+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 15 | | | | 1897 - This was the peak date in a wave of "airship" sightings around | | the United States and Canada. There were over fifty reports of | | "airships" on this day, including 18 in Michigan alone. There were | | six humanoid reports, two in Iowa and one each in Texas, Wisconsin, | | Illinois and Michigan. Two of these reports invovled communication | | with quite human-looking people. | | | | 1897 - A large object was seen in Linn Grove, Iowa in the morning hours of | | this day in 1897 flying slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to | | land and five men--F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe | | Croaskey, Benjamin Buland--drove toward it in a buckboard wagon. | | About seven kilometers north of Linn Grove they found the craft on | | the ground. They came within 700 meters of it but it "spread its four | | giant wings and rose towards the North". Two figures with | | shoulder-length hair were seen aboard the craft and made efforts to | | conceal themselves. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in | | flight. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 183, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 16, 1897). | | | | 1897 - Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft | | in a field near the city of Springfield, Illinois around midday. They | | had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were | | told the ship had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 minutes and | | that the crew was making electrical repairs. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying | | Saucer Review, January 1965). | | | | 1897 - At nightfall the same day a flying object followed a train traveling | | from Howard to Artesian, South Dakota in Miner County. It came closer | | and closer to the ground as it did, reported the engineer, Joe | | Wright. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966). | | | | 1897 - At around 9:00 p.m. a passenger train on the Wabash line heading | | toward Quincy, Illinois had just passed Perry Springs, Missouri when | | a low-flying object started following it. All the passengers saw the | | craft, which followed the train for fifteen minutes. It had one red | | and one white light. It flew ahead of the train and disappeared | | quickly, although the train was then moving at 65 mph. (Source: Chicago | | Times-Herald, April 15, 1897). | | | | 1897 - At 11:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped airship without wings and with yellow | | lights at the bow and stern flew to the north over Hudson, Michigan. | | It flew at an estimated altitude of 500 feet, and was clearly visible | | in the bright moonlight. (Source: Lucius Farish newspaper clipping | | files). | | | | 1930 - A farmer in Largentiere, France saw a bright orange glowing, | | cone-shaped object on the ground at 5:30 a.m. The object took off | | slowly and flew away. The grass was flattened where the object had | | been. (Source: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue | | of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 14, citing Dominique | | Weinstein). | | | | 1952 - At Frenchman Flat, Nevada at 9:30 a.m. four to six flying | | discs passed through the mushroom cloud created after an Atomic bomb | | test blast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2082). | | | | 1952 - That evening in Gardena, California a set of unidentified | | nocturnal lights flew silently to the north slowly, pulsating at | | regular intervals. The bright white light had a red glow preceeding | | it and one behind. When the white light went off the red glows seemed | | to merge to form a semi-elliptical red glow. It abruptly changed | | direction in a zigzag maneuver. (Source: Edward Sullivan, Civilian | | Saucer Intelligence-Los Angeles, letter dated April 26, 1952). | | | | 1958 - On or about this date in the mountains near Tabladitas, | | Argentina about 14 kilometers from Abra Pampa, a luminous object 30 | | meters in diameter came down to ground level. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 465). | | | | 1958 - A cigar shaped object with smaller satellite objects was | | sighted at 12:30 a.m. over Broager, Denmark. (Sources: UFO | | Nachtrichten, June 1958; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 78). | | | | 1959 - On this evening Ove Christensen was coming home after work on | | his bicycle along the road between Svendborg and Nyborg, Denmark when | | he was stopped by a disc-shaped object spinning at ground level. | | After five minutes it began chasing him, flying six meters above him | | for five minutes. The UFO was luminous and seemed to be made of a | | glasslike material. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 486; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1959). | | | | 1966 - While flying near Santa Catalina Island, California a | | professional Hollywood movie cameraman named Hansen shot a motion | | picture film of a disc-shaped object while shooting an action film | | from a helicopter. The television show NOVA claimed the film shows | | what probably was a light aircraft. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, December | | 1974, p. 1; Xenolog, September 1978, p. 11; CUFOS case files). | | | | 1967 - Two young boys sawa dark gray UFO hovering over the eastern | | coast of Denmark in the early afternoon. An elevator descended from | | the bottom, with eight occupants sliding down a thick cable. They | | wore masks and breathing apparatus boxes on their backs, and one of | | them wore a blue colored uniform. They waved at the witnesses. | | (Sources: Dennis Stamey, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 36; Charles | | Bowen, FSR, September-October 1967, p. 32, citing UFONYT). | | 1968 - A three-foot in diameter reddish orange disc was seen on the | | ground by several soldiers near a canal north of the Gobi Desert in | | Xinjiang province, China on this evening. It shot straight up as the | | soldiers approached. (Source: Wendelle C. Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs | | over Modern China, p. 49). | | | | 1969 - At 11:00 p.m. two people driving on the highway near | | Pichidangui, Chile in Coquimbo province were paralyzed and their | | truck engine died when they encountered a disc-shaped object ahead on | | the road. The object lit up the road and flew away, but came back two | | minutes later. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #118). | | | | 1970 - Kalle Tiihonen, age 39, a locally well known and respected | | retired athlete, had just come from the sauna and was drinking coffee | | in his kitchen in Kursu, Salla, Finland at around 5 p.m. when he and | | his family heard a sound resembling a swarm of bees. He then had the | | feeling that someone was staring at him from the doorway behind him. | | He turned around and saw a small creature about 1.2 meters in height, | | clad in a tight fitting shiny green suit and helmet. The creature had | | very dark, large eyes, with a human look. Tiihonen believed that the | | creature had not come in through the door since he would have heard | | some noise. For several moments they stared at each other, and then | | Tiihonen asked the creature where he was from. "From the space," was | | the answer. Tiihonen was unsure if he in fact heard the answer or if | | it was a mental message. In an effort to make conversation Tiihonen | | asked the alien if the Apollo 13 astronauts, then stranded in space, | | would get back home safely. "Yes they will", was the answer. Tiihonen | | spoke with the being of other subjects for some time, but could not | | recall later what they spoke about, other than the creature promised | | to return. It took a step backwards and disappeared in an instant. | | Tiihonen again heard the noise resembling a swarm of bees. Tiihonen's | | eight-year-old son was sitting in another room during the encounter | | and heard his father talking to someone, but the dividing wall kept | | him from seeing the humanoid. However, he did see a bright object | | land on the grass outside, and also saw it lift off. Tiihonen ran to | | the sauna where his wife was and told her about his encounter. After | | the incident, Tiihonen was unable to sleep for three nights in a row, | | and experienced a sort of malaise for over a week. (Sources: K. Gosta | | Rehn, UFOs Here and Now, p. 136; UFO Information Sweden, March 1971; | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9601; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Mervi Virtanen, Finland). | | | | 1970 - At 1:38 p.m. local time in Mar del Plata, Argentina a luminous | | disc-shaped object glowed as bright as the sun, yet vanished while | | still in view. A man by the name of Galan took a photograph of it | | before it disappeared. Richard Hall gives the photographer a high | | rating for reliability and the photograph a strong rating for | | genuineness. (Sources: CUFOS files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 15 & 287; Dwight | | Connelly, Skylook, November 1975, p. 10; Spacelink, April 1970). | | | | 1971 - Two forestry workers, Morel and Hay, were driving through the | | forest west of Taupo, New Zealand on a cloudy evening around 9 p.m. | | when they encountered a large cone-shaped object with rotating lights | | on its rim. It followed their car for over three minutes. (Source: | | APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 6; Data-Net Report, | | September 1971). | | | | 1972 - At 6:30 p.m. three women watched a large dark shiny | | disc-shaped object with two triangular windows on top and a rotating | | bottom. It approached their house in Driffield, Humberside, England | | to within 200 meters. It hovered there for a minute, then backed away | | very slowly. It curved away to the north-northwest, and then went | | behind some woods. The sighting lasted for over six minutes, and they | | were able to view the UFO through binoculars. (Source: BUFORA | | Journal, April 1973, p. 19). | | | | 1973 - During the late afternoon on the road between Manor and Penn, | | Pennsylvania twelve witnesses saw a disc-shaped object, between 35-60 | | feet in diameter, that came within 70 meters of a car, causing