+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 22 | | | | 1919 - A two foot wide, intense glowing ball flew slowly at a low | | altitude over Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England at 8:10 p.m. It | | engaged in controlled maneuvers for 45 minutes. There were at least | | 40 witnesses. (Source: Ananda Sirisena, FSR, March 1975, p. 17). | | | | 1945 - On this afternoon Allied POWs on the ground watched a white, | | football-shaped object following a bomber at 18,000 feet between | | Heydebreck and Kedzierzyn, Poland. On the same day there was an | | unexplained skyquake in Louisville, Kentucky.  (Sources: (1) Jenny | | Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 9; (2) George Eberhart, A | | Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 510, citing Tiffany Thayer, Doubt | | magazine, 1945, p. 172). | | | | 1950 - At around 4:00 a.m. a radar blip was detected approaching the | | Kodiak Islands at 1,800 mph over Kodiak, Alaska, according to | | airborne radar. It then buzzed several planes and boats. A U.S. Navy | | plane failed to intercept the UFO because it was too highly | | maneuverable. It had two orange lights rotating about the center, and | | made no detectable sound. (Sources: Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO | | Journal, September 1978, p. 7; UNICAT, case # 359; Lawrence Fawcett & | | Barry J. Greenwood, UFO Coverup, p. 164; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the | | National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399). | | | | 1951 - A saucer-shaped object hovered next to a test balloon 50 miles | | southeast of Holloman AFB, New Mexico. It grew in dimensions, and | | flashed once every second. It flew off to the west. (Source: Loren E. | | Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 9). | | | | 1952 - At 12:20 a.m. a radar station at Murphy's Dome, Alaska tracked | | a UFO moving at 1,500 mph at 23,000 feet. Three F-94s were vectored | | in. There were solid radar returns on the ground radar as well as two | | airborne radars. At one point the short range radar stopped working, | | preventing anything being tracked close to the station. The third jet | | approached to within 200 meters of the UFO, but pulled up for fear of | | a mid-air collision. No radar malfunctions were found. (Sources: | | Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 165; | | Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers | | -- 1952, p. 86; Project Blue Book Special Report # 3, report dated | | April 30, 1952; UNICAT, case # 599). | | | | 1956 - At 8:30 p.m. a Pan American Airways flight engineer named | | Mueller sighted a saw long cylindrical object with yellow exhaust | | while flying not far from New Orleans over the Gulf of Mexico from | | Louisiana to Florida. The UFO flew to the east into the clouds. | | (Sources: APRO Bulletin, January 1957; Paris Flamonde, UFO Exist!, p. | | 435; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. | | 246; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 27). | | | | 1958 - Two luminous  objects skipped about and played tag in the sky | | over Wimberley, Texas at one o'clock in the afternoon. (Sources: San | | Marcos (TX) Record, January 23, 1958; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth | | Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, | | p. 39). | | | | 1961 - An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three | | school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object in | | Cestas-Gazinet, France at 6:30 p.m. Interference with their car's | | ignition was noted. One witness was said to have felt a slight | | indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the word "ZEMU" | | repeated twice. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 515; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, case 111, citing Vallee). | | | | 1961 - A metallic UFO was filmed at 4:45 p.m. as it approached Eglin | | Air Force Base, Florida, then made a U-turn and sped away. There were | | at least six witnesses. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, | | p. 5; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 95; George D. Fawcett, | | Flying Saucers, September 1970, p. 4). | | | | 1967 - There were eight separate reports of saucers and a | | boomerang-shaped object from Wharton and El Campo, Texas on this | | evening, starting at around 8 p.m. The UFOs were engaged in erratic | | darting maneuvers. It made big news at the time. (Source: Frank | | Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now, p. 143). | | | | 1969 - A dark oval object with a central light on the top and bottom | | and four white lights around the edge moved in a side-to-side swaying | | motion over Lexington, Massachusetts at 9:50 p.m. (Source: Raymond E. | | Fowler, case report dated January 25, 1969; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors). | | | | Lexington, Massachusetts - 1969 | | | | [Sketch of Lexington, Massachusetts - 1969 sighting] | | | | 1971 - Three bus company employees were towing a bus from East | | Budleigh to Exmouth, England when they saw three orange balls of | | light in a straight line move across the sky. They had "a lot of | | smoke around them and they disappeared after a few seconds." (Source: | | Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 25, citing