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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  August 13 |
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| 1909 - At 11:00 p.m. a top-shaped object was observed through a night |
| glass as it moved in a northerly direction over Glen Innes, New South |
| Wales, Australia. Its lower portion was lighted while the upper |
| portion was dark, and as the body of the object revolved a light kept |
| turning on to the terrain beneath. (Source: Richard H. Hall, From |
| Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the |
| Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8, citing Bill Chalker, The Oz |
| Files, p. 31). |
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| 1917 - A luminous globe was seen spinning through the clouds by over |
| 18,000 witnesses who had assembled at Fatima, in the Cova da Iria, |
| Portugal to see another monthly apparition of the "Lady in Blue", |
| thought to be the Virgin Mary by Roman Catholic faithful. The sky |
| turned rainbow colors including pink, yellow, and blue. There was a |
| perceived lowering of the temperature, and angel hair residue. |
| (Source: Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 145). |
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| 1942 - Sixty-eight UFOs were seen over the Capitol in Washington, |
| D.C. on this night around 11:00 p.m. Photographs were taken, and |
| a big CAA investigation followed. (Source: Richard F. Haines, Project |
| Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 126). |
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| 1947 - Mr. A. C. Urie and his two sons were fishing in the Snake |
| River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho at about one p.m. when they saw a |
| sky blue, seven-meter wide inverted plate-shaped flying object 100 |
| meters away and 25 meters above the ground. Treetops under it were |
| spinning wildly, although the object itself did not appear to spin. |
| It made a swishing sound. There was a red flame visible on one side |
| of the top. According to the FBI investigative report of this case, |
| at about 1:00 p.m. Mr. Urie "sent his boys to the (Salmon) river to |
| get some rope from his boat. When he thought they were overdue he |
| went outside to his tool shed to look for them. He noticed them about |
| 300 feet away looking in the sky and he glanced up to see what he |
| called the flying disc. This strange object was flying at high speed |
| along the canyon which is about 400 feet deep and 1,200 feet across |
| at that point. It was about seventy-five feet above the floor of the |
| canyon (and so more than 300 feet below the edge of the canyon) and |
| moving up and down as it flew. It seemed to be following the contours |
| of the hilly ground beneath it. Urie, who said he was at about the |
| same level as the UFO, so that he had a side view, estimated it was |
| about twenty feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high, with what |
| appeared to be exhaust ports on the sides. It was almost hat shaped |
| with a flat bottom and a dome on top. |
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| Close Encounter at Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho - 1947 |
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| Its pale blue color made Urie think that it would be very difficult |
| to see against the sky, although he had no trouble seeing it |
| silhouetted against the opposite wall of the canyon. On each side |
| there was a tubular shaped fiery glow, like some sort of exhaust. He |
| said that when it went over trees they didn't sway back and forth, |
| but rather the treetops twisted around, which suggests that the air |
| under the object was being swirled into a vortex. He and his sons had |
| an excellent view of the object for a few seconds before it |
| disappeared over the trees about a mile away. He thought it was going |
| 1,000 miles an hour. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, |
| p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. |
| 192). |
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| 1952 - While flying over Tokyo, Japan at 9:45 p.m. USAF Marine Corps |
| pilot Major D. McGough sighted an orange light that flew a left orbit |
| at 8,000' and 230 mph. It then spiraled down to no more than 1,500 |
| feet altitude, remained stationary for 2-3 minutes more, and went |
| out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful. (Source: Don |
| Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin Randle, Invasion |
| Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278). |
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| 1956 - At Bentwaters RAF Base in Suffolk, England radar returns at |
| 9:20 p.m. showed a large unidentified craft moving in excess of 4,000 |
| mph. The crew of a C-47 confirmed a visual sighting of a blur of |
| light moving at high speeds. Both air and ground radars confirm |
| fantastic maneuvers were performed. (Sources: James E. McDonald, FSR, |
| March 1970, p. 10; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 86; |
| Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 242; Illobrand von |
| Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 12). |
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| 1959 - Two women at a lake near Ogden Dunes, Indiana saw a glowing |
