+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 6 | | | | 1897 - Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of | | Hot Springs, Arkansas when they saw a bright light in the sky. About | | seven km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. | | One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying | | lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were | | told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The profile | | of the 20-meter long machine could be seen in the clearing. There was | | a woman with an parasol or umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the | | younger man was filling a large container with water. The elder man | | had a beard and suggested to the policemen that they fly with them | | "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back to | | the same spot 40 minutes later but found nothing there. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 186, | | citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966). | | | | 1949 - On this day, a decorated Soviet test pilot named Apraksin was | | flying over the Volga River in Russia, 40 kilometers north of the | | city of Saratov, when his aircraft's electrical system was knocked | | out of operation by a cone of light from a cucumber-shaped UFO after | | he attempted to approach it. He was blinded by the light, but managed | | to land the crippled aircraft despite his incapacitation in an abrupt | | emergency landing. He then lost consciousness and was confined to | | hospital to recuperate. (Sources: Felix Zigel, unpublished | | manuscript, pp. 124-126; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet | | Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 138, citing Felix Zigel; Geoffrey Falla, | | BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 4; Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11). | | | | 1949 -  At 8:30 a.m. EDT witnesses Stump, Herman and Quinn in Sidney, | | Ohio saw a bright object about half a mile to the west moving south | | at high speed. It left no trail and made no sound. One of the | | witnesses said it was too bright to tell what shape it had, but the | | others said it had a flat, circular shape. It was in sight for two | | minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book files; Jan Aldrich, Project | | 1947). | | | | 1949 - At 9:35 a.m. a witness named C. G. Green reported to the U.S. | | Air Force that two shiny disc-shaped objects circled each other and | | banked over a field in Livermore, California. One of the objects | | shot straight up with a gray trail. The sighting lasted five minutes. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case 379; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1397; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1949 - At Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas a UFO observation network | | set up two days earlier, employing Army artillery observers, tracked | | their first object. They sighted and triangulated on a brilliant | | light 4000 yards in the distance. It moved very slowly, dropping from | | an altitude of 1200 feet to 440 feet. It was the apparent size of a | | half dollar at arm's length. Its color was pinkish to green, and was | | in sight for 50 minutes. The main witness was Lt. Mardell E. Ward. | | (Source: Jan Aldrich, FOIA, http://www.nicap.org/hood490506dir.htm). | | | | 1950 - Crowds of observers in Rome, Italy watched two flashing | | saucer-shaped object one mile over the Piazza Colonna at 4:30 p.m. | | They were spinning and moved slowly. (Sources: Solas Boncompagni, UFO | | in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 126; Loren E. Gross, | | UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42). | | | | 1950 - At 10:00 p.m. a squadron of discs flew in circles for 20 | | minutes above the city of Abington, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. | | There were many witnesses. (Sources: Riverside Daily Press, May 8, | | 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42). | | | | 1954 - At noon, three linemen working in Heppner, Oregon watched | | three - 36m domed discs cross the sky in a V-formation, traveling at | | 2200 kph. (Sources: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. | | 144; NICAP files, newspaper clipping dated July 1, 1954; APRO | | Bulletin, volume 3, number 1). | | | | 1960 - Shortly before 9:00 p.m. a rocket-shaped UFO crossed over the | | town of Vila Ezio, Sao Paulo State, Brazil moving at high speed. | | (Sources: UFO Nachtrichten, August 1961, citing Olavo T. Fontes: | | Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 221). | | | | 1965 - At 9:10 a.m. local time the crew of a US Navy ship heading | | west at 265° at 15 knots in the Philippine Sea sighted approaching | | aircraft at bearing 0°. At 9:14 a.m. the radar detected four targets | | at ranges up to 22 miles for the next 6 minutes flying at extremely | | high speed (3,500 mph) and performing various maneuvers. The craft | | were viewed through binoculars and appeared as 3 lighted objects. | | Next, the UFOs hovered directly over the ship for 3 minutes as | | confirmed visually and on radar by the Commanding Officer, bridge | | crew and others on deck.  The objects departed to the SE at extremely | | high speed. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 81, | | sighting Blue Book files). | | | | 1966 - At 2:05 a.m. EDT. in Collier County, southwest Florida, near | | Carnestown in the vicinity of Naples, a shaken motorist made a | | statement to Naples police about his car being approached from behind | | by a "large white light" that came within about 100-150 feet of his | | car, changing color to blue-green. He tried to flee, but the UFO | | zoomed past him making a "whooshing" noise, and circled around to the | | left and disappeared. (Sources: Miami Herald, May 7, 1966; NICAP | | notes, police statement in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives; Frank Edwards, | | Flying Saucers: Here and Now, p. 59) | | | | 1967 - A 24-year-old man named Campeadore was driving on the main | | highway 17 miles west of St. George, Utah at 12:43 a.m. when he heard | | a loud humming sound and stopped his car to investigate. He got out | | of his vehicle and saw a 40-foot wide, amber colored domed disc | | hovering only 20-30 feet over his head. He took out his pistol and | | fired a complete clip of bullets at the object. He reported that he | | heard the bullets ricochet off. He also suffered some physiological | | after effects as the result of his close encounter. (Sources: NICAP | | case files; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 338; Richard F. | | Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 120; APRO | | Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5). | | | | 1967 - On this morning a man in Black River Falls, Wisconsin had a 10 | | minute sighting of a disc flying in the sky. (Source: Sherman Larsen | | case files, report dated October 13, 1969). | | | | 1967 - A mechanical engineer and his daughter were driving between | | Durango and Mazatlan, Mexico around 11:00 a.m. when they sighted a | | disc-shaped object on the ground off to the side of the highway. The | | engineer took three photographs while the UFO took off. Two parts of | | the landing gear are shown in first photo, while the second showed no | | legs and presumably had been retracted. The third photo missed the | | object. (Sources: Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. | | 65; Scott Corrales, Fate, May 2002, p. 19; Jacques Vallee, Passport | | to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 839). | | | | 1967 - Raymond Schirrmann, his wife, and two children of Schirmeck, | | Bas-Rhine department, France first sighted seven or eight black, | | lenticular objects at 7:00 p.m. over a grove of trees at an estimated | | distance of two kilometers. They were aligned in a straight, diagonal | | line in the sky, and each was surrounded by a halo of smoke. At 9:00 | | p.m. a large lens-shaped object, 15-20 meters in diameter, was seen | | close to the ground near their chalet only 25 meters away. A coherent | | beam of light snaked away from the object, ending in midair. It | | detached, then retracted into the object. Following this some landing | | legs appeared. The event lasted three hours, and the UFOs were | | tracked by radar at a nearby military base. (Sources: Michel Figuet | | Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres | | Rapprochees en France, p. 271; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A | | Study of Multiple UFO, p. 91, citing UNICAT; UNICAT database, case | | 403, citing Figuet & Ruchon; Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1967). | | | | 1973 - At 10:32 p.m. six witnesses in Gladston, Queensland, | | Australia, including a woman named Korn, sighted a UFO traveling | | slowly at 30,000 feet that changed course to the south. It was | | flashing at irregular intervals. Suddenly it dropped a small light, | | which shot north. The main light made an abrupt turn, then zig-zagged | | to the east. (Source: Gladstone Observer, May 9, 1973). | | | | 1975 - A ground ring was discovered this day in a pasture in | | Doughboy, New South Wales, Australia. It was an almost perfect circle | | of dead grass, with an inside diameter of 3.3m and an outside | | diameter of 4.6m. The circle deteriorated, leaving behind bare earth. | | A cowpad in the circle was completely flattened. (Source: Bill | | Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 23, citing Daily | | Examiner, May 14, 1975). | | | | 1975 - Two large silver disc-shaped objects bracketed a USAF jet | | aircraft testing equipment for an hour flying from Wright Patterson | | AFB, Ohio. The witness experienced a lapse of time. (Source: Leonard | | H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 174). | | | | 1975 - On this evening in Cameron, West Virginia a man, his daughter, | | and his daughter's friend where at the local high school basketball | | court. A green-blue blob (BOL) approached, passing 25 feet above the | | school. They got in his car to leave, but when the UFO hovered near | | the car the car's ignition system cut out. (Source: Cameron (WV) | | News, May 13, 1975). | | | | 1975 - Several separate observers driving between Sedona and Oak | | Creek, Arizona observed a dome shaped, glowing cloud maneuvering | | between 7:10 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. There were also nocturnal lights and | | searchlights reported. (Source: Raymond Jordan, APRO Bulletin, | | May-June 1976, p. 5). | | | | 1977 - At 2:30 a.m. a man in Challans, Vendee department, France had | | a close encounter by a railway bridge with a two-meter sphere | | surrounded by a blue halo. It followed the witness as he walked home. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978). | | | | 1977 - In Encinitas, California a large domed disc-shaped object | | descended into canyon. A school teacher and fifteen students | | witnessed the descent, and said that they could see figures inside | | the craft. It was seen again one hour later. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 12693). | | | | 1978 - At 5:40 a.m. a group of several witnesses, including police, | | observed 25-30 luminous UFOs make a turn over the city of Catamarca, | | Argentina. They shot off to the west at great speed. It was seen by | | several members of the guard from the province's police headquarters. | | On the same day a strange flying object fell to earth in a | | mountainous zone near Baritu in northern part of Salta province. A | | widespread aerial and ground search was conducted, in an area | | "practically inaccessible" due to the terrain. (Sources: Jane Thomas, | | UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1978, p. 14, citing Cronica, May 12, | | 1978; FSR, November 1978, p. 23). | | | | 1979 - While driving on the southwestern part of Bribie Island, | | Queensland, Australia at 12:30 a.m. four witnesses had a close | | encounter with orange lights when their car's electrical system | | failed. The car looked a different color in the light. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 13695, citing Australian Centre | | for UFO Studies). | | | | 1984 - A 13-year-old boy working at a kennel in Williston, Florida | | heard a humming noise, and noticed that the dogs were attempting to | | hide in their pens and whining. As he went out to investigate the | | area turned red with illumination, and a bright red disc-shaped | | object hovered only 20 feet over his head. He felt heat coming from | | the object. When he returned to the dog pens, the dogs barked at him | | and would not let him inside. (Sources: Robert Gribble, International | | UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984, p. 11). | | | | 1989 - Five girls observed two multicolored lights in Ferndale, | | Washington at 10:00 p.m. One approached at tree top level, just 15 | | feet from the ground. It was oblong and wide, and may have landed. | | (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, | | case 261, citing Bob Gribble).  | | | | 1992 - A cone-shaped UFO that had orange and pale blue lights was | | seen hovering in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia. It was not a | | helicopter according to the witness. (Source: Timothy Good, Alien | | Update, p. 266). | | | | 1993 - A video of a silver domed disc-shaped object, with 6 seconds | | of footage, was filmed by a 42-year-old woman near Highway 150 in | | Cherryville, North Carolina at 6:30 p.m. (Source: UFO News Clipping | | Service, November 1993). | | | | 1995 - At 3:30 a.m. a couple traveling in a car in Dammartin en | | Geole, Seine-Marne, France saw the passage of a hexagon shaped UFO | | with white, red and blue lights at the angles. It made no noise, and | | traveled at a slow speed and low altitude. (Source: GEIPAN, case # | | 202). | | | | 1996 - Near Mata do Buraquinho, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at 9:00 | | p.m. Marcelo Barbosa and his wife Vaudeline were fixing windows in | | their house when they saw some bright multicolored lights--white, | | yellow, and blue--coming from some woods about 50 meters away. Sr. | | Barbosa decided to go out to investigate, and he saw a large white | | cloud descend slowly into the woods. From within the cloud a | | luminous, disc-shaped object emerged. It was about 8 meters in | | diameter, and had a revolving light on top that resembled that on a | | police car. It also had two or three bright lit windows. Inside one | | of these he was able to see several figures moving around. The object | | descended and landed briefly, becoming dark, and then bright again. | | Before it landed both witnesses saw an L-shaped ramp that had come | | out from the bottom of the object. At the object became bright again, | | it quickly took off a high speed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 | | Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 3813, citing Paraiba UFO). | | | | 1999 - At 4:45 a.m. a man in Elizabeth, South Australia sighted a | | bright light the size of a large strawberry at arm's length, moving | | from side to side and up-and-down.  It then disappeared.  It was seen | | in the northwestern sky at 30 degrees elevation. (Source: Robert | | Frola, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 46). | | | | 2000 - A triangle shaped object was seen hovering 100 feet above the | | ground in Kamloops, British Columbia at 9:18 p.m. It suddenly lit up | | in a white light, and then disappeared. (Source: Geoff Dittman, | | Canadian UFO Survey 2000, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2001 - At 7:30 p.m. several shiny orange dots were seen above the | | mountains in the sunset in Sussex, New Jersey; some were spots, but | | some were disk shaped. All sank below the horizon or just vanished. | | (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: | | Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 1; Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, May 2001 webpage, report uploaded August 5, | | 2001). | | | | 2001 - At 11:15 p.m. a security guard and a friend in Myrtle Beach, | | South Carolina sighted a dark, unlit triangle craft escorted by four | | helicopters. Seen by security officer and friend for 5 minutes. | | (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: | | Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 73). | | | | 2002 - A saucer that glowed like the moon and was the apparent size | | of the moon cruised over the town of Kirkwood, St. Louis County, | | Missouri at about 25 miles per hour from East to West. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2002 webpage, report | | uploaded May 14, 2002). | | | | 2005 - A black daylight disc was photographed, high in the sky, in | | Donacona, Quebec, Canada at 3:06 p.m. According to the local OVNI UFO | | group, the photo appears to be genuine. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2005 | | Canadian UFO Survey, case # 32). | | | | 2007 - At 12:35 p.m. a slightly conical black UFO hovered over | | Kalamazoo, Michigan for roughly 2 minutes. The witness ran to get his | | parents, who watched the object leave. That afternoon, at 4:45 p.m., | | another group of witnesses in Flint, Michigan reported seeing a | | "disguised" UFO that made several stops in mid air. After a few | | minutes it accelerated at an extreme speed into the southern sky and | | shot almost straight up as it went out of sight. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, reports | | uploaded June 12, 2007). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 May 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reactions, car buzzing, com | | munication, cone-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, human-lo | | oking occupants, humming sounds, inside occupants, landing gear, mult | | i-year reports from France, physiological effects, radar visual confi | | rmation, sensation of heat, triangle UFOs, UFO hovering low overhead, | | vehicle EM ignition interference, whooshing sound, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+