Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about the Big Tahuna Canyon
alien abduction. That's correct, the big Tahuna
Canyon alien abduction. Now in 1953 in Big Tahuna
Canyon, CA, two women reported an alleged alien abduction
experience. Considered one of the earliest
modern day alien abduction accounts where they claim to be
taken aboard a UFO by slender mask like face entities after
witnessing bright lights near their cabin in a remote area of
the Canyon. This incident is often referred
to as the Tahuna Canyon contacts.
Now there are some key details to keep in mind here before we
get in a couple of these articles.
This happened at a remote cabin in the Tahuna Canyon near Los
Angeles. Now the date was March 1953.
Two women, they were the witnesses, they reported being
awakened by a bright light, experiencing a sense of time
loss and being taken aboard a UFO by beings with the elongated
mask like faces. As far as the investigation
goes, the case was investigated by UFO researcher Anne Ruffle.
We documented the accounts in her book that the Huna Canyon
contacts. The first article that we're
looking at comes to us from laced.com.
That's laist.com written by Robert Garoba.
The day of this is October 27th, 2024.
It's also got some decent pictures and some illustrations
here. The title of the article says
this little known alien abduction case happened in L as
backyard. Your guide to the UFO hotbed in
Big Tahuna Canyon. In March of 1953, two women
asleep in a remote area of the Big Tahuna Canyon were awoken by
a bright light flooding around their cabin.
Inexplicable time loss, An alien abduction account and years of
searching for answers were to follow.
This was the first and a string of UFO accounts that one local
researcher called the Tahunya County Contacts, making this
stark landscape just about 30 minutes north of downtown LA
what she called a hotbed of UFO encounters.
Investigators in the field point to the incident as one of the
earliest modern abduction experiences.
But even in the town that gave us close Encounters of the Third
Kind, it's not a story many Angelenos have heard.
At an isolated cabin in the big Tahuna Canyon, two women were
terrified by the experience they had beginning around 2:00 AM on
March 22nd, 1953. According to the women, bright
lights and a deathly stillness were followed by an alien
abduction in which one of them said they were taken on board a
UFO by slender entities with elongated mask like face.
I got a illustration here of these things.
Just very flat face, couple slips for the eyes.
It says figure one. While a tape of Sarah's hypnotic
regression was played, she seemed to go into a light trance
and stated afterward that this had helped her produce this and
several of the following drawings which have been
retraced to facilitate reproduction.
This elongated faces one of the entities who Sarah says entered
her cabin on March 22nd, 1953 and took her and Jan to their
ship. Quote UN quote, very very long,
almost football shaped face. Very strange.
Both woman's accounts and several others are described in
detail in the book The Tahuna Canyon Contacts by and Ruffle
and D Scott Rogo to protect them from backlash.
The pseudonyms Sarah Shaw and Jan Whitley were used in the
book, first published in 1980. Shaw and Whitley would undergo
regressive hypnosis sessions in order to try and pull
recollections of the incident from their memory.
Shaw had her hypnosis session led by Doctor Martin Reiser, who
founded the LAP DS Behavioral Sciences Services in 1968.
In a second hypnosis session with a different doctor by the
name of Bill McCall, Shaw recalled her abduction
experience in 1953. Shaw said.
I'm starting to float. I'm starting to float toward it.
McCall What do you mean you're starting to float toward it?
Shaw Well, they're walking with me, but my feet aren't on the
ground. McCall They were on the ground
when you came out of the house. How come they're not on the
ground now? Shaw Well, there's a beam of
light. It's like, it's almost like a
McCall now you see a beam of light.
Shaw, I'm on the beam of light. Wow.
That's an excerpt from one of the books.
Very weird. We've heard about this before.
People are being abducted by these things and they just seem
to float across the ground as they're transported.
Shaw, who would go on to recall being examined aboard the space
shut by the entities with some type of scanner.
She said they even imparted to her a cure for cancer.
These accounts and several others in the Tahuna Canyon are
area were investigated extensively by Druffel, who died
in 2020. In fact, Shaw's encounter
predates one of the earliest and most studied modern day alien
editor stories, that of Barney and Betty Hill in the White
Mountains of New Hampshire in 1961.
