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Vehicle Interference Cases

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Carlos Diaz Photo and Contact Case (Mexico)

January, 1981 - Ajusco National Forest , Mexico

"The source of light revealed itself to be a large, orange, oval-shaped UFO, slowly hovering about 30 metres from his car... The whole car began to shake violently. Diaz got out of the vehicle and took two more photographs before the craft sped up vertically into the sky..." This encounter marked the beginning of what was to develop into a fascinating and long-running contactee case. View full report

Source: The X Factor, Issue 89 ID: 1091

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Contact, Photo, Vehicle Interference

Sixty-foot craft lands with two occupants (Johnny Sands case)

January, 29, 1976 - Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Johnny Sands, a country-western singer living in Las Vegas, saw a 60-foot craft at about 1000 feet altitude, shaped like the Goodyear blimp, with portholes around the circumference. The object appeared to land, and Sands then saw two figures approaching. Then, he "froze" -- he wanted to move, but he couldn't. The figures came near him, to about three feet away. View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 24 No. 9 (Mar 1976) ID: 314

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Physiological Effects, Vehicle Interference, Humanoid/Occupant, Polygraph Test, Portholes/Windows

UFO with two occupants hovers over man's car

1975 - San Antonio, Texas, United States

A 48-year-old San Antonio sheet metal worker claims he had a close encounter of the third kind with two occupants of a UFO. He was driving his pickup truck just south of San Antonio when he "was approached, spotlighted and, nearly buffeted off the road by an unidentified craft," investigators report. View full report

Source: San Antonio Evening News (San Antonio, TX), Feb. 20, 1978 ID: 437

Case Type: PressReport Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Vehicle Interference, Witness Sketch, 'Dyad Scout Craft'

UFOs 'escort' Mexican aircraft

May, 2, 1974 - En route from Guerrero state to Mexico City, Mexico

Carlos Antonio de los Santos Montiel was flying en route from Guerrero state to Mexico city in his Piper Aztec 24, he became aware of three objects positioned extremely close around the plane. He heard a noise from below, as if one of the objects had collided with his plane. He then noticed that the aircraft controls and landing gear were frozen. View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 24 No. 2 (Aug 1975) ID: 311

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Radar, Pilot/Aircrew, Vehicle Interference, Multiple UFOs, Witness Photo

Close encounter with saucer at Quakers Hill, Australia

1974 - Quakers Hill, Australia

"My sister and myself were driving... when the car suddenly shook violently then completely stopped, nothing worked, not even the radio... That's when I observed this massive circular disc shaped object, it didn't seem to be much higher than the power pole. It was surrounded completely by lights and had a dome in the middle on the top." View full report

Source: UFO Research (NSW), Australia ID: 620

Case Type: RawReport Features: Vehicle Interference, Witness Sketch

Object emits three discs, responds to light signals

August, 1972 - Minnesota, United States

A family of six was returning from their vacation in the U.S. at night when they observed a UFO, which zoomed straight toward them. They used a flashlight and flashed four times — short flashes — and immediately the object flashed back four times. Three smaller discs were seen leaving the large disc. View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 25 No. 2 (Aug. 1976) ID: 347

Case Type: StandardCase Features: E-M Effects, Vehicle Interference, Interaction/Reaction, Multiple UFOs

Maureen Puddy's close encounter in Victoria, Australia, 1972

July, 5, 1972 - Frankston, Victoria, Australia

On 5 July 1972, 27-year-old Maureen Puddy saw a ufo on the Alooraduc Road near Frankston, in Victoria, Australia. The object was a huge blue disc, which hovered above, her car as she returned from visiting her son in hospital. Twenty days later, at almost the same spot, it returned. This time it seemed to drain power from the car, causing it to stop; indeed, the car appeared to steer itself to the roadside. A voice in her head told her, 'All your tests will be negative.' It then said: 'Tell media, do not panic. We mean no harm..' View full report

Source: Judith Magee, VUFORS ID: 814

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Vehicle Encounter, Vehicle Interference, Communication

Danish police officer has two close encounters (the Maarup sightings)

