Cases and themes
Cases that left marks on the ground, burns or affected cars and instruments. 6 events, newest first.
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Open Landings and physical traces as a timeline
Skinwalker Ranch11 Mar 2010
A Defense Intelligence Reference Document, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, produced under DIA's AAWSAP program, studied burns and neurological effects reported after close encounters and proposed electromagnetic fields as a cause. DIA later released it.
Photo: Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings5 Apr 2001
Richard Haines and Dominique Weinstein of the civilian group NARCAP reviewed about 1,300 pilot reports and found 57 alleging electromagnetic effects, mostly radio and compass trouble, when UAP were nearby. They framed the reports as a possible flight-safety issue deserving study.
Military1983
Lt. Col. Charles Halt's January 1981 memo to the UK Ministry of Defence, 'Unexplained Lights', describing lights and landing traces near RAF Woodbridge, was released in the U.S. under FOIA. In October 1983 the News of the World ran it as a front-page UFO landing story.
Photo: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, Public domain
Sightings8 Jan 1981
A man near Trans-en-Provence in southern France told gendarmes a craft had landed briefly on his property and left marks on the ground. Gendarmes took samples, and GEPAN analyzed the soil and plants in a 1983 technical note. It remains one of France's most discussed cases.
Photo: Tredok, CC BY-SA 2.0
Sightings22 Apr 1976
Elmwood officer George Wheeler, who had reported an earlier sighting in 1975, said a large domed craft near a quarry hit his squad car with a beam; his radio went dead and he was found barely conscious. The town's sightings later drew a proposed UFO landing port that was never built.
Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
Sightings23 Oct 1965
Jerry Townsend, a 19-year-old KEYL radio announcer, said his car died on Highway 27 near Long Prairie beside a tall rocket-like object and small figures. The sheriff reported odd marks on the road. Project Blue Book listed the case as 'psychological', apparently without a field investigation.
Photo: Myotus, CC BY 4.0
