+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 12 | | | | 1909 -  A cigar-shaped airship with a searchlight was seen flying | | over Terrington Marsh, Norfolk, England at 9:45 p.m. It made a | | rattling motor sound and flew off to the north. It was back again at | | 10:30 p.m.  (Source:  Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, | | p. 10). | | | | 1948 - A private pilot flying over Westfield, Indiana reporting | | seeing a small "Graf-Zeppelin" that zoomed away at jet speed. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case # 129; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10). | | | | 1952 - A restricted military document shows that a UFO was sighted at | | 2145 hours UST 40 miles west of Roswell, New Mexico. The object was | | blue-green in color and its estimated altitude was 30,000-40,000 | | feet. The object traveled three times over approximately the same | | triangular course. The rate of speed could not be estimated | | precisely, but was faster than a jet aircraft. The intensity of its | | color brightness varied with the object's altitude (Source: Fran | | Ridge, http://www.nicap.org/waves/1952fullrep.htm, citing AF Form | | 112).  | | | | 1954 - In 1954 a UFO shaped like a red dinner plate hung in the sky on edge | | for 15 minutes over Dayton, Ohio at around 7 p.m. It tipped, changed | | shaped, and then sped off. (Source: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO | | Newsletter, June 1954, p. 2). | | | | 1956 - At 3:30 a.m. in Lakewood, Los Angeles County, California | | several witnesses had a close encounter with a silent, brilliant | | saucer-shaped object with wires around its edge. It made four turns, | | then shot away extremely fast. There were at least two independent | | witnesses, and there were physiological effects reported. (Source: | | Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A | | History. 1956: May-July, p. 26). | | | | 1962 - At 4:10 a.m. V. and G. Tomasini and H. Zenobi, while driving | | on Route 35 at Kilometer 72 near La Pampa, La Pampa province, | | Argentina saw a rectangular object shaped like an illuminated | | railroad boxcar. As they came close to it, the object took off, | | crossed the road at low altitude, rose with a flame, and separated | | into two sections that flew away in different directions. It made a | | humming sound and was seen on the ground for one minute. The grass on | | the ground was burnt in a 60m radius circle at the landing site, | | insects were carbonized, and the ground was "petrified." Sample | | analysis was done by the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. At 4:30 p.m. | | another close encounter occurred northwest of Bahia Blanca, Buenos | | Aires province, Argentina that involved several witnesses and | | reportedly had lasting physiological effects. (Sources: La Nacion, | | May 24, 1962 Oscar A. Uriondo; FSR Case Histories, December 1973, | | p. 17;  NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1962, p. 7; APRO Bulletin, | | July 1963, p. 2, 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 533). | | | | 1967 - At 11:10 p.m. a glowing yellow elliptical object with three | | round spots on the underside passed below the clouds and was observed | | through binoculars in Putney, England. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, | | September-October 1967, p. 31). | | | | 1967 - Miss N. Parshall, a sixteen-year-old girl in California, | | reported sighting a cigar-shaped object with a dull aluminum | | finish"shoot around in sky" at around four o'clock in the afternoon. | | It came to within 60 feet of the aircraft and then veered away. It | | seemed ready to ram the plane from behind, but instead shot away very | | fast. The sighting lasted an estimated 90 seconds. (Sources: NICAP | | case files, report dated July 26, 1967; Condon University of Colorado | | UFO Study, case N1378). | | | | 1967 - At 8:00 p.m. a silver ellipse-shaped UFO rapidly approached | | two people driving in a vehicle, five miles south of Neola, Utah. It | | slowed its speed and descended level with the road. It then tilted | | and flew over the crest of a nearby hill and was gone from sight. | | (Sources: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 69 and appendix | | case A48; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year | | Report, p. 339). | | | | 1967 - That same night a disc-shaped object swooped down to just 25 | | feet above the ground in Galion, Ohio. It projected a circle of light | | down around a paperboy with the last name Prim, who found himself | | unable to move and with a gap in his memory of what happened next. | | (Sources: Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook, p. 46). | | | | 1969 - At 9:45 p.m. a brilliant circular object hovered at a low | | altitude near some railroad tracks in Casino, New South Wales, | | Australia. A married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hinitt, watched beams of | | light pulse upwards from the ground toward the UFO. Burnt patches of | | vegetation were found at the sight in a heavy rainstorm. (Sources: | | Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 64; | | ACOS Bulletin, March 1977, p. 12 and June 1977, p. 20). | | | | 1969 - At 9:30 p.m. CDT a helmet-shaped disc estimated to be 15 | | meters in diameter was seen widely over the Lake Zurich suburbs in | | Illinois. It was reportedly seen over a two hour period. It made a | | buzzing sound, and dogs reacted to its presence by barking. (Sources: | | Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1969; FSR, September-October 1971, p. 27). | | | | 1971 - At 10:30 p.m. a 25 foot long ovoid UFO was seen near a