+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  June 24 | | | | 1947 - On this morning a prospector named Johnson in the Hood River | | region of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon sighted five or six discs | | flying silently overhead, heading toward the southeast. He noticed | | that his compass began spinning when the discs passed over. His watch | | also stopped running. (Sources: Phoenix Arizona Republic, June 26, | | 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 30; Thomas M. | | Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 1). | | | | 1947 - At 2:58 p.m. Kenneth Arnold, flying his private plane near | | Mount Rainier, Washington was attracted by reflected sunlight from | | nine distant metallic flying objects. He watched as they flashed | | across the sky, one behind the other, "skipping as saucers upon | | water." They tilted back and forth as they flew. One object was | | definitely crescent shaped, the others may have been disc shaped or | | crescent shaped with a 10 to 1 width to thickness ratio. He clocked | | them as they flew past Mount Adams, and calculated that they were | | flying at a speed of 1,500 miles per hour and at an altitude of 9,500 | | feet. When he landed in Pendleton, Oregon he was interviewed at the | | local radio station where the term "flying saucer" was first coined, | | despite the fact that the objects he sighted may not have been discs. | | (Sources: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. | | 9; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; The Oregonian, | | June 26, 1947; Kevin Randle, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 87; | | UNICAT database, case 354, citing Bruce Maccabee). | | | | 1953 - A woman in Hampton Bay, New York saw something like "a large | | aircraft" about 30 meters wide flying very slowly and low at 6:30 | | p.m. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming | | straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still | | thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near | | her, only 25 meters above the ground. Then it flew backward over the | | water and hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top | | section supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four | | portholes through which a control panel was visible. No occupants | | were seen. The cabin section rose above the object, rotated, then | | glided back. The object tilted toward the west and rose toward the | | southeast, disappearing within three seconds at an 80-degree angle of | | climb after the three minute long sighting. Two days later a | | yellowish moss was observed at the site. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, June 1953, case 22; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203 (case | | 112)). | | | | 1964 - Fifteen or more disc-shaped objects paced a truck driver and | | his wife in Vero Beach, Florida in the predawn hours. The discs flew | | along, tipping back and forth. They formed a V formation, then a | | circular formation; finally the objects split the formation and | | passed on either side of a group of trees. (Source: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, August 1964, p. 1). | | | | 1965 - A saucer-shaped object with a conical top, and rows of lights | | across the front and along the side flew over Nebo, Queensland, | | Australia. It glowed bluish-white and had a red tail. At 10:00 p.m. | | in Mundilla, South Australia a round object with red, green, and | | white lights flew away over the horizon. (Sources: (1) Michael | | Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155; (2) APRO Bulletin, | | January-February 1966). | | | | 1966 - Police officer William L. Stevens had a close encounter with a | | dirigible-shaped object 100 feet long and 30 feet thick at 3:30 a.m. | | He was driving on the Henrico Turnpike in Richmond, Virginia when the | | UFO approached. It had alternating white and greenish-yellow lights | | around its perimeter, and it was surrounded by a mist. It began to | | play a game of cat and mouse with his police cruiser. "It seemed to | | be playing with me," he said. It moved away when the officer turned | | on its flashing lights, maintaining a distance of a few hundred feet. | | After several minutes it departed, accelerating suddenly and making a | | high speed vertical climb. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, | | p. 261; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 9; Richard F. | | Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 164; MUFON UFO | | Journal, June 1991, p. 12; UNICAT database, case 654, citing James E. | | McDonald). | | 1967, Trenton, Maine - Two people sighted a silver-gray, hat-shaped | | object hovering about 500 feet from the shoreline in Trenton, Maine | | at around 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It emitted a vapor at its | | base. The object ascended into a fog bank and descended again at a | | greater distance before moving away. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs | | Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 349). | | | | Trenton, Maine Daylight Disc Report - 1967 | | | | [image] | | | | 1967 - A man walking alone at night along a bridal path in Bovington, | | England came upon a strange figure bent down by the side of the path. | | The figure was short and was wearing what looked like a black, | | one-piece leather suit. He had a trowel in his hand and appeared to | | be digging in the earth. When he noticed the witness approaching the | | figure made a strange, high-pitched sound and was lost from sight. | | (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1967-51 (A1559), citing Jenny Randles, | | Awareness, Winter 1977). | | | | 1968 - A young woman named Torres was awakened at 1:10 a.m. in Laguna | | Raiva, Santa Fe, Argentina by an intense humming sound. She then | | noticed an oval-shaped light in the corner of her bedroom and inside | | the light stood two strangely dressed beings. They both wore metallic | | diving suits and helmets with visors. One was taller than the other | | and luminous white beams of light emanated from the tips of the | | fingers of both entities and from their visors and lower abdomens. | | Both beings vanished suddenly. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1968, case #822, citing Dr. Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, | | Vol. 27 # 1). | | | | 1971 - At 11:00 p.m. in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhine, France a disc-shaped | | object was seen tilting in the sky at 15 meters altitude above a | | residential neighborhood. It leveled off, then lights were seen upon | | the ground. At the site a depressed circle and ground marks were | | found. (Source: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO | | Sightings, case 481, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 117). | | | | 1977 - At one o'clock in the morning a UFO was sighted hovering over | | the sea from the coastal town of La Caleta, in the Dominican | | Republic. Sr. Cruz watched as the object extended a tube from its | | bottom, and then sucked up water. Two occupants could be seen inside | | the object, viewed through windows in the craft. Sr. Cruz's car | | engine failed, and he felt a numbing sensation in his arms and legs. | | (Sources: Leonte Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 6; Stendek, | | September 1978, p. 5). | | | | 1995 - A small disc-shaped object hovered over a truck in | | Farmingdale, New York at 11:30 p.m. at night. The driver could tell | | the UFO was close because it hovered below the low, overcast sky, so | | he got out of his vehicle and attempted to chase the UFO on foot, to | | no avail. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | 1995 archive). | | | | 2002 - A luminous white saucer-shaped object zigzagged around the | | Moon for several minutes in Deerfield Beach, Florida at 11:10 p.m. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2002 | | webpage archive). | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: b | | edroom visitation; buzzing sounds; car pursuit; compass deflection; d | | isc-shaped UFOs, ground traces; humanoids vanishing suddenly; humming | | sounds; inside occupants; mist, fog or vapor; oscillating motion; ph | | ysiological effect: numbness; short humanoid digging in the ground; t | | ipping back-and-forth flight path; vertical ascent, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+