+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 20 | | | | 1897 - Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan, | | Arkansas when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an | | object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, | | lateral wheels, and had a horizontal blade overhead. Hooton spoke | | with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There | | were three or four occupants in total. The witness was told this was | | indeed "The Airship" and that it used compressed air for propulsion. | | Capt. Hooton saw the wheels spin when the craft rose and flew away. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | p. 184; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966). | | | | 1945 - A priest gathering mushrooms near Reneve, France around 6 p.m. | | saw a 17 cm tall midget with gray hair and a gray beard. It popped up | | less than a foot away and ran off into the forest. The tiny being | | wore dark-red coveralls with a pointed helmet. (Source: Henry-Jean | | Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1975, p. 21). | | | | 1950 - Mr. Robertson was driving about 13 km west of Lufkin, Texas | | when he saw a round object about three meters in diameter hovering | | about 7 meters above him. It had a dull red glow. It took off with a | | "swooshing roar" as sparks flew from a slot under it. Minutes later | | the witness felt a burning sensation on his face. (Sources: Flying | | Saucers, July 1959; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 195). | | | | 1952 - A dark cylinder was sighted over London, England at 10 o'clock | | in the morning, flying at 40,000 feet altitude. It was moving from | | north to south at a speed in excess of 1,500 mph. Jet interceptors | | couldn't reach or catch it. (Source: Toronto (Ontario) Globe & Mail, | | April 21, 1952). | | | | 1952 - At 9:15 p.m. several people at a drive-in theatre in Flint, | | Michigan saw several groups of UFOs fly over. There were two to nine | | objects in a group, and a total of 20 groups. The UFOs were shaped | | like "oat kernels" and made changes in direction like conventional | | aircraft at a high rate of speed, but a red glow surrounded each | | object. The weather was clear at the time, and the sighting was | | reported to the Air Force by a Naval Aviation student. (Sources: | | NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; Project Grudge/Blue Book | | Special Reports 1-12, May 1955; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A | | Study of Multiple UFO, p. 121, citing UNICAT). | | | | 1952 - At 9:30 p.m. a commercial pilot named J. Fidelli, on the | | ground at McClellan Air Field in Sacramento, California saw eight | | luminous objects moving in a undulating motion at a high rate of | | speed. They appeared to be following an aircraft during a landing | | approach. The formation of objects passed thru 20 degrees of arc in | | 6-8 seconds. They made no sound. (Source: letter to Civilian Saucer | | Intelligence from witness dated April 10, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: | | A History. 1952: January-May, p. 51). | | | | 1964 - Flying over Ross Island near McMurdo Sound Naval Air Station | | in Antarctica in the early morning hours, six members of the crew of | | a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 spotted nine bright white flying objects in | | a "V" formation. The UFOs came from above and paced along the left | | side of their transport plane. The aircraft entered a strange haze at | | 12,000 m altitude, and it experienced a total failure of the radar, | | radio, and engine. However, during this temporary engine failure | | the plane did not loose altitude.  The entire encounter lasted about | | 45 minutes. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, March 1981, p. 1; Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta, p. 141). | | | | 1967 - At 3:30 a.m., near Estacion Casalegno in Santa Fe, Argentina | | the conductor of a train, Enrique R. Galimberti and another crew | | member saw what appeared to be bright multi-colored lights about 120 | | meters away from the tracks. Thinking it was a fire, Galimberti | | stopped the train and both men attempted to approach the scene, armed | | with fire extinguishers. When they got close to the area they saw the | | multicolored lights moving around in a circular motion, and then both | | observed a square metallic object over three meters in width behind | | the lights. It had several lighted windows around its edge. At the | | front the UFO had what appeared to be a "rotating wheel" that emitted | | multicolored light flashes. Several short humanoid beings were seen | | walking around the object. They wore silvery gray shiny uniforms, | | appeared to be bareheaded, and carried what resembled "rifles" or | | weapons on their shoulders. The witnesses used the train horn to | | check for a reaction from the creatures but there was none. Another | | railway employee, Salvador Pomidoro, reported seeing the same square | | metallic object on the ground about 15 minutes earlier. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing S. von | | Wurmb, Hoy newspaper, Asuncion, Paraguay). | | | | 1967 - At 8:30 p.m. two dark objects with two bright flashing red | | lights and two dimmer white lights flew over a lake in Georgetown, | | Massachusetts. They made no noise. At 9:40 p.m. a mushroom shaped | | object with a frosted white light on top and a red light on bottom | | hovered over Bolton, Massachusetts. It had turquioise colored lights | | fore and aft, and eight yellow lights on its perimeter. (Source: | | Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 347). | | | | Georgetown, Massachusetts - 1967 | | | | [image] | | | | 1969 - At 7:30 p.m. at a farm on Harwood Island, New South Wales, | | Australia a 25-foot diameter hat-shaped disc flew low over the sugar | | cane crop. It emitted a strong beam of light that swept the ground | | for 360 degrees. (Source: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 125). | | | | 1969 - On this evening in Itaucu, Goias state, Brazil, 25-year-old | | Adelino Roque was on his way