| domed disc at six o'clock in the morning. The object was 20 meters in |
| diameter, and hovered and maneuvered 15 meters over the lake for |
| two minutes. (Sources: Gary (IN) Post-Tribune, August 14, 1959; Loren |
| E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. |
| 1957: August-September, p. 29). |
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| 1959 - At around 4:00 p.m. a pilot flying a Cessna 170 between Hobbs |
| and Albuquerque, New Mexico encountered three round, gray UFOs that |
| circled his aircraft just southeast of Corona, New Mexico and caused |
| his compass to spin. Compass deviation. The pilot reported the |
| incident and was later interrogated by the U.S. Air Force.(Sources: |
| NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 5; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA |
| Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 23). |
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| 1959 - At 9:30 p.m. six woman travelling by car through a rural area |
| near Freeport, Texas saw a bright UFO pass low in front of their car, |
| causing the car's engine and headlights to die. The UFO landed in a |
| wooded area. Dense underbrush prevented approaching landing site. |
| (Sources: APRO Bulletin, September 1959; Richard Hall, The UFO |
| Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A |
| Century of Landings, case 277). |
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| Corning, California Close Encounter August 13, 1960 |
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| 1960 - At 11:50 p.m. a red colored, cigar-shaped UFO in Tehama |
| county, California twice approached a police car at close range. |
| Police officers Scott and Carson were 18 miles north of Red Bluff and |
| east of Corning, California on Hoag Road when they first encountered |
| the UFO. It had red lights at both ends, and one of the red lights |
| swept the ground like a searchlight. They experienced heavy static on |
| their police radio, and the UFO swerved to avoid their spotlight. |
| There were at least two other independent witnesses to the UFO that |
| night. (Sources: San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 1960; Gordon I. |
| R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs |
| in Perspective, p. 162; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), |
| p. 61; APRO Bulletin, September 1960, p. 1; Mark Rodeghier, UFOs |
| Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 18; Hynek J Allen Hynek, |
| The Hynek UFO Report, p. 92). |
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| 1963 - In St. Gallen, Switzerland at 8:04 p.m. A. F. Schelling |
| watched a fireball become a dark object after four minutes of flight, |
| and then a bigger glow a minute later, and finally explode. The same |
| witness had another sighting (not described in the Project Blue Book |
| file) on the next day.. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO |
| Unknowns). |
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| 1963 - At 9:30 p.m. a family and their housekeeper saw an elliptical |
| object on the ground near Molasses Pond, Ellsworth, Maine for almost |
| an hour. The craft had body lights along its length, and there were |
| rays that shone upward from each end occasionally. (Source: Walter |
| Webb case files, case # 38;Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141). |
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| 1963 - A chemist in Honolulu, Hawaii at 11:30 p.m. saw a round red |
| object pass overhead from the southwest to the northeast. The UFO |
| "traveled across the sky at great speed making two sharp turns at the |
| same speed." (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141). |
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| 1965 - As he drove away after dropping off his two daughters Mr. |
| Ryerson noticed two unusual "persons" walking along the side of the |
| road next to a bean field. His two teenagers, Ellen Grace Ryerson, |
| age 16, and Laura Jean Ryerson, 13, in Renton, Washington approached |
| these two very unusual beings, while walking next to the bean field |
| at seven o'clock in the morning. The little men were grey colored |
| "like stone", had no hair, and had large bulging eyes. The first |
| “person” was described as like a gnome and wrinkled. He wore a funny |
| little hat. He was dancing and jumping around in front of the other |
| being as they approached. He was making a cackling sound that the |
| girls thought sounded like laughter. The other being was |
| approximately 5 feet tall. He had a very unusual head. His face was |
| gray but the back of his head had a bulbous extension with veins |
| showing through it. It pulsated. On the rest of his cranium there |
| were large pores and this part of his head was white. His eyes were |
| described as like a frogs eyes. In his mouth he had a little pipe, |
| and he was blowing on it and making a shrill sound. The taller one |
| wore shiny clothes, like satin. Both beings wore sleveless purple |
| vests over white coveralls. Ellen feared that they were going to grab |
| her, so she yelled at her sister to run. The girls fled, and when |
| they looked back after running 50 feet the beings had completely |
| vanished. (Sources: Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, March-April |
