+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  June 16 | | | | 1909 - An elongated object flew toward the east over the town of | | Donghoi at 4:10 a.m. in Vietnam. It gave off a strong light and was | | seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea six kilometers away from | | the coast after a steady flight lasting about nine minutes. (Sources: | | Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 21; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 187). | | | | 1948 - A banana or cucumber-shaped object with beams of light was | | tracked on radar when it descended across the course of Russian test | | pilot Aprasksin flying over the Kapustin Yar test flight facility in | | Astrakhan, Soviet Union. The experimental aircraft he was flying | | experienced a total electrical failure when it was hit by a cone of | | light, with the engine and controls failing. Although temporarily | | blinded, he was able to glide the plane to a landing. (Sources: Felix | | Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 124; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle | | Interference Project, p. 004; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the | | Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 137). | | | | 1952 - A Staff Sergeant saw five gray discs in a arc formation shoot | | to the east over Walker Field, Roswell, New Mexico at 8:30 p.m. They | | flew at an estimated speed of 550 mph. A Project Blue Book "unknown" | | report. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case #1285; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs | | over the Capitol, p. 265; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: | | April-July, p. 14). | | | | 1965 - On this night a bright light seen in the sky over Townsville, | | Queensland, Australia gradually accelerated, next zig-zagged, | | and then stopped and started moving three times before disappearing | | out of sight. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern | | Hemisphere, p. 154). | | | | 1966 - Russian oil and gas scientists watched a high flying silent | | disc-shaped object spiral through the sky east of Elista, Kalmuk, | | Russia at 9:50 p.m. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | #7772, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #204). | | | | 1967 - On this night Mrs. Wallace and her family watched a | | cone-shaped UFO with rotating green and red flashing lights for one | | hour over Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada. (Source: Gene | | Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 15). | | | | 1972 - A man, Mr. Meerton, leaving his house in Merricks, Victoria, | | Australia at 8:30 p.m. was confronted by a dull metallic object with | | 30 orange lights that had just landed in his field. Cows in the | | pasture panicked. The whole area was illuminated by the UFO, and a | | strong wind blew that bent the trees over. The UFO also made a high | | pitched sound like that of an electric mixer. The encounter lasted 90 | | seconds. (Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Australian FSR, | | December 1972, p. 18). | | | | 1974 - At about 5:00 a.m. a 46-year-old farm laborer was driving near | | Caceres, Spain when a bright object illuminated the highway. He saw | | three tall helmeted figures standing inside the craft. When the | | witness turned off his headlights the UFO moved away; when he turned | | them back on the UFO approached, and followed him home. (Sources: | | Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 188; Richard | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 346; | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #147; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close | | Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 193). | | | | 1977 - Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa - At 5:15 a.m. a glowing | | object engulfed a van being driven by a single witness, a Mr. Gouws, | | in a brilliant light. The man experienced amnesia when exposed to the | | intense light source and may have possibly been abducted, as he has | | an hour of time unaccounted for. There was a buzzing sound | | accompanying the light and the van's engine and lights died. Later | | the engine restarted spontaneously by itself. Mr. Gouws was so | | fearful after the incident that he was shaking like a leaf. (Sources: | | Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, citing MUFON UFO Journal, September | | 1977; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year | | Report, p. 256). | | | | 1978 - A man had been hitchhiking home after midnight when he spotted | | a soft glowing object in a nearby field near Borisoglebsk, Voronezh, | | Russia and walked towards it. As he approached he could see that the | | object had a transparent dome on top and inside he could see three | | short humanoids. The dwarf beings had large egg-like heads and very | | long fingers. They seemed to be working around a central console. | | When he got to within 25 yards of the object he was stopped by some | | kind of a force field and blacked out. When he came to he noticed | | that the briefcase he had been carrying looked old and frayed. The | | force field was gone, so he again began to walk toward the object but | | was knocked down by a blast of wind. The craft began to glow and rose | | off the ground and shot away quickly at high speed. He learned later | | that he had lost track of 45 minutes of time. Under hypnosis he | | recalled being gently led into the craft and examined. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 420, citing | | Fortean Times, issue # 33, quoting Felix Zigel; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 13211, citing FSR, Vol. 29, No. 5). | | | | 1978 - Oulton, England - At 11:15 p.m. a 16-year-old man was returning | | from his girlfriend's house in a heavy rainstorm when he started | | hearing a very loud voice "talking nonsensically" all around him. The | | voice was so loud that he thought it might wake everyone in the | | village and he compared it to the voice of a radio announcer. The | | volume rose and fell as though the voice was being blown on the wind. | | He could not distinguish the words, however, and it faded away after | | about five seconds. He walked another 50 meters further on when he | | noticed, through a wooded gate to his right, a cylindrical column of | | white light. This vertical beam appeared to be on the grounds of a | | convent and was 200 meters away. It looked to be 3 1/2 meters high | | and 2 meters in diameter, and it appeared solid and sharply defined. | | The witness then had the impression that something or someone was in | | the beam, and he became scared and ran home, having watched the beam | | for about 5 seconds. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1978, citing Martin Keatman, BUFORA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1). | | | | 1987 - Two amateur astronomers, after having heard a strong hiss, saw | | on the mirrored water of the Adriatic Sea off the shore of Riccione, | | Italy a luminescent object of ovoid shape. During the few minutes of | | the sighting, the object changed coloration several times. (Source: | | Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU). | | http://www.cisu.org/ citing La Gazzetta, June 17, 1987). | | | | 1989 - Two brothers were engaged in opal mining in an isolated area | | of Queensland, Australia on this night, with the nearest community | | being Yowah. They sighted a large disc-shaped craft accompanied by | | six smaller objects hovering over the area. A twenty-minute time | | lapse was reported. Hynoptic regression at a later date revealed an | | abduction scenario that involved small Grey type entities and tall | | human-looking beings with long blond hair. There seemed to the | | brothers that a struggle ensued between the two different groups of | | beings. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, | | case #1821, citing Keith Basterfield). | | | | 1995 - A silent bell-shaped disc flashed and maneuvered over the | | shore of Puget Sound northeast of Shelton, Washington. It emitted a | | bright red beam of light. After 10 minutes it flew off towards the | | northeast. (Source: West Virginia UFO Newsletter, issue #8). | | | | 2004 - A chrome colored sphere was sighted over Milan, Tennessee at | | 12:30 p.m. It flew into a small cloud and didn't emerge again. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | June 2004 webpage archive). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, disc | | -shaped UFOs, domed discs, elongated UFO, Grey UFOnauts, missing time | | , multicolored UFOs, nautical UFOs (UFO seen entering or on the surfa | | ce of bodies of water), Nordic UFOnauts, silent UFOs, tall humanoids. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+