Summary

The cases during this time period was populated with a lot of young witness observations. One of the witnesses was a 10-year old. Another involved a 12-year old girl that claimed to have been burned by a UFO during school recess. As I have previously noted, some of these youths file some pretty good reports but the rest appear to be more exaggeration than accurate reporting. It must have been frustrating for personnel at Blue Book to deal with some of these reports. 

With the launch of the Echo-2 satellite, the two Echos produced many UFO reports. They were involved in 50 of the sightings (22%). The ever increasing number of satellites and rocket bodies is making it difficult to identify the satellites involved in some of these sightings. Luckily, there is a great Two-line element database at Jonathan McDowell’s space home page.

While there were some interesting cases during this time period, nothing stood out. There was a rash of sightings in Lansing Michigan in late May. It appears that the source of the original sighting was a new police siren, which witnesses reported to the local news media. This resulted in all sorts of follow-up reports as witnesses started going outside and seeing “unusual lights” in the sky. Most of the events had explanations. It also introduced me to an investigator that appeared to be helping Dr. Hynek. William Powers, who was a systems engineer at Hynek’s Dearborn observatory, was involved in investigating this series of sightings. He also was named in several other cases. 

Quelle: SUNlite 6/2021