+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | June 2 | | | | 1919 - At 9:00 a.m. a nine-year-old boy in Otter Tail, Minnesota saw | | a black object emerge from a quick descent, forming an unusual cloud. | | Windows rattled and the house he was in creaked as the object pealed | | off, made 6-7 barrel rolls, and left contrails in its wake. (Source: | | Frontiers of Science, January 1982, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 39) | | | | 1947 - Pilot Wenyon reported that a silver, "mayo-jar" shaped UFO | | crossed in front of his light plane while flying at between 10,000 | | and 12,000 feet near Lewes, Delaware on this day. (Sources: Ted | | Bloecher investigation files, clipping dated July 8, 1947; Ted | | Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9). | | | | 1947 - At 1:30 p.m. an inverted saucer-shaped disc of brilliant metal | | was sighted by John Laube and Fred Platte in Waverly, Iowa. It flew | | just above the top of a 180-foot grain elevator at Waverly Sugar | | Manufacturing Plant. They had it in sight for five minutes before it | | was obscured by trees as it flew away. (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project | | 1947 Research Notes, Bordentown, New Jersey, April 16, 2005, citing | | Waterloo Courier, July 10, 1947). | | | | 1949 - A silver disc-shaped object flew toward the northwest into | | Little Tujunga Canyon near Glendale, California at around noon. It | | traveled very fast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | #1409, citing Ann Druffel). | | | | 1952 - In Bayview, Washington eight witnesses watched an irregular | | bluish-white or silver sphere hover in the sky. They viewed it | | through a theodolite. An intercept was attempted with a C-47 but | | abandoned when the transport place couldn't close with the UFO. At | | 5:02 p.m. Larry McWade observed a purple object for an unknown length | | of time. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs | | over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - Fulda, West Germany. On this night Lt. John Hendry, the | | photo-navigator on a RB-26C reconnaissance bomber, sighted a | | porcelain-white object that flew very fast for an unknown length of | | time. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs | | over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1955 - A huge luminous sphere hovered at ten meters over the beach at | | Catia La Mar, Venezuela and then flew along the beach. (Source: APRO | | Bulletin, August 1955). | | | | 1959 - Mrs. Henry X. Buller reported that she and her husband saw two | | cigar-shaped objects fly northeast of Windom, Minnesota while driving | | between Windom and Mountain Lake at 9:15 p.m. (Sources: Fate | | magazine, October 1959; Jay Rath, The M-Files, p. 50) | | | | 1961 - On Miyako Jima, Japan at 10:17 p.m. Lt. R. N. Monahan and | | Hazeltine Electric Co. technical representative D. W. Mattison, | | sighted a blue-white light that flew an erratic course at varying | | speeds, in an arc-like path for five minutes. A radar contact with | | visual confirmation of the UFO occurred on the same day in Tampa, | | Florida. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 7437; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1964 - At 5:30 p.m. in Gateshead, England a teenager and nine | | children saw six dwarfs on Leam Lane. They were about 31 inches tall, | | were dressed in bright green clothes, and had luminous hands. They | | seemed to be searching for something. Later, another child reported | | seeing a silver disc the size of an automobile take off from the | | area. (Sources: Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, December 1964, p. 12; | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 609; | | Jerome Clark & Loren Coleman, The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving | | the UFO Mystery, p. 24). | | | | 1964 - A fiery disc swooped down low over Hobbs, New Mexico at around | | 4 p.m., leaving behind some sooty trace remnants and burning a child. | | Surprisingly, the child reported that the burns did not cause any | | pain despite the fact that his eyes had swollen shut and he had black | | sooty deposits on his face, neck, and shirt. (Sources: Coral E. | | Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from | | Outer Space, p. 226; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century | | of Landings, case 608; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, | | p. 191). | | | | 1964 - At 10:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object with a very bright | | rectangular plate hovered over some new housing construction in | | Sunnyvale, California. It flew off rapidly toward the southeast. | | (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 8; Thomas M. Olsen, | | Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 153). | | | | 1965 - A silent sphere with flashing lights descended onto a hillside | | in Kuranda, Queensland, Australia at 8:00 p.m. Mr. D. Armstrong, a | | former airman, was called outside by his sons and saw the spherical | | object with flashing lights that appeared to land silently on a | | hillside situated on a Mr. Watson's property. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 649). | | | | 1966 - A luminous cigar-shaped object stopped in mid-air, then | | discharged three smaller objects that flew off in different | | directions over Massillon, Ohio. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 414). | | | | 1969 - In Tusnad Baile, Romania at 2:30 a.m. a silent, cone-shaped | | UFO grew larger in the sky, as if approaching. It then flew off | | toward the west-northwest toward Odorheiu, trailing a tail. (Source: | | Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. | | 254). | | | | 1969 - Near Segovia, Spain a witness travelling in a car experienced | | a strange effect, like a curtain coming down, at 9:30 p.m. He then | | heard a message to "be calm" while he watched a cube descend. He then | | lost track of what happened during the next 30 minutes. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #8875). | | | | 1970 - Lulu Luebben reported that the horses on her ranch in Apache | | Junction, Arizona reacted as if to the presence of a predator at | | around two a.m. A low flying hovering object, with its top an intense | | blue, and the bottom a neon yellow was near the paddock. It had three | | bar appendages on the bottom. It was also seen by three security | | guards at nearby Falcon Field across the highway. (Sources: APRO | | Bulletin, September-October 1970, p. 7; Apache (AZ) Sentinel, June | | 10, 1970; Skylook, August 1970; Joan Woodward, www.nicap.org, Catgory | | 04 - Animal Effects Cases). | | | | 1972 - A luminous ovoid object hovered over La Deschaux, Jura | | department, France at 11:30 p.m., then moved toward the south slowly | | at a low altitude. It directed a beam of light upwards, with 90 | | degree rotation. The sighting lasted an hour, and there were four | | witnesses. (Source: Henry-JeanBesset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1972, | | p. 26). | | | | 1975 - A series of close encounters began in central Connecticut at | | 8:45 p.m. On Lent Road in Hamden, Connecticut a witness sighted a | | disc-shaped UFO with an onboard occupant. Thirty minutes later two | | witnesses, one on Putnam Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut and another in | | Wallingford, Connecticut both reported close encounter experiences | | involving disc-shaped UFOs and lapses of time where they couldn't | | remember what happened next. At 9:45 p.m. more than 40 people | | including police saw the same or similar disc in Hamden. (Source: | | CUFOS case investigation files, James Barrett field investigator). | | | | 1991 - Many observers witnessed 15 delta-shaped objects in the sky | | over Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Photographs and a videotape were | | taken, and there was national TV coverage of the event. (Source: UFO | | Newsclipping Service, October 1993). | | | | 1992 - At 2:15 a.m. in Pittsford, New York two charcoal black, | | Saturn-shaped UFOs were seen hovering at 200 feet altitude. There | | were four prongs on each with lights on the ends. (Source: Donald M. | | Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1992, p. 18). | | | | 2001 - At 6 p.m. a flat, black V-shaped object, with no lights or | | sound, was suspended in the sky over Wayne, New Jersey. It slowly | | rotated in place. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, webpage posted August 5, 2001). | | | | 2003 - At three o'clock in the morning the witness awoke in West | | Chester, Ohio to a beeping sound coming from a UPS (universal power | | supply) because the power had gone out. There was a smell of ozone | | and no sound at all. The witness then saw an oval-shaped craft with | | two strobing oval-shaped lights. The bottom of the craft was a deep | | blue color. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 2006 - Three orange lights in a triangular formation were sighted | | over Aylmer, Quebec, Canada at 10:45 p.m. One by one they left | | formation, rapidly increasing in altitude. (Source: Geoff Dittman, | | 2006 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 250). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 30 May 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reaction: horses panic, blue-white UFOs, cigar-shaped | | UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, erratic maneuvers, landings, missing time an | | d possible abduction experiences, oval or ovoid UFOs, physiological e | | ffects: burns, short humanoids, silent UFOs, silver UFOs, violet UFO. | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+