- 100 Date: May 1968
- 110 Time: 23:00
- 120 Duration: 10 minuetes
- 140 Sighting State: .
- 165 Sighting Country: Mediterrainian Sea
- 170 Witnesses: 160
- 172 Shape: Fireball
- 168 Number of Craft: 5
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- 180 Description: May 1968 Mediterrainian sea bright lights
appeared over the sea performed a number of manuevers and then disappeared.
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- 190 Description: While serving on board the USS Zellars
DD777, while on NATO task force operations, a number of lights that looked
like flares rose out of the water off of our port beam. These lights appeared
comming up from the sea, (distance indeterminate), rising up and disappearing
into the sky. There were five of these objects. A few seconds later they
dropped back into the sea. We thought perhaps they were distress flares
from a ship. A few minuetes later they rose out of the sea and performed
synchronized manuevers moving up and laterally in perfect formation. They
then rose up into the sky and disapeared. I think the whole episode lasted
perhaps two to three minuetes. The USS Gearing one of our sister ships
was initially dispatched when the objects were first sighted to see if
they were flares from a ship in distress. However they were no reports
of may day calls or missing ships and our combat information center, (CIC),
could not get a radar fix on the objects.
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- The whole incident, (as was par for the course), was
never recorded as a UFO sighting but rather as an unsubstantiated ship
distress signal.
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- With regards to the USS Scorpion whom were a part of
our manuevers she was most likely sunk by accident by one of the two Soviet
subs that followed her out through the Straights of Gibralter into the
Atlantic - they were playing "cat and mouse games" and I personally
think the incident was an accident.
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- 410 Trail: Yes
- 200 Name: ((deleted))
- 240 Address State: .
- 265 Occupation: ((deleted))
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- ((NUFORC RESPONSE TO SOURCE OF REPORT))
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- Dear ((name deleted)),
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- Thank you very much for the excellent, and interesting,
report!
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- Are you still in touch with members of the crew of the
USS Zellars? If so, I would like to invite you to have them submit reports
of the incident, as well. We know from experience that different witnesses
to the same event often see, remember, and report different aspects of
it.
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- Have you considered the possibility that the Scorpion
might have been sunk by the Israelis, or a force in sympathy with their
interests? The "Dakar" was lost on January 29, 1968, in
a fashion which suggests to me that the U. S. might have had a hand in
that sinking, given the Israeli attack on the USS Libery on June 08,
1967, an act of war against the U. S.. We might have sunk the Dakar as
an act of quiet "quid pro quo."
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- Thanks, again, for the fine report!
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- Cordially,
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- Peter Davenport, Director
- NUFORC
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- ((Case #2))
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- 100 Date: 1943
- 105 Approximate: Yes
- 110 Time: 23:00
- 120 Duration: 1 hour
- 130 Sighting City: Bering Sea
- 140 Sighting State: ca
- 160 Sighting County: USA
- 170 Witnesses: 8-12
- 172 Shape: Other
- 168 Number of Craft: 1
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- 1943 sighting of four linearly arranged red lights in Bering
Sea
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- I was aboard the USS Williamson (Destroyer) in early
1943 during WWII. The weather was clear with calm seas. The night was very
black. At the time of the sighting, we were patrolling the Bearing Seanorth
of the Alaskan Peninsula, bearing north at about 20 knots.
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- I was on watch at the starboard 20mm gun, second deck
(galley deck). It was around 2300. My gun turret was above the deck house
and there were no obstructions hindering my field of vision, allowing me
to have a clear 360 degree view of the sea around the ship. There were
four of us together at the starboard gun (I can get crew names and captain's
name).
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- The attention of both port and starboard gun crews was
drawn to a row of red lights off the port side, traveling parallel to and
slightly forward of the bow. I did not see the lights when they first approached
so do not know the direction from which they came, or if they came out
of the sea. There were at least eight lights in a row, evenly spaced, canted
at about 15 degrees to horizontal. I would estimate the lights were no
more than 100 yards from the ship. The lights held their relative position
to one another throughout the sighting, and appeared to be about 10 feet
apart. I would say that the light closest to the water (the lights were
canted diagonal to horizontal at approximately 15 degrees) appeared to
be about 30 feet above the water.
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- I estimate that it would require a cantaloupe held at
arms length to cover a single light. I could not see a structure associated
with the lights as there was nothing but blackness between the lights.
The lights were a very deep red and did not cast a beam. The lights moved
parallel to our ship, holding their position relative to the ship throughout
the entire sighting.
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- The lights continued to pace the ship as I watched. This
continued for at least one hour. I was relieved from watch at 2400. When
I went below the lights were still visible. I was too tired to stay on
deck and went below to sleep. The next day, the midnight gun
crew said that the captain turned the ship and "tried" to chase
the lights. I don't know the outcome of this maneuver. I don't know what
the circumstances were when the lights disappeared. But I do know that
I have not seen anything like this before or since.
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- ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date
of the incident is approximate. PD))
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- ((END))
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