+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 1 | | | | 1937 - At around noon on this day a gondola-shaped object, the color | | of gun metal, crossed the path in front of a aircraft flying near the | | Virginia-North Carolina border (Source: Richard Hall, From Airships | | to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th | | Century (1900-1946), p. 17). | | | | 1952 - On this night at the North Bay RCAF Base in Nipissing, | | Ontario, Canada Warrant Officer W. J. Yeo and Airman Crandell | | observed a strange craft in the sky at a NORAD installation. The UFO | | swung like a pendulum in the sky. (Source: newspaper clipping dated | | April 16, 1952). | | | | 1953 - At 9:45 p.m. in Lewis and Clark County, northwest of Craig, | | Montana a disc with illuminated windows was seen over the Missouri | | River for ten seconds. It was estimated to be about 10 meters in | | length and flew at 3,600 miles per hour. Fifteen minutes later a | | bright object hovered in the sky over the northwest horizon of | | Calgary, Alberta for ten minutes. It too shot away at a high speed | | with fantastic acceleration. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953 (volume 1), p. 2) | | | | 1957 - At 2:10 a.m. a F-86D USAF pilot flying near Guam in the | | Pacific Ocean sighted a UFO that remained unexplained by Project Blue | | Book. At four o'clock in the morning in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand two | | people in Rissington saw a huge luminous cigar hovering low over the | | horizon, and shooting beams of light in several directions. (Sources: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4577; | | Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, A | | History, 1957: January-March 22, p. 3). | | | | 1958 - A photograph of a brilliant light making a ninety-degree turn | | and then shooting away was taken at Trindade Island in the Atlantic | | Ocean at 7:70 a.m. (Source: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The | | Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 172). | | | | 1961 - Mr. Pisani, a government topographer, had just passed a truck | | on the Andean Highway between La Victoria and El Vigia, Venezuela on | | a clear day when he witnessed a flying disc of polished blue steel | | swoop down very close to the hood of the truck and lift it about a | | meter into the air. The truck overturned onto a sandbank, causing | | minor injuries to the driver. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying | | Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. | | 185, citing H. Gonzalez; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 514). | | | | 1964 - On this day in 1964 many residents of Shanghai, China saw a large | | cigar-shaped object flying over the city. Chinese Air Force MIG jet | | fighter aircraft were scrambled to intercept the unknown object, but | | were unable to catch up with it. The populace were told by officials | | that what they had seen was a U.S. missile. (Source: John W. Spencer, | | World Atlas of UFOs, p. 131). | | | | 1966 - At 6:23 a.m. thirty sky watchers in Tokyo, Japan sighted a | | huge bow-shaped, dark brown UFO, its length ten times the apparent | | diameter of the Moon. It hung over the northern horizon for eight | | minutes. At 6:40 a.m. a second huge stick-like craft was seen that | | blew forth a mass of white clouds behind it. A bright flash of light | | was seen high in the sky that day in Aitape, Papua New Guinea. It was | | visible for five minutes and left behind a smoke trail. (Sources: Y. | | J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 39; Michael Hervey, | | UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 156). | | | | 1968 - Mr. Kakizawa of Yokohama, Japan took a photograph of a UFO at | | 4:45 a.m. (Source: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1968, | | p. 16). | | | | 1970 - Cowichan District Hospital, Vancouver Island, British Columbia | | | | [] | | | | 1970 - From the second floor of the Cowichan District Hospital on | | Vancouver Island, British Columbia five nurses saw a silver metallic | | Saturn-shaped UFO. It was about 50 feet in diameter and hovered close | | by with a "necklace of lights" around the rim. At 5:00 a.m. they | | could clearly see two tall male figures inside the craft wearing | | tight-fitting dark coveralls. (Source: APRO Bulletin, | | January-February 1970, p. 1). | | | | 1971 - At 6:30 a.m. a mini-bus driver near Newport, Monmouthshire, | | Wales saw an object in the sky above the road. The cigar-shaped | | object turned at an easy angle and traveled toward Newport. One of | | her passengers also saw it. (Source: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, | | August 1971, p. 26). | | | | 1971 - A one hundred foot diameter spherical UFO, bright as the Moon, | | wobbled as it hung in the sky south of Alamogordo, New Mexico after 3 | | a.m. It sent out bright orange objects that then landed on the side | | of the Sacramento Mountains. "It kicked the objects out...fast...and | | they flew right to the ground." (Source: Alamogordo Daily News, | | January 3, 1971). | | | | 1971 - At 11:00 p.m. in Kosice, Slovakia a woman reported being taken | | aboard a UFO together with her friend and her cat. They were all | | brought from her apartment through a window in a trance-like state | | and delivered into an otherworldly environment where everything | | appeared to be made out of ice. There she met three beautiful female | | humanoids who wore silvery spacesuits. The beings paralyzed them and | | loaded them onto a wagon-like sledge. The woman awoke the next day | | with pain all over her body and with no further recollection of the | | event. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, | | citing Dr. Milos Jesensky). | | | | 1972 - At 4:30 a.m. a 25 meter long cigar-shaped object hovered over | | a power station in the town of Nedre Leirfoss in Sor-Trondelag, | | Norway. It made a rumbling sound, ejected flames, and shot away. | | (Source: Contact U.K.) | | | | 1973 - At 12:15 a.m. on a highway in the state of Los Lagos, Chile a | | married couple had their car engine stall the moment a UFO flew over | | their car. The disc-shaped UFO had a green light and a flashing red | | light. Their car engine came back on by itself after the UFO had | | gone. (Sources: newspaper clipping, January 3, 1973; FSR, May-June | | 1973, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. | | 55; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, | | p. 254). | | | | 1973 - At sea off the coast of Mauratania, several crewmembers aboard | | the SS Wilhelm Kohle sighted two silver discs at 9:15 a.m. flying at | | a high altitude and heading toward the northwest. (Source: J. Bernard | | Delair, UFO Register (Volume 5), 1974, case 1). | | | | 1973 - A domed disc-shaped UFO was sighted in Tres Arroyos, Argentina | | at 10 p.m., and figures could be seen on board working behind an | | instrument panel. (Source: Christian Vogt, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June | | 1973, p. 22). | | | | 1975 - Four soldiers at a military base saw a luminous yellow-white | | cone-shaped object descend at a high rate of speed at 6:25 a.m. and | | hover near their car in Quintanaortuno, Spain. The object went dark. | | Soon four more UFOs appeared, forming a row "emitting jets of white | | light downward." Traces were found and photographed at the site. | | (Sources: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO | | Events in Spain and Portugal, case 199; Skylook, April 1975, p. 1). | | | | 1976 - Three witnesses watched a 15-meter long football-shaped object | | hover 800 meters above a road at one o'clock in the morning in Marle, | | France then shot straight up in the sky fast. (Source: Lumieres dans | | la Nuit, January 1979). | | | | 1977 - There were several UFO reports on this day from France and | | Portugal. A pink glowing sphere hovered in the sky for six minutes in | | Creysseilles, France at 1:30 a.m., then flew away to the east toward | | the Mezayon Valley. At seven p.m. a luminous yellow-orange ovoid | | hovered in the sky for five minutes over Saint-Donat in Drome | | department, France. It drifted toward the southwest and was gone by | | eleven p.m. At 7:50 p.m. in Chabeiul, also in Drome, France a | | lenticular metallic disc with flames coming from the bottom made a | | 180-degree turn and flew off toward the south. The witness's eyes | | were sore from the glare of the light. At 8:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. | | Perez had a close encounter with a ten-meter long ovoid object in | | nearby Valence, France that chased their car. They also complained of | | eye pain and conjunctivitis as a result of the encounter, and a watch | | of theirs had stopped working. The UFO made a reappearance 40 minutes | | later. At nine p.m. in Leca de Palmeira, Oporto Province, Portugal a | | TV crew filmed a UFO. It made a sound like an electric motor. At ten | | p.m. a luminous hemisphere-shaped object, about .65 meters in | | diameter, maneuvered and glowed among trees in Eyragues, France in | | Bouches-Rhone department. Broken branches were found later in the | | area. (Sources: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier | | dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 637; | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1979; International UFO Reporter, | | February 1977, p. 2; Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1977; Victor | | Lourenco, PORTUCAT computer catalogue). | | | | 1977 - Late on this night in New Canaan, Connecticut a young witness | | remembers being floated through his house downstairs against his | | will. Terrified, he saw a being shorter than him that floated beside | | him at the same time. He tried to grab the wall and banister but | | could not get a firm hold. His next memory was of being in the | | driveway being floated down the road surrounded by several | | gray-colored figures. He tried to get away but his legs just cycled | | aimlessly in mid-air. He had vague memories of being in a dark room | | with a metallic floor with some "people" that were involved in a | | project, which calmed him down and made him feel good. This was all | | he could remember. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1977, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 1978 - Santa Monica, California | | | | [] | | | | 1978 - Mr. Hallstrom witnessed a metallic domed disc with a clear | | dome and several windows over Santa Monica, California at 1:07 p.m. | | (Source: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, case investigation | | files, report dated January 18, 1978). | | | | 1998 - At four o'clock in the morning a man in Huelo, Hawaii, who had | | earlier that night seen some lights moving out the sky over some | | nearby fields, was awakened when he felt some type of "knock" in his | | head, perhaps some form of telepathic communication. He looked out | | his window to see a multicolored UFO emitting multicolored light | | beams in his direction. He woke up his friend and they both saw a | | figure standing in the bedroom. Terrified, they hid under the covers | | and when they looked again a few moments later the figure had | | vanished. The craft, however, was still outside outside but a little | | further off, and stayed visible until sunrise. The figure was | | described as tall, with a huge head and large staring eyes. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2001 - At shortly after midnight several motorists reported sighting | | five discs flying along the western shore of North Island, New | | Zealand near New Plymouth. One of the UFOs paced a car, hovering 100 | | feet overhead of the vehicle, causing radio static. The UFO changed | | color from orange to violet as it flew. After several minutes the | | UFOs formed into a linear formation and flew off rapidly to the | | south. A silent orange object was videotaped over Deception Bay, | | Queensland, Australia that evening, moving from the southeast to the | | northwest. The video appears to show a dozen windows on the object. | | (Sources: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20; Sheryl Gottschall, | | UFO Research Queensland website). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 10 September 2004) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduc | | tion, aircraft encounters, bedroom visitations, car pursuits, cigar-s | | haped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, early morning UFO sighting | | s, hovering UFOs, human-looking UFOnauts, metallic UFOs, multi-year r | | eports from the Far East, orange UFOs, paralysis, pendulum motion, ph | | otographs, short humanoids, tall UFOnauts, UFOs seen near shorelines. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+