+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  March 18 | | | | 1950 - On this day in 1950, several sightings of daylight discs occurred | | over the United States, Europe, and South America. | | | | 1950 - At the Atlanta Municipal Airport, Georgia six airline pilots | | on the tarmac reported sighting an aluminum colored disc that flew | | silently toward the southwest at between 6000 and 7000 feet altitude. | | It then made an "impossible climb." (Source: Michael Hitt, Georgia | | UFO Phenomenon, 1947-1987, p. 9). | | | | 1950 - A large number of saucers, performing aerobatics, appeared | | over Farmington, New Mexico around noon, and then flew away at an | | estimated 1000 mph. A luminous, metallic appearing disc was sighted | | five miles northeast of Bradford, Illinois at 8:40 a.m. (Source: | | unnamed newspaper clippings, March 18 and 19, 1950). | | | | 1950 - At a ranch in Lago Argentino, Argentina, Mr. Wilfredo H. | | Arevalo, a rancher, saw two objects, one of which landed at 6:30 p.m. | | He walked within 150 meters of the aluminum looking craft that gave | | off a blue-green vapor with "an intense smell of burning benzene." A | | large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin in which | | could be seen four tall men with pallid faces, dressed in something | | like cellophane, working at various instruments. When they saw him | | they shone a light in his direction while a blue light illuminated | | the craft. The vapor increased and flames, alternately red and green, | | shot out of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both | | craft flew away toward Chile, leaving bluish trails. (Sources: Coral | | E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 108; The Humanoids, FSR | | Special Issue #1, p. 32; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 194). | | | | 1963 - In 1963 a UFO was seen from Cape Canaveral, Florida as a Minuteman | | missile malfunctioned and veered off course. On that same night, at | | 8:30 p.m., the crew of a Greek ship, the "Hellenic Laurel", watched a | | bright white fireball shoot to the east for one minute. It was | | described as the apparent size of the Moon, and it left a bright | | white contrail. (Sources: NICAP Investigator, March-April 1963, p. 4; | | APRO Bulletin, September-October 1963, p. 6). | | | | 1965 - At 7:00 p.m. on this day, while flying between Himeji and | | Matsuyama, Japan the crew of a Japanese airliner Convair 240 sighted | | three elongated objects and one circular UFO at the same time that | | the plane's automatic direction finder malfunctioned. The circular | | UFO was described as 15 meters in diameter. The UFOs were also | | sighted by a private pilot in a Piper Apache flying over Dishima | | Island. (Sources: Japan Times, March 21, 1965; Brad Steiger, | | Strangers from the Skies, p. 72; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117). | | | | 1966 - One year later (1966), at 4:00 p.m., a shiny metallic cigar-shaped | | UFO, approximately 60 feet long, and completely smooth and | | featureless, was sighted off the coast, 10 miles north of Puerto | | Deseado, Argentina. The UFO emitted a gray vapor from its rear. It | | then vibrated; made a louder rumbling noise, and a black smoke | | emerged from the rear. The nose of the object tilted up as the object | | flew erratically to the northeast, then hit the water and disappeared | | beneath the surface. (Source: Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1970, p. | | 17). | | | | 1967 - In 1967 at 7:50 p.m. a domed oval or domed disc was seen surrounded | | by a ring of vapor in Stow, Massachusetts. The UFO glowed violet when | | it was stationary, but changed to a reddish orange color when it | | danced around in the sky. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 346). | | | | 1967 - That same night in Lebanon, Ohio a 50-foot diameter, round object | | hovered over the treetops near a highway. It was glowing white, | | sometimes red, with a "halo effect" and appeared to be rotating. The | | headlights of a car passing nearby went out. The object emitted a | | high-pitched sound, and after its departure, the car's headlights | | functioned normally. (Sources: FSR, March-April 1971; Mark Rodeghier, | | UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 193). | | | | 1969 - In 1969 a luminous, football-shaped flying object landed 3 meters | | from a stranded truck that was stuck in some mud, on a road between | | Ollague and San Martin, Chile. The driver and two passengers watched | | the UFO for ten minutes until it took off. (Source: CICA Botetin | | Informative, December 1969). | | | | 1972 - The next close encounter occurred in 1972 over the mountains of Upper | | Austria, at 11:35 p.m. Flying between Krems and Linz, Austria an | | Austrian DC-9 airliner had a near collision with a huge funnel of | | white light, which changed color to red. The aircraft's electronic | | instruments all went haywire during this close approach. (Source: | | Alexander Keul, APRO Bulletin, March 1972, p. 1). | | | | 1975 - In 1975, four photographs of a sombrero-shaped UFO were taken by a | | 19-year-old student named McCarthy at a quarry off of highway 5 near | | Waterdown, Ontario, Canada shortly after 1:00 p.m. The UFO was | | described as being the size of a DC-8 airliner. The UFO had many | | unblinking lights, and flew from east to west, while maneuvering, at | | a low altitude. (Source: APRO Bulletin, October 1975, p. 1). | | | | 1977 - In 1997 several men in cars from Canaan, New Hampshire chased a | | silent, elongated nocturnal light through three towns at 8:45 p.m. | | EST. At 8:30 p.m. MST a V formation of fast moving lights, most | | likely from a single, very large craft, were seen heading toward | | Prescott, Arizona. (Sources: Francis Ridge, UFO Info News; Michael | | Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 333). | | | | 1978 - On the evening of this date an auto mechanic observing a UFO | | through binoculars in North Charleston, South Carolina was rendered | | unconscious and levitated by a tubular, aquamarine beam of light. | | Amnesia followed and he found himself alone in a field miles away | | from where he had encountered the disc-shaped UFO. Through hypnosis | | he recalled an abduction sequence by four-and-a-half-foot tall beings | | with spongy white skin, big eyes and head, that wore rust colored | | jump suits. Among the features of the abduction included a physical | | exam on a table inside the UFO, being given messages and an artifact. | | (Source: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 294). | | | | 1982 - Mr. J. Duty, an Army reservist, watched a domed disc-shaped UFO hover | | off to the left side of a highway in Flatwoods, Kentucky around 10:40 | | p.m. in 1982. The disc had red, green, blue, and white lights around | | its base, which blinked in rotation. It made a humming noise, circled | | the witness's car, then flew away. (Source: George Parsons, field | | investigator, CUFOS investigation files; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO | | Journal, November 1982, p. 13). | | | | 1995 - In 1995 two bright white UFOs paced a car southwest of Falkirk, | | Scotland at 8:30 p.m. then zoomed away in opposite directions. | | (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1995). | | | | 2003 - A married couple outside gardening in Buckhaven, Fife, | | Scotland at 3:30 p.m. in the afternoon saw a black, oval-shaped UFO | | 8-12 feet wide fly out from behind a rood only 100-130 feet away. The | | lower part of the object was revolving, and it had a pinkish-red | | flashing light on it. The ends of the objects looked like manta-ray | | fins, and it floated oddly through the sky for four minutes. They | | claim to have taken photographs. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 webpage of archived UFO | | reports). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: cigar-shaped UFOs; di | | sc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; electro-magnetic (EM) interference with | | electronics in an aircraft and a missile; humming or rumbling sounds; | | maneuvering UFOs; metallic or aluminum colored UFOs; nautical UFO (U | | FO seen entering sea); UFOs surrounded by mist, vapor or smoke; UFOs | | changing colors; vehicle EM electrical interference; vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+