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The Alfred Burtoo Encounter
August, 12, 1983 - Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Alfred Burtoo was fishing along an isolated canal when a disc-shaped UFO landed nearby. The beings were humanoid, 4'6" tall, dressed in green overalls and wore helmets with visors. The beings gestured at the witness to follow them and he went up a stairway into the craft. He was made to stand under an amber light. The beings spoke to him in broken English telling him that he was too old and infirm for their purposes, he was then let go. View full report
Source: CJ website ID: 707
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Witness Sketch, Animal Reaction, Contact, Communication, Witness Photo
Ball of fire moves over 4 witnesses in boat on Bear Lake, Florida
July, 1983 - Bear Lake, Forest City, Florida, United States
The four witnesses had gone out in their boat to the middle of the lake, when they noticed a strange light that apeared as a flaming ball, orange and red with flames licking upward then like tongues of fire vanishing over the ball. The light then went out, but after a minute or two the fireball appeared again, directly over the witness' boat, before shooting away. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 932
Case Type: RawReport Features: Water-Related
Close encounter with huge object, 20-30 occupants seen inside
February, 3, 1983 - Mobile, Alabama, United States
Huge object witnessed by Pat Norris of Mobile, Alabama. "As the craft appeared Mrs. Norris' attention was drawn to a top deck with a long window which she estimates 53 feet and through which she viewed 20 to 30 persons, apparently oblivious of her presence, walking about as if they were changing shift." View full report
Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May 1984) ID: 267
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Portholes/Windows
Large 'inverted trapezoid' seen by several witnesses in Plymouth, Devon, UK
January, 1983 - Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
Large, low flying , silent and slow inverted trapezoid witnessed by two other people that I know of (who chased it in a car through Stoke village) as well as two other members of my family. [It had] lit up windows on it and it was apparently following a Dash 7 commercial airplane on route to land at Plymouth airport. The local paper the next day reported that a couple of women in a car had also observed this object and attempted to follow it as far as they could in their vehicle. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 918
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Unidentified landed enormous craft on legs
1983 - Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
I was astounded by what I viewed., and here it is. What I saw was an enormous dark structure, almost filled up the whole site that was a few hundred ft wide, to me it looked like the size of a football stadium, it was long, thin, rounded edges, lights placed strategically along the top edge casting shallow light downward. View full report
Source: UFO Evidence ID: 78
Case Type: RawReport Features: Landing
U.S. Congressman and Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich sighting of large triangular craft in Washington state
September, 1982 - Graham, Washington, United States
Dennis Kucinich saw a large triangular craft over the home actress Shirley Macline in the 1980's. "He looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered, soundless, for ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend." View full report
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Wall Street Journal, and other sources ID: 1177
Case Type: PressReport Features: Silent, Witness Photo, Famous Person
Disk-shaped UFO seen by group of teenagers in Messel, Germany
March, 13, 1982 - Messel, Germany
Several 15-17 year olds were at a discotheque in the town of Messel, when they saw outside a steel blue luminous disk with a dome on top which appeared over the woods about 600 meters from where they where standing. It slowly approached the witnesses at very low altitude, a distance of about 100 meters. Its diameter was about 10 meters wide. After a few seconds the disc started to move in spiral curves down to the ground; it stopped for a moment before it flew away at a steep upward angle. View full report
Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger / MUFON-CES, (1998) ID: 651
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Group Sighting, Children, Light Beam
Large object with windows cruises by house
1982 - National Park Road, Canungra, Australia
"I saw this huge object slowly crusing towards us then past us at eye level. It was very close, about 200 meters away... The part that I could see was like the brim of hat with a row of glowing windows on top of it... It cruised past at the equivalent pace of a car going 15 to 20 kph. It's length was longer than a semi-trailer." View full report
Source: AUFORN (Australian UFO Research Network), Australia ID: 621
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Portholes/Windows
