Dam UFOs.

[Karl12]

Loads (and loads) of reports of UFOs over bodies of water but thought Preston Dennett did a great job below of compiling some very interesting UFO incidents over dams.

Some pretty fascinating global eyewitness descriptions involving unknown objects emerging from the water; putting out light beams; emitting humming / buzzing noises etc. - also the usual patterns including EM effects, physiological effects, physical trace evidence, animal reaction, power outages, strange mists etc..






Casefiles:

This video presents more than 30 cases of UFOs hovering over dams. And not only hovering, but landing too. Several cases also involve humanoids.

The evidence for these cases is astounding. There are multiple witnesses, physiological effects, electromagnetic effects, landing traces, photos and more. In some cases, the UFOs appear to be siphoning water from the reservoirs, or electricity from the power stations.

Some of the dams are visited over and over again. These cases reach back from the modern age of UFOs in 1947 to the present day, and are occurring all over the world: Australia, Canada, Europe, Canada, the United States, South America and more.

Why are UFOs visiting our dams?

There's also a pretty great interview below with Portuguese researcher Francisco Mourao Correa exploring UFO (OVNI) cases from the country and the open attitude of the country's Military towards the subject.

He also relates a 'dam UFO' case where a 'disc with small windows' caused a pilot to scream at the ground radio operator, his instrument panel to go haywire and the aircraft nearly crash (power outage reported at same time and area).

• Portuguese Military: Shocking Candor about UFOs.


Francisco Mourao Correa discusses incredible UFO encounters from Portugal's history, especially during the Cold War era, and describes the attitude toward UFOs by the highest echelon's of Portugal's military.

This includes the former Chief of Staff of the Portuguese Air Force, General Tomás Conceição e Silva. The conversation closes with a discussion on the need for evidence-based ufology and the preservation of our precious history in understanding this phenomenon.

Anyone who has any idea what's going on or knows of other specific cases please post.

[Nerb]

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Makes me want to camp near a dam with a decent camera and watch the scene for activity.

The connection to the electrical function and watersource of a dam in some of the UFO sightings is the most interesting part to me. Do you think they need the power and the water for the craft? Or perhaps they drink water and have phones to charge too.

[Karl12]

Appreciate the post Nerb and I really did find that presentation an intriguing one - Preston certainly knows his way around the NICAP, APRO, CUFOS, NUFORC, NARCAP, MUFON etc.. files lol.

Don't know what to think when it comes to the water aspect (collection?) but once did a thread on another forum collating reports of UFO 'taking on water' and it was pages and pages long (good singular example here).

Have no idea what the Dickens is going on but the reports appear to be consistent and international.

Here's another dam case from Argentina, 2009:


• Luminous cigar shaped UFO over El Tunal hydroelectric dam, Argentina, November 26th, 2009 - power outage also reported.

..While they were fishing they suddenly noticed a whitish or yellow light all around them; as they looked up they noticed a huge object hovering over the turbines and emitting a rumbling “mmmmmm” sound. He estimated the UFO had a length of between 200 and 300 meters. He then described how the object threw beams over the turbines and beams could also be seen coming from the turbines to the UFO.

The whole operation was accompanied by a sound like that of “several machines working in tandem,” according to the witness. This process lasted a few minutes and then the UFO made a big flash and left the area at great speed. That’s when the power blackout occurred, which seemed to also affect their flashlights and cell phones. When they drove to El Tunal a few minutes later they noticed the whole town was in shock.

Cheers and good luck with the camping!

[Karl12]

The translated links have long since been taken down but there's a pretty crazy military UFO incident described below from Uruguay in 1986 where two Pucara fighter aircraft were sent up to intercept a strange luminous object hovering over Palmar Dam which flew off at a 'dizzying rate of speed' as the aircraft approached.

When the pilots returned to base the object reappeared in the same place and the aircraft yet again attempted (and failed) to intercept the object.

Colonel Ariel Sanchez, head of the Uruguayan Air Force UFO Office goes into more detail about how the object changed colours from yellow to orange to red as it increased its acceleration and also mentions how a power blackout of Montevideo occurred at the same time of the incident due to the overheating of a power line which was directly underneath the spot where the UFO was witnessed.

UFO chase over Palmar Dam

Unsolved cases have a considerable high strangeness quotient for the FAU. For example, the 1986 pursuit by two Pucara jet fighters over the Palmar Dam in response to the maneuvers of a luminous sphere. The pilots joined together and decided to chase it. When they were about to intercept it, the sphere flew off at a dizzying rate of speed toward Argentina and could not be reached. When the pilots returned to their base, the sphere reappeared over the dam. But the same thing occurred - the chase occurred and it vanished from sight, changing colors from red to yellow.

• Excerpt of Interview with Colonel Ariel Sanchez.

