+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 18 | | | | 1897 - A cigar-shaped UFO hovered over the town of Sisterville, West | | Virginia at 8:30 p.m.. It directed brilliant searchlights down toward | | the ground. It appeared to have large fins or wings, and flashing | | red, white and green lights on the sides and on each end. Several | | witnesses estimated the length of the object to be 180 feet long. | | (Source: Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of | | the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 21). | | | | 1945 - There were two radar-visual UFO reports on this day from the | | Far East near Iwo Jima. At three o'clock in the morning ground | | control radar made radar contact with an unknown radar target over | | the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 18 to 8 miles from the island. The | | gunner in a P-61B "Black Widow" aircraft attached to the 549th NFS | | squadron saw a yellow, star-like light approach and lose altitude. | | Radar contact was then lost. The gunner saw a second light, but no | | radar contact was made with it. At 4:15 a.m. Ground control again | | made radar contact with a target. The gunner of a P-61B plane saw a | | reddish, round light. Contact on the radar screen showed two blips | | engaging in evasive action, which soon outdistanced the P-61, one of | | the fastest propeller driven aircraft of its time. (Source: Jan | | Aldrich, Project 1947 website). | | | | 1950 - At 10:30 a.m. three observers in Pullman, Washington saw two | | dark delta-shaped objects fly to the north; they joined a | | saucer-shaped object and circled a hill. The saucer then flew off to | | the north, while the "kites" flew off to the south. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 1691; newspaper clipping dated | | April 21, 1950). | | | | 1950 - CAA observers in Clarendon, Texas saw an unidentified object | | to the southeast, while observers in Childress, Texas about 50 miles | | to the SE saw the object to the northwest, and triangulated the | | stationary object about midway between, near Memphis, Texas. The | | sighting began around 9 a.m. and the object was on radar for four | | hours. This radar-visual case involved the crew of an F-61C as it was | | flying over Memphis around 11:00 a.m. as well as separate ground | | radars. A silver sphere that tilted was seen, and it did not move | | significantly despite winds aloft. Northrop engineering test pilot | | Max Stanley and observers Lloyd Balsam and Sam F. West were asked to | | intercept the object when they took off in their F-61C (AF 8357) from | | Amarillo on an MX-775 test of a Navaho missile celestial guidance | | test. A B-36 was also scrambled and took off from Fort Worth to | | intercept. On the same day at 10:50 a.m. two military wives in | | Sherman, Texas saw 18-20 flat silent silver discs race to the north, | | then maneuver for 4-5 minutes. (Sources: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1950: April-July, pp. 26-27; Jan Aldrich). | | | | 1952 - 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129.85 E, 34.32 N). Radar | | tracked an unidentified target for one minute flying at 2,700 mph. | | (Sources: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 4:00 a.m. in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada Mr. C. | | Hamilton, a janitor, saw a yellow-gold colored spherical object make | | a sharp turn in the sky. It left a short, dark trail for one minute. | | Eighteen hours later at 10:10 p.m. a newspaper reporter, Chic Shave, | | sighted the same round, yellow-gold object as it flew to the south | | and then returned. His sighting lasted 90 seconds. (Sources: Quebec | | Chronicle-Telegraph, April 19, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook | | UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - In Bethesda, Maryland at 11:30 a.m. Mr. R. Poerstal and three | | other men sighted seven to nine circular, orange-yellow lights in a | | 40-degree V or U-formation as they flew overhead silently for eight | | seconds at a high speed, from south to north. (Sources: US Air Force | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1128; | | Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - On this day in Yuma, Arizona two Army weather observation | | students sighted a flat-white circular object flying in a very | | erratic manner. The sighting lasted approximately 10 seconds. | | (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1953 - A huge cigar-shaped UFO flew over Wilmington, Delaware at | | 11:15 a.m. and was sighted by a Ground Observer Corps observer. It | | was flashing as it passed over the city, heading northwest. (Sources: | | Wilmington News, July 9, 1954; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer | | Conspiracy, p. 186). | | | | 1960 - At 9:00 p.m. Mr. Arnold saw a round, fiery red flying object | | approach at high speed from the south in Lacamp, Louisiana. It | | touched the ground about 300 meters away with a loud explosion heard | | by many people, and a flame. It bounced in an easterly direction for | | about 300 meters, then rose again, turned west and disappeared. The | | ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance resembling | | metallic paint was found. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 503). | | | | 1961 - Mr. Paul Simonton, a Chicken farmer in Eagle River, Wisconsin | | saw a disc-shaped carft land vertically on his farm. A hatch opened, | | and when he approached he saw three human-looking men inside. They | | asked him for some water. They appeared to be cooking pancakes on a | | griddle, and in exchange for the water they gave him four of the | | pancakes from griddle. The men were described as five feet tall with | | dark hair. They wore blue knit outfits and helmets. The newspapers | | had a field day with this report, but private UFO investigators who | | interviewed Mr. Simonton found him to be sincere and his story | | uncomplicated. (Sources: Allen Utke case files, case 6; Milwaukee | | Journal, April 23, 1961; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, | | p. 34; NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 8; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, p. 23). | | 1962 - According to Lt. Colonel Herbert Rolph, on this evening at | | 7:20 p.m. NORAD tracked a UFO across the entire continental United | | States. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6174). | | | | 1966 - On this evening there were four good UFO reports made in the | | northeastern United States in Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio. At | | 7:15 p.m. an elongated oval-shaped UFO with reddish green flashing | | lights on each end hovered over Peabody, Massachusetts, zipped | | around, and maneuvered to the horizon and back three times. The | | perimeter of the object glowed blue. A dense light was seen hovering | | only three feet above a roadway in Albany, New York. A blinding | | bright object with intense red lights landed on a road in Lancaster, | | Ohio and then flew off through a corn field. The witness, Mr. P. | | Friend, had sore and bloodshot eyes after his sighting from looking | | at the object. At 9:45 p.m. a UFO responded to a searchlight directed | | at it in Cohasset, Massachusetts by zigzagging, turning off its | | lights, and shooting straight up into the sky. (Sources: Raymond E. | | Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 338; Richard Bonenfant, | | Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 48, citing the Albany | | Knickerbocker; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1966, p. 7; Walter N. | | Webb case investigation files, case 60). | | | | 1967 - At 8:05 p.m. in Athens, Ohio a college professor and four | | others watched an unidentified light source that alternated between | | yellow and pink as it moved over a wide arc of sky at moderate speed. | | Their sighting lasted 10 minutes. At 8:30 p.m. the wife of the Ohio | | University director of the center for social science education saw a | | dull white oval for ten seconds. (Source: NICAP report forms, | | www.nicap.org). | | | | 1967 - At 8:00 p.m. in Point Pleasant, West Virginia a pilot and | | ground observers saw an anomalous "light bearing object" in the sky. | | The pilot attempted to close with the object and flashed his landing | | lights to get its attention, but there was no response and the object | | disappeared. (Source: West Virginia Register, April 1967; NICAP | | files). | | | | 1972 - In the afternoon two British tourists in Pokhara, Nepal took a | | photograph of a swarm of white dots that merged into discs, and then | | made fantastic maneuvers, flying off to the west. (Source: FSR, July | | 1973, p. 3). | | | | 1975 - A luminous disc came out from behind a house in Piano Chiesa, | | Italy at 7:50 p.m. and shot up into the sky. (Source: Maurizio Verga, | | ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue). | | | | 1976 - On this night in 1976 Ms. Larson was abducted out of her bedroom in | | Fargo, North Dakota to a UFO some distance away from her house. | | Inside the UFO she was put on a slab and hooked up to a complex of | | wires. She was levitated back to her house at dawn. She saw a small | | metallic cube zigzag and land on her lawn on the return trip. | | (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case A1467, citing Jerome Clark). | | | | 1977 - At 1:20 a.m. a Mr. O'Connor reported seeing occupants inside a | | UFO from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tucson, Arizona. Mr. | | Thrupp and Mr. Mancor, two weathermen in Vancouver, British Columbia | | watched an orange and blue cigar-shaped UFO with black portholes pass | | over the city in the predawn sky. It flashed as it went from south to | | north. (Sources: Center for UFO Studies case files, June 1977, | | International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2). | | | | 1984 - A rectangular UFO hovered only 100 feet above the side of a | | road near the RAF Lakenheath Air Base in England. It had red, green | | and white lights, and was silent. (Source: International UFO | | Reporter, March 1986, p. 5). | | | | 1989 - On this night a terminally ill patient staying in the | | cardiology ward of the Kirv hospital located in the Crimea, Russia | | suddenly felt a strong wind penetrate her room, even though the doors | | were closed. A dazzling white light and a man dressed in white then | | appeared. The man's eyes radiated a brilliant light. The witness | | asked where he was from and she was told "the tenth dimension." She | | was then told that she would soon be able to walk. After that the man | | and the light disappeared. The next day other witnesses saw strange | | white and red lights moving slowly along the body of the terminally | | ill patient, who then heard a loud clear voice telling her to "get up | | and leave." She was able to do so and was apparently cured, but there | | is no report on the current health of the woman. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case 121, citing Sergei | | Bulantsev, UFO Universe, October-November 1991). | | | | 1990 - A man driving in Milton, Florida at 11:00 p.m. saw a spherical | | UFO approximately 1,000 feet away. The object, about 20-45 feet in | | diameter, first hovered, then appeared to pace his automobile. It | | appeared to change shape. It was last seen descending below the | | Escambia Bay Bridge. (Source: MUFON field investigation files, case | | 900818). | | | | 1993 - A UFO hovered in the broad daylight on this afternoon in New | | Port Ritchie, Florida. It then rose up into the sky until it was gone | | from view. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO | | Reports, 1988-1994, case 1511). | | | | 1997 - Sitting on their porch at 12:45 a.m. in La Grange, California | | the witnesses first thought they saw a flock of birds, but soon it | | became apparent they were looking at a UFO that was slowly flying | | over the Kroger store on Commerce Avenue. It then came toward them. | | When directly overhead the object "sped up and rapidly disappeared." | | (Source: MUFON field investigation files, case 970418E). | | | | 1998 - At seven p.m. a group of witnesses in Kamloops, British | | Columbia observed a silver disc hovering nearby. A second object | | appeared and circled the first one, then both UFOs shot straight up | | into the sky. (Source: UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO | | Survey, case 19). | | | | 2003 - A man was returning home from work at 1:00 a.m. in Calgary, | | Alberta, Canada and as he came out of an alley he saw a dwarfish | | figure run across the street between two cars. It was about four feet | | tall, humanoid shaped, and running on two legs. When the figure | | disappeared the witness ran to the place where it had last been seen, | | and had the feeling he was being watched. The witness could only | | describe the figure as having brown legs, and as it ran it seemed to | | be hunched over like it was trying not to be seen. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2003 - Kaliningrad, Russia - At 6:17 p.m. the entire Russian Baltic | | Fleet and a large number of local residents watched in awe as a | | flying wing shaped UFO flew rapidly over Kaliningrad Harbor and | | plunged into the water. The event was captured on video by a local | | RTR Russian State Television news crew, who happened to be present on | | the huge naval base filming a documentary. The UFO had two elongated | | dome-like protrusions on top, and three similar structures | | underneath. It passed directly over the Baltic Fleet, which lay at | | anchor in Kaliningrad Harbor. According to a Russian Naval Commander, | | who wished to remain anonymous, the craft was apparently caught | | within the sweep patterns of ship-borne radars, which automatically | | tracked its progress. This may have caused some a malfunction on | | board the craft that resulted in the crash. "It was traveling at a | | tremendous rate of speed" he said to the reporters on the scene. "It | | was very low, not more than 1500 meters above the surface of the | | water. When the radars came on, it simply winged over and dove into | | the water, as if had lost either power or control." | | | | The light gray craft had no apparent seams or rivet patterns and was | | estimated to be about the size of a small airliner. It was estimated | | to be traveling at speeds in excess of Mach 2 and was absolutely | | silent as it flew. However, it made a tremendous noise when it hit | | the water, causing a geyser of steam and water. ,It appeared to one | | civilian observer that whoever was in control of the craft made a | | deliberate effort to steer it away from the naval ships and the | | shoreline before it went into the harbor. One Sovremini Class | | Destroyer was slightly damaged by flying debris, but no injuries were | | reported. Radiation levels at the site were "higher than normal." | | Debris recovered was small, less than a meter in diameter. Most | | debris recovered appeared to be "skin material" of an unknown alloy, | | and interior bracing and piping composed of a very high grade | | aluminum. The Navy cordoned off the area. In spite of the high speed | | at which the craft and it's very low altitude there was no sonic boom | | heard. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, | | citing UFO Casebook Forum, Russian Newspaper Sources). | | | | 2006 - Two couples observed a disc-shaped object skimming over a lake | | in Christiana Lake, Ontario, Canada at 10:45 p.m. The object was | | increasing and lowering its altitude, and seemed to be internally | | lit. It also had a line of bright blue lights in a marquee pattern. | | (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 143, | | citing www.ufoinfo.com) | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 April 2014) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abrupt sharp turns; cigar-shaped | | UFOs; crashes of UFOs and a retrieval of a UFO; discs; erratic motion | | ; human-looking UFO occupants, multicolored UFOs; multi-year UFO repo | | rts from Florida and Russia; physiological effects: sore eyes; radar | | tracking of UFOs; red UFOs; short humanoid; silent UFOs; spherical UF | | Os; trace residue resembling metallic paint; V-shaped UFOs or V-shape | | d formation of UFOs; vertical ascent; white UFOs; yellow-orange UFOs. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+