The State of Ufology

[Todd Feinman]

It's odd that they should scare animals, but there are too many reports to ignore it. Perhaps there is some ultrasonic frequency they emit.

Might very well be! There is a thread on it, and examples in the article archive, here:

Old Encounters

I'll post some old articles here now and again! This one is from 1906, at height of "Airship" wave. One seen during day:

alienexpanse.com

--and in the dedicated thread here:

UFO Animal Reaction Research.

Quite a number of pretty bizarre UFO animal reaction cases out there and research scientist Linda Zimmerman goes into quite some detail about the subject in the interview below. From 10:30 Guest Linda Zimmermann to discuss the reactions of animals during UFO sightings, which may provide...

alienexpanse.com

By the time I'd seen one for myself, I'd already read several books on the subject — Including The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward Ruppelt. My older brother and his wife introduced me to the subject after they had witnessed one in Calgary years before. So as soon as I saw the object I knew exactly what it was. This was not one of those cases where it could have been a misidentification of a manmade object or natural phenomenon. My main feelings were firstly excitement, then when it zipped away, I felt disappointed that I hadn't been given the chance to get a close-up look.

Yeah, that's the problem with a lot of skeptics; they don't address the cases where the object(s) are close enough or behave in ways at close range that eliminate mundane possibilities. There are conversions of skeptics in the old article database too.

 

[J Randall Murphy]

Might very well be! There is a thread on it, and examples in the article archive, here:

Old Encounters

I'll post some old articles here now and again! This one is from 1906, at height of "Airship" wave. One seen during day:

alienexpanse.com

--and in the dedicated thread here:

UFO Animal Reaction Research.

Quite a number of pretty bizarre UFO animal reaction cases out there and research scientist Linda Zimmerman goes into quite some detail about the subject in the interview below. From 10:30 Guest Linda Zimmermann to discuss the reactions of animals during UFO sightings, which may provide...

alienexpanse.com

Yeah, that's the problem with a lot of skeptics; they don't address the cases where the object(s) are close enough or behave in ways at close range that eliminate mundane possibilities. There are conversions of skeptics in the old article database too.

Technically, although the object in our sighting was at some distance, it covers most of the requirements for a Close Encounter.
In the Hynek/Vallée UFO Classification system, it would be classed as a CE-1

 

[Todd Feinman]

There are other sightings similar to your own. iirc, there was supposed to have been a UFO encounter (during Vietnam War, I think), where the same kind of object appeared on the battlefield, was fired on, and then it emitted a blinding light that later made the soldiers very sick.

 

[Todd Feinman]

Ah, here it is. Korean War.

When Dozens of Korean War GIs Claimed a UFO Made Them Sick | HISTORY

Theories range from high-tech Soviet death rays to extraterrestrials studying human combat to combat-stress-induced hallucinations.

www.history.com

 

[J Randall Murphy]

Ah, here it is. Korean War.

When Dozens of Korean War GIs Claimed a UFO Made Them Sick | HISTORY

Theories range from high-tech Soviet death rays to extraterrestrials studying human combat to combat-stress-induced hallucinations.

www.history.com

Hey thanks. Very interesting. If I remember correctly, one of my old UFO books said that spheres are ( or at least were ) the most common UFO shape — not the iconic flying saucer.
Perhaps these days the black triangles or tic-tacs are more common. Although technically speaking, the tic-tac shape could reasonably be thought of as "cigar shaped".

 

[Todd Feinman]

Here is another rather disturbing incident that reminds me of what you saw:

Old Encounters

I'll post some old articles here now and again! This one is from 1906, at height of "Airship" wave. One seen during day:

alienexpanse.com

 

[Todd Feinman]

NUFORC reported UFO shapes:

NUFORC Reports by Shape

nuforc.org