+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 30 | | | | 1910 - A long black object circled buildings in downtown Manhattan | | around Madison Square Park in New York City, New York making an | | engine sound at 8:45 p.m. There were hundreds of witnesses. (Source: | | John Keel, FSR,  May 11, 1970; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. | | 120; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 60). | | | | 1944 - At 9:30 p.m. a big orange moon-shaped object flew overhead at | | low altitude in Gardouch, Haute-Garronne, France. Great heat was felt | | when the object turned white. It flew off to the north. (Sources: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 165; Richard Hall, From Airships to | | Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th | | Century (1900-1946), p. 23). | | | | 1950 - At 1:30 p.m. three local employees of the Air Force Base at | | Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada including Kaeel and Alexander | | sighted a dark, barrel-shaped object with a pole extending down from | | it into the water. The object flew very slowly at 3-5 mph just | | 15-20-feet above the water for five minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - North Bay, Ontario. At 5:25 a.m. Sgt. Durdle of the R.C.A.F. | | saw a brilliant, circular object fly across Lake Nipissing toward the | | Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong canister was hung down from | | the central section, which supported a long cone with a spinning | | globe on top. When the object tilted he was able to see | | regulator-looking devices inside the machine through a vertical | | lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages that looked like necklaces | | hung from the craft. Sgt. Durdle woke up four other Air Force men, | | who observed the object spiraling away. (Sources: Harold Wilkins, | | Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 227; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 140). | | | | 1957 - At noon in San Rafael, Honduras a large cigar-shaped object | | was seen over the mountains, emitting flashes from one end. Earth | | tremors were felt at the time. The object spiraled out of | | sight.(Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: | | UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 56). | | | | 1957 - At 12:30 in the afternoon two engineers in a boat on the | | Atlantic Ocean near Sea Isle City, Cape May County, New Jersey | | watched a metallic cylinder hovering for three minutes with | | binoculars. It moved off to the southwest. (Source: Loren E. Gross, | | The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: | | August-September, p. 61). | | | | 1957 - At 10:10 p.m. the crew of two separate airliners flying over | | Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia, a Capital Airlines flight and | | a Northwest Airlines DC-6, sighted a bright object that flew at great | | speed, then stopped abruptly. The UFO was confirmed on their airborne | | radars and ground radar. (Sources: Gordon D. Thayer in Edward U. | | Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. | | 128; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 29). | | | | 1962 - At 11:00 p.m. three men walking down a street in Itapirito, | | Minas Gerais State, Brazil saw a domed disc-shaped object 150 feet | | away. It was aluminum colored and ten feet in diameter. A little man | | or robot was next seen walking toward them. He was one meter tall, | | had a small head and short arms, and looked like the "Michelin" tire | | man. His upper body was luminous. After the being had walked to with | | 30 feet it vanished before their eyes. Two of the witnesses ran, one | | stayed behind; the UFO took off but came back and the third witness | | suffered from temporay paralysis. He reportedly suffered from | | headaches for the next month. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0541, citing Walter | | Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, 1975, issue no. 21). | | | | 1964 - At around 10 p.m. a man and a woman driving between Tipton and | | Bennett, Iowa sighted an eighty-foot long cigar-shaped object | | that hovered at 500 feet altitude. When it climbed, their car radio | | went blank, and the car's engine lost power. (Sources: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, p. 22; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, p. 22). | | | | 1965 - In La Blanquilla, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela a spinning, | | top-shaped object with openings through which an orange light was | | visible was observed taking off with a "foggy" trail. (Sources: APRO | | Bulletin, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, case 690; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, | | October 1966, p. 30). | | | | 1965 - On this night two people driving on the Pan-American Highway | | near near Arequipa, Peru saw “a strange being, a Martian, who | | resembled a shrub,” who was only 31 inches tall, and had one golden | | colored eye in its head, but also had “other smaller eyes located | | along its body.” A few seconds later, they saw a flying saucer pass | | overhead. (Sources: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special | | Edition No. 1, p. 43; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-44 (A0658) citing a newspaper source). | | | | 1965 - M. A. Lilly, N. Smith, and T. Nastoff of Urbana, Ohio sighted | | a low flying, small white ball of white at 10:30 p.m. while driving | | near the fairgrounds. The sphere was between 5 and 8 feet in diameter | | and trailed by a three-foot light. It hit the road 100 feet in front | | of the witnesses' car, bounced and flew away. The sighting lasted 3-4 | | seconds. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 9864; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December | | 1966, p. 30; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 152; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | Urbana, Ohio Project Blue Book UFO Unknown - 1965 | | | | [Sketch of Urbana, Ohio sighting 1965 (Project Blue Book UFO | | Unknown)] | | | | 1967  - Two newspaper delivery cyclists, Jones and Hollander, had | | come to a bridge in Crewe, Cheshire, England at 8:30 a.m. when they | | saw a hovering domed disc-shaped UFO. It had a transparent dome with | | an antenna, an elliptical body, and an undercarriage with three dark | | circles and many wires or tubes that were evident. A very well | | documented report.At 8:55 p.m. two witnesses in a residential | | neighborhood at Shrewbridge Crescent in Nantwich, Cheshire, England | | viewed in the sky what they described as a yellow elongated rugby | | ball with a dome through binoculars. It was as bright as the full | | moon, and estimated to be half a mile away, at 25 degrees elevation. | | It flew in an arc, hovered, and then went in front of a dark cloud, | | behind another low cloud. It made a sound like a turbojet.  A shiny | | white cigar-shaped object was seen by five witnesses in Sandbach, | | Cheshire, England at 9:00 p.m. It was brighter than the moon and had | | blurry edges, but appeared to be solid. It flew from south to | | northwest low in the sky, and went in front of a black cloud. It was | | viewed for 30 seconds and made no sound. (Source: Roger H. Stanway & | | Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 8 & 28). | | | | 1969 - Between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m. a delta-shaped UFO rose from behind | | the North Railway Station In Bucharest, Romania and flew off behind | | some city buildings. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien Weberbergh, UFOs | | from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 179). | | | | 1970 - At 11:30 a.m. a seven-year-old girl in Vincennes, Indiana saw | | a metallic disc in the east-northeastern sky hovering over Wheatland | | Road and reported it to her parents. Her father went outside and also | | saw the object. He re-entered the house to get his 7x50 binoculars, | | and when he emerged the object had moved closer. He described it as | | about a quarter of a mile away, looking like "a garbage can lid with | | a piece of watermelon on top" (more like a squared-off "coning | | tower") and about 30 feet in diameter. The man believes that | | others should have seen it, too, because it was so low. He, his wife, | | and daughter observed it for a minute and a half before it left in a | | swooping dive to the north-northeast. (Sources: Francis Ridge, | | Regional Encounters, p. 39). | | | | 1970 - On this date at 9:30 p.m. a shooting incident occurred in | | Itatainia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil involving a patrol guard and a | | rectangular UFO, resulting in lasting physiological effects. The | | guard, 31-year-old Almiro de Freitas, was on guard duty at the Do | | Funil hydroelectric dam when he encountereda one meter long | | rectangular object with elliptical portholes at close range. | | Panicked, he shot several times at the UFO. He was blinded and | | paralyzed when struck by a beam of energy from the object. He was | | overcome by heat and a prickling sensation, and went blind. He did | | make a slow recovery. (Sources: O Globo, September 16, 1970; FSR, | | September-October 1970, p. 23; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970; | | Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case # | | 441; Irene Granchi, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1970, p. 23; | | UNICAT, case # 487, citing Ted Phillips, MUFON UFO Conference | | Proceedings 1985, p. 119). | | | | 1971 - In Southampton, England at 6:10 a.m. a man named R. Seaman | | sighted an object that first appeared as a halo, then narrowed into | | an ellipse. It tilted to the right, at which point the witness saw | | two bright points of light on its lower right edge. It sped away and | | was lost to view went it passed the morning Sun. (Source: BUFORA | | Journal, January 1972, p. 16). | | | | 1977 - At midnight two college students, Rocco Cerullo and Michael | | Giovanelli, were walking from Sturno, Avelino, Italy to Frigento when | | they saw three red lights symmetrically arranged in the midst of some | | shrubbery overhanging the road. They also heard an intermittent | | "beep-beep" sound. Continuing on foot to a nearby quarry, they saw a | | figure over two meters tall, wearing a silvery tight fitting coverall | | and a helmet. Where the eyes should have been there were two blinking | | orange lights. The young men fled back to Sturno, where they found | | three other friends, and all of them drove back to the area in a car. | | When they got there, all five saw the strange being advancing and | | withdrawing, with mechanical movements, on a steep slope. Oddly, it | | seemed to stand at a slant, perpendicular to the slope. Frightened, | | they decided not to drive the car any further into the abandoned | | quarry, which appeared lit up as if by a halo. Instead, they sped | | back to Sturno, returning again with two more witnesses. The humanoid | | was still there, coming and going with emissions of intermittent | | light from its helmet. When one of the parties flashed a light on the | | figure, it emitted sounds like "radio signals." It then approached | | the car and the sounds ceased. It came to about 15 feet away and | | beckoned, as though indicating for the witnesses to follow. Finally, | | at about 3:30 a.m., it emitted a blinding light from its helmet and | | disappeared. The outline of an object with portholes had been seen | | further down the slope. After the flash, the men fled back to the | | village. When they again returned both the humanoid and the object | | were gone. That next morning trampled bushes were foundin the quarry, | | along with three holes in the ground that were arranged in an | | isosceles triangle. