Observers
of UFOs are found in all walks of life and all professions.
When it comes to UFO sightings, it is not unusual to find
that law enforcement personnel have had their fair share
of encounters with unusual circumstances, and UFOs are
at the top of the list. This
compilation of recordings deal with police officers who
have had close encounters with unidentified flying objects.
For many law officers, it is an interesting diversion
from the more mundane calls and make for interesting discussions
with their fellow officers. Sometimes, an encounter goes
beyond seeing a strange object in the sky and literally
has profound changes for the lives of the law officers
who came face to face with unknown objects from the sky.
TRACK
LISTINGS
Chronological
01:
Levelland,
TX. 11.07.1957. Bob Pierpoint, CBS
News, reports on the UFO incident. 00:38
02:
Levelland,
TX. 11.08.1957. Sheriff Weir Clem is interviewed
by Anthony Edwards. 05:30
03:
Adrian,
MI. 12.05.1957. Police officer,
ambulance driver and witnesses interviewed by Alan Rowe
of the Detroit UFO Research Group. 41:00
04:
Fulton
County, IN. 01.23.1958. Deputy Sheriff
Thomas Barker describes an encounter with a UFO. 11:15
05.
Redmond,
OR. 09.24.1959. Police Officer Robert Dickerson
and FAA Flight Service Specialist LaVerne Wertz are interviewed
by a local radio station. 12:00
06:
Minerva,
OH. 09.18.1962. Patrolman Frank McCurry
is interviewed by Marc Candusso of the Flying Saucer Investigations
Committee. McCurry also talks about a group of seven UFOs
he spotted while on patrol in 1955. 15:30
07:
Socorro,
NM. 04.24.1964. Officer Lonnie Zamora is
interviewed by Walter Strode on KSRC Radio. 12:15
08:
Socorro,
NM. 04.24.1964. Dr. J. Allen Hynek from
the USAF Project Blue Book investigation, is interviewed
by KSRC radio's Walter Strode, in Dr. Hynek's motel room
and recorded by Ray Stanford, NICAP. Other USAF investigators
were also in the room and the listener can hear them in
the background. Hynek comments on the symbol and people
Patrolman Lonnie Zamora observed. 04:00
09:
Socorro,
NM. 04.24.1964. Police Dispatcher Mike
Martinez is recorded by Ray Stanford regarding Lonnie
Zamora's description of the symbol he observed on the
side of the object. 02:32
10:
Socorro,
NM. 04.24.1964 April 24, 1964. Louis Reidel,
publisher of the El Defensor Chieftain newspaper in Socorro,
is interviewed by Ray Stanford regarding little men with
hoofed feet near the object that Officer Lonnie Zamora
observed and reported to the USAF investigators. 08:00
11:
Socorro,
NM. 04.24.1964. Opel Grinder, service station
attendant in Socorro, NM, gives a statement to Ray Stanford
regarding the object as seen by customers on the highway
who stopped at his station just before Officer Lonnie
Zamora came upon the UFO. 00:52
12:
Socorro,
NM. 04.24.1964. Officer Lonnie Zamora is
interviewed on the phone by NICAP's Streeter Stuart, 04.29.1964.
02:50
13:
Minneapolis/St.
Paul, MN. 1965. Radio news report of a
police chasing a UFO. 01:40
14:
Damon,
TX. 09.03.1965. Brazoria County Chief Deputy
B. E. McCoy and Deputy Robert Goode encountered a UFO
that buzzed their patrol car. McCoy describes the incident.
03:15
15:
Exeter,
NH. 09.03.1965. Officer Eugene Bertrand,
Jr. and Officer David Hunt observed a UFO. Bertrand gives
a short description of the incident. 01:00
16:
Wanaque,
NJ. 01.11-12.1966. Gordon Lore (NICAP)
interviews witnesses at the Wanaque, NJ Police Station
January 14, 1966. Witnesses included Howard Bell, newspaper
editor and Mayor Wolf. Resevior police officers encountered
UFOs above the resevior in Wanaque. 56:35
17:
Milan,
MI. 03.17.1966. News report and inteview
with Deputy Nuel Schneider who, along with Deptuy David
Fitzpatrick, encountered three UFOs which they photographed.
02:45
18:
Washtenaw
County, MI. 03.20.1966. Patrolman Robert
Honeywell describes an object that he encountered near
Dexter, Michigan. State Police Colonel Frederick Davis
comments on the incidents of UFOs being sighted in Michigan.
04:15
19:
Exeter,
NH. 10.11.1066. Unknown police officer
is interviewed regarding his UFO sighting. 15:45
20:
Portage
County (Ravenna), OH. 04.17.1966. Deputy
Sheriff Dale Spaur and Mandalay Village Police Chief,
Gerald Booker, give their narratives of the UFO chase
incident on WKSU radio. 15:15
21:
Portage
County (Ravenna), OH. 04.17.1966. Deputy
Sheriff Dale Spaur is interviewed by Marc Candusso from
the Flying Saucer Investigations Committee of Akron, OH
on April 19, 1966. 65:00
22:
Portage
County (Ravenna), OH. 04.17.1966. Major
Hector Quintanilla, Jr., USAF Project Blue Book, takes
Officer Dale Spaur, Officer Barney Neff and others statement
at the Ravenna, OH police station on May 11, 1966. Quintanilla
tells them they saw either a satellite or the planet Venus.
