+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  June 30 | | | | 1908 - On this morning at 7:17 a.m. the Tunguska, Russia explosion | | occurred in a remote region of the Siberian taiga, which brightened | | the pre-dawn sky as far away as London and had the equivalent | | energy of a 15 to 40-megaton nuclear explosion. Detailed scientific | | analysis shows that the object that caused the devastation exploded | | above an altitude of three miles and left an area of destruction for | | more than 850 square miles, in a heart-shaped pattern. It is widely | | thought to have been either an asteroid or comet impact, but it has | | sometimes been interpreted as the crash or mid-air explosion of an | | alien spaceship. Several anomalies still remain to be explained if | | the explosion was caused by a celestial body entering Earth's | | atmosphere. For example, why was radioactive Cesium 137 found in 1908 | | tree rings from the area. (Sources: William R. Corliss, Remarkable | | Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 281; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles | | of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 63) | | | | 1947 - A Navy Lieutenant named McGinty was flying in a P-80 fighter | | aircraft near Williams Field, Arizona at 9000 meters altitude when | | toward the south when he saw two circular objects diving at an | | "unconceivable" speed. They were gray, about three meters in | | diameter, and appeared to land 40 kilometers south of the Grand | | Canyon. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case #78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century | | of Landings, p. 191; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. | | 11). | | | | 1954 - At 6:50 p.m. a silvery metallic fuselage-shaped UFO with | | stubby wings was tracked on radar and also observed from the tower by | | two air traffic controllers at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, | | Alabama. The object came from the south and circled the city. There | | was no sound detected from the craft as it flew in what was described | | as a highly maneuverable manner and at a high speed, shooting off to | | the northeast. (Sources: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, | | p. 176; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 23; | | UNICAT case # 447, citing Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 58; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 134).  | | | | 1955 - A tanker crew in a vessel near Pantelleria Island off the | | coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, at around ten o'clock in | | the morning, sighted a cigar-shaped object at 7,000 feet altitude, | | emitting strong beams of light. The crew watched it for more than 16 | | minutes. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 86).  | | | | 1956 - At 2:30 p.m. three glowing cigar-shaped objects sped over the | | city of Wellington, New Zealand. At 5:54 p.m. several orange discs | | were later seen for several minutes over Nelson, New Zealand. | | (Sources: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, August 1956, p. 4; | | Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A | | History. 1956: May-July, p. 64; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A | | Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186). | | | | 1957 - Starting at 6:30 p.m. a bright red-orange disc maneuvered | | around a Real Aerovias DC-3 airliner flying from Belo Horizonte to | | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and subsequently paced the aircraft for 40 | | minutes. It made several passes, crossing above or under the | | airliner, and then in front and behind it. (Sources: Richard Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, p. 120, citing El Diaro Popular, July 7, 1957; | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28, citing Richard | | Hall). | | | | 1959 - A U.S. Navy Commander and a female companion at the Patuxent | | River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park, Maryland sighted a | | metallic gold, oblate object at 8:23 p.m. EDT. He spotted it to the | | north; the UFO traveled in a straight and level flight path.A Project | | Blue Book "unknown." (Source: Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, | | p. 179; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 77). | | | | 1962 - At 9:00 a.m. a 13-year-old reported seeing a red, circular | | object with some white lights in Richmond, Virginia. He observed it | | for ten minutes as the object climbed and banked. A Project Blue Book | | "unknown." (Source: Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 367). | | | | 1964 - In Wellford, South Carolina a disc-shaped object with an | | antenna followed a car for many miles beginning at one o'clock in the | | morning. It departed when the car's driver turned the car | | headlights off. The duration of the close encounter was 50 minutes. | | (Source: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 69). | | | | 1967 - At two o'clock in the morning in Rapid City, South Dakota | | three police officers named Eisnach, Ferguson, and Sinner  had a | | close encounter with a huge multi-colored object with three windows | | and red, green, and white flashing lights. They witnessed it as it | | took off from the ground, hovered just above some nearby trees, made | | some jerky movements, and then landed again. It took off once again | | and went over hill. As it did so the white light on the object | | intensified. The entire incident lasted two and a half hours. | | (Sources: NICAP files, citing Rapid City Journal, July 2, 1967; Brad | | Steiger, Strangers from the Skies, p. 48). | | | | 1967 - Mrs. Lemarquandsa was walking through her house around six | | o'clock in the evening in Thompson, Manitoba when she heard an odd | | beeping sound. It was repeated at regular intervals about once a | | second, and she wondered what was causing it. She looked out her | | kitchen window, and saw dirt and loose pieces of paper flying in a | | large circle around her house. Outside, she found her husband, who | | had just come home, and five children staring up into the sky. A | | young boy was holding her eight-year-old daughter down on the ground. | | Up in the sky a box-shaped or rectangular object hung in the air, | | slowly rotating counter-clockwise and showing alternating silver | | metallic and black sides. It was black on its lower surface, and made | | no noise. The object began moving off at an angle, stopped and | | hovered, and then continued towards the southeast. Until this time | | the circle of dirt and dust had persisted, but it now died down. The | | whirlwind was