+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 29 | | | | 1947 - On this day two women, Mrs. Olavick and Mrs. Down of Tucson, | | Arizona watched nine white discs and another object behind a steamy | | cloud in a completely clear sky, arranged in a V-shaped formation. | | The ten objects moved up and down in an erratic manner, and in and | | out of the unnatural cloud for 5-6 minutes. (Sources: Ted Bloecher, | | Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 9; George Kocher, Rand | | Corporation: UFO's: What to Do?, p. 15; Kenneth Larson, Flying | | Saucers, October 1968, p. 40; UNICAT database, case 819, citing James | | E. McDonald). | | | | 1952 - While flying over Goodland, Kansas at one o'clock in the | | afternoon, B-29 bombardier Lt. R. H. Bauer sighted a white fan-shaped | | light that pulsed 8 times per second for four seconds. (Source: U.S. | | Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case 1167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 3:30 p.m. on this same day in Marshall, Texas private pilot | | R. R. Weidman sighted a round, white object that flew straight and | | low but with a side-to-side oscillation for 1.5 minutes. (Source: | | U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case 1167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1957 - Two men, Lerdahl and Ellison, reported that three dozen UFOs | | flew over Virginia, Minnesota in groups of 6-8 for 40 minutes | | beginning at 10:15 p.m. The UFOs were greenish, disc-shaped objects | | flying in crescent formations, and were viewed through binoculars. | | They went from east to west, and each group flew from horizon to | | horizon in eight seconds. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, August | | 1960, p. 7; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's | | Unexplained Phenomena, p. 50). | | | | 1959 - At 7:30 p.m. Rod Lightfoot and another man in Blackwood Park, | | a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia took a photograph of a | | saucer-shaped object. The main body of the UFO appeared to be | | rotating on its vertical axis, but the row of lights remained steady. | | (Sources: Adelaide Advertiser, April 30, 1959; Michael Hervey, UFOs | | Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 165; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register | | (Volume 7), p. 49; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, | | case # SA59001). | | | | 1961 - Mr. Gallagher was at Bailey's Beach, Newport County, Rhode | | Island at around four o'clock in the afternoon when he noticed a red | | ball floating about 600 feet offshore. It then ascended to 60 feet | | altitude, and flew away to the south at 100 mph. (Sources: APRO | | Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 4; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible | | Residents, p. 40, citing Flying Saucer Review). | | | | 1962 - Between Mud Lake, Nevada and Edwards AFB in California two | | disc-shaped craft are filmed passing a USAF X-15 rocket plane being | | commanded by test pilot Walker during a record flight to 200,000 feet | | altitude. Note: most civilian sources list this case as occurring on | | April 30, but the Air Force lists the flight as occurring on this | | date. (Sources: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. | | 121; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. | | 75; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6179). | | | | 1964 - Several adults saw an elongated glowing object fly over Canyon | | Ferry, Montana, and two children saw a lighted craft land and take | | off. Four rectangular indentations were found at the landing site. | | (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 5; George D. | | Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30). | | | | 1966 - At 3:55 p.m. a disc-shaped object with portholes and exhaust | | pipes circled a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft flown by a single private | | pilot at 10,000 feet altitude. According to the witness, who was | | flying between Asuncion, Paraguay to Posadas, Argentina, the UFO | | moved extremely fast. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO | | Encounters, p. 34). | | | | 1977 - A car being driven by a 47-year-old woman and accompained by | | another female passenger was paced by a white glowing objectin | | Oxford, Ohio for three minutes. The description of the shape | | differed, but one of the women described it as a disc-shaped object. | | The incident occurred near a Nike missile base. (Source: Allan | | Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 3). | | | | 1979 - An airline stewardess was at the shore in Makapu'u, Hawaii at | | 10:45 p.m. when she sighted a huge triangular UFO with many lights. | | It moved at an estimated 100 mph and made a humming sound. It | | maneuvered in the sky and flew away out to sea. (Source: Larry Hatch, | | U computer database, case 13689, citing APRO Bulletin, May 1979). | | | | 1982 - A woman named Mary E. Boule saw a silent dome-shaped object | | near Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York at 11:40 p.m. The object | | had a turquoise blue light on top and portholes. It flew low at | | 400-500 feet altitude, and definitely entered the air base's | | restricted air space. (Source: CUFOS files, letter from witness). | | | | 1993 - A sonar-like ping sound was heard, then a silent triangle UFO | | was seen hovering above Lasgraisses, Tarn, France. It had white | | "running lights." (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 318). | | 1995 - On this night two witnesses in Spokane, Washington reported | | seeing bright lights apparently on the ground near the river. A | | strange undescribed "creature" or humanoid was seen standing near the | | lights. (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle; UFO Intelligence Newsletter, October 1995). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 9 March 2007) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO encounters, cloud u | | sed as camouflage by UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, fan-shaped UFO, landings | | , oscillating UFOs, procession of objects, triangle UFOs, white UFOs. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+