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190 PASSPORT TO MAGONIA<br />
50<br />
Sept,1943<br />
0400<br />
peculiar "but elegant" fashion, the head waving up<br />
and down while the legs moved "carefully." When<br />
pursued, the creature accelerated very fast, with feet<br />
"fluttering." About 100 m away it vanished completely.<br />
(Personal)<br />
Oncativo (Argentina). Navarro Ocampo, driving between<br />
Rosario and Cordoba, saw a large, saucer-shaped<br />
object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. It<br />
glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling<br />
sound, rose to 100 m altitude, then left at fantastic<br />
speed. A strange metal block is said to have been<br />
found at the spot. (GEPA Dec, 68)<br />
51<br />
End Aug., 1944 Mattoon (Illinois). A mysterious man appeared at<br />
windows, as if in search of someone. He stunned witnesses<br />
by pointing at them a device that "made consciousness<br />
dissolve" and left a strange cloying smell<br />
behind. (FSR 61, 3; Magonia)<br />
52<br />
1945<br />
53<br />
Mar., 1945<br />
54<br />
Mar., 1945<br />
Habbebishopsheim (Germany). An American soldier<br />
saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate,<br />
and land. The site could not be found in the dark.<br />
The event took place 35 km northwest of the town.<br />
(Atic)<br />
Belfast (Maine). A man out hunting observed an<br />
elongated object flying very slowly, tilted toward the<br />
earth, It crashed into some trees at the end of a clearing.<br />
The enormous craft seemed undamaged as it<br />
rested briefly on the ground, then lifted again with a<br />
humming sound, started to spin, released a shower<br />
of fine silvery threads, and rose straight up, disappearing<br />
in seconds. (FS May, 59)<br />
Aleutian Islands. Aboard the US attack transport<br />
"Delarof," 14 sailors saw a dark sphere rise out of the<br />
ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly away after<br />
circling their ship. (Evidence 30)<br />
55<br />
June 10,1947<br />
2300<br />
56<br />
June 21,1947<br />
57<br />
June 21,1947<br />
1150<br />
58<br />
June 27,1947<br />
1030<br />
59<br />
June 30,1947<br />
0910<br />
60<br />
July 8,1947<br />
1200<br />
61<br />
July 23,1947<br />
APPENDIX 191<br />
Douglas (Arizona). Coral Lorenzen saw a light rise<br />
from the ground in Mexican territory. It took a definite<br />
spherical shape and vanished in less than ten seconds<br />
among the stars. (Lor. I 4)<br />
Maury Island, near Tacoma (Washington). Harold<br />
A. Dahl and others allegedly saw six tire-shaped objects,<br />
30 m in diameter, metallic with dark openings,<br />
over Puget Sound. One of the objects exploded,<br />
showering the witnesses with metal. Officially regarded<br />
as hoax. (Ruppelt)<br />
Spokane (Washington). Eight disk-shaped objects,<br />
the size of a house, were seen flying at 1000 km/h. A<br />
civilian woman stated that the objects fell with a deadleaf<br />
motion and landed before ten witnesses on the<br />
shore of the Saint Joe River, in Idaho. (Atic)<br />
Bisbee (Arizona). John A. Petsche, electrical worker,<br />
and another witness independently saw a disk-shaped<br />
object, which seemed to land near Tintown. (Lor.<br />
16)<br />
Grand Canyon, near Williams Field (Arizona). A<br />
Navy lieutenant was flying at 9000 m toward the<br />
south when he saw two circular objects diving at "unconceivable"<br />
speed. They were gray, about 3 m in<br />
diameter, and appeared to land 40 km south of the<br />
Grand Canyon. {Atic)<br />
Muroc Air Field (California). An Air Force major<br />
observed a metallic object, reflecting sunlight, oscillate,<br />
go down to ground level, and rise again. Simultaneously<br />
it was observed by a captain in Rodgers Dry<br />
Lake. (Atic)<br />
Bauru, near Pitanga (Brazil). A group of survey<br />
workers ran away as they heard a hissing noise and<br />
saw a disk land 50 m away. Jose C. Iliggins saw two
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