| 1966, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
| Humanoid Reports, case 1965-32 (A0643), citing Jerome Clark; Leneesa |
| Garouttee, Alternate Perceptions (electronic version), February |
| 2005). |
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| Renton, Washington Humanoid Encounter - 1965 |
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| 1965 - David G., age 14, and his father and sister were sitting in |
| their yard at four o'clock in the afternoon in Waverly, Iowa when |
| they heard a high-pitched whining sound and saw an aluminum object |
| 15-20 feet in diameter, looking like “two saucers glued together,” |
| descend slowly from the sky. It disappeared behind a hill a third of |
| a mile away, and the young man walked over to the hill to |
| investigate. When about 150 yards from the site, he saw a humanoid |
| being 3.5 feet tall, with a baldhead, peeking out from behind a tree. |
| He did not see the figure leave, but a minute or so later he saw a |
| “blur” and heard a rush of air. At the landing site, in an old |
| quarry, he found a 15-20 foot circle of burnt glass, within which |
| were three indentations of 5” x 12” and an inch deep. The encounter |
| lasted about a minute and occurred during a minor wave of reports |
| from Iowa and elsewhere. (Sources: Ralph DeGraw, APRO Bulletin, |
| January-February 1975, p. 9; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-33 (A0644), citing Ralph |
| DeGraw). |
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| Lynn, Massachusetts Landing August 13, 1965 |
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| 1965 - At 12:55 p.m. EDT two bakers saw a slow moving, red tinged |
| white globe glide noiselessly over their bakery in Lynn, |
| Massachusetts. The UFO then descended into an area of some electrical |
| power line pylons, one mile away. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: |
| Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333). |
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| 1967 - At about four o'clock in the afternoon Inacio De Souza, age |
| 41, and his wife Maria were approaching their home at Santa Maria, |
| Brazil near the town of Crixas Pilar de Goias, when they saw three |
| figures "playing about" on the landing strip of the owner of the |
| Fazenda. The beings were as tall as young children, had no hair and |
| were wearing skin-tight clothing of a pale yellow color. At the end |
| of the landing strip was a landed UFO having the shape of an inverted |
| washbasin. De Souza, carrying a .44 caliber carbine, fired a shot at |
| the nearest being. Just then a beam of green light came from the UFO |
| and struck De Souza on the head and shoulders, knocking him |
| unconscious. The three entities entered the object, which then took |
| off vertically at a high speed with a sound like buzzing bees. De |
| Souza incurred a circular burned patch six inches in diameter, and he |
| was also diagnosed with leukemia by a physician, from which he died |
| less than two months later. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, March-April |
| 1969, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 169; |
| David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, |
| case 1967-75, citing Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, Jader Pereira & F. Carrion; |
| Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 223). |
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| 1970 - At 11:50 p.m. a car being driven by a man named Maarup in |
| Haderslev, Denmark was engulfed by a bluish-white cone of light from |
| a metallic gray disc. His car's engine, lights, and two-way radio |
| died. The light was so brilliant it hurt his eyes and felt heat |
| coming from the UFO. He took three photographs before the object made |
| a rapid upward departure. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, |
| p. 281; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976). |
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| 1972 - At 1:00 a.m. in Yauco, Mayaguez Province, Puerto Rico 20 |
| lights emerged from an oval-shaped cloud, and entered a closely |
| similar cloud nearby. They failed to reappear. A photograph was taken |
| of the phenomenon. (Sources: Stendek, March 1973; Awareness, October |
| 1977, p. 13). |
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| 1972 - An officer reported that a cigar-shaped object was seen |
| traveling in the sky at 3:00 p.m. near Gatwick Airport, England. It |
| flew from the northeast to southwest with the rear end of the object |
| enveloped in smoke. The smoke or mist eventually obscured the object. |
| After 70 seconds the smoke cleared to reveal the object had vanished. |
| (Source: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, October 1972, p. 29). |
| |
| 1975 - Sgt. Charles L. Moody, age 32, was driving through the desert |
| near Alamagordo, New Mexico at 1:20 a.m. when he encountered a |
| metallic, disc-shaped UFO. He remembers a high-pitched sound coming |
| from the object and that his car wouldn't start. He then experienced |
| a lapse of time or memory loss of an hour and a half. He later was |
| able to recall an abduction by two Grey aliens about 4 feet 8 inches |
| tall, with large eyes and heads, slit mouths, and wearing |
| tight-fitting coveralls. The abduction experience involved a medical |
