+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | July 8 | | | | 1947 - There are at least 74 UFO reports recorded for this day in the | | UFOCAT database. At ten o'clock in the morning an aluminum colored, | | pancake shaped object was sighted by a farmer as it flew over | | Corapeake, North Carolina. It flew at an estimated 800 mph at 2,000 | | feet altitude. He described it as having two windows and protruding | | pipe-like extensions, and emitting vapor and making a slight noise. | | At 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time an ovoid object was sighted over Norfolk, | | Virginia. It was seen rocking and spinning, and followed by smaller | | objects. An Air Force major observed a metallic object at Muroc Field | | (now Edwards AFB) in California at noon. The object reflected | | sunlight and oscillated up and down in the sky, going down to ground | | level then rising again. It was observed simultaneously by a captain | | in Rodgers Dry Lake Bed. At the same time a student pilot sighted at | | flying disc that looked like it had a hole in its center, flying at | | 500 feet altitude over Spokane, Washington. At 5:33 p.m. an object | | flew in a zigzag pattern over Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. At | | 9:47 p.m. five teenagers camping out at a golf course in Madison, | | Wisconsin saw a flat, brilliant disc close to the horizon. It flew | | from the southeast to the northwest very quickly. (Sources: (1) | | Norfolk (NC) Pilot, July 9, 1947; (2) newspaper clipping dated July | | 9, 1947; (3) Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; (4) | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; (5) Ted Bloecher, | | Report on the 1947 UFO Wave, case 769, citing newspaper clipping | | dated July 9, 1947; (6) APRO Bulletin, March-April 1971, p. 8). | | | | 1949 - Eight metallic discs flew 300 meters over a boat in a lake at | | Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming at seven o'clock in the morning. | | They were completely silent. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted | | in official statistics, July 1949 summary). | | | | 1961 - In Beulah, Michigan a bluish-white light with a faint rotating | | beacon inside was sighted at 11:00 p.m. It had three red and three | | white lights inside. It descended to tree top level, and then went | | behind the trees. Soon, a red light followed by a white object | | emerged from behind the trees; they flew low over the ground, and | | then the two lights merged together. (Source: Lloyd Mallan, Official | | Guide to UFOs, p. 29). | | | | Beulah, Michigan UFO - 1961 | | | | [Sketch of Beulah, Michigan UFO 1961] | | | | 1964 - At 10:30 a.m. a man named Senac saw a three meter wide by 1.5 | | meter tall disc-shaped object hovering low over the roadside of the | | D-21 highway in Maraunats, Pyrenees-Atlantique department, France. | | Two short humanoids dressed in khaki were also seen walking by a | | hedge. (Sources: Fernand LaGarde, FSR, November-December 1969, p. 17; | | Alain Gamard, UFO Register, Volume 7, p. 44; UFO Nachtrichten, March | | 1970, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit). | | | | 1965 - A police lieutenant named Haag and fellow police officer in | | Sunnyvale, California saw a hovering white object that undulated, | | darted back and forth, zig-zagged, and then climbed away at steep | | angle. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A | | Thirty Year Report, pp. 7, 171, citing Paul Cerny). | | | | 1968 - Sr. Aldo Juan Santiago, with Miss Espinoza and her son and a | | young friend of the latter, were driving near Canota, Mendoza | | province, Argentina on a cold, moonlight night at around 3:00 a.m. | | when they saw a luminous object pass over and land near | | Villavicencio, about three kilometers away. The object was | | fluctuating in color between blue-green and yellow. They stopped and | | had a mid-night cookout, and toward the end of their stopover they | | witnessed a man approach, walking on the road to Villavicencio. He | | walked by making "giant strides," and came up and then passed by them | | without speaking. He was wearing "a sort of one piece Montgomery, | | fastened at the wrists & ankles." It was blue in color, with a hood | | over the head, and he seemed to be wearing spectacles. The area was | | far from any town and they had seen no one else, and no other car, on | | the road. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1968-87, citing Dr. Carlos Wittenstein, Cuarta | | Dimension, March 1976, p. 20; Oscar A. Uriondo). | | | | 1968 - A 20 foot long vertical metallic cylinder with yellow-orange | | body lights followed a Cessna 172 light airplane flying over Warren, | | Ohio at 10:20 p.m. It darted back-and-forth, then sped away to the | | east. The sighting lasted ten minutes and there were four witnesses. | | (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1968, p. 6; Gordon I. R. | | Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 119; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 36). | | | | 1971 - A 12 meter long ovoid UFO with portholes around the edge was | | seen near the ground in Kervinio-en-Ploemeur, Morbihan department, | | France at 6:30 a.m. It turned, then shot away fast. (Source: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, September 1975). | | | | 1971 - Alain G. was tent camping with three adolescent boys in a | | grotto about ten kilometers from Rocamadour, Lot department, France | | when he heard the sound of breaking branches outside his tent at | | around one o'clock in the morning. They were all concerned about | | possible prowlers, so he looked out from his tent window and saw a | | human-like figure, foggy white in color like a phantom, walking down | | a path toward the boy's tent. The farther away the figure went, the | | less distinct it became. Stunned, he got up and ran out of his tent | | and down the path toward the other tent, but the figure had | | disappeared. He got the boys up and they explored the surrounding | | area, but they found no one. They then got into his car and they | | drove for several kilometers in both directions but found nothing | | more unusual. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-43, citing Joel Mesnard & | | Jean Marie Bigorne). | | | | 1974 - A witness named Imolesi had a close encounter with a 15 meter | | wide disc-shaped object with a wing over a road in Barbiana, Italy at | | 10:10 p.m. A 25-foot wide circular trace mark was found on the nearby | | riverbed. (Source: Ted Phillips, Skylook, February 1975; Maurizio | | Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Reports database, citing Lumieres dans la | | Nuit). | | | | 1974 - At 12:50 a.m. a luminous disc-shaped object began following a | | car with two passengers in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Vaucluse department, | | France. It eluded the car when the car attempted to approach it, then | | reapproached the car before it shot straight up vertically on | | departure. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1975). | | | | 1978 - At midnight a motorist saw a sharp white gleam of light some | | 300 meters ahead on the road in Lempdes, Puy-de-Dome, France. As he | | came to the curve, he saw that the gleam came from a mass | | approximately 5 meters in height. He can not observe the base of the | | object, which is below the side of the road. The top was rounded in | | the form of a dome, surmounted by a white light. As he drove by he | | saw through a transparent wall in the UFO numerous human like figures | | wearing helmets and tight-fitting suits. He drove away but soon came | | back with his wife and her mother, who saw two zigzagging luminous | | points of reddish-orange and green lights. Ground traces were found | | at the site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1978, case # 1721, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine, and | | Pierre Delval, Contacts of the 4th Type). | | | | 1978 - An 80 meter long ovoid object flew over Katta-Kurgan, | | Uzbekistan toward the southeast, then landed in a vineyard at 11:45 | | p.m. Ground marks were later found on the ground, and the vegetation | | (grape vines) were effected. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 14162, citing Illobrand von Luviger, UFOs - Zeugen and | | Zeichen, p. 363). | | | | 1996 - Police sergeant Marian Mancu and volunteer police officer | | Marcel Rusu were walking on patrol on the main road that passes in | | front of the police station in the village of Certesti, Romania at | | around midnight. Mancu lives in the area and told Rusu he was going | | to walk home to get something to eat. Between the road and the | | sidewalk was a deep ditch with small foot bridges across the culvert. | | When the sergeant passed the corner near his house he heard a | | whistling sound from the street and felt a rush of air. He turned | | around immediately and saw something on the road that "was splashed | | with blue and red lights" and made a "voom-voom" sound. Mancu first | | thought it was the district police car that was coming back from a | | routine patrol, but getting closer he realized the object was | | hovering half a meter above the paved road. There was also a small | | strange looking figure moving around it. He yelled for Rusu, who was | | now hiding behind the ditch and watching the strange spectacle from | | their. | | | | Rusu reported that immediately after Mancu had left and gone behind a | | nearby apartment house, "a fluttering from above appeared". The neon | | lighting in the street seemed to change in intensity. The object | | descended slowly, without noise, and came down behind him. Rusu | | became frightened when he saw the object hovering above the ground, | | with three small human-like creatures were moving around it. Both | | witnesses agreed that the object had the form of a flat hut, five or | | six meters across and two or 2.5 meters high, and it was balancing | | about half a meter from the ground. Around the periphery of the | | object was a continuous girdle of light "like a rainbow." The colors | | changed from red to blue and flared in intensity. On the bottom of | | the object was a bright white light. Neither of the witnesses saw any | | doors, portholes, or other similar features. After about two minutes, | | the UFO rose vertically. At the moment it moved up to an altitude of | | about 30 meters its lights became much brighter, and the neon | | streetlights went out. It then shot off to the east at high speed. | | Rusu reportedly had a better view of the humanoid creatures than | | Mancu, who only noticed one of them from behind. He estimated their | | height to have been around a meter or less. Rusu said he heard some | | noises made by the humanoids, sounding like "rain in a drain pipe." | | Both described the creatures as ugly; they had large heads, very | | elongated behind and covered with bumps, with no hair, and large | | ears. Their faces were white and they had big eyes. Gray metallic | | shiny scales, resembling fish scales, covered their bodies. They also | | had large, limp protruding bellies. They also had thin spindly arms, | | and no noses or mouths were visible. The witnesses thought that the | | creatures floated just above the ground and moved around "as if they | | were drunk." A huge sweet cherry tree nearby had around 15 % of its | | leaves shriveled as if by extreme heat. Other witnesses in nearby | | villages reported strange lights over the area the same night. | | (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Dan D. Farcas). | | | | 2005 - A bright silver cigar-shaped UFO was sighted coming out of a | | cloud near a military base in Killeen, Texas at 12:35 p.m. Within ten | | seconds it disappeared into another cloud but never reappeared. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | July 2005 archived webpage). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 June 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: car pursuits, cigar-shaped or cyl | | indrical UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed UFO, human-looking UFOnauts we | | aring helmets and coveralls, landings, multi-year reports from France | | , police reports, short humanoids, vertical ascent, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+