by Captain George T. Gregory, who was the chief of Blue Book at the time, made the case for ball lightning, apparently unaware that ball lightning is a short-lived phenomenon, and the it is rarely, if ever larger than a foot or two in diameter. In the Air Force report on this, also found in the Blue Book files, they say ball lightning is only about eight inches in diameter.

Smyer, Texas, on the same road that many of the sightings took place in November 1957. Photo copyright by Kevin Randle.

But there is another problem with this case. According to a document in the Blue Book files, Major Daniel R. Kester, the Reese Air Force Base Provost Marshal, visited the “alleged scene in conjunction with local civil authorities. Negative results.” There was a handwritten note next to that notation that said, “They did not see anything unusual.”

So, while Barth takes the heat for his most of a day investigation with a notation that he failed to locate some of the witnesses, there was another “investigation” going on. I put that in quotes because I can find nothing more about this meeting between the Air Force “top cop” in the area, and the civilian law enforcement representatives.

I’m not sure what Kester would have expected to find in those locations since there is no indication of where they went and what they looked at. I was at the locations in 2012, some 55 years after the fact, and I saw nothing unusual (of course, I didn’t expect to find anything).

I did notice that some of the documents in the file had, at one time, been classified. That would have restricted access to those with the proper clearances and a need to know. That would not have included reporters who had neither the clearances nor the need to know.

While Barth apparently didn’t spend a lot of time investigating the case, though he was commended for his thorough investigation, the Provost Marshal, also conducted an investigation. I find nothing to tell me what he learned, though he must have written some kind of a report about the “meeting.”

For those keeping score at home, I seriously doubt that his report would be in the files at Reese AFB at this late date. Once the investigation was completed, the records would have been kept for a specified period of time and then destroyed, if classified and just thrown out if not. I did the same thing with classified documents while I was serving as an intelligence officer. We destroyed those things that had no more relevance to our operation but were still classified and we threw out those that weren’t classified when we no longer needed them.

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Army Reports Huge UFO Hovering Over First Atomic Bomb Explosion Site | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

'Huge Oval-Shaped' UFO Hovering Over A-Bomb Bunker at Trinity Site | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

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Egg-Shaped UFO Stalls Cars On Highway | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

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The Levelland UFO Landing and Sheriff Weir Clem

As many of you know, I have long thought that the Levelland sightings of November 2/3, 1957, are among the best. There are multiple witnesses in multiple locations who reported their cars stopped and their lights dimmed at the close approach of a glowing red (and sometimes blue) egg-shaped craft. Dr. Don Burleson, who lives in Roswell which is not all that far from Levelland (which is near Lubbock), made a personal trip there. While he was unable to interview Sheriff Weir Clem, who

By Kevin Randle A Different Perspective 8-13-19

had died, he did speak to the daughter. According to an article in the Roswell Daily Record, “Aided by the Chamber of Commerce, we [meaning Burleson and his wife Mollie] were able to find one of the late sheriff’s daughters and I interviewed her twice.”

According to Burleson, “She [Ginger (Clem) Sims] described her father having tried to drive close to an airborne object, and having his engine and lights die.” That, of course, put him in conflict with what had been reported by the Air Force in 1957. The story was that he had only seen something in the distance, described as a streak of red light. The Blue Book files suggest that it was too far away from him, and those with him, including police officers in another car, to have seen anything important.

But if his motor died and his lights dimmed, he was much closer to the object than had been reported by the Air Force. If he was close enough to the object that it would stall his engine, he was close enough to get a good look at it. And if Clem was that close, so were the policemen in the car following behind. How would the Air Force explain four law enforcement officers confirming the stories that were being told by so many others about their Close Encounters?

Site of the first reported encounter in 1957. Photo
copyright by Kevin Randle.

The real question is if Clem was so involved in this in 1957, why didn’t he say anything at the time. Again, according to Burleson and to Clem’s daughter, “The Air Force visited him after his sighting(s) and advised him to ‘drop it’ and forget that he had ever seen anything.”

Such a request by the military is not unprecedented in UFO history. Sheriff George Wilcox of Roswell fame said much the same thing. He told reporters that he was working with the boys out at the air base and their questions should be directed to them. Wilcox offered nothing of value to the reporters who interviewed him.

There are other examples as well, though some were grounded in protecting classified information. A request to law enforcement not to reveal details of a sighting to the media seem to have been routine. To be fair, sometimes it was just to protect the witness. Lonnie Zamora was told by an FBI agent that he should keep the descriptions of the beings he saw to himself. Arthur Byrnes thought it would save Zamora some embarrassment, but by the time the suggestion was made it was too late. The information had already been reported.

So, we come back to the Levelland story, told by Clem’s daughter, that her father had gotten closer than had been reported. Skeptics will point out that the official records in 1957 showed that Clem was only reported to have seen the object, or lights, in the distance, some 900 feet away and they’ll reject, out of hand this new information. It is, after all, from the sheriff’s daughter, a second-hand witness, and was told nearly fifty years after the fact. In today’s world, it is interesting, but it is believed there is no way to verify any of it.

