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Patrick Gross

Person 33 stories, 1678 to 2007

A ufology cataloguer and archivist, Patrick Gross compiled case sources online and gave many of them a verdict. He rated the Greytown landing story of 1914 a probable airplane. The Bass Strait pacing incident of 1944 he judged a possible extraterrestrial craft, or a possible invention. In the Paul Villa photographs of 1963, he pointed to the branches above the saucer in every picture. Other cases he simply preserved. For the Angel Hair falls at Oloron and Gaillac in 1952, he kept the original newspaper pages online. And of the Duas Pontes disappearance, he wrote that it showed how far a case could be embellished.

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The Mowing-Devil: Strange News out of Hartford-shire (1678)
c. 1678 · Hertfordshire ("Hartford-shire"), England; no parish or farm named, map pin at Hertford is symbolic
UAP · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
20Thinly documented

Ufology researcher who documented the pamphlet and argued it is a parable

The Maracaibo Humming Light Injuries, 1886
October 24, 1886 · A hut a few leagues from Maracaibo, Zulia State
UAP · Unknown · 18 sources
24Thinly documented

Ufology researcher who compared the case to Cash-Landrum

Charles Harper's Hairy Man of the Currickbilly Range (1912)
c. 1912 · Currickbilly (Currockbilly) Range, Budawang National Park, New South Wales
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
14Thinly documented

Cataloguer; URECAT-001135 entry and evaluation

1914 South African "Phantom Monoplane" Wave and the Greytown, Natal Landing Report
August 11, 1914 · Union of South Africa (Cape Town, Vryburg, Pretoria, Natal); landing report near Greytown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)
UAP · Other · 15 sources
26Thinly documented

Cataloguer who classes the Greytown story as a probable airplane (URECAT-001409)

The Bass Strait Beaufort pacing incident (T.R.H. "Ricky" Royal)
February 1944 · Bass Strait, between Victoria and Tasmania
UAP · Unknown · 12 sources
16Thinly documented

Compiler of the ACUFO catalogue entry and evaluation

The USAT Delarof Sphere, Aleutian Islands (1945)
c. 1945 · Open sea past Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
UAP · Sphere · 12 sources
25Thinly documented

Ufology archivist who compiled and transcribed the case sources online

Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept
August 1, 1952 · Bellefontaine Air Force Station (Campbell Hill) and the Dayton area, Ohio
UAP · Sphere · 19 sources
54Partially documented

Researcher who compiled the case sources and questioned the balloon explanation

The Angel Hair Sightings at Oloron-Sainte-Marie and Gaillac
October 17, 1952 · Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Béarn (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), and Gaillac, Tarn
UAP · Cigar · 15 sources
28Thinly documented

Archivist who preserved the 1952 press reports and the doctor's letter online

Ellsworth AFB Radar-Visual Case and F-84 Pursuit, South Dakota, 1953
August 5, 1953 · Black Hawk Ground Observer Corps post and Ellsworth Air Force Base, near Rapid City, South Dakota
UAP · Other · 24 sources
60Well documented
Salvador Villanueva Medina and the Trip to Venus
c. 1953 · Near Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí, on the Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo highway
UAP · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
23Thinly documented

Catalogued the case as URECAT-000218, rating it a contactee tall tale

The Rome Half-Cigar over Ciampino and Pratica di Mare (1954)
September 17, 1954 · Rome (Ciampino airport and Pratica di Mare air base), Lazio
UAP · Cigar · 15 sources
46Partially documented

Archivist who collected and translated the French press reports

The Dogtown Green-Clawed Beast: the Ohio River clawed hand attack near Evansville (1955)
c. 1955 · Dogtown (Cypress), Ohio River shore, West Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
UAP · Being / humanoid · 20 sources
25Thinly documented

Cataloguer, URECAT-000520, proposed the fish explanation

Orly Airport Radar and Air France DC-3 Sighting
February 17, 1956 · Orly Airport, Paris
UAP · Unknown · 22 sources
45Partially documented

Ufology archivist who compiled the period press and accounts

Guam F-86D Intercept: 1st Lt. Ted Brunson and Blue Book Unknown 4577
December 31, 1956 · Over and near Agana (Hagåtña), Guam, Mariana Islands
UAP · Orb / light · 12 sources
23Thinly documented

Researcher, Blue Book Unknowns 1956 web page

The Duas Pontes Case: The Disappearance of Rivalino Mafra da Silva
August 20, 1962 · Duas Pontes, rural Diamantina, Minas Gerais
UAP · Egg · 25 sources
33Partially documented
The Paul Villa Flying Saucer Photographs
June 16, 1963 · Near Peralta, Valencia County, about 15 miles south of Albuquerque, New Mexico
UAP · Disc / saucer · 15 sources · 7 photos
36Partially documented

