+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 4 | | | | 1897 - The whole town of Jenny Lind, Arkansas watched an airship fly | | over from the northeast to the southwest at 7:30 p.m. It landed, and | | a human looking occupant got out. He spoke English, and told them he | | was out to "catch birds." (Sources: St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 5, | | 1897; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving the UFO | | Mystery, p. 147; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. | | 24). | | | | 1932 - During a time of personal crises, the witness, now a retired | | pastor, found himself in a city of 16,000 located 150 miles west of | | Toronto, Ontario. On this particular night he was standing on a | | street lit up by a brilliant white light from above. Looking up, he | | saw the light came from a round cloud with a scalloped edge, about | | 200 yards overhead. From the cloud-like object streamed down a light | | like a laser beam. He next saw a young man with golden hair standing | | beside him, dressed in a suit of a similar color. The man had radiant | | blue eyes, and was about 5.5 feet tall. He smiled at the witness and | | told him that his work would be in that city, and reminded him that | | “the cottages in the rear of the mansion are as important as those | | who dwell in the mansion.” He told him the witness would reside there | | for six years and would then work his way to the west coast. | | According to the man’s account, the prophecies were fulfilled. | | (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1932-01 (A0103), citing John Musgrave & Ted Bloecher). | | | | 1950 - At 10:00 p.m. in Birmingham, Alabama a ghostly object grew and | | changed shape; it flashes; then suddenly shoots up and is gone. There | | were two witnesses together and an additional independent observer, | | and the event lasted 10 minutes. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 1722; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: | | April-July, p. 41). | | | | 1953 - On this afternoon at 1:50 p.m. a military witness at Harmon | | AFB, Newfoundland, Canada watched a flying football fly by at low | | altitude and high speed, heading south. It made a tinny sound. The | | sighting had a 3 second duration. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1953: March-July, p. 47). | | | | 1954 - On the night of May 4th, 1954, three police officers in Canfield, | | Ohio watched a reddish orange, glowing disc fly out of sight. | | (Source: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 144). | | | | 1955 - One year later, at 1:38 p.m. at the Keflavik Air Force Base in | | Iceland, two USAF officers, USAF Lt. Col. E. J. Stealy and 1st Lt. J. | | W. Burt, spotted 10 white oval-shaped objects, some 60-70 feet in | | diameter, moving "rapidly and jerkily." One of them left a brief | | smoke trail. The UFOs moved at a tremendous rate of speed, and were | | gone from sight in five seconds. This case was listed as an "unknown" | | by Project Blue Book. (Sources: Project Blue Book case files counted | | in official statistics, case #3523; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook | | Unknowns; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 61). | | | | 1960 - A yellow, cigar-shaped or elliptical object with four evenly | | spaced windows was observed at ground level by an architect in | | Sarasota, Florida at 9:15 a.m. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 504; NICAP Special Bulletin, May | | 1960, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 138; George D. | | Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 24 & September 1970, | | p. 6). | | | | 1960 - In 1960 a giant cigar-shaped object crossed the skies over the town | | of Botocatu, Brazil during the daytime. It moved at a tremendous | | speed and was gone from sight in 30 seconds. (Source: Coral E. | | Lorenzen, UFOs:The Whole Story, p. 221). | | | | 1966 - At 3:40 a.m. an FAA air traffic controller in Charleston, West | | Virginia tracked an unidentified, non-transponding target about five | | miles to the 11 o'clock position from Braniff Airline Flight 42 | | headed east at 33,000 feet, which the crew saw high above them as a | | bluish-white object giving off a brilliant flaming light of | | alternating white-green-red colors. Radar showed the object veering | | away to 8-10 miles away at the 10 o'clock position, then come at the | | Braniff airliner to within three miles distance, then made a 180° | | left turn to the NW again within a diameter of 5 miles at 1,000 mph | | [5 G's]. The Braniff crew confirmed the object descending from 20° | | elevation above horizon. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, | | p.  73; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 34; UNICAT, | | case # 319; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward Condon, Scientific Study of | | Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 163). | | | | 1966 - Later that evening at 10 p.m. a white disc flew up to a farm | | in Cardington, Ohio and hovered low over a farmyard for 30 minutes. | | It took off fast when an airplane came into view. Two more sighting | | reports were made that day to Project Blue Book from nearby Columbus, | | Ohio. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #7237; APRO | | Bulletin, May-June 1966; Project Blue Book files). | | | | 1969 - An abduction occurred in 1969 to a soldier while fishing on the banks | | of the Rio das Velhas near the city of Bebedouro in the state of | | Espirito Santo, Brazil. Jose Antonio da Silva had left his home in | | Belo Horizonte and taken a bus to Bebedouro to go fishing the evening | | before. At about midnight he reached the banks of a small lagoon and | | set up his tent and fished for a while without success. The next day, | | at about 3 p.m. he became aware of figures moving around behind him. | | He heard a deep sound like a groan, then was struck in the legs by a | | "burst of fire" coming from a form partly hidden in the bushes. | | Seized with a cramp and feeling a numbness in his legs, he knelt | | down. A beam of light, greenish in the middle and reddish on the | | edges, had hit him. In a matter of seconds he was seized under the | | armpits by masked two four-foot-tall humanoid beings, who wore | | shining light-colored garments and aluminum colored helmets with | | facemasks. Tubes ran from the masks to small containers on their | | backs. | | | | They blindfolded him and brought him before a little man with long | | red hair and a big nose. They dragged him to a craft that was shaped | | like a vertical cylinder terminated by wider saucer shaped top and | | bottom; rods from the base of the cylinder supported the upper disc. | | It was only bout six feet high and nine feet wide. Inside was a | | cubical room, brilliantly lit but from no visible source. Here they | | fitted on him a helmet like their own, then tied him down to a seat. | | | | He felt a sensation of taking off. During the flight, which he felt | | lasted for hours, they talked among themselves in an incomprehensible | | language with many "R" sounds. At one point in the journey the craft | | seemed to turn on its side for awhile. When they landed he was | | blindfolded and dragged into a large room, where a little man without | | a spacesuit confronted him; he had long reddish hair and a beard that | | flowed to his waist. He was strongly built, and his skin was pallid | | in color. He had large round, green eyes and a big nose, and his | | mouth appeared toothless, "like a fish." To the side of the witness | | were laid 4 human cadavers, one a Negro's. A dozen more little men, | | all much resembling the leader, were in the room. They examined his | | fishing tackle and other possessions. Several carried weapons. The | | leader then addressed him in his incomprehensible language, | | simultaneously making sketches on a whiteboard beside him. | | | | He was given a stone cup and drank a bitter green liquid that | | restored his energy and made him better able to comprehend what the | | alien was trying to say. The leader conveyed to Da Silva the idea | | that he was expected to help them land on Earth, a proposition that | | the soldier rejected, fingering his rosary. The leader became | | irritated, snatched the rosary away, and showed it to the others. At | | this point a kind of vision appeared to Da Silva of a Christ-like man | | with long fair hair and beard, dressed like a monk, who spoke to him | | in Portuguese, giving him a message, which he was sworn to keep | | secret. After this vision had vanished, Da Silva was again | | blindfolded, dragged back to the spacecraft, and returned to Earth in | | the same manner as he had been taken away. He was released during the | | night. When morning came he found that he was near Vitoria, more than | | 200 miles from Bebedouro, and that four and a half days had passed | | since his abduction. He suffered various physical ailments later. | | Jose Antonio has repeatedly refused to reveal the content of this | | message. (Source: Hulvio Brant Aleixo and Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, | | November-December 1973, p. 6; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-32). | | | | 1975 - A UFO was seen near the ground in Cupey, Puerto Rico at 4:20 a.m. in | | 1975. The object had an intense yellow pulsating light, and a row of | | eight rectangular lights. Ground marks were found at the site | | including a burnt area 25 feet in diameter. There were also large | | three-toed footprints, fourteen inches long and spaced 50" apart. | | (Source: Lamarche Sebastian Robiou, FSR, April 1977, p. 8; Stendek, | | December 1975; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case A1405). | | | | 1975 - At 9:00 p.m. two gendarmes observed an orange ball of light | | (BOL) the