+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 24 | | | | 1909 - At Kaka Point, southwest of Riwaka, New Zealand six boys on | | the beach sighted a house-sized luminous dirigible-shaped airship at | | around 9:00 p.m. It glided and maneuvered near some rocks on the | | coast, zigzagged, rose and fell, then shot away to the north. | | (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 180; Xenolog, November 1975, | | p. 10; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 280, citing Bruce | | Cathie, Harmonic 33, p. 122). | | | | 1948 - At 2:45 a.m. the captain and co-pilot of an Eastern Airlines | | DC-3, Chiles and Whitted, while flying over Montgomery, Alabama | | reported seeing a torpedo-shaped UFO with two rows of lighted windows | | and a red exhaust. It buzzed them head on, veered to the right, and | | then shot straight up. (Sources: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - | | Serious Business, p. 90; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), | | p. 44; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of | | the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 164). | | | | Chiles and Whitted UFO Sighting - 1948 | | | | [] | | | | 1949 - A pilot flying a twin engine plane over Mountain Home, Idaho | | at 12:03 p.m. encountered seven dark delta-wing objects flying in a V | | formation at a speed of 600 mph and an altitude of 8500 feet. They | | executed a sharp turn without banking. His plane experienced engine | | difficulty with one engine. (Sources: U.S. Air Force Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics; Kenneth Arnold and Ray | | Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 143; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A | | Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; newspaper clipping dated July 25, | | 1949). | | | | 1951 - A 150-foot long cylinder with many black spots and fins at one | | end flew at 900 mph at an altitude of 1500 feet over Portsmouth, New | | Hampshire at 7:10 p.m. It was seen for 20 seconds by two military | | witnesses, Cobb and Fein. A Project Blue Book "unknown." (Source: | | U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 943). | | | | 1952 - At three o'clock in the afternoon many witnesses and | | television cameras outside the Democratic Convention in Columbus, | | Ohio equipped with telephoto lens followed a UFO across the sky being | | chased by a USAF jet interceptor. The report was carried by the | | Associated Press wire service. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 15). | | | | 1952 - At Travis AFB, California a bright orange light witnessed by | | three military men--Mezo, Hanson, and Steen--looked like it was | | coming in for a landing, but then it stopped and hovered, made a slow | | turn to the west, and shot off at high speed. A Project Blue Book | | unexplained case. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case 1588; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: | | UFOs over the Capitol, p. 273). | | | | 1952 - At 3:40 p.m. near Carson Sink, Nevada three silver | | arrowhead-shaped or triangular UFOs flew in a V formation at an | | estimated speed 1000 mph, crossing the sky in front of a B-25 USAF | | bomber. The military witnesses onboard the bomber were named McGinn | | and Barton, and their sighting was brief, lasting less than 10 | | seconds. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case 1584; Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 182; Kevin D. | | Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 273). | | | | 1952 - At 7:30 p.m. in Arnheim, The Netherlands four discs passed | | over the city, followed by 50 Saturn-shaped objects flying in a V | | formation. They all suddenly shot straight up into the sky. (Sources: | | Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 26; Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue 129). | | | | 1952 - At 10:20 p.m. ground based air defense radar picked up a bogey | | over Alaska southeast of Talkeetna. A fighter jet was vectored into | | the location and also made radar contact but no visual sighting, and | | it couldn't catch up with the UFO moving at 550 knots. (Source: Loren | | E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 17). | | | | 1952 - At 11:00 p.m. in Fayetteville, Arkansas two in car watched six | | 6- inch diameter discs overhead. One passed over the hood of their | | car, emitting smoke. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: | | July 21st-July 31st, p. 18). | | | | 1952 - At 11:30 p.m. orange balls of light were seen flying in | | circular orbits over the ocean in Key West, Florida. (Source: Loren | | E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 27). | | | | 1960 - Frank Porcello and two others saw two UFOs maneuver over | | Portville, New York at 8:45 p.m. The sighting lasted more than four | | minutes. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 64; | | Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 113). | | | | 1963 - On this morning two ten year old boys with the last names Lee | | and Duffy were buzzed by a domed, disc-shaped object that descended | | from an overcast sky while they were playing outdoors in Leeds, West | | Yorkshire, England at 8:30 a.m. (Sources: Orbit, Tyneside, England, | | Volume 2 (1963), p. 23); Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 165; Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case 6371, citing Paris Flammonde). | | | | 1964 - Mr. Malone and two other men saw a UFO maneuvering in the sky | | over Binghamton, New York at 9:00 o'clock in the evening. (Source: | | NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1964, p. 6). | | | | 1967 - At ten p.m. Daniel Bonifait and his family were driving | | between Mareuil and Ste-Hermine, France when they saw a red disc the | | size of a building, fall behind a hill 300 meters away from them. | | Dark forms were observed on the disc's surface, and the forest seemed | | to be ablaze as the witnesses drove away in fear. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 859). | | | | 1968 - At 10:30 p.m. a cigar shaped object with a bright light flew | | behind some trees in the community of Oldeboorn, The Netherlands. A | | smaller object flew between the houses close to the ground. Dogs | | barked, and the witness was terrified. (Sources: UFO Nachtrichten, | | November 1968; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. | | 73). | | | | 1969 - On this day in Tepic, Nayarit state, Mexico a five meter in | | diameter disc maneuvered silently at tree top level. It was tilted at | | an angle as it flew, and possibly landed nearby. (Source: APRO | | Bulletin, July-August 1969, p. 3). | | | | 1970 - At 11:30 p.m. a mushroom-shaped UFO maneuvered at treetop | | level three kilometers outside the town of Villalba del Alcores, | | Spain. It left behind burnt plants and leaves. (Sources: Vicente-Juan | | Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and | | Portugal, case 128; Stendek, June 1971, p. 4). | | | | 1977 - At 10:30 p.m. on Route 951 east of Cruis, France a couple, Mr. | | & Mrs. Gaizand, reported seeing a white luminous form shaped like a | | hemisphere sitting on the ground by the side of the road. The object | | was about 7-8 meters in diameter and about 2.50 meters in height, and | | was about 40 meters away from the road. It had three bright | | bluish-white lights. Next to the craft stood two human-like figures. | | The figures were about 1.65 meters in height and wore gray uniforms | | and helmets. Mrs. Gaizand was seized by a panic and begged her | | husband to drive away. Both suffered from conjunctivitis and insomnia | | after the encounter. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1980, | | issue # 195). | | | | 1978 - In Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England an object looking exactly | | like helicopter but making absolutely no sound was sighted at 11:45 | | p.m. It had a bright light in front, several large orange lights in | | the rear, and flew at a low altitude. No helicopters were known to be | | flying on this night. (Source: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October | | 1978, p. 11, & December 1978). | | | | 1981 - A huge silent disc-shaped UFO was seen for three to ten | | minutes by thousands over Ningsia, China. It flew at a very high | | altitude and left a spiral trail. It made no sound. About ten minutes | | later in Qinghai, China a huge lens-shaped disc with portholes was | | seen by thousands. It flew from the northeast to the southwest. | | Photographs of the object were taken, and several drawings were | | published. In Zigong, Henan Province, China at 11:00 p.m. thousands | | saw a domed disc-shaped UFO for up to two hours. (Sources: Wendell | | Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 226-227; Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue 235; John Wallace Spencer & Hilary Evans, | | Phenomenon: Forty Years of Flying Saucers, p. 62). | | | | 1984 - At 9:00 p.m. a very large boomerang-shaped UFO hovered only | | 300 feet over an active vent of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant | | cooling tower for 15 minutes on the Hudson River in Westchester | | County, New York. Several guards came forward to report the incident, | | reporting there were a total of eleven witnesses to the UFO at the | | plant that night, and that the security guards broke out shotguns. A | | big coverup by government officials was claimed. (Sources: Doris | | Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1985, p. 8; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 14168, citing George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials | | Among Us, p. 302; J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Seige: | | The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 148; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to | | UFOs, p. 120; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. | | 128). | | | | 1984 - At 10:20 a videotape was made by a Mr. Pozzouli of a ring of | | lights in the dark sky over Brewster, New York in the Hudson River | | Valley, suggesting a dark circular, ellipsoid, or disc-shaped object. | | Analysis of the videotape was done by Dr. Lew Allen of the Jet | | Propulsion Laboratory. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, | | Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 128; Philip J. | | Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 2). | | | | 1987 - An ovoid shaped object hovered over US Route 301 in Savannah | | River, Georgia not far from the Savannah River nuclear facility. It | | had green and orange bands of color alternating from the top and | | bottom. (Source: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. | | 84). | | 1988 - At 2:40 a.m. on Lake Ojesjon in Kopparberg, Sweden three | | brilliant hat-shaped discs followed a boat for five kilometers. The | | four witnesses reported that there was an "oppressive silence" that | | surrounded the UFO. (Source: Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden Newsletter, | | issue # 34). | | | | 1991 - An aluminum colored domed disc, shaped like a baseball cap | | without the visor, was seen by a 49-year-old housewife in Port Crane, | | New York at 11:35 a.m. It reflected the sunlight, but then appeared | | to shrink to a horizontal line that disappeared. (Source: Donald | | Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 17, citing R. Hamilton, field | | investigator, case 911101E). | | | | 1993 - In the early pre-dawn hours of this day a woman living in West | | Palm Beach, Florida awoke feeling very groggy and heard a peculiar | | low frequency buzzing sound. Two men came into her bedroom, carried | | her outside, and loaded her into a waiting, large "military type" | | truck. The witness felt semi-conscious and groggy during the truck | | ride. The truck drove into an underground chamber located in the side | | of a large hill, through a door that opened upwards. The interior was | | dimly lit. A three-foot-tall Grey humanoid with slanted eyes, who | | wore a black hooded cape, met her there. The being had a greenish | | gray complexion and seemed to hover just above the floor, sometimes | | poking her with an unseen instrument. She sensed hostility from the | | being, which kept circling her in an attempt to force her to lie down | | on a nearby metal table. The witness resisted and blacked out. She | | later she found herself back on her bed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1665, citing Karla Turner, | | Ph.D., Taken). | | | | 1993 - On this day a long crop formation of circles and rings was | | found in a wheat field in East Kennett, Wiltshire, England. It was | | given the name "the Lozenge". (Source: Lucy Pringle, Crop Circles: | | The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times, p. 38). | | | | 1993 - At 10:30 p.m. a man saw a spherical object low in the sky over | | Dundee, Scotland. It glowed with a strange intensity 100 feet above | | the ground, and then began to ascend. After several minutes it lost | | its blinding intensity, split into two, then split again into two | | groups of 3-4 lights, all white. (Source: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: | | The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 143). | | | | 1993 - At 11:00 p.m. four metallic discs were sighted in the sky over | | Chaumes-en-Brie, France. Each object was encircled by a different | | color of lights. They hovered for 15 minutes, then flew off quickly | | to the north. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 320). | | | | 1999 - At 7:50 p.m. a lone cloud was seen in the sky east of Alamosa, | | Colorado on highway 60. Inside the cloud was a disc-shaped object | | hovering in place. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 October 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Theme | | s: abduction, aircraft UFO encounters, bedroom visitation, cigar-shap | | ed UFOs, cloud or fog surrounding UFO, disc-shaped UFOs, dome or mush | | room shaped UFOs, landings or near landings, large UFO with satellite | | object, multi-year reports from Great Britain and New York, mystery | | helicopter, nuclear facilities, radar reports, red UFOs, short humano | | ids, triangular UFOs, vanishing UFOs, V formations, zigzag maneuvers. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+