+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | March 9 | | | | 1950 - At ten o'clock in the morning a disc-shaped object was sighted | | by witnesses on the ground as well as by passengers and crew of an | | airliner flying from Santiago to Antilla, Cuba. The ground observers | | tracked the UFO with a theodolite. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1950: January-March, p. 54). | | | | 1954 - Mr. J. Stewart, a pilot driving in his car, observed a dark | | ovoid UFO with a blue glow that stopped and hovered over the | | Cincinnati GE plant in Hamilton County, Ohio for four minutes before | | flying off toward the east at high speed. (Source: Leonard H. | | Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, April 1954, p. 4; Thomas M. Olsen, The | | Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 37). | | | | 1955 - On this day at 5:50 p.m. a witness named Metcalfe on the | | ground in Paris, Illinois reported seeing a bell-shaped flying | | "swallow" an airplane. No aircraft were reported missing at the time. | | (Sources: Brent Raynes, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 32). | | | | 1963 - A silver, disc-shaped craft with an oval dome landed on a | | frozen lake in Crystal Lake, Montana for 10 minutes. A door in the | | object opened and then shut. The craft took off with a buzzing sound. | | (Source: George Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, June 1964, p. 56). | | | | 1967 - At 1:30 p.m. Moline, Illinois police officer Mr. Fisher, age | | 32, filmed 8mm motion pictures of a luminous oval or disc shaped | | daylight UFO flying near the Mississippi River. There are 25 feet of | | film, and the photographer is considered highly reliable, but the UFO | | has no details that are evident in the film. (Sources: New York Post, | | March 10, 1967; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 7; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case #7631). | | | | 1967 - At 8:25 p.m. a triangular cluster of two red and one white | | lights hovered at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet at the Andover, | | Massachusetts country club. The lights were steady and bright. | | (Source: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated March 9, 1967; | | Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 331, 345). | | | | Andover, Massachusetts UFOs - March 3, 1967 | | | | [image] | | | | 1967 - At 9:00 p.m. EST three witnesses in Follansbee, Virginia | | observed an object as they were driving on Route 2. It was round, | | hovered at rooftop level, and left suddenly at high speed. Its was | | the size of a car, and the underside showed several lights. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 824, | | citing U.S. Air Force ATIC). | | | | 1967 - At 9:05 p.m. CST a huge white disc was seen flying fast | | towards the east in Onawa, Iowa. It was also seen by independent | | witness in Eldora, Iowa at 8:30 p.m. The case was listed as an | | "unknown" by the Air Force. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted | | in official statistics, case # 11,480; J. Allen Hynek case files; Don | | Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 332). | | | | 1969 - In Monreal del Campo, Spain at 10:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Vira | | watched two UFOs, an ovoid object and a sphere, that flew parallel to | | the road on which they were driving. The ovoid object landed in a | | vertical position. The encounter lasted ten minutes. (Source: | | Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in | | Spain and Portugal, p. 24, case 106). | | | | 1977 - A cigar-shaped, metallic object appeared in the sky over | | Nelson, Lancashire, England at 3:10 a.m., so the two witnesses | | stopped their car for a better look. The UFO had lights at either end | | that were changing color and the entire object was surrounded by a | | gray mist. The witnesses heard a sound they described as being like | | the tide coming in and going out. As the object came quite close, | | their car's engine stopped and the headlights dimmed. After five | | minutes, the object flew off and the car could be restarted. Both of | | the witnesses came down with headaches shortly after the sighting. | | (Source: FSR, Vol. 23, No. 2) | | | | 1991 - Shortly after midnight a UFO pursued a couple named Silva in | | their car on a highway south of Fortaleza, Brazil. The domed disc | | emitted heat and made a humming sound. It left, returned, left again, | | then returned a second time and dropped a transparent two-meter wide | | ball that blew up in front of their car, only six feet away. They | | believe the UFO intended to harm them. (Sources: Jerome Clark, UFO | | Calendar 1999; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in | | Brazil--Where Next?, p. 216). | | | | 1992 - At twn p.m. two women walking home near a lake in Hamar, | | Norway heard a low frequency rumbling sound, like that of a train on | | idle. Then a bright light hurt their eyes. Fifteen meters away was a | | domed craft with a triangular bottom. Inside were two figures. They | | had long hair, large slanted eyes, and penetrating stares. (Sources: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 626, citing | | Ole Jonny Braene, UFO Norge; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | 15676, citing Jerome Clark). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 25 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: disc-shap | | ed UFOs, domed discs, hovering UFOs, landings, ovoid UFOs, physiologi | | cal effects: headaches and eye pain, vehicle EM interference effects. | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+