05.01
USSR [woman]

My name is Mrs. E. Loznaya. In 1936, when I was 15, I was living in the Oktyabriskiy sovkhoz in Kazakhstan. At the time I had never heard of UFOs and did not even know of the existence of science fiction books and magazines.

In the winter, every morning I went to school by a lonely country road. On that particular day, it was already light although the sun had not yet risen. The weather was fine and it was freezing. Suddenly I caught sight of a dark point moving rapidly in the sky to my left. It came closer, grew larger, and in a matter of seconds I saw a man-like figure dressed in black and seen in profile.

This figure was, to my mind, of medium-height; his black clothes covered him completely, like overalls. I could clearly see his head, or more exactly, something like a helmet, and enormous square arms tightly fixed to his body. I could see behind his back an oval thing something like a rucksack. Looking with fright at the “flying man”, I noticed suddenly that he had changed his course and was now flying towards me. When he turned I saw his right arm was slightly bent at the elbow. Now I saw him full face, but could not discern any features because, in place of a face there was just an entirely black surface.

At that instant I heard an increasing rumble as if it was a flying mechanism and not a living being. By now the distance between us had shortened to about 40 metres. I was terrified and tried to look for somewhere to hide, but there was none on the snow-covered steppe. I then turned again towards the flying man and saw… nobody. Nothing unusual was to be seen. Maybe he had made a sudden change in his course or maybe he had dived into a snow bank… but the next minute I was running towards my home.

This sighting only lasted a minute but I have remembered every detail clearly all these years.

05.25
Italy [man]

I am Major Francesco Zoppi, formerly Chief pilot of the Orsa Maggiore Squadron of the Italian Army Light Aircraft Corps, 21st Helicopter Group. On October 27, 1977 we had taken off in the helicopters for a normal training flight when, at a distance of about 300 metres, I saw in front of me an extremely bright orange-coloured circle. It looked like a ring of fire in the sky. We at once contacted the control tower [who] replied that nothing was visible from the ground. Meanwhile, the fiery circle continued to be there, right in front of us, and moving at a speed almost identical to our own.

Then I asked the other two helicopters of our squadron whether they could see it. One said they could, and confirmed that they were seeing the same thing as we were, while the third helicopter, piloted by Captain Romolo Romani, replied that they saw nothing. The luminous circle then suddenly vanished at a speed impossible for any aircraft of this world to equal. I called the control tower again, and was informed that in the meantime other people had seen it and had been following it with binoculars. But the radar had detected nothing.

05.40
Malta [man]

Witness: Anonymous

Location: Fomm ir-Rih, Malta

Object: Glowing white and with no features except for a bulge in the middle

Sound: A buzzing and humming noise

Notes: Mr. X was driving along a dirt road near Fomm ir-Rih at 9 pm. He heard a buzzing noise which increased in pitch until his car’s engine went dead. He looked out of his window and saw what he described as a “plattina tleqq” – a glowing plate-like object. This appeared to be descending directly onto his car. He panicked and tried to get out but the door seemed to be jammed. He could do nothing except brace himself for the impact. When nothing happened, he looked out again and saw the object hovering at 20 metres above his car. The noise it had emitted became a hum. It hovered over him for 10 minutes during which time he didn’t move from his seat. Without warning, it rose at an incredible speed until disappearing in the distance. The car started normally, and frightened out of his wits, Mr. X drove like mad to Ghar Lapsi where he had to meet a friend.

On the way he stopped for a drink (a double whisky) and recounted his story to the barman. The barman (who is personally known to the researcher) confirmed that Mr. X looked as if “he had seen a ghost”. Mr. X was illiterate so his story could not have been faked after having read a UFO book.

05.41
Greece [man]

My name is Georg N. Pantoulas, and I want to tell you the story of the UFO crash near the village of Megas Platanos in Central Greece on September 2, 1990. I went there to interview the witnesses and this is what they told me.

