+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 7 | | | | 1843 - An object with the "resemblance of a ship" sailed through the | | air over Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and cast a shadow on the ground. | | (Source: John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of | | sightings and close encounters, p. 209). | | | | 1945 - Several observers on a morning flight on a B-17 between Port | | Lyauttey, Mauritania and Dakar, Senegal sighted a shiny metallic | | saucer seen several times; it hovered. (Source: Harley D. Rutledge, | | Project Identification, p. 250). | | | | 1948 - At 3:45 p.m. several witnesses including Kaiser and Bray in | | Memphis, Tennessee saw 50 or more lights make sharp turns in the sky | | for three hours. They flew from east to west. Not meteors, according | | to astronomer. (Sources: Memphis Commercial Advertiser, May 8, 1948; | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1309, citing MUFON UFO | | Journal, issue # 241, citing FBI). | | | | 1950 - A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic at | | 6:45 p.m. when they saw a silvery white object at treetop level. They | | were about nine miles south of Ely, Nevada at the time. It hovered | | for ten minutes, then oscillated "as if attempting to rise" and | | suddenly flew out of sight at high speed. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case # 721; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 79). | | | | 1952 - Five very clear photographs were taken on this day at 4:30 | | p.m. in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They show a | | disc-shaped object with a double protuberance on top. Its estimated | | size was 300 feet in diameter. An apparent discrepancy with some | | shadows was explained by the Brazilian UFO investigator, Dr. Olavo T. | | Fontes, as having been due to some broken leaves. The witnesses were | | named Keffel and Martins. The Brazilian Air Force conclusion on the | | photos is that the "object is several kilometers from the camera." | | (Sources: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, July 1973, p. 1; UNICAT, case | | # 402, citing Stendek; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The | | Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, photo plate 2; | | William K. Hartmann, in Edward Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of | | Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 415). | | | | 1963 - On this evening in Kirkby, Merseyside, England Margaret | | McCutcheon and her 13-year-old son reported to the police that, after | | the lights blacked out in their home while watching television, they | | saw an object about six meters in diameter near the house. It had two | | aerials and a red flashing light, and it was emitting a low buzzing | | sound. After a minute, it flew away. (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, | | July-August 1963; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 569). | | | | 1965 - At 7:30 p.m. a light seen by a witness named Marshall over | | Oxford, Michigan split into two parts, one of which was copper | | colored. Then two more lights joined up with the first two. One of | | the objects may have been tumbling. A Project Blue Book "unknown." | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case # 9389; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. | | 52). | | | | 1966 - A short, cylindrical object with pointed ends was sighted over | | Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas at 9:55 p.m. by Airman 3rd class W. | | L. Whitehead. It had a yellow light at one end, a blue light at the | | other, and flew straight and level for 35 seconds. A Project Blue | | Book "unknown." (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 10535; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April | | 1999, p. 53). | | | | 1967 - At around one o'clock in the morning in Necochea, Buenos Aires | | Province, Argentina a close encounter involving four UFOs happened | | that lasted three hours. (Sources: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: | | A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 187; UNICAT, case # 554). | | | | 1967 - A domed disc-shaped object hovered at 200 feet altitude over a | | cemetery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at around 2:00 a.m. It was seen | | by five teenagers, including a 14-year-old named Ricky Banyard and | | another named Glenn Coates. A muffled whistling sound was heard | | coming from the object, and the object directed a vertical light beam | | to the ground. They looked at it through binoculars. A series of | | bangs and a "screaming" noise like a jet were heard when the object | | took off. Charring of stones and other physical traces were found at | | the site. (Sources: Edmonton Journal, May 8, 1967; APRO Bulletin, | | May-June 1967, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 3; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 840; | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, | | p. 338). | | | | 1967 - Later that evening a nocturnal light followed a car with the | | Luck family of three through the rural countryside of Arnett, | | Oklahoma back home. It then shot off to the west at high speed. It | | looked solid in appearance, according to the witnesses. (Sources: | | APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 6; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters | | with UFO Occupants, p. 47). | | | | 1968 - On this evening town marshal Felix Gallegos and others saw | | three balls of light take off from a neighbors field near Sanford, | | Colorado. No evidence was found on the ground. (Source: APRO | | Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 8). | | 1970 - Over 400 people including school students in Maraenui, New | | Zealand watched a metallic looking, oval-shaped object hover in the | | sky near the sun for ten minutes starting at 2:03 p.m. The center of | | the object had a "transparent-like sheen" and it was the apparent | | size of a basketball held at arm's length. It moved away to the | | northeast. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1970, p. 1; Mrs. K. | | Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 12). | | | | 1974 - At 6:15 a.m. a yellowish-orange ball of light, one meter in | | diameter, landed on two legs between two highway tunnels on Highway | | N518 near Petits Goulets, Drome department, France and was seen by a | | single male witness named Tardy, who was driving nearby when the | | incident occurred. The landing spot was on a geologic faultline. | | (Source: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier | | Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 485). | | | | 1974 - Mrs. Margaret K. Roffe, a nurse's aide at the local Veterans | | Administration Hospital in Coatesville, Pennsylvania was walking from | | one hospital building to another at around 9 p.m. when she heard a | | swishing sound and saw a disc-shaped object descend and land on the | | roof of Building #1. Four silver-colored legs emerged from the object | | just before the object landed, and a ramp came down out of the bottom | | of the craft. Three gray-skinned humanoid occupants emerged from the | | craft by climbing down the ramp backwards. They were all less than | | five feet tall and had long, large bald heads and arms with clawed | | hands; their legs were short. They spoke an unintelligible language | | among themselves in high, squeaky voices. She was able to see their | | features well because the area was well lit by an illuminated dome on | | the roof of the building. When the beings noticed her they re-entered | | the object. The object then took off slowly, making a swishing sound, | | and passed over some nearby trees, which were shaken violently when | | the craft flew over. The legs withdrew into the object as it took | | off. (Sources: Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, p. 56; | | George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 38; George D. | | Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31; George D. Fawcett, Saga UFO | | Report, April 1975, p. 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-19 (A1323), citing George | | Fawcett). | | | | 1975 - At 9:00 p.m. four witnesses--two couples--in a car followed a | | dark ovoid flying object in the mountains west of Tucson, Arizona; | | the UFO follows the car back, making a humming sound. (Sources: APRO | | Bulletin, May-June 1975, p. 1; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the | | Americas, p. 114). | | | | 1977 - A powerful spotlight from a silent, delta-shaped object lit | | the forest in Undersaker, Jamtland, Sweden on this night. A very | | large second object, also triangle shaped and with three large | | windows rose in the beam of light. Both objects hovered over the | | trees, then changed shape from triangular to rectangular. (Sources: | | Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1977, p. 8; | | Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; | | UNICAT, case 195, citing Allan Hendry). | | | | 1980 - At 5:20 p.m. an object described as an "upside down soup bowl" | | with a dome on top came out of cloud cover directly ahead of the | | witness's car driving on I-40 near Valdese, North Carolina. It was | | estimated to be 40 feet in diameter and had a red rectangular area on | | the bottom. It made a U-turn, then banked away. The car's radio | | experienced interference during the close encounter. (Sources: MUFON | | UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 25, 452, citing Tarheel UFO | | Newsletter, June 1980). | | | | 1980 - At 9:05 p.m. a woman with the last name of Riley was driving | | her car in Redding, California accompanied by her two teenage | | daughters (15 and 14 years old) and by another 13-year-old girl, when | | they were frightened by the sudden appearance of a patch of smoke or | | fog that suddenly enveloped their van. All normal noises ceased, | | while the women seemed to "float" inside a "cloud". Very worried, as | | soon as they were able to leave the "cloud" they drove to a friend's | | house, where they discovered that they could not account for 30 | | minutes of time. During the hours that followed they suffered from | | various physiological reactions and the following day, marks | | resembling strange punctures appeared on the skin of two of the | | girls. Soon afterwards they experienced strange dreams in which "men" | | were pointing strange weapons or objects at their heads. The | | witnesses reported the strange event to the police who advised them | | to contact a private UFO organization. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, | | Confrontations, p. 79; APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 1; Thomas E. | | Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 22, citing | | APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 1). | | | | 1986 - Thirty objects engaged in zigzag maneuvers over Greensburg, | | Pennsylvania for eight minutes starting at around 8:30 p.m. (Sources: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14345; MUFON UFO Journal, | | December 1986). | | | | 1988 - At 10:30 p.m. a blue sphere was seen at 600 meters altitude | | over the city of Sakharnaya, in Vladivostok, Russian Far East; it was | | completely silent. Sections of it pulsed light. (Sources: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 14695; Timothy Good, The UFO | | Report 1990, p. 123). | | | | 1989 - A South African Mirage FIIG AF allegedly jet shot down a UFO | | that flew in from the ocean over the Kalahari Desert, 80 miles north | | of the South African border in Botswana. It had been tracked by radar | | by the Frigate SA Trafalberg, and the Naval headquarters in Cape | | Town. They retrieved a silver disc-shaped craft, and two Grey aliens | | were captured alive. They had three fingers/toes on each limb, and no | | sex organs. The object was reported to have been lens-shaped, 18 | | meters in diameter with three landing gear. There were three aliens | | onboard; two alive but one died soon afterwards. The alive alien was | | eventually moved to the S-4 facility. NORAD apparently tracked the | | object as it fell to earth. An experimental SDI weapon was reportedly | | used to expedite the downing of the craft, which apparently had | | already experienced some technical problems. South African and | | American military personnel crossed the Botswana border without | | permission in order to retrieve the craft. The bodies and materials | | were transported to the US in a C-5A cargo plane from South Africa. | | (Sources: Tony Dodd, Alien Investigator: The Case Files of Britain's | | Leading UFO Detective, p. 33; Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid | | Sighting Reports, case # 2846, citing Tony Dodd, Bill Knell, and | | Anton Anfalov) | | | | 1990 - At 12:50 a.m. several hundred observers in Perm, Russia | | watched an unidentified flying object direct a bright fan of light | | down on the slopes of Mount Kamenoi. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 15168; Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF | | Translations, p. 402). | | | | 1990 - At 10:00 delta-shaped objects were seen during a meteor shower | | in North Delta, British Columbia, Canada. An abduction occurred later | | that night. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15169, | | citing UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1994). | | | | 1992 - At 1:00 a.m. a huge, 500 meter or larger disc-shaped object | | with bright lights crossed the sky over the beach in Port Elizabeth, | | Eastern Cape, South Africa. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, | | July 1992). | | | | 1994 - At 7:40 p.m. a domed, disc-shaped object bobbed and wove | | through the sky over Corby, Northamptonshire, England. A witness | | filmed a four-minute videotape of the encounter before the object | | shot away. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1994). | | | | 1995 - At 1:00 a.m. a couple driving on the A52 highway near | | Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England had a close encounter with a large | | dome-shaped craft that was only 30 feet off the ground. It vanished, | | and then reappeared near their car. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 17222; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1995). | | | | 1995 - At 2:30 a.m. a lady driving near Beaverton, Oregon reported | | seeing a "pink sky", and then a triangular-shaped UFO hovering over a | | field behind her house. The craft was gray, with lights in the | | corners and a tile-like surface on the exterior. Two of the lights | | were orange and the third was an orange-red color. A beam of light | | that followed the contour of the craft connected all three lights. | | Later on, many more trangular craft were seen over the same field. | | Large white, box-shaped objects and "people" were observed on the | | ground and appeared to be working in the field. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing The Western | | Bigfoot Society Newsletter). | | | | 1995 - That same night near Glasgow, Scotland Igor Terzic was driving | | his vehicle when a UFO began hovering over it. He next recalls | | finding himself parked in the middle of the road, where a truck | | almost hit him. Later under hypnosis he recalled being abducted and | | taken inside the object. There he saw two kinds of humanoids of both | | genders. One type of tall with (upside down) pear-shaped heads, huge | | eyes, and no discernable mouths. The others were similar but shorter | | and smaller. He heard a voice in his head tell him he was going to be | | alright. He thinks he was experimented upon, but the only thing he | | recalled was drilling a hole in his head at one point. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # | | 2843, citing Scottish UFO). | | | | 1995 - At 12:20 p.m. a red disc-shaped object flew over the road | | ahead of a car with two witnesses in Massillon, Ohio. EM effects: the | | engine quit, and the radio was affected. (Sources: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1995 webpage; Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 17225, citing NUFORC). | | | | 1996 - While on her lunch break at 1:30 p.m. at West Point Lake, near | | the McGhee Bridge in La Grange, Georgia, a 35-year-old woman | | witnessed a gray colored, domed disc-shaped object just above the | | lake. After some five to ten minutes, the object shot straight up "at | | least as fast as lightning." (Source: John C. Thompson, MUFON UFO | | Field Investigations Database, case 970107E). | | | | 1998 - On this night a 10-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother | | spotted a large UFO hovering above their house in Mullica Hill, New | | Jersey. The children claimed the craft was lighted and bigger than | | their house. They also saw an alien figure floating next to the | | object, the entity apparently stared at the children who became | | scared and ran into the house yelling for their dad. They ran back | | out to see the object float away. They did not see the entity again. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case | | #3148, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 3 # 20). | | | | 2001 - A man in Peterborough, Ontario reported seeing a huge black | | triangular shaped craft fly overhead at 10:10 p.m. He reportedly | | heard a "message" in his head. He also reported that he experienced | | some "missing time." (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle). | | | | 2003 - At 10:30 p.m. three green colored, cigar-shaped UFOs were | | sighted by four young women over Northridge, California. They were | | moving slowly at first over, but they then separated and one flew off | | to the east. It was joined seconds later by the other two, and | | together they increased speed and went into the clouds. (Sources: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Preston | | Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial | | Encounters in the Golden State, p. 213, citing the MUFON UFO Journal, | | issue # 423). | | | | 2004 - In North Lauderdale, Florida at approximately 10:25 p.m. an | | oval-shaped object was in sight for 10 minutes. It had a row of | | blinking lights, and the lights were alternating blue and red, while | | the object made a humming sound.(Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, www.nuforc.org, May 2004 webpage). | | | | 2006 - A huge boomerang-shaped UFO with a single front bright light | | and many tiny bright lights in sequence on the edges was seen flying | | over Twenty-Nine Palms USMC military base in California at 9:00 p.m. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2006 | | webpage, report uploaded July 16, 2006). | | | | 2007 - At 6:30 p.m. four balls of yellow light were seen dancing over | | a mountain in Riverdale, Yukon, Canada. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, | | 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 258). | | | | 2009 - A low flying disc with multicolored flashing lights was seen | | over Avon, Colorado at 8:00 p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, May 2009 webpage, citing MUFON Colorado). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised May 5, 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, balls of light, | | boomerang or V-shaped UFOs, cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs, crash | | retrieval by military of live alien(s), domed discs, EM effects: radi | | o interference and power failure, fog or smoke, Grey UFOnauts, hummin | | g sound, levitating humanoid, missing time, oscillating movement, ova | | l UFOs, silvery white UFOs, telepathy, triangular or delta-shaped UFO | | s, unintelligible language, vehicle EM ignition interference effects. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+