+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 30 | | | | 1897 - A mystery airship with an immense artificial bright light was | | sighted in the early evening by several "sober observers" in | | Hastings, Nebraska. It was estimated to be 12 meters in length, and | | perhaps 800 feet in the air. Days later it was seen 40 miles south of | | Invale, Nebraska. (Sources: Omaha Bee, February 2, 1897; Philip Rife, | | It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the | | Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 9). | | | | 1944 - On this day several 30-cm amber "foo-fighter" balls followed | | some US fighter planes of the 415th Squadron flying southwest of | | Landau, Germany. They were chased away. (Source: SOS-OVNI France, | | Phenomena, issue 12). | | | | 1953 - Research chemist Wells Alan Webb and two other witnesses were | | traveling on Highway 80 seven miles east of Yuma, Arizona when a | | nocturnal light appeared and spun in the sky over a mechanic in a | | plane; the UFO then accelerated up into the sky. (Source: Charles | | Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, | | p. 152; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 51; Otto Binder, What We | | Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 54). | | | | 1956 - At 9:30 p.m. in Lamar, nine miles east of Holdenville, | | Oklahoma a low flying, 120 foot long ovoid object illuminated an | | area 15 acres in size; it then pursued four witnesses in a car for 16 | | minutes. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 20). | | | | 1958 - At 11:45 p.m. a lawyer, his wife, and their nephew felt an | | electric shock at a point 220 miles north of Arequipa, Peru heading | | towards Lima. Several seconds later the headlights and engine of | | their car failed. An inverted mushroom-shaped object was then | | observed, about 15 feet in diameter, descending from the sky. It | | hovered for about eight minutes at a 150-foot altitude, glowing red. | | A truck and a bus were also affected by the presence of the UFO. | | (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, | | case 90, citing Charles Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of | | Unidentified Flying Objects). | | | | 1959 - A truck driver driving this night on U.S. Route 52 near New | | Richmond, Ohio saw a bizarre gray "ugly" creature with tentacles | | crossing the road ahead of the truck. Two hours later, just across | | the border in Covington, Kentucky a woman reported seeing a strange | | grayish creature with a lopsided chest, ugly tentacles, and rolls of | | fat running in a bent over fashion. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing Bigfoot: Tales of Unexplained | | Creatures, UFOs, and Psychic Connections). | | | | 1965 - Sid Padrick, age 52, was walking on the beach in Manresa | | Beach, Santa Cruz County, California just before 2.00 a.m. when he | | heard a sound and saw a large dark disc-shaped object that approached | | from the Pacific Ocean. He started to run from it, but heard a voice | | frpm it saying, “Do not be frightened, we are not hostile.” It | | descended to within two feet of the beach. Mr. Padrick was invited by | | the voice to come onboard, which he did. The UFO, which bore no | | lights, was shaped like a 50 foot sphere with top and bottom cut off, | | and surrounded by a horizontal flange. The witness entered through a | | brilliantly lit antechamber, and was met by a young man dressed in a | | tight fitting, bluish white two piece uniform, continuous with the | | boots. The UFO occupant identified himself as "Zeeno" and said that | | he came from a planet invisible to us, as it is always behind one of | | the planets we can see. He further explained that their society had | | no sickness, vice or crime. Padrick saw on a TV screen another such | | vessel, identified as their “navigating craft.” He was taken for a | | ride to a spot in the mountains and brought back to the beach | | after two hours. (Sources: Major Damon B. Reeder, U.S. Air Force for | | Project Blue Book; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-10 (A0620), citing Paul Cerny; John | | Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 228; George D. Fawcett, Flying | | Saucers, August 1965, p. 58 & October 1966, p. 30). | | | | 1965 - A triangular UFO was spotted about 8:30 p.m. by Chad Rayfeld, | | a 17-year-old high school senior, and several friends in Newport | | News, Virginia. They estimated it was three times bigger than an | | automobile, very bright, and moving fast across the James River in | | the direction of Richmond. At the base of the triangle was an orange | | light with a white light at the leading apex. The triangle made no | | noise, and was visible for about 20 minutes. (Sources: Newport News | | (VA) Daily Press, January 31, 1965; Project Blue Book files; J. Allen | | Hynek personal case files). | | | | 1967 - At 7:05 a.m. in Lander, Wyoming Mr. J. Kenney, an ex-Air Force | | man, sighted a long, thin cigar-shaped object that flew to the | | northeast for 15 seconds. There was an intense blue light the entire | | length of the object. