+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  February 8 | | | | 1672 - A dark "flying ship" hovered in place over the ocean near | | Cherbourg, France during a wind. It had no sails, and eventually flew | | off to the south after 33 minutes. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue # 186). | | | | 1951 - A four engine Super-Constellation R5D Navy transport, flying | | at a speed of 200 knots at 10,000 feet between Iceland and | | Newfoundland, saw a UFO ascend from the surface of the Atlantic Ocean | | in the pre-dawn hours. They watched it on the surface for 8-10 | | minutes while approaching it, and it was so bright that they thought | | at first that perhaps the auto-pilot had gone off course and it was | | the lights from a city. It moved at 1,500 mph with a white flow | | and with a reddish-purple fiery ring around the rim. It shot up and | | at the aircraft, and due to the object's high speed, its size and | | direction of travel it looked like it would collide. The pilot | | quickly disengaged the auto-pilot and stood by to push the nose of | | the plane over in hopes that they could pass underneath. Everyone | | onboard began ducking, including the relief crew. "It stopped its | | movement toward us and began moving along with us about 45 degrees | | off the bow to the right, about 100 feet or so below us and about 200 | | to 300 feet in front of us. It was not in a level position; it was | | tilted about 25 degrees. It stayed in this position for a minute or | | so. It appeared to be from 200 to 300 feet in diameter, translucent | | or metallic, shaped like a saucer." When it moved away it made no | | turns, and was out of sight in only a few seconds.Gander radar did | | track the object in excess of 1,800 mph. (Sources: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, September-October 1970; Weinstein Dominique, Aircraft | | UFO Encounters, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 691; Carl Feindt, | | www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=76). | | | | UFO Ascends from Surface of North Atlantic - February 8, 1951 | | | | [Sketch of UFO Seen on Flight from Iceland to Newfoundland - February | | 8, 1951] | | | | 1967 - In Newbury, Massachusetts at two o'clock in the afternoon two | | silvery cigar shaped objects moved in a straight line, then | | separately shot straight up vertically and were gone. (Source: NICAP | | investigation files, report dated February 14, 1967). | | | | 1969 - Waking from sleep at 1:30 a.m. witness Douglas Fay looked out | | his window in Glen Rock, New Jersey and saw a bright red, star-like | | object flying toward the north in jerky, stop and start movements. | | Before it disappeared from view three smaller red dots were released | | from the larger object and flew off in various directions. (Source: | | NICAP investigation files, report dated February 8, 1969). | | | | 1974 - On this evening at Wadi Jawlan in Yemen east of Al-Makalla, | | three Arab men saw three large white disc-shaped objects glide toward | | ground and land in the nearby desert. When on the ground a bright | | light and three beams of light were directed upward into the sky. The | | objects stayed on the ground for several hours. Later at the landing | | site investigators found three imprints, each 85 cm wide, arranged in | | a triangle with sides 5.3 meters in length. The vegetation was also | | burnt. On the same evening at 7:30 p.m. a glowing domed disc was | | sighted in Douvrin, France just 15 meters above the ground. It | | vanished, then reappeared. (Sources: (1) Gordon Creighton, FSR, | | December 1974, p. 12; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1974). | | | | 1976 - At 10:30 p.m. a silvery white disc-shaped object flew over | | Kissimmee, Florida at less than 300 meters altitude, making a | | whistling noise. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1976). | | | | 1979 - At six o'clock in the evening an oval-shaped flying object | | approached a car driving between Broad Hinton and Clyffe Pypard in | | Wiltshire, England. It came to within 150 to 300 feet at its closest | | approach. It had a cluster of very bright strobe-like lights that lit | | up ground. The UFO made a V-turn, then stopped over a water tower | | before departing. It made no noise. (Source: UFO Newsclipping | | Service, April 1979, p. 12, citing the Wiltshire Gazette, February | | 15, 1979). | | | | 1982 - Starting at 3:11 a.m. a large, multicolored flying object | | paced a commercial aircraft for 82 minutes. VASP flight #169 was | | paced by the UFO from Pernambuco state near Petrolina to Rio de | | Janeiro, Brazil. It was disc shaped and had flashing red, blue, | | orange, yellow and white lights. The airline crews of two more planes | | also witnessed the UFO. (Sources: Irene Granchi, International UFO | | Reporter, July 1982, p. 11; APRO Bulletin, April 1982, p. 1; | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 44, citing Lumieres | | dans la Nuit). | | | | 1982 - That evening in Bakersfield, Vermont a delta-shaped object | | followed a car home, then flew overhead. The witness ran inside his | | house to hide. The UFO made no sound. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 13830, citing Joe Nyman). | | | | 1985 - A 19-year-old man named Thomas was abducted in the early | | morning hours in Pwllheli, Wales. He was seized by the arm and | | floated into a 25-foot diameter domed, disc-shaped craft by beings | | wearing gray uniforms and octagon-shaped helmets. They communicated | | with him using telepathy and gave him a physical exam. He was also | | taken on an off-world journey. He returned in a state of shock, with | | a sunburn on his body. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 563). | | | | 1986 - While driving on State Route 117 in Lima, Ohio at 7:00 p.m. a | | young couple spotted a dark triangular UFO with three bright lights, | | hovering over some trees near a farm. The object was estimated to be | | 50-60 feet long and made no sound. Their sighting lasted five | | minutes. (Source: John P. Timmerman, International UFO Reporter, | | July-August 1986, p. 9). | | | | Lima, Ohio - 1986 | | | | [] | | | | 1988 - In Gulf Breeze, Florida at around eight o'clock in the | | evening, Ed Walters and his wife witnessed a small bright orange ring | | in the sky. Mr. Walters snapped a Polaroid photograph of it, then | | experienced two hours of missing time. He claims he has no memory of | | taking the photo. (Source: Edward Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the | | Proof, p. 20). | | | | 1989 - A man in Gulf Breeze, Florida was awakened by his dogs, and | | saw a UFO descend making a sizzling sound and land in a vacant lot | | only 80 feet away from his house. He awoke his wife and son. They saw | | three small discs land. When the man shone a flashlight at one of the | | objects it flashed back and then they all disappeared. (Sources: Ed | | Walters, UFO Abductions at Gulf Breeze, p. 184; Rex Salisberry, MUFON | | field investigation file database, case 890405; Larry Hatch, U | | computer data, case 14819, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue #255). | | | | 2004 - At 6:25 p.m. EST a silent UFO with one light, no running | | lights or tail light, and no vapor trail passed over a home in | | Chester County, South Carolina. As it flew over dogs in the | | neighborhood were barking loudly. At 5:45 p.m. CST or about 20 | | minutes later, a small reddish spherical object, that flashed red at | | varying intensities and intervals, was sighted over Houston, Texas. | | It seemed to wobble laterally as it flew. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 February 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction, animal reactions: dogs barking, car pursuits, c | | igar-shaped objects, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, landings, missing | | time, multi-colored UFOs, multi-year reports from Florida, oval-shap | | ed UFO, triangular imprint pattern, triangular UFOs, vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+