UFOsetc TIMELINE

1971
June 13
Unable to cope with personal and professional problems, Dr. James E. McDonald succeeds in committing suicide on his second attempt.

September 4
An automatic camera on a mapping aircraft snaps a picture of a UFO over Lago de Cote in Costa Rica.

November 2
The Delphos Ring incident occurs near Delphos, Kansas.

1972 - 1973
Robert Emenegger and Allan Sandler invited to the Pentagon and then to Norton AFB to discuss UFOs with the brass. Promises, promises.

1973
October 11
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claim to have been abducted and taken aboard a UFO while fishing on the Singing River at Pascagoula, Mississippi.

October 18
Four Army reservists in a helicopter confront a UFO near Mansfield, Ohio. See Confrontation Over Mansfield.

November 2
UFO event at Goffstown, New Hampshire.

November 6
USO event at Pascagoula, Mississippi.

December 13
French journalist Claude Vorilhon purpotedly meets an extraterrestrial in the south of France. He later forms the Raellian movement.

1975
Larry Kusche publishes The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved, which debunks the "Bermuda Triangle" myth.

The Tujunga Canyon abductions come to light.

October 27
A series of UFO sightings at Loring AFB in Maine begins.

October 30
UFO incident at Wurtsmith AFB in Michigan.

October
The story of Betty and Barney Hill's abduction by aliens appears on TV as an NBC movie titled The UFO Incident starring Estelle Parsons as Betty Hill and James Earl Jones as Barney.

November 8
UFO incident at Malmstrom AFB in Montana.

November 5
Just two weeks after The UFO Incident is broadcast, Travis Walton is purportedly abducted by a UFO near Snowflake, Arizona. This will later be made into a movie titled Fire in the Sky with James Garner.

1976
January 6,
Date of the Stanford, Kentucky abductions.

August 26
Four men are abducted in 1976 while fishing on the Allagash waterway in Maine.

September 19
Tehran, Iran sightings. See Tabaq Tahera.

1977
Have Blue Stealth fighter testing begins at Area 51.
Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind released.

June 20
Alternative 3 is broadcast on Anglia Television in the UK.

November 16
Purported alien landing at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota.

1978
October 21
Frederick Valentich, flying a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania, reports that he is being followed by a huge, unknown aircraft. No trace of him or his plane is ever found again.

1979
Two technicians computer enhance pictures of a face-like structure on Mars that was found in Viking photos.

Stories of UFO sightings by astronauts become widespread.

1979 - 1980
Paul Bennewitz begins filming UFOs over Manzano Test Range, Kirtland AFB, near Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1980
The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William Moore is published.

Demise of NICAP.

May
A Strange Harvest, the documentary on cattle mutilations by Linda Moulton Howe, is first broadcast.

June 28
Flight N3808H vanishes off Puerto Rico after reporting a strange object ahead of their aircraft.

August
Coyote Canyon/Manzano/Sandia/Kirtland sightings.

December 27
A UFO "landing event" occurs at Bentwaters/Woodbridge joint USAF/RAF air base at Rendlesham Forest, England.

December 29
Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Colby Landrum happen upon a UFO being escorted by Chinook helicopters near Huffman, Texas.

1981
February
William Moore receives the Project Aquarius Document.

1983
The Hudson Valley sightings in New York and Connecticut begin.

William Moore is shown an "executive briefing paper" by one of his "contacts."

February
Linda Moulton Howe reportedly meets with an AFOSI agent at Kirtland AFB and is shown a "presidential briefing paper."

August 12
The purported destruction of the "Montauk Project".

1984
Producer Jaime Shandera receives the MJ-12 Documents on an undeveloped roll of 35mm film.

January 16
Death of Kenneth Arnold

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