+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  February 25 | | | | 1909 - On this night in Anderlues, Belgium a teacher sighted a | | 25-meter in diameter sphere glide down a road, and then turn and go | | down a small path. (Source: SOBEPS, case 163). | | | | 1942 - At around 2:30 a.m. on this night in Los Angeles County, | | California a formation of 6-9 luminous white balls of light flying in | | a triangular formation flew in from the northwest, moving very | | slowly. They also appeared as steady radar blips coming in from the | | sea. As they flew over aircraft factories and this was shortly after | | the United States entry into World War II, widespread panic resulted, | | and five people were killed by the anti-aircraft fire hitting the | | ground and in subsequent traffic accidents. In the evening in Santa | | Monica, California a white disc was sighted hovering high in the sky. | | (Sources: Preston E. Dennett, UFOs over Topanga Canyon, p. 263; | | Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: | | UFOs in Perspective, p. 74). | | | | 1950 - Los Alamos, New Mexico. Twelve Atomic Energy Commission | | security inspectors sighted a cylindrical UFO at 3:55 p.m. while at | | the Los Alamos nuclear facility. It was silver colored and was | | flashing, and had tapered ends. The object flew slowly and then sped | | up, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course. The observations by | | the various individuals lasted from three seconds up to two minutes. | | (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1953 - A bright disc was sighted hovering in the night sky in the | | Sultanate of Brunei, northern Borneo. It remained for 40 minutes and | | was seen rotating at 30,000 feet altitude over a big oil field. | | (Source: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case 63 for February 1953). | | | | 1959 - At 6:45 a.m., sixty miles north of Barberton, Ohio on State | | Route 21 in Summit County a dark disc-shaped UFO with a red light on | | top flew around for five minutes at 150 meters altitude. No blimp was | | flying in the area at the time. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, | | March 1959, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 67). | | | | 1959 - On the same morning at 8:30 a.m. in Hobbs, New Mexico an ovoid | | UFO was seen by a Mr. Dobbs. The car radio repeated a "dot-dot-dash" | | for 35 seconds during the sighting. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, case 99, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole | | Story). | | | | 1962 - An Army private and six civilians in Kotzbue, Alaska sighted a | | red light in the night sky at 7:20 p.m. It was followed 30 seconds | | later by a blue light. The entire sighting lasted five minutes. | | (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | Kotzebue, Alaska - 1962 | | | | [Sketch of Kotzebue, Alaska UFOs - 1962] | | | | 1966 - In Quipapa, Brazil three young women in their twenties were | | walking home at 9:15 p.m. near some railroad tracks when they spotted | | a 9-12-foot diameter disc hovering over their road. The UFO had two | | headlights. Three little men, who wore large headgear and one-piece | | coverall suits that had a luminous band across the chest, were seen | | nearby. There was also a tall being about six feet in height. The | | women ran and the UFO gave chase. Traces were found at the sight. | | (Source: Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, March 1971, p. 9). | | | | 1967 - At 5:40 p.m. in Urbana, Illinois a chemical engineering | | teaching assistant from the University of Illinois saw a bright | | unexplained light in the sky that changed color from white to red, | | dimmed and then went out. The light was first seen in the northern | | sky and flew toward the west; it rose slightly as it flew. (Source: | | NICAP case files, report dated February 27, 1967). | | | | 1967 - In Ann Arbor, Michigan at 7:00 p.m. a married couple sighted | | three brilliant red lights, each with a blinking green light on top | | with a hazy blue light preceding it. No structural form was seen | | between the lights, flew relatively slow, made sweeping turn (Source: | | E.U. Condon University of Colorado UFO study case files, through | | NICAP). | | | | 1967 - At 7:02 p.m. in Minneapolis, Minnesota seven people sighted | | three "brushed aluminum" disc-shaped objects with a row of lights or | | ports around the center of each. The objects banked into a turn, | | whereupon the lead disc glowed red one time, appearing like molten | | iron, then the glow diminished. The three objects banked into | | the turn in unison. (Sources: NICAP case files; APRO Bulletin, | | March-April 