About 03.00 hours that night, shepherds and some villagers observed a small group of 5 to 6 UFOs approaching the area from the North. One of them had an unstable flight and seemed to be with a problem. Strange lights came out of UFOs fuselage, but without any noise. As an eyewitness, shepherd Trantos Karatranjos told me, suddenly the troubled UFO lost altitude and crashed to the ground at a distance of about 500 metres away from him. He didn’t hear any noise but a fire started burning the bushes. Trantos Karatranjos was very afraid to get closer and stayed in his position watching the phenomenon. The rest of the UFOs in this group stopped over the “accident” spot and 2 of them landed near the destroyed UFO. In a few minutes the fire in the bushes was terminated. For the rest of the night, till dawn, there was an unusual traffic from the ground to the flying UFOs. Light spots went up and down, probably collecting the pieces of the destroyed UFO and the bodies (?) of the crew. They finished the collection before sunrise and after that the rest of UFOs took off and were lost in the sky! Meanwhile all the villagers had been awakened and had seen the whole operation.

Early in the morning the villagers went out to the spot where all of this occurred and they saw on the ground a burned oval shape in the ground with a cut pine tree in the centre (it is still in this place); and very small metallic pieces and pieces of wires around the tree. Some of the people, like Argyris Alevantas, collected a number of these pieces. One strange thing was that at the edges of the burned oval the fire stopped like it had been cut by knife! Some hours later a team of Hellenic Air Force personnel came in the area and told the villagers that this was nothing serious, maybe a Soviet satellite crashed or a plane! They took some pieces of the UFO too and left the area. Argyris Alevantas sent a piece of the UFO to the Space Research Institute in Brussels. That’s the story. If you think that we need more information we can get more because I have a very good relationship with the people in the village of Megas Platanos. You see, they don’t like to talk a lot about this story because they are afraid that someone will think they are crazy or something!

05.42
Romania [man]

My name is Traian Crisan, I am 48 years of age, a sheep farmer in Arad near the Romanian/ Hungarian border. On June 20th, I was checking my sheep at approximately 4 am, when I saw a huge light approaching over a nearby wheat field – like the moon, but much larger. When the light came within 5 metres, a sudden powerful blast of wind blew away my hat and cape and knocked me to the ground. I lay there clinging to a bush in terror. The bright object was completely round, and it emitted a whistling noise. The object remained motionless hovering above the wheat field for two minutes, before taking off straight upwards and disappearing incredibly quickly. I ran to get help. When I returned, we observed two crop circles had appeared in the wheat. Both circles measured 6 metres in diameter, with an outer ring measured 4 metres in width. All the corn within the circle was firmly pressed down in an anticlockwise direction, and the crop was interwoven, or plaited. There were several other witnesses who also described seeing a strange light over the field, and hearing a whistling noise! The corn started rippling and then bent over double.

05.46
Croatia [man]

Hello. My name is Berislav Kucan. On Wednesday, April 16th, 1997, at 8.15 pm a UFO appeared over the town of Zagorje in Northern Croatia. It seemed like a giant cigar. I was watching TV at 6.45 pm that evening when I suddenly noticed red light streaming through my window. I left my chair, got dressed and went out in the yard to see what the disturbance was all about. About 160 metres away, in a farm field, a tubular or cigar-shaped “fireball” hovered just above the ground. At the centre was a black sphere surrounded by a fiery red glow, approximately 12 metres high and 15 metres in diameter, with three holes like windows. It was silent and flew quickly away.

Afterwards, I went to the place where I thought it had been located, and discovered a crop circle measuring 28 metres in diameter. I also found a few strange footprints or tracks larger than my own. The prints were Croatian shoe size 43 according to my estimate. But when I went to summon witnesses, they saw nothing except the crop circle.

