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1962 Texas UFO encounter detailed

1/17/2019

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PictureKeizer, Oregon. Credit: Google
An Oregon witness at Keizer reported a 1962 encounter he had as a 13-year-old when a triangle-shaped object hovered just 40 feet overhead, according to testimony in Case 96936 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was outside “hoeing strawberries” across from his home along Windsor Island Road when the incident began.

“It was on a Saturday afternoon around 2 p.m. and towards the last part of May or early June,” the witness stated. “School was not out for the summer yet. I was alone in the field when I heard a buzzing, humming noise that gradually grew louder. And the first thing I thought of was that a swarm of bees was heading my way. My father always told me to hit the ground and lay flat if we heard a buzzing noise because it could be a swarm of bees, and that was just what I did.”

The witness assumed the sound was the result of bees.

“I didn't think to look for them until I was laying on the ground, with my hands covering my head, and when I finally did get brave enough to look towards the sound coming from the west, I didn't see any bees, but the noise kept up and was now coming from above me.”
The witness finally looked up.

“I saw a huge, huge, huge black triangle-shaped object hovering just above me, around a hundred feet or so. It wasn't moving, but the buzzing, humming sound was still there. Then the object started to come down towards me. I was so scared, I didn't think to get up and run. I just figured I was a goner, so I just covered my head again, waiting. When I looked up again it had stopped about 40 feet above me. It stayed there for short while and then it turned to my right, tilted up some and moved towards the sky. While it was moving upwards and away from me, it swiveled again towards the east and then it went so fast, that it was gone out of sight, just like that.”
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The witness watched the object move away.

“It didn't leave a trail of exhaust or anything, like our airplanes do sometimes, and it wasn't noisy like them either. It just had that buzzing, humming noise the whole time. When I got home, I told my Foster Mom what I had seen, and she told me to never tell anyone about what I saw. I didn't for a while, but then I ended up telling just my siblings, and then as the years passed, I told a few other people as well. I hadn't heard or known anything about UFOs back then, but when I did hear about them years later, I do believe that it had to have been one, since we didn't have anything like that back then that could do what it did.”

Oregon State Director Tom Bowden investigated and closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

“The witness is reporting a close encounter that she experienced in 1962, when she was 13 years old,” Bowden wrote in his report. I cannot find any reason to doubt her sincerity. In my interactions with her, she seemed entirely rational, credible and sincere. This close encounter with a large object for about 10 minutes at a distance of only about 100 feet leaves little room for doubt about the nature of the object the witness observed.  No conventional aircraft could possibly account for what was reported. This case is being closed with a disposition of “Unknown – UAV.”  Assuming her credibility cannot be called into doubt, my confidence in this decision is very high — 95 percent.”
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Keizer is a city located in Marion County, Oregon, population 36,478.
14 Comments
bill burks
1/17/2019 04:33:38 pm

enjoyed the story, i had a night time encounter with a spaceship just outside of lubbock, texas, in 1965.....this event was titled '1962 Texas UFO encounter detailed'....but all i saw mentioned was Oregon,, lol, easy mistake to make. Texas and Oregon often get confused..not.

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Mmiller
1/17/2019 09:55:06 pm

Great report. Thank you. 1962..Only 15 years after Roswell.....giant triangle. Leaves out reverse engineering. Leaves out deep black stealth projects.....we were thinking at that time the SR-71 and the X-15 was about as high tech as it could get. While man was busy trying to break the sound barrier and launch astronauts into sub-orbital short flights here comes a ....well starship is the best description. Not reverse engineering not secret black program not Russian...not ours. And don't be afraid....they have been here a long time...they are slowly showing themselves more and more so as not to send mankind into a tizzy. I would make a safe guess at 10 to 15 sightings worldwide daily. The same amount of the probe sightings...chrome spheres...diamonds...cubes...and many other shapes...are also reported worldwide.. They are watching..learning..Makeing a slow deliberate appearance...certainly not to take over or enslave us.....they could have done that long ago. My guess is they are a little pissed we are considering putting nuclear weapons in space...and I couldn't agree more. If you have one parked over your house.....wave at it for God's sake....don't shoot at it :)

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Gillian
1/21/2019 11:07:33 pm

