+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 23 | | | | 1950 - At 4:40 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V3 patrol plane flying from the | | Kodiak Naval Air Station in Alaska spotted two orange lights rotating | | about a common central point, which maneuvered in the sky. (Source: | | MUFON UFO Journal, September 1978, p. 7). | | | | 1959 - A bright silver object was sighted as it arced across the sky | | in the Panama Canal Zone. It was tracked by US radar. (Source: | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119, citing New York Times, | | January 23, 1959). | | | | 1964 - An underwater submarine object (USO) was seen at around 9:00 | | p.m. at the Northeast point at Groote Eylandt in the Northern | | Territory, Australia. Large lights in the water made a compass go | | haywire. A shadow in the center of the lights rotated clockwise, | | causing the lights to pulsate. (Source: Ivan Sanderson, Invisible | | Residents, p. 112; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, | | p. 204). | | | | 1965 - Williamsburg, Virginia - At 8:40 a.m. cars stalled near the | | intersection of US Highway 60 and State Route 614. A 31-year-old | | businessman named Mains, whose car had stalled, observed a | | mushroom-shaped object hovering over a nearby field about four feet | | off the ground, 500 feet away. It was metallic gray and about 75-80 | | feet tall. There was a red-orange glow coming from the near side, and | | a bluish glow from the far side. Soon the object rose slightly and | | then accelerated horizontally speeding off towards the west, making a | | noise like a vacuum cleaner. The sighting duration was 25 seconds. | | (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 177-178; Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 138, | | citing Project Bluebook; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 249 & 314; UNICAT, case # 283). | | | | 1966 - More saucer nests were discovered in crushed reeds in | | Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. (Source: Jacques Vallee,  The | | Invisible College, p. 52). | | | | 1966 - Two witnesses who wished to remain anonymous reported to NICAP | | that they were changing a tire near Essex, California at 11:45 p.m. | | when they saw a disc-shaped object land 200 yards away from them. | | Upon closer investigation they found the object to be 75-100 feet in | | diameter and 25 feet in height. A door slid open and a seven-foot | | tall being appeared. He called to them by name, and conversed with | | them via telepathy. He said his race was from another star and that | | 400 American citizens are actually from his race. (Source: David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1966-05). | | | | 1967 - Another abduction by aliens occurred to Betty Andreassen and | | four other members of her family in South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. | | The abduction involved a medical exam with instruments used during | | the exam, communication, and psychological aftereffects. (Source: | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, | | p. 529). | | | | 1968 - At 12:45 a.m. a luminous object landed in Copahue, Neuquen | | province, Argentina and stayed on the ground for four hours. It was | | watched by several witnesses who were too afraid to approach. It | | finally rose vertically, and left behind a large burnt area. | | (Sources: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 14; | | APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 7; Lumieres dans la Nuit, March | | 1968). | | | | 1968 - A college yearbook photo editor from Laurentian University in | | Sudbury, Ontario took 12 photos with a 35mm camera using tri-X film | | with five other witnesses at 7:15 p.m. The images showed a slightly | | off-centered, luminous domed disc-shaped object. Another photograph | | of a luminous UFO was taken by a married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Wood,  in | | Old Haversham, Northamptonshire, England at 5:25 a.m. (Source: (1) | | Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Spring 1968, p. 7, citing | | Sudbury Star, January 24, 1968; (2) David Abbott, FSR, July-August | | 1968, p. 5). | | | | 1968 - At 10:00 p.m., five miles from White Rocks, Utah, a woman | | named Chapman spotted a blue half dome-shaped object that moved | | slowly, then changed color to red and moved away very fast! It then | | maneuvered over the Uintah Mountains. (Source: Frank Salisbury, The | | Utah UFO Display, p. A-59). | | | | 1971 - A brilliant ovoid object flew from east to west over Lerida, | | Spain for five minutes at 8 p.m. It left a zig-zag contrail. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 124, citing Courrier Catalan). | | | | 1973 - On this evening a teenage girl driving on Interstate 85 in | | Gaffney, South Carolina noticed that the radio reception of her car | | radio was mysteriously blocked. Then she noticed a yellow oval-shaped | | object with "white lights blinking on and off and going around on its | | bottom". The UFO followed the traffic on I-85. (Sources: Rodger | | Painter, Gaffney Ledger, February 2, 1973; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA | | Vehicle Interference Project Report, case # 63). | | | | 1974 - The entire village of Llandrillo, Wales heard a loud explosion | | that was preceded by violent shaking of the ground. Running outside, | | many people saw blue and orange lights floating in a circle around | | Cader Mountain east of the village. Police and RAF personnel were in | | the area quickly and cordoned off access to a supposed crash site on | | the barren hilltop. A nurse, telephoned by the police, was on her way | | up the mountain to the crash site with her daughters when she saw | | something sitting on the ground ahead of her. It seemed to be intact | | and was very large, circular and glowed orange. She and her daughters | | got to within a few hundred feet of teh object when the police and | | military showed up and told her to leave. According to UFO researcher | | Tony Dodd, a retired military man using the name of "Robert Prescott" | | told him that he and some others had been assigned to transport two | | crates from the crash site to the top secret military weapons | | research facility at Porton Down near Salisbury, England. According | | to Prescott, military personnel opened the crates and found two | | humanoid bodies about 5 to 6 feet tall, and so very thin they were | | almost skeletal in nature. Other units allegedly transported live | | aliens from the "crash" site. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1974, case # 3925, citing CSETI; Nicholas Redfern, | | Cosmic Crashes). | | | | 1976 - At 1:30 a.m. in Lompoc, California a nurse driving not far | | from Vandenburg Air Force Base had a close encounter with a 50 foot | | long ovoid UFO. Her car radio went wild, and she felt like she had | | been hypnotized. Near Vandenburg AFB (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 12150, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 273). | | | | 1976 - At 5:15 p.m. a 17-year-old witness had gotten off the bus in | | Bolton, Lancashire, England and was returning home to her housing | | development. She then saw an object with two lights, one amber and | | the other red, over the Rumsworth Reservoir. The object suddenly | | streaked toward her and came to hover directly over her. The metallic | | looking UFO was about 25 feet in diameter and shaped like an octagon, | | with one amber light and a flashing red light. It had a curved base | | and a flat top. It rotated on its axis, and the witness's teeth | | vibrated as if ultrasonic sound waves were emanating from the object, | | causing her pain in her mouth. Also, pressure on her shoulders | | knocked her down, and she attempted to scream but was unable to. She | | ran home terrified. Later under hypnosis it was revealed that she had | | suffered a 45 minute period of missing time and could vaguely recall | | an abduction experience. She could only recall being inside a room | | with a tall blond or albino woman who wore a long gown. She was told | | by this woman “not to be afraid” and felt that information was being | | inserted into her brain at high speed. She was also given several | | apocalyptic messages.(Sources: Jenny Randles, FSR, May 1976, p. 32; | | Bolton Evening News, January 24 & 27, 1976; John F. Schuessler, MUFON | | UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 3; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1976, case # 518, citing Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and | | Abductions). | | | | 1977 - This humanoid encounter began at 12:30 a.m. when a penetrating | | sound and bright lights coming from the sky awoke the villagers of | | Santa Rosa, Lara State, Venezuela. A circular UFO with intense | | multicolored flashing lights, emitting waves of heat, circled the | | small community and landed on the banks of the Turbio River, causing | | panic. Two small human like figures, walking stiffly, could be seen | | moving about inside the object "slowly and in a robot like fashion" | | for the next five minutes. When a crowd of people armed with | | flashlights approached, the object took off when someone shone a | | flashlight on the object's interior. It left behind a 12 foot wide | | burn mark, landing gear imprints, and a "greasy granular material" on | | the ground. (Sources: Mark da Silva, FSR, June 1977, p. 13; David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1977-03 (A1703); Jerome Clark & William R. Corliss, UFO Calendar | | 1999). | | | | 1978 - A dark brown hat-shaped object was seen hovering over the | | beach in Colares, Para State, Brazil at 11:30 p.m. It had two legs | | that were visible, looked transparent, and had a bottom that | | reflected a greenish blue light. Its estimated distance was 400 | | meters, and it was in view for 10 minutes. At 11:53 | | p.m. a reddish-yellow light flew over Belem, Para, Brazil from north | | to south at 900 feet altitude. It traveled at a medium speed 1000 | | meters away, with a trajectory curving to the left. It made no sound, | | and the duration of the sighting was one minute. On the same day an | | object was filmed with a Canon Super 8 movie camera in Rio | | Laranjeira, Para, Brazil using Extachrome film. It looked like a | | fried egg or a domed disc. (Source: Bob Pratt, Operacion Prato, pp. | | 24 & 45). | | | | 1978 - At 7:40 p.m. a 48-year-old carpenter named Senecal and one | | other witnessed a distinct disc-shaped object that hovered over | | Toledo, Ohio for five minutes. It had windows and a structure on top. | | It shot away to the south. Total duration of sighting was 10 minutes. | | (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 3). | | | | 1978 - On the same day a Mrs. Grusheski had a close encounter with a | | UFO in Hilltown, Adams County, Pennsylvania. (Source: George M. | | Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 774, citing Doylestown | | Daily Intelligencer, January 24, 1978). | | | | 1979 - A dentist and three students were traveling by car late at | | night on the barren plain of Toquilla, Casanare province, Colombia | | when suddenly their motor engine stalled. They then saw two metallic | | objects land nearby and three men wearing tight-fitting silvery | | outfits and large helmets came out. There was a sudden whirlwind that | | surrounded their vehicle and they could no longer see the figures or | | the objects. When the "whirlwind" went away the figures and objects | | were no longer there. They had "disappeared like magic". (Sources: | | Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15 and April | | 1979, p. 15, citing La Provincia, January 26, 1979 and Cronica, | | January 25, 1979; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case A2195, citing Cronica). | | | | 1979 - A gray cigar-shaped object with portholes and green and orange | | lights, circled the hills and bay of Stanraer, Dumfries, Scotland. | | (Source: Jenny Randles, Flying Saucers and How to See Them, p. 100). | | | | 1981 - At two o'clock in the morning Dario Mazzaglia, a farmer in Los | | Acantilados, Buenos Aires province, Argentina observed flames in | | the distance, and then saw an ovoid UFO with a reddish-orange glow | | hovering low over the ground for more than a minute. It made | | a whistling sound on takeoff. Burnt grass was found at the landing | | site later, with the roots burnt 3 cm below the surface. Three | | circular landing gear marks were located around the burn. | | Electromagnetic effects included interference with the radio and | | vehicle headlights. (Source: UNICAT, case # 606). | | | | 1987 - Three witnesses watched a blue ovoid object hover over houses | | in Gig Harbor, Washington at 9:30 p.m. (Source: Bob Gribble, UFO | | Reporting Center, case # 1212). | | | | 1988 - A massive "footprint-shaped" or peanut-shaped UFO was seen | | over Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England at 12:45 a.m. It had many | | tinted-glass portholes, and flew slowly. (Source: Timothy Good, The | | UFO Report 1990, p. 20). | | | | 1989 - At eight p.m. a polygon-shaped object descended over a power | | plant in Andebu, Norway and hovered for 2 minutes. It shot up | | vertically when it left. At 8:30 p.m. in Sande, Norway two people | | watched a 7 meter long dark object with lights and windows that moved | | slowly towards a house. It had sharp edges.  (Source: Inforespace, | | issue 83). | | | | 1989 - Two women, aged 64 and 42, saw a disc-shaped object hover 90 | | feet overhead in Gainesville, Florida at five a.m. for five minutes. | | It was 10 feet in diameter and made no sound. (Sources: Bob Gribble, | | UFO Reporting Center; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 15283). | | | | 1989 - A 73-year-old couple in Greens Fork, Indiana sighted a UFO | | shaped like sperm whale without the tail at 9:30 p.m. The couple were | | the parents of a woman newspaper reporter who reported their | | sighting. The object moved slowly and low overhead until out of view. | | There was also a smaller satellite object that was yellow in color. | | (Source: Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 119). | | | | 1991 - A manta-ray shaped object was sighted maneuvering in the sky | | over the city of Great Houghton, South Yorkshire, England at 1:20 | | a.m. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 141). | | | | 1993 - A 34-year-old adult driving with two children in Charlestown, | | Rhode Island drove under and past a slow-moving, large, lighted, | | silent domed disc-shaped object with a flat bottom. They stopped to | | watch as a second object with blinding lights appeared and then moved | | off, drifting to the northwest. (Source: Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO | | Journal, July 1994, p. 12). | | | | 1995 - At 6:15 a.m. a metallic disc-shaped object was sighted from | | Seattle hovering low over Puget Sound to the west. It made noises, | | then streaked away. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center). | | | | 1997 - A green oval-shaped object with six windows passed over | | Littleton, New Hampshire from Vermont across the Connecticut River at | | 6:50 p.m. After a few minutes it took off over the mountains. | | (Sources: Manchester Union Leader, March 3, 1997; Michael David Hall, | | UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 332).  | | | | 1998 - A father and son driving between Holstein | | and Heartwell, Nebraska at 6:05 p.m. witnessed a glowing triangular | | object hover for 6-7 minutes; it then turned on end and flew off to | | the south. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, Jan. 1998 webpage). | | | | 2000 - There were three sightings in California reported on this day. | | At 11:05 a.m. in Petaluma in Sonoma County a metallic disc was seen | | that was about as wide as it was tall. It was about the size of a pea | | at arm's length. In Covina in Los Angeles County a lighted object | | moved from west to east across a cloudy sky at 6:30 p.m. It made no | | sound as it flew. Finally, twenty minutes later in Fontana in San | | Bernardino County a saucer-shaped UFO hovered for a few minutes, | | spinning at a high rate of speed. It was completely illuminated by a | | self-luminous glowing light, and it moved slowly over city after | | hovering. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, Jan. 2000 webpage, reports uploaded on Feb. 16, 2000). | | | | 2001 - A huge silver cylindrical object with "falling leaf motion" | | was seen over Vancouver, British Columbia at nine o'clock in the | | morning. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31, | | citing UFOBC). | | | | 2001 - A driver in Salisbury, North Carolina felt a strange presence | | while driving at 8:00 p.m., and looked up to see a saucer directly | | above the car. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 webpage, report uploaded Oct. 11, 2005). | | | | 2008 - At 3:30 p.m. a photograph of a “phantom UFO” was taken by a | | woman showing the object flying over a lake, Lago Menendez in the Los | | Alerces National Park, Chubut province, Argentina next to the | | Torrecillas Glacier. (Source: Luis Burgos, www.ufoinfo.com, citing | | Inexplicata). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 December 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: cigar-shaped UFOs | | , communication via telepathy, crash and military retrieval of UFO wr | | eakage and humanoid bodies, domed discs, luminous UFOs, missing time, | | multi-year reports from Argentina, octagonal UFO, ovoid UFOs, pendul | | um motion, photographs and motion picture film, physiological effect: | | teeth vibrated, radio interference, sensation of heat, silvery unifo | | rms and helmets, tall humanoid, underwater submarine object (USO), ve | | hicle EM ignition interference, vertical ascent, very thin humanoids. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+