+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 5 | | | | 1952 - On this day two silver discs were sighted by over a dozen | | witnesses near the Vanadium Corporation's uranium processing plant in | | Durango, Colorado. (Source: Loren E Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: | | January-May, p. 72). | | | | 1952 - At 10:50 p.m. six to seven translucent cream-colored objects | | were sighted over Tenafly, New Jersey. One object circled the area, | | while another flew away and then came back. This case is listed as a | | Project Blue Book "unknown." (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, case #1183; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion | | Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261). | | 1953 - One mile north of the Yuma, Arizona USAF fighter base, Wells | | A. Webb noticed a strange object in the clear blue sky at 9:45 a.m. | | The UFO initially seemed to be a cloud, but it made a sharp 90 degree | | turn, and he then saw the cloud resolve into a silver disc-shaped | | object. Through polaroid glasses Mr. Webb could see dark concentric | | rings around the craft, possibly due to a force field around the | | disc. With the glasses off the rings disappeared. He continued to | | watch for 15 minutes while the UFO receded into the distance. No | | sound was reported. (Sources: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence | | (Volume I), p. 52; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. | | 52; John Fuller, Aliens in the Skies, p. 134; UNICAT, case #363, | | citing Bruce Maccabee paper, 1984). | | | | 1954 - Over the Woomera Missile Test Range in South Australia a | | disc-shaped object was viewed throuth binoculars flying to the west. | | It then turned and shot off to the south and out of sight at a speed | | estimated to be 5,800 kph. The object was estimated to be 10 feet in | | diameter, and the sighting reportedly lasted five minutes. (Source: | | Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 85). | | | | 1954 - The young boy was sitting with his goat on a small hill near | | the village of Fregim Amarante, Portugal when he heard a whistling | | sound at around four o'clock in the afternoon. He ran in the | | direction of the sound, which came from a nearby hollow. Once there | | he saw one dome-shaped object leaving the area headed towards a | | nearby river, but an identical object still rested on the ground. It | | was a metallic colored, dome shaped, and had a metal ring on the | | bottom and a transparent section on top. It also had a conical | | protrusion, brown in color, on the top. As the object left the boy | | felt a wave of heat. Inside this second object he could see two | | beings with large heads and large eyes that were wide apart; both | | appeared to have antennae on top of their heads, and their mouths | | appeared like round holes. They wore metallic blue outfits, and | | appeared seated with one of them operating levers while the other | | looked out at the witness. Ground traces were later found at the | | site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, | | case HC # 104, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, | | Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis). | | | | 1958 - On this day at 3:40 p.m. a brilliant top-shaped UFO (that was | | symmetrical above and below the middle), suddenly approached an | | aircraft being flown by 40-year-old Carlos Alejo Rodriguez near the | | airfield in Pan de Azucar near the city of San Carlos, Maldonado | | province, Uruguay. The object, estimated to be three times the size | | of the Piper aircraft, or 15-20 meters in diameter, passed within 500 | | meters, and the pilot felt a wave of heat. The UFO stopped and | | hovered for three seconds, rocked twice in a balancing motion, then | | shot away toward the sea leaving a vapor trail. (Sources: Gordon I. | | R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited | | Guests, p. 246; UNICAT, case #477, citing Thomas M Olsen, The | | Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-57). | | | | 1964 - At 8:30 in the morning a farmer, Alfred Ernst, saw an object | | rise from a field in Comstock, Minnesota and fly rapidly into a cloud | | bank. It was described as oval in shape, and it left a depression and | | four rectangular imprints in the ground. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 601). | | | | 1965 - A US Naval vessel sailing in the Philippine Sea had a | | radar-visual encounter with four UFOs at 9:10 a.m. There were 12 | | military witnesses, and the sighting lasted for eight minutes. | | (Sources: UNICAT database, case #81, citing J. Allen Hynek; Richard | | F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p 187). | | | | 1966 - One year later, at 5:45 p.m. four UFOs were sighted at 20 | | degrees elevation by the navigating officer and several other crewmen | | aboard the HMAS ANZAC while sailing south of the Santa Cruz Islands. | | They were closely grouped, and the lead object glowed red. The | | trailing three objects were green, and formed an equilateral | | triangle. They left trails of color six times the size of the | | objects. (Source: Debbie Payne, Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, | | p. 34). | | | | 1968 - Jerome Clark and three other young men had driven to visit a | | rural site on a highway between Fargo and Kindred, North Dakota where | | a "ghost light" had been recently reported. They spotted a nocturnal | | light and had been chasing it, more or less fruitlessly, in their | | car. When it re-appeared at 1:45 a.m. it loomed up in front of them, | | and against its reddish orange light they could see the silhouette of | | a huge figure gliding toward them. They took off in fear in their | | automobile, but when they looked again from a side road the | | silhouetted figure was still visible and still moving towards them. | | This time they drove several miles before stopping. (Source: David F. | | Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1968-25, citing Jerome Clark, FSR, November-December 1969). | | | | 1968 - At 8:35 p.m. a cylindrical UFO was seen flying north to south | | on this night and the next over the river in Tirgu Ocna, Romania by | | several witnesses including the principal witness, a Mr. Dumila. It | | had a pointed read end, and antennae on the sides. (Source: Ion | | Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. | | 162). | | | | 1969 - A deaf mute named Antonio Rodrigues, age 60, of the Fazenda | | Constantino was fishing during the day on the Rio Das Velhas near | | Jaboticatubas, Minas Gerais, Brazil when he was confronted by the | | same type of beings that Jose Antonio Da Silva encountered the day | | before in Bebedouro, 20 kilometers to the east. When they made signs | | for him to approach he fled in terror, and they pursued him and | | knocked him to the ground by the force from an energy weapon one of | | the short humanoids drew from his belt. They gathered around | | Rodrigues, felt his arm, and conversed amongst themselves in an | | unintelligible language. Finally, they shook their heads and departed | | in a UFO parked nearby that ascended vertically. The witness | | identified the beings from various drawings, including Da Silva's | | that were shown to him by the investigators. (Source: David F. Webb | | and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1968-33, citing Hulvio Aleixo & Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, | | November-December 1973). | | | | 1972 - Aarno Heinonen was at home in Imjarvi, Finland at 10:15 p.m. | | when he heard a strange noise, and then a female voice that told him | | to go alone to a certain crossroads. He did so, and encountered a 4 | | foot, 8 inch tall young woman with blond hair, wearing a yellow | | pantsuit that seemed to glow, and silver colored shoes. She carried a | | silvery ball by a handle, and it had three antennae like projections | | on it. She told him that her people had come from "the other side of | | the Milky Way" and that three different kinds of humanoids, ranging | | from very small to very tall, had visited Imjarvi. She also told him | | that she was 180 years old, and instructed him not to mention the | | contact to anyone else. Heinonen previously had a dramatic close | | encounter with a friend while out cross-country skiing in January | | 1970. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1972-11, citing UFO Research Center of Finland | | & Joe Brill). | | | | 1974 - At around 7 p.m. Ms. Becky Ingram was driving alone on a | | country road on Pisgah Ridge, Tennessee when she heard her nickname | | called ("Tomboy") and was telepathically directed to a nearby field. | | There she saw a 100-foot long, football-shaped UFO on the ground. In | | an open doorway, with a ramp extending to the ground, stood two | | beings named "Alton" and "Tombo" that she had met on a previous | | encounter, who invited her onboard. She greeted them with a handshake | | and entered. Inside she saw five or six more humanoid beings seated | | around a table, eating. She declined an invitation to join them. They | | spoke in an incomprehensible language. She declined an invitation for | | another ride, explaining that her family was expecting her. She | | noticed that this time both Alton and Tombo walked without bending | | their knees. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-85, citing Stanley Ingram & Don | | Worley). | | | | 1974 - At around 11:50 p.m. on the beach in Paraipaba, Ceara state, | | Brazil an odd looking "jeep" was seen being driven with three men | | with ropes aboard. The jeep ran up the beach five times, then drove | | into the sea and vanished. (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: | | Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 265). | | | | 1975 - At 9:20 p.m. a domed disc-shaped object was seen on the ground | | in Pleasanton, Texas with two figures inside the dome. The witness, | | who was in a truck, was hit by a blinding light, and his hands went | | numb. The encounter lasted for two minutes. (Source: John Schuessler, | | Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 64). | | | | 1977 - At 9:15 a.m. a 22-year-old Cessna 150 pilot trainee, Sr. Lopez | | Ojeda, had a close encounter with a white object that looked like an | | inverted plate while flying over Tabio, Cundinamarca province, | | Colombia. There was a brilliant flash of light that temporarily | | impaired his vision, and the airplane's control would not respond for | | a short while during which his surroundings seemed strangely altered. | | (Sources: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 291; MUFON UFO | | Journal, June 1977; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. | | 50; CUFOS files, citing