+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 19 | | | | 1916 - A luminous blimp-shaped flying object flew over Huntington, | | West Virginia at eleven o'clock at night. It vanished and reappeared. | | (Source: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 278). | | | | 1946 - During the mystery ghost rocket wave of sightings over | | Scandinavia this year, at 11:55 a.m. a two-meter long cone-shaped | | object fell into Kolmjarv Lake, Sweden. An underwater search was | | attempted but nothing was found. (Source: AFU Sweden). | | | | 1950 - At Holloman AFB, New Mexico at 11:30 p.m. two softball-sized | | spheres hovered, changed colors, then rose vertically into the sky | | and vanished. (Source: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1950: | | April-July, p. 78). | | | | 1951 - Several people witnessed a luminous disc buzz the city of | | Puerto Maldonaldo, Peru at 4:50 p.m. The object flew off toward the | | north, emitting fog or smoke. A short wave radio wouldn't work during | | the sighting. (Source: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1951, p. 35). | | | | 1952 - A tobacco farmer sighted two cigar-shaped objects on this | | night in the southern United States (location undisclosed). The | | sighting occurred around midnight at the beginning of the new da | | y.One object hovered while the other one moved east and then came | | back, then both objects ascended vertically until gone from view. | | Both had some type of exhaust, and were illuminated from the inside. | | (Source: Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, | | May 1955). | | | | 1952 - An experienced civilian pilot reported that he observed an | | unidentified elliptical object with a lighted fringe at 2:55 a.m. | | while flying over Williston, North Dakota. The object made a fast | | descent, executed a 360° and then a 180° turn. He had the object in | | sight for five minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case # 1492; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook | | Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 10:50 p.m. seven round flat objects were seen at sea level | | from Bald Top, California. One object ascended while five followed it | | in spirals. One object stayed behind for twenty minutes. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2385). | | | | 1953 - Near the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Oak Ridge, | | Tennessee around the middle of the afternoon a silent black flying | | object was joined by two others. They displayed amazing acceleration. | | (Source: Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: | | Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405). | | | | 1956 - At four o'clock in the morning at the Hutchinson Naval Air | | Station in Hutchinson, Kansas a teardrop-shaped UFO was tracked on | | radar and visually observed by State Police as it erratically moved | | about the sky. That afternoon in Panorama City, California three | | independent witnesses claimed to have seen three beings emerge from a | | sphere. They were two meters (6.6 feet) tall, had long blond hair, | | and wore tight-fitting green uniforms. (Sources: Topeka (KS) Daily | | Capital, July 19, 1956; Hollywood (CA) Citizen-News, July 20, 1956). | | | | 1959 - A father and daughter were driving south on Highway 77 to | | Lincoln, Nebraska. When they got two miles south of Ceresco, Nebraska | | at around 10:30 p.m. they saw a bright white light hovering in the | | south-southeastern sky. The light went out, revealing a dark, | | sixty-foot wide domed disc-shaped object with several one foot | | wide windows around the rim. The object dropped several small red | | lights, then made a sharp turn and flew off to the west. (Source: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report dated | | July 24, 1959).  | | | | Ceresco, Nebraska UFO Report - 1959 | | | | [Sketch of Ceresco, Nebraska Domed Disc - 1959] | | | | 1960 - 8:30 p.m. CDT. Witness T. L. Ochs of St. Louis, Missouri | | reported watching a round, bright red light that flew overhead, | | stopped and hovered, and then backed up. The sighting lasted 20 | | minutes. Note: Ochs reported similar sightings on three following | | nights. An hour later, another witness named Sokol reported seeing a | | round red ball or wheel-like object with a central nucleus; around it | | were revolving or orbiting lights or balls. They winked off. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case # 6858; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | St. Louis, Missouri - 1960 | | | | [Sketch of St. Louis, Missouri UFO Reports - 1960] | | | | 1962 - At the same time in Bayhead, New Jersey (9:30 p.m. EDT) C. T. | | Loftus and H. Wilbert watched four or five lights dart about in the | | sky silently for 7-10 minutes. One zigzagged off toward the north. