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September-October 1968

Vol. 17, No. 2 · Tucson, Arizona · 18 sighting reports · 8 countries
APRO Bulletin September-October 1968, page 1 APRO Bulletin September-October 1968, page 2
Issue at a Glance
Reports
18
Countries
8 : Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Peru, Spain, United States, Uruguay
Date Range
1967-1968
Top Shapes
Light, Disc, Flat
Notable
Law enforcement, Radar

September and October 1968 saw an extraordinary concentration of sightings in the Mendoza province of Argentina, with multiple independent witnesses reporting structured craft, humanoid occupants, and physical effects. The wave caught the attention of the Argentine press and military, and APRO's Buenos Aires representative filed detailed case reports.

Sighting Reports

1968-04-19 New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA
Dome with glass top · Bright reddish with flashing lights · ~300 feet diameter · ~20 minutes · About a dozen individuals; Valley Camp forester Lloyd Bur…

About a dozen individuals reported observing a bright reddish light which made a humming sound and had flashing lights. Observation lasted approximately 20 minutes. Object followed a course along the valley of the Allegheny River for a total of about 5 miles until it went out of sight.

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1968-08-31 Mendoza, Argentina, Argentina
Disc · Extended · Two men (names withheld)

Detailed contact case in the morning hours of August 31 when two casino cashiers were woken early in the morning. One of the men drove along and saw the object. The object stopped about 50 metres from the ground. Marks were found on the side and running board of the car.

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1968-09-01 Cornwallis River, Nova Scotia, Canada, Canada
Disc · Bluish · ~15 feet diameter, 5 feet thick · ~10 minutes · David Taylor (14); David Borelli (11); Gregory Czyzakosa …

At 4:30 PM, four boys on the Cornwallis River dyke observed a disc-shaped object, bluish in colour, hovering about 100 feet above the river. They ran to a point where they could get about 4 feet from the object and watched it for about 10 minutes until it moved toward the water. It dipped below and moved along with the current. The object appeared to be oscillating like a spinning top.

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1968-09-05 Madrid, Spain, Spain
Triangular · Visible during rush hour · Many during evening rush hour

At 7:30 PM during evening rush hour, a triangular-shaped object was sighted through the skies over Madrid. It was visible to many. The US space tracking facility at Robledo, Spain, confirmed the object was definitely not an American satellite. The Spanish weather bureau denied it was one of their meteorological balloons. Various authorities tried to account for the object.

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1968-08-12 Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
Egg/teardrop/dome with flat bottom · Orange and red · 1+ hours · Surveyor Will Barela Jr.; Barela's son; Rickey (motorcycl…

Beginning at about 7 PM, surveyor Will Barela Jr. and son observed a gourd/teardrop/egg-shaped object. Described as dome-shaped with a flat bottom, orange and red in colour. Son first spotted it in the north at 7 PM. Movement barely describable without binoculars (10x40). At about 8 PM, object was just off the highway to the east.

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1967-08-28 Oakville, Ontario, Canada, Canada
Unknown (lights) · White with green and orange flashing · 20+ minutes (observers); hours (general) · Local policeman; Toronto International Airport controller…

A local policeman and a controller/tower operator at Toronto International Airport sighted an object covered with white lights and with green and orange flashing lights on top. About 1,000 feet above the surface of the water, about a mile from the Oakville lake shore. Although the object did not register on radar, it was seen by flight controllers.

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1967-11-00 Boituva, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brazil
Unknown with tripod/ladder · Children; hospital staff

About 200 metres from a large hospital in the town of Boituva, 18 km northeast of Sao Paulo. At approximately 1:10 PM, children were playing about 500 metres from where they saw the object on the ground, shaped by a big tripod with a ladder extending from the object to the ground underneath. The object took off, retracting the tripod ladder as it rose.

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1968-03-21 Rockdale, Connecticut, USA
Hat-shaped with protrusions · Flames from bottom · Two adults; two teenagers

Four witnesses observed a hat-shaped object with two pole-like protrusions on the brim and flames issuing from the bottom. Observed with naked eye and 15x60 power binoculars. Object's trajectory was toward the northwest, then it appeared to reverse course, stopped.

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Additional Reports

1968-07-05 Sao Paulo region, Brazil, Brazil At 1 AM, professional photographer Rodrigues Pontes, suffering from bronchitis, was outside when he observed a large obj…
1968-04-10 Friday Harbor, Washington, USA At 4 AM, a man got up to go to the bathroom, glanced out the kitchen window toward the northwest and saw a large round o…
1968-02-12 Nassau County, New York (Neck Bridge), USA At about 8:30 PM, driving home to New York City from New Jersey, crossing Neck Bridge in Nassau County. One of the girls…
1968-04-00 Niagara Falls, New York, USA At approximately 2:15 AM, several policemen observed bright white lights which pulsated with red and blue colours in the…
1968-04-25 Wabeno, Wisconsin, USA Kenneth Daly observed an object with a rim of windows around it, approximately the size of a normal house. Mary Dailey c…
1968-04-05 Cochrane, Wisconsin, USA Between 1:13 and 1:20 AM, a school teacher and her young child were driving south on Highway 35 toward Cochrane when an …
1968-08-25 Maple Beach, 70km south of Lima, Peru, Peru Three strange-looking beings emerged from the sea in the vicinity of Maple Beach, about 70 km south of Lima. Two of the …
1968-08-04 Salto, Uruguay, Uruguay UFOs were spinning in the middle of the area of Salto (500 km northeast of Montevideo). One star-like object descended t…
1968-04-10 Highway 285 near Estrella, Colorado, USA On Wednesday night at between 11 and 11:30 PM, college student was riding his motorcycle south on Highway 285. About 1.5…
1968-09-22 Medellin, Colombia, Colombia Ten luminous objects spotted over the city flying in formation. Many observers saw the objects, which were ten in number…

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