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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  January 13 |
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| 1910 -  Several thousand people in Chattanooga, Tennessee watched a |
| white cigar-shaped object that passed rapidly over the city at around |
| 11:00 a.m. at 500 to 1,000 feet altitude. It disappeared into a bank |
| of smoke along the river. "Flags on the custom house hung limp [so |
| the wind]…would not have propelled a...balloon." (Sources: Donald E. |
| Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships |
| to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th |
| Century (1900-1946), p. 8; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious |
| Business, p. 27). |
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| 1957 - Two men, West and Liddell, watched as a forty meter in |
| diameter fluorescent oval-shaped object nearly touched down on the |
| grass in Balfour, New Zealand at 3:10 a.m., but it jumped away as the |
| two men approached. It changed to a bluish-white sphere with a dark |
| red center. It cleared a fence, and then vanished. (Source: Richard |
| F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 106). |
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| 1958 - At 6:30 p.m. in Casino, New South Wales, Australia Brian |
| Crittendon, age 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object that emitted a |
| narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened that he |
| drove home on a flat tire, followed for five kilometers by the |
| object, which was about 50 meters away from him and 10 meters above |
| ground. It overtook his car at a speed in excess of 100 km/h. Radio |
| interference was noted but the UFO made no noise. There was an |
| independent witness to the UFO. (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs in the |
| Southern Hemisphere, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A |
| Century of Landings, case 457; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving |
| Vehicle Interference, case 89). |
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| 1959 - A witness driving alone in Bygholm, Denmark saw a stationary |
| object ahead in the sky. After about five seconds the object moved |
| toward the car and passed over it at a height of 100 meters. The |
| car's engine stopped at this point but the headlights were not |
| affected. The object, which now changed color from yellow-green to |
| yellow-white, moved quickly away into the west. (Sources: Richard |
| Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving |
| Vehicle Interference, case 97, FSR, Vol. 5, No. 5) |
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| 1959 - At 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins, while driving a pick-up truck |
| near Greenville, Pennsylvania, noticed lights in the sky he thought |
| were a plane making an emergency landing. The lights eventually |
| coalesced into a single bright light. This light then hovered over |
| his truck for several minutes. His truck's engine, lights, and radio |
| failed at this point. The light, which was too bright for Mr. ColIins |
| to discern any structure, departed quickly to the west and out of |
| sight in 30 seconds. The truck then could be restarted. (Sources: |
| Greenville (PA) Record-Argus, January 31, 1959; Mark Rodeghier, UFO |
| Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 98, citing Coral & Jim |
| Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 75). |
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| 1967 - Nine-year old Freddie Amos woke up at 1:30 a.m. in his |
| farmhouse in Iola, Kansas to see a round object hovering motionless |
| low over an adjoining field. It was 25 feet in diameter, had a dome |
| on top, short wing-like protrusions, and three wheels on its |
| underside. There were red lights on the ends of the "wings," and a |
| blue light on top of the dome. A man stood inside the dome looking |
| out, and another man was visible sitting behind a console behind him. |
| The man standind wore a "crinkly" green uniform that covered him |
| entirely; his face was in shadow and his facial features could not be |
| seen. This "terrible" man frightened the boy although he could not |
| say why. He got back into bed but continued to watch the object, |
| which circled his house and hovered again for five minutes back in |
| its original position before flying off. In the morning some of their |
| cows were found to have broken through the fence around their |
| pasture. One had broken her leg. A pond in the pasture near the site |
| continued to remain unfrozen although the temperatures were well |
| below freezing. This encounter occurred during a minor concentration |
| of UFO sightings at nearby locales. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-7, citing |
| Mary Conger for NICAP; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database |
| 1967, case 26). |
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| 1967 - At 10:00 p.m. Pilot Carl M., a flight officer, and passenger |
| Jimmie Moran on a Lear Jet 23 en route from Houston, Texas to Las |
| Vegas, Nevada flying at 41,000 feet and 300 knots saw a red oval |
| luminous object in the 10 o'clock position. The object split into |
| four similar red oval objects vertically a number of times, each |
| separated by about 2,000 ft and each emitting a "red ray". They then |
| retracted up into the top object. Albuquerque radar tracked the |
| object 39 miles ahead of the Lear jet moving on the same heading, |
| with no transponder signal. The object blinked off visually for 30 |
| seconds then blinked back on. Albuquerque control contacted a |
| National Airlines DC-8 over Casa Grande, Arizona, whose pilot |
| confirmed the Lear Jet pilot's reports. Albuquerque control warned |
| the Lear that the object suddenly darted towards the Lear at high |
| speed, and within seconds the radar blips merged. The object flooded |
| the Lear Jet with intense red light so bright the pilot had |
| difficulty seeing his instrument panel, and it maintained a position |
| in front of the Lear for a few minutes. Then, it blinked off-on again |
| and started to fall back behind the left wing, but then pulled |
| forward again. When the object blinked off the Albuquerque radar |
| controllers would lose contact with the object, then regain it when |
| it blinked on again. Both the UFO and Lear jet made left turns over |
| Winslow, Arizona, when Los Angeles ARTC Center radar picked up both |
| targets. Past Flagstaff the object climbed at a 30° angle |
| disappearing to the west in less than 10 seconds. (Source: J. Allen |
| Hynek, Hynek UFO Experience, p. 72; Charles Bowen, FSR, May-June |
