+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  March 19 | | | | 1950 - In 1950 in Sonderborg, Denmark at 2:30 a.m., mechanic J. Matiszewski | | heard a whistling sound that drew him outside. He then watched a UFO | | land in a meadow. When he approached to within 50 meters he suddenly | | felt paralyzed, and he observed that birds and cows in the vicinity | | were also unable to move. He stood motionless as four handsome men | | with brown complexions, wearing shiny black suits and translucent | | helmets, emerged from the craft and engaged in repair activities. | | (Source: Willy Wegner, UFO-Landinger 1 Danmark, p. 1). | | | | 1953 - In 1953 US Army spotter planes saw a round white UFO flying 25 miles | | northeast of Panmunjon, Korea. It was described as 10 feet in | | diameter, and moving with a vibrating motion. (Source: Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20). | | | | 1958 - A large, disc-shaped object was seen on the ground near | | Moscow, Russia. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was | | lost from sight. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 463). | | | | 1959 - At 8:45 p.m. on this day in 1959 a metallic disc, six meters in | | diameter, paced a car on highway 124 southeast of Kyger, Ohio. | | Electromagnetic effects noted at the time of this close encounter | | were a buzzing on the car radio and the dimming of the headlights and | | dashboard lights. (Source: Gallipolis (Ohio) Daily Tribune, March 20, | | 1959; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, | | case 100, citing Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I)). | | | | 1959 - Fifteen minutes later, at 9:00 p.m., two seminary roommates | | were outdoors on the grounds of the Lady of Grace Monastery in | | Colebrook, New Hampshire when they saw a silvery colored, | | Saturn-shaped, ovoid UFO descend over them. The craft had lighted | | windows around its lower portion and blinking red, yellow, and green | | lights around its outer rim. It also emitted a loud humming sound. | | The craft flew towards and then retreated from the witnesses several | | times. They apparently suffered a period of amnesia. Years later | | under hypnosis one of the witnesses recalled that the craft landed | | nearby on three legs and all normal noises ceased. They both were | | paralyzed and were both then floated up a ramp and taken onboard the | | craft, where they communicated by telepathy with four humanoids of | | differing heights, including a taller six-foot tall being that | | appeared to be the leader. Both were given physical exams and several | | experiments were conducted on them. They were able to see a "mother | | ship" and other craft through a window in the UFO on which they flew, | | and were taken onboard the larger craft where they saw other human | | abductees. (Sources: Morton Schaffer, MUFON field investigations | | database, case # 930402E; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1959, case # 715, citing Morton Schafer, MUFON UFO Journal, | | issue # 302). | | | | 1966 - In the pre-dawn hours of 1966, police and others in La Porte, Indiana | | saw a 40-foot-long luminous football shaped object surrounded by | | misty white rings. It emitted a brilliant white light as it paced a | | police car. It was described as having horn-shaped antenna-like | | projections on the underside that were 13-14 feet long. (Source: Fred | | V. Sacksteder, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 15). At 5:20 a.m. an | | elliptical UFO with a row of lights along the bottom was seen over | | Big Rapids, Michigan. The lights flickered on-and-off one at a time. | | (Source: Gordon Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 46). | | | | 1966 - At 6 p.m. a flat-topped cone-shaped UFO w oval-shaped windows | | hovered over Niteroi, Brazil. It was viewed through binoculars as it | | flew slowly to the west, then shot off towards the east as jet | | aircraft pursued it. (Source: Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and | | Reports from Brazil, p. 44). That night at 11:10 p.m. three crewman | | aboard the Coast Guard Cutter "Legare" had a close encounter with an | | oval-shaped UFO near Freeport, Texas. There was a power failure in | | the city at the time. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence | | Volume II: A Thirty-year Report, p. 318). | | | | 1968 - At 8:30 p.m. ten-year-old Gregory L. Wells was returning from | | his grandmother's house to his own home next door, when he saw a red | | oval-shaped UFO hovering just over some trees. The large red object | | was so bright that it illuminated the road. It had a band of dimmer | | red lights flashing around its center. "I stopped," Gregory recalled. | | "I wanted to run or scream but suddenly a big tube came out of the | | bottom, which moved from side to side until it came to me, and a beam | | of light shot out." Gregory turned away as the light beam hit the | | upper part of his arm, knocking him to the ground. His jacket caught | | fire and the boy rolled around on the ground screaming with fright. | | Both his mother and grandmother responded. Mrs. James Wells, the | | boy's mother, also reported seeing the UFO, which "just faded away." | | During the sighting a large street light on a nearby pole went out | | and the dog barked uncontrollably. The burning jacket resulted in | | second-degree burns that required medical attention. (Sources: Coral | | E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 198; Leonard H. Stringfield, | | Situation Red - The UFO Siege). | | | | 1969 - Near Gladstone, Queensland, Australia a saucer-shaped object | | approached two cars, hovered near one car, and began pulsating. As it | | got brighter, the cars' headlights spread wider than usual; as it | | dimmed, the headlights went back to normal. The two cars kept driving | | together, but the craft again came to hover over one of the cars. The | | drivers stopped again, but this time nothing happened to the | | headlights. The object rocked gently while keeping its position. | | After a few minutes of hovering it flew quickly into the distance. | | (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, | | case 269, citing Data-Net, April, 1970) | | | | 1969 - In 1969 Renato Bifarella of Caltanissetta, Italy on the island of | | Sicily was looking at the sky with binoculars on a night of a full | | moon, when at 1:35 a.m. he saw what resembled a “tortoise” hovering | | in the sky. It was green in color with pale brown spots, and had | | “legs” underneath. It was 5-6 meters wide and four meters high, with | | a brilliantly lit turret in which he could see at least two figures | | moving about. It approached him, and emitted a beam of pink light | | that struck him and caused him to faint. When he