hostile.json

{
"HostileFawcett Timeline" : [
{
  "date" : "1944",
  "desc": "Army Pilot Charles F. Lane reported that his plane motors stopped and the instruments froze when he was approached by one UFO.",
  "location" : "Himalaya Mountains, India",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_1",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1945",
  "desc": "Passenger Leonard J. Stringfield reported that his C-46 developed engine trouble when approached by three luminous blobs of light.",
  "location" : "Iwo Jima",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_2",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1945",
  "desc": "Five TBM Avenger Bombers and One PBM Martin Mariner with a total of 27 men disappeared without a single trace during a training mission, in good weather and with good radio contact. UFOs were being reported by the news during that period of time.",
  "location" : "Fort Lauderdale, Florida",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_3",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1947",
  "desc": "Lt. Frank M. Brown and Captain William Davidson of Air Force Intelligence died when their plane crashed. Their mission: bringing back UFO fragments that crashed to earth at Tacoma.",
  "location" : "Tacoma, Washington State",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_4",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1947",
  "desc": "Pilot John H. Janssen reported that his plane motors conked off, but his plane remained suspended in the air, during a close approach of 2 UFOs over Morristown, New Jersey. Janssen reported an electric-like pricking sensation during his hair-raising experience.",
  "location" : "Morristown, New Jersey",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_5",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/1947",
  "desc": "ATIC conclusion that the flying saucers were real.",
  "location" : "Dayton, OH",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_6",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1948",
  "desc": "Captain Thomas F. Mantell, Jr. killed while chasing a “flying disk” over Godman Air Force Base in Kentucky. His F-51 fighter plane’s wreckage was found scattered over a wide area.",
  "location" : "Godman Air Force Base, Kentucky",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_7",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/1948",
  "desc": "Captain C. S. Chiles and Co-Captain John B. Whitted reported that a cigar-shaped UFO almost collided with their Eastern Airlines DC-3, rocking their plane over Montgomery, Alabama.",
  "location" : "Montgomery, Alabama",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_8",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1948",
  "desc": "A top secret ATIC conclusion that the UFOs were spaceships.",
  "location" : "Dayton, OH",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_9",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1949",
  "desc": "\"Captured Saucers\" first reported in New Mexico.",
  "location" : "New Mexico",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_10",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/1949",
  "desc": "Air Force Jets fired on UFO over New Jersey.",
  "location" : "New Jersey",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_11",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1949",
  "desc": "Major Jeremiah Boggs, Air Force Intelligence, said that some pilots had fired at UFOs to bring them down for closer examination.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_12",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1950",
  "desc": "\"Flying Disk\" reported to have landed at Mexico City, Mexico.",
  "location" : "Mexico City, Mexico",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_13",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1950",
  "desc": "David Lightfoot, 12, reported that he had touched a landed \"flying saucer,\" but that the object released a gas or spray of something when it took off, which turned his arms and face bright red, causing welts. A younger boy confirmed his story.",
  "location" : "Amarillo, Texas",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_14",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1950",
  "desc": "Pharmacist Jack Robertson reported that a globe-like UFO, which emitted a red glow, hovered above his car about 20 feet, then made a \"whooshing sound” and threw off sparks that burned his face.",
  "location" : "Lufkin, Texas",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_15",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1950",
  "desc": "Pilot Chet Swital reported that his plane and another plane were circled by UFOs, which paralyzed the plane motors and instruments over the Muroc Air Force Base in California and a New Mexico Air Force Base.",
  "location" : "Muroc AFB CA, AFB in NM",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_16",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1950",
  "desc": "An Air Force Intelligence Analysis showing \"controlled UFO maneuvers\", that the “Flying Saucers” were real and spaceships.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_17",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/1952",
  "desc": "Pilot Fred Reagan’s Piper Cub Plane collided with a bright, dazzling lozenge-shaped UFO. Reagan died in May, 1953 because of a degeneration of brain tissue due to extreme atomic radiation, for which authorities were unable to offer an explanation.",
  "location" : "Atlanta, Georgia",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_18",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1952",
