Declassified records from January 1969 document a surge in physical interactions, including the lifting of civilian vehicles and targeted surveillance of residential areas.
1969: January UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive
The January 1969 UFO sightings mark a significant period of “High Strangeness” characterized by an unusual density of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3) and documented electromagnetic (EM) interference. This month is a technical focal point for researchers due to the recurring reports of instrument paralysis, where electric clocks, car engines, and furnace fans were systematically disabled during UAP proximity. From the snow-covered fields of Sweden to the rural homesteads of Missouri, the phenomenon displayed a sophisticated ability to interact with human infrastructure while remaining largely silent.
For the serious archivist, the January 1969 data offers deep insight into non-human biological entity variations, ranging from the green-skinned humanoids of Spain to the “Virgin Mary” apparitions in Mexico. The transition from aerial observation to direct biological sampling is prevalent this month, with reports of entities gathering plant specimens in Australia and performing clinical examinations on witnesses in Florida. These accounts provide the foundational evidence for mapping the telepathic interface and gravitational manipulation signatures that defined the late 1960s wave.
Date: Early January 1969
Location: Edina Missouri
Time: Early Hours
Summary: Mrs Adeline Davis, who was tending her sick daughter and sleeping only fitfully, suddenly awoke and sat up looking out of the widow, though she could hear no sound, and saw an unusual looking object in which there was an occupant. He was wearing dark clothing with a cap like an army fatigue cap, a dark jacket with an opening down the front and a small upright collar with scalloped edges, and a scarf. He had slanted, wide spaced, eyes with fuzzy indefinite pupils. She tried several tests to check if she was awake, including going to bathe her face. When she returned the object and its occupant were still there, about 2m from her window, which was 2m above the ground. The being seemed to be working on something below the window, but then looked up. Apparently seeing the witness, he looked surprised and his mouth dropped open. He looked at her for a brief while then carried on with his work. After a while he looked up again and seemed to try and reach for something first with one hand then the other. He then looked at Adeline again and as he did so the craft seemed to back away from the house. As it did so Adeline could see a white beam coming from its base, projecting downwards, illuminating a small cedar tree at one point. After the object had retreated about 3-3.5m, it stopped, the white light went out and the object turned slightly to the northeast. She now had a clear picture of the object, which was army green in color with a row of blue tinted windows on the side which had originally faced her, but with a shield, the same color as the object itself, blocking the windows on the other side. From the top edge of the window framing a dark vertical mark was visible. Adeline again went to bathe her face, and when she returned she saw that the leg on the far side of the object was about 1m above the ground, that on the near side 1.5m. The object moved slowly to the north east at very low altitude disappearing behind the corner of the house. She now noticed that the electric furnace fan had stopped, though it re-started a couple of minutes later. The next morning she found the electric clocks were 20 minutes slow. At the time she had the impression that the occupant was friendly and would not hurt her, next day, though, she felt unusually nervous.
Source: Lorenzen 1975 p192 + APRO Bulletin July/August 1973 p9 citing APRO Bulletin January/February 1971) citing investigation by Allan Benz and Ted Phillips.
Date: January 1969
Location: Pirassununga Brazil
Time: unknown
Summary: A large circular object descended slowly and landed on the grass near some farm animals. Three men wearing white uniforms and helmets emerged from the craft. One carried an object resembling a pair of binoculars, the second a large bright “lantern”, and the third carried some type of cartridge. There was a red luminous light source on top of the object. The object later took off at high speed.
Source: J Antonio Huneeus, Fate December 1993 Quoting SIOANI Brazil
Date: January 1969
Location: Uruapan, Mexico
Time: afternoon
Summary: Seven-year-old Maria Del Carmen Ocampo was strolling in the woods when she observed a being materialize in front of her. The being was described as a beautiful female wearing a shiny dress that identified herself as the “Virgin of Guadalupe.” The girl was sick for several days after the encounter.
Source: Keel, Operation Trojan Horse
Date: January 1969
Location: Domback, Angermanland Sweden
Time: evening
Summary: Gottfried Olsson was looking out the window of his home when he saw a strange humanoid standing on the side of the road. It appeared to be as big as a human and lighted. It was about the length and width as an ordinary human, having the shoulder part clearly marked, so was his lower part, somewhat like a box. Its head had dim contours and appeared hazy. It stood perfectly still for about 3 minutes radiating a strong red/white light except for a vertical blue line on the middle. Suddenly there was a brilliant flash and the figure disappeared.
Source: John Magor, Aliens Above Always
Date: January 1969
Location: ST Catharine’s Ontario, Canada
Time:
Summary: In the Short Hills Conservation area Jack (qv) and his friend Ken were picked up by a large hairy humanoid creature and taken on board a landed object where they were given a medical examination by short beings dressed as doctors, who placed implants under their skin. While this was going on the bigfoot sat in a chair. The small beings said these creatures were used as workers.
Source: Fenwick in MUFON UFO Journal 183 p12
Evaluation: Clearly this guy sucks up UFO lore like a vacuum cleaner!
Date: January 1969
Location: Gines-Sevilla Spain
Time: night
Summary: Two reputable bank officials, in a car, saw a strange creature, about 10-feet tall, green in color, and with two protruding antennas on the head area walking alongside of the road on the embankment. They “suffered a nervous shock” and would not talk about the incident. No other information.
Source: Jose Darnaude
Date: January 1969
Location: Whangamata New Zealand
Time: 2200
Summary: A couple strolling along the beach were struck by an uncanny silence and a sensation that something was wrong, then about five (give or take one) figures floated down from some nearby sandhills and approached them. The figures were covered top to toe in black with no visible face, arms or feet. They cast no shadows and the black color did not change with the illumination. A sort of grey balloon, 1.2m diameter, with a flat bottom suddenly appeared only 1m away and the couple fled in terror. They then had a feeling of coming to and found themselves up to their knees in the sea, without any memory of how they got there.
Source: Keith Basterfield, Mufon UFO Journal # 177
Date: Early January 1969
Location: URUAPAN MICHOACAN : MEXICO
Time:
Summary: A 7 year old girl, walking in woods outside of Uruapan encountered a female figure that appeared in front of a cedar tree. The figure claimed to be the Virgin of Guadalupe and asked for flowers and candles to be left at the site. The terrified child ran off, as she did so meeting aircraft mechanic Homero Martinez, who confirmed her fear. He did not see anything but heard strange and beautiful music. :The little girl was so traumatized she couldn’t talk and was ill for several days.
Source: Keel 1971 ap269
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Date: January 1969
Location: Near Haymarket Virginia
Time: night
Summary: Four men were in a farm when they heard a peculiar rushing sound coming from near a small lake. Grabbing flashlights they set out to investigate taking a couple of dogs with them. Suddenly the dogs howled and ran away. The men then noticed standing by a tree a huge dark man like figure with wing like protrusions and large red orange eyes. The men fled the area in their vehicle.
Source: John Keel, Fate November 1992
Date: January 1969
Location: Los Alisos Jujuy Argentina
Time: late night
Summary: A farmer felt a powerful odor apparently emanating from outside, going outside to investigate he came upon two short green skinned humanoids with large luminous eyes.
The two beings were gesticulating and were walking towards the witness. The frightened witness ran inside and locked the door.
Source: Hector P Anganuzzi, Historia de Los Platos Voladores en Argentina
Date: January 1 1969
Location: LOMAS DE ZAMORA BUENOS AIRES : ARGENTINA
Time:
Summary: Two young people, Felix Maidana and Irma Tolosa saw a flying object land behind the abutments of the Villa Ernestina spa. The thing was lentil shaped with a metallic gleam and a protuberance on the upper part. It was about 2m high, 3m diameter. It remained stationary 10m from the witnesses for a few moments and then rose rapidly and vanished into the sky.
