+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 11 | | | | 1897 - On this night a farmer in Lock Mills, Indiana claimed he was | | visited by a man in an airship who projected pictures onto the side | | of his barn. (Source: Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. | | 10). | | | | 1897 - At 9:00 p.m. an airship hovered near Milwaukee, Wisconsin and | | was witnessed by a man named Mayer. He reported that their was an | | occupant visible inside the craft. (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., | | Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 19). | | | | 1897 - At 10:30 p.m. another airship sighting with occupants aboard | | was made in Minnetonka, Minnesota by a man named MacKroth. (Source: | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case A0013, citing the Minneapolis Tribune). | | | | 1952 - On this afternoon six silent disc-shaped objects flew over | | Temiscaming, Quebec leaving vapor trails. They flew in an up-and-down | | motion, and were definitely "not planes." (Source: George Eberhart, A | | Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 921, citing the North Bay (Ontario) | | Nugget). | | | | 1952 - At 8:00 p.m. a silent green ovoid object flew to the north in | | Hammond, British Columbia, turned red, and made a ninety-degree turn. | | (Source: newspaper clipping dated April 30, 1952). | | | | 1957 - At 7:00 p.m. fighter jets were observed chasing a golden | | colored disc through the sky in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The disc | | made fast, sharp turns, and shot away from the jets. The jets were | | seen circling the area for the next hour. (Source: Loren E. Gross, | | The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March | | 23-May 25, p. 33). | | | | 1962 - A disc-shaped object directed a strong beam of light over two | | cars on a highway between Saronno and Legnano, Italy on this night. | | It made no noise while it jumped up and up three times and flew away. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1962, p. 1). | | | | 1964 - In Homer, New York at 6:30 p.m. physiotherapist W.B. Ochsner | | and his wife observed two cloud-like objects darken in the sky. One | | shot away and returned during some 30-45 minutes later. (Sources: J. | | Allen Hynek case files; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1966 - A police officer in New Hampshire stopped his patrol car to | | check on a building at 2:30 a.m. He glanced up and saw a glowing, | | white elliptical object hovering overhead. He took a Polaroid | | photograph of the UFO and when pulling the film through the camera | | the UFO moved off. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report | | dated April 16, 1966). | | | | New Hampshire - 1966 | | | | [] | | | | 1967 - On this day a cigar-shaped object with bright red and white | | lights was sighted at Chemong Lake, Ontario. It made a humming noise. | | At 6:45 p.m. in Orange, Massachusetts three witnesses saw a bright | | glowing object shaped like a "squashed egg." It hovered 100 feet over | | a pond, and then shot off. It had a rotating red light on the bottom. | | Five minutes later, at 6:50 p.m. a mass of very bright lights | | descended and hovered in Royalston, Massachusetts before moving out | | of sight on an upward course. The lights were brighter than the Moon, | | which was visible during the sighting. At 9:33 p.m. Carol Watts had | | his second close encounter with UFO entities. An egg-shaped object | | stalled his truck as he was driving in Loco, Texas. Four beings, | | under five feet tall and with wrap around eyes, slit mouths, and | | white coveralls emerged and invited him aboard. He was given some | | kind of exam onboard the craft by a machine. (Sources: (1) Gene | | Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 15; (2) Raymond | | E. Fowler case files, report dated April 30, 1967; (3) Raymond E. | | Fowler case files, report dated May 26, 1967; (4) Hartford Courant, | | February 25, 1968). | | | | Orange and Royalston, Massachusetts sightings - 1967 | | | | [][] | | | | 1970 - At 12:15 a.m. a large glowing disc hovered over West Howe, | | England. A smaller saucer-shaped object flew in and joined it, | | touching the larger object. The UFOs then shot off to the northwest | | in sequence, first one, then the other. (Source: newspaper clipping, | | May 11, 1970). | | | | 1974 - At 2:30 a.m. Virginia Varela was awakened by a sound in her | | home near Santa Clara de Olimar, Argentina. When she looked out the | | window she saw "an indefinite figure which seemed to be covered by a | | light colored garment." It immediately disappeared. It left | | footprints of feet wearing boots. Later on she noticed a light and | | heard more noises. She next saw two shining points of light moving | | together across the sky. On the following two nights there were again | | indications that someone had been around the house, and the hum of a | | motor was heard. Her cows panicked, and one was found dead. (Source: | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case 1974-72, citing Prof. Wellington Perrone). | | | | 1991 - At 5:00 p.m. a luminous ovoid object hovered over a prison in | | Brasilia, Brazil. It had a vertical orientation, and vanished and | | then reappeared. (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and | | Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 285). | | | | 1998 - A UFO that looked like an irregular triangle with rounded | | corners was seen in the sky in Corralitos, California at 9:15 p.m. It | | had three white lights along the bottom. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 November 2004) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: cloud-like UFOs, disc-shaped | | UFOs, glowing UFOs, hovering UFOs, human-looking UFOnaut, ovoid UFOs, | | unexplained cattle death associated with UFO and humanoid encounter. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+