  "desc": "Jul. 24-25, 1952. An Italian named Carlos was fired at by a hovering UFO, which used some sort of green ray near the Serchio River in Italy.",
  "location" : "Serchio River, Italy",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_19",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1952",
  "desc": "The U.S. Air Force issued a “Shoot 'Em Down” order to pilots encountering UFOs. This was mentioned in an AF press release.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_20",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1952",
  "desc": "An Air Force F-86 Jet Pilot opened fire at a hovering UFO in Ohio.",
  "location" : "Ohio",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_21",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1952",
  "desc": "A 10-inch “red hot” disk landed and burned a child there.",
  "location" : "Dublin, Ireland",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_22",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1952",
  "desc": "A Scoutmaster named J. D. “Sonny” Desvergers reported his encounter with a hovering UFO, which shot a “Ball of Fire” at him, burning his arms, face, and head and rendering him unconscious. Charred roots indicated possible electric induction.",
  "location" : "West Palm Beach, Florida",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_23",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1952",
  "desc": "Mrs. Kathleen May, a National Guardsman, and 5 other boys were investigating a landed globe-like UFO object on a hillside. All of the witnesses were repelled from the hilltop by a noxious sickening odor of the landed object. They all suffered choking spasms and vomiting because of their incident.",
  "location" : "Sutton, West Virginia",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_24",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1952",
  "desc": "Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowsky and their baby were gassed and felt an electric-like shock after their car stopped near a soft, violent hue-colored landed UFO. This happened on the same night of the Sutton incident, at a spot not far from the same location.",
  "location" : "Frametown, West Virginia",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_25",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1952",
  "desc": "Employee Gloyd Brown of the Everglades Experiment Station noticed his eyes and nostrils began to smart and burn after a circling UFO passed several times over the station. It smelled like an acid, with an ammonia-like odor. The cows were badly frightened by the incident, and there was a 33% reduction in milk production on the following morning.",
  "location" : "Belle Glade, Florida",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_26",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1952",
  "desc": "Mrs. E. L. Hazelwood reported that she watched several brightly illuminated UFOs and became ill for several days because of the odor given off by the strange objects.",
  "location" : "Centerville, Virginia",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_27",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1955",
  "desc": "Farmer John Hobner was forced by a blinding bluish-white lighted UFO in a nearby field close to the highway to crash his car into a tree. Hobner suffered minor injuries.",
  "location" : "Indianapolis, Indiana",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_28",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1952",
  "desc": "A Lt. in the Air Force reported a near collision with his F-51 and a strange flying blue-lighted UFO. The pilot turned off his plane lights in order to avoid further pursuit by the UFO, and, frightened, he made a hasty landing.",
  "location" : "Laredo AFB, Texas",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_29",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1953",
  "desc": "Merchant Lloyd C. Booth near Conway, South Carolina reported that he shot at a flying egg-shaped UFO that hovered over his farm for 45 minutes. The bullet bounced back with a metallic thud and the next morning, 20 of his livestock were found dead on his farm from \"unknown causes.\"",
  "location" : "Conway, South Carolina",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_30",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/1953",
  "desc": "A Secret Report by a Scientists’ Panel at the Pentagon, which urged (1) that the AF quadruple its UFO investigation project, and (2) that they give the American people all UFO information, including the AF conclusions. This in 1960 has yet to be done!!",
  "location" : "Pentagon, Washington DC",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_31",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1953",
  "desc": "A National Airlines DC-6 pilot put his plane into a dive to avoid being rammed by a shiny disc-shaped UFO. Passengers were hospitalized.",
  "location" : "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_32",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/1953",
  "desc": "Captain J. L. Kidd put his American Airlines DC-6 passenger plane into a dive to avoid a collision with a lighted UFO. Passengers were thrown into the aisles by the unexpected maneuver.",
  "location" : "Washington, DC",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_33",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1953",
  "desc": "Pilot Lt. Felix Moncla, Jr. and Radar Officer Lt. R. R. Wilson were in an F-89 plane being tracked on radar. It merged on the screen with another UFO, 70 miles off Keweenaw Point. The plane and its pilots never returned from the mission, and to this date, no trace has been found of either.",