1967, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 329). | | 1967 - In Sioux City, Iowa at 5:25 p.m., Fargo, North Dakota at 7:50 | | p.m., and Syracuse, New York at 6:05 p.m. UFO photographs were taken | | of nocturnal lights. In Fargo two teenagers took two Polaroid photos | | of a round, possibly disc-shaped UFOs, entirely lit with a plain | | bright light. The UFOs flew up from a low altitude at a 30-degree | | angle, sped up, and then flew off quickly toward the northeast. | | (Sources: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, J. Allen Hynek case files; Fargo Forum, February 25, | | 1967; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 236; Terence M. Wright, | | The Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers, p. 189). | | | | 1969 - Near Pau-Uzein Airport, France at 8:00 p.m. four witnesses, | | including two in Alouette II helicopters, visually tracked a green | | luminous UFO that flew rapidly from west to east over the airport. | | The UFO did not appear on radar. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, page 36, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit). | | | | 1969 - That same night four people in a car in Chabut, Argentina saw | | a disc-shaped object. The engine of their car quit running when the | | disc was in view. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, case 262, citing Phenomenes Spatiaux, Vol. 20, | | 1969). | | | | 1973 - At 11:00 p.m. a vehicle's diesel engine stopped when a | | reddish-orange ovoid object was encountered blocking the road in | | Villenueve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, France. The driver was | | temporarily paralyzed during the encounter. (Source: Claude Poher, | | Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1974, p. 12). | | | | 1974 - After midnight three 1.5m tall human-looking UFOnauts were | | seen standing on the rim of domed disc-shaped object as it passes by | | at 50 kph in York Plains, Tasmania. (Sources: W. K. Roberts, FSR, | | November-December 1975, p. 47; Keith Basterfield, In-depth Review of | | Australian UFO Related Entity Reports, citing Tasmanian UFO Inves. | | Centre; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case A2324). | | | | 1974 - At 7:15 a.m. in Toulon, France a white T-shaped object hovered | | for 5 minutes. Its pointed bottom descended and extended what looked | | like a wire. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1974). | | | | 1976 - The first humanoid report on this day occurred in Kettering, | | Tasmania. A glowing, domed object landed on the beach at 1:00 a.m., | | making a humming noise. Beings were seen through the windows in the | | craft. The domed disc made a louder noise as it took off, and flew | | away toward the east. Later that night numerous witnesses in Maydena, | | Tasmania, sighted two orange lights. They flew toward the southwest | | at a speed less than 100 mph. (Sources: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, | | p. 161, citing FSR; Keith Roberts, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, | | p. 8). | | | | 1976 - In Maneru, Spain at 4:00 p.m. five school children saw a UFO | | descend and land in a nearby field. The UFO was 8-10 meters wide, and | | had a transparent dome. A two-meter tall being emerged dressed in a | | black coverall suit. The figure took a few steps through the field of | | barley, and then returned to the craft, and took off. There were | | landing traces at the site. (Source: Gordon Creighton, FSR, April | | 1977, p. 27). | | | | 1976 - Eight miles north of Nashville, Illinois at 7:30 p.m. that | | same evening, while driving by on the highway a woman caught sight of | | two eight-foot tall beings standing about fifteen feet from the | | roadway. As her car drew even with the second being a blue light | | flashed across her face. She drove away in fear, and she continued to | | watch a blue glow in her rear view mirror. (Source: Center for UFO | | Studies case files, report dated February 26, 1976, citing field | | investigator Kretsch). | | | | 1980 - On a cloudy day at 2:30 p.m. in Youngsville, Pennsylvania a | | 23-year old man, R. Pennington, heard an explosion mixed with a | | whining noise, and then saw a 20-foot wide disc with a transparent | | dome on top out of his truck window. The trajectory of the UFO | | continued to follow a 250 kW electric transmission line. (Source: | | International UFO Reporter, August 1980, p. 14). | | | | 1981 - An Aeroflot YAK-40 airliner flying northwest of Tallinn, | | Estonia was paced by two orange, elongated objects at 9:24 p.m. The | | UFOs flew parallel to the plane and then approached from 70 degrees | | to the right. The