It's absolutely a very early case in the pantheon of alien
abductions, said Bob Kristofferson, the New York
based host of our Strange Skies podcast, where he studies UFO
encounters throughout history. It's not a case that gets talked
about a lot, but I think it's one of the more important cases
that should be looked at more, Kristofferson said.
So why haven't more people, even in LA, heard about this
abduction account in her own backyard?
Good question. And it's got some more
illustrations here. It shows this craft almost like
a inverted flying saucer with kind of an egg shaped Dome over
it. Says the same craft sketched by
Sarah after her October 22nd, 1978 session.
Similar to the preceding drawing made in 1976.
So it looks like these gals were undergoing this regression and
hypnotherapy for 2025, thirty years after this thing happened.
It's amazing, amazing story. We have another article here.
We'll take a look at this real quick and kind of dive into this
little a little bit deeper. This is from
crescentvalleyweekly.com Looks like it's written by CV.
It's a CV Weekly, November 12th, 2020 Treasures of the Valley by
Mike Law by Mike Lawler Many years ago I wrote about one of
the earliest modern alien abduction stories recorded.
It took place in 1953 and Big Tahuna Canyon.
I got the story from a book on the subject, The Tahuna Canyon
Contacts by and Ruffal and D Scott Rogo.
The majority of the book deals with the mysterious encounters
with aliens by several local women from 1953 through the
1970s, but it was a But it has a wonderful chapter on the many
UFO sightings locally, all gleaned from local newspapers,
which I'll recount here. The earliest of these UFO
sightings took place in May of 19492.
Glendale women watching a silver disc cross the sky at a high
rate of speed over downtown Glendale.
It seemed to tilt and then suddenly disappear.
Later that month, in a broad day in broad daylight in the same
area over the down over downtown Glendale, 18 different people
all reported a disturbing sight. They all saw a semi transparent
Oval shaped object hovering over the city.
It sat motionless in the sky for several minutes emitting a faint
noise like a motor. Then, just like the silver disk
observed earlier, it seemed to tilt and then disappear.
A year later, in March 1950, many La Crescenta residents
reported watching a huge object slowly transit the morning sky.
It was described as a gondola shaped object attached to a
light colored triangular hall. That same day, in late
afternoon, several Burbank residents watched a revolving
wheel in the sky above Burbank Airport, a wheel with shiny
spokes. The wheel flew quickly southwest
and disappeared. That's strange.
A wheel type UFO. It's come back in 1950.
In 1952, several people in Eagle Rock watched a bizarre object
slowly crossed the sky to the north over San Gabriel
Mountains. It was described as a brilliant
gold ball streaming a red tail behind it.
It was visible for several minutes.
On an overcast day in January 1954, a Glendale woman
reportedly watched 2 brilliant bluish white objects directly
above her, spinning around each other.
The two objects appeared to have sawtooth edges and were hovering
for about 15 minutes just below the cloud cover.
In 1955, thousands of people in the Crescenta Valley watched
three round silver objects hovering in the sky.
Their positions seem to constantly shift in retaliation
to each other. They were visible for hours.
High altitude weather balloons were suspected, but an
investigation showed that none were in the area. 2 sightings
were reported in the In the summer of 1957, two Glendale men
watched through binoculars as a strange object with a body and
tail hovered over the Crescenta Valley for 5 minutes, suddenly
accelerated and disappeared over the San Gabriels.
A month later someone in Glendale watched 2 jets over the
CV area being followed by an orb with a dark center.
Orbs club back in 1955 for seeing these orbs. 10 years
passed before another well publicized sighting was reported
and it was a good one. One evening in 1967, three
friends in their 20s watched from the San Fernando Valley as
a large disc shaped object flew near them several 100 feet off
the ground. They followed it in their car,
chasing it up the Sunland Tahuna area and into Big Tahuna Canyon.
