+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 1 | | | | 1946 - At 6:00 p.m. three military witnesses including the pilot | | named Puckett, flying in a twin engine C-47 transport 40 miles north | | of Tampa, Florida at 4,000 feet altitude, sighted a cylinder-shaped | | UFO with luminous portholes that flew in front of the plane. The | | cylinder was about twice the size of a B-29, and approached to within | | 1,000 yards. It covered 75 miles in three minutes and appeared on a | | collision course with the aircraft. The stream of fiery exhaust from | | the craft was about half the length of the unknown object. (Sources: | | NICAP files, report dated July 24, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying | | Saucers: Top Secret, p. 102; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 23; | | UNICAT, case # 669). | | | | 1947 - At 8:30 p.m. three dark metallic domed discs flew over the | | mountains of Areches, Savoie, France heading east-northeast. They | | made no sound, and had rotating rims. (Source: Phenomenes Spatiaux, | | June 1968). | | | | 1948 - On this morning everyone on a Air France airliner flying over | | the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Saigon, Vietnam saw a huge | | metallic cigar-shaped object flying south, and then make a 90-degree | | turn into the clouds. Later that day at Clark Field in the | | Philippines American military observers also sighted a wingless | | cigar-shaped object with a row of lights. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, | | Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers are | | Real, p. 72). | | | | 1949 - In Tampico, Mexico in the State of Veracruz a torpedo-shaped | | UFO zipped over the countryside. It was described as looking like a | | "4th of July sparkler." (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | Volume 2: 1949, p. 18) | | | | 1951 - Three witnesses including police from Beausoleil, France in | | the Alpes-Maritime viewed a transparent bubble in the sky at nine | | o'clock in the evening. Two human-looking occupants of the | | transparent sphere watched the street and the crowd below. The bubble | | flew off towards the north-northeast. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue 175). | | | | 1952 - At 1:14 a.m. two brilliant red lights hovered together and | | maneuvered for five minutes over Lancaster, California. Witnesses | | included sheriff deputies. One light swung in a pendulum motion, the | | other shot off to the southeast. (Sources: Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook UFO Unknowns; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted | | in official statistics, case #1771). | | | | 1952 - At ten o'clock in the morning in Afton, New York UFOs first | | appeared near the position of the Sun and then dispersed across the | | sky. Scattered disc-shaped objects were seen in the skies for the | | next two hours. At 10:10 a.m. a large group of UFOs described as | | looking like "70 white ping pong balls" passed across the sky in | | Sidney, New York flying from the southwest to the northeast. | | (Sources: Tiffany Thayer, Doubt, 1953, p. 206; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: | | A History. 1952: August, p. 17; and UFOs: A History. 1952: | | November-December, p. 13). | | | | 1955 - Joseph Whaley, age 20, was cutting the grass along Highway 118 | | in Bronwood, Georgia when he saw a six-foot “gorilla” come running | | towards him. It was covered with shaggy gray hair and had tusk like | | teeth, and it grunted like a pig. Whaley struck at it with his scythe | | and then ran to this jeep, but it pursued him and clawed at him, | | ripping his shirt and scratching his shoulder. It moved “in a | | lumbering and slow moving” manner. (Sources: Atlanta Constitution, | | August 3, 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case # 1955-14 (A0376)). | | | | 1955 - Mr. Sheneman had just driven home from Willoughby, Ohio and | | was preparing to go into his house at around 9:00 p.m. He got out of | | his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it. The UFO | | came down fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness | | fled toward his house while the object appeared to pursue him less | | than 70 meters above the ground. The domed disc was estimated to | | measure about 30 meters in diameter. His wife and their two children | | saw it fly away. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), | | p. 114; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | p. 250). | | | | 1955 - On this night two tourists in a car in Salon, near Arles, | | France saw a lighted object dive toward them and hover 30 meters | | above the road. The disc-shaped object flew around the car and flew | | away without making a sound. The witnesses went straight to the Arles | | police. (Source: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250). | | | | 1962 - A large metallic oval-shaped object surfaced 300 meters away | | from three fisherman in two boats off of Le Brusc, France in the | | Mediterranean Sea. They first believed it was a foreign submarine. | | About a dozen "frogmen" emerged from the water and climbed aboard. | | The fishermen called out but the figures ignored them, except the | | last three, who turned to look at the fishermen. The very last one | | waved. Then the craft rose out of water, and suspended itself | | effortlessly above the waves, as red and green lights came on and a | | white light beam like a searchlight played toward the witnesses. The | | beam was extinguished, the red and green lights went out, and the | | object, now glowing an orange color and clearly oval in shape, rose a | | further 20 meters into the air and began to rotate, its light | | becoming more intensely red. At last, it moved silently in a graceful | | arc above the fishermen, and disappeared rapidly into the night | | sky. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1971; FSR Case | | Histories, April 1973, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1962-5 (A0537), citing LDLN | | Lecture Series III, number 5). | | | | 1965 - At around seven p.m. a 15-year-old boy named San Roman Nunez | | in Lima, Peru watched a saucer-shaped UFO descend and land nearby. A | | 3.5 foot tall being emerged from the object. It was "greenish" with | | hair covered with green lights, and "looked like a toad." The boy | | fled. (Sources: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition | | No. 1, p. 41; John A. Keel, Strange Creatures From Time and Space, p. | | 150). | | | | 1966 - At 12:30 a.m. EDT citizens and police in College Park, Lanham, | | Bowie, Seat Pleasant, and elsewhere around Prince Georges County, | | Maryland saw maneuvering, fast-moving lighted objects. When a police | | officer approached a hovering object that had pulsating red, green, | | and white lights, it began a series of maneuvers, descended almost to | | the ground, then sped away "like a shot." Before it sped away, the | | object emitted a strange multi-colored light beam that moved rapidly | | to the ground, which was also observed by another police officer. | | Andrews AFB denied to a County police dispatcher that they had any | | unknown objects on radar, but the dispatcher said a control tower | | operator had acknowledged seeing a fast-moving lighted object, and he | | later learned that Andrews did indeed have a UFO on its radar but | | would not admit it officially. (Source: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, August-September 1966, p. 4.) | | | | 1966 - At 12:30 a.m. CDT Kathy Palmer, age 14, looked out the window | | of her home in Springfield, Missouri before going to bed and saw a | | luminous object bearing red and blue lights on the lawn. It was about | | six feet long, ovoid shaped, and four feet wide by four feet high, | | and it made a "rattling" sound. From a square hatch two 5-foot tall | | slender occupants emerged, who either had "large heads" or wore | | helmets. They walked about for three minutes, apparently | | communicating with each other, and examined some bicycles. Then they | | returned to the craft and it took off. The total duration of the | | encounter was about 30 minutes in all. At the landing site the grass | | was matted down, and there was a white substance which proved to be | | calcium phosphate. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-31, citing Patricia Rudig | | for NICAP; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO | | Sightings, p. 43, case # 685). | | | | 1966 - At 7:45 p.m. several young witnesses in Rushville, Indiana | | reported seeing an unidentified object at low altitude. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case | | 785).  | | | | 1967 - The wife and daughter of a pastor in Chester, Pennsylvania saw | | three red, metallic, saucer-shaped objects with domes and portholes | | at 9:00 p.m. Two were in the northern sky, and a third approached | | from the north, brightened and changed color to white as it neared. | | It then flew at tree-top level and hovered at low altitude close to | | the witnesses. Finally, it climbed fast and disappeared. The object | | was estimated to be about the size of a two-engine plane. (Source: | | WXUR News report, copy in NICAP files.) | | | | 1968 - At 1:57 a.m. a cigar-shaped UFO flew by Fribourg, Switzerland | | and a disc exited from a square doorway in the craft. It flew around | | and then re-entered the larger craft. Both a camera and a tape | | recorder experienced EM interference effects during the sighting. | | (Source: Gillieron, UFODOC, case E004). | | | | 1971 - At 11:35 p.m. a married couple driving in a car between | | Gladstone and Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia witnessed a circle | | of lights near a river. What should normally have been a two hour | | trip took them only 40 minutes. They have amnesia about what happened | | after sighting the lights in the sky, and an unusual oily residue and | | marks were found on their car. A possible UFO abduction involving | | time loss, a probable translocation, and levitation are suspected. | | Hypnotic regression failed due to the main witness having a violent, | | shaking, fearful reaction to re-envisioning the event in memory. | | (Source: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. | | Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 241; MUFON UFO Journal, August | | 1980, p. 3). | | | | 1971 - At ten p.m. local time a domed oval-shaped UFO, illuminated by | | lightning flashes during a nighttime thunderstorm west of | | Westminster, Maryland, was seen by a family of seven people | | maneuvering over the countryside for 20 minutes. It had a | | bubble-shaped, transparent dome on top. (Source: APRO Bulletin, | | July-August 1971, p. 4). | | | | 1974 - At 2:30 a.m. a four meter long, luminous ovoid object flew | | fast over the beach at Canet-Plage, France. It stopped and hovered in | | place for three hours. It