+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  February 9 | | | | 1902 - At 7:40 p.m. a "meteor" turned, looped, and curved for 12 | | seconds over Paris, France. Its tail lasted 90 seconds. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 5). | | | | 1913 - At 9:02 p.m. a formation of lights resembling an express train | | in the sky was seen over Eesterhazy, Mortlach and other parts of | | southeastern Saskatchewan. It emerged from the northwest, and | | continued across the sky in several successions for more than three | | minutes. (Sources: William R.  Corliss & Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar | | 1999; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 42; citing Sky & | | Telescope; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 283, | | citing The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1913, p. 145). | | | | 1915 - A large dark airship flew at a low altitude near Bigfork, | | Montana around five o'clock in the late afternoon. It headed off | | toward the southwest. (Source: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, | | volume 8 (1977), citing the Flathead Courier, February 11, 1915). | | | | 1953 - A U.S.Marine Corps pilot chased a rocket-like object for over | | three minutes over Cherry Point, North Carolina at 10:30 a.m. The | | luminous object with a red glow climbed rapidly. It had no wings or | | tail section. (Sources: Project Blue Book files, February 1953; Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case #2981). | | | | 1957 - On or about this date a woman driving along a desolate road in | | Ridgefield, Connecticut encountered a five meter long cigar-shaped | | object close to the ground on the left side of the road. It had | | several portholes about half a meter in diameter that were lit by a | | yellow light. Shadows could be seen moving around behind the windows. | | It took off going straight up. (Source: Thomas M. Olsen, The | | Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 86, citing APRO | | Bulletin, March 1962, p. 1). | | | | 1962 - Mr. R. Wildman was driving along a road in Aston Clinton, | | England taking a new car to Swansea for delivery, when at 3:30 a.m. | | he encountered a 40-foot wide oval-shaped domed disc with black marks | | around the rim, 20-30 feet above the ground. The object seemed | | metallic, was white in color with portholes, and made no sound. The | | car's engine stopped when he was 20 meters away, but the headlights | | remained on. The incident lasted five minutes. (Sources: Richard | | Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 538; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA | | Vehicle Interference Project, p. 24; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19; Leonard Cramp, Piece for a | | Jig-Saw, p. 214; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO | | Sighting Reports, case 129). | | | | 1966 - At 8:20 p.m. a glowing ovoid object hovered and made circular | | maneuvers in the sky for 15 minutes in Heytesbury, near Warminster in | | Wiltshire, England. It changed colors as well, reported the witness, | | a man named Baldwin. (Sources: Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister | | Mystery, p. 157; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7066; Contact | | U.K. catalogue of UFO reports). | | | | 1967 - Police officer D. E. Swider was driving on Interstate 65 eight | | miles south of Seymour, Indiana at 7:50 p.m. when he encountered a | | huge, round object that moved slowly, changing colors from white | | to red to orange as it slowed, then accelerated. Venus was visible at | | the time. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 28). | | | | 1967 - At 8:45 p.m. Donald and Marie Guseman were driving on U.S. | | Highway 13 in Odessa, Delaware when they encountered a 50 foot wide | | disc-shaped object with a cupola and ports underneath, and forwardly | | placed light beams. It also had a green light on one side and a red | | light on the other. It hovered motionless over some trees, then | | emitted light beams that swung upwards at a 45-degree angle into the | | sky. The object began moving away, and then suddenly disappeared. | | Their close encounter lasted two minutes. (Source: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case # 11350; Gordon I. R. | | Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 12; Don Berliner, Australasian | | Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 327). | | | | 1969 - At 1:00 a.m. in St. Martin de Londres, Herault department, | | France a 40-year-old farmer and his assistant saw a large stationary | | disc that hovered low over his goats in a pasture. The billy-goat | | became impotent as a result, and his dogs started barking every | | morning at 2 a.m. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1969; FSR, | | January-February 1970, p. 13 & January-February 1972, p. 26; UNICAT, | | case # 491 citing Fernand Lagarde, Mysterieuses Soucoupes Volantes, | | p. 57). | | | | 1973 - At 3:00 a.m. three people driving in a car on the A414 highway | | between Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans in Hertford, England | | encountered a bright yellow sphere hovering low over the road, about | | 20 or 30 feet above a viaduct. Their car engine stopped. The car | | engine restarted inself when the sphere rose vertically into the sky | | and departed. (Sources: FSR, March 1973, p. 32; Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA | | Vehicle Interference Project, p. 63; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 254). | | | | 1974 - At around 9:00 p.m. four people riding in a car traveling on a | | highway north-northeast of Evansville, Indiana were levitated by a | | UFO and lost consciousness. When they recovered they had over two | | hours of missing time. One of the abductees recalled interacting with | | an occupant of the UFO, who looked to be human, and who somehow knew | | the names of the four of them. (Sources: Francis L. Ridge, Regional | | Encounters, p. 46; Larry Hatch, U computer database). | | | | 1974 - That same night David Swanner of Shores Community, Tennessee | | claims he was invited by two "men" to ride in a UFO. In a few moments | | after accepting their invitation they flew over San Francisco, then | | the Hawaiian Islands. His round trip excursion took only 45 minutes. | | The purpose of their presence, he was told, was to warn of the | | "possible destruction of Solar System by atomic bombs." The UFOnauts | | were between four and five feet tall, wore white coveralls, and had | | long, pointed chins, with tall foreheads and small eyes, ears, and | | noses. They claimed that their lifespan was between 125-175 years. | | Mr. Swanner was instructed to inform the public. He claims to possess | | proof, but it "cannot now be revealed." This was his third close | | encounter with the aliens. (Sources: Ted Bloecher, MUFON Symposium | | Proceedings 1975, p. 51 & 55; Stanley Ingram, Pulaski Citizen, | | October 30, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1974-05 (A1301), citing Stanley Ingram). | | | | 1978 - At around two o'clock at night residents of Saline, Michigan | | saw a boomerang or triangular object hovering near their homes. Mr. & | | Mrs. Sibson as well as an Air Force mechanic reported their sightings | | to the Center for UFO Studies. According to them it made a slight | | humming noise, and was the size of three 747's with a "great | | intensity of light coming from the center fuselage area." It flew off | | toward the west slowly. (Sources: CUFOS files, letter dated February | | 17, 1978; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 18). | | | | 1979 - Over 50 UFOs surrounded the butane freighter "Tamames" in the | | Mediterranean Sea as it approached the Escombreras refinery in the | | Baleares Islands. The ship's log reports that clouds appeared at 3:00 | | a.m., and the ship's radar showed the presence of many huge aerial | | objects. The presence of yellow lights in the clouds continued for | | six hours. The radar of a second ship also reported the presence of | | the UFOs, but not ground radar. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15, citing Pueblo, February 9, | | 1979). | | | | 1979 - A dark, beehive-shaped UFO was encountered by a 53-year-old | | man named Hathaway at 9:00 p.m. while he was driving near Liverpool | | Creek, Queensland, Australia. The failure of his car's engine and | | lights closely corresponded with a brilliant flash of light coming | | from the object. It rose vertically when it left. The witness | | experienced memory loss for some of the events surrounding his close | | encounter. (Source: Keith Basterfield, MUFON UFO Journal, December | | 1979). | | | | 1988 - In Oswestry, Shropshire, England a 45 foot in diameter yellow | | cloud of something that looked like fog was seen straddling a | | hedgerow around 8:00 a.m. It glowed brightly and made a noise like | | rushing air. A dog ran into it and disappeared for a time. The two | | adult witnesses, a man and a woman, reported feeling a tingling | | sensation and smelling a sulphur smell. The dog was later found | | unconscious, wet and hot; its eyes were red and it seemed close to | | death. It died a few weeks later. (Source: Jenny Randles, Time | | Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time | | Travel, p. 11). | | | | 1993 - A young boy went outside at 7:25 p.m. in Colebrook, New | | Hampshire and saw a domed disc-shaped object approaching from the | | northeast. He went and got his stepfather, and both of them witnessed | | two hovering discs. The discs appeared to be the size of a house, | | about four feet apart, and only 50 feet in altitude. They seemed to | | have a pink glow on the far sides. Their lights blinked, and then | | both discs disappeared. (Sources: Sandra Black, MUFON Field | | Investigation case files, case 930604J; MUFON UFO Journal, October | | 1993). | | | | 1993 - On the same night Mr. C. Wagh was at the Bridge of Earn in | | Central Scotland when he sighted six white lights in a straight line. | | He viewed then through binoculars as they hovered for the next 15 | | minutes. They seemed to be about 6 to 8 feet apart. They