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-48, citing Francesco | | Izzo). | | | | 1977 - At 8:30 p.m a number of independent witnesses in Healdsburg, | | California watched a huge lighted object with multicolored lights | | maneuvering over the area. One of the lights appeared to detach | | itself from the larger craft, and then descended close to the | | witnesses' vehicle. The smaller object was described as having | | several lighted windows and two beams of light. One of the witnesses | | claimed to be able to see a humanoid figure with a frog-like head | | looking out from one of the windows. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database, case # 916, citing Jacques Vallee, | | Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 71).  | | | | 1978 - At 11:30 p.m. a 38-year-old couple driving in a pickup truck | | on Highway 38 in Nisula, Michigan had a close encounter with a | | cone-shaped object with body lights that flew low overhead. | | Their truck stalled for one minute when the UFO was overhead. It | | could be restarted by turning the ignition key. The cone-shaped UFO | | was silent, and had two red lights and one white light. (Sources: | | Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 15; | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, | | p. 257; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, | | p. 73; UNICAT, case # 144). | | | | 1981 - There were two dramatic abduction events which occurred in San | | Diego County, California on this evening separated by just a few | | minutes. At 10:30 p.m. Mr. Santoro, a reserve police officer was | | driving near the town of Alpine, California when he encountered a | | huge dark, disc-shaped object hovering 15 feet above the roadway. The | | witness's vehicle suddenly stopped on its own accord. There was a | | bright flash, then moments later two small Grey humanoid beings | | approached and took him from his vehicle. He found himself back in | | his vehicle 15 minutes later and saw the dark disc rising rapidly | | into the sky, shining a beam of white light towards the ground. The | | witness fired four shots at the object and then drove home at high | | speed. Magnetic cassette tapes in the witness's vehicle had been | | partially erased. In El Cajon, California a 27-year old computer | | engineer was abducted at 10:35 p.m. A luminous object illuminated the | | interior of his car. The luminous object then circled his car, and | | the witness fired a pistol at the object and attempted to flee the | | scene. He was badly frightened by the experience, and discovered that | | he had a memory loss and could not account for 30 minutes of his | | time. Red dots like puncture marks were found on his wrists, | | suggesting that he had been abducted as well. His digital watch was | | also damaged. (Sources: (1) San Diego Tribune, July 1,1987; Robert | | Gribble MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991, p. 19; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database, case # 695, citing Bob Gribble; (2) MUFON | | UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: | | The Measure of a Mystery, case 56; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 27 & 155, citing investigator | | M. Podell). | | | | 1982 - At 11:55 p.m. a battleship gray, disc-shaped object estimated | | to be 200 feet in diameter chased a car in Derry, Pennsylvania with a | | single male occupant. It kept moving in front of the vehicle, pacing | | it at 40 feet altitude. The bottom of the object had a dark black | | door, and the UFO had amber lights around its perimeter. It made a | | high-pitched "whoop-whoop" sound. (Sources: Doris Graziano, APRO | | Bulletin, June 1984, p. 8; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983). | | | | 1991 - Four children in Granum, Alberta, Canada at about 10 p.m. | | observed an oval object hovering over the town. Some of the time it | | moved very fast, and at other times it floated in place. It had blue, | | red, and green lights that flashed intermittently. Later a "long | | black thing" streaked across the sky. (Source: Timorthy Good, Alien | | Update, p. 232). | | | | 1991 - On the same night as the Alberta sighting in Blairsville, | | Pennsylvania at 11:15 p.m. two women driving on Route 22 had an | | encounter with a triangular UFO hovering low to the ground along the | | roadside. It had solid white light beams along its outer structure | | and horizontal light beams inside the triangle; in between it | | appeared transparent. (Sources: Stan Gordon, PASU Data Exchange, | | January 1992; Timorthy Good, Alien Update, p. 232). | | | | 1993 - Outside of Mimet, Bouches-du-Rhone, France a 4.5 meter long | | ovoid object sitting on the highway rose and shot off rapidly to the | | south when a car approached. Nothing was seen on radar. (Source: | | Phenomena, issue 18). | | | | 1995 - A thin silent cigar-shaped UFO passed over the witness's house | | in Rio Claro, San Paulo State, Brazil at five o'clock in the morning. | | It gave off multi-colored rays of lights in all directions and made | | no sound. (Source: Boletim CEPEX, issue 25). | | | | 2000 - In Gull Lake, Ontario, Canada a sphere 40-70 feet in diameter | | was sighted at 11:05 p.m. It had 40 to 50 red lights and three blue | | lights, and flew at between 200 to 300 feet in altitude. It made no | | sound. There were reported blackouts in two nearby towns. The same or | | a similar report was made to the UFO Reporting Center from Minden, | | Ontario. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # | | 158, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup; Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, case uploaded May 14, 2002). | | | | 2001 - At 8:30 p.m. in Calumet, Wisconsin witnesses saw three | | flashing lights flying in a row. The lights were flashing in | | sequence: first two flashes, then a pause, then three flashes, | | another pause, four flashes, pause, and then it repeated. The front | | light was amber, and the others were white. At first, it looked like | | the lights were all connected, but using binoculars it looked like | | only the front light was attached to the next segment, and the other | | segments were separate.The object was cigar-shaped and had some sort | | of windows in it. Suddenly the rear lights split apart, flying off in | | different directions. (Sources: George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, | | October 2001, p. 11; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's | | Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 121). | | | | 2002 - At 9:05 p.m. a triangle-shaped aircraft with white lights was | | sighted hovering low in a field off Route 1 South in Dover, Delaware. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 | | webpage).  | | | | 2003 - At 12:15 a.m. four elliptical, illuminated objects each | | surrounded by haze or a halo were sighted in Merrick, Nassau County, | | New York. They proceeded to individually dive, climb, and zigzag. The | | sighting lasted about 45 minutes. That night a very large, slow | | moving, wing-shaped craft flew over a campsite near McGregor in | | northern Minnesota with 10 witnesses gathered around a camp fire at | | 11:55 p.m. It was chased a few minutes later by three military | | F-15's. It reportedly had four white lights and four red lights. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 | | webpage).  | | | | 2008 - At 10 p.m. a dark triangle object flew silently overhead in | | Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. It went towards the east, and made | | no sound. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # | | 644, citing Para Research). | | | | 2009 - A married couple had gone camping at Unicoi State Park, | | Georgia on this night and had gotten up at around 4:00 a.m. to use | | the restrooms at a facility on the campsite. It was very dark out, | | except for the light from her lantern and the lights from the | | building. After the wife started to walk back to her tent, she | | stopped because she sensed that their was someone close behind her. | | She turned around and saw three Grey humanoid beings standing there. | | At first she thought they were other campers, but when one of them | | turned to look at her she realized that they were not human. For one | | thing, their arms were too long and their bodies were too thin. Their | | skin also had a pale, glossy look, and they had very large heads and | | lumps covering the tops of their scalps. They had huge black eyes | | that seemed to stare right through her. She estimated that they were | | about five feet tall. the one that saw her began to slowly approach, | | but she ran away, and got back to her tent and found her husband. | | When he asked her what was wrong, all she could say was, "There's | | some [expletive deleted] aliens back there!" After he had finally | | calmed her down, he told her to stay in the tent and he walked back | | to see, but he found nothing. Throughout the rest of the night they | | kept waking up and had a fitful night; the husband reported that he | | saw a shadowy figure moving about outside their tent, but he didn't | | hear any footsteps. He also looked up and saw the top cover of the | | tent move, and if someone had pulled it aside to look in at them from | | above. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports | | database, citing MUFON's UFO reporting website, | | http://mufoncms.com).  | | | | 2010 - At 6:30 a.m. a black, oval-shaped object with visible heat | | waves radiating from it was sighted over the I-5 freeway in | | Silverlake, Los Angeles County, California. At 11:00 a.m. a | | disc-shaped object with a pulsing outer band and a transparent center | | was sighted over Plant City, Florida. At 3:00 p.m. a shiny metallic, | | upside down cone-shaped object was seen over the Jersey Shore in | | Manahawkin, Ocean County, New Jersey. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, report uploaded | | November 21, 2010).  | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; aircraft UFO encounters; angel hair; barr | | el-shaped UFO; "beep-beep" sound; car pacing; cigar-shaped UFOs; delt | | a shaped UFO; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; domed oval; EM effect: m | | agnetic casette tapes erased; Grey UFOnauts; hovering; Michelin man; | | missing time; multicolored UFOs; multi-year reports from California a | | nd Pennsylvania; nautical UFOs; physiological effects: blindness, hea | | daches, heat sensation, paralysis, and prickling sensation; radar vis | | ual confirmation; silver metallic UFOs, sensation of heat; spheres; t | | all humanoid with blinking orange eyes; top-shaped UFO; triangular UF | | Os; vehicle electrical system interference effects; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+