+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  February 18 | | | | 1948 - At 4:56 p.m. a farmer in Stockton, Kansas saw a 4-foot wide | | disc that approached to within six feet and appeared to aim some type | | of tube or pipe at him. The UFO then wobbled and emitted some flames. | | It shot away flying toward the northwest. At 5:05 p.m. a Mr. Wray | | took a photograph of an irregular-shaped UFO north of Norton, Kansas. | | (Sources: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 91, | | Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, Coming of the Saucers, p. 179). | | | | 1954 - At 3:30 p.m. while walking along the coast near Lossiemouth, | | Scotland UFO contactee Cedric Allingham heard a swishing sound and | | looked up. He saw a flying saucer that through binoculars looked only | | slightly different from the one reported by UFO contactee George | | Adamski. Three hours later he heard and saw it again as it came in | | for a landing only 50 yards away. "The whole metallic body seemed to | | glow faintly," but was not translucent. The disc was 50 feet wide and | | 20 feet high and looked like polished aluminum. A six-foot-tall man | | with a deep tan and a high forehead got out. His garment covered him | | from the neck down and he wore no shoes. In each nostril was a tiny | | tube. When Allingham drew a sketch of planetary orbits, he nodded | | when Mars was pointed out, and repeated "Mars." In further exchanges | | he verified Allingham's suggestions that the Martian canals consisted | | of a central string of water surrounded by vegetation. Allingham | | touched and photographed the saucer and also photographed the pilot, | | from a side rear angle. These photos are reproduced in his book. A | | slight humming sound marked the take off of the saucer. The interview | | had lasted ½ hour. Allingham's contact claims are regarded with | | extreme skepticism by most UFO investigators. (Source: David F. Webb | | & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-03, | | citing Cedric Allingham, Flying Saucers From Mars). | | | | 1954 - On the same day as Cedric Allingham alleged UFO contact UFO | | sightings were reported in southern California. In Los Angeles an | | astronomer reported sighting a huge ellipsoidal object that was first | | seen flying toward the west, but made an instant turn to the north at | | an estimated speed of 1200 mph. At the same time a retired U.S. Air | | Force pilot sighted a flying disc in Van Nuys that made incredible | | maneuvers but no sound. It flew off toward the west as a second disc | | circled. (Sources: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, 1954: January-May, | | p. 39; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3288). | | | | 1956 - At 8:30 p.m. a golden colored disc-shaped UFO with haze around | | it circled slowly over the treetops in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It | | then darted into the air and out of sight. (Source: newspaper | | clipping). | | | | 1963 - On this morning in Maiden, North Carolina flat metallic | | disc-shaped objects hovered, then engaged in maneuvers for a lengthy | | display. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics). | | | | 1967 - At 4:30 p.m. a cigar-shaped object was seen accompanied by two | | smaller satellite objects in Chatsworth, Georgia. At 5:45 p.m. west | | of Syracuse, New York Jerome and Cohen sighted a UFO that left a | | vapor trail. The object fell downwards, curved until it straightened | | up its descent, and then vanished. Jerome took two color slides that | | show a dark smoke or vapor trail. At 9:00 p.m. a coin shaped object | | surmounted by an orange glow that flickered floated in the sky above | | West Sacramento, California at a 45 degree angle. It then appeared to | | approach the ground. (Sources: NICAP investigation files, Syracuse | | report dated February 24, 1967). | | | | 1971 - An object maneuvered over the town of Umbrete, Sevilla, Spain | | at 8:35 p.m. The witness, a 15-year-old named Rubio, found rake marks | | at a flattened, 3-meter wide circular landing spot. (Source: | | Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in | | Spain and Portugal, case 139, citing investigator Manuel Osuna | | Llorente). | | | | 1971 - At 9:50 a.m. Dr. J. Mueller, D. C. Martin Thoele and Theodore | | Thoele of St. Charles, Missouri observed a cone-shaped, "cage like" | | object, 10 feet wide by 10 feet high, tipped at an angle, | | approximately 400 feet above the street. The object was noiseless, | | and a string of lights extended down on what would correspond to | | three wires of the "cage" to a point mid-way between the tip of the | | cone and its base. The object was occupied by a single figure. | | (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1971-09, citing Skylook #45; George D. | | Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 12). | | | | 1973 - In Lexington, Alabama a UFO landed in a pasture at 12:20 a.m., | | about 300 meters from a farmhouse. According to the witness, named | | Nix, the light emitted by the object was reportedly so bright that it | | "almost hurt your eyes to look at it." It was larger than a car but | | smaller than a bus, and it vanished as if someone had thrown a | | switch. (Source: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 12). | | | | 1975 - Photographs of UFOs were taken on this day in Argentina and | | Oklahoma. An object that was described at silvery and shiny by the | | witness, but which appears as flat black against the bright blue | | clear sky, was taken in Puerto Madryn, Argentina at the ocean shore | | at 3:20 p.m. A night time photograph of a luminous UFO was taken in | | Norman, Oklahoma at around 8:00 p.m. (Sources: Wendelle C. Stevens, | | Saga UFO Report, March 1977, p. 39; Robert Schmidt, FSR, November | | 1976, p. 24). | | | | 1976 - At around eight o'clock in the evening EST two women driving | | in a rural area reported that lights high in the sky paced their car | | for 13-14 miles from Chatchee to Lincoln, Alabama. Near Okatchee, | | Alabama they saw a large orange object in the woods near the ground | | to their left. Their CB radio stopped working, making no static, no | | sound at all. Two objects then followed them until