+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 25 | | | | 1897 - People returning from church in Merkel, Texas observed a heavy | | object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying | | craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too | | high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light | | could be distinguished. After about ten minutes a man came down along | | the rope and cut the end free. He climbed back aboard the craft, | | which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed | | in a light blue uniform. (Sources: Houston Daily Post, April 28, | | 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, | | p. 24; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. | | 185). | | | | 1898 - Astronomer Michailovitch at the Belgrade Observatory in | | Serbia, Yugoslavia sighted a fireball at 9:32 p.m. that stopped still | | in the sky and hovered in one spot for six minutes before continuing | | on. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 17; Ion | | Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. | | 196). | | | | 1950 - A series of unknown lights and UFOs where seen near the Dugway | | Proving Grounds in Utah. A "flying icebox," surrounded by an aura of | | spears was seen over the Ammunition Storage Area near Dougway | | Mountain at 3:00 a.m. A 24-hour search of the area ensued. (Sources: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1950: April-July, p. 34). | | | | 1950 - At 4:00 p.m. a 200 foot long cone-shaped device flew over the | | Vancouver, British Columbia airport at 15,000 feet altitude, and | | there were many calls to the police and news media. A white substance | | hung about the tail of the object but it left no condensation trail. | | The sighting lasted one minute. (Sources: The Oregonian, April 26, | | 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 35). | | | | 1952 - At three a.m. a shining white metallic disc with legs, a | | ladder, a tube, and a transparent dome landed in the Serchio River in | | Liguria, Italy. It shot red beams of light at the witnesses, who were | | able to avoid being hit by them by jumping into a ditch. (Source: | | Marco Marianti, FSR, June 1977, p. 31). | | | | 1954 - Three trained weather observers at Kadena Air Force Base in | | Kadena, Japan sighted bluish-white circular objects overhead at 11:30 | | p.m. The USAF specialists named Spillem, Duracher, and Conner watched | | the UFOs make two circles,  then zigzag to the south. They made | | another circle, and then went off to the southeast. Circular, | | bluish-white in color. No sound, no radar tracks, no balloons aloft. | | | | 1959 - Luis Da Silva saw a "red hot" colored disc in the sky on the | | evening of April 23rd in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Around midnight of April | | 23-24 he awoke and felt the need to go outside to the garden. There | | he found a noted that told him to return the following night at 1:30 | | a.m. When he did so, a circular UFO appeared in the air 300 feet | | above the ground, and he felt himself paralyzed. A man descended from | | the UFO in a slow spiral, but when he reached the ground he stopped | | above it and his feet did not quite touch the ground. He wore a | | helmet and some form of plastic clothing, and gloves looking like | | they were made of a transparent, glass material. He told Da Silva to | | return on Thursday at 2:05 a.m., and then re-ascended in a spiral | | into the craft. On Thursday the same sequence of events occurred, but | | the next time three entities descended in sequence. The last one of | | these men asked Da Silva for a piece of paper, and inscribed upon it | | a message of some kind, written in indescipherable markings. | | (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1959-07, citing Dr. Walter Buhler; Flying Saucer | | Review, May-June 1967, p. 7). | | | | 1960 - Mrs. M. Clark of Shelby, Montana saw five circular or round | | objects fly in a trail formation, hover, accelerate, and make sharp | | turns. A strong white light beam shone down from the balls of light | | (BOL), which had a red glow. They flew at a low altitude, and made | | sharp turns. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 6727; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; | | Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 18). | | | | Shelby, Montana Red Ball of Light - Project Blue Book Unknown - 1960 | | | | [April 25, 1960 Shelby Montana] | | | | 1966 - On this night at around 8:15 p.m. two motorists in Towanda, | | Pennsylvania felt heat and had their car engine and headlights fail | | when they encountered a UFO with four portholes hovering about 350 | | feet away, with flames shooting off of it. (Sources: Timothy Green | | Beckley, Flying Saucers, December 1969, p. 21; Berthold E. Schwarz, | | Beyond Condon: FSR Special Edition No. 2, p. 46; Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 29). | | | | 1966 - At 8:52 p.m. EDT the governor of Florida's plane was paced by | | two