+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 15 | | | | 1663 - At noon on this day a large ball of fire, 45 meters in | | diameter, descended toward Lake Robozero, Bieloziero, Russia. Two | | beams of light came from the object and was directed onto fisherman | | in a boat on the lake. The water in the lake was illuminated to a | | depth of 30 feet. The fisherman were burned by the heat from the | | beams, and the water became covered with a "rust" material. (Sources: | | Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, | | pp. 54-55; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 128 ; Jacques | | Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. | | 135). | | | | 1948 - In the early afternoon many people in Phoenix, Arizona | | witnessed four silver disc-shaped objects that flew fast from east to | | west, then flipped in sequence. Three of the objects were seen again | | later. (Sources: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. | | 208,  citing MUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1341, | | citing Ronald D. Story, Encyclopedia of UFOs, p. 17). | | | | 1951 - Five witnesses including an engineer watched maneuvering | | disc-shaped UFOs in Grant County, New Mexico at around 10:45 a.m. | | They first saw two disc-shaped objects that swooped down at a 45 | | degree angle and entered a cloud, next hovered for a short while, and | | then three objects emerged from the cloud, leaving behind a vapor | | trail. They went from hovering to speeding off in excess of 500 | | mph instantaneously, and had portholes or orifices below the rim | | line. (Source: letter to Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer | | Intelligence--Los Angeles from one of the witnesses, dated March 2, | | 1952). | | | | 1954 - At 10:20 p.m. USAF Major W. J. Davis and Captain R. D. Sauers | | were flying a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport plane over San Marcos | | AFB, Texas when they sighted a dark blue oblong object that paced the | | C-47, veered away, then crossed in front of it. The incident lasted | | five minutes. (Sources: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Loren E. Gross, | | UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 77). | | | | 1957 - In Atchison, Kansas around 9:00 p.m. three women watched four | | small discs, estimated to be only five centimeters thick, dart and | | maneuver around the sky for 30 minutes, then hide from an airplane | | that passed overhead. They were described as glowing, and flew off to | | the southeast. (Sources: Atkinson (KS) Globe, August 16, 1957; Loren | | E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. | | 1957: August-September, p. 32). | | | | 1960 - In Lisbon, Portugal at 10:00 p.m. a luminous yellow, | | cigar-shaped object flew by the city at high speed. (Source: Victor | | Lourenco, PORTUCAT, case # 72, citing the newspaper O Seculo). | | | | 1964 - At 1:20 a.m. in New York City, New York Mr. S. F. D'Alessandro | | watched a 10' x 5' bullet-shaped object with wavy lines on the | | rounded front part and six pipes along the straight rear portion fly | | through the sky, making a "whishhh" sound. The witness's dog growled | | during the sighting. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1964 - At 8:15 a.m. E. J. Haug of the San Francisco Orchestra and the | | San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and C. R. Bubb, a high school | | mathematics teacher, sighted three UFOs while vacationing at Yosemite | | National Park, California. The three bright silver, round objects | | flew in a stack formation at a high speed, changing positions within | | the formation. The sound of rushing air was heard during the 3-4 | | seconds that the sighting lasted. (Source: Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1965 - At 5:00 p.m. two large orange spheres zig-zagged over a | | pasture in Pitlochry, Tayside, Scotland, causing the livestock to | | panic. There were several witnesses, and the sighting lasted for an | | hour. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6880, citing | | Lumieres dans la Nuit). | | | | 1965 - On a highway in Salto, Uruguay at 11:00 p.m. five people in a | | car heard a loud hum and then saw a UFO land directly in front of | | their car, stalling the car's engine. Its brilliant white luminescent | | glow changed to red, then to yellow, and then to green. The object | | itself, a leaden color, was nine feet in height and as wide as the | | road. Three human-looking figures could be seen moving inside the | | UFO, illuminated by a green light. Finally, with a burst of orange | | flame, the object rose vertically and vanished. (Sources: Coral & Jim | | Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 113; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-35 | | (A0646), citing Donald Hanlon, in Charles Bowen (editor), The | | Humanoids, p. 42). | | | | 1965 - An hour later, at 11:00 p.m. EDT, a domed disc hovered 100 | | feet over the lake in Salem, New Hampshire. The dome had a central | | mast and its rim glowed red and yellow, and it was making a humming | | sound. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. | | 333). | | | | Salem, New Hampshire Close Encounter UFO Report - 1965 | | | | [Sketch of Salem, NH Domed Disc - 1965] | | | | 1966 - At around 2:00 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Palmer in Wood Green, outside | | of London, England had a ten minute close encounter with a | | disc-shaped object that caused lasting physiological effects and left | | ground traces on the ground. (Source: Antonio Ribera, Flying Saucer | | Review, November-December 1966, p. 4).  | | | | 1967 - A young boy on a farm near Port Perry, Durham county, Ontario, | | Canada heard a loud oscillating noise at 7:30 a.m., and went over a | | hill in the direction of the sound to investigate. On the other | | side he saw what appeared to be a landed disc-shaped craft with four | | metallic legs, but instead of resting on the landing gear it was | | actually hovering just above the ground. On a platform around its | | perimeter were seated eight to ten little men about three feet tall, | | who wore tight fitting brown uniforms. A circular depression 12 feet | | in diameter was later found on the ground at the site. (Source: David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # | | A1562, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters). | | | | 1968 - A married couple with a 5-year-old son were driving between | | Villaverde and Brenes, Sevilla province, Spain at 12:30 a.m. when | | they saw a landed UFO by the side of the road. They said it resembled | | a small bus with windows and luminous portholes. (Source: | | Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in | | Spain and Portugal, case # 63, citing ABC Andalusia, September 1, | | 1968). | | | | 1968 - In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a six meter in diameter hat-shaped | | disc hovered five meters over a field at 4:00 a.m., 100 meters away. | | It had three rods or antennae that were pointing up, as well as | | portholes. (Source: Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from | | Brazil, p. 64). | | | | 1968 - A silent, dazzling blood-red globe of light was seen hovering | | and pulsating at treetop level in Cambridge, Massachusetts at just | | after ten o'clock in the morning. It was described as the apparent | | size of a full moon. (Source: NICAP files, on-site investigation by | | Walter N. Webb).  | | | | Cambridge, Massachusetts UFO Report - 1968 | | | | [Sketch of Cambridge, Massachusetts UFO Report] | | | | 1970 - A man named Rodrigues had a 15 minute close encounter with a | | Saturn-shaped object at 9:00 p.m. in Marilia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The | | object followed his car for several miles. (Source: Jose Arnaldo, | | Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1971, p. 22). | | | | 1970 - The witness, who was staying at his parents home that night, | | felt a strange compulsion to go out and drive to nearby Lake Michigan | | in order to watch the sky. He had arrived at the shore near Good | | Hart, Michigan at around 10:30 p.m. when a very bright light caught | | his eye. It seemed to have a descending trajectory, and he discounted | | any mundane explanation for what he saw. Watching through a | | telescope, he realized that the craft had orange, yellow, green and | | blue indigo lights. He could now see a large disc-shaped outline that | | glided lower towards his position. He saw a very brightly lit, large | | cartouche-shaped window. Inside he caught a glimpse of some figures | | who seemed to be peering over a console or instrument panel. The | | craft descended silently behind a rise about 100 yards from the | | witness. It hovered for a moment, then settled down on the beach. | | | | For 15-20 minutes he saw no movement around the object, and so, | | curious, he walked towards it. The air around the UFO felt warm. He | | stopped about 50 feet from the huge object and heard a metallic | | sound. By the faint light available he saw a ramp come snaking out of | | the side of the ship toward him. The ramp sloped up to the blank | | hull. There was no opening visible, just a long ramp like a tongue | | sticking out from the side and burying itself in the sand just ahead | | of the witness. Without giving it much thought he walked up the ramp, | | and as he approached the hull seemed to dissolve ahead of him. He | | walked through an opening that appeared in his path. The interior of | | the ship resembled terra-cotta stone, and there was a soft | | illumination that emanated from the walls. It was comfortably cool | | inside and the air smelled of sage and cinnamon. He was in a corridor | | that stretched ahead of him in both directions until it disappeared | | beyond inside walls. Various small openings with little handles and | | knobs were situated at what appeared to be random locations along the | | corridor. He walked to his left down the corridor, the aroma of sage | | and cinnamon pervasive and persisting. He soon found a door and | | realized that the passage behind him was closing itself off into a | | door as well. | | | | He walked into what appeared to be a central core of the object. | | Moments later he came upon an improbably placed viewing plate in | | which he could see the south end of Lake Michigan and lights from the | | nearby Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant. As he spoke to himself, his | | voice echoed strangely through the confines of the ship. He noticed | | to his right a view plate. He caught a glance through the darkened | | glass of several creatures that seemed to be at the controls. He | | looked inside the control room and saw five figures all with their | | backs to him. The figures were humanoid in form with large heads. | | They seemed to be occupied with a series of procedures. The five were | | all dressed in a similar style. The outfits were form-fitted, and | | tended to give off a bluish glow. The middle figure turned slowly to | | face him. The eyes of the humanoid were much larger than a human's | | and spread farther around the sides of the head. No nose was visible, | | with flat cheekbones, lending a somewhat rotund appearance to the | | face . | | | | At one point the witness saw himself in his own mind, apparently the | | way the creatures perceived him. The beings communicated via | | telepathy and he was escorted into another room where he was sat in a | | chair with knobs and controls in front of it. There he saw 3-D images | | flash through his mind at very high speed. At one point the aliens | | brought him a small cube-shaped container that contained a dark blue | | liquid, which he was told to drink. The aliens spoke among each other | | in a strange singsong language. He was told that, among other things, | | that the speed of light was "imaginary." He received the impression | | that the craft was impossibly larger inside than what it looked like | | from the outside. The aliens told him that their main interest in | | coming to earth was water. He was eventually deposited back at the | | same spot on the beach where he was initially picked up. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Michigan | | Ufology Central). | | | | 1971 - On a clear night beginning at 11:20 p.m. two men, a | | mathematics teacher and an engineer, watched a UFO maneuver over | | Tynemouth, Tyne & Wear, England for three hours through a telescope. | | Mr. Von Metz and Mr. O'Brady-Jones reported that the object was | | yellow at the center with red tips, and surrounded by a blue haze. | | (Sources: M. W. Von Metz, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, p. 12; | | Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 15, citing the Sunday | | Express, August 22, 1971). | | | | 1974 - On this clear night a WBZ newscaster and several others saw a | | large, bluish-green cigar-shaped UFO hovering over Lake Winnipesaukee | | from Wolfeboro, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Their sighting lasted | | for 15-20 minutes. At 11:00 p.m. a large cigar-shaped UFO was also | | sighted by four witnesses in nearby Gilford, Belknap County, New | | Hampshire. The object was estimated to be about 300 feet long and the | | sighting lasted 40 minutes.  (Sources: (1) George D. Fawcett, Flying | | Saucers magazine, December 1974, p. 39; George D. Fawcett, FSR, | | January 1975, p. 31; (2) Mr. Yale, CUFOS files, letter dated | | September 16, 1974). | | | | 1975 - During a rainstorm at 12:10 a.m. a domed disc with a ring of | | lights was seen at close range in Blackburn, Lancashireshire, | | England. It moved slowly and silently. (Sources: J. Bernard Delair, | | Northern Network News, July 1975, p. 10; Awareness, January 1976, | | p. 24). | | | | 1976 - Five witnesses, including a Mrs. Lucas, age 25, saw a domed | | oval-shaped UFO under some trees in a nearby creek bed in | | Connersville, Indiana at 10:55 p.m. It was a mostly dark object with | | a wide band of light. As it flew off to the northeast, and turned | | on green and red revolving lights around its middle. (Source: Francis | | L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 65). | | | | 1978 - In La Paz, Bolivia a buzzing sound woke the male witness up on | | this night. He looked out from his house and saw a nearly | | featureless, silver fuselage hovering in the sky, glowing a luminous | | green color. It reportedly had portholes. The sighting lasted for | | more than two hours. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | # 12769, citing UFO Roundup, Volume 2, number 35). | | | | 1979 - A short humanoid with long arms was seen on the roadside of | | Highway D134 in France at 11:00 p.m. A man driving near the village | | of Lussac in Charente-Maritime department, France suddenly saw the | | short humanoid standing on the roadway, completely illuminated by his | | vehicle's headlights. The being raised its long arms and at this | | point the car's engine stalled. It was wearing a tight fitting outfit | | with a transparent helmet. The being then quickly jumped into the | | bushes and disappeared. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January | | 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1733, | | citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine). | | | | 1981 - Twenty farm laborers returning from work at 6:00 p.m. saw a | | fireball rolling across the grounds of the forestry station in La | | Rochelle, nine kilometers from Mutare, Zimbabwe. Three humanoid | | entities wearing shiny overalls were seen briefly before the light | | went out. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri-News, July 1988, p. 9). | | | | 1986 - In Calalzo di Cadore, Bellino, Italy a witness saw a luminous | | blue, domed disc-shaped UFO land, then he blacked out and had a two | | hour memory lapse. When he regained consciousness the craft was gone, | | but the grass was bent and blackened in a 9-meter (30 foot) wide | | circle. After a period of troubling dreams his memory later returned | | of two tall, pallid humanoid beings wearing gray coveralls, and views | | inside the craft. (Sources: International UFO Reporter, July-August | | 1989, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty | | Year Report, pp. 29, 508). | | | | 1989 - In Pensacola, Florida at around nine p.m. a pair of | | 52-year-old witnesses saw at least four red, slow-moving, silent | | V-shaped objects coming toward them very slowly (at 5-10 mph). The | | sighting reportedly lasted 10 minutes.(Source: C. Joseph Barron, | | MUFON Field Investigations CD-Rom case files database, case # | | 891010). | | | | 1990 - On this night on Iona Island, Scotland Edward Carlos, who had | | been involved in other previous close encounters, saw an inexplicable | | beam of light coming down through the clouds. Shortly after, the beam | | struck him and he experienced a missing time episode. Later, under | | hypnotic regression, he recalled being examined by several humanoid | | entities, including a reptilian-like humanoid, several small pallid | | skinned humanoids, and insect-like robotic creatures. He recalled | | having an anal probe examination to determine his health. The beings | | also examined his various vital organ systems, including his heart, | | and they then used a laser-like light to allegedly clear Carlos's | | arteries of plaque. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid | | Sighting Reports database, case # 2537, citing Preston Dennett, UFO | | Healings). | | | | 1992 - In Marshfield, Missouri a boomerang-shaped object was seen by | | two witnesses at 5:30 a.m. As the lights on the object passed over | | them, five vertical beams of light shot down, illuminating the | | vehicle and its interior with brilliant white light. The car's engine | | sputtered. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO | | Reports, 1988-94, case # 1381). | | | | 1992 - In Salem, Oregon a large black, silent triangular shaped | | object, one and a half times the size of a house, was seen overhead | | by a 23-year-old man while in his car at 12:07 a.m. It rotated on its | | axis slowly over some trees, causing the branches to move. It moved | | off to the east-southeast making a slight humming sound. (Sources: | | Skip Schultz, MUFON Field Investigations CD-Rom case files database, | | case # 921508W; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1992, | | p. 18). | | | | 1995 - A witness was lying in bed in his bedroom in Grand Haven, | | Michigan at 9:05 p.m. when he saw flashing lights that changed from | | blue to white. Four little creatures approximately 3-4 feet tall then | | appeared around his bed. Two were around his legs and the other two | | were up around his waist area. The creatures seemed to be doing some | | type of medical procedure on him. He then passed out and saw flashing | | lights again, and then the lights vanished. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1995 - At around ten o'clock in the evening a huge bright light | | buzzed a car driving on U.S. Highway 160 ten miles east of Alamosa, | | Colorado. A gigantic dark shadow flew east, surrounded by many much | | smaller blinking lights. The kids in the car were badly frightened. | | (Source: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 316). | | | | 1995 - At 10:40 p.m. in the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, near | | Howard, Fremont County, Colorado a local Vietnam vet claimed to have | | seen a large boomerang-shaped object appear from the north and hover | | over his mountain property. He then had 40 minutes of missing time, | | during which his he claimed his mobile home and truck had been picked | | up and moved "6 inches", based on the altered location of the | | building and the truck's tracks. He reported he had a swollen welt, | | 4-inches in length, in his rectum after regaining consciousness. Over | | the next two weeks he lost 20 lbs., and a wild animal he had | | befriended, his "pet black bear", was now missing. He said that he | | had been having strange sightings occurring since the middle of June | | 1995, and that he had discovered "piles of carcasses" up the slope | | from his 9,000-foot elevation land. He claimed the carcasses had been | | in various stages of decay, and that they were comprised mostly | | of cattle, but also horses, fox, raccoon and other animals found in | | the area. He also said that two weeks before his apparent abduction | | experience, he found "tiny 4-toed human tracks" around the perimeter | | of his trailer site. He had also noted unusual military activity in | | the area as well. Often, after his UFO sightings, he would notice | | unusually heavy military flights over the area, which convinced him | | his government was somehow involved