Paranormal
While Roswell holds its own place in history, there have been other famous UFO crashes throughout the world; Shaitan Mazar, Kecksburg PA, Nova Scotia and Sverdlovsky Russia.
Most of us are already familiar with the Roswell Incident, the alleged UFO crash that occured in 1942 in Roswell, and the most famous of all crashes. This incident was the center of much media attention, and one that was the center of focus for several conspiracy theories, and the birth of the UFO age.While Roswell holds its own place in history, there have been other famous UFO crashes throughout the world. Here are a select few.
Shaitan Mazar
As the story goes, a huge dirigible-shaped object first attracted attention on August 28, 1991 at 4:42 local time when it appeared on the radar screens of the Mangishlak Peninsula, flying from west to east at 960 km per hour and at an altitude of 6600 meters. The object would not respond to communications, and fighter jets were sent to intercept it. The pilots intercepted it over the Arial Sea, and described it as dirigible-shaped, 600 meters long and 110 meters wide, with very little surface detail except for two round "holes" near the front. The object did not react in any way to the presence of the jets.
When approached, however, the MIG's systems shut down and engines began to malfunction. The object began to make zigzag evasive maneuvers and increased its speed from 960 km/h to 6800 km/h.
About half an hour later, the object disappeared from the radar, in the area of Lake Issyk-Kul near the border of Krygyzstan and Kazakhstan.
The next major development occured a month later, when reports began to trickle back that a huge UFO had been seen to crash in the Tien-Shan mountains. The site was said to be in a gorge named "Shaitan Mazar" or "Grave of the Devil". A search party dispatched failed to reach it due to heavy snowfall. An Air Force helicopter sent there also failed, as it had crashed.
In June of 1992, a second expedition was mounted, which arrived on-site on 6/12/92 and set up a base camp 2.5 kilometers NNW from the actual crash site. The path of the object was noted to be such that it had slid 1700 meters after hitting the ground. It then exploded from within its center, blasting it into almost two equal parts and bending its internal structure outwards from the center of the explosion. Decks and interior features were visible inside the object through the gap made by the blast.
The expedition immediately noticed the following unusual effects when they began to examine the object:
- They could not photograph the object because some sort of radiation exposed all film and ruined all videotape. Whenever a member of the party got closer than 800 meters to the object, he began to feel unusual anxiety, depression, and exhaustion.
- Within this 800 meter range, the men's hair stood on end. Instruments showed an unusually high amount of static electricity in the area.
- Compasses and magnetometers refused to function properly in the area of the object. Measurement devices registered no magnetic fields at all within an elliptically-shaped area centered on the object and measuring 2230 meters long and 1700 meters wide. Even naturally occurring magnetic rocks showed no magnetic field within this ellipse.
- All clocks and wristwatches stopped at a distance of 600 meters from the object.
- Anyone who approached the object began to suffer from some sort of radiation burns at a distance of 500 meters.
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania
At around 5PM on December 9, 1965, witnesses in Canada, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania saw a fireball in the evening sky. Some Ohio witnesses said that it turned slightly while over that state, veering in the direction of Pennsylvania.
Shortly after 6:30 p.m., a woman named Frances Kalp called John Murphy of radio station WHJB in Greensburg, Pennsylvania to report that a flaming object had crashed into the woods near her home at Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. She said that she and her children had walked to within half a mile of the site and had seen something that looked like a "four-pointed star".
After talking to her, Murphy called the Pennsylvania State Police, who then called Kalp and asked her to meet them in nearby Kecksburg and lead them to the spot. Murphy decided to drive out to the location and see for himself. It seems unclear as to whether Murphy or the State Police arrived at the spot first.
At the scene, Murphy interviewed Kalp and her children while the State Police checked out the crash site. He later said that when State Police officials Carl Metz and Paul Shipco returned from the woods, they were very evasive about answering questions about what they had found, indicating that the military would be involved.
Murphy then called State Police Captain Dussia at the office in Greensburg, who told him to come into the State Police office for an official statement. So, Murphy drove into the Greenburg office, where he noticed that members of the Army and Air Force were present. The "official statement" turned out to be:
The Pennsylvania State Police have made a thorough search of the woods. We are convinced that there is nothing whatsoever in the woods.
