+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | July 13 | | | | 1860 - In Wilmington, Delaware at 9:45 p.m. a pale blue light | | illuminated a 200-foot long cloud-like object in the sky that moved | | slowly and silently through the sky. At regular distances behind the | | cloud followed three "very red and glowing balls." (Source: Gordon | | I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: | | UFOs in Perspective, p. 65). | | | | 1947 - At 9:30 p.m. four or five bright white, one-meter wide discs | | flew over New Cumberland, West Virginia one after the other at | | 15-minute intervals. They flew away to the south. At 10:30 in Topeka, | | Kansas a disc-shaped object flew in from the northwest, stopped in | | midair, and circled. Two more discs, one each from the southwest and | | southeast fly in and join the first one. All three fly away silently | | toward the west. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases | | 1163 & 1164). | | | | 1950 - USAF weather reconnaissance sighted four groups of round, | | metallic silvery objects flying over Fort Peck, Montana at 11:51 a.m. | | (Source: Project Blue Book, July 1950 report). | | | | 1950 - At 1:45 p.m. a CAA flight engineer, flying over Cincinnati, | | Ohio sighted a metallic cigar-shaped UFO maneuvering silently in the | | sky. It ascended to 17,000 feet and stopped in midair, hovering in | | place for ten seconds. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case 1766). | | | | 1950 - Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. At 5:00 p.m. two skilled Arsenal | | employees, witnessed a bowtie-shaped object flying in the sky, | | appearing like it was made of polished aluminum. It flew straight and | | level, then one triangle rotated one-quarter of a turn in the | | opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object | | then made a ninety-degree turn and accelerated away after at least 30 | | seconds. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case 758; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - A National Airlines flight flying some sixty miles southwest | | of Washington, D.C. over Virginia reported that a bluish-white light | | approached their plane, hovered, and then moved away. The UFO was | | tracked on radar by Washington National radar operators. (Source: | | Project Blue Book). | | | | 1959 - Walking to her cow shed on her farm in Blenheim, New Zealand | | at 5:40 a.m. Mrs. Frederick Moreland saw a round object with two | | intense green lights come down out of the clouds and hover at rooftop | | level. Around its rim were two counter-rotating rows of jets giving | | off orange flames and heat. A transparent glass-like cowling covered | | the top, and through this she could see two men wearing diver's | | helmets. One of them stood up and leaned forward. Both wore | | tight-fitting silvery suits. As it departed the UFO made a | | high-pitched whining noise, and left behind an odor "like pepper." | | (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1959-11, citing Harold Fulton, APRO Bulletin, | | September 1959; SATCU, Xenolog, November 1975, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 491). | | | | Blenheim, New Zealand Close Encounter - 1959 | | | | [] | | | | 1959 - At midnight in Suchs, Spain a Mr. Domingo watched a 80 cm | | sphere hover only 15 meters above the ground. It illuminated the | | countryside "like daylight." The witness panicked and ran when he | | heard the sound of an explosion. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester | | Olmos). | | | | 1966 - Camillo Faieta, age 35, a lineman for the local utility | | company, was on duty at 2:20 a.m. when a brilliant light dazzled him. | | He determined that the light came from an object on a small island in | | the Emissario Canal near Pontedera, Italy. Two little men were seen | | briefly on the ground before the object took off. There were four | | other witnesses to the sighting in addition to Sr. Faieta. (Sources: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 86; Flying Saucer Review, | | January-February 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century | | of Landings, p. 333). | | | | 1969 - A disc was sighted over a farm south of Garrison, Iowa shortly | | after 10 p.m. A 40-foot wide circle of burnt soybean plants was found | | in a field on the farm. (Source: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969, p. | | 1). | | | | 1972 - A dead dog was found with all of its hair missing in | | Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Forty feet away from the carcass was a | | six-foot wide circle of swirled grass. (Source: Ted