GINES RANCH, WOODLAND, UT
1972: UFO HOVERS OVER A RANCH IN UTAH
"At first Lennis Gines didn't think much of the blue and yellow lights in the field behind her rural Summit County (Utah) home."
"It was a little too early--about 4:30 a.m.-- for teenage visitors. And the silent, rotating lights weren't anywhere near the narrow country lane that meandered past the family's two story home and on to the Provo River." "At that instant, on a pitch-black moonless morn in the fall of 1972, Lennis Gines knew what it was like to see a UFO." "'If it hadn't gone up without a sound, I may have convinced myself in my mind that it was just kids driving around. But I know what I saw.'"
"Gines was soon joined by her teenage son Sam, who was ready to round up the cows for milking. Together they waited and watched in the dark for 45 minutes as the blue and yellow lights, some 150 yards to the east, cascaded across the river bottoms."
"Eventually Gines's 16-year-old decided he'd waited long enough...Sam got no help from the family's otherwise loyal cattle dog, who whimpered and ran inside to hide."
"'My boy gets in the truck and goes over, and he said he could see a doorway, windows and shadows going in and out,' Gines recalled this week, nearly 25 years after the event. 'It was like someone was going in and out on the ground.'"
"'The cows were bunched together, he said, and he had a hard time getting them out (of the field) without the dog, but they did come down the road and into the corral. The cows were nervous and didn't give the milk they usually gave.'"
"Gines, still frightened, helped her younger son, Will, get dressed, then hustled to the barn to bring Sam back to the house. But when she emerged from the barn--the lights were gone--all except the distant glimmer of daylight."
(See the Desert News of Salt Lake City, Utah for July 6, 1997, "Close Encounters in Utah" by Zack Van Eyck. Many thanks to Lou Farrish of UFO Newsclipping Service for forwarding this story.)
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WOLF CREEK RANCH, UINTA BASIN, UT
1971-72: ORANGE UFO HOVERS OVER UTAH RANCH
UFO Sighting at Wolf Creek and an old story for you
SUBMITTED REPORT: 4/17/2004
..........A bright orange glow hovering several hundred feet off the canyon floor. The glow remained for about ten minutes and I found myself too scared or too mesmerized to move, just like the livestock. After ten minutes, the glowing orange light flew off to the West toward Heber". My grandfather was pretty shaken and .................................
see full submitted report here
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UTAH SIGHTINGS 1970'S
1973 Provo State Park, UTAH
Whom It May Concern, The first unexplainable sighting was in the fall of 1973 on Utah Lake, near Provo, Utah. At the time, I was temporarily stationed by the USAF (rescued boat section) at the Provo State Park (also resided there in a trailer). At about 2200 hours on a calm night, I accompanied the chief ranger, Dennis Weaver, on his routine safety check of the boat harbor and boat ramp area. The park was void of patrons; no unusual or suspicious findings in the park. Looking out over the dark lake toward the far, uninhabited side (about six to 8 miles), we noticed a bright red light far out on the water surface. It looked like the burning of a railroad flare. To us, it was an emergency signal. Instinctively, I took a bearing. Promptly, Dennis and I manned a rescue boat and speeded toward the heading of the sighting, which by now had disappeared. We raced the boat to the approximate area, stopped the engines, first listened while using a powerful search light, then shouted, and listened again. No sound, no sighting. We moved on a little farther toward the desolate southwest bay. Suddenly, directly in front of us (distance undeterminable, but it was not far), an extremely bright and quiet large, whitish-blue flash occurred and very rapidly went straight up. The flash and movement lasted about 2 to 3 seconds, then it was dark again. There had been no accompanying noise or sound. Once more I stopped the engines. There were no ripples or waves coming in our direction, the surface was very smooth (due to a lack of wind on that day and night). We continued searching for more than thirty minutes. Nothing. Also nothing on the local news or in the papers on the following day.
Credit: http://spacepub.com/users/data/sightings/nem/nem.htm
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