Source: Oscar Uriondo in FSR Case Histories 13 p15 case 154 citingLa Cronica 6 January 1969
Date: January 1 1969
Location: KEY WEST FLORIDA
Time: 2315 hrs
Summary: Two people in a car encountered a slow moving sheet of concentrated hail, accompanied by a deep penetrating sound from overhead. The hail was needle like pieces that hit a compact area of the windshield and front part of the roof. The car engine could not be started and the witnesses felt a sudden warmth, a sense of weightlessness and a tingling electrical sensation. They felt forced to look upwards and saw a brilliant silvery object. A tapering funnel of light encompassed the whole area of the car. The light beam and strange effects disappeared, leaving the witnesses chilled, with their hands tightly clamped and without the power to release them until they shortly regained their sense of awareness.
Source: Falla 1979 p 50 case 222 citing UFOIC Newsletter 24 p2
Date: January 4 1969
Location: NITON (ISLE OF WIGHT : ENGLAND
Time: Night
Summary: Dr and Mrs White were driving across the downs towards Niton on a dark night, moonlit but cloudy, when in the deserted fields were covered with bobbing lights. As they descended a hill in the road, they saw fields to the right so covered with these lights that they looked an illuminated city. What they knew to be a cart track now appeared to an illuminated street with buildings giving off red, white and green lights. When they reached the track, they found it as dark and unmade as usual. When they reached a local inn they found it brilliantly lit. A group of figures carrying torches were running back and forth across the road, including a very tall man wearing a leather jerkin. As the White’s approached within 20m of the inn, the scene vanished and the area plunged into darkness. They quickly drove on. On the reverse journey, a few hours later, all was normal.
Source: Mackenzie 1997 p 107 citing Forman 1978 Boase 1976 p87 citing S White in Hampshire County Magazine 13,4 p32 + 13, 10 p58 Steedman and Anker 1977 p54 Forman 1978 p54 from Mrs White
Date: January 5 1969
Location: Near Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England
Time: noon
Summary: On December 29 1968 the witness, Mr. D Robson, (a National Trust) employee was on patrol along the Roman wall, which is near the town and was sitting at the top of Winshields Crags listening to the radio when he glanced up at a sparrow-hawk which was hovering above him, and in a break in the clouds there appeared a silvery disc, which was coming down very fast but with no noise. It was spinning very fast, trailing smoke. At first he thought it was a plane but when it was at about 1000 ft from the ground it leveled off and went away to the north. He must have followed it for about 12 miles when it suddenly just nose dived out of sight. The witness decided to go and looked for the object the next Saturday (January 5). After covering about 10 miles he discovered the object in a piece of marshy ground between two hills. It was a silver disc-shaped object that was sticking out of the bog, half in. He hurried down to where it was and discovered that the object must have been around 100ft in diameter. It resembled a huge spinning top. He noticed an open doorway, which was open so he walked in. Inside he encountered a “fantastic” sight, all the walls were a mass of equipment. Everything appeared to be working, lights flashing and weird noises, but not a sign of life. As he walked back to the door he noticed the door was half submerged in the bog. The object was sinking se he jumped out. He thought it was going to disappear but it stopped, leaving about 2 ft sticking out of the marsh. He was disappointed that he had not managed to pick anything up before it went under. Later after being interviewed by the police, the witness admitted that he had made the whole story up, that he had only seen the UFO in flight. (Why did the witness made the story up in the first place?).
