+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | May 18 | | | | 1909 - Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road around 11 p.m. near | | the mountains in Caerphilly, Wales when he saw on the grass a large | | tube-shaped machine. Aboard the craft were two men wearing furs and | | talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. | | There was a depression in the grass at the site after the object had | | flown off. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 187; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, the UFO | | Enigma, p. 99). | | | | 1954 - Two people witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object, the | | size of a house, at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. It came to the ground | | near the railroad tracks, kicking up a small sandstorm in the desert. | | One witness started to approach it, then ran away in fear. (Sources: | | Otto Binder, What We Really Know about Flying Saucers; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 206). | | | | 1959 - A truck driver in Girard, Kansas reported that at 2:00 a.m. an | | orange disc-shaped object landed on the highway and covered both | | lanes. It rose up vertically after a short while and flew away. A | | separate witness was not identified. (Source: Loren E. Gross: The | | Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, | | p. 30). | | | | 1960 - One year later a cigar-shaped object w portholes was seen over | | Wellington, New Zealand. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1959; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 138). | | | | 1963 - A 15-year-old student was out camping at 10:30 p.m. near New | | Plymouth, New Zealand when he heard a wild animal on a nearby hill | | wailing. He next saw a crescent or semi-disc shaped UFO flying in the | | sky, looking like a stingray. It changed color from red to dark blue | | as it changed speed and direction. (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, case # 8360; Lloyd Mallan, Official | | Guide to UFOs, p. 20, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. | | 118). | | | | New Plymouth, New Zealand - 1963 | | | | [Image] | | | | 1964 - At 7:30 a.m. a ten-year-old boy in Hubbard, Oregon saw a | | silver colored, square object 1.2 meters high resting on four shiny | | legs in a wheat field. With a soft beeping noise, it rose slowly to a | | height of a telephone pole, then "shot up like a rocket." Ground | | marks were found at the site: three imprints forming a 90 cm | | equilateral triangle, with the wheat flattened from the center about | | 1.2 meters in diameter. There was also the odor of gas fumes. At 5:15 | | p.m. in Mount Vernon, Virginia a man named Meyers watched a small | | glowing white oval split apart twice after moving from the right side | | of the Moon to the left. At 10:15 p.m. an Army pilot at the Lawrence, | | Massachusetts airport sighted a yellowish white light in the sky | | traveling through the sky. It made a 360 degree turn, then sped off | | at an estimated 1,000 mph without making a sonic boom. (Sources: (1) | | Fred Merritt, A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of | | Unidentified Flying Objects Based on Shape and Dimensions of Imprint | | Patterns, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 187; (2) | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8811; | | Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51; (3) Raymond | | E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 329). | | | | Lawrence Airport, Massachusetts - 1964 | | | | [Image] | | | | 1969 - At around 10:00 p.m. an extremely bright white disc-shaped UFO | | stopped over a tractor on a farm east of Denilquin, New South Wales, | | Australia. It then shot up vertically into the clouds at high speed. | | There were nine witnesses, and the encounter lasted six minutes. | | (Sources: newspaper clipping dated May 20, 1969; FSR, | | November-December 1969, p. 32). | | | | 1973 - Behencourt, Somme, France. At 10:30 p.m. a 20-meter wide domed | | disc glowed, hovered, and revolved only 30 meters above the ground, | | but made no noise. Animals stared dumbfounded at the object. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1974). | | | | 1975 - A triangle of lights was sighted over some woods in Rainhill, | | Merseyside, England at around 10:00 p.m. Some huge footprints were | | found in the area later, along with some other ground marks. (Source: | | J. Bernard Delair, Northern Network News, August 1975, p. 5; BUFORA | | Journal, September 1975, p. 6; Jenny Randles, FSR, April 1978, p. 5). | | | | 1976 - At 10:45 a.m. in St. Job-in-'T Goor, Antwerp province, | | Belgium, two young women, a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old, saw an | | aluminum colored UFO disappear behind some trees at 10:45 a.m. At | | 10:30 p.m. a man and his family observed a large, house-sized object | | hovering close to a nearby hill in Sant'Onofrio, Abruzzi, Italy. The | | object approached the witnesses' home and from its top section a | | strong yellow light was directed over the area. The UFO had a large | | round opening from which a red light shone. From inside the porthole | | a dark, shadowy, man-like figure could be seen looking out at the | | witnesses for a brief period. It then moved away. A second object | | resembling a gray sphere with a ring around it was seen hovering | | above an abandoned house at the same time. (Sources: (1) Rudy de | | Groote, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 32, citing Gazette Antwerpen; (2) | | Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian catalogue, case 85). | | | | 1977 - At 6:30 p.m. two 10-year-old girls, named McLennan and | | Morrison, heard a strange whirring sound while playing in a field | | near their house in New Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland. It appeared to | | come from a nearby woods. When they approached and saw a domed | | cylindrical object near the ground about 300 meters away. It had a | | steady red light on