house | | in Elizabeth, New Jersey for two minutes. It made no sound. It made a | | weaving motion through the sky as it flew away. (Source: Larry Hatch, | | U computer database, case 9276). | | | | 1973 - A UFO gyrated in the sky over the harbor of Lourenco Marques, | | Mozambique for more than an hour in the pre-dawn hours. (Source: Rand | | (South Africa) Daily Mail, May 15, 1973). | | | | 1973 - At 9:20 p.m. a man driving west on Route 76, near Kent, Ohio | | observed a group of flashing lights overhead almost directly above | | his car. They moved with him until he stopped out of curiosity, and | | so did the lights. Looking up through the windshield he could see a | | football shaped object that flashed from red to blue to white in a | | repeating cycle. He then saw a human figure materialize 10 feet below | | the object. The figure was clad all in silver, and descended rapidly | | to the roadway directly in front of the car. When it reached the | | pavement the figure stood looking to the right, then to look directly | | at the witness. After a half a minute the figure ascended rapidly, | | "like a helium balloon," towards the object. It vanished before | | reaching it. | | | | The figure was entirely silver in color and seemed to lack hair and | | ears. A narrow mouth with a small pointed chin were also observed. He | | was uncertain whether the silvery body was a close fitting garment or | | the actual skin color, because he saw what appeared to be the faint | | outline of a vein running down the inside of one of the arms. The | | feet were clad with boots or shoes, with a heavy, distinct line | | between the sole and the boot itself. The height of the figure was | | not much more than 2.5 feet. When it descended it was approximately | | ten feet in front of the car. The UFO shot up in a rapid vertical | | ascent, rocking the car "as if a semi was passing." (Source: David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1973-010, citing Larry Moyers and Marc Candusso). | | | | 1974 - A UFO covered with over 30 orange and white lights that were | | each as bright as a welder's torch flew over Maxton, North Carolina. | | It hovered over a mobile home park shortly after midnight. It was | | pursued by two men, a police officer and a farmer, in their cars. The | | UFO made a remote landing but no traces were found on the ground. | | (Source: George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31) | | | | 1975 - At 4:10 p.m. a solid looking flying object, trailing exhaust, | | flew northeast through the sky over Howrah, Tasmania. The UFO changed | | shape and then made a ninety-degree turn. It then executed a 180 | | degree turn, and then swooped down and away. A movie film was made of | | the UFO. (Source: Richard Hall, Skylook, December 1975, p. 15). | | | | 1975 - That same night at 11:30 p.m. a green light was seen hovering | | over an area two miles east of Peesane, Saskatchewan for 12 minutes. | | It then flew away to the east. A perfect circle was found in the | | grass at the site, two days later. (Source: Ted R. Phillips, Skylook, | | December 1975, p. 16). | | | | 1979 - At 1:30 p.m. three observers in Atwater, Los Angeles County, | | California watched a 3' x 7' disc hovering over power line poles. It | | made a humming sound that seemed to attract birds that followed it as | | it flew away. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 13697, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue 119). | | | | 1980 - A brilliant blue disc hovered at a low altitude for ten | | minutes over Bulawayo, Zimbabwe at six p.m. It shot straight up, | | stopped, then shot up again and was gone. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO | | Afri News, July 1990). | | | | 1981 - A man and a woman, a truck driver and a cashier, were driving | | near Clatskanie, Oregon at around five o'clock in the morning. A | | large delta-shaped UFO surrounded by a turbulent fog or mist "like | | smoke from a chimney" followed their truck for 15 miles. It had a | | white light and two orange lights. As it directed a beam of light at | | their vehicle the truck lost power, and they smelled an odor like | | antifreeze. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p. 15). | | | | 1982 - A large, disc-shaped UFO was seen by the roadside in Turis, | | Spain. It perimeter was revolving and it appeared to be searching the | | area with beams of light. It rose up and flew away. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case 13877, citing APRO Bulletin). | | | | 1989 - A huge disc-shaped UFO was seen in Hubei Province, China. It | | illuminated the surrounding landscape a red color, and hung silently | | low in the sky for 20 minutes. It then rose to an estimated 100 | | meters and shot off. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. | | 128). | | | | 1991 - Two students in Kuala Tarengganu, Malaysia reported seeing | | several tiny humanoid figures wearing red clothing standing near a | | drain in a school compound in the middle of the afternoon. Teachers | | searched the area but failed to find anything. The next day several | | six-inch tall beings were seen again in the same area. (Sources: | | Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies internet website; | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case #1492, citing | | Nexus New Times, Vol. 2 # 4). | | | | 1991 - Three elongated silver UFOs appeared in the daylight sky | | during a UFO conference being held in Huejutla, Mexico. At 7:00 p.m. | | a fiery ball of light levitated a man off the ground twice north of | | Camp Redondo, Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. He felt | | heat and cold and suffered an eye injury. (Sources: Lucius Farish, | | UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone, | | p. 2). | | | | 1992 - A boy in Connersville, Indiana reported being paralyzed in his | | bed in the early morning hours by a strange looking, elderly humanoid | | visitor. The boy had apparently reported UFO abduction experiences on | | several occasions. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1992, case 1970; Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, | | January 1995, citing Don Worley). | | | | 1993 - Several witnesses from San Marcos, Tula, Mexico including | | Maria de Lourdes Uribe, age 34, heard bizarre noises and saw | | mysterious lights coming from a nearby field at around one o'clock in | | the morning. A local youth approached the field and saw a huge | | glowing object hovering low over the ground. Five humanoid figures | | descended from the object and stood around it as if standing guard. | | They soon went back inside. Large circular ground traces and what | | appeared to be dug out trenches were found at the site. A dog | | belonging to one of the witnesses reportedly went missing soon after | | the incident. Several days before this incident a huge dark object | | that nearly covered the moon's disc was seen hovering over the area, | | and two days before an engineer saw a huge object suspended just | | above a roadway near the town of Tepeji, Mexico. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Luis Ruiz Noguez, | | Oscar Garcia, Hector Escobar & Hector Chavarria). | | | | 1995 - At 10:50 p.m. a young woman in Duarte, Los Angles County, | | California reported observing a triangular ship suspended in the | | southeastern sky for three minutes. There were three smaller lights | | below larger object. All four of the objects flew off together. | | (Source:National UFO Reporting Center, May 1995 webpage; Larry Hatch, | | U computer database, case # 17232). | | | | 1997 - At 4:15 p.m. a saucer-shaped object flew overhead in Ginkunai, | | Lithuania. It passed within 10 meters of five observers, | | making rhythmic pulses and flashes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 17928, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, | | number 24). | | | | 1998 - At 9:00 p.m. a husband and wife in Chebanse, Illinois each | | observed flying discs. (Source: Jay Rath, The I Files: True Reports | | of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 56, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2001 - At 7:30 p.m. a long, silver, shiny cylindrical object without | | wings was sighted at 45 degrees elevation in Cleveland, Ohio. It was | | moving horizontally just above the power lines. It left no vapor | | trail, and moved much faster than the Goodyear Blimp, which is often | | seen in the area. (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, | | Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 119). | | | | 2002 - A security guard atop a parking garage in Orlando, Florida saw | | three dark triangular craft approach in formation from the north. The | | UFOs began to move in lazy turns, banking and doubling back. Each | | craft had six white lights on the front and a blunt rear section. | | (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 18). | | | | 2002 - At 9:30 p.m. a large, soundless, glowing orange dumbbell | | shaped thing, that looked like two halves hooked together with a | | metallic cylinder, was observed in Clarkston, rural Asotin County, | | Washington. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | May 2002 webpage, report uploaded April 27, 2007). | | | | 2004 - A man and a woman were walking their dog at around 11:00 p.m. | | in Sequin, Texas when they spotted a huge, disc-shaped craft coming | | down from the sky. The woman became agitated and began yelling that | | there was a loud ringing in her head and she believeed she could hear | | voices trying to talk to her. The dog also became disturbed and ran | | off. Two more discs appeared in the sky, and the man began to cry. | |  He later described the UFOs as charcoal gray in color, and ringed | | with black lights. All three of the craft appeared to have strange | | writing or symbols on their hulls, which the witnesses thought | | resembled ancient writing. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database, citing National UFO Reporting Center, May 2004 | | webpage). | | | | 2010 - At 1:24 a.m. in Bedlington, Northumberland, England a 40-foot | | across black boomerang shaped object with five green lights | | underneath flew overhead at approximately 50 feet. It was a very | | close and terrifying encounter, according to the witness. (Source: | | National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded May | | 12, 2010). | | | | 2010 - During the middle of the day a bright, star-like object was | | observed roaming back and forth over the Livermore, California hills | | at 12:00 hours. Peter Davenport believes the witness is a highly | | credible, good observer. (Source: National UFO Reporting Center, May | | 2010 webpage, report uploaded May 12, 2010) | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 12 May 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO encounters; animal reactions: dogs barking | | or running away, dogs missing; bedroom visitation; car pursuits; cig | | ar-shaped UFOs; disc-shaped UFOs; domed disc; ground traces; humanoid | | s; landings; maneuvering UFOs; missing time; multi-year reports from | | Ohio and Los Angeles County, California; red UFOs; short silver human | | oid; tiny humanoids dressed in red; triangular UFOs; vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+