Source: Andy Roberts
Date: January 6 1969: Jimmy Carter’s UFO Sighting
Date: January 6 1969
Location: Pontejos Santander Spain
Time: 2115
Summary: Maren Merino was working in the kitchen of a small café owned by her family when she looked out the kitchen window and sees an intense brilliance but originally does not give it any importance. Her daughter, 25-year old Felicidad Fernandez Merino then enters the kitchen and also looks out the window and observes the light. Felicidad asks her mother about the light, but this one continues to ignore the light, thinking that it was something abnormal she yells out to two other women, including a woman called Paquita. All three women then open the window and observe an incredible scene, on a field about 30 meters in distance, hovering about 3 meters from the ground they see a luminous square of four to five meters wide, intensely illuminated with a light of orange-white color. Inside the luminous square they see the silhouette of man walking about. Suddenly from the right another similar figure appears and both walk towards the left side of the luminous square. Then from the opposite of the square three more squares appear, thus making a total of five figures within the luminous square. By now the witnesses are totally fascinated and cry out to the beings, they are now joined by another witness, 35-year old Antonio. At this moment Antonio looks out the window and the craft disappears from sight. According to the witnesses the movements of the humanoids was somehow mechanical, with arms straight on their sides without any apparent joint movement. The beings were tall and very well built, with normal features, chestnut-color hair and light skin. They wore something similar to dark or black, very tight-fitting coveralls with sleeves and turtlenecks. The incident lasted for about 5 minutes. Suddenly as the witnesses look for the object a small shiny sphere descended from the middle of the air falling to the soil in a curvilinear trajectory, the body of the UFO also became visible clearly displaying the shiny square section and the section of the object hat had remained invisible to the witnesses thus far, it was an ash-silver color, lightly fluorescent half spherical cupola. The object then rose slowly and disappeared very quickly leaving behind a brilliant greenish track that persisted for about 15 minutes after the object left.
Source: Manuel Pedrajo, Ballester-Olmos
Date: January 12 1969
Location: Mount Misery, Long Island New York
Time: 0800A
Summary: Two local UFO investigators had driven into an isolated area in order to photograph the landscape. They were now on foot near a wooded hill when they caught sight of a tall human like figure that apparently had a disfigured face and long wild black hair, he also wore a long black garment. The being upon seeing the witnesses retreated silently into the woods without attempting to communicate.
Source: John A Keel, Strange Mutants
Date: January 14 1969
Location: Near Childers Queensland Australia
Time: 0430A
Summary: George Vas and his wife and 2 daughters were asleep in their trailer when they were awakened by the barking of their dog, and heard a loud noise like the buzzing of a swarm of wasps. It came from an object shaped like a sombrero, 25-30 yards in diameter, which was brilliantly violet-luminous. From the craft descended three beings “about 3 times as large as humans,” which had “blocky arms and legs and shapeless bodies,” and emitted a purple and yellow glow. For about 10 minutes they gathered sugar cane and other plant specimens, without concern for the observers. Olga Vas said that the beings descended from the larger craft in a small object similar in shape. At one point one of the entities moved close enough to the group for Mr. Vas to call out in alarm; the ‘spaceman” showed no concern and, after picking up several rocks, moved away. They re-entered their craft and the object took off vertically; as it did so, the hair on the witnesses’ bodies stood up “as if affected by a form of magnetism.”
Source: Keith Basterfield
Date: January 14 1969
Location: Springfield Missouri
Time: Night
Summary: A disc shaped object was seen near the ground by police officers. No further details
Source: Ted Phillips in Skylook 44
Date: January 15 1969
Location: SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO : BRAZIL
Time:
Summary: According to undocumented rumor’s two people travelling along this Federal Motorway were taken by an aerial machine to a town in the USA on the border with Mexico. Marks from the object’s grappling hooks were said to be still visible on the car.
Source: Walter Buhler in FSR Case Histories 5 p9 citing Diario de Noticias 18 March 1969
Date: January 15 1969
Location: RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL
Time: 2345 hrs.
Summary: Dr Antonio S Peres and his wife Wanda were driving home to Niteroi from Itaperuna, on the road to Campos, when his attention was caught by what he thought were a truck’s headlights. As they came closer they saw that the light came from a metallic looking object, surrounded by a 15-20m wide lilac coloured light. The object was elliptical with a sort of lid on top, hovering just above a hilltop about 200m away. The night was dark and cloudy and he felt nervous so drove on.
Source: Granchi 1995 p78)
Date: January 1969
Location: DORSET ENGLAND
Time: Late Evening.
Summary: Motorcyclist David Pile (18) was riding along the A38 and had just reached the Poole crossroads when he observed, coming towards him on the opposite side of the road, what appeared to be another cycle and rider. As it got closer, he saw that machine and rider were outlined in light, giving the effect of an off white halo. This glowing mass tilted as if going into a skid and went straight across David’s path, forcing him to brake from 70kph, but just as a collision seemed inevitable the thing disappeared.
