+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 19 | | | | 1967 - A 15-year old boy was in his room at four o'clock in the | | afternoon, in an undisclosed town in Indiana when he heard a sound | | like a rumbling train. He went to his window to check and was | | startled to see a shiny flying object moving slowly 25 feet above the | | ground. The UFO was described as jar shaped with a silver quilted | | surface and had an opening on the top. The object seemed to follow | | the contour of the land and made several sharp-angle turns around | | trees. The teen grabbed a small plastic camera and snapped several | | photos. One of the photos seems to show the head of a humanoid like | | figure protruding from the opening on top of the object. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1841, | | citing Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters: The Filter Center | | Files). | | | | 1979 - The witness was driving to the town of Bastia, Italy in | | Liguria province in the evening and had just turned a curve in the | | road when his vehicle's engine suddenly stalled. As he looked under | | the hood he noticed two figures looking at him from behind a nearby | | electrical pylon on the side of the road. At first he thought they | | were electrical company workers and did not pay them any attention. | | But he soon looked back at the two figures more closely and noticed | | that one was about 2.50 meters in height and massive in appearance, | | while the other figure was somewhat shorter. Both wore shiny | | tight-fitting outfits. The figures stared at him for a few minutes | | and then walked back into the woods. Soon after his encounter with | | these two strange beings he was able to start his engine. That same | | evening another witness saw a bright bluish light descend into the | | same woods. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, | | citing Notizieufo, X-Files # 6). | | | | 1988 - A father and daughter were driving to pick up the mother from | | work at around 5:00 p.m. in Benton, Louisiana. They pulled into the | | parking lot of her work and stopped to wait for her. The lot, the | | street, and the nearby Interstate highway were all in their normal | | hubbub of activity. The daughter brought her father's attention to a | | streak of light in the sky. Almost as soon as he focused on it, the | | light seemed to appear immediately in front of them, about 150 feet | | away and about 50 feet above the ground. It was a dull silver or | | steel gray disc-shaped object. Around the perimeter were openings | | like wind scoops, which spun about fairly rapidly. From the top of | | the disc emerged a sheath from which extended rotary blades like | | those seen on helicopters. The craft performed this extension as they | | watched, although the blades did not turn. The disc was about the | | size of an automobile and about five feet tall. It never made any | | noise for the minute and a half of the performance. A strange silence | | permeated the environment. "It seemed...that there were no cars | | moving, [we] didn't hear a thing in the world. Nothing. Just like the | | world stood still." Then the device zipped away, and as soon as it | | had left "the traffic on I-20 came alive and the parking lot became | | active." (Source: Michael Swords, International UFO Reporter, Summer | | 2002, p. 21). | | | | Benton, Louisiana Close Encounter - 1988 | | | | [image] | | | | 1991 - At 10:30 p.m. in 1991 a 31-year-old respiratory therapist was | | driving home in Massachusetts and observed a domed disc with a large | | square window emitting white light. It hovered low (25 feet) over a | | tree across the street that was only 360 feet away. Electrical | | interference was reported in the form of static on the telephone. | | (Source: Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 19). | | | | 1993 - In Beldon, Western Australia at three a.m. the witness awoke | | to see a figure kneeling to the left side of his bed about half way | | down the side. The figure was thin and had normal features, except | | that it had no hair and the ears were defined only by a faint | | outline. A golden box-like object appeared to be attached to the | | being's neck just below its right ear. The witness reached out to | | touch the figure, but his hand went right through it. It then | | disappeared, to re-appear seconds later passing through a closed | | screen door. His dog at the foot of the bed watched the whole | | incident but did not react in any noticeable way. There were no | | sounds, smells, or other anomalies noted. The entity was wearing a | | grayish-green polo shirt that had a higher than normal neck line. It | | had a belt that supported a pair of loose fitting trousers. It was | | too dark to see any footwear. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1993, case # 2680, citing Brian Richards, UFORUM). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 16 January 2006). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: automobile UFO encounters | | , bedroom apparition, domed disc-shaped UFOs, EM vehicle ignition int | | erference, jar-shaped UFO, "OZ effect", RF interference, rumbling noi | | se, silent UFO, silver UFO, tall humanoids, UFOs with square windows. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+