Named the North Concord Air Force Station, this remote facility started operating in 1956. Air Force maintained a radar base on Vermont’s 3,438-foot East Mountain. It seemed to dart at first as quickly as light and appeared to be in the Atmosphere, but lowered toward the ground and kept on at an equal distance sometimes ascending and sometimes descending.” East Mountain Radar Base (1961)ĭuring the Cold War, the U.S. At the first sight, I thought it was a métier, but from its motion I soon perceived it was not. It was a light, which proceeded from the East. Her entry on July 22 reads: “About 10 o’clock I saw a very strange appearance. Cynthia Everett (1808)Ĭynthia Everett, a 24-year-old Massachusetts woman working as a schoolteacher in Camden, Maine, in 1808, recorded in her diary a somewhat similar account.

Winthrop reports that “when it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine: it ran as swift as an arrow towards Charlton, and so up and down about two or three hours.” By the time the lights moved away, Everell and his boatmates had been delivered one mile upstream, although they had no memory of how. In his diary entry of March 1 that year, Winthrop wrote that a “sober, discreet man” named James Everell was rowing a boat up the Muddy River at night when he saw a “great light” in the sky. The first documented UFO sighting in America dates back to 1639, when Massachusetts Bay Colony cofounder and governor John Winthrop recorded a secondhand observation of unidentified objects in the sky over Boston. In 1639, Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop recorded the first UFO sighting in America.

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