+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 24 | | | | 1897 - A man in Louisville, Kentucky heard a buzzing noise, looked | | up, and saw a cigar-shaped craft 200 feet up. He could see the form | | of a man standing at the stern. "He looked at me, and I waved my hat. | | Two other men were sitting in the helm." (Source: Louisville Courier | | Journal, April 25, 1897). | | | | 1909 - At 9:20 in the morning a white ovoid shaped flying object was | | seen in the skies over Florence, Italy. Two men dressed in white | | suits were seen inside. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 254). | | | | 1949 - A high speed, maneuvering object was tracked with a theodolite | | by five government contractors from General Mills as it sped through | | the sky. They were at a missile range near Arrey, New Mexico at 10:20 | | a.m. It looked like a featureless, whitish featureless ellipse, and | | its length was 2.5 times its width. After 60 seconds it disappeared | | in a sharp vertical climb. (Source: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, | | p. 238). | | | | 1950 - At 12:30 a.m. three men watched a crescent-shaped object | | maneuver through the sky over Ansonia, Connecticut. The object looked | | like a half-moon with a squared off end, and was sighted by two | | policemen and a restaurant proprietor. It moved unevenly thru the | | sky. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. | | 33). | | | | 1950 - Later, at 10 p.m. in Abbiate Guazzone, Italy, Sr. Bruno | | Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark, hovering object. | | Nearby stood a man dressed in tight fitting clothes and wearing a | | helmet who seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen | | near the craft. When the work was finished, a trapdoor through which | | light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness | | time to note many details about the craft and its occupants. | | (Sources: Antonio Giudici, Flying Saucer Review, April-May 1975, p. | | 30; Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), | | p. 120; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | p. 195). | | | | 1964 - Dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox saw a shiny, egg-shaped object, | | about eight meters long and six meters wide, in his pasture in Tioga | | City, New York at around ten o'clock in the morning. He spoke in | | English to two short male occupants, 1.2 meters tall, wearing | | seamless clothing and hoods, and carrying trays. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195). | | | | 1964 - Police officer Lonnie Zamora was parked watching for speeders | | on the main highway south of Socorro, New Mexico at 5:45 in the | | afternoon when he saw an whitish metallic ovoid object land in the | | desert behind a rise. He drove his police cruiser over the rise and | | saw an ovoid object with four legs resting in a gully. Two four-foot | | tall beings in white spacesuits stood next to the landed UFO. They | | turned in his direction and then went inside the UFO. A loud roar was | | heard during a vertical takeoff as the object emitted a flame from | | the bottom. The foliage in the area was scorched black, and there | | were four holes in the ground surrounding the burned area. The case | | was personally investigated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek for Project Blue | | Book. Everyone, except UFO debunker Phillip Klass who visited Socorro | | four years later, regards the testimony of Mr. Zamora as highly | | credible. A married couple saw the object north of the city at 5:30 | | p.m. before it landed, and seven other witnesses saw it flying south | | of Socorro shortly before 6:00 p.m. (Sources: Project Blue Book, case | | 8766; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting | | Reports, pp. 92-97; Ray Stanford, Socorro Saucer in a Pentagon | | Pantry, Austin, Texas: Blueapple Books, 1976). | | | | Socorro, New Mexico Landing & Occupant - 1964 | | | | [] | | | | 1966 - At 3:30 a.m. Mr. Tom M. Lasseter, an architect, was camping | | near the Pedernales River in Texas when he was awakened by a | | fluttering sound and observed a glowing white disc that was at | | treetop level 60 meters away. It was seven meters in diameter and had | | a row of lights. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 764). | | | | 1966 - Thirty minutes later, at 5:00 a.m. Eastern time, Mrs. Kalnicki | | saw a multicolored domed disc with blinking red lights on its rim | | move between two apartment buildings in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It | | had a yellow light on top, and emitted a humming noise.There were a | | total of five witnesses, and the sighting lasted 12 minutes. (Source: | | Walter Webb, case files report #63; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange | | Effects from UFOs, p. 46; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: | | A Thirty Year Report, p. 320; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO | | Investigator, p. 173). | | | | Dorcester, Massachusetts - 1966 | | | | [] | | | | 1966 - At 6:10 p.m. two men in Ashby, Massachusetts saw an object | | dive within 30 meters of their car. It was silent, had a bright blue | | light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was lost to sight toward Mt. | | Watatic. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 763). | | | | 1969 - On this night there were several reports of an 18-foot-tall | | phantom either walking or floating along at 20 mph in Nova Scotia. | | The tall shadowy figure consisted of a very dark humanoid form. A | | large numbers of cars had assembled at Berwick, Nova Scotia to | | observe the monster. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-31, citing an unnamed | | newspaper source). | | | | 1970 - A Soviet supersonic bomber allegedly disappeared without a | | trace in the area of Olekminsk, Russia on April 24, provoking a | | widescale search involving 150 aircraft. Many of the pilots reported | | seeing large unidentified craft hanging high in the sky, far out of | | missile range. Soviet reconnaissance planes were sent up, scouring | | and photographing every square kilometer of the terrain in a | | fruitless search for the bomber's wreckage. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Branton's War in | | Heaven File). | | | | 1971 - Mrs. F, a woman from Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia and | | her 13-year-old daughter were going home by taxi at 7:30 p.m. On | | passing Roberts Park they saw an object hovering over the lighted | | field where youths were playing football. The field lights formed a | | king of "ceiling" over the field and is unlikely that had they looked | | up, the players could have seen anything. The object was "football | | shaped," the interior light being "the brightest blue imaginable." | | The top portion of the UFO was transparent and the bottom was a | | greenish metallic "like gun metal" color with three large transparent | | portholes. The object was tilted downward at an angle revealing three | | tall humanoid figures, over six feet tall, in the transparent upper | | half of the UFO. One of the occupants pointed down at the witness and | | then turned toward a rectangular, lighted area. Mrs F. asked the | | cabbie, a Greek immigrant, to stop the taxi, but he accelerated away | | and drove them straight to her home without stopping. He left in a | | frightened state without collecting his fare. (Source: David F. Webb | | and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1971-15, citing Keith Basterfield). | | | | 1972 - At two o'clock in the morning Mrs. Taylor, an elderly woman | | suffering from insomnia, was up late in her apartment in Manchester, | | England when she saw out her window, above a tall factory chimney, a | | glowing yellowish white ball-shaped UFO. A figure wearing boots | | emerged from the sphere. The object eventually seemed to dissolve | | "within itself." She watched the humanoid for a period of two hours, | | and it gave her the impression of an "astronaut landing on the moon." | | (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1972-08, citing Roy Dutton, Joan Nesltrop for BUFORA; | | Peter Rogerson). | | | | 1977 - At around one o'clock in the morning Mrs. Pauline Coombs, age | | 31, and her husband Billy, age 36, were watching television at their | | Ripperston farm near Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales when they saw a | | silver suited figure at their window. Pauline saw it first, but said | | nothing to her husband until he saw it himself. "It must have been | | over seven feet tall," because it was too tall to see its face." It | | was quite wide--about three feet--and surrounded by a luminous glow. | | It was wearing a box-shaped helmet that framed a dark squarish area | | in which no face was visible. They called Randall Jones Pugh, the | | BUFORA investigator, and the police immediately, but the figure had | | gone before either arrived. Mrs. Coombs and her family had been | | involved in several other close encounter incidents prior and after | | this encounter. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-23, citing Randall Jones | | Pugh, BUFORA). | | | | 1980 - Two roofers working in the late evening at 9:00 p.m. sighted a | | bright yellow disc-shaped UFO rise vertically from Lake Norman | | Reservoir, not far from a nuclear power plant in Rutherford County, | | North Carolina. It made a loop in the sky and flew away. (Sources: | | George D. Fawcett, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; UFO Magazine | | (USA), June 1990, p. 33). | | | | 1984 - Radar visual confirmation. At 7:10 p.m. a 1000 foot long | | cigar-shaped object followed a KC-135 USAF tanker aircraft through a | | U-turn over the mountains of Chimayo, New Mexico while separate | | nocturnal lights cavorted about in the sky. Radar blips were tracked | | at the time. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1984). | | | | 1989 - At 10:45 p.m. several witnesses, including 53-year-old A. D. | | Golovatskaya, watched a fiery green elongated craft fly low over the | | rooftops of Kharovsk, Russia. It had a blunt nose and a fish-shaped | | tail. The craft was silent and appeared to be made of crystal. Four | | figures wearing silvery, tight-fitting uniforms were seen inside the | | object, two in the rear and two at the front apparently operating | | some controls. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1989, case # 668, citing V.D. Musinskiy, FSR, Volume 35, No. 3). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 30 June 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: blue UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, human-loo | | king occupants, humming sound, multi-year reports from New Mexico and | | Italy, mystery aircraft disappearance, nautical UFO: seen rising fro | | m lake, nuclear facility, occupants wearing white clothing, ovoid or | | football-shaped UFOs, radar-visual confirmation, short humanoids, sil | | ver suits, spheres, tall humanoids, very tall shadowy phantom figure. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+