+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  February 20 | | | | 1948 - Six surveyors working in Emmett, Idaho saw a small flat, | | heart-shaped UFO flying in the sky at 1:15 p.m. It was fuzzy across | | its back edge as if "dipped in cream", and was flying point first | | below the cloud level at between 2,000 and 4,000 feet. (Sources: | | Emmett (ID) Messenger, February 26, 1948; Aime Michel, The Truth | | About Flying Saucers, p. 69; UNICAT database, case # 206, citing | | Kenneth Arnold, Fate Magazine, July 1948, p. 13). | | | | 1959 - Wave of fireballs were seen flying over Oklahoma City, | | Oklahoma starting at 7:30 p.m. One made a 180 degree turn. A compass | | was reported to have begun spinning during the sightings. (Source: | | Hayden Hewes, The Oklahoman, April 18, 1965). | | | | 1967 - At 3:10 a.m. an orange-red dome-shaped object descended from | | the sky in Oxford, Wisconsin and flew parallel to a truck for two | | minutes, finally going behind some trees. The truck was driven by a | | US Air Force veteran. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case 11394; J. Allen Hynek case files; Don | | Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328). | | | | 1969 - Near Norseman, Western Australia a luminous cigar-shaped | | object was seen following a car at 7:30 p.m. When the UFO first | | appeared, the car's engine began to stop but then ran normally. The | | object paced the car for some distance quite low to the ground. It | | then rose quickly into the sky, raising a cloud of dust and dead | | leafs from the ground under the point where it began its departure. | | (Sources: Perth West Australian, February 21, 1969; Mark Rodeghier, | | UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 260, citing NICAP | | UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 4). | | | | 1969 - On this night in Pirassununga, Sao Paulo, Brazil the manager | | of the Bela Alianca Fazenda or ranch heard his pigs grunting and went | | outside to investigate. He saw a UFO land about 60 feet away. The | | object was 12 feet wide and 15 feet high, and it rested on tripod | | landing gear. Three crew members emerged onto a small catwalk around | | the machine. Each carried a different kind of tool with which they | | busied themselves, apparently repairing the craft, for a period of | | two to three minutes. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-11, citing Dr. | | Walter Buhler). | | | | 1973 - At 8:00 p.m. a glowing sphere followed a car near | | Draytonville, South Carolina for some distance. The car radio went | | dead while the sphere was nearby, then functioned normally after the | | two witnesses lost sight of the object. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 330, citing UFO Register | | 1974). | | | | 1976 - At 7:00 p.m. a young man and woman saw some odd red lights in | | the sky in Essex County, Massachusetts. Then two flattened | | disc-shaped objects with three triangular lights descended close to | | their car and maneuvered nearby for about 10 minutes. The car's radio | | had heavy static during a portion of the sighting. The two objects | | finally flew out of view. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, case 394, citing MUFON case file). | | | | 1977 - On this night in Gallarta, Vizcaya province, Spain a local | | farmer, Sr. Juan Sillero, was awakened by the sound of his dogs | | barking and by a loud humming sound. When he went outside he saw a | | hovering metallic object with numerous lights and what appeared to be | | three-legged landing gear dangling down. The craft had a | | semi-transparent dome on top and was surrounded by rectangular | | windows. Behind the windows several moving figures moved slowly back | | and forth. At one point he was approached by two tall, human-looking | | beings wearing dark diver suit, who explained to the witness that | | they had to leave the area since they had been "detected." On another | | occasion the witness saw a robot-like creature exploring the area | | after it came out of a landed craft. There were other independent | | witnesses of UFOs descending over the area. The witness saw a craft | | land in the same area a week later. Landing traces were found at the | | site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, | | case # 2337, citing Pedro Guirao, OVNIs, Proximo Contacto?). | | | | 1997 - Local farmer Heliodoro Nunez was tending his sheep at around | | four o'clock in the afternoon in an isolated pasture near Paradeseca, | | Orense, Spain when his dog began barking. Looking back, he saw three | | ten-foot-tall entities wearing strange conical helmets. The beings | | appeared shiny and seemed to change colors at all times. When he saw | | them he closed his eyes and began to pray fervently, and he did not | | see the entities depart. Others saw strange red lights over the | | pasture. (Sources: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 2, Number 18; | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2631, | | citing UFO Roundup). | | | | 1999 - Several people in a car in Alicante, Spain have their cellular | | mobile phones and the car's electrical system die when they heard a | | humming sound and witnessed a huge delta-shaped UFO 30 meters | | overhead. (Source: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 4 (March 8, | | 1999)). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 February 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reaction: dogs barking, car pursuit, disc-shaped UFO | | s, domed-disc, giant humanoids, humming sound, multi-year reports fro | | m Spain, repair activity, RF radio interference, tripod landing gear. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+