to the local Serradinho ranch on his | | horse when a bright beam of light struck him from above. He soon | | found himself inside some kind of dark, drum-like object that was | | totally silent. The object was moving through the sky at a very high | | speed. He blanked out and could not remember anything after that. He | | awoke lying on top of a rock next to the Paranaiba River, miles from | | his original location. Meanwhile, his horse had been found tied up at | | another ranch, apparently unharmed. Sr. Roque also appeared to be | | unharmed except for a strange bruise on his side. He did not remember | | seeing any entities or hearing anyone talk to him during the time he | | was missing. Soon after his experience he began neglecting his work | | and drinking heavily. He also reportedly fell in love with his | | 17-year-old niece. A month later Roque again was reported missing, | | this time along with his niece. On June 12, both Roque and his niece | | were found dead under unusual circumstances. Some said they had been | | poisoned. (Sources: Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1970, p. | | 13; Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 12; Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case 66, citing Willy | | Silva, Revista Brasileira OVNI). | | | | 1969 - At 11:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Phillips were driving on Highway 11 | | one mile west of Browntown, Wisconsin when a UFO came directly over | | their car, then hovered just 100 feet away off to the right. Its | | color changed from orange to yellow-orange to red as it moved. It was | | kettle-drum shaped, and had lights streaming from the bottom in a | | cone shape. The UFO followed their car home, for a total of five | | minutes. The UFO made a "tweeting" sound. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, | | May-June 1969, p. 8; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of | | Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 64). | | | | 1972 - At 2:45 a.m. neighborhood dogs in Scituate, Massachusetts | | began barking. A policeman on patrol noticed a light beam on the | | ground, and when he glanced up he saw a perfectly round, white | | glowing disc-shaped object move overhead. It descended into a marshy | | area behind some trees. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 358). | | | | Scituate, Massachusetts landing - 1972 | | | | [Image] | | | | 1977 - Mark Marston, age 11, was looking for bird's nests in a hedge | | in Herbrandston, Pembrokeshire, Wales when "a red glow appeared in | | the sky 50 yards away." A few moments later a figure appeared and | | drifted through a closed gate at the other end of the field. It was | | dressed in a silver suit, like a diver, with a large helmet and a | | square, featureless face. It approached Mark rapidly, who turned and | | fled for home, screaming. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977, citing Randall | | Jones Pugh for BUFORA). | | | | 1980 - Barrio Aguerre, Ciudad Treinta Y Tres, Uruguay. At 12:40 a.m. | | 19-year-old Luis Vital Carneiro was returning home after visiting | | friends during a powerful electrical storm in the region. After | | entering a field through a gate he noticed a strange light cavorting | | over the field. Then, about 50 meters away near a barbwire fence, he | | noticed two short humanoid figures. Curious, he jumped the fence and | | approached the figures. At a distance of ten meters from the | | humanoids he noticed that they were projecting lights from the top of | | their heads down toward the ground. These lights suddenly turned red, | | and the two figures disappeared to re-appear 30 meters from the road. | | As Carneiro attempted to jump the barbwire fence again, a beam of | | light struck him that knocked him senseless. When he regained his | | composure Carneiro ran to his aunt's house nearby and told her what | | had happened. | | | | Mrs. Orialis De Los Santos, his aunt, went out into her garden where | | she saw in the nearby field a group of four humanoids that seemed to | | quickly glide back and forth above the ground. Accompanied by Vital, | | they then counted a total of thirteen humanoids that "glided" about | | in different directions, within an area of about 100 square meters. | | For almost an hour the witnesses watched the strange humanoids cavort | | about as if playing. Vital Carneiro again attempted to approach one | | of the humanoids but again was knocked down by a beam of red light | | that seemed to come from the creature's head. He fell to the ground | | feeling as he had been struck by lighting. Concerned for his safety, | | Mrs De Los Santos ran to her stricken nephew and dragged him inside | | the house. | | | | From inside the house they could still see the short humanoids | | gliding about, plus at about 500 meters distance, behind some trees, | | a large bright silvery light appeared on the ground that began slowly | | rising up and down. The witnesses described the humanoids as 60 cm in | | height, with very large heads, triangular faces, large pointed ears, | | and rounded eyes. Their bodies were small and "rectangular" in shape. | | They wore a kind of gray uniform and a rounded cap from where the | | beams of light originated. They seemed to communicate among | | themselves in quick bursts of "buzzing sounds." They glided quickly | | across the ground and according to Mrs. De Los Santos they stood on | | small rounded platforms. However, Carneiro does not recall seeing the | | platforms. (Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 12; | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case 62, citing | | Shoney Santana, Bettina Allen & Fabio Zerpa). | | | | 1980 - At 5:30 a.m. in San Mateo, California two witnesses in a car | | on I-280 watched five bright metallic Saturn-shaped objects silently | | travel the length of the San Andreas Reservoir. They flew straight | | and fast to the southeast. They reflected sunlight, and were seen | | against the background of hills and the overcast sky. (Sources: Allan | | Hendry, CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1980, p. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, | | September 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty | | Year Report, p. 25 & 155). | | | | 1980 - In the suburbs of Palatine, Illinois at 8:20 p.m. a father and | | son viewed a grayish-black, crescent-shaped UFO with white lights at | | the ends of each curve. The white lights flashed every 3-5 seconds. | | The craft made abrupt changes in direction as it flew. They viewed it | | through binoculars for most of their seven minute sighting. (Source: | | John Timmerman, CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1980, p. 4). | | | | 1981 - Walter and Judy Austin, a 42-year-old married couple, were | | flying in a Cessna 210 at 1,600 feet over Cannon Airport in Reno, | | Nevada at 10:30 a.m. when they sighted a domed disc-shaped UFO. The | | UFO was seen below their horizon at a distance of only 300 feet. They | | described it as a solid object, shiny like chrome, which tilted and | | fluttered as it flew. It was small, onlly 3-5 feet in diameter.  It | | tilted, accelerated rapidly, then sped away toward the cloud | | shrouded mountains. It did not appear on radar. (Source:  MUFON UFO | | Journal, October 1981, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume | | II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 26 & 125). | | | | 1981 - Sr. J. De Souza Ramos was driving on Highway 101 near | | Linhares, Brazil in Sao Paulo state at 6:30 p.m. when a bright light | | overtook and blinded him. He recovered consciousness five days later. | | When he awoke he was in a remote part of Brazil, over 1000 kilometers | | away to the northwest, and without his car. (Sources: Thomas E. | | Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 251, citing | | FSR, August 1981, p. 19; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 13682; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, | | Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 79). | | | | 1982 - Sometime after three a.m. a man in County Tyrone, Ireland | | awoke trying to scream and immediately became aware of two unusual | | humanoid figures standing by his bed. One was short and the other | | tall and lumpy, and the second being somehow had its head inside the | | witness's mouth. The beings were communicating in a language that | | resembled the ringing of bells. The witness could not move or yell | | because he was paralyzed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1982, case # 1508, citing Steve Gerrard, Northern | | UFO News # 101). | | | | 1984 - Four people in a car in Beaverton, Oregon reported watching an | | aerial "dogfight" between a blue UFO and a yellow UFO at 10:04 p.m. | | The blue UFO zapped the yellow fireball with a red beam, apparently | | causing it to disintegrate because its light went out. The blue | | object then shot straight up. (Source: Bob Gribble, International UFO | | Reporter, May 1984, p. 16). | | | | 1986 - At 7 p.m. three people were in a boat on a reservoir near | | Pacajus, Ceara State, Brazil when a gray colored UFO, the size of a | | car, swooped down silently out of sky and approached the boat, then | | flew back up and away. (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror | | and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 232). | | | | 1986 - On the same night a group of police officers in Kremmling, | | Colorado saw a mysterious flying triangle with lights. It hovered | | over the southern shore of Green Mountain Reservoir, then took off to | | the southwest. A jet aircraft flying in the sky at the time was | | observed taking evasive action and veered to avoid a collision with | | the UFO. (Source: Philip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 27). | | | | 1989 - At 10:30 p.m. a couple driving in a car in Westchester County, | | New York saw huge lights on what they described as an object four | | times the size of a Boeing 747. Three other witnesses in a different | | location also reported seeing it. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 15341, citing Bob Gribble). | | | | 1992 - On this night a guard on duty at the Oderzo Army barracks in | | Oderzo, Italy suddenly found himself paralyzed and observed two | | humanoid figures wearing what appeared to be cloaks. The figures | | walked by him and then disappeared from sight. Around the same time | | other military personnel saw an object shaped like a cigar descend | | towards the ground from the sky. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1992, citing CISU website). | | | | 1998 - In Oakley, Michigan a stationary bell-shaped object was | | videotaped for 58 seconds by three women. It had three lights, red, | | white, and blue in color, that pulsated in sequence. It was lost from | | view at 10:15 p.m. (Source: Dan R. Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, July | | 1999, p. 16). | | | | 1999 - On this evening Michael Hawkins, a Lockheed Martin aircraft | | mechanic, and his wife Lia Simmons sighted a disc-shaped UFO from | | their home in Rialto, San Bernardino County, California as it hovered | | overhead. The craft darted back and forth over Ontario Airport. When | | two commercial jetliners approached it emitted a shower of red sparks | | and instantly shot out of sight. (Source: Preston Dennett, UFOs over | | California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the | | Golden State, p. 211). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 21 April 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; aircraf | | t encounters; animal reactions: dogs barking; color-changing UFOs; cy | | lindrical UFOs; disappearances in Brazil were the abductee finds hims | | elf many miles away from his original location; disc-shaped UFOs; fac | | eless humanoid; formations of UFOs; human-appearing occupants; humano | | id wearing diver suit with large helmet; humanoids with large pointed | | ears; procession of objects across the sky; short humanoids; small U | | FOs; square UFOs; physiological effects: burning sensation, paralysis | | ; UFOs in the vicinity of lakes and reservoirs; very short humanoids. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+