Phillips, | | Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case #529). | | | | 1990 - Manchester, New Hampshire. At 7:00 p.m. a teenage girl saw a | | brilliant light from her bedroom window rise from and hover over a | | swamp across the road and a few hundred feet away. She realized that | | this was the forward light of a tapered cylindrical object. It | | rotated to reveal its length. There were square lights or windows | | equally spaced along the midsection of its dark gray metallic | | surface. At one end was a horizontal cable, at the end of which was a | | red light. The object glided along laterally until she lost sight of | | it behind a line of trees. (Source: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, | | February 1991, p. 11). | | | | 1993 - At 9:15 p.m. in Syracuse, Indiana a man on his porch heard a | | dynamo humming sound. He went to his backyard and saw a multi-colored | | cigar-shaped object drift slowly toward the west, rise up 50-70 feet, | | and then drift to the north. It passed in front of trees, and then | | behind some more trees and was gone from view. (Source: MUFON | | investigation files, case 931243J) | | | | 1993 - At 9:30 p.m. in Ligonier, Indiana two teenagers driving south | | on Sparta Lake Road saw several red lights moving at a low altitude | | and making a humming sound. They stopped and got out of their car to | | watch as the lights maneuvered over farm buildings and then go behind | | some trees. At the same time or five minutes later in Cromwell, | | Indiana three people traveling south on Rte. 3 saw a number of lights | | that appeared to be a multi-colored oval-shaped UFO. It made a | | whining noise. (Source: MUFON investigations files, cases 931244J and | | 931245J). | | | | 1994 - A luminous, diamond-shaped UFO dropped down over a road in | | Avezzano, Italy. It turned, leveled off, and flew off toward the | | north-northeast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | 16443). | | | | 1995 - Two strange looking, short humanoids stood at the foot of a | | woman's bed in Winnipeg, Manitoba at one o'clock in the morning. She | | was almost completely unable to move, but managed to touch one of the | | beings before they disappeared. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database, case 2371). | | | | 1996 - SAS troops on an ambush patrol in South Armagh, Northern | | Ireland saw four small Grey humanoids walk up from behind a hill and | | cross their path. Minutes later the special services soldiers saw a | | flash of light in the sky. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database, case 2627). | | | | 2000 - At 1:30 a.m. a woman and a professor friend of hers had just | | left a Lions Club dinner and were driving south of Puerto Cuatro, | | Chile when they spotted two strange yellow lights ahead on the | | roadway. The driver flashed her high beams at the two intense lights | | and she began to slow down her car because they remained stationary. | | They then saw a figure standing about three feet away from the front | | bumper. The figure was described as large, lacking ears, and covered | | with extremely long gray hair, particularly around the neck. It had | | two immense, slanted yellow eyes. The driver and the creature | | exchanged stares for about ten seconds, after which the car drove | | along the left lane. The creature followed the vehicle's departure | | with its head, and its neck was apparently able to make 180-degree | | turns. Terrified, the two drove away. They saw the yellow light again | | as it lit up the entire road before disappearing. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3784, citing Joseph | | Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 5, No. 31). | | | | 2002 - Three lights maneuvered, pulsed, and then faded out on a clear | | night in Paramus, New Jersey at 11:10 p.m. Two of the objects moved | | slowly toward the northeast at a high altitude. The third object | | appeared in the northeast sky and flew between the first two, then | | changed direction and flew toward the north. All objects pulsed | | brightly and then faded. (Source: UFO Magazine (US), October 2002, p. | | 15). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 September 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: bow | | tie-shaped UFOs, cigar-shaped UFOs, diver suits, hairy humanoid, huma | | n appearing UFO occupants, humming and whining sounds, luminous UFOs, | | maneuvering UFOs, metallic UFOs, multi-colored UFOs, non-disc-shaped | | rotating UFOs, oval or ovoid UFOs, physical traces: ground marks and | | burnt crops, procession of UFOs, sensation of heat, short humanoids. | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+