+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 29 | | | | 1942 - At around 7:00 p.m. two soldiers in the air traffic control | | tower at the Army Air Corps Flying School in Columbus, Mississippi | | observed the rapid descent of two red round glowing objects that | | demonstrated extreme maneuverability and then hovered over the woods | | at the end of the runway. They next experienced an episode of missing | | time as well as sensory dislocation: they found themselves out in a | | field with no memory of how they got there. (Sources: Richard M. | | Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a | | Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume | | I), p. 129; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary | | Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. | | 20; Jerome Clark, The Anomalist, April 2000, p. 20, citing NICAP). | | | | 1948 - At 5:03 a.m. a farmer in Maplewood, Ohio observed a silvery | | sphere of large dimension rise from a wooded area and hover above his | | farm. It dropped a silvery substance that disintegrated before | | touching the ground. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case #169; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, p. 193). | | | | 1952 - Two U.S. Navy pilots flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane witnessed | | three white disc-shaped or spherical objects hovering west of Thule, | | Greenland (77.00º N, 75.25º W) at 10:50 a.m. They flew very fast in a | | triangular formation, and were in sight for 2-3 minutes. (Sources: | | Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer from Outer Space, p. 255; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 743; Kevin D. | | Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 281). | | | | 1952 - At 7:30 p.m. at least seven observers with a theodolite | | sighted a luminous  bar in the sky over the city of Villacoublay, | | Yvelines, France. The object flew to the northwest in jumps, and then | | shot up vertically. (Sources: Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying | | Saucers, p. 179-180; UNICAT, case # 200; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, | | March 1968). | | | | 1952 - At 8:35 p.m. pilot C. A. Magruder, flying near Colorado | | Springs, Colorado saw three aluminum colored objects with | | yellowish-red exhaust, 50-feet in diameter and 10' high. They flew in | | a trail formation at estimated 1,500 m.p.h. for 4-5 seconds. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case # 2013; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. | | Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 281). | | | | 1954 - First Officer H.G. Gardner and engineer J. V. D. Whitisy, | | flying a Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ) at 11:05 a.m. near Prince | | Christian, Greenland sighted three or four dark, lens-shaped objects | | that veered to the north and changed position in formation for ten | | minutes. (Sources: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 167; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 779). | | | | 1955 - Eight children in Casa Blanca, Riverside County, California, | | from 4-15 years of age, saw a “semi transparent” round object of | | various colors in the sky at around three o'clock in the afternoon. | | It would appear and disappear with musical “pings.” Some adults were | | called to come see it, but they saw nothing. An object, “as large as | | 3 houses,” came down to hover three feet from the ground. Beside it | | appeared a transparent being 3.5 feet tall, with red eyes and mouth, | | and a brilliant disc on its belt. Other similar objects also landed, | | one on a housetop. One boy started walking toward one of the vessels | | and was forcibly restrained. Another saw a beckoning, disembodied arm | | in mid-air. A creature with four arms appeared, and told two of the | | boys to climb a tree to be “picked up.” They did so, and a UFO | | started to approach with little men riding on its rim. One boy | | climbed down after a garden hose was turned on him by the other | | children; the other “slid” onto a nearby roof and then walked off it, | | landing on his head, stunned but with no apparent serious injury. | | (Sources: Riverside Daily Press, August 30, 1955; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1955-21 | | (A0387), citing Bob Boden, Jean Rowlands & Mary Starbuck for BSRA, | | Uranus, February 1956). | | | | 1960 - At 4:05 p.m. in Crete, Illinois farmer Ed Schneeweis sighted a | | shiny, round, silver object that flew straight up very fast. It was | | in sight for 18 seconds. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | Crete, Illinois - 1960 | | | | [Sketch of Crete, Illinois 1960 sighting] | | | | 1967 - In Cussac, Cantal department, France at 10:30 a.m. 13-year-old | | Francois Delpeuch and his younger sister, Anne Marie, age 9, were | | tending their family cows when they saw four dwarfish figures, 3.5 to | | four feet tall, on the other side of the road, dressed in black. | | Nearby was a six foot spherical object of dazzling brilliance that | | rested on the ground. On closer examination they saw that the beings | | were completely black---either naked, or wearing skin tight black | | coveralls. They had pointed heads or helmets, which were also black. | | One was picking something up from the ground, and another had a | | bright object, like a mirror. When the entities became aware of the | | children they rose up into the air vertically, one after the other, | | and plunged head first into the top of the sphere, which then rose in | | a spiral pattern with a whistling noise. It left behind a smell of | | sulphur. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1967-88 (A0862), citing Joel Mesnard & Claude | | Pavy for GEPA; UNICAT database, case 423; citing Michel Figuet; | | Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet | | des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 285; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 875, citing FSR, | | November-December 1968; Spacelink, September 1968; Coral & Jim | | Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 280). | | | | 1967 - In Warminster at Cradle Hill, England a cone-shaped UFO was | | seen by 25 witnesses watching for UFOs on this night. It landed 100 | | meters from a copse of trees on Cradle Hill. Arthur Shuttlewood went | | toward the landing sight, and at 300 meters distance he spoke to a | | being (there are no details describing the being). The UFO went dark, | | and as he walked back a creature of some sort flew overhead. (Source: | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case 1967-87 (A0861), citing Arthur Shuttlewood). | | | | 1968 - At 9:30 p.m. six witnesses in San Sadurni de Osomort, | | Barcelona, Spain saw a UFO 200 meters away, hovering just two meters | | above the ground. It was a metallic sphere, which gave off a yellow | | light. At 9:40 p.m. several people in Castrejana, Vizcaya, Spain saw | | an object over the Mount Kobetas mountain peak for one minute. It was | | square, with a dome on top, and extremely bright. (Sources: | | Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in | | Spain and Portugal, pp. 15-16, cases 67 & 68, citing Correo Espano, | | August 30, 1968). | | | | 1968 - Starting on this evening at 6:30 p.m., a group of children in | | Coleraine, Quebec, Canada on four consecutive evenings saw a strange | | being hanging onto a boulder overlooking a cemetery. He was a | | dwarfish humanoid about 4 feet tall, with a shaven or bald head, | | naked chest, heavy black beard, and with red and bumpy skin, “like | | that of a lizard.” This being would disappear into thin air | | unexpectedly. A roaring noise was also heard coming from an | | excavation at the foot of the boulder, and a kind of “flying saucer” | | was seen, about 30 feet wide and colored blue, white and red. It left | | a long trail of smoke, and each time it “looked as if it were trying | | to land behind the boulder.” The children were Denis Bogus, age 7, | | who first saw the object; his brothers Michael and Andre, and their | | uncle, George Bogus; other adults who subsequently observed the | | phenomena were Normand Daigle and Luc Cadorette. (Source: David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case 1968-62, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Fall | | 1968). | | | | 1968 - Larry Sorenson was driving from Ely to Delta, Utah on this | | night when he saw a stationary bright, white light close to the | | horizon. It turned a red color and became much brighter. Sorenson's | | truck engine suddenly failed as he continued to drive towards the | | light. He got out and watched the light travel overhead and disappear | | behind him. It was changing colors from red to green to white and | | back to red. After the light was gone, the truck could be restarted. | | Sorenson noticed another car had also been stopped on the road. When | | he got home, the trip had taken almost two hours longer to complete | | than expected, and he had to account for two hours of missing time | | with a possible UFO abduction experience. (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, | | UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 42; Frank B. | | Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display). | | | | 1970 - At 11:30 p.m. 18 witnesses from six families watched an oblong | | or oval shaped object with a cupola during a close encounter near a | | lake in Enebacken, Sweden. The UFO changed color from red to orange | | to red as it moved about. The trees were illuminated by the close | | approach of the object, and it made a humming noise. The sighting | | lasted for two hours. Three round depressions were found in the grass | | were the object apparently landed. The depressions were 40 cm in | | diameter, 5-7 cm deep, and arranged in an equilateral triangle 3 | | meters apart. (Source: Sven-Olof Fredrickson, FSR, October 1971, p. | | 13; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 27; Fred Merritt, | | Leg-Mark Catalog, case # 46; citing FSR). | | | | 1972 - Three Reading, Pennsylvania police officers, including a | | sergeant, observed an oval-shaped object hovering several thousand | | feet in the sky above Mount Penn. They said the object changed color | | from white to red to bluish-green. After an unknown period of time, | | the UFO suddenly shot upward and out of sight, according to the | | officers. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 3). | | | | 1975 - At 10:45 p.m. Mr. R. Cyrus, a 48-year-old man driving on a | | clear night between Noe and Longages, France saw a three-meter | | diameter dark disc in a field that jumped at his car, then shot | | straight up. The driver lost consciousness for two minutes and | | suffered other physiological effects after the close encounter. | | (Sources: Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, | | p. 75; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year | | Report, pp. 19, 203, 269; Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1976). | | | | Noe, France Close Encounter - 1975 | | | | [Sketch of Noe, France Close Encounter 1975] | | | | 1978 - On this night in Guemes, Cordoba province, Argentina an ovoid | | object with reddish flashes moved at a low altitude in the proximity | | of the local observatory. Residents discarded the notion that it was | | a plane. At 11:00 p.m. two UFOs appeared in the skies over the city | | of Mendoza, Argentina. Their estimated speed was 6000 kph, altitude | | 30,000-40,000 meters, and they were photographed with "special | | cameras and techniques." (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping | | Service, November 1978, p. 14, citing Cronica, August 29 & 31, 1978). | | | | 1979 - Two primary school students were walking home from school | | through Zachodni Park in Wroclaw, Poland around four p.m. As they | | were walking by one of the alleys they saw a strange disc-shaped | | object on the ground, with two silvery-garbed humanoids standing next | | to it. Another being was inside the transparent dome on the top of | | the object. The students ran to get additional witnesses, but when | | they returned to the landing site the object and its occupants were | | gone. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, | | citing Tymoteusz Tobala & Marcin Mioduszewski, CBUFOIZA, Poland). | | | | 1979 - A silvery cigar with an orange light and square windows | | approached, hovered, and then finally sped away over the horizon in | | Ernestowo, Bydgoszcz, Poland. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 24; International UFO | | Reporter, May-June 1987, p. 24). | | | | 1979 - Mount Cameron, Tasmania, Australia - The witness had gone | | outside at 7:30 p.m. to investigate the reason her dog was barking | | when she noticed a bright light above a nearby mountain. It | | accelerated its downward approach and came towards her. The witness | | mentally told the object to retreat, which it then did. Subsequently | | the witness saw an apparition of a small humanoid (not described) | | that was in a seated position. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1979, citingMark Moravec, PSIUFO Phenomena). | | | | 1979 - The 47-year-old witness was at home in her Oak Lawn residence, | | southwest of Chicago, Illinois as she watched a huge blimp-like | | structure pass over her house at treetop level. Through the craft's | | luminous yellow hull, apparently transparent, four different types of | | three-foot-tall humanoids could be seen. The object made a loud | | humming and roaring sound as if left the area. No other witnesses | | were located. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1979, case # 292, citing International UFO Reporter, January-February | | 1980). | | | | 1984 - In Ashbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey a round UFO with | | spinning yellow lights hovered over area at 2:30 a.m., making a loud | | noise that woke many from their sleep. Fort Monmouth tracked a | | 90-foot wide object on radar at the time. (Source: Doris Graziano, | | APRO Bulletin, May 1985, p. 8). | | | | 1991 - At 10:30 p.m. 31-year-old night watchman Marcos Ibanez | | Ibarrola was driving his Renault 4 truck on his way to work in Torres | | de Elorz, near Pamploma, Navarra, Spain when he saw over a nearby | | water tower a flashing orange light approaching him. The object, a | | two meter wide disc-shaped object with a clear dome on top, | | approached quickly and struck his vehicle's hood, causing the truck | | to stop and completely disabling its electrical system. The object | | resembled a large truck tire encircled with several red and orange | | lights. It was making a loud revving sound. The witness quickly got | | out of his truck and ran to an embankment. He then saw a short, heavy | | set Grey humanoid within the glass canopy. It had a large head and | | glowing, slanted eyes. When another truck approached, the object rose | | vertically and quickly flew away in a zig-zagging flight | | path. Scratch marks and an oily thick and foul smelling liquid was | | found on the truck's hood. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # | | 309; Albert S. Rosales, 1991 Humanoid Contact Reports Database, case | | # 2367, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de Los Ovni en | | España). | | | | 1992 - Three cylinders were seen in the sky at close range after a | | home burglar alarm system and lights were effected at 2:30 a.m. in | | Mount Seymour, British Columbia. The policeman witness was unable to | | wake his wife, but their baby reacted to the close encounter, and | | their dog became sick. The incident lasted 30 minutes. (Sources: | | Lorne Goldfader, Alien Update, p. 280; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue | | 318). | | | | 1993 - A motorist chased a domed disc-shaped object in his car for 12 | | minutes between Crouse and Cherryville, North Carolina at 4:30 a.m. A | | videotape of the domed object he made with his camcorder was | | evaluated by MUFON. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, November | | 1993). | | | | 1998 - A black triangle shaped UFO was seen in Calgary, Alberta, | | Canada at 1:30 a.m. The witness estimated the object to be "several | | times larger than an airplane." It hovered, than zipped across the | | sky in two seconds. (Source: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey | | Report, case 92).  | | | | 2001 - A woman reported to the National UFO Reporting Center that | | her 12-year-old daughter came home from school in Grantville, | | Pennsylvania and said she had to tell her something, and she didn't | | think she would not believe her. At 7:47 p.m. she had seen | | two saucer-shaped craft in the sky that approached her; one had a | | "sparkly light" that came out of bottom of one of the ships in a | | tubular shape, that went towards the ground and stayed there for 15 | | seconds, then came back up into the ship. "Then both ships left the | | area going away from our hours." He daughter is afraid that something | | will happen to her or her family. She could not sleep well for | | several days since the event. (Source: George A. Filer & David E. | | Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 2; | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2001 webpage). | | | | 2001 - At 6:00 p.m. a black, triangular-shaped object was observed | | over Omaha, Nebraska in daylight for 45 seconds.  At 9:20 p.m. two | | very similar looking black, triangular objects , moving low to the | | ground, were seen in Marietta, Ohio for about a minute. They were | | moving very quickly in a northeasterly direction. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 | | archived webpage, reports uploaded on October 12, 2001). | | | | 2004 - In Omemee, Ontario, Canada a low, dark, cloud-like object was | | spotted in the sky at 7:35 p.m. that moved from west to east, changed | | direction, then changed direction back again to west to east until it | | was out of view. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, | | case # 628, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2007 - At 11:34 p.m. a man had just let his dogs out into his | | backyard in Stafford, Virginia when they starting acting very | | aggresively. The older female dog got out the door and immediately | | ran down a hill as if to attack something. When the witness walked | | out and followed behind the dog, he illuminated the area with his | | handheld spotlight and saw what appeared to be two small beings, | | about 4 feet tall. They looked to be made out of light, that was | | faint but only illuminated their heads and hands, as if their bodies | | were cloaked by clothing. Next these two figures retreated quickly | | about ten feet down the hill, and, incredibly, seemed to crawl up | | into an unseen opening or portal. It looked like they were going up | | into a completely darkened craft. The witness could only describe it | | as a portal or window like opening, which didn’t emanate any light. | | He could still see that there must have been some sort of craft | | present, because when it started to move away it caused an air | | turbulence and a moving shadow two feet off the ground. He tried to | | shine his light on it but it seemed to absorb all light. As it moved | | away it rose up into the sky and then he could begin to make out a | | shape. Before the small figures entered the craft they looked back at | | the witness, and their eyes glowed softly with a pale blue light, but | | he could not see any other facial features. His dog stopped barking | | when the object left. The witness described the shape of the object | | as arrow shaped, about 20 feet long, with the pointed and narrow end | | in front and wider at the rear. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 2007, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, August 2007 archived webpage). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 22 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO | | encounters; aluminum or silver metallic UFOs; angel hair; animal reac | | tion: dogs barking and acting aggresively; black humanoids; disc-shap | | ed UFOs; domed discs; Grey UFOnaut; hovering; humming or roaring soun | | ds; landing traces; levitation; missing time; multi-year reports from | | France, Greenland and Illinois; humanoids, inside occupants; oval-sh | | aped UFOs; short humanoids; silver uniforms; spheres; sulphur odor; U | | FOs changing color; UFOs in triangular formation; vehicle EM ignition | | interference effects; vertical ascent; yellow UFO; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+