regained | | consciousness, he could see that the UFO had led down two thick | | “ropes” that were one meter in thickness. Through binoculars he was | | able to see that two humanoid figures—one in red overalls and the | | other in white, with blue helmets---were climbing toward the object. | | The witness fainted again, and when he came to, the object was gone. | | (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case #1969-26 (A1037), citing Francesco Izzo, Italian CE-III | | Catalogue). | | | | 1972 - In 1972 at 10 p.m. in Acuescoma, Mexico at least four people saw a | | glowing blue sphere land. It rose giving off blue sparks and making a | | humming sound. It also left four imprints in the ground forming a | | square 2.5 meters wide, and a central burn mark. (Source: Skylook, | | July 1972, p. 9). There was an electromagnetic effects case that | | evening in Chard, England. (Source: Harold Watkins, FSR Case | | Histories, June 1973, p. 2). | | | | 1974 - In 1974 a witness in Gerena, Spain looked out the window of his home | | and saw a two meter diameter disc only four meters away from the | | house. Two helmeted heads of little men were visible inside the | | craft. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, volume 141). | | | | 1975 - In 1975 two police officers in Stockton, California saw an object | | hovering over parts of the city on four separate occasions, beginning | | at 1:20 a.m. The UFO was seen changing shape from a cigar to round in | | appearance. The Stockton city desk sergeant vouched for the veracity | | of the two police officers. (Source: KLOK radio transcript, CUFOS | | files). | | | | 1976 - In 1976 a flying disc paced a car with three people inside very | | closely in Big Run, Pennsylvania. White beams of light were directed | | into the car from the UFO. It flew away when the car reached a | | highway intersection. An independent observer witnessed the incident. | | (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1977). | | | | 1980 - In the evening in 1980 a 29-year-old man on a motorcycle was chased | | for over an hour by a small, oval-shaped UFO. The UFO was about two | | feet in diameter and had sparks shooting out of it in all directions. | | It flew low above the ground. That same evening a golden colored UFO | | hovered over the Mississippi River for 50 minutes near Keithsberg, | | Illinois. It moved back and forth, descending and ascending over the | | trees along the riverbank. (Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, May | | 1980, p. 11; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980). | | | | 1986 - A wave of UFO sightings started in Brazil on this date in 1986. | | (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A thirty-year | | report, p. 29). | | | | 1992 - In 1992 at 3:52 a.m. in Haines City, Florida police officer Delgado | | had a close encounter of the second kind with a 15-foot-wide green, | | domed disc that paced his patrol car. The engine, lights, and two-way | | radio of his car failed when the UFO passed less than 20 feet | | overhead, and he felt the interior of his vehicle become cold. | | (Source: CUFOS investigation files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A thirty-year report, p. 259). | | | | 1993 - In 1993 a huge flying saucer loomed over a water tank in the state | | forest near Guanica, Puerto Rico at 9:40 p.m. It was silent and lit | | up the area. (Source: Larry Hatch, U database, case 15994). | | | | 1995 - In 1995 anomalous radar echoes were recorded in the Central European | | surveillance area by the region's air traffic controllers. That night | | in Franklin, Georgia a young woman's bedroom was invaded by short, | | gremlin-like creatures with yellowish-brown skin, large pointed ears, | | and large round eyes. They stood about 3.5 feet tall, and she | | believed she received telepathic messages from them. She had a strong | | sense that her actions were being controlled by them, and she was | | forced to go back to sleep despite the alarm that she felt. That same | | evening a UFO landed on a lawn in Mobile, Alabama. The object was | | dark and its features could not be discerned, but it flashed bright | | lights into the home on the property. (Sources: Illobrand von | | Ludwiger, Best UFO cases-Europe, p. 109; Albert Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact database 1995; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, March 1995 report archive). | | | | 1996 - In 1996 anomalous radar echoes were again recorded in the Central | | European surveillance area by the region's air traffic controllers. | | At 10:30 p.m. a UFO was seen from Highway 54 in Texas near the New | | Mexico border, just beyond the intersection with I-10. (Sources: | | Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO cases-Europe, p. 109; Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1996 report | | web page). | | | | 1997 - In 1997 at 4:05 a.m. police in La Escala, Spain saw a yellow light | | near the ground change color to orange. There was a 4-meter tall | | shadowy human figure in the center of the light. One witness | | attempted to photograph it, but the light dimmed, became oval shaped, | | and vanished. Flattened grass was discovered at the site. Seven hours | | later, at 5:05 EST, a driver in Nottingham, New Hampshire watched | | several golf ball sized balls-of-light zig-zag only a meter away from | | near his driver's side outside car mirror. He heard a voice in his | | head that told him to drive west. He refused and drove north instead. | | He then lost control of the car and saw a cylindrical UFO approach, | | the approximate size of a small 12-passenger bus. The telepathic | | messages he received included warnings about future events. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997). | | | | 1998 - In 1998 two diamond-shaped UFOs flew over Grosse Ile, Michigan. They | | changed shape and color, but maintained a constant speed. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, March 1998 web page). | | | | 2002 - In 2002 at 2:00 p.m. a metallic "saucer" was seen flying to the north | | over the skyscrapers of downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Source: | | 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 109). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT database. | | | | The | | mes: abductions, amnesia, beams of light striking witnesses causing b | | urns, color changing UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, EM effects and power fai | | lures, humming sound, landings, multi-colored UFOs, oval shaped UFOs, | | paralysis, Saturn-shaped UFO, shape changing UFOs, short humanoids w | | ith large pointed ears, spiral maneuvers, telepathy, zigzagging UFOs. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+