UFOs over Ocala, Florida. The crew and passengers of the Convair | | aircraft carrying Florida Governor Haydon Burns sighted two | | apparently connected bright yellow or yellow-orange globe-shaped | | objects that paced the plane for about 40 miles. Witnesses included | | newsmen and state officials. When Burns ordered his pilot to turn | | toward the UFOs, they climbed steeply and disappeared. (Sources: Palm | | Beach Post, April 28, 1966; NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1966. p. | | 3; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers Here and Now, p. 59; Richard H. | | Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117). | | | | 1968 - A "saucer nest" crop circle was found in sugar cane near West | | Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It was oval in shape, 70 feet by 36 | | feet. (Sources: Stan Seers, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 4; Ted R. | | Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 321). | | | | 1969 - At 7:30 p.m. a ten-meter diameter disc-shaped object was seen | | hovering over a park in Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia by | | three witnesses. A Greenacre woman, Mrs. Froml, and her 13-year old | | daughter were going home by taxi. When they passed Roberts Park they | | saw the object hovering over a playing field lit by floodlights, | | where some youths were playing football. The floodlights formed a | | kind of ceiling over the field and it was unlikely that had any of | | the players looked up, they would have seen anything. The object was | | football shaped, the top was transparent, and the bottom was a | | greenish metallic color, like gun metal. It had an interior light | | that was "the brightest blue imaginable," and the bottom portion had | | three large transparent holes. The object was tilted downward, and | | inside the object could be seen three tall humanoid figures, over six | | feet tall. in the transparent upper half of the UFO. One pointed down | | at the witnesses and then turned toward a rectangular, lighted area, | | apparently working some controls. Mrs Froml asked the cabbie, a Greek | | immigrant, to stop the taxi, but instead he accelerated away from the | | park and drove straight to her home. After he dropped her and her | | daughter off, he left in a frightened state, without collecting his | | fare. (Sources: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 126; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1112, | | citing Keith Basterfield and investigator David Reneke). | | | | 1971 - About 9:00 p.m. a woman near Pottstown, Pennsylvania spotted a | | luminous object over a farmer's field while driving on a rural road. | | It was a very bright, pulsating light. It would move and stop, move | | and stop, in a jerking manner. She first thought the object was | | something conventional like an aircraft light, but its strange motion | | seemed to belie that explanation. The woman stopped the car next to | | the field and just studied the object. The object was about as high | | as the light on a radio tower. She rolled down her window see if | | there was any engine noise, but there was none. (Source: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, May 1971, page 3) | | | | 1974 - A domed disc-shaped object hovered nearby an apartment | | building in Marcinelle, Belgium at 10:30 p.m. It inclined toward the | | witness, a single woman named Bouchez who was inside the building, | | and then shot three beams of light over the apartment building. | | (Source: Michel Abrassart, Inforespace, June 1975, p. 41). | | | | 1975 - Three events occurred in Rugles, Eure, France during this | | remarkable experience that lasted over an hour, beginning at 9:30 | | p.m. First, a meteor was seen shooting through the sky. Next, a 40 | | meter diameter dome with a  smaller disc was seen. Finally, a small | | glowing dome appeared inside a room. (Source: GEPA Phenomenes | | Spatiaux, September 1975). | | | | 1976 - At 10:30 p.m. a 12 meter in diameter UFO crossed the road in | | front of a car being driven by a Mr. Y. Vandenbroek in Tervuren, | | Belgium, at an altitude of 100 meters. Suddenly four searchlights | | were turned on inside the object, and directed at the ground. The | | object moved silently, tilted at an angle after five minutes, and | | moved away slowly. There were eight witnesses from four separate | | families. (Source: Rudy de Groote, UFO Register, volume 7 (1976), p. | | 31, citing the Gazzette Antwerpen). | | | | 1977 - At 3:50 a.m. eight soldiers on a military patrol on the Pampa | | Lluscuma, Chile suddenly saw a bright light nearby. The soldiers' dog | | and horses remained still while the lights hovered nearby. The leader | | of the group, Corporal Armando Valdes, ordered the other soldiers to | | put out their campfire. The two large lights were about 800 meters | | away, and hovering close to the ground. Cpl. Valdes approached the | | lights, ordering them to identify themselves. At this point a bright | | light