Rural Mysteries of the North Fork Polygon

Unidentified UFO-like Objects

This page presents for your consideration second and third-hand accounts of Unidentified UFO-like Objects (UULiOs) that have been reportedly sighted in the "North Fork Polygon" area from 1896 to present

Eleventy-one Years of Polygon UULiOs

The Winchester UULiO of Meadow Vista

New!   A bluish-white UFO-like Object has been spotted sitting in the middle of the Winchester Country Club between Meadow Vista and Christian Valley. The private estate's Web site logo is "Above the fog, below the snow, out of this world!" And their billboard logo is "Got Space?" The squat glowing disk is nestled in a grove of pine trees on top of a hill and can only be seen from the air or with Google Maps. We have not yet attempted to approach the object from the ground. Do you think we should?

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The Amazing Auburn Airship of 1896

The parallel with the 'flying saucer flap' of the late 1940s and early 1950s is remarkable...

"On that first night it was seen by dozens of people. Most saw only a light. Others made out a dark cigar shape behind the light ... on November 22, 1896, the 'mystery airship' came back... During the next few days the airship was sighted all over California. The peak night was November 25, when it appeared in eleven places around the state, including Auburn, Chico, Fresno, Hayward, Napa, Oakland, Pasadena, Petaluma, Sacramento, San Lorenzo and Visalia ... Several persons now stepped forward to tell of earlier sightings. One was a fruit rancher near Bowman, Placer County, who said he and members of his family had watched an airship fly by at 100 miles an hour in late October, 1896 ... " More...

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The Innumerable Folsom Lake UFOrange Sightings of 1970

New!   So many orange UFOs were seen zooming around Folsom Lake near the lower American River Canyon in the early 1970s that "It would require a book to expound on all of the sightings." Here are some random quotes from eyewitnesses presented out of context:

"... It would require a book to expound on all of the sightings ... make sure you stay off the road if you're gonna watch ... bright orange lights and most of the time they were flying and hovering near or over Folsom Lake ... we witnessed a sudden bright beam of light suddenly shooting straight down to the water ... the beam of light even passed over our car and lit up the inside ... seemed to be quite high ... there were smaller orange lights that seemed to be originating from the larger light, maybe six or seven of them ... stopped near our car and watched with us for a few moments ... " More...

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The Clipper Gap UFO of December 1963

We were forwarded a true story of two local highway patrol officers who reported seeing an unidentified flying object in December 1963 as they were passing through the Clipper Gap/Lake Theodore Vortex. This huge object gave off a white glow which pulsated light to dark, approximately once per second. The following is the text of the actual Auburn Journal news report:

AUBURN, Placer Co. - An unidentified flying object, looking like the moon and giving off a pulsating white glow, was spotted west of here and was sighted as far away as San Francisco.

Highway Patrolmen R. L. Pfeiffer and R. L. Gudge made the first report at 4:09 A.M. yesterday, stating they were near Clipper Gap, traveling toward Auburn, when they observed the object for approximately 90 seconds.

Officers in Sacramento and residents of the bay area also said they saw it at the same time.

During the sighting, officers in the two counties kept radio contact. Pfeiffer and Gudge described the UFO as about the size of the moon in the first quarter, with the crescent giving off a white glow and pulsating white to dark approximately once per second.

The object was about in line with Sacramento, approximately 20 to 25 degrees above the horizon and was moving from left to right. It. was traveling slowly, according to the officers, who estimated it covered about 10 degrees in the 90 seconds and left a faint smoke or vapor trail.

Here's a sampling of other mysterious events that also occurred, by "coincidence", in December 1963:

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UFO-like Sighting in Weimar/Eden Valley

Contributing photo-journalist Daved was "tending" his Weimar artichoke garden when he noticed that a lunar comand module had recently "crash-landed" in his neighbor's yard. Here's the actual email sent to Rural Mystery investigators:

"NOV 11, 2005 - I was down in my garden today, when I heard some noises below me - what I saw made me run and get my camera! A lunar module-like UFO had appeared near my neighbor's pond! There was a news crew there interveiwing the alien! Then there was about 2 hours of missing time and it hurt to sit down! What a day!" --- Dtr

By the next morning, the Unidentified UFO-like Object (UULiO) was gone.

This serves as an important reminder to ALWAYS tuck your shirt in as soon as you see a UULiO. This is because, when aliens finish their examination, they almost always forget to tuck your shirt back in. Then later, when you're experiencing "missing time syndrome", you can check your shirt and know if anything happened.

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Top Twenty California UFO Encounters - Includes the CISCO GROVE ROBOT and the 1896 AIRSHIP MYSTERY

True Strange UFO News from Zenophilia.com/blog

More California UULiOs

More information on accounts of Placer County alien robot attacks:

• Cisco Grove, 1964
• UFOinfo.com (3rd story has artist rendition of Cisco Grove humanoids)
• Truckee, June, 2005
• Lake Tahoe Robots, October 2006
• Foresthill Bridge, December 2004
• The latest robot news from digg.com
• Great Robot Music! - We often listen to the local band, Be Brave Bold Robot, before searching for robots.
• Also, download the awesome song "God Monkey Robot" by The Apparations'.

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Rural Mysteries of the North Fork Polygon