+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 17 | | | | 1897 - At least a dozen farmers in Williamston, Michigan saw an | | object maneuver in the morning sky for an hour before it landed. A | | strange man nearly 3 meters (10 feet) tall, almost naked and | | suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while | | musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings". One farmer went | | near him and received a blow that broke his hip. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184, citing | | Lansing State Republican, April 18, 1897). | | | | 1950 - Three flat, metallic flying objects were sighted east of the | | Los Alamos AEC nuclear facility in New Mexico by 15 University of | | California scientists at 1:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 20 minutes | | and the UFO was viewed through a telescope. They estimated the size | | of the objects as approximately nine feet in diameter, and they flew | | faster than conventional aircraft. (Sources: Loren Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1950: April-July, FSR, volume 25, number 2). | | | | 1950 - At 8:15 p.m. EDT two teenagers were driving in a car in | | Springfield, Massachusetts when their vehicle was bussed by two | | glowing saucers. The objects then hopped about in the sky, ascend | | very fast and are gone from sight in about a minute. (Source: Loren | | Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 26). | | | | 1952 - At 3:15 p.m. two military weather observers from the 9575 TSU | | at the Yuma Test Station in Yuma, Arizona watched a circular, | | flat-white craft with a short trail shoot across the sky from zenith | | to the horizon in 7 seconds (traveling at 13 degrees a second). It | | traveled so fast it could not be tracked with a theodolite. There was | | a similar sighting at the same place the next day. (Sources: UNICAT, | | case 813, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. | | 47; NICAP UFO Investigator, volume 3, number 8). | | | | 1952 - Two engineers watched several silent noctunal lights make | | erratic maneuvers and ninety-degree turns in the sky over Longmeadow, | | Massachusetts at 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 400 minutes. | | (Source: Loren Gross, UFOs a History, 1952: January-May, p. 48). | | | | 1952 - Thirty minutes later two men in Westmont, Illinois, Mr. Harvey | | and Mr. Hall, tracked an object traveling at a high rate of speed | | from the east to the north, vanishing just under the Ursa Minor | | constellation. No tail or exhaust were visible, nor were any signs of | | propulsion visible. They watched the object through a pair of | | binoculars. (Source: Edward Sullivan, CSI--Los Angeles letter files, | | April 17, 1952). | | | | 1958 - Three hovering discs were observed all night long in Boa del | | Tigre, Argentina by several witnesses in the area. Mr. Cavalheiro, a | | railroad employee, and his station chief, J. Machado, wired the | | Tupancireta police and all saw the UFOs come to ground level about | | one kilometer away. At times the discs appeared to exchange signals. | | One of the them flew over the station itself, leaving a luminous | | trail and considerable heat. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 466). | | | | 1964 - At 7:22 a.m. local time, Airman Edward Lowe, a radar operator | | at the Fallon Air Force Station, Nevada picked up on his ground radar | | unit two blips flying in stacked formation making rapid changes in | | altitude. They were first detected at 122 degrees, 60,000 feet, and | | at a range of 145 miles. Their motion was up and down. The length of | | the observation was 1 hour and 21 minutes, at which point the blips | | disappeared to the southeast. The official Air Force explanation was | | a mirage. (Source: Dan Wilson, www.nicap.org; Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics; J. Allen Hynek case files). | | | | 1966 - Beginning at around 5:00 a.m., Portage County Deputy | | Sheriffs Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff and two other officers chased a | | 40-foot diameter glowing disc or football shaped object from Ravenna, | | Ohio to Atwater, Pennsylvania in the pre-dawn hours of this morning. | | It rose up out of the woods and stopped overhead. The UFO played | | cat-and-mouse with them in the pursuit: approaching, waiting for them | | to catch up, then moving away. It beamed an intense light onto the | | road. They chased it for 90 minutes. It was last seen shooting | | straight up into the sky and out of sight. At about the same time and | | in roughly the same vicinity, a man named George Buchert took a | | photograph of a double-saucer shaped object in Mantua, Ohio. Dale | | Spaur's psychological condition and professional career deteriorated | | in the months following his close encounter. This famous case was the | | basis for the dramatic UFO chase in Steven Spielberg's movie Close | | Encounters of the Third Kind. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, UNICAT, case | | # 383; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 100; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 44, 172 & 320; | | NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1966, p. 1; Columbus Dispatch, | | April 19, 1966; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 56). | | | | Ravenna, Ohio Police Pursuit - 1966 | | | | [] | | | | 1966 - At 7:15 p.m. in Danvers, Massachusetts three witnesses watched | | an elongated oval-shaped object with rotating white lights. It was | | estimated to be the same size as a passenger train car. It circled | | slowly in the sky before entering a localized cloud. At 7:30 p.m. in | | nearby Peabody, Massachusetts four witnesses reported seeing a bright | | red glowing object flying in circular and zigzag patterns. It | | suddenly darted away at an incredible speed, faster than any | | aircraft. In Wakefield, Massachusetts at 8:30 p.m. a multicolored | | disc-shaped object shot off beams of white, then blue, and | | finally red light. It moved rapidly up-and-down and made a humming | | sound. It descended to just 50 feet above Lake Quanapowitt. (Source: | | Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp.  337-338). | | | | Danvers, M | | assachusetts Circling UFO with Rotating White Lights - April 17, 1966 | | | | [Sketch of Danvers, MA UFO - April 17, 1967] | | | | 1967 - At 2:20 a.m. military witness Robert Harkinson in Vo Tanh, | | near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam saw five lluminated white | | ovals that passed behind small scattered clouds. The formation | | fluctuated slightly, and then moved at five times the speed of a jet. | | Five minutes later, several jets at high altitude were seen pursuing | | the same course as the UFOs. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO | | Experience, p. 252; UNICAT, case # 371; Richard F. Haines, Project | | Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 88). | | | | 1967 - At 2:15 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Moseley of Worthing, West Sussex, | | England heard a loud humming noise, then saw a glowing oval like an | | "upturned saucer" (domed disc) that flew across the sky and behind a | | hill. Later, the sound was heard again and the UFO was again seen, | | moving sideways. (Sources: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, | | July-August 1967, p. 30; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: | | A Thirty Year Report, p. 336). | | | | 1967 - A huge elliptical object with portholes was seen at 8:45 p.m. | | in New Haven, West Virginia. It had two light beams that were | | directed downward. Dogs howled and barked and a pony reacted to the | | beams of light, and there was also severe TV interference. There were | | five independent reports of the close encounter, which lasted several | | minutes.  (Sources:NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1967, p. 6; MUFON | | UFO Journal, April 1992, p. 18; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close | | Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p.  33; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 199, 280, 336). | | | | 1967 - At 9:00 p.m. over Jefferson City, Missouri an Ozark Airlines | | airliner coming in for a landing had a dramatic encounter with a | | domed disc that was shaped like a World War I helmet, and was over | | 300 feet in diameter. Captain Metz exclaimed, "below me, it's huge!" | | It gave off an intense, bluish-white, cold light from the underside | | of the object. It was accompanied by two small objects the size of a | | DC-3 aircraft, that dropped down and made very fast maneuvers in | | various directions. The objects shot off to the north and also to the | | east. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 96; Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 175; Robert | | Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1992, p. 18; UNICAT, case # 380; | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 118). | | | | 1968 - At 7:45 p.m. EDT a dull silver-gray, domed disc-shaped | | object hovered just over the road near the US Air Force radio | | telescope installation at Sagamore Hill, Highway 1A, Hamilton, | | Massachusetts. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary | | Visitors, p. 352; Raymond Fowler investigator files, case dated April | | 26, 1968). | | | | 1976 - Two girls, the Melling sisters aged 12 and 9, saw a | | Mothman-like "bird-man" hovering in the sky over a church in Mawman, | | Cornwall, England. They drew a sketch of a man with wings, big | | pointed ears, and a large triangle in place of the nose and mouth. It | | so frightened the entire family that they ended their vacation. | | (Source: Doc Shiels, Fortean Times, June 1976, p. 19). | | | | 1977 - On a clear night at 4:30 a.m. a rectangular craft with windows | | was sighted by a 36-year-old man in North Haven, Port Macquarie, New | | South Wales, Australia. It made no sound as it flew. It speed was | | under 100 mph as it traveled to the east. (Source: Kel Blackman, ACOS | | Bulletin, December 1977, p. 10). | | | | 1977 - At around 4:00 p.m. a 67-year-old woman in La Louviere, | | Belgium sighted a solid, dark, flat cylinder-shaped object with | | faceted sides. It oscillated as it flew from southwest to northeast. | | (Source: International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2). | | | | 1987 - At around 11:00 p.m. seven people witnessed a disc-shaped | | object hovering over a lake in Soderbarke, Kopparberg, Sweden. The | | bottom of the object was glowing, until a dark cloud engulfed the | | object. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database). | | | | 1990 - Two women driving in a wooded area of Upper Burrel Township, | | Pennsylvania at 10:30 p.m. first saw three bright lights ahead. They | | heard a "click" and then saw a sphere over a tree. Then a 40-foot | | long "bus" or cigar-shaped object with windows came over the tree. | | The women drove home and the object followed them, then it passed by, | | glowing yellow and surrounded by mist. A U.S. defense plant is | | located nearby. (Sources: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February | | 1991, p. 12; MUFON field investigation files, field investigator | | Keith Bastianini, case # 901210). | | | | 1993 - In Birmingham, England Peter Gregory had gotten out of bed at | | 2:30 a.m. to go to the bathroom when he noticed a light outside his | | landing window. He peered out and saw a glowing ball the size of a | | football. After five seconds it flew silently past the window and out | | of sight. He fell back into a deep sleep and had a dream or vision. | | He saw himself in what appeared to be a control room inside an | | enormous object. He felt motion and heard a humming sound. The room | | was illuminated with an intense blue light that seemed to pulse with | | a hypnotic rhythm. He felt an inner state of euphoria. Without | | warning he suddenly then found himself inside an oval room with a | | console with lights in the center. On the left of the console was a | | cubicle about six feet high. Three humanoid figures were standing | | there and staring at a viewing screen, watching a transmission. The | | beings did not notice Gregory. He described them as human sized, with | | piercing deep blue eyes, reddish brown hair, and heads circled by a | | broad silver band. He moved closer and noticed on a display screen | | something that read "Year 3600." He felt the message on the screen | | meant the destruction of human civilization. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2748, citing Marcus | | Day, Aliens: Encounters with The Unexplained). | | | | 1993 - At 9:45 p.m. in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana a | | 29-year-old man sighted a white "wishbone" object in the sky at a | | moderate distance. His sketch shows a V-shape with one long side | | extending below as if forming a cocked Y. The entire figure glowed | | white. The distance was estimated to be 600 feet, with an altitude | | higher than 300 feet. The speed of the object was slow, estimated to | | be around 30+ mph. There was a bright light on front when last seen. | | It was in view for about a minute and a half. (Sources: T. David | | Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16; MUFON field | | investigation files, field investigator Will Ott, case # 941210S). | | | | 1994 - On this night in Kapowsin, Pierce County, Washington State the | | first thing that happened was that a teenager's pick-up truck engine | | died. He next saw a creature with bat wings on the road. When it flew | | away he was able to restart the truck. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 16364, citing West Virginia UFO Newsletter, | | number 5). | | | | 1996 - At around 1:00 a.m. Alfredo de Oliveira Mendes, age 27, a | | parishioner at a local Catholic Church in Belem, Para State, Brazil, | | witnessed a UFO land in the churchyard of the mission. He next | | experienced a period of missing time. Under hypnosis he | | later recalled being abducted by eight beings. He described them as | | silver in color with elongated eyes and what looked like a fin on | | their foreheads. The beings wore silver coverall type outfits with an | | emblem containing a pyramid and a wing. A burnt circle was found on | | the ground at the landing site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1996, case # 2739, citing Brazilian UFO Report). | | | | 2000 - On this night, a police officer walking home along the | | Plazoleta Alfonso de la Vega in Frias, Argentina noticed a short | | humanoid figure that he first mistook for a child. When he approached | | the figure, intending to reprimand it for being out late, he received | | a menacing look from the creature's fiery red eyes. The shocked | | policeman realized it was something other than a human child, and he | | quickly walked away from the area. Other local residents also | | reported seeing the same or a similar being. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3402, citing Fabio | | Picasso, Argentina). | | | | 2002 - A yellow-orange ball made bizarre sharp turns while flying | | from southwest to northeast near the end of the Brisbane, Queensland, | | Australia airport runway at 9:30 p.m. (Source: Sheryl Gottschall, UFO | | Research Queensland). | | | | 2002 - At 12:30 a.m. a black oval or football-shaped object rocked | | from side to side as it flew behind a cloud in Ottawa, Ontario, | | Canada. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case | | # 144, citing HBCCUFO). | | | | 2007 - A circular craft with blue lights was seen by a 55-year-old | | man with an engineering background. At around 9:55 p.m. PST, the | | witness went out onto his front yard in Irvine, California for a | | smoke before bed. Normally he can see planes approaching Orange | | County Airport from the NNE and go past to the left | | to land approximately 8-9 miles away, but this night was overcast so | | he could hear some, but not see them as they broke cloud cover once | | they had passed his house. While standing on the driveway, he saw | | some blue light aloft to the North moving back and forth, almost | | flittering like a moth. He first thought it was a police helicopter. | | What was unusual was that it was moving more in a quick, | | back-and-forth movement instead of what is usually a slow circle. | | Also, he could not see a strong searchlight or hear any engine sound. | | It appeared that the object was 1-2 miles away. He thought this was | | odd, so he retrieved a pair of quality 20x binoculars from inside the | | house. What he next saw raised the hair on the back of his neck, | | because the lights seemed to consist of a row of individual blue | | lights that first were traveling to the left. As the object reversed | | direction, the object appeared to be first an ellipse and then a full | | circle; it had maybe 24-30 individual blue lights around the | | perimeter. It then traveled to the right and reversed the process, | | again forming a circle at the end of its travel when reversing | | direction. It traveled in each direction for 3-5 seconds. There were | | definitely no red/green port/starboard lights, only the blue | | perimeter lights and no strobe lights. He watched this object for 2-3 | | minutes. It finally disappeared into the cloud cover. The man used to | | fly small aircraft, so he was experienced with the shapes and types | | of various small aircraft. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2007 webpage, report uploaded April | | 27, 2007). | | | | 2010 - A classic domed disc-shaped object with horizontal slits | | showing inexplicable lights was sighted while driving on U.S. Highway | | 101 S. near Nipomo, California in San Luis Obispo County at 10:10 | | p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April | | 2010 archived webpage, case uploaded May 12, 2010). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 17 April 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO enco | | unters, animal reactions: dogs howling and pony ran, back-and-forth m | | otion, balls of light, car buzzings and pursuits, complex maneuvers, | | domed discs, humming, low-flying UFOs, mental vision or out-of-body e | | xperience of interior of UFO and humanoids, metallic UFOs, Mothman fl | | ying humanoid, multi-year reports from Massachusetts, radar, sensatio | | n of heat, unintelligible language, very tall humanoid, vehicle EM ig | | nition interference, violence by UFO occupant(s), up-and-down motion. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+