AudioBlog- A 1972 UFO and Creature Encounter Report From Florida

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

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Original Blog by Charles Lear: https://podcastufo.com/a-1972-ufo-and-creature-report-from-florida/ In 1972, Norman R. Chastain, a Jacksonville electrician, claimed he had a chilling face-to-face encounter with a UFO and a strange “devil-looking creature” while night fishing near Blount Island in Florida. For two years, he kept silent—afraid of ridicule—until a lecture by Stanton Friedman inspired him to come forward. Chastain described a glowing, half-sphere UFO with flashing orange and blue lights, and later, a bizarre humanoid figure in a silver-grey suit with pointed ears, glassy eyes, and a strange device that paralyzed him with a blinding flash. His story grew stranger when, days later, he discovered mushroom-like “flesh-colored heads” growing in his backyard, which he thought were connected to the UFO. The case was covered in the Jacksonville Journal in 1974 and later revisited in UFO Report magazine by B. Ann Slate, who called it one of the most unique UFO cases ever reported. Was Chastain’s story a mix of reality, hallucination, and misunderstood natural phenomena—or a genuine extraterrestrial encounter? Join us as we break down one of Florida’s strangest UFO encounters, its connection to the Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins, and the curious aftermath that left investigators puzzled to this day.
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0:00.0	A 1972 UFON UFO and Creature Encounter Report from Florida by Charles Lear.
0:18.5	In the January 28, 1974, Jacksonville Journal out of Florida, there is an article by Lloyd Brown headlined,
0:25.9	Did a creature from UFO land here, that tells the story of a Jacksonville man's report of a UFO and creature encounter in 1972.
0:35.1	He is said to have delayed in reporting it because he was afraid of being called,
0:39.4	in his words, some kind of nut. According to the account, he decided to come forward after attending
0:45.3	a lecture at Florida Junior College by the director of the UFO Research Institute, Stanton Friedman.
0:51.7	According to Brown, two years ago, 62-year-old Norman R. Chastain,
0:56.7	of 2507 Kershaw Drive,
0:59.5	found a plant growing in his yard
1:01.2	that looked like a devil's head
1:03.3	and brought it to the paper
1:04.6	and a picture of him holding it
1:06.4	was published in the journal.
1:08.4	That picture is presented in the 1974 article as well.
1:12.2	Chastain has said to have not mentioned an incident prior to finding the plant and that he decided
1:17.6	to talk about it now. According to the account, late at night on January 26, 1972,
1:24.5	Chastain, an electrician for the Seaboard Coast Railroad Company, was fishing near the eastern
1:29.8	tip of Blount Island in the St. John's River. At around 3 a.m., he noticed, in his words,
1:36.5	several orange and blue lights from over the St. John's Bluff monument. He thought they were
1:41.6	from a police or mosquito control helicopter, but he heard no sound.
1:46.6	He said, after a few minutes, the lights came directly towards my boat, and I could make out the
1:52.2	outline of something like half of a ball with lights flashing and changing colors about every
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