  "location" : "Kinross Air Force Base, Michigan",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_34",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/1954",
  "desc": "Jan. - Mar., 1954. Over the Tyrrhenian Sea, near Malta and in the Mediterranean Sea area, four RAF planes and pilots disappeared. Wreckage of one was found, which indicated an explosion was followed by fire and intense heat. Flying saucer and cigar-shaped UFOs were being reported in large numbers at that time in Italy, France, England, New Zealand, and the United States.",
  "location" : "over the Tyrrhenian Sea, Malta",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_35",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1954",
  "desc": "Fragments were left by a reported cigar-shaped UFO with windows, which landed on the airport runway.",
  "location" : "Marignane Airport, France",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_36",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1954",
  "desc": "Scientists were reported investigating a UFO which crashed to the earth there.",
  "location" : "Heligoland Island, off Germany",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_37",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1954",
  "desc": "A part of a hovering UFO that fell upon a farmhouse was reported under close investigation.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_38",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/1954",
  "desc": "An F-94 Jet Fighter pursued a UFO above Utica, New York. As the gleaming pulsating object moved towards the F-94, a mysterious blast of heat filled his cockpit. Unable to breathe and feeling the plane about to melt, the pilot and radar officer bailed out. The jet itself plunged into the town of Walesville, New York and killed 4 persons.",
  "location" : "Utica, New York",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_39",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/1954",
  "desc": "Australian Sheep Grower W.C. Hall saw six petrol tank-shaped UFOs land on his ranch in North Queensland, Australia. His chickens, cattle, and even the jackrabbits on his farm were affected by oddly colored exhaust fumes from the UFOs, which he believed brought about a change in the genes of animal life on his ranch due to atomic radiation, as various freaks were born afterwards.",
  "location" : "North Queensland, Australia",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_40",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1954",
  "desc": "Fragments from a hovering UFO landed on the open highway. Now under investigation by authorities.",
  "location" : "Woodside, California",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_41",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc": "As a luminous UFO approached to within 150 yards of eyewitnesses, they reported that they felt a strange sensation “as if nailed to the ground.” In addition to the temporary paralysis, the witnesses noticed the UFO gave off a peculiar smell.",
  "location" : "Beaumont, near Paris, France",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_42",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/21/1954",
  "desc": "A silvery UFO object hovered above the Rubber Plant near Pozzuoli, Italy. As it rose vertically with a piercing whistle, the observers noticed that a Pekingese dog, watching the UFO, barked and fell dead.",
  "location" : "Pozzuoli, Italy",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_43",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1954",
  "desc": "A large group of townspeople watched a “silvery disc-shaped UFO” land on a sports field. Several hundred witnessed the event. For several days after the object landed and took off, many of the population of eyewitnesses still had red eyes as after effects of the blinding light.",
  "location" : "Monza, Italy",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_44",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1955",
  "desc": "Air Force jets fired at a UFO circling a balloon, but destroyed the balloon and missed the UFO, over Rockfield, Illinois. This was a story about the fish, or I mean, the “saucer” that got away.",
  "location" : "Rockfield, Illinois",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_45",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1955",
  "desc": "Witness, not wanting name revealed, reported he saw an oval-shaped UFO resting near his driveway. While watching the pulsating of the object, his eyes suffered severe irritation and he had to consult the doctor for relief.",
  "location" : "Cincinnati, Ohio",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_46",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1955",
  "desc": "Government Investigators Announced that they had found an increase in background radiation in the skies after UFO sightings had been reported in the vicinity.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_47",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1956",
  "desc": "Pilot J. G. Kirby photographed a UFO with a long exhaust trail of some sort near it. Hensley Air Force Base officers told Kirby that the glow was caused by radiation vapor. He was instructed to keep silent about his photograph and his sighting by the Air Force, which he did for over a year, before breaking secrecy.",
  "location" : "Amarillo, Texas",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_48",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1956",
