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Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas was surveying a | | tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. | | "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging | | from their looks one would take them to be Japs." (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 185). | | | | 1897 - According to the Houston Post, two men reported that they had | | discovered a landed airship near the town of Kountze, Texas. It was | | cigar shaped, 50 feet long and 20 feet wide. They talked to the two | | human occupants of the airship, named Jackson and Wilson, who were | | allegedly repairing a punctured "air compartment." (Sources: Houston | | Post, April 25, 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, | | January-February 1967, p. 25; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with | | Roswell, p. 49). | | | | 1954 - On this evening a three meter wide glowing ball of light | | circled a house in Pearcy, Arkansas slowly, stopping at irregular | | intervals. It then dove at a man walking in the yard. When he tried | | to put a spotlight on it, it would dodge the beam every time. There | | were six male witnesses, and the encounter lasted 20 minutes. | | (Sources: NICAP files, newspaper clipping dated April 24, 1954; | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 339, Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close | | Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 165, citing AP report). | | | | 1959 - At 12:10 a.m. a luminous disc flew over a pasture in | | Bradenton, Florida and stopped two kilometers away from the | | witnesses. It emitted a beam of light that searched the ground for a | | couple of minutes, then it flew away toward the south. (Source: Loren | | E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. | | 1959: April-June, p. 16). | | | | 1964 - A nine-foot in diameter lens-shaped UFO with a dome hovered | | six feet above the ground in Rivesville, West Virginia at 7:30 a.m. | | making a humming sound. It extended a three-foot wide cylinder to | | ground, and a black figure, three to four feet tall, with painted | | ears and a tail emerged, collecting grass and dirt samples. The | | creature got back in the craft and it took off vertically. The | | witness was a woman named Ms. Frederick. (Sources: Ted Phillips, | | Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 681; David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A0585, citing Gray Barker; Gray Barker, Saga UFO Report, December | | 1976, p. 33; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 644 (Vallee mistakenly listed the date as 1965)). | | | | 1966 - At around 2:00 a.m. a 60-foot long cigar-shaped object with | | multiple legs for landing gear and a light beam, making a roaring | | noise, landed on the Johnson farm in Clarinda, Iowa. It illuminated | | the area surrounding it with a red color, and cattle on the farm | | bolted and ran in response to the object's presence. It left behind a | | smell like ozone and deep impressions in the ground, with 20 | | imprints. (Sources: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from | | UFOs, pp. 22 & 70; NICAP case investigation files; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 198, 263, 279 | | & 320; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, | | p. 41; Gordon Creighton, FSR, January-February 1971, p. 28). | | | | 1966 - At 2:15 in the afternoon in Bingham, Maine Miss Kim Baker, a | | 6-year-old girl, saw a shiny metallic, lens-shaped object, 18 feet | | wide, descend and land a few yards from her in a field. It had red | | lights on each side, a flashing green light on top, and a rectangular | | window through which she saw a man's face. He winked and smiled at | | her, and said something she could not hear. He had a "bubble" on his | | head that he took off before speaking. He then stood up, and she | | could see that he was wearing "shiny white" clothing with numerous | | black buttons on his chest. Then the object took off again. At the | | site her parents found a circular area of crushed pussy willow | | bushes, about 15 feet in diameter. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-20, citing | | Richard Bonenfant; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1966). | | | | 1971 - At 8:30 a.m. Mrs. French, a school teacher in the mountains of | | Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia sighted a fiery orangish-red ball | | of light that showed white and trailed behind it a very long | | cigar-shaped object, flying from the east to the southwest. As the | | same time, to the northwest of Kempsey in Collambatti Rail, New South | | Wales three 13-year-old boys with the last names of Fuller and | | Donnelly saw a silvery ovoid UFO with four legs or landing gear fly | | overhead. The legs had what looked like landing pads at the ends of | | them, and the object gave off flames and exhaust. It may have landed | | remotely. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1971, p. 4; Eileen | | Buckle, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, pp. 1-2, citing the | | Macleay Argus, April 24, 1971). | | | | 1974 - A UFO with green, red and white lights engaging in complex | | maneuvers over Warden Hill was sighted by 64 students in Luton, Essex | | County, England on this night. A second object had three blinding | | white lights, and appeared to land. At the suspected landing site | | large scorched areas and marks were found in the grass, with lumps of | | a black clayish material also found lying around. (Sources: Ted R. | | Phillips, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1975, p. 105; Ted R. | | Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 99, | | citing the Luton Evening Post, April 23, 1974; George D. Fawcett, | | Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 38). | | | | 1976 - A man was reportedly abducted for four hours by a UFO that | | landed in a pasture in Quixada, Ceara State, Brazil at 5:00 a.m. Soon | | after the abduction experience his mental and physical health quickly | | deteriorated, and now he is described as completely mindless by his | | fellow villagers. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A | | Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 136; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger | | Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next?, p. 153; Richard H. | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 270). | | | | 1976 - At 11:15 p.m., while half the town of Matapozuelos, Spain was | | watching a reddish oval shaped craft maneuvering overhead, | | 14-year-old Fidel Hernandez Rolla was playing with some friends in a | | field outside of town, when they saw the reddish spheres slowly | | descend and land on a nearby field. All of Fidel's friends fled in | | panic, so he was left behind alone. With a mixture of fear and | | curiosity, Fidel approached the object and then crouched behind a | | stonewall to watch the enigmatic craft. Suddenly a row of lights | | became visible inside an opening in the craft. Fidel was able to see | | numerous multi-colored lights, monitors and other unidentified | | apparatus inside the craft. The craft was topped by a crystal dome | | and inside the dome several very tall, human-like figures could be | | seen moving about. He then saw three tall man-like figures appear | | from behind the object, not very far from his location. The humanoids | | were over two meters tall and wore tight-fitting white uniforms with | | belts and boots. They all had light blond, shoulder-length hair. | | Their faces were human-like but with large almond-shaped eyes. In | | single file the three tall beings walked to a potato field where | | several pounds of potatoes were stacked high in a pyramid. After | | looking at the potatoes for a few seconds, the beings then stared at | | the witness. At this point Fidel heard unintelligible words inside | | his head, as if the humanoids were attempting to communicate with him | | telepathically. A few seconds later the beings suddenly vanished in | | plain sight. At the same time, the object rose up from the ground | | emitting a steady buzzing sound. As the object disappeared into the | | distance, several additional towns people arrived to see the object | | disappear into space. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1976, citing Iker Jimenez, Enigmas Sin Resolver). | | | | 1977 - At around 1:00 a.m. Mrs. Pauline Coombs, age 31, and her | | husband Billy, age 36, were watching television at their Ripperston | | farm near Little Haven, Dyfed, Wales when they saw a silver-suited | | figure outside their window. Pauline had seen it first, but she said | | nothing about it to her husband until he himself saw it. "It must | | have been over seven-foot tall, because we could not see its face." | | It was described as three feet wide, surrounded by a luminous glow. | | Its box shaped helmet framed a dark square area in which no face was | | visible. They called the BUFORA investigator Randall Jones Pugh, and | | the police immediately, but the figure had gone before they arrived. | | Mrs Coombs and her family had been involved in two other UFO | | incidents prior to this encounter. (Sources: Hugh Turnbull, FSR, June | | 1977, p. 6, citing Western Telegraph, April 28, 1977; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-23, | | citing Randall Jones Pugh, for BUFORA). | | | | 1977 - In Dover, Massachusetts shortly before midnight Will Taintor, | | age 18, was driving Miss Abby Brabham, age 15, home. At a point 1.2 | | miles east-northeast of the Baxter sighting the previous night, they | | saw a small figure crouching on all fours, facing their car, in the | | lefthand lane of the road. It looked like a hairless, beige-colored | | small ape, but with a very large, oblong-shaped head. It had two | | large round eyes in the center of its head, which glowed green in the | | car's headlights. No nose, ears, or tail could be seen. They drove | | past within eight feet of the creature, which Abby observed closely | | for about five seconds. Her companion, occupied with driving the car, | | only glimpsed it briefly. Neither of them knew of the other earlier | | sightings at the time. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-22 (A1724), citing | | Loren Coleman, Joseph Nyman & Walter Webb; Jerome Clark, Fate, March | | 1978, p. 50). | | | | 1978 - Mrs. Castro was driving on Highway 101 in Goleta, Santa | | Barbara County, California at 7:30 p.m. when her car engine lost | | power, and her car radio went off. A bright light in the sky made a | | "zinging" sound, then dimmed to reveal four revolving green and blue | | lights on the UFO, estimated to be about 10 meters in diameter. The | | close encounter lasted three minutes. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 72). | | | | 1980 - At 7:40 p.m. on this evening Sr. N. Sayago was driving his car | | on the outskirts of the city of Santa Rosa, La Pampa province, | | Argentina when he noticed something falling from the sky near some | | high-tension power lines. His vehicle suddenly stopped and could not | | be re-started again. He next felt a chilling breeze at this heet. He | | looked up and saw a very tall being gesturing at him. He was | | approached by two of these seven foot tall creatures, who he | | described as seven feet tall, with webbed hands, long pointed ears, | | protruding mouths, and almost no hair. They both wore shiny, almost | | luminous black diver suits. Their faces resembled very gaunt skulls, | | with hollow eyes and no visible noses. The beings moved their lips | | but did not speak. One of them took his hand with both of his cold | | hands, and Sr. Sayago beganto feel weak and dizzy. He then passed | | out. When he awoke he and the car were ten blocks away from where the | | encounter had taken place. He was hospitalized for a nervous | | breakdown. (Sources: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, June 1980, p. 9, | | citing the Buenos Aires Herald, April 24, 1980; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database, HC# 243, citing Fabio Picasso, Strange | | Magazine, #8 (listing the date as April 22nd)). | | | | 1993 - On this day, during a heavy concentration of UFO sighting | | reports in the State of Fortaleza, Brazil, a man named Jose Ernani | | claimed to have encountered a being of light during prayer at a local | | grotto in Vila Peri. He described the being as female, about 19-years | | old, with finely chiseled features, a pink complexion, a heart shaped | | mouth, and long brown wavy hair. Her eyes were of a "penetrating" | | blue color. She wore a silky dress with a short sash about four | | inches wide. On the sash he could see two ingrained faces. Ernani | | interpreted the being as an apparition of the Virgin Mary. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, HC# 2701, citing | | Reginaldo de Athyayde, FSR). | | | | 1995 - On this afternoon Sr. Reynaldo Ortega, a resident of | | Naranjito, Puerto Rico saw a gigantic bird-like creature standing on | | the roof of his house. Sr. Ortega had gone to look for a small goat | | on his property, because an epidemic of unexplained animal deaths and | | mutilations was ongoing. He described the winged creature as between | | three and four feet tall, with the body and dark plumage of an eagle, | | a thick neck, and piercing red eyes. The nightmarish raptor had an | | even more peculiar characteristic: instead of a beak it had what | | looked like the muzzle of a wolf. The creature ignored Ortega and | | flew away. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1995, citing Scott Corrales, Chupacabra and Other Mysteries). | | | | 2000 - At 6:40 p.m. a mathematician flying on a commercial airliner | | from Denver, Colorado to San Jose, California saw a "circular silvery | | object with a rounded top" speed by several thousand feet below him | | somewhere over northern Nevada. He was able to calculate that the | | domed disc-shaped craft would have had a diameter of 55 feet, and a | | speed of about 3,000 mph. (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2000 archived webpage; Lynn | | Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 182; UFO Magazine (USA), September | | 2000, p. 28). | | | | 2001 - A man in Salmon Arm, British Columbia awoke to a noise outside | | his door late at night and saw a blue glow enter his bedroom. He next | | heard a loud buzzing sound, and then his entire body went completely | | tingly and numb and he was overcome by an intense sensation of fear. | | He found himself unable to move or speak. At this point he noticed | | two short shadowy figures that had appeared, almost dancing around | | his bed, while he was attempting to move. He managed to blurt out | | "get out" and the figures and the light vanished. (Sources: Geoff | | Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2001, case 105; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing UFOBC). | | | | 2001 - At 4:10 p.m. in Caronno Pertusella, Piedmont, Italy two | | residents saw a luminous domed disc fly over the city off to the | | east. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18166, citing | | Rivista Info Ufologia, issue # 23). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 April 2007) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: small ape-like creature with large melon-shaped head, Asi | | an-looking humanoids, bedroom visitation, cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-sha | | ped UFOs, domed discs, human-looking UFOnauts, lasting physical and m | | ental effects, landings with ground marks and physical traces, Marian | | apparition during UFO sighting reports, non-verbal communication, un | | intelligible language, red-eyed winged creature, very tall humanoids. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+