But while heading up the Canyon Rd. their car broke down to of
the group decided to follow 1 foot, while the third had seen
enough and chose to walk back. The pair, a young man and woman,
followed the object up an isolated part of the dark
Canyon. There the disc halted and
hovered near the ground. The pair cautiously approached
within a few 100 feet. Suddenly, a ball of fire rose up
from the nearby hill, and what the two described as an
electrical beam shot out from the ball up into the hills.
After that shocking event, the saucer continued its way up the
Canyon. The pair tried to follow it, but
eventually lost it. The next morning, they walked
back out of the Canyon and reported their experience.
And then he finishes up. He says that there's also been
reports in the 70s that talked about several Phantom helicopter
encounters. We heard lots of really wild
stuff going on there. Let's take a look at another
article about this a very UFO heavy area.
California does have its share of UFOs and abductions and close
encounters. That's that's a fact.
I found this article over here at yourcentralvalley.com
yourcentralvalley.com written by Manny Gomez dated September
26th, 2022. Title says was a Kerman police
officer burned by a UFO in 1978. The article starts off and says
our universe is a big place and all that space leads many to ask
if we are alone in the universe. Sightings of unidentified flying
objects have been reported for decades around the world.
While many have been disproven, just as many have not.
I sense a little bit of open mindedness here.
One of the most famous alleged incidents comes from Roswell, NM
where allegedly a UFO crash landed only to be described as a
crashed weather balloon by military officials.
Of course, we know that that description have changed back
and forth many times according to the official narrative since
then. But did you know that right here
in the Central Valley there was a very strange incident that
could have caught that could have been caused by a UFO?
In a book titled The UFO Dossier by Kevin Randall and through
various media outlets comes a story of a Kerman police officer
who allegedly not only witnessed some sort of phenomena but also
was mysteriously burned. According to the story, the
incident took place on May 13th, 1978 at approximately 3:32 AM
and 33 year old Manuel Emperano, an officer with the Kerman
Police Department, was driving southbound on Del Norte Ave.
when he saw what he thought was a large fire about a half a mile
out. When he arrived, he claimed to
have seen a circular type of thing similar to a round
fireball or a setting sun about 100 to 150 feet off the ground.
He estimated that it was about 25 by 50 feet in size.
He described the object as a fireball and that the light was
not blinding and that it did not have any distinguishable any
distinguishable features prior to it moving away.
A brilliant bluish light beam, described as similar to a flash
from a camera, came from the object at an angle, apparently
toward the police car. He only decided to report the
incident after a newspaper deliverer approached him soon
after and volunteered the information that he had also
seen a reddish ball in the sky. The North Central Fire
Department also received a call of a fire in the area of Trinity
Road and Shaw Ave. but no fire was ever found.
This was in the same direction where Amperano had seen the
object. In an investigation later by
then Kerman Police Chief James Van Cleef, a total of 14
witnesses claimed to have seen the object.
Well, you have a mass sighting then.
Back at the police station, Amperano, he contacted various
agencies like the Air National Guard, the Weather Bureau, and a
radar station in at the Fresno Air Terminal, checking on any
activity in the area. Two officers at the station
noticed that his face and neck appeared burned.
He later also realized that his chest was also burned.
Upon going to the doctor that afternoon, his condition was
noted as burns from an unknown source.
Later, a private doctor said he appeared to be suffering from a
high intensity fluorescent pipe light or a gamma ray.
Wow. The story allegedly only got out
because someone leaked it from the hospital where he was
treated. This caused a media blitz from
all around wanting to scoop on what happened that early
morning. Whether it was a UFO or
something else, no one. One thing Officer Amperno was
sure about is that he had seen and experienced something.
What exactly that was, we'll probably never know.
It could be that UFOs have already visited the Central
Valley, depending on what you believe.
Well, it's not just what you believe, it's what you.
It's what you see and what lots of people have seen.
That's really fascinating. Let's take a look at another one
here. We seem to have recently had a
spate of UFO sightings in California.
I found this article on New York post.com written by Danny
Kennedy, dated dated October 17th, 2024.
Title Ring camera users claim to have spotted filmed UF OS
zigzagging across California skies.
