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| [On This Day]                                                         |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day                                   |
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|  January 18                                                           |
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| 1950 - A slow moving disc-shaped or spherical UFO moved through the   |
| sky over Summit, New Jersey at 7 p.m. It was reddish-orange in color, |
| and gave off a steady light. (Source: Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los        |
| Angeles case files, letter dated 1952 from W. Wilkinson).             |
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| 1954 - A cigar-shaped object circled the town of Setif, Algeria at a  |
| high altitude. It left a blue smoke trail as it flew off toward Saint |
| Arnaud in the east, where it was also seen. (Sources: Richard Hall,   |
| UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A |
| History: 1954: January-May, p. 18).                                   |
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| 1956 - A 50-meter wide glowing object dove into the ocean north of    |
| Maiqueta, Venezuela on this night. A large-scale search of the area   |
| found nothing. (Source: APRO Bulletin, July 1956).                    |
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| 1957 - At 10:00 a.m. many people in Campo Quijano, Argentina          |
| witnessed a metallic ovoid UFO land on the slopes of the mountain     |
| Cerro Negro. It was viewed through binoculars, and was visible for    |
| seven hours. (Sources: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories,          |
| supplement 12, December 1972, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer           |
| database).                                                            |
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| 1960 - Two men driving in a car, Haley and Baker, at 10:55 p.m. in    |
| Lakota, North Dakota had their car's headlights dim as a UFO flew     |
| nearby. The object flew off towards a field approximately 1.5         |
| kilometers from the highway. (Sources: Grand Forks (ND) Herald,       |
| January 21, 1960; USAF Project Blue Book files counted in official    |
| statistics; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle             |
| Interference, p. 17).                                                 |
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| 1966 - Near Fetebrogh, New Jersey the lights of a Volkswagen car      |
| failed as an object with pulsating lights appeared nearby. This       |
| object then began to make a pass at the car, so the witness drove     |
| away quickly. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle  |
| Interference, case 162, citing Allen L. Erskine, Why Are They         |
| Watching Us?)                                                         |
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| 1966 - Two surveyors were working near the China Lake Naval Ordnance  |
| Depot in Kern County, California at 4:55 p.m. when a black, humming   |
| UFO came straight at them. It passed directly overhead at an          |
| estimated 150 feet. It trailed a "wake" behind it like a jet dumping  |
| fuel. They noticed that the object had some kind of field effect on   |
| their theodolite, moving its setting west by 5 level gradations.      |
| (Source: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, March 1982, p.   |
| 7).                                                                   |
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| 1967 - At midnight a flash in the sky was noted shortly before a      |
| power outage in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Fifteen minutes later a  |
| lighted reddish orange domed disc was sighted on the opposite bank of |
| the Green River from four witnesses. When they drove in get help a    |
| red glowing object buzzed their car. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler,      |
| Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p.173).                               |
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| own, Massachusetts Close Encounter with Electrical Interference- 1967 |
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| [Sketch of Williamstown, Massachusetts UFO - 1967]                    |
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| 1967 - In Shamokin, Pennsylvania a disc-shaped UFO approached at a    |
| low altitude, emitted two beams of light downward, turned, then rose  |
| suddenly into the sky and joined a second UFO. Both sped away         |
| horizontally. (Source: Mount Carmel (PA) Item, January 19, 1967).     |
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| 1968 - At 7:30 p.m. in Umbrete, Spain a brilliant, turtle-shaped      |
| domed disc flew over an olive grove. It was estimated to be 1.2       |
| meters in length, and was at an altitude of only 200 meters above the |
| trees. It was lost from sight behind some trees. (Source: Jacques     |
| Vallee, Data-Net Report, March 1971).                                 |
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| 1971 - At ten o'clock in the morning in Campo Quijano, Argentina a    |
| metallic ovoid-shaped UFO landed on the slopes of Cerro Negro. It was |
| seen by many witnesses and viewed through binoculars. A domed UFO     |
| with a beam of light was sighted in Quincy, Illinois at seven p.m.    |
| (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9230; Data-Net       |
| Report, July 1971).                                                   |
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| 1974 - A six-meter long UFO rose vertically in response to light      |
| signals flashed at it by three witnesses in Landivisiau, France. It   |
| changed shape to a sphere, then left by rising vertically into the    |