| exam on a table, telepathy, and a message. (Sources: Coral E. |
| Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from |
| Outer Space, p. 38; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS |
| Conference: 1976, p. 267). |
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| 1977 - A 2.2 meter ovoid object landed in a field in Houetteville, |
| Eure department, France at one o'clock in the morning. Ground traces |
| werefound later during a large scale investigation. (Source: Lumieres |
| dans la Nuit, May 1978). |
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| 1978 - Viewed thru binoculars. A silent metallic cylindrical object |
| with a turbine wheel at the rear end was viewed through binoculars |
| for two minutes over Villaverde del Rio, Sevilla province, Spain at |
| 1:00 a.m. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1979). |
| |
| 1982 - At 9:30 p.m. cones maneuvered and joined a large cigar with a |
| row of lights along the side, over the town of Abram in Greater |
| Manchester, England. There were reported EM effects. There were many |
| witnesses to this event, which lasted for 20 minutes. (Source: Jenny |
| Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 89). |
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| 1982 - At 10:45 a.m. a professional videographer filming the Tacoma |
| Dome in Tacoma, Washington noticed something zip by very fast. The |
| videotape shows a dark, domed disc (similar to the McMinnville 1950 |
| photographs) moving fast, and it extends and contracts in flight. |
| Bruce Maccabee analyzed the images. (Source: Donald A. Johnson, MUFON |
| UFO Journal, December 1982, p. 3). |
| |
| 1986 - At 12:30 a.m. in Syracuse, Ohio an air traffic controller and |
| two other witnesses observed red, green and white nocturnal |
| lights flashing in the sky  for 45 minutes. The airport radar |
| confirmed that there were numerous objects hovering and maneuvering |
| in the vicinity. (Source: Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle, case # 1148). |
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| 1986 - At 7:50 p.m. in Indianapolis, Indiana a silent metallic |
| hamburger-shaped domed disc was seen by three witnesses from the |
| sixth floor of a hospital. It flew from north to south at a low |
| altitude. Later, it flew above an airliner, seemingly evading |
| detection by the occupants of the airliner. When it passed above the |
| airliner, it tipped up on one edge and reflected sunlight. It had a |
| pale green haze that was visible along one side. As a special note, a |
| UFO abduction occurred near this location six weeks later on |
| September 30, 1986. (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, International UFO |
| Reporter, November 1986, p. 13; Francis L. Ridge, Regional |
| Encounters, p. 97, citing John Timmerman). |
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| 1989 - An 84-year-old man in Mansura, Louisiana went into his |
| backyard at 10:30 a.m. and saw a small yellow oval or disc-shaped |
| object close by at ground level. He called a second, female witness, |
| who watched from the back door of the house. The 3-foot wide object |
| hovered and moved about at ground level for approximately five |
| minutes, 30 feet away, circled a tree, then flew off vertically and |
| was quickly gone from sight. It made no sound as it flew, and left |
| some ground traces on the lawn. (Sources: Hal Price, MUFON Field |
| Investigations Database, case 890806; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, |
| December 1992). |
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| 1991 - At two a.m. in Maguayo, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Mrs. Camacho |
| encountered two four-foot-tall Grey entities in her garden. They had |
| large skinny heads and narrow chins. They also apparently had no |
| noses, no lips, and slit-like mouths. They took leaves from the plant |
| Monsterosa deliciosa. They mumbled some form of unintelligible |
| gibberish. The witness was unable to move during her encounter, which |
| lasted about two minutes. (Source: Jorge Martin, in Timothy Good |
| (editor), Alien Update, p. 23; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact |
| Database 1991, case #659, citing Timothy Good & Jorge Martin). |
| |
| 1991 - Four men staying at a local guest house near Victoria, Entre |
| Rios, Argentina were alerted to two maneuvering lights in the sky at |
| 10 p.m. One was yellow and the other red, and they first moved up and |
| down, then in a triangular pattern. One of the lights then descended |
| onto the road near the guesthouse. Two dark human-like figures |
| emerged from the landed object and appeared to float above the ground |
| moving around back and forth. Although they were human-like, their |
| heads were slightly larger than normal. Suddenly the light |
| illuminating the object turned off, and a white bowl-shaped object |
| could be discerned. A few of the witnesses were not able to see the |
| figures completely, and only saw their arms and legs. Later that same |
| evening a man reported that he had been abducted, and awakened in a |
| nearby garden as a blue beam was being retracted into a departing |
| UFO. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, |
| case # 1466, citing Roberto Banchs, Cuadernos De Ufologia, Volume 15, |
