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| [On This Day]                                                         |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day                                   |
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|  June 2                                                               |
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| 1919 - At 9:00 a.m. a nine-year-old boy in Otter Tail, Minnesota saw  |
| a black object emerge from a quick descent, forming an unusual cloud. |
| Windows rattled and the house he was in creaked as the object pealed  |
| off, made 6-7 barrel rolls, and left contrails in its wake. (Source:  |
| Frontiers of Science, January 1982, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 39)         |
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| 1947 - Pilot Wenyon reported that a silver, "mayo-jar" shaped UFO     |
| crossed in front of his light plane while flying at between 10,000    |
| and 12,000 feet near Lewes, Delaware on this day. (Sources: Ted       |
| Bloecher investigation files, clipping dated July 8, 1947; Ted        |
| Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein,  |
| Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9).                                       |
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| 1947 - At 1:30 p.m. an inverted saucer-shaped disc of brilliant metal |
| was sighted by John Laube and Fred Platte in Waverly, Iowa. It flew   |
| just above the top of a 180-foot grain elevator at Waverly Sugar      |
| Manufacturing Plant. They had it in sight for five minutes before it  |
| was obscured by trees as it flew away. (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project  |
| 1947 Research Notes, Bordentown, New Jersey, April 16, 2005, citing   |
| Waterloo Courier, July 10, 1947).                                     |
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| 1949 - A silver disc-shaped object flew toward the northwest into     |
| Little Tujunga Canyon near Glendale, California at around noon. It    |
| traveled very fast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case   |
| #1409, citing Ann Druffel).                                           |
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| 1952 - In Bayview, Washington eight witnesses watched an irregular    |
| bluish-white or silver sphere hover in the sky. They viewed it        |
| through a theodolite. An intercept was attempted with a C-47 but      |
| abandoned when the transport place couldn't close with the UFO. At    |
| 5:02 p.m. Larry McWade observed a purple object for an unknown length |
| of time. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official        |
| statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs     |
| over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO          |
| Unknowns).                                                            |
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| 1952 - Fulda, West Germany. On this night Lt. John Hendry, the        |
| photo-navigator on a RB-26C reconnaissance bomber, sighted a          |
| porcelain-white object that flew very fast for an unknown length of   |
| time. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official           |
| statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs     |
| over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO          |
| Unknowns).                                                            |
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| 1955 - A huge luminous sphere hovered at ten meters over the beach at |
| Catia La Mar, Venezuela and then flew along the beach. (Source: APRO  |
| Bulletin, August 1955).                                               |
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| 1959 - Mrs. Henry X. Buller reported that she and her husband saw two |
| cigar-shaped objects fly northeast of Windom, Minnesota while driving |
| between Windom and Mountain Lake at 9:15 p.m. (Sources: Fate          |
| magazine, October 1959; Jay Rath, The M-Files, p. 50)                 |
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| 1961 - On Miyako Jima, Japan at 10:17 p.m. Lt. R. N. Monahan and      |
| Hazeltine Electric Co. technical representative D. W. Mattison,       |
| sighted a blue-white light that flew an erratic course at varying     |
| speeds, in an arc-like path for five minutes. A radar contact with    |
| visual confirmation of the UFO occurred on the same day in Tampa,     |
| Florida. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official        |
| statistics, case # 7437; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO           |
| Unknowns).                                                            |
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| 1964 - At 5:30 p.m. in Gateshead, England a teenager and nine         |
| children saw six dwarfs on Leam Lane. They were about 31 inches tall, |
| were dressed in bright green clothes, and had luminous hands. They    |
| seemed to be searching for something. Later, another child reported   |
| seeing a silver disc the size of an automobile take off from the      |
| area. (Sources: Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, December 1964, p. 12;     |
| Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 609; |
| Jerome Clark & Loren Coleman, The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving  |
| the UFO Mystery, p. 24).                                              |
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| 1964 - A fiery disc swooped down low over Hobbs, New Mexico at around |
| 4 p.m., leaving behind some sooty trace remnants and burning a child. |
| Surprisingly, the child reported that the burns did not cause any     |
| pain despite the fact that his eyes had swollen shut and he had black |
| sooty deposits on his face, neck, and shirt. (Sources: Coral E.       |
| Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from |
| Outer Space, p. 226; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century   |
| of Landings, case 608; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,   |
| p. 191).                                                              |
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| 1964 - At 10:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object with a very bright     |
| rectangular plate hovered over some new housing construction in       |