  "desc": "Above the Atlantic Ocean, off Gander, Newfoundland—A Navy R7V-2 Transport, a Four Engine Super Constellation had to dive to avoid a collision course with a giant disc-shaped UFO \"like gigantic dish on top of another,” which appeared to be approximately 350 and 400 feet in diameter, with lighted edges. Confirmed by ground radar.",
  "location" : "off Gander, Newfoundland",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_49",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/1956",
  "desc": "At Great Falls, Montana the Air Force Base sent 3 jets to investigate a hovering UFO over Missoula, Montana. As they approached the strange flying object, their plane instruments went crazy (magnetic field?) and became useless. One jet went into a dive for 15,000 feet. The nose and wing of his plane were slightly damaged.",
  "location" : "Great Falls, Montana",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_50",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1956",
  "desc": "Nightwatchman Harry J. Sturdevant of the Herbert Elkins Construction Firm of Trenton, New Jersey reported while on duty he saw a red-lighted cigar-shaped UFO near the Delaware River. The smell of the object made him nauseated and he couldn't swallow. He collapsed in pain, but managed to crawl to his parked car. Six weeks later his sense of taste and touch were impaired and he had only been able to work a few days. Leonard B. Willits, a New Jersey State Workmen’s Compensation referee rewarded Medical Compensation to the nightwatchman, who had encountered a UFO, which made him ill and affected his senses of smell, taste, and touch.",
  "location" : "Trenton, New Jersey",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_51",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1951",
  "desc": "Captain Matthew A. Van Winkle of Pan American Airlines was forced off his course by a “green circular object UFO,” which was witnessed by other pilots in the vicinity also. Due to his sudden maneuver, some of the plane passengers were hospitalized.",
  "location" : "Puerto Rico",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_52",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1957",
  "desc": "An American Airlines DC-6 Aircoach had to swerve to avoid a collision with a UFO at Salt Flats, Texas. Some of its passengers were hospitalized, among the 85 on board the ship.",
  "location" : "Salt Flats, Texas",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_53",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1957",
  "desc": "A TWA Constellation Airliner had to dive to avoid collision with a moving UFO and some of its passengers were treated for injuries.",
  "location" : "Amarillo, Texas",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_54",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1957",
  "desc": "An American Airlines plane was struck by a “Ball of Fire UFO,” which knocked a small puncture in the tail of the plane.",
  "location" : "Knoxville, Tennessee",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_55",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1957",
  "desc": "Commander Jorge Campos Araujo of a VARIG Airlines C-47, the Cargo Ship PP-UCC, reported that the engines of the airliner began acting up, coughing and missing, and that all the cabin lights dimmed and also went dead after the near approach of a strange luminous UFO, which had a dome on the top of it.",
  "location" : "Joinville, Brazil",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_56",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1957",
  "desc": "Fragments from a UFO landed on the ground.",
  "location" : "Parana City, Argentina",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_57",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1957",
  "desc": "Exploding UFO showers fragments onto the beach, witnessed by many.",
  "location" : "Ubatuba, Sao Paulo State, Brazil",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_58",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1957",
  "desc": "Many car motors stopped and headlights went out when a “Luminous Egg-shaped UFO\" hovered above the highway. Rocket Engineer James Stokes received a burn on his face from the object that gave off a heat wave and created electrical interference with the so-called “hallucinated machines\" on the ground.",
  "location" : "Orogrande, New Mexico",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_59",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1957",
  "desc": "Brazilian Fortress, Itaipu, near Santos, Brazil— This incident tells of a luminous orange UFO with a humming sound and a wave of heat that overcame two sentinels on duty, rendering them unconscious and burning them in various places on the body. The UFO caused lights all over the fortress to go out. Turrets, heavy cannons, and elevator electric systems also went out. Intercommunications were disrupted and alarms on electric clocks began to ring without reason.",
  "location" : "Itaipu, Santos, Brazil",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_60",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1957",
  "desc": "Captain De Beyssac of VARIG Airlines reported as he closed in on a large hovering red UFO, that his ADF, his right generator, and his transmitter receiver all burned out at the same time.",
  "location" : "Ararangua, Santa Catarina, Brazil",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_61",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc": "Ironworker Rene Gilham saw a brightly luminous hovering UFO and suffered burns on his face and eyes.",