top of the small dome. The object was metallic in | | color and about 30 feet long, and it had a red band encircling the | | lower section. The girls believed the object was hovering two feet | | above the ground---the same height as a fence situated between them | | and the object. They could not see any landing gear. To the right of | | the object was a very tall, thin "man," partially hidden by some | | bushes. He stood at least six-foot tall, and his arms were | | disproportionately short. He wore a silver coverall uniform. When he | | started to move toward them, the girls became frightened and fled. | | When they reached a safer distance, they turned around and saw that | | the man had disappeared. The object then began to ascend, moving off | | in three jerky "stepped up" maneuvers, and finally ascending | | vertically at a terrific speed. They hurried home and told their | | parents, who said they had heard the humming sound. The police were | | notified, and a circular area of scorch marks was found at the site, | | with minor damage over an area of about 100 yards including singed | | trees and underbrush. (Sources: Jenny Randles, FSR, January 1978, p. | | 7; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO | | phenomenon, p. 120; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-28 (A1733)). | | | | 1990 - In Kairma, near Frunze, Kirghizia (in what was then the USSR) | | Dima, age 10, came running home at 9:40 p.m. yelling that "space | | creatures" were outside. His mother looked out and saw several | | one-meter tall helmeted figures wearing glowing suits with stripes on | | their sleeves and pants legs. The beings had hands with three | | claw-like fingers. Dima reported that when they noticed him, they | | pulled out a box-like device from behind and aerial appendages | | appeared on their heads. When a car appeared the beings jumped into a | | nearby ditch and stayed there until the car had passed. While in the | | field the aliens appeared to clean their suits, and then perform what | | appeared to be somersaults on the wet grass. A powerful vibrating | | sound permeated the air during the encounter. Later, during a local | | power outage, several witnessed a huge red disc-shaped object | | hovering over the area. That same night humanoids also visited the | | home of one of Dima's teachers. They appeared inside her house and | | invited her to go with them, but she refused and the aliens left. | | (Source: Timothy Good, UFO Report 1992, p. 66). | | | | 1991 - At 11:40 p.m. just offshore of St. Osyth, Essex, England three | | fishermen saw a saucer-shaped object on edge, hovering low over the | | water. The object had six windows along its rim and several man-like | | figures could be seen moving about inside and looking out. The UFO | | vanished in the sky. (Source: Timothy Good, UFO Report 1992, p. 151). | | | | 1993 - On this night 31-year-old Astrid Ramos reported seeing a | | hovering circular object near Lisbon, Portugal from which descended | | several small humanoids. The humanoids then took her onboard the UFO. | | She was paralyzed while the humanoids performed several medical tests | | on her. They inserted a long thin tube into her nose, which caused | | her to feel a strong pressure inside her head. She was eventually | | released and soon began suffering from severe headaches. A Dr. Borja | | examined her and reportedly located an implant deep within her brain | | case. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, | | citing Fabio Picasso). | | | | 1994 - At 8:40 p.m. a silent, yellow-colored onion-shaped UFO flew | | east to west over the Ouse River in York, England at the speed of a | | jet. It maneuvered about as it flew. (Source: UFO Newsclipping | | Service, July 1994). | | | | 1997 - In a hilly area known as Ponte a Mensola, east of Florence, | | Italy a local merchant watched a tall human-like figure descend | | slowly from the sky into a nearby field at 10:30 a.m. The figure was | | about 1.60 meters tall, and totally covered in a black, tight-fitting | | diver's suit. He wore a red belt around his waist and a black helmet | | with wide dark goggles. He landed in a vertical position among the | | high grass. A few minutes later he rose back up into the sky | | vertically, and disappeared from sight. Others in the area reported | | seeing bright red lights flying in a zigzag pattern over the area. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing | | Federico Rosati, CUN). | | | | 1997 - At 11:10 p.m. Mr. Tosti and two other men saw several bright | | objects over a power plant in Bloomington, Indiana. In response to a | | flashlight signal, two of the objects descended. Their car engine | | stalled as the objects approached. The objects were small domed discs | | with square windows and a blue glow. Through the windows some | | silhoetted figures with large heads could be seen. (Source: Joseph | | Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 22 (1997)). | | | | 2006 - Some men at the Greenwater Lake Provincial Park in | | Saskatchewan, Canada first observed a disc-shaped object hovering | | over the lake at around 1:00 a.m. Later they observed some | | camoflauged beings in the water and on the land nearby. The sighting | | lasted five hours. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, | | case 213). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 24 May 2007). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction, ani | | mal reactions, UFOs changing colors, cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs | | , disc-shaped UFOs, ground marks including landing imprints and footp | | rints; human-looking occupants, implant in abductee's head through na | | sal cavity, inside occupant, landings, odor, orange UFOs, paralysis, | | physical traces, physiological effect: severe headaches, shiny silver | | or aluminum colored UFOs, shot up vertically, short humanoids, tall | | humanoid with short arms, teenage witnesses, unintelligible language. | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+