+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 7 | | | | 1946 - A cigar-shaped object flew over Gavle, Sweden from the east to | | the west at 28,000 feet altitude at 7:45 p.m. and was seen by several | | townspeople. It had a clearly distinguishable outline, and a very | | bright light at the rear. (Source: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the | | Ghost Rockets, p. 10). | | | | 1947 - The radio announcer at Mexican radio station XEFI, a man named | | Duran, reported the he had sighted five disc-shaped objects over | | Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico and that two had been sighted over | | Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A | | Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 86, citing | | Panama City Star, July 8, 1947). | | | | 1947 - At three o'clock in the afternoon in Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, | | Seine-Maritime department, France a small disc-shaped UFO landed on | | the banks of the Seine River. Two short humanoids, about three feet | | tall, got out and shortly later reboarded the craft. The UFO lifted | | off silently, and flew off to the southeast.  (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 1000, citing Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis | | Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees | | en France, p. 50). | | | | 1947 - At 10:35 a.m. in San Carlos, San Mateo County, California 30 | | round silvery objects circled over one spot for two minutes at 2,000 | | feet altitude. (Sources: Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, | | Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 595). | | | | 1947 - During the afternoon in Tacoma, Washington three male | | witnesses reported that a disc-shaped object landed on their | | neighbor's roof. Several "little people" emerged, but disappeared | | when reporters approached. (Sources: Tacoma News Tribune, July 8, | | 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 547). | | | | 1947 - On this afternoon at around 3:30 p.m. William Rhodes was | | working in his backyard in Phoenix, Arizona when he heard a whooshing | | sound and saw an unusual looking, gray flying craft in the sky. He | | grabbed his camera and took two photographs. The flying object was | | twenty to thirty feet long, crescent-shaped, and flying at an | | estimated 1,000 feet altitude. It circled in the east for about 30 | | seconds. The photograph quality was sharp and clear, although the | | reproduction below is from the newspaper that first published it and | | suffers from deterioration in quality due to age and print technique. | | (Sources: Arizona Republic, July 9, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the | | UFO Wave of 1947, case # 632; Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific | | Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 508; APRO Bulletin, December | | 1977, p. 8; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4; Kevin D. | | Randle & Russ Estes, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 95) | | | | The Rhodes UFO Photograph, Phoenix, Arizona, 1947 | | | | [] | | | | 1954 - A miner in Garson, Canada saw a landed object and a giant man | | with strange, burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained | | consciousness, the object and entity had vanished. This case was | | investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. (Source: Donald E. Keyhoe, | | Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 184). | | | | 1961 - In Copemish, Michigan at 11 p.m. waitress Nannette Hilley saw | | a large flying ball of light slow down and split into four parts | | after 45 minutes. The four lights flew in close formation, descended | | and flew away toward the west. The sighting lasted a total of one | | hour. (Sources: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | Copemish, Michigan - 1961 | | | | [Sketch of Copemish, Michigan UFO] | | | | 1967 - At 3:00 a.m. an intense light coming from their patio had | | awakened the daughter of the Count de Ribas on the Mediterranean | | island of Palma de Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. From her window | | she saw two small figures apparently speaking to each other. They had | | very large heads, possibly due to the presence of helmets, and huge | | eyes. The witness tried turning on the lights but they did not work. | | She then went to get candles and when she returned both beings and | | the light had vanished. Two small marks on the outside of the wall | | were found that could only be removed by scraping the wall; after it | | had been painted, the marks reappeared. (Source: David F. Webb and | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Humanoid Sighting Reports, case 1967-56, citing | | Antonio Ribera). | | | | 1967 - At 11:30 p.m. Antonio Brambila and another man in Milan, Italy | | saw a glow coming from a domed disc-shaped UFO, 6.5 meters in | | diameter and 2.5 meters high. The UFO had four telescopic legs, which | | emitted a strange vibration. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 853, citing Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, issue # 91). | | | | 1971 - At 6 p.m. in San Juan De Los Morros, Venezuela Dr. G. A. De La | | Motta and Dr. A. Arocha watched as two men clad in black suits with | | red ties and black berets got out of a car 500 yards from their | | house. The men proceeded to put on orange belts. A circular, | | bell-shaped shining object descended from the sky to within two feet | | of the ground. It was about 90 feet in diameter, and it changed | | rapidly in color from orange to blue to white. It put down a small | | staircase and the two men entered the object. It then took off and | | vanished into the sky "at an impressive speed." (Source: David F. | | Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1971-20, case 1971-20; citing FSR Case Histories # 10). | | | | 1977 - Zhang Po, China - Three thousand residents of Zhang Po, China | | saw two huge, orange-colored UFOs descend from the sky during the | | showing of an outdoor movie. Eyewitnesses heard a humming sound and | | felt heat emanating from the objects, which maneuvered just above the | | crowd. The UFOs generated a panic and stampede in which two children | | were trampled to death and dozens of other bystanders were injured. | | (Source: Anthony Lee, FSR, March 1983, p. 24). | | | | 1982 - A silent, bladeless helicopter-shaped UFO glowed as it hovered | | over a railway yard in Highclere, Tasmania, Australia at 7:30 p.m., | | causing the witness's car engine to malfunction. The close encounter | | lasted four minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | # 14416, citing MUFON UFO Journal, February 1983). | | | | 1989 - At 7:00 p.m. a spherical object with a square  or | | diamond-shaped ring was videotaped in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, | | Japan by a Mr. & Mrs. Hamazaki. The image is similar in appearance to | | the  Lindstrom photographs from Maui, Hawaii taken on January 2, | | 1975. | | | | 1991 - A photograph of a glowing red UFO with lights was taken by a | | Puebla State judicial police officer on this evening, after they were | | called out on a call from residents of Atlixco, Mexico because of the | | presence of an unknown flying object in the area. (Source: Francis L. | | Ridge, 1991 Chronology, www. nicap.org, case # 1991-024). | | | | 1994 - At 11:30 p.m. an amateur astronomer who is also a pilot | | witnessed a disc-shaped object with a blue strobe light over Ottawa, | | Ontario, Canada. The UFO made 90-degree and 60 degree turns and other | | fast maneuvers, then shot away to the west. (Source: Frank Ducks, | | Canadian UFO Survey 1994, case # 75; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 16440). | | | | 1999 - A camper in the desert south of McGrath Creek, Northern | | Territories, Australia saw a silent dark ovoid object in the sky at | | around five o'clock in the morning, whose presence blocked the light | | from the stars in the predawn sky, while a nocturnal light also | | maneuvered about in the sky. Both UFOs then vanished. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 18100). | | | | 1999 - At midnight two UFOs were seen over the beach on Isla Bela, | | Sao Paulo State, Brazil by three witnesses. They were described as | | flat cigar-shaped objects, 20 meters in length, and were a metallic | | yellow color. They came in from over the ocean at 20-30 meters | | altitude, then hovered over beach, emitting a soft sound, and | | suddenly shot away. (Sources: Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, www.ufoinfo.com; | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18099, citing a newspaper | | clipping). | | | | 1999 - At 11:39 p.m. a metallic ovoid object was seen flying toward | | the south with its narrow end forward over Peru, Indiana 20 miiles | | south of Grissom Air Force Base. It was shiny metallic in tone. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | July 1999 archived webpage). | | | | 2000 - A football field sized object with lights was sighted by an | | air safety officer and 24 other witnesses in Normanton, Queensland, | | Australia at 11:45 p.m. It travelled over the area making no noise, | | and left behind a trail. (Source: Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research | | Queensland website). | | | | 2000 - A gray object hovered over a house in Covina, California at | | 9:30 p.m. The observers became surrounded by a beam of light while | | a blue shape remained in the sky. At the same time in nearby Pacific | | Palisades, California a white glow was reportedly seen in a large | | plume of clouds. This white glow changed to blue, and then green. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | July 2000 archived webpage). | | | | 2000 - At 9:21 p.m. in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada a luminous oval or | | disc-shaped object shone a bright white light beam down toward the | | ground. It radiated a fog from around its periphery. Its light | | snapped off, and the UFO vanished, and the canyon filled with a | | greenish-blue fog that lasted for ten minutes. A helicopter flew over | | the area later that same night. There was also another report of a | | white object shining through a green haze in Las Vegas, Nevada at | | 9:30 p.m., and at 10:10 p.m a witness in Winnemucca, Nevada reported | | that a beam of light came from a bright circular object, which left a | | green residue in the sky. (Sources: UFO Magazine (USA), December | | 2000, p. 32, citing CAUS; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, July 2000 archived webpage). | | | | 2001 - In Battle Creek, Michigan a spinning diamond-shaped object | | made a whizzing noise as it flew over at a high velocity at 1:08 p.m. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | July 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded on August 5, 2001). | | | | 2001 - At 10:15 p.m. in Missoula, Montana a set of flashing | | mulitcolored lights was seen on a hilltop. They dip behind hill and | | reappear as rectangular strobing craft. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2001 archived webpage, | | report uploaded on August 5, 2001). | | | | 2002 - A disc-shaped UFO appeared on a digital photo of some scenery | | taken at 11:45 a.m. on Cabin Lake Road, northeast of Fort Nelson, | | British Columbia, Canada. The photo is evaluated as not a hoax. | | (Source: Jasek Martin, UFOBC; Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey | | 2002, case # 352, citing UFOBC). | | | | 2004 - A huge blue triangular craft was seen hovering over a nuclear | | plant in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada at 3:30 a.m. It zoomed away, | | but the witness was unable to account for 90 minutes of missing time. | | (Source: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2004, case # 446, citing | | HBCCUFO). | | | | 2005 - A cigar-shaped object with a reddish-orange glow underneath | | was sighted flying over Lexington, Kentucky at 11:00 p.m. It moved | | sideways, rather than with its pointed end forward, from the | | southwest to the northeast. (Source:Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2005 archived webpage, report | | uploaded on September 2, 2005). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 1 July 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, human-looking UFOnauts dress | | ed in black suits and black berets, humming sound, loss of consciousn | | ess, orange UFOs, panic resulting in injury and death, sensation of h | | eat, short humanoids, UFOs splitting into parts, very large humanoid. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+