the West | | Morning News). | | | | 1971 - Two boys, Stewart and Lyle Leppke of Peabody, Kansas were | | doing their early morning farm chores at around dawn when they | | observed a lighted object in the cattle lot. When they flashed their | | light on it, they saw a diminutive figure less than two feet tall | | moving about near a UFO with small windows that was hovering just | | above the ground. They immediately went to the house to tell their | | mother who called the sheriff; but the UFO had departed by the time | | the sheriff got there. The boys said the object hovered a few feet | | off the ground, and when it departed it tipped to one side and then | | sped rapidly up and away. (Sources: Peabody (KS) Gazette Herald, | | January 28, 1971; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-03, citing a newspaper source; Ted | | Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 110). | | | | 1971 - At 9:05 p.m. Richard Williams, his wife, and son were driving | | toward Willard, Ohio from the north when they saw a low flying object | | that "looked like a bat" coming toward their car. "On the middle of | | each wing there seemed to be a rocket or a jet engine, and it had red | | and white lights on each wing and on the tails." They thought at | | first it was a plane crashing. It was 25-30 feet in diameter and came | | to within 100 feet off their car and then took off toward the east. | | There was a transparent "cockpit" in the front of the object, through | | which could be seen the movements of some kind of humanoid creature, | | silhouetted by a flashing light behind it. Multiple reports of UFO | | sightings this night came from Tiro, Sandusky, and other sections of | | Huron County, Ohio around the same time. (Sources: Norwalk (OH) | | Reflector, January 23, 1971; Mansfield (OH) News Journal, January 23, | | 1971; Skylook, April 1971, p. 5; APRO Bulletin, January-February | | 1971, p. 7; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1971-04, citing a newspaper sources). | | | | Willard, Ohio Close Encounter 1971 | | | | [Sketch of Willard, Ohio Close Encounter 1971] | | | | 1974 - On this evening a domed, disc-shaped object was encountered | | over a gravel pit in Norton, Massachusetts. It had lights around its | | edges. It blew out orange and white smoke when it left. (Source: | | NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1974, p. 2). | | | | 1977 - On this night six people in a car in Chalmette, Louisiana | | watched a domed, disc-shaped object with legs at a low altitude for | | 10 minutes. It reportedly was spinning; it tilted and played among | | the trees. (Source: APRO Bulletin, March 1977, p. 1). | | | | 1978 - Beginning at 9:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object hovered over the | | city of Figueira da Foz, Portugal for 30 minutes, | | radiating red, green, and white lights. (Source: Victor | | Lourenco, PORTUCAT database, case # 200). | | | | 1982 - A female was abducted in Weaver, Iowa by several 5-foot-tall | | beings with large heads, cat-like eyes, and small mouths. They were | | hairless, and had long arms and hands with only four-digits. She was | | submitted to a physical exam, and allegedly had something | | implanted into her head. During the exam, the aliens were | | particularly interested in her hands and wrists. A tube was inserted | | into her body and she could feel fluid or drugs going through her | | arms. They communicated with her using telepathy, and told her that | | she would perform some important task in the future. (Source: Thomas | | E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery; Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 451). | | | | 1984 - At 7:25 a.m. a blurry red object was viewed by the crew of  | | United Airlines flight 729 westbound at 43,000 feet altitude 30 miles | | east of Toledo, Ohio. left contrail, visible only a few seconds. At | | 7:00 p.m. a car was chased by a UFO in Waycross, Georgia. It | | illuminated the interior of the car with a red light. There were many | | nocturnal light reports in the area on the same evening. At 7:09 p.m. | | an orange ball of light hovered silently for one minute over | | Huntington, West Virginia. It suddenly moved west at a high rate of | | speed. It made no sound. (Source: Bob Gribble, International UFO | | Reporter, March 1984, p. 7). | | | | 1984 - At 7:00 p.m. two witnesses in Arnold, Missouri reported that a | | 25 foot diameter, white glowing saucer paced their car for three | | minutes at only 150 feet altitude. Three helicopters were seen | | circling the area afterwards. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 11075, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue 191). | | | | 1986 - Three saucer-shaped objects, stacked vertically, were seen | | over Prestatyn, Clwyd, Wales at 9:00 p.m. They went south toward | | Meliden, performing aerobatics. (Source: Paul Devereax, Earth Lights | | Revelation, p. 73).  | | | | 1988 - A 60-foot long triangular UFO flew to the east low over the | | road, just ahead of the two witnesses' car in Kettlewell, North | | Yorkshire, England at 9:00 p.m. It had many lights, some of which | | were flashing. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 20). | | | | 1989 - A pilot flying at 6,500 over Texarkana, Texas observed a large | | silver, cylinder-shaped object flying 300 feet below him at high | | speed. (Sources: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 14732). | | | | 1992 - On this evening, starting at 7:40 p.m., two observers watched | | for 80 minutes as a blue triangle hovered in the sky over Woodstock, | | New Brunswick, Canada. They took 10 minutes of videotape of the | | object. (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | January 1992 webpage).  | | | | 1992 - At 9:30 p.m. two observers in Welkenraedt, Belgium watched | | a huge triangle-shaped object fly off to the north-northwest at 40 | | km/h. It directed two beams light on an apartment building. (Sources: | | Inforespace, issue 84; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 15628). | | | | 1993 - Several students at the local Camp Crame elementary school in | | Quezon City, the Philippines were burning some wood in a wooded area | | next to a tamarind tree, when a gigantic black figure with a tail and | | two horns appeared. The students panicked and some seemed to go into | | a trance and started speaking in an unfamiliar language or tongue. | | The figure appeared to vanish in plain sight. The incident was | | interpreted as a "demonic" manifestation and possession. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 572, citing | | Fortean Times, issue # 68). | | | | 1995 - On this day lights flashed and maneuvered near a truck on the | | highway near Beatty, Nevada for 45 minutes. They moved faster than | | any jet. The two witnesses experienced 2-3 hours of missing time. | | (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17083). | | | | 1996 - A 300 foot long blimp-shaped UFO moved slowly through the sky | | over Redding, California at 8:00 p.m. It hovered for 75 minutes, | | making a purring sound, and then turned and moves off fast to the | | south. (Source: Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter; Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 17581). | | | | 2002 - At 8:00 p.m. Robert La Marco and his family saw a very bright | | disk while driving to basketball practice in Hazlet, New Jersey. The | | UFO hovered, then shot off to the east at incredible speed towards | | the Atlantic Ocean. (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, | | Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 26). | | | | 2003 - The witness had just left work and was driving home when he | | reached a place by a small lake in Prospect, Connecticut at 10:03 | | p.m. He noticed someone walking along the road so he flashed on his | | high beams. He then saw the figure walk out from the side of the | | road, stop in the center for a second, then continue across. It was | | grayish in color and it was walking on two legs, but it ambulated | | like an ape walks, swaying as it walked erect. The feet were small | | with brownish-black areas on the side. When it reached the other side | | it stopped and looked at the witness, waving its skinny arms. Lights | | appeared behind it. The man described the creature as around six feet | | tall, with large, foot-long pointy ears. The eyes were dark black | | with no apparent nose. Although the weather was cold, the witness did | | not see any condensed breath come from its small mouth. The mouth had | | a red silver strip on top. As the witness drove by he looked back to | | see the creature still standing by the road, and the woods behind the | | creature suddenly lit up like day. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2003 - Starting at 9:16 p.m. a bell-shaped UFO with four lights was | | viewed for 26 minutes over Crawfordsville, Indiana. At 10:00 p.m. a | | videotape was made of a round, red light that emitted a shower of | | lights in Oxnard, California. The object moved back and forth in the | | sky. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January | | 2003 webpage). | | | | 2004 - A lighted triangular craft was sighted flying low and slowly | | over traffic on I-35 in Olathe, Kansas at 6:45 p.m. An hour later a | | similar triangle was spotted over Deridder, Louisiana. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January 2004 webpage). | | | | 2005 - Four discs flew east over the mountains in Rancho Cucamonga, | | California at 9:16 a.m.; they were shiny and reflective like polished | | aluminum. A small propeller aircraft just south of the mountains | | started to approach the area and the four objects vanished | | immediately as the aircraft came into view. (Source: George A. Filer | | & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO | | Sightings, p. 30, citing NUFORC). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 January 2013). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database | | | | Themes: abduction by Grey humanoid | | s; boomerang UFO; giant black apparition; bat-wing shaped UFO; cyclin | | drical UFOs; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; humanoid with large point | | ed ears; missing time; multicolored UFOs; multi-year reports from Ala | | ska, California, the Gulf of Mexico, Great Britain, Louisiana, Massac | | husetts and Ohio; orange balls of light UFOs; short humanoid; side-to | | -side swaying motion; trance state behavior by witnesses to humanoid | | encounter; triangular UFOs; vehicle EM ignition interference effects. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+