the | | car's headlights to dim. During the night of April 15-16 more than a | | dozen witnesses reported observations of UFOs in the area of Penn and | | Manor, Pennsylvania, near the larger town of Jeanette. Among these | | was the report of a single witness who was driving near the Manor, | | Pennsylvania Power plant at 10:55 p.m. when he observed a large | | glowing object over the nearby railroad tracks. It was just above the | | trees, and the light from the object illuminated the immediate area | | with an intense white color. The witness pulled over to the side of | | the road and got out for a better look. The object, no more than a | | hundred yards away, was about 400 yards west of the power plant and | | approximately 10 feet above the trees. The object itself was | | completely illuminated but apparently solid in construction and about | | three car lengths in size. It had a dome like structure on top, which | | was the same bright color as the rest of the object. Around the main | | section were 2 or 3 rows of multi-colored lights, or square windows. | | One was whitish, the next red, and the third a blue or green hue. | | From the left side of the UFO a line or cord extended some 30 yards, | | and at the end of the cord floated a human form some eight to ten | | feet tall, similar to the "Apollo astronauts walking in space". It | | was of a purple or orange color. The witness did not see the humanoid | | form retracted into the UFO; rather it disappeared like "a string of | | lights." The witness had left his lights on and engine running when | | he got out of his vehicle, and he noticed that the headlights had | | dimmed to the strength of a weak flashlight. When the object | | departed, the headlights came back on as bright as before. The object | | made a high-pitched sound "like a spinning top" when it departed. | | "You could hear the trees blowing" as it went over them. The | | encounter lasted three to four minutes. (Sources: (1) Irwin | | Standard-Observer, July 1973, p. 27; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56, citing the UFO Register, | | (volume 5, 1974), (2) Stan Gordon, Skylook, June 1973, p. 6; David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1973-08 (A1199), citing Stan Gordon; David F. Webb, 1973 - Year of | | the Humanoids, case 73-07). | | | | 1974 - At 8:15 p.m. a 20-year-old woman named Saudron, who was | | driving between Gipey and Cosne, Allier department, France, sighted a | | red glowing hemispherical object on the ground near some woods in the | | Foret de Dreuille. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: | | Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. | | 483). | | | | 1974 - Fifteen minutes after the UFO landing in France, all | | passengers aboard a ferry off the coast of Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain | | saw a round, intense torch-like light rise from the ocean at 8:30 | | p.m. It emerged out of ocean near a huge rock, traveled at a low | | altitude, then dropped into the water. It then rose from the ocean a | | second time, flew a good distance, then dove back into the water | | again. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 137; Richard Hall, UFO | | Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 188; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 346). | | | | 1975 - A science teacher and six others in San Jose, California | | viewed an orange glowing domed disc through binoculars as it | | approached them at 9:23 p.m. The object made a right angle turn | | toward the witnesses, then stopped over their street and front yard. | | It was estimated to be 90 feet in diameter, with a ten foot wide | | cabin structure. Although it made no sound, it emitted a white beam, | | an orange glow, and red sparks that dropped from underneath it. It | | oscillated, then shot straight up into space. (Sources: Slava Mach, | | MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 19, 154, & 162). | | | | 1981 - A huge metallic triangular object with several red lights on | | the sides and very bright white light on the leading edge flew over | | Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire at 7:35 p.m. It flew very low to the | | ground, and passed over a car flying off to the west. (Source: Philip | | J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 24). | | | | 1990 - A night security guard observed three humanoids while on | | patrol in Miami, Florida at 4:30 a.m. He described the beings as | | seven-foot tall aliens with cat eyes, who he watched walk across a | | parking lot. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO | | Reports, 1988-94, case 995, citing UFO Bureau). | | | | 1992 - A bright blue, domed disc-shaped UFO emerged out of the clouds | | and approached a 20-year-old witness in his yard in Aloha, Washington | | at 10:55 p.m. It stopped briefly, changed color from bright blue to | | bright red, then accelerated rapidly away toward the west. (Source: | | Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1992, p. 19, citing MUFON | | field investigator J. Kirby, case file 921504W). | | | | 1994 - Three 12-year-old boys including Diego Percebal were walking | | near an old crumbled shrine to the Virgen De Ciguela in Torralba de | | Ribota, Zaragoza, Spain at around 8:00 p.m. when they saw a | | strange-looking dwarfish figure moving close to the building. The | | figure was dark in color, about 1.30 meters in height, and somewhat | | deformed with a huge oval-shaped cranium and a dark featureless face. | | It moved on two short, thick legs. The dwarf was heavy set and wore a | | shiny black suit, and was seen to enter the abandoned shrine. The | | boys saw the strange humanoid hide behind some debris and broken | | boards. Terrified, the boys ran to get adult witnesses, several of | | whom responded and went inside the shrine to investigate. The adult | | witnesses saw the strange figure moving behind a partially collapsed | | brick-wall and ran from the area. There were other encounters with | | the humanoid later in the same area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1994, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La | | Historia de Los OVNI en Espana). | | | | 1996 - Two police officers were conducting their nightly rounds late | | at night driving on the outskirts of Gerona, Spain when a powerful | | light crossed in front of them on the highway. One man felt | | mesmerized by the brilliant outburst of light, while his partner | | tried to keep hold of the patrol car's steering wheel. When the light | | extinguished the mesmerized officer told his companion that he felt a | | very odd sensation of being pulled upward at the same time that he | | saw two pairs of moist, black oval shaped eyes staring down at him | | from large, pear-shaped heads. The police officer had not even been | | able to comprehend the uncanny experience when the bizarre light | | staged a return. According to the officers, nine lights identical to | | the first appeared out of nowhere, and were then joined by three more | | that came from across the Portuguese border. The twelve lights were | | elongated and had an intense yellow glow. The lights remained | | suspended some 100 feet above the highway, prompting the police | | officers to flee the scene in terror. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2674, citing Scott Corrales, | | Uncensored UFO Reports # 1). | | | | 1997 - A woman reported seeing red and white lights flashing outside | | her home in Bridgeton, New Jersey late at night. She next remembered | | seeing a hundred white lights moving in unison like a swarm of bees, | | each carrying its own light in formation. She then experienced three | | hours of missing time. She can recall seeing a man inside a plastic | | looking column filled with liquid, with blue electricity flowing | | through it. She woke up violently ill, and with a scar on her face. | | While this was occurring her next door neighbor also woke up with | | facial burns, but he had no recollection of anything unusual | | happening. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1997, case # 3131, citing New Jersey MUFON). | | | | 1999 - At 2:30 a.m. a man in Mexico City, Mexico woke up in a sweat, | | feeling dehydrated. He got up and drank a glass of water, and felt | | the need to open the window curtains. When he did so he saw a bright | | spherical object that was circling overhead. He took out his video | | camera and began to tape the object. The UFO began making symmetrical | | maneuvers, drawing lines and numbers in the sky. The witness felt | | mental communication then the video camera shut down. After about 10 | | minutes of circling around the object left. The witness felt what he | | described as a strange electrical sensation in his left lung soon | | afterwards. Upon viewing the videotape he reportedly saw three | | humanoid figures, including a female figure. Whereabouts of the film | | is unknown. (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, April 1999 archived webpage; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1999, case # 3627, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2004 - A woman awoke at around 6:00 a.m. and walked to her screened | | bedroom window in Orlando, Florida.  She saw a small, oval, slightly | | glowing object hovering just above the ground, low outside the | | window.  The object was about 12 inches in diameter or less. A cat | | noticed the object and attempted to stalk it, whereupon it made a | | quick zig-zag maneuver and suddenly streaked away in a nearly | | instantaneous acceleration. (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2004 webpage archive; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 18198, citing NUFORC). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 March 2007). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: disc-shaped UFOs | | , domed discs, human-appearing occupants, landings, low-flying UFOs p | | acing trains, low-level pursuit of witness by UFO, multi-year reports | | from Denmark and Spain, shiny uniforms, short humanoids, tall humano | | ids, UFO approached witnesses; vehicle EM effects: headlights dimmed. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+