+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  March 3 | | | | 1950 - At Selfridge AFB in Macomb County, Michigan two radars tracked | | an unusual object in the sky at 11:10 p.m. whose presence was | | confirmed with a visual sighting by a witness named Mattson. The UFO | | was visible for four minutes and made wide swings and abrupt turns. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case | | 650; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 28). | | | | 1953 - A USAF F-84 fighter jet flying out of Luke AFB near Quartzite, | | Arizona filmed 30 feet of 16mm gun camera film that showed a cigar or | | fuselage-shaped object with a long contrail in a clear sky. The | | length of the object was estimated to be 100 meters, and the duration | | of the sighting was seven minutes. Project Blue Book lists the | | explanation as aircraft, but UFO investigators Richard Hall and | | Jacques Vallee didn't agree with the interpretation. (Sources: | | Project Blue Book Report #11, May 1953; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on | | Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 229; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence | | (Volume I), p. 42). | | | | 1961 - A white spherical UFO with a metallic luster was seen during | | the day flying over Manly, New South Wales, Australia. At 10:45 p.m. | | a father and son were camping near a lake at Bowna Hume Weir, New | | South Wales when they saw a disc-shaped UFO with four windows on the | | ground not far away. Four humanoid figures could be seen between the | | object and a nearby fire. Their encounter lasted 45 minutes. | | (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 87; | | Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close | | Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 11). | | | | 1966 - Several civilians in Oswego, New York reported that an object | | that flew toward the south slowly, hovered, and then came within 15 | | meters of them. It finally flew off toward the southwest. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case | | 728). | | | | 1967 - Seven white lights flew in formation from north to south over | | Chicago Heights, Illinois at around 8 p.m. They changed color to | | orange and then to red just before fading from sight. They also | | appeared to be giving off sparks. (Source: Chicago American, March 4, | | 1967). | | | | 1967 - A group of high school students came upon two glowing pyramid | | shaped objects sitting in the middle of the road in Plantation, | | Florida at 9:00 p.m. The UFOs gave off an orange flash, shot straight | | up into the sky, and were gone. (Source: Pompano Sun Sentinel, March | | 7, 1967). | | | | 1967 - Mr. and Mrs. Fellows were driving toward Centre Sandwich, New | | Hampshire around midnight when they saw an illuminated clam-shaped | | object going up and down in the sky "like a yo-yo" near Red Hill. It | | was turning from white to greenish blue, and followed their car for | | 20 minutes until they reached Route 113. It left to the northeast. | | They reported feeling several "pinging" electric discharges as it | | left, and their dog was very nervous during the observation. It made | | an electric motor sound. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, April | | 1967, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 821). | | | | 1968 - A lawyer's home in Castelar, Argentina was flooded by a bright | | blue light at 12:45 a.m., and their TV set went blank. A thunderous | | roar like a jet aircraft flying close by was heard next, and a ball | | of light was seen shooting off at a dizzying speed. (Source: Oscar A. | | Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10). | | | | 1969 - On or before this date a 100-foot long noiseless metallic | | craft was observed in the sky over Glens Falls, New York. According | | to the newspaper account, the UFO's crew of four men and one woman | | were also seen onboard. (Source: Richard Bonenfant, Proceedings of | | the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 48, citing Albany Knickerbocker). | | | | 1972 - At around one o'clock in the morning police officer Williams | | of Loveland, Ohio slowed his patrol car when he saw what looked like | | a dog by the side of the road. It stood up, and was tail-less | | creature with leather like skin and a face like a frog or a lizard, 3 | | or 4 ft tall. It leaped over the guardrail and went down the | | embankment to the river. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-38 (A1143), citing | | Richard Mackey & Ron Schaffner). | | | | 1973 - Around noon in Kampala, Uganda on the shore of Lake Victoria | | President Idi Amin and his entourage saw a UFO land and then take off | | again like a "gentle rocket." The UFO was surrounded by "something | | like smoke." (Source: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 10, | | citing UPI, March 5, 1973). | | | | 1974 - A delta-shaped object made complex light signals from both | | leading edges of the UFO was 6:30 a.m. in Avion, France. According to | | the witness named Dejaeger, the object than shrank in size to a dot | | in the sky. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 143). | | | | 1975 - Four photographs were taken of two luminous balls, | | approximately 0.35 meters in diameter, over a hedge in Montsireigne, | | France at 10:30 p.m. They rose into the sky and were gone. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977). | | | | 1976 - At four o'clock in the afternoon a 12-year-old boy named Ojeda | | saw a 40-foot in diameter shiny disc in a clearing in the forest in | | Refrigerio, Brazil. It sat upon some type of metallic platform. Two | | beings in shiny suits, less than five feet tall, were seen outside | | making repairs. Blinded by a flash of intense light, he was captured | | and taken aboard the craft. The beings communicated with the boy | | using telepathy, and gave him a physical exam on an exam table. He | | had skin burns resulting from the flash of light. (Source: David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A1465, citing Gray Barker, UFO Report, June 1977, p. 37). | | | | 1976 - Three hours after the abduction of the 12-year-old in Brazil, | | a luminous green sphere with a luminous tail nearly collided with a | | French Air Force T-33 jet over Tours, France. The UFO climbed | | vertically, levelled out, came at the aircraft, and the two-meter | | wide sphere passed within 30 cm when it passed over the right wing. | | It didn't show up at all on radar. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40). | | | | 1980 - Four family members of a family in Buen Consejo, Rio Piedras, | | Puerto Rico were awakened at midnight by noises on their patio where | | they kept caged rabbits. When they looked out they were stunned to | | see five strange looking beings inspecting the cages. Two of the | | beings were five feet tall and the others were three tall and more | | heavy-set. The tall thin creatures wore brown one-piece brown | | outfits, and had grayish skin with large ears, large eyes, and large | | flat noses with large thick lips. Their fingers were large and were | | connected by a thin membrane. Both carried a bright metallic-looking | | sphere in their right hands. The smaller beings were similar in | | appearance, except they had large bright medallions hanging from | | their necks and belts. A fifth witness later saw the same five beings | | enter a landed disc-shaped craft on a roadway near the village. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # | | 72, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 1). | | | | 1991 - A high speed white disc-shaped object made fast turns, and | | ascended and descended over Sandy, Oregon at 8:55 p.m. (Source: Paul | | Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1043, | | citing Skip Schultz). | | | | 1992 - At 6:40 p.m. in Warner, New Hampshire a mother and her son, | | age 10, saw lights in the sky when they turned a corner in the road. | | They stopped the car and went into a field to get a better view. They | | saw a white triangular UFO flying through the sky, making a whirring | | sound. They continued to watch until the object passed behind and was | | hidden by some nearby trees. (Source: MUFON investigation case files, | | case no. 960507S). | | | | 1992 - Thirty minutes later in the same county, the same or a similar | | triangular object flew over nearby Bradford, New Hampshire . It had | | multi-colored lights and made a humming sound. That evening there | | were other UFO sightings in Salisbury, and Claremont, New Hampshire. | | At 7:50 p.m. a huge triangle with pulsating bluish-white lights was | | seen by a Mr. Cross flying just over the treetops along Rte 3-A near | | the I-93 overpass in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. He | | stopped his car and watched as the UFO flew overhead during a | | snowstorm, making a sound like increasing rain on a canvas tent. | | (Sources: MUFON investigation case files, case no. 940103E; Paul | | Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994; Manchester | | Union-Leader, March 7, 1992; Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 252). | | | | Concord, New Hampshire - 1992 | | | | [] | | | | 1998 - A brightly lit triangular UFO was sighted over Mansfield, | | England at 11:50 p.m. It hovered for ten minutes, then darted away | | toward the southeast. (Source: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A | | Reporter Seeks the Truth, citing BUFORA). | | | | 2000 - At three o'clock in the morning a large object emitting bright | | rays of light was seen hovering over and then landing in a marsh in | | Kampung Gobek, Malaysia. Found later was a Y-shaped depression with | | dimensions 45 feet long by 15 feet in width, and a 10-foot-deep | | crescent-shaped hollow, surrounded by several holes 3 feet in | | diameter. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37, citing | | CAUS). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 10 September 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction; air | | craft encounters; animal reaction: dog nervous; cigar-shaped UFOs; di | | sc-shaped UFOs; electric shock; EM effect: TV blanked out; ground tra | | ces; human looking UFOnauts; humming or whirring sounds; motion pictu | | re film; multi-year reports from France and New Hampshire; radar-visu | | al confirmation; shape-changing UFOs; short grayish humanoids; short | | lizard-like humanoid; telepathy; triangular UFOs; up and down motion. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+