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In the mid 1960's in east central South Carolina, a group of small, low discs produced severe and prolonged mental effects on 2 witnesses. The following was reported to MUFON on April 23, 2011 (edited here for brevity). Report #28778 "Three to five brightly lite up discs flying around each other over a field as if playing a game or just having fun flying."
"I was a very avid coon hunter during my teenage years. My friends and I went with an older man and his buddy who could holler real loud to get us out the woods when we went to a tree to get the coon. The older man owned a couple of real good coon dogs that we hunted with. Buck and Sally were the dogs names. We always hunted at night. The older men, Mr. Maxie and Bobby have been deceased for years now. This experience happened in the Winter of 1964 or 1965. I was 16 or 17 years old. Two of us went . . . that night. . . . We went to a place we called the blowup a few miles from Turbeville { east or west? } off Hwy. 378. We drove around behind a house to the edge of the woods where we stopped and built a fire for Mr. Maxie and Bobby to stay warm and let the dogs out to hunt. We usually went hunting around 7:00 pm or a little later. . . . The two of us got our flashlights and the rifle and left out to go to the dogs. These dogs were very good and there was always something in the tree or had been in the tree if they treed. Most of the time, it was a coon, but ocassionly they would tree a possum or a wildcat. The blowup was were a dam used to be that had been blown up with dynamite sometime in the past. We made our way through the woods down what I call some old cow trails to the blowup. The water was not very high and we crossed the blowup to the other side. . . . We made our way on through the woods following the dogs barking. We finally came out the woods on the other side to an open field with a line of trees going out to our left and the woods extending on out to our right where the dogs had treed. We followed this line of trees to our left for maybe two or three hundred yards. The dogs were over to our right. We were still on a trail. We started to cross over to where the dogs were treed when they just quit barking. We were puzzled as to why this had happened because it rarely happened with these dogs. We were standing there beside this line of trees to our left when I spotted some discs over the field on the other side of this line of trees. We walked closer to the tree line and looked up at the discs flying around up there at incredible speeds making impossible manuvers that aircraft today cannot think about doing. The discs were well lite up with white light as best as I can remember. They were a few hundred yards out over the field and probably around 300 to 500 feet up in the air. As best as I can remember, they were a little bigger than a big car in a disc shape. We were dumbfounded at this sight. We really didn't know how to react or what to do since we knew we were observing flying saucers. As best as I can remember we watched them for around five or ten minutes and decided about the same time we needed to get out of there. I had the feeling they knew we were there. I remember leaving to get back to the fire and things are very fuzzy after that. This was not a huge woods to get lost in and we were very experienced at going in the woods at night and coming back out. We were probably only 20 or 30 minutes walk from the starting point at the fire. For some unknown reason we could not get out of those woods and find our way back to the the fire for three or four hours. I don't remember hearing Bobby holler or the car horn blowing during this time. We were confused and could not get out the woods. This is mostly lost time to both of us trying to get out the woods. We finally got back to the fire. Mr. Maxie and Bobby said they were about ready to go get a search party to come find us if we hadn't come out when we did. We kept this experience to ourselves for years . . . I have never had any dreams or thoughts about being abducted and I don't think we were. It just seems something confused us and we were not able to find our way out the woods for those hours. This is my only encounter with UFOs in my life. One thing that is different from many other sightings I have seen in programs on TV is that they did something to our minds to confuse us for a few hours. I know they are real and people will still look at me funny when I tell them this story. It happened and they are real."
On April 23, 2011, the following was reported to MUFON. The date of the event was given as 1974-10-07, and apparently there were 2 witnesses to an alien abduction in southeastern Pennsylvania. The report is similar to what the Secretary General of the United Nations and his CIA security detail saw in New York City during the early morning hours of November 30, 1989 (as described in Budd Hopkin's book Witnessed - The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions.)
"i worked 2nd shift,til midnight,after work i or we would get a 6 pack of beer & ride around to unwind or go park somewhere & sit . so this night we went to the top of the highest point in the area & sat & talked about work,etc.& we were enjoying the view of the country around us, had just opened the 1st beer, when my friend ernie said ,do you see that bright light over towards New Freedom {PA}. i sure did, it was very very bright & shiney. it was hovering with a slight motion going to & fro. we watched it a good while, Ernie says i really don't think thats a helicopter or airplane, i totally agreed. then it shined a bright beam of light towards the earth, we watched in disbelief, after a few minutes we noticed something being brought up into the craft. i was so scared but kept watching. we said very little. it just hovered there for quite awhile. then what or whoever they brought into the craft was being lowered back down. with the bright beam, then after that there was a bright beam coming from the earth towards the craft & then it stopped. we sat there & watched a little longer then the craft started moving southward. i had a willy's jeep with the top off. it was still pretty warm then. we decided to try to follow it. we got to the bottom of the hill & tore up the road & caught up with it in our sight. we followed it into the state of Maryland, Baltimore county. we followed it to the Prettyboy resivior. it stopped again for a minute & then it was gone, it took off in a flash.gone !!! ernie said to me, i don't think you should tell anybody about what we saw, they'll never believe us. i never did tell anyone til years later. but i remember it like it was testerday, i'm 60 now & i should let it out. before this happened , i saw a ufo coming home from work at midnight. in the same area. it was huge a bright orange color & it was like quivering. thats the only 2 times i've seen ufo's, but i know what i saw . . .."
