+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 10 | | | | 1947 - There are 19 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT | | database: two from Europe, one from China, one from Newfoundland, and | | the remainder in the United States. | | | | 1947 - At 10 o'clock in the morning GMT a British Vickers Viking | | aircraft was flying over the Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic off the | | coast of France when the crew of three sighted a gray flying object, | | shaped like a tadpole. It was traveling at an estimated 600 mph and | | leaving a long vapor trail. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft | | UFO Encounters, p. 10). | | | | 1947 - At 11:00 a.m. EDT in Valdosta, Georgia a one-meter diameter | | "cake pan" shaped object flew over at 600 meters altitude. (Source: | | Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 3). | | | | 1947 - At 11:00 p.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT) a man in Burien, Washington | | watched a three-foot diameter round shiny disc-shaped object fly | | slowly and silently toward the northwest. (Source: Seattle | | Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 1947). | | | | 1947 - At 7:30 p.m. European time (1:30 p.m. EDT) in Skotfoss, Norway | | a disc flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast. It | | was estimated to be the size of a small plane and traveling at normal | | aircraft speeds, but made no sound. (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project | | 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 137). | | | | 1947 - At 4:47 p.m. astronomers Dr. Lincoln La Paz, Director of the | | Institute of Meteoritics and Department Head of the Astronomy | | Department at the University of New Mexico, and Clyde Tombaugh, | | discoverer of the planet Pluto, and other family members watched a | | luminous 300-foot wide saucer ascend at 600 mph near Fort Sumner, New | | Mexico heading toward the north. In 1948 Dr. La Paz served as a | | voluntary consultant for the USAF in connection with the "green | | fireball" investigations. (Sources: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO | | Wave of 1947, case 819; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947, p. 58). | | | | 1947 - Sometime between 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 5:00 p.m., | | three ground crewman, including Mr. Leidy, a mechanic for Pan | | American Airways, took photographs of a C-54 sized translucent disc- | | or wheel-shaped UFO flying below the clouds over Ernest Harmon Air | | Field in Newfoundland, Canada. They watched briefly while the UFO | | flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail. It then ascended and cut a | | path through the clouds. (Source: Project Blue Book; NICAP UFO Investigator, | | January 1978, p. 4; International UFO Reporter, December 1998; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1947 - At 5:30 p.m. EDT a "flying tin lid" shaped object flew over | | Smyrna, Georgia at an incredible speed. It reflected sunlight | | brilliantly. (Source: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, | | p. 4). | | | | 1947 - At 8:00 p.m. CDT several airmen near Tulsa, Oklahoma saw a | | perfect ring of light in the sky that flew toward the northeast at a | | constant speed and altitude. (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A | | Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 101). | | | | 1955 - About seven to nine miles west of Newport Beach, California at | | 2:32 in the afternoon, a perfectly round, grayish-white UFO paced a | | pleasure boat for six minutes. It was surrounded by a "haze of | | fumes." It suddenly rose upward in a zigzag flight path and flew into | | a cloud bank. (Source: Richard Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the | | Fifth Kind, p. 167). | | | | 1959 - At two a.m. two white glowing ovoid objects with sharp | | outlines were joined by a third over Norma, New Jersey and all three | | UFOs circled a dock for 10 minutes, then flew away slowly. (Source: | | Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A | | History. 1959: July-September, p. 9). | | | | 1967 - In Lizelia, Mississippi at 5:50 p.m. CDT golf pro Harold | | Washington (retired Captain, USMC) sighted a domed disc when his car | | engine and radio died. The top was colored gunmetal blue and the | | bottom was the color of lead. It moved east, crossed a highway, | | tilted upward, moved to the right, accelerated and disappeared into | | the clouds after 3-5 seconds. The disc made a swishing sound. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case | | no. 11869; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Mark Rodeghier, | | UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 35). | | | | 1967 - About ten minutes later, at 8:00 p.m. local time, two people | | driving on a highway in Santa Clara del Mar, Brazil saw a huge | | cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 meters away from the roadway. | | It had lit portholes. They watched it for two minutes as it took off. | | (Sources: Oscar A Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 14; | | Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1974). | | | | 1972 - Driving through the countryside three kilometers outside of | | Alcaracejo, Spain in Cordoba province, Senor Aranda encountered a | | yellow oval of throbbing light at 10:15 p.m. He was temporarily | | blinded by the light. The engine of his car failed but the headlights | | stayed on. He estimated the UFO was two meters in length and had blue | | protuberances. It disappeared, then reappeared over a ditch. | | (Sources: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO | | Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 38, citing field investigator | | Enrique Campos; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, p. 54; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A | | Thirty-Year Report, p. 274). | | | | 1973 - At 8 p.m. a supervisor at the Goshen, Indiana rubber plant was | | called outside by one of his men who had been smoking a cigarette. | | The man pointed up and to his left, and they both saw an unidentified | | craft moving very slowly from the northwest to the southeast. There | | were a number of downward slanted windows in the craft and they could | | see several humanoid figures moving about inside. Some appeared to be | | peering down out of the windows. The background behind the figures | | was red, making the figures look like silhouettes. The unusual thing | | about the craft was that it made a bobbing motion as it moved.. They | | watched the UFO for about 10 minutes until it drifted out of sight. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1977 - At one o'clock in the morning a chicken farmer in Pinheiro, | | Brazil was walking to town to catch a bus. A bright greenish blue | | light appeared and swooped down from the sky to chase him. It circled | | back and came to hover above some nearby woods, and he could now make | | out a V-shaped craft. He shone his flashlight at it and was suddenly | | struck by a light beam from the craft that knocked him down, creating | | a tingling sensation before he lost consciousness. At one point he | | awoke briefly to see several men staring at him. They examined him in | | silence. He finally woke up several hours later, and felt terrible | | pains throughout his body that prevented him from working for two | | months. (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in | | Brazil--Where Next? and in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991). | | | | 1978 - A carload of residents were parked at the local railroad | | crossing near Bellville, Ohio around 10 p.m. when they noticed a huge | | dark figure with red glowing eyes that appeared to be in a slumped | | position standing over the tracks. The frightened witnesses fled the | | area and later notified the police. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1830, citing Ron Schaffner, | | UFO Ohio Yearbook 1979). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 26 August 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: bobbing motion, disc | | -shaped UFOs, EM vehicle ignition system interference, inside humanoi | | d occupants, large humanoid with red glowing eyes, silent UFOs, ovoid | | UFOs, swishing sound, tingling sensation, UFO fly-bys, V-shaped UFO. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+