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The Harrah close encounter case is one of the strangest child-witness humanoid reports in Pacific Northwest UFO history. Usually dated to 19 January 1977 near Harrah, Washington, the case became notable because nine-year-old José Cantu claimed to see two small greenish beings and two steely craft at his family home, after which adults reportedly found unusual marks in the yard and investigators linked the event to the broader recurring-light activity on and around the Yakama Reservation.
Incidents / Close Encounters/close encounter case/2026-03-18
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The Colfax close encounter case is a controversial Wisconsin UFO photo story from April 1978. It is usually told as a police-officer sighting in which Mark Coltrane photographed a metallic disc near Colfax after his patrol-car radio began crackling. But later photo-archive versions attach the same images to an anonymous witness and his girlfriend near Tainter Lake, making the case important not only as a photographic encounter claim, but as a lesson in how unstable UFO case histories can become.
Incidents / Close Encounters/close encounter case/2026-03-17
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The Delphos close encounter case is one of the best-known American UFO trace cases. Centered on a 1971 farm sighting near Delphos, Kansas, it became famous because a teenage witness reported a low-hovering luminous craft and investigators later documented a strange ring in the soil that appeared dry, crusted, hydrophobic, and unusually persistent.
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The Allagash close encounter case is one of the most famous alleged multiple-witness abduction stories in American UFO history, combining a remote Maine canoe trip, a bright aerial object, missing-time claims, later hypnosis-based recall, and strong internal dispute over what really happened.
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The Pascagoula UFO close encounter is one of the most famous and controversial UFO cases ever reported, combining a riverside sighting, humanoid encounter claims, a secretly recorded police-room conversation, media frenzy, and decades of debate over what really happened in Mississippi in 1973.
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The Travis Walton UFO close encounter is one of the most famous and controversial alleged alien abduction cases in American history, combining a multi-witness forest sighting, a five-day disappearance, polygraph controversy, and lasting media impact.
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