Among those 40 cases with a high Level of Strangeness which one caught your attention the most? Could you describe it?



The most shocking events involved Uruguayan aircraft pursuing a UFO. It occurred mainly in 1986. Two military aircraft tried to intercept a UFO which entered Uruguayan airspace without authorization. I believe the Official UFO Night in Brazil occurred in the same year and month (19 May 1986).



Do you believe this UFO pursuit in Uruguay was part of the same phenomenon seen in Brazil (When more than 20 round-shaped UFOs of around 100m in diameter jammed radars of several capitals in South-Eastern Brazil)?



I would have to check the dates in our files, but it is possible. It was around 20h30 when those two fighters I’ve mentioned tried to approach an object maneuvering over a dam. They tried twice to reach the UFO. They didn’t succeed because the object managed to escape maneuvering at great speed which our aircraft could not follow.



What were the procedures adopted in the investigation of this case?



We collected all the flight data such as the type of our aircraft, duration and speed of their flight, etc, then we had a thorough interview with the pilots. They were four pilots aboard two Argentine-made FMAIA 58 Pucara — a two-turboprop-engined aircraft for fast combat. (Pucara means fortress in Quechua language. This aircraft was often used during the war over the Falklands). The Pucara reached a 400 to 500/h speed but the UFO was much faster. We estimate it to be at around 1.000 km/h. That was double our speed if not more.



Besides the incredible speed did the UFO display any other signals of a possible extraordinary origin?



Yes. A peculiar thing was seeing the object changing colors while increasing its acceleration. It went from yellow to orange then turned red. It moved away at an enormous speed until it disappeared from our sight. In a second attempt to intercept it, the object did the same thing: when the Pucara got closer, the UFO vanished at an incredible speed towards the West. Without much they could do the pilots simply quit the pursuit and returned to the base.



For how long did they try to intercept the UFO in that second attempt?



Just for a few minutes, because it vanished when the pilots tried to approach. Strangely enough, the object always returned to the same spot after our aircraft moved away — as if it were playing with our crewmen. There was a moment when the UFO was surrounding the dam and our pilots tried to reach it with a fast maneuver - one with a 30 or 40-second response



Then what happened?



When the object noticed the maneuver it moved away to the West at a high speed.



What happened to the pilots after such an experience?



Due to the stress they cancelled their training and returned to the Durazno Air Base (FAU’s most important site, located in the middle of the country). By getting there they reported the event to the officials. At the same time they learned that Montevideo had been hit by a blackout. It lasted for a few minutes and affected the whole city. It was due to the overheating of a power line which came from the exact spot where the UFO was seen over the dam. I should add that the Durazno base is where pilot trainings are mostly held. There are many different aircraft stationed there.



Did Cridovni consider one fact against the other? That is, did you associate the UFO over the dam with the blackout in Montevideo?



Yes. We believed the object must have affected the power line in some way causing the overheating. This is a supposition based on technical data provided by the power company itself (Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas - UTE). Their technicians detected an overheating in some transformers in the line that supplies the capital city. We suppose this might be a result of that incident. After all, there must be a reason why it was over the dam. It must have been doing something there. What it was we don’t know. Security guards and employees also witnessed the object flight around the dam that night. The object was seen from the ground and from the air. This leaves no doubt about its materiality.



Did you talk with the Pucara pilots? How was their emotional?



They were quite surprised with what they had seen. I personally interviewed the four of them, one by one, pursuant to our protocol for investigation. All narratives were coincident regarding the shape and maneuvers of the object. Our crewmen were affected by what they experienced.



Do they still work in the Air Force?



Only one of them remains in the Air Force.



Would you like to have been in their feet? What would have been your reaction if you were in one of those Pucara?



I would love to have been there (laughing), but I think my reaction would also be one of total surprise. Actually, I don’t know what I would do at the time. One never knows. The aircraft involved were twoturboprop-engined fighters. There could have been some kind of hostility between the parties. However, in such situation the pilot must ask for permission before taking any action such as to fire a missile. There is a protocol for that in our country. According to Uruguayan law, we can’t fire at an aircraft unless under presidential orders or in a real combat situation. A pilot might think about doing something, but will be subjected to superior orders and to the protocol for interception of unknown vehicles.

Curious that there was yet another power blackout reported and did find the UFOs 'colour change' during acceleration rather interesting (as it's certainly not the first time that aspect has been reported).

[Karl12]

Two statements from police officers involved in the Wanaque Reservoir UFO incident - New Jersey, January 11th, 1966.

• “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”

Police Officer George Dyckman.




