John Spencer’s interesting, useful 1991 UFO book

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John Spencer’s World Atlas of UFOs, pictured here (above) was published in 1991 by Hamlyn Publishing Group (London).

Mr. Spencer is (or was) Vice-Chairman of the British UFO Research Association (now defunct I think) and Research Specialist for MUFON.

I was looking for a UFO account in which some fellows, on a hunting trip, saw a moose – if I recall correctly – taken aboard a UFO, A gun was fired but the bullet, allegedly, came out of the gun in slow motion and fell to the ground without hitting the sighted UFO.

(If anyone can cite an internet link where this story is recounted, please leave the link in a comment below. Thank you.)

Mr. Spencer’s book is divided into continental/geographical segments (i.e., North America, Europe, Africa, the East, et cetera) and significant sightings are detailed.

The book has some superb paintings (renditions) of notable, known sightings, such at these. (I’ve grabbed photos from the book so as not to ruin the book):

The 1970 Imjarvi (Finland) sighting in which two skiers saw an odd, luminous entity, wearing a conical, metallic-like helmet, descend from a UFO via a beam, holding a black box from which a light appeared, that paralyzed the observers, as a red-grey mist came from the UFO, hiding the entity and surrounding the paralyzed skiers. Then the UFO beam disappeared, sucked back into the UFO, taking the entity with it; the UFO “itself was gone” too. [Page 98]

The 1979 Robert Taylor encounter (with an AI machines?):

The 1989 Voronezh (Russia) where two giant entities emerged from a UFO:

Another sighting, from the book, (Page 152-153), intrigued me: the January 3, 1979 Mindalore encounter (and alleged abduction) in which a mother, Meagan Quezet, and son André came upon an egg-shaped craft while out for a walk in Mindalore, Johannesburg, South Africa.

(The craft and its entities had some similarities with Lonnie Zamora’s 1964 “craft” in Socorro, New Mexico.)

Ms. Quezet and her son witnessed five or six people emerge from the egg-shaped UFO. “They were dressed in coveralls” and two of them approached Ms. Quezet and her son André, one of the entities “had thick hair and a beard: they were of normal height.”

The entities “began speaking … in something like a high pitched Chinese language.”

“ … Meagan got the feeling that something was not quite normal” and told her son “Go and get Daddy.”

She remembered that the entities jumped back into the craft “with no apparent difficulty even though [the craft] had no steps.There was a buzzing sound and the craft rose up” and disappeared into the sky” the legs still extended as it departed.

André returned to see the craft depart and both returned to their home.

Under regressive hypnosis, Ms. Quezet recalled the “aliens” luring her and her son into the craft where she saw “funny lights” and chairs during which the entities “imparted a message … that shocked and surprised her but … which she was never able to remember.”

The doctor attending her considered the affair “a hysterical fantasy.”

Mr. Spencer provides a plethora of UFO sightings/encounters, many of which are well-known to UFO buffs and many that are not.

A good book to find in remainder bins.

RR