| Sunnyvale, California. It flew off rapidly toward the southeast.      |
| (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 8; Thomas M. Olsen, |
| Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 153).                     |
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| 1965 - A silent sphere with flashing lights descended onto a hillside |
| in Kuranda, Queensland, Australia at 8:00 p.m. Mr. D. Armstrong, a    |
| former airman, was called outside by his sons and saw the spherical   |
| object with flashing lights that appeared to land silently on a       |
| hillside situated on a Mr. Watson's property. (Source: Jacques        |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 649).        |
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| 1966 - A luminous cigar-shaped object stopped in mid-air, then        |
| discharged three smaller objects that flew off in different           |
| directions over Massillon, Ohio. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO       |
| Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 414).                   |
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| 1969 - In Tusnad Baile, Romania at 2:30 a.m. a silent, cone-shaped    |
| UFO grew larger in the sky, as if approaching. It then flew off       |
| toward the west-northwest toward Odorheiu, trailing a tail. (Source:  |
| Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. |
| 254).                                                                 |
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| 1969 - Near Segovia, Spain a witness travelling in a car experienced  |
| a strange effect, like a curtain coming down, at 9:30 p.m. He then    |
| heard a message to "be calm" while he watched a cube descend. He then |
| lost track of what happened during the next 30 minutes. (Source:      |
| Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #8875).                        |
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| 1970 - Lulu Luebben reported that the horses on her ranch in Apache   |
| Junction, Arizona reacted as if to the presence of a predator at      |
| around two a.m. A low flying hovering object, with its top an intense |
| blue, and the bottom a neon yellow was near the paddock. It had three |
| bar appendages on the bottom. It was also seen by three security      |
| guards at nearby Falcon Field across the highway. (Sources: APRO      |
| Bulletin, September-October 1970, p. 7; Apache (AZ) Sentinel, June    |
| 10, 1970; Skylook, August 1970; Joan Woodward, www.nicap.org, Catgory |
| 04 - Animal Effects Cases).                                           |
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| 1972 - A luminous ovoid object hovered over La Deschaux, Jura         |
| department, France at 11:30 p.m., then moved toward the south slowly  |
| at a low altitude. It directed a beam of light upwards, with 90       |
| degree rotation. The sighting lasted an hour, and there were four     |
| witnesses. (Source: Henry-JeanBesset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1972, |
| p. 26).                                                               |
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| 1975 - A series of close encounters began in central Connecticut at   |
| 8:45 p.m. On Lent Road in Hamden, Connecticut a witness sighted a     |
| disc-shaped UFO with an onboard occupant. Thirty minutes later two    |
| witnesses, one on Putnam Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut and another in |
| Wallingford, Connecticut both reported close encounter experiences    |
| involving disc-shaped UFOs and lapses of time where they couldn't     |
| remember what happened next. At 9:45 p.m. more than 40 people         |
| including police saw the same or similar disc in Hamden. (Source:     |
| CUFOS case investigation files, James Barrett field investigator).    |
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| 1991 - Many observers witnessed 15 delta-shaped objects in the sky    |
| over Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Photographs and a videotape were       |
| taken, and there was national TV coverage of the event. (Source: UFO  |
| Newsclipping Service, October 1993).                                  |
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| 1992 - At 2:15 a.m. in Pittsford, New York two charcoal black,        |
| Saturn-shaped UFOs were seen hovering at 200 feet altitude. There     |
| were four prongs on each with lights on the ends. (Source: Donald M.  |
| Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1992, p. 18).                        |
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| 2001 - At 6 p.m. a flat, black V-shaped object, with no lights or     |
| sound, was suspended in the sky over Wayne, New Jersey. It slowly     |
| rotated in place. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting    |
| Center, Seattle, webpage posted August 5, 2001).                      |
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| 2003 - At three o'clock in the morning the witness awoke in West      |
| Chester, Ohio to a beeping sound coming from a UPS (universal power   |
| supply) because the power had gone out. There was a smell of ozone    |
| and no sound at all. The witness then saw an oval-shaped craft with   |
| two strobing oval-shaped lights. The bottom of the craft was a deep   |
| blue color. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center,  |
| Seattle).                                                             |
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| 2006 - Three orange lights in a triangular formation were sighted     |
| over Aylmer, Quebec, Canada at 10:45 p.m. One by one they left        |
| formation, rapidly increasing in altitude. (Source: Geoff Dittman,    |
| 2006 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 250).                         |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 30 May 2009).            |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.                           |
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| Themes: animal reaction: horses panic, blue-white UFOs, cigar-shaped  |
|  UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, erratic maneuvers, landings, missing time an |
| d possible abduction experiences, oval or ovoid UFOs, physiological e |
| ffects: burns, short humanoids, silent UFOs, silver UFOs, violet UFO. |
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