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case | | # 8020; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1965 - There were several sightings for this date. In Samarai, Papua | | New Guinea a red glowing cylinder moved across the sky from left to | | right. It flew with an oscillating motion, and made a sound like a | | diesel engine. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon in Antofagasta, Chile a | | cone-shaped object flew over the city at high speed, with the pointed | | end toward the rear, making loud explosive noises. At 5:30 p.m. in | | Vaucluse Beach, New South Wales, Australia a seven meter domed disc | | was seen resting on a sandy beach. When Mr. Crowe, the witness, | | approached to within 16 meters (53 feet) it rose with a rushing air | | noise like air being released from a balloon. There were ground marks | | left in the sand, and a check of radioactivity showed it was higher | | than the normal background level. (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs over | | the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155; Roberto Banchs, Las evidencias del | | fenomeno OVNI; Keith Basterfield; Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects | | from UFOs, pp. 33 & 46; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A | | Thirty-Year Report, pp.150 & 279). | | | | Vaucluse Beach, New South Wales, Australia UFO Landing - 1965 | | | | [Sketch of Vaucluse Beach, New South Wales UFO Landing - 1965] | | | | 1965 - Ms. MacPherson, an airline stewardess, saw a slow moving | | silver colored UFO flying over Watertown, Massachusetts at four | | o'clock in the morning. She was on the ground at the time of her | | sighting. The UFO changed colors through the entire light spectrum | | several times. Also, later that evening five people witnessed a | | luminous circular object with four arm-like appendages hovering over | | Hingham, Massachusetts for 45 minutes. Each "arm" had three lights. | | The object left toward the west. (Source: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332; APRO Bulletin, September-October | | 1965). | | | | Watertown, Massachusetts UFO Report - 1965  | | | | [Sketch of Watertown, Massachusetts UFO - 1965] | | | | 1965 - At 7:30 p.m. in Villas Rosas, Buenos Aires province, Argentina | | Maria Andres, a school teacher, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. Goicoecha, and others | | saw a small object leave a larger one, then land and burn a spot on | | the ground before going back to the main object. It emitted a | | blinding light. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case # 656, citing Asi, Jul. 30, 1965) | | | | 1967 - A young girl saw a saucer-shaped object hovering above a | | cornfield in Sao Benedito Do Sul, Pernambuco, Brazil. Inside the | | object she could see a humanoid entity of small stature, and a second | | similar entity was observed outside. The second entity made gestures | | at the girl, who interpreted them to be an inquiry about the | | edibility of the corn. At some point a dog nearby began barking, and | | the second entity quickly boarded the vehicle, which ascended | | rapidly. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1967-64, citing Enock Burgos, SBDEV). | | | | 1967 - While flying at 14,000 feet over Enderby, British Columbia at | | 10 p.m., Mr. H. Schindler, an airline pilot, saw a pink object zigzag | | through the clouds, hover, and then disappear. (Source: NICAP case | | investigation files, report dated July 25, 1967). | | | | 1972 - While driving in Kuraby, Queensland (near Brisbane, Australia) | | at 2:00 a.m. a man heard an odd noise and saw six grayish figures | | standing along the side of the road. One of them gestured to him. A | | silver UFO was nearby on the ground. The driver did not stop. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 3; Richard Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 483). | | | | 1972 - That same night in Faymonville, Belgium a group of four people | | sighted a red hat-shaped disc that flew by and stopped over a | | railroad station. They took three photographs of the object. (Source: | | SOBEPS, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 3). | | | | 1972 - At 10:42 p.m. CDT Mr. P. Reich, an aerospace writer, watched a | | nocturnal light make crazy, erratic maneuvers over Lake Michigan from | | Chicago, Illinois. It made instantaneous turns. (Source: Chicago | | Today, July 20, 1972). | | | | 1973 - At 9:30 p.m. a bright red oblong-shaped object suddenly | | appeared out of nowhere in the northwest sky over a farm north of | | Brunsville, Iowa. The object abruptly vanished. There were at least | | three independent witnesses to the event. (Source: newspaper clipping | | dated July 20, 1973). | | | | 1977 - An abduction by aliens including a physical exam occurred | | around midnight on this night in the United States (location | | withheld). When the abductee awoke she found three pasty white short | | humanoids in her living room. They were 4.5 feet tall, hairless, and | | had watery, liquid appearing eyes. They took her onboard a UFO by | | levitating her with a light beam and conducted some type of physical | | exam after making her lie on a metallic, exam table. For the | | following ten days after her return the abductee felt ill and | | experienced vertigo. (Source: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The | | Measure of a Mystery, Volume I: Comparative Study of Abductions, case | | 111). | | | | 1983 - Two photographs were taken of two UFOs in Matapouri, New | | Zealand on this night. They were taken one minute apart and they show | | two objects moving slowly across the sky. Streetlights and the planet | | Venus serve as references in the photos to show their relative | | motion. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May 1984, p. 8). | | | | 1984 - A huge boomerang-shaped object with lights running along its | | leading edge was seen flying over Pound Ridge, New York at 8:20 p.m. | | (Source: J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno & Bob Pratt, Night Siege: | | The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 106). | | | | 1986 - Several sightings of nocturnal lights and discs occurred on | | this night in Florida, Illinois, and Washington State. At 4:30 a.m. | | in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 50 silvery discs maneuvered in and out of | | the clouds and flew off in various formations toward the west. In | | Metcalf, Illinois at 8:10 p.m. a shiny object turned bright white as | | it flew silently below the clouds. The objects shape was not possible | | to determine. In Maple Valley, Washington two adults and a child | | watched a white star-like object move to-and-fro on a wiggly flight | | path, flying silently to the northeast. In Monroe, Washington a round | | green object moved very fast from west to east at a high altitude. It | | left a green trail in the sky. It was not a meteor, claimed the | | military witness. (Source: Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting | | Center, cases 1116, 1124, 1127 and 1128). | | | | 1988 - An abduction occurred in Johannesburg, South Africa at 3:40 | | a.m. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1993). | | | | 1990 - Fort Allen, Puerto Rico. According to an article in the French | | UFO magazine Lumieres dans la Nuit, at 12:10 a.m. all US servicemen | | who were outside were ordered to go inside and remain there when | | their military base was illuminated by a low flying, disc-shaped UFO. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 311). | | | | 1992 - A dark cone-shaped object zigzagged through the sky over West | | Vancouver, British Columbia at 3:10 a.m. A 16-year-old adolescent | | said that short humanoid beings entered his bedroom via a closed | | window, apparently passing through the glass without a problem. He | | experienced an episode of missing time and does not recall what | | happened next. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 318; Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 2391). | | | | 1993 - Two pulsating objects zigzag and orbit around a large craft at | | 4 o'clock in the morning over Wandsworth, England. (Source: UFO | | Newsclipping Service, April 1994). | | | | 1995 - At 1:30 a.m. a square object with white lights was seen | | passing over houses in Sacramento, California. The houses reportedly | | shook from the vibration caused by the UFO. At around 6 p.m. a very | | big red nocturnal light was seen by police in Whyalla, South | | Australia to descend to close to the ground. It then took off and | | maneuvered around in the sky for the next four hours. (Sources: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 report; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 16935). | | | | 1999 - At 9:00 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object flew from the west to | | the east slowly over Dicomano, north-northeast of Firenze in | | Tuscany, Italy, then accelerated quickly and made one up-and-down | | jump. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, July 1999 archived webpage). | | | | 2005 - In Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada several gray circular | | objects darted and played about in the sky at 11:30 p.m., making a | | low humming sound. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, | | case # 60, citing NUFORC, original report uploaded September 2, | | 2005). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, animal reactions: dog barking, cigar-shaped UFO | | s, cone-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, erratic maneuveri | | ng lights, levitation via beam of light, luminous UFOs, missing time, | | nautical UFOs (UFOs seen entering or on a body of water), photograph | | s, pre-dawn UFO reports and close encounters (between 3:00-4:30 a.m.) | | , radio interference, red UFOs, short Grey humanoids, radioactivity, | | short humanoids, silvery disc-shaped UFOs, spheres, tall Nordic human | | oids, UFOs with satellite objects, vertical ascent, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+