suddenly | | went out. (Source: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of | | Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 159). | | | | 1995 - La Canada, Avila, Spain - A 28-year-old security guard was | | fixing his guard dog's dinner at 9:55 p.m. The dog was tied to a | | heavy tonnage truck, and he suddenly began barking furiously and | | staring at the nearby railroad tracks. The man looked around but did | | not find anything unusual, so he fed his dog and went back to the | | guard shack. Fifteen seconds later the dog began barking again. When | | he stepped outside he was confronted by a bizarre looking, shiny | | white figure that floated quietly above the ground. The apparition | | was about 1.5 meters in length and floated horizontally just above | | the ground. At the same time the dog's food dish began to vibrate and | | "jump around." The figure was wearing what looked like a flowing | | tunic, and a conical hat concealed its facial features. It advanced | | slowly towards the witness. The terrified man noticed the humanoid | | had long hair, resembling that of a woman's, and it carried that | | looked like a baton in one hand. The man fled from the area and | | didn't return until he had found some additional witnesses. When they | | returned to the site they found bizarre symbols that had been traced | | on the ground with a sharp tool. One of the symbols resembled a | | six-pointed star and others were "STN", "BEL" and the letter "U". | | Superstitious locals attributed these symbols to be "demonic" in | | nature. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, | | citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de los OVNI en Espana). | | | | 1998 - Driving into Sioux City, Iowa at 11:45 a.m. a 50-year-old | | woman and her adult son saw a gray rectangular object and followed it | | for about three quarters of a mile at 70 mph, until they lost sight | | of it among some hills. (Source: Barbara Trout, MUFON case files, | | case # 980401SC). | | | | 1999 - At 6:30 p.m. four police constables near a lake in Sheffield, | | England saw an orange UFO with a triangular formation of red lights | | surrounding it that appeared to revolve around the object. The | | phenomenon was seen from two locations, and viewed through binoculars | | for 30 minutes. (Source: Heseltine Gary, UFO Magazine (UK), July | | 2003, p. 11, citing Andy Ellis). | | | | 1999 - At 11:45 p.m. a group of fishermen in Pisco, Peru watched | | an anomalous light emerge from the ocean, bank sharply right, and | | then head for the shore to the east. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 18079, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 4, | | no. 8 (February 22, 1999)). | | | | 2000 - In Bristol, Vermont at 6:15 p.m. a large luminous triangular | | cloud flew to the northeast, and split into four objects as it | | approached the horizon. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 17, | | citing George Filer, Filers Files). | | | | 2001 - At around 8 p.m. two campers in Villa Frontera near Arica, | | Chile spotted a UFO hovering over a group of 10 white-robed cultists, | | who were holding hands and chanting. The UFO bathed the ground in a | | powerful light. The next day cell phones in the area would not work, | | and the witnesses complained of headaches, stomachaches, back pain, | | and dizziness. (Sources: Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 54, | | citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, March 15, 2001). | | | | 2003 - At 2:10 a.m. three witnesses in Indian Mountain, New | | Brunswick, Canada saw a smooth, round orange ball which moved through | | the sky and descended slowly into the trees. The sighting lasted | | seven minutes. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case | | # 49). | | | | 2004 - Bright amber lights flashing in a random sequence on what | | appeared to be a disc-shaped object was seen over Lincoln City, | | Oregon at 7 p.m. They later came to within what the witnesses said | | was 30 feet of their house, and returned by flying back out over the | | Pacific Ocean. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage). | | | | 2007 - At 5:30 p.m. a strange "fly-strip-looking" spiral-shaped | | object was seen hovering and floating over houses along Lake Ontario | | in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian | | UFO Survey, case # 52, citing NUFORC). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 February 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions and free-will abductions; | | animal death associated with strange aerial phenomenon; animal react | | ions: dogs barking, goat impotent; apparition; cigar-shaped UFOs; col | | or-changing UFOs; domed discs; missing time; multi-year reports for E | | ngland; nautical UFO: emerged from ocean; orange UFOs, physiological | | effects: headaches, stomachaches, back pain and dizziness; portholes; | | rectangular UFO; vanishing UFOs; vehicle EM effect; vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. 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