+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 4 | | | | 1947 - The pilot and co-pilot of an airliner flying over Everett, | | Massachusetts at 4:00 p.m. sighted a bright glowing orange | | cylindrical object, 15 feet long and shaped like a cigarette, flying | | at 150 mph. It had a glaring jet exhaust. At dusk two more pilots on | | a civilian cargo plane saw another UFO that looked like a fuselage | | without wings while flying over Bethel, Alaska. This second UFO | | outdistanced their airplane. (Sources: Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO | | Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, | | p. 4; Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 19, 1987). | | | | 1950 - In the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100 miles southeast of New | | York City (39.58 degrees N, 72.41 degrees W). At 10:00 a.m. EDT | | Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn, and the Third Mate of | | the M/V Marcala sighted a ten-foot long cigar or ovoid object at | | 50-100 feet altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion. The | | UFO was shaped like an egg cut lengthwise, and wobbled as it flew. It | | also "sparkled in the sunlight." It accelerated away toward the end | | of their fifteen-second observation. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case # 773; UNICAT, case # 720; | | Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 2:20 a.m. in Phoenix, Arizona USAF Airman W. F. Vain | | sighted a yellow ball of light that lengthened and narrowed to the | | shape of a plate, then flew straight and level for five minutes. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case 1812; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. | | Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276). | | | | 1952 - A woman with two children in Mount Vernon, New York reported | | that they observed a white donut-shaped object for two hours, | | beginning at 11:37 a.m. It emitted black smoke from its top and made | | a 15-degree arc in the sky in 1.5 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case 1813; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: | | UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276). | | | | 1959 - At 7:00 p.m. a white spherical object was sighted hovering | | over Wakwapu, Papua New Guinea by Mr. R. Smith. It had coherent light | | beams. There were green rays of light emanating from the base of the | | object, one on either side at an angle of 15 degrees from the | | vertical, and one aimed straight up vertically. All beams receded | | into the UFO in a coherent fashion like retracting appendages. | | (Source: Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special | | Edition No. 4, p. 27). | | | | 1963 - Ronnie Austin and Phyllis Bruce, age 18, were driving to | | Phyllis Bruce's home in Wayne City, Illiniois when they had a close | | encounter with a humming, yellowish orange ball of light on Highway | | 15 at 11:30 p.m. It paced the car to the woman's house, crossing | | and recrossing the highway, and then hovered over a nearby barn when | | they parked the car.While the UFO was hovering it changed its color | | to a dull orange. They continued to watched the object from her house | | with her family members for nearly an hour. When Ronnie left | | the object buzzed his car repeatedly. He felt a cooling effect and | | heard a loud whining sound on the car radio as the UFO made passes at | | the car. His engine also missed and the speedometer was effected. | | (Sources: Wayne County (IL) Press, August 5, 1963; APRO Bulletin, | | January 1964, p. 3; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988, | | p. 15; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. | | 20; Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigation case files, case # | | 900825). | | | | 1965 - At 1:30 a.m. on Highway 15, truck driver Don Tenopir, age 44, | | had reached a point 25 miles from Abilene, Texas when his headlights | | blinked and failed, but his truck's diesel engine did not. A | | metallic, domed disc-shaped UFO swooped low from behind and dove | | towards his grain truck, then landed on the road 30 meters ahead | | causing a car coming from the opposite direction to leave the road in | | order to avoid it. The object had an orange glow and was five meters | | in diameter, 1.5 meters high, and had a "black spot" on its dome. It | | took off toward the west, then turned south. The UFO made a sound | | like wind blowing through trees, and gave off bluish sparks. | | (Sources: Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, | | p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 671; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year | | Report, p. 454). | | | | Abilene, Texas - 1965 | | | | [] | | | | 1965 - A bright, silvery object landed on a hill in Chena, Chile for | | 45 minutes. There were numerous witnesses, among them military men. