+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 6 | | | | 1874 - In Oaxaca, Mexico a 130-meter long spiral-shaped "trumpet" and | | a 60-meter diameter bell hovered and floated in the sky for five | | minutes and then vanished. (Source: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, | | p. 275). | | | | 1947 - There are 127 UFO reports for this day recorded in the UFOCAT | | database. Cities with multiple reports include St. Louis, Missouri: | | Birmingham, Alabama; Tucson, Arizona; Patterson, New Jersey; Chicago, | | Illinois, Darlington, South Carolina; Boise, Idaho; Milwaukee, | | Wisconsin; Portland, Oregon; and Mount Vernon, Washington. | | | | 1947 - At five o'clock in the morning, Mr. McLean and his son were | | driving through Pocatello, Idaho at dawn when they saw a three-foot | | wide disc with a bulge in the middle land on a city street. It rose | | up, made some jerky movements, and then shot straight up. (Sources: | | Pocatello Tribune, July 7, 1947; Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, | | July 8, 1947). | | | | 1947 - Mr. Bates, an airline passenger in a plane flying southeast of | | Boise, Idaho watched a disc flash by his window at one o'clock in the | | afternoon. It was heading toward the southwest. A stewardess quickly | | rushed over to look. That evening over Boise, silver discs whirled | | and changed directions several times in several minutes, as if | | searching for something. (Sources: Edward Sullivan, letters received | | by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles, April 5, 1952; Boise | | Idaho Daily Statesman, July 7, 1947). | | | | 1947 - Three airmen flying aboard an Army Air Force B-25 near Clay | | Center, Kansas saw a silvery circular object, 10-15 meters in | | diameter, at 1:45 p.m. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying | | Objects, p. 37). | | | | 1947 - A Phillips Petroleum aircraft with two men on board, flying | | near the Kansas-Colorado border, reported that nine metallic, | | revolving objects came flying at their airplane this afternoon, | | one-by-one, for 15 minutes. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft | | UFO Encounters, p. 9). | | | | 1947 - On this day Mr. Miller, a farmer in Logansport, Indiana heard | | a whining roar that drew his attention to a gray, spinning | | saucer-shaped object in the sky. It descended and hovered for several | | seconds. It then rose up into the clouds and was gone from view. | | (Source: Indianapolis News, July 1947). | | | | 1947 - At 4:00 p.m. in Savannah, Georgia a metallic ovoid object, | | then two more metallic ovoid craft flew in the direction of the ESE; | | descriptions of the UFO differed. (Source: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO | | Phenomena 1947-1967, p. 2). | | | | 1947 - Three shiny discs in a delta formation flew high and fast | | toward the north across Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana at 5:10 p.m. | | They entered a cloud and were gone from sight. (Source: Ted Bloecher, | | Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 451). | | | | 1947 - At 5:15 p.m. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota a silver orb shot | | toward the southwest "faster than any plane." It flew at an estimated | | altitude of ten thousand feet. It had what appeared to be a road | | stuck through the center of the object. (Source: Sioux Falls (SD) | | Daily Argus-Leader, July 7, 1947). | | 1947 - At 5:30 p.m. a low flying shiny circular object, floated like | | dirigible near the ground over a wheat field in Emporia, Kansas. It | | veered slowly to pass over a hill and fly toward the southwest. | | (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 | | UFO sighting wave, p. 85). | | | | 1947 - At 6:00 p.m. Mrs. Stollmaier in Terrace Park, Ohio saw two | | "shiny silver plates" travel north to south at high rate of speed. | | They appeared to be gaining altitude as they flew. At the same time | | northwest of Richmond, Virginia twelve shiny metallic discs wavered | | and flipped across the sky, just below the clouds at an estimated | | altitude of 500 feet. At 7:00 p.m. a black disc flew across the sky | | in Portsmouth, Virginia. It flight was silent, "as if towed." | | (Source: Cincinnati Enquirer, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on | | the UFO Wave of 1947, cases 442 & 457). | | | | 1947 - At six o'clock in the evening in Norman, Oklahoma the | | University of Oklahoma Dean of Engineering and four others watched | | one, then two more UFOs shoot to the west at a very high speed. They | | were estimated to be flying at 20,000 feet altitude. A round object | | flew across the sky to the west "awfully fast" over Anadarko, | | Oklahoma at 6:30 p.m. That same evening a light colored 40-foot wide | | disc flew just below the clouds in Edgewood, Texas. It speed was | | judged to be faster than a plane, and it seemed to be gaining | | altitude as it flew toward the northwest. (Source: Daily Oklahoman, | | July 8, 1947; Dallas Morning News, July 7, 1947). | | 1947 - At 7:00 p.m. three families in West Hartford, Connecticut | | including a physician, saw a reddish brown