+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 20 | | | | 1945 - At 10:50 a.m. a fast moving, silent cigar-shaped object flew | | over Houdain, France. Its surface was glowing, it had flames shooting | | from its front, and it left no contrail. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, p. 156). | | | | 1947 - At 2:30 a.m. in Idaho Falls, Idaho Mr. Denton saw a UFO swing | | back and forth in a pendulum motion. (Source: Idaho Daily Statesman, | | July 21, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case | | 842). | | | | 1948 - A cigar-shaped object with two rows of windows was seen four | | times in Arnhem, Holland around 1:30 in the afternoon. It moved | | through the sky very fast. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted | | in official statistics, July 1948; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. | | 249). | | | | 1950 - In Porto Novo, Brazil Mr. Campello and several others driving | | together in a car saw two large, silvery objects by the side of the | | road, one on a hill, the other on flat ground. They were about 50 | | meters away from each other. They drove to within 600 meters of the | | objects, which flew away at "an incredible speed," causing a rush of | | air that rocked the car. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196 (case 81)). | | | | 1952 - At 12:30 a.m. in Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco Mr. R. Petijean | | observed a 20-meter wide luminous object on the ground. It gave off | | bluish flashes as it took off, and left behind the smell of burning | | sulphur. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 199). | | | | 1952 - Seton Hall University chemistry professor Dr. A. B. Spooner of | | Lavalette, New Jersey reported to the Air Force that he sighted two | | large orange-yellow lights with some dull red coloring in trail at | | 12:20 a.m. The lights turned and circled for 5-6 minutes. (Source: | | Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 1:05 a.m. at Andrews AFB in Maryland five witnesses | | visually observed three red-orange objects moving erratically around | | the sky. During the evening USAF radar operators at the weather tower | | tracked ten UFOs for 15-20 minutes at Andrews AFB, Maryland. The | | objects approached the runway, scattered, and then made sharp turns | | and reversals in direction. (Source: NICAP case investigation files, | | report dated September 14, 1960). | | | | 1952 - At 4:30 a.m. additional unidentified radar targets were picked | | up and tracked on ARTC radar at National Airport in Arlington, | | Virginia. (Source: Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The | | UFO sightings that shook the government, p. 10). | | | | 1952 - An Army officer saw a red, cigar-shaped object hover for four | | minutes over Alexandria, Virginia at 9:30 p.m. (Source: NICAP case | | investigation files, report dated May 28, 1963). | | | | 1954 - Two men were chased by a UFO near Oslo, Norway when they had | | stopped their car to look at it. After the sighting a watch stopped | | working and the paint on their car changed color. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 207). | | | | 1955 - In the afternoon a farmhand in Edison, Georgia saw a four-foot | | tall, hairy little gray man without clothes emerge from some nearby | | woods and walk along a fence. The dwarf was visible for 25 minutes | | before he returned to woods. (Sources: Atlanta (GA) Constitution, | | July 26, 1955; Ted Bloecher). | | | | 1956 - At three o'clock in the morning a brilliant light was seen in | | the sky over Long Beach, California. It appeared to be a | | saucer-shaped craft with wires around the edges. The wires seemed to | | be rotating while the disc flew eastward. At 4:30 a.m a photo was | | taken of a light seen east of Wichita, Kansas. There were several | | reports from this area, but most of them appear to be | | misidentifications of either Mars or Venus. Three witnesses in | | Panorama City, California independently claimed to have observed a | | huge, ball-shaped object from which three beings emerged. They were | | nearly two meters (6.6 feet) tall, had long, blond hair, and wore | | tight, green suits. (Sources: Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 82; Civilian Saucer | | Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 5; Project Blue | | Book files; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 253). | | | | 1958 - A pilot flying over Crystal Lake in Chicago, Illinois at 5:07 | | p.m. sighted a white disc-shaped object. The disc appeared to be the | | size of a basketball, and flew in a straight line. (Source: Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30). | | | | 1959 - A UFO was seen flying over a mountain in Papua New Guinea at | | around 6 p.m. At 10:15 p.m. a bright white cigar-shaped object flew | | south over the Woomera missile test range in South Australia. Many at | | the military base as well as in the town saw it, and the newspapers | | carried the report widely. (Source: APRO Bulletin, September-October | | 1959). | | | | 1961 - While flying in a DC-3 over Houston, Texas at eight o'clock in | | the morning Trans-Texas Airlines Capt. A.V. Beather sighted two very | | bright white lights or objects. They flew in trail formation for 30 | | minutes. There is a vague report from ground radar that the UFOs were | | picked up on radar. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook | | Unknowns). | | | | 1963 - A huge top-shaped object hovered, shimmered and rotated in the | | sky west of Burnley, England for two minutes. It shot off toward the | | south, but stopped again. (Source: Paul Devereax, Earth Lights | | Revelation, p. 100). | | | | 1964 - Mr. J.J. Winkle in Littleton, Illinois reported to the Air | | Force that at 4:45 a.m. he observed a 60-foot diameter flying object | | with a round top and flat bottom. It had a long acetylene-colored | | flame shooting downward from underneath the object. It flew straight | | and level, made a half loop, then rose up in the sky. The duration of | | the sighting was about one minute. (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, case 8942; Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1965 - In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia a six meter in diameter | | blue glowing disc landed by a creek, making a swishing sound. It gave | | off an orange glow on takeoff. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, | | March 1968, p. 5; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, | | p. 88). | | | | 1965 - At 3:00 a.m. Carlos Videla Zamudio, a hotel guest in Chanaral, | | Atacama province, Chile was awakened by a loud noise, looked out the | | window, and saw an intense red object about 10-12 meters in diameter | | land on the isolated beach. It was shaped like a mushroom or a top, | | was lighted from inside, rested on the ground silently, flew up to 30 | | meters, and disappeared at fantastic speed. After four or five | | minutes it took off with a "violent noise" and disappeared. (Sources: | | APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 658; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 317). | | | | 1965 - At around eight o'clock in the morning R. Pereyra was driving | | near Monte de los Curas, Quilmes, Buenos Aires province, Argentina | | when he saw a parachute-like object land. Going near it, he observed | | a chromium-looking, egg-shaped craft standing on metal legs, with a | | transparent upper part. A blond pilot, wearing plastic coveralls and | | small boots, seemed to be studying a piece of paper. Inside the craft | | was another man seated before an instrument panel. Shortly thereafter | | the object took off. (Sources: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR | | Special Edition #1, p. 40; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 659). | | | | 1965 - At 9:48 p.m. two high school students, James Murphy and Kevin | | Fitzgerald, in East Hartford, Connecticut sighted a round, bluish | | white object that flew silently to the north. At 10:30 p.m. twenty | | residents of Wayland, Massachusetts observed a round silver-white | | object that traveled to the north, stopped and hovered for 20 minutes | | while wobbling, and then headed north again. (Source: APRO Bulletin, | | September-October 1965, January-February 1966). | | | | 1965 - After 11:00 p.m. a motorist in Chesterville, Ontario, Canada | | encountered a domed UFO with antennae from the sides, hovering just | | above road. He treid to speed past it, but the object accelerated to | | keep up with the car for about a minute at speeds approaching 100 | | mph; it then climbed away out of sight. (Source: Chesterville Record, | | July 22, 1965; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A | | Thirty-Year Report, p. 452). | | | | 1966 - An elongated object carrying parallel points of horizontal | | lights passed over the Mount Monadnock Bible Conference Grounds in | | Jaffrey, New Hampshire at 10:30 p.m. EDT. The lights on the object | | changed from white to red to orange to yellow to green and back to | | white. It made no sound as it flew. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341). | | | | Jaffrey, New Hampshire - 1966 | | | | [] | | | | 1967 - At midnight a sparkling cloud seen over Pyle, England revealed | | itself to be a metallic saucer-shaped object on closer approach. It | | was spinning and made a noise like a jet plane. It vanished while | | still in sight. (Source: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. | | 6). | | | | 1967 - Pedro Petrelli of Guernica, Argentina heard a loud noise like | | a burst of wind from a hurricane and saw a bright object pass over | | his house at night. It seemed to be about seven-meter in diameter, | | circular or disc shaped, and was observed to be spinning. Some twenty | | people in the vicinity saw it. It stopped and hovered over some | | nearby trees and threw off some metallic fragments. The next morning | | two trees showed cuts at a height of five meters, and a third tree at | | three meters. On the ground were found fragments of what seemed to be | | burnt wood, but the inside looked like fused glass. Chemical analysis | | of the fragments established the presence of sulphur, copper and | | silicon that had been subjected to a heat of more than 1600º Celsius. | | (Source: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 11, | | citing letter from Rev. P. Reyna of Buenos Aires dated May 5, 1969 to | | Phenomenes Spatiaux, issue no. 20, June 1969). | | | | 1967 - At 9:15 p.m. EDT Mrs. Elizabeth Douglas had tripped and fallen | | on her lawn in Titusville, Florida and was just getting up when she | | saw a UFO about 200 feet away about 60-70 feet above the ground. It | | was a sixty foot in diameter, gray bell-shaped object, with an | | intense light coming from five square windows. In the fourth window | | was a thin humanoid figure with an egg-shaped head and a featureless | | face. It had long arms that were raised. She viewed the entity for | | about two minutes. Mrs. Douglas's daughter Ingrid joined her, and | | also saw the UFO as it moved away, but did not see the occupant. | | Ninety minutes later at 10:45 p.m. EDT a round green light was seen | | hovering over the radio transmission tower of WHP Radio in | | Summerdale, Pennsylvania. The object turned red, descended to around | | 200 feet above the ground, and an intense white light came on. It | | flew away behind the treeline toward the northwest. (Sources: NICAP | | case investigation files, reports dated July 30, 1967 and August 9, | | 1967; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1967-63, citing Clark McClelland for NICAP). | | | | 1968 - At 12:30 a.m. three 14-year-old girls at a summer camp on Lake | | Kaarna, Estonia were sitting outside eating when they saw a | | bright light descend overhead and join up with a cigar-shaped craft | | that had just appeared. The objects soon disappeared. Moments later, | | after the witnesses had gone inside their cabin, they saw a bright | | orange bus-shaped object on the ground about 50 meters away. It was | | surrounded by dazzling beams of orange yellow light, which suddenly | | dimmed and the object began emitting a green blue light. It had a | | blue green stripe around it and seemed to shrink in size, and after a | | few minutes the witnesses heard a buzzing sound and the object | | disappeared behind some bushes. One of the witnesses ran to where the | | object had been and saw a small human-like figure that had feminine | | features; the figure was standing where the object had been, and she | | seemed to be wearing a shiny silvery ribbon across her chest. The | | being suddenly rose up into the air and vanished. The next day | | strange ground markings were found at the site. (Sources: Juri Lina, | | FSR, June 1978, p. 3; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR).  | | 1968 - A man on a hiking trip near Cluj-Napoca, Romania was scanning | | the field with his binoculars at eleven o'clock in the morning when | | he noticed four bizarre looking humanoids standing on a field. The | | humanoids were standing around apparently inspecting the area except | | for one that appeared to be lying prone on the ground. These human | | like figures appeared to be naked or topless as if sunning themselves | | in a beach. As he watched, five minutes later a large gray balloon | | shaped object appeared above some trees. It was flying in a west-east | | direction and appeared to be about 25 meters in diameter. At one | | point the object ejected a small sphere that descended in a vertical | | parabolic trajectory disappearing behind the trees. Soon 4 | | bell-parachute shaped objects appeared and descend over each of the | | humanoids covering them completely, each of the humanoids raised | | their arms as if waiting to be covered by the objects. The parachute | | like objects then disappeared along with the humanoids. The witness | | described the humanoids as about 1.40 meters in height, of a robust | | build with short muscular legs and over-developed calves. Their skin | | was dark reddish in color and their hair was dark and swarthy. Their | | heads and faces were peculiar since they had dog or canine-like | | characteristics. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1968, citing Calin Turcu, Romania). | | | | 1969 - On this night John Fairfax, a trans-Atlantic sailor sailing | | alone, saw two star-like objects, ten times brighter than Venus. Both | | rose in the sky, then separated, one flying off at a low altitude, | | the other climbing higher in the sky; both vanished suddenly. On the | | same night a discovery was made of five unmanned ships west of the | | Azores. Two of the ships had capsized but the other three were | | totally undamaged despite the disappearance of all passengers and | | crew. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969, p. 7; Ivan T. | | Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 126, citing Reuters). | | | | 1972 - An ovoid shaped object with a dome on top was seen over the | | coast at Tongaat, South Africa at 4:30 a.m. (Source: J. Bernard | | Delair, UFO Register, Volume 9 (1978)). | | | | 1972 - In Pietermaritzburg, South Africa a pink cone-shaped UFO | | appeared directly in front of a car at eleven o'clock in the morning, | | then descended into a cemetery. (Source: Charles Bowen, FSR, | | November-December 1972, p. 16). | | | | 1974 - The fire lookout at Satus Peak in Yakima County, Washington | | recorded seeing an unexplained ball of light for twenty minutes | | beginning at 11:15 p.m. Records show that similar sightings occurred | | here on the same date in 1973 and again in 1981. (Source: Greg Long, | | Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, pp. 127, | | 128, 134) | | | | 1975 - An orange-red metallic disc flew past a plane flying near | | Williams Air Force Base in Arizona. The plane was being flown by a | | man named Royce. It disappeared at great speed. (Source: Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39; Saga UFO Report, July | | 1977, p. 37). | | | | 1975 - On a cloudy evening at around 10:00 p.m. an enormous | | disc-shaped object shot huge beams of energy at four witnesses in Bay | | Village, Ohio. It was estimated to be at an altitude of one thousand | | feet and made no sound. It also reportedly had legs or landing gear. | | (Sources: Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated August 5, | | 1975; FSR, April 1976, p. 24). | | | | 1982 - In the middle of the afternoon a local cattleman in Vejer de | | la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain was on his motorcycle using a seldom | | traveled road when his motorcycle came to a stop and would not start. | | He then walked to what he thought was a tanker truck a hundred meters | | away, but when he got to about 30 meters away from it he saw two huge | | human-like figures standing in the middle of the road. They wore | | shiny metallic armored suits and fishbowl-like clear helmets. One | | stood near a wire fence and was looking at the cattle in the nearby | | field. The beings then walked back to the object as if in slow | | motion. They entered the object through an open hatch, which took off | | silently towards the north. Ground traces were reportedly found at | | the site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, | | case # 98, citing investigator Fernandez-Peri and Vicente-Juan | | Ballester Olmos, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros con OVNIs). | | | | 1990 - At 7:30 p.m. a retired Navy pilot and his wife saw a huge | | bluish-white glowing orb in the sky over Pensacola, Florida. It arced | | down and dove toward Pensacola Bay. (Source: C. Joseph Barron, MUFON | | UFO Journal, December 1990). | | | | 1990 - At 11:00 p.m. a red ball of light, half a meter in diameter, | | chased two witnesses in Soledade, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil for 20 | | minutes. They felt heat from the object. (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO | | Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 85). | | | | 1995 - A zigzagging object with flashing lights was seen over Puget | | Sound from Ballard, Washington at 1:00 a.m. It was seen again by a | | witness east of Port Orchard, Washington at 2:15 a.m. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1999 - At three o'clock in the morning an object was seen flying | | toward the witness in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As it got closer the | | witness could see that it was not a helicopter. Two human occupants | | were seen inside the craft. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, July 1999 web page). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: air displac | | ement; car pursuits; cigar-shaped UFOs; disc-shaped UFOs; erratic man | | euvers; fishbowl helmets; flame from UFO; human looking UFO occupants | | ; landings and landing traces; multi-year reports from Yakima, Washin | | gton; orange UFOs; rush of air from passing UFOs; silvery UFOs; tall | | Nordic humanoids; thin faceless UFO occupant; two UFOs flying in tand | | em; UFOs flying in formation; vehicle EM ignition interference effect | | ; very large humanoids; wristwatch stopped working; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+