+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  February 12 | | | | 1944 - The test launch of a Nazi rocket from Kummerdorf Airfield in | | Bremen, Germany with both of the top Nazi leaders Goebbels and | | Himmler present, occurred at 1:00 p.m. on this day. The tracking film | | showed an unidentified sphere that circled and followed the rocket. | | (Sources: Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 | | Temoignag, case 419; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 498). | | | | 1952 - The pilot and co-pilot of a MATS C-47 transport plane flying | | between Friendship Airfield and Baltimore, Maryland sighted a bright | | white UFO at 10:30 p.m. The object moved slowly at first, then | | accelerated away. The sighting lasted two minutes. (Sources: Project | | Blue Book Report #5, dated March 31, 1952; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15). | | | | 1959 - At 6:10 p.m. a white cylindrical object, shaped like a | | cigarette in appearance, jerked back and forth over a cloud in Miami, | | Florida. It then vanished suddenly. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The | | Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: | | January-March, p. 48). | | | | 1965 -  A strange looking plane was seen to dive into the sea near | | Minehead on the North Devon, England coast. Four witnesses saw it | | from two different points along the coast. A lifeboat, two RAF | | helicopters, and a Shackleton failed to find anything after a 90 | | minute search, and no planes were reported missing. The "ghost plane" | | may have been seen inland before it reached the sea, for a strange | | low-flying plane was reportedly seen over Swainswick, near Bath in | | Somerset, England. The ash-grey "plane" was flying about 100 feet | | above the road in a west-southwestly direction. It had a misty | | appearance, despite the fact that there was no fog or mist at the | | time. It came from behind some trees, and then literally just | | disappeared. "The strange part was that it made no sound and did not | | appear to have an engine, but it was certainly not a glider." | | (Sources: Janet Gregory, FSR, September-October 1971, pp. 29-30; Ivan | | T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 43). | | | | 1967 - The witness, a civilian named Atkinson, first heard a | | "chirping"noise at between 3:30-3:40 a.m., then saw four glowing | | oval-shaped objects in the sky over Grand Rapids, Michigan. Three | | were in a line formation while the fourth was off to one side. The | | UFOs went behind some buildings. The case is listed as a Project Blue | | "unknown." (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 11355; Condon Colorado UFO Study, case N1030, | | citing NICAP; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. | | 54). | | | | 1967 - At 6:00 p.m. a silent, white glowing object hovered just over | | Highway 15 in Kensington, Connecticut. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, | | UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344). | | | | 1967 - At 9:45 p.m. a domed disc with rotating colored lights was | | sighted from an apartment building in Wharton, Texas. The disc | | skimmed over the treetops and performed other maneuvers. The sighting | | lasted 10 minutes. (Sources: NICAP case files; Condon Colorado UFO | | Study, case N1022, citing NICAP; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 9, 152). | | | | 1968 - On this night a large round object was seen close to the | | ground in Farm Creek, Utah in Uintah County by a woman named | | Christiansen. It changed color from green to red, performed a number | | of maneuvers, and left rapidly. (Source: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah | | UFO Display, Appendix case 61). | | | | 1969 - At 5:40 a.m. in Pirassununga, Sao Paolo state, Brazil Luis | | Flozinho De Oliveira, a farm worker, was on his way to work when he | | was approached and attacked by two strange looking aggressive tan | | skinned beings. The men were 1.5 meters (4.95 feet) tall and had | | beards, long hair, and asymmetrical eyes. Both humanoids wore white | | unbuttoned shirts and long beige colored pants with what appeared to | | be colorful inscriptions and drawings on them. They also wore dark | | shiny medallions around their necks. At first stunned, Luis fought | | back effectively, knocking them both to the ground, one on top of the | | other. The two humanoids got up and exchanged some words between | | themselves in a strange language. They then told Luis in perfect | | Portuguese that they were leaving since he was much stronger than | | they, and they both fled into the thick underbrush. Luis's dog | | “rolled up into a ball on the ground for protection” during the | | attack upon its master. The dog refused to eat anything after the | | encounter, and died a month later, its body found bloated up. The dog | | had never been willing to return to the place of the encounter. | | (Sources: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 10; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1969-09 (A1026), citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, 1975, issue | | 51; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, case 225; FSR, January | | 1972, p. 26, citing SBEDV Bulletin, January 1970). | | | | 1969 - The crew of a fishing boat off the coast of Quinteros, Chile | | watched an odd looking object enter the water at around 5:00 p.m and | | then vanish. Another unidentified aircraft was seen overhead at the | | same time. (Sources: Roberto Enrique Banchs, citing Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, issue 118; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8746). | | | | 1970 - At 9:30 p.m. a shiny ellipsoid UFO hovered over a residential | | neighborhood in Canning Town, London, England. Three teenage girls | | who witnessed the object feel into a trance for one minute. The UFO | | vanished. (Source: FSR, May-June 1970, p. 22). | | | | 1971 - The good photographs were taken by a family of a domed | | disc-shaped object in front of some white clouds on the island of | | Corsica, France. The photos were taken along the cloudy shoreline in | | the town of Bastia at around 7:00 p.m. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The | | UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 289). | | | | 1972 - At 12:30 a.m. a gray eight meter in diameter disc-shaped | | object descended from the clouds, and then landed on four legs | | outside the town of LaGardelle-sur-Leze, Haute-Garronne, France. It | | then took off and flew to the south-southwest. (Source: Lumieres dans | | la Nuit, October 1976). | | | | 1972 - At 6:30 p.m. a screech was heard outside in Haydock, | | Merseyside, England, and a dog ran and hid. Later, a 6 foot in | | diameter blue fall of light followed a girl home at 60 feet altitude. | | The close encounter lasted 15 minutes. (Source: R. P. Knowles, FSR | | Case Histories, June 1972, p. 6). | | | | 1976 - A metallic polygon UFO with multi-colored lights was seen | | moving at a slow speed, under 100 mph, in Magra, Tasmania, Australia. | | At 3:50 a.m. it then abruptly accelerated to a speed between 500 | | and 1,000 mph as it sped off to the west. (Source: Tasmania UFO | | Investigation Centre, ACOS Bulletin, June 1976, p. 6). | | | | 1976 - A large disc-shaped object descended, tilted, and then came | | down into some trees in Salisbury, Massachusetts near a nuclear | | submarine base. It rose up, and then performed some amazing | | maneuvers. There were 13 witnesses and the encounter lasted for over | | 70 minutes. (Source: Skylook, May 1976, p. 3; Raymond E. Fowler, | | Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 136). | | | | 1978 - At 6:00 a.m. two large cigar-shaped object hovered in a | | vertical position over Courbevoie, Hauts-Seine department, France. | | One tilted and flew off to the southwest as the sun was rising; the | | second soon followed. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 13050; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 217). | | | | 1982 - Mr. Robert Sprout, age 60, reported to the Center for UFO | | Studies that at 5:45 p.m. he witnessed a square black object with | | four white and yellow lights arranged in the corners three miles east | | of Joliet, Illinois. It had an X-shaped, coal-black area connecting | | the four corners. The UFO changed direction in flight. (Source: CUFOS | | case files). | | | | 1985 - A woman in Vasa, Minnesota went outside at 11:00 p.m. to see | | why her dogs "were going crazy". She saw two multicolored light | | clusters hovering over a nearby field. One of them blinked out, while | | the other one came straight at her. (Source: Doris Graziano, APRO | | Bulletin, February 1986, p. 6). | | | | 1986 - At 12:33 a.m. a 48-year-old woman in Lima, Ohio saw a dark | | triangular UFO hovering over her neighbor's house, 150 feet away. It | | was between 50 and 60 feet in length, and 15-20 feet wide. It had a | | red light on top, and white lights in the lower two corners. (Source: | | John Timmerman, International UFO Reporter, July 1986, p. 9). | | | | 1988 - Numerous witnesses watched as several spherical objects sailed | | over Svetliy Klyuch, near Dal'negorsk, Vladivostok, Russia at eight | | o'clock in the evening, and then hovered over a field for several | | minutes. A beam of light was directed down at a building. (Source: | | Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 121). | | | | 1991 - A repeat UFO abductee, driving west of Westfield, | | Massachusetts on Interstate 90 (The Massachusetts Turnpike) at 1:40 | | a.m., watched a huge dark boomerang shaped UFO that blocked out the | | starry sky.  (Source: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991, | | p. 14). | | | | 1994 - At 7:20 p.m. the engine of a car with two witnesses inside | | died when a white sphere, the size of a house, flew spinning over a | | nearbyfield at only 25 meters above the ground, in | | Flavigny-sur-Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. (Sources: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 16309; Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue # 324). | | | | 1995 - Two women in Miami, Florida at 7:45 p.m. sighted a white, | | glowing sphere at 10 degrees elevation above the ocean. The object | | was estimated to be the size of an airplance, but its light was | | powerful enough to illuminate the water below. It vanished, and was | | replaced by two lights at a higher elevation that were pulsating. One | | moved down, across, then up into the other light. (Source: Mary | | Margaret Zimmer, MUFON case files, case # 980202SE). | | | | 1995 - A very large orange UFO approached near a boatload of | | commercial fishermen at sea off the coast of Gustavus, Alaska at | | 10:30 p.m. The object returned light signals from the boat, and then | | zipped away. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 17118, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, Feb. 1995 webpage). | | | | 2000 - Two luminous disc-shaped objects were seen in Novellara, Italy | | for several minutes flying at extremely high speed.  There were | | several dozen witnesses who reported seeing the two objects at around | | four o'clock in the afternoon. (Source: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, | | p. 10). | | | | 2000 - Two witnesses from Rockford, Illinois reported that at 10:00 | | p.m. a bright orange sphere descended out of the eastern sky, then | | leveled off. It flew a short distance, then turned and flew to the | | north. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, Feb. 2000 webpage). | | | | 2003 - At 9:03 p.m. a dark triangular craft with structure underneath | | flew silently over Vancouver, British Columbia. There were two | | witnesses and the incident lasted three minutes. (Source: Geoff | | Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 55, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2006 - At 11:53 p.m. over Houston, British Columbia four witnesses | | saw what looked like an egg-shaped UFO standing upright. It looked | | fully illuminated as if it had an internal light source, and made no | | sound. It was first seen hovering, then moved out of sight behind a | | mountain.(Source: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case 49, | | citing www.ufoinfo.com). | | | | 2008 - On a nightly walk in Cloverdale, California a witness spotted | | a disc-shaped object in the sky at 6:45 p.m. It appeared to be the | | size of a football field, and it was moving slowly and silently | | across the sky. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, | | 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 2 February 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: a | | nimal reactions: dogs hide, bark; death of an animal associated with | | a close encounter; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; landings; maneuveri | | ng UFOs; multi-year reports from England, Florida, France and Massach | | usetts; nautical UFOs (seen entering ocean); orange UFOs; ovoid and e | | llipsoid UFOs; signals exchanged between UFO and witnesses; silent UF | | Os; spheres; triangular UFOs; vertical cigar-shaped UFOs; white UFOs. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+