enveloped Valdes and he vanished in plain view of the others. | | The others began frantically searching for him but they were unable | | to find him. At around 4:15 a.m. Valdes suddenly reappeared. He had a | | strange look on his face and he emitted a sinister laugh, asking | | several times where his mother was. Then he said, again in a very | | sinister sounding voice, "you will never know who we are and where we | | come from." | | | | The others noticed that he appeared to have a week's growth of beard, | | whereas he had been clean-shaven just an hour ago, and his digital | | watch indicated the impossible date of April 30. He was almost in | | hysterics and one of the soldiers had to slap him, at which point he | | fainted. One of the other soldiers, Raul Salinas, who had been | | standing a few meters back of the others, noticed a strange humanoid | | creature behind some nearby rocks. He described it as half animal and | | half human; no facial features were visible, but it seemed to be | | wearing a helmet and was carrying a red light. Salinas was stunned to | | see the creature appear at several places simultaneously, he thought | | that maybe it could have been several humanoids. He did not mention | | this to the others at the time, since they were already scared, but | | the others did not see the humanoid or humanoids. When Valdes woke up | | he could not remember where he had been. It is assumed the Chilean | | military conducted various medical tests on Valdes. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 3062, citing Diego | | Contreras & Raul Nunez). | | | | 1978 - At 2:15 a.m. a UFO with an inside occupant was sighted by a | | Mr. Hake while driving along Highway 83 in Baltimore, Maryland. The | | close encounter lasted several minutes. (Source: CUFOS files, report | | received in 1978). | | | | 1978 - At 2:30 in the afternoon the witness was in her kitchen in | | Villamare Di Sapri, Italy when she noticed a large luminous sphere; | | clear in color descend to the ground nearby. The witness went to | | fetch a camera. At this point the sphere seemed to shrink in size and | | a short being wearing a bright orange coverall type suit stepped out. | | The being walked around looking in all directions. Its face appeared | | brighter than the rest of the body and it had human like features. On | | its head it wore a cone-shaped device or cap. It moved in short steps | | and bounds. This apparently frightened the witness who yelled for her | | husband. The being glanced at the witness and then ran behind a | | nearby tree stump. A thick fog then began forming in the area and | | simultaneously the luminous sphere shrank in size and dissolved into | | nothing. The being apparently disappeared also. (Sources: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue # 207 (July 1981); Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database, case # 1536; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO | | Catalogue). | | | | 1978 - At 7:00 p.m.a witness on the shore in Vittorio, Sicily, Italy | | observed through binoculars a glowing "boat"  5 kilometers offshore. | | It then ascends, and hovers in the sky for 45 minutes. It had two | | antennas at the ends of the object. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | July 1981). | | | | 1978 - Later that same day UFO investigator Pat De La Franier was in | | his office in Stratford, Ontario going over some UFO reports when | | there was a sudden knock at the door. Where his office is located he | | could ordinarily hear everyone coming through the main door when | | admitted through the security door, and then hear their footsteps | | walking down the hall. But this knock came abruptly, and when he | | opened the door there was a very odd-looking man standing there. He | | was dressed entirely in black. He was about five and a half feet | | tall, extremely thin, with a somewhat unusually large head. His hair | | looked like it had been completely shaved and the hair was just | | growing back. His skin had an unusual olive hue. His lips were very | | thin and his cheeks were sunken in. His eyes were dark and so | | elongated that they literally wrapped around his temples. La Franier | | had never seen eyes like that, "They just bored into me". The | | stranger just stood there staring at him. La Franier was fixated by | | his eyes and he felt somehow intruded upon on a mental level. After a | | full minute the man spoke. "Would you like a photograph of your | | family?" It was a strange question, and his voice was very strange, | | too. It was low and hesitant as if this man had absolutely a poor | | conception of how to put a sentence together. The English was | | flawless, but he struggle to get through the sentence. La Franier | | said no, he did not need any more pictures. And with that the | | stranger stepped back, turned and just disappeared. The man was | | completely gone. Later La Franier discovered that many of his papers | | were missing. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, | | citing Susan Michaels, Sightings: UFOs). | | | | 1981 - In Beijing, China at 7:00 a.m. a bullet-shaped ellipsoid, with | | the middle of the object white and the bottom green, glowed and hung | | in the sky in a vertical position. It moved slowly, then stopped, and | | finally shot away fast. The sighting lasted 25 minutes. (Source: | | Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 216). | | | | 1981 - At 3:54 a.m. a dog barked excitedly at the same time a married | | couple saw a bright light hovering over some nearby woods in | | Ottoville, Ohio. The object repeatedly moved up-and-down as it | | remained in one part of the sky. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, | | July 1981, p. 3, citing the Putnam County Sentinel, April 29, 1981). | | | | 1982 - Three people in a car in Clare, South Australia noticed a red | | glow in the sky at 8:30 p.m. It approached and followed their car for | | three kilometers. It was described as a ball of fire with white | | streaks through it. (Source: Keith Basterfield case files, citing The | | Advertiser, April 27, 1982). | | | | 1984 - At 5:30 p.m. a silver colored, 150 foot long, bulbous-shaped | | object with a long tail hung in the sky, rocking back and forth 80 | | feet above the ground over a garden in Blairgowrie, The Orkney | | Islands, Scotland. Mrs. Freeman's dog cowered, and she was | | temporarily blinded by a ball of light from the object that struck | | her and entered her body, and she felt the warmth emitted by it but | | at the same time felt a sensation of calm. A beam of light flowed | | upward from the object. After a few minutes the object vanished in a | | pink flash. (Sources: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History | | of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 125; Jenny Randles, International | | UFO Reporter, March 1986, p. 7). | | | | 1984 - Structural details of a UFO were observed by three witnesses | | in a car as the UFO passed over them at 100 feet while they were | | driving down American Canyon Road in Napa, California. The UFO was | | first seen at 9:55 p.m., and described as delta shaped and over 300 | | feet wide. It flew away up the canyon, and was in sight for five | | minutes. (Sources: Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, May | | 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984). | | | | 1993 - A six meter diameter white glowing disc was seen revolving | | clockwise over the road in Petit Palais, Gironde, France by two | | witnesses at 11:40 p.m. It followed their car for 50 kilometers. | | (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16030, citing | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 341). | | | | 1994 - A large disc-shaped craft landed in a field 25 miles from | | Great Falls, Montana at 10:30 p.m. It was seen by several witnesses. | | It was described as being the size of a jeep, with flashing red and | | blue lights. When witnesses flashed car headlights at it, it flashed | | a brilliant white light, and then shot straight up and away. (Source: | | Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, pp. 87 & | | 157, citing B. Knell). | | | | 1995 - A very bright ball of light entered a bedroom in Portland, | | Oregon at 12:30 a.m. making a loud humming sound. The male witness | | could feel heat coming from the object, and felt paralyzed. The | | incident lasted 75 minutes. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 17219; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 1997 - A man took a photograph of a mountain in St. Barnabe, | | Alpes-Maritime, France in the early afternoon. After being developed | | the photograph clearly showed a gray saucer-shaped object that was | | not witnessed at the time. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case 17921, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1997). | | | | 1998 - Three friends in Manito, Illinois saw a light, which broke | | into two disks, and then into three. (Source: Jay Rath, The I-Files: | | True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 76, citing | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center., April 1998 webpage). | | | | 2001 - At 6:10 p.m. a small silver cone-shaped object was seen in the | | sky over Ajax, Ontario during daylight hours. It had no wings, and | | flew from the southwest to northwest for 15 to 20 seconds. (Source: | | Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 107, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2001 - On this evening a very strange object was reported by | | civilians and law enforcement officers in Waynesville, Ohio. From | | their home a husband and wife were the first to report a circular | | lighted object hovering silently in the southern sky. The big light | | on the UFO, pulsating and changing in both color and brightness, | | was encased within a structure that resembled gridwork. The couple | | called the Lebanon City Police Department around 10:15 p.m. and the | | Warren County