had portholes through which figures could | | be seen inside the craft. It left by shooting off toward the west. It | | was witnessed by a married couple named Rassin. (Source: David F. | | Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A1611, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 146). | | | | 1974 - On this evening in Albemarle, North Carolina a round, orange | | object, bigger and brighter than the full Moon, hovered for 15 | | minutes above the tree tops, and then sped away. (Source: George D. | | Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31; Saga UFO Report, April 1975, p. | | 50). | | | | 1974 - John E. Justice had just left his job at the Ohio Masonic Home | | for the aged in Springfield, Ohio and was driving home when he heard | | a voice tell him "let go the steering wheel." Justice ignored this | | instruction and the order was repeated, calling him "friend." Justice | | did so, and the car continued down the long drive of its own accord. | | The voice, somewhat guttural in tone, came from the passenger seat to | | his right, and Justice could see the seat was depressed, as though | | someone was sitting in it. He asked if he would be harmed, and was | | told, "Friend, I would not harm a hair on your head." Justice then | | asked what he wanted and got no reply. He was told that the voice was | | that of a "spaceman," and he had been in the UFO Justice and another | | witness had seen a few nights earlier. Justice was then told that he | | would be able to see him when he left the car, and was told to look | | above the power lines ahead. He then observed a figure suspended ten | | feet in the air in front of his car. It was perfectly human in | | appearance, a male figure of large build, about 6' 6" tall, holding | | its arms outstretched in front. The being wore a tight fitting, | | silvery outfit with a belt, gloves, and short boots. He was very | | handsome, and illuminated by a strange light. Justice was told that | | he would be visited again. The figure passed from view and Justice | | took control of the steering wheel and continued home, very shaken by | | the experience. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-38 (A1851), citing Jack | | Rockel). | | | | 1976 - At 4:30 a.m. a 20-year-old woman heard a noise and looked out | | her bedroom window in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to see two beings of | | average height. She could not see any facial details. A white light | | went out from these beings toward the east. She heard a loud voice | | talking in an unintelligible language. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-29 | | (A1486), citing Richard Heiden, report dated June 22, 1977). | | 1976 - In New Haven, Connecticut around 6:00 p.m. a man told police | | he had been buzzed by a round silver, dish-shaped object, which froze | | his car as he was driving on Route 63 between Bethany and New Haven. | | When the UFO passed overhead the engine of his car died and the car | | came to a stop. When he tried to leave the vehicle, he said, the door | | wouldn’t budge and he began to feel “tingly”. Eventually he too | | became paralyzed. While this was going on, an object which he felt | | might have taken his picture, appeared below the low flying disk. | | Finally it flew off. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1976, citing MUFON of Connecticut). | | | | 1977 - At around two o'clock in the morning, a man and a woman in | | Steuben, New York who had been involved in a previous UFO encounter a | | week earlier had another encounter with aliens. They watched six or | | seven humanoid beings with glowing green belts, similar to those they | | had seen the week before. Two of them had glowing gray belts, and one | | of the witnesses saw two normal sized human figures that glowed a | | silvery white instead of green. After observing them for an hour they | | woke a third witness, who saw only blue-green lights. When they shone | | a flashlight beam on one of the figures it disappeared, but | | re-appeared when the light beam was removed. It gradually became very | | foggy, so at 4:30 a.m. they went to bed, but the first two witnesses | | thought they could hear the sound of a woman screaming three times, | | and then a door slamming. They experienced headaches and ringing in | | their ears. The third witness, who heard a noise like someone | | chiseling rock and a high-pitched chirping sound, did not suffer from | | a headache. They saw no UFOs that night, but there were | | other reported sightings in the area on subsequent nights. (Sources: | | Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 7; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case 1977-42 (A1747), citing field investigator Douglas Dains for | | CUFOS). | | | | 1978 - A 12-year-old son of a prominent local doctor encountered an | | unusual humanoid creature not far from a mine in an isolated area | | near Lewiston, California. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1978, case # 917, citing Jacques Vallee, | | Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact). | | | | 1978 - A six-month-pregnant woman in Clarksville, Tennessee had been | | taking a nap around 10:00 p.m. when she woke up to see a large craft | | hovering outside the upstairs window, over a nearby wood shack. Her | | husband saw the object too. She fainted but then heard a voice in a | | thick Middle Eastern accent that told her to open her eyes. When she | | did eyes she was confronted by a tall creature resembling an insect, | | thin and white in color, wearing a dark outfit. It communicated with | | her by using telepathy. There were several other similar creatures | | wearing jumpsuits standing in the room. Their heads were large and | | rounded. The witness conducted a mental conversation with the leader, | | and asked it several questions about its origin. The witness suddenly | | panicked and screamed and began to faint, and some of the creatures | | began backing away. But moments later a long needle was painfully | | inserted into her belly. She then passed out, and awoke later to see | | the taller creature talking to the others. At one point the witness | | claimed she saw several helicopters flying around the hovering craft. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # | | 3201, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 1983 - Two young men were driving a truck in Urbanopolis, Minas | | Gerais State, Brazil at eight o'clock in the evening when they felt a | | sensation of cold and increasing atmospheric pressure, heard buzzing, | | and saw a small reddish ellipsoidal light beam strike their truck | | from above. It dragged the truck back from accelerating when the | | driver attempted to drive faster. (Source: Antonio Silva Faleiro, | | APRO Bulletin, December 1984, p. 3). | | | | 1986 - At 10:30 p.m. two men in their thirties, Long and Jandura, | | were fishing from a boat on Banksons Lake, Michigan when they had a | | close encounter with a completely silent 300 foot long triangular | | object that was only 200 feet above the lake. The object had a | | brilliant steady white light and three blinking red lights, and there | | was some type of movement between the lights. The men felt heat | | coming from the object and became very shaky and scared. They | | also experienced some temporary physiological effects: eye damage, | | conjunctivitis, and a swelling and discoloration of the skin. The UFO | | flew off to the north-northwest after 15 minutes.(Sources: MUFON UFO | | Journal, October 1986, p. 7; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 319; | | UNICAT, case # 659, citing Virginia Tilly). | | | | 1995 - On this night in Portslade, East Sussex, England a huge yellow | | cigar-shaped object hovered over the town for a minute, then simply | | vanished in place. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1995). | | | | 1999 - In Calgary, Alberta, Canada two witnesses observed a formation | | of eight silver disc-shaped objects high in the sky for 10 minutes. | | They were originally motionless, but then began moving west except | | for one, which headed north. (Source: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO | | Survey 1999, case # 129, citing Alberta UFO Study Group). | | | | 2001 - At 6:00 a.m. EDT a farmer in Wayne, West Virginia encountered | | a square flying object, about the size of tire (3 feet wide), that | | was hovering inside his barn. It was black with gray markings, and | | floated for a few seconds before it flew out the barn door. A cow had | | been poked by a needle in one of its ears, and its eye had a broken | | blood vessel. (Source: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, October | | 2001, p. 11). | | | | 2001 - At 7:00 a.m. EDT a cigar-shaped object was seen moving slowly | | above the tree line in Hagerstown, Maryland for two minutes. It | | emitted a bright object  from one end that shot into the sky. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | August 2001 webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2001). | | | | 2001 - Five geography students camping oin a deserted beach in | | Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, including Luis Carlos Prima, reported | | seeing a large disc-shaped object about 10 meters in diameter land on | | the beach at around two o'clock in the morning. The students had been | | sleeping when a very strong wind suddenly woke them up. The wind was | | so strong that it began to disconnect the ground ties of their tent | | from the sandy ground. Thinking it was a storm, they ran out and were | | confronted by the huge disc, which had numerous bright lights on its | | top and windows in the center. A small door quickly opened and two | | short humanoids came out. The UFO and the humanoids were about 200 | | meters away from the witnesses. The little men seemed to be | | collecting ground samples when they became aware of the presence of | | the students. They ignored them and after several minutes reboarded | | the craft, which took off at high speed. Deep ground traces were | | found at the landing site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 31 July 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: cigar-shaped or torpedo-shape | | d UFOs; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; human-looking UFOnauts; low-le | | vel UFOs; multi-year reports from France, Maryland and Ohio; nautical | | UFO (UFO seen emerging from sea); ovoid UFOs; portholes; red UFOs; s | | ensation of cold; sensation of heat; short humanoids; vegetation and | | ground sampling and collecting behavior; physiological effects: eye d | | amage, conjunctivitis, and a swelling and discoloration of the skin; | | short humanoids; silent UFOs; telepathy; translocation or time distor | | tion; transparent spheres; triangular UFOs; UFOs diving at witnesses. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+