Murphy called his radio station and turned in his report. Shortly thereafter, he overheard a policeman talking about a "pulsating blue light" seen in the woods. When he heard that Officer Metz and the military people were going back out to the site to investigate, he asked to accompany them and was given permission.
To his disappointment, when they arrived, Murphy was denied permission to enter the woods with them. The military sealed off the area and civilians were no longer allowed into the area. By now, with the news on radio and television, the area was clogged with cars and onlookers.
A few civilians, however, were able to get close enough to see the object before the military had sealed off the area. These witnesses, who were later interviewed by Stan Gordon, told of seeing a copper-colored, acorn-shaped object nine to twelve feet in length with a gold band around the bottom. Some claimed to see writing on it similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics. No one saw much before being asked to leave by the military.
Sometime later that night, several witnesses saw a flatbed truck leave the area carrying some large object beneath a tarpaulin. After the flatbed left, the military began to leave the area. By the next day, there was little evidence that anything had occurred in the area. The Air Force issued the official explanation that a meteorite was the cause of the reports of a glowing object in the skies the evening before, and the media accepted and passed on this explanation.
Shag Harbor, Nova Scotia
Shag Harbour is a small fishing village near the southern tip of Nova Scotia in mostly rural Shelburne County, located just near the world's most famous buried treasure, Oak Island.
On the night of October 4th, 1967, something occurred at Shag Harbour that added to the local folklore, yet which must have been more than folklore. Something fell from the sky and into Shag Harbour.
On that evening, some residents of southern Nova Scotia first noticed orange lights in the sky. A total of four lights were reported in the sky over Shag Harbour by five teenagers. As they watched, the lights, which flashed in sequence, dove suddenly at about a forty-five degree angle to the water surface. They then appeared to float about a half mile from shore, making a hissing noise on contact with the water. Thinking an airplane of some sort had crashed, the witnesses called the local Royal Canadian Mounted Police unit at Barrington Passage. The officers could see a yellow light floating offshore and leaving a foamy yellow wake as it moved. As they watched, the light faded until it was no longer visible, possibly drifting out with the tide, but more likely sinking beneath the waves.
Several coast guard and fishing boats were summoned, but the object was gone before they got to the site. The fishing boats, which got to the scene first, saw a large patch of bubbling water and floating yellow foam, possibly indicating that something had submerged at the site. Nothing more was found that night.
The next day, the Rescue Coordination Center at Halifax made a report to Canadian Forces Headquarters in Ottawa that stated that something - "no known object" - had hit the water in Shag Harbour. Accordingly, the HMCS Granby was sent to Shag Harbour, where divers searched the bottom until October 8, finding nothing. And that was the end of story until 1993.
In 1993, a MUFON investigator interested in the Shag Harbor story managed to uncover this incredible story:
It seems that the UFO that hit the water at Shag Harbour had left the area after submerging. It traveled underwater to a place about twenty-five miles away called Government Point, near the site of a submarine detection facilty. It was detected there, and a small group of naval vessels was positioned over it. After several days, just when a salvage operation was being considered, it was joined by a second underwater UFO, which some said seemed to have come to repair the first UFO. The decision was made by the Navy to just watch and wait. After about a week, some of the naval vessels were forced to leave in order to investigate a Russian submarine that had entered Canadian waters, and at that point, the two UFOs began to move. They headed underwater toward the Gulf of Maine, and when they had outdistanced the remaining naval vessels, they broke the surface of the water and vanished into the sky at high speed.
Sverdlovsky, Russia
A large, fiery crash occured in Sverdlovsky, Russia in 1969, which had resulted in a very swift cover-up by the government. The site was secured by the Russian military, and one dead alien was found in the wreckage. The remains of the craft and alien were brought to a secure location, and the alien body was autopsied. What's interesting is, TNT had offered viewers a broadcast of the footage of the same crash, including pictures.
Here are some of the alleged pictures:
More Crashes
A larger list of UFO crashes can be found at CESTI. Most notable of these is the crash from 10,000 BC.
