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Full-time UFO historian/archivist PNW, 30+yrs studying the phenomena. http://patreon.com/jeffknox Interest: Geology, Arch/Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology

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There was a case in Portugal on October 25th, 2014. But these two are the last ones I know about.

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Archive of the actual NIDS website implies he shut it down on the 15th:
web.archive.org/web/20041117...

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Source:
Robert T. Bigelow, β€œBigelow Shuts NIDS Down,” Rense.com, October 20, 2004;
rense.com/general58/bi...

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Today in UFO History - Bigelow Shuts NIDS Down
October 20 [15?], 2004 β€”
Robert Bigelow shuts down the National Institute for Discovery Science for β€œlack of UFO activity.” [Eberhart]

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Source:
"Cobwebs Like Particles Floating in Polonnaruwa Skies,” Gossip Lanka News, October 21, 2014;
web.archive.org/web/20141101...

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Today in UFO History - Cobwebs Like Particles Floating in Polonnaruwa Skies
October 20, 2014 β€” Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka
Strands of cobweb-like β€œangel hair” fibers fall from the sky in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. [Eberhart]

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Source:
β€œWisconsin CE II?” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 11;

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2/ He goes outside for a closer look, but the lights disappear. Three days later, the family finds a 30 foot-by-45 foot triangular area of brown and dried vegetation in the hayfield. [Eberhart]

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Today in UFO History - Wisconsin CE II?
October 20, 1979 β€” Baldwin, WI
1/12:30 a.m. A 15-year-old boy in a farmhouse in Baldwin, Wisconsin, sees two intense white lights circling counterclockwise over a hayfield about 1,200 feet away.

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3/ The object has a single bright white light on the underside and rows of red and greenish lights along the edges that reflect against a metallic surface. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Joseph K. Long, β€œLetter,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 (April/May 1983): 5–8;

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2/watches a triangular object flying at 30 mph northward along Interstate 93 at a height of 100 feet above the Pemigewasset River floodplain in Campton, New Hampshire. It is about 20 feet wide and completely silent, moving by raising and lowering one side.

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These aerial shots posted by Plymouth State University students November 2017, show the widespread flooding over NH 175 in Holderness and Plymouth.  It's a historically chronic location for flooding when the Pemigewasset River spills it banks.

These aerial shots posted by Plymouth State University students November 2017, show the widespread flooding over NH 175 in Holderness and Plymouth. It's a historically chronic location for flooding when the Pemigewasset River spills it banks.

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Today in UFO History - Slow Moving Triangle
October 20, 1978 β€” Campton, NH
1/Dusk. Kate Chmurny, an archaeologist at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire,

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2/ It reappears about 10 minutes later and disappears again. [Eberhart]

Source:
β€œForeign Forum,” IUR 2, no 12 (December 1977): 2;

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Today in UFO History - "out of thin air"
October 20, 1977 β€” Bromley, Kent
1/8:15 p.m. Keith Kilford and Philip Staff watch a small orange triangle over a house in Bromley, Kent, England, that grows to twice its size, shrinks again, and moves rapidly away until it disappears.

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2/One physician sees a β€œsquat, orange object” for 20 minutes until it ascends at great speed and disappears. [Eberhart]

Source:
β€œForeign Forum,” IUR 2, no 12 (December 1977): 2;

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Today in UFO History - β€œsquat, orange object”
October 20, 1977 β€” San JosΓ©, Costa Rica
1/Several witnesses in San JosΓ©, Costa Rica, see lighted objects around Pico Blanco, a mountain to the south of town.

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The UFO Incident 1975
YouTube video by UFO Documentaries The UFO Incident 1975

"The UFO Incident 1975" UFO Documentaries Youtube channel, August 14, 2022;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRkO...

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Preview
The UFO Incident - Wikipedia

Wikipedia, β€œThe UFO Incident”;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UFO...

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2/ It is based on the book The Interrupted Journey by John G. Fuller. [Eberhart] This film aired 2 weeks before Travis Walton's claimed abduction.

Source:
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 18;

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Today in UFO History - Hill Abduction TV Movie 'The UFO Incident'
October 20, 1975 β€”
1/An NBC-TV movie, The UFO Incident, on the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case airs, starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons.

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Sources:
β€œLatest UFO over Milton (Road),” Alton (Ill.) Telegraph, October 22, 1973, p. A-11;

David Marler, Triangular UFOs An Estimate of the Situation, pp. 90, 209;

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Today In UFO History - Triangular UFO in Illinois
October 20, 1973 β€” Alton, IL
8:00 p.m. A witness sees a triangular-shaped object with bright white lights hovering above Milton Road in Alton, Illinois. A second triangle is above the first. [Eberhart]

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Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 59;

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UFO Research Newsletter 3, no. 8 (Dec. 1973 - Jan. 1974): 6;

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Sources:
"Does Swamp Gas Beep? Whatever It Wasβ€”It Beeped," Fort Smith (Ark.) Southwest Times Record, October 21, 1973, pp. 1, 8;

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2/It descends within 6 feet of their car, at which point the headlights, radio, and engine all fail. The object is about 8 feet in diameter, shaped like a disc, and emits a β€œcomputer-like” sound. After about 5 minutes, it moves away quickly. [Eberhart]

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Today in UFO History - 8ft Disc Descends On Car near Fort Smith / Vehicle Interference
October 20, 1973 β€” Fort Smith, AR
1/1:00 a.m. Two women driving in a Volkswagen near Fort Smith, Arkansas, see a glowing object approach them from the south.

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Sources:
"Saucer Flew Over Reservoir, According To A Fisherman Who Couldn't Get Car Going," High Bridge Gazette, October 24, 1973, via UFO
Newsclipping Service, no. 55 (November 1973): 5;
Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 59;

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Today in UFO History - Car Stop Near Reservoir
October 20, 1973 β€” Clinton Township, NJ
A man and two in-laws watch a UFO pass over Round Valley Reservoir, Clinton Township, New Jersey. Their car engine and headlights give out while the object is visible. [Eberhart]

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L&N train conductor talks to researcher Francis Ridge in a rare recording about a 1973 UFO incident
YouTube video by Eyes On Cinema L&N train conductor talks to researcher Francis Ridge in a rare recording about a 1973 UFO incident

β€œL&N Train Conductor Talks to Researcher Francis Ridge in a Rare Recording about a 1973 Incident,” Eyes on Cinema YouTube channel, April 10, 2024;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpj...

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