newspaper clipping dated May 6, 1977). | | | | 1977 - At midnight the witness, a truck driver, had made a rest stop | | at a truck stop on the major highway near Ragusa, Italy when he saw a | | yellow light illuminate the cab. The light originated from a gray | | metallic, oval-shaped object that was hovering near the truck and | | close to the ground. It had a rotating ring around its middle and two | | circular openings, one on the top and one on the bottom. A figure | | wearing a dark gray coverall and a helmet could be seen inside one of | | the openings. It seemed to be controlling and directing the yellow | | beam of light. It made some hand gestures towards him as if greeting | | him. A flattened area was found in the grassy field. (Sources: | | Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO catalogue, case 93; Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1522, citing ITACAT). | | | | 1979 - Clear photographs were taken of a metallic, hat-shaped disc | | over a dam in Calamuchita, Cordoba, Argentina. The photographs were | | taken in the middle of the afternoon by a 34-year-old man named L. | | Ferreyra. The UFO had three portholes, and made no sound. It shot | | straight up when it left. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, | | p. 9, citing Clarin, May 5, 1979). | | | | 1979 - On this night an object with portholes landed in a field in | | Pampulhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil for 90 seconds. The witnesses were | | two police officers, who reported that the encounter caused EM | | effects on their vehicle. The ground was lit brightly, and figures | | could be seen looking out through portholes in the craft. It took off | | vertically at great speed. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping | | Service, July 1979, p. 14; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 11, | | citing Cronica May 5, 1979; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 258). | | | | 1980 - In San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay construction workers and truck | | drivers at a meat packing plant that was under construction saw a red | | and green luminous ball hovering overhead. It emitted a dull noise, | | and its presence interrupted electrical light power and also caused | | battery-operated radios to go dead. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing La Razon, May 16, | | 1980). | | | | 1982 - In Youngstown Ridge, Pennsylvania a single witness observed a | | 15-foot diameter top-shaped UFO with a dome at 8:00 p.m. There was a | | red pulsating light contained within the dome. It was described as | | the size of Piper Cub aircraft, and it flew slowly to the east at an | | estimated altitude of 1000 feet, then reversed direction | | toward Greensburg. At 11:17 in in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania | | hundreds of residents witnessed many unidentified nocturnal | | lights. Police watched a semi-transparent delta-shaped object fly | | from the northwest to the southwest. (Source: Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO | | Journal, July 1982, p. 13). | | | | 1984 - At 2:55 a.m. a loud pulsing sound preceded the presence of a | | metallic ovoid or football-shaped UFO flying overhead at 200 feet | | altitude in Piedmont, South Carolina. The dogs in the neighborhood | | all howled and went crazy. There were two witnesses, and the | | encounter lasted two minutes. (Sources: Robert Gribble, International | | UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984). | | | | 1984 - At 1400 hours GMT a Defense Support Program (DSP) spy | | satellite detected the entry of an unknown object that passes 15 | | miles in front of it, and then flew below it over the Indian Ocean. | | The unknown object changed course, and flew back out into outer | | space. (Source: Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. | | 324). | | | | 1990 - At 3:45 a.m. the windows of a home in Widnes, Cheshire, | | England shook repeatedly from the vibrations caused by a huge, white | | glowing ball of light (BOL) over the road. (Source: Timothy Good, The | | UFO Report 1992, p. 121). | | | | 1992 - Two orange BOLs flew silently over a reservoir in Waranga | | Basin, Victoria, Australia at 8:00 p.m. They disappear when a camera | | flashes. At 11:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with windows on the | | bottom hovered silently in High Point, North Carolina, emitting very | | bright beams of light. It vanished when jets appeared. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, cases # 15726 & 15728, citing UFO | | Newsclipping Service, July 1992 & February 1993). | | | | 1992 - A around two o'clock in the morning in an undisclosed location | | in Georgia, a man woke up to see a 4.5 foot tall entity at the corner | | of his baby son's crib. The dwarf wore a black cape with a peaked | | hood connected to the cape. No facial features could be discerned. | | The entity next moved from left to right and then disappeared through | | the wall of the house. This experienced was followed by an unsettling | | dream about the baby, and later by another frightening incident. A | | few months later other family members again saw a shadow like figure | | with claws move out of the hallway and touch the chest of one of the | | older children in the house. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1992, case # 2624, citing John C. Thompson). | | | | 1993 - At 9:00 a.m. in Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio an enormous | | cigar-shaped craft with no wings and no windows flew over Lake Erie | | making no sound and at an incredible rate of speed. It was being | | chased by a helicopter. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1993 webpage, report uploaded August | | 16, 2002). | | | | 1993 - In Lincolnton, North Carolina at 9:00 p.m. two witnesses | | spotted a glowing orange-white disc-shaped object that flew overhead | | and then into the clouds. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 16041, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994; George D. | | Fawcett). | | | | 1996 - At 9:50 p.m. over the town of St. Genis-Laval, Rhone, France a | | silent black triangular object followed a helicopter north at low | | altitude. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17346, | | citing Phenomena magazine, issue 32). | | | | 1996 - Late at night on Sunday May 5, 1996 Elaine woke up in her | | bedroom in Cornwall, England to see a four-foot tall creature with | | pale shiny porcelain colored skin standing next to her bed. It had a | | very large head and large black oval-shaped eyes standing next to her | | bed. She does not report what happened next, but she does mention | | that at around the same time she began having lucid dreams where she | | found herself traveling to other planets and meeting aliens. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3249). | | | | 1997 - A woman in Hazelwood Park, Adelaide, South Australia reported | | sighting an object travelling from the northwest to the south, where | | it hovered for 5-6 seconds before it moved off and was lost from view | | at 8:30 p.m.  It looked like two shallow saucers, lip to lip.  The | | body of the object was like the tail of a comet in its consistency. | | (Source: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia). | | | | 1997 - At 12:15 p.m. a metallic ovoid object flew across the sky in | | West Chester, Pennsylvania. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1997 webpage). | | | | 1998 - Three witnesses in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada observed | | a dark black triangular silouette that floated silently nearby at | | 10:05 p.m. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case # | | 1998-21, citing UFOBC) | | | | 1999 - At midnight in the Hautes Pyrenees, France many people | | observed a semicircular form, luminous and translucent, that some | | compared to smoke. After 15 minutes the witnesses noted a presence to | | the left of the luminous form (some spoke of a triangular form) that | | suddenly rocketed away fast to the south. (Source: GEIPAN, case # | | 308). | | | | 2001 - On this evening in Southampton, Hampshire, England a police | | helicopter flew around a UFO twice before the object faded out | | and disappeared. There was a lengthy investigation into the incident. | | (Source: Gary Heseltine, Police UFO Reports, case # 172). | | | | 2002 - A disc-shaped object hovered at a low altitude near the town | | of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England at three o'clock in the morning. | | It had erratic flashing multi-colored lights. It spun, and rocked | | slowly back-and-forth. Two small white lights moved outward from it, | | and remained separate for almost an hour. The UFO departed toward the | | south. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 19, citing | | Filer's Files). | | | | 2002 - Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York - At 3:15 p.m. two | | independent witnesses in nearby towns observed an ovoid UFO moving at | | a slow speed and low altitude in the clear blue sky. It flew from | | west to east. It seemed more "transparent rather than solid, more | | like a ring." and it left behind a white contrail or wake like "a | | boat in water." (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 19, | | citing Filer's Files). | | | | 2005 - At nine o'clock in the evening a triangular object appeared | | over a small lake in Louisville, Kentucky with beams entering the | | water. After 15 minutes it then ascended into sky. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived | | webpage). | | | | 2010 - A luminous rectangular UFO, with no body lights nor sound, | | moved at tremendous speed over Canal Winchester, Ohio. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2010 archived | | webpage, report uploaded June 3, 2010). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 May 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | The | | mes: aircraft encounters; animal reaction: dogs howling; beam of yell | | ow light; bedroom visitations; car pursuit, daylight discs; disc-shap | | ed UFOs; ground marks: 4 landing gear imprints; inside occupants; mul | | ti-year UFO reports from Brazil, England, North Carolina, Pennsylvani | | a and Uruguay; ovoid, football, and oval-shaped UFOs; physiological e | | ffects: numbness and paralysis of hands; portholes, post initial CE-3 | | encounter rendezvous with UFOnauts initiated by instructions to go t | | o a certain place; power failure and EM radio interference; short hum | | anoids; sightings from naval warships; silhouetted UFOnauts, silver U | | FOs; UFO viewed through polarized lens; violent behavior by UFOnauts. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+