1970 ECLIPSES

DATE: 1970

TYPE ECLIPSE: Lunar

WITNESS: Civilian-S.America

SOURCE: Book: Confrontations

QUOTES: "When the pictures were developed, a large object, which seemed much more luminous than the moon was in evidence. Furthermore, it had remained fixed in the sky while the moon and the stars moved, leaving short trails due to the Earth's rotation during the one-minute exposures.

COMMENTS: This is not uncommon in ufo photography

DATE: 30 June 1973

TYPE ECLIPSE: Total Solar

WITNESS: French Scientists-Chad, Africa

SOURCE: Readers Digest (1981) -Spanish edition

QUOTES: "The French scientists photographed a strange object when they were flying above Chad in 1973. The group was observing the eclipse of the sun.

COMMENTS: Scientists know what they are looking at and know when they are looking at something very unusual. This is not the only scientific group that has captured ufos on film either...check out 30 June 1954.

DATE: 1970

TYPE ECLIPSE: Solar-Mexico

WITNESS: Professor Henry Courten

SOURCE: Book: In Quest for Knowledge

QUOTES:"Nevertheless people persist in spotting unknown "objects" near the sun during eclipses. As recently as 1966 and 1970, such an object was reported by this professor of Dowling College.

COMMENTS: The professor does not say that these were ufos, but he doesn't know exactly what they were, perhaps a small undetected "planetoid," he suggests..I have an idea.