+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  March 27 | | | | 1952 - At 12:55 p.m. over Downey, California a bright, aluminum | | colored spot of light hung motionless in the sky above an aircraft | | factory for 15 minutes. It appeared to turn on edge, and then went | | straight up out of sight. In Chicago, Illinois two discs were seen | | exiting from a cloud. They flipped over completely, and then returned | | to the same cloud. (Sources: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1952: | | January-May, p. 27; Edward Sullivan, CSI/Los Angeles case files, | | letter dated March 27, 1952). | | 1953 - A bright orange circular UFO was chased by a USAF F-86 fighter | | jet over Mount Taylor, New Mexico at 7:25 p.m. The case is listed as | | an Air Force Project Blue Book "unknown." (Sources: Project Bluebook | | files counted in official statistics, case 2524; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21). | | | | 1959 - A blue, barrel-shaped UFO landed remotely a half mile away in | | a wooded area west of Corsica, Pennsylvania at 12:45 p.m. It was seen | | by a man and a woman. (Sources: Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, | | p. 35; Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case | | 6317). | | | | 1966 - Two women, Smith and Beer, driving from Amarillo, Texas saw a | | UFO approach their car from the north near Texhoma, Oklahoma. Their | | car engine died and the headlights failed. The UFO flew over the car, | | and then hovered at an altitude of approximately 400 meters. The | | object had a waffle shaped surface on the bottom, and glowed with an | | intense red light. (Sources: Project Bluebook files counted in | | official statistics, case 10291; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, p. 325 (case 738); Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 28, citing Vallee). | | | | 1970 - A red cylindrical UFO hung over a tree in El Garrobo, Spain | | for nine hours beginning at seven o'clock in the morning. It departed | | by shooting off to the southwest with approached by witnesses. | | (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO | | Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 124). | | | | 1971 - Over Highway 21 in Waltham, Massachusetts at 8:20 p.m. a | | mushroom or jellyfish-shaped UFO, glowing white, hovered and dimmed | | leaving behind blinking white lights. It streaked away and was gone | | in a few seconds. (Source: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary | | Visitors, p. 357). | | | | 1973 - A reddish-orange ball of light flew parallel to I-95 south of | | Providence, Rhode Island at 12:15 a.m., pacing a car driven by a | | hospital worker for 15 minutes, driving at a speed of 55 miles per | | hour. It then stopped ahead of the witness, pulsated and waited when | | he stopped his car. It followed him for another 15 miles. (Source: | | Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1973, p. 9). | | | | 1975 - At 11:15 p.m. in Hamlet, North Carolina a retired laborer saw | | a UFO with a revolving pink light in the front yard of his home. He | | saw two small creatures "who appeared to be joined by a silver bar." | | They spoke in a language he couldn't understand. (Sources: George D. | | Fawcett, Official UFO, November 1975 pp. 12,45; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1395 citing | | Fawcett). | | | | 1976 - At 6:45 a.m. the engine and headlights of a car died in St. | | Denis, Reunion, a French territory in the Indian Ocean while in the | | presence of a small cloud by the roadside. The small cloud then rose | | up vertically, and shot off toward the southwest. (Source: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, October 1976). | | | | 1978 - A girl riding on a motorcycle saw a long red triangular UFO | | hovering 200 feet above the ground in Ratby, England at 9:00 p.m. It | | made a loud droning noise. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case 12585). | | | | 1979 - At 5:20 p.m. an oval-shaped or saucer-shaped UFO flew over the | | Tabouret Reservoir in Isere, France and then landed on the ground, | | leaving ground marks. A man was seen outside the craft, according to | | the police report. At 8:00 p.m. a thirty-foot long cylindrical UFO | | rose from the surf off of the shore at Oak Bluffs on Martha Vineyard, | | Massachusetts. The witness was reportedly frozen in place during the | | 20 minute close encounter, and his watch stopped working. (Sources: | | Robert Rouseel, OVNI, Verites Cachees, p. 91; MUFON UFO Journal, | | October 1979). | | | | 1983 - During this evening Russian Air Traffic Controllers had | | radar-visual reports of a steel-gray colored UFO, the shape of a | | cigar and the size of an airliner, in view and on their screens for | | 40 minutes. It was first picked up 50 nautical miles north of | | Gor'kiy, Russia and vanished about 25 nautical miles from the city. | | (Source: International UFO Reporter, September-October 1984, p. 13, | | citing Popovich). | | | | 1998 - A man walking his dog in Clifton Park, New York at 11:00 p.m. | | reported to a UFO hotline that a UFO briefly chased him and his dog. | | At about the same time a report from Newnan, Georgia described eight | | or more UFOs flying circles and then jerking up-and-down, and | | engaging in side-to-side motions. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2002 - In Allen, Texas at 8:00 a.m. a three meter wide silver, | | hubcap-shaped disc flew low and stopped over a field at only five | | meters altitude. It had lights around its rim. It shot off to the | | west at an extremely fast speed. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case 17854). | | | | 2003 - On this night a luminous UFO hovered over the holy city of An | | Najaf, Iraq. It was interpreted as a religious sign, protecting the | | tomb of a holy man. The mosque escaped damaged from U.S. bombs. | | (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31). | | | | 2003 - On this same night at 7:00 p.m. in Liverpool, England a large, | | stationary pinkish red light was viewed through binoculars by a local | | resident. It emitted a small white light from the top, then two small | | side-by-side white lights shot off from underneath on a diagonal | | trajectory. The pinkish red light then winked out. (Source: UFO | | Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 March 2004) | | Compiled from the UFOCAT database. | | | | Themes: aircra | | ft UFO encounters, cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs, car pacing, dayl | | ight disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, EM vehicle ignition interference | | effect, paralysis, short humanoids, UFOs shooting off at high speed, | | unintelligible language, vertical ascent, wristwatch stopped working. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+