Ufology cataloguer who assessed the case as a hoax

Damon, Texas: The Brazoria County Deputies' Sighting
September 3, 1965 · Texas State Highway 36, about 2 to 3 miles south of Damon, Brazoria County, Texas
UAP · Triangle · 18 sources
23Thinly documented

Researcher who compiled the main online account of the case

The Portage County UFO Chase
April 17, 1966 · State Route 224, Portage County, Ohio, to Conway, Pennsylvania
UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources
24Thinly documented
The Marliens Ground Trace, Côte-d'Or
May 1967 · Le Champ Terraillot, near Marliens, canton of Genlis, Côte-d'Or
UAP · Unknown · 12 sources · 3 photos
36Partially documented
Luce Fontaine and the "Babas Michelin": Plaine des Cafres, Réunion, 1968
July 31, 1968 · Acacia wood clearing at "kilometer 21", Plaine des Cafres, Le Tampon, Réunion
UAP · Being / humanoid · 21 sources
28Thinly documented

Ufology researcher who compiled the case file

Emil Barnea's Hoia-Baciu UFO photographs, Cluj, Romania, 1968
August 18, 1968 · Hoia-Baciu forest (Poiana Rotundă clearing), near Cluj
UAP · Disc / saucer · 33 sources · 7 photos
30Partially documented
The Hermínio and Bianca Reis Abduction (Caso Karran)
January 12, 1976 · Rio de Janeiro to Belo Horizonte highway, near Matias Barbosa, Minas Gerais
UAP · Being / humanoid · 17 sources
14Thinly documented

Cataloguer, URECAT-000195

The Aviano Air Base "spinning top" UFO and power cut
July 1, 1977 · Aviano Air Base (Victor Alert area), Aviano, Pordenone province, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
30Partially documented

Ufologist whose website documents the case and the photographer's account

The 1978 Italian UFO Wave
1978 · Across Italy, especially the central and southern Adriatic coast, Sicily, Calabria, Liguria and Piedmont
UAP · Disc / saucer · 35 sources · 1 photos
55Partially documented
Bill Herrmann abduction, Summerville / North Charleston, South Carolina
March 18, 1978 · From off Dorchester Road, North Charleston, to a wooded clearing near Bacons Bridge Road, Summerville, South Carolina
UAP · Disc / saucer · 19 sources
20Thinly documented

Researcher who compiled the case file

Elsie Oakensen, Church Stowe car-stop and missing time
November 22, 1978 · Church Stowe, Northamptonshire
UAP · Other · 14 sources
14Thinly documented

Ufologist who catalogued and graded the case (URECAT-001223)

The Belgian UFO Wave
November 29, 1989 · Eupen and the Hautes Fagnes, Liège province, later across Wallonia
UAP · Triangle · 62 sources
59Partially documented
Air France Flight AF3532, Coulommiers
January 28, 1994 · Airspace near Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne
UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources
37Partially documented

Researcher who analysed the radar track in 2007

British Airways Flight 5061 Near Miss over the Pennines
January 6, 1995 · Over the Pennines, about 8 NM southeast of Manchester Airport, England
UAP · Triangle · 13 sources
25Thinly documented

Researcher who summarised the CAA Airmiss report

Project Condign: the MoD's secret study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region
December 4, 2000 · UK Air Defence Region (Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London)
UAP · Triangle · 30 sources
24Thinly documented

Ufology writer who documented the leak timeline and criticised the plasma theory

China's Multi-Province Shape-Changing Object
June 30, 2002 · Several Chinese provinces, including Sichuan (Chengdu), Henan, Jiangsu and Chongqing
UAP · Other · 13 sources
19Thinly documented

Compiler of the main English-language summary of the Chinese press reports

Tunguska "alien craft debris" expedition (Yuri Lavbin), Evenkia, 2004
August 2004 · Near Poligus, Podkamennaya Tunguska river, Evenkiysky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai
UAP · Unknown · 14 sources
12Thinly documented

Ufologist who documented and critiqued the case

The Kerman "radiant UFO" crash, Barez mountains, Iran (2007)
January 10, 2007 · Barez mountains (Bardsir, Lalehzar and Baft highlands), Kerman province
UAP · Unknown · 13 sources
12Thinly documented

Ufology chronicler who archived the FNA dispatch and suggested a cover-up of a drone or military crash