+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  Janu ary 24 | | | | 1950 - At 4:50 p.m. a UFO shaped like a hemisphere with a flattened | | lower part, and estimated to be 70-80 meters in diameter, maneuvered | | in the sky five miles away from a C-45 transport plane flying from | | Pope AFB in Halifax County, North Carolina. The C-45, flying at an | | airspeed of 160 mph, could not catch up with it. The object | | oscillated with a pendulum motion. The Air Force explanation was that | | the object sighted by military pilots Fehrevach and Edwards was a | | balloon. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. | | 14; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11). | | | | 1953 - At 1550 hrs. in Suwon, Korea two 0.36 meter diameter discs | | were spotted by an airman in the sky to the east of the airfield. | | They were lost from view in the clouds. (Source: Richard F. Haines, | | Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 65). | | | | 1957 - At around 11:00 a.m. an airman and two others on the ground in | | Chippenham, Wiltshire, England witnessed a dark saucer-shaped object | | with a black stripe that appeared behind a jet. It abruptly vanished. | | (Sources: Flying Saucers, August 1957, p. 36; UFO Nachtrichten, | | September 1957). | | | | 1957 - On this night an airline pilot flying over Indianapolis, | | Indiana and many others saw four brilliant nocturnal lights trailing | | a large pulsating ovoid object. (Sources: Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, p. 136; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. | | 28). | | | | 1958 - An unidentified object followed behind Sputnik II while | | orbiting over Brooklyn Park, South Australia on this evening. | | It travelled fast to the east, and then swung to the north before | | disappearing. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern | | Hemisphere, p. 163). | | | | 1959 - Mr. Armstrong and a second person in Centennial, Sydney, New | | South Wales, Australia heard skyquakes at 11:30 a.m. They then | | observed a metallic, cigar-shaped object hovering for 5 minutes. | | It made 90 degree turns, then shot away extremely fast. It was | | absolutely silent. (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern | | Hemisphere, p. 53; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 32). | | | | 1963 - On this day a U.S. Post Office safety engineer in Lexington, | | Kentucky saw a large round UFO traveling east to west, and a | | delta-wing aircraft traveling from north to south. The line of flight | | of the disc-shaped UFO intersected the aircraft's path at a right | | angle. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 140; Paris | | Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 367). | | | | 1967 - A 14-year-old youth with the last name of Kirsch took a | | photograph of a disc-shaped structured object over Yorba Linda, | | California at 5:25 p.m. The photo was reported in the Santa Ana | | Register newspaper, and subsequently evaluated by NICAP as that of a | | genuine (not hoaxed) flying object. (Sources: Santa Ana Register, | | June 7, 1967; Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1976, p. 10; | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, | | p. 286). | | | | 1967 - At 8:10 p.m. Nicholas Rinaldi, a 37-year-old commercial | | artist, as well as 19 other people driving along Interstate 91 in | | Cromwell, Connecticut spotted a 300 foot long dark cigar-shaped | | object flying low over some highway construction on the new Route 9 | | interstate highway extension. Rinaldi drew a sketch of the object, | | which had three bright red lights, one at each end and one in the | | center. The UFO made a whirring sound. The total duration of the | | sighting, based upon the times reported by the independent witnesses, | | was 15 minutes. The Air Force attempted to explain the craft as a | | mis-identified helicopter, based on the notion that a helicopter | | would have had three red running lights. (Sources: Donald A. Johnson, | | on-site investigation; Middletown Press, January 26, 1967; APRO | | Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 9). | | | | Cromwell, Connecticut Multi-Witness Close Encounter - 1967 | | | | [Sk | | etch of Cromwell, Connecticut Multi-Witness Close Encounter - 1967] | | | | 1968 - At around 3:00 a.m. two men watched from the shore at Henley | | Beach, South Australia as a yellow shaft of light shot down from a | | UFO in the dark night sky. The shaft of light was about four inches | | wide and lighter in color than its yellow source. (Source: Michael | | Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 180). | | | | 1968 - John Everhart was driving home in Indiana, Pennsylvania at | | 3:30 p.m. when he saw a round, saucer-shaped object with a dull | | aluminum finish hovering over a pond some 100-200 feet away. Its top | | section was transparent, and he could see two men, normal in every | | appearance, wearing light gray coveralls inside. He could also see | | levers and little lights as might appear on a computer. Under | | hypnosis he remembered "hearing" them talk, perhaps telepathically. | | They were engaged in fixing something and hurried when they saw him | | watching them. In a subsequent hypnotic session he recalled being led | | into the UFO by a slender man in black. Inside were four seats on | | pedestals, and the light inside the craft was so bright that it hurt | | his eyes. He was sent by elevator into the room where the repairs | | were going on. The men spoke to each other in English. He was | | instructed to sit in a chair that rendered him immobile. There was a | | time lapse in his memory of several hours between his leaving work | | and his returning home. This case is apparently an early abduction | | report describing apparently normal human-looking abductors. No | | further hypnotic regression sessions were attempted. (Sources: David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1968-12 (A0912), citing William Weitzel; George D. Fawcett, Flying | | Saucers, April 1969, p. 22; Brad Steiger, Saga UFO Report, October | | 1976, p. 30). | | | | 1968 - At 10:20 p.m. two Saturn-shaped objects were sighted over some | | woods in Fayette County, Indiana. One of the objects landed, while | | the other passed over a house, making a motor sound. (Source: Francis | | L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 25). | | | | 1968 - Numerous witnesses reported seeing a huge glow in the sky that | | flew over Concepcion del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina to the | | southeast.  