they reached | | Lincoln, Alabama, where the UFOs approached to within 300-400 feet. | | The women saw five objects at this point. After passing through | | Lincoln, the objects stopped pacing the car and the CB radio suddenly | | started working. The two objects that had paced the car were | | egg-shaped and glowing with a fluorescent light. (Sources: CUFOS | | investigation file, report dated May 17, 1976; Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 392, citing CUFOS). | | | | 1976 - At 6:45 p.m. PST 8-10 discs were sighted flying in a V | | formation over Rancho Cordova, California. The objects were 3 to 6 | | meters in diameter, gray in color, and made no sound. Afterwards the | | witness saw ten aircraft circling that portion of the sky. (Source: | | CUFOS investigation file, report dated March 1, 1976). | | | | 1979 - At 2:30 a.m. an incident involving missing time and vehicle | | electrical system interference occurred in Lardit, Aveyron district, | | France. Dark objects flew over a reservoir, followed by a 1.5 meter | | in diameter metallic disc. The witness experienced semi-paralysis and | | the car's electrical system failed. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 13644, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1979). | | | | 1981 - Jose Fermin Albornoz, an illiterate shephard, awoke at 4:00 | | a.m. to the sounds of his animals causing a commotion. Looking out | | from his hut he saw a "beautiful" blue light hovering over a field | | about 20 meters away. He woke up another shepherd, but his companion | | became extremely afraid, screamed out and hid under his blanket. He | | then heard a loud buzzing sound that appeared to originate from | | overhead. This was followed by something like the sound of a diesel | | truck, although the remote mountainous area of Manzano Amargo, | | Neuquen Province, Argentina that they were in was only accessible by | | horseback. Suddenly two short humanoid entities appeared out of | | nowhere, standing side by side. The beings spoke to him in an | | unknown, unintelligible language. Terrified, Jose now became confused | | and his next memory was of seeing a bright light quickly flying away. | | He described the humanoids as about one meter in height with | | extremely wide shoulders. They seemed to have normal hands and feet, | | but he could not make out any facial features. They wore helmets and | | tight fitting, dark blue outfits. During the incident some nearby | | horses stampeded away from the area, apparently terrified. Albornoz | | said the spherical light was bluish in color, and it did not | | illuminate the surroundings. (Source: Carlos Ferguson, UNICAT | | database, case 463). | | | | 1990 - A woman was out walking her dog in the Waldeck hills, near | | Korbach, Germany in the early evening when her dog lay down on his | | back and started whining. The dog wouldn't get up, so she eventually | | had to start carrying him. Next she heard a low humming sound, which | | ceased after about 30 seconds. Then a large round object, with a | | diameter estimated to be 10-20 meters, was seen floating above a | | clearing and it began to glow with an incredibly bright light for 20 | | to 30 seconds. After that, its light dimmed and it took on a metallic | | appearance. The bottom of the oval craft glowed dark red like red-hot | | charcoal while the object lowered itself silently to the ground. In | | the meanwhile her dog had run away. The witness, who was now | | completely blinded, wanted to run, too but was struck by a blue ray | | of light which paralyzed her. She had trouble breathing, and tried in | | vain to call out for help but could not scream. She became completely | | covered in perspiration in under a minute. Then "there was a voice" | | that sounded female and somehow metallic. It said: "Don't be afraid, | | nothing bad will happen to you." Actually, though, this caused her to | | become even more panicked and nearly hysterical. The ray of light | | changed to green and her breathing improved. All of the sudden, two | | short entities appeared standing in front of her, both of them | | between 1.40 and 1.60 meters in height, with baldheads and gray skin. | | They had normal human-like eyes and noses. They wore dark green | | overalls. On their chests they wore a strange symbol, which resembled | | "^`C L". She did not understand their language. They soon returned to | | their craft, which stood nearby on four legs and was about 1.50 | | meters high. The green beam vanished and the witness sank to the | | ground in a faint. It was 9:30 p.m. when she woke up again, three | | hours after the start of the incident. She took a few steps and | | vomited, which she did a second time after reaching home, where her | | dog was already waiting for her. (Sources: Ulrich Magin & Illobrand | | Von Ludwiger, UFOs - Zeugen and Zeichen, p. 96; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 15564; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1990, case # 241, citing Ulrich Magin & Illobrand Von | | Ludwiger). (See a similar incident occurring in 1979 on February 21 | | in Wales). | | | | 1996 - Near Pine Mountain, Georgia driving east on Highway 18 in a | | roofing truck five miles past Interstate 85, two men saw a silver, | | cigar-shaped object they first thought was a jet falling through the | | sky at 5:30 p.m. It stopped in mid-air about 100 feet from the | | ground, then moved in an S pattern "in a flash" and upward at a steep | | 45 degree angle. The UFO was without wings, made no sound, and was | | estimated to be about the size of a commercial jet aircraft. The | | duration of the sighting was between 10-15 seconds. (Source: MUFON | | field investigation database, case 960908SE, field investigator John | | C. Thompson). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 February 2007). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reaction: | | dog lays down and whimpers; blue beam or light, cone-shaped UFO, dis | | c-shaped UFOs, human-looking UFOnaut, inside occupant, landings, land | | ing traces including footprints, missing time, photographs, short hum | | anoids, UFOs with smaller satellite objects, unintelligible language. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+