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The Boianai UFO sightings
On the evenings of 26 and 27 June 1959, Father William Booth Gill and mission parishioners at Boianai, Papua, reported UFOs and human-like figures. A later study proposes bright planets seen through cloud.
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The Carl Higdon encounter
Carl Higdon, an oil well driller, said he met a being named Ausso while elk hunting in Wyoming on 25 October 1974, and was taken to another planet.
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The Colares UFO wave (Operação Prato)
In 1977 residents of Colares, in the Brazilian state of Pará, reported lights in the sky said to suck people's blood. The Brazilian Air Force sent a team to investigate in what became known as Operação Prato.
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The Coyne helicopter incident
On 18 October 1973 the crew of an Army helicopter near Mansfield, Ohio, reported a red light converging on them. Philip Klass later said the object was a fireball from the Orionid meteor shower.
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The Diplomat Hotel, Baguio
A former Dominican retreat house on Dominican Hill in Baguio City, known as the Diplomat Hotel, which paranormal believers say is haunted because of its Second World War history.
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The Falcon Lake incident
On 20 May 1967 Stefan Michalak, an amateur geologist, said he saw two glowing craft while prospecting around Falcon Lake, Manitoba. One, he said, set down on rocky ground.
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The Griefswald body crossing the sun
Postmaster Ziegler and several others watched a body take about an hour to cross the face of the sun. Dr. Brendel of Griefswald, Pomerania, sent in their report.
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The Hillsdale swamp gas sighting
On 21 March 1966, residents of a Hillsdale College dormitory in Michigan reported flashing lights over the campus arboretum, and the sighting drew the interest of Congressman Ford.
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The Inverness Courier Loch Ness report
The Inverness Courier, on 2 May 1933, carried a report of a large creature seen in Loch Ness. The sighting it described had happened earlier, on 15 April 1933 according to British Online Archives.
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The Kattenau luminous bodies
Half an hour before sunrise on 22 March 1880, a great many bright points of light rose over Kattenau, Germany, and crossed the sky east to west in a narrow band.
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The Kecksburg UFO
On December 9, 1965, a fireball crossed the sky and witnesses in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, said an object came down in the woods near town. Searchers reported finding nothing; Skeptoid's Brian Dunning says the fireball was a natural meteor.
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The Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter
A report from August 1955, from a farmhouse at Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where the family said small beings attacked them for hours.
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The Moberly-Jourdain Trianon adventure
Two English women, C. A. E. Moberly and E. F. Jourdain, said that a strange experience befell them on 10 August 1901 in the grounds of the Petit Trianon, Versailles. They published their account in 1911 as An Adventure.
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The Mothman sightings at Point Pleasant
On 15 November 1966 two couples from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, told police they had seen a large winged creature near a former munitions plant.
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The Nanjing fireball picture
A Qing picture by Wu Youru, titled Chiyan Tengkong, shows crowds on Nanjing's Zhuque Bridge watching a red ball of fire cross the evening sky. Its inscription says several hundred people saw it.
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