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MILL SPRING: 1973 UFO FLAP EPICENTER - Mill Spring, Missouri. Highway 49 heading into the Missouri town of Mill Spring - population 189 (2010). It was in the skies above Mill Spring where - on February 21st, 1973 - local residents began encountering a variety of mysterious unknown lights and craft in the famous “Brushy Creek UFO Scare of 1973.” Mill Spring (located in the heart of the Bushy Creek area where the same-named creek flows through Wayne County) became a focus for UFO Researchers and Worldwide Media following the reports of UFOs having been encountered on this road and around this town. Hundreds of people within a half-hour’s drive from the Mill Spring epicenter claimed aerial sightings and witnessed alleged landed craft during the February-April, 1973 flap. Noted UFO Investigators Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Ted Phillips, Dr. Harley Rutledge and Hayden Hewes all came here to look into this series of anomalous events and seek some answers. A “UFO Central” during this time, crowds of skywatchers could be found driving down or parked on the side of this road, all hoping to catch glimpse of a UFO, with many reporting having done so. Part of a national “wave” of UFO sighting events taking place across the nation that year, the reports around Brushy Creek gradually thinned out and the hysteria died down as the wave came to its end. But, sightings in the area around Mill Spring didn’t fully end with the flap - the continuing persistence of aerial anomaly reports (though less frequent) were enough to prompt Dr. Harley Rutledge to organize his “Project Identification” scientific field study to observe/document the area’s anomalies long-term and firsthand. Although these investigative efforts ended decades ago (having catalogued some interesting documentation) there are still UFOs reportedly seen around Mill Spring from time to time - and what was seen then, and continues to be seen today, remains wholly unexplained. Photo by Michael Huntington - April, 2019. @Huntington_Strange_Travels #MichaelHuntington #StrangeTravels #HuntingtonFamily #HuntingtonAdventures #UFO #UFOs #UFOFlap #1973UFOs #BrushyCreekUFOFlap #MillSpringUFOFlap #MillSpringMissouri (at Mill Spring, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/B51OFD1FEEY/?igshid=nbuvij4c7ogm

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UFO SKYWATCH ‘73: PIEDMONT’S PINE HILL DRIVE-IN THEATER - Piedmont, Missouri. The abandoned Pine Hill Drive-In Theater (1953) in Piedmont, Missouri (pop. 1500). Beginning in February of 1973, and continuing throughout the year (and, indeed, years after), the town of Piedmont and its surrounding environs experienced a flap of UFO sightings numbering in the hundreds. In fact, local officials took reports of over 500 encounters during this flap event (called “The Brushy Creek UFO Flap” due to the proximity of clusters of encounters to the feature), which prompted a world-wide media frenzy and the involvement of several noted investigators looking into the activity - including Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Ted Phillips, Dr. Harley Rutledge, and Hayden Hewes. The Piedmont sightings flap was the nexus that lead to Dr. Rutledge’s long-term “Project Identification” UFO Field Study which studied the flap events and conducted investigations and field observations in the area for years following. During the summer of 1973 - amidst the hype of the strange encounters being experienced by, seemingly, everyone - a prime activity for locals (and visitors) was watching the skies for mysterious UFOs. The Pine Hill Drive-In became, naturally, a key spot for “UFO Spotting” in ‘73, with several encounter events having been reported here - including alleged sightings by large groups of witnesses. The Pine Hill Drive-In closed their final gates in 2015 after sixty-plus years in operation. What was actually seen in these skies, by so many people, so many years ago, remains Unknown to this day. Photo by Michael Huntington - April, 2019. @Huntington_Strange_Travels #MichaelHuntington #StrangeTravels #HuntingtonFamily #HuntingtonAdventures #UnusualFamilyOutings #UFO #UFOs #UFOFlap #1973PiedmontUFOFlap #1973UFOs #PiedmontFlap #PiedmontUFOs #BrushyCreekUFOFlap #FamousUFOs #MissouriUFOs #DrJAllenHynek #DrHarleyRutledge #TedPhillips #ProjectIdentification #PineHillDriveIn #BrushyCreekMissouri #PiedmontMissouri (at Piedmont, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx0yFQ3Fkrx/?igshid=1pa1d6u8tp5dm