  "location" : "Merom, Indiana",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_62",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc": "Plasterer Olden Moore saw a hovering circular UFO and heard a “whirring sound” as an object landed in the field 500 feet away. A Geiger Counter later showed a deadly radioactivity level existed after the sighting in the area.",
  "location" : "Montville, Ohio",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_63",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc": "Civilian Cook Lon Yarborough at Lackland Air Force Base reported electric interference with his car motor and headlights, when approached by a bright egg-shaped UFO, which landed on the ground. Yarborough heard a \"whistling sound\" and felt a blast of hot air, but suffered no burns.",
  "location" : "San Antonio, Texas",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_64",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1957",
  "desc": "The Panamerican Stratocruiser “Romance of the Skies” crashed in the Pacific Ocean. UFOs had been reported in the vicinity.",
  "location" : "Pacific Ocean",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_65",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1957",
  "desc": "Fragments from a UFO landed, now under investigation.",
  "location" : "Hillsborough, California",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_66",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/10/1957",
  "desc": "Housewife Mrs. Leita Kuhn saw an acorn-shaped UFO above her garage. She noticed that she had to keep covering her face in order to view the strange object. As a result of the incident, she suffered body rash, failing of vision and burns on her arms and legs, similar to “radiation burns” noted by her doctor.",
  "location" : "Madison, Ohio",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_67",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1957",
  "desc": "A strange metallic UFO exploded over the area and left fragments on the ground, which are under investigation by the Air Force.",
  "location" : "Crownsville, Maryland",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_68",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1957",
  "desc": "A man there is reported dying from “radioactive burns” received by a close approach of a luminous UFO.",
  "location" : "Dallas, Texas",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_69",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1957",
  "desc": "UFO fragments found on the ground, now under investigation by the Air Force.",
  "location" : "Langdon, North Dakota",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_70",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1958",
  "desc": "Mrs. Leroy Evans and Mrs. Fred McIntosh each suffered burns while watching a hovering UFO near the ground.",
  "location" : "Santa Fe, New Mexico",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_71",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1958",
  "desc": "Pilot Alejo Rodriguez flying in his Piper Aircraft reported a bright silvery UFO, metallic top-shaped object, with a slight vapor trail which hovered over Uruguay and created such intense heat that he was forced to open the windows and the plane door and remove his jacket.",
  "location" : "Montevideo, Uruguay",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_72",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1958",
  "desc": "Mr. Philip Small and Mr. Alvin Cohen watched a hovering luminous egg-shaped UFO.",
  "location" : "Above the Loch Raven Reservoir, Baltimore, Maryland",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_73",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1958",
  "desc": "Persons watched a luminous egg-shaped UFO, felt heat coming from the object and found fragments which fell to the ground during the incident.",
  "location" : "Rio Negro, Uruguay",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_74",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1958",
  "desc": "A B-47 Stratojet crashed and exploded, UFOs reported seen in the vicinity.",
  "location" : "Tampa Bay, Florida",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_75",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1958",
  "desc": "UFO fragments land, under investigation.",
  "location" : "Jujuy, Argentina",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_76",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1958",
  "desc": "An Air Force pilot indicated that his plane was \"shot at\" in a UFO encounter, and crew opinions that the strange \"bursts\" or explosions near the transport were linked with previous disappearances of AF planes in this Pacific area.",
  "location" : "Pacific Ocean",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_77",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1959",
  "desc": "PFC Bernard G. Irwin of Ft. Bliss, Texas reported the sighting of a \"ball of light\" circular UFO in the skies. The object, whatever it was, rendered him unconscious for 24 hours.",
  "location" : "Utah",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_78",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1959",
  "desc": "Air Force C-118 transport crashes, 3 persons killed, UFOs seen in vicinity.",
  "location" : "McChord Air Force Base, California",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_79",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "4/1959",
  "desc": "Air Force acknowledges a “frantic radio report” that \"we have hit something or something has hit us,\" which preceded a mysterious crash of a C-118. No survivors. Eyewitnesses on the ground reported sighting 3 or 4 parachute-like glowing UFOs following the plane prior to its crash.",
