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It was the evening of October 11, 1973 when two local shipyard workers went fishing. ... As dusk fell a buzzing sound alerted them to a football-shaped craft hovering behind them. Out of the craft glided three creatures who carried them back into the space vehicle...Hickson was examined by a robotic eye, then both men were deposited back on the river bank and the space ship shot away.

On or about this site on March 25, 1948 a spacecraft of origins unknown crashed or landed on this mesa. ...The spacecraft was approximately 100 feet in diameter and eighteen feet tall. It was one of the most intact crafts that the Government had recovered at that time. Sadly, all occupants, as many as sixteen, died as a result of the crash...

On the night of September 19–20, 1961, Portsmouth, NH couple Betty and Barney Hill experienced a close encounter with an unidentified flying object and two hours of “lost” time...They filed an official Air Force Project Blue Book report of a brightly-lit cigar-shaped craft the next day, but were not public with their story until it was leaked in the Boston Traveler in 1965.

On January 5th, 2000 at 4:23 a.m. Shiloh Police Officer David Martin reported a floating object with 3 bright lights in the sky above Shiloh. Other witnesses said the UFO floated slowly and had no engine noise. Lebanon, Shiloh, Millstadt and Dupo Police Officers all reported witnessing this UFO that morning.

On November 9, 1974, at approximately 1900 hours, three Carbondale teenage boys reported to Carbondale Police that they had observed a glowing airborne object, traveling east to west rapidly. It ... crashed into a silt pond in the Russell Park area in Carbondale.

7 January 1948, while on training flight...Mantell was directed by flight tower at Godman Field to pursue an unidentified flying object. While in pursuit of object, died in plane crash near this site. The story of Mantell's death while chasing UFO made headlines across the country. Intense military investigation of incident became part of Project SIGN later BLUEBOOK, the military's investigations into UFOs.