+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 16 | | | | 1909 - At 1:00 a.m. five people driving in the mountains from | | Monmouth to Treginach, Gwent, Wales spotted a cigar-shaped object in | | the sky that maneuvered up and down and with turns. It seemed under | | perfect control, and had lights on the ends. At 7:45 p.m. a | | government inspector named Hervey in Broome, Suffolk, England | | reported that a cigar-shaped airship flew into a strong wind to the | | north-northeast toward Lowestoft. (Source: Carl Grove, FSR, | | November-December 1970, p. 17). | | | | 1952 - On this night a luminous object like a "glass lit from the | | inside" moved silently across the sky in Malung, Kopparberg, Sweden. | | (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 78). | | | | 1953 - In Bouffioulx, Hainaut, Belgium at 5:30 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO | | and occupant were seen briefly by a single witness named Chermanne | | before disintegrating, leaving behind a black smoke. Two photographs | | were taken of the disc enveloped in some form of "radiation." | | (Sources: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 57; | | J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), p. 39; Jacques | | Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 27). | | | | 1954 - At least six observers in a 65 square kilometer area around | | Roma, Queensland, Australia sighted a yellow, V-shaped object flying | | to the east. It was estimated to be four meters wide. It turned over | | a house, and was absolutely silent as it flew. (Source: Larry Hatch, | | U computer database, case 3371, citing APRO Bulletin, September | | 1954). | | | | 1956 - At 10:15 p.m. in Woodstown, Salem County, New Jersey Mr. | | Locuson, a building contractor, watched an orange-red light zig-zag | | across the sky near the Delaware River and Delaware Bay. It went | | north, veered to the west, shot off to the south, and then zig-zagged | | away. It was very fast and bright. (Sources: Salem Sunbeam, May 22, | | 1956; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A | | History. 1956: May-July, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 4983) | | | | 1966 - Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields near Cordoba, | | Spain when he saw a disc-shaped object land 100 meters away. Small | | beings resembling "green birds" came out for a few instants, then | | took off again. (Sources: Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 769; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, | | Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 42, | | citing the Paris Journal, May 18, 1966). | | | | 1966 - At 12:30 p.m. a newspaper editor and officer manager in Temple | | City, California were called out to the parking lot to see an unusual | | object in the sky. A grayish-green object, changing shape from | | rectangular to roughly diamond-shaped, to a domed disc, was | | reflecting sunlight and apparently metallic. It was visible high in | | the northern sky.  Hazy heat waves surrounded it. For 15 minutes the | | object moved around lazily, then it suddenly sped off to the | | northeast and disappeared. The editor compared the speed to that of a | | jet. At 1:10 p.m. a school principal saw children on the school's | | playground staring at a dark, disc-shaped object with a dome on top | | moving high overhead toward the east. At about the same time Charles | | Hardman was walking on Alessandra Street in Temple City when he | | noticed something that he first thought was a kite or balloon in the | | north-northwest sky moving slowly northeast. Through binoculars he | | saw that the object's surface was glossy, gray or black, yet light | | reflective. At times the top was obscured by hazelike smoke. Without | | the binoculars Hardman could see that this was due to different | | angles of vision as the object tumbled over in its path. It was | | shaped like a diamond with concave sides. | | | | About 1:30 p.m. Mrs. Beverly Harding of Temple City, California was | | driving about a mile south of the center of town when she saw an | | aerial object paralleling the path of her car, but traveling a little | | faster than she was. It looked like "a big bowl of jelly, | | plastic-like and shiny..." The object was roundish, but irregularly | | shaped. Finally, at 3:25 p.m. Mrs. Janice Oyler of San Gabriel, | | California was driving through Temple City when she saw a "black and | | silver cone-shaped object" in the sky. She stopped her car to watch, | | and saw the object bobbing around and circling slowly in one small | | area of the sky for about three minutes. (Sources: Los Angeles NICAP | | subcommittee; Ann Druffel, Skynet, May 1966, p. 27; Richard H. | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 321). | | | | 1966 - Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields during this | | afternoon near Cordoba, Spain when he saw a disc-shaped object land | | 100 m away. Small beings resembling "green birds" came out for a few | | instants, before the object took off again. