+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 18 | | | | 1946 - Two fast, low-flying eight-foot long cylinders dove into Lake | | Mjosa, Norway. They had short wing flaps. There were four witnesses. | | (Source: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 18). | | | | 1947 - In Joplin, Missouri a bright, shiny ovoid object, half a meter | | in length, flew over the railroad freight house at 11:30 p.m. | | (Sources: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 | | UFO Sighting Wave, p. 109). | | | | 1949 - An unidentified nocturnal light flew over the city of | | Galveston, Texas this night. It stopped, and then shot continued on | | at a fantastic speed. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | 1426). | | | | 1952 - At 6:00 p.m. in Pouilly, Cote-d'Or department, France six | | witnesses spotted a 30 meter long vertical cloud-cigar with regularly | | spaced brief lights. It was emitting a thick white smoke. (Source: | | Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. | | 66). | | | | 1952 - At 2:00 a.m. a procession of bright orange discs in single | | file veered over Washington, D.C. and disappeared in a regular | | sequence. (Sources: NICAP case investigation files, report dated July | | 18, 1952, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 160). | | | | 1952 - At 11:00 o'clock in the morning in Miami, Florida Mr. E. R. | | Raymer and his daughter spotted an opaque, silvery bubble for 10 | | seconds. The object flew very fast perpendicular to the wind | | direction. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case 1483; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 8:50 p.m. a white sphere flew fast toward the southeast, | | stopped over Front Royal, Virginia and then zigzagged back toward the | | northwest at high speed. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case 2374). | | | | 1952 - Technical Sgt. Mahone and Airman Third Class Jennings saw a | | UFO at 9:10 p.m. in Lockbourne, Ohio. It was amber colored, circular | | object, somewhat smaller than the average airplane. It had a small | | flame coming from the rear of the craft that periodically increased | | in brightness, and its rim gave off an orange and green glow. It | | moved very fast for 90 seconds, giving off a resonant beat sound. It | | appeared several times over a four-hour period. (Sources: Project | | Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1482; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 9:45 p.m. EDT three USAF officers and four enlisted men | | watched a series of hovering and maneuvering amber to reddish-orange | | lights for over an hour in the sky over Patrick AFB, Florida. They | | were observed maneuvering in a variety of directions. (Source: | | Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, December | | 1952, p. 31; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - At 8:40 p.m. Mr. A.T. Chamblin saw a greenish-white disc | | flying over Normandy, Missouri. The sighting lasted about 30 minutes. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case | | 3116; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1955 - At 3 o'clock in the morning at Plessiel Airfield, near | | Abbeville, France Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the field | | were blinded by the light from a disc-shaped object 150 m away. The | | disc left an orange glowing trail. It was silent, flew slowly, and | | hovered near the Metro station close to the ground, but did not | | actually land. It left toward the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul | | Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object half an hour earlier. It came from | | the direction of Amiens. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, A Century of UFO Landings, p. 250). | | | | 1959 - At 6:30 p.m. a flashing light streaked to the north over the | | Norman River in Corindie, Queensland, Australia. Twenty minutes later | | a red glowing object landed on a hill on Prince of Wales Island, | | Queensland. Around 8:00 p.m. a UFO was seen moving over the mountains | | at Didiwa, Papua New Guinea. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 5771; Norman Crutwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special | | Edition No. 4, p. 35; APRO Bulletin, September 1959). | | | | 1962 - At 1:00 a.m. Doctor Gauza and his wife were traveling on their | | way back to Crespo, Entre Rios, Argentina when they noticed a large | | metallic, cone-shaped object on the ground very close to the road. A | | very tall human looking figure stood next to an open door in the | | craft. It was looking around at the terrain. There was also a second | | figure looking out from a large porthole. The men were described as | | having long blond hair, and wore white coveralls with visors. When | | the two beings saw the witnesses, they used hand signals in an | | apparent attempt to get them to come closer, but the couple panicked | | and left at high speed. Eight other persons later came forward | | stating that they had also seen the craft and its occupants. (Source: | | Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 37; | | Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids, p. 102; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1962, case # 989, citing Hector P. | | Anganuzzi, Historia de los Platos Voladores in La Argentina).  | | | | 1962 - At 8:00 p.m. Ms. F. Cummins in Stanley, Wisconsin saw two | | silver dumbbell-shaped flying objects, with thick crossbars, fly off | | toward the southwest. At nearly the same time a doctor saw two huge | | humanoid beings near a saucer by the side of the road in Crespo, | | Argentina (11:00 p.m. local time). (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May-June | | 1963, p. 4; Charles Bowen, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition no. 1, | | p. 37).  | | | | 1963 - At two o'clock in the afternoon, four boys in Fern Creek, | | Kentucky saw a cigar-shaped object that became a disc, then vanished | | behind some trees. A small being, 3.5 to 4 feet tall, wearing a | | tight-fitting white suit, goggles and a helmet emerged from the | | trees. The boys threw dirt clods at the entity, and the dwarf fired | | back using what looked like a black tube, burning two of them. There | | were landing imprints and footprints at the site. (Source: David F. | | Webb, Skylook, August 1975, p. 9, citing Terry William as field | | investigator). | | | | 1965 - A 70-foot diameter black disc flew by a satellite tracking | | station in Bedford, England on this day. None of the witnesses | | outdoors at the time could hear anything. A metallic disc hung | | stationary high in the sky at an altitude above 100,000 feet. (Source: Donald | | E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, p. 112). | | | | 1967 - At 1:20 a.m. Rev. Anthony De Polo, an Assembly of God | | minister, was lying in bed in Boardman, Ohio when he heard a very | | loud whining sound that rose and fell in pitch. Then he received a | | distinct mental message telling him to go to the window. He did so, | | and saw a five foot tall figure wearing a luminous tight-fitting | | "spacesuit." There was also a source of light coming from above the | | figure. At first he thought someone was playing a prank, but the | | apparition was well-defined and looked real. He stepped out onto his | | porch and mentally heard the words,"You have nothing to fear." | | | | He began to walk toward the being when the whining noise began again | | and he heard, "Danger; I must go." Then the figure dissolved into a | | blurred glow of light. Before it completely disappeared De Polo | | received another message of a personal nature. On the same night and | | not far from De Polo's home, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dixon heard a loud | | noise outside, looked out, and saw an object hovering over their | | house. It moved off toward the south after about five minutes. De | | Polo has had a number of subsequent UFo sightings and "contacts." | | (Sources: John A. Keel, FSR, January-February 1968, p. 26; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 857; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1967-62, citing John Keel, Virgil Tarleton, & Prof. Theodore Spickler | | for MUFON). | | | | 1968 - At 7:30 a.m. three schoolteachers encountered a | | reddish-orange, oval-shaped object a few meters above the ground | | while driving to work in Lavalle, Argentina. It was about 20 meters | | in diameter and gave off the smell of wet paper. One witness felt | | drowsy from the smell. (Source: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, | | February 1974, p. 16). | | | | 1969 - At nine o'clock in the morning a photograph of a UFO was taken | | at Flippin Airport in Arkansas. That afternoon in Sobral, Ceara | | State, Brazil Mr. Neusa Rodgriques saw a shiny flying disc stop and | | remain stationary for 30 seconds near a cement plant. An occupant | | could be seen inside the object through a window. It looked like "a | | little bluish colored man with eyes that gave off flashes." The UFO | | performed various maneuvers over the cement plant and drew the | | attention of many of its employees, who stopped work briefly to watch | | it. Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza took statements from the eyewitnesses, | | on instructions from the Brazilian Air Force base at Fortaleza, | | Brazil. (Sources: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, November 1971, | | p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1969-18, citing Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza, Brazilian | | Air Force). | | | | 1969 - On this day a shining flying saucer stopped and remained | | stationary for half a minute near the cement plant in the town of | | Sobral, Ceara State, Brazil, opposite the house of Neusa Rodrigues. | | Through the window of the craft was seen “a little bluish colored man | | with eyes that gave off flashes.” The UFO performed various maneuvers | | over the cement plant, and drew the attention of many employees, who | | stopped work briefly to watch it. Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza took | | statements from the eyewitnesses, on instructions from the Brazilian | | Air Force base at Fortaleza. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1969-18, citing Lt. | | Pedro Edvaldo De Souza, Brazilian Air Force). | | | | 1973 - Three color photographs of a UFO were taken by a nuclear | | engineer and amateur astronomer at 8:45 p.m. in Jeannette, | | Pennsylvania. The UFO looked like a bright BB in the dusk sky and | | reflected sunlight. It vanished after six minutes. (Source: Stan | | Gordon, on site investigation; FSR, September 1973, p. 33). | | | | 1977 - A red, round object hovered over some olive trees in | | Palomares, Spain at 2:10 a.m. It directed a beam of light to the | | ground. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978). | | | | 1978 - A red-orange object hovered over Lurate Caccivio, Italy. It | | resumed revolving and emitted a hissing sound as it departed. | | (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence: Volume II: A Thirty-Year | | Report, p. 349). | | | | 1979 - A metallic disc flew over the city of Belfort, France at 2:30 | | in the afternoon. It had a shiny top and dark bottom section. It sped | | up, and then shot straight up. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | September 1979). | | | | 1980 - Seven delta-shaped objects cavorted and landed at 10:15 p.m. | | in Pine Bush, New York. Ellen Crystal approached them in her car, and | | they in turn took off and paced her car. It was her impression that | | the UFOs wanted to be seen. (Source: Ellen Crystal: The Silent | | Invasion, p. 16). | | | | 1981 - On this afternoon two students in Patras, Greece took a | | photograph of a silver, saucer-shaped object performing maneuvers | | over some nearby islands. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case 13718). | | | | 1990 - A woman in New Hartford, Connecticut was lying awake in bed at | | 2:00 a.m. when she noticed bright flashing lights over her backyard. | | She went to the window and witnessed a small domed disc hovering 100 | | feet away and descending over the corner of the lawn. The object | | maneuvered a few seconds without actually touching down. She noted | | that it had flashing red, yellow, and white lights around its bottom | | rim. It then accelerated and was out of sight behind some trees in a | | second. Two days later a hired worker asked her about some strange | | material on the grass. She realized it was in the area of the | | sighting. After eliminating the lawn car company as responsible for | | an oily residue on the grass, she decided to report the incident. | | (Source: Randy Miles, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1990, p. 19). | | | | 1992 - Chistopher O'Brien and his friend McIntyre saw a brilliant | | white lights that illuminated the Alamosa valley in Colorado. When | | they turned their car headlights off and left on the orange parking | | lights, the UFO changed color to orange, then back to white, then | | paced their car, and finally turned ruby red in color. (Source: | | Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 24). | | | | 1998 - A triangular object maneuvered near an airport west of | | Longmont, Colorado at 8:07 a.m. It was about 60 feet in width and | | wobbled at only 15 meters altitude. In flew off toward the west. On | | the same evening a light was observed moving up and down behind some | | trees in Sudbury, Ontario for a long time. Eventually the one | | remaining witness, a boy, observed it turn blue and streak away. | | (Source: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, issue 3.32). | | | | 1999 - The main witness was a UFO investigator, staying with a known | | abductee and her child in San Antonio, Texas, in order to offer them | | some protection and company. He had fallen asleep, when he woke up | | suddenly when he detected some kind of movement behind him. Thinking | | it was the woman he did not turn around. Then he felt a “body” next | | to him, and he next felt a pleasant touch on his upper back, and | | the sensation as an “arm” passed over his ribcage. Concerned, he | | tried to move but was unable to. When he was finally able to turn his | | head, he saw a round basketball shaped object under the covers. He | | jolted to his feet and heard a slight giggling sound at the same time | | that the object under the covers appeared to deflate. He went and | | tried to wake up his friend but was unable to. Two nights later he | | saw a small white, grayish figure standing just inches away from him | | that suddenly disappeared. Other strange occurrences were later | | reported. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, | | case # 3332, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2003 - In Vancouver, Washington a businessman and a retired Navy man | | observed three rectangular objects, the size of small planes, that | | appeared overhead as shadows in the sky at 10:40 p.m. They were | | slightly illuminated but not bright. The objects zig-zagged and | | criss-crossed into the distance.(Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2003 archived webpage). | | | | 2007 - A triangular shaped object with solid white lights and a solid | | amber light in the center was seen in Columbia, Missouri on this | | night at 11:00 p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, July 2007 archived webpage, report uploaded October | | 8, 2007). | | | | 2008 - Exactly one year after a similar sighting in Columbia, | | Missouri and at the same hour, a black triangular object hung | | motionless in the sky in St. Charles, Missouri over the southside of | | Missouri Highway 370, just off of Discovery Bridge. It had three | | white and one red non-blinking lights. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2008 archived webpage, | | report uploaded August 12, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 20 July 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: amber, orange or red-orange UFO | | s; car pacings, disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; dumbbell-shaped UFOs; | | giant humanoids; hissing sound, luminous humanoids, multi-year close | | encounters from Argentina and Colorado; odor; oily residue at landing | | site, photographs; short humanoids; spheres; telepathy, triangular U | | FOs; vanishing UFOs and humanoids; vertical ascent; zigzag maneuvers. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+