Source: UFOlog 57 p2 citing Contact UK-Bristol Journal of Paraphysics 3,6 p192 citing Exeter Express and Echo 16 January 1969
Date: January 15 1969
Location: Isla Del Altar, El Salvador
Time: afternoon
Summary: After feeling a burning sensation from a ring given to him by a presumed extraterrestrial, that was to signify an upcoming contact, Ludwig Pallmann took his motorboat to a local sandy beach. There he noticed that several huge concentric circles ruffled the normally placid waters of the lake. Shortly after that, he encountered the human like humanoid named Satu Ra, who he had met on previous occasions. Satu Ra was sitting motionless on nearby rock. Ra was inexpressively sad and was wearing dark green coveralls, a broad instrument belt on which was a much larger device that the one he usually carried. The stunned Pallmann was told that another extraterrestrial, which he knew, Xiti, among others, had been killed. Supposedly a disaster had befallen and expedition on another planet. Shortly after this encounter locals reported observing a silvery disc shaped object hovering over the capital San Salvador.
Source: Timothy Good, Alien Base
Date: January 15 1969
Location: Las Pajanosas Sevilla Spain
Time: 2030
Summary: An anonymous man driving from Extremadura stopped and got out to investigate a light seen nearby on the ground. When he got to within 600 ft of it he could see an illuminated rectangle in which several figures were seen passing by. A dog that was watching the light had its hair raised and was growling softly. Alarmed, the witness left the scene. When he returned a few days later with a friend, 3 apparent landing marks, 6 ft apart, were found at the site.
Source: Felipe Laffitte
Date: January 16 1969
Location: ANDALUSIA : SPAIN
Time: 2030 hrs
Summary: A man driving back from Extremadura observed a light, stopped his car and went close to it. When he was 200m away, he saw that the glow came from an illuminated rectangle where figures were seen crossing several times. He saw a dog, which was looking at the light, hair raised and howling softly. The frightened man drove off. In Seville he told his story to his neighbor, an engineer, who returned to the site with him a few days later. At the site they found three marks serrated by 1,8m.
Source: Ballester 1976 p23 case 101 citing investigation by Felipe Laffite + Phen Spax 26 p28
Date: Jan 17, 1969 BBU 12607
Location: Crittenden, VA
Time: 3:24 a.m.
Summary: Keith Lupton, a NASA test facility mechanic at Langley Air Field was asleep with his wife when he was suddenly awoken by a whirring sound, like a transformer malfunctioning, getting softer and then louder again. Mrs Lupton, half asleep, said she also heard the noise. Looking through the blinds of his window, Keith saw an elliptical or cigar shaped object with blunt ends, which he estimated to be 9m wide, 30m long and at an altitude of 30-45m, travelling at 40kph. The thing was ringed with windows, though which he could see steady amber colored lights. One window light in the right rear blinked a steady pulse, which Keith thought was synchronised with the beat of the sound. The widows which ringed the underside were rectangular, translucent and separated by dividers and appeared to be surrounded by a haze. The central section was solid, silvery and metallic. The object moved in an undulating manner from SSE to NNW, approaching within 30m. It tilted and made a gentle left turn. It had gone after 90-120 seconds; about 3 minutes after Keith first heard the noise. :Keith had called out to his wife to ask if she saw the object, but she had not replied. Ass Keith watched the object he had a feeling of being hypnotised and experienced a tingling in his nerves. Aster the object had left; the couple could still hear the sound over their phone. This was later denied. Keith became obsessed with finding other witnesses and eventually traced people who had heard s pulsating hum and explosion. He reported the matter to the Air Force.
