+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 1 | | | | 1897 - The whole town of Everest, Kansas saw an object fly in under | | the cloud cover. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the | | southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with a | | powerful searchlight. It was seen to rise up at a fantastic speed | | until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over | | the witnesses. At one point it remained stationary for five minutes | | at the edge of a low cloud, which it illuminated. All said they could | | clearly see the silhouette of the craft. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181, citing Flying | | Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr.& Harold | | Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 15). | | | | 1948 - At 9:55 a.m. a ten meter wide silver half disc maneuvered in | | the sky over Manila in the Philippines and made a number of | | ninety-degree turns. Lt. Meyers of the U.S. Air Force was leading a | | flight of four F-47S Thunderbolt  fighters of the 67th Fighter | | Squadron and was flying south at 1,500 ft altitude when he saw a | | half-moon shaped "flying wing" or crescent about 30 feet wide and 20 | | feet long, with a small dorsal fin. It was flying on a northerly | | heading at about 1,000 feet three miles to his east. It made a 90° | | left turn and leveled out on a westerly heading accelerating rapidly | | to vanish in five seconds. There was no trail. Estimated terminal | | velocity was about 11 miles per second or 39,000 mph. Radio | | interference was reported at the time. (Sources: U.S. Air Force | | Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics; International | | UFO Reporter, December 1998; Fund for UFO Research). | | | | 1950 - At seven o'clock in the evening the crew of a fishing boat off | | the coast of Perugia, Italy watched an ovoid object dive into the sea | | and a column of water shoot up into the sky. (Source: Solas | | Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 117.) | | | | 1954 - The witness heard a clanking sound at 2:40 a.m., then saw a | | five-meter wide domed disc land in Menton, France. Two human-looking | | occupants left the craft. The witness was paralyzed by a beam of | | light. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3317). | | | | 1959 - Horst Raps returned to the previously appointed site in | | Lampertheim, Germany where he had encountered a UFOnaut on March 29th | | and found the hovering blue-violet disc-shaped craft and the tall | | humanoid waiting for him. This time he was invited onboard the UFO, | | and supposedly taken on an otherworldly ride to another planet in the | | Alpha Centauri system. There he encountered various races of people, | | who allegedly lived in dwellings shaped like cupolas and cultivated | | multicolored flowers. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1959, case # 2440, citing Ulrich Magin). | | | | 1963 - At 3:30 p.m. Mr. A. Mostaccieli in Chileno Valley, California | | reported seeing cattle panic and run when several small beings got | | out of a disc-shaped UFO. They caught a calf and took it on board the | | craft, then collected some plants. He also reported a scorched area | | 10 meters wide. The local sheriff considered the report a practical | | joke. (Source: Petaluma Argus Courier, April 1, 1966; John A. Keel, | | Operation Trojan Horse, p. 165; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Yearbook, | | p. 102). | | | | 1965 - Two witnesses in Westford, Massachusetts watched a | | cigar-shaped object with four slanted windows at 8:50 p.m. It headed | | to the east in a long, slow S-shaped flight path. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 6684; APRO Bulletin, July-August | | 1965). | | | | 1966 - At midnight, Darlene Underwood and her mother of Liberty, | | Missouri saw two luminous objects land on a hill nearby their house. | | They watched them them through binoculars, and described them as | | egg-shaped and about the size of a large car. They then saw the | | shadows of one or two human-looking figures, and heard the beings | | shouting at each other loudly in a foreign, unintelligible language. | | After this they heard the sound of a pig squealing. Next, a point of | | green light issued from one of the objects, and they both took off | | and flew away rapidly. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-15, citing Ray | | Palmer, Flying Saucers, April 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1966). | | | | 1966 - At 4:45 a.m. five witnesses in Warminster, England saw a huge | | silver cigar-shaped object fly across the sky from west to east. Six | | red balls of light exited from the object and flew away toward the | | north. (Sources: Contact UK; Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister | | Mystery: Astounding UFO Sightings, p. 13). | | | | 1967 - In a series of night-time incidents that began on March 28th, | | in Conifer, Colorado at 1:30 a.m. a light like a flashlight came | | halfway down a hill on the Davies ranch. Rancher D. F. Davies fired | | ten .38-caliber bullets at it and it disappeared. At 2:30 a.m. Randy | | Davies, who was still awake, saw a man with a light walk past the | | ranch house, so he ran outside calling to him. The light went out and | | the man ran away. At 3:30 a.m. Louise Davies looked out the window | | and saw a man in the yard, who wore dark clothes and a mask that | | covered his face down to his shoulders. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-31 | | (A0802), citing Oleta Havelock & David Saunders). | | | | 1967 - At 6:30 p.m. EST in Fishing Creek Valley, Pennsylvania a | | 12-meter diameter disc descended near two 12-year-old children and | | directed beams of light to the ground. An adult saw the UFO leave. | | (Sources: NICAP case investigation files, NICAP UFO Investigator, | | June 1967, p. 1). | | | | 1967 - At 7:15 that same evening a glowing red domed disc approached | | a car with five occupants in Hessel, California. The UFO hovered in | | front of the car and emitted a brilliant light; it then moved off at | | treetop level and sped away. A high-pitched whine was heard coming | | from the object.(Sources: NICAP case investigation files, report | | dated July 29, 1967; NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1967, p. 3; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. | | 334). | | | | 1967 - At eight o'clock in the city of New Westminster, British | | Columbia a fast moving, one-meter wide disc stopped and hovered at | | only 20 meters altitude near two young men for three minutes. | | (Source: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Summer 1967, p. | | 9; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case | | 831). | | | | 1970 - A hat-shaped UFO seen near a highway in Mar del Plata, | | Argentina by the driver after the engine of his car stalled. He took | | a photograph of the object. It rose into sky after a few minutes. No | | further car trouble was experienced after the sighting. (Source: Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 48). | | | | 1970 - At 8:50 p.m.motorist on the A3 highway near Surrey, England | | saw a triangular UFO at the same moment there was heavy static on his | | car radio. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, p. 49). | | | | 1974 - A newspaper reporter in Mount Olive, North Carolina saw a | | domed, top-shaped UFO approach to within 300 feet of his car at only | | 75 feet altitude. He took three photographs. The UFO beamed a light | | ray directly at the witness in his car, and then took off at a | | tremendous speed. (Source: FSR, January 1975, p. 30). | | | | 1975 - A fireball was sighted near a farm south of La Flamengrie, | | France at 9:10 p.m. Rectangular marks were found in the ground near a | | mailbox. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1975). | | | | 1976 - A 30-meter wide arrowhead shaped UFO hovered at a 30 degree | | angle in the sky southwest of the city of Heusca, Spain starting at | | 10:30 p.m. It was seen three times that night. (Source: Inforespace, | | January 1977). | | | | 1982 - In North Washington, Pennsylvania a reddish triangular object | | with rounded apexes and a light in each corner was sighted by three | | witnesses at 7:15 p.m. It was surrounded by a glittering mist that | | seemed to come from the rear of the object. Two glowing spheres shot | | out from the craft, one shot off toward the north, the other toward | | the south. The witnesses reported suffering from headaches after | | their close encounter. (Source: Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, June | | 1982, p. 3). | | | | 1993 - A silent triangular UFO was seen for 10-15 seconds in Cache | | Creek, British Columbia on this night. The next morning at Baca Rach, | | Colorado in Saguache County a dead cow was discovered in the place | | where orange lights had been spotted hovering the night before. The | | cows rear end, tongue, and udder had been removed by cutting, and the | | jaw was bleached white. (Sources: Geoff Dittman, UFO Research | | Manitoba, 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case 423; Christopher O'Brien, | | The Mysterious Valley, p. 90). | | | | 1999 - At four o'clock in the morning two men, Jose Trajano and | | Milton Leite, were preparing their boat to go fishing and had just | | exited the boat storage garage in Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil | | when they spotted a huge cylindrical object hovering just above their | | heads. The object was 15 meters in length and was reddish in color. | | The craft then shone a beam of white light towards the ground and a | | short figure materialized within the light on the ground. The | | witnesses watched from about 600 meters away as this short being went | | back and forth within the lighted area, then floated back up into the | | object and disappeared. The craft then became brighter and rose up | | quickly, disappearing from sight in the darkness. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti) | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 October 2009) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: calf abduction | | ; cattle mutilation; cigar-shaped UFO with satellite objects; beam of | | light; contactee repeat encounter and otherworldly journey; cylindri | | cal UFO; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; EM vehicle ignition interfere | | nce effect; human-looking UFOnauts; landing traces; light beams; mult | | i-year reports from British Columbia, Colorado, and Pennsylvania; ovo | | id UFOs; paralysis; photographs; physiological effects: headaches; ra | | dio interference; red UFOs; short humanoids; small disc-shaped UFOs; | | triangular UFOs; UFO with satellite objects; unintelligible language. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+