France, Canada and Switzerland

06.03
France [man]

In September 30, 1954 I found myself in a peculiar state of drowsiness walking away from my team of eight construction workers. Less than ten metres away from me, on a slope, I saw a man. His head was covered with an opaque glass helmet with a visor coming down to his chest. He wore grey overalls and short boots. In his hand he held an elongated object which could have been a pistol or could have been a metal rod. On his chest was a light. He was standing in front of a large shining dome, which floated about three feet off the ground. Above the cupola of the machine were objects like rotating wings or blades. Then suddenly the strange man vanished and I couldn’t explain how he did, since he did not vanish from my field of vision by walking away, but vanished like an image one erases suddenly. Then I heard a strange whistling sound and the dome rose by successive jerks in a vertical direction, and then it too was erased in a sort of blue haze. Six of my team also confirm these details.

06.05
France [teenager]

On August 16, 1997 my brother and I saw a red ball to our left coming down and hovering at tree height. It then left at fantastic speed. The object was a disc about 7.5 metres in diameter with a red dome and rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow.

06.11
France [woman]

On Sunday evening, February 15, 1998, I was driving with two other people on Autoroute RN 13 between Evreux and Saint André de l’Eure when we spotted four luminous objects in the sky forming one shape or formation. It had a spherical form and remained stationary in front of us. As we drove into Evreux the object was on our right. Then somehow we lost sight of it. We dropped off Beatrice at her home in the Val David section of Evreux and drove down Chaussée D67, heading back to Saint André de l’Eure. We then saw three other spheres in a stationary group. The first in line suddenly made a jerky motion. Then the UFOs dispersed in all directions. We stopped the car, and stepped outside to get a better look. We then saw the first UFOs return. The intensity of the light varied, seeming to give an impression of shrinkage and expansion. All these strange phenomena disappeared after ten minutes. We reported what we had seen to the police.

06.17
Canada [man]

On November 7th, 1990 I was the first to report what turned out to be the largest UFO sighting in Canada. I was at that time the lifeguard at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal. The swimming pool was on the roof. I noticed a woman who was floating on her back, motionless, for about ten minutes. I went to her to see if she was all right. She just pointed silently up to the sky.

When I first saw those lights I was stunned. They were very bright. I first saw yellow lights, I would say six, seven, or eight spots – within the shape of an egg.

It didn’t move an inch, from what I could see. Everywhere I moved around the roof, the thing always seemed to be right over my head. I said, “Somebody pinch me, because I don’t believe what I see.”

I called the hotel manager and rumours spread like wildfire through the hotel. The police arrived and called for help when they witnessed the overwhelming display of lights and the large crowd that had gathered. Photographers were taking pictures and the TV people were there, too. The lights now seemed to be a coldish white, almost bluey, and incredibly bright and sharp, like pencils of light. After approximately two hours and fifteen minutes they began to move slowly from the West to the East. When they were far away they still resembled a shape or formation, like a glittering crown in the sky. It was really something to witness. It will always stick in my memory as something strange and very exciting.

06.18
Switzerland [teenager]

My name is Alex Carrara and I am 17 years of age. My family live in Geneva, Switzerland. We were spending the Christmas holidays in Kimsar, Rajahstan State, India. On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1997 I was standing outside our rented villa with my parents and brother and sister when we noticed a crowd of ten to twelve local people looking up at the sky. When we looked up also, we were struck by the sight of a bright yellow or orange UFO, soundless, with a yellow-orange glow or aura emanating from it.

The UFO approached Kimsar from the East at an extremely high altitude flying about at between 50 to 70 degrees above the horizon. Some of the local witnesses argued that it was a satellite, but the direction of the object wasn’t straight like a satellite. The object followed three different courses. I know the sky well and have been studying astronomy for years. I know this was not a star. It couldn’t have been a distant electric light because there are no lights in Kimsar because there is no electricity. The UFO performed its strange turning manoeuvres for another five minutes before it disappeared in the West. We were left in doubt about what we had all seen. It was spectacular and strange to witness.