+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  February 19 | | | | 1951 - Twelve witnesses flying in an airliner, including two men name | | Bicknell and Merrifield, while flying near Mount Kilimanjaro in | | Tanzania sighted a 200 foot long bullet shaped UFO at 7:20 a.m. At | | one end of the object was a square-cut, vertical fin. The body of the | | craft was a dull silver cover, but at intervals along the fuselage | | were dark vertical bands. The object hovered over Mount Kilimanjaro | | for several minutes, then moved away fast towards the east at an | | estimated speed of 1,000 km per hour. They took a photograph of it. | | (Sources: Nairobi Sun Post, February 25, 1951; Thomas M. Olsen, The | | Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 9; J. Bernard | | Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), p. 36; Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics; Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri-News, January | | 1990). | | | | 1952 - A reddish-orange fireball zig-zagged for 15 minutes over | | Corona, California shortly after 6:00 p.m. In addition to zigzagging | | the ball of light swooped up and down. There were three witnesses. | | The case was listed as an unknown by Project Blue Book. At 8:00 p.m. | | three or more green balls of light stopped in midair in Richmond, | | California. They then shot away to the south-southwest toward San | | Francisco. (Sources: (1) Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 2364; (1) & (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1952: January-May, p. 18). | | | | 1956 - An Eastern Airlines flight crew reported that a white | | nocturnal light buzzed their plane over Houston, Texas at 6:07 p.m., | | and then paced them for 28 minutes. A Project Blue Book unknown. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book "unidentified" case #3977; Robert | | Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1992, p. 15; Don Berliner, | | Project Blue Book Unknowns, p. 25). | | | | 1962 - Three commercial fishermen driving south on the Dauphin Island | | Toll Bridge Causeway in Alabama saw a reddish-orange object to the | | south at about 10° elevation at 6:00 p.m. It changed shape from a | | round spherical object to an ellipsoidal, football shape, and then | | became covered with a (possibly artificially produced) fog.The object | | was estimated to be about one-third the apparent diameter of the sun. | | They stopped the car to call Dauphin Island AFS radar site (693rd | | Radar Squadron), which by coincidence happened to have two airmen | | driving north on the causeway in the opposite direction, and who also | | saw the object to the west. It was therefore possible to triangulate | | the object's location at about 30°16' N, 88° 10' W, and between 2-5 | | miles away from the civilian observers; the object's actual size was | | computed to be at least 30 feet in length. No radar contact was | | reported. Venus had set 30 minutes earlier. (Sources: Robert D. Boyd, | | A Comparative Unit, p. 89; UNICAT, case # 449; Francis Ridge, | | www.nicap.com\Chronology\1962 UFO Chronology.htm). | | | | 1964 - On this evening in Gum Creek, South Australia Mrs. Player saw | | a yellow glowing domed disc-shaped object approach, and then hover | | making a "tick-a-tick" sound. Inside the transparent dome of the | | craft a man could be seen standing at "wooden railing". (Sources: | | Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0582). | | | | 1967 - At 4:30 p.m. Mrs. Lambert and Mrs. Rigel watched a gun-metal | | gray blunt oval shaped disc, about 25 feet in diameter with a rough | | bottom, hovering at 20 feet altitude over a plaza in Hollywood, | | Florida. It had a row of revolving green lights, a row of yellow | | windows, and an antenna. The heads of people could be seen looking | | out from inside the windows of the craft. (Sources: David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0789; | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, | | p. 328). | | | | 1967 - On this night some prominent local citizens had a close | | encounter with a 50-60 foot wide domed disc-shaped object with a | | large window on top and a band of colored lights on the bottom. It | | crossed the highway in Lane City, Texas just 54 meters ahead of | | the car at treetop level. It then stopped and hovered, and | | finally sped away. (Sources: Houston Tribune, 19670223; Richard H. | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328 & | | 452). | | | | 1968 - Mrs. Martha Heggs of Bengough, Saskatchewan, Canada had a | | close encounter with a metallic disc-shaped object with large windows | | around the domed top. It circled around her farm making a | | high-pitched sound. Her dog cowered in the snow, and the cattle | | bolted. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A | | Thirty Year Report, p. 12. 