A flurry of California Ring camera users claim to have
spotted and filmed UF OS zigzagging across the nighttime
sky. Users shared reports of
sightings late Friday across Palmdale and Lancaster, north of
Los Angeles and close to AUS Air Force Base, with one video
showing mysterious bright lights making sudden jerky movements.
Tell you something, Our planes don't do that.
I don't care if it is AUS Air Force plane, it still has to
conform to the laws of physics. Multiple individuals have shared
the accounts describing a bright light hovercraft like aircraft
and unusual flight patterns. The community sites At the
community site 611 LSD and LACOFD calls noted on X.
Then it goes on down here. It says the group shared a
series of messages local shared on the Ring app.
Me and my daughter were hanging out in the backyard when we both
thought we saw a shooting star falling fast.
It stopped very abruptly and zigzag going north.
One person wrote, checking to see if anyone else saw it.
Or we're both going crazy. No, definitely not going crazy.
People are seeing things all over the place, it says, another
one wrote. Look at this weird UFO I just
filmed in my backyard, Another person wrote an X alongside an
Erie video Friday night showing a lighted object flip flopping
in the night sky. You guys won't believe what I
just saw under the ring, app member posted.
I saw a UFO. I was walking my dog in my
backyard and saw a bright light in the sky.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw it.
I think this is great. People are getting together and
they're reporting these sayings. Just amazing.
Here's one that says I was intrigued by the 1st neighbor
who posted that he saw a UFO from his yard.
So my mom and I went out to ours to see if we'd see anything.
They were too far to be too confident.
Say they were flying sauces but did anyone else see multiple?
We counted 6 after being out there for about 10 minutes.
More of these orbs being spotted.
Another person said they spotted them after going outside and
trigged by other reports. They were too far for me to
confidently say they were flying sauces.
But did anyone else see multiple?
We counted 6 after being out there for about 10 minutes.
Palmdale is near Edwards Air Force Base, which is the second
largest base in the US Air Force.
It's long been Center for Advanced Aerospace testing and
numerous UFO sightings. Seems like they're kind of
throwing a little shade on what these people have seen here.
Some reports claim that local law enforcement was
investigating. However, the Lancaster and
Palmdale sheriff's departments denied that, telling the Post
that UFOs would come under the would come under the purview of
the Department of Defense, which is not responded to the reported
sightings. Yeah, well, that you can be
assured of. Really wild stuff.
Take a look at one more here before before we wrap this up.
This last article is from patch.com.
It says 15 UFO sightings in California.
The mothership for UFO sightings 2024 kind of gives us a little
bit of a headline view of some of these sayings.
This is written by Ashley Ludwig.
It says Patch staff July 1st, 2024.
There have been more than 138 sightings reported so far this
year in the Golden State and Patch has gathered the most
intriguing ones. California, whether you call
them UFOs or Uap's. Tuesday is World UFO Day and
California is the mothership for UFO sightings telling more than
any other state in the that is a fact.
In fact, I think California ranks is the number one
population base for listeners to this program.
So I think people are seeing them and they're interested kind
of cool. The National UFO Reporting
Center has been cataloguing UFO sightings since 1974 and since
then 16,399 sightings reported in the Golden State.
With more data points than ever. They are helping to debunk or
admit sightings are unexplained and unexplainable for now.
Very nice. Since January, there have been
138 registered sightings of UFOs across the Golden State.
The reporting incidents at 52 have been explained by the
center as planes, rocket launches, Starlink satellites or
even space junk. Still, that leaves 86 California
sightings that remain question marks, according to the center.
You know they do such good work over there that.
The Patch identified 15 UFO sightings.
All included linked pictures from California towns where
residents are most likely to spot a UFO if they keep their
eyes peeled and their minds open #1 Los Angeles in 2024 / 25
people have reported sightings to strange phenomena over the
land and coast. In mid June 1 witness saw a
shiny, bright and round disc that flew really fast.
There was a ore or haze around the object that said another
object came from nearby Malibu when a bright white light was
seen moving incredibly fast to the northeast.
Faster than anything I could imagine, the commenter shared.
