+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 16 | | | | 1947 – At 11:30 at night in the North Sea an RAF Mosquito pilot | | picked up a strange object on radar 50 miles north of the coast of | | Holland. The UFO seemed to be taking evasive maneuvers when | | approached by the fighter aircraft. The UFO was pursued for 30 | | minutes until over the Norfolk, England coast, at which point the | | object darted away. (Source: APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 7). | | | | 1955 – At 1:00 p.m. a pilot of a light plane flying over Talara, Peru | | encountered a domed, disc-shaped UFO maneuvering at 20,000 feet. It | | focused a beam of light onto his plane. He gave chase but the disc | | ascended to an altitude too high to follow. (Source: Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24, citing the APRO Bulletin). | | | | 1957 – The crewmen of a USAF B-25 flying northwest of Fort Worth, | | Texas sighted a round, white light at eight o’clock in the evening | | making rapid maneuvers in the night sky. It made several 45-degree | | turns. The radio compass flipped over toward the UFO and held there | | during the duration of the 40-minute sighting. (Source: USAF Project | | Blue Book files counted in official statistics). | | | | 1958 – At 2:30 a.m. a doctor in Villa Velha in the Brazilian state of | | Espirito Santo and three others witnessed a large silent metallic | | Saturn-shaped UFO hovering offshore. It directed a beam of light | | downward into the ocean. Later than same day a famous set of | | photographs of a Saturn-shaped UFO was taken at 12:15 p.m. from a | | Brazilian Navy ship participating in the International Geophysical | | Year explorations, and anchored at Trindade Island in the Atlantic | | Ocean. Sr. Barauna, the ship’s photographer took the photographs, but | | over 100 witnesses aboard ship witnessed the maneuvering UFO. The | | four photos are somewhat over exposed, but show the object reversing | | direction and flying back over a craggy mountaintop. (Sources: Loren | | E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History – | | 1958: January-February, p. 23; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The | | Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 164). | | | | 1966 – At four o’clock in the morning, Mr. Coquil, age 23, was | | driving by a pasture in Kerrodien en Bolazec, France when he saw a | | luminous, box-shaped UFO rise from the roadside. The object was about | | five meters in length and had portholes and red lights on the | | corners. It passed over his car and landed in a field on the other | | side of the road. (Sources: Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1966; APRO | | Bulletin, May-June 1966; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, p. 27). | | | | 1967 – At 6:10 p.m. a man in Charleston, South Carolina saw two round | | objects in the sky. They were described as silver and blue with a red | | ring. A beam of light projected from the end. Radar contact with the | | object was initially confirmed but later discounted by later analysis | | of the weather conditions at the time. Six people traveling in a car | | between Mount Sunapee and Warner, New Hampshire at around 7 p.m. | | encountered a dark, battleship-gray Manta Ray shaped UFO with two | | lights. It paced their car for three minutes and later swooped low | | over a home. (Sources: Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward Condon (ed.) | | Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 129; NICAP case | | investigation files; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1967, p. 5). | | | | 1969 – While driving down a highway in Las Pajanosas, Spain in | | Sevilla province a man and his dog encountered an illuminated | | rectangle on or near the ground at 10:30 p.m. His dog began howling. | | The silhouettes of beings could be seen moving around in front of the | | lighted source for the ten minutes the UFO was on the ground. Later | | investigation found three apparent landing imprints, arranged in a | | triangle six feet apart. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, | | Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 101, | | citing investigation by Felipe Laffitte). | | | | 1973 - At 7:00 p.m. a domed, metallic object followed a car near | | Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the car was raised off the road by | | the object. The two witnesses felt weightless and they could not | | control the car until the object had departed. (Source: Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 326, | | citing UFO Register 1974) | | | | 1977 – On a clear and cloudless morning a giant flying saucer | | appeared over the southwestern part of Moscow, Russia. It was | | photographed as it hovered for more than an hour. It had a | | grayish-blue surface, but was distinctly visible against the blue | | sky. (Source: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 69). | | | | 1979 – Two women teachers, Ms. Griselda and Ms. Gonzalez, in the city | | of David in Panama, sighted an oval-shaped UFO in the evening while | | walking home from night school. The UFO was spinning and gave off | | orange and blue lights. It stopped and changed direction without | | turning, and made no sound. (Source: Jane Thompson, UFO Newsclipping | | Service, March 1979, p. 15; citing El Sol, January 18, 1979). | | | | 1991 – Three notable reports occurred on this evening. At eight p.m. | | in Bettignies, France a car’s headlights dimmed and the car radio | | experience radio interference when a huge black, delta-shaped craft | | passed by at a low altitude. The UFO rose to a higher altitude and | | flew off rapidly toward the east. At 7:50 p.m. in Gulf Breeze, | | Florida a red ball of light was sighted over the Sikes Bridge. It | | moved west, hovered, and then drifted in the sky for five minutes. | | That same evening in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma a UFO that first | | appeared as a white light made an abrupt turn and revealed four red | | lights. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1997; Bruce S. | | Maccabee, MUFON 1991 Conference Proceedings, p. 249; Paul | | Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing | | MUFON Oklahoma). | | | | 1992 – At four o’clock in the afternoon a gray disc swooped down over | | a car with four passengers and pursued it for seven minutes in | | Columbus, Georgia. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of | | UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing B. Knell). | | | | 1995 – A 40-year-old man looked out of the window of a store at 5:45 | | p.m. and saw a UFO over a shopping mall in Miami, Florida. He ran | | outside to view it more closely. The multi-colored disc-shaped object | | was rolling in loops on a trajectory that passed in front of a nearby | | building. It continued rolling as it flew away, and was in view for | | three minutes. (Source: Mary Margaret Zimmer, MUFON field | | investigation files, case 950406E). | | | | 2003 – Several interesting cases occurred on this day. At 4:25 a.m. | | in Marbella, Spain a round UFO with three flower petal-like shapes | | around its center was seen in the sky for five minutes. It was silver | | in color with black circles, and a silver framework was visible on | | the object. At 1:34 a.m. EST in Westchester county, New York a | | witness in Portchester sighted a large dark object in the night sky | | with a watery reflection. It looked to be cylindrical in shape. At | | 4:30 p.m. in Wildrose, North Dakota a man called to report that he | | saw a gray triangular UFO in the sky that was making a buzzing or | | humming noise. He reported that he got to within an eighth of a mile | | of the object before it flew away. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, web-page archive for January 2003). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 16 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT database. | | | | Themes: abrupt changes in direction, aircraft UFO | | encounters, beams of light, car buzzings and pursuits, disc-shaped UF | | Os, domed discs, hovering, landings, levitation, maneuvering UFOs, mu | | ltiyear reports from France and Florida, nautical UFOs (ocean sightin | | gs), physical traces, Saturn-shaped UFOs, square or rectangular UFOs. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+