  "location" : "Seattle, Washington",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_80",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1959",
  "desc": "Fragments fall to ground from hovering UFO. Under investigation.",
  "location" : "Wallingford, Kentucky",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_81",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1959",
  "desc": "A UFO with tentacle-like projections, glowing with red and greenish colors moved through controlled maneuvers. Reported by ground observers, picked up on Air Force radar for over an hour. After the object moved away, an active search for the UFO was conducted by 7 jet fighters, a B-47 bomber, and a Tripacer, which later was asked to check the area for signs of radioactivity.",
  "location" : "Redmond, Oregon",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_82",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1959",
  "desc": "A Braniff Airways Turbo-Prop Airliner crashed in Texas, claiming 34 lives. UFOs were reported in the vicinity.",
  "location" : "Texas",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_83",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1959",
  "desc": "Near the “Big Marsh,” outside of Poquoson, Virginia — Two schoolboys, Mark Muza and Harold Moore, “shot at” a hovering UFO. The bullet struck a metallic surface and rebounded to the ground.",
  "location" : "Poquoson, Virginia",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_84",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "1959",
  "desc": "A Brazilian Air Force B-26 Commander asked permission to take off without lights on his bomber, in order to avoid further pursuit by a strange UFO that had followed his plane for almost an hour before he reached the airport.",
  "location" : "Brazil",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_85",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1959",
  "desc": "In private instructions briefing Air Force for Operations and Training Commands, Major General Richard E. O’Keefe, Acting Inspector General, recently warned that UFO sightings would increase. The IG brief was headed “UFOs - SERIOUS BUSINESS.” The AF, he said, was chiefly concerned with defense and technical aspects of the phenomena. Air Force Investigators should use binoculars, cameras, Geiger counters, magnifying glasses, and containers for any “fragments or ground samples” recovered. This order came as the Air Force was again telling the public that the “flying saucers\" just don’t exist.",
  "location" : "US",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_86",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1960",
  "desc": "Newspaperman Edgar Schedelbauer of Vienna, Austria for the newspaper “WIENER MONTAG,” suffered “great red spots” on his face and hands after his close encounter with a milky-white spider-shaped hovering UFO. It made a low humming sound and then a jet-like roar as it hovered about 50 feet above a road. A photographer took pictures of the object. Now under investigation.",
  "location" : "Labuttendorf, Austria",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_87",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1960",
  "desc": "The AERIAL PHENOMENA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION at Alamogordo, New Mexico announced that its organization has fragments of an “Extraterrestrial Flying Saucer” that fell from an exploding UFO in Brazil in 1957 and photographs of an “Extraterrestrial Flying Saucer” taken at Trinidade Island in 1958.",
  "location" : "Alamogordo, New Mexico",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_88",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "5/1960",
  "desc": "The NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA in Washington, D.C. announced that the “UFOs or FLYING SAUCERS\" are unknown devices, which have been reported by scores of reliable observers, are intelligently controlled machines from outer space.” Vice Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, stated that the “unknown objects are operating under intelligent control.” He added, “I know that neither Russia nor this country has anything even approaching such high speeds and maneuvers.” Speaking as a NICAP Board Member, Admiral Hillenkoetter said it was high time the secrecy was ended.",
  "location" : "Washington, DC",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_89",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "6/1960",
  "desc": "The U.S. Air Force is currently investigating films and movies of “UFOs and FLYING SAUCERS” taken over Michigan in February, over Austria and Iowa in March, over Wisconsin in April, and over New York in August, all of this year 1960. They were photographed by a newspaperman, a restaurant owner, a pilot, a housewife, and an astronomer. (A point of information.) I have listed over 171 different photographs or movies taken worldwide since 1905 in my own private “SAUCERIANA COLLECTION.”",
  "location" : "Michigan",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_90",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1960",
  "desc": "Fragments fell to ground from bluish-green speeding UFO and landed with a hissing sound. They are now under investigation by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, D.C.",
  "location" : "Hartford, Connecticut",
  "ref": "[_The Flying Saucers are Hostile!_, by George D. Fawcett 1961](https://archive.org/details/the_flying_saucers_are_hostile_george_d_fawcett_1961/mode/2up)",
  "source_id" : "HostileFawcett_91",
  "source" : "HostileFawcett",
  "type" : "ufo sighting"
}
] }