Back in April 1975, a string of well-documented sightings sent UFO investigators scrambling across the country to Lumberton, North Carolina. Some estimates report that as many as 80 people, including 40 police officers, observed close encounters and unidentified flying object sightings over a week-long span.
The incidents are known as the “Lumberton UFO flap,” and some reports indicate that the event inspired some of the earlier sequences in the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Written By John G. Clark Jr.