+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 8 | | | | 1897 - A dark bulk with a narrow, rectangular shape and illuminated | | windows flew over a dairy farm in the western part of Iowa after | | midnight. It was 30 to 35 feet long and 6 or 7 feet wide. Over the | | rectagular shaped was a cigar-shaped bag, about the same length but | | 10 feet thicker in width. The two horses of a carriage being driven | | by a dairy farmer spooked at the sight of the craft and bolted, | | throwing the man into a ditch. The object rose vertically on its | | departure. (Source: Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 5). | | | | 1950 - At 2:00 a.m. Mr. Earl Baker, a metal worker in Kokomo, Indiana | | was awakened by his dog and observed an object outside his bedroom | | window only 60 meters away hovering at a low altitude. It was a gray | | metallic disc, five meters in diameter and 15-feet thick. It was | | shaped like a top with a kind of "conning tower" turret on top. It | | had three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It was | | oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a | | blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 minutes and then left toward | | the north at high speed. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case #706; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The | | Coming of the Saucers, p. 166; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1950 - Later that day shortly before noon near Amarillo, Texas, David | | Lightfoot, age 12, and his brother Charles saw a disc land behind a | | hill. They were able to walk up to it and touch it. It was the size | | of a car tire, about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that rotated. It | | had a pivot between the base and the top. It took off very fast. The | | faces and arms of the boys later became red with welts. (Sources: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 194). | | | | 1950 - On the same day two disc-shaped objects buzzed a house in San | | Francisco, California. They stopped in mid-flight, then went up and | | around like playing a game of tag. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1950: April-July, p. 13). | | | | 1952 - A CBS-TV staff engineer named Smith saw a copper red disc with | | sharply defined edges fly "unbelievably fast" between Pear Blossom | | and Big Pine, California. It made no sound as it flew and left no | | contrail. (Source: Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los | | Angeles files, letter dated April 9, 1952). | | | | 1953 - At 7:55 p.m. Lt. D. J. Pichon, pilot of a USAF F-94B jet | | interceptor, watched a bright blue light descend, accelerate, and | | then fly parallel to his F-94 over Fukuoka, Japan. The object | | increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds. (Source: Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - In Chicago, Illinois Lelah Stoker sighted a white, domed disc | | with a humanoid suspended beneath it over Lake Michigan at 4:30 p.m. | | It skimmed above the surface of the lake in all directions. She | | called in another tenant of the building, Mr. Boruszak, who also saw | | the object. She called the Coast Guard to report it. The object | | diminished in size till it was no bigger than a piece of newspaper, | | as it descended and landed. The human figure, now on the ground, was | | short and wore a tight-fitting, green, one-piece suit that covered | | even the head. He walked up and down the lakefront until the Coast | | Guard search boat had passed. Then the UFO enlarged and rose up | | again; the suspended "pilot" entered it, and it took off very, very | | fast with no sound. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. (Sources: Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-06; citing | | Project Blue Book). | | | | 1956 - At 11:45 p.m. near Exauroux, France two brothers, ages 18 and | | 20, saw a red ball of light come down to their left and hover at tree | | height. It then left at fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses | | reported it independently. The object was a disc about 7.5 meters in | | diameter, with a red dome, and rotating fins under it. It emitted a | | yellow-orange glow. It moved away extremely quickly. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 253 (case | | 380)). | | | | 1966 - At 11:40 p.m. at Daniels Park near Denver, Colorado six | | teenagers heard footsteps on the roof of a park shelter where they | | were sitting and talking. They next saw a big humanoid figure pass in | | front of a landed light in a nearby field. Four domed football shaped | | objects maneuvered around in the sky, making a pulsating sound. When | | they tried to flee the area in their car the car's engine wouldn't | | start. (Source: Timothy Green Beckley, Flying Saucers, March 1967, p. | | 24). | | | | 1967 - Four college students saw a greenish fluorescent glow on the | | ground 180 feet away from their car while driving in the morning | | eight miles outside of Banner Elk, North Carolina. Their radio | | experienced interference and their car's engine quit. The glow came | | from an object, apparently on the ground, which flew up and passed | | nearby and then flew away. Three imprints in the shape of an | | equilateral triangle were found in the ground. (Sources: Ted | | Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 269; | | Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 33; | | George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 6). | | | | 1968 - At a hospital in Magill, South Australia the hospital staff | | saw a circular craft in the sky that was flashing red, white, and | | green lights. The hospital's ship-to-shore radio was effected during | | the sighting. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern | | Hemisphere, p. 181). | | | | 1972 - In Talavera la Real, Badajoz, Spain at 12:30 a.m. four people | | watched an orange ball of light in a 1.5 meter column of white smoke. | | A Ferris wheel of fireworks rose up, then flew off fast towards the | | northwest. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 | | Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 154). | | | | 1977 - A domed disc-shaped object flew around two witnesses in Cedar | | Springs, Michigan at two o'clock in the morning, hovering and | | flashing over some nearby trees. Ring ground marks were found on the | | ground. (Source: CUFOS files, report dated April 10, 1977). | | | | 1978 - A low flying oval-shaped object with an estimated diameter of | | 3.5 meters hovered over a garage at around 6:00 a.m. for 15-20 | | seconds in Saint-Laurent, France at a distance of 500 meters from the | | witness and an altitude of 50 meters. (Source: Pierre Delval, | | Ouranos, issue number 24 (1978), p. 31). | | | | 1981 - The complete failure of an aircraft's electronics, including | | the transponder, DME, navigation equipment, and two-way radios, | | occurred when a bullet-shaped UFO passed within 500 feet of an | | airplane being flown by Mr. Dennis, a flight instructor, while flying | | over San Luis Reservoir, Merced County, California at 3:00 a.m. The | | electronics recovered after the UFO had gone. The object was | | described as 35-50 in length, with a pulsating orange front end, and | | having a blue ring perpendicular to the craft. The object was said to | | be whirling, and made an instantaneous 90 degree turn. (Sources: | | J.Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 6; UNICAT | | database, citing Tom Page, case 34; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO | | Encounters, p. 43). | | | | 1982 - An 80-foot wide boomerang shaped object, with a convex curved | | rear end, paced a car being driven by two teenagers west of Escanaba, | | Michigan at 11:45 p.m. The UFO followed as close as 30 feet altitude, | | and the two girls feared capture. (Source: Fred Merritt, | | International UFO Reporter, September 1982, p. 4). | | | | 1993 - Prison guards and police in Lebanon, Ohio sighted a nocturnal | | flying object with small lights around it at 2:20 a.m. There were | | four calls to the Ohio Highway Patrol of UFO sightings at around 2:30 | | a.m. as well. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1993). | | | | 1993 - A cloud of dust was seen in the desert near Interstate 15 in | | Sloan, Nevada by police at 10:40 a.m. Then a huge silver disc rose | | from the ground and flew off. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 16021). | | | | 1994 - On an overcast dawn at 6:10 a.m. a saucer-shaped object rose | | from the ground of a farm in Melbourne, Florida, then temporarily | | hovered at 30-50 feet before flying off. It had twelve white lights | | and six red lights on it, which had the appearance of headlights, | | except that these soft lights did not cast beams. There was one red | | light between every white light. The object was five times larger | | than a car. Its distance from the two witnesses, a man and a woman in | | their seventies, was estimated to be 1200 feet. the UFO made no | | sound. (Source: Melvin H. Tennis, MUFON field investigation database, | | case 950403E). | | | | 1994 - A silent, dull metallic saucer-shaped UFO with diamond-shaped | | windows and big red lights crossed Route 20 in Quiet Dell, West | | Virginia at 11:40 p.m. Cheryl, the witness, said her car made a | | screeching sound while the engine faltered, the lights dimmed, and | | the car's digital clock had its setting erased. (Source: Bob Teets, | | West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 160). | | | | 1996 - A 39-year-old man in Thomasville, North Carolina had a close | | encounter with a disc-shaped object on a partly cloudy night at 9:15 | | p.m. The object had a bluish-green, cone-shaped beam projecting from | | it. The beam was narrow at the top, but had a three foot diameter at | | the bottom towards the ground, although it did not seem to be | | illuminating the ground. The bottom of the disc had an inner circle | | of many red lights. Inside were four rocket-like cones, giving off a | | red glow. The UFO came within 10 feet of the witness. The UFO made no | | sound. (Source: Robert Hair, MUFON field investigation database, case | | 970408E). | | | | 1996 - At 9:30 p.m. local time a high altitude UFO zigzagged through | | the sky at very high speeds over Americana, Brazil. (Source: Boletim | | CEPEX, issue number 27). | | | | 1999 - A brilliant sphere some three meters in diameter flew over | | Hartford, Connecticut at 5:30 a.m. It had glowing lights that | | illuminated the low clouds overhead, as it flew at a low altitude, | | hugging the terrain as it went. (Source: George Filer, Filer's Files | | Internet news list, volume 9, number 15). | | | | 2000 - A yellowish orange cigar shaped UFO approached Gandhi | | International Airport in New Delhi, India at 11:55 p.m. It flew at a | | high altitude, halted over a cargo terminal, hovered, descended, | | wobbled, then vanished. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. | | 25). | | | | 2004 - There were multiple reports from Rochester, Indiana on this | | night to the National UFO Reporting Center. One report was of a very | | large disc-shaped object with six lights that went on and off in 20 | | second intervals. The other report was of an independent sighting of | | yellowish orange lights in the southern sky. The object in question | | may have been around 200 feet in width. At about the same time, at | | 10:00 p.m. in Leiters Ford, Indiana another report came in of a UFO | | with yellowish beams of light. The beams were peculiar because the | | never seemed to touch the ground. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Washington, April 2004 webpage | | archive). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 April 2006). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO encounte | | rs, blue lights, car pursuits, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, EM vehi | | cle ignition interference, ground marks: triangular imprints, landing | | s or near landings, metallic UFOs, multi-year reports from Indiana an | | d Michigan, nautical UFOs, UFOnauts in green uniforms, physiological | | effects: "sunburn", radio interference, red spheres, top-shaped UFOs. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+