+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | August 23 | | | | 1947 - Two railway men, J. A. Martin and Kenneth Smith, working near | | Livingston, Montana saw disc-shaped machines traveling to the south | | in the sky just before sundown. Their speed was 40-60 mph; they | | glided smoothly and made no sound. They were plainly visible. | | (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, NJ | | talk April 16, 2005, p. 25). | | | | 1952 - At 4:10 a.m. USAF Lt. H. K. Funseth, a ground radar observer, | | and two U.S. Navy men watched an unidentified pulsing amber light fly | | straight and level for seven minutes outside of Akron on US Highway | | 224 in Atwater, Ohio. The object was pulsating in intensity from very | | intense to normal. They reported observing a light only, and could | | not discern what the object looked like. It was described as | | amber-orange, round, the size of a car headlamp on dim, and traveling | | at a speed of 200 mph. (Sources: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 63; | | UNICAT, case # 740). | | | | 1953 - At 12:30 a.m. in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada two | | witnesses experienced two hours of missing time after their car had | | stalled in the presence of a black, 14 meter in diameter circular | | object, which hovered overhead. During hypnosis it emerged that | | telepathy was used for communication. (Source: Don Ledger, Maritime | | UFO Files, p. 38). | | | | 1954 - Outside of Vernon, near Paris, France a giant cigar-shaped | | object was observed standing on end at 1:00 a.m. It emitted a | | disc-shaped object, dropped in free fall, then slowed and swayed. The | | disc was surrounded by a red halo. Over the next 45 minutes it | | emitted four more discs. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and | | the Straight Line Mystery, p. 19; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, | | p. 82; APRO Bulletin, January 1980, p. 5; UNICAT, case # 483). | | | | 1954 - On this day Elise Blanc approached an object that looked like | | an aluminum trailer in Lugrin, France. Standing close to it were two | | small beings dressed in silver uniforms. They made grunting sounds | | like pigs. The object took on a glowing, fiery color and flew away. | | [Note: the Airstream model of trailer, common for this period, is | | aluminum in color and somewhat ovoid shaped.] (Sources: Jacques | | Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129; Passport to | | Magonia, p. 208). | | | | 1955 - In Arlington, Virginia at 10:45 a.m. G.M. Park, using a 400x | | telescope, witnessed several orange lights moving singly and in | | groups, circling and stopping for 30 minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1956 - The crew of an F-86 fighter jet flying at 36,000 feet over the | | Canadian Rockies, near Fort MacLeod, Alberta photographed in color | | "an intensely brilliant, oval-shaped object" that was emitting a | | plasma glow. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1965, p. 6; John | | R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and | | Close Encounters, p. 211). | | | | 1959 - At 9:30 p.m. a student watched a bright, pulsating ellipsoid | | object hover in Midland, Michigan. It made a whirring sound, was | | sharply outlined, and about the size of a T-33 plane. It changed | | color from white to bluish-white when it shot off. (Source: John M. | | Windover, UFO Research Center case files, report dated June 22, | | 1966). | | | | 1960 - C.A. Komiske, a Boeing aeronautical engineer, sighted a dull | | orange, round flying object at 3:24 a.m. in Wichita, Kansas. The | | object had three yellow lights that came from what looked like | | triangular windows at the bottom. The object flew in an arc for two | | minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | August 23, 1960 Wichita, Kansas | | | | [Sketch for August 23, 1960 Wichita, Kansas sighting] | | | | 1965 - At one o'clock in the morning Casimiro Zuk was riding | | his bicycle near a railroad crossing in Apostoles, Argentina when he | | saw a luminous object above him that circled, then landed near the | | tracks. It was round, five meters in diameter, and 2.5 meters high. A | | door opened and a man dressed like a pilot emerged, walked around, | | and then re-entered the object, which flew off in a spiral. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # | | 687) | | | | 1966 - Columbus, Ohio. - At seven o'clock in the evening two | | witnesses, Broomall and Gilpin, reported seeing a circular, luminous | | white object split into five objects. All five objects streaked away | | toward the west. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. (Source: Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1967 - Joyceville, Ontario - While driving from his home in Toronto to | | Montreal at four o'clock in the morning Stanley Moxon, age 20, saw a | | green light in a field ahead of him, not far from the road. He turned | | off his headlights and swung onto a side road to get closer. Turning | | his lights on again, he saw a huge greenish colored lens-shaped | | craft, and two somewhat bulky human-like entities about four feet | | tall, wearing white uniforms and helmets. They "seemed to be at work | | around the machine." When they were discovered, they quickly jumped | | into the craft, which took off silently at tremendous speed. | | (Sources: Toronto Telegram, August 23, 1967; Kingston Whig Standard, | | August 24, 1967; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 14; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1967-81, citing APRO and police reports; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 869; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 264, 473). | | | | 1967 - Two young men, Ricardo Hurtado and Antonio Piedra, in Caracas, | | Santa Monica district, Venezuela heard a noise like "horses | | galloping" in their kitchen. They encountered two small beings who | | when discovered left hurriedly. There were no lights on in the room | | and their details could not be discerned very well, but they did not | | believe the visitors could have been children.(Source: APRO Bulletin, | | September-October 1967, p. 13). | | | | 1967 - In Kolmarden, Sodermanland, Sweden a 15-year-old boy and girl, | | Erik and Inga, were walking together in the evening when they saw a | | reddish glow descend into the woods at 8:00 p.m. When they reached an | | abandoned cabin they saw a conical light beam cast onto its wall, and | | the red light re-appeared. Alarmed by this, they walked to the home | | of the boy's sisters, where they found a round, brightly luminous | | object hovering about 13 feet in the air. Then they heard a whistling | | sound and footsteps, and finally a little being jumped out from | | behind some bushes, 35 feet away. The being was 4 feet 4 inches tall, | | and its face was at first completely in shadow. Then it jerkily | | raised its head and arms, holding a box from which a short tube | | protruded. Its head was very large, covered by hair or a helmet. It | | had large dark eyes, and a nose and mouth that together formed an | | "X." It was bowlegged, and around each ankle was a brilliant, white | | glowing wire. The witnesses ran for home. The next day at the site | | the boy found some apples that had been broken apart, some of them | | with the marks of five fingernails or claws on the broken surface. | | Other apples were coated with a foul smelling slime. Also found | | outside the house were deep, odd footprints, 6 inches long and with | | three-toe marks. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-82, citing K. Gosta Rehn, | | APRO and Sven Schalin; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with | | UFO Sightings, case 712; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case # 870, citing APRO Bulletin, | | September-October 1967). | | | | 1967 - At 10:15 p.m. a 19-year-old teenager riding on a motocycle two | | miles north of Lacombe, Alberta, Canada was chased by a red UFO with | | a vertical stripe down the middle. It followed him two miles down a | | twisting country road. The motorcycle engine "coughed", but did not | | stall. He felt heat, and heard a loud whistle sound. (Sources: | | Lacombe Globe, August 23, 1967; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & | | Science, Autumn 1967, p. 10; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, p. 36) | | | | 1971 - A yellow light approached a car being driven by a Sr. | | Rodriguez, age 34, in Nuez, Zamora province, Spain at 12:30 a.m. It | | was disc shaped and also had red and white lights, and was four | | meters in diameter. His car's electrical system failed when the | | object approached.The light vanished, then reappeared 15 meters away, | | then moved off behind some trees. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester | | Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case | | 145, citing Jose-Tomas Ramirez y Barbero, Stendek, December 1971, p. | | 16). | | | | 1971 - At around 4 p.m. on highway D1 southeast of Verteillac, | | Dordogne, France a huge metallic disc-shaped UFO was spotted as it | | rose from behind some trees. It stopped in midair and dropped back | | down again. Nothing was found on the ground when the area was | | searched. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 123). | | | | 1976 - Dean Anderson was cutting grass on a golf course in Egg | | Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin at 4:15 a.m. when he saw a large | | orange craft drop down into a culvert behind the road. Anderson | | stopped his lawn mower. Two figures emerged from a door in the craft | | and floated down to the ground on a “band of light.” The craft then | | took off. Both figures carried flashlights 3 feet long. They came up | | to Mr. Anderson and one of the beings extended his hand, which the | | witness shook. He said, “We come in peace. I am Sunar from Jupiter. | | This is Treena; she comes from Saturn.” The witness shook Treena’s | | hand while Sunar allegedly explained that they were here on a | | scientific mission, gathering specimens. Treena took off her outer | | spacesuit, and appeared in a close fitting, light green one-piece | | suit; the top was of “some glistening metallic material,” but the | | pants were dull. She also wore slippers. Her skin was light tan, her | | eyes blueish gray, and she had shoulder length hair. She was 5’2” | | tall. Sunar did most of the talking; he had copper colored skin, and | | said he was over 200 years old. The witness was told that the man he | | had chased on a previous closer encounter was Muton, from Mars, and | | that Sunar had once met Baha’u”llah, the founder of the Baha’i | | religion. After about 20 minutes of conversation, Treena put her | | spacesuit back on, and gave Anderson an envelope made of yellow nylon | | cloth, which she asked him not to open for nine days. The craft | | returned, and the two UFOnauts ascended to it on a beam of light. The | | craft was estimated to be 30 feet wide at the bottom, and 60 feet | | high. As soon as daylight allowed, the witness photographed the | | footprints of Treena and Sunar in the dirt. Later, upon opening the | | envelope, the witness found a gold-colored, engraved amulet inside. | | There is no mention of what he did with it, or whether he still has | | it. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-64; Keta Steebs, Sturgeon Bay Advocate, | | March 31, 1977; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's | | Unexplained Phenomena, p. 66). | | | | 1976 - At 4:10 a.m. three diamond-shaped objects zig-zagged over a | | cement plant in Haney, British Columbia. They emitted red laser-like | | beams of light, and flew off rapidly to the west. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 11832, citing FSR). | | | | 1978 - A young motorist reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown as he | | encountered several tall humanoids with human features near Santiago, | | Chile. The beings were wearing helmets and standing on the roadway. | | Two other motorists also reported seeing similar beings. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # | | 1017, citing Marcen Journal, Volume 2, number 2). | | | | 1978 - On this night on the highway between La Serena and Coquimbo, | | Chile a UFO was seen by two motorists. Inside the craft were two | | figures wearing a kind of helmet similar to those used by miners; the | | helmets were luminous. (Source:David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1956). | | | | 1978 - On this night in Penalva, Maranhao State, Brazil a witness saw | | three medium-sized humanoid figures in a field. They were wearing | | silvery, loose-fitting coveralls, and round translucent helmets with | | what appeared to be face coverings or "plates". The humanoids were | | encased in an eerie glow. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid | | Sighting Reports database, citing Antonio Faleiro). | | 1978 - At 8:15 a.m. in the Baltic Sea 40 nautical miles off of Cape | | Hel a Polish vessel had radar malfunction and TV interference when it | | encountered a red ball of light in the sky. The crew reported a | | strange smell, one man's leg was paralyzed, he felt nauseous, and | | lost consciousness. (Source: Mark Cashman, Project 1947 website, EM | | effects). | | | | 1980 - At 4:08 a.m. two mining students camping in the mountains near | | Beijing, China saw an object emitting white light and traveling on an | | irregular course. It looked like a crescent-shaped portion of a disc | | of the Moon. (Source: Anthony Lee, FSR, March 1983, p. 24; Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue 218). | | | | 1981 - At 12:30 a.m. four witnesses on a boat near Malibu Beach, | | California saw an arrowhead/fish-shaped object with white, red, and | | green lights. It illuminated the ocean and made a humming sound as it | | flew slowly overhead. (Source: Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, | | November 1982, p. 13). | | | | 1987 - Fifteen witnesses in Corydon, Indiana, including five UFO | | field investigators, shot a video of an orange, flare-like light with | | a small red light flying in tandem at 9:30 p.m. The lights were also | | viewed through binoculars as they flew away to the east. (Source: Francis | | Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 109). | | | | 1988 - At 4:30 a.m. a 30-year-old man was on his way to work, driving | | west on M-72 in Harrisville, Michigan when he noticed bright lights | | coming toward him. It turned out to be a multi-colored, domed | | disc-shaped object. When even driving in the same direction of | | the object it moved slowly to the east, then turned gently and moved | | off to the south. The sighting lasted several minutes. (Source: | | Shirley Coyne, MUFON case files, case # 890610C). | | | | 1989 - On this evening in Gulf Breeze, Florida a white or silver | | delta-shaped object, an estimated 70 feet on a side, passed low | | overhead. At 9:30 p.m. in Navaree Beach, Florida a 30-year-old couple | | in a condo on the beach, watching stars, saw lights over the Gulf of | | Mexico going slow, stopping, changing direction upward, and then | | finally slowly going out of view. (Sources: Dan R. Wright, MUFON UFO | | Journal, December 1989, p. 6, citing Rex & Carol Salisberry). | | | | 1993 - Near Titusville, Pennsylvania a plate-shaped UFO was observed | | near some pine trees for 20 minutes. Several observers watched it | | rise into a cloud formation. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 16153, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, October | | 1993). | | | | 1995 - While watching a carnival air display in Weymouth, Dorset, | | England at noon three police detectives spotted a motionless, | | metallic sphere hanging high in the sky. It appeared to reflect the | | sunlight, and was seen for several minutes. (Source: Gary Heseltine, | | UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 11). | | | | 1995 - At 11:50 p.m. three witnesses driving on a highway in | | Louisville, Kentucky sighted a donut-shaped UFO by the highway. It | | was not clear if it was on the ground or just hovering above it. It | | was still there on their return drive-by 10 minutes later. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17383, citing NUFORC). | | | | 1996 - In Chelsea, Victoria, Australia two glowing objects flew | | overhead next to each other; they exchanged blue beams of light. | | (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17397). | | | | 1997 - At 1:30 in the afternoon in Roseburg, Oregon a large silver | | disc-shaped object flew overhead. Seen for 30 minutes. Colors move on | | bottom of object. Makes small jumps, shoots away fast. (Source: | | Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 36). | | | | 1999 - At 2:20 p.m. in the city of Ozark, Missouri police reported | | that a 300 meter long disc hovered over a patrol car. Their police | | radio experienced interference at 155.65 Mhz. The disc went off | | toward the northwest and then up. (Source: George A. Filer, Filer's | | Files, volume 9, issue 38). | | | | 2003 - In Midland, Michigan two witnesses saw two metallic discs at a | | high altitude, actually chasing each other in the middle of the | | afternoon. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | August 2003 archived web page). | | | | 2003 - Three witnesses driving through farmland at 6:45 p.m. | | north-northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba sighted a three-meter wide, | | gray or silver disc-shaped object with bulging black windows. It | | hovered, tilted, then shot past the cars on the highway. The center | | of the object was silver center, and it had darker colored chrome | | balls, disks, or windows around the middle of it. (Source: Geoff | | Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 426). | | | | 2004 - The witness was driving east on Interstate I-185 in | | Greenville, South Carolina at around 11:10 p.m. when he saw a | | transparent triangle-shaped object fly over. "It was kind of fuzzy on | | the edges as the transparency did not go all the way to the edge. | | There was no sound and there was no emitted light." Shortly after a | | cousin who had missed the first sighting saw a smaller hovering | | triangle that appeared in the sky and headed southeast. (Source: | | George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports | | of UFO Sightings, p. 96). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 8 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aluminum colored UFOs, | | blue beams, bulky humanoids, disc-shaped UFOs, footprints, hovering, | | multi-year reports from Michigan, orange UFOs, ovoid UFOs, photo of | | UFO with plasma glow, physiological effects: sensation of heat, radio | | interference, short humanoids, silver uniforms, tall humanoids, UFOs | | with triangular windows, unintelligible language, vehicle EM ignitio | | n interference effects, vertical ascent, whistling sound, yellow UFO. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+