+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 15 | | | | 1947 - At 12:15 p.m. Colonel Frank A. Flynn, who was flying over over | | Concord, California, reported that at least a dozen oval-shaped UFOs | | in three groups that hung in the sky, swinging back and forth in a | | pendulum motion. They were white on top, grey and black for the rest, | | and about 15 feet wide. (Sources: San Francisco News, July 18, 1947; | | Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 841). | | | | 1948 - An Army Major and a second witness reported seeing a large, | | silent, glowing metallic cigar-shaped object that flew from west to | | east over Alajarvi, Finland. The craft had no wings. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 1322, citing Awareness, 1976). | | | | 1952 - At 1:20 a.m. a misty, glowing red UFO zig-zagged over the city | | of Pasco, Washington. There was a mist surrounding the UFO as it went | | quickly toward the southeast and away. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 2342, citing Loren E. Gross). | | | | 1952 - At 10:10 a.m. a gray object, slightly yellow, and looking like | | "a flattened out donut without the hole", approached West Palm Beach, | | Florida very rapidly. It then hovered in place for 90 seconds. | | Finally, it picked up speed and disappeared out of sight. (Sources: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1451; | | Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 269; | | UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 58). | | | | 1954 - A woman recalled in 1986, that as an eleven year old girl | | collecting mushrooms in Poland she had a close encounter and missing | | time experience with UFOnauts. While walking alone near a cliff in | | Wegierska Gorka, Cracow, Poland she saw a glowing, oval-shaped UFO. | | She felt drawn to it, and was met by five entities, who had the | | height, skin and hands of humans. They wore tight fitting clothes, | | and had small mouthes and no noses. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database). | | | | 1959 - On this evening seven children in Mount Laurel, New | | Jersey witnessed a low level, glowing ovoid UFO fly south over the | | New Jersey Turnpike. It was silent in flight, the apparent size of | | the Moon, and gave off "pulses." (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth | | Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. | | 17). | | | | 1965 - At 10:50 a.m. eight witnesses including air traffic | | controllers at Canberra Airport, Australian Capital Territory watched | | a white sphere hovering for 40 minutes. In Melbourne, Victoria, | | Australia at 6:20 p.m. a disc-shaped object descended slowly at | | anangle, then hovered while wobbling over a school. After two minutes | | it shot off to the northeast. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88). | | | | 1965 - At eight o'clock in the evening in the Loretani Valley, | | Cordoba province, Argentina, Mr. and Mrs. Bosquets and their family | | observed a luminous object, its color changing from blue to orange. | | It was about twelve meters in diameter, and showed several | | portholes. It left behind ground traces at the landing site. (Source: | | Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 11; Gordon | | Creighton, FSR, November 1970, p. 27; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Langings, case # 654, citing CODOVNI 1965). | | | | 1967 - At 7:00 p.m. near Sedalia, Missouri a domed disc-shaped object | | was seen emerging from an isolated cloud. It re-entered the cloud, | | and then re-emerged again. (Source: Norma Short, Skylook, December | | 1970, p. 8). | | | | 1968 - At three o'clock in the morning a domed disc-shaped object was | | seen low to the ground in Columbus, Indiana. It directed a | | searchlight toward the ground, and it also emitted a narrower red | | beam or ray. (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. | | 44). | | | | 1968 - At 7:30 p.m. Juan Gilabert and his wife Anastasia were at | | their home in Mar del Plata, Argentina when Anastasia suddenly heard | | a loud whistling sound and felt extreme heat. Juan was in another | | room. At the same time a bright light seemed to descend from the | | ceiling. The light began to dim and she felt partially paralyzed. In | | a corner of the room she saw a short humanoid figure wearing a | | silvery suit. Frightened, she managed to grab hold of her young | | daughter and ran outside screaming. Several neighbors, among them | | Rogelio Gianomini, came to her aid and found a strange white | | substance on the floor and a strong sulphur-like odor in the area. | | Small footprints were also found. Mrs. Gilabert suffered from nervous | | shock after the incident. (Sources: Oscar A. Uriondo, p. 31, citing a | | newspaper source; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, | | citing Carlos Daniel Ferguson, Gaceta