August 21, 1965 - Glanmire, Ireland. Patrick Reardon, wife and family saw a silvery, circular object move southward. Th underside of the object had "round' extensions or protuberances.
August 31, 1965 - Cheyenne area of Wyoming -Maneuvering objects, Round (barrel shaped), flight west to east, then north out of sight. Trajectory shows objects would have come from at least the Colorado area diagonally crossing the WY/NE ling heading to the southeast South Dakota if objects stayed on course. Observers were groups of people, including an amateur astronomy group who watched for about 30-40 min. and 5 military witnesses. Colors reported by all groups were of red, white, blue and green colors; a ring of light around the barrel shape, on group noted more white color on outer side with blue underneath; moving north at est. 5,000 ft. altitude. Earlier in the month a team of geodetic surveyors had seen circular, luminous/glowing white objects, round to oblong shape in groups. Researchers ruled out astronomical object in the sky at time of sighting, and due to the length of time observed they also ruled out aircraft, satellite, or balloon.
September 3, 1965 - Exeter, New Hampshire experienced multiple sightings by civilians and others over a 2 hour period. It was classed as "Unclassified" and many attempts to solve the unknown have been attempted, however none have been able to do so without discounting police and other witness statements or the assertions made by the Air Force itself. Witnesses reported being chased 12 miles by brilliant red glow, a red light object came over some nearby trees almost blinding the witness from the extremely red light, sequentially pulsating lights, object stopped and hovered over a house, object moved silently back over the trees, shape of object (objects) was a compressed round or egg shape. Sightings began at 12:30 a.m. The file contains 131 pages. A military exercise called "Operation Big Blast" was scheduled for the region that time period. A quick suggestion was that the objects observed were a misidentification of a tanker plane with its unusual red lights prior to a refueling and frantic panic led to miscalculating distance and other details. Recently the Skeptical Inquirer dragged out that theory as an explanation but do so means eliminating several key witnesses (including a police officer) , ignoring the fact the police officers were ex-Air Force and one had familiarity with such refueling planes. The chief fact to be ignored is that when the Air Force looked into the presence of a refueling tanker in the area of Exeter the times did not mesh with the witness reports and no craft could be found that was in the area at the time of the sightings. Further, only one witness placed the pulsating lights into a single unit (such as would be found a refueling tanker's array) rather witnesses indicated the lights were part of a group of lights representing other objects and these object lights pulsated in a sequential pattern. Overall the descriptions of the object(s) seen were a large, dark, solid object with no sound, a large red flashing light or lights and an object able to hover. One described it as a "large red ball with flashing lights." IN March 1966 , Air Force staff wrote to a Major Burnside, RADC (EMYS) that "the general descriptions of flashing lights is consistent with previous reports of aircraft, refueling operations or low level photographic missions using infra-red lights... 8th AF Operation "Big Blast" was conducted in the New England area and B-47 aircraft from Pease AFB were also involved in the operation...aircraft landed at Peace AFB between 0045 [12:45] and 0135 [1:35] local time. The major portion of the sighting occurred subsequent to two a.m...." In another notation for 3 September was a statement that NO refueling occurred in the New England area for Big Blast on the nights of 2-3 or 6 of September. One witness was a hitchhiker who saw bright lights, one at a time, 15 minutes before they disappeared behind some trees. One object came so close he hit the dirt seeking cover in a ditch, certain he would be hit. He caught a ride and reported the incident to the Exeter Police. Another witness was a woman who said a light followed her and stopped over her caar. Five more lights came from behind some trees. This group was very bright and the lights flashed one at a time. Lights moved around an over a field beyond her. The lights came close; she was unable to discern form behind the bright light. No sound or vibration. Police officer was late to respond to major call about the lights because of the frayed status of the witness. Yet a third witness stated the lights moved over a field at about 100 foot altitude. Always in a line and about 60 degrees angle. When object moved lower lights always moved forward of the others. Total time lights in the area - 2 hours." Objects moved east to west and another page repeated Big Blast aircraft were in traffic pattern over Exeter between 0044 and 0135, such times not corresponding to the time of the observations. "Since no aircraft can be placed in the area o200 hours the case is listed as unidentified by the Air Force."
September 3, 1965 - Damon, Texas - Two deputy sheriffs (McCoy and Goode) observed a dark triangular object that moved toward them from the horizon about a mile away off of HWY 36 three miles south of town. The end of the "right side " of the triangle was bright purple and the other "left" side had a smaller blue light. They said object was about 5 degrees eleve 240 degree azimuth. It disappeared shooting up 90 deg into the air. They supplied sketches of the object. There was a bright light underneath and they estimated it to be 200 feet long and 50 feet high. It hovered over the ground with the earth below the craft illuminated, then it disappeared. Classed as "Unidentified". Time of the sighting was 2300 hrs.
September 12-13, 1965 - Odessa, Texas - Will Haden, a WW2 pilot veteran, saw a red-orange object with a blur border a the rear end. It was very fast and moved NNW. The witness stated it looked as if one had enlarged the Echo Satellite, made move faster and changed its colors to what he had seen.
September 18, 1965 - Johannesburg, South Africa reported a possible landing of an object but details were sparse.
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