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 672). | | | | 1965 - At 8:30 p.m. Joao Erondo dos Santos saw a disc 50 meters in | | diameter land near the Trapua River, Brazil with a distinct sound, | | although no traces were found afterward. The object illuminated a | | wide area. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 674). | | | | 1965 - At 9:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas 19-year-old J. A. Carter | | observed an unexplained red and blue light that flew fast, straight | | and level for 12 seconds. He thought at first it might have come from | | a police car, but then a huge, orange object flying at ground level | | passed him. (Sources: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; | | Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 673). | | | | 1965 - At 11:35 p.m. in Tinley Park, Illinois two 14-year-olds | | watched a light maneuver around the sky for 16-17 seconds. (Source: | | Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, | | Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52). | | | | 1967 - A red domed disc-shaped object was sighted flying to the north | | over Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, England at 11:10 p.m. It was the size | | of two bungalows, and had 10 to 12 bright red lights arranged around | | its circumference on the lower part. It changed direction to approach | | the witnesses, and hovered a few seconds above the bungalows at the | | top of the road. The witnesses were two married couples, Mr. & Mrs. | | Brogan and Mr. & Mrs. Turner. The incident lasted about one minute. | | (Sources: Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs: Unidentified, | | Undeniable, p. 6; UNICAT, case # 536). | | | | 1967 - Engineer Hugo S. Yepez was on a beach 25 km north of Arrecife | | in Venezuela when he saw the water violently disturbed near a fishing | | boat. A Saturn-shaped UFO, six meters in diameter, came out of the | | water. It was gray, looked metallic, and hovered for a few seconds | | just a meter above the surface. It then rose slowly to the east and | | flew away. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Ivan | | T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 44; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 864, citing NICAP: Richard | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 11 & | | 200). | | | | 1968 - Three young men walking along a street in Montreal, Quebec at | | 5:00 a.m. noticed a three-foot tall, hairy, heavyset figure lurking | | in some nearby shadows. It had long curving arms and was hunched | | over; it suddenly made a tremendous leap and disappeared. (Source: | | John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters). | | | | 1968 - On this evening in Cordoba, Argentina 11-year-old Graciela | | Lourdes Gimenez was playing outside her home when she experienced a | | bizarre event. "I wanted to go back indoors and watch TV," she told | | reporters from the newspaper Cordoba, "and then just as I was about | | to turn around...a white cloud, like mist, appeared on the front | | path. It gradually came towards where I was, and then I could no | | longer see the other houses, and I couldn't move or call out to | | Mummy...and after that...I don't know anything more...until I found | | myself on a square where there were lots of people and lots of little | | boys..." She knocked at a nearby house, and the residents turned her | | over to the police. She had somehow traveled from her Cordoba suburb | | to the Plaza Espana in the heart of the city. After the incident, the | | child suffered fits of weeping and cold chills. (Source: John A Keel, | | Our Haunted Planet). | | | | 1972 - At dusk a domed, disc-shaped object was viewed through | | binoculars, hovering over a mountain, by six witnesses in Baakline, | | Lebanon. It had windows around its rim, and made no sound. It flew | | off to the southeast after 15 minutes. (Sources: Walter Hamadi,  FSR | | Case Histories, June 1973, p. 12; APRO Bulletin, January-February | | 1973, p. 1). | | | | 1973 - Three youths walking along Tallebudeera Creek Road, | | Queensland, Australia were reportedly attacked by a two-meter tall | | hairy humanoid with shiny eyes that stepped out of the bush in an | | isolated area. The three youths fled the area. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1823, citing Keith | | Basterfield). | | | | 1973 - At 10:00 p.m. a flying boxcar-shaped UFO buzzed a car with | | three male occupants east of Greenup, Illinois. It then hovered over | | a nearby cornfield, and then over a farmhouse. The encounter lasted | | 10 minutes. (Sources: Skylook, October 1973, p. 5; Francis L. Ridge, | | Regional Encounters, p. 42). | | | | 1973 - A week to ten days after observing a mysterious light | | maneuvering in the sky, the witness had to return to Phoenix and she | | asked her brother to go along with her for company. At around ten | | o'clock on this night, while driving up a hill somewhere in the | | vicinity of Indio, California she began to receive pictures in her | | mind and had a sense of presence. These "images" came in grays and | | browns, and she tried to counter them by thinking of bright colors. | | She found the gray images unpleasant, and had the sense of an | | interior, with gray green walls, which had three vague "forms" in it. | | Believing she was daydreaming and tired, she forced her concentration | | back to her driving when she noticed colors reflecting on the | | dashboard and asked her brother if there was something in the sky. | | Both of them briefly observed a light over the highway changing | | colors from blue, to green, to red, to yellow, and then to a | | brilliant white. Then it vanished. It was in view for less than a | | minute. | | | | Her brother was very excited. The trip continued and seemed to be | | uneventful. However, later under hypnotic regression she was asked to | | examine her image of a gray interior more closely. She described the | | gray-green walls, with at least one black line, or slot, on the back | | wall. She was with three vague shapes or shadows. It didn't feel like | | a pleasant place, and she felt she had had another such experience at | | another time. She was asked to go back to that experience and she | | found herself in another room with a window looking out on an orange | | sky. There was a white bench in the room, and the room seemed very | | sterile. Then she found herself in a huge place with a domed ceiling, | | and she was standing beside a 20 foot high crystal, set at an angle | | so that it pointed towards the sky. It was green on the bottom half | | and it revolved. There were other similar crystals in this place, | | about five in all, and they were hooked up to a large piece of | | machinery that was similar to a generator. The crystal was connected | | to the machine by a rod. The whole room hummed. There were two other | | people with her; one dressed in gray, looking older with grayish | | hair. The younger man, wearing black, is taller. They pointed out a | | formula to her, which was on the wall. It was composed of script | | letters. She was brought out of the trance and given a post hypnotic | | suggestion that she will recall the formula and be able to reproduce | | it on a piece of drawing paper, which she does. (Source: David F. | | Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1973-123, citing case report by Dr. Alvin Lawson, John De Herrera & | | Dr. William Mc Call). | | | | 1975 - At four o'clock in the morning a man and a woman driving near | | Taltal, Antofagasta province, Chile had their van chased by a huge | | orange ball of light. It was 100 feet from the side of the road when | | it first started following them, and the driver was dazzled by the | | reflection of the object's brilliance in his rear view mirror. Both | | witnesses felt fear as the object pursued them for three minutes. | | Finally, the UFO rose up swiftly to a pinpoint of light in the sky, | | and then vanished. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1976; FSR, | | July 1976, p. 33; Carles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, | | p. 10). | | | | 1976 - A ten-year old boy, Lorenzo Alvarez Vazquez, in the Bilbao | | suburb of Bulla, Vizcaya province, Spain reported seeing two small | | “extraterrestrial beings", about 1.20 or 1.30 meters high, on this | | evening. They had green eyes and noses and wore silvery clothing. | | They said nothing, but shone a light on the boy as they stood next to | | a motorcycle. He watched them for five minutes, and then went to get | | other local residents who, upon returning to the spot, saw nothing | | although the boy said he could still see one of the entities. One of | | the residents pointed a gun in the direction indicated by the boy, | | who then announced the “spaceman” had taken refuge behind a car. | | (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1976-30 (A1644); Gordon Creighton,  FSR, April 1977, | | p. 28, citing a newspaper clipping). | | | | 1979 - At 10:35 p.m. a 60-year-old woman and her grandson watched a | | glowing object approach their location in Canoga Park, California | | from the west. It then hovered silently above a nearby apartment | | building. They described it as a domed metallic saucer with a | | transparent dome. Inside the clear dome two humanoid figures could be | | seen. They appeared to have oversized heads, but were human in shape. | | The object tilted to one side, levelled off, then tilted in the | | opposite direction and flew off behind some trees to the west. | | (Sources: Walt Greenewald, International UFO Reporter, September | | 1979, p. 11; Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 15; | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, | | pp. 24 & 492). | | | | Canoga Park, California Close Encounter - 1979 | | | | [] | | | | 1980 - At 4:50 in the afternoon Edith Sage was walking down an alley | | on her way to some nearby shops in Medway, Kent, England when she saw | | a ring of smoke and sparks coming from a spot nearby, and an unusual | | craft suddenly materialized. It resembled a small helicopter without | | any rotor blades, doors or engines. There was a large transparent | | dome at the front of the object, and it had green and tan camouflage | | markings on the side. She could see two men seated inside, who were | | of normal height and wore gray jumpsuits. They looked very much alike | | except one had long blond hair and the other had dark hair, and both | | had olive skinned complexions. All sounds area suddenly ceased and | | there was also a sweet odor in the vicinity. The men apparently | | communicated with her via mental telepathy, but we don't know the | | content of their communication. The craft then suddenly disappeared | | in plain sight. (Sources: Jenny Randles, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # | | 234; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, | | Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 74;  David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2255; Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 354). | | | | 1987 - Many independent witnesses from Plymouth, Devon County, | | England watched a huge delta-shaped object with many lights cross | | over Exmouth at 10:00 p.m. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 14530, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1988). | | | | 1990 - A disc-shaped UFO was seen over Witton Wood at 11:30 p.m., | | north of Walsham, Norfolk, England. The next day car batteries were | | found dead, and crop circles were found in a nearby field. (Source: | | Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 127). | | | | 1991 - A couple in Flint, Michigan were stargazing in their backyard | | at 1:30 a.m. when a white ball of light came overhead. The man shot a | | flashlight beam at it, and it made a "sideways loop" before | | continuing on. (Source: Shirley Coyne, MUFON case files, case # | | 930415Cb). | | | | 2001 - At 12:40 a.m. a large, circular object was seen in the sky | | surrounded by a number of small fragmentary objects, the size of 10p | | pieces over Ricksmanworth, Hertford, England. The large object was | | white and had a glow of red and blue, and was described as very | | bright. At the same time in Port Talbot, Wales two large shining | | white golf ball like objects were seen moving in and out of the | | clouds. An hour later another strange formation of lights flew | | overhead in Bushey, Hertford. At 2:30 a.m. over Glasgow, Scotland a | | small white light was seen moving toward and away from a larger white | | object. (Sources: British Ministry of Defense 2001 reports, cases | | # 134-137). | | | | 2001 - At the local "Hospital del Torax" in La Paz, Bolivia nurse | | Wilma Huanapaco was working the night shift in the intensive therapy | | wing on the first floor when she was suddenly seized by a strange | | stupor that paralyzed her body. She was unable to move her arms, | | legs, or even her eyelids. Using tremendous effort, she finally was | | able to turn around and was confronted by the figure of a tall man, | | who was enveloped in a green aura and apparently headless. The figure | | suddenly vanished in plain sight. Wilma remained in the stupor for | | several more minutes. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 2001, citing Abdel Padilla Vargas, La Prensa, Bolivia). | | | | 2007 - There were three more reports from England on this date. At | | 3:00 p.m. two white circular objects were sighted over Dorking, | | Surrey, moving at high altitude and speed. At 10:45 p.m. two strange | | objects were sighted over Sheffield, West York followed by three | | others. They were all bright and fiery colored, spinning and moving | | very fast across the sky. Finally, at 11:15 p.m. a circular light was | | seen zig-zagging across the sky over Worthing, West Sussex. | | (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | report (1) uploaded August 14, 2007, report (3) on August 7, 2007; | | British Ministry of Defense 2007 reports, case # 40). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 July 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction or translocation; airc | | raft UFO encounters; cloud, fog or mist; cigar-shaped, cylindrical or | | fuselage UFOs; domed discs, donut-shaped UFOs; inside occupants, lan | | dings; maneuvering lights; multicolored UFOs; multi-year reports from | | England; orange UFOs; paralysis; shape-changing UFO; short hairy hum | | anoid; tall hairy humanoid; tall headless humanoid, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+