+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 3 | | | | 1909 - A dark silent cigar-shaped object flew slowly at a low | | altitude over Waihi, New Zealand at 8:30 p.m. It had windows on each | | side and an intense blue-green light in front. Later that same | | evening a man was thrown from his horse in Waipawa, New Zealand when | | a gray cigar or torpedo-shaped object hovered overhead and frightened | | the animal. Three human looking figures stood on deck, and one waved | | and shouted. The craft had lights at both ends. It rose to a higher | | altitude, circled, and then went behind hill. (Sources: Luminieres | | dans la Nuit, issue 181; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A | | Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century | | [1900-1946], p. 8). | | | | 1946 - A cigar-shaped object flew over central Norrland, Sweden this | | evening. (Source: Bjorn Overbye, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 18). | | | | 1948 - At 8 a.m. a long metallic cylinder with no wings flew at a | | very high altitude and was seen in the skies 25 kilometers northwest | | of Moscow in Russia. It moved silently and very fast towards the | | northeast. (Sources: Project Blue Book, August 1948; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 1338, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1948, p. 48). | | | | 1952 - At 3:13 p.m. eight military witnesses and radar confirmed the | | presence of two silver colored discs in the sky over Hamilton AFB in | | Marin County, California. The discs appeared to be dogfighting. They | | were joined by six other discs and formed a diamond formation. They | | sped away as USAF F-86 fighter jets were scrambled. The sighting | | lasted 75 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book; Donald E. Keyhoe, | | Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 120; Otto Binder, What We Really | | Know About Flying Saucers, p. 35; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A | | Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Dolan Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the | | National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 403). | | | | 1953 - At 12:04 p.m. over the Amarillo Airport, Texas a transparent | | disc stopped and hovered in the sky. A second, identical object was | | seen behind it. They were not balloons, according to the official Air | | Force investigation. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case # 2663; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple | | UFO, p. 183; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, | | p. 2). | | | | 1965 - On or about this date Dr. Antonin Kukla and Mrs. Audrey | | Lawrence saw an oval object dive toward them at 8:00 p.m. while | | driving in Carnarvon, Western Australia. They switched off the car's | | headlights and got out of the vehicle to observe the object, which | | hovered at ground level. Its color changed from orange to fluorescent | | green before it took off at high speed. (Sources: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, September 1965, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 670). | | | | 1965 - There were at least 15 reports recorded for this day from | | Australia, China, Sweden, Switzerland, Hawaii, and the midwestern and | | western United States. Among the more interesting reports, a young | | man saw an object rise from the lake at Lake Hefner, Oklahoma. Also | | on this day a famous set of UFO photographs was taken by Ray Heflin | | in Santa Ana, California. At 12:38 p.m. he took four photographs of a | | metallic hat-shaped UFO, estimated to be about 30 feet in diameter, | | with a Polaroid camera from his Orange County pickup truck. The U.S. | | Air Force claimed the object was a hubcap thrown in the air, but most | | UFO researchers regard the photos as genuine. (Sources: (1) Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 671; (2) | | John R. Gray, FSR, March-April 1969, p. 24; Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 24). | | | | 1965 - Two boys, Doug Knopka, age 9, and Tim Dietz, age 8, were | | vacationing at Doehler’s Beach in northeastern Pennsylvania with | | their families, and were walking along a wooded road at 10:30 a.m. | | when they saw a “dirty white” disc-shaped object. It had a | | transparent dome, was 15 feet in diameter, and was on or near the | | ground just 50 feet away from them. Next to the craft stood a small | | four and a half foot tall figure with yellow eyes, and inside the | | dome was another figure moving about. Frightened, the boys ran from | | the spot. As they ran they heard a “swishing” sound, and saw the | | round object rise over the treetops and disappear from sight as it | | flew out over the lake. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-28, citing Louis | | Spizarny for NICAP). | | | | 1967 - At 11:35 a.m. in the town of Perigueux, Dordogne, France a | | silent disc-shaped object made five falling leaf maneuvers in the | | sky. (Source: GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1974, p. 22). | | | | 1967 - At 8:00 p.m. J. Vieira, a lawyer, and his driver Amauri, were | | at kilometer 15 on the Miguel Peraira Highway when they saw two | | yellowish lights, then many others, about 500 meters away to the | | left. The lights would blink and fade. Similar lights were seen again | | at Conrado, Brazil. When the driver blinked the car's headlights the | | objects seemed to respond. A domed disc-shaped object that | | illuminated the whole area was next seen resting in some woods. | | Physiological after-effects included headaches, dizziness, and | | jaundiced facial skin. (Sources: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, | | September-October 1967, p. 11; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 861). | | | | Conrado, Brazil UFO Close Encounter with Physiological Effects - 1967 | | | | [Sketch of Conrado, Brazil Close Encounter UFO - 1967] | | | | 1967 - At 11:30 p.m. a married couple named DeSoto in Caracas, | | Venezuela saw a luminous, disc-shaped whitish object, 10 meters in | | diameter. The entire yard was illuminated and a humming sound was | | heard. A door opened in the base of the craft and something like a | | light bulb lowered itself to the ground. This, too, had an opening | | from which stepped a small man about three feet tall, dressed in | | silvery luminous clothes. His head was surrounded by vapor. He was | | only about five meters away from the witnesses, and they watched him | | pick up stones, examine them, look up, and appear to communicate with | | the disc-shaped craft. He then dropped the stones and stepped into | | the "bulb" that reentered the craft, which took off. (Sources: Jim & | | Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 43; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 862). | | | | 1972 - While driving in Pinnaroo, South Australia Mrs. Venning and | | two traveling companions saw a greyish-white oval object to her left | | in a paddock. It had lights on both sides, was 30 meters off the | | ground, and was silent. She drove past without stopping but said | | that her hair stood on end during the sighting. (Source: Keith | | Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia case files). | | | | 1973 - A brightly lit football-shaped object ascended into the sky in | | staircase maneuvers over Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Lot-Garonne department, | | France. It made halts at the corners in its step-function climb. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 133). | | | | 1975 - Numerous townspeople watched as a multi-colored cigar-shaped | | object, predominantly orange in color, settled onto a nearby hill in | | Antofagasta, Chile. It gave off a chemical smell, which burned their | | noses, and the witnesses "eyes filled with tears." The whole area was | | lit by a yellow-orange glow while the object was in the area. After | | several minutes the UFO shot away to the west toward the Pacific | | Ocean. (Sources: Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, | | p. 10; FSR, July-August 1976, p. 33 citing La Razon, August 4, 1975). | | | | 1977 - In Thaxted, Essex, England a 24-year old man named Stevens was | | driving at around 3:30 a.m. when his car lost power from 50 mph to 35 | | mph despite applying full throttle. Two orange-red oval lights were | | seen hovering nearby at the time, at a distance of 300-400 yards. | | (Sources: Andrew Collins, FSR, January 1978, p. 25; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 21, 275). | | | | 1977 - On this day in Campos, Brazil a gray disc-shaped object was | | seen on the ground and three tall, thin, baldheaded figures were seen | | moving around the object performing various tasks. They wore gray | | coveralls with green belts. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1977, citing Antonio Faleiro). | | | | 1977 - Caferina Vargas Martin, age 20, of Escalada, Huelva, Spain | | left her home at 7:30 p.m. to walk to her grandmother's house in La | | Corte, about three kilometers distant. The pathway between the two | | villages winds along a creek at the foot of a mountain, with lush | | vegetation along the way. While walking along the footpath, at around | | 7:55 p.m., she was momentarily blinded by a bright reflection of | | light. About 20 meters further on, another flash of light again shone | | in her face. She believed it was a bicycle headlight, but she quickly | | felt her strength ebb away as the light source was replaced by two | | strange humanoid figures: a woman two meters tall and a slightly | | shorter man. The woman had long platinum hair that hung to the middle | | of her back, but the man's hair was shorter and slightly disheveled. | | Their facial features were "repulsive" to the witness because the | | woman had very large eyes, and only two holes where her nose should | | be, with a slit-like mouth that moved without opening. Both figures | | were dressed in tunics; the woman's was a dark green color, but shiny | | as if made up of many tiny points of light, with wide long sleeves | | that went to her hands. The tunic extended to the ground so her feet | | were unseen. The man's tunic was a light chestnut color, and also | | with brightly reflecting points of light. It came to his knees, below | | which was a narrow, darker tunic that extended to the ground. Their | | skin was citron yellow in color. While the woman gesticulated with | | her arms, both beings remained indifferent to the witness's presence. | | Feeling faint, Caferina sat down on a rock and then passed out. When | | she came to there was no one there and it was then dark. Frightened | | and upset, she ran back home. It was 8:50 p.m. when she got home, | | nearly an hour after her encounter began. She suffered from | | psychological shock and had nightmares for the next several nights, | | and was treated by doctors. Some personal belongings of hers also | | turned up missing. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-60 (A1751), citing Ignacio | | Darnaude, Joaquin Mateos, Manuel Filpo Jose Ignacio Alonso & Antonio | | Moya; Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978). | | | | 1997 - On this night Edsom da Silva heard some shots coming from a | | nearby wooded area in Bocaiuva do Sul, Brazil and ran over to | | investigate. He saw something hiding behind a tree. He was carrying a | | bright lantern so he pointed the light at the nearby "form" on the | | ground. He saw it was a strange creature with two huge reddish eyes, | | which had a bizarre crest on its back. Frightened, he ran away from | | the area and did not see the creature again. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Carlos Albert | | Machado). | | | | 2000 - At 10:00 p.m. in Uniontown, Pennsylvania a witness saw a | | five-foot-tall being with long slender extremities for about one | | minute. It carried a brown staff that was about five feet long, and | | the creature glided six inches above the ground. Another unusual | | feature of the encounter was that all normal background sounds were | | absent. (Sources: Stan Gordon, PASU website, citing Jim Brown; Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3469, citing | | PASU). | | | | 2008 - On this morning two witnesses were backpacking around near | | Glenorchy on South Island, New Zealand  when they encountered a | | landed UFO. The weather had cleared that day and they had decided to | | go for a tramp on the Mount Aspiring track, but before they reached | | it they spotted what looked like a landed disc-shaped UFO in a | | paddock. The craft was round and about five meters tall, with legs | | for landing gear and pulsing yellow white lights around its | | perimeter. The witnesses attempted to approach to take photos but | | several “men” in white suits confronted them, taking their cameras. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2008, | | citing http://www.psychics.co.uk/psychic-forum). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 26 July 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs, creature wit | | h huge reddish eyes, creature with long slender arms and legs, disc-s | | haped UFOs, domed discs, human looking UFOnauts, humanoid encounters | | without UFOs present, humming sound, landings, missing time, multi-ye | | ar reports from Brazil and New Zealand, nautical UFO (UFO seen liftin | | g off from lake), "Oz effect" (unusual silence), short humanoids, sil | | very luminous uniform, UFOs respond to light signals, white uniforms. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+