| Number 2, 1993; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 312). |
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| 1992 - On this morning at around 9 a.m. a woman was sitting at her |
| dining room table in Salem, Oregon facing the living room with the |
| kitchen to her left, when she caught sight of something outside her |
| kitchen window. It was a short hairless greenish-gray figure that |
| walked quickly into her kitchen. It stopped and stood briefly by a |
| kitchen storage cabinet. She attempted to communicate with the |
| creature telepathically, but it suddenly vanished. The figure had an |
| elongated head and what appeared to be large "eyelids" drawn over the |
| eyes. Her dog did not seem to react to the intruder. Twenty minutes |
| later when she sat down again at the dining room table a greenish |
| three-fingered hand touched her wrist quickly from behind her. The |
| touch was very painful, almost like an "electric shock", and then the |
| alien hand vanished. Two days later the witness noticed a round red |
| mark on her wrist. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact |
| Database 1992, case # 1355, citing Linda Moulton Howe, Glimpses of |
| Other Realities, Volume I). |
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| 1994 - From Charron Island in Montreal, Quebec, Canada a white |
| disc-shaped object "moved in silence between 6,000 and 8,000 meters" |
| altitude at 10:30 p.m. It was seen by two witnesses. (Source: Frank |
| Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 90). |
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| 1994 - At 11:00 p.m. several witnesses including police in Salisbury, |
| North Carolina watched nocturnal lights hover, orbit, and dance in |
| the sky for two hours. A light in the distance was seen dropping red |
| dots. They finally scattered in four directions. (Source: UFO |
| Newsclipping Service, October 1994). |
| |
| 1995 - At 12:45 a.m. a starlike object zig-zagged eight times during |
| its descent over Rennes, Ile-Vilaine department, France. It seemed to |
| enlarge as in descended. A dark mass was perceived at low altitude, |
| but was lost from view behind some trees. On the same night there was |
| an occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European |
| surveillance area. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 334; |
| Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109). |
| |
| 1998 - Several people in Surrey, British Columbia observed a bright |
| white disc "drop out of the sky" and hover nearby for about 30 |
| seconds. No sound was heard, and it disappeared at a high rate of |
| speed. Many telephone reports were received by the RCMP. (Source: |
| Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case #71). |
| |
| 2000 - A saucer-shaped object was observed moving erratically around |
| a cloud in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada at 8:15 p.m. Central Time. |
| (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 136). |
| |
| 2002 - At one a.m. two silvery luminous objects flew silently over a |
| RV park in Waterville, Nova Scotia, Canada. At 2:15 a.m. at Cow Bay, |
| Nova Scotia, Canada a huge triangular-shaped object blocked out stars |
| as it flew very slowly at 15 km/hour towards the northwest. Its flat |
| side was forward as it flew, and it was absolutely silent. Electrical |
| disturbances were also reported. (Source: Geoff Dittman Geoff, 2002 |
| Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 344 & 345, citing Don Ledger). |
| |
| 2003 - A black boomerang-shaped object passed low and fast over |
| Napoleonville in southern Louisiana at 7:25 p.m. It made no sound as |
| it flew. The sighting was brief, lasting about six seconds. (Source: |
| Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2002 |
| archived webpage). |
| |
| 2005 - The pilot of an Air France airliner reported sighting a UFO 10 |
| miles west of Gatwick Airport, Sussex, England. The object was |
| estimated to be 1-2 metres in length. It had a yellow color and was |
| cylindrical in shape. It was definitely not shaped like a balloon. |
| (Source: British Ministry of Defense, case 2005-071). |
| |
| 2006 - At 1:35 a.m. in Chatham, Ontario multiple disk-like objects |
| were seen shooting beams of white light back and forth to one |
| another. (Sources: Peter Davenport National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle, August 2006 archived webpage, report posted October 30, |
| 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 504). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 2 July 2008). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: aircraft encounters, blue be |
| am of light, blue UFO, compass deflection, dancing nocturnal lights, |
| disc-shaped UFOs, death possibly caused by ray from UFO, EM vehicle i |
| gnition interference effects, exploding UFO, green beam of light, fog |
| or smoke used to hide UFO, ground traces, high pitched whining sound |
| , landings, multi-year reports from near Gatwick Airport, Grey humano |
| ids, orange light, radar visual confirmation, radio frequency interfe |
| rence, red flame, sensation of heat, short humanoids, silent UFOs, sw |
| ishing sound, tripod landing gear, vertical ascent, yellow coveralls. |
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