Some more UFO stuff

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July 11, 1978: Waterbury, VT - Close Encounters Copy Cat?



11:20 p.m. A man driving alone in a remote area on State Highway 100 three miles south of Waterbury, Vermont, sees a beam of light descend from the trees.







It is about 1.5–2 feet in diameter but spreads out into a cone that covers the entire street and moves toward his car, illuminating the interior like "40 flash cameras." The reflection off the car hood is dazzling.







Petrified for 45 seconds, he finally sticks his head out the door and feels considerable heat. The light shrinks and dims, revealing the silhouette of a saucer darker than the sky and about 80–100 feet in diameter.







The object is at treetop level and has small steady white lights on each side and a rib-like structure on the bottom. After hovering above the car a few seconds, it moves southwest about 200 yards and then takes off almost simultaneously.











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July 11, 1961: 10:35 p.m. Jacques Vallée and others at the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France, see a mystery satellite as part of Project Moonwatch.







The following day the director of the project confiscates all their data and destroys it, apparently in fear of being laughed at by the press, scientific colleagues, and the Americans.













From Vallee's proposal to study 36 moonwatch sightings:







Hynek, Whipple, and Project Moonwatch (International UFO Reporter, Volume 32, number 4, October 2009)


If interested here's a lecture/presentation on Operation Moonwatch: