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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  June 24 |
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| 1947 - On this morning a prospector named Johnson in the Hood River |
| region of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon sighted five or six discs |
| flying silently overhead, heading toward the southeast. He noticed |
| that his compass began spinning when the discs passed over. His watch |
| also stopped running. (Sources: Phoenix Arizona Republic, June 26, |
| 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 30; Thomas M. |
| Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 1). |
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| 1947 - At 2:58 p.m. Kenneth Arnold, flying his private plane near |
| Mount Rainier, Washington was attracted by reflected sunlight from |
| nine distant metallic flying objects. He watched as they flashed |
| across the sky, one behind the other, "skipping as saucers upon |
| water." They tilted back and forth as they flew. One object was |
| definitely crescent shaped, the others may have been disc shaped or |
| crescent shaped with a 10 to 1 width to thickness ratio. He clocked |
| them as they flew past Mount Adams, and calculated that they were |
| flying at a speed of 1,500 miles per hour and at an altitude of 9,500 |
| feet. When he landed in Pendleton, Oregon he was interviewed at the |
| local radio station where the term "flying saucer" was first coined, |
| despite the fact that the objects he sighted may not have been discs. |
| (Sources: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. |
| 9; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; The Oregonian, |
| June 26, 1947; Kevin Randle, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 87; |
| UNICAT database, case 354, citing Bruce Maccabee). |
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| 1953 - A woman in Hampton Bay, New York saw something like "a large |
| aircraft" about 30 meters wide flying very slowly and low at 6:30 |
| p.m. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming |
| straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still |
| thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near |
| her, only 25 meters above the ground. Then it flew backward over the |
| water and hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top |
| section supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four |
| portholes through which a control panel was visible. No occupants |
| were seen. The cabin section rose above the object, rotated, then |
| glided back. The object tilted toward the west and rose toward the |
| southeast, disappearing within three seconds at an 80-degree angle of |
| climb after the three minute long sighting. Two days later a |
| yellowish moss was observed at the site. (Sources: Project Blue Book |
| files counted in official statistics, June 1953, case 22; Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203 (case |
| 112)). |
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| 1964 - Fifteen or more disc-shaped objects paced a truck driver and |
| his wife in Vero Beach, Florida in the predawn hours. The discs flew |
| along, tipping back and forth. They formed a V formation, then a |
| circular formation; finally the objects split the formation and |
| passed on either side of a group of trees. (Source: NICAP UFO |
| Investigator, August 1964, p. 1). |
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| 1965 - A saucer-shaped object with a conical top, and rows of lights |
| across the front and along the side flew over Nebo, Queensland, |
| Australia. It glowed bluish-white and had a red tail. At 10:00 p.m. |
| in Mundilla, South Australia a round object with red, green, and |
| white lights flew away over the horizon. (Sources: (1) Michael |
| Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155; (2) APRO Bulletin, |
| January-February 1966). |
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| 1966 - Police officer William L. Stevens had a close encounter with a |
| dirigible-shaped object 100 feet long and 30 feet thick at 3:30 a.m. |
| He was driving on the Henrico Turnpike in Richmond, Virginia when the |
| UFO approached. It had alternating white and greenish-yellow lights |
| around its perimeter, and it was surrounded by a mist. It began to |
| play a game of cat and mouse with his police cruiser. "It seemed to |
| be playing with me," he said. It moved away when the officer turned |
| on its flashing lights, maintaining a distance of a few hundred feet. |
| After several minutes it departed, accelerating suddenly and making a |
| high speed vertical climb. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, |
| p. 261; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 9; Richard F. |
| Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 164; MUFON UFO |
| Journal, June 1991, p. 12; UNICAT database, case 654, citing James E. |
| McDonald). |
| 1967, Trenton, Maine - Two people sighted a silver-gray, hat-shaped |
| object hovering about 500 feet from the shoreline in Trenton, Maine |
| at around 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It emitted a vapor at its |
| base. The object ascended into a fog bank and descended again at a |
| greater distance before moving away. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs |
| Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 349). |
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| Trenton, Maine Daylight Disc Report - 1967 |
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| 1967 - A man walking alone at night along a bridal path in Bovington, |
| England came upon a strange figure bent down by the side of the path. |
| The figure was short and was wearing what looked like a black, |
| one-piece leather suit. He had a trowel in his hand and appeared to |
| be digging in the earth. When he noticed the witness approaching the |
| figure made a strange, high-pitched sound and was lost from sight. |
| (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
| Humanoid Reports, case 1967-51 (A1559), citing Jenny Randles, |
| Awareness, Winter 1977). |
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| 1968 - A young woman named Torres was awakened at 1:10 a.m. in Laguna |
| Raiva, Santa Fe, Argentina by an intense humming sound. She then |
| noticed an oval-shaped light in the corner of her bedroom and inside |
| the light stood two strangely dressed beings. They both wore metallic |
| diving suits and helmets with visors. One was taller than the other |
| and luminous white beams of light emanated from the tips of the |
| fingers of both entities and from their visors and lower abdomens. |
| Both beings vanished suddenly. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
| Contact Database 1968, case #822, citing Dr. Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, |
| Vol. 27 # 1). |
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| 1971 - At 11:00 p.m. in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhine, France a disc-shaped |
| object was seen tilting in the sky at 15 meters altitude above a |
| residential neighborhood. It leveled off, then lights were seen upon |
| the ground. At the site a depressed circle and ground marks were |
| found. (Source: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO |
| Sightings, case 481, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 117). |
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| 1977 - At one o'clock in the morning a UFO was sighted hovering over |
| the sea from the coastal town of La Caleta, in the Dominican |
| Republic. Sr. Cruz watched as the object extended a tube from its |
| bottom, and then sucked up water. Two occupants could be seen inside |
| the object, viewed through windows in the craft. Sr. Cruz's car |
| engine failed, and he felt a numbing sensation in his arms and legs. |
| (Sources: Leonte Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 6; Stendek, |
| September 1978, p. 5). |
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| 1995 - A small disc-shaped object hovered over a truck in |
| Farmingdale, New York at 11:30 p.m. at night. The driver could tell |
| the UFO was close because it hovered below the low, overcast sky, so |
| he got out of his vehicle and attempted to chase the UFO on foot, to |
| no avail. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| 1995 archive). |
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| 2002 - A luminous white saucer-shaped object zigzagged around the |
| Moon for several minutes in Deerfield Beach, Florida at 11:10 p.m. |
| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2002 |
| webpage archive). |
| 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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| Themes: b |
| edroom visitation; buzzing sounds; car pursuit; compass deflection; d |
| isc-shaped UFOs, ground traces; humanoids vanishing suddenly; humming |
| sounds; inside occupants; mist, fog or vapor; oscillating motion; ph |
| ysiological effect: numbness; short humanoid digging in the ground; t |
| ipping back-and-forth flight path; vertical ascent, zigzag maneuvers. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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