+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 26 | | | | 1948 - Six people in Chamblee, Georgia briefly saw a luminous | | football-shaped UFO that glowed, bobbed, weaved, and maneuvered over | | the town at 9:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly toward the south at an | | estimated 5,000 feet altitude. The Air Force explanation was that | | they saw a meteor. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case #00165; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1948, p. 43). | | | | 1949 - At 10:30 a.m. in Redmond, Oregon a disc-shaped object | | described as looking like a "flat aluminum sheet" soared overhead at | | tremendous speed. It flashed brightly as it reflected the sunlight. | | (Sources: Newspaper clipping, July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 14). | | | | 1949 - At 3:10 p.m. a doctor named Laubach sighted a seven meter | | diameter disc in Mitchell, Nebraska that whirled across the sky at | | 6,000 feet altitude, passing through some clouds. (Sources: newspaper | | clipping dated July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 | | (Volume 2), p. 13; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the | | Saucers, p. 143). | | | | 1952 - At Andrews AFB, Maryland from midnight until dawn, there were | | more UFO reports that were a continuation of the extensive sightings | | and radar tracking reports reported throughout the Washington, D.C. | | area from the evening before. (Source: Project Blue Book files; Don | | Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 12:15 a.m. USAF Capt. H. A. Stone and Air Traffic | | Controllers in the control towers at Fairfax Field and Municipal | | Airport, Kansas City, Missouri saw a green light with red-orange | | flashes descend in the northwestern sky for 1 hour. It moved from 40 | | elevation to 10 elevation. (Source: Project Blue Book files; Don | | Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico at 12:05 a.m. Airman 1st Class J. | | M. Donaldson observed eight to ten orange balls flying very fast for | | a 3-4 second duration traveling in a triangular or V formation. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book | | Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - In Washington, D.C. on this date, from 8:00 p.m. until after | | midnight, radar operators at several airports tracked many | | unidentified blips by radar all over the Washington area, at varying | | speeds. Airline pilots reported spotting unidentified lights during | | this period as well. Sharp UFO targets on the ARTC radar at National | | Airport at 9:08 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Visual sightings were reported by | | civilians four times, near Herndon, Virginia and from Maryland. A | | National Airlines flight near Andrews AFB saw a UFO "directly over | | the airliner."(Sources: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, | | Project Blue Book Unknowns; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from | | Outer Space, p. 69; Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The | | UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11). | | | | 1962 - At 8:30 p.m. near Darana, Argentina a 17-year-old motorcyclist | | saw a weird creature on the side of the road. His cycle would not | | steer correctly; instead, it drove right up to the creature and | | stopped. The creature was six feet tall, with a head like a melon and | | three eyes. It grabbed the youth's scarf, turned around and walked | | away like a robot, leaving deep tracks in the dirt. The youth saw a | | white light low in the sky in the direction the creature was walking. | | He then drove away quickly. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, case 116, citing Saucer News, | | December 1962). | | | | 1965 - At 9:35 p.m. three atmospheric astronomers studying | | noctilucent clouds at the Ogra Observatory, Latvia sighted a bright | | light in the west. Through a telescope they saw it was a 325 foot in | | diameter disc-shape with three spheres orbiting it. The UFOs | | gradually receded, but were seen at an estimated altitude of 60 | | miles. (Sources:  Felix Zigel, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 25; APRO | | Bulletin, November-December 1967,  p. 4; NICAP UFO Investigator, | | March-April 1968, p. 6; FSR, May-June 1968, p. 28; John Wallace | | Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 131; Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO | | Files, p. 111). | | | | 1965 - A teenager, Adilon Azevedo, and others in Carazinho, Rio | | Grande do Sul state, Brazil who fled the scene, saw two UFOs at | | ground level. They were about three meters in diameter, 1.5 meters | | high, and contained five occupants who wore luminous helmets and | | spoke among themselves in an unfamiliar language. One of the beings | | had a bright object in its hand. The witness experienced headaches | | for five days following the close encounter. (Sources: Coral & Jim | | Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 112; Jacques Vallee, Passport | | to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 662). | | | | 1967 - At 8:00 p.m. a multi-colored elliptical object flew over | | Seacliff, South Australia making a humming noise. Eighteen hours | | later, at 11:15 p.m. in Rowley, Massachusetts, R. Ricker witnessed an | | orange UFO that made a whining sound. (Source: Project Blue Book | | files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns). | | | | Rowley, Massachusetts - 1967 | | | | [image] | | | | 1968 - On this afternoon around 3:00 p.m. two young boys riding their | | bicycles near the airport in Riviere Du Loup, Quebec stopped by the | | hangar and sighted a short three-foot tall, gray-skinned humanoid. | | The humanoid ran away and was joined by a second similar being. Both | | moved with stiff-legged motion. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1968, case # 24, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO | | Occupants and Critters). | | | | 1972 - In a continuing series of strange encounters at Cradle Hill in | | Wiltshire, England Robert Mason and Stephen Barnett had reached a | | field beyond the copse at 9:15 p.m. while it was still light out. A | | short while later they both looked back towards a barn and caught | | sight of a figure, resembling that of a small man or boy, in the | | clearing just in front of the barn. Upon being noticed the figure | | dodged out of sight behind the side of the barn. Stephen looked | | through binoculars to see if the being would pass the line of trees | | leading back down the road to the gate, but saw nothing. They | | searched the copse but found no one. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1972, citing Ken Rogers, The Warminster | | Triangle). | | | | 1993 - On this night a witness in Plymouth, Scotland reported seeing | | a dark object hovering close to the ground. It had four bright lights | | on its top and multicolored lights below. It illuminated the ground | | with a red glow. Several figures were seen moving around, apparently | | in front of the object. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1993, case # 1552, citing Vivienne Olbison, UFO Magazine | | (UK), Vol. 12, No. 3). | | | | 2001 - At 9:50 p.m. two witnesses saw a luminous figure walking on | | the side of the road while driving on the road to Gerena, Sevilla, | | Spain. It seemed to move clumsily about in an attempt to enter the | | nearby field. The frightened witnesses accelerated away from the | | area. They described the figure as about two meters to 2.15 meters in | | height, strongly build, and robust looking. It emitted a bluish-white | | light. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, | | citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista & Rafael Cabello Herrero). | | | | 2004 - During a power failure in Kerman, California that occurred at | | 1:20 a.m. Ms. E. B. was looking for a flashlight when the power came | | back on. Earlier that night around 12:30 a.m. she had seen an unusual | | light in the sky and now went out to look in the sky where she had | | seen it. What she saw was a glowing silvery man-like figure that was | | flying above the neighborhood at a height of 21 to 24 meters. The | | figure flew at a reasonably fast pace. The moment she saw it she | | screamed and ran back inside, locking the door behind her, but she | | continued to watch it through a window. The figure went behind some | | trees and when it emerged on the other side it shot off towards the | | north at the speed of a rocket. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 31, No. | | 9). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 October 2009) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: flying humanoid, | | humming or whining sounds, maneuvering UFO, multi-colored UFOs, noct | | urnal lights traveling in groups and formations, orange UFOs, radar r | | eports accompanied by visual sightings, short humanoids, stiff legged | | motion by humanoids, UFO with orbiting satellite UFOs, V formations. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+