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 769, citing Paris | | Jour, May 18, 1966; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, May 1973, | | p. 19). | | | | 1966 - At 3:30 p.m. a driver in a car in Cheshire, Connecticut had a | | close encounter with a 20-foot cylindrical UFO just four feet over | | the ground. It was hovering with no supports touching the ground. It | | had a metallic coral surface, and moved slowly. (Source: Larry Hatch, | | U computer database, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue 302). | | | | 1967 - Roman and Jose Arribas observed an object land in a pine | | forest north of Nieva-Segovia, Cordoba, Spain. They saw "people" | | enter the ash-colored craft, which took off straight up, at high | | speed. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 843, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit; issue 89). | | | | 1967 - Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California. At 1:30 a.m. PDT | | a family saw a triangular object with a row of red lights and a white | | light on one end. The object hovered over the ground near a pond, | | made a roaring sound, then took off, soaring over their house. | | (Sources: Redwood City Times, Calif., May 16, 1967, copy in NICAP | | files.) | | | | 1967 - Four members of the crew of the SS Point Sur in the Gulf of | | Mexico at 10:10 p.m. had radar-visual confirmation with a UFO that | | was observed for 50 minutes, shape undetermined. (Source: J. Allen | | Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 237). | | | | 1971 - At 9:30 p.m. four witnesses of the Whitlock family in | | Anderson, Indiana observed an unidentified aerial object after the | | power failed in their house. It was a Saturn-shaped UFO, making a | | high frequency sound. The object was the size of a house. The body of | | the object was a silver ball illuminated by brilliant red, green, | | blue and white lights around its rim. It moved at tractor speed, and | | then hovered over the hog farmyard, setting off pandemonium of | | howling, squacking, and squealing by the dogs, chickens, pigs, and a | | parrot. The witnesses suffered vibration, numbness, and fear. They | | fled back into their house which had been rendered powerless. The | | entire incident lasted 20 minutes. A tree died at the site of the | | UFO's closest approach. (Source: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces | | Associated with UFO Sightings, case # 473). | | | | 1973 - In the mid-afternoon an anonymous man "who enjoys an excellent | | reputation in Bahia" was walking through his property by the river in | | Parafuso, Bahia, Brazil carrying his shotgun, when he heard a soft | | humming. Then a man about 5 feet 3 inches tall appeared in front of | | him. He wore a brownish gray, tight-fitting coverall, with metallic | | colored boots and a wide belt with a very large blue buckle. His face | | and his hands, which had long fingers, were pallid white, his ears | | were small and pointed, and his head "larger than ours." This man, | | speaking in Portuguese, told the witness not to be afraid and to put | | away his gun, saying that he was "not of this world-I come from a | | planet that you people call a satellite." He also said that his ship | | was hovering a few yards above them, invisible to the eye. Then he | | said, "Good bye, brother, I must go" and pushed a white button on his | | belt buckle. At this a beam of light shone on him "and then drew | | away, carrying the man with it", he disappeared a few yards above the | | man's head. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-093 (A1205), citing Alberto Romero, | | ONIFE). | | | | 1976 - On this afternoon around 4 p.m. a 49-year-old woman waiting at | | a bus stop in St. Louis, Missouri saw a strange looking man. He was | | normally dressed, but had pallid facial features and wore goggles. He | | had a long sharp nose, a pointed chin, and a small mouth. She watched | | him for 15 minutes before taking the bus. (Source: David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case (A1473)). | | | | 1979 - Arlindo Gabriel dos Santos was hunting with two friends in a | | forest near Baependi, Minas Gerais State, Brazil around 10:30 a.m. | | when he became separated from the others. Sr. dos Santos next saw an | | object descend towards the ground in a clearing. He approached to | | within 180 meters, and saw that the object was shaped like a | | "telephone booth" about 1 meter in height. He had been carrying his | | Kodak camera with him, and was able to take a snapshot of the object | | before it abruptly disappeared in plain sight. He walked to where the | | craft had been, and then saw another object swiftly descend. This | | next object was shaped