Communications Center dispatched a Waynesville police | | officer to the location. Upon arrival at the scene the officer | | confirmed the presence of the object and also reported that a second | | UFO was also in the area. (Source: www.nicap.org 2001 UFO Chronology, | | citing Kenny Young). | | | | 2001 - In the evening a huge ball of light forty feet above | | the ground was seen by residents in Scartaglin, Ireland. It moved | | away giving off blue, yellow and green flashes. (Source: Dermot | | Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 103, citing | | People, April 29, 2001). | | | | 2001 - In San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico a bright light was | | witnessed following a cylindrical nose near the ground at 7:00 p.m. | | It moving linearly southward without making a noise or leaving a | | trail. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, April 2001 webpage). | | | | 2001 - At 10:50 p.m. a dark triangle-shaped object with four lights | | was sighted by a single witness in Powell River, British Columbia | | travelling from west to east at high speed. The sighting lasted five | | seconds. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 106, | | citing NUFORC). | | | | 2004 - At 1:20 a.m. a V-shaped object flew past the witness' window | | in Kelowna, British Columbia so low that it was illuminated by | | streetlights. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, | | case 245, citing HBCCUFO). | | | | 2005 - There were two reports of a diamond shaped UFO with four main | | lights, along with a bunch of small white lines on the underneath | | part, from Lompoc, California to the National UFO Reporting Center. | | The sightings occurred at 2:50 a.m. The UFO made a horribly loud, | | high pitched humming sound. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2005 webpage). | | | | 2006 - Between 2:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. a teardrop shaped, | | silver/chrome metallic flying object, 3-4 feet wide by 8 feet to 10 | | feet long, flew just 50 feet above the witnesses' car while they were | | driving on east bound I-70, about 50 miles west of Green River, Utah. | | The buzzing by the object was brief, and lasted only 2-3 seconds. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2006 | | webpage, reported June 24, 2006). | | 2007 - In Northern India (exact location not given), the witness was | | returning home from work at 2:00 a.m. when suddenly the road in front | | of him ‘disappeared’ because there was a huge bus-like object with no | | wheels hovering over the road, blocking it. He then flashed on the | | car high beams to get a better look, and when he did this the | | object split in two and there was a very bright flash of light, | | lighting up everything briefly like daytime. A creature descended | | from the object and looked at the witness. Terrified, he turned the | | car’s headlights off, but kept the engine running so he could escape | | in the event of an attack. However, the being seemed to ignore him. | | It looked humanoid but was about 7-8 feet tall and quite bulky and | | hairy like a bear. The head was slightly bigger than that of an | | average man. It was carrying an instrument that looked like a crystal | | cube with a handle. It raised the instrument and waved it around | | briefly, and then took out a box and put the instrument in it. It | | then approached the witness’s car and as it approached the witness | | felt heat and a ‘force of high magnitude’. When it was about a meter | | away from him the man fainted due to the intense pressure he was | | feeling, like a G-force caused by high speed acceleration. He | | regained consciousness after 10 minutes, and the creature and the | | object were gone. There was a depression in the road about one foot | | in depth and 10-12 feet in diameter, where the UFO had been hovering. | | The witness rushed home but was unable to sleep. The next day, while | | going to the office, he stopped at the same spot and noticed that | | somehow the road had been repaired. (Sources: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2007 webpage, report | | uploaded June 12, 2007; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 2007, citing NUFORC). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 22 April 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO encounter; animal reactions: dogs barking or | | cowering in fear; blue uniform; cone-shaped cap; cone-shaped UFOs; di | | amond UFOs; disappearance; domed discs; fog or mist; landings; loud h | | umming sounds; man-in-black (MIB); multi-year reports for Belgium, Br | | itish Columbia and Italy; nautical UFO (UFO lands in river); physiolo | | gical effects: paralysis, red beams of light, sensations of heat and | | pressure; short humanoids; spheres; tall humanoids; time distortion; | | trance state behavior by close encounter experiencer; triangle UFO; u | | p-and-down motion; vehicle ignition EM interference; vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+