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Betty and Barney Hill abduction
Betty and Barney Hill, a couple from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, said aliens abducted them in the White Mountains in September 1961. The New York Times credits their story with a national fixation on alien abduction.
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Colonel Shaw's encounter near Lodi
The Stockton Evening Mail of 27 November 1896 printed Colonel H. G. Shaw's first-person account of meeting three tall, slender beings on a road near Lodi, California. Guinness World Records says writers broadly regard it as the first published account of its kind.
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Hindu statues drinking milk, 1995
In September 1995 worshippers reported that statues of Hindu deities took offerings of milk, first at a temple in New Delhi and then in temples around the world.
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Kenneth Arnold's flying saucers
On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold said he saw nine shining objects race past him close to Mount Rainier, Washington. His report gave the world the phrase "flying saucer".
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Lord Brougham's vision in the bath
From his bath, Henry Brougham saw his friend G--- sitting calmly on a chair. He wrote the whole thing down at once, dated 19 December.
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Lord Derwentwater's Lights
On the night of 6 March 1716, people across England reported battles and flames in the sky, and the display was later called Lord Derwentwater's Lights.
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Marius Dewilde at Quarouble
Marius Dewilde, a metalworker, said he found a dark craft on the railway line by his house in Quarouble, France, on the night of 10 September 1954.
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Monte Cristo Homestead
A late-Victorian homestead on a hill above Junee, New South Wales, built by Christopher Crawley in the 1880s. The owners say the ghost of Mrs Crawley, the builder's widow, has been seen there many times.
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The 1896 mystery airship wave
From November 1896, hundreds of people in Sacramento, San Francisco and Oakland reported a light or an airship overhead at night, and newspapers spread the reports.
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The 1913 meteor procession
Fireballs crossed the sky as a procession on 9 February 1913, seen from Canada, the north-eastern United States, Bermuda and ships heading toward Brazil.
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The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO flap
In July 1952 radar operators and pilots around Washington, D.C. reported unknown lights and blips over the capital. The Air Force answered with a news conference that CNN calls its biggest and longest since World War II.
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The Becker family haunting
Ed Becker's account of a haunted family home that led, in his telling, to an exorcism broadcast by NBC in 1971, the basis of his books and a Screen Gems film project.
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