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1967, | | p. 4). | | | | 1967 - At 7:30 p.m. CST nine people in Granite City, Illinois | | reported sighting a cup-shaped object with a dome on top. (Source: | | Gilbert L. Bernier, UFO-INFO, April 1967, p. 12). | | | | 1967 - At 8:04 p.m. CST Delton Schwanz, a commercial pilot with 29 | | years experience and a past U.S. Air Force serviceman, was driving | | with his wife Della and children Robert, Roger and Diane five miles | | southwest and 20 miles west of Crosby, North Dakota when they saw a | | bright white, sharply outlined lozenge-shaped object in the western | | sky. It had a length to width ratio of 4:1 and an elevation of | | 15°-20°. It momentarily stopped, then moved in level flight to the | | left, making a smooth climb in the southwest and dropping white | | "strips" of light that descended vertically. It disappeared to the | | south at azimuth 170° by ascending to about 30°-45° elevation. Two | | other men were independent witnesses, driving by car west of Crosby | | near the intersection of Highways 5 and 85, where they reported | | seeing a large white light moving rapidly from west to south and | | dropping a "piece" of the object, then vanishing suddenly. (Sources: | | J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, pp. 64-65; Willy Smith, UNICAT, | | case # 315). | | | | 1968 - At two o'clock in the morning a security guard in Cinco Picos, | | The Azores experienced radio interference, then had a close encounter | | with a saucer-shaped object and two humanoids. The guard shined his | | flashlight at the disc; he was gassed and fainted; this was followed | | by 10 minutes of missing time. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 8073; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 93). | | | | 1968 - At 11:30 p.m. in Torres, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil a luminous  | | object rose from the sea and descended onto the beach. Next, three | | stiff-walking figures appeared. There was also telepathy reported. | | (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8182, | | citing Charles Garreau, Soucoupes Volantes, Vingt-cinq Ans | | d'Enquetes, p. 141; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1968). | | | | 1970 - Two policemen in Mrewa, Zimbabwe saw three shiny metallic | | oval objects hovering near their cruiser at 9:30 p.m. The headlights | | went out during the sighting, which ended when the objects moved away | | at high speed. The headlights did not come back on until 10 minutes | | after the objects had gone. (Sources: Eileen Buckle, FSR, | | September-October 1970, p. 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, case 288, citing FSR, Vol . 16, No. 5). | | | | 1971 - On this night a witness named Nicolae watched a nocturnal | | light that maneuvered for ten minutes around a central point in the | | sky over the city of Predeal, Romania. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien | | Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 271). | | | | 1971 - At 8:00 p.m. in Canelinha, Santa Catalina, Brazil a dog began | | behaving frantically, and then the witness's lantern went out. Next, | | a beam of light levitated the observer and that was his last | | conscious memory. He woke up the next morning at 8:00 a.m. after 12 | | hours of missing time. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 9771; citing FSR, January 1973). | | | | 1973 - A strange light with a cone on top was seen by a single | | eyewitness from Benowa Estate, Nerang, Queensland, Australia at 3:45 | | a.m. (Source: J. Bernard Delair, The UFO Register (volume 5), case # | | 39, citing Adelaide Sun Mirror, February 4, 1973). | | | | 1979 - At 7:29 a.m. a young man named Patrick, a previous UFO | | abductee, was driving in Quitman, Texas when he experienced either an | | abduction or teleportation experience that included five minutes of | | unexplained missing time. He found himself in Gilmer, Texas, a | | distance of 30 miles away from his last known location. He also had a | | strange cut on his arm. (Source: Richard C. Niemtzow, MUFON UFO | | Journal, September 1979, p. 3). | | | | 1981 - At around 1 p.m. three photographs were taken of a giant | | daylight cloud-cigar shaped UFO north of Florence, Arizona with a | | Kodak Instamatic camera. There were six military witnesses. The whole | | object could not fit into a single frame. Its apparent size was | | compared to a 12" ruler at arm's length. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May | | 1981, p. 1). | | | | 1983 - Four witnesses were driving in a car down a road in the | | countryside near Olkusz, Katowice, Poland at around 9 p.m. when they | | had a close encounter with a cylinder of light, which became a | | glowing ovoid object. During the encounter they noticed that the | | surrounding scenery appeared strange and altered. After the | | experience all observers were very tired. (Source: Bronislaw | | Rzepecki, FSR, March 1988). | | | | 1984 - At 9:00 p.m. nine oil platform workers in a swampy area 50 | | miles west of Miami in Dade County, Florida watched a 200 foot in | | diameter domed disc-shaped object with a huge red glow and a silver | | dome, engage in a high speed vertical descent and then hover for 10 | | seconds. It then changed color from orange to a metallic chrome | | color, then back to orange. It also had dozens of flashing lights. | | It instantaneously moved away to the east. (Source: Robert Gribble, | | International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 7). | | | | 1989 - In the predawn hours in the ocean off Shagwong Point, Long | | Island, New York a fishing boat's radar system and other electronics | | failed when it was approached by a light on the sea or hovering just | | above the water less than a mile away. A diamond shaped UFO estimated | | to be 150 feet in size was then seen as it moved toward the boat, | | turned west, and then finally south, making a slight humming sound. | | There were three witnesses on board and the incident lasted several | | minutes. (Sources: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. | | 31; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 215, citing the UFO | | Newsclipping Service). | | | | 1989 - At 9:40 p.m. a witness in Blenfleet, Essex, England spotted a | | 300-foot long "bus" in the sky at 900 feet altitude. It had two rows | | of windows, and it moved slowly and silently through the sky. | | | | 1989 - Three witnesses in Battle Mountain, Nevada saw a delta-shaped | | object in the sky with a red light at 5:00 p.m. (Source: Paul | | Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 16, | | citing the UFO Newsclipping Service). | | | | 1990 - On this night, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada a | | woman church minister claimed she was taken onboard an alien craft | | that left Earth's gravity. Her next memory was of being inside a huge | | "Embryo Fertilization Room." Small beings were working on people on | | tables. Although celibate, she was Impregnated, and later had a | | miscarriage. (Source: John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human | | Physiological Effects, p. 103, citing a private communication; Lorne | | Goldfader, Enigma, St. Louis UFO Study Group, October 1990). | | | | 1991 - In Virginia, Minnesota three witnesses watched a triangular | | UFO with mulicolored lights for 30 minutes as it hovered 600 feet off | | the ground. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO | | Reports, 1988-94, case # 1023, citing William I. McNeff). | | | | 1993 - At 7:45 p.m. two teenagers in Oceanside, San Diego County, | | California watched an ovoid object approach them from the Pacific | | Ocean. The object stopped over them, then continued on to the east. | | It had a triangular shape inside or on the side of the object that | | was spinning. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993). | | | | 1995 - At 8:29 p.m. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the County Emergency | | Agency supervisor received a call regarding a triangular ship in the | | sky that was seen emitting three beams of light. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1995 - At 8:00 p.m. in Olympia, Washington a young girl reported | | seeing several reptilian or lizard-like humanoids with bright red | | eyes standing outside her bedroom window. Her father went to | | investigate but saw nothing. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database, case #2340, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1995 - At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses had a close encounter with a white | | disc-shaped object in Pierceland, Saskatchewan, Canada. The | | disc-shaped object had windows and "legs" and moved slowly over a | | field, close to the witnesses. (Source: Frank Ducks, 1995 Canadian | | UFO Survey, case # 11, citing the National Research Council). | | | | 1997 - The abductee received a telepathic warning in advance that she | | would be taken from her home in San Bernardo, Santiago Province, | | Chile. At 10:00 p.m. the young woman was abducted for three hours. | | Her fetus was reportedly taken, and she was found all wet when she | | was returned. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 17866). | | | | 2000 - A huge black triangular object hovered silently above a crab | | fishing boat at 11:15 p.m. while the fisherman was engaged in hauling | | up a line of traps off Farlon Island near San Francisco, California. | | The man was onboard his 25 foot boat with his dog but had no other | | witnesses around, when he was hit by a beam of white light from the | | craft, which caused him fall backwards into the boat's cabin. He | | grabbed his Rugger 10-22 rifle and fired 100 rounds of .22 caliber | | ammunition at the bottom of the craft, trying to shoot out the light. | | While grabbing a second magazine clip he saw a hatch open up on the | | bottom of the object and two men leaned out, shouting "Stop shooting | | at us you idiot." He also heard a hissing sound like air escaping | | from a punctured tire. The object then moved off to the south. A | | helicopter then appeared and hovered over the boat. The chopper was | | flat black in color, and it was silent with no markings on it. As the | | chopper hovered a flash of light was again directed at the boat. He | | last saw the triangle gain altitude and disappear towards the south. | | The helicopter was last seen heading towards the Golden Gate Bridge. | | It is uncertain if what the witness allegedly encountered was a | | secret U.S. government project, or something even more strange. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | January 2000 webpage, report uploaded February 2000, p. 16; UFO | | Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 16, citing Filer's Files). | | | | 2004 - At 9:30 p.m. witnesses in Willard, Missouri saw a orange | | sphere moving slowly across the sky in repeated figure eight | | patterns. It disappeared completely after 15 minutes.(Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2004 | | webpage). | | | | 2006 - Around two o'clock in the morning two friends awoke to a low | | humming sound, and a clattering noise against all the windows of the | | country house they occupied in Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada. They | | looked outside and saw 20 or more tiny blue lights in the sky. They | | quickly picked up a video camera and began to film. The lights | | were high in the sky, and maneuvered freely in all directions, at | | times hovering together, one on top of the other. This continued for | | about an hour. They then noticed the objects getting much larger as | | they slowly descended to earth. They claimed they managed to get one | | or two close ups on video, but the quality was not great. The | | ridge about 1 ½ miles to the north then began to emit a day-like | | glow. Most of the objects were now no longer visible, but the humming | | sound had become almost deafening. Suddenly a strong wind began to | | blow out of the north, and the light on the ridge pulsated along the | | horizon, while clouds of smoke appeared to rise up slowly from each | | of six lit up areas. One of them next tried to make a phone call to a | | neighbor, but the phone was not working and instead made an unusual | | buzzing sound. They both leaned out the window to get a better view. | | Soon after, they heard a very eerie howl, not like any coyote they | | had ever heard, and almost like a siren but not as perfect. It was | | followed by a loud blood curling scream, definitely unhuman. A warm | | strong breeze next came out of the north, and it had a smell like | | burning plastic. A security light outside kept turning on, and they | | heard crashing and banging against the house, followed by a | | scratching along the walls on every side. Both of the witnesses then | | saw a tall, very pale humanoid figure with glowing eyes that | | ran across the driveway. Petrified, they shut themselves inside but | | continued to listen intently. When they next looked out the window | | they could see the smoke puff up from the illuminated hilltops again, | | and once again saw tiny blue lights that shot up into the sky, | | hovered briefly, and began to get smaller as they flew to a high | | altitude in the sky, where they remained visible for a long time. | | (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | Jan. 2006 webpage, report uploade Feb. 14, 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 | | Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 2006, citing NUFORC).  | | | | 2007 - At 9:25 a.m. a disc-shaped UFO was sighted over Interstate 270 | | N in Rockville, Maryland. At 6:44 p.m. CST a smaller object slowly | | merged with a larger disc-shaped object over Round Lake, Illinois. | | Then both vanished in a second as it shot up vertically from | | approximately a mile above the earth into outer space. In Quincy, | | California at 10:50 p.m. a tri-colored cylinder-shaped object was | | seen flying at about 500 feet altitude. It disappeared into the | | mountains 5-10 miles away. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2007 webpage). | | | | 2008 - Just after midnight a crescent-shaped object with red, green, | | and white lights was sighted in the sky to the east of Denver, | | Colorado. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, Jan. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008). | | | | 2009 - At about nine o’clock on a clear sunny day in San Diego, | | California, when the witness looked out the window of the train he | | saw two silver disc-shaped objects side by side very close together | | in the sky. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, Jan. 2009 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2009). | | | | 2012 - The witness was driving on Interstate 95 near exit 26 in | | Waltham, Massachusetts at 8:55 p.m. At the time there were | | construction crews working on both sides of the highway. He next saw | | a rectangular craft in the sky flashing red and white lights at about | | the height of a street light. It stretched across the three left | | lanes of the highway. The craft did not move and appeared dark with | | flashing lights and a couple of dome-shaped windows. It made | | absolutely no noise. It had a narrow beam of light that was directed | | down at the state troopers. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. Half an | | hour later, driving on the opposite side of the highway, the witness | | noted that the construction crews had gone, but the state troopers | | were still there, looking confused. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2009 webpage, report | | uploaded March 19, 2012). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 January 2013). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions invo | | lving pregnancies, car pursuit, cloud cigar UFO, creature reports, di | | sc-shaped UFOs, Grey UFOnauts, humanoids with glowing red eyes, hummi | | ng sound, levitation, luminous ovoid UFOs, maneuvering UFOs, missing | | time experiences, multi-year reports from Brazil and California, oval | | or ovoid UFOs, radar knocked out by UFO, red UFO, reptilian humanoid | | s, triangular UFOs, vehicle EM interference effects, vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+