One year ago, readers say they saw reddish lights flying in
formation over the Los Angeles night skies.
Lots of orb sightings around LA. That is a fact #2 Santa Maria.
This year only 5 UFO sightings were shared by Santa Maria area
residents, but one is among the more intriguing.
A resident posted a midday sighting on June 20th of a cigar
shaped UFO that seemed to change color from clear to rainbow and
silver. They recorded the incident on an
iPhone. That's really neat, this color
changing phenomena that happens #3 Sacramento, the capital of
California, has seen more than its share of UFO sightings this
year. This year another 5 sightings
have been shared. His residents report strange
lights, a triangle shape and a square shaped object, and even
glowing green hovering orbs. In February, a Sacramento
resident shared the story of objects with a green glowing
aura floating above an apartment building. 2 teenage kids were
walking to pick up a package when they saw specks of green
lights above the apartment complex.
Then these two square objects appeared out of nowhere, just
hovering. Their mother said they had a
green glow aura with a green dot in the middle of them.
Very, very strange. It's almost like these things.
Sometimes the light just sparkles before they show up.
Maybe it's some sort of? Situation where they're coming
into our dimension, I just don't know #4 Santa Barbara, the dark
skies, the dark sky. Cities of Santa Barbara and
Montecito are ideal for stargazing on a clear night,
making it irregular for Starling.
Satellite reports. Still witnesses saw other
unexplained sightings. In mid March, two residents
noticed a bright round object in the sky, too big to be a star,
filled with flashing white lights that were stationary in
the dark sky. The residents went to their
front yard to continue to watch it.
It was silent and cube or rectangular shaped is seen
through binoculars. After about 5 minutes, it slowly
moved away from us and into the ocean.
A friend and her husband, who lives several miles from us, had
witnessed the same thing in the sky about a week earlier.
It says #5 Indio. The dark skies of the California
desert, plus the proximity to a military installation at 29
Palms, the Coachella Valley towns have always been a prime
UFO sighting location. In April, a trio of NASA
scientists claimed they were on a stargazing trip on an
artificial observation hill when they spy an anomaly in the night
sky. Those are your scientists,
right? NASA scientists.
And they're saying it, they're calling it an anomaly.
I guess you and I would call that a UFO.
What they thought were weather balloons flew at high speed
toward the moon, then flashed with light.
Yeah, sounds like a weather balloon.
Those lights were in a perfect V shape or triangle, he wrote.
The scientists discussed how it was not possible they were
drones. And a few minutes later, they
saw a repeat performance, objects flying together, weaving
closer than, for their part, almost playful.
Only a handful of people, myself being one of them, were still
looking and saw this says yeah, yeah, I'm not going to call that
a weather balloon. This year, far more Coachella
Valley cities have chimed in with UFO reports.
Palm Desert, Whitewater and Palm Springs residents and visitors
have shared regular sightings. In March and Palm Springs, a
resident reported a huge dark V shaped craft moving across the
western sky over the Santa Cena Mountains.
Captured both on photo and video.
He said it appeared to occupy about 2/3 of the height of the
Orion constellation. That thing must have been huge.
the V shape of the dark structure was covered in a star
camouflage. He said it was completely
silent, with only the normal ambient noises of wind and
traffic nearby. I realized how easy it would be
to miss such a sight unless 1 looked directly at it, as I
fortuitously did. The experience was surreal, yet
unmistakably real. Awe inspiring.
Awe inspiring and unlike anything I've ever seen.
Yeah, really. Leave a leave an impression on
you, wouldn't it? At #7 San Diego.
Numerous reports of UFO sightings have come in from San
Diego cities from Chula Vista to Escondido thus far.
In 2024, one L Cajun River resident saw an object that
changed colors moved erratically the night of a June Starlight
launch. Not part of the Starlight, not
part of the Starlight satellites.
They witness colorful lights flashing as the object moved
erratically in small circles, wandering back and forth with
instant stopping. Yeah, everything's not a
Starlight satellite. San Jose, number 82.