Ironically however, there was some corroboration for this tale that was provided in 1957 and was found in the Project Blue Book file. An article published in the Indianapolis Star on November 4, 1957, seemed to confirm the daughter’s claim. According to that article, “’It [the UFO] lit up the whole pavement in front of us for about two seconds,’ said Clem. He called it oval shaped and said it looked like a brilliant red sunset.”

There is still additional corroboration for Clem’s closer approach. In the Blue Book files is most of one of the Air Force forms about UFOs. At the top, in a handwritten note, it says, “Sheriff’s statement given telephonically to Sgt. [illegible] 3 Nov 1957 re this case.”

According to that document, the sheriff said that he was within 200 yards of the object, or much closer than has been reported. He said the object was circular, as opposed to a streak of light and that it was dark orange. A drawing made, by the NCO taking the statement verified that it was circular. Inside that drawing it seems to say 50 yards, but the 50 might be crossed out and replaced by 100. That makes it a huge craft.

Yes, I know what the response from the skeptics will be. It’s just a newspaper article and now part of an official investigation and the form was not filled out by the sheriff. To them I say, “It is a claim that was published within 48 hours of the initial reports, and it does add some weight to what the daughter told Burleson. It is the Air Force form filled out based on the interview with the sheriff.” This is some confirmation but each one of us is going to have to decide how much weight to give it.

Just as has been said about the Socorro landing… “If only…” If only the Air Force had been interested in gathering data. If only Donald Keyhoe’s mission hadn’t been to force congressional hearing, but to gather data. If only there had been cooperation rather than acrimony, what might we have learned.

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UFO Lands, Stalls Cars Before Leaving Area | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

Dozens of persons in this west Texas area told of spotting a brightly lighted phantom object squat in the roadways and take to the air Saturday nigt and early Sunday.

By Deseret News and Telegram 11-8-1957

Sheriff Weir Clem, who said he observed the phenomenon personally, reported one witness, James D. Long, a truck driver from Waco, Tex., fainted from fright.

Clem and Long drove to the object while it appeared to be halted in a road about 4 miles west of Levelland, which is 32 miles west of Lubbock.

Long reported the object, about 200 feet long and shaped like an egg, "cut off the engine and lights on his truck." When the object took off again, Long told the sheriff, his engine and lights came back on.

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Texas Woman Recalls 'UFO' Crash in 1897

A 91-year-old woman says she remembers the night on April 19, 1897, her parents went to the spot where an airship crashed into Judge Proctor's well and the pilot was buried in the community cemetery.

By Los Angeles Herald-Examiner 5-31-1973

"That crash certainly caused a lot of excitement," Mary Evans said Wednesday. "Many people were frightened. They didn't know what to expect. That was years before we had any regular airplanes or other kind of airships."

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UFO Explodes Over Dallas | UFO CHRONICLE –1967

A Dallas man reported last night he saw a bright orange-colored object equipped with an antenna move over Dallas Monday night and later explode as it travelled toward Hunlock Creek.

By Wilkes-Barre Times Leader 6-28-1967

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Reward for Stolen UFO Alien Grave Marker

Legend has it that about 120 years ago, a spacecraft or airship of some sort crashed in the small town of Aurora northwest of Fort Worth and that the body of a little space man is buried in the cemetery there.

A Dallas lawyer is offering $1,000 for the return of a grave marker stolen from a cemetery in the small Texas city of Aurora where, according to local legend, the remains of an alien killed in a UFO crash were buried.

By Gordon Dickson www.star-telegram.com 3-30-18

Stratton Horres, a Dallas civil defense attorney, said he doesn't necessarily believe the reported April 17, 1897, crash in the tiny city about 27 miles north of downtown Fort Worth involved an aircraft from outer space — or that there was even a crash at all. But he enjoys reading about and researching stories of unidentified flying objects, and wants to see if his financial offer might turn up some evidence one way or the other.

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Object Lands On Highway

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Sightings of a blazing oval shaped object that landed on highways and then took off at tremendous speeds straight up early this moring have been reported to sheriff's offices here by at least five witnesses from different points near Levelland.

By Amarillo Daily News 11-4-1957

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"I've had four eyewitnesses who saw it come down on the road," Clem said. "On three separate occasions the object killed the engines of motor vehicles, but when it took off, the engines would start up again."

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Anniversary of Aurora's UFO Crash & 'Alien' Pilot Pass without Fanfare | VIDEO

AURORA, Texas -- An anniversary quietly passed in March without much notice in Aurora, Texas. [...]

By Kevin Reece www.khou.com 5-10-17

The story is Aurora’s biggest. The Dallas Morning News wrote about it in 1987. In the report, they wrote about a "terrific explosion" that occurred when a flying saucer collided with a windmill, and that the"badly disfigured" and deceased pilot "was not an inhabitant of this world."

There's an historic marker bearing that same story at the old Aurora Cemetery. Amid the gravestones of Aurora's founding fathers and mothers, we were able to have a conversation with the city administrator while she sat on a large rock.

