September-October 1969

On September 4, 1969 at 7:30 pm local time, Captain H. Cullen and First Officer N. Paircock took off from Wellington Airport in a northerly direction heading for Blenheim. Upon reaching 3300 feet, radar at Wellington informed them that a UFO was being tracked about four miles dead ahead of their aircraft, moving slowly.

On October 11, 1969, near Barraita, Coastal Queensland, Australia, baker Adrian Reimer first sighted two objects hovering about 17 feet above the ground. Startled, he awoke two friends, Mr. and Mrs. John Major, and the three went inside and watched as the two objects climbed into the sky where they appeared to join another, larger object at an estimated 30,000 feet altitude.

A series of strange circular marks found at a stand of manuka near Ngatea, New Zealand caused a flurry of comment during September and October 1969. The first circle was found on the farm of Mr. B.G. O'Neill and measured 60 feet in diameter. Three spots in the middle were arranged in a triangular formation, about nine feet apart.

On the night of August 15, 1969, at the farmhouse near Anolaima (site of the fatal July 4 CE3 encounter), a 'red ball' was observed twice. The object was estimated to be at 33,000 feet altitude and it flew directly from west to east. Witnesses included four members of the Bermudez family and three other persons, including Army Lt. German Castillo.

Two students at Mobile College, Mobile, Alabama reported to authorities in late October that they had observed a landed UFO in a field in the western area of the city on the night of October 28th. At first they thought the object was a plane descending as they drove along Beltline in the Wildwood section.

Outstanding 1967 report investigated extensively. At 7:00 am on a clear bright morning, Mr. X was walking toward a large barn located about 100 feet east of his house when he noticed one of his cows looking out into the field. He then saw the object on the ground some 335 feet from the barn, shaped like a pancake.

On July 17, 1969 at 10:30 pm, Mr. X and Miss Y (names withheld) were parked near a lot adjacent to a flood control dam in an eastern Vermont town. Through the right side of the windshield they observed a bright light described as 'bright, like several flash bulbs,' located approximately 300 yards away. A dead tree at the end of the field was silhouetted against the light.

Several days before the August investigations at the Anolaima farmhouse, APRO Representative Simhon investigated a sighting involving town councilman Hector Rivera. He and six other witnesses saw a bright yellow object travelling from west to east at an altitude of about 150 feet and at a distance of about 300 feet from their position.