Source: Emeneger 1974 p98 citing Blue Book Files and David Jacobs Randle 1989 p135 citing Blue Book Files UFO Analysis and Research Bulletin 1, 5 p 9
Date: January 17 1969
Location: ENFIELD CONNECTICUT
Time:
Summary: Two sisters, one a student teacher, the other a high school junior, were driving home from a basketball game in Enfield when they noticed an arrangement of 6 lights in the sky, which they thought was a plane, though it struck them as flying dangerously low and of having an unusual shape. They became worried that might crash into a nearby housing development. The pattern of lights then shifted and began to approach their car. It moves over the treetops and dropped out of sight. When they turned and came into a clearing, the sisters a huge “cement grey” object shaped like a sting ray, with a rough surface. There were 6 lights on the thing, three on each side, arranged red, green, white in correspondence, though they couldn’t remember the order. As the sisters sat looking at the thing, it passed over the back of their car at low altitude. They heard a muffled roar as it did so. They estimated that it could have been up to 60-120m wide. It moved off following the direction of the river.
Source: Donald Johnson in Flying Saucer Observer 13 p4
Date: January 20 1969
Location: WEYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS
Time: 2030 hrs.
Summary: Two people saw an object like one white dish inverted over the other, with a dark ring around its perimeter, hovering over an abandoned ammunition dump. The thing had a dome on top and one red and two amber lights on its leading edge. The thing moved up and down a few times before moving out of sight.
Source: Fowler 1974 p355
Date: January 21 1969
Location: VALLEYVIEW ALBERTA CANADA
Time:
Summary: A silent, round, red object was seen for 45 minutes by 3 RCMP personnel and two other people. A farmer found tracks in the snow in his backyard.
Source: Phillips 1975 p61 case 358 citing an unspecified issue of Saucers, Space and Science
Date: January 24 1969
Location: INDIANA PENNSYLVANIA
Time: Evening
Summary: A salesman driving home observed a saucer shaped object with a transparent front hovering over a pond about 100m from the highway on this clear day. Inside the transparent front he could see two beings with their backs towards him, apparently doing repairs. One of the beings turned around, and seeing the witness, seemed startled and returned to his work with more energy. After a few more minutes one of the beings shook his head and the others rushed to a couple of levers which they pulled. At this the object suddenly disappeared on the spot.
Source: Steiger 1977 p3
Date: January 25 1969
Location: YORKVILLE ILLINOIS
Time: 0030
Summary: A woman who did not wish her name to be used was driving her husband from hospital after he had received treatment for an industrial injury. They were within 400m of their home when they became aware of a bright light to the right of their car at 30 degrees elevation. :The thing was a horizontal cone, flying broad end first, which came out of the northeast to within 400m of the car, at treetop height. It then righted itself, giving the appearance of a triangle with the point up. It appeared to be 2 or 3 stories tall, showing horizontal stripes on the body. On its base was a lattice like affair, with jewel like red and white lights. The contraption lit up the ground below, spun on its axis two or three times, flashing an extremely bright light. Then a strip peeled back and the thing tilted to reveal its underside, in which the witness could see a dim luminous opening, giving a view of a spongey interior. At this point her car engine and lights died and the vehicle stopped completely and then the front of the car rose up off the ground. The woman’s screams woke her sleeping husband and he also tried to start the car without success. The lighted object then moved off towards the northwest and as it left the area the car came down slowly but made a bump when it hit the road. :She was then able to re-start the car. The couple’s landlord’s wife who lived nearby noticed an unusual light at this time.
Source: Lorenzen 1976 p59 citing investigation by Fred Merritt Rodeghier 1981 p41 citing CUFOS files gives location as Platteville
Date: January 25 1969
Location: Jales Sao Paulo Brazil
Time: 2230
Summary: In the suburbs of Jales, a flying saucer landed on a roadside, and two occupants were seen. They were 5 ft tall, dressed in white, bareheaded, and apparently normal human beings. The disc, which stood on a central column, left a crater 20” deep.
Source: Nigel Rimes, FSR Special Bulletin # 3
Date: Jan. 25, 1969
Location: Platteville, IL
Time: 12:30 & 1:00 AM.