This was followed by a huge power blackout at 11:00 p.m. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 7). | | | | 1970 - A witness named Herbosch reported a blindingly bright | | saucer-shaped object that was seen at ground level at 7:45 p.m. in | | Rhode-St. Genese, Brabant, Belgium. It was absolutely silent, but | | despite its closeness gave off no detectable odor nor heat. (Sources: | | Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 287; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 9559, citing Charles Garreau, Soucopes | | Volantes Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes, p. 198). | | | | 1974 - A young woman returning home at Aische-en-Rafail near | | Lierneaux, Belgium at 4:03 p.m. saw an object shaped like a flattened | | cupola resting on the ground. The engine and radio in her car both | | failed and she stopped near the object. It had three sections, | | colored red, yellow, and black. After about 30 seconds, it rose up | | slowly and disappeared behind a line of trees. The car's engine came | | on by itself as the object left. There were two other sightings that | | evening in France and another in England. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, | | UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 359, citing SOBEPS | | News, No. 9, June, 1977; Richard H. Hall, Skylook, February 1976, p. | | 10; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 142; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 255). | | | | 1974 - On this night in Souppes-sur-Loing, Seine-Marne department, | | France two witnesses watched an ovoid UFO give off flashes and change | | color. It also made multiple stops and starts, before finally | | shooting off rapidly to the north. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue 142). | | | | 1975 - On this night an orange glowing ball flew over Barham, Kent, | | England at a low altitude and illuminated the area. It stopped and | | hovered for awhile, then engaged in some maneuvers. It finally flew | | off toward the south. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | 11648, citing FSR, volume 21, number 1). | | | | 1978 - Between Leicester and Hinckley, England at least 17 people saw | | a delta-shaped object shortly after 7:00 p.m. It flew low overhead, | | making no noise. It had steady red, blue, and yellow lights and as it | | headed south from Leicester it was seen by 12 more witnesses in | | Hinckley. There was also a sighting earlier that evening of an | | unusual nocturnal light by a married couple in Patcham, East Sussex, | | England. (Sources: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. | | 18; Awareness, July 1978, p. 5). | | | | 1979 - In this day in Toquilla near Tunja, Colombia a dentist and | | three students were traveling by car when their engine suddenly | | stalled. They then saw two metallic disc-shaped objects land on | | tripod landing gear nearby, and three men wearing tight fitting, | | silvery outfits and large helmets who exited from a hatch in one of | | the objects. A sudden whirlwind surrounded their vehicle and they | | could no longer see either the figures or the objects. When the | | "whirlwind" abated both the figures and the UFOs were gone. (Sources: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13623, citing UFO Newsclipping | | Service, issue 119; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979 | | [electronic version], citing Miguel Forero, Centro Investigacion | | OVNI, Colombia). | | | | 1979 - Driving near Lindale, Texas at around 10:00 p.m. 20-year-old | | John Scott Cates had stopped his car and gotten out to relieve | | himself when a blue beam of light from the sky struck him. It caused | | his hair to stand up like an electric static charge. Two UFOs with a | | violet-red light moving between then appeared, and he experienced a | | six-hour long memory lapse. His next recollection was sitting in | | front of the car on the ground. He was scared, shaky, cold, and his | | stomach was in knots. He noticed that his engine restarted when a | | ringing noise sounded. He had a memory loss and the clock in his car | | was found to be 5 1/2 hours off. He was left with holes in his shirt, | | holes in his trousers and socks, and a 5-inch wide diamond-shaped | | burn on his chest. His hair was also somewhat burned. (Sources: | | Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case | | 201(b); Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO; p. | | 191; Richard C. Niemtzow, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 3; | | Bob Pratt, UNICAT database, case # 62, citing Richard C. Niemtzow; | | John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 85). | | | | 1982 - In the village of Ipoh in Perak, Malaysia five early morning | | joggers watched a Saturn-shaped object with a revolving rim and sharp | | lights descend nearby them at around 7:00 a.m. (Source: Ahmad | | Jamaludin, FSR, December 1988, p. 22). | | | | 1982 - A flashing light with irregular flashes of red and white | | traveled from west to east silently across the sky in Stockdale, | | Texas. It arced slightly and appeared to hover in the eastern sky, 30 | | degrees above the horizon. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, CUFOS case files, | | report form dated January 24, 1982). | | | | 1988 - At 5:30 p.m. on this evening at his home in Gulf Breeze, | | Florida Ed Walters took his twenty-first UFO photograph of a domed, | | disc-shaped object. The blurring movement of the object suggests that | | when the object left it accelerated at 20 G's, according to | | photometric analysis. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. | | 210, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 239). | | | | 1989 - Two large triangular shaped objects that were accompanied by | | 4-5 smaller bright objects were seen by dozens over Valliant, | | Oklahoma for more than an hour. The large objects had red, white, and | | blue lights. They hovered and moved slowly at tree-top level. The | | smaller lights maneuvered between them. (Source: Richard F. Haines, | | Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 109; McCurtain (Oklahoma) | | Daily, February 1, 1989). | | | | 1992 - A 50-year-old woman and her husband were in the kitchen of | | their home in Mezobereny, Hungary when a short, dull black, | | egg-shaped figure suddenly crossed the room and passed into the | | adjoining room, making a strong "snorting" sound. The upper half of | | the being was blue-gray in color. Next, a vibrating vertical line | | became visible. Next to the stripe a beautiful woman appeared and | | looked at the woman. The main witness then followed the two beings | | into the room where they vanished. The husband was somehow prevented | | from witnessing this encounter. Three days later, at 6:30 p.m., the | | woman heard a loud female voice and felt compelled to go out to the | | garden. There she saw an ovoid, cabin-like object on the ground. She | | entered it, and inside she found herself in a large gray room where | | numerous naked children and women stood around. She then lost | | consciousness, and later woke up back in her bed. The next day large | | red sunburn-like spots appeared on her upper belly, and the lower | | parts of her breasts. (Sources: SOS-Ovni Phenomena, issue 12; Albert | | S. Rosales, 1992 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 629, | | citing Gabor Tarcali, Hungarian UFO Network). | | | | 1995 - Two clamshell-shaped discs accompanied by a cluster of small, | | white satellite objects flew over Lebanon, Tennessee at 4:42 a.m. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center). | | | | 1997 - A witness in a car driving north of Dourdan, Essonne | | department, France at 9:15 p.m. sighted at least two disc-shaped | | objects emitting several beams and small blue lights. The UFOs | | maneuvered around in all directions for over a minute.  (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 342).  | | | | 1998 - In Santiago, Chile at the Alfalfal Dam five observers first | | saw two fireballs fly pass at 8:00 p.m. Next, an 18-meter long ovoid | | object flew up the river canyon. (Source: Joseph Trainor, UFO | | Roundup, volume 3, number 7). | | | | 2000 - At 12:30 a.m. a group of friends were sitting in a house in | | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and when they glanced out a window | | they saw a dark figure jumping behind the trees. It had no | | distinguishable features as the entire body was dark, but its body | | fluctuated in and out of transparency. The witnesses had apparently | | seen this and multiple other humanoid figures on other occasions, in | | different locations. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 2000 [electronic version], citing UFO Database.com). | | | | 2001 - On this evening a luminous object hovered over Canyon Lake in | | Comal County, Texas. Spotlights of the Army Corp of Engineers dam | | facility lit up the low flying object. Four helicopters appeared and | | attempted to surround the object, according to the married couple who | | witnessed it. The UFO maneuvered away, the vanished. After the | | helicopters departed two more UFOs appeared and returned to the site. | | (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20). | | | | 2003 - At 6:13 p.m. a black equilateral triangle with three glowing | | white dome lights on the tips of its apexes, plus a small red | | blinking light and a small constant red light was sighted over | | Kingston, Ontario by a woman. It flew just above the treeline, and | | passed silently, directly over her car. (Source: Peter Davenport, UFO | | Reporting Center, January 2003 web archive). | | | | 2007 - A slow-moving cylinder was sighted high in sky over Ottawa, | | Ontario at 12:25 p.m. It sped up, then streaked across the sky. | | (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31, citing | | NUFORC). | | | | 2010 - A multi-colored, illuminated, circular object hovered nearby, | | and crossed over a busy interstate highway in Tampa, Florida at 7:40 | | p.m. The sighting lasted for 6 minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, UFO | | Reporting Center, January 2010 webpage, report uploaded February 14, | | 2010). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 24 January 2013). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; blue beams of light; disc-shaped UFO | | s; domed discs; free-will abduction; human-looking UFOnauts; landings | | ; missing time; multicolored UFOs; multi-year reports from Belgium, E | | ngland, France, South Australia, and Texas; oscillating maneuvers; ov | | oid UFOs; photographs of structured objects; physiological effects: b | | urns, eye pain, shock, unconsciousness; satellite UFOs; Saturn-shaped | | UFOs; tight fitting silver uniforms; triangular and delta-shaped UFO | | s; transparent dark humanoid figure; vehicle EM interference effects. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+