+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 18 | | | | 1947 - Two silver round flat disc-shaped objects, described as | | looking like "skeet targets", passed beneath a United | | Airlines transport plane flying at 8,000 feet near Mountain Home Army | | Air Base, Idaho at around noon. The objects flew off to the south, at | | a speed estimated at 900 miles per hour. There were two witnesses on | | board the aircraft. (Sources: Boise (Idaho) Statesman, August 20, | | 1947; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10; Jan | | Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey | | talk, April 16, 2005). | | | | 1947 - At 8:15 p.m. in Sorrento, Louisiana a photograph was taken by | | a Mr. Hofard of at least 78 torpedo-shaped UFOs, glowing brightly and | | moving silently low over the trees. (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying | | Saucers on the Attack, p. 73). | | | | 1952 - Three policemen in Fairfield, California sighted a UFO at | | 12:50 a.m. The object changed color and intensity like a diamond, and | | flew in different directions during the 30-minute sighting. (Sources: | | Project Blue Book reports counted in official statistics, case # | |  1920; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 42; Kevin | | Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1953 - In the early evening on or about this day Salvador Villanueva, | | a taxi cab driver, was trying to repair his broken down car out in | | the country near Ciudad Valles, Mexico when he was joined by two | | short, human looking men. They were only about four and a half feet | | tall, and they wore one-piece gray garments made out of corduroy | | that covered even their feet. They also had on wide, shiny black | | belts, metal collars, and small black shiny boxes connected to the | | collars on the back of their necks. Under their arms they carried | | football-style crash helmets. Because it was raining he invited them | | to shelter inside his taxi, where they had a conversation that | | lasted all night. They spoke Spanish with a strange accent. The | | spokesman eventually told him they were from another planet, which | | Villanueva scarcely believed, but he accompanied them to their craft. | | While walking there he noticed that the mud puddles did not get their | | feet wet, and that their belts glowed whenever the mud was repelled. | | The UFO was disc-shaped and looked like two soup plates joined at the | | rim, with a shallow dome on top with portholes. It rested on the | | ground on three spheres that acted like landing gear. He was invited | | inside, but declined to go. The two men climbed up some stairs to get | | aboard. Glowing white, the vessel zigzagged upwards, and then shot up | | vertically, making only a faint whistling sound. A 40-foot circle of | | broken bushes was left behind at the landing spot. It's possible the | | presence of the UFO may have caused his car to malfunction. (Sources: | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | citing APRO Bulletin, April 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 116, citing Flying Saucer | | Review, March 1962). | | | | 1954 - A brilliant metallic sphere was witnessed at 6:30 p.m. by a | | witness while driving between the towns of Coire and Chur, | | Switzerland. The sphere maneuvered in the western sky toward Ilanz at | | three kilometers altitude, making sudden turns. It finally shot | | straight up into the sky and was gone. At 8:00 p.m. a reddish yellow | | disc seen over the town of Stein-Saeckingen, Switzerland for 12 | | minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3518 & | | 3519; unsourced newspaper clipping dated August 25, 1954). | | | | 1957 - In Shelbyville, Indiana at 9:00 p.m. a three-meter long ovoid | | rose up 30 meters over a cornfield. It had lights on its periphery, | | and made a clanking noise. (Source: Gray Barker, Flying Saucers | | magazine, February 1958, p. 46; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of | | the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 34). | | | | 1962 - At 5:00 p.m. on the island of Bermuda radio station owner Mr. | | M. Sheppard, and chief announcer Mr. A. Seymour, sighted three | | dull-white, egg-shaped objects at 5:00 p.m. The objects wavered as | | they moved through the sky for 20 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8364; Richard Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, p. 113; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1963 - A silvery disc-shaped UFO was seen by two young boys in Fort | | Kent, Aroostook County, Maine at 12:30 p.m. The boys' parents agreed | | that they must have seen something unusual. The disc passed from | | north to south, emitting a hum intermittently. (Sources: St. John | | Valley Times, August 29, 1963; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. | | 141; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1964, p. 6). | | | | 1964 - Major D.W. Thompson and First Pilot Lt. J. F. Jonke were | | flying a U.S. Air Force C-124 transport plane 200 miles over the | | Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Dover, Delaware. At 12:35 a.m. they | | sighted a round, blurry, reddish-white object that appeared to be on | | a collision course with their C-124 from ahead and below. The | | airplane evaded the object. The sighting lasted two minutes. | | (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian | | Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52). | | | | 1965 - In Noblesville, Indiana at 10:50 p.m. the engine and radio of | | a car with two occupants inside died when a top-shaped object with a | | dome and body lights hovered over the car. The close encounter lasted | | for four minutes. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 249). | | | | 1966 - Three hunters, E. Beucomo, J. Zapata and J. Ramos, observed a | | strange glow in the forest near Barinas, Venezuela and discovered a | | very large, egg-shaped object, hovering stationary two meters above | | ground. It had large, circular openings emitting a multicolored | | light, and it made a whistling sound. The hunters ran away. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case | | 786). | | | | 1968 - At 13:23 p.m. in a forest 47 kilometers west-southwest of | | Cluj, Romania, three photographs were taken of a silvery hat-shaped | | object, 42-50 meters in diameter, with a structure similar to the Rex | | Heflin photographs from Santa Ana, California in 1965. The | | photographer was a 45-year-old man, along with his girlfriend, and | | there were two other  witnesses. It flew overhead at an estimated | | height of 600 meters, moving from northeast to southwest, and then | | reversed direction. The object finally accelerated and shot upward | | out of sight. The sighting lasted two minutes. (Sources: Florin | | Gheorghita, FSR, November 1969, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 287). | | | | 1971 - At 6:40 a.m. a glowing white cigar, the size of a railroad car | | and tapered at one end, flew over in Sutherlands, South Australia. It | | had no wings or protuberances, and flew to the east on an even course | | at an estimated speed of 200 mph. (Source: A. Jenke, Australian FSR, | | February 1972, p. 21). | | | | 1972 - Raimundo Alvarez and Pancho Torres, two masons, were working | | on a roof drain at around two o'clock in the afternoon in Istapalapa, | | Mexico when they heard a humming sound. Next they noticed that all | | ordinary daytime sounds had eerily ceased, creating a "stifling" | | silence. About 50 yards away from them Alvarez saw two strange, | | eight-foot tall figures, dressed in bright silvery clothing | | resembling fish scales. When they got closer the two men could see | | that the beings were unusually broad shouldered and slender. They had | | round heads that were bright silver in color, with two round bumps in | | place of eyes, small ears, no visible mouths or noses, hands with | | four digits, and large webbed feet like those of ducks. They "seemed | | to float in air" while walking. The beings started to approach the | | witnesses, but just then a woman carrying a milk can came around the | | corner of the house, and the two creatures "flew" toward her. A great | | deal of dust arose from the ground; the two entitiesvanished into it | | and were not seen again. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, November-December | | 1973, p. 5; FSR, November 1973, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1972-19 (A1162), | | citing FSR, Volume 19, # 6). | | | | 1975 - Two men, Bernard Gregory, age 19, and Patrick Labonne, age 22, | | were camping in a clearing in Villeneuve Loubet, Alpes Maritimes | | Department, France. At around 2:30 a.m. Bernard suddenly felt uneasy, | | and saw four luminous "forms". He called Patrick, who also saw them. | | Both men felt they were being observed. Afraid, they woke the rest of | | their friends. Suddenly all six of them saw a huge light and then a | | red cloud that ascended into the sky and transformed into a black, | | compact cigar-shaped object. The being-like forms were described as | | about 1.75 m in height, each with two eyes in the upper part. The | | forms were white in color, and they moved very slowly, like on | | rollers. As the witnesses walked away they looked back, and saw two | | of the forms in a tree. At this point the witnesses attempted to | | approach the beings, but were prevented by an "invisible" barrier. | | After the gray compact cigar-shaped object left, the grass at the | | site was found to be desiccated, and matted down in a spiral fashion. | | A white, oval-shaped stain resembling chalk was also found, but | | disappeared with the morning daylight. During the incident the | | witnesses noticed there was an unusual silence in the area, but dogs | | were heard barking in the distance. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | May 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case #  A1624; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7 (1978), | | p. 44; Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Eric | | Zurcher, "Les apparitions d'humanoides", Gesag 71, ADEPS Bulletin, | | issue 13). | | | | 1975 - At 6:50 a.m. in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin a silver | | domed-disc with a transparent cupola on top, hovered 10 feet over a | | farm, making a buzzing noise. The silhouette of an occupant was seen | | inside the transparent dome. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #  A1410, citing | | Wisconsin Rapids Daily Telegram, August 19, 1975).  | | | | 1978 - A large glowing disc-shaped UFO was seen in a forest near | | Gravigny, Eure department, France at 10:30 p.m. It flashes red, | | slowly ascended vertically slowly, and then made a quick 90-degree | | turn, finally shooting off to the south. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, March 1979). | | | | 1978 - A 60-foot in diameter domed disc, with an antenna with a red | | light on top of it, was seen in close vicinity in Port Crane, New | | York at 11:15 p.m. It had an arrow-like projection of light. It | | hovered for 30 seconds at 45 feet above the ground, | | causing TV interference and setting off the buzzing of a magnetic | | detector.  (Sources: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, | | December 1978, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 136, citing IUR). | | | | 1980 - A large double cube-shaped object was seen on the ground of a | | Baltic Island off Estonia in the early evening. It had a sweeping | | beam of light. It reportedly polymorphed into a domed saucer-shaped | | object. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Andre | | Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue # 24). | | | | 1981 - Mrs. Schmidt and her three children saw a 25-foot octagon | | hover 100 feet over their driveway in Sandstone, Minnesota. It was | | silent, and had red and green flashing lights. (Sources: Pine City | | Courier, September 3, 1981; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, | | November 1982, p. 4). | | | | 1987 - Many people witnessed a disc-shaped object in Corydon, Indiana | | at 11:45 p.m., including the main witness, a 36-year-old woman. The | | UFO was black with a bulging center, and it had a bottom section with | | multiple orange, red and blue lights. It was described as being very | | large, and estimated to be about 400 meters away at an altitude of | | 800 feet. Its speed was slow, except when it took off. (Source: James | | Delehanty, field investigator, MUFONCD-Rom case file database, case # | | 881002). | | | | 1993 - A girl was riding her bicycle on this day in Odense, Denmark | | when she observed a large hovering object with four large windows on | | one level and another window on a second level. Behind the windows | | several figures could be seen moving around. As the object turned she | | saw three bright lights below. Nearby a normally placid pony behaved | | very uneasy during the encounter. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1608, citing Tony Dodd, UFO | | Magazine (UK), January 1994, quoting UFO-Nyt). | | | | 1993 - A glowing UFO hovered over Wood Lake, British Columbia at 9:00 | | p.m. It dropped sparks, moved, then stopped and hovered, and | | finally continued on after five minutes. (Source: UFO Newspaper | | Clipping Service, November 1993). | | | | 1993 - At 11:00 p.m. a young Hispanic woman phoned her neighbors and | | asked them to come over to her house outside Dallas, Texas | | immediately, because there were something strange going on in the | | house. One of her neighbor's, Jill, grabbed her camera and headed for | | the house. When Jill arrived the entire family was in a state of | | terror and extreme agitation. Two of the young females in the | | household were cowering in a corner of the living room, holding on to | | each other. The friend who called her sat in a chair curled into a | | semi-fetal position, rocking back and forth. She then pointed to the | | backyard. Jill looked out through a sliding glass door that led to | | the backyard and saw a creature with glowing red eyes, only 15 feet | | from the door. The being seemed to be scanning the house from left to | | right and top to bottom. Jill began snapping photos through the | | sliding glass door. At the same time the Hispanic woman heard a long | | ringing sound in her ears. Eventually the being disappeared. Another | | family member reported seeing similar beings going through doors, | | windows and walls the same day and two days prior. An anomalous image | | did appear on the developed film. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2742, citing Internet | | Sightings). | | | | 1995 - In Stockport, England a glistening triangular shaped object | | vanished at 1:30 a.m., then two orange nocturnal lights maneuvered | | all over the sky for the next 10 minutes. (Source: UFO Newsclipping | | Service, January 1996; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 17374). | | | | 1995 - At 11:00 p.m. a triangle-shaped object with fireballs and | | various flashes was seen in Revin, Ardennes, France. Video was taken | | of the phenomena for seven minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 17375, citing Banque OVNI, issue 95). | | | | 1995 - On this night a luminous 40-foot in diameter disc-shaped craft | | with a row of dark windows around the center rim, hovered near a | | radio tower in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, causing a fluctuation in | | the radio station's power. Two children reportedly encountered a | | four-foot-tall being with red eyes and a spiny crest on its back in a | | nearby  park. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1995, case # 2184, citing Jorge Martin, UFO Magazine). | | | | 1999 - At 4:10 a.m. in Izmir, Turkey a man first observed a huge, | | oval-shaped craft, almost one kilometer in length, over the city; it | | suddenly vanished. Then a small gray egg-shaped object with small | | windows landed in his garden. Several small Grey humanoids exited the | | object and stared at the witness. One of them approached him and | | slowly took his hand; the being’s skin felt very soft. The humanoid | | then tried to pull the man's hand gently, in an attempt to escort him | | onboard the landed craft, but the witness refused to go. However, he | | reported that he felt at peace during the encounter. (Sources: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 1999 web | | page; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3608, | | citing NUFORC). | | | | 1999 - At 10:05 p.m. in Nineveh, Pennsylvania two witnesses watched | | as two large 30-meter long triangular objects hovered at only 30 | | meters altitude, only 40 meters away from them. The craft had clearly | | lit windows, and flew silently. They went off to the north. (Source: | | George Filer, Filer's Files, Volume 9, # 34, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2006 - At 1:18 a.m. in Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada a witness | | first observed a simple blue nocturnal light in the sky. Several | | minutes later he observed a slow-moving disc-shaped object flying | | just over his neighbor's house, where it hovered for several | | minutes.(Source: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2006, case # 526, | | citing ufoinfo.com). | | | | 2007 - A brief entry of a landing and report of humanoids is | | contained in the British Ministry of Defence database of UFO reports | | for 2007. Case # 52 reports that an object or objects were seen near | | Streatham in London, England and that the object or objects | | then landed. "A person was seen and then more people were seen. A lot | | of phenomena." (Source: British Ministry of Defence, case # | | 2007-052). | | | | 2008 - A wingless silver cigar-shaped object stopped in the air over | | the ocean off of Cape Breton near Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada at 7:50 | | p.m.; it then disappeared. There were three witnesses and the | | sighting lasted for four minutes. (Source: Geoff Dittman, Canadian | | UFO Survey 2008, case # 611). | | | | 2009 - Camped on the top of a ridge outside of Sedro Wooley, | | Washington at around 1:00 a.m., a man who had previously seen a | | multi-colored UFO many times in the area late at night took out his | | binoculars and sighted an oval-shaped disc with blinking red, blue, | | and green lights. It was making a low-pitched, humming sound, and was | | hovering over a small clearing on the ridge. Through the binoculars | | he saw what appeared to be a porthole, and through the porthole he | | could see a humanoid being wearing some sort of a helmet. Frightened, | | the man decided to climb down off the ridge and go home. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 archived | | webpage). | | | | 2009 - In Bagshot, Surrey, England a married couple reported that at | | 9:45 p.m. they observed an orange-colored,  diamond or mitre | | hat-shaped object moving across the sky, silently.(Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 webpage, report | | uploaded December 12, 2009). | | | | 2010 - At around 8:00 p.m. in Evansville, Indiana a witness reported | | to the UFO Reporting Center that he had a close encounter with an | | eight-inch wide flying disc, only 20 feet away from him, which | | floated across the ground and then rose up into the sky. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, | | report uploaded November 21, 2010). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 17 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction at | | tempt, aircraft UFO encounters, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, electr | | omagnetic effects, feeling at peace emotional response to Greys sugge | | sts manipulation of emotions; Grey UFOnauts, low-level UFOs, multi-ye | | ar reports from England, France and Indiana, ovoid UFOs, photographs | | of hat-shaped UFO, reddish-white UFO, red-eyed creatures, short UFOna | | uts, triangular UFOs, wavering motion, UFO on collision course with a | | ircraft, UFO reports over the Atlantic Ocean, vehicle ignition system | | interference effects, vertical ascent, whistling sound, white UFOs. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+