+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 2 | | | | 1953 – Near Adelaide, South Australia a ghastly looking creature over | | six-feet tall, with a long scaly body, hissed at residents of Berri | | from the top of a tree. It leapt to the ground and ran off when | | someone fetched a gun. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the | | Southern Hemisphere, p. 157). | | | | 1953 – Two UFO photographs were taken on this day, one in Bulawayo, | | Rhodesia and a second in North Bankstown, Australia. (Sources: CUFOS, | | letter; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157). | | | | 1957 – At nine o’clock in the evening in the South Yorkshire town of | | West Melton, England two witnesses saw a domed disc-shaped UFO | | spinning and rising into the sky. It reversed course and passed | | overhead. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 4). | | | | 1959 – In Calhoun County, Alabama at 7 p.m. a silent silver globe | | hovered and maneuvered over the Anniston Army Ordnance Depot. The UFO | | made several quick circles in the sky then flew off toward the | | southwest. (Source: Project Bluebook files counted in official | | statistics). | | | | 1968 – In Castle Rock, Colorado 12 people saw a transparent bubble | | with 12 lights. It hovered fifty feet above the ground, and then shot | | straight up into the sky, shooting out two balls of flame while doing | | so. The lights were the color of car headlights covered over with | | mud. (Source: Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics). | | | | 1968 - Two snowmobile drivers in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada | | observed a pulsating, orange-yellow object nearby at 4:00 p.m.. This | | object was extremely bright. One of the snowmobile's engines stalled | | during the sighting and its driver felt a sensation of increased | | heat. The object moved out of sight shortly thereafter and the | | snowmobile could be restarted. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, case 232, citing NICAP UFO | | Investigator, Vol. 4, No. 6) | | | | 1971 – In Valencia, Spain at 2:30 p.m. three silver discs flew | | silently in a linear formation at a low altitude. They then tilted | | and separated, flying toward the south. Less than three hours later, | | at 4:15 GMT, two independent witnesses in Corfton, England saw a | | reddish-orange light about the size of a car flutter from side to | | side as it descended, leaving behind a black trail of smoke. It | | continued to descend vertically, and stopped burning just before it | | hit the ground. No traces were found at the site. (Sources: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue 124; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, | | p. 20, citing The Bridgenorth Journal, January 8, 1971) | | | | 1973 – In Nowra, New South Wales, Australia at nine o’clock in the | | evening five people saw a large disc make a 180-degree turn in the | | sky and follow their car. Figures could be seen through windows in | | the craft. The craft flew off to the east and out over the sea. | | (Source: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 141). | | | | 1975 – At 11:30 p.m. in Arguedas, Spain 30 military witnesses saw a | | domed-shaped object on the ground at an Air Force Base. Body lights | | were visible on the craft, and the ground was illuminated as the UFO | | took off. The sighting lasted four minutes, and ground traces were | | found. (Source: Ted Phillips, Skylook, December 1975, p. 16, citing | | Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos). | | | | 1975 – Two hours and fifteen minutes later, at 2:45 p.m. on the | | eastern shore of Kauai, Hawaii a married couple took three | | photographs of a 25-foot square UFO, flying below the clouds. Mr. and | | Mrs. Lindstrom reported that the UFO flew off slowly to the | | south-southwest. The photographs are regarded by CUFOS as of | | excellent quality and reliability. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek Center | | for UFO Studies, report dated January 7, 1976; Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 293). | | | | 1978 - Four young men were driving home on an isolated road in a flat | | boggy area called Simonswood Moss in Rainford, England when they | | realized they had taken a wrong turn onto a narrow dirt road | | bordering a ditch. Suddenly a seven foot tall figure appeared in the | | glare of the headlights, eight meters ahead. The being was wearing a | | white fluorescent one-piece suit with boots. It had no discernible | | facial features and it had very short arms ending in claws. It also | | had a box with two flashing red lights on its chest. The figure took | | two steps towards the witnesses and stopped. The witnesses panicked, | | left the area and drove to a nearby farm where they notified the | | authorities. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1978, case #377, citing Peter Hough, UFOs 1947-1987: The 40-Year | | Search for an Explanation). | | | | 1978 - A man was sitting in his front room in Gomez Palacio, Mexico | | reading late at night when he suddenly looked up to see a tall blond, | | blue-eyed man in his room. The witness asked, "Who are you?" When he | | received no reply he asked, "What are you doing here?" At this point | | the stranger, whose body was surrounded by a strange glow, turned | | around without touching the floor. The visitor floated through the | | doorways of two other rooms and onto the patio at the rear of the | | house, followed by the witness. The glow around the man's body | | increased and he flew up into the air and out of sight. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Paul R. | | Hill, APRO Bulletin, September 1978). | | | | 1979 - Mr. L. M. went to open a window inside his house in Nuoro on | | the island of Sardinia, Italy because of the intense humidity when he | | noticed two short human like figures "floating" ten meters above the | | ground outside the building. Startled, he watched the two figures | | from his balcony. The two humanoids wore transparent coveralls, like | | plexiglass, and under that gray metallic outfits that emitted a | | bluish glow. They wore white-colored helmets on their heads with | | clear visors. He could see that their faces were normal; very | | handsome with large eyes. They also wore white tight-fitting boots | | and had a dark cylinder shaped "container" around their waists. | | During the encounter the witness felt chills. As the beings | | approached the house they smiled at the witness and were soon lost | | from sight in the distance. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database, citing Archivio S.U.F.). | | | | 1995 – At around midnight in Durham, England a woman driving on a | | highway noticed her car lose power. At the same time, a short | | distance away, stood a short, goblin-like creature with large, bright | | oval-shaped eyes. It crossed the road in an “odd” way, only six feet | | away from her car. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1995). | | | | 1995 – At 6:25 a.m. a huge, coin-shaped disc hovered near the | | shoreline of New Port Richey, Florida for about a minute, and then | | shot away “like lightning.” (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1997 - On this afternoon in Campina Grande do Sul, Brazil a woman | | waiting for a bus heard a loud roaring sound resembling that of a | | lion. Moments later she heard what sounded like "heavy steps | | splashing in water." She next saw a dark round form that flew right | | over her street. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1997, citing Carlos Alberto Machado). | | | | 2000 – At 1:15 a.m. a man in Mission, British Columbia saw an object | | larger than a van hovering outside his home. It made no sound. An | | occupant was observed inside the craft. (Source: Geoff Dittman, UFO | | Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 1). | | | | 2000 – At 9:30 p.m. a silver-gray object flew south in a straight | | trajectory over Yucca Valley, California. It made a low humming sound | | and had a tail of bright orange flame. The UFO was reported to the | | FAA by aviators, ground observers, and radio news stations. (Source: | | UFO Magazine (USA), April 2000, p. 16, citing Filer’s Files). | | | | 2001 – A bright round light approached a family traveling in a car on | | a road in Corralito, Argentina in the early morning hours. The UFO | | halted, backed up, rose to the height of some power lines parallel to | | the road, and then paced the car. It responded to the flashing of the | | car headlights by “turning off.” A local power failure was reported | | at the same time. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20, | | citing Filer’s Files). | | | | 2003 – At 4:05 p.m. local time a man took a photograph of a spherical | | UFO over Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2003 – A pale blue, oval-shaped object made right-angled turns in the | | sky over Wyreema, Australia at 10 p.m. for a few seconds, then | | vanished. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 2003 - At 4:30 p.m. CST a dark gray, cigar-shaped UFO was sighted | | hovering over some fields in Garfield county, and were seen from a | | highway running between Enid and Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2003 – At 5:20 p.m. PST two black triangular craft flew above San | | Jose, California at an altitude estimated to be above 30,000 feet. | | They hovered, then moved very slowly toward the east, and then | | reversed direction moving slowly toward the west. Two hours later a | | huge cigar-shaped flying object with 3-5 blindingly bright horizontal | | lights flew low overhead in Los Angeles, California. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2003 – At 8:00 p.m. a disc-shaped craft with lights around the | | perimeter flew over Winnebago, Minnesota and was sighted by two | | witnesses. The lights on the UFO changed color from white to red to | | green to blue. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 16 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: disc-shaped | | UFOs, goblin humanoids, hovering UFOs, inside occupants, oval-shaped | | UFOs, pendulum motion, photographs, roaring sound, tall faceless huma | | noid, tall Nordic humanoid, vehicle EM ignition interference effects. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+