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| [On This Day]                                                         |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day                                   |
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|  March 27                                                             |
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| 1952 - At 12:55 p.m. over Downey, California a bright, aluminum       |
| colored spot of light hung motionless in the sky above an aircraft    |
| factory for 15 minutes. It appeared to turn on edge, and then went    |
| straight up out of sight. In Chicago, Illinois two discs were seen    |
| exiting from a cloud. They flipped over completely, and then returned |
| to the same cloud. (Sources: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1952:     |
| January-May, p. 27; Edward Sullivan, CSI/Los Angeles case files,      |
| letter dated March 27, 1952).                                         |
| 1953 - A bright orange circular UFO was chased by a USAF F-86 fighter |
| jet over Mount Taylor, New Mexico at 7:25 p.m. The case is listed as  |
| an Air Force Project Blue Book "unknown." (Sources: Project Bluebook  |
| files counted in official statistics, case 2524; Dominique Weinstein, |
| Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21).                                      |
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| 1959 - A blue, barrel-shaped UFO landed remotely a half mile away in  |
| a wooded area west of Corsica, Pennsylvania at 12:45 p.m. It was seen |
| by a man and a woman. (Sources: Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, |
| p. 35; Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case    |
| 6317).                                                                |
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| 1966 - Two women, Smith and Beer, driving from Amarillo, Texas saw a  |
| UFO approach their car from the north near Texhoma, Oklahoma. Their   |
| car engine died and the headlights failed. The UFO flew over the car, |
| and then hovered at an altitude of approximately 400 meters. The      |
| object had a waffle shaped surface on the bottom, and glowed with an  |
| intense red light. (Sources: Project Bluebook files counted in        |
| official statistics, case 10291; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: |
| A Century of Landings, p. 325 (case 738); Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports |
| Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 28, citing Vallee).                |
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| 1970 - A red cylindrical UFO hung over a tree in El Garrobo, Spain    |
| for nine hours beginning at seven o'clock in the morning. It departed |
| by shooting off to the southwest with approached by witnesses.        |
| (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO    |
| Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 124).                                |
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| 1971 - Over Highway 21 in Waltham, Massachusetts at 8:20 p.m. a       |
| mushroom or jellyfish-shaped UFO, glowing white, hovered and dimmed   |
| leaving behind blinking white lights. It streaked away and was gone   |
| in a few seconds. (Source: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary       |
| Visitors, p. 357).                                                    |
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| 1973 - A reddish-orange ball of light flew parallel to I-95 south of  |
| Providence, Rhode Island at 12:15 a.m., pacing a car driven by a      |
| hospital worker for 15 minutes, driving at a speed of 55 miles per    |
| hour. It then stopped ahead of the witness, pulsated and waited when  |
| he stopped his car. It followed him for another 15 miles. (Source:    |
| Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1973, p. 9).                  |
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| 1975 - At 11:15 p.m. in Hamlet, North Carolina a retired laborer saw  |
| a UFO with a revolving pink light in the front yard of his home. He   |
| saw two small creatures "who appeared to be joined by a silver bar."  |
| They spoke in a language he couldn't understand. (Sources: George D.  |
| Fawcett, Official UFO, November 1975 pp. 12,45; David F. Webb & Ted   |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1395 citing    |
| Fawcett).                                                             |
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| 1976 - At 6:45 a.m. the engine and headlights of a car died in St.    |
| Denis, Reunion, a French territory in the Indian Ocean while in the   |
| presence of a small cloud by the roadside. The small cloud then rose  |
| up vertically, and shot off toward the southwest. (Source: Lumieres   |
| dans la Nuit, October 1976).                                          |
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| 1978 - A girl riding on a motorcycle saw a long red triangular UFO    |
| hovering 200 feet above the ground in Ratby, England at 9:00 p.m. It  |
| made a loud droning noise. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, |
| case 12585).                                                          |
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| 1979 - At 5:20 p.m. an oval-shaped or saucer-shaped UFO flew over the |
| Tabouret Reservoir in Isere, France and then landed on the ground,    |
| leaving ground marks. A man was seen outside the craft, according to  |
| the police report. At 8:00 p.m. a thirty-foot long cylindrical UFO    |
| rose from the surf off of the shore at Oak Bluffs on Martha Vineyard, |
| Massachusetts. The witness was reportedly frozen in place during the  |
| 20 minute close encounter, and his watch stopped working. (Sources:   |
| Robert Rouseel, OVNI, Verites Cachees, p. 91; MUFON UFO Journal,      |
| October 1979).                                                        |
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| 1983 - During this evening Russian Air Traffic Controllers had        |
| radar-visual reports of a steel-gray colored UFO, the shape of a      |
| cigar and the size of an airliner, in view and on their screens for   |
| 40 minutes. It was first picked up 50 nautical miles north of         |
| Gor'kiy, Russia and vanished about 25 nautical miles from the city.   |
| (Source: International UFO Reporter, September-October 1984, p. 13,   |
| citing Popovich).                                                     |
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| 1998 - A man walking his dog in Clifton Park, New York at 11:00 p.m.  |
| reported to a UFO hotline that a UFO briefly chased him and his dog.  |
| At about the same time a report from Newnan, Georgia described eight  |
| or more UFOs flying circles and then jerking up-and-down, and         |
| engaging in side-to-side motions. (Source: Peter Davenport, National  |
| UFO Reporting Center, Seattle).                                       |
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| 2002 - In Allen, Texas at 8:00 a.m. a three meter wide silver,        |
| hubcap-shaped disc flew low and stopped over a field at only five     |
| meters altitude. It had lights around its rim. It shot off to the     |
| west at an extremely fast speed. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database,   |
| case 17854).                                                          |
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| 2003 - On this night a luminous UFO hovered over the holy city of An  |
| Najaf, Iraq. It was interpreted as a religious sign, protecting the   |
| tomb of a holy man. The mosque escaped damaged from U.S. bombs.       |
| (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31).                       |
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| 2003 - On this same night at 7:00 p.m. in Liverpool, England a large, |
| stationary pinkish red light was viewed through binoculars by a local |
| resident. It emitted a small white light from the top, then two small |
| side-by-side white lights shot off from underneath on a diagonal      |
| trajectory. The pinkish red light then winked out. (Source: UFO       |
| Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31).                                    |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 March 2004)           |
| Compiled from the UFOCAT database.                                    |
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| Themes: aircra                                                        |
| ft UFO encounters, cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs, car pacing, dayl |
| ight disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, EM vehicle ignition interference  |
| effect, paralysis, short humanoids, UFOs shooting off at high speed,  |
| unintelligible language, vertical ascent, wristwatch stopped working. |
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