UFO Sightings by Scientists
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1960---Majorca Observatory staff Astronomy:
Triangular UFO about 1/4 apparent size of moon sighted at 9:33
a.m., spinning on its axis while on steady course. Report cabled
to NASA in Washington.
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Mojave Desert, California Frank Halstead Astronomy:
Cigar-shaped object followed by domed disc.
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Atlanta, Georgia H. Percy Wilkins Astronomy:
Two silvery objects "like polished metal plates" moving against wind; third grayish oval arced across sky.
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Las Cruces, N.M. Clyde W. Tombaugh Astronomy:
Circular pattern of rectangular lights, keeping fixed interval.
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Flagstaff, Arizona Syemour L. Hess Meteorology:
Astronomy Disc or sphere in apparent "powered" flight.
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Upinton, Cape Province:
So. Africa R.H. Kleyweg Meteorology Hemispherical disc tracked through theodolite.
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QUOTE
Frank Halstead
Former Curator of Darling Observatory,
University of Minnesota
"It was the first day of November, 1955. We were on our way to California - about 100 miles west of Las Vegas when it happened. My wife Ann was sitting next to the window and she called my attention to an object which she saw - something moving just above the mountain range. Our train was running parallel to this range of mountains and this object was moving in the same direction as the train, just above the mountains. I first thought the thing was a blimp, But as I watched it I
realized that it could not be a blimp - they are only about 200 feet long. And this thing was gigantic. It was about 800 feet long. I could estimate that because it was so close to the mountain ridge where trees and clumps of trees were visible for comparison.
While we were watching the cigar-shaped thing, for four or five minutes as it paced the train, we noticed that another object had joined it. This second object appeared very suddenly in back of the first one. It was a disc-shaped thing. Both of them were very shiny, we noticed. . . If my estimate of size on the cigar-shaped thing was correct then the disc-shaped object would have been about 100 feet in diameter, flat on the bottom with a shallow dome on top.
All over the world credible witnesses are reporting experiences similar to mine. Holding these people up to ridicule does not alter the existing facts. The time is long overdue for accepting the presence of these things, whatever they are and dealing with them and the public on a basis of realism."
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Just a tip of the iceberg of UFO reports made by scientist and engineers since the late 1940's.