Events 1972

 

 

1972-00-00; Canada, Quebec

 

Category: UFO Photo

 

 

A witness who wishes to remain anonymous, was fishing at the lake when he noticed this strange object flying below the clouds. He grabbed his camera and managed to get this one picture before it flew away.

 

h1Source: UFO II CD-ROM

 

 

March

 

1972-03-08; USA, Utah, Salt Lake City

 

Category: UFO Photo

 

 

Standing in a vacant lot near the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, Mr. Roy Lauritson took several photographs of this hazy object hovering directly over the Temple. The negatives have been analyzed and found to be free of manipulation.

 

h1Source: UFO II CD-ROM

 

 

April

 

1972-04-00; Apollo 16

 

Film footage from Apollo16. A strange saucer is captured on film while astronaut John W. Young, is filming out the window.

 

h1See: Apollo Space Missions - Apollo 16

 

 

May

 

1972-05-21; Brazil, Bahia

 

Category: UFO Photo

 

 

At 11:25 a.m. on May 21, 1972 in Bahia, Brazil, a large disc-shaped object was photographed.

 

h1Source: UFO II CD-ROM

 

 

July

 

1972-07-18; Morroco, Sahara Desert

 

Category: UFO Crash

 

No info at this time

 

3 Bodies

 

h1Source: http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/ufocrash.html

 

 

September

 

1972-09-24; USA, New Mexico, Las Lunas

 

Category: UFO Photo

 

 

A farmer in Las Lunas, Mexico, returning to town, spotted several small objects "fluttering" along a few dozen feet above the desert scrub. They were small, about three feet in diameter, silver in color and made a buzzing sound. Similar domed disc-shaped objects were seen and photographed in the same area about five years later.

 

h1Source: UFO II CD-ROM

 

 

November

 

1972-11-11; USA, Arizona, Mesa

 

Category: UFO Photo

 

 

On November 11, 1972, 3:35 PM, in Mesa, Arizona, Mr. Lee Elders steadied his arm by resting it on the top of his car as he aimed his Asahi Pentax 35mm SLR with a 200mm telephoto lens at the strange balloon-shaped flying object. He snapped 2 pictures and went back into the house.

 

 

Mr. Lee Elders, watching a football game at home on television, was called outside by some nine and 10 year old boys playing in the yard to see a flying saucer. He picked up his 35mm camera and walked out and snapped four pictures of this remarkable object.

 

h1Source: UFO II CD-ROM

 

 

December

 

1972-12-07; Apollo 17

 

December 7-19, 1972 - Cernan, Evans, Schmitt

 

Reported to have seen UFO's near earth, on route and around the moon.

 

Commander Eugene Cernan

In a Los Angeles Times article in 1973 Eugene Cernan said, about UFOs:

 

"...I've been asked (about UFOs) and I've said publicly I thought they (UFOs) were somebody else, some other civilization."

 

h1See: Apollo Space Missions - Apollo 17

 

h1Source: http://www.20kweb.com/weird_stuff/ufo_sightings_by_astronauts.html