like a toy top, and a little larger than the | | previous object. It had a small propeller like apparatus on top and a | | long pointy protrusion on the bottom. As he tried to photograph this | | second object he heard a whooshing sound and the craft was quickly | | enveloped in smoke. He got closer to the smoke, and then he noticed | | yet a third craft descending overhead. This one was barrel shaped and | | about one meter tall. It balanced above the ground before landing. It | | too had a large propeller at one end, and was covered with red | | stripes. This object too suddenly vanished when he tried to approach. | | | | He finally saw a huge white, egg-shaped object descend to the ground. | | The ovoid craft had a pointy top, and a fin-like protrusions on each | | side. Next to the fins Arlindo could see several windows. While it | | descended it produced a horrific noise like a choking motor, and as | | it neared the ground it put out four, leg like landing pods. Arlindo | | approached and tried to take another photograph, but there was a | | sudden flash that temporarily blinded him and left his eyes | | irritated. Frightened, he dropped the camera and ran, but was only | | able to get about 10 meters before he became frozen in place, unable | | to move. He said it felt like someone had grabbed him from behind. | | Behind him he noticed two men wearing helmets with visors and gloves. | | Behind their transparent visors he could see human faces. They | | grabbed him, each taking one arm. He begged them to let him go in the | | name of God, but he received the answer, "In the name of God, we are | | all brothers, we don't harm anybody." The voice seemed to originate | | from a box like apparatus on their backs. He was taken towards the | | landed object. As he got near it he could feel an intense cold | | surrounding it. Another helmeted figure stood by a ladder extending | | from the craft, looking from side to side. The man asked Arlindo if | | he had seen something, which sounded to him like a "Zurca." Arlindo | | thought he could have been referring to one of the previous smaller | | aerial craft. That man then extended a gloved hand and pulled Arlindo | | inside the craft through a square shaped doorway. The atmosphere | | inside the craft was pleasant and cool, and there was a smell like | | "baby powder" in the air. There were other men sitting around on | | seats in the room. He described them as human like, wearing dark | | tight-fitting outfits. The men had large slanted eyes, thin noses, | | and large mouths and they seemed to operating some type of unknown | | machinery. The men stood up and began conversing among themselves in | | an unknown language. Suddenly from another room a heavyset woman | | emerged. She wore a white uniform, gloves, but no helmet. The witness | | described her as good looking, tanned, with long light fine hair. The | | woman and one of the men then took him into a corridor. He then | | entered a room where he saw a square shaped object in the middle. The | | man pushed a button on the wall and the object rose up. The object | | resembled a large piece of marble. The woman then took out a long | | wand like object and pointed it at the object. On the object the | | witness then saw an image of the planet Earth and other planets. At | | this point the man the removed his helmet and the witness could see | | that he had very short, light colored hair. When Arlindo left the | | craft he was told to cover his eyes and not to look as the object | | left. He followed these instructions and did not see the object | | depart. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, | | citing Dr. Libirajara Franco Rodriguez & Maria Jose Pereira). | | | | 1979 - On the same day as Arlindo dos Santos's close encounter of the | | third kind in Brazil a mechanic in Charleston, South Carolina felt | | compelled to return to a spot where he had previously seen a UFO. A | | disc-shaped craft landed, and he was given a metal bar as a gift, | | along with the message that the occupants will return again. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13700; Richard Hall, Uninvited | | Guests, p. 294). | | | | 1981 - A couple named Winsome were driving in the desert near | | Cocklebiddy, Western Australia when they noticed a red glowing dome | | low on the side of the road. It vanished as the car approached, but a | | glowing light flew off to the west. (Source: Australian CUFOS | | Bulletin, August 1981). | | | | 1986 - A private pilot flying from Brasilia, Brazil was followed 460 | | miles by several small luminous objects, type unknown. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 14351. citing George C. Andrews, | | Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 316). | | | | 1987 - On this day an airline crew tracked a UFO on their weather | | radar. A Canadian Air International Boeing 737 was en route from | | Toronto, Ontario to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Capt. Rick Olsen was | | flying at 31,000 feet (9,000 meters) when he and his first officer | | observed an unidentified object on their weather radar. The radar | | track indicated an object "about the size of an aircraft carrier" | | about 50 miles away at approximately their altitude, and traveling on | | roughly the same course at 5,400 mph (8,600 km/hr). The radar target | | lasted about four minutes. Weather was hazy at the time, and the | | aircraft was not close enough to make visual contact. (Sources: | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, | | p. 246; John Robert Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of | | Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 215). | | | | 1990 - At eight o'clock in the evening two children playing outside | | in Tecumseh, Oklahoma called their mother to come see a UFO. The | | object was gray/lead in color and surrounded by mist. One of | | the witnesses saw windows illuminated in yellow. Others saw a yellow | | flame behind the object. The object accelerated out of view. The | | entire event lasted two minutes. (Source: Jean Waller-Seifried, MUFON | | field investigation case files, case # 900602). | | | | 1993 - At shortly after midnight a married couple driving with their | | daughter on the highway in Cormery, Indre-Loire, France had their | | vehicle paced by a bluish UFO. The form of the object was lit under a | | bluish light, and positioned itself in front of their vehicle at the | | height of the car's headlights. It maintained this position in front | | of the vehicle for the next four kilometers. The vehicle was | | traveling at approximately 100 km/h. (Source: GEIPAN, case # 123) | | | | 1996 - Several witnesses reported seeing a large blue, spherical | | object hovering low over a field in San Pedro Toxin, Jalisco State, | | Mexico at 11:30 p.m. Seven dwarfish figures about 80 cm tall, who | | emitted a luminous green glow, were seen moving very quickly on the | | ground near the object. They also seemed to have bright lights on | | their heads. The entire scene suddenly vanished in plain sight. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing | | Contacto OVNI). | | | | 1998 - A very large, dark disc-shaped UFO hovered over a giant | | hydroelectric dam and lake, Lago de Colbun in southern Chile, causing | | EM effects. It was so large it covered the valley. The UFO was | | witnessed by over 30 people, who described it as a a gigantic disc, | | "dark (not black), with a big orange light on the bottom (middle) and | | small lights that moved around on the outer part (rim) of the | | object." It flew off to the east. Lago de Colbun is Chile's biggest | | hydroelectric dam and one of the largest in South America. It is | | located 200 kilometers south of Santiago de Chile. The UFO reportedly | | hovered at 1,000 meters above the ground and remained in view for 20 | | minutes, before flying across the lake and into the Andes Mountains. | | Witnesses described the object as "so big that it seemed to cover the | | whole valley." | | | | According to ufologist Luis Sanchez Perry, "They call the UFOs | | robones (thieves) because that they say they steal electricity. | | Before they had the high-tech plant, they didn't have many blackouts | | (one or two in a month), but now they have three in a week." "UFOs | | have been seen coming out of Lake Colbun near the high tension | | wires," he reported, 'absorbing electricity, absorbing water, and | | some of them have gone at high speed through the valley towards the | | hydroelectric plant," coming within a few hundred meters of the dam | | before disappearing. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | # 18037; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 26) | | | | 2003 - At 1:30 a.m. four triangular UFOs were sighted over Yosemite | | National Park in California; one of the crafts was very large and | | transparent. Camping up on Yosemite at about 7,000 feet elevation, | | the night was clear and cool when the witnesses were just about to | | turn in for the night and they saw a bright blue flash south of their | | campsite. Next, they saw one very large triangular craft appear after | | the flash. This was followed by two more flashs, not blue, northwest | | of the campsite and two smaller craft appeared, and then a fourth | | craft appeared southwest. This last one was the largest and almost | | transperent; we could see the stars through the craft. "At this point | | we were very frightened," the main witness reported. There was no | | noise from the craft, and the animals around the campsite and your | | normal forest sounds had gone silent. The four witnesses went into | | their truck and armed themselves, and decided to leave when they saw | | a very bright red flash and looked out the truck windows and the | | objects were gone. They packed their camping gear and headed home | | very frightened and confused.(Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, May 2003 webpage, report dated April 10, 2004).  | | | | 2003 - A witness was driving his sister to the bus stop in Rancho | | Santa Margarita, California at 11:00 a.m. when they looked up into | | the clear sky and observed a shiny disc or sphere that was hovering | | in one place for a minute while spinning. It glistened at certain | | spots when it was hit by the sunlight. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 webpage, report dated May 17, | | 2003).  | | | | 2005 - Two triangular-shaped craft were sighted in Oklahoma City, | | Oklahoma at 7:15 p.m. When they were first seen they were hovering, | | then they began following each other at a high rate of speed. They | | had three extremely bright lights: two white and one | | red.(Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2005 | | webpage, report dated June 20, 2005).  | | | | 2007 - A large triangle craft with more lights than normal lights was | | sighted over Ypsilanti, Michigan at 1:00 a.m. by a witness driving | | home. It was turning at right angles, first quickly and then slowly. | | It had three lights, portholes, or circles that were white on all | | three leading edges (sides and middle); on the bottom there were four | | more circles--3 white ones at each corner of the triangle and a | | larger red light in the middle of it. It was larger than a plane.It | | flew overhead slowly, where it stopped 150 yards from the witness for | | about 40 seconds, then turned 120 degrees and went around in | | circles around the freeway, then it headed out over the city where it | | disappeared out of view. The sighting lasted five minutes. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, | | report uploaded June 12, 2007). | | | | 2007 - A cylindrical UFO was sighted in Columbus, Missouri at around | | 1:00 p.m. The witness reports, "While sitting outside of my business, | | visiting with a customer, we all looked up and saw a cylindrically | | shaped object traveling west above Highway 70. We all watched the | | object until it went out of sight. It was silver in color and did not | | have wings or a tail." They were not able to discern its true size or | | the distance of object, although it seemed to be flying quite low. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 | | webpage, report dated May 26, 2007, citing Barbara Becker, Missouri | | Investigators Group). | | 2010 - At 9:40 a.m. in South Kingston, Rhode Island a stationary gray | | cylinder slowly accelerated, turned white, then opaque, and | | disappeared in 30 seconds. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at around | | 9:35 p.m. EDT the main witness was in his backyard smoking a | | cigarette on a very clear night, watching some kids play basketball | | in the courts. He looked up and noticed three disc-shaped objects | | skimming just under the cloud line. They were not balloons, | | helicopters or airplanes. They made no sound and were very precise in | | their movment. He called his sister to come out back to see what he | | was witnessing while they flew away. He did see all three objects | | very clearly, and the underneath of all three, but he did not have | | enough time to grab a camera. They were very disc-shaped objects with | | a white glow, and underneath of all three he noticed they all had | | this same faded black zone where he guessed the engine would be. At | | 9:30 p.m. CDT in Hugo, Minnesota two bright lights, pentagonal in | | shape and red in color, moved across the northern sky, hovered, then | | flew off quickly. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded June 3, 2010).  | | | | 2010 - At 7:00 p.m. two friends in Jeffersonville, Indiana were | | walking to a gas station on a golf course near their home when they | | spotted a small circular white object in the sky. It was not moving, | | just stationary in the sky. Then the light from the object became | | brighter and brighter, and it turned into different colors: green, | | pink or red, and then blue. It got so bright that you could no longer | | see its original shape. Then the light shrank back to the white | | color, and within an instant it was gone, almost as if it shot out of | | the universe in a matter of seconds. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded | | September 8, 2011).  | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 16 May 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: cylindrical UFOs; human-looking UFOna | | uts; landings and near landings; luminous UFOnauts; multi-year report | | s from Brazil, California, and Spain; ovoid UFOs; sensation of cold; | | small bird-like beings; pallid humanoid; shape-changing UFOs; triangu | | lar UFOs; unintelligible language; vertical ascent; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+