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3/12/65 - James Flynn, Everglades, FL, 1AM
| Report Summary | "a cone shaped UFO hovering about 200' over some cypress trees... moved
rapidly and changed positions... the cone-shaped object appeared to be about
25' high and had four tiers of windows emitting a yellowish glow... a noise
like a diesel generator... within 200 yards of the UFO, Flynn jumped out
of the swamp buggy... the UFO emitted a jet-like noise and a blast of wind
that knocked him off balance; as he continued to approach within a few yards,
the UFO emitted a beam like a welder's torch and Flynn blacked out... Extensive
physical trace evidence was found, including an area of burnt sawgrass 72
feet in diameter"[footnote 1] "On March 12, 1965 Flynn took his swamp buggy and four dogs and headed for an isolated area eighteen miles SE of Big Cypress Indian Reservation in the Everglades, intent on a weekend of hunting... On Sunday [after a couple of uneventful days]... the dogs jumped a deer and ran it off. One of them responded to Flynn's call and returned... but the other[s]... kept going... at midnight, he cranked up his buggy and headed in the direction he had last heard them. "At about 1AM, Flynn spotted a very large and brilliant light above the cypress trees at a distance of approximately 1.5 mi. As he watched... it made four sweeps across the sky above the cypress, always coming back to its original location. Flynn [headed toward it to investigate]... The light appeared to be slowly descending to the ground. Flynn went through two stands of cypress and when he emerged from the second one, the light was within a few feet of the ground, only now it was not just a light - the outline of a huge disk shaped object was plainly discernible. "... Flynn was still about a quarter mile from the object, so he took out binoculars and watched it. It had a shape like a flattened cone, about twice as large at the bottom as it was high. Four tiers of windows appeared to encircle the [object] and it had a definite metallic appearance. Around each of the "windows" was a strip of black substance, and Flynn estimated that each window measured about two feet by two feet. The tiers of windows began about 12 ft from the bottom of the [object] and Flynn figured that from the top tier to the top of the [object] measured about 8 ft. He estimated its diameter as about 72 ft. These calculations were made by comparing the outline of the [object] with the cypress trees in the background... The only light was a dull yellow that emanated from the windows and an orange-red light from the bottom of the object which illuminated the ground below. "...[he] proceeded toward the [object]. A whirring, ringing sound which [he] had been aware of before, but which had not been too pronounced, became louder as he approached... [it was like] the sound of 'big transformers'. "... [he] walked to the edge of the light which came from the bottom of the [object]. It was then that he noticed a 'wind' coming from underneath [it], which seemed to be rotating counterclockwise, and was very strong, somewhat like the propwash from an airplane... about 6 ft inside the lighted area, he raised his hand and waved toward the 'windows'... He [waited] about a minute and waved again. "... a short white beam of light which appeared to originate from the bottom row of windows struck him between the eyes and he lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was nearly blind. He could not see out of his right eye and had only partial sight in the left eye. "... [he] groped around the area and got to his buggy... the dog, which had been very upset when he had first approached the object, was now exhausted... "... [Later], Flynn realized he has been unconscious for 24 hours instead of just two or three. He was hospitalized... "... Dr. Harvey Stipe, his attending physician [wrote to APRO]: "'The eye condition was hemorrhaging into the anterior chambers of the eye, apparently traumatic... The only abnormal findings were neurological. No paralysis was noted, but the deep tendon reflexes of biceps, triceps, patellas, and Achilles were absent. Plantars and abdominals were absent, but cremasterics were present... His reflexes gradually returned over a period of a five day to one week period but returned irregularly. The forehead was examined... and presented a thickened area just above the medial to the right eye. In the center of this area was a depressed, slighly abraded spot about 1 cm in diameter. Very small amount of haematoma was noted across the right eyelid... After the fourth day in the hospital, Mr. Flynn complained of hearing reduction and numbness in arms and hands. This cleared in about 24 hours. When last seen on April 16, 1965, about 4 weeks after the injury, Mr. Flynn was again checked. The abdominal reflexes were not present, but all others were normal. The depressed area was still present and prominent. He still has a cloudy vision of the right eye.' "[Dr. Stipe] had accompanied Flynn [to the sighting location], and made photos of freshly burned and scorched treetops in a perfect circle. He also noted fresh scuff marks on two trees twelve or fifteen feet apart in the area underneath the burned circle of trees. The marks appeared as if made by a heavy object sliding down the trunks of the trees for about two feet. "... we carried on some correspondence with Mr. Flynn, [who] informed us that he had marked off the area where the incident took place, and has sent soil samples to Colonel Robin Lewis at Homestead AFB, but that no one showed up to interview him nor did he have any knowledge that an examination of the site had taken place."[footnote 2] |
| Hynek Classification | CE-II |
| Original Vallee Classification | Type Ia |
| Current Vallee Classification | CE5 |
| Minimum Distance | A few yards |
| Object Appearance | Disk / cone 25 feet high, 72 feet diameter, four tiers of luminous openings |
| Object Behavior | Roved over woods, and settled to landing, after confrontation with witness, departed |
| Physical Effect | Sound like diesel generator, jet, blast of wind |
| Medical Effect | "I felt a blow like a sledgehammer... when he awoke... his vision was seriously impaired. About 24 hours had passed.... [he] required medical treatment, and had a small dark spot on his forehead. He suffered impaired vision in one eye, numbness, and loss of hearing." |
| Comments / Conclusion | Numbness and loss of hearing are unusual symptoms; Vision impairment may be due to UV or low energy far-infrared laser; UV corneal damage would be between 0.21 j cm-2 at 308 nm and 0.6 j cm-2 at 300 nm (8+ days repair) (see Eye and Skin Irritation) |
Footnotes
1. Hall, Uninvited Guests, ISBN 0-943358-32-9, p 250
2. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, no ISBN or LC#