+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 14 | | | | 1950 - At 4:45 p.m. Fairchild plant workers at the nuclear research | | facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee watched a brilliant fiery ball of | | light hover over restricted military airspace for about two minutes. | | (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950, p. 3). | | | | 1951 - At 12:38 p.m. four witnesses flying in an airplane over Big | | Bear Lake, California saw three circular or disc-shaped UFOs that | | were 40 to 50 feet in diameter and flying at 30,000 feet altitude. | | (Sources: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 3; Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13). | | | | 1955 - An unknown object struck the wing of a USAF B-47 flying over | | California. The plane was able to make a safe emergency landing. | | (Source: Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: | | Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408). | | | | 1956 - A 51-year-old amateur astronomer in Houston, Texas named | | Johnson reported sighting four gray ovoid objects flying by at 10:15 | | p.m. in linear echelon formation, toward Ellington Field. They made | | no sound. (Sources: CUFOS files, letter dated April 16, 1966; Loren | | E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 | | (Volume 6), p. 1). | | | | 1965 - At 8:50 p.m. seven UFOs paced a Quantas Airlines Electra | | flying between Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia. The | | sighting was confirmed by multiple radar units tracking the object. | | (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, April-May 1954, p. 4; George D. | | Fawcett, Flying Saucers, August 1965, p. 57). | | | | 1965 - A newspaper boy in Riverside, California at 5:30 a.m. saw a 30 | | meter long football shaped UFO making a whining noise. It hovered at | | 135 meters altitude before it made a 180 degree turn and shot off to | | the southwest very fast. (Sources: Fate, July 1965; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 304; APRO Bulletin, | | March-April 1965). | | | | 1965 - At midnight James Myers saw an object rise from the ground in | | Norfolk, Virginia. It appeared as a bright, circular silvery craft. | | (Sources: Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, | | p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 631, citing Fate, July 1965). | | | | 1965 - Many people witnessed brilliant nocturnal lights hovering and | | maneuvering over Lake Elsinore, California. They moved erratically in | | patterns; they also would brighten for five minutes and then dim for | | three minutes in a repeated cycle until after an hour they rose and | | disappeared to the east. (Sources: Lake Elsinore Valley Sun, January | | 21, 1965;  | | | | Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 228). | | | | 1965 - At 10:00 p.m. that same night a newspaper reporter was driving | | between Enfield and Wilmot, New Hampshire when his car completely | | faiIed--lights, radio, and engine. He got out to investigate and | | heard a hum like an electrical whine, then saw a bright light | | 2,000-5,000 feet high. It was hovering, then moved away quickly on a | | straight trajectory. The lights and radio then came back on and the | | engine also started by itself. The whole sighting lasted only 15-20 | | seconds. (Sources: Manchester Union Leader, January 16, 1965; Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 137). | | | | 1966 - A black or dark gray cigar-shaped object with two amber lights | | was sighted hovering over Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey at 1:45 a.m. | | (Source: James Moseley, Saucer News, Summer 1966, p. 26). | | | | 1969 - George Vas and his wife and two daughters were asleep in their | | trailer near Childers, Queensland, Australia when they were awakened | | at 4:30 a.m. by the barking of their dog. They also heard a loud | | buzzing noise like a swarm of wasps. It came from a UFO shaped like a | | sombrero, about 25-30 yards in diameter, which gave off a brilliant | | violet luminosity. From the craft three beings descended. They were | | huge, "about 3 times as large as humans," and had "blocky arms and | | legs and shapeless bodies." They emitted a purple and yellow glow. | | For about ten minutes they gathered sugar cane and other plant | | specimens, without concern for the observers. Mrs. Olga Vas said that | | the beings descended from the larger craft in a small object similar | | in shape. At one point one of the entities came close enough to the | | group for Mr. Vas to call out in alarm. The "spaceman" showed no | | concern and moved away only after picking up several rocks. The giant | | creatures re-entered their craft and the UFO took off vertically. | | When it took off the hair on the witnesses' bodies stood on end, as | | if affected by a form of static electricity. (Sources: Bill Chalker | | case files, case # 2014; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian | | Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 22; David F. Webb | | & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-04, | | citing Keith Basterfield). | | | | 1969 - A one-foot in diameter sphere with 5 spikes was seen hovering | | in the woods in La Barbee, Sarthe department, France for 45 minutes. | | It then flew to the southwest, turned and flew off to the west. A | | small disc-shaped object was again seen in the area the next day. | | (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8711, citing FSR, | | July-August 1969). | | | | 1973 - At 12:45 a.m. while driving near Christchurch, New Zealand two | | people first heard a humming sound, then a dark object descended | | toward the ground at a 45 degree angle. It made a 90 degree turn, and | | next shone spotlights all over the pastoral countryside at a low | | altitude. The observers drove away frightened. (Source: UFO Research | | Australia, March 1983). | | | | 1973 - At 12:30 a.m. EST a 27-year-old witness named Allen saw a 30 | | meter long football-shaped object hovering 30 meters over a trailer | | park in Chillicothe, Ohio for 10 seconds; it then shot up vertically. | | (Source: Data-Net Report, March 1973, p. 16). | | | | 1973 - A round flying object reportedly hit several trees in | | Mentmore, England at midnight. There were metal fragments found in a | | heap as well as strips of aluminum. (Source: Ted R. Phillips, | | Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 88 (case 545)). | | | | 1976 - Mrs. J. Stewart was driving on a highway in East Bethel, | | Minnesota and when she arrived home she could not account for at | | least one hour of her time. Under hypnosis she recounted being | | abducted from her car by a tall figure dressed in white. There were | | two more such beings in the door of a translucent UFO. bottom bubble | | of UFO. She recalled at one point that the face of the being was very | | close to her own face, and it had big slanted eyes. (Source: Richard | | Swanson, CUFOS case investigation files, report dated January 22, | | 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case A1447, citing Brad Ayers). | | | | 1978 - In Redding, California a woman named Chapin woke up in the | | middle of the night to see a strange entity standing near her bed. He | | had a flat head, large eyes, and a big nose. He appeared to extend | | his arms over her. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A | | Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 187). | | | | 1979 - The Moreno family called a local newspaper to report the | | sighting of a five meter in diameter metallic, oval-shaped object | | that moved rapidly through the sky over Pilar, Madrid, Spain at 6 | | p.m. It disappeared behind some tall buildings, and left behind a | | small trail that faded away quickly. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO | | Newspaper Clipping Service, March 1979, p. 15, citing Hoja Lunes, | | Jan. 15, 1979). | | | | 1979 - At 7 p.m. three orange disc-shaped objects traveled to the | | northwest over Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France at 250 meters | | altitude in a triangular formation. They then vanished as if erased | | from the sky, nearby some hills. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 13610, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979). | | | | 1981 - An odd sound was heard at 7:30 p.m. as 16 round objects with | | body lights maneuvered overhead in Wadesboro, North Carolina. TV sets | | in the area experienced interference.  (Source: Tarheel Group, MUFON | | UFO Journal, April 1981, p. 14). | | | | 1984 - A speeding red light, the shape of a triangle and larger than | | a normal aircraft, hovered over Surrey, England and then disappeared. | | It returned two minutes later. (Source: APRO Bulletin, June 1984, | | p. 8). | | | | 1993 - A woman in southern California reported a series of bizarre | | incidents beginning at 3:55 a.m. during which she heard a loud | | buzzing sound, and then a red light pouring into her house through | | windows. She suffered related health effects. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded | | Nov. 2, 1999). | | | | 1996 - A UFO landed in a paddock in Large George, New South Wales, | | Australia at 8:45 p.m. It was a brilliantly illuminated object, | | possibly cigar shaped, with windows on the side. When it left it rose | | vertically. (Source: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 208). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 14 January 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction, aircraft UFO encounters, bedro | | om visitation, buzzing sounds, disc-shaped UFOs, domed disc, football | | shaped UFOs, giant UFOnauts, missing time, ovoid UFOs, tall UFOnauts | | with big slanted eyes, TV interference, triangular UFOs, vehicle EM | | interference effects, vertical ascent, whining noise, white uniforms. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+