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“UFO COUNTRY” - THE 1978 ELSBERRY UFO/CATTLE MUTILATION FLAP - Elsberry, Missouri. Beginning in April of 1978 - and peaking in June - the residents in and around the small, rural Missouri farming community of Elsberry reported a “flap” of multiple UFO sightings and, perhaps, dozens of mysterious “cattle deaths and mutilations” believed to be connected somehow to the anomalous lights in the sky being seen at the same time. (Pictured photo 2: the southern skies near the Hammond home in Elsberry where Manford Hammond and others observed UFOs for several nights in June of 1978.) As a result of interest in the rash of encounters and mutilations, UFO Researchers and a frenzied news media descended upon Elsberry and its farms and nearby towns, making the “hotspot” area “UFO Country” for a time. Skywatchers seemed to be everywhere as looking for UFOs became a participatory event that drew seekers from around the region and created a near-carnival-like environment at times. Witnesses reported a variety of encounters during this flap ranging from stationary unknown nocturnal lights to luminous and/or metallic craft with internally-lit windows moving as if under intelligent control. The Elsberry Encounters were investigated on-site by members of the UFO Study Group of Greater St. Louis (a MUFON founding body) as well as researchers from Dr. Harley Rutledge’s Project Identification Field Study. Media outlets from St. Louis actively covered Elsberry’s ‘78 UFO Hysteria and Mutilation Mystery - reporting the stories in a detailed and serious manner, and even providing for scientific analysis of some mutilation evidence. The source of the encountered objects in the skies above Elsberry and the cause of the unusual cattle deaths remain unexplained to this day. Photos by Michael Huntington - July, 2018. @Huntington_Strange_Travels #MichaelHuntington #StrangeTravels #HuntingtonFamily #HuntingtonAdventures #UFO #UFOs #CattleMutilations #UFOFlap #ElsberryUFOFlap #1978ElsberryUFOFlap #UFOCountry #FamousUFOs #MissouriUFOs #UFOStudyGroupStLouis #MissouriInvestigatorsGroup #ProjectIdentification #ElsberryMissouri (at Elsberry, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxn3nuvFUsU/?igshid=r9wpinf0ve81

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UFOS OVER LEVELLAND, TEXAS IN 1957 - On the late evening of November 2, 1957 - beginning at around 10 p.m. and lasting for approximately three hours - multiple credible witnesses (a dozen or more) claimed to have encountered several strange "luminous objects" along the dark, rural roads around the small West-Texas town of Levelland. A number of the reported witnesses were local police officers who were responding to the flurry of phoned-in reports. The varied "glowing, egg-shaped and rocket-like" objects, reportedly, caused some of the witnesses' vehicles - in proximity- to temporarily "stall" or "shut off" due to some possible unknown "electrical interference" related to the UFOs. Several objects were reported to have actually have landed in the middle of the nighttime country roads, or on some farmer's field, before flying away into the sky. This mass-sighting "mini-flap" around Levelland was soon taken notice by the popular media of the times (newspapers and radio) and Air Force Investigators with Project Blue Book. No explanation fully accounted for all of these events - but the mundane theory of "natural ball lightning phenomena" was proffered by skeptical investigators and Blue Book. "The Levelland Encounters" - a classic case in UFO History - is probably the best representative example (or even the influential template) for the "auto interference" attribute in close encounter classification and nomenclature. Sixty years later, questions still remain in this series of still-unknown encounters. Graphic by Michael Huntington - November, 2017. @Huntington_Strange_Travels #StrangeTravels #MichaelHuntington #LevellandEncounters #LevellandUFOs #LevellandTexas #TexasUFOs #UFOsOverTexas #TexasUFOs1957 #UFOFlap #CloseEncounter #CloseEncounterOfTheSecondKind #CE2K #UFOAutoInterference #UFOPoliceSighting #ProjectBlueBook #BallLightning #FamousUFOCases #UFO #UFOs #UFOHistory