+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 4 | | | | 1913 - An airship with lights was spotted by three witnesses | | including police as it flew over Dover, Kent, England | | southeast toward the sea; "motors" were heard. (Source: Lucius | | Farish, newspaper clipping, January 6, 1913; Desmond Leslie & George | | Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 36). | | | | 1949 – At 2:07 p.m. in Hickham Field, Honolulu, Hawaii Captain Paul | | Storey sighted a large, round, flat disc-shaped object that "blinked" | | and flew silently with a type of whitish reflection. The top of the | | craft looked dark. It flew at 3,000 feet altitude and circled the | | airfield, blinking once per second, finally flying away climbing into | | the northeast sky. The sighting is listed by the Air Force as an | | “unknown.” (Sources: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case # 275; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century | | of Sightings, p. 4). | | | | 1954 - Mr. Chesneau, a fireman at the Marignane Airport in France, | | saw a round luminous object slowly coming down and called the control | | tower to report it. When he came out again, the object had | | disappeared. (Source: Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 205). | | | | 1958 – A woodcutter in Stavanger, Norway saw a UFO land in a forest | | at 2:30 in the afternoon. A very tall man with a tan face got out. | | The being wore a helmet as part of his uniform. After a few minutes | | he got back in the craft, and it took off without making any noise. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, | | case 455). | | | | 1959 – At 1:30 a.m. five people saw a luminous globe make sharp | | maneuvers in the sky about ten miles south of Clines Corner, New | | Mexico. It then hovered over a highway intersection for fifteen | | minutes. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics). | | | | 1963 – A domed disc with tripod landing gear landed in a park in | | Rome, Italy. It was estimated to be five meters in diameter. The man | | who witnessed the landing said he felt a gust of wind as the UFO took | | off vertically and vanished into the sky. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 557, citing Momento | | Sera January 9, 1963; Robert Pinotto, Flying Saucers, January 1966, | | p. 60). | | | | 1965 - At 5:15 p.m. a procession of three bright, orange to red | | elliptical objects passed before observers in Bethel, Vermont at high | | speed and low altitude in rapid succession. (Source: Raymond E. | | Fowler, case investigation, report dated January 18, 1965). | | | | Bethel, Vermont 1965 Procession of UFOs | | | | [Sketch of One of the Bethel, Vermont UFOs - 1965] | | | | 1966 - Three witnesses riding in a truck in Concepcion del Urugruay, | | Argentina had a close encounter on this night with a luminous green | | object surrounded by haze. The EM effects on truck caused the engine | | to slow and flip over. No serious injuries were reported. (Sources: | | Cronica, January 5, 1966; Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case | | Histories, June 1973, p. 11; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II, p. 273). | | | | 1971 – A policeman woke up in his home and saw a 30-meter diameter | | disc in the yard outside his home, located between the towns of | | Crawford and Pine Bush in Ulster County, New York. The UFO hovered | | and pulsated close to his house for 40 minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, | | U computer database, case 9224, citing Ellen Crystal, p. 19). | | | | 1972 - On this night a car was levitated in Sweden with possible | | missing time. (Sources: S. Helmer, FSR, May 1972, p. 31; Thomas E. | | Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery, case # 243). | | | | 1973 - In Londrina, Parana State, Brazil Joao Marques, age 31, | | observed a UFO hovering over the road near his home at 2:30 a.m. A | | door in the craft opened, and a human-like figure in white descended | | on a rope to the ground. The being then picked up a bit of grass and | | put it to his nose or mouth, then discarded it. He next picked up a | | hydrangea plant, which he took with him. He ascended the rope and | | entered the craft, and the UFO left. The height and other features of | | the being were not given. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-125 (A1185); | | Walter Buhler, SBEDV Special Bulletin). | | | | 1974 – Two woman driving in a car in the suburbs of Chicago followed | | a low flying UFO in Berwyn, Illinois at around 5:15 p.m. The object | | had two bright lights and a red tower-shaped structure. It flew at an | | estimated 75 feet above the ground, then hovered over a high school | | athletic field. It turned off its lights when it flew away. At | | shortly after 7:00 p.m. a UFO hovered over Legler Lake, Minnesota. At | | eight p.m. in rural Lake county Minnesota police officers Haugan and | | Dufresne of the Waldo Township Police saw four “unbelievably bright” | | lights, the color and hue of a burning log, from their patrol car. | | The lights flew to the west, then banked and flew off toward the | | southwest at an estimated 800 feet altitude. Their sighting lasted 30 | | seconds. (Sources: MUFON Field Investigation files, report dated | | January 6, 1974; CUFOS case investigation files, report dated May 12, | | 1975; Two Harbors (MN) Chronicle and Times, January 10, 1974). | | | | 1977 - At 12:30 a.m. man was training his German shepherd dog in a | | pine grove in Carapito Beira Alta, Portugal when the animal suddenly | | became agitated and sat next to him. He then saw hovering 10 meters | | from the ground a dark metallic domed object that was emitting a | | beeping sound. Near the object was a very tall, heavy set figure, | | human like. The object suddenly emitted a silvery lighting flash and | | disappeared, and so did the bulky figure. The witness suffered from | | severe headaches soon after the incident, and his dog died with no | | obvious cause of death in August of the same year. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 106, citing | | Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Los | | Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis). | | | | 1978 - The witness was lying in his bed in Wrose, England on this | | night when a short silvery transparent figure suddenly appeared | | hovering above the bed. It seemed human like and was wearing a monk | | like robe. It also appeared to have some short wing like protrusions | | and a bright halo type light around its head. It vanished in plain | | sight. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, | | case 1790, citing Nigel Watson, Portraits of Alien Encounters). | | | | 1979 – A group of four farmers saw a small glittering sphere float | | about in the sky over Jitra, Malaysia at 6:45 a.m. (Source: Ahmad | | Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events | | in Malaysia, p. 86). | | | | 1979 – That same morning at around seven a.m. in Rowley Regis in the | | West Midlands, England, Mrs. Jean Hingley had waved goodbye to her | | husband on a bitter cold morning when she saw a light in the garden. | | Thinking he had left the light on she went to investigate, but it was | | turned off so she returned to the kitchen. She put down some food for | | the family Alsatian dog and called him from the garden, but he | | flopped down as if drugged and gazed at the ceiling, glassy-eyed. | | Then, with a "zee---zee-zee" noise, three weird creatures flew past | | her into her lounge. They were only one meter tall and had waxy white | | faces, coal-black eyes with no eyebrows, and very thin mouths. They | | wore silvery clothes with transparent fishbowl-type helmets over | | their heads. These humanoids also had transparent “wings” or wing | | attachments. Jean clung to her sink paralyzed but then, she says, she | | also suddenly floated towards the lounge. | | | | Jean noticed that the aliens were inspecting the ornaments on the | | Christmas tree with interest. They also probed into her mind with | | telepathy—“It was like a light or an X-ray penetrating.” They told | | her she would not be harmed and, when she asked where they were from, | | one said, “We come from the sky.” When she explained the house was | | decorated to celebrate Jesus’s birthday, they claimed “We know all | | about Jesus.” | | | | They said they would return. “We come down here to talk to people but | | they don't seem to be interested.” Finally, when she showed them how | | to light a cigarette they fled as if in terror, taking a mince pie | | each with them. Outside in her garden was an egg-shaped object with | | windows. They floated into it, and it took off, emitting a bluish | | flash and pulsating twice before disappearing with a flash. The dog | | returned to normal, and Jean called the police. The electric clock in | | the house had stopped, and all her cassette tapes were magnetized and | | unplayable. In the snow where the object had sat was an oval outline, | | which the local UFO group was able to photograph before the snow | | melted. She also suffered from a case of conjunctivitis as a result | | of her close encounter. (Sources: Alfred Budden, Fortean Times, June | | 1988, p. 40; Jenny Randles, Abduction; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to | | Extraterrestrials, p. 92; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database, case # 440). | | | | 1988 – Two 35 centimeter red spheres maneuvered low over a field in | | Vetterslev, Denmark starting at 6: 45 p.m. and continuing for two | | hours. Melted snow and small footprints were later found in the | | field. During that same time there were at least eight UFO sightings | | reported throughout parts of Yorkshire, England. At 8:10 p.m. a | | torpedo-shaped object, resembling a World War II V-1 German | | “buzz-bomb,” flew over the city of York. It reportedly emitted smoke, | | flame, and debris, and was followed through the sky by a brilliant | | ball of light. At 8:45 p.m. a thin, pencil-shaped UFO with red and | | blue running lights was sighted in Selby. At 9:10 p.m. a ex-RAF man | | saw flashing lights around a 400-foot diameter, layered disc that | | glowed orange in Leeds. In Dewsbury at 11:30 p.m. a disc flew back | | and forth in the sky, making a swishing sound. It either extinguished | | its lights, or vanished, because its disappearance seemed to be | | instantaneous. (Sources: Scandinavian UFO Information Newsletter, | | issue #11; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, pp. 14-17). | | | | 1990 – Several people in Mauriac, France at 12:40 p.m. witnessed a | | black disc-shaped UFO with two rows of square windows. It had four | | legs and a tube in the front, and moved through the sky slowly and | | silently. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #300) | | | | 1992 - A farmer in Saga Prefecture, Japan, who had been experiencing | | cattle mutilations heard his dog barking at night and went out to his | | barn to check. He saw a small white object floating in his barn, like | | a jellyfish with things like tentacles hanging from the bottom. It | | drifted outside and vanished. When he investigated further he found | | he had a cow with a broken leg. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database website, Case # 2343). | | | | 1994 - At five minutes after midnight in Tronville-en-Barrois, France | | a domed disc-shaped object landed or came very close to landing in a | | field, illuminating the entire area. Three figures are seen inside a | | doorway, one of them exited from the door of the craft. (Source: | | Claude Raffy, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 322). | | | | 1994 - In Maplethorpe, England at 11:25 p.m. a huge, silent | | triangular craft was seen near some microwave transmission tower | | dishes. Several televisions in the area changed channels. (Source: | | UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994). | | | | 1996 - Madeline Tolentino was driving with her 2-year-old son in her | | Isuzu Trooper in Campo Rico, Puerto Rico with the windows rolled | | down. They were driving on Route 185 near a horse track called El | | Comandante at seven p.m. when she smelled something pungent, like | | sulfur, which irritated her throat. She kept driving and suddenly saw | | a creature with glowing red eyes. It ran across the road in front of | | her SUV and disappeared. Frightened, she returned home to tell her | | husband. He went back to the area and noticed the pungent odor but | | did not see the creature. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1996, case #2807, citing Chat Deetken). | | | | 2003 - At 2:40 a.m. PST three large, white circular UFOs hovered in | | the sky over Rosswood, British Columbia. In San Isidro, Texas at 5:15 | | a.m. twelve oval-shaped objects moved around in the sky for over one | | hour. Eleven or more bright objects moved across the sky in formation | | in clear daylight in Chula Vista, California at 2:30 in the | | afternoon. That evening at 9:41 p.m., in Bayport, New York, two | | glowing objects chased each other, swirled around, and danced in the | | night sky. (Source: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January | | 2003 website). | | | | 2003 - In Fulton, Missouri Bob Simon, age 25, awoke at three a.m. | | while he was being dragged towards the bedroom window by an unknown | | intruder. He looked up to see a very tall thin humanoid with red | | eyes, no mouth, and a gray body. It had huge hands with very long | | fingers. Recovering his senses, Simon struggled with the alien and | | managed to grab a small knife next to his bed and stab at the alien. | | The alien seemed to have been hurt, and relaxed his grip on Simon. | | There was a sudden blast of bright light and the creature vanished. | | Simon claimed to have scratch marks on his body. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing UFO Watch). | | | | 2004 - At 8:30 p.m. an Aer Lingus Boeing 737-400 with 135 people on | | board was damaged by near a miss with a UFO while flying 15 nautical | | miles offshore of Ashbourne, Ireland. The UFO caused a power drain | | and a purple glow around the 737 as the triangular UFO flew in front | | of the airliner. It also caused a huge turbulence in its wake. A | | second aircraft encounter occurred on the same night at 10:30 p.m. | | when a A330-200 with 213 people on board encountered a flashing | | strobe light over Slane, Ireland. The airliner encountered | | a triangular UFO with an estimated 360 foot wing span. The UFO | | circled the plane aggresively. The second encounter lasted several | | minutes. Both encounters were tracked on airborne radar. (Source: | | Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, pp. 41-42). | | | | 2004 - A white egg-shaped object was seen floating in the sky at | | 10:00 a.m. PST in Hayward, California. It was five feet in diameter | | at the thiner dimension. The two witnesses then saw two more objects | | about three-fourths the size of the first, also egg shaped, gray in | | color, but not metallic. A white object changed shape slightly into | | a smooth diamond 200 feet up. The sightings lasted five minutes. | | (Sources: Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of | | Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 214; MUFON UFO | | Journal, issue 430). | | | | 2004 - Two oval objects that could travel at extremely high speeds | | were sighted in Holyoke, Massachusetts at 2:00 p.m. EST. At 2:30 p.m. | | a silver disc-shaped object with a bulge on one face, estimated to be | | maybe 30 feet across, was sighted in Fort Myers, Florida. It | | reflected sunlight and bobbed around at between 3,000 and 5,000 feet | | altitude. (Source: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January | | 2004 website). | | | | 2004 - A very large, hovering disc-shaped object that appeared to be | | lighted from within was sighted in Four Oaks, North Carolina at 7:00 | | p.m. The object also appeared to have flashing lights on the outside. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2004 | | website). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 2 January 2013). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: | | aircraft UFO encounters; animal reactions; apparition; beeping sound; | | bulky humanoid; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; helmets; hovering UFO | | s; humanoids; humanoid with glowing red eyes; ignition interference E | | M effects; jellyfish-shaped object; landings; luminous UFOs; maneuver | | ing or dancing UFOs; multi-year reports from England and France; pung | | ent odor; silent UFOs; small flying spheres; TV interference; very la | | rge triangular UFOs; vertical ascent; very tall UFOnauts; white UFOs. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+