apparent size of the full moon in Lezay, Deux-Sevres, | | France. (Source: Jacques Coudert, Ouranos, 1978, issue 24, p. 8). | | | | 1976 - Several witnesses reported seeing a narrow, bright red trail | | that climbed steeply into the sky from sea level south of Robben | | Island in Three Anchor Bay, South Africa. A loud explosion followed | | it. The object turned in flight. Ninety minutes later the main | | witness heard a second explosion. That witness was Brigadier General | | C. Smith. (Source: Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80). | | | | 1976 - Also in 1976, a 74-year-old grandmother and two of her grandchildren | | saw a domed disc slowly flying by in the sky over Wilrijk, Belgium at | | 10:45 p.m. local time. It had small lights around the rim of the | | object. (Source: J. Bernard Delaire, UFO Register Volume 7, p 32). | | | | 1976 - A cattle mutilation was discovered this day on a ranch south | | of Glenwood Springs, in Garfield County, Colorado. (Source: Fate | | magazine, September 1976, p. 12). | | | | 1976 - About five hours after the Belgium UFO encounter a farmer | | driving through one of his fields in Orfordville, Wisconsin at dusk | | noticed a hovering object 150 feet above him. It had two bright | | headlights and two rotating red lights. An hour later his son saw the | | same lights; they did a U-turn in the sky and flew away. (Sources: J. | | Allen Hynek, Center for UFO Studies, case file dated August 24, 1976; | | CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 5; John Wallace Spencer, UFO | | Yearbook, p. 78). | | | | 1977 - A 23-year-old man, Sr. Ferreira, disappeared in front of his | | fellow factory employees in Atuba, Para state, Brazil fulfilling a | | prediction made on May 4, 1976 that UFOnauts would come back for him. | | He turned up the next day, 40 miles away, and said he had been in the | | company of extraterrestrials, but feared revealing the details of his | | encounter. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case A1729, citing O Estado Parana, May 5, | | 1977). | | | | 1978 - Soon after a blinding blue light caused a road accident near | | Villa Mercedes, San Luis province, Argentina about 100 city residents | | saw 50 greenish-blue UFOs flying over the city. In the midst of a | | dazzling light, they perfectly executed a series of maneuvers: they | | broke into two formations and then rejoined, and then they | | disappeared from view. Shortly after that some people reported that | | they had witnessed the landing of a saucer-shaped craft nearby. A | | being dressed in a green uniform emerged from the craft for a short | | while. (Sources: Buenos Aires Herald, May 8, 1978; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Tasmanian UFO Report 1983, | | quoting Le Soir (Belgium), March 30, 1982). | | | | 1981 - At 10:40 p.m. a bright disc landed on the ground in Belo | | Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil and then vanished. A witness | | felt pulled toward the spot. Burnt grass was found at the site. | | (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in | | Brazil--Where Next? p. 229). | | | | 1983 - At 3:50 a.m. a silent yellowish orange ball of light was seen | | by a Mr. J. Philips hovering 350 feet over a power line pole in | | Lawrence, Kansas. It flew away toward the northeast slowly at 35 mph. | | The sighting lasted three minutes. (Sources: Professor E. J. Zeller, | | International UFO Reporter, September 1983, p. 14; UNICAT, case # | | 006, citing IUR). | | | | 1989 - At 9:30 in Easton, Connecticut an object shaped like a flying | | wing with red, yellow, and blue lights in back and a blinking red | | light on right side flew over tree line behind a house. Just before | | 10:00 p.m. an engineer and two others watched a boomerang or V-shaped | | object as big as a football field near a golf course in Trumbull, | | Connecticut. It made a faint humming sound and had many colored | | lights. The engineer was driving home when he first saw the object, | | which had red and white lights turned on at first, then turned off; | | with the light turned off it looked like a blue boomerang. | | (Source: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 32). | | | | 1990 - In El Carmen, Argentina a luminous sphere hovered over a | | soccer field, emitting beams of light. The beams of light turned the | | grass an intense blue-green color. Four hours later, at 10:20 p.m. in | | St. Georges, Belgium, a dog howled when a silent disc-shaped object | | hovered in the yard, just one meter above the ground. The lights on | | the object lit the ground and area. (Sources: Inforespace, issue no. | | 83; FSR, December 1990). | | | | 1990 - At about the time of the first Belgium report, at 10:30 p.m. a | | woman in Le Chatelet en Brie, Seine-Marne department, France observed | | a quiet triangular object with powerful headlights which stopped for | | a few moments before setting out again very quickly. (Source: GEIPAN, | | case # 56). | | | | 1990 - In Antwerp, Belgium at 11:20 p.m. two observers reported | | sighting a silent orange disc-shaped object accompanied by a small | | white orb at 180 feet altitude. It had two legs on the bottom and | | what appeared to be a row of windows. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue 303). | | | | 1996 - In 1996 a witness in Moffat, Colorado reported that a "monstrous red | | light" flew over the San Luis Valley at a high altitude. (Source: | | Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 307). | | | | 1999 - A 45-year-old man went missing after he left his parents' home | | in Bariloche, Rio Negro province, Argentina on this night. He was | | found 8 days later by bloodhounds in an isolated canyon, dehydrated | | and suffering from hypothermia. He claimed he had been abducted by | | "extraterrestrials"; two men dressed in white and an attractive woman | | that picked him up and apparently wanted to operate on him. He had no | | other memories about what occurred to him. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 3861, citing CE UFO | | Argentina). | | | | 2001 - "We saw a silver, shiny object shooting through the sky on a | | summer afternoon," reported a witness from Fairfield, Connecticut. | | The object was disc shaped and the sighting was brief. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2001 webpage, report | | uploaded July 16, 2003).  | | | | 2002 - At 3:45 p.m., two separate witnesses in towns nearby to | | Farmingdale, New York observed an egg-shaped UFO move at low speed | | and altitude in a clear blue sky. The object seemed "transparent | | rather than solid, more like a ring" and it left a white | | contrail-like wake much like a boat in the water would do. (Source: | | UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 19). | | | | 2003 - A pulsating light "danced" across the sky at 10:15 p.m. in | | Holland, Pennsylvania. The sighting lasted from two to three minutes. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 | | archive webpage). | | | | 2006 - A security officer on patrol in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada | | observed four lights in the sky at 11:45 p.m. Three seemed to be | | hovering, while the fourth circled the others at one point. (Source: | | Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 194, citing HBCCUFO). | | | | 2007 - In Timmins, Ontario, Canada a light was seen in the | | northwestern sky at 11:30 p.m., zig-zagging and dancing "across the | | sky". (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Report, case # | | 250). | | | | 2009 - The witness climbed into his sleeping bag around 11:00 p.m. | | in his tent while camping in the Lake District, England. At 1:30 a.m. | | he was awakened by a deep humming sound that seemed to vibrate | | through him. The inside of his tent was also lit up by a dim glow. | | What was most puzzling and disturbing was that from that time onward | | he could remember nothing until dawn on Wednesday morning, when he | | woke up outside his tent, stark naked and very cold. His tent and | | clothes had a very strong 'ozone' smell. His only recollection was | | being laid face down on something hard, and having something hard | | pushed into his rectum, which was very sore at the time. (Source: | | Albert Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports, citing | | http://iwasabducted.com/forum). | | | | 2009 - At 3:33 a.m. in South St. Louis, Missouri a loud noise was | | heard. Looking out, an oval-shaped object was seen hovering just 100 | | foot off the ground. It had red, white, blue, yellow and oranges | | lights. It only illuminated itself, not the surroundings.A saucer | | shaped object with a changing colored light was observed from New | | Richmond, Wisconsin at 11:00 p.m. It remained in one position in the | | sky for over an hour. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, May 2009 archived webpage, reports uploaded May 12, | | 2009).  | | | | 2010 - In Davie, Florida a silent, translucent Y-shaped object was | | sighted just above the tree level at 10:30 p.m. It flew on a steady | | course with a slow climb, at approximately 10 mph.(Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 archived webpage, | | reports uploaded May 12, 2010).  | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 2 May 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abd | | uctions with disappearances lasting several days; aircraft encounters | | ; beams of light; disc-shaped UFOs; green uniforms; golden uniform; l | | andings; large footprints; multi-year reports from Argentina, Brazil, | | Belgium and France; ovoid UFOs; luminous spheres; missing time; prop | | hesy; radar-visual confirmations; UFOs with red lights or red beams; | | triangular UFOs, V-shaped UFOs; yellow UFO or UFO with yellow lights. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+