Unexplained San Jose UFO incidents have us scratching our
heads this year and late June, shortly before sunrise, one
resident reported seeing a straight a stationary bright
light. I thought it could be a star or
a planet until I noticed it changing and moving, they said.
Days later, another setting occurred.
A resident was watching what they thought may have been a
star, but it disappeared. It was where coach had their
brightest star in Ursomina was supposed to be, but then it
vanished. They posted the disappearing *
hoping for some explanation. Yeah, disappearing star.
Wow. I don't think so #9 Redondo
Beach? What?
Crashed into the sea? A photographer taking pictures
of a sailboat race in March captured unusual footage of a
strange 8 shaped object falling from the sky.
He didn't notice the falling object until he reviewed the
photos later. It had to be fast to be captured
at one 500th of a second. He said.
The image shows a dotted line of something falling from the sky
across to the horizon at a rapid rate of speed.
There was no indication of the falling object or anything else
crashing into the ocean that day.
Could be one of these US OS possibly, you know, going back
and forth between the sky and and below the the water #10
solving. What is this that question do a
solving resident to post their sighting on the center's
database in March. While looking skyward, they saw
three bright colored lines appear in the sky.
There was a colorful aura around the object and it made a sound
as it moved past. They posted a picture of what
they could not explain, hoping for answers.
What do you think? I think it's a UFO.
What else can you say #11 Costa Mesa all wasn't quiet on New
Year's Day. On the first day in January and
Orange County residents saw lights in the sky appearing at
about 7000 feet up in the sky. They were bright and right in
front of everyone else. The witness wrote this was not
the first time he had seen the lights.
This instance was bright with the OR around the object and
changing colors. I've seen this many times and
have footage. He said.
This one was cool though. Well, they're all cool, aren't
they #12 Pleasanton. Could a recent sighting be due
to Livermore Lab? A resident and Pleasant posed
that question in late June when they shared a sighting with the
center. They said a stationary object
appeared as a large circle in the sky.
It was several 1000 feet up above a cloud layer, they said.
I read through social media and saw someone else saw a similar
object. Also note the Livermore National
Laboratory is in a neighboring city.
I view things with a skeptical mind.
However, I have never seen anything like this object to
date. Truly strange.
Yeah, well it only takes one to change your mind doesn't it #13
Bakersfield cycling orbs were spotted near Bakersfield this
March. One person described a pair of
red orbs that seemed to vanish into thin air.
They were followed by single red orbs that appeared and moved, he
wrote. The witness watched the orb as
it traveled S at a slow rate of speed.
The behavior of the object was strange and they were low in the
sky, he said, and admitted watching the section of the sky
until the red lights have vanished.
Red orbs, We've talked about those many times #14 Corona.
This year, more than 5 UFO sightings have occurred in
Corona. According to the database, three
people witnessed an object floating in the sky in March.
They saw two shiny silver orbs move toward each other before
combining into one object. This whole thing of these things
circling around each other, doing a little maneuvers and
then combining and coming apart, very, very weird.
They maintained that information for less than a minute and
separated. The witness said it was a
glinting in the sunlight and did not seem like a weather balloon.
But was it? Another UFO spotter in early
June spied a bright light in the sky that captured my attention
but disappeared instantly. Could this be a similar sighting
to as the disappearing planet spied in San Jose?
They asked very weird stuff finding #15 Pacifica.
In mid June, just after two AMA, young couple at the Rockaway
beach noticed 3 lights forming a triangle in the early morning
sky. They flew over the ocean from
right N to left S, blinking for about 20 seconds.
The phenomenon lasted about half an hour and was a silent quote,
graceful movement through the sky and quote.
Or perhaps it was a plane. Doesn't sound like a plane to
me. If you're uncertain whether
you've seen a UFO, the National UFO Database offers some
suggestions that may explain your questions.
Why? Otherwise, share your
experience. After all, the truth is out
there. Yeah, Great little article
overall that goes through and highlights a lot of the recent
sights in California. It just goes to show that
whether it was alien encounters and abductions back in the 40s
and 50s to the present sightings today, California, it's a rich,
rich territory for UFO sightings and encounters.
Until next time, this is UFO morning over and out.