On "UFO Hunters" the episode was "Alien Fallout" and it concerned symptoms of several people affected by a UFO sighting (the "Cash-Landrum Incident") near Dayton Texas (NE of Houston) in 1980. A truck was levitated off a road a short bit, and then later at least two witnesses reported symptoms of what sound like radiation exposure. One was a woman who had hair loss and vomiting for years; the man's symptoms resolved quickly.
The show depicted a balloon-like UFO (rather like a Lolligar on "The Universe", a fictitious creature on another planet) and up to 23 Chinook Army helicopters gave chase.
"UFO Files" featured "Britain's Roswell", a bizarre UFO sighting on Christmas night 1980, at a U,S. Air Force base in the Rendlesham Forest near the North Sea. On Dec. 25 and 26, various airmen on patrol at night encountered a smooth, glowing craft, with a glassy surface. There were large shapes a bit like hieroglyphics on it. Their walkie-talkies and flood lights went out, but came back on when the craft darted away.
According to the show, the Air Force covered up the incident, brainwashing the men in "Manchurian candidate" fashion, laying one man out a gurney and tampering with him almost the way aliens would. An airman named Larry Warren came through, and eventually documents were released under the FIOA. The British government released a report on the incident in 1983, but had wrong dates (saying the incident started on Dec 27). The Air Force claims that a lighthouse on the North Sea could have accounted for the lights, as well as a satellite that reentered on Dec. 25.
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