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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  April 17 |
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| 1897 - At least a dozen farmers in Williamston, Michigan saw an |
| object maneuver in the morning sky for an hour before it landed. A |
| strange man nearly 3 meters (10 feet) tall, almost naked and |
| suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while |
| musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings". One farmer went |
| near him and received a blow that broke his hip. (Source: Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184, citing |
| Lansing State Republican, April 18, 1897). |
| |
| 1950 - Three flat, metallic flying objects were sighted east of the |
| Los Alamos AEC nuclear facility in New Mexico by 15 University of |
| California scientists at 1:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 20 minutes |
| and the UFO was viewed through a telescope. They estimated the size |
| of the objects as approximately nine feet in diameter, and they flew |
| faster than conventional aircraft. (Sources: Loren Gross, UFOs: A |
| History. 1950: April-July, FSR, volume 25, number 2). |
| |
| 1950 - At 8:15 p.m. EDT two teenagers were driving in a car in |
| Springfield, Massachusetts when their vehicle was bussed by two |
| glowing saucers. The objects then hopped about in the sky, ascend |
| very fast and are gone from sight in about a minute. (Source: Loren |
| Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 26). |
| |
| 1952 - At 3:15 p.m. two military weather observers from the 9575 TSU |
| at the Yuma Test Station in Yuma, Arizona watched a circular, |
| flat-white craft with a short trail shoot across the sky from zenith |
| to the horizon in 7 seconds (traveling at 13 degrees a second). It |
| traveled so fast it could not be tracked with a theodolite. There was |
| a similar sighting at the same place the next day. (Sources: UNICAT, |
| case 813, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. |
| 47; NICAP UFO Investigator, volume 3, number 8). |
| |
| 1952 - Two engineers watched several silent noctunal lights make |
| erratic maneuvers and ninety-degree turns in the sky over Longmeadow, |
| Massachusetts at 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 400 minutes. |
| (Source: Loren Gross, UFOs a History, 1952: January-May, p. 48). |
| |
| 1952 - Thirty minutes later two men in Westmont, Illinois, Mr. Harvey |
| and Mr. Hall, tracked an object traveling at a high rate of speed |
| from the east to the north, vanishing just under the Ursa Minor |
| constellation. No tail or exhaust were visible, nor were any signs of |
| propulsion visible. They watched the object through a pair of |
| binoculars. (Source: Edward Sullivan, CSI--Los Angeles letter files, |
| April 17, 1952). |
| |
| 1958 - Three hovering discs were observed all night long in Boa del |
| Tigre, Argentina by several witnesses in the area. Mr. Cavalheiro, a |
| railroad employee, and his station chief, J. Machado, wired the |
| Tupancireta police and all saw the UFOs come to ground level about |
| one kilometer away. At times the discs appeared to exchange signals. |
| One of the them flew over the station itself, leaving a luminous |
| trail and considerable heat. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 466). |
| |
| 1964 - At 7:22 a.m. local time, Airman Edward Lowe, a radar operator |
| at the Fallon Air Force Station, Nevada picked up on his ground radar |
| unit two blips flying in stacked formation making rapid changes in |
| altitude. They were first detected at 122 degrees, 60,000 feet, and |
| at a range of 145 miles. Their motion was up and down. The length of |
| the observation was 1 hour and 21 minutes, at which point the blips |
| disappeared to the southeast. The official Air Force explanation was |
| a mirage. (Source: Dan Wilson, www.nicap.org; Project Blue Book files |
| counted in official statistics; J. Allen Hynek case files). |
| |
| 1966 - Beginning at around 5:00 a.m., Portage County Deputy |
| Sheriffs Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff and two other officers chased a |
| 40-foot diameter glowing disc or football shaped object from Ravenna, |
| Ohio to Atwater, Pennsylvania in the pre-dawn hours of this morning. |
| It rose up out of the woods and stopped overhead. The UFO played |
| cat-and-mouse with them in the pursuit: approaching, waiting for them |
| to catch up, then moving away. It beamed an intense light onto the |
| road. They chased it for 90 minutes. It was last seen shooting |
| straight up into the sky and out of sight. At about the same time and |
| in roughly the same vicinity, a man named George Buchert took a |
| photograph of a double-saucer shaped object in Mantua, Ohio. Dale |