OVNI). | | | | 1976 - At around 5:30 a.m. Margarita Caginas, age 28, and Miguel Ruiz | | Sampeiro were on their way to work in Escalante, Santander, Spain | | when they saw from behind a flying or levitating humanoid being “over | | 3 meters tall.” It was dressed in a brightly shining, dark brown | | outfit, and wore a silver disc on its head. It also floated along | | without its feet touching the ground. It paid no attention to the | | witnesses until it disappeared around a bend. There were other | | independent witnesses, including the local mayor who saw it from his | | window. He described it as a tall entity wearing a dark outfit that | | emitted luminous flashes from the chest area. (Sources: David F. Webb | | & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | # 1976-57, citing ABC Madrid, July 18, 1976; FSR, Volume 22, Number | | 4). | | | | 1977 - Mrs. Fern Frey had a close encounter with a disc-shaped UFO in | | Bellevue, Kentucky at 10:45 p.m. She watched as a green beam | | retracted into the 30-foot wide craft like "liquid being sucked up | | through a straw". The UFO then lifted off and disappeared into a | | wooded area. (Source: Leonard H. Stringfield, MUFON UFO Journal, | | January 1978, p. 9). | | | | 1977 - At 11:45 p.m. PDT five people in a boat on a lake in Blythe, | | Riverside County, California watched an ovoid object, three to four | | times the size of the Moon, as it darted about in all directions for | | the next two hours. Its illuminated surface reflected on the surface | | of the water. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, | | September 1977, p. 3). | | | | 1979 - At 4:00 a.m. a man was sleeping at his home in Nimes, France | | when his car alarm went off and woke him up. He then went outside to | | investigate, and saw a glowing object hovering just two meters above | | the ground. It had multicolored lights and was shooting flashes of | | light up into the sky. An opening became visible at one end of | | the object, and a short squat figure with thick arms and legs and a | | round body appeared. It began moving slowly towards the witness, who | | ran back inside his house. There were three other witnesses who saw | | the lights from the craft. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2211; Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1725, citing Denys | | Breysse, Project Becassine). | | | | 1979 - On the same night a couple in San Antonio, Texas sighted three | | large glowing balls of light hovering outside their home. They | | watched as five strange humanoid creatures floated down from the | | balls of light. The beings were described as thin, with grayish skin, | | large heads, and large dark oval-shaped eyes. The man ran to get his | | gun, but suddenly both he and his wife were overcome with a profound | | drowsiness and lost consciousness. Their next memory they had was | | waking up in the morning to find the man's shotgun totally dismantled | | and placed on the kitchen table. Later a frightening abduction was | | recalled under hypnosis. (Source: Preston Dennett, MUFON UFO Journal, | | March 1993). | | | | 1981 - A missing time incident occurred in Uppington, England on this | | night, and an abduction experience was subsequently revealed through | | hypnosis. Three women, Ms. Walters, Ms. Hawkins, and Ms. Hayward, | | were driving home from a nightclub at 2:10 a.m. on the A5 expressway | | when they all suddenly experienced a strange mood change. They all | | sat quietly, going into some form of limbo. Then across an open field | | four white and two red lights appeared that seemed to be attached to | | a dark object. The object was round and began pacing their vehicle. | | At this point the vehicle seem to lose power and would not | | accelerate. All the women panicked and became more confused when the | | UFO and lights suddenly vanished. There was a time lapse, of perhaps | | 25 minutes, noted when they reached their destination. | | | | Later under hypnosis, one of the women recalled the car being floated | | up into the sky and entering the bottom of the object through two | | large double doors. She was held down on a reclining chair and | | medically examined by several four-foot tall figures, who were | | hairless and had deep set dark eyes, very thin arms, and strange | | noses. They wore green cloaks. The second woman recalled being in a | | large room when several four-foot tall robot like entities with round | | heads, no facial features and wheel-like feet rolled in; she was not | | examined. The third woman remembers being hit by a beam of light. She | | felt pain and was floated into a room, there she encountered two | | six-foot tall humanoids, one male and the other female, both wearing | | green cloaks. They both had dark, shoulder-length hair, vivid blue | | eyes and extremely white skin. They seemed very friendly and appeared | | intrigued with her clothing. The third woman was also given a medical | | exam. (Sources: Norman Oliver, BUFORA Journal, April 2003, p. 3; John | | Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 119, citing the Shropshire | | Star, July 17, 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1981, case # 526, citing Jenny Randles, Abduction). | | | | Uppington, England Abductions - 15 July 1981 | | | | [] | | | | 1981 - Several people were fishing on a lake in Newberry, South | | Carolina at 10:30 p.m. when at least one witnessed a thirty-foot | | long cigar-shaped object that  maneuvered over the lake, then floats | | in place for 3 minutes. He also saw steam or mist rising from the | | water. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1982). | | | | 1984 - A low flying cigar-shaped UFO was seen at Greens Beach, | | Tasmania, Australia at 11:45 a.m. It created a smoke cloud which kept | | enveloping it as it moved. The object maneuvered back and forth at | | low altitude, then flew off to the south. Duration: 10 minutes. | | (Source: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8). | | | | 1984 - northwest of Detroit, Maine - Carol Cloukey and Robert White | | were driving on their way to Pittsfield, Maine for dinner. At 9:05 | | p.m., after traveling about a mile they rounded a bend and Carol, who | | was driving, was the first to see a bright yellowish-orange light. | | Suddenly the light made a perfect vertical drop in mid-air. They sped | | up to get ahead of the object, but the light dropped lower again, and | | was now dead center above the car windshield. Carol stopped and | | slammed the car into reverse. After backing up about 50 feet they saw | | that the object was alongside of them on the left side of the car and | | about 150 off the ground. The glow had subsided, and in the evening | | twilight it appeared grayish in color, triangular shaped, and larger | | than a 747 aircraft. It had 4 red lights and 1 or 2 brighter white | | lights. It made no sound. Robert opened his door to see if it was | | possible to make a 180-degree turn, and he told her to back into the | | driveway of a farmhouse. The object was now almost directly above | | them at an approximate altitude of 100 feet. He observed that when | | they stopped the UFO stopped, and when they moved the UFO moved! It | | became apparent that "it" did not want to let them go. Robert got out | | of the car and started to run toward the farmhouse. Carol called to | | him that another car was coming down the road. The UFO now began to | | move away slightly, traveling in a northeasterly direction for a | | distance of a few hundred feet when it suddenly vanished right before | | their eyes. Robert later expressed wonderment that such a large | | object could suddenly disappear in such an inexplicable manner. They | | estimated that the total incident took about two minutes to | | transpire. (Source: Leland Bechtel, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1984, | | pp. 14-15). | | | | 1985 - A 25-year-old CAD draftsman was in his bedroom in Cobbtown, | | Georgia at around two a.m. when he had a close encounter with | | two 70-foot diameter discs which had lights around their rims. They | | made a high pitched sound and he fell into a trance, but when he | | spoke the word "Jesus" they seemed to disappear. All electrical | | appliances in the house were damaged from electromagnetic effects, | | and three dogs who lived with him never returned. (Source: Donald M. | | Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 18). | | | | 1995 - On this day in Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, England two | | married couples were enjoying a garden picnic when some very strange | | events began to unfold. It involved a strange mist or fog, | | time dislocation, and the "Oz" effect, where time seems to stop and | | all normal environmental noises cease. They felt heavy pressure, like | | a static charge in the air. Plates and glasses started to move about | | on the picnic table. A dark gray mass and fog then enveloped the | | garden. This was followed by many hours of missing time. The | | witnesses recovered feeling sick, with naseau and tingling | | sensations. (Source: Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for | | Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 73, citing BUFORA). | | | | 1995 - A couple returning from a fishing trip at 2:45 p.m. sighted a | | huge, metallic, domed disc-shaped object with a dark band of windows | | In West Harwinton, Connecticut. They were able to get out of their | | minivan and watch the craft for an additional 10-15 seconds. Detailed | | analysis revealed that the estimated size of the craft was 553 feet | | in diameter, and it was at a distance of 2,400 feet. It travelled at | | a relatively slow 70-75 mph at a low altitude. (Source: Mark Cashman, | | International UFO Reporter, Summer 2000, p. 14). | | | | Harwinton, Connecticut Daylight Domed Disc - 1995 | | | | [Sketch of Harwinton, Connecticut Daylight Dome Disc 1995] | | | | 1999 - First the car radio cut out, reported the male witness driving | | in Nangwarry, South Australia at 2:15 a.m.  