+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 29 | | | | 1950 - Mr. Quintana of Denver, Colorado saw a silvery green ovoid | | object hovering about 15 meters above a slope on South Table | | Mountain. It landed slowly in a small ravine. Then it shot upward at | | very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 meters, and it had a | | revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and the | | witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 194, citing | | Flying Saucers, July 1959). | | | | 1952 - Several bright discs, each estimated to be three feet in | | diameter, followed a B-29 Superfortress flying 30 miles | | west-southwest of Wonsan, Korea at 11:20 p.m. A second sighting | | occurred at 11:24 p.m. with a different squadron of B-29s flying near | | Sunchon, Korea. (Sources: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of | | the Saucers, p. 157; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. | | 15; UNICAT, case 625, citing Life magazine, April 7, 1952). | | | | 1953 - Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer in Conway, South | | Carolina observed an object about seven meters long and four meters | | wide at treetop level. It was light gray in color and lit up inside. | | It resembled an egg sliced in half lengthwise. The witness fired his | | gun at the object. Numerous livestock died "mysteriously" in the area | | after the sighting. At 2:00 p.m. four huge metallic discs, each the | | size of a B-36 bomber, flew over Malibu Beach, California at a speed | | in excess of 1,000 mph. At five minutes before midnight an F-94 jet | | interceptor and two other fighter aircraft reported seeing a dark | | gray, oval-shaped UFO flying over Presque Isle, Maine. (Sources: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202; | | Fate Magazine, June 1953, p. 12, citing Los Angeles Examiner; Project | | Blue Book files; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, | | p. 219). | | | | 1954 - A married couple was driving six miles south of Santa Ana, | | California in the afternoon when their car radio quit and the engine | | missed as a disc-shaped UFO passed low over their car. (Sources: APRO | | Bulletin, March 1954; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, p. 2). | | | | 1962 - A Royal Dutch Air Force F-86 jet interceptor was chased by a | | UFO over the eastern Netherlands. The event was witnessed by six | | members of the military and the UFO was detected by ground and | | airborne radar. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1962, | | p. 1; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 122; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33). | | | | 1967 - At around 10:00 p.m. Mrs. Enid Campbell saw from her window in | | her home near Knox City, Missouri what at first looked like the full | | moon, but as it got closer she could see that it was a | | Saturn-shaped object, with the main body white in color like a | | frosted light bulb and a shiny gold horizontal ring around the | | center which had numerous round holes. The object came up to within | | several feet of her window before stopping, and through its | | semi-transparent material she could see a control panel with a lever | | on top, and two occupants, one seated at the panel, the other | | standing. They wore "shiny, silvery wetsuits." She called her sons | | Gene, age 18, and George, age 14, who came to the window in time to | | see the object as it rose and moved away. While it hovered nearby two | | smaller white luminous spheres approached and entered the craft | | through an opening, after which the holes in the central ring jetted | | out red fire. Then the object ascended vertically and disappeared. | | The snow on the ground under the spot where it had been hovering was | | melted, and the ground over which the object first approached the | | house failed to grow plants, while plants elsewhere grew | | normally. (Sources: Skylook, April 1971, p. 12 and November 1972, | | p. 8; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 27; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-10, | | citing Ted Phillips for MUFON). | | | | 1968 - A woman living alone in an isolated cabin on Keats Island, | | British Columbia had for several days witnessed mysterious lights and | | unknown objects maneuvering over some nearby hills and a nearby lake. | | On this afternoon two men dressed in neatly pressed, apparently new | | dark coveralls, and claiming to be from the public water company, | | visited her. The men acted nervous and seemed surprised that she | | lived there alone. They finally left disappearing down a nearby | | footpath. They seemed to have no obvious means for getting on or off | | the island, and she completely disbelieved their story that they were | | from the public utility. (Sources: Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, | | Summer 1974; John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 44; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #1079, citing Peter Guttilla, | | Saga UFO Report, July 1974). | | | | 1969 - At ten o'clock in the morning an 80-year-old woman in | | Matadepera, Barcelona, Spain witnessed a pear-shaped UFO with a | | horizontal axis that landed very close (within 11 m), making a | | "revving" noise. It was estimated to be three meters long and had a | | 2.5 meter diameter, and was wider in the front. It gave off bright | | colors, green and yellow mostly, and was described as "very pretty." | | After landing it made an abrupt turn to pass under some high tension | | (5 Kv) power lines. (Sources: Jose Maria Casas-Huguet, FSR Case | | Histories, December 1972, p. 1; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, | | Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 102; | | UNICAT, case # 426, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El | | Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 88). | | | | 1970 - A man and woman in their mid-twenties had a close encounter | | with a disc-shaped object while driving on U.S. Highway 44 in Cassia, | | Lake County, Florida. The object made a whirring sound, and emitted a | | variety of flashing multicolored lights. There was an independent | | witness. (Sources: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1970, | | p. 5; Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 14, citing Sun News). | | | | 1972 - At 7:30 p.m. in Chatsworth, Ventura County, California a | | slowly rotating disc-shaped object with lights around the rim was | | seen for a minute by a mail carrier. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 9468, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1972). | | | | 1974 - A flight instructor and his student were flying over the | | Pacific Ocean off the coast of Santa Ana, Orange County, California | | in the middle of the day when they were buzzed by five glowing red | | UFOs, which circled their plane for the next hour. (Sources: | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 38). | | | | 1976 - Mr. Carrasco, a 29-year-old farmer, was walking home at 12:30 | | a.m. in Benacazon, Sevilla province, Spain when he heard a noise | | “like a jet.” Turning around, he saw a brilliant light hovering in | | the sky; it approached and landed 18 feet away. It was dark green, | | rectangular, and taller than a telephone booth, and it stood on three | | legs. From this landed object emerged two men 6’6” or more in height, | | who came to within 12 or 15 ft of the witness. They were clad in dark | | but luminous tight fitting clothing resembling rubber or plastic, | | with wide belts whose buckles emitted blindingly bright and hot | | flashes of red and white light; he could not see their faces, but | | noticed that they had shoulder-length blondish-white hair. The | | witness put his hands over his face, but could not stir from the | | spot. He heard the men talking in a language he could not understand; | | then he began to run. The UFO rose and flew over him, emitting | | something that burned him; he lost consciousness until at 0230A he | | found himself at the door of his house in Benacazon. He had to be | | hospitalized for shock. In the hospital he was found to have strange | | sooty black marks on his right cheek, on the palms of both hands, on | | his shoulders and on his right arm; these began to disappear after | | 7-8 hours. (Sources: Joaquin M. Nogales, MUFON UFO Journal, August | | 1976, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1976-31 (A1452), citing J. J. Benitez, FSR, | | Vol. 22, No. 1 & Iker Jimenez). | | | | 1976 - At around 10:15 p.m., while driving near Pahrump, | | Nevada southwest of Las Vegas, Country & Western singer Johnny Sands | | saw a rusty orange cigar-shaped object descend from the sky. The | | object was at least 60 feet long, and had flashing red and white | | lights on one end and a dark ring around the middle section, which | | also had portholes. His car stopped running, and he got out to check | | the engine. He next saw two men, about 200 feet away, walking toward | | him. They wore silver sparkling one-piece uniforms with a diagonal | | black stripe, and a round white central emblem. He wanted to get back | | into his car but felt paralyzed and unable to move. As the men | | approached, he saw that they were bald and had close set squinting | | eyes, a grayish white complexion, and something that lookede like | | folds or gills under their ears. Their mouths were very small and | | their noses “puggish.” One of them questioned Sands in English, but | | he did not hear the words coming from the being's mouth. It spoke in | | a slow, “robot-like” voice. The voice asked him, “What are you doing | | here?” and he replied, “I am an entertainer.” The next question was | | “What are your means of communication,” which he was at a loss to | | answer. Four or five other questions were asked, which he has chosen | | not to reveal. They said that they would see him again. Turning to | | go, the leader brushed his fingertips over Mr. Sands hand, which | | seemed to release him from the paralysis. They walked away, and the | | car started again. Many observers reported seeing rust-colored cigar | | shaped objects over the Las Vegas Valley that night. (Sources: APRO | | Bulletin, March-April 1976, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-32 (A1453), | | citing Bob Pratt, National Enquirer). | | | | 1979 - In the early morning hours a married couple in Bissoe Truro, | | Cornwall County, England were awakened at around two a.m. to find | | their bedroom lit up brightly. One of the witnesses looked out the | | window and was amazed to see a bright hovering oval-shaped craft. | | Inside could be seen two human-looking men with long wavy blond hair. | | The UFO glided silently away and then shot away at high speed. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case | | 1435, citing Bob Boyd, Plymouth UFO Research Group). | | | | 1980 - At ten p.m. three National Telephone Company officials, Gomez, | | Polar, and Aguilar, on the highway between the towns of Desaguadero | | and Pomata, Peru saw a bright circular UFO with red and white lights | | on the bottom hover stationary at 1000 meters altitude. It went | | behind a cloud for three minutes, then was observed for five more | | minutes as it flew over Lake Titicaca. (Sources: Richard Heiden, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 13; translating El Commercio, | | February 16, 1980; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, | | p. 14, translating La Razon, February 15, 1980). | | | | 1982 - At two o'clock in the morning a student in Bankstown, a suburb | | of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia had a low level close encounter | | with a five-meter thick rectangular object with a glassy | | metallic surface. The object was only 100 meters away. It had bluish | | yellow bottom lights, and green lights on the side. The UFO caused | | nearby trees to sway, TV static interference, and streetlights in the | | area to turn off. The object took off with a vertical ascent. After | | the object left the streetlights came back on 20 minutes later. | | (Sources: Bill Chalker, UFOIC case files; Mark Cashman, Project 1947 | | EM Effects Catalog website). | | | | 1986 - In Dal'negorsk, Vladivostok, Russia in eastern Asia a red | | fireball flew parallel to the ground with an estimated speed of 15 | | meters per second, leaving no wake or trail. At 7:55 p.m. it dove | | silently into the slope ofHill 611 (a mountain 611 meters in height), | | then jumped up-and-down six times. A very bright light, like flames | | from a welding torch, was observed coming from the mountain for an | | hour, then the red ball of light took off. Traces at the site | | included a fine, glassy metallic fabric debris, lead and iron | | pellets, and magnetic anomalies. Temperature at the crash site was | | estimated to have been as high as 25,000 deg C. (Sources: Paul | | Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 92; William R. Corliss, | | Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283). | | | | 1987 - At 5:43 a.m. several Mozambican laborers working in Zimbabwe | | reported seeing a large, brightly lit balloon-shaped object passing | | over Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. The witnesses were able to see two men | | inside the craft. One was dressed in blue and the other in white. The | | witnesses interpreted the object as "witch doctors" traveling from | | South Africa. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1987, case # 1050, citing Cynthia Hind, MUFON Symposium Proceedings | | 1987). | | | | 1989 - A woman in Redding, California reported six giant beige | | triangular objects that moved from south to north at low altitude at | | 9:35 p.m. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, | | 1988-94, case 238, citing Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 1990 - At 7:30 a.m. a brilliant disc-shaped object stopped over the | | town of Montbazon, Indre-Loire department, France, hovered for about | | a minute, then shot away at high speed. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, issue 301). | | | | 1990 - A huge dark mass flanked by two beacons, and lit by a halo, | | was seen over farm country in Wellman, Iowa at nine o'clock in the | | evening. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, | | 1988-94, case 831, citing UFO Newsclipping Service). | | | | 1996 - At two o'clock in the morning an orange glow was seen in some | | woods east of Villalba, Lugo, Spain. Then a 25 foot in diameter dome | | rose from the woods, but sank back down again. It had a metallic door | | that was visible on one side. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 17591). | | | | 1998 - A shiny metallic daylight disc, saucer shaped with a dome on | | top and with row of blinking red lights, was seen flying over | | Coventry, Rhode Island at two o'clock in the afternoon. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 1998 | | webpage). | | | | 2000 - There were several UFO reports made on this evening in and | | around Sydney, New South Wales, Australia between 8:30 and 11:00 p.m. | | In one report from South Penrith six witnesses watched four objects | | that stopped moving across the sky at 9:30 p.m. and then backtracked. | | At 10:15 p.m. five bright lights in a triangle formation changed to a | | straight line, looking like balls of fire, giving off what seemed to | | be smoke. These five bright lights were also observed by a married | | couple from Glenmore. They reported that after about eight minutes | | the first light disappeared, then the third one. The object or | | objects were just below the cloud cover. There were also sightings in | | Adelaide, South Australia this night. Single and multiple bright | | orange orbs were seen flying over the city, and they were seen to | | disappear in vicinity of the Blue Mountains. (Sources: Karen Burden & | | Robert Frola, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, pp. 40 & 46; UFO | | Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37). | | | | 2001 - At 12:15 p.m. a resident of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil | | reported that first everything froze on the street. Then a UFO | | appeared overhead with multicolored lights--white, blue and | | red--spinning on the underside. A door in the object opened, and a | | tall being with long skinny arms, a skinny body, and a large head | | appeared in view. The door quickly shut, and the object shot away. | | (Source: Doug Moffett, Australasian Ufologist, April 2002, p. 36). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 September 2009) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft | | UFO encounters, balloon-shaped UFO, communication, disc-shaped UFOs, | | domed discs, hovering UFOs, human-looking UFOnauts, incomplete EM ve | | hicle electrical system interference effects, Grey UFOnauts, inside U | | FO occupants, landings with traces, maneuvering UFOs, multi-year repo | | rts from southern California and New South Wales, Nordic looking UFOn | | auts, odor, ovoid UFOs, paralysis, radar-visual UFO case, rectangular | | UFOs, tall thin UFOnaut, unexplained animal deaths, vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+