| Spaur's psychological condition and professional career deteriorated |
| in the months following his close encounter. This famous case was the |
| basis for the dramatic UFO chase in Steven Spielberg's movie Close |
| Encounters of the Third Kind. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, UNICAT, case |
| # 383; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 100; Richard H. Hall, |
| The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 44, 172 & 320; |
| NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1966, p. 1; Columbus Dispatch, |
| April 19, 1966; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 56). |
| |
| Ravenna, Ohio Police Pursuit - 1966 |
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| [] |
| |
| 1966 - At 7:15 p.m. in Danvers, Massachusetts three witnesses watched |
| an elongated oval-shaped object with rotating white lights. It was |
| estimated to be the same size as a passenger train car. It circled |
| slowly in the sky before entering a localized cloud. At 7:30 p.m. in |
| nearby Peabody, Massachusetts four witnesses reported seeing a bright |
| red glowing object flying in circular and zigzag patterns. It |
| suddenly darted away at an incredible speed, faster than any |
| aircraft. In Wakefield, Massachusetts at 8:30 p.m. a multicolored |
| disc-shaped object shot off beams of white, then blue, and |
| finally red light. It moved rapidly up-and-down and made a humming |
| sound. It descended to just 50 feet above Lake Quanapowitt. (Source: |
| Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp.  337-338). |
| |
| Danvers, M |
| assachusetts Circling UFO with Rotating White Lights - April 17, 1966 |
| |
| [Sketch of Danvers, MA UFO - April 17, 1967] |
| |
| 1967 - At 2:20 a.m. military witness Robert Harkinson in Vo Tanh, |
| near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam saw five lluminated white |
| ovals that passed behind small scattered clouds. The formation |
| fluctuated slightly, and then moved at five times the speed of a jet. |
| Five minutes later, several jets at high altitude were seen pursuing |
| the same course as the UFOs. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO |
| Experience, p. 252; UNICAT, case # 371; Richard F. Haines, Project |
| Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 88). |
| |
| 1967 - At 2:15 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Moseley of Worthing, West Sussex, |
| England heard a loud humming noise, then saw a glowing oval like an |
| "upturned saucer" (domed disc) that flew across the sky and behind a |
| hill. Later, the sound was heard again and the UFO was again seen, |
| moving sideways. (Sources: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, |
| July-August 1967, p. 30; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: |
| A Thirty Year Report, p. 336). |
| |
| 1967 - A huge elliptical object with portholes was seen at 8:45 p.m. |
| in New Haven, West Virginia. It had two light beams that were |
| directed downward. Dogs howled and barked and a pony reacted to the |
| beams of light, and there was also severe TV interference. There were |
| five independent reports of the close encounter, which lasted several |
| minutes.  (Sources:NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1967, p. 6; MUFON |
| UFO Journal, April 1992, p. 18; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close |
| Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p.  33; Richard H. Hall, The UFO |
| Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 199, 280, 336). |
| |
| 1967 - At 9:00 p.m. over Jefferson City, Missouri an Ozark Airlines |
| airliner coming in for a landing had a dramatic encounter with a |
| domed disc that was shaped like a World War I helmet, and was over |
| 300 feet in diameter. Captain Metz exclaimed, "below me, it's huge!" |
| It gave off an intense, bluish-white, cold light from the underside |
| of the object. It was accompanied by two small objects the size of a |
| DC-3 aircraft, that dropped down and made very fast maneuvers in |
| various directions. The objects shot off to the north and also to the |
| east. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 96; Richard F. |
| Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 175; Robert |
| Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1992, p. 18; UNICAT, case # 380; |
| Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; Richard H. Hall, |
| The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 118). |
| |
| 1968 - At 7:45 p.m. EDT a dull silver-gray, domed disc-shaped |
| object hovered just over the road near the US Air Force radio |
| telescope installation at Sagamore Hill, Highway 1A, Hamilton, |
| Massachusetts. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary |
| Visitors, p. 352; Raymond Fowler investigator files, case dated April |
| 26, 1968). |
| |
| 1976 - Two girls, the Melling sisters aged 12 and 9, saw a |
| Mothman-like "bird-man" hovering in the sky over a church in Mawman, |
| Cornwall, England. They drew a sketch of a man with wings, big |
| pointed ears, and a large triangle in place of the nose and mouth. It |
| so frightened the entire family that they ended their vacation. |
| (Source: Doc Shiels, Fortean Times, June 1976, p. 19). |
| |
| 1977 - On a clear night at 4:30 a.m. a rectangular craft with windows |
| was sighted by a 36-year-old man in North Haven, Port Macquarie, New |
| South Wales, Australia. It made no sound as it flew. It speed was |
| under 100 mph as it traveled to the east. (Source: Kel Blackman, ACOS |
| Bulletin, December 1977, p. 10). |
| |
| 1977 - At around 4:00 p.m. a 67-year-old woman in La Louviere, |
| Belgium sighted a solid, dark, flat cylinder-shaped object with |
| faceted sides. It oscillated as it flew from southwest to northeast. |
| (Source: International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2). |
| |
| 1987 - At around 11:00 p.m. seven people witnessed a disc-shaped |
| object hovering over a lake in Soderbarke, Kopparberg, Sweden. The |
| bottom of the object was glowing, until a dark cloud engulfed the |
| object. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database). |
| |
| 1990 - Two women driving in a wooded area of Upper Burrel Township, |
| Pennsylvania at 10:30 p.m. first saw three bright lights ahead. They |
| heard a "click" and then saw a sphere over a tree. Then a 40-foot |
| long "bus" or cigar-shaped object with windows came over the tree. |
| The women drove home and the object followed them, then it passed by, |
| glowing yellow and surrounded by mist. A U.S. defense plant is |
| located nearby. (Sources: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February |
| 1991, p. 12; MUFON field investigation files, field investigator |
| Keith Bastianini, case # 901210). |
| |
| 1993 - In Birmingham, England Peter Gregory had gotten out of bed at |
| 2:30 a.m. to go to the bathroom when he noticed a light outside his |
| landing window. He peered out and saw a glowing ball the size of a |
| football. After five seconds it flew silently past the window and out |
| of sight. He fell back into a deep sleep and had a dream or vision. |
| He saw himself in what appeared to be a control room inside an |
| enormous object. He felt motion and heard a humming sound. The room |
| was illuminated with an intense blue light that seemed to pulse with |
| a hypnotic rhythm. He felt an inner state of euphoria. Without |
| warning he suddenly then found himself inside an oval room with a |
| console with lights in the center. On the left of the console was a |
| cubicle about six feet high. Three humanoid figures were standing |
| there and staring at a viewing screen, watching a transmission. The |
| beings did not notice Gregory. He described them as human sized, with |
| piercing deep blue eyes, reddish brown hair, and heads circled by a |
| broad silver band. He moved closer and noticed on a display screen |
| something that read "Year 3600." He felt the message on the screen |
| meant the destruction of human civilization. (Source: Albert S. |
| Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2748, citing Marcus |
| Day, Aliens: Encounters with The Unexplained). |
| |
| 1993 - At 9:45 p.m. in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana a |
| 29-year-old man sighted a white "wishbone" object in the sky at a |
| moderate distance. His sketch shows a V-shape with one long side |
| extending below as if forming a cocked Y. The entire figure glowed |
| white. The distance was estimated to be 600 feet, with an altitude |
| higher than 300 feet. The speed of the object was slow, estimated to |
| be around 30+ mph. There was a bright light on front when last seen. |
| It was in view for about a minute and a half. (Sources: T. David |
| Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16; MUFON field |
| investigation files, field investigator Will Ott, case # 941210S). |
| |
| 1994 - On this night in Kapowsin, Pierce County, Washington State the |
| first thing that happened was that a teenager's pick-up truck engine |
| died. He next saw a creature with bat wings on the road. When it flew |
| away he was able to restart the truck. (Source: Larry Hatch, U |
| computer database, case # 16364, citing West Virginia UFO Newsletter, |
| number 5). |
| |
| 1996 - At around 1:00 a.m. Alfredo de Oliveira Mendes, age 27, a |
| parishioner at a local Catholic Church in Belem, Para State, Brazil, |
| witnessed a UFO land in the churchyard of the mission. He next |
| experienced a period of missing time. Under hypnosis he |
