+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 30 | | | | 1909 - At 3:00 a.m. several farmers in Greendale, New Zealand heard a | | rumbling sound. Horses out to pasture were spooked by an airship that | | flew low overhead. It had lights in the front and rear. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue 181). | | | | 1909 - At 5:00 a.m. in the Waikaia Valley north of Gore, New Zealand | | two men witnessed a shell-shaped domed disc descend through the mist | | with a wobbling motion. Two human appearing occupants could be seen | | inside the clear dome. It circled, it ascended upwards, and flew off | | toward Otakarama. It had a yellow glow. (Sources: Xenolog, December | | 1975, p. 12; Paul Norman, FSR, April 1977, p. 15; Richard Hall, From | | Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the | | Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7) | | | | 1947 - Mr. Ostrom, a 66-year-old man driving an Army truck on Route | | 95 one mile north of Tamarack, Idaho a 4:00 p.m. when he saw a silver | | sphere approach and hit the roof of his truck, and then bounce off. | | At the point of contact a small surface area of the metal roof, about | | the size of a silver dollar, had melted. (Sources: Kenneth Arnold & | | Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 168; Ted Bloecher, Report | | on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 853). | | | | 1950 - USAF jets were scrambled to chase a disc-shaped UFO seen over | | the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission plant in Washington State. The | | object was tracked on radar. (Sources: Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from | | Space, p. 4; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: | | Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399). | | | | 1950 - A ten-foot long long glowing cylinder appeared to explode when | | it flew into the propeller of DC-3 over Williamsville, Illinois. | | There was no damage to the aircraft. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1950: April-July, p. 80). | | | | 1952 - At ten o'clock in the morning a white round object was seen | | flying slowly over San Antonio, Texas. After 20-30 minutes it sped | | away. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case 1758; Loren E. Gross, | | UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 64; Kevin D. Randle, | | Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276). | | | | 1957 - In Galt, Ontario at 10:30 a.m. a young man named Galt | | witnessed a silvery disc-shaped object descend close to ground near a | | power transmission station. It made a humming sound, and flames came | | from underneath the object. Dogs reacted by barking furiously. At the | | landing site the ground and vegetation were burned and charred. Large | | claw-like impressions were also found. (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, | | Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 51). | | | | 1962 - On this day near Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on the | | road to Pasnembi two men, Sr. Lombero and Sr. Garoup, were driving | | down the road to Pasnembi when their car engine stalled. By the side | | of the road was a 40 meter long (130 foot) oval-shaped object, | | "resembling a great bottle with two necks, one at each end." Two | | human-looking men stood at each end of the object, exchanging light | | signals. After ten minutes they got into the object and it took off | | at great speed. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0533, citing Flying Saucer | | Review, November-December 1962, p. 25; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 538; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19). | | | | 1965 - At five o'clock in the afternoon the two McClintock children, | | attracted by the barking of a dog, saw a luminous disc-shaped object | | resting on tripod landing gear, and observed it for one hour. The | | landing occurred in Goonumbla, New South Wales, Australia eight | | kilometers away from the radio telescope located there. The disc had | | rods protruding from the top and bottom. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 665). | | | | 1965 - Hundreds of people from Puerto Monte, Chile in two separate | | locations observed an unidentified flying object that landed for five | | minutes. It emitted a blinding purple light. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 666). | | | | 1976 - On a clear evening shortly after 9:00 p.m. two very large, | | brown cigar or "sausage" shaped UFOs were sighted from a British | | Airways Trident II airliner near the Portuguese Coast, 64 kilometers | | south of Lisbon, Portugal. The UFOs were seen by three crew members | | as well as picked up on radar. (Sources: John Wallace Spencer, World | | Atlas of UFOs, p. 106; Omar Fowler, FSR, November 1976, p. 3). | | | | 1978 - In Norway on a farm between the towns of Hageltjern and | | Hageland in Hordaland province a small disc, described as a 0.4 meter | | in diameter extremely bright circular object, landed at 1:00 a.m. and | | scorched the earth and vegetation. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, | | February 1980). | | | | 1982 - At 10:10 p.m. a small glowing, transparent figure was seen | | among the branches of a tree on the property of a nearby house in | | Mendoza, Argentina. It was dressed in a robe, had a very small head | | and a triangular shaped body. There was a sizzling sound and the | | smell of smoke, and the being faded away. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 1167, citing Gray Barker). | | | | 1984 - In Leslie, South Carolina a 18 meter long silver cigar-shaped | | object followed a fence line in a pasture at around 9:00 p.m., making | | a light whirring noise. It had lights on the side. Traces were found | | on the ground in the pasture. (Source: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, | | February 1985, p. 8). | | | | 1986 - At 11:00 p.m. two discs flew slowly overhead in Bangor, | | California making a soft high-pitched sound. They first flew north to | | south, then turned and sped off to the east. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 14407; Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, | | case # 1138). | | | | 1990 - At 11:00 p.m.  a glowing ovoid landed in Ferrere, Piedmonte, | | Italy radiating four beams of energy, and left a large circular ring | | on the grass. The incident lasted 15 minutes, and there was an | | independent witness. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | # 15223, citing CISU). | | | | 1993 - A truck driver in West Winfield, New York saw a cylindrical | | object hovering over a field at 3:00 a.m. Complex crop circles were | | found later. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993). | | | | 1998 - At 11:30 p.m. a man driving in a car in Ernfold, Saskachewan, | | Canada saw a silver topped disc fly by heading fast to the south. It | | had a gray bottom and was silent. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 18059, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 3, | | Number 32). | | | | 2002 - At 12:04 a.m. a cylindrical craft with faint lights on both | | ends zigzagged through the sky over York, Pennsylvania, speeding off | | and disappearing in about one minute. Beginning at 12:20 a.m. an | | unexplained triangular object was seen darting around and pinwheeling | | about in the night sky for two hours over Marstons Mills, Cape Cod, | | Massachusetts. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, July 2002 webpage). | | | | 2008 - A bright white light turned to red as it sped up, slowed down, | | and zigzagged across the sky in New London, Minnesota at 11:43 p.m. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | July 2008 webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 31 July 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reactions: dogs barked and horses spoo | | ked; apparition; cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs; small disc-shaped | | UFOs; domed discs; human looking UFOnauts; humming sound; landings an | | d landing traces; ovoid UFOs; rumbling sound; sizzling sound; tripod | | landing gear; vehicle ignition system interference; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+