confined to the area immediately around their house and | | did not affect any other houses on the street. When the object moved | | away, the dirt fell to the ground. Going to the children, the woman | | found they were calming down except her daughter, who seemed dazed. | | The boy explained that the five of them had been playing in the yard | | when the object first appeared overhead. As they watched, her | | daughter had been levitated into the air, and this levitation was | | apparently caused by the UFO in the sky. By the time the other | | children had come to her aid, she was about one meter off the ground | | and her clothes had edged up her body. Her daughter said she did not | | remember anything from the time she felt the wind until the time she | | recovered after being dragged back to the ground. (Sources: Gene | | Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, September 1967, p. 15; Joseph | | M. Brill, Skylook, January 1976, p. 15; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1967, citing Chris Rutkowski, Unnatural History, | | True Manitoba Mysteries). | | | | 1968 - At 1:15 a.m. Jose Paulino Nunez, a distillery worker, | | encountered two people on the beach in Lujan, Mendoza, Argentina that | | he first mistook to be guards. Their dress and actions were like | | normal people, but they showed him a spherical device some 30 cm in | | which he could see images of people walking about. Speaking in a | | strange, metallic voice, one of them asked him, "Do you know these | | people? They were like you. Many more will be like them. Many people | | in the world will see the same thing you have seen. We will talk | | about this again. If you speak of this, be sure it is with | | responsible people." At that point the witness experienced a lapse of | | memory, for the next thing he recalls was being back in the | | laboratory, where it took him an hour to compose himself. The people | | he saw in the images were all tall and human like, with pale | | complexions, and long, light colored hair, who appeared to be walking | | about in a trance. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-38, citing Richard Heiden, & | | Jader Pereira; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 110). | | | | 1972 - In the afternoon at 4:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object with a | | tailfin like an airplane hovered over Marcq-en-Baroeul, Nord | | department, France. Many black dot-like objects could be seen | | orbiting around the larger craft. There were two witnesses, and the | | sighting lasted two minutes. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March | | 1975). | | | | 1983 - At their home in the suburbs near Indianapolis, Indiana a | | mother, "Kathy Davis" and her daughter separately witnessed a large | | light appear over their pool house after 10:45 p.m. They then had two | | hours of missing time. Under hypnosis, both remembered that an | | egg-shaped object landed in the yard and burned the grass. An | | abduction by Grey aliens followed, involving a medical exam on board | | the craft. They were left with a mental warning not to remember the | | details of their abduction experience. The next day both felt | | nauseous. (Sources: Budd Hopkins, Intruders; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO | | Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 195, citing MUFON 1984 | | UFO Conference Proceedings, p. 168; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The | | Complete Sightings, p. 127; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. | | 79). | | | | 1990 - Three office workers in Wilmington, Delaware saw a four-sided | | pyramid (tetrahedron) at around 7:00 p.m. that was flat yellow in | | color with orange-red edges. It was slowly spinning and ascending, | | and made no sound. There was a black cylinder protruding from its | | base. They watched it for 20 minutes. (Source: Donald M. Ware, MUFON | | UFO Journal, April 1993, p. 17). | | | | 1990 - Thirty minutes earlier, at 11:30 p.m. in Maubeuge, Nord | | department, France a large black triangular object with lights in the | | three corners and the center, moved slowly and silently from north to | | south over the city. There were four witnesses. (Source: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue # 302). | | | | 1994 - At 11:00 p.m. a car-sized disc was seen in Champagnole, Jura | | department, France at only 100 feet altitude. It moved slowly and | | silently, and stopped in place for 5 minutes, then shot away. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 329). | | | | 1995 - At around three o'clock in the morning a security guard in the | | town of Chalons-sur-Marne, Marne department, France saw | | a crescent-shaped flying object, the apparent size of the Moon, that | | appeared to have portholes. He experienced radio | | communication interference during his UFO sighting. (Source: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue # 333). | | | | 2000 - At 10:30 p.m. in Paso Robles, California a formation of three | | small, satellite-like lights, performed figure-8 movements around one | | another in the night sky over Lake Nacimiento for three minutes. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | archived June 2000 webpage, report posted November 20, 2001). | | | | 2003 - At around 9:00 p.m. in New Brighton, Pennsylvania a black | | triangular-shaped object surrounded by silver spheres was | | sighted moving to the south toward Pittsburgh. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, archived June 2003 | | webpage). | | | | 2008 - A close encounter occurred between Cardiff and Atlantic City, | | New Jersey on the Atlantic City Expressway at 10:25 p.m. A 25-foot | | wide triangular craft was seen hovering or moving very slowly, just | | 40 feet directly above the expressway, very close to and in front of | | the witnesses. Its speed appeared to be quite slow, moving at an | | estimated ten miles per hour, and it passed directly over their | | vehicle as they drove under it. They saw it again, twice in the next | | five minutes. (Source:Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, archived June 2008 webpage, report posted July 5, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 15 June 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: black triangl | | e-shaped UFOs, communication, cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, fa | | iled abduction attempt, human looking aliens, landings, levitation, m | | issing time, multi-year reports from France, orange UFOs, radio inter | | ference, rectangular UFO, satellite objects surrounding larger craft. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+