+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 31 | | | | 1909 - In Greenvale, New Zealand a farmhand saw an "airship" about | | 150-feet long at dawn. It had a light at each end, and made a strange | | whirring noise that frightened the horses. A flying fuselage-shaped | | airship flew over Dunedin, New Zealand later that morning. A | | brilliant light shone from atop a mast antenna. That afternoon a | | dark, fat, cigar-shaped object flew over the hills around Fairfax, | | New Zealand. It had a box-shaped cabin on the bottom, center, and it | | flew on towards the west. (Sources: Richard Hall, From Airships to | | Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th | | Century (1900-1946), p. 7, citing Matsura Ensign, August 1, 1909; | | Xenolog, December 1975, p. 14; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 181). | | | | 1948 - In Indianapolis, Indiana at 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon | | Swigert sighted a UFO shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20 | | feet in diameter and 6-8 feet thick. It was white without any shine. | | It flew straight and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 | | seconds, shimmering in the sun as if spinning. (Sources: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; UNICAT, case # 632, citing Project | | Blue Book Special Report # 14, p. 84; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook | | UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1948 - On that evening a 30-foot in diameter disc-shaped object with | | a transparent center flew slowly and silently over Columbus, Ohio. | | There were separate, independent witnesses, including one named | | Geshorn. (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. | | 98). | | | | 1953 - A metallic object 30 meters in diameter was observed by five | | Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a | | railway in Woolen, Poland. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat | | disk around it, showing numerous openings at the periphery. (Sources: | | Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 105; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203, citing | | Intelligence Digest, November 1953). | | | | 1954 - On this day in Durban, Natal province, South Africa a good | | photograph was taken of a gray elliptical object that moved slowly | | back and forth over some trees. (Sources: J. Bernard Delair, UFO | | Register, Volume 6, p. 41, citing Outspan, December 1954, p. 3; Loren | | E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 61). | | | | 1960 - At 5:00 p.m.  in Nashville, Ohio a very bright cigar-shaped | | object passed by slowly. Its light was so intense it caused eye | | irritation for the two witnesses. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, July | | 1960; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, September 1962, | | p. 36). | | | | 1965 - A woman driving in a car near Belluco, Chile saw an object on | | the road. It took off, then landed again in Belluco where it was seen | | by several people. The object emitted a bright, purple light and a | | green beam. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century | | of Landings, case 666). | | | | 1965 - In Wynnewood, Oklahoma a UFO was tracked on U.S. Air Force and | | Weather Bureau radar shortly after 1:00 a.m. There were numerous | | police sightings of a multicolored object flashing different colors | | for 45 minutes. It finally moved off to the south. It was picked up | | on radars at Tinker and Carswell Air Force Bases. (Sources: APRO | | Bulletin, January-February 1966; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: | | The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space; p. 237; John | | G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, p. 41; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence: Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 242). | | | | 1965 - In Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada two five-foot long cylinders | | connected by cross-bars landed at 4:30 p.m. A five foot tall | | humanoid being was seen outside the object. (Source: David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2070, | | citing John Brent Musgrave). | | | | 1965 - A glowing object was seen in the sky with three leg-like | | protrusions over Goonumbla, New South Wales, Australia. It scared | | farm dogs in the area. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the | | Southern Hemisphere, p. 88). | | | | 1966 - At Presque Isle State Park near Erie, Pennsylvania at around | | 8:25 p.m. EDT Douglas Tibbetts, age 16, Betty Klem, 16, Anita | | Haifley, 22, and Gerald Labelle, 29 were enjoying the evening at the | | swimming beach on Lake Erie when they saw a square or hexagonal | | object with lit edges come tumbling down out of the sky from right to | | left. It stopped 5-10 feet above the beach, and then came down | | heavily onto the sand. It had a circle of spotlights at the top that | | were visible when it was on the ground. A strange being, 1.80 meters | | tall, was briefly seen. The sighting lasted five minutes. Ground | | marks were found in the sand. (Sources: Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century | | of Landings, case 784). | | | | 1967 - At 10:15 p.m. a guard, Sidney Zipkin, age 50, was driving | | through a large parking lot in Churchville, New York when his truck | | headlights fell upon a cigar-shaped object, 16 meters long, with | | green lights under it, landed on the pavement. He stopped his truck | | within 30 meters of the object with the truck's headlights aimed at | | it. The craft had a spherical central body with side extensions | | tipped with green lights, and he was surprised to see two 3-foot-tall | | dwarf beings dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by his vehicle and | | enter the craft, which took off straight up with a hissing sound. | | (Sources: NICAP case files, report dated August 3, 1967; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 860; Richard | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 473). | | | | 1968 - Mr. Luce Fontaine, age 31, a farmer on Reunion Island in the | | Indian Ocean, was picking some grass for his rabbits at around 9:00 | | a.m. when he saw an object 5 meters in diameter like two metallic | | saucers put face to face, standing on a "glass foot" like a goblet. | | It was only 25 meters away. On its top it bore another such "foot." | | It was dark blue but had a large central window, through which could | | be seen two small individuals, only 3 feet tall, dressed from head to | | foot in bulky coveralls, something like the Michelin "tire man." Both | | wore helmets that partially masked their faces. They turned their | | backs and there was a brilliant flash of light, and a sensation of | | heat with a blast of wind. A few seconds later nothing was to be | | seen. There was a local police investigation. (Sources: David F. Webb | | & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-52, | | citing FSR; Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1969, p. 8; | | Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1969, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 917). | | | | 1968 - In Grafton, West Virginia at 10:15 p.m. a man and a woman saw | | a silver disc-shaped UFO that hovered for 60 minutes or more, making | | a beeping sound. It had dark spots on the side that looked like | | portholes. (Source: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, April 1969, | | p. 23). | | | | 1969 - In Usovo, near Moscow, Russia all cars in the area stalled | | when two silver discs flew over them at around 8:00 p.m. It took two | | minutes before they could be restarted. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 47; MUFON UFO Journal, May | | 1978, p. 12). | | | | 1972 - At 9:30 p.m. a power outage was experienced by thousands in | | Mage, Espirito Santo, Brazil during which battery powered radios | | would not work. Many discs and nocturnal lights were seen all over | | the sky for the next three minutes. (Sources: O Dia, August 1, 1972; | | Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1972, p. 9; Gordon Creighton, FSR, | | September-October 1972, p. 26). | | | | 1972 - In Beloeil, Quebec, Canada four witnesses watched a | | cigar-shaped object move to the east at 9:50 p.m. EDT, then wobble | | overhead. A Saturn-shaped saucer appeared beneath it, and shot off to | | the south very fast. (Source: Wido Hoville case files, case # A17; | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 126). | | | | 1972 - Less than an hour later, at 9:40 p.m. CDT four people in | | Belleville, Illinois observed a yellow discoid, 50-60 feet in | | diameter, at 300 feet altitude while driving. It had large square | | windows in the bottom of the craft. (Sources: Belleville (IL) New | | Democrat, August 1, 1972; MUFON case files, report form dated August | | 15, 1972; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained | | Phenomena in Illinois, p. 50). | | | | 1973 - A cigar-shaped object with three smaller satellite objects was | | sighted for four hours in Hogsby, Kalmar, Sweden starting at 10:30 | | p.m. There were four witnesses. (Source: Swedish author BJT, p. 184). | | | | 1975 - At 7:30 a.m. in Loxton, Northern Cape, South Aftrica Mr. Van | | Graan saw an aluminum or silver colored oval-shaped object on the | | ground. Inside the craft were four beings. They were small, pale, | | fair haired, with slanted almond eyes and high cheekbones. They wore | | light coveralls with hoods. A light beam hit him in the face, causing | | eye trouble and a nose bleed. The UFO took off with a loud whine. | | Five equidistant leg marks were