Summary: A couple was driving home. She had picked her husband up after he had injured himself on a construction project and he was asleep in the front seat. She saw a bright light ahead of her and approaching. As it neared, it was revealed to be like a giant “ice-cream cone” traveling round end first. They were very near home, on the last roadway in fact. The object came to a halt over their landlord’s house nearby. It then hovered at treetop level and reoriented itself with the point of the cone upwards. The thing was tremendous, perhaps between two and three stories high. It had a surface consisting of “paneling” each slab of which was the same bright white illumination. At the “bottom” [around the circular end of the cone], was a wide strip of multicolored lights, sparkling like jewels. The bottom “flat” area was mainly open and when the object tipped, it revealed a large dull light within and walls the color of iron ore. At one point, a panel on the surface swung out and closed again without anything else noticeably happening. All this of course was bizarre and mystifying but the worst was yet to come. The car engine died and the lights went out. The car rolled to a stop. The wife also noticed that all the outdoor farm security lights were out as well. And then…the front end of the car began to rise off the ground! “I thought: it”s going to pull us up inside it !” She frantically tried to restart the car, shouting as she did so. This woke up her husband to what was probably the strangest situation he ever had to rapidly adjust to. [the car was, by the way, a Chrysler Imperial; no lightweight]. He was nearly blinded by the brilliance of the object but recovered to try to help his panicking wife–himself ineffectively trying to restart the car. Both of them then felt the car lowering, ending in a final quite noticeable “bump” as the front end hit the road. The object rose and flew away to their northwest [they had been facing north]. The car was able to be restarted, and the farm security lights came back on. The couple drove the short distance to their landlords’ home and told the story. The lady of the house said that she had seen a very bright flash of light that illuminated the interior of her house; however, none of the lights in her home were affected. To those who may be interested, a diagram of the object, “cleaned up” from the witness’ drawing, has been attempted by this reporter (Michael Swords) and is appended to this case. Plattville stands as one of the best “mass-displacement” cases in the literature [due to multiple credible witnesses and some degree of corroboration] and is one of a handful of incidents which make researchers wonder if some sort of control or unexpected counteraction of gravity is possible with these objects.
Source: Mike Swords; Reference: Fred Merritt. Narrative and report of investigation of the case (with J. Allen Hynek) , undated c.1973, Hynek/CUFOS files
Date: January 26 1969
Location: FERNLEY NEVADA
Time: 0500
Summary: Keary Schade, a young man who lived on a farm just southeast of Fernley, was milking his cows when he noticed a red ball hovering near the ground 400-800m away. It had a red light in its center, surrounded by a white misty glow. The light pulsated in intensity in one second brief flashes. The object moved slowly, stopped as the red light became dimmer, and then it moved and stopped again and the light went out. About 400m from its original position the thing reappeared, stopped and went out, reappeared and ascended in a jerking motion towards Reno in the west. The thing was observed for less than a minute. It had an angular diameter of 3 degrees, suggesting a diameter of 25m if it was at a distance of 500m.
Source: Data Net V, 10 p5 citing investigation by Mark Massingill
Date: January 26 1969
Location: APPLETON WISCONSIN
Time:
Summary: A strange object was seen at close range and there were physical effects
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Date: January 26 1969
Location: LIMEIRA SAO PAULO BRAZI
Time: 2115
Summary: A Volkswagen minibus pulled up at the Limeira Service Station at km 146.5 on the Via Anhangueira, 5km to the east of town. :The driver, his wife, his 15 year old daughter and two smaller children told the operator that they had been followed from Campinas by a brilliant luminous object at very low altitude. Meanwhile the son of the puncture repair workshop owner saw an object, 4m diameter, come over the municipal reservoir and land among trees on a small hill, 800m away. As the thing descended it gave out a dazzling light that prevented the witness from making out its shape. When the thing landed its luminosity faded until there were only a number of small yellow lights visible. These lights themselves then vanished and a brilliant searchlight came on and started to revolve. This was seen for 15 minutes after which it went out. After the light had landed it was seen by the filling station owner and his brother, along with the passengers in a number of cars which had pulled up to see what was happening. The filling station owner said that the object was about 3m above the ground, that the beam was 100m long and it rotated first clockwise and then anti-clockwise, taking 1-2 seconds to perform each rotation. His brother, who owned the restaurant phoned for the police and a squad car arrived before the light went out. No traces were found.