| later recalled being abducted by eight beings. He described them as |
| silver in color with elongated eyes and what looked like a fin on |
| their foreheads. The beings wore silver coverall type outfits with an |
| emblem containing a pyramid and a wing. A burnt circle was found on |
| the ground at the landing site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
| Contact Database 1996, case # 2739, citing Brazilian UFO Report). |
| |
| 2000 - On this night, a police officer walking home along the |
| Plazoleta Alfonso de la Vega in Frias, Argentina noticed a short |
| humanoid figure that he first mistook for a child. When he approached |
| the figure, intending to reprimand it for being out late, he received |
| a menacing look from the creature's fiery red eyes. The shocked |
| policeman realized it was something other than a human child, and he |
| quickly walked away from the area. Other local residents also |
| reported seeing the same or a similar being. (Source: Albert S. |
| Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3402, citing Fabio |
| Picasso, Argentina). |
| |
| 2002 - A yellow-orange ball made bizarre sharp turns while flying |
| from southwest to northeast near the end of the Brisbane, Queensland, |
| Australia airport runway at 9:30 p.m. (Source: Sheryl Gottschall, UFO |
| Research Queensland). |
| |
| 2002 - At 12:30 a.m. a black oval or football-shaped object rocked |
| from side to side as it flew behind a cloud in Ottawa, Ontario, |
| Canada. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case |
| # 144, citing HBCCUFO). |
| |
| 2007 - A circular craft with blue lights was seen by a 55-year-old |
| man with an engineering background. At around 9:55 p.m. PST, the |
| witness went out onto his front yard in Irvine, California for a |
| smoke before bed. Normally he can see planes approaching Orange |
| County Airport from the NNE and go past to the left |
| to land approximately 8-9 miles away, but this night was overcast so |
| he could hear some, but not see them as they broke cloud cover once |
| they had passed his house. While standing on the driveway, he saw |
| some blue light aloft to the North moving back and forth, almost |
| flittering like a moth. He first thought it was a police helicopter. |
| What was unusual was that it was moving more in a quick, |
| back-and-forth movement instead of what is usually a slow circle. |
| Also, he could not see a strong searchlight or hear any engine sound. |
| It appeared that the object was 1-2 miles away. He thought this was |
| odd, so he retrieved a pair of quality 20x binoculars from inside the |
| house. What he next saw raised the hair on the back of his neck, |
| because the lights seemed to consist of a row of individual blue |
| lights that first were traveling to the left. As the object reversed |
| direction, the object appeared to be first an ellipse and then a full |
| circle; it had maybe 24-30 individual blue lights around the |
| perimeter. It then traveled to the right and reversed the process, |
| again forming a circle at the end of its travel when reversing |
| direction. It traveled in each direction for 3-5 seconds. There were |
| definitely no red/green port/starboard lights, only the blue |
| perimeter lights and no strobe lights. He watched this object for 2-3 |
| minutes. It finally disappeared into the cloud cover. The man used to |
| fly small aircraft, so he was experienced with the shapes and types |
| of various small aircraft. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO |
| Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2007 webpage, report uploaded April |
| 27, 2007). |
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| 2010 - A classic domed disc-shaped object with horizontal slits |
| showing inexplicable lights was sighted while driving on U.S. Highway |
| 101 S. near Nipomo, California in San Luis Obispo County at 10:10 |
| p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April |
| 2010 archived webpage, case uploaded May 12, 2010). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 17 April 2014). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: aircraft UFO enco |
| unters, animal reactions: dogs howling and pony ran, back-and-forth m |
| otion, balls of light, car buzzings and pursuits, complex maneuvers, |
| domed discs, humming, low-flying UFOs, mental vision or out-of-body e |
| xperience of interior of UFO and humanoids, metallic UFOs, Mothman fl |
| ying humanoid, multi-year reports from Massachusetts, radar, sensatio |
| n of heat, unintelligible language, very tall humanoid, vehicle EM ig |
| nition interference, violence by UFO occupant(s), up-and-down motion. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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