+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 2 | | | | 1909 - In Oamaru, near Sumpter's Hill, Otago, New Zealand a large | | boat-shaped flying object with three lights was observed at 3:00 | | a.m., clearly illuminated by the moon. Two figures were visible | | inside the craft, and the object flew "at a fast rate." (Source: | | Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of | | UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8). | | | | 1950 - On this day in San Rafael, Marin County, California a strange | | cloud was seen over the city at 15,000 feet altitude for about an | | hour, moving against the wind. It radiated many different colors: | | green, blue, red, and orange. (Source: Gerald Heard, Is Another World | | Watching?, p. 150). | | | | 1952 - At 3:00 a.m. on this morning USAF First Lt. W.A. Theil and an | | enlisted man named Edwards watched a red ball with a blue flaming | | tail fly straight and level for 3-4 seconds over Lake Charles, | | Louisiana. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 1783; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - At 5:17 p.m. in Westlake, Ohio amateur astronomer Mr. N. E. | | Schroeder, an ex-Army Air Force B-17 gunner--who had flown on 19 | | combat missions--saw a thin, bright silver ovoid hovering in the sky | | for 5-8 seconds. It then dropped down 3,000 feet in three seconds and | | hovered again for ten seconds, and finally faded out after being in | | view a total of 20 seconds. It looked like it was made of highly | | polished metal, and was at a minimum distance of six miles from the | | observer. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 3149; UNICAT, case # 777; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1954: June-August, p. 62; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1957 - Widely separate observers, including more than 150 school | | children, watched a silent "rocket" make intricate maneuvers in the | | sky over Reefton, New Zealand in the early afternoon. It rose, then | | hovered at 900 meters altitude. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, | | September 1957, p. 13; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 4). | | | | 1959 - A petroleum worker measuring levels in storage tanks at 1:00 | | a.m. in Cullen, Chile had a bright light fly over his head and follow | | him, which caused him to run away, leaving the tank hatchways open. | | (Source: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type I Reports, case | | 902, citing Pablo Petrowitsch). | | | | 1960 - Mr. & Mrs. Hiot and a third witness encountered a purple light | | while driving between Difques and St. Omer, Pas-de-Calais department, | | France at 12:05 a.m. As it got closer it revealed itself to be | | a domed disc-shaped object, four meters wide, with a red luminous | | bottom that illuminated the road. the UFO paced their car for one | | kilometer, making no noise and flying just three meters above the | | ground. Mrs. Hiot saw a human-looking figure inside the saucer. | | (Sources: Ouest France, August 5, 1960; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1786; Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, issue # 117). | | | | 1962 - Camba Punat Airport, Corrientes province, Argentina. Sr. Luis | | Harvey, airport manager, and his staff thought that an unannounced | | aircraft was about to land around midnight when they saw a luminous | | object circling overhead at high speed. It came down to hover about | | one meter above the runway for some four minutes. It was spherical, | | spinning, and emitted flashes of blue, green and orange. When | | approached by ground personnel it took off at very high speed. | | (Sources: La Razon, August 3, 1962; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 540, citing Flying Saucer | | Review, April 1964, p. 11; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June | | 1973, p. 10). | | | | 1965 - There are 33 separate reports in the UFOCAT database for this | | date, including many UFO visual sightings with some confirmed by | | radar trackings at several Air Force Bases in the United States. The | | U.S. reports centered on the midwestern states, especially Kansas, | | Oklahoma and Texas. There are reports from Latvia, Austria, | | Argentina, Peru, Mexico and seven reports from Brazil. | | | | 1965 - On this afternoon a medical student walking on the beach known | | as La Arenilla, and accompanied by a doctor, saw a strange dwarf on | | the beach in the city of La Punta, Peru located not far from Lima. | | However, the two refused to give the newspaper any more details about | | their encounter. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-74). | | | | 1965 - Justin, Texas - Two deputy sheriffs of Tarrant County saw an | | object as bright as burning magnesium, which landed as they were on a | | patrol near Wagle Mountain Lake. Extensive investigation by the | | police led to negative results. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 667). | | | | 1965 - A famous color photograph was taken in Tulsa, Oklahoma by | | 14-year-old Alan Smith at 1:45 a.m. Unlike most photos of alleged | | UFOs taken by teenagers, this one had supporting witnesses. The photo | | shows a mosaic pattern of yellow, blue and white light in the shape | | of an ovoid with three tiny fingers. The object was described | | as about size of a basketball, which moved slowly and changed color, | | and also made a high pitched whining sound. Alan took his shot when | | the UFO was almost directly overhead. (Sources: Hayden C. Hewes, | | Flying Saucers magazine, June 1967, p. 8; October 1967, p. 18). | | | | 1965 - Five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, | | close to the ground, in the 600 block of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on | | Northwest Route 63. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 668). | | | | 1965 - In Lake Park, Minnesota an orange UFO, emitting a sound like a | | "dynamo", hovered just above ground. Animals reacted to its presence. | | (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 69). | | | | 1967 - On this day in Arbroath, Tayside, Scotland a domed oval-shaped | | craft, 20-30 feet in length, moved slowly at 100 feet above a | | teenager riding on a bicycle. There was a red glow coming from the | | dome, which started to flash. The object was completely quiet. | | (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967, p. 29; Ron | | Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO | | Phenomenon, p. 124). | | | | 1967 - At 11:30 p.m. in the Norweigan Sea four Russian crewman aboard | | the S. S. Izhevsk saw a white sphere in the dark sky as it | | sailed slowly south. A bright football-shaped light appeared several | | minutes later and rushed from west to east. It threw off sparks, | | increased in size, stopped, became an egg in appearance, and gave off | | a thick white mist that emerged as the object grew dim. The entire | | incident lasted for more than 25 minutes. (Sources: Norma Short, | | Skylook, February 1968, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A | | Study of Multiple UFO, p. 139; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the | | Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 191). | | | | 1968 - In Los Rasos de Valdemanco, Ciudad Real, Spain two young girls | | saw a rectangular UFO on the ground at 6:00 p.m. It dimensions were 9 | | meters by 3 meters by 4 meters, with two windows, and it had two | | wheels in front for landing gear. The object rose up and was lost | | from sight in 30 seconds. At 11:44 p.m. a very bright red object was | | observed by several witnesses at treetop level over a mountain, Monte | | Gallicant, in Tarragona province, Spain swinging like a | | pendulum. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 | | Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, cases 61 & 62). | | | | 1971 - In Ohrid, nine miles from the town of Rasanec, in the former | | Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia a group of four had a close encounter | | with a silver-colored UFO. There were physiological effects when a | | beam of energy knocked the driver of their vehicle down, and the car | | radio ceased to work. The silver disc, 10-15 meters in diameter, | | first landed and then began glowing. Two "wings" came out of the | | sides as it landed. (Source: Joseph M. Brill, Skylook, September | | 1972, p. 17;  Milos Krmelj, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 4). | | | | 1974 - At 2:15 p.m. three six-meter wide metallic discs with | | transparent domes landed in a pasture in Englefontaine, Nord | | department, France. They made a buzzing sound that was heard by the | | two children who witnessed it. the discs rose in tandem, then flew | | off to the west. Crop circles were found at the landing sites. At | | 10:30 p.m. a domed ovoid object with square windows was seen on the | | ground in a clearing in some woods in Auzay, Vendee department, | | France. The UFO jumped up from ground level, turned 120 degrees  and | | flew off into the woods. No traces were found at this second landing | | site. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 141 & 228). | | | | 1974 - In Calvert, Texas a newspaper editor and his wife heard | | "strange metallic noises", then witnessed a deep red UFO that | | "roared" and pulsated, and chased their car for several miles on | | Highway 979. UFO shook all over, like it was about to fall apart. | | (Source: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1974, | | p. 39). | | | | 1976 - At around four o'clock in the morning Michael Wood, age 26, | | was driving home when, as he reached Ten Mile Hill near Hobart, | | Tasmania, Australia he heard a sound like loud electronic music | | "turned up too high.” The area in front of his car lit up like a | | "yellow lighted picture screen", on which he could see projected the | | profile of a figure, ten feet tall, wearing a tight-fitting black | | jacket and a pair of light trousers, which seemed to be turning to | | look at him. He braked his car but the car went through the “screen.” | | He could find no trace of it after stopping and going back to look | | for it again. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-60, citing TUFOIC). | | | | 1976 - At 3:30 a.m. in St. Pierre-sur-Mer, Aude department, France a | | five-meter in diameter domed disc was encountered hovering at six | | meters altitude. The lights went out immediately on the object, then | | came back on gradually.(Source:  Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977). | | | | 1979 - At 2:30 a.m. the two witnesses were driving through the town | | of Le Delus on the island of Ile D'Oleron, France when they noticed a | | green flash of light overhead followed by two bright descending | | spheres. One of the spheres shot towards the rear of their vehicle | | while the other descended close to the ground. A large rectangular | | shaped opening became visible in the second object and three humanoid | | figures were seen descending a ladder. The witnesses did not stay to | | see any more, but drove away quickly from the area. (Sources: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1734, citing Denys | | Breysse, Project Becassine; Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1979). | | | | 1982 - On this night a shiny silvery man was seen standing on the | | side of the road at Hapuku Bridge in New Zealand. He had no | | distinguishable features, and the bottom half of the figure was dark. | | The motorist drove by and did not stop. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 293, citing SBI Report). | | | | 1985 - At 9:45 p.m. in Black Earth, Wisconsin a white nocturnal | | light projected a beam of light that moved back and forth like a | | searchlight. The beam stopped, then the object descended slowly in a | | zig-zag pattern. There were no radar returns. (Source: Jay Rath, The | | W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 63). | | | | 1987 - Maria Marzoli was in Domodossola, Italy at 9:45 p.m. when she | | saw a bright white light encased in what appeared to be a cloud | | descend from a nearby mountain. When she approached the spot in order | | to get a better look she saw three floating human like figures | | approaching the light. The figures were about 1.80 meters in height, | | and glided just above the ground in a vertical position. All three | | wore light-colored tunics and pants and had long light-colored hair. | | The figures briefly turned to stare at the witness before | | disappearing into the bright spherical white light. The light then | | disappeared into the distance, changing color into a greenish tint. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, | | citing Archivio SUF, Tambellini). | | | | 1994 - The witness awoke shortly after midnight in her home in Cayey, | | Puerto Rico after hearing a bang resembling the sound of a | | firecracker exploding. It came from the entrance to her bedroom. She | | heard the sound again, but this time it was closer to her bed, and | | she next saw a short, thin gray-skinned humanoid with a large head | | and huge black eyes walk standing in front of her bed. The | | creature then entered her grandson's bedroom. She then apparently | | fell back to sleep, because she was woken up by her grandson who told | | her that that same short creature with large eyes had sat on his | | chest and had stared at him. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1994, case # 1778, citing Hank Worbetz). | | | | 2000 - At 6:45 p.m. the witness had gone outside her house in Capilla | | del Monte, Cordoba province, Argentina to empty the trash and was | | returning back to the house when she noticed something floating above | | the ground over some nearby laurel bushes. It appeared to be an | | amorphous transparent figure, with large bright yellowish | | almond-shaped eyes. The figure floated towards a nearby tree knocking | | itself against it, and a branch was seen to fall down. At the same | | time that it stared to vanish the witness heard a loud humming sound, | | and there seemed to be a kind of charged energy in the air. | | Frightened, the woman ran inside the house and summoned her husband, | | but the figure had already vanished. The following days she suffered | | from headaches and heard metallic voices calling her name. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Proyecto | | CATENT, Buenos Aires). | | | | 2001 - In La Joya, Guanica, Puerto Rico at 3:00 a.m., the same night | | that Carmelo Sepulveda found one of his rabbits decapitated and | | another injured, one of his neighbors heard rabbits squealing and | | turned on an outside lightbulb that faced toward the animal cages. He | | then went outside to take a look, and saw something resembling a | | child standing next to one of the cages. However, the poor lighting | | was not sufficient to let him make out any details. The figure | | quickly took shelter among Sepulveda's cages and the rabbit's squeals | | stopped. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, | | citing Jose A Martinez Echevarria, PRRG). | | | | 2001 - At 5:30 a.m. well known local merchant was on his way south | | towards Antofagasta, Chile on a desolate road when he suddenly | | noticed a strange flying creature approaching his truck at very high | | speed from the direction of the sea. As he braced for a possible | | impact the creature suddenly shot up vertically and disappeared from | | sight. The creature was described as brown in color, bigger than a | | condor, with huge glowing red eyes and a long pointed snout. Its | | overall appearance was "horrible." Others have reported seeing a | | similar creature in the region. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 2001, citing the Chilean newspaper El Loa). | | | | 2001 - On this night Ms. M. of Rosario, Argentina felt herself | | summoned by aliens, and she felt herself traveling through a tunnel | | of "water" or something that felt like water. She soon found herself | | in a jungle that was very hot. Next she found herself in a mansion | | all white in color, and it gave her the impression of being in a | | hospital. Inside the building she saw numerous children of both sexes | | that apparently lived there. The children were barefoot and wore | | white, loose fitting outfits. She also saw human adults that | | identified themselves as the "instructors". The children looked human | | but with some alien traits, "almost like hybrids." The aliens told | | her that soon they would be leaving the Earth due to the coming chaos | | and cataclysm. She saw an image of a huge explosion and many injured | | persons. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, | | citing Horacio Roberto, Nuevos Tiempos, Argentina). | | | | 2001 - At 8:30 p.m. a black rectangular object, quiet with no lights, | | flew right over a couple driving in Rowlett, Dallas County, Texas. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | August 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded August 5, 2001). | | | | 2004 - A young man, Andrey Alexandrovich Zabava, was spending time at | | the seashore near Cape Plaka near Partenit, Crimea, Ukraine in the | | company of several tourists from Russia and Poland. Their main reason | | for being there was to hunt for UFOs, because they believed there was | | an underground alien base hidden inside Ayu-Dug (Bear) Mountain, just | | to the west of Partenit. Their first six nights were uneventful, but | | on this night they saw several dim spots of yellow light that | | appeared one after the other on the northeastern slope of the | | mountain where there are no known buildings. The lights were | | positioned in a triangle. At about 01:00 a.m. a strange object | | appeared from the west slowly floating above the Black Sea. The | | object made a slow right turn, drifting in total silence, and slowly | | descended towards Ayu-Dug. When the object got closer Andrey could | | discern an elongated rhomboid form, clearly outlined by rows of | | lights. There were four bright emerald green lights positioned at the | | four corners of the craft, and numerous red lights were running along | | its edges, constantly blinking in a clockwise direction. Bright | | yellow-green lights were located at the center of the bottom of the | | craft, while four blue lights were positioned around it in a cross | | shape. This magnificent craft also had several dimly lit yellowish | | windows along its top section. When the craft was at its closest, a | | stream of hot air could be felt emanating from it. When the UFO | | passed along the seashore, Andrey noticed that all electric lights | | along the seashore blinked out simultaneously as if from a power | | interruption. Finally, the craft approached Ayu-Dug at a low altitude | | and seemed to dissolve into thin air, but immediately following | | this a bright beam of light appeared from the seashore and began | | searching the sky and scanning the water. Apparently some | | border guards had become alerted to the presence of the strange | | craft. Andrey also noticed that his friend Vitya's wristwatch had | | stopped when the craft passed directly overhead.  | | | | At around 3:00 a.m. bright yellow flashes of light appeared at the | | top of the mountain, resembling fireworks. Over the next 15 minutes a | | total of eight clusters of objects zoomed out of the mountain, and | | flew off towards the southwest and eastwards towards Novorossiysk. At | | 5:00 a.m. Andrey and Vitya had begun their descent of Cape Plaka, | | when they heard a voice yelling at them from behind. "Sons!" it said | | in Russian. They stopped and turned around. A figure resembling an | | elderly woman stood on a rock. Her face could not be seen because it | | was still dark and she was not facing them. The height of the | | strange woman was about 1.5 meters and she was dressed in a long gray | | loose fitting garment that completely covered her legs and a hood | | that covered her head. In a soft female voice in pure Russian, she | | said, "Sons! Don't tell anybody down there about what you have seen, | | they will not understand." The somewhat stunned young men did not | | began a conversation with her and did not pay much attention to her. | | Several seconds later Andrey turned around again and the woman had | | vanished. There was only a sharp rock outcrop and seemingly no place | | for her to hide. Increasingly agitated, the witnesses searched for | | the "nun" but could not find anyone.  | | | | They continued their descent from the rock, when Vitya screamed and | | pointed to the shoreline near one of the Partenit piers. There they | | saw another humanoid entity, very tall, about two or even three | | meters in height, and dressed in a tight-fitting, dark blue diver | | suit, which completely covered its body. It had on a helmet which was | | attached directly to the suit. A yellow rectangular "window" was | | positioned over the face area, but no facial features were visible. | | The entity was standing in the water up to its waist, and looking at | | the embankment and houses on the shore. Unexpectedly, after several | | seconds of observation the alien figure simply dissolved into thin | | air. The stunned witnesses finished their descent to the hamlet in a | | very shaken state. On the pier they spoke to an old sea captain named | | "Jora", who reported experiencing recent problems with his electronic | | equipment onboard his cutter on several occasions. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Andrey A. Zabava & | | Anton Anfalov). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 27 July 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reactions; apocalyptic message; | | domed discs, ellipsoid or ovoid UFOs; flying humanoid; Grey humanoid; | | ground traces: circular depressions; hovering UFOs; landings; multi- | | year reports from Argentina, Chile, France, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, | | and Texas; rectangular UFOs; red UFOs; shiny metallic UFOs; spheres. | | | | © Donald A. 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