+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 9 | | | | 1949 - At 4:30 p.m. an orange colored UFO was seen over some | | telephone lines by J. Bova at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base in | | Arizona. The object suddenly moved from right to left, then moved | | again passing behind the telephone pole. It then returned to its | | original position, finally engaging in some erratic movements and | | ascending into a cloud. It changed color as it did so, from orange to | | white. (Sources: Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, citing | | letter from J. Bova in 1952; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume | | I), p. 155). | | | | 1950 - A bright red pencil-shaped UFO, about six meters in length, | | moved through the sky over Hapeville, Georgia, flying to the south. | | It flickered like a neon light. (Source: M. Hitt, Georgia UFO | | Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 10). | | | | 1952 - At 2:30 p.m. a USAF C-54 transport plane flying near | | Shreveport, Louisiana was buzzed by a disc-shaped UFO estimated to be | | 35 feet in diameter. Air Force jets were scrambled from Barksdale AFB | | and chased the UFO for 55 miles as it headed off to the north. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book Report #6; Project Grudge and Project | | Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, report dated April 30, 1952). | | | | 1952 - On the same night a round, red colored UFO moved silently | | above a drive-in movie screen in Asheville, North Carolina at a high | | rate of speed. (Source: Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, | | citing letter from F. Branch dated April 16, 1952). | | | | 1956 - A round UFO surrounded by a "circle of red, blue and green | | lights" traveled at a high speed from the northeast to the southwest | | over Northampton, New York as "rays of penetrating light shot from | | it." There were three witnesses. (Sources: Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY | | Newsletter, May 1956; Amsterdam Record, April 12, 1956). | | | | 1958 - On this date in 1958 the CIA Robertson Panel report was released. At | | 3:30 a.m. a UFO was seen over Keta, Ghana swinging in a falling leaf | | motion. That same night a row of nine yellow discs flew over | | Cleveland, Ohio and split up into two groups of four and five. | | (Sources: Donald H. Menzel, The World of Flying Saucers, p. 143; FSR, | | September-October 1970, p. 28; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. | | 137). | | | | 1959 - At 6:50 p.m. a UFO was seen against the mountains by the | | Sideia Mission Brothers in Boianai, Papua New Guinea. (Source: Charles Bowen, | | UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 34). | | | | 1962 - At around 11:00 p.m. a 15-meter wide metallic disc came down | | and landed in a meadow in Rivoli, Italy. Two beings exited the craft | | and then reboarded. The UFO rose vertically on takeoff. There were | | traces of burnt grass at the site. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: | | Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2066). | | | | 1965 - At 7:20 p.m. an Air France aircrew in France saw a metallic | | disc-shaped object while flying at 15km altitude near Marignane | | Airport. It suddenly vanished. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft | | UFO Encounters, p. 42). | | | | 1967 - A conical-shaped UFO was photographed over Sofiya, the capital | | city of Bulgaria. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from | | Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 193). | | | | 1967 - Five witnesses at the intersection of Highway 30 and | | Highway 281 saw a UFO near the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant in Grand | | Island, Nebraska at dusk. (Source: Norma Short, Skylook, August 1972, | | p. 12). | | | | 1970 - A small sphere 40 cm in diameter, with spokes inside, was seen | | rotating close to the ground in Aufhofen, Germany. The UFO drew water | | from a pool on the roadway, and then shot away vertically into the | | sky. (Source: FSR, July-August 1972, p. 15). | | | | 1971 - A well known UFO photograph was taken on this day by a | | geographical survey plane in Costa Rica. The survey plane was taking | | a series of aerial photographs at 10,000 feet when at 8:25 a.m. it | | captured an image of a conical, disc-shaped UFO emerging from a lake | | called Lago de Cote. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. | | 18). | | | | 1974 - At 6:15 a.m. two people driving in a taxi watched a large | | luminous cigar as it flew southeast toward Mount Dol in Saint Malo, | | France under a heavry cloud cover. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue 141). | | | | 1975 - A delta-shaped UFO hovered over a house three miles south of | | Lumberton, North Carolina at 2:30 a.m., and all the lights in the | | house went out. The lights came back on when the UFO moved away | | toward the east. (Sources: Center for UFO Studies case files, report | | dated May 4, 1975; Jennie Zeidman, Lumberton Report: UFO Activity in | | southern North Carolina, p. 35; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume | | II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 19). | | | | 1984 - Several intercontinental airline pilots reported sighting a | | mushroom-shaped cloud, similar to what forms in the atmosphere after | | a nuclear explosion, over the western part of the Pacific Ocean. The | | cloud was slightly luminous, about 200 miles in diameter, and at a | | height of 65,000 feet. (Source: William Corliss and Jerome Clark, UFO | | Calendar 1999). | | | | 1988 - A triangular UFO hovered for three minutes over Stode, Sweden | | at 1:00 p.m. It vanished in a cloud of smoke. (Source: AFU Sweden). | | | | 1992 - A nocturnal light followed five people into the town of | | Russas, Ceara State, Brazil at around 9 p.m. It hovered nearby as the | | terrified witnesses attempted to hide from the light source in a | | large tree. The object left a few minutes later. (Source: UBPDV, | | Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 7). | | | | 1994 - A brilliant Kelly green sphere flew near a woman's home in | | Grosse Pointe, Michigan. It flew off to the west. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2000 - A motorist driving in Hot Springs, Arkansas at 4:30 a.m. saw | | an enormous, pinkish metallic cigar-shaped UFO 100 feet above the | | road. It stopped in front of the car. He blacked out. When he came to | | he smelled an odor of something burning. He recalls a high-pitched | | buzzing sound, and has recollections of an exam table. His back is | | bruised. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 24). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Th | | emes: changing colors, cloud shaped like nuclear bomb mushroom cloud, | | conical UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, erratic maneuvers, falling leaf moti | | on, missing time, multicolored UFOs, odor of burning, orange UFO, pho | | tographs, red UFOs, spherical UFOs, triangular UFOs, vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+