+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 13 | | | | 1910 -  Several thousand people in Chattanooga, Tennessee watched a | | white cigar-shaped object that passed rapidly over the city at around | | 11:00 a.m. at 500 to 1,000 feet altitude. It disappeared into a bank | | of smoke along the river. "Flags on the custom house hung limp [so | | the wind]…would not have propelled a...balloon." (Sources: Donald E. | | Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships | | to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th | | Century (1900-1946), p. 8; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious | | Business, p. 27). | | | | 1957 - Two men, West and Liddell, watched as a forty meter in | | diameter fluorescent oval-shaped object nearly touched down on the | | grass in Balfour, New Zealand at 3:10 a.m., but it jumped away as the | | two men approached. It changed to a bluish-white sphere with a dark | | red center. It cleared a fence, and then vanished. (Source: Richard | | F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 106). | | | | 1958 - At 6:30 p.m. in Casino, New South Wales, Australia Brian | | Crittendon, age 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object that emitted a | | narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened that he | | drove home on a flat tire, followed for five kilometers by the | | object, which was about 50 meters away from him and 10 meters above | | ground. It overtook his car at a speed in excess of 100 km/h. Radio | | interference was noted but the UFO made no noise. There was an | | independent witness to the UFO. (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs in the | | Southern Hemisphere, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 457; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, case 89). | | | | 1959 - A witness driving alone in Bygholm, Denmark saw a stationary | | object ahead in the sky. After about five seconds the object moved | | toward the car and passed over it at a height of 100 meters. The | | car's engine stopped at this point but the headlights were not | | affected. The object, which now changed color from yellow-green to | | yellow-white, moved quickly away into the west. (Sources: Richard | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, case 97, FSR, Vol. 5, No. 5) | | | | 1959 - At 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins, while driving a pick-up truck | | near Greenville, Pennsylvania, noticed lights in the sky he thought | | were a plane making an emergency landing. The lights eventually | | coalesced into a single bright light. This light then hovered over | | his truck for several minutes. His truck's engine, lights, and radio | | failed at this point. The light, which was too bright for Mr. ColIins | | to discern any structure, departed quickly to the west and out of | | sight in 30 seconds. The truck then could be restarted. (Sources: | | Greenville (PA) Record-Argus, January 31, 1959; Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 98, citing Coral & Jim | | Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 75). | | | | 1967 - Nine-year old Freddie Amos woke up at 1:30 a.m. in his | | farmhouse in Iola, Kansas to see a round object hovering motionless | | low over an adjoining field. It was 25 feet in diameter, had a dome | | on top, short wing-like protrusions, and three wheels on its | | underside. There were red lights on the ends of the "wings," and a | | blue light on top of the dome. A man stood inside the dome looking | | out, and another man was visible sitting behind a console behind him. | | The man standind wore a "crinkly" green uniform that covered him | | entirely; his face was in shadow and his facial features could not be | | seen. This "terrible" man frightened the boy although he could not | | say why. He got back into bed but continued to watch the object, | | which circled his house and hovered again for five minutes back in | | its original position before flying off. In the morning some of their | | cows were found to have broken through the fence around their | | pasture. One had broken her leg. A pond in the pasture near the site | | continued to remain unfrozen although the temperatures were well | | below freezing. This encounter occurred during a minor concentration | | of UFO sightings at nearby locales. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-7, citing | | Mary Conger for NICAP; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1967, case 26). | | | | 1967 - At 10:00 p.m. Pilot Carl M., a flight officer, and passenger | | Jimmie Moran on a Lear Jet 23 en route from Houston, Texas to Las | | Vegas, Nevada flying at 41,000 feet and 300 knots saw a red oval | | luminous object in the 10 o'clock position. The object split into | | four similar red oval objects vertically a number of times, each | | separated by about 2,000 ft and each emitting a "red ray". They then | | retracted up into the top object. Albuquerque radar tracked the | | object 39 miles ahead of the Lear jet moving on the same heading, | | with no transponder signal. The object blinked off visually for 30 | | seconds then blinked back on. Albuquerque control contacted a | | National Airlines DC-8 over Casa Grande, Arizona, whose pilot | | confirmed the Lear Jet pilot's reports. Albuquerque control warned | | the Lear that the object suddenly darted towards the Lear at high | | speed, and within seconds the radar blips merged. The object flooded | | the Lear Jet with intense red light so bright the pilot had | | difficulty seeing his instrument panel, and it maintained a position | | in front of the Lear for a few minutes. Then, it blinked off-on again | | and started to fall back behind the left wing, but then pulled | | forward again. When the object blinked off the Albuquerque radar | | controllers would lose contact with the object, then regain it when | | it blinked on again. Both the UFO and Lear jet made left turns over | | Winslow, Arizona, when Los Angeles ARTC Center radar picked up both | | targets. Past Flagstaff the object climbed at a 30° angle | | disappearing to the west in less than 10 seconds. (Source: J. Allen | | Hynek, Hynek UFO Experience, p. 72; Charles Bowen, FSR, May-June | | 1972, p. 13, Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; | | UNICAT, case # 318). | | | | 1968 - At 6:20 a.m. in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania a large round | | white object, at times reddish, emitted smaller satellite objects | | that maneuvered independently. The larger UFO was 40 to 50 feet in | | diameter UFO and about 350 feet in the air. It rose slowly, and gave | | off a white haze. The white light then changed color from red | | to reddish-orange then back to white. It emitted four small red balls | | of light from a hatch, then five white ones. There were at least 20 | | witnesses. That night in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania the Rev. R. | | Mossir reported sighting four pulsating objects leaving a white UFO, | | which seemed to explode in the sky after the red objects left it. | | (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1968, p. 1; Skylook, | | February 1968, p. 1 & 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 414). | | | | 1969 - In Vado Ligure, Italy at around 6 p.m. an eight meter | | in diameter circular object was seen taking off from a construction | | site, crushed grass was found at the landing site. (Sources: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 8708; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case | | 63). | | | | 1970 - A witness riding on a motorcycle on highway D123 north of | | Cramoisy in Oise department, France encountered a low flying, slow | | moving, 10 meter long sausage-shaped object with a row of portholes | | in front at 6:45 a.m. The witness felt sick later. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 9556, citing LDLN Lecteurs). | | | | 1977 - At 12:30 a.m. a 17-year-old woman driving in Plantation, | | Florida had her car paced by a disc-shaped object. It engaged in | | erratic maneuvers, and then was joined by a second disc. Both objects | | flew off to the east. They did not appear on radar. (Source: Allan | | Hendry, International UFO Reporter, pp. 2 & 36). | | | | 1979 - On this evening, perhaps as early as 4:30 p.m., a 50-year-old | | farmer named Mancini in Viterbo, Italy spotted a large blindingly | | bright fiery red sphere descend in a nearby pasture. The sphere | | changed colors to a bright orange and then to red, and finally dimmed | | to reveal a two-meter wide metallic sphere. A small man only 20 | | inches tall, wearing a silvery white suit, emerged from the object | | and walked around the object, frequently bending down as if he was | | picking things up. Frightened, the witness ran away from the scene. | | The object took off and flew to the northwest. (Sources: Jane Thomas, | | UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15 , citing Hoja Lunes, Jan. | | 15, 1979; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 143; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 13608; BUFORA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3; Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 996). | | | | 1979 - At 11:50 a.m. a 12-year-old boy named Suarez, the son of the | | school's janitor, was alone in a school room in Loreto, Santiago del | | Estero province, Argentina when he heard a sudden noise. Looking | | around, he saw a rectangular silvery object, five feet tall by two | | feet wide and three feet long, hovering a few inches above the | | schoolyard ground. Two flaps opened on the sides of the object and | | two little men emerged and descended. Each was about three feet tall | | and dressed in shiny aluminum colored one-piece coveralls, and their | | hands had only four fingers. Both wore helmets with dark faceplates | | that covered the eyes. They each had a device with a tube and | | clock-like instrument attached. They entered the school and one being | | grabbed the boy. A voice coming from the object spoke to him in | | Spanish telling him to sit down. Once seated the boy was paralyzed | | and unable to move from the chair, while one of the beings went into | | another room and the other went back inside the object. A reddish | | beam of light from the object knocked the witness out. When he woke | | up later the object and beings were gone, but a strong sulphurous | | odor remained behind. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping | | Service, April 1979, p. 15; citing Cronica, Jan. 16, 1979; FSR, July | | 1979, p. 21; Thomas E Bullard, UFO Abductions, The Measure of A | | Mystery, case 53; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, | | case # 499). | | | | 2000 - Three pinkish-red objects were sighted travelling in vertical | | formation in Mount Warrigal, New South Wales, Australia at 10:55 p.m. | | They then performed incredible acrobatics for the next 20 minutes. | | (Sources: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 52; Australasian Ufologist, | | July 2000, p. 50 & January 2001, p. 46). | | | | 2000 - Late on this night in Jacksonville, Florida a woman suddenly | | awoke to find herself being dropped onto her bed by a non-human | | looking entity. Close to her face she saw a huge head on a thin body. | | At the same time she felt a puff of breath coming from the entity's | | open mouth. She sensed that the being was surprised that she had | | woken up. Although terrified, she still fell asleep. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3441, citing South | | Florida Skyscan). | | | | 2007 - In Vaughan, Ontario a cigar-shaped object flew parallel to the | | highway at midnight, gliding quietly like a submarine. The object had | | illuminated windows. The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. (Source: | | Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 16, citing NUFORC). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 December 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraf | | t UFO encounter, bedroom visitation, car pursuits, cigar-shaped UFOs, | | color changing UFOs, domed discs, crinkly green uniform, landings, m | | ulti-year reports from Pennsylvania, paralysis, radio frequency inter | | ference, satellite objects leaving larger UFO, shiny silver uniform, | | short humanoid UFOnauts, silent UFO, vehicle EM interference effects. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+