| sky. (Source: Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un     |
| Phenomene, p. 74).                                                    |
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| 1977 - A UFO witness in Bussieres-Saint-Georges, France was thrown    |
| into some bushes when three glowing balls of light flew overhead at   |
| one a.m. The witness had 75 minutes of missing time, and the incident |
| was followed by many days of persistent headaches. (Source: Lumieres  |
| dans la Nuit, issue 317).                                             |
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| 1979 - A two-meter wide orange disc-shaped UFO mades two passes over  |
| two witnesses in Metzeral, France at five p.m.. The UFO made a        |
| buzzing sound and had lights at both ends. Both witnesses' eyes hurt  |
| after the close encounter. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, July       |
| 1979).                                                                |
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| 1979 - At 11:30 later that same night in Lusiana, Italy a witness's   |
| car engine died when an ovoid UFO landed nearby. A door in the craft  |
| opened and two humanoids emerged. They reportedly had vibrating       |
| antennae-like ears or antennae on the sides of their heads. (Source:  |
| Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb and Ted  |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2274).         |
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| 1982 - In the Hessdalen Valley of Norway a luminous metallic ovoid    |
| flew over telephone lines at 7:30 p.m. in a mining area. Magnetic     |
| anomalies were recorded. (Source: International UFO Reporter,         |
| November-December 1983, p. 7).                                        |
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| 1983 - Two hundred people, including school students, a boys soccer   |
| team, their coaches, and two detectives witnessed two triangles of    |
| light fly over Cardiff, Wales at dusk. (Source: Philip Imbrogno,      |
| Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 26).                                      |
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| 1985 - On this evening around 8 p.m. a green glowing disc crossed a   |
| road in Waldeslust, France at a low altitude. There was a plasma glow |
| surrounding the object. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 306).   |
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| 1989 - The family of a retired USAF non-commisioned officer was       |
| awakened by their dog at 3:57 a.m. They saw 6-8 objects over their    |
| own land and some nearby property for the next hour and               |
| three-quarters. The objects would vanish at times when jet aircraft   |
| flew over. The event continued and the lights were still present when |
| the family left for work andschool that morning. (Source: MUFON field |
| investigation files, case 890603).                                    |
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| 1991 - At 3:30 p.m. 15 people on a bus in Czestochowa, Poland saw a   |
| spherical UFO ascend between two buildings. One witness saw humanoids |
| on the balcony of an apartment building. Later that night in Krakow,  |
| Poland at 10:45 p.m. another spherical UFO with an appendage was      |
| sighted over the city. A possible UFO landing site with burnt traces  |
| was found in Batovice. In Murowana, Poland a 30-meter long cigar      |
| shaped UFO at 10:50 p.m. shooting out a stream of glowing gas. At     |
| eleven o'clock in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland a yellowish-red colored  |
| cigar shot off extremely fast while it offloaded smaller objects that |
| fly away in different directions. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit,     |
| issues 309 & 326).                                                    |
| 1992 - Several witnesses on a bus in Col de Vence, France saw an      |
| intensely red, Saturn-shaped object skim over the nearby              |
| mountaintops. The ring around the UFO was sharply defined. (Source:   |
| Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 312).                                    |
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| 2000 - A shiny spherical object was seen at 6000 feet altitude over   |
| the Puerto Belgrano Navy Base, Argentina at 12:45 p.m. A powerful     |
| whirlwind developed at ground level directly below the object.        |
| Weather station reported that the atmospheric conditions at the time  |
| were not conducive to the natural formation of such winds. (Source:   |
| UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 17).                                 |
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| 2000 - A oval-shaped UFO was sighted in Dayton, Nevada at 6:15 p.m. A |
| bright light shone straight out of object, and it was surrounded by   |
| smoke or a fog-like cloud. A similar phenomenon was reported at the   |
| same time in Crescent City, California. The witness saw a bright      |
| light beam that looked like the spotlight from a police helicopter.   |
| He noticed a blue trail of smoke from the object. (Source: Peter      |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle).                   |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 December 2009).       |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT database.                                    |
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| Themes: cigar-shaped UFOs, domed discs, car buzzin                    |
| gs, cigar-shaped UFOs, fog or mist, humming sound, missing time, mult |
| i-year reports from France, ovoid UFOs, Saturn-shaped UFOs, spherical |
|  UFOs, vehicle EM interference effects, witnesses traveling in a bus. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson                                                   |
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