+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 26 | | | | 1950 - Three orange cylinders flew to the north at 1600 km/h over | | Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. It was witnessed by a Lieutenant Colonel and | | another military witness. It was lost from sight when it disappeared | | into an odd looking, lone small thin cloud. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 1498). | | | | 1953 - At 6:20 p.m. an airman witnessed a 60 meter long luminous | | cigar-shaped or rectangular object with hazy ends, that flew from | | east to west over Sampson Air Force Base in Ontario County, New York | | while climbing slightly. It made a high frequency humming sound. It | | flew at an estimated 2500m altitude. In one minute the object | | traveled through an arc of 70 or 80 degrees. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 2958, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A | | Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 5; Project Blue | | Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; NARA-PBB85-816). | | | | 1953 - At 9:15 p.m. MST Air Force personnel stationed at the 769th | | AC&W station in Continental Divide, New Mexico observed an aerial | | phenomenon simultaneously by electronic and visual means. To the | | naked eye the object appeared as a very bright reddish-white object | | estimated to be 10 miles west of the radar site. The object passed | | behind a hill and then reappeared, apparently heading in a northerly | | direction at a slow speed. The airman making this visual observation | | reported it to personnel manning the radar equipment. They stated | | that they had an unidentified blip on the radar scope, appearing west | | of the station approximately 9 miles away. The scope showed the | | object to be on a 270 azimuth at an altitude of 10,000-15,000 feet | | moving away from the site at 12-15 mph. It was eventually lost on | | radar at the 18 mile range. The object was under visual and radar | | observation intermittently for 45 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; Gordon D. Thayer, in | | Edward U. Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying | | Objects, p. 192; UNICAT, case # 653; (NARA-PBB85-814)). | | | | 1955 - At 6:15 p.m. J. M. Holland saw a black smoke trail make a | | circle in Lakeland, Florida. There was an explosion and some objects | | fell from sky. A Project Blue Book unknown. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3401; Jacques | | Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 102; Don Berliner, The Blue Book | | Unknowns). | | | | 1956 - On this afternoon a woman in her driveway in Toledo, Ohio | | spotted a silver, pancake-shaped disc that flew by smoothly for about | | a minute. (Sources: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence | | New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth | | Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (volume 6), p. 9). | | | | 1958 - A very bright object landed before numerous chemical workers | | in Shimada City, Japan at 4 p.m. They reported beings falling from | | the sky without parachutes. They wore strange suits and spoke an | | unknown language. (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1958; | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 458; | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case A0458). | | | | 1959 - On the island of Hokkaido, Japan at 4 p.m. many witnesses | | watched two glowing lens-shaped discs that flew slowly to the west. | | One made a 180 degree turn to the east. Both were completely silent. | | (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: | | A History. 1959: January-March, p. 34). | | | | 1965 - A group of teenagers, including Steve Miller, age 16, were | | driving on Route 250 near Brands Flats, Virginia at 7:30 p.m. when | | they saw a little man about 3 ½ feet tall sitting by the road | | watching the cars go by. He was wearing a silvery looking one-piece | | outfit. They got out of the car and pursued the little man. Two more | | little men joined the first and ran with him, and they easily outran | | the teens leaving no footprints in the muddy ground. The group then | | contacted the Staunton police, and within an hour a group of police | | were on the scene, as well as a young news photographer, Charles | | Weaver. Weaver, and another man named Huffer approached a barn, which | | the photographer entered first. Huffer heard his companion call out | | to him, and when Huffer entered the barn he found Weaver on the | | ground. Weaver claimed something struck him and knocked him down. The | | pair left the barn quickly, but as they fled they thought they saw a | | little man standing in front of the building. Weaver paused long | | enough to take a photo before joining up with the other | | investigators. The disposition of the photograph has never been | | determined. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-09 (A0619), citing a newspaper | | clipping, January 27, 1965). | | | | 1967 - Sixty military witnesses at a U.S. base in Heidelberg, | | Germany heard a pulsating sound at 8:30 p.m., and then saw a shiny | | metallic dirigible-shaped object hovering over a building 100 | | feet away. As jets approached to investigate the object, it took off | | with lights flashing in a regular cycle. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, | | May-June 1967, p. 4; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A | | Thirty-Year Report, p. 326). | | | | 1967 - Three women saw an oblong, gray and red object, with prongs of | | various colors was seen over Jamaica, Queens borough, New York at | | 1:30 a.m. Parts of the UFO seemed to move independently. The sighting | | lasted more than two hours. (Sources: NICAP New York case | | investigation; Condon Committee UFO Study). | | | | 1967 - On this morning, about a week after seeing a large metallic | | sphere hovering above a highway near Charleston, West Virginia, Tad | | Jones was driving along the same highway at the same time when he | | came upon a man standing on the roadside in the same spot where the | | sphere had hovered. Thinking that it was a hitchhiker Tad slowed down | | and called to him. The man did not reply but merely waved him on. He | | described the man as very tanned, wearing a blue coat, and a blue cap | | with a visor. He was holding a box in his hand. It appeared to be | | some kind of instrument with a dial on it, like a clock, and a wire | | ran from it to his other hand. A later check with the local gas | | company proved negative as far as it being one of their men. | | Furthermore, no such instrument described by Jones was in use | | anywhere by any of their employees. He saw the same man again the | | next day, but drove on. (Sources: John Keel, FSR, May-June 1967, | | p. 4; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3096, | | citing John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies). | | | | 1967 - A Methodist minister was driving on Route 185 near Coffeen, | | Illinois at 9:00 p.m. when he saw an object that was flat on the | | bottom and rounded on top cross the road 100 meters in front of him. | | It made no noise and moved slowly. He estimated that it was 20 meters | | in length and three meters in height. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 812, citing USAF Air | | Technical Intelligence Center). | | | | 1968 - Two men in River Bann, Derryvore, Ireland saw a disc land in a | | field. Several entities emerged and placed probes into the hides of | | several paralyzed cows in the field. The UFO then took off and | | showered a fog-like substance that caused a tingling sensation, and | | the UFO then disappeared into a cloud. (Source: Jenny Randles, Little | | Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs). | | | | 1969 - On a farm southeast of Fernley, Nevada while milking cows at | | five o'clock in the morning, a young man named Schade saw a red | | glowing sphere moving slowly, ten meters above the ground, a quarter | | of a mile away. The object hovered, the emitted white mist. Each time | | it stopped moving the light went out. Finally, the UFO ascended with | | a jerky motion toward the west and Reno. (Sources: Mark Massingill, | | NICAP case file, report dated February 24, 1969; Data-Net Report, | | October 1971, p. 5). | | | | 1970 - A close encounter occurred west of Nykopping, Sweden at around | | 6:00 p.m. when a small saucer-shaped object dove at a car with | | two teenage girls inside. (Source: Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden News, | | issue 25). | | | | 1971 - A young couple out driving in the early hours of the morning | | in Jackson, Ohio had a close encounter with a spherical object that | | rose from the ground, and then hovered directly in front of their | | car. The driver stopped his car and backed away. The ball of light | | changed color from orange to purple. When the drove off it followed | | them. (Source: Columbus Dispatch, January 27, 1971; NICAP UFO | | Investigator, March-April 1971, p. 1). | | | | 1972 - At three a.m. Norman Chastain was out fishing late at night in | | the St. Johns River near Blount Island, Florida when he saw something | | like "half a ball" with orange and blue flashing lights. It came | | "directly toward my boat" and hovered noiselessly overhead at 150 | | feet. He turned off his light and the object slowly moved off. He had | | drifted to the shore and with his spotlight he could see in the | | nearby woods "the darndest looking human-like creature one could ever | | imagine." Waht he saw was a humanoid creature about five feet tall, | | with pointed ears, large eyes, and a sharp chin. Next a brilliant | | white light hit him that paralyzed him until dawn. He noticed an | | "overpowering stench" in his clothes and hair, and threw away his | | clothes. Three nights later he smelt the same odor again, and in the | | morning found a fungus like growth similar to "a cluster of several | | flesh colored heads looking at me;" he said they "had teeth, big | | eyes, a wide mouth, and pointed ears," and looked "like the devil | | looking creature" he saw on Blount Island. (Sources: Lloyd Brown, The | | Jacksonville Journal, January 28, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-05, citing | | Jacksonville Journal). | | | | 1974 - At 2:59 a.m. Captain Berglund and the flight crew of his SAS | | Boeing 727 airliner flying east of Lisbon, Portugal encountered a | | precise V formation of 10-15 bright glowing orange disc-shaped | | objects, flying at 31,000 feet altitude. (Sources: Bob Gribble, MUFON | | UFO Journal, January 1989, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A | | Study of Multiple UFO, p. 64; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 121). | | | | 1976 - M. Claude Cretin, while driving at 9:45 p.m. between Bouze and | | Beaune, Cote D’Or department, France saw a searchlight beam flash | | three times. He then noticed a humanoid being standing in the bushes | | about 20 feet away beside the road. The being was wearing a diving | | suit of yellow-orange color with a round-topped helmet and a | | rectangular face plate. Atop the helmet was a whitish light. He could | | only make out the upper portion of the figure because the bushes | | blocked his view. After driving on, he went and notified the police, | | who investigated on the following day and found freshly broken | | branches at the site. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-21 (A1451); Alain Gamard, | | UFO Register, Volume 7, p. 44, citing Le Bien Public, March 24, | | 1976). | | | | 1977 - Three witnesses in Anchorage, Kentucky watched as a 100 foot | | in diameter domed disc hovered at 80 feet altitude over a snowy field | | at 10:30 p.m. Their dogs barked during the close encounter. The craft | | flew toward the south, then vanished. The incident lasted five | | minutes. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, January 1977, p. 4; International | | UFO Reporter, April 1977, p. 7). | | | | 1979 - At 8:45 p.m. a restaurant worker south of Denbigh, Clwyd, | | Wales, U.K. first spotted a domed ovoid object hovering silently for | | several minutes, only 120 feet overhead. Two police constables, | | Berwyn Jones and Nevil Hughes, also witnessed the phenomenon together | | with several other independent witnesses. The object was a dark | | metallic color, and it emitted a strong beam of light. It flew off to | | the southeast of the valley. (Source: FSR, March 1979; Gary | | Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 9). | | | | 1981 - At 4:30 p.m. a police patrol car stalled in Toulouse, | | Haute-Garonne, France when it encountered a cigar-shaped UFO. The | | five meter long object had portholes, and was hovering four | | meters over a field. It moved over the road, then turned and flew | | away toward the east. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | # 14165, citing Robert Roussel, OVNI, Verites Cachees, p. 151). | | | | 1981 - In Newton, North Carolina at 8:35 p.m. police and an amateur | | astronomer witnessed a silent rectangular UFO, which maneuvered at | | 300 feet altitude. It had flashing lights on its sides.  (Source: | | Tarheel UFO Study Group, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1981, p. 14). | | | | 1984 - Mrs. Green and her 7-year-old son were driving in Texas when | | they first encountered radio interference. UFO stops car, car | | out-of-control into ditch, bright light, 75 minutes missing time. | | | | 1991 - On January 13, 1991 border guard Istvan Balogh woke up in his | | bedroom in Oroshaza, Hungary and heard a loud booming voice repeat | | three times, "We will meet soon." The voice had a metallic quality to | | it. On this date he had just returned from the movies at 1:15 a.m., | | and had stepped out on his terrace when he saw a small gray | | disc-shaped object, four meters in height and two meters in width. As | | he stared at the object a bright beam of light struck him. His next | | conscious memory was onboard a craft. He was inside a room with a | | window about 1 meter in diameter. He was then approached by two | | human-like figures with 3-digit hands and skin with a greenish | | complexion, wearing black uniforms. They communicated telepathically | | with him, telling him that they came from a world that was 15 million | | light years from earth. They were able to travel such vast distance | | using dimensional portals. He remembered seeing an illuminated | | moon-like crater and a pyramid. He was eventually returned to his | | home at 2:00 a.m. He went and reported his story at the hospital, and | | as a result he was later fired from his job as a border guard. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, | | citing CUN Milan). | | | | 1998 - At 8:45 p.m. outside Bartelso, Illinois an oval-shaped object | | was seen hovering over a flooded field at about 50-75 feet altitude. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | Jan. 1998 webpage). | | | | 2001 - At 12:30 a.m. a cone-shaped UFO was sighted in the South | | Waikato area of New Zealand by 12. There were independent reports to | | the Auckland Observatory at the same time. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 webpage). | | | | 2001 - In Oceanside, California a triangular shaped object, 50 feet | | in diameter and at only 300 feet altitude, was reported flying at a | | speed of 25 mph. It was a dark camoflage-green color, and was shaped | | like a tall slice of pie. It had two 10 foot wide white pods on | | the underside. It was in view for 30 seconds.(Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 | | webpage). | | | | 2002 - In Cape Girardeau, Missouri a radar patrol police officer | | witnessed an unlit dark disc-shaped object move across the highway at | | 8:45 p.m.  He pointed his radar gun at the object, but got no | | return.  Next, he attempted to pursue the object, but it | | disappeared. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, Jan. 2002 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 22, 2002). | | | | 2003 - Anatoly Yurevich awoke in the middle of the night in | | Karaganda, Kazakhstan to the sounds of footsteps, then saw a two foot | | tall creature standing at the side of his bed. It was very heavy set, | | perhaps weighing as much as 115 kilos (250 lbs.). His dog hid under | | the bed blankets shaking with fear. The creature touched his knee and | | then pulled on the blanket. It then vanished in full view. After a | | couple of minutes the witness felt a severe pain in his lower | | abdomen. His dog growled for 20 minutes after the incident, after | | which he was able to go back to sleep. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing RU.UFO Guest book entries). | | | | 2006 - In Trienta y Tres, Uruguay many people saw intensely bright | | "stars" in the afternoon sky beginning at around two o'clock and | | lasting for about 30 minutes. They made no sound, and engaged in very | | rapid multi-directional maneuvers, up-and-down, and right-to-left. | | (Source: John Hayes, ufoinfo.com). | | | | 2008 - At 4:10 p.m. six witnesses watched a silvery pill-shaped | | object that flipped over as it flew across the sky in Popkum, British | | Columbia. (Source: Dittman Geoff, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # | | 44, citing HBCCUFO). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 27 January 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reactio | | ns: dogs barking, growling and frightened; bedroom visitation; beams | | of light; cattle paralyzed; cigar-shaped or cylinder shaped or dirigi | | ble UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, dome-shaped UFOs, fog or mist; goblin-lik | | e humanoid with big pointed ears; mystery human in same spot as earli | | er UFO close encounter; landings; physiological effects: paralysis, t | | ingling sensation; police reports; radar visual confirmation; short h | | umanoids; short bulky humanoid; silent UFOs; unintelligible language. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+