Started a blog to archeive and compile sources. My goal is not to prove or debunk cases since that's basically impossible. I highly encourage people to do their own research. -- Probably won't post as much as I should. -- Main blog is @willowjay07
The encounter happened in Falkville, Alabama on October 17th, 1973. A police officer named Jeff Greenhaw got a call that a woman had seen a UFO. It was 10 PM, and he was off duty, but he decided to check it out. He grabbed his revolver, handcuffs, keys, and his polaroid camera.
He drove to where the UFO had been, but he didn’t see anything strange. He got out of his truck to get a closer look at his surroundings. He saw what he assumed was a person. He shouted at them to get their attention, but he got no response. He walked closer to the “person”, and he noticed they were wearing what looked like aluminum foil.
He ran back to his truck, grabbed his camera, turned on his headlights, and managed to take 4 pictures of the entity before it fled. He tried to pursue the entity in his truck, but it was able to outrun him even though he was going 35 MPH. The pursuit ended when Jeff’s truck got stuck in a ditch. He said the entity ran faster than any person he had ever seen.
After the encounter, Jeff faced public ridicule. He was terminated from being the chief of police, he and his wife divorced, someone went as far as to burn his house down, and years after the initial encounter someone broke into his home and stole the original photographs of the Metal Man. He withdrew himself from the public, and moved to several different states before deciding to return home.
Some possible explanations are:
This was a prank orchestrated by Jeff (or someone) that was inspired by the Pascagoula Abduction, which had happened a short time before the encounter.
2. The entity was an alien.
3. It was a person in an asbestos fire suit.
4. It was a teenager who was very talented at running.
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In 1973, Jeff Greenhaw, Falkville Chief of Police, received a call about a UFO in a field outside of town. He went to the scene and saw a fi
It was seen by Mary Starr on December, 16th 1957 in Connecticut.
A bright light shining in her room woke her up at 2 or 3 AM. She looked out the window and saw a 20 to 30 ft. grey, cigar shaped object hovering above her clothesline. She saw figures through the windows of the craft. The figures were 3 and a half to 4 ft. tall, their arms were raised and they didn’t have hands, they wore a jacket, and their heads were square shaped with a small bright red circle in the center. She thought they could’ve been wearing helmets. She saw a third figure, and when she leaned in to get a closer look, the craft’s windows disappeared and it started glowing.
A six inch long antenna appeared on the craft. It stayed there for 5 minutes, hovering in the same place before speeding off. Ms. Starr never saw the object or figures again.
Mary Starr’s experience is often compared to Suzanne Knight’s and vice versa, because both of them had similar experiences. Both of them saw a dark grey object hover above the ground, they saw figures in the craft that appeared to be wearing helmets, and both of them saw the craft glow before it flew away.
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Two occupant sightings of the 1950s share almost identical details, despite taking place five years apart. This would suggest that the same
The Trent photographs are some of the oldest known photos of a UFO. They were taken on May 11th, 1950 in Oregon by Paul and Eveyln Trent.
Some people think the photos were faked by suspending an object from the telephone pole with a piece of string. Paul and Evelyn also gave slightly different reports of the event. The debate on their authenticity continues to this day.
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The 43-year-old farmer managed to take two photographs before the flying object disappeared into the evening mist. They're the most famous p
Whenever someone makes a claim, a common response is to ask them if they have any proof to back it up. However, if a person does have proof, some people’s first thought is to chalk it up as a hoax. The experiencers who have claims but no evidence are asked why they didn't try to take a photograph or a video, but the experiencers with both claims and evidence are often dismissed.
A lot of people have this mindset with the paranormal that they have to see it in order to believe it, but when proof is shown to them their first instinct is to brush it off as a hoax. Which, that’s not to say that every single video and photograph is authentic. People have this mindset for a reason. Both because a lot of people just haven’t had any paranormal experiences themselves, and because people do fake evidence. The Fiji mermaid and the Majestic 12 are some of the most famous examples of hoaxes (and the only ones I can think of atm)
A lot of us want proof, we want to believe, but I think the main issue is not knowing who to believe. If several people have faked evidence, then who’s to say that this picture isn’t fake, or this video, or all the ones after that? These days, photos and videos can be faked relatively easily. That makes it even harder to determine whether or not they are legitimate.
J. Allen Hynek was an astronomer that later worked for the United States air force on Project Sign, Project Blue Book, and Project Grudge from the late 1940’s until the late 1960’s. He wrote several books about UFO’s, and the close encounter scale was first proposed in his book called The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry that was published in 1972.
The Scale For UFO’s:
Nocturnal Lights - light from a UFO is spotted in the night sky.
Daylight Disks - A UFO is spotted during the day. Most of the objects focused on in his book were oval shaped.
Radar-Visual UFO Reports - A sighting where the UFO is both seen in the sky, and on a radar.
The Scale For Aliens:
Close encounter of the first kind - Seeing UFO from a distance of less than 500 ft (or 152.4 meters) away, and being able to make out some detail.
Close encounter of the second kind - The UFO has some sort of effect on its surroundings, or leaves a trace that it was there. It could be flying, suspended in the air, or on the ground. Some common examples of these effects are: animals start acting strangely, burn marks on the ground, and electronic interference.
Close encounters of the third kind - A UFO encounter where an alien is also seen.
Jacques Vallee’s Extension of the Scale:
He is an astronomer, an engineer, and he has written several books about UFO’s. He wrote a couple of books with Allen Hynek. His expansion of the scale was introduced in a paper he wrote called Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects that was published in 1990.
Close encounter of the fourth kind - A sighting where the person is either abducted by aliens, or experiences something that alters their sense of reality.
Close encounters of the 5th kind - A sighting where the aliens communicate with a person.
Ted Bloecher's Subtypes of the Scale:
He was an actor, a writer, and the co-founder of The Civilian Saucer Intelligence organization that was active from 1954 to 1959. The group was an independent research facility based in New York that looked into UFO reports. He came up with 7 subtypes for close encounters of the third kind.
A (Abroad) - An entity is seen inside of a UFO
B (Both) - An entity is seen both inside and outside of the UFO.
C (Close) - An entity is seen near a UFO, but doesn’t enter it or exit it.
D (Direct) - An entity is seen, but no UFO’s are. However, UFO sightings have been reported in the area at around the same time the entity is seen.
E (Excluded) - An entity is seen, but no UFO’s are. There are also no UFO sightings in the area.
F (Frequence) - The person does not see an entity or a UFO, but they experience a sort of communication.
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Sunday Times News: Encounters with Unidentified Flying Objects have been categorised into five groups as close encounters of the first, seco
(born 1929) is an American ufologist. Researcher Jerome Clark described him as highly regarded [ [http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/update
