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| [On This Day]                                                         |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day                                   |
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|  April 9                                                              |
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| 1949 - At 4:30 p.m. an orange colored UFO was seen over some          |
| telephone lines by J. Bova at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base in     |
| Arizona. The object suddenly moved from right to left, then moved     |
| again passing behind the telephone pole. It then returned to its      |
| original position, finally engaging in some erratic movements and     |
| ascending into a cloud. It changed color as it did so, from orange to |
| white. (Sources: Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, citing  |
| letter from J. Bova in 1952; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume   |
| I), p. 155).                                                          |
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| 1950 - A bright red pencil-shaped UFO, about six meters in length,    |
| moved through the sky over Hapeville, Georgia, flying to the south.   |
| It flickered like a neon light. (Source: M. Hitt, Georgia UFO         |
| Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 10).                                         |
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| 1952 - At 2:30 p.m. a USAF C-54 transport plane flying near           |
| Shreveport, Louisiana was buzzed by a disc-shaped UFO estimated to be |
| 35 feet in diameter. Air Force jets were scrambled from Barksdale AFB |
| and chased the UFO for 55 miles as it headed off to the north.        |
| (Sources: Project Blue Book Report #6; Project Grudge and Project     |
| Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, report dated April 30, 1952).         |
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| 1952 - On the same night a round, red colored UFO moved silently      |
| above a drive-in movie screen in Asheville, North Carolina at a high  |
| rate of speed. (Source: Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files,  |
| citing letter from F. Branch dated April 16, 1952).                   |
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| 1956 - A round UFO surrounded by a "circle of red, blue and green     |
| lights" traveled at a high speed from the northeast to the southwest  |
| over Northampton, New York as "rays of penetrating light shot from    |
| it." There were three witnesses. (Sources: Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY   |
| Newsletter, May 1956; Amsterdam Record, April 12, 1956).              |
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| 1958 - On this date in 1958 the CIA Robertson Panel report was released. At  |
| 3:30 a.m. a UFO was seen over Keta, Ghana swinging in a falling leaf  |
| motion. That same night a row of nine yellow discs flew over          |
| Cleveland, Ohio and split up into two groups of four and five.        |
| (Sources: Donald H. Menzel, The World of Flying Saucers, p. 143; FSR, |
| September-October 1970, p. 28; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p.     |
| 137).                                                                 |
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| 1959 - At 6:50 p.m. a UFO was seen against the mountains by the       |
| Sideia Mission Brothers in Boianai, Papua New Guinea. (Source: Charles Bowen, |
| UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 34).                |
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| 1962 - At around 11:00 p.m. a 15-meter wide metallic disc came down   |
| and landed in a meadow in Rivoli, Italy. Two beings exited the craft  |
| and then reboarded. The UFO rose vertically on takeoff. There were    |
| traces of burnt grass at the site. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT:   |
| Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:        |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2066).                           |
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| 1965 - At 7:20 p.m. an Air France aircrew in France saw a metallic    |
| disc-shaped object while flying at 15km altitude near Marignane       |
| Airport. It suddenly vanished. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft |
| UFO Encounters, p. 42).                                               |
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| 1967 - A conical-shaped UFO was photographed over Sofiya, the capital |
| city of Bulgaria. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from  |
| Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 193).                                     |
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| 1967 - Five witnesses at the intersection of Highway 30 and           |
| Highway 281 saw a UFO near the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant in Grand     |
| Island, Nebraska at dusk. (Source: Norma Short, Skylook, August 1972, |
| p. 12).                                                               |
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| 1970 - A small sphere 40 cm in diameter, with spokes inside, was seen |
| rotating close to the ground in Aufhofen, Germany. The UFO drew water |
| from a pool on the roadway, and then shot away vertically into the    |
| sky. (Source: FSR, July-August 1972, p. 15).                          |
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| 1971 - A well known UFO photograph was taken on this day by a         |
| geographical survey plane in Costa Rica. The survey plane was taking  |
| a series of aerial photographs at 10,000 feet when at 8:25 a.m. it    |
| captured an image of a conical, disc-shaped UFO emerging from a lake  |
| called Lago de Cote. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p.    |
| 18).                                                                  |
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| 1974 - At 6:15 a.m. two people driving in a taxi watched a large      |
| luminous cigar as it flew southeast toward Mount Dol in Saint Malo,   |
| France under a heavry cloud cover. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit,    |
| issue 141).                                                           |
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| 1975 - A delta-shaped UFO hovered over a house three miles south of   |
| Lumberton, North Carolina at 2:30 a.m., and all the lights in the     |
| house went out. The lights came back on when the UFO moved away       |
| toward the east. (Sources: Center for UFO Studies case files, report  |
| dated May 4, 1975; Jennie Zeidman, Lumberton Report: UFO Activity in  |
| southern North Carolina, p. 35; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume |
| II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 19).                                     |
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| 1984 - Several intercontinental airline pilots reported sighting a    |
| mushroom-shaped cloud, similar to what forms in the atmosphere after  |
| a nuclear explosion, over the western part of the Pacific Ocean. The  |
| cloud was slightly luminous, about 200 miles in diameter, and at a    |
| height of 65,000 feet. (Source: William Corliss and Jerome Clark, UFO |
| Calendar 1999).                                                       |
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| 1988 - A triangular UFO hovered for three minutes over Stode, Sweden  |
| at 1:00 p.m. It vanished in a cloud of smoke. (Source: AFU Sweden).   |
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| 1992 - A nocturnal light followed five people into the town of        |
| Russas, Ceara State, Brazil at around 9 p.m. It hovered nearby as the |
| terrified witnesses attempted to hide from the light source in a      |
| large tree. The object left a few minutes later. (Source: UBPDV,      |
| Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 7).                                 |
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| 1994 - A brilliant Kelly green sphere flew near a woman's home in     |
| Grosse Pointe, Michigan. It flew off to the west. (Source: Peter      |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle).                   |
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| 2000 - A motorist driving in Hot Springs, Arkansas at 4:30 a.m. saw   |
| an enormous, pinkish metallic cigar-shaped UFO 100 feet above the     |
| road. It stopped in front of the car. He blacked out. When he came to |
| he smelled an odor of something burning. He recalls a high-pitched    |
| buzzing sound, and has recollections of an exam table. His back is    |
| bruised. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 24).              |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 October 2009).        |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.                           |
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| Th                                                                    |
| emes: changing colors, cloud shaped like nuclear bomb mushroom cloud, |
|  conical UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, erratic maneuvers, falling leaf moti |
| on, missing time, multicolored UFOs, odor of burning, orange UFO, pho |
| tographs, red UFOs, spherical UFOs, triangular UFOs, vertical ascent. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson                                                   |
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