Case · UFO Afrinews No 14, July 1996
Officer Manuel Amparano burned 'red as a lobster', Kerman, California
1978 ยท Kerman, California, Delnorte Avenue, near the railway tracks; Fresno, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
From Hynek's International UFO Reporter of September 1978. On patrol at 03:32, Amparano noticed a reddish glow ahead, assumed a fire, and pulled off the road beside the railway tracks. What he found was a crimson horizontal oval, twice as wide as it was tall, hanging motionless at roughly 45 degrees, bright yet easy on the eyes. After about four minutes it threw out a blue beam and climbed straight up out of sight within seconds. Driving back with his body tingling, he was told by five colleagues that he was burnt scarlet. Fresno Community Hospital treated third-degree burns on arms, face and neck that had gone through his long-sleeved uniform; white fever blisters appeared next day, a burning under the skin persisted a week, and his blood pressure was high. Two doctors suspected microwave radiation.
What Hind made of it
Hind knows other sunburn cases after close encounters, none lasting or fatal, and calls for an accredited scientist to prove the effect is not all in the mind.
Explanation offered
Microwave radiation (doctors' view of the burns); witness first thought it was a fire
In their words
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he learned that he was sun-burnt 'red as a lobster'.
Cross references
- International UFO Reporter Sept 1978 Vol 3 No 9
- UFO AFRINEWS No 13 pp 9/10
- 1965 Vallee case (14-09-1)