left in ground. (Sources: Cynthia | | Hind, UFOs--African Encounters, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1406, citing Rapport; | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, | | pp. 490-493; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11336, citing | | Cynthia Hind). | | | | 1976 - Debbie Focken was working at a convenience store and gas | | station sometime after 11:00 p.m. in Council Bluffs, Iowa when she | | had a close encounter with an oblong UFO that had lit windows, but no | | other features. Electromagnetic effects included damage of the CB | | radio and burglar alarm. The UFO hung in the air, 100 feet over the | | service station in an urban part of the city for several minutes, and | | illuminated the surrounding area. An adding machine, the cash | | register, and a vending machine were all damaged by some kind of | | field effect from the UFO.  (Sources: Ralph C. DeGraw, International | | UFO Reporter, December 1976, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 226). | | | | 1977 - At 9:00 p.m. a three-meter in diameter luminous disc-shaped | | object maneuvered over the city of Motta San Giovanni, Sicilia, | | Italy. The city experienced a power outage for five minutes, until it | | went away. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT). | | | | 1980 - A red light moved over a motorcycle in Ayamonte, Huelva | | province, Spain at 1:15 a.m. and when the UFO came to within 1.5 | | meters over top of the motorcycle the engine died and was impossible | | to restart. The object then moved over a concrete platform on the | | right side of the road, near the bank of a river, and then at last | | dove at the motorcyclist before leaving. (Source: Luis R.Gonzalez | | Manso, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1981, p. 14, Correo Andalusia, | | August 1, 1980). | | | | 1981 - At 8:40 p.m. a black object, covered by "fog", accompanied by | | two satellite lights which operated independently, flew over the | | stern of a boat on a lake near Cape Vaaraniemi, Lieksa, Finland and | | was watched by two witnesses. One man, age 35, felt paralyzed and | | couldn't move his body or his head, but could talk. Seven hours of | | missing time followed. After effects included intense nightmares and | | disruption of balance. Hypnosis was unsuccessful in revealing any | | additional details. (Sources: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, | | p. 10; APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO | | Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery.  Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, | | case 55; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, | | Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 271, 416). | | | | 1982 - In the middle of the day six unidentified spheres flew over | | Red Square, the center of power for the Soviet Union, in Moscow, | | Russia.  (Source: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: | | A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 201). | | | | 1986 - At 9:00 p.m. a huge bright light came at a lady in a pickup | | truck in her driveway in Richmond, Indiana. It zoomed in, and then | | stopped directly in front of the truck, staying there for several | | seconds. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 96). | | | | 1987 - Two men riding motorcycles at 11:30 p.m. in Terre Haute, | | Indiana saw a flying pyramid-shaped object, and they followed it for | | awhile but then lost sight of it. However, they came to an automobile | | that was stopped by the side of the road, and the car's occupants | | were acting strangely. In a daze, all four occupants got out of their | | car and walked a mile from that point. The men strongly suspected | | that the UFO was responsible for their odd behavior. (Source:Francis | | L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 109). | | | | 1992 - Walking on a footpath in Port Pirie, South Australia at 3:10 | | a.m., a 51-year-old milkman turned around to see a blue-green | | cigar-shaped UFO behind him to the southeast at a height of only | | sixty to a hundred meters altitude. It was huge, with an angular size | | of 20 degrees. It had three amber lights on the left side | | and pulsating lights. There was no wind at the time, and full cloud | | cover. (Source: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia case | | files, case # SA92029). | | | | 1993 - A man riding his motorcycle near Orihuela, Alicante, Spain | | around midnight noticed a tall dark human figure standing next to a | | light pole. The figure seemed to be staring at him. The witness rode | | away at high speed but then noticed that the figure was now running | | after him at very high speed also, still staring at him. The figure | | then disappeared and a bright white sphere appeared and followed the | | witness briefly before leaving. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1993, case # 1240, citing Año Cero, January 1994). | | | | 1995 - At 8:15 p.m. a Boeing 727 airliner narrowly missed a UFO that | | darted into its path, then flew along beside it as it made a landing | | approach to San Carlos de Bariloche airport, Rio Negro province, | | Argentina. The object was estimated to be the same size as the 727, | | and was shaped like an inverted flying saucer. (Sources: Michael D. | | Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 332; Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue # 333; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47). | | | | 1995 - At 11:45 p.m. in Morris Plains, New Jersey three cops and two | | civilian witnesses saw a very bright flying wing with colored | | "bubbles" on the exterior. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 17341, citing National UFO Reporting Center). | | | | 2000 - In Bairoa, Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico a woman was awakened | | around 5:00 a.m. when she heard noises coming from her neighbor's | | backyard. The noise of something falling on the ground. Her dog began | | barking inceasantly. She decided to get up and look outside, and when | | she looked out the window she was startled to see a strange creature | | standing with its back to her, only 15 feet away. It was white in | | color with wrinkled skin and had an egg-shaped head with large | | elongated white eyes with black centers. It had elongated ears, arms, | | and legs. It appeared to be unclothed. Its hands were in a praying | | position and its body and head jerked around as if it had no control | | over them. After watching for a few minutes the witness made a sudden | | noise, causing the creature to turn around halfway and gaze at her. | | This caused her to involuntarily close her eyes and step back. She | | rubbed her eyes repeatedly and was finally able to open them again. | | Frightened, she called additional household members but by the time | | they arrived the creature was gone. Two days after later the witness | | noticed a green light illuminating her room. No one was able to | | identify the source of the light. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3480, citing Lucy Guzman, | | Inexplicata). | | | | 2004 - A witness named Deakin witnessed a black pipe-like object in | | the sky over Hollingworth, England at 5:30 p.m. It stayed in a | | vertical position, hovering or floating as if being blown gently by | | the wind. It was viewed through binoculars. Later, at 10:45 p.m. in | | Shepton Mallet, Somerset County, England three very strange looking, | | bright orange objects were reported in the sky to the British | | Ministry of Defense. They were described as quite large and going in | | an upward direction. (Sources: Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, | | p. 35; British Ministry of Defense, case 2004-57). | | | | 2004 - At 11:38 p.m. a large disc-shaped object emitting a bright | | light and a buzzing sound at intervals was sighted and photographed | | over Yamuna Nagar, Haryana State, India. Stationary at first, the | | UFO flew off to the south at high speed. It was witnessed by a man at | | a petrol service station along with five employees. He took one photo | | of it with a Nokia 6230 digital phone. (Source: George A. Filer & | | David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, | | p. 52). | | | | 2007 - A witness in Kars, Ottawa, Ontario reported being woken up by | | his dog barking at 12:52 a.m. He was going to shut him up, looked out | | window to see what he was barking at, and was shocked to see a large, | | well lit disc-shaped UFO hovering in the sky. Another disc-shaped UFO | | was sighted in Jamaica, Queens, New York at 2:45 a.m. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 8, | | 2007). | | | | 2010 - The night sky in Albuquerque, New Mexico turned white at 4:15 | | a.m. when a cigar-shaped object appeared in the sky in the middle of | | a circle of light. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 24, | | 2010). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 31 July 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reactions, Asiat | | ic-Nordic looking UFOnauts, bulky humanoids, car and motorcycle pursu | | its, cigar-shaped UFOs, domed discs, EM effects: damage to electronic | | s in machines and burglar alarm, hexagonal UFOs, hissing sound, human | | oid with wrinkled skin, landings, metallic UFOs, Michelin Man looking | | humanoids, missing time, multi-year reports from Indiana, power fail | | ures associated with UFOs, radar-visual confirmation, Saturn-shaped U | | FOs, short humanoids, silver discs, vehicle ignition interference eff | | ects, vertical ascent, vertical cylinder, whining or whirring sounds. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+