Then he saw three lights | | in a triangular formation with a black shape inside to the left of | | the highway, shining onto the top of some pine trees. The UFO then | | rose and entered a cloud that lit up. Finally, his car radio came | | back on. (Source: Keith Basterfield, AUFORN). | | | | 2000 - Gimli, Manitoba, Canada. Three witnesses reported seeing a | | shiny round pink object at around 7:00 p.m., about a block away, with | | smoke billowing out of a straight horizontal pipe coming from the top | | of the object. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case | | # 107). | | | | 2001 - Independent witnesses reported a large flying triangle in | | Carteret and Sayerville, New Jersey. A first witness at 12:15 a.m. | | reported V-shaped formations of lights hovering, and then fading out | | one by one. Another witness saw a large flying triangle heading for | | Carteret. Other witnesses, further south along the New Jersey | | Turnpike, saw airline flights heading to Newark Airport apparently | | being diverted because of the presence of UFOs in the early morning | | hours between 12:25 and 12:55 a.m. Unconfirmed reports indicate that | | radars in the New York area picked up a series of anomalous targets | | at same time. These targets roughly matched the ground witnesses' | | testimony of seeing lights over the New Jersey Turnpike. Dozens of | | cars came to a stop on the NJ Turnpike to watch the lights as they | | passed overhead. The Carteret case is significant because it occurred | | the day after a successful US antimissile test in the Pacific. | | Carteret is only ten miles from New York City, and numerous police | | and firefighters took video of the event which was shown on many | | television broadcasts. New York radar operators indicated that dozens | | of anomalous targets were racing around the area. According to MUFON | | field investigator and pilot Bob Durant, "In the short time the | | lights were displayed on screen, it was obvious that they were moving | | right to left at a slow but deliberate angular velocity. There was no | | relative movement among the lights. The top of a house or building, | | and possibly a chimney on a house, is visible in the video scene. | | There were a total of 10 lights arranged in three groups. Beginning | | from the left on the screen, this corresponds with the foremost | | lights. We see five lights, then a space, then four lights, a much | | longer space and a single light, which brings up the rear of the | | moving set. There is no obvious symmetry to either the group of five | | or group of four lights, or to the entire group of lights. The lights | | depicted in the video are large, steady, and white, though there is | | some slight but perceivable variation in diameter among them. One of | | the lights, momentarily, nearly 'goes out', diminishing to a tiny | | point and then resuming its original size." (Sources: George A. Filer | | & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worlwide Reports of UFO | | Sightings, pp. 78-79; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | report uploaded August 5, 2001).  | | | | 2005 - In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada eight witnesses reported | | seeing a shiny, metallic triangular object "with black waves" on the | | surface of the object and a white glow around it at 10:15 p.m. It was | | flying east at a low altitude, close enough to see it clearly. | | Triangle-shaped objects were also sighted later that night in | | Virginia and Pennsylvania. (Sources: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO | | Survey, case 59; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | report uploaded September 2, 2005). | | | | 2010 - At around 3 a.m. two campers at a campsite on Berry Creek, | | Butte County, California viewed one cigar-shaped craft fly over, then | | hold position as a second craft emerged from the first and perform | | impossible manuevers for 15 minutes. (Source:Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded July 19, 2010). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 20 July 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, car pursuits, cigar-shaped UFOs, domed discs | | , Grey humanoids, missing time, multi-year missing time events in Eng | | land, ovoid UFOs, "Oz" effect, robots, physiological effects:naseau a | | nd tingling sensations, sensation of heat, short humanoids, triangula | | r UFOs, whistling sound, UFOs seen over lakes, vehicle electrical sys | | tem interference: car radios, video images of UFOs, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+