55:00
23:
Portage
County (Ravenna), OH. 04.17.1966. NICAP's
William Weitzel asked Dale Spaur, etc., following their
meeting with Major Hector Quintanill, Jr. for their reaction
as to Quintanilla's explanation of their case. 14:30
24:
Sharon,
MA. 04.18.1966. News report with interview
of Police Sergeant Bernard Coffey who observed an egg-shaped
UFO that rotated and had windows. 10:15
25:
Akron,
OH. 04.18.1966. April 18, 1966. Police
Officer Gary Youst of Akron, OH is interviewed by Marc
Candusso of the Flying Saucer Investigations Committee,
regarding his sighting of a huge UFO over a church while
on patrol. 26:00
26:
Akron,
OH. 04.18.1966. Police Officer John Bickett
is interviewed by Marc Candusso of the Flying Saucer Investigations
Committee, regarding his sighting of a huge UFO over a
church while on patrol. 18:30
27:
Ashland,
NB. 12.03.1967. Interviews with Officer
Herbert Schirmer, Officer Pat Scholting and Chief Leschin.
Officer Schirmer was abducted and taken aboard a UFO while
on patrol. Interview conducted by Col. B. F. Stahl and
Duane Beard. Poor recording. 30:30
28:
Ashland,
NB. 12.03.1967. Officer Herbert Schirmer
gives an account of his encounter and abduction by a UFO
in 1974. 30:00
29:
Erie
County, OH. 02.10.1967. Constable Gary
Butler is interviewed by Rick Hilberg and Earl J. Neff
of the Cleveland Ufology Project (CUP). Butler observed
a bluish-colored UFO near the National Air and Space Administration's
(NASA) nuclear facility in Sandusky, Ohio. 07:00
30:
Tillamook,
OR. March, 1967. Project Blue Book
recording. Interviews of Police Officer B. F. Taylor and
KTIL Radio manager, Dennis Kruger. 04:15
31:
Michigan
City, IN. 06.20.1969. Bill Loft interviews
Corporal James Kaufman, Sgt. Lance Hilberg, Tong Ragdale
and Ted Stanz of the police department and Vern Freeman,
Robert Davenport, Charles Dolan and Gus Tarantino of the
U.S. Coast Guard regarding their sighting of seven disc-shaped,
pulsating objects, over Lake Michigan. One of the objects
made a strange noise as it almost collided with a pier.
The observations lasted well over an hour when the objects
formed into one and disappeared. 48:00
32:
Los
Alamos, NM. 1971. Dr. J. Allen Hynek has
a phone conversation with a Los Alamos, NM police officer
who observed a dull white, submarine shaped object, along
the tree line of the Los Alamos canyon. The object was
also observed by a Los Alamos Security Police Officer.
21:45
33:
Tilton,
NH. 08.11.1974. Tilton police department
dispatch recording during an incident of a domed disc
approaching a police car. As the officers signaled the
object it began to signal back. Before the incident was
over, three separate UFOs were observed. Voices on the
tape include officers from Tilton, Belmont and Gilford,
NH. They are: Mark E. Paine, Michael Alden, Mike McCarthy,
Norman Stanley, Steven Hodges and Scott Wolf. Remainder
of recording is J. Oswald talking with George Prescott
and dispatchers at the Tilton, NH police department. 46:15
34:
Elmwood,
WS. 04.07.1975. Police Officer George Wheeler
states his encounter with a UFO. 00:47
35:
Lumberton,
NC. 05.19.1975. Interview of Police Chief
William Halstead, Patrolman John Hayes and a citizen driver,
Bill Stanton. All observed a triangular craft. When Chief
Halstead signaled the object with his headlights the object
signaled back. 16:45
36:
Ventnor,
NJ. 01.20.1976. Patrolman Frank Ingargolia
is interviewed on WIND radio, Chicago, IL on January 23.
Ingargolia and a reporter riding in his patrol car, observe
an object over the boardwalk. The object paces the car
and they stop on the beach to observe a shining light
from the patrol car onto the object, which after an hour,
disappeared. 16:13
37:
Ocala,
FL. 05.14.1978. Police officers receive
a report of a UFO near railroad tracks, thinks it's funny
and probably a remote controlled device used on power
lines. But, it isn't. A neat little game of cops and saucers
ensues. 21:15
38:
St.
Helens, WA. 03.17.1981. State Trooper Thomas
McCartney, St. Helen's Police Officers Mike Dyer, Earl
Myer, Sgt. Donald Yokum and Officer Sallé observe
an object over the Columbia River. The object came from
the sky, dropping straight down and hovered over the river.
The object emitted a fog around the area and was so bright
birds began to wake and sing. The object was then heard
to have splashed down in the river. The noise from the
object was caught on tape by Officer Sallé and
Donald Lee Atkins, a CB operator from his house next to
the river. This is the audio recording from Atkins CB
into Officer Sallé's tape recorder. 03:13
39:
St.
Helens, WA. 03.17.1981. State Trooper Thomas
McCartney is interviewed on KXL Radio News. 04:20
40:
Highland,
IL. Circa 1982. Police Dispatch regarding
a huge UFO. 03:36
41:
Trumball
County, OH. Police Dispatch Recording, 12.14.1994.
50:45