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The following report was submitted to MUFON on May 3, 2011. Case #28925 occurred on October 16, 1980 in east central Wisconsin. 'Close encounter for 30 minutes' – up close to 1 then 2 very low discs
" . . . I saw a strange light through the other bedroom window off in the distance. I was watching it because it was doing very strange things. It was making geometic type movements in the sky like circles, triangles, etc. . . . this light was not behaving as an airplane would behave.
. . . it came closer to the house. Now it appeared as a very bright white -yellowish light, almost too bright to look at. At this point it was about 200 feet from the house hovering just above tree top level. There was a lone tree in the field next to the house that enabled us to judge it's size and distance accurately. It appeared to be close to the tree and just above it.
As we sat there watching it it emitted a search light rotating around on the ground and the area as though it were looking for something. As the light came around it shown right into our bedroom window. It made quite a number of rotations. We looked at each other in disbelief. At this point we decided to run ouside to get a better look.
It was cold and still, not even the slightest breeze. I could hear the traffic from the highway which was a mile away {to the west}. The night sky was crystal clear. We lived in the country on a dead end road far from city lights. We had a very clear veiw of the sky since we lived on the top of the highest hill the county. . . .
The craft made no sound of any kind. I felt no moving air from it. If it had been a helicopter we would have been deafened by the noise and barraged with dust and air from the propellers at that close range.
As it hovered, it was getting less bright and we could make out more details of the craft. It was disk shaped with a higher area on the top. There were red lights or windows around the top part. As we watched it we could see more details. The red lights looked more like windows with a red light inside it like a dark room that photographers use. I could see five or six silouhetted human like figures inside it moving around. Some of them seemed to be looking at us as we looked at them. The under side of the craft remained faintly glowing with the white yellow light.
I would judge the size of the craft to be about 50 feet in diameter. It would have fit into our driveway area between the house and the barn.
It just hovered there like that for at least 20 minutes.
We could have walked right under it, but we didn't. It did not make any threatening movements or noises. I never felt any sense of danger.
After about 20 minutes of watching it, another disk appeared from behind our house. It looked just like the first one. It was hovering moving very slow and close to the ground, below tree top level. The two of them hovered next to our house for several minutes then moved very slow down {S, SE, or E } into the valley below tree level. they disapeared from our sight behind the trees in the valley. We didn't see them again.
I was flabbergasted and elated at the same time with our experience. . . .
The next day I called the airport and spoke to an air traffic controller and asked them if they had seen anything on the radar that night. The man told me he couldn't relate any information about what they see on the radar to the public, even if they saw something unusual he could not talk about it. His response was worded in a way that led me to beleive that they did indeed see something on the radar but could not disclose the information.
I did not report it to the police. . . .
over the next few days I broached the subject with 3 of our neighbors.
The first was our landlord who lived next to us and I figured if he was awake he must have seen something that night. He was not at all surprised at my story and said that he often saw UFO's in the valley over the years. He had been living at that house all his life . . . He was 72 years old . . . he said he didn't see anything that night.
We did have a lengthy discussion about the UFO's he had seen in the past. It was pretty much the same thing as we had seen, and he added that he had on several occasions found burn circles in the crops.
He said that most of the neighbors around there knew about the UFO's and were ok in talking about it. It was sort of a local rite of passage with new people moving into the area. All the old timers in the area were quite familiar with the phenomenon.
Another neighbor who I frequently went horseback riding with said that it hovered over their house for an hour late that night. They had previous experiences with the UFO's also.
The third person I talked to about it . . . knew about the sightings, but were determined that they wanted nothing to do with it. They were Born Again Christians and seemed to be very threatened by the experiences.
. . . When we lived there we had many storms that produced unusual lightening effects. We where often surrounded by balls of lightening and such intense lightening I would not answer the phone during a storm because the lightening would travel through the lines and ring the phone during storms. I have never experienced such intensity of lightening anywhere else. . . . There are also high power lines that run over the top of that hill."
"We don't know one millionth of 1% about anything." Thomas Edison
