+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  February 16 | | | | 1953 - A big reddish flying object passed a USAF C-47 transport plane | | flying over Anchorage, Alaska at 11:50 p.m. and was witnessed by the | | pilot and co-pilot. It then hovered for five minutes. (Sources: | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; Richard M. | | Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a | | Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405). | | | | 1955 - An aluminum colored hemisphere with a dome on top (a domed | | disc) hovered for a couple of minutes over a volcano at 1:00 p.m., | | then flew off quickly to the east. It emitted a small object, which | | flew off to the west. It was sighted by several pilots and crew | | members of the Peruvian Air Force, flying to the southeast of Quito, | | Ecuador. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, March 1955; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25). | | | | 1965 - A group of boy scouts lead by a Mr. Smythe sighted a domed | | disc at 8:10 p.m. in a rural area of Groveland, Massachusetts. The | | UFO carried a white light on its trailing edge and a blue light on | | its forward edge. It was estimated to be 150 feet away at its closest | | approach, and at an altitude of 500 feet. It made a humming noise. | | (Sources: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 62, | | 331; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 4). | | | | Groveland, Massachusetts Close Encounter - 1965 | | | | [] | | | | 1966 - A luminous object was said to have landed in the woods near | | Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine at 10:30 p.m. The UFO had flashing | | red, blue, and green lights. A second object was later seen coming to | | join the first one. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 726, citing U.S. Air Force ATIC; Data-Net, | | January 1971, citing Jacques Vallee). | | | | 1967 - A UFO was tracked by radar and witnessed visually flying over | | Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean at 1:05 a.m. local Time. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 11). | | | | 1967 - Raymond Wettling said that in the early morning hours a 180 | | foot long, cigar-shaped UFO landed in a field beside Interstate 70 | | near St. Louis, Missouri. Three silver-suited occupants emerged from | | the craft and invited him aboard for breakfast. He said he spent a | | pleasant hour and 45 minutes chatting with them inside their craft, | | over coffee. His hosts showed him through the craft's two rooms. One | | was lit up with bright red lights, the other looked like a modern | | office. After he left the ship, it took off straight up at a high | | rate of speed. No one else reported seeing it, but there was another | | UFO landing that evening near Weston, Missouri (see below). (Sources: | | Chicago American, February 17, 1967; Dennis Stamey, Flying Saucers, | | June 1970, p. 36; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1967-18 (A0786), citing the Chicago American). | | 1967 - At 10:15 p.m. EST two policemen witnessed a glowing object | | like a bright light bulb hovering in the sky over a rural part of | | Amherst, Massachusetts. It ejected a small red object that moved back | | and forth before suddenly accelerating out of sight over the horizon. | | The UFO made a swishing sound. (Sources: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO | | Investigator, p. 164). | | | | Amherst, Massachusetts - 1967 | | | | [] | | | | 1967 - A male witness reported that a UFO landed east of Weston, | | Missouri in Platte County near Hwy. P at 8:30 p.m. not far from the | | Missouri River. This report is potentially an important sighting, | | because it is at the intersection of two orthotenic lines of three | | UFO reports each, from as far west as Yorba Linda, California and as | | far east as Ascension Island, occurring on this date. To see a map, | | [Map unavailable]. (Sources: Ted Phillips, Skylook, August 1970, p. 3 | | for Weston, Missouri; Ann Druffel, Skynet case files, report dated | | July 11, 1967). | | | | 1967 - An oval-shaped flying object with three red lights, one green | | one, and multiple rows of windows flew over US Route 66 in the desert | | south of Kingman, Arizona at 11:43 p.m. at under 300 feet altitude. | | As the UFO passed over the highway the car being driven by the | | witnesses, Mr. & Mrs. Max Recod, was illuminated by a beam of light | | that also lit up the surrounding terrain. Two other white lights | | joined the first UFO; they merged with the oval-shaped UFO, then shot | | up into the sky and away at an extremely fast speed. Mr. Recod is | | listed as a military witness. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, | | November-December 1967, pp. 1,3; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. UFOs: A New | | Look, p. 44; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty | | Year Report, p. 328). | | | | 1969 - On this night in Chateau Des Martins, Vienne, France five | | horses in the paddock of M. Meingault were panicked by "something | | shining" with intensely bright eyes "of a very pale, brilliant | | green." Mr. Meingault saw the eyes approximately 3.75 feet above the | | ground. He re-entered his chateau to get his gun and when he returned | | saw a "flying shadow" pursuing the horses. There was a great deal of | | damage to the paddock and fences caused by the frightened animals. | | (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1969-10, citing Jean-Claude Baillon, FSR, Vol. | | 16 # 4). | | | | 1971 - At 6 p.m. while waiting for a bus in Straken, Sweden Ake | | Westerberg saw a little man standing motionless in the middle of the | | road about 50 feet away. "I couldn't see his face; there was just a | | gray spot there." Westerberg stepped closer out of curiosity, and he | | heard the little figure growl. Then there suddenly appeared a flash | | of white light so intense that the had to shut his eyes. When he | | re-opened them a few seconds later the little figure had disappeared. | | (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1971-08, citing FSR Case Histories # 4). | | | | 1988 - Two police officers saw a very large spinning oval-shaped UFO | | with flashing red and green lights around its circumference in the | | Rosehill area of Willenhall, England. It made no sound and flew off | | quickly toward the southeast. Two more cops saw the same or a similar | | UFO from Walsall. Their reports were sent to the Ministry of Defence. | | (Sources: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 10, citing | | Nicholas Redfern, A Covert Agenda, p. 165; Timothy Good, The UFO | | Report 1990, p. 23). | | | | 1996 - A huge craft with 50 to 75 lights flew directly overhead of | | the witness driving on Highway 285 south of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico | | at 10:05 p.m. The lights on the UFO were sequencing in a clockwise | | direction. It made no sound, flew straight up, then down, then | | hovered again. It left flying off toward the north. (Source: | | Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 309). | | | | 1997 - Two teenage brothers in Lago de Rapel, Chile were followed | | home by a brilliant, noiseless flying object at 4:30 a.m. When they | | got home they ran inside and woke up their father. He first thought | | they were joking, but all three looked out a window could still see | | the object quietly hovering outside. They then woke up their father | | who thought they were joking. All three looked out the window and | | noticed that the object had landed on the ground. Next to it stood a | | being four feet 8 inches tall with a large bald head who wore a | | bluish colored uniform. All three witnesses became frightened and hid | | until the object and its occupant left the area. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2464, citing Luis | | Sanchez). | | | | 2000 - At around 9:15 to 9:30 p.m. five large orange glowing lights | | flew in from the east over Rockford, Illinois. They maneuvered | | vertically and laterally. Two left the formation and disappeared. A | | third light split in two, dropping a new light out of its bottom. All | | remaining lights then sped away. There were multiple independent | | reports called into the UFO Reporting Center. (Sources: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; UFO Magazine | | (USA), May 2000, p. 16, citing Filers' Files). | | | | 2003 - At 11:00 p.m. a huge "jet black" triangular UFO with lights | | came slowly toward a witness driving on 109th Avenue NE in surburban | | Juanita, Washington. He pulled his truck to the side of highway and | | watched the craft for 30 seconds. It made no sound and it had a | | yellow searchlight on the front apex that moved its beam of light, | | and then went out. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, June 2003 webpage archive). | | | | 2004 - At 8:30 p.m. a large, silent, fast moving oval-shaped object | | with light moved back and forth in the sky over a residential | | neighborhood in Amityville, New York on Long Island. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2004 webpage | | archive). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 February 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO encounters, animal reac | | tions, domed discs, faceless humanoid, flying humanoid with glowing g | | reen eyes, human looking UFOnauts, humming sound, multicolored UFOs, | | oval UFOs, police UFO encounters, short humanoids, swishing sound, UF | | Os emitting small satellite objects, vertical ascent, whirring sound. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+