+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 1 | | | | 1897 - On this evening a mystery airship flew over Winnipeg, | | Manitoba, Canada. It followed the river to the east, then made a | | sharp turn over a hospital. Also on the same night a well-lighted | | flying object with a clear outline flew over Shiloh, Ohio and was | | reported by a Mr. Chamberlain. It was supported by a narrow, 70 foot | | long cylindrical vessel that looked to be inflated. (Sources: (1) | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 206, citing UFO Roundup; | | Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 46, citing the | | Ashland Press, May 13, 1897). | | | | 1952 - At 5:32 a.m. two men who worked for the Atomic Energy | | Commission, Eggan and Shipley, sighted a silver, wingless object at | | Moses Lake, Washington for 90 seconds. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case 1174; Kevin D. Randle, | | Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261). | | | | 1952 - At 10:50 a.m. several Air Force officers and enlisted men at | | George AFB in San Bernardino County, California watched five flat, | | white discs make a sudden 90 degree turn, then disappear. The | | sighting lasted half a minute. (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, case 1176; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek | | UFO Report, p. 107; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of | | Multiple UFO, p. 108; UNICAT database, case 263, citing J. Allen | | Hynek, Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, | | p. 261; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: | | Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 401). | | | | 1957 - On or about this day a motorcyclist was traveling down a road | | near the Pajas Blancas Airport in Cordoba province, Argentina shortly | | after 7 a.m. when his motorcycle stalled. The driver then saw a | | disc-shaped object 20 meters in diameter, hovering 15 meters above | | the ground. An elevator descended from the base, and a human-like | | being of average height, around five foot eight inches tall, was seen | | in the elevator. The witness was offered the choice of whether he | | wanted to enter the craft or not, and he decided to go inside the | | craft. Inside there were another five or six men dressed in something | | similar to diving suits working some instrument panels. He was taken | | for a 30 minute ride. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, case 393, citing The Humanoids: FSR Special | | Edition No. 1, p. 35; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 63; David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A0417, citing The Humanoids). | | | | 1966 - A low-flying oval-shaped object with bright rotating red, | | green and white lights flew over the Watertown Arsenal in Middlesex | | County, Massachusetts at 10:00 p.m. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, case | | investigation, report dated May 6, 1966; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341). | | | | Watertown, Massachusetts UFO - 1966 | | | | [] | | | | 1967 - At 10 p.m. nine witnesses in Simoca, Tucuman province, | | Argentina, returning from a hunting expedition, were riding on a | | trailer being pulled by a tractor when they observed a very bright | | object in the sky that they first thought was the moon. The object | | emitted an intense orange-reddish light and approached rapidly at | | high speed. It briefly moved away, but returned when one of the men | | signaled at it with a flashlight. It then hovered over the tractor, | | swinging back and forth like a pendulum. It was a domed disc, shaped | | like to plates put together with a crystal-like dome on top. Around | | its edge they could see several square window-like openings, from | | which a bluish light emanated. They also saw the figure of a man come | | out of one of the windows, who then moved up to the dome and then | | climbed back down to the window and entered. Finally the UFO moved | | away, gaining altitude and disappearing at high speed. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Proyecto | | CATENT, Argentina). | | | | 1971 - Motion picture film was shot of a blazing saucer-shaped object | | over Mar del Plata, Argentina between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Many | | witnesses of this seaside city watched as the object hovered for | | several minutes, maneuvered in the sky, and then arched away to the | | west. The photographer's name was Lenzi. (Sources: Phenomenes | | Spatiaux, June 1971; FSR, July 1973, p. 31). | | | | 1974 - Samuel Faria, age 27, was returning home from the center of | | Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil at 11:30 p.m. when he saw on the | | street corner a little manno more than a meter tall, clad in clothing | | like an "astronaut." Faria approached to within 30 feet of him, | | whereupon the little man pointed a flashlight kind of instrument at | | him and him in the eyes with a beam of light, temporarily blinding | | him. Sr. Faria ran for his uncle's house, only 20 meters away, and | | succeeded in reaching it. The little man wore no helmet, and had | | muscular arms. In February 1973 Faria had seen a luminous, ring | | shaped UFO hovering low over his uncle's garden, and on March 11 of | | that same year had been seized by a creature while returning from the | | bathhouse in the garden, and encounter that left claw markson his | | upper arms. These marks remained for eight months. (Source: David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1974-84 (A1672), citing Marcos Alexandre Fundao of SBEDV; FSR, | | February 1978, p. 15). | | | | 1975 - A bright yellow-orange ball of light was seen at low altitude | | over the village of Lezay, Deux Sevres, France at 11:10 p.m. It | | hovered 3-4 meters from the ground and made a flapping sound. It was | | estimated to be 3.1 meters in diameter, and played cat-and-mouse with | | the police through the trees for 35 minutes. It's possible that the | | object made a brief landing. (Sources: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis | | Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees | | en France, p. 552; UNICAT database, case 219). | | | | 1979 - At around 4:00 a.m. some goats in Las Vizcacheras, Mendoza, | | Argentina fled their pen in panic. The noise from