World's Best "true" Ufo Stories

World's Best ''True'' UFO Stories Jenny Randles & Peter A. Hough Illustrated by Jason Hurst Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Randles, Jenny. World's best "true" UFO stories I by Jenny Randles and Peter A. Hough ; illustrated by Jason Hurst. p. em. Includes index. ISBN 0-8069-1258-8 1. Unidentified flying objects-Sightings and encounters-Ju venile literature. [1. Unidentified flying objects.] I. Hough, Peter A. II. Hurst, Jason, ill. II I. Title. TL789.R345 1994 001.9'42-dc20 94-19807 CIP AC 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. 387 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10016 © 1994 by Jen ny Randles and Peter A. Hough Distributed in Canada by Sterling Publishing %Can adian Manda Group, P.O. Box 920, Station U Toronto, Ontario, Canada M8Z 5P9 Distributed in Great Britain and Europe by Cassell PLC Villiers House, 41147 Strand, London W C2N 5JE, England Distributed in Australia by Capricorn Lin k (Australia) Pty Ltd. P.O. Box 6651, Baulkham Hills, Business Centre, NSW 2153, Australia Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved Sterling ISBN 0-8069-1258-8 I I Contents Before You Begin 5 1. Close Encounters of the First Kind -Strange Sightings 7 Encounter in 1909 The First "Flying Saucer" Mr. President Spots a UFO Danger on the Highway 2. Close Encounters of the Se cond Kind -Physical Evidence 21 Landing at Socorro Burned at Falcon Lake Not of this Earth If You Go Down to the Woods Today 3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind -Alien Contact 39 Invasion at Voronezh Siege at Sutton Farm The Alien on Ilkley Moor Hijacked by a UFO I 4. Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind -Abducted! 57 Spacenapped! Fire in the Sky A Flight into Oblivion Manhattan Transfer 5. Mark of the UFO 77 Boys in the Field The Animal Mutilators The Night a Flying Saucer Crashed Nightmare Over Teheran Index 4 World's B est "True" UFO Stories 96 Before You Begin The title of this book is World's Best "True" UFO It was a tough job picking out the Stories. "world's best." Indeed, there were many we had to leave out due to shortage of space and the need to vary the stories. But we believe the book in­ cludes some of the best-documented cases available. "True" in the title is in quotation marks be­ cause often "truth" is a personal judgment. W hat one person will accept as truth, others may refuse because they demand more proof. In the cases we present here, there are varying de­ grees of proof. Sometimes the evidence is so overwhelming, as in "Landing at Socorro" or "Danger on the Highway,�' that you may wonder why some people still deny the existence of UFOs. In other accounts, such as "Fire in the Sky" and "The Alien on Ilkley Moor," you may be more critical. We are professional UFOlogists and the au­ thors of many other books on UFOs and similar subjects. But we are not "believers" in the sense that we swallow ever ything without question. We would like you to be the same. Ask questions 5 about people's strange stories. It is fair to de­ mand some proof that an incident happened in the way it was reported. However, do not forget to ask questions of the "unbelievers , " too