+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 12 | | | | 1950 - Flying over the Gulf of Mexico northwest of Cuba, a USAF B-29 | | picked up three unidentified radar blips. The bogeys hovered for | | awhile, and then orbited the B-29 at 3,000 mph. The bomber's airborne | | radar jammed for an additional ten minutes after the sighting. | | (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. | | 10). | | | | 1951 - At 10:05 p.m. two U.S. Air Force airmen at Stewart AFB in | | Orange County, New York saw a fireball drop from a high altitude, and | | then zig-zag. It made clear cut maneuvers, and changed colors. At | | 11:01 p.m. a saucer-shaped object hovered near Fort Benning, Georgia | | for 20 minutes, then shot off to the south. U.S. Army 2nd Lt. A. C. | | Hale saw a light with a fan-shaped wake remain motionless like a star | | then speed away. It was estimated to be the size of a matchhead held | | at arms length. There were nine other witnesses. A Project Blue Book | | unknown. (Sources: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951 (volume 2), | | pp. 2 & 3; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 868). | | | | 1953 - In Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais, Brazil Sr. M. Ramos Bessa | | had a close encounter with a small domed disc-shaped UFO that landed | | in a field at 1:00 p.m. Two humanoids wearing "brilliant lead" | | colored suits w shining ball on each of their square-toed shoes. Soil | | sample.Physiological effect: severe headache. (Source: Peter | | Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case # 265). | | | | 1956 - At 5:30 a.m. a scarlet colored object streaked across the | | northeast sky in Kuantan, Malaysia and then dove into the sea. | | (Source: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and | | Related Events in Malaysia, case # 17). | | | | 1965 - At one o'clock in the morning Mr. Don Flickinger, a U.S. | | Border Patrol officer, had his patrol car buzzed by a bright round | | flying object in Lynden, Washington not far from the Canadian border. | | The UFO hovered, then acelerated away with the sound of rushing air. | | The object had been tracked on radar. That same night, a round, | | glowing 30 foot wide object with a dome on top landed on a nearby | | farm in Custer, Washington melting the snow in a 12 foot diameter | | circle. The object illuminated the yard, trees, and the side of the | | farmhouse. The circle was melted in snow 16 inches deep, and the | | ground beneath was also scorched. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, | | April-May 1965, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A | | Thirty Year Report, p. 170; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case # 630; Frank Edwards, Flying | | Saucers--Serious Business, p. 94; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, | | p. 132; UNICAT, case # 396). | | | | 1968 - On this night while driving on a highway in Carlisle, | | Pennsylvania two female witnesses, Ms. Lehman and Ms. Little, saw a | | large round white object, at times reddish, that emitted smaller | | objects that maneuvered around independently. (Source: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, March 1968, p. 1). | | | | 1969 - At eight o'clock in the morning two local UFO investigators | | had driven to an isolated area of Mount Misery on Long Island, New | | York in order to photograph the landscape. Walking on foot near a | | wooded hill, they caught sight of a tall human like figure that | | appeared to have a disfigured face and long wild black hair. He also | | wore a long black garment. Upon seeing the UFO investigators the | | being retreated silently into the woods. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 1897, citing John A. Keel, | | Strange Mutants). | | | | 1975 - At 2:30 a.m. ten 3.5-foot-tall humanoids gathered soil samples | | for three minutes in Hudson Park in North Bergen, New Jersey only 100 | | feet from the street. They wore coveralls with helmets and got back | | into a domed disc-shaped craft. The disc made a humming sound when it | | took off, and CB radio interference was noted. Ground marks. | | (Sources: Ted Bloecher, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. | | 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. | | 64). | | | | 1979 - On this night in the farming community of Sorocaba, Sao Paolo | | State, Brazil three newspaper reporters watched a large luminous | | disc-shaped object descend and hover near the ground, while hundreds | | of other witnesses watched several luminous discs maneuver over the | | nearby village. Two small beings, about four and a half foot tall, | | emerged from the object. The beings were human in appearance and were | | wearing one-piece outfits with fishbowl type helmets over their | | heads. The helmets emitted bright beacons of light. Suddenly | | everything became very dark and moments later the disc ascended and | | disappeared behind some nearby hills. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1641, citing A. J. Gevaerd and | | Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Abductions at Maringa). | | | | 1980 - On this night in the town of Huayana, in the Potosi Valley, | | Bolivia a man saw a lenticular-shaped object over him. The UFO | | projected a beam of light and formed a dome shaped luminous form on | | the ground, not far from the witness. He then experienced strange | | sensations when he walked inside the light dome. He was met there by | | a tall, blond-haired humanoid that had tanned skin and slanted eyes | | with a very prominent chin. The man claimed he had sensations of love | | and serenity projected to him by the tall humanoid. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 1577, citing Luis | | Fernando Mostajo, The Missing Link, issue # 124). | | | | 1988 - At 5:25 p.m. Ed Walters was driving in his pickup truck on US | | 98 in Gulf Breeze, Florida when an object appeared ahead of him | | shining a white beam of light through the windshield, partially | | paralyzing his forearms and hands. He stopped the truck and pulled | | over to the side of the road. He now felt numb and his arms were | | stinging. The object approached quickly and hovered three feet above | | the roadway. He was able to grab his shotgun and got out of the | | truck, attempting to crawl under it. At this point the object | | brightened and came closer. A beam of white light struck Walters on | | the back of his legs. The object next began rotating and a blue beam | | of light appeared under it. The beam deposited five small beings on | | the roadway, all of whom wore some type of shield like coverings. | | They had large black oval-shaped eyes and carried glowing rods. The | | beings approached Walters, who then managed to crawl back into his | | truck and was somehow able to start it; he then drove quickly away | | from the area at high speed. (Source: Edward Walters, Gulf Breeze | | Sightings, p. 107; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1988, | | case # 359, citing Donald Ware, Walter Andrus & Charles Flannigan, | | MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 239). | | | | 1989 - On this night a woman driving her car in Duclair, | | Seine-Maritime department, France observed within 30 meters of the | | top of a marsh an enormous cylindrical form with a cupola on top. The | | UFO was emitting a yellow light, had a series of red luminescent | | portholes, and a white base. (Source: GEIPAN, case # 26). | | | | 1989 - Two men driving in Underwood, Indiana saw a diamond-shaped | | object for five minutes moving across the roadway in front of their | | car. They drove directly under the craft, 100' above them. | | | | 1990 - A man and his three daughters were driving on Five Points Road | | in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana at 8:30 p.m. when they saw a | | domed disc-shaped object and stopped the car. The object hovered and | | moved, titled at an angle. It had a little dark dome on top, | | multicolored lights (red, white, green and blue), and a beam of light | | that shone toward the ground. It moved up and down, and approached | | and receded. It also made no sound. The witnesses were frightened and | | resumed driving to get away. (Sources: Norma J. Croda, MUFON case | | file # 900737; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 128). | | | | 1993 - On this night, during a period of appallingly poor weather | | conditions and repeated UFO sightings in the area, several local | | residents of Langeness Fjord, Iceland reported seeing small | | gray-colored humanoids walking on the ice on a nearby glacier. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # | | 1320, citing Tony Dodd, UFO Magazine (UK), Vol. 12, # 4). | | | | 1993 - On this evening two men, Joseph Wiek and Harold Egeln, were | | having dinner at a coffee shop in Greenwich Village, New York when | | suddenly time seemed to slow down and everything became frozen in | | "time". Harold saw three humanoid figures enter the restaurant's | | front window in a blast of light. Joseph saw the three humanoids | | enter, but instead of a light blast he saw one carrying something | | that looked like a "trumpet". Later Harold had a bizarre dream where | | he saw a saucer-like object rimmed with what appeared to be trumpets, | | descend over the area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1993, case # 3870, citing S.P.A.C.E.). | | | | 2000 - In Caboolture, Queensland, Australia a woman reported that a | | thick white cloud came through her screen door, across the kitchen, | | blocked her TV, and went up against a wall before it faded. Out in | | her backyard was a large triangular object with a red arrow marking. | | She reported that she has had strange visions since the event. | | (Source: Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 38). | | | | 2000 - Hundreds of motorists on Highway A-1 in Rome, Italy saw a | | circular luminous object followed by a cylinder of light, which hung | | in the sky for several minutes. (Source: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, | | p. 53). | | | | 2000 - A family in rural northeastern Missouri chased a UFO in their | | car starting at 8:45 p.m., but it suddenly came closer and hovered | | over them, then followed them home. They witnessed more than 30 | | lights that travelled at random through the sky, and they also | | claimed to have seen seven aircraft flying around the scene. | | (Sources: UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 4, citing CAUS; Lynn | | Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 178). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 December 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database | | | | Themes: air displacement, car pursuits, cylind | | rical UFOs, fishbowl helmets, gray-colored humanoids, humanoids gathe | | ring soil samples, lenticular UFO, multi-year reports for Indiana, ph | | ysiological effects: paralysis, severe headaches, satellite UFOs emit | | ted from larger object, short humanoids, tall human-looking being wit | | h disfigured face, time distortion, triangular UFO, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+