the goats woke the | | three witnesses, a group of petroleum engineers and technicians. A | | rectangular UFO was then seen hovering 20 meters above the ground, | | just 70 meters from the witnesses. It gave off colored streams of | | light as it took off. There was a circle found at the landing site of | | hardened ground. (Sources: UNICAT database, case 602, citing Victorio | | Corradi; Jane Thomas, UFO News Clipping Service, August 1979, p. 11, | | citing Radiolandia, May 25, 1979; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, | | p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year | | Report, p. 265). | | | | 1981 - A 26-year-old woman reported a large white glowing disc-shaped | | object just 150 feet from her home in Clark County, Washington at | | around 4:00 a.m. It made a humming sound and flew off to the south | | toward Oregon. The incident lasted slightly less than a minute. | | (Source: Greg Long, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 16). | | | | 1988 - Ed Walters reported another abduction experience that began at | | 1:20 a.m. in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He found himself walking along a | | dirt path in a dark wooded area near his hom. He soon saw a hovering | | lighted object overhead and attempted to photograph it, but was soon | | surrounded by several figures that grabbed him from behind. The | | beings seemed to move in short bursts of speed. He remembers falling | | down and then being surrounded by at least 20 of the creatures. Each | | one was equipped with a silver rod and covered in a box like suit. He | | was then unable to move. They picked him up and carried him, and it | | was then that he noticed that their hands felt rough. He experienced | | a burning pain that twisted down his spinal cord like an electrical | | shock, and he was able to move again. The creatures then scattered | | about him. He felt a voice in his head that constantly talked to him, | | calling him by the name of "Zehaas." He rolled on the sand and tried | | to grab the nearest being but missed. He then rushed the creatures, | | who had now formed a circle around him. One of the creatures rushed | | forward and touched him on the shoulder with one of the silver rods, | | causing a white flash. He was then hit repeatedly with the silver | | rods, at times causing pain. He continued to struggle and fell | | backwards on top of one of the creatures. He noticed at this point | | that the creature wore a helmet. The being began to struggle and a | | sour smell, like mildew filled Walters nostrils. Finally the struggle | | ended when Walters became unconscious. Upon recovering consciousness | | he found himself in a hazy pie-shaped hazy room, where he presumes he | | was given a medical examination. The missing time experience lasted | | 75 minutes. (Sources: Ed Walters, UFO Abductions in Gulf Breeze; | | Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 216). | | | | 1989 - At 2:30 a.m., in Metcalf, Illinois the mother of the principal | | witness had gotten up to go to the bathroom when she noticed that the | | electricity was off. She then saw a strange being with large eyes | | peering at her through the window and screamed. At this point her | | adult son, a repeat UFO abductee, got up and fired a gun four times | | at the being through the window. Four other tall humanoids with | | dangling arms were observed standing near a power pole. The | | electrical power came back on. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, Regional | | Encounters: the Filter Center Files, p. 115). | | 1989 - At 5:00 a.m a woman in Hollywood, California was on her way to | | work when she experienced a long period of missing time. Later she | | was able to recall that she had been taken onboard a craft and had | | been greeted by a man in a blue coverall. She was then taken to a | | room with a large screen. She could see outside the object through | | the screen. She was told they were going to visit a planet called | | “Erra.” She was then taken to a place with numerous forests and | | trails and very rich in oxygen. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1989, case HC # 754, citing Jim Brandt, Far Out, | | Summer 1993). | | | | 1992 - Two men, Lycett and Hazelgrove, were driving down the A22 | | Highway in Polegate, East Sussex, England at 10:20 p.m. when they | | sighted a silent flying object with red flashing lights. They thought | | its outline looked like a DC-9 airplane about to crash, but the nose | | of the object pulled up and turned toward the witnesses' car, who | | then thought it was going to crash into them. They sped up, and when | | they looked behind the object was gone. (Source: Timothy Good, Alien | | Update, p. 266; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1992, citing the | | Eastbourne Gazzette, May 13, 1992). | | | | 2001 - A bizarre hairy creature was sighted in the village of Anand | | Vihar, India on this night. Hundreds of villagers armed with farm | | tools as weapons searched for hours in an attempt to hunt it down and | | kill it, but the search failed to find anything. On the same night | | three workers claimed they were woken up and attacked by a"masked | | man", who reportedly threatened to kill them in the Bhojpuri | | language. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 2001 Humanoid Contact Database, | | citing Mystery Magazine.com). | | | | 2003 - A married couple driving in West Seattle, Washington sighted a | | silent triangular object moving across the sky at 10:00 p.m. It had a | | dim orange light at each apex, and the lights seemed striped rather | | than solid. It flew off to the northwest. When they got home they | | noticed that their dog was trembling, and acting very lethargic. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 | | archived webpage). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 24 April 2007). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reactions: goats and do | | g panic, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, free will abduction, hairy hu | | manoid, human looking UFOnauts, missing time, multicolored UFO, multi | | -year reports from Argentina and Washington State, oval-shaped UFO wi | | th revolving lights, short humanoid, UFOs responding to light signal. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+