+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 23 | | | | 1953 - A cigar-shaped object darted into a high altitude cloud over | | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at noon on this day. It then flew back | | out again. (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern | | Hemisphere, p. 91; APRO Bulletin, November 1953). | | | | 1957 - At 8:15 in the morning over Kansas City, Kansas four discs | | were sighted flying in a box formation. Two of the objects turned and | | flew to the northwest, while two shot ahead to the north, joining | | another pair also going to the northwest. (Sources: Loren E. Gross, | | The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March | | 23-May 25, p. 94; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of | | Multiple UFO, p. 110). | | | | 1961 - A round, silver bowl-shaped object flew slowly to the south | | over Napier, New Zealand in Hawke's Bay at a few minutes after 3:15 | | p.m. It was witnessed by a Mrs. Church for two minutes. It reached a | | position over the local aerodrome and then vanished in place. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 8). | | | | 1962 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a domed disc with portholes flew | | over the city for an estimated 40 minutes, playing a game of cat and | | mouse with jets at an estimated altitude of 750 meters. The Air Force | | explanation lists this case as caused by a reflection. (Source: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, May 1962; | | APRO Bulletin, May 1962). | | | | 1965 - A school teacher in Kailua, Hawaii watched a small white disc, | | perhaps one meter in diameter, fly by very fast from northeast to | | southwest at an estimated altitude of only 100 feet. (Source: APRO | | Bulletin, January-February 1966). | | | | 1969 - At midnight in Kalamunda, Western Australia nocturnal lights | | zigzagged through the sky and were picked up as blips on radar as | | they maneuvered to the north. (Source: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. | | 67). | | | | 1971 - Twelve photographs were taken of a silverly metallic disc in | | St. Lorenzen, Austria at 12:30 p.m. The disc was estimated to be 12 | | to 15 meters in diameter and was seen moving in and out of clouds. It | | jumped from location to location, and appeared to be spinning when | | hovering. (Source: UFO Nachrichten (Germany), September 1971). | | | | 1973 - A round spinning UFO with red, green, blue and purple lights | | buzzed a car with three teenagers in Mount Gambier, South Australia | | at 7 p.m., terrigying them. In an undulating course the UFO first | | hovered, then came straight at their car. It flew up and over them, | | and passed low over the other side and away. (Source: Border Watch, | | May 1973, p. 24). | | | | 1975 - A dog and cat reacted with panic when a bottle-shaped silver | | UFO flew near a mountainside at 9 p.m. in Sedona, Arizona. There were | | separate witnesses to the nocturnal fly by. (Source: APRO Bulletin, | | May-June 1976, p. 5). | | | | 1977 - A fiery looking torus-shaped object hovered and tilted over | | Santiago, Chile at six o'clock in the morning. A beam extended from | | the object, and swung back and forth like a pendulum. At ball of | | light was at the end of the beam. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | January 1978). | | | | 1982 - At 3:30 a.m. a nocturnal light paced a car in Bowna, New South | | Wales, Australia only 3 meters above the ground. It hovered when the | | car stopped. A diamond shaped object was seen hovering over the car's | | destination. (Source: Australian Center for UFO Studies files). | | | | 1983 - A disc-shaped object with a black top, blue sides, square | | windows, and a reddish golden metallic bottom maneuvered over trees | | in McHenry, Illinois at 7:30 p.m. It was witnessed by an art teacher | | as it then rocked violently, levelled out, and flew off following the | | contour of the land. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO | | Reporter, January-February 1985, p. 7). | | | | 1988 - A black cylindrical object hovered in the northern sky for 30 | | minutes, as seen from Fredericia, Denmark at 4 p.m. It then appeared | | to vanish. (Source: Scandinavian UFO Newsletter, issue #12). | | | | 1999 - In Mambau, Malaysia at 4:30 a.m. 17-year-old Fahmi Mohd was | | awaken by the sound of wind blowing. He noticed some bright lights | | outside his house. When he went out the back door he was surprised to | | see an object hovering low over some nearby bushes. It was about | | 20-30 feet away and gave off a very bright blue light. He could not | | tell its shape because of the light's brilliance. He watched in | | amazement, forgetting to wake his parents. Next he saw a small being, | | about half a meter tall, come out from the bottom of the hovering | | craft. Again, because of the bright blue light he could not | | distinguish many features, but he could see that it had drooping ears | | and a slightly pointed head with very long arms. Frightened, he went | | back inside his house. He looked out again to see the object shoot up | | at an angle and disappear into the sky. He did hear a mechanical | | sound right before the object shot up. Several small footprints were | | found at the site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1999, case #3428, citing Ahmad Jamaludin, Malaysian Centre | | for UFO Studies). | | | | 1999 - A wedge-shaped object with blue and red flashing lights, | | described as "something weird," flew over Surrey, British Columbia at | | 10:15 a.m. (Source: Geoff Ditman, Canadian UFO Survey 1999, case # | | 87). | | | | 2003 - Three very big disc-shaped objects, bobbing up and down, were | | seen over Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at 8 p.m. They flashing | | different colors in a blue to white to red sequence, and were | | estimated to be 30 feet in diameter. A man and wife and their | | 23-year-old son drove under a dark, slow moving triangular shaped | | object on Highway 17 north of Webster, Iowa at 9:30 p.m. The UFO had | | bright orange lights at each apex which did not light up the entire | | craft. It also had a light gray circle in the center and stripes | | extending out to the corners. Later that night at 11:35 p.m. MDT in | | Havre, Montana three white lights arranged in a triangle formation | | moved through the sky perfectly spaced, suggesting they belonged to | | one craft. The UFO made no sound and had no blinking or colored | | lights. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 July 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: blue lights; car pursuits; cig | | ars; disc-shaped objects; domed discs; multicolored UFOs; multi-year | | southern hemisphere reports from Australia and New Zealand especially | | from Melbourne, Victoria; radar cases; rocking behavior; short human | | oid with long arms; silver UFOs; triangular UFOs, up and down motion. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+