with the strange occurrences. For | | instance, after one sighting episode when he was able to photograph | | the strange craft, the next day while he was gone from his home | | somebody had ransacked his trailer, and had taken all of his film and | | camera equipment. (Sources:Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. | | 371; Tim Edwards, Christopher O'Brien, San Luis Valley Event Log, | | case # 317; Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports | | database, citing Christopher O'Brien). | | | | 1995 - At midnight another witness awoke in Buena Park, California to | | briefly see an extremely bright light out on the patio. It appeared | | to be hovering about 3-4 feet from the ground. Later that night he | | was still very shaken when he saw a humanoid figure with a very large | | head and standing about four feet tall. The figure had an amazingly | | smooth stride, almost like it was walking on air. It seemed to move | | above the ground in the patio area just outside the blinds. | | Everything vanished suddenly. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1995, case # 3188, citing Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1997 - In Ile Salazie on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean a | | luminous tortoise-shaped object with two headlights continually paced | | a bread delivery truck starting at around five o'clock in the | | morning. The delivery man then stopped his truck at his sister's | | house, and his sister, along with her husband and son, also observed | | it at it hovered nearby for the next 20 minutes. (Sources: GEIPAN; | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17966, citing a newspaper | | clipping report). | | | | 1998 - The witnesses were on a country road in Deshler, Ohio when | | they saw a silvery flash overhead and watched a huge metallic | | rectangular craft abruptly appear. It had several windows and inside | | several figures could be seen moving around. There was another flash | | and the craft disappeared. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1998, case # 3591, citing Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2001 - On this day a huge, dark silver-gray disc-shaped UFO was | | observed for 7-8 minutes over New Delhi, India. It looked like two | | saucers inverted over each other.  It flew low and slowly across the | | sky, over a residential neighborhood. (Sources: George A. Filer, | | MUFON UFO Journal, November 2001, p. 14; George A. Filer & David E. | | Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 36). | | | | 2001 - At 11:05 a.m. a single witness was driving north on 82nd | | Street in the city of Lawton, Oklahoma when he saw four UFOs take off | | from ground level, one at a time. At 7:29 p.m.. a little disc-shaped | | object zoomed out of the bushes and right over the vehicle was | | driving in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. At 10:00 p.m. an | | intense white light buzzed a car in Red Cloud, Nebraska, illuminating | | the cab of the car while driving out in the country. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 | | archived webpage). | | | | 2005 - At 9:45 p.m. a circular disc-shaped object with flashing | | lights, whirring sounds, and flashes of multicolored lights was seen | | in Mount Olive, Hale County, Alabama. The sighting reportedly lasted | | 30 minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, August 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded September 15, | | 2005). | | | | 2005 - Two triangular crafts, appearing about 20 minutes apart, were | | seen over Waterford, Michigan beginning at 11:00 p.m. They were fast | | moving, with one green light and two alternately strobing white | | lights. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, August 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded October 11, | | 2005). | | | | 2008 - At around one p.m. there was a daylight sighting of a metallic | | disc-shaped object in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The UFO moved away in a | | different direction from whence it had come, and was very fast. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | August 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008). | | | | 2008 - The sky appeared to "open up" as a gray, cigar-shaped "ship" | | moved over the witness in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada for this close | | encounter at 9:35 p.m. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO | | Survey, case # 600). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 7 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction with healing; | | abductions with missing time; animal reactions; bedroom visitations; | | boomerang-shaped UFOs; bullet-shaped UFO; buzzing sound; car buzzings | | ; cigar-shaped UFOs; communication; dark blue UFOs; disc-shaped UFOs; | | domed discs; inside UFO occupants; multi-year reports from Great Bri | | tain; physiological effects: burns from rays; portholes; rectangular | | UFO; reptilian humanoid; rushing air sound; short humanoids; silver U | | FOs; triangular UFOs; UFOs flying in stack formation; whishing sound. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+