| 1972, p. 13, Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; |
| UNICAT, case # 318). |
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| 1968 - At 6:20 a.m. in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania a large round |
| white object, at times reddish, emitted smaller satellite objects |
| that maneuvered independently. The larger UFO was 40 to 50 feet in |
| diameter UFO and about 350 feet in the air. It rose slowly, and gave |
| off a white haze. The white light then changed color from red |
| to reddish-orange then back to white. It emitted four small red balls |
| of light from a hatch, then five white ones. There were at least 20 |
| witnesses. That night in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania the Rev. R. |
| Mossir reported sighting four pulsating objects leaving a white UFO, |
| which seemed to explode in the sky after the red objects left it. |
| (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1968, p. 1; Skylook, |
| February 1968, p. 1 & 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume |
| II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 414). |
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| 1969 - In Vado Ligure, Italy at around 6 p.m. an eight meter |
| in diameter circular object was seen taking off from a construction |
| site, crushed grass was found at the landing site. (Sources: Larry |
| Hatch, U computer database, case # 8708; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case |
| 63). |
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| 1970 - A witness riding on a motorcycle on highway D123 north of |
| Cramoisy in Oise department, France encountered a low flying, slow |
| moving, 10 meter long sausage-shaped object with a row of portholes |
| in front at 6:45 a.m. The witness felt sick later. (Source: Larry |
| Hatch, U computer database, case # 9556, citing LDLN Lecteurs). |
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| 1977 - At 12:30 a.m. a 17-year-old woman driving in Plantation, |
| Florida had her car paced by a disc-shaped object. It engaged in |
| erratic maneuvers, and then was joined by a second disc. Both objects |
| flew off to the east. They did not appear on radar. (Source: Allan |
| Hendry, International UFO Reporter, pp. 2 & 36). |
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| 1979 - On this evening, perhaps as early as 4:30 p.m., a 50-year-old |
| farmer named Mancini in Viterbo, Italy spotted a large blindingly |
| bright fiery red sphere descend in a nearby pasture. The sphere |
| changed colors to a bright orange and then to red, and finally dimmed |
| to reveal a two-meter wide metallic sphere. A small man only 20 |
| inches tall, wearing a silvery white suit, emerged from the object |
| and walked around the object, frequently bending down as if he was |
| picking things up. Frightened, the witness ran away from the scene. |
| The object took off and flew to the northwest. (Sources: Jane Thomas, |
| UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15 , citing Hoja Lunes, Jan. |
| 15, 1979; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 143; Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case # 13608; BUFORA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3; Albert S. |
| Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 996). |
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| 1979 - At 11:50 a.m. a 12-year-old boy named Suarez, the son of the |
| school's janitor, was alone in a school room in Loreto, Santiago del |
| Estero province, Argentina when he heard a sudden noise. Looking |
| around, he saw a rectangular silvery object, five feet tall by two |
| feet wide and three feet long, hovering a few inches above the |
| schoolyard ground. Two flaps opened on the sides of the object and |
| two little men emerged and descended. Each was about three feet tall |
| and dressed in shiny aluminum colored one-piece coveralls, and their |
| hands had only four fingers. Both wore helmets with dark faceplates |
| that covered the eyes. They each had a device with a tube and |
| clock-like instrument attached. They entered the school and one being |
| grabbed the boy. A voice coming from the object spoke to him in |
| Spanish telling him to sit down. Once seated the boy was paralyzed |
| and unable to move from the chair, while one of the beings went into |
| another room and the other went back inside the object. A reddish |
| beam of light from the object knocked the witness out. When he woke |
| up later the object and beings were gone, but a strong sulphurous |
| odor remained behind. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping |
| Service, April 1979, p. 15; citing Cronica, Jan. 16, 1979; FSR, July |
| 1979, p. 21; Thomas E Bullard, UFO Abductions, The Measure of A |
| Mystery, case 53; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, |
| case # 499). |
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| 2000 - Three pinkish-red objects were sighted travelling in vertical |
| formation in Mount Warrigal, New South Wales, Australia at 10:55 p.m. |
| They then performed incredible acrobatics for the next 20 minutes. |
| (Sources: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 52; Australasian Ufologist, |
| July 2000, p. 50 & January 2001, p. 46). |
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| 2000 - Late on this night in Jacksonville, Florida a woman suddenly |
| awoke to find herself being dropped onto her bed by a non-human |
| looking entity. Close to her face she saw a huge head on a thin body. |
| At the same time she felt a puff of breath coming from the entity's |
| open mouth. She sensed that the being was surprised that she had |
| woken up. Although terrified, she still fell asleep. (Source: Albert |
| S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3441, citing South |
| Florida Skyscan). |
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| 2007 - In Vaughan, Ontario a cigar-shaped object flew parallel to the |
| highway at midnight, gliding quietly like a submarine. The object had |
| illuminated windows. The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. (Source: |
| Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 16, citing NUFORC). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 December 2009). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: aircraf |
| t UFO encounter, bedroom visitation, car pursuits, cigar-shaped UFOs, |
| color changing UFOs, domed discs, crinkly green uniform, landings, m |
| ulti-year reports from Pennsylvania, paralysis, radio frequency inter |
| ference, satellite objects leaving larger UFO, shiny silver uniform, |
| short humanoid UFOnauts, silent UFO, vehicle EM interference effects. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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