+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 8 | | | | 1943 – In the late afternoon in Chauny, France many people witnessed | | several small brilliant metallic objects fly silently from the north | | to the south in groups of three. The UFOs moved faster than balloons, | | and the procession lasted for a period of two and a half hours. | | (Source: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary | | Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. | | 20). | | | | 1951 – A group of three delta-shaped objects with wingspans of 15’ | | flew over US Highway 81 south of Forth Worth, Texas at 10:45 p.m. One | | passed overhead at a low altitude, and made a faint humming sound. | | (Source: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics case 864). | | | | 1956 – At nine o’clock in the morning on Robertson Island, Antarctica | | a photograph was taken by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of two | | cigar-shaped objects, hanging in a vertical position in the sky for | | 64 minutes. The objects were estimated to be 150 meters in length, | | and their presence was reportedly confirmed by radar. They shot away | | at an estimated speed of 40,000 kilometers per hour. (Source: Gordon | | Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1968, p. 20). | | | | 1959 – Shortly after nine a.m. on a clear day two MEc employee in | | Hobart, Tasmania saw a 2.7-meter long object disappear between | | buildings. Three more were seen in the sky and a fifth object shaped | | like an inverted skittle with a ball handle dove in the River | | Derwent. (Source: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files, | | report dated January 21, 1959 citing USAF). | | | | 1969 – A humanoid was spotted making repairs on a hovering | | disc-shaped craft for twenty minutes at ten p.m. in Edina, Missouri. | | He looked surprised when he saw the witness. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 8705 citing APRO Bulletin January-February | | 1971). | | | | 1971 – At 3:00 a.m. in Dumfries, Scotland a Mrs. Bunn sighted a | | white, bowl-shaped saucer hovering in the sky. The object was | | absolutely silent and moved back and forth in a small area of the | | sky. (Source: newspaper clipping dated January 9, 1971). | | | | 1971 – At noon at Tafi Viejo, Argentina in the State of Tucuman two | | men in their thirties sighted a 3-meter in diameter Saturn-shaped | | saucer with two antennae. The UFO landed 30 meters away from them in | | a field of maize. It made a whistling sound as it took off and sped | | away. A tree in the vicinity subsequently died. (Source: Phenomenes | | Spatiaux, September 1971, p. 33). | | | | 1972 – A short humanoid being in the middle of the road attempted to | | stop a truck in Camas, Spain (Sevilla Province) at 9:35 p.m. When the | | truck driver refused to stop the being jumped into a nearby ditch. | | (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO | | Events in Spain and Portugal, case 153 citing Manuel Osuna Llorente). | | | | 1972 – On the same night a fifteen year old boy named Skiver took a | | night time photograph of a hovering UFO in Beckemeyer, Illinois at | | about ten p.m. (Source: newspaper clipping dated May 31, 1972). | | | | 1973 – In Ellenboro, North Carolina a teenager named Gowen noticed | | his radio making a strange static noise. He looked outside and saw a | | one-foot wide box in his yard moving very slowly at a few feet above | | the ground. The snow on the ground in the area beneath the UFO had | | melted, and a greenish gunk was found on the ground. (Source: George | | D. Fawcett case files). | | | | 1974 - After leaving his job in Springfield, Ohio Mr. Justice, age | | 50, experienced the failure of his car lights and engine at 3:13 a.m. | | He then saw multicolored blinking lights descend just meters in front | | of his car, followed by the appearance of a blinding white oval of | | light approximately six feet in diameter, apparently showing the | | interior of a UFO. He could see five small occupants within, seated | | on high backed chairs and wearing bright colored robes. Each had very | | long brown hair that reached almost to the floor. They appeared to be | | three to four feet tall, but the witness could not recall their | | facial features. The UFO brightly illuminated the surrounding terrain | | and his car's interior. After five minutes the interior light went | | out and the UFO ascended rapidly with another display of | | multicolored, flashing lights. A maintenance man on the workplace | | premises had noticed a failure of his "pager" radio four times | | between seven and eight o'clock earlier that evening although no UFOs | | were seen. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-2; citing Leonard | | Stringfield for CUFOS; J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case | | files, report dated July 9, 1974). | | | | 1974 – At 7:40 a.m. three men driving on a highway south of | | Enterprise, California saw a steady white light come down vertically | | from the sky. They said that it appeared to land some place near the | | Pacheco School in Shasta County. (Source: Redding Record Searchlight, | | January 11, 1974). | | | | 1974 - On this afternoon In Zafferana, Italy a woman was working | | alone in a small room of her house when she felt a strong rush of | | wind. She turned around and was confronted by a very bright light, | | within the light she was able to see a tall man wearing a | | tight-fitting coverall outfit with gold colored boots. He had short | | light hair, light skin and large almond-shaped eyes. The witness was | | not frightened and said she felt a sudden sense of joy and peace. The | | man smiled and suddenly vanished in a flash of light. | | | Perhaps a coincidence, but on this date in both of the years 1974 and | | 1975 a cattle mutilation report and a humanoid report occurred within | | the same 24-hour period. | | (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 559, citing Angel | | Franchetto, Los Extraterrestres y Nuestro Futuro). | | | | 1974 – A cattle mutilation was reported in McPherson County, Kansas. | | (Source: Jerome Clark, Fate, August 1974, p. 79). | | | | 1975 – A cattle mutilation was reported to have occurred on this day | | in rural Texas. At 11:30 p.m. near a power station in Brookby, New | | Zealand a man and a woman saw an occupant inside a small domed | | disc-shaped UFO. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case | | files, newspaper clipping dated February 7, 1975; FSR, October 1976, | | p. 30 citing Spaceview). | | | | 1979 – At three o’clock in the morning in Tunis, Tunisia a group of | | people witnessed a small disc, about 1.5 meters in size, hovering | | near a lake for 10 minutes. It then shot away and was gone in a split | | second. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979) | | | | 1979 – At 5:30 p.m. in San Croce Sull’Arno in the Tuscany region of | | Italy a 40-meter wide domed disc with an antenna flew over a farm at | | only ten meters above the ground. The farm animals were panicked and | | a tree bent over as the object passed. (Source: Maurizio Verga, | | ITACAT Italian UFO catalogue). | | | | 1979 – In Rome City, Indiana at eight o’clock in the evening two | | people sighted a 15-foot long cylinder at a low altitude near a | | school. The UFO had an intense light, and shot away at a high speed | | after five minutes. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1979). | | | | 1981 – Perhaps the best documented and most thoroughly investigated | | case of physical effects from a UFO occurred on this day in | | Trans-en-Provence, France. At five p.m. Mr. Nicolai, a gardener, saw | | a metallic disc-shaped object making a whistling sound land hard in a | | garden. It was estimated to be eight feet by six feet in size, and | | had four openings on the underside. It also had a thick band around | | the middle section of the object. The case quickly came to the | | attention of the police and was soon investigated by GEPAN, the | | French government’s scientific team of UFO investigators. The | | physical traces included evidence of vegetation and soil heating, | | skid marks, and circular ground marks. The chemical analysis revealed | | that the soil had been heated to temperatures not in excess of 600 | | degrees Celsius. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A | | Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact, p. 104). | | | | Trans-en-Provence, France 1981 Close Encounter | | | | [Image] | | | | 1981 – At 11:00 p.m. on a boat near Flinders Island, Tasmania two men | | saw two nocturnal lights exchange light beams. The sea was | | illuminated by the UFO display, and the batteries on board the boat | | were found to be dead. (Source: UFO Research Australia Newsletter, | | May 1982, p. 7 citing Tasmania UFO Investigation Centre, report dated | | March 6, 1982). | | | | 1984 – At 3:00 a.m. EST in the witness’s bedroom in Framingham, | | Massachusetts a short humanoid pointed a beam at the witness in bed. | | The witness felt that the being could telepathically read her mind. | | When the being had left a three-foot long by 18" cylinder shot | | straight up into the sky outside. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, August | | 1991). | | | | 1984 – Seventy-five minutes later, at 3:15 a.m. CST, on Interstate 80 | | three people driving in a van outside Cozad, Nebraska saw a 100-foot | | diameter disc hover 80 feet over the highway. It was blazingly | | brilliant and had more than 15 colored circular lights around the | | rim. They heard an intermittent beeping on the van's CB radio. | | (Source: International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 10). | | | | 1987 – A couple in Lakeland, Florida reported a large vertical | | cylinder in the sky over their house on this night. (Source: Timothy | | Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 198). | | | | 1995 – At around nine o’clock in the evening a house located between | | the Yatzitz and Yaziv communities in Israel shook as if an earthquake | | was happening. The occupants of the residence saw a three-meter tall | | creature with long legs and no arms outside. (Source: Joseph Trainor, | | UFO Roundup website, volume 1 number 4). | | | | 1997 – On this night in Ixtapalapa, Mexico a 53-year-old woman awoke | | to find three short dwarfs cavorting about her bedroom while she was | | unable to move. After ten minutes they disappeared in a bright blue | | flash of light. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1997 citing Contacto OVNI). | | | | 2003 – At 10:21 a.m. a triangular craft with a light on each corner | | hovered silently over Dardanelle, Arkansas. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2003 – At 3:30 p.m. a reflective metallic craft was sighting high in | | the sky over the mountains in Santa Barbara, California and at 10:00 | | p.m. in Union City, California a UFO was seen entering a triangular | | shaped light. The light then pinched shut and vanished. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2003 – At 6:15 p.m. in Spicewood, Texas a cylindrical object with | | lights appeared in the sky for three minutes, and then vanished | | abruptly. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 2003 – At 7:00 p.m. in Williamsburg, Ohio a UFO was reportedly seen | | in the sky for five minutes that appeared shaped like an ordinary | | airplane, but could hover, levitate upwards, and back up. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 02 September 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database | | | | Themes: cattle mutilations and | | humanoid reports occurring on the same day, disc-shaped UFOs, domed d | | iscs, EM vehicle ignition interference, ground marks, human looking U | | FOnauts, landings, maneuvering UFOs, metallic UFOs, multicolored UFOs | | , physical effects on vegetation, procession of objects, radio interf | | erence, short humanoids, vertical cigar-shaped UFOs, whistling sound. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+