280, & 375). | | | | Bengough, Saskatchewan, Canada CE-I with Animal Reaction - 1968 | | | | [Sketch of Bengough, Saskatchewan Close Encounter - 1968] | | | | 1973 - At 15 meter wide box-shaped object with a dome on top hovered | | over a reservoir in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, making a humming | | sound. A second object flew by fast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 10375, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1976). | | | | 1974 - A police officer and a gas station operator in Rochester, | | Minnesota saw a UFO "bigger than a wrecker truck" at 11:27 p.m. It | | had a white dome shell on top, several afterburners flaming from the | | bottom, and flew at an altitude of only 100 feet. (Sources: CUFOS | | case files, report dated February 20, 1974; George D. Fawcett, FSR, | | January 1975, p. 30; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, November 1974). | | | | 1975 - A woman driving in Orbak, Denmark reported that at 7:19 | | p.m.--the same moment that a large circular object descended behind | | her VW car--the engine and lights failed completely. The object gave | | off a brilliant blue luminescence and the witness felt a sensation of | | increased heat in its presence and a prickly sensation. After a few | | moments the object abruptly vanished and the car could be started. | | The witness became physically ill after the sighting. There were | | marks left on the car. (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, case 378, citing MUFON UFO Journal, | | August 1976; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty | | Year Report, p. 255). | | | | 1976 - During a series of close encounter reports from the city of | | North Bergen, New Jersey, at two o'clock in the morning a Mr. | | Daliz noticed a human figure in Hudson Park with a light attached to | | his head, bent over and apparently picking things up from the ground | | and putting them into a little bag. The witness thought the man was | | wearing a one-piece uniform, and seemed to be dragging his feet as he | | walked. He continued doing this activity for 20 minutes. No UFO was | | seen at the time. (Sources: Ted Bloecher, FSR, October 1976, p. 6; | | Ted Bloecher, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1976, p. 14; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-39 | | (A1460), citing Bloecher, Stoehrer & Hopkins). | | | | 1978 - Six witnesses in Louhans, Saône-et-Loire, France reported | | seening a dark disc-shaped object that ascended from a field behind a | | house. It had portholes around its perimeter, and made a noise on | | takeoff. The incident lasted several hours. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, December 1978). | | | | 1978 - At 10:15 p.m. a Mrs. Moon of Tucson, Arizona witnessed two | | plain coin-shaped discs that flew silently to the north from over | | housetops to the hills. (Source: APRO Bulletin, January-February | | 1978, p. 1). | | | | 1979 - At noon four police officers viewed a bluish silvery disc in | | the sky over Dixon, Solano County, California through binoculars. It | | looked "like a frisbee that was dropped and floating down." The outer | | portions of the object looked reflective but it was dark in the | | middle. No weather balloons were in the area at the time. (Source: | | Dixon Tribune, February 22, 1979; UFO Newsclipping Service, April | | 1979, p. 2) | | | | 1981 - At 8:20 a.m. a silver cylinder looking like a flute flew | | silently over the city of Kunming, Yunan Province, China at low | | altitude on a clear day. town, silent, clear sky. At 5:50 p.m. an | | object shaped like a double cylinder, similar to a tuna can on top of | | a soup can, maneuvered over a mining area in the mountains of | | Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China making a roaring sound. (Source: | | Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, pp. 207-208). | | | | 1981 - On this evening Mr. & Mrs. Morgan in Corte Madera, California | | had a close encounter with a gray metallic, rounded disc-shaped | | object the size of a house. It hovered over some trees giving off | | a pink and blue aura. It had brilliant square headlights and a blue | | light underneath. It made a deep, low-pitched sound like a | | hydroelectric plant. (Source: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, January | | 1982, p. 8). | | | | 1982 - At 9:15 p.m. Juan Fattorel, age 41, was driving his truck | | along a secondary road in Allen, Rio Negro Province, Argentina when | | his engine suddenly cut out. He coasted to a stop and pulled over to | | the side of the road. He next heard a loud buzzing sound coming | | somewhere from his left and in close proximity. When he looked he | | saw a small silvery mushroom-shaped disc hovering a meter over the | | ground about 10 meters away. It appeared to be balancing itself with | | short ascending and descending movements. At that moment his eyesight | | began to become blurry. He next heard a deep "electronic" voice | | coming from the object, which sounded somewhat threatening in nature. | | It told him to step out of the truck. Frightened, he refused to move, | | thinking he would be robbed. When he attempted to restart the truck | | he felt a painful, tingling sensation in his neck and blacked out. He | | experienced at least 20 minutes of missing time. When he woke up he | | was unable to see clearly, with a buzzing sound in his ears and still | | feeling some pain in his neck. He had some unexplained burns on | | his skin. A passing motorist picked him up, and he was hospitalized | | in a state of confusion, shock, and disorientation. (Sources: La | | Razon, Feb. 23, 1982; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1983, p. 18; | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, | | p. 258 & 271; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, | | citing Alejandro Chinetti, UFO Press # 15, January 1983). | | | | 1983 - A class of school children, a football team, and police | | officers Mike Troake and G. Humphreys witnessed a huge triangle | | during the daytime as it passed overhead in Swansea, West Glamorgan, | | Wales. It flew along the coastline at various points. It was | | completely silent, and the front was shaped like a Zeppelin. (Source: | | Sun Mirror, February 20, 1983; Gary Hazeltine, Police Reports of UFOs | | (PRUS) Online Database, case # 110). | | | | 1993 - A huge stingray shaped object with a fat belly, wider than it | | was long, was sighted flying over Goodrich, Michigan at 5:00 a.m. by | | a 39-year-old woman. Its underside was glowing. It was described as | | having massive wings that swept forward and ended in rounded tips. It | | also had a large round brilliant light on the leading edge midpoint | | of each wing. (Source: Shirley Coyne, MUFON case files, case # | | 930614C). | | | | 1993 - At 6:20 a.m. a bus driver and two passengers saw a 300 foot in | | diameter round object with white lights hovering over a park in | | Panther, West Virginia. It stayed there until 10:30 a.m.  Later that | | evening at 8:30 p.m. in nearby Georges Forks, West Virginia an | | ambulance crew driving along Panther Creek spotted a saucer with red, | | blue and green flashing body lights around its base. Through the | | fog the lights had a fluorescent appearance. (Source: Bob Teets, West | | Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 61). | | | | 1994 - A metallic humming disc-shaped object was photographed over | | the reservoir in Craigluscar, Fife, Scotland at two o'clock in the | | afternoon. It left by shooting off the to the east with fantastic | | acceleration. The photograph is considered genuine. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 16314, citing SOS-OVNI France, | | Phenomena, issue # 23). | | | | 2000 - Three pre-teen girls at a sleepover reported seeing a large | | luminous triangular-shaped object descend into a nearby field in | | Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Later on three short humanoid figures | | were seeing moving near the object. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | |  Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3540, citing Berne Bennett, | | MUFON). | | | | 2001 - At 6:48 p.m. a very slow moving, silent, triangular formation | | of lights flew over Irwin, Pennsylvania, causing some radio | | interference. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, Feb. 2001 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 24, 2001). | | | | 2002 - A dark triangular object was sighted at 5:00 p.m. moving up a | | creek bed at 200 feet above the ground towards the Police | | Headquarters in Mobile, Alabama. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2002 webpage, report uploaded | | March 19, 2002). | | | | 2003 - At 9:20 a.m. a fast, low-flying gray cigar-shaped object, | | moving like a cruise missile, flew north across the fields of | | Raymore, Saskatchewan, Canada. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian | | UFO Survey, case # 65). | | | | 2007 - A UFO with three lights stayed suspended in the sky over | | Dorval, Quebec, Canada for 90 seconds, and then bolted away with an | | amazing burst of speed. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2007 Canadian UFO | | Survey, case # 63, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2008 - Two strange lights hovered above the surface of a lake in | | Niantic, Connecticut at eleven o'clock in the morning, broke the | | surface, and disappeared beneath the surface. At 6:40 p.m. two | | disc-shaped objects were sighted moving from south to north along the | | Interstate 5 corridor in Cowlitz County near Kalama, Washington. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 26 February 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reactions: dog cowers and cattle flee; bullet-sh | | aped or cigar-shaped UFOs; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; humming sou | | nd; inside occupants; missing time; multicolored UFOs; multi-year rep | | orts from California, New Jersey, Saskatchewan and Texas; nautical UF | | Os: entering lake; physiological effects: prickly sensation, nausea, | | sensation of heat, tingling sensation; stingray shaped UFO; triangula | | r UFOs; vehicle EM electrical interference effects; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. 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