+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 27 | | | | 1899 - At four o'clock in the afternoon a 10 meter in diameter red | | ball crossed highway N51 near the town of Baye, Marne department, | | France on a steady trajectory. It illuminated the surrounding area a | | red color, and went off to the southwest. There were many witnesses. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129). | | | | 1950 - At 9:00 a.m. a U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre jet had an encounter | | with a flat oval-shaped object near Plymouth, Massachusetts. The | | object was light brown in color, climbed away from the jet, and at | | 28,000 feet turned and flew away. At 8:25 p.m. a huge reddish-orange | | disc passed a TWA DC-3 airliner being flown over South Bend, Indiana | | by the crew named Adickes, Manning, and Hinshaw. The UFO approached | | the plane from below and behind, overtaking the aircraft, then moved | | rapidly away when the pilot attempted a closer approach. (Sources: | | (1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12; (2) True | | Magazine, August 1950; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer | | Space, p. 145; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the | | Saucers, p. 150). | | | | 1952 - At 4:15 p.m. H. A. Freytag and three male relatives, including | | a minister, sighted a silver oval-shaped UFO that rolled across the | | sky in Roseville, Michigan. The UFO descended and stopped. Two silver | | cigar-shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to | | the west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed. | | These sightings lasted for 45 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case #1160; Loren E. Gross, | | UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 61; Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - A Ground Observer Corps member (GOC) in Waskish, Minnesota | | sighted a silent aluminum colored cigar-shaped object that flew over | | 30 miles to the north in less than one minute. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book Report #6, report dated April 30, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1952: January-May, p. 60). | | | | 1952 - At 8:30 p.m. Master Sgt. G. S. Porter, an off-duty control | | tower operator, and his wife observed two bright red or flame-colored | | discs that appeared in the sky over Yuma, Arizona. They were said to | | be as large as fighter planes. They had seven sightings of one disc, | | and two objects that they saw flying in formation. They watched the | | UFOs for a total of two hours. All were seen below an 11,000-foot | | overcast sky. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 1163; UNICAT database, case # 818; Loren E. Gross, | | UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 59; Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1956 - Five silent cigar-shaped objects flew south over Vuyyuru, | | Andra Pradesh State, India in a delta formation at 8:30 p.m. They | | left behind a light contrail. (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, monthly report April 1956; UFO | | Nachtrichten, February 1957; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | 4964, citing Flying Saucer Review, volume 2, number 4). | | | | 1960 - Mr. N. N., a painter, was driving from Slagelse to Naestved, | | Denmark at around 3:00 a.m. when his car engine and lights died. His | | car stopped twenty feet from a green glowing thirty-foot wide domed | | disc. The object was shaped like two bowls edge-to-edge, had a | | shining stripe of light around its center, three portholes, three | | legs for landing gear, and a central column. It also made a humming | | sound. Four three-foot tall entities in luminous green costumes | | emerged. Their uniforms had three dark vertical marks on the chest. | | (Sources: Willy Wegner, UFO-Landinger I Danmark, p. 36; Gene | | Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0492). | | | | 1961 - On this morning a bluish green oval object, the size of a | | jetliner, landed on Lake Onega in Karelia, Russia and broke through | | the ice. It was heading toward the east when it came down and created | | a trench 50 feet long and 10 feet deep in the lake bed. There was a | | great deal of disturbed mud, and odd fragments were also found at the | | site. The sample residue was analyzed and showed the presence of the | | elements magnesium, aluminum, calcium, barium, and titanium. There | | were at least 25 witnesses to the crash landing. (Sources: Jacques | | Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. | | 137, citing Felix Zigel; APRO Bulletin, June 1976, p. 5; Xenolog, | | August 1976, p. 11; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind | | the Iron Curtain, p. 61). | | | | 1964 - A 12-year-old boy and seven friends saw a UFO hovering above | | their school grounds in El Paso, Texas on this afternoon. "It seemed | | to be floating in the air, and was covered with something like a | | sheet. It was 6 foot 5 inches tall and sort of egg-shaped." (Source: | | Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 10, citing the El Paso | | Herald-Post, April 28, 1964). | | | | 1967 - At 4:34 p.m. MDT two men in Bloomfield, New Mexico, one a | | Federal Aviation Administration electronic technician, saw a huge, | | polished, metallic-appearing ball that hovered, started to descend, | | and then disappeared when an aircraft approached. (Source: Letter | | received 11 /28/67, NICAP files; | | http://www.nicap.org/waves/1967fullrep.htm) | | | | 1967 - A dark object chased a car down a highway through rangeland in | | Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma at 8:30 p.m. The UFO directed beams of | | light toward the ground. It was absolutely silent, and there were | | several independent witnesses. (Sources: Condon Committee Colorado | | UFO Study, case N1250, citing NICAP; NICAP files, citing newspaper | | clipping dated April 29, 1967). | | | | 1967 - In Kingston, New Hampshire at 10:10 p.m. EDT an elliptical | | object with a dome on top and two visible legs skimmed over the trees | | and paced a car being driven by witnesses Keiran, Tobin and Lowe for | | two minutes. It had red lights in a circular pattern, 2-3 more | | flashing lights, and made a shrill beeping sound. The object tilted | | before moving away and flying off to the west. (Sources: NICAP case | | files, John J. Reynolds field investigator; NICAP UFO Investigator, | | October 1967, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A | | Thirty-Year Report, pp. 337 & 452). | | | | 1967 - At 10:00 p.m. CDT four boys with binoculars in Green Lake, | | Wisconsin observed an object come lower with oscillating motions, | | illuminating the woods one kilometer away. It was cone-shaped, with a | | blue underside, and a top that changed from red to orange to white. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 838). | | | | 1969 - At shortly after 1 p.m. Mr. Garfinkel, an airline passenger on | | an Eastern Airlines flight flying over Connecticut saw a shiny, | | disc-shaped object that was joined by two more daylight discs. They | | slowly matched speed, moving along w a rapid, rocking motion before | | accelerating upwards at angle at high speed. (Source: Raymond E. | | Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors). | | | | Connecticut Daylight Disc Sighting - 1969 | | | | [Sketch of three discs] | | | | 1972 - A large silver ovoid with a halo vanished in Brasschaat, | | Antwerp, Belgium at 2:10 a.m. A bright green ball of light (BOL) sped | | up, flew away fast to the northeast. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue 130). | | | | 1973 - At 11:30 p.m. five witnesses saw a UFO that hung over a | | smelting and refining plant in Glover, Missouri for 10 minutes. It | | was triangle shaped with two red and one green lights, and made no | | sound. The green light reduced in size, then all three started | | blinking. The object flew off to the west over Highway 21. It was | | described as being as big as two cars. (Source: Ironton (MO) Mountain | | Echo, May 3, 1973). | | | | 1974 - On this day a girl in Vallentuna, Sweden drew a sketch of a | | flying saucer, for no apparent reason. She then went to the window | | and saw a flying disc up so close that it filled the view from the | | window. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11306, citing | | John Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 204). | | | | 1974 - Dogs barked furiously in Neuf-Mesnil, Nord department, France | | at 10:30 p.m. when a saucer flew by to the east. It rose at a 45 | | degree angle and leveled off, then rose at a 45 degree again and | | continued to the east. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February | | 1977; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11307, citing LDLN, | | issue 163). | | | | 1979 - At seven o'clock in the morning a four meter in diameter, | | intense reddish-orange colored sphere with "stiff waving arms" or | | appendages was seen over a farm in St. Jacques de Nehou, Manche | | department, France. It flew off silently to the northeast slowly. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1980). | | | | 1986 - Dr. J. Allen Hynek, scientific consultant to the Air Force | | Project Blue Book for many years, and founder of the Center for UFO | | Studies, died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona on this day. He had | | been suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. (Source: Michael David | | Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 325). | | | | 1986 - A large, silent metallic object was seen at treetop level by a | | motorist in La Follette, Tennessee at 11:10 p.m. It sped off when the | | witness stopped to investigate. (Source: Robert Gribble, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1081). | | | | 1994 - At 3:30 p.m. a witness in Dianavanget, Denmark had a close | | encounter with a blue ovoid object with square windows. It shone a | | bright light at the observer from 100 meters away, and then flew off | | to the northeast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 16371, citing SUFOI News, issue # 14). | | | | 1996 - At 1:45 a.m. two witnesses driving on Highway D22 north of | | Molsheim, Bas-Rhin, France saw a large triangle that flew to the | | northeast at a low altitude toward Strasbourg, France. It made no | | sound. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17344, | | citing Phenomena, issue # 32). | | | | 1997 - In Norman Park, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 7:30 p.m. a | | disc was seen hovering over a house for 10 minutes. It wobbled as it | | rotated slowly. Two more UFOs rose from the city park. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case 17922, citing website). | | | | 1997 - First there was a flash in the sky at 2:30 p.m. in Paradise | | Valley, Arizona; then a white metallic disc dropped tumbling objects. | | It vanished when a plane approached. (Source: Joseph Trainor, UFO | | Roundup, volume 2, number 18). | | | | 1998 - At 8 o'clock in the evening Ursulina, the main witness, and | | her husband were in bed sleeping at their home in Aurora, Ceara | | State, Brazil when they heard a noise that sounded like someone | | trying to open the rear door to their house. Their cat was also | | acting very agitated. Her husband, Francisco, went to investigate | | while Ursulina remained behind in bed praying. Soon she heard a sound | | resembling a radio being tuned and then a bright blue light invaded | | the bedroom. Looking towards the door of the bedroom she saw a | | strange creature standing there. She described the entity as being | | about 1.5 meters in height, with a huge head not in proportion to the | | rest of the body, wide shoulders, a very thin waist, and long | | dangling arms. It was hairless, had huge black eyes, a small lipless | | mouth, and little "bumps" where the nose should have been. She | | described the clothing as a brown tight-fitting coverall, with belts | | and boots. The entity stared intently at Ursulina. Despite her terror | | she managed to ask the entity what it wanted. She heard an | | unintelligible reply and then screamed for her husband. At that same | | instant the creature ran out the door and disappeared down the | | corridor. Her husband apparently was able to see the figure run from | | the bedroom. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1998, case 20, citing Painel OVNI). | | | | 2006 - A large rectangular object with red blinking lights that | | formed an arch was reported over Santa Maria, California at 4:30 p.m. | | It made erratic flight movements, flew low over the area for a | | minute, then suddenly disappeared. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2006 archived webpage). | | | | 2008 - At about 2:00 a.m. a quite large, red rectangular object was | | sighted in the northeastern sky in London, Ontario, Canada. It moved | | away at a very rapid speed. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2008 archived webpage, report | | uploaded June 12, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 26 April 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft avoidance, bedroom visitation, blue light, car | | pursuits, cigar-shaped UFOs, daylight discs, multi-year reports from | | Denmark and France, ovoid UFOs, red UFOs, UFOs flying in formation, l | | ong duration UFO sightings, short UFOnauts, silent UFOs, rectangular | | objects with red lights, triangular objects, unintelligible language. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+