Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Joseph 'Junior' Hicks
A retired junior high school teacher from Roosevelt, Utah, who collected reports of more than 400 Uinta Basin UFO sightings from the early 1950s on.
1974 CE · 40.30, -109.99 · status: account
The account
Hicks's files formed the data for biologist Frank Salisbury's 1974 book The Utah UFO Display. In 1996 he told the Deseret News that he thought over 10 percent of Basin residents had seen something, that some witnesses described beings at portholes, and that some sightings were linked to cattle mutilations. The Shermans confided in him before going public.
The sceptical view
His catalog is a collection of witness reports, most never checked against aircraft, satellites, planets or other ordinary sources.
Connections in the atlas
- 'Frequent Fliers?' (Deseret News, 1996)
- Uinta Basin UFO wave
- The Utah UFO Display (1974)
- The Sherman family's ranch reports