+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 27 | | | | 1909 - At around ten o'clock in the morning a flying object shaped | | like a boat flew overhead toward the mountains in Lambourne, New | | Zealand. It dipped, swerved in the sky, and turned back. (Sources: | | Xenolog, November 1975, p. 12; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 180). | | | | 1948 - At 8:35 a.m. a University of New Mexico scientist in | | Albuquerque, New Mexico saw a flat metallic disc-shaped object that | | hung motionless in the sky for ten minutes. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54). | | | | 1949 - A cropduster in Puyallup, Washington named Sagmiller saw a | | disc pass overhead at 9:40 a.m. It reflected the sunlight | | brilliantly. (Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 28, 1949). | | | | 1952 - At 12:15 a.m. seven "good, solid targets" appeared on radar at | | National Airport near Washington, D.C. F-94 interceptors were sent | | from Deleware, but they made no visual contact as the UFOs were gone | | by the time they arrived. It was noted that there were only minor | | temperature inversions at the time, and these were not the likely | | cause of the radar blips. Five minutes later an F-94 pilot made vsual | | contact with a round UFO. Both the UFO and the F-94 jet were seen on | | radar flying at the same speed. But when the jet tried to overtake | | the UFO it disappeared visually and on radar. "Incredible speed of | | the object," said the pilot. (Source: Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO | | Cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 | | cases 6 & 7; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17). | | | | 1952 - In Nevada at four o'clock in the morning highway worker Truman | | Bethurum had finished working the night shift and decided to visit a | | nearby hilltop called Mormon Mesa because he heard it was a good | | place to look for seashell fossils. After he parked his truck he used | | a flashlight to hunt for seashells, but he had no luck finding any, | | and after searching for an hour or so he returned to the truck and | | napped awhile. A “mumbling around the truck” awakened him. The | | mumbling came from eight to ten olive-skinned beings speaking an | | unintelligible language. All were about 4 feet 8 inches to 5 feet | | tall. They were not dwarfs but fully developed men. The strange men | | made no effort to disturb him, although Bethurum said he was afraid | | to attempt a getaway. | | | | He was still in the truck cab when one man spoke to him in a foreign | | tongue. Bethurum shook his head, indicating he could not understand. | | Then the small man said: “You name it.” It was perfect English, | | recalled Bethurum, who answered: “My God, you can speak English, | | too?” “We have no trouble with any language,” replied the man. | | Bethurum then climbed out of the truck and stopped, awestruck. He saw | | a flying saucer parked about 75 yards away from his truck. It looked | | like burnished stainless steel. Bethurum shook hands with all the | | “friendly” men and asked if their captain was around. The spokesman | | for the group volunteered to escort Bethurum to the captain, and led | | him toward the parked craft. Meanwhile, Bethurum looked around and | | saw that the short men were “Latin types,” with complexions | | “something like Italians.” All were neatly dressed in uniforms | | similar to those “worn by Greyhound bus drivers.” All had coal black | | hair and dark eyes. Their skin complexion was perfect and had no | | wrinkles or blemishes. The spokesman for the group took hold of | | Bethurum’s right elbow. While holding the arm the man seemed to “have | | me in his power completely. He gave the impression of great | | strength.” Soon the group arrived at the ship. Bethurum described it | | as being metallic. He learned that it measured 300 feet in diameter | | and was “six yards deep in the center.” A three-foot metal rim with | | beveled edges surrounded the saucer-shaped craft, and the rim was | | about two feet thick. The ship had no rudder or stacks. They entered | | the ship through a large door that Bethurum estimated was 4 ½ feet | | wide and about 10 to 12 feet long. It was located atop the ship close | | to the metal rim around the edge. Inside he met the woman captain, | | Aura Rhanes. He described her as having a “slender” Latin-type face. | | She wore a “radiant red skirt, black velvet short sleeved blouse and | | a black beret with red trim.” He went into her lounge and they | | talked. The woman captain said she was from the planet Clarion, which | | could not be seen from earth. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1952-07, citing Truman | | Bethurum, Aboard a Flying Saucer; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, | | p. 237). | | | | 1952 - At 10:05 a.m. a procession of white saucer-shaped objects was | | sighted at Selfridge AFB, Michigan. They flew very fast and made no | | sound. Each passage of UFOs took 30 seconds. First two objects flew | | over, then one, then another, and then a last one. A Project Blue | | Book unidentified case. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case 1680; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: | | UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274). | | | | 1952 - A cigar-shaped object split into seven or eight smaller | | objects over Manhattan Beach, California at 6:25 p.m. (Source: | | Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 68; | | Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, | | p. 3-012). | | | | 1952 - At 7:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object moved slowly toward the | | northeast with an "oscillating rolling motion" seen from Andrews AFB, | | Maryland. Clouds at the time were moving toward the southeast, and | | the UFO entered the base of the clouds. (Sources: Richard Hall, The | | UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 161; Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO Cases | | in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 case 8). | | | | 1952 - At 8:30 p.m. in Wichita Falls, Texas two people witnessed two | | phosphorescent disc-shaped objects flying at 1,000 mph. They were | | seen for 15 seconds. A Project Blue Book "unknown." (Sources: Project | | Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1684; Kevin D. | | Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274). | | | | 1952 - At 11:30 p.m. at a drive-in movie theater in Spokane, | | Washington twelve UFOs were seen in the skies for 30 minutes. | | (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, | | p. 34). | | | | 1962 - One hundred eighty school students and their teachers in Villa | | Tunuyuan, Mendoza province, Argentina saw three discs pass over their | | school at 7:45 a.m. heading from the north to the south. The UFOs | | gave off a bluish light. The teachers said they also emitted blinding | | silvery flashes. (Source: Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, | | July-August 1964, p. 11, citing Antonio Ribera). | | | | 1964 - At 8:50 p.m. an engineer named Daubert saw an aluminum colored | | sphere with a luminous glowing ring that hovered for 4-5 minutes at | | 15 meters altitude over a farm in Sherburne, New York. A Project Blue | | Book unexplained case. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case #8969; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for | | Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 158; Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 2 & 150). | | | | 1964 - At 8:20 p.m. a witness named Borsa in Denver, Colorado sighted | | a white fireball, estimated to be the size of a car, that climbed | | slowly in the sky then sped up. The sighting lasted 2-3 minutes. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case | | #8973; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51). | | | | 1967 - An elongated oval-shaped UFO, carrying bright white lights | | fore and aft and a central red light, with a string of smaller white | | lights flashing in sequence along the side, was sighted by three | | amateur astronomers at 1:00 a.m. over Newton, New Hampshire. The UFO | | flashed in exact response to flashlight signals, and evaded a jet | | that flew over the area. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 349). | | | | 1967 - At around 1:00 a.m. a distress call came from a private pilot | | flying between Alexandria and Leesville, Louisiana that a UFO had | | approached the side and then the tail of his airplane, forcing the | | plane to crash. The pilot, badly injured, kept transmitting until he | | faded out. A Civil Aviation Board report was logged of a crash at Oak | | Grove, Louisiana earlier (2000 hrs). (Source: NICAP files, citing | | newspaper report in the Shreveport Times, July 28, 1967). | | | | 1971 - The witness was at home in Valcourt, Quebec watching | | television at 8:30 p.m. when his attention was drawn to the sound of | | his cows bellowing in a nearby field. The witness and his wife went | | outside and saw the cows running from the field. They also saw a dark | | spherical object hovering above the field, with a reddish light | | shining out of what appeared to be an open door in the object. Three | | small men who glowed a pale green color were moving around the | | object. They seem to glide just above the ground in rapid, darting | | movements. At times the beings seemed to pick something up from the | | ground. The little men went back inside the object, closing the door | | behind them. The UFO then rose slowly and disappeared over some | | nearby trees. The next day a circular spiral was found on the ground, | | plus a silvery lump of unknown material that was later tested at | | Laval University. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1971, case # 1011, citing Francois Bourbeau, Spectra, | | Quebec). | | | | 1973 - In Lago D'Idro Brescia, Italy a 16-year-old boy found and | | photographed some strange traces he found in the area. He seemed to | | have experienced a period of missing time. Under hypnosis he recalled | | being approached and touched by a human looking figure. He then | | became confused and felt he had been sucked up inside a hovering | | object from below. He found himself in a round room where four beings | | stood. A woman entered the room and the beings began talking and | | touching the witness. He could not move the entire time. He was then | | sat in a chair next to a window, and watched as the object descended | | and landed. He was then released. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 138, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO | | Universe, October-November 1991). | | | | 1978 - Three people driving in Sheffield Village, Ohio observed a | | silver, banana-shaped object with red and blue flashing lights at | | 10:45 p.m. The engine and headlights of their car went out as the | | object came close to the ground about 600 feet away. It made a | | wavering, humming sound and moved up and down near the ground for | | about 15 minutes, then flew away. The car could not be restarted for | | an hour and a half after the sighting. (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 421; International UFO | | Reporter, September 1978) | | | | 1984 - At 3:45 a.m. a spark-tailed fireball splashed down 1000 yards | | south of Lummi Island in Washington State. The impact sent a plume of | | water 100 feet into the air before the object sank and the water as | | the surface of the sea rolled and bubbled. (Source: Doris Graziano, | | APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8). | | | | 1993 - At 9:00 p.m. a dozen witnesses at Calabona Beach, Sardinia, | | Italy sighted a strange object resembling a "balloon" flying over the | | beach. At first it resembled a round black object that hovered, then | | it changed to an oblong, irregular shape. The witnesses ran closer | | and saw the object enlarging as it flew away from the area. It now | | looked like a helicopter with a red pulsating light. (Source: Italian | | UFO Reporter, October 10, 1996). | | | | 1994 - A young boy ran into his mother's bedroom at 4:00 a.m. in | | Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and reported seeing a large object | | with blue lights hovering under the electrical wires outside his | | bedroom window. He also saw "little people on the poles." He was told | | by his mother to go back to bed and sleep. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2754, citing Graham | | Conway). | | | | 2001 - On this night several witnesses at different locations in | | Acquappesa, Italy reported seeing a dog rise up into the air from | | near the ocean and enter a hovering, lighted spherical object. The | | object had a large lighted window and a tall man-like figure could be | | seen looking out. It then flew away. The dog was apparently taken. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing | | Leonard Da Vinci Research Group). | | | | 2004 - A truck driver driving south on Interstate 25 in New Mexico | | reported the night sky was pitch black with no moon nor even cloud | | cover visible. At 1:30 a.m., driving at 63 mph, he noticed a bright | | blue light about a half-mile ahead on the exit ramp for south-bound | | Exit 138. It appeared to be like a blue laser, similar to the light | | some people use on the hoods of their cars. When he got closer to the | | ramp he saw two figures approximately 3-4 feet tall. Each was either | | holding a blue light, or was wearing a blue head lamp. He couldn't | | tell for sure. The figures appeared to be looking to the north and | | south, and they looked at his truck as he drove by. They appeared to | | be wearing loose-fitting bright silver outfits, similar to HAZMAT | | suits. He couldn't tell if they were wearing helmets. The terrain was | | very flat and he did not see any vehicles in the area. He was sure | | that he would have seen any vehicle that they could have come from. | | He slowed to turn around but the nearest exit was another 30 miles | | down the highway so he decided not to go back. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | 2004 - While driving home from a dinner party at two o'clock in the | | morning a married couple in Asland, Massachusetts observed a round | | silver disc-shaped object about 30 feet in diameter that had landed | | in an open field off of Chestnut Street. They both got out of their | | car and approached the disc and when they got close enough they both | | touched the craft. It was very cold to the touch and it was glowing | | red to blue. They were able to see inside the craft through a small | | window and saw three small beings. All appeared to be sleeping or | | meditating, they did not respond to the witnesses voices. As the | | couple began to walk around the craft it began to rise up into the | | air and eventually flew off without making any sound at all. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 24 May 2006). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction and animal di | | sappearance; aircraft UFO encounters; animal reaction: cows panicked; | | blue lights or blue UFOs; cigar-shaped UFO splitting into smaller ob | | jects; disc-shaped UFOs; ground marks and residue; human appearing UF | | O occupants; inside occupants; landing; levitation; missing time; mul | | ti-year reports from Italy and Washington State; mystery helicopter; | | paralysis; radar-visual UFO confirmation; shape changing UFOs; short | | humanoids; silvery metallic UFOs, spherical UFOs, vehicle EM effects. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+