On a Summers evening in 1996 I was sat in my back garden with my husband chatting to our elderly neighbors who were also sat outside, when I noticed lights in the sky coming towards us from a Northerly direction. I said what’s that? It was suggested it was an aircraft, I replied no, that’s not a flight line. It seemed like no time at all this craft appeared right in front of us not much higher than the tree tops. It was a gigantic triangular shape, I mean HUGE, bigger than anything I had ever seen, it had lights all along it’s edges, it was quiet unlike our aircraft, it just hovered there motionless for for a couple of minutes then it slowly moved away in a southerly direction along its original path, it seemed to pick up instant colossal speed and then disappeared. I will never forget this encounter as long as I live, looking back on the event now, it could have been plucked straight from a Hollywood Blockbuster, quite unbelievable what I witnessed that night. (I should mention I live in the UK 🇬🇧)

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Soul Brother
1/24/2019 04:05:21 pm

This is an amazing story, which I really enjoyed reading, but I’m a bit confused with regards to the witness’ gender, as it’s male in the story, as evidenced by the personal pronoun “he” and possessive pronoun “his” but female in Tom Bowden’s explanation. Typo, perhaps?

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Naomi Semeniuk link
1/27/2019 05:31:56 pm

Yes you can also add that this 1962 sighting of a triangle was also long before TR3B the triangle that's man made. It also rules out all of the unacknowledged special access projects also. This was a purely genuine UFO. The humming buzzing is also associated with some abduction cases as well. Too bad they didn't have cell phones then!

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Mmiller
1/28/2019 04:53:56 pm

There is a fascinating case involving a triangle and a oil tanker in the gulf of Mexico in 1969. It took place over a period of three days. They called it a arrowhead shaped craft. Basically shut the ship down. Don't know if any photos survived or not. They are probably in a dusty box in a top secret warehouse somewhere. Now call me crazy but I don't think we had triangles in 1969. A craft that could hover for three days in 1969. A craft as large as a oil tanker in 1969.

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Mmiller
1/29/2019 10:36:16 am

Kelly Johnson designer of the U-2 and SR-71 and resident of area51...saw a flying triangle in 1953. Witnessed by 3 others besides himself. 6 years after Roswell. Reverse engineering...no. Super deep stealth project....no...he was smack in the middle of our most secret base and planes...surrounded by our top pilots..engineers..scientists. Maybe they were building enormous anti-gravity flying triangles on the other side of the base and he didn't know about it......NO I don't think so.

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eanest
1/29/2019 01:12:19 pm

it was very interesting

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Shawn
1/31/2019 12:15:03 pm

This area is about 20 miles from the Trent farm in McMinnville Oregon, where one of the earliest and most famous UFO photographs was taken.

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Mmiller
1/31/2019 08:08:24 pm

THE best photo ever taken Shawn. Many have tried to call it a hoax but still stands as one of the best....there are a few others also that stand the test of time....those old photos BEFORE computers and CGI are too good to just dismiss. Maybe a few were models or hubcaps but that one was examined to the extreme and found to be ......not of this earth.

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Debbie
2/4/2019 03:16:47 pm

The header on this read Texas but it took place in Oregon. It was the date that caught my eye. We lived in West Linn, OR at the time and that was around the same time my dad an I were outside gardening and saw two smaller crafts that disappeared faster than we had ever seen before. It was around that date that it happened.

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John W. Hildahl link
2/8/2019 01:41:30 pm

To many good reports and to many credible witnessess over the decades to doubt UFO's. My girlfriend and I saw very fast lights zipping across the sky above Fort Lewis in 1971. Thats all I got for a sighting.

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Mmiller
2/14/2019 03:34:26 pm

Another UFO website has a fascinating report of a submarine forced to surface due to electrical interference in 1989. All controls for guidance and nuclear reactors malfunctioned forceing the sub to surface. A huge triangle was sighted hovering over the sub. When it moved away at the blink of an eye...everything returned to normal. Again if these are ours why are they shutting down nuke silos....shutting down nuke subs endangering the crew....takeing interest in nuclear powerplants?

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Betty Kuensting
12/10/2020 12:05:31 am

I was the person that told that story to Tom Bowden, and I'm a she, not a he. Hopefully it gets changed.

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