Source: Nigel Rimes in Bowen 1969 UFO Percipients p39 citing his own investigation
Date: January 27 1969
Location: Lins Sao Paulo Brazil
Time: 0400
Summary: Some musicians returning home from a party saw an egg shaped standing on a piece of waste ground behind the Lins Athletic Club Stadium. The thing was the size car or truck and was surrounded by a halo of coral colored light, which turned to pale blue and then to white. :The object seemed to detect the presence of the witnesses and took off and flew towards the town center.
Source: Walter Buhler in FSR Case Histories 5 p9 citing Diario de Noticias 29 January 1969 Nigel Rimes in Bowen 1969 (UP) p39 citing Diario de Noite 27 January 1969 (gives date as 26th)
Date: January 27 1969
Location: Jales Sao Paulo Brazil
Time: 2230
Summary: An object landed by the roadside in a suburban area of Jales. It was a disk resting on a single column. Two occupants, 1.5 m tall, dressed in white, bare headed and apparently normal in appearance, were seen. A crater 50cm deep was found at the spot. There were investigations by the police.
Source: Nigel Rimes in UFO Percipients p39 citing Ultima Hora 28 January 1969
Date: January 29 1969
Location: MATADEPERA (CATALONIA : SPAIN
Time: 1000
Summary: An elderly woman walking in the hills on this sunny day heard a loud noise and saw a strange object that maneuvered to avoid hitting a high tension line. This object was 3m long, 2.5m high, 1.5m wide and was metallic looking with many bright colored lights. The thing then left towards Tarassa. Possible traces were found at the site; four parallel tunnels, spaced 60-100cm apart, of varying lengths, with lateral tunnels branching out. These tunnels were no more than 3cm in diameter and about 5cm from the surface at the far end. :There were four more marks 8-10m away.
Source: Ballester 1976 p23 case 102 citing CEI and Stendek 8 p10 + LDLN 107 p14 FSR Case Histories 12 p1)
Date: January 31 1969
Location: Alexandria Brazil
Time: 2000
Summary: A small “astro ship” approached General Moacyr Uchoa and his investigating team on Wilson P Gusmao’s Alexania Fazenda, where UFO phenomena had been frequent for more than a year. It made some maneuvers, then landed 100 yards away. Gusmao left the group and walked up to within a yard of the vessel, which he found to, be only 6.5 ft long and 3 ft wide, hovering 18” above the ground. A door opened, and a crewmember stood up in the entrance. He looked at Gusmao while manipulating something on his belt, which Gusmao thought was a camera. Then he turned his back, and “as if obeying an order, a big light arose from the nearby ridge.” The man then again faced Gusmao; he put his hand to his belt again, which caused a luminous halo to surround his body. After this the onlookers could see him only as a ball of light. Then, with a little gesture, he slipped down again into the craft, which took off rapidly.
Source: SBEDV and General Moacyr Uchoa
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Executive Summary: The Edina Incursion and mass-displacement Events
The January 1969 archive is headlined by the Edina, Missouri encounter, a case involving Mrs. Adeline Davis that stands as a primary example of low-altitude surveillance. This event is technically significant for its description of an army-green craft with blue-tinted windows and the subsequent 20-minute clock delay experienced by the witness. The physical effects, including the stopping of a furnace fan and the use of a directed white beam to illuminate specific terrain, mirror tactical signatures found in military UAP intercepts throughout the 1960s Global Archive.
Simultaneously, the Platteville, Illinois mass-displacement case remains a cornerstone of gravitational UAP research. Witnesses in a Chrysler Imperial reported their vehicle’s engine dying before the front end was physically lifted off the ground by an “ice-cream cone” shaped craft. This event, coupled with the Jimmy Carter UFO sighting on January 6, suggests the phenomenon was operating with total impunity across North America. The technical data from these cases—including amber light pulses and mechanical humanoid movements—confirms that January 1969 was a month of coordinated, high-intensity incursions.
“The craft was spinning like a top… the front end of the car began to rise off the ground! I thought: it’s going to pull us up inside it!”
Witness Report, Platteville, IL, January 1969