disc move at great speed | | in a straight line flying toward the northwest. At about the same | | time in New Hampshire two large discs flew over the town of | | Londonderry, making a whistling noise. That same night a disc with a | | Maltese cross inscribed on it flew on a straight, northerly course | | over East Providence, Rhode Island. (Sources: Hartford Times, July 7, | | 1947; Manchester Union-Leader, July 7, 1947; Providence Journal, July | | 7, 1947). | | | | 1947 - At 7:00 p.m. a silver disc dipped down out of the sky and | | climbed back up again south of St. Joseph, Missouri. It then shot to | | the northeast very fast. (Source: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of | | 1947, case 468). | | | | 1947 - A 9:45 p.m. a military witness sighted up to eleven discs and | | some 40 nocturnal lights over Birmingham, Alabama. The discs whirled | | through the sky and flew off toward the west. Both the Air Force and | | the FBI investigated the case. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, | | January 1978, p. 4). | | | | 1947 - Four luminous discs drifted to the west at the same altitude | | as the clouds at 10:30 p.m. over Woodlawn, Maryland. (Source: | | Baltimore News-Post, July 7, 1947). | | | | 1947 - A "rolling" luminous disc was seen flying south of Omaha, | | Nebraska at 11:45 p.m. (Source: Omaha World-Herald, July 7, 1947). | | | | 1951 - A UFO zigzagged over Lynchburg, Virginia at 8:25 a.m. (Source: | | Edward Sullivan, letters received by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, | | Los Angeles, March 2, 1952). | | | | 1952 - Amateur photographer Neff was making time exposures at | | Governors Island, New York. He didn't see a UFO at the time, but an | | unidentified object appeared on the film when developed. (Source: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1397). | | | | 1959 - At 12:50 a.m. a round oval-shaped UFO with a dark band | | encircling the object and four illuminated domed portholes under the | | dark band, was sighted by Orwin and Smith in Baniara, Papua New | | Guinea. That night at 8:40 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO did a loop over | | Dogura, Papua New Guinea. (Source: Norman E G Cruttwell, UFOs in the | | two worlds: FSR Special Edition no. 4, pp. 21, 35). | | | | 1960 - A moon-like object was sighted by eight scientists over Teli, | | Russia at a 45-degree elevation above the horizon. The UFO flew to | | the north moving at 1.5 degrees of arc per minute. (Sources: Felix Zigel, | | unpublished manuscript, p. 79; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the | | Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 185). | | | | 1965 - The commander and night crew of the Norwegian tanker "Jawesta" | | observed a lighted object flying out of the sea from Puerto La | | Cruz, Portugal. First Officer Toronin Lien first saw the large, blue, | | intense flame behind the ship moving at high speed. He called the | | captain and tracked the object with binoculars as its altitude | | reached about 300 meters. Its was cigar shaped, with a row of lighted | | portholes showing a clear yellow glow, and it left a bluish trail. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case # 651). | | | | 1965 - Mrs. E. R. Hayner saw a flashing light, like a satellite, at | | 9:30 p.m. in Kiel, Wisconsin.  It was seen for less than one minute. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case | | # 9474; Don Berliner, Blue Book UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1967 - A very bright, white, star-like object rose slowly over Stoney | | Cross in the New Forest, England at 2:15 a.m. It stopped, flew | | "half-way back", then made numerous high-speed loops and dives at | | fantastic speeds. It then disappeared in a cloudy mist. (Source: | | NICAP investigation files). | | | | 1968 - At 1:17 a.m. a married couple in La Habra, California noticed | | a hovering cigar-shaped object with two circular objects beneath it. | | These two lights rose and merged into the larger object, which then | | took off. The couple noted that their dog was agitated during the | | sighting. (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. | | 73). | | | | 1969 - An extremely bright blue-green, metallic disc was observed | | over the local radio transmitter in Goiania, Brazil at 5 o'clock in | | the morning. It flew away toward the south, flying in zigzags and | | moving up and down in the sky. (Source: Dr. Walter Buhler, Brazilian | | cases in 1968 and 1969-part 6, FSR Case Histories no. 7, October | | 1971, p. 16, citing Cinco de Marco, July 16, 1969). | | | | 1971 - Two witnesses with binoculars in Ouhans, France heard a dull | | roaring sound at 2:30 a.m., and then saw a bell-shaped object jumping | | about in the sky like a moth. It shot away toward the northeast. | | (Source: UFO Nachrichten, October 1971). | | | | 1972 - A light over Cheox, Belgium at first appeared to be behaving | | like a satellite, traveling from the north-northwest to the | | south-southeast. It stopped in place for 15 seconds and suddenly shot | | off in the same south-southeasterly direction. (Source: Larry Hatch, | | U computer database, case 9577). | | | | 1973 - A 51-year-old married couple in Fonda, Iowa sighted a bright | | yellow light in the southwestern sky. It moved slowly toward the | | west-northwest, changing colors from yellow to red to blue. It seemed | | to be round in shape. (Source: Fort Dodge (IA) Messenger, July 9, | | 1973). | | | | 1974 - In Madison County, Nebraska a cattle mutilation was discovered | | here. A Bigfoot report occurred on the previous day in Burt County, | | three counties to the east. (Source: Fate, November 1974, p. 14). | | | | 1975 - A mutilated cow was found dropped over the entrance to NORAD | | Headquarters located under Cheyenne Mountain, outside of Colorado | | Springs, Colorado. All reproductive organs were removed. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 192). | | | | 1975 - At five o'clock in the afternoon in Mount Pleasant, Ontario a | | shiny metallic domed disc was seen in a tobacco field. A thirty-foot | | diameter area of plants was flattened, the tobacco plants were wilted | | and burned, and an oily residue was found. At the same time a | | daylight disc made a turn and entered the base of a thunderhead | | cloud, thirty miles north-northwest of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. | | (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1975; Canadian UFO Report, | | Summer 1976, p. 1; Center for UFO Studies, on-site investigation, | | report dated September 13, 1975; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 122 & 264). | | | | 1977 - Steynsburg, South Africa - At 5:50 p.m. a spherical | | light--larger than the apparent size of Venus--moved, hovered for two | | minutes, and then shot away. (Source: Awareness, April 1979, p. 4). | | | | 1978 - An "apportation" (an translocation in time or space) allegedly | | occurred near Mendoza, Argentina on this date in 1978. Francisco | | Nunez, age 66, and his son of the same name, age 24, both mechanics, | | were driving south of the city in their 1930 Chevy pickup when their | | vehicle was lifted from road. They experienced a total change in | | their environment and scenery and found themselves speeding through a | | city with tall buildings on a five-lane highway. The sky, which had | | been clear and starry, was now red. | | | | They were nearly blinded by a brilliant red light and felt very cold. | | The vehicle's engine and the car stereo stopped running, and they | | noticed that all sounds had ceased. Finally their car "landed" back | | on the highway near Lujan de Cuyo, about 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) | | beyond the point where the incident had begun. Their pickup's engine | | restarted and they drove home. Both men felt a compulsive need to | | wash the car and take a bath. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping | | Service, November 1978, p. 14, translating Cronica, August 30 & 31, | | 1978; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year | | Report, p. 554). | | | | 1980 - At 2:30 a.m. in Bear River, Nova Scotia a silent, | | fifteen-meter diameter round object hovered only 500 feet away. A dog | | hid in fear. A six-meter long indentation was discovered on the | | ground. (Source: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 134). | | | | 1986 - A nurse in Sonoma, California reported that a white glowing | | disc followed her car through several turns at 5:15 a.m. It flew away | | in the direction of Napa. (Source: Robert Gribble, National UFO | | Reporting Center, case 1177). | | | | 1992 - A 15-year-old girl in Taber, Alberta saw a large black disc | | outside her bedroom window at 3:20 a.m. She hid in the house. | | Circular traces were discovered were found in a field outside. | | (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1994). | | | | 1994 - At 11:40 p.m. in Llanelli, Wales, UK a disc changed shape and | | color from a cigar to a delta over a 20-minute period. It had lights | | on its edge. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1994). | | | | 1999 - A triangular object was seen with a faint red light in each of | | its three corners in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. It flew overhead at 10:50 | | p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July | | 1999 web page). | | | | 2002 - A dark domed craft a with ramp hovered silently over a | | Canadian army base near Edmonton, Alberta at 1:30 a.m. (Source: 2002 | | Canadian UFO Survey, case 252). | | | | 2002 - At 11:45 pm. several lights "put on a show" over a mountain in | | Middleton, Nova Scotia. Animal reaction: scared dog. (Source: 2002 | | Canadian UFO Survey, case 251). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 October 2009) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: Animal reactio | | ns, cattle mutilations, cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, landings | | , landing traces, luminous UFOs, procession of objects, silvery metal | | lic UFOs, translocation in time and/or space, UFOs flying loops, vert | | ical ascent, zigzag maneuvers, roaring, whining and whistling sounds. | | | | © Donald A. 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