Close Encounters

Betty Cash, Vickie and Colby Landrum are driving home on a country road when they encounter a diamond-shaped craft shooting fire out of its base. Stephen Michalak is a geologist searching for quartz when a disc- shaped metalic object lands yards away.

16-year-old Ron Johnson is feeding the family sheep when he suddenly sees a mushroom- shaped object appearing in the field. Three police officers from a number of small towns in southern Illinois track an unknown object flying in the sky.

It's early evening in rural Pennsylvania when several dozen witnesses report seeing a fiery object falling through the sky and landing in nearby woods. In Arizona thousands are watching the sky for the Hale-Bopp Comet but many see something else.

A Japanese airline crew en route from Paris to Tokyo encounters blindingly bright lights flying in their airspace. Sheriff Val Johnson is on patrol in Minnesota when he sees a lightbeam shining down on the road .The beam of light engulf his entire car.

SCHOOL'S OUT: APRIL 6, 1966 – It's 11am at a school in Australia when a classroom of students playing outside see a saucer-shaped object in a field. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS: NOVEMBER 25, 2009 -- On a short drive home from his work hen he notices strange lights.

TRIANGLES IN THE FOREST: DECEMBER 25-27, 1980: Strange lights are reported by security near a U.S. Air Force base on England's east coast. HIGH TIDE: OCTOBER 4, 1967: 18-year-old Norm is driving back from a dance when he sees an object fall from the sky.