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Unsolved UFO Case Baffles Police Officer

HOUSTON (KTRK–The Mutual UFO Network in Houston reports about 80 suspected UFO sightings a year. That's not including the ones that are seen but not reported. One top UFO expert, Fletcher Gray, explains why so many of the sightings aren't UFOs. But, he also says there is one case that he still can't figure out.

By Foti Kallergis abc13.com 3-3-17

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Many sightings turn out to be aircrafts, weather balloons, or lanterns. But one sighting still puzzles Gray to this day.

Traveling down Highway 1960 near Dayton, Gray shows us the spot where a man told him he saw an aircraft that defied gravity.

"It spanned all the way to that tree line over there," he said.

A photo of what the aircraft may have looked like confounds Gray to its size.

The eyewitness told Gray the aircraft could be seen hovering. And then, it disappeared.

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UFO Contact in Loco, Texas – April 1, 1967

Carroll Wayne Watts said he had a close encounter with a UFO the night of March 31, 1967, but it was not reported until the following day, on April 1. Watts lived in the tiny town of Loco, in the Texas Panhandle, just south of Wellington, about 100 miles east of

By Curt Collins www.blueblurrylines.com 3-31-17

Amarillo. His story was carried in United Press International news service, UPI, and published March 2, as reprinted below:

Saucer Speaks

A Wellington farmer said today that he spoke to a flying saucer last night. The man, Carroll Watts, said he was returning home from his father`s residence about a mile north of his home at about 10:30 Friday night when he saw a light from about where an abandoned house stands.

He turned off the dirt road and headed toward the light. He said he drove to within about 20 feet of an object which “appeared to be about 100 feet long and eight or ten feet high.”

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UFO Kills Electronics, Creates Fog?



A Texas witness at Katy recalled a UFO encounter from early 2016 where he and his wife watched a triangle UFO the size of a “mother ship” that apparently affected their electronic equipment at ground level and created a fog around itself, according to testimony in Case 81939 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. The witness and his wife were driving along I-10 near Katy at 7 p.m. on February 3, 2016, when the incident began.

OpenMinds.tv 2-10-17

“Looking up and out of the sun roof – because she said she had the inkling or feeling to do so – she points out to me what looks like two black dots or holes that might be a break in the clouds,” the witness states.

The witness stated that he could see the cloud cover moving between them and black dots – but then noticed a third black dot.

“So I could see the low night fog moving over these dots, so therefore it wasn’t a break in the cloud cover.”

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“As I am looking up, a random area in the above fog surrounding these dots gets a very slight, but noticeable, illumination of sorts. For around 5-10 seconds, I can see a portion of this ship above us in the low cloud cover and it opens up and a disc/boomerang-shaped object comes out of it.”

After seeing this, the witness immediately pulled into a parking lot nearby to stop for a better look.

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UFOs Filmed Over Austin

Some Austin residents want to know if the truth really is out there. On Monday night, they recorded video of what they think could be UFO's. There are reports that several people saw something in the sky over Texas.

By Ashley Paredez Fox 7 News 1-24-17

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"I believe they were UFO's," says Rachel Jensen, witness.

Jensen says it was an impressive show in the sky over East Austin.

"By the time they actually got here, it's like they went up and then took off. The speed of them was so fast," says Jensen.

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Ghost Rockets Documentary – A Review

Watch the skies for Ghost Rockets, which received its Texas premiere today at Other Worlds Austin

In search of UFOs and meaning

There's a supreme arrogance to pretending there is no life beyond Earth. But isn't it equally hubristic to think they would traverse inconceivable interstellar distances, just to see us scarcely upright apes? And yet, as Fox Mulder would say, we want to believe.

By Richard Whittaker The Austin Chronicle 12-4-16

Scandinavian documentary Ghost Rockets catches that inner contradiction through the work of Clas Svahn and UFO-Sweden, a nonprofit dedicated to sorting the wheat from the chaff of airborne sightings. Only, so far, it's all been chaff. "My working day is all about ministrepretations," says one of the team, as he rattles off a list of reasoned explanations that debunk every single sighting.

Well, almost every sighting.

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Aliens in Aurora: Legend of 1897 UFO

AURORA–Toni Wheeler holds fond memories of growing up in the rural town of Aurora, sitting on the porch of an elderly resident named Mr. Mayfield and listening to him tell about the time a UFO crashed into a windmill, killing a spaceman.

By Gordon Dickson www.star-telegram.com 4-14-16

“He would tell us it did in fact happen,” said Wheeler, now the city administrator, recounting one of the highlights of her Wise County childhood in the late 1970s. “He said tons of people went rushing up there to the [crash] site, but they made all the kids stay back underneath the hill, because they were afraid it might have a disease.”

The legend of the 1897 crash of an alien spacecraft 27 miles northwest of downtown Fort Worth certainly put Aurora on the map — having been retold in books, movies and TV shows — although many residents would just as soon their community not be known for such a tale.

But many others — Wheeler among them — are ready to embrace the extraterrestrial adventure, and on Saturday they will host the first of what they hope will become an annual event known as the Aurora Alien Encounter. [...]

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