• "It was a bright white light. As I said: just like on a locomotive. It was funnel-shaped. It seemed to come out of some object, like a funnel. In other words, it spread out as if it were focused through a telescope. It was narrow at one end in the sky and spread out into a very wide beam as it approached our upper gatehouse at the dam. The strangest part of it was that there was no noise attached to this object. None whatsoever. It was absolutely silent. A silent light."

Chief John Casazza of the Wanaque Reservoir Police.


WANAQUE 1966, part one: microcosm of UFOlogy/ 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

[Karl12]

Well suppose this is turning into more of a research thread but here's another UFO over a dam putting out light beams (and another blackout) - this time in Costa Rica.

“'Tamal’-Type UFO Blamed for Blackout”

(The Tico Times, Costa Rica)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service,

“An unidentified flying object (UFO) using what officials describe as a ‘tractor beam’ sapped electrical energy from the Arenal hydroelectric plant early Thursday morning [2 April 1992], causing a nationwide blackout that lasted half an hour, officials said.

‘It was the most incredible thing I ever saw,’ said Arenal plant manager Ingenuo Tomapelo. ‘The thing just hovered there for several minutes shining this tractor beam down onto the main generator.’

Tomapelo said he witnessed the event from the window of the plant’s control room where he watched helplessly as the gauges registered dropping energy output.

‘It looked like a tamal, just like the kind my grandmother used to make, except that it glowed,’ said Tomapelo. ‘They drained all our power in a matter of minutes.’

NATIONAL Emergency Commission President Jorge Trejos said the commission received reports of UFO sightings from the Guanacaste provincial capital of Liberia to the small town of La Fortuna at the foot of the Arenal volcano.

From these reports the Emergency Commission approximated the route of the UFO. It was first reported spotted over Liberia around 12:15 a.m., spotted over Canas at 12:16 and made its appearance at the Arenal plant only two minutes later.

After several minutes of hovering over the plant, it sent down its tractor beam at 12:21. Three minutes later, the lights went out all over the country and the UFO immediately abandoned the Arenal plant.

Link

On the subject of power blackouts there's some relevant commentary below from engineer James M. McCampbell (free E-Book).

Power Transmission

An association between UFOs and electrical power facilities has been recognized for many years. UFOs tend to hover near generating stations, switchyards, and substations, and to travel along the rights-of-way for high-voltage transmission lines. They are frequently seen at these locations at the time of, or just prior to, electrical blackouts over extended areas served by the facilities. Naturally, blame for the inconvenience is laid upon the UFOs, but satisfactory explanations have not been found. The deficiency is twofold: The affinity of UFOs for electrical facilities is not well understood and their method of causing power failure has not been satisfactorily identified.

Chapter 5 - UFOLOGY A Major Breakthrough in the Scientific Understanding of Unidentified Flying Objects By James M. McCampbell

[Karl12]

Also spotted this description from Loch Raven Dam which sounds rather similar to descriptions from Wanaque Reservoir Dam (see above).

They were approaching one of the bridges across the Loch Raven Reservoir when their vehicle came to a sudden stop of its own accord. A second later the radio went silent, quickly followed by the failing of the headlights..

The object had the appearance of two saucers facing each other with “an ultraviolet band” dividing them. The light from the object shining off the surface of the water below. They would estimate the object to be between 200 to 300 feet above the water.  

Underneath the object, was a strange “conical shape”, like a “column of fog or haze or mist”  which stretched down to the water. At the same time was a “mum-mum-mum” sound.

The “Forgotten” UFO Incidents Of The Loch Raven Dam

Also this freaky dam case from official Argentinian Military/Government communiques:

The Seven Official declarations made by the Argentinian Government


1978: On the evening of February 4 at the La Florida dam in San Luis, six persons report the presence of a UFO and the descent of an occupant from within, leaving ground marks. The Police Precinct of San Luis, through its chief, Lt.Col. Raul Benjamín López, issues a document which constitutes the fourth official acknowledgment.

Argentinean Military's Role in UFO Research

[Karl12]

Good vid on the Castelo de Bode Dam UFO case - Portugal, June 17th, 1977:




Video:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xytpsc


Witness Statement:

• "The upper section, partially concealed by cloud, was black and on the lower section there appeared to be four or five panels."

Portuguese Air Force Sergeant José Fransisco Rodrigues describes object encountered flying above Castelo de Bode Dam, Portugal, June 17th, 1977 (power outage of aircraft and dam).

Link

[Karl12]

John Keel witnesses UFO over the Aswan Dam.







• Audiobook:

• "During a trek to Aswan in the upper Nile I saw my very first flying saucer, a metallic looking disc with a rotating outer rim, which hovered for several minutes above the Aswan Dam in broad daylight."

John Keel.

[Karl12]

Bit of a boring presentation (compared to others) but National Director for MUFON Australia Roger Stankovik explains how he first got interested in the UFO subject after witnessing 'a UFO over a dam'.