crew saw four orange lights on the first object and | | 3 lights on the other one. After three minutes the first object | | executed a turn to the right, then to the left. The second object | | repeated the maneuver and followed after the first some six to eight | | minutes later. (Source: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of | | Multiple UFO, p. 176). | | | | 1982 - A large disc with a dome on top flew over the witness's car in | | Saltsburg, Pennsylvania and shone a beam of light onto the ground. | | The UFO came very near the ground and may have landed temporarily, | | then rose up and flew off over the witness's house and out of sight. | | The entire sighting lasted about five minutes. (Source: Stan Gordon, | | MUFON and PASU case investigation files, report dated April 1982). | | | | 1987 - Movie producer Paul Davids and two others watched two silent, | | silver domed discs maneuver close to his residence in Pasadena, | | California. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1994). | | | | 1989 - In Benayeo, Victoria, Australia near Edenhope, a large oblong | | UFO with a dome at the rear end hung in the sky at 7:30 a.m., and | | then vanished in place. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, | | p. 218). | | | | 1991 - In the early morning at 5:50 a.m. in Tenay, France a witness | | surprised a wiry "stork-man" creature by a trashcan. The creature | | jumped over a wall and fled. It had claws and talons. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 323). | | | | 1992 - In Sjaellands Odde, Denmark a thin metallic object was sighted | | flying at only 8 meters altitude. It had a funnel-shaped center. A | | short while later in the mid-morning in East Fork, Kentucky two men | | in a pickup truck saw a gray, disc-shaped flying object moving at | | 100-feet altitude. (Sources: SUFOI News, issue #14). | | | | 1997 - Two young people reported sighting a triangular shaped object | | hovering between Shrewsbury and Oswestry near a road in the | | Shropshire, England countryside. It expelled a flame and then | | vanished. According to a RAF spokesman, the object was unlikely to be | | a military experimental aircraft. (Source: Curt Sutherly, UFO | | Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 199). | | | | 1999 - At 5:45 a.m. in Stouthill, Tennessee a cylindrical UFO 150 | | feet in length hovered just 100 feet above the trees. It had four | | bright lights along its bottom in perfect alignment. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1999 - Shortly before noon 14 forestry workers working in the forest | | on the lower slopes of Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, | | Washington witnessed a horseshoe-shaped flying object lift an adult | | elk out of the forest and fly off with the apparently dead or | | unconscious animal.  The object had a red and white patch; it first | | oscillated in flight, then swooped down and abducted the elk in a | | clear cut, 500 yards away from the men. (Source: Robert Fairfax, | | MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 3). | | | | 2002 - At 8:24 a.m. a silent, dark, cone shaped object was witnessed | | in Weiser, Idaho moving slowly and climbing up into the sky. Later | | that afternoon at 2:30 p.m. witnesses saw a very bright light that | | was hovering over the drylands of southeastern Washington near the | | town of Touchet for five minutes. It finally moved rapidly away over | | the desert hills. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, Feb. 2002 webpage, reports uploaded Mar. 19, 2002). | | | | 2004 - A small disc-shaped object with numerous green lights was seen | | over Bellevue, Ohio at 7:20 p.m. It moved left and right slowly and | | was in sight for ten seconds. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage). | | | | 2006 - A multicolored UFO was sighted in Black Point, Nova Scotia, | | Canada at 8 p.m. It was first seen to be hovering, then it flew away | | slowly. There were flashing lights on the object. (Source: Geoff | | Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 68, citing ufoinfo.com). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 25 February 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal abduction, cylindrical UFOs, disc-shaped | | UFOs, domed discs, humanoids wearing coveralls, humming or whining so | | unds, landings with physical traces, low-flying UFOs, multi-year repo | | rts from California and Pennsylvania, nocturnal lights, nuclear facil | | ity, photographs, short humanoids, sweeping turns, tall humanoids, T- | | shaped UFO, vanishing UFOs, vehicle EM ignition interference effects. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+