+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | May 8 | | | | 1880 - A farmer named Ju Tan in Song-Zi Xian Couny, China came upon a | | misty white light in some bushes around 8:00 p.m. He then felt a | | tingling paralysis, and heard a humming or rushing noise. He was | | levitated upwards and lost consciousness. His next recollection was | | finding himself, in a dazed state, in Guizhou province, which was 300 | | miles away from his home. The time was two weeks later. (Source: | | Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space | | Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 25). | | | | 1952 - Pan American Airlines flight 203 was flying 600 miles east of | | Jacksonville, Florida over the Atlantic Ocean at 2:27 a.m. when the | | pilot and co-pilot encountered three round, white lights in a line | | that buzzed their aircraft. (Sources: Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on | | Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 177; UNICAT database, case #345, | | citing Ruppelt; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 132; | | Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 77). | | | | 1956 - At 9:48 a.m. (EST), a flight of seven objects, silver in | | color, appearing the size of a baseball held at arm's were observed | | moving south over Aliquippa, Pennsylvania at an altitude of 5,000 to | | 15,000 feet at an estimated speed of 36 mph. An F-86D fighter was | | scrambled, but there were negative sightings. The sighting was visual | | and electronic by TPS 1D radar. Length of observation was 10 minutes. | | (Source: McDonald list, Brad Sparks, Dan Wilson, | | http://www.nicap.org/waves/1956fullrep.htm). | | | | 1956 - On this evening a large "mothership" hovered for three hours | | over Vista, California in San Diego County. Several small objects | | with square windows were seen orbiting it. They all flew off to the | | west. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: | | UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 5). | | | | 1964 - On this night a 23-year-old truck driver named Kalbermatter, | | while driving in Colonia Castelli in Chaco province, Argentina saw a | | creature more than nine feet tall on road in front of his truck. | | before him. The creature had long black hair, and gave a powerful and | | terrifying cry. He nearly ran the creature down. A few days previous | | to this humanoid encounter a large luminous object had been spotted | | at the same spot. (Sources: Dr. P. M. H. Edwards, FSR, March 1970, p. | | 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case A0589, citing Beyond Condon: FSR Special Edition No. 2, | | p. 25). | | | | 1966 - A 16-year-old named Bruce Pollock took three photographs of | | three hexagonal flying objects at 5:30 a.m. in New Plymouth, New | | Zealand. (Sources: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, July-August | | 1966, p. 32; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 7 (1976), page | | 60). | | 1966 - On this afternoon a 75-foot long diamond-shaped object was | | photographed north of Ipamari, Goias State, Brazil as it flew to the | | south over the rainforest on the other side of the river. It made a | | 90 degree turn making a low-pitched whining sound, and sped off | | inland to the west. The color photograph appeared in LIFE magazine. | | The photographer's name was Pfeiffer. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, July | | 1977, p. 4; James Moseley, Saucer News, March 1967, p. 35; | | Inforespace, June 1976). | | | | 1966 - John Beers and a female friend were driving south on County | | Road G in Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin when they noticed some | | blinking white and green lights pacing their car. The lights were | | first seen above the roadside telephone poles, and they followed his | | car to Highway 151, and then to Columbus, Wisconsin. (Source: Jay | | Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, | | p. 62). | | | | 1967 - At 11:00 p.m. Ms. L. Geisler in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania | | saw a round object with four red lights in a curving row, and a very | | bright white center light that flashed on and off. The object | | hovered, moved up and down, and from side to side. It darted away, | | reappeared, and hovered again before moving away for good. The | | sighting lasted 15 minutes. (Sources: NICAP files, citing Ritter | | report July 28, 1967; Gilbert Bernier, UFO-INFO, July 1, 1967). | | | | 1969 - A married coupled reported seeing a silver dome shaped object | | over Brentwood, South Australia at around 10:00 a.m. It had a dark | | protrusion on the leading edge, and flew overhead west to east in the | | morning sky before vanishing in mid-air. (Source: Michael Hervey, | | UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 183). | | | | 1971 - The witness, a resident of Houston, Texas who lives not far | | from the NASA Space Flight Center, and a lady member of the UFO | | investigators group APRO, went to her window at 3:30 a.m. and saw | | three short figures about five feet tall walking by in single file. | | All wore tight fitting, light blue sports shirts and dark trousers, | | and had "pale complexions and mousy hair." They appeared to be | | "intently engrossed." (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1971, p. 4; | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case 1971-16, citing APRO Bulletin). | | | | 1972 - At 12:15 a.m. a reddish-orange dome-shaped object with | | portholes flew to the east over Eucla, Western Australia and then | | vanished. (Sources: UFO Research South Australia, case # SA72023; | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # | | 109). | | 1977 - Two men, were parked in a marshy, densely wooded area of the | | Hainault Forest, a park in London, England near Cabin Hill. They had | | been walking their dog in a light rain at around 7 p.m. when they | | heard a rustling sound in the bushes. They then observed a huge | | figure, about eight feet tall and four feet wide, that crossed their | | path about 25 feet away and disappeared into the woods. It was dark | | blue in color and brighter than its surroundings. It had no distinct | | arms or legs that could be discerned. A UFO landing had been reported | | in the area a few days earlier---the reason for the investigator | | being at the site at the time when he encountered the startled | | witnesses. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-25, citing Barry King, FSR, Vol. 23, # | | 2). | | | | 1977 - Shortly after 2:00 p.m. two couples driving in separate cars, | | westbound on Interstate 80 near Joliet, Illinois saw a silver object, | | described as a sphere with Saturn rings or looking like a "straw hat" | | as big as the moon, swooped silently over their cars, moving rapidly. | | It headed off to the east. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO | | Reporter, June 1977, p. 8). | | | | 1992 - At 10:00 p.m. a domed disc-shaped object, described as a | | bright, stationary inverted plate with a hump on top, was observed | | above the tree line by a woman driving on Bruce Highway along the | | Sunshine Coast to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It then moved | | upward and disappeared. (Source: Timothy Good, Alien Update, pp. | | 266-269, citing UFO Research Queensland). | | | | 1994 - A low whistle was heard at around 11:00 a.m., then a dark one | | meter-wide object was seen wavering under some power lines in | | Saaderup, Denmark close to ground. It flew off to the north. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16377, citing SUFOI News, | | issue #14). | | 2000 - At 9:05 p.m. a triangular object hovered over the mountains | | outside of Juniper and Kamloops, British Columbia. It split into four | | smaller triangles, and changed color. Some powerful strobe lights hit | | the mountain, then the pieces reformed to make one object, which shot | | up vertically. (Sources: UFO Magazine (USA), September 2000, p. 28; | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2003 - A female hospital worker, driving home from work at 12:45 | | a.m., saw a low hovering metallic looking UFO that was as big as a | | house along Highway 13 south of Highway 2 in Clinton, Missouri. Its | | bottom perimeter looked octagonal, and it had four small yellow | | lights with a large red light in the middle. It directed a beam of | | light down to ground, the UFO swayed, and then blinked out. It made | | no sound. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, May 2003 archived webpage, citing MUFON Missouri). | | | | 2003 - Walking home from the train station in Brooklyn, New York at | | 6:43 p.m., the witness looked up to the southeast and saw a silver | | disc/saucer at about 10,000 feet altitude. It had a leading edge | | pointed slightly upwards and it was moving east. He states, "The | | saucer/disk seemed to be wobbling and it had what seemed to be | | notches that were evenly spaced around its middle as it wobbled and | | rotated. I had my 35 mm camera with me the the sighting was so quick | | that it was gone before I could get my camera out." (Source: George | | A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO | | Sightings, p. 7). | | | | 2004 - At 10:00 a.m. in the surroundings of ExpoCuba, a fairground | | located in the Havana, Cuba municipality of Boyeros, several people | | witnessed the presence of a small silver oval-shaped UFO. Residents | | saw the small oval-shaped vessel, silver-colored with a metallic | | tail, as it descended and landed in an open field encircled by trees | | on the El Pedregal farm. It made no noise nor smoke. It was about the | | size of a pickup truck tire. Raul Beltran, 17, states, "I was tidying | | the shelves when a bright light came through the window that was like | | a glowing ball with a tail in its lower section. I showed it to my | | mother and quickly ran outside to see where it would fall and watched | | at the site until the UFO took off once more." It lifted off | | perpendicularly, and then left through the palm trees. According to | | the witnesses, the grass and small plants at the site where the UFO | | landed were somewhat burned. (Source: George A. Filer & David E. | | Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. | | 39-40, citing Prensa Latina, May 19, 2004). | | | | 2004 - At 9:30 p.m. a black delta-shaped wing and sphere were seen | | moving in the sky over Cranbrook, British Columbia. There were four | | witnesses and the sighting was quite brief. (Source: Geoff Dittman, | | 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 268, citing UFOBC). | | | | 2005 - At around 11:00 a.m. a small sphere, moving very fast to the | | west, flew directly under a private aircraft flying at 3,500 feet | | near Phoenix, Arizona. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived webpage). | | | | 2007 - A huge "beige" triangular object maneuvered around the sky | | with a multicoloured flashing light over Oshawa, Ontario at 10:00 | | p.m. There were two witnesses and the sighting lasted 10 minutes. | | (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 260, | | citing HBCCUFO). | | | | 2011 - An object like a "black vampire cape" with a "glowing lantern" | | flew over Ste. Anne, Manitoba at 9:00 p.m. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, | | 2011 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 310, citing www.ufoinfo.com). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 8 May 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft enco | | unters, car buzzings or pursuits, disappearing UFOs, dome-shaped UFOs | | , giant creatures, levitation, light beams, multi-year reports from B | | ritish Columbia and Pennsylvania, pallid short humanoids, photographs | | , radar visual confirmation, time/space dislocation, vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+