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7 April 1982 — 29 November 1991
Oxford Street, 1982: The A.P.R.O. Bulletin — the journal of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, one of the era's two national civilian groups — carried a Fort Wayne case in its June 1982 issue, forwarded by an APRO member: between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. on 7 April 1982, Wanda Brownlee, 18, and Roger Curry, 21, driving east on Oxford Street in southeast Fort Wayne, saw a large object hovering just above the trees and over the houses; Curry reported it larger than two station wagons and that it made no sound whatever. Dennett's compilation retells a Fort Wayne car-pacing case under the same date — a mushroom-cap-shaped disc with hazy lights that began to pace the witnesses' car — and whether the two accounts describe the same evening's report in different words, the sources reached do not settle; both are printed here as they stand.
The chronology case, 1986: NICAP's chronology for 1986 carries a county-line case: at 12:45 a.m. on 7 October 1986, two witnesses returning to Payne, Ohio, from Fort Wayne, east on Route 14, encountered an object within 300 yards; first seen near New Haven, Indiana, it appeared as three very low, stationary, square lights, one after another in a straight line.
The 1991 cases: Three Fort Wayne cases of 1991 stand in Dennett's compilation, attributed there to named investigators. On 15 April 1991, F. Crocker and R. T. Treway reported a fast-moving object "pear-shaped with the apex downward, round with a V-shaped tail to it," bright yellow, shooting out strong rays of the same colored light. At 12:45 a.m. on 7 October 1991, a driver on Route 14 near Fort Wayne reported a solid, silent object with portholes, hovering stationary just above treetop level; the compilation attributes the investigation to a professional researcher it names as Richard Freed. And at about 1:30 a.m. on 29 November 1991, a 17-year-old woman driving with her infant child reported that two bright white lights took position behind her car and pursued it for a full 25 minutes; when she pulled into a private driveway and cut her headlights, the object passed over the car and circled the house; she drove on without headlights, and a quarter-mile on, it reappeared and paced her five minutes more before darting away. These are reports as the compilation gives them; no official record of any of the three was reached.
Sources:
- The A.P.R.O. Bulletin, vol. 30, no. 6 (June 1982) — "Couple Sights UFO in Indiana": the Brownlee–Curry report of 7 April 1982, Oxford Street.
- The 1986 UFO Chronology, NICAP — the 7 October 1986 New Haven / Route 14 entry.
- Preston Dennett, "UFOs in Your Hometown," episode four (2024) — the 1982 pacing variant; the three 1991 cases as compiled.