+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 22 | | | | 1909 - The night after a similar sighting, a torpedo shaped object | | with searchlights was seen again at ten p.m. in Colebrook, Tasmania, | | Australia. (Source: Keith Roberts, Australasian Ufologist, January | | 2001, p. 43). | | | | 1949 - In Alaska, a scientist on Tigvariak Island sighted six | | disc-shaped object flying in a circular formation, making a whining | | sound. A seventh disc then was seen weaving through the sky. They | | went from the northeast to the southwest. (Source: Loren E. Gross, | | UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 42). | | | | 1953 - On this day a silver cigar-shaped object descended from the | | clouds over East Bolton, Quebec, Canada. It stopped near the ground, | | making an odd noise, then shot up vertically. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 3116, citing APRO Bulletin, November 1953). | | | | 1954 - In East Chicago, Indiana on this day two refinery workers | | sighted a crescent-shaped object that darted all over the sky above | | the oil refinery were they worked for two minutes. It flew at an | | estimated altitude of 2,500 feet and left going south. (Sources: | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 155). | | | | 1955 - Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California. At two o'clock in the | | afternoon some children were playing in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. | | Douglas when they observed a hovering object that disappeared and | | reappeared as a spinning disc with curved lines radiating from it. | | Other objects, silvery and semitransparent, soon appeared and were | | seen by all of the children. They made musical sounds as they | | vanished and reappeared. One of them landed, and a creature the size | | of a four-year-old child, transparent and wearing a belt with a | | bright disc on it, was seen nearby. Another creature appeared and | | spoke to one of the boys. All the children experienced visions of the | | object and the creatures, as well as "arms" which appeared to beckon | | to them. (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. | | 16; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. | | 251, case 373). | | | | 1955 - One of the most famous humanoid reports ever, came to | | a conclusion on this date at the Sutton farm in Kelly, near | | Hopkinsville, Kentucky. After the police had searched the Sutton farm | | and found no creatures, they left and at two a.m. the little “men” | | returned, with at least one of them putting its “little clawed hands” | | up on the window screen. Again they were fired at with rifles without | | apparent effect. The last of the creatures was seen about half an | | hour before sunrise. No ground traces of the creatures' presence | | could be found anywhere during the search that occurred later that | | same day. (Sources: Isabel L. Davis & Ted Bloecher, Close Encounters | | at Kelly and Others of 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1955-18). | | | | 1956 - From the bedroom a witness in Turlock, California saw an | | orange-red ovoid UFO fluttering up behind the garage at 10:50 p.m. It | | went away quickly. (Source: APRO Bulletin, September 1956). | | | | 1957 - Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida. At 3:40 p.m. a black, | | bell-shaped object bearing two bright, white lights at the top and | | maeasuring 15 meters in diameter was chased by a civilian named | | Sheetz in his car until the car engine stalled. The object then | | started hovering just three meters away. The underside of the machine | | resembled a disc with fins. When a jet aircraft took off from the | | nearby U.S. Navy airfield, the object went out of sight almost | | instantaneously. The car battery was found to be completely | | dead.There was no helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses | | compared the noise made by the object to that of a helicopter. | | (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, | |  p. 257, case 399, citing Project Blue Book; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO | | Experience, p. 239; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, p. 7). | | | | 1962 - In Kingsford Heights, Indiana at 8:30 p.m. two families | | watched a hat-shaped domed disc that made a whirring noise. The seven | | witnesses viewed the UFO for almost an hour. (Sources: Orvil R. | | Hartle, A Carbon Experiment, p. 167; Francis L. Ridge, Regional | | Encounters, p. 11). | | | | 1966 - On this night the crew of a USAF F-102 witnessed a silver, | | dragon-shaped UFO that hovered over Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany. | | (Source: James Moseley, Saucer News, December 1966, p. 32, citing | | London Daily Telegraph, August 23, 1966). | | | | 1966 - A landing with ground marks occurred shortly after 6:00 p.m. | | in Leiters Ford, Fulton County, Indiana and was witnessed by two | | families, including the Brockleys. (Source: Flying Saucers, September | | 1972, p. 36). | | | | 1966 - On this night in Malvern, Arkansas local residents reported | | seeing an eight-foot tall creature. The "thing" was humanoid in | | shaped, and changed color from red to orange to yellow. A witness | | named Mr. Niles reportedly snapped a picture of the "thing" from his | | window as it passed by his house. This humanoid encounter occurred | | six days after several UFOs had been seen in the area. (Sources: | | Malvern (AR) Daily Record, August 23, 1966; John A. Keel, UFOs: | | Operation Trojan Horse, p. 145; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1966, case # 2583, citing John Keel). | | | | 1968 - At 5:40 p.m. two men, Smith and Gardin, were flying in a Piper | | Navajo for Murchison Air 130 miles east of Kalgoorlie, Western | | Australia when they spotted a luminous white UFO. It emitted six | | smaller cigar-shaped "satellite objects." When the pilot Capt. Gordon | | Smith reported their sighting to the Kalgourlie communication centre | | their radio stopped working, but it came back after the UFOs gathered | | together, and shot off at high speed.(Sources: FSR, March 1979, p. 9; | | NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1969, p. 1; Richard F. Haines, Project | | Delta, p. 144; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty | | Year Report, pp. 13,119). | | 1969 - After Mrs. Joyce Vellacca and her husband reported seeing a | | multicolored UFO maneuvering over South Akron, Ohio she decided to | | lie down on the sofa for a short nap. She had scarcely stretched out | | when a big gust of wind swept through a window and blew the curtains | | out. Mrs. Vellacca got up to close the window and became frozen in | | place, literally unable to move. Furthermore, standing on the other | | side of the window was a woman staring back at her. The woman was | | well proportioned with beautiful long dark chestnut hair. But the | | woman had no discernible features where her face would be. Oddly, | | when Mrs. Vellacca recovered from her frozen immobility, the visitor | | had vanished. She rushed outside and turned on all the floodlights to | | illuminate the area, but could see nothing unusual. Then there came a | | high-pitched whine similar to that of a motorcycle, except that when | | a motorcycle reaches its highest velocity there is a loud roar, and | | none was heard. Instead, the noise gained in shrill frequency until | | it was no longer heard. The dogs in the neighborhood were raising a | | great rumpus. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1969, citing Brinsley LePoer Trench, Mysterious Visitors: The UFO | | Story). | | | | 1972 - On this day or the day before, at 4:30 a.m. Mrs. Doris Muthwa | | and her 12-year-old daughter were drawing water from a river in | | Roosboom, Natal, South Africa when she looked up and saw what first | | looked like a man in a white suit, who appeared to be was smoking a | | cigarette, but then the smoke became a big fire. "There was a bright | | light shining from his chest which went pink and blue," Mrs. Muthwa | | said. She estimated that the figure was more than 11 feet tall. She | | felt an electric shock in his presence, and added, "He must have been | | emitting some kind of electricity, because it felt just like when I | | touch the [electric] iron and my body goes all jerky." Suddenly, the | | giant apparition shot into the sky and disappeared. The woman and her | | daughter ran from the spot, spilling the water in their flight. | | (Sources: Philipp J. Human, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 17, | | citing the Natal Mercury, August 22, 1972; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-21). | | | | 1974 - A young woman, Kimberle Lenz, and her brother were abducted | | while driving on a road near Boulder, Colorado at about 1:30 a.m. The | | abduction experience lasted two hours, and involved missing time and | | physiological effects. R. Leo Sprinkle investigated the case and | | performed the hypnotic regression on the witnesses. Some kind of | | levitation force was used which pulled the witnesses in the car | | forward. Grey humanoid beings approached their stopped car from a | | field. They were made to touch a black box, which caused them to lose | | consciousness. Under hypnosis it emerged that the beings communicated | | with them using telepathy; they were curious about human emotions. | | When the abductees attempted to engage in resistance, they | | experienced pain. (Sources: R. Leo Sprinkle, APRO Bulletin, May 1981, | | p. 8; R. Leo Sprinkle, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1980, p. 59; | | Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 86, | | citing the 1981 Rocky Mountain Conference, p. 62). | | | | 1975 - At 11:30 p.m. two young men were making a bulk newspaper | | delivery between Boulogne and Lille by motorbike when they were | | followed briefly by an unknown "vehicle" in the vicinity of St. Omer, | | Pas-de-Calais, France. A short distance further they saw a light in a | | field a few hundred meters from the road. They stopped to look, and | | they could see an ovoid object on the ground, lit from within by a | | yellowish white light. It was approximately 3-4 meters long, and to | | its right were two human forms about two meters tall that stood side | | by side. The figures were completely illuminated by the light from | | the object, so none of their features could be made out. The figures | | began walking very quickly toward the young men. Frightened, they | | took off on the motorbike and continued their journey. Several | | kilometers further on they saw the object ascend into the sky at an | | angle. Perhaps because of their astonishment and fear, they were | | unable to locate the exact site of their experience when they went | | back with investigators later. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-40, citing Joel | | Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne). | | | | 1975 - At 11:45 p.m., while driving between Castronuno and Pollos in | | Valladolid province, Spain three men spotted a white transparent | | light that hovered over the road ahead of them. The car's engine | | died, but the headlights continued to work. When the ball of light, | | which was four meters in diameter, finally moved slowly off the road | | to the left, the engine could be restarted. (Source: Gordon | | Creighton, FSR, April 1977, p. 27). | | | | 1978 - Ten years to the day after the Kalgoorlie, Western Australia | | aerial encounter of 1968 another nearly identical incident | | transpired, again over Western Australia. Flying from Adelaide to | | Perth a Murchison Air Services airliner encountered a large | | cigar-shaped object that flew ahead of the airliner. An opening | | appeared in the object, and smaller UFOs emerged and maneuvered | | around it, then reentered, and the UFO finally shot off at tremendous | | speed. When the large object emitted the smaller satellite objects | | the aircraft's radio failed until the small objects had re-entered | | and the parent object had sped away. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 23,124). | | | | 1978 - On this night at 9:30 p.m. three hunters near Coronel Dorrego, | | Buenos Aires Province, Argentina heard strange noises, then smelled a | | sulphur odor. They next saw a circular UFO with a black center and | | white edges, and giving off blue reflections, only 100 meters away | | from them. They jumped in their car to drive away, but suddenly found | | themselves 50 meters away, with the car facing the other way. This | | suggests that they experienced a period of missing time lasting at | | least several minutes, but from the account no one appears to | | have investigated this further. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, October 1978, p. 14, translating a newspaper | | article from Cronica, August 25, 1978). | | | | 1978 - On the same night as the hunters' close encounter experience | | in Argentina, several guests were having dinner outdoors at a resort | | on top of a cliff in Southampton, Bermuda. They saw what first | | appeared to them to be a helicopter approaching. When the UFO got | | closer it shone a blood red spotlight on the witnesses, and they now | | realized that what they were seeing was really a 30-foot in diameter | | disc-shaped object. The craft had brightly lit rectangular windows | | around its perimeter. The main witness and several of the other | | guests could now see several Grey figures that appeared to be waving | | at them; one of the beings stared directly at one of the witnesses. | | After about a minute the silent craft flew out over the ocean and | | disappeared. At this point, several military jets appeared and | | appeared to give pursuit to the object. Later that night, at | | around 5:00 a.m., the wife of the main witness woke up and was | | startled to see a short figure standing in their room. The figure | | raised one hand, waved, then lept right out the balcony window, a | | distance of about 10 feet, never touching the rail. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3618, | | citing NUFORC). | | | | 1980 - In eastern Texas a UFO abduction occurred when a car was | | levitated inside of a hovering circular craft. Meagan Elliott was | | driving at 12:40 a.m. with her young daughter Renee in the early | | morning hours, on a desolate road near Lake Fork Reservoir, Wood | | County, Texas when her car radio became garbled and she heard a loud | | electrical noise, then her car headlights dimmed. The vehicle was | | suddenly lifted off the road, and they found themselves in a bright | | circular room, still inside the car, which sat on the flat metallic | | bottom of the hovering craft. A voice in her head told her to get out | | of the car, but she refused to move. Next, a small putty colored | | humanoid being with a large bard heald, his feet encased in | | mist, appeared and forced open the car door. He then forced Meagan | | and Renee to follow him. He was described as having huge oval eyes, | | no body hair, a broad flat nose, and a small slit for a mouth. Both | | of them were then clamped down on metallic tables, and their bodies | | were probed by two humanoids using different types of tools and a | | scanning device. Before being returned to the car and lowered to the | | ground, they said they were fed various colored pills. Under | | hypnosis, Meagan recalled extensive communication with the beings. | | They made the disturbing statement that the Earth "was a fearful | | planet with a tendency for annihilation." She also recalled being | | shown seven characters, which represented the name of the place they | | came from, it sounded like "Asterisk", but she said she could not | | pronounce it correctly. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. | | 308; MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p. 3 & February 1984, p. 14; | | Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, | | case 146; Albert S. Rosales, 1980 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, | | case # 411, citing Richard H. Hall). | | | | 1980 - That night at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New | | Mexico three Sandia Facility guards saw a nocturnal light maneuvering | | at high speeds over the nuclear weapons facility. (Source: Lawrence | | Fawcett & Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of | | the UFO Experience, p. 225). | | | | 1986 - In Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England a lone witness reported | | encountering a 60 foot diameter ovoid object, beaming light at 50 | | feet altitude, at 10:45 p.m. There were lights on the sides of the | | UFO. Repeater witness. (Source: Robert Gribble, National UFO | | Reporting Center, case # 1617). | | | | 1988 - At around one o'clock in the morning an abduction experience | | occurred at a campsite near Athens, Maine. Two people were tent | | camping when a disc-shaped object landed nearby and emitted a white | | light. Next, a red ball exited the object and seemed to scout around | | their campsite. After that, a "veil of lights" entered their tent, | | and they experienced 45 minutes of missing time. Reportedly the event | | has caused a profound change in their philosophy of life. (Sources: | | Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 15, citing Field | | Investigator DeSimone, case # 920305E; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 14721, citing MUFON). | | | | 1988 - A red ball of light (BOL) with white lines and a light on one | | side circled the valley of the farming community of Monroe City, | | Indiana. (Source: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, December 1993). | | | | 1990 - A green cone-shaped object landed on a farm in Ebenezer, | | Prince Edwards Island, Canada at ten o'clock in the evening. It sat | | there and glowed for two hours, but vanished when witnesses attempted | | to approach. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15237, | | citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303). | | | | 1992 - A witness in Greenwood, Indiana reported one hour of missing | | time after witnessing several lights in the sky at 10:30 p.m. | | (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, | | citing Francis L. Ridge). | | | | 1999 - At 4:30 a.m. an 87-year-old woman saw a large, delta-shaped | | object buzz over her home in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A blue beam | | came down, illuminated her yard. She then experienced a three minute | | period of missing time. (Source: George A. Filer, Filer's Files, | | volume 9, issue 38). | | | | 1999 - On this afternoon Michelle and a friend were hiking on a | | remote trail called the Ice Age Trail near Lodi, Wisconsin when she | | became separated from her friend and went ahead. In a short while she | | saw a flash of motion ahead, perhaps some 50 feet away. It was a | | blue-gray figure moving along the trail toward her. His first | | impression was that it was someone dressed in a blue jacket, but | | abruptly the blue figure glided off the trail to her right, | | disappearing behind some trees. It did not seemed to be walking, | | but displayed a smooth gliding motion. Before it glided away the blue | | figure seemed to change directions. As it turned she noticed a long | | blue plume of something, waving from behind its head. Startled, she | | turned to her companion who had come up behind her, and told him what | | she had seen. They both walked ahead to investigate the point on the | | path where it had vanished into the bushes, but found nothing | | unusual. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports | | database, citing Weird Wisconsin). | | | | 2004 - Driving home at 1:00 p.m. from her birthday party in Woodbury, | | Connecticut a teenager with her mother saw a disc-shaped object with | | a slight dome on top hovering at a very high altitude; the sun | | gleamed off its metallic surface. Because her mother responded | | sarcastically to her statement that she had sighted a UFO, she turned | | to argue, and when she looked back it was gone. (Sources: George A. | | Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO | | Sightings, p. 7). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 8 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, aerial encounters involving radio int | | erference, animal reactions: dogs barking, bedroom visitation, blue b | | eams, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, faceless human-looking humanoid, | | giants or apparitions of giants, Grey humanoids, hovering, high-pitc | | hed whine, levitation, missing time, multi-year reports from Indiana | | and Western Australia, ovoid UFOs, short humanoids, tall humanoids, t | | elepathy, transparent UFO occupants, UFO near nuclear weapons facilit | | y, vehicle EM ignition interference effect, vertical ascent, visions. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+