August, 13, 1970 - Hadersley, Denmark

Danish police officer Evald Maarup was driving through the countryside near Hadersley, when he encountered a brilliantly lit UFO. Suddenly there was a fierce light beaming down on him, his car engine cut out, and the car lights and his radio stopped working. Above him, Maarup could make out a large circular object which he watched for about five minutes, before it moved away rapidly. Three years later, Maarup had another encounter with the same or a similar object at exactly the same place. View full report

Source: UFOs at Close Sight - Ufologie.net ID: 734

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Vehicle Encounter, Vehicle Interference, E-M Effects, Police, Light Beam, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo

Disc-shaped UFO with dome 'buzzes' automobile

October, 15, 1966 - Split Rock Pond, New Jersey, United States

"The object was directly in back and above me and followed my car along the road." He estimated the object to be approximately 25 to 30 feet wide and five or six feet high. His diagram shows a typically flat-bottomed and somewhat domed object. Simons then noticed that his car began to act abnormally. View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon), ID: 546

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Vehicle Interference, Physiological Effects

Close-range sighting of disc-shaped object with dome on top

April, 22, 1966 - Alliance, Ohio, United States

"When it was within an estimated 40 feet, over the open practice area of the golf course, the UFO stopped (cf. Damon, Texas). It appeared to be at telephone pole height and about 45 feet in diameter, and encircling the rim was a row of red lights like a "rotating neon sign." The white light, much brighter than the red, was seen to be coming from a dome atop the structure." View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon), ID: 545

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Vehicle Interference

Disc-shaped object hovering few feet above road

March, 31, 1966 - Near Vicksburg, Michigan, United States

Jeno Udvardy, a 1956 Hungarian refugee, was driving home from a late work shift near Vicksburg, Michigan. When he reached the crest of a hill he saw a cluster of lights on the road. They were seen to be on a disc-shaped object hovering a few feet above the road and blocking his passage. View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon), ID: 554

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Vehicle Interference, Humming

The Langenhoe Incident (Motorcyclist encounters UFO)

September, 14, 1965 - Mersea island, Essex, United Kingdom

"I could make out some sort of an outline and an enormous object spun into view, looming up large and uncanny out of the sky. It resembled the upper half of a large spinning top and was about the size of a gasometer. There appeared to be a dome on top, inside of which was flashing a strange blue light." View full report

Source: Dr. Bernard E. Finch, FSR Nov-Dec 1965 ID: 631

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humming, Sound, Physiological Effects, Animal Reaction, Scientist/Engineer, Vehicle Interference

Giant spinning top encountered by businessman

June, 29, 1964 - Near Lavonia, Georgia, United States

Businessman Beauford E. Parham was returning home late on the evening of June 29, 1964. "I spotted a very bright light in the sky . . . coming directly toward my car," the witness said in a letter to a NICAP member. "The next instance it was directly in front of my headlights spinning like a giant top. It was shaped like a top and made a hissing sound like a million snakes." View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon), 'Strange Effects from UFOs', by Donald Keyhoe and Gordon Lore ID: 565

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Physiological Effects, Physical Trace, Vehicle Interference, Portholes/Windows

The Levelland Sightings (Texas)

November, 2, 1957 - Levelland, Texas, United States

This case is perhaps the most important concentration of vehicle interference events in the United States. On the evening of November 2, 1957, Patrolman A. J. Fowler, officer on duty at Levelland, Texas, received the first of several strangely similar phone calls. The first was from Pedro Saucedo, who, with companion Joe Salaz, had been driving four miles west of Levelland when a torpedo-shaped, brilliantly illuminated object rapidly approached the car... as the object passed close over the car, the truck headlights went out, and the engine died. Officer Fowler reported that a total of 15 phone calls were made to the police station in direct reference to the UFO. View full report

Source: Dr. J. Allen Hynek, ID: 228

Case Type: MajorCase Features: Vehicle Interference

Metal artifact found after close encounter on Island of Vaddo, Sweden

November, 11, 1956 - Isle of Vaddo, Sweden

Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjoberg were driving on the Island of Vaddo, Sweden, when they were approached by a flattened sphere shaped object. It settled in the middle of the road, about 100 meters in front of them. After about ten minutes, the object lifted off and accelerated away. At the landing site, the witnesses found a shiny "rock" that was hot to the touch. It was a three-sided piece of metal about the size of a matchbox, and had a heavy weight. Upon analysis, the object was found to be composed of tungsten carbide and cobalt. View full report