+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 12 | | | | 1883 - On this day at around 8:00 a.m. Astronomer Bonilla at the | | Zacatecas Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico watched as 283 objects | | passed across the face of the sun. He took a photograph of one of | | them. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 19; Frank | | Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore | | and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. | | 55). | | | | 1910 - At around midnight in the South China Sea a bright spinning | | wheel was see in the ocean, close to surface by four members of the | | crew of the Dutch ship S. S. Valentijn. (Sources: Charles Fort, The | | Book of the Damned, p. 265; Flying Saucers magazine, June 1970, p. 8, | | citing National Fisherman, May 1967; Flying Saucer Review, | | September-October 1967, p. 9). | | | | 1942 - At ten a.m. a large formation of as many as 150 aerial objects | | with no wings was seen from Tulagi Island in the Soloman Islands in | | the Pacific. They were flying in an equally spaced formation, ten | | across and fifteen deep, in a perfect square. They were definitely | | not Japanese planes. (Sources:Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, | | Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 126; Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 55; Richard M. | | Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a | | Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396). | | | | 1946 - A spool-shaped "rocket bomb" was sighted flying rapidly to the | | north over the town of Sodertalje, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It had a | | magnesium colored flare for an exhaust. (Source: Loren E. Gross, | | Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 39). | | | | 1946 - Over Grants Pass, Oregon an intense red and green | | object, flaring in intensity, swayed back and forth in a rocking | | motion between mountain tops for 30 minutes on this night. (Source: | | Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 67). | | | | 1950 - More than eighty discs maneuvered in the sky over Campello, | | Ticino canton, Switzerland, leaving behind luminous wakes. They | | gyrated in the sky with a noise that was described as similar | | to "organ music". (Source: Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying | | Saucers Have Landed,  p. 104). | | | | 1950 - In Yuma, Arizona a disc-shaped object with a glowing outer | | edge zoomed to a position directly over Main Street at 5:45 p.m., | | then shot straight up into the clouds. (Sources: Kenneth Arnold, The | | Coming of the Saucers, p. 153; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: | | August-December, p. 4). | | | | 1952 - In Toulouse, Haute-Garonne department, France more than a | | dozen witnesses saw a white disc-shaped object that stopped over the | | city in the middle of the afternoon. It was joined by two more | | similar looking objects, and then all three flew away fast together. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129). | | | | 1952 - At 9:48 p.m. two military witnesses sighted two disc-shaped | | UFOs while in flight over Wink, Texas. The objects were described as | | aluminum colored, and shaped like pie-pans. They rose rapidly from a | | lower altitude and passed the plane. (Sources:Richard F. Haines, | | Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: | | A History. 1952: August, p. 37). | | | | 1954 - UFOs seemingly visited two U.S. military bases on the same | | night in the southern United States. At 2:30 a.m. EDT in Georgia, a | | disc-shaped object hovered to the west of the tower at Fort Benning. | | It flew away and then came back, but finally vanished when a | | helicopter approached. At Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama nearly an | | hour later, at 2:29 a.m. CDT, four military men on U.S. Army | | helicopters saw a glowing red disc soar around the base tower. There | | were both ground and air observers to this second sighting, as well | | as radar-visual confirmation. (Sources: (1) Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO | | Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 22; (2) Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. | | 284; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Richard M. | | Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a | | Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407). | | | | 1956 - A Mrs. McCaffrey and her daughter saw an oval disc-shaped | | object blazing with white lights over Denver, Colorado at around | | three o'clock in the morning. The object moved to the east, | | then hovered several minutes, and finally flew off to the west. The | | edges of the object were clearly defined. The sighting lasted several | | minutes. (Sources: Rocky Mountain News, August 13, 1956; Leonard H. | | Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1956, p. 3; Alexander Mebane, | | Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, September 1956, | | p. 7). | | | | 1958 - A small ovoid object was sighted by an electrical engineer and | | his family as it flew to the south at a low altitude at 9:30 p.m. | | over Alamagordo, New Mexico. A sound of rushing air was heard. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, September 1958). | | | | 1959 - A 60-year-old farmer in Brion, La Coruna province, Spain saw | | an egg-shaped object come down at high speed and land in a pasture | | near a river. It then took off vertically and flew away toward | | Santiago. It left behind traces on the ground, and it made an engine | | noise that was not similar to helicopter. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 494, citing Aime | | Michel). | | | | 1961 - In Kansas City, Kansas at 9:00 p.m. two 21-year-old witnesses | | saw a yellowish white oval-shaped UFO with an off-centered dome | | hovering only 50 feet above a road near Drake University. It stayed | | there for three to five minutes, then shot straight up, and climbed | | away sharply towards the east. It was gone from view in five seconds. | | A U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book "unknown" case. " (Sources: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7579; | | Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 18; Thomas M. Olsen, | | Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 124; Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, p. 98; UNICAT case # 640, citing James E. McDonald, A.A.S. | | 1968 Symposium Proceedings, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 522). | | | | Kansas City Close Encounter August 12, 1961 | | | | [image] | | | | 1963 - Nocturnal lights exited and returned to a luminous pear-shaped | | UFO hovering over the Birchills Power Station in Staffordshire, | | England at 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted ten minutes and included | | numerous witnesses. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, | | p. 160; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6386, citing Jacques | | Vallee). | | | | 1967 - In Ogema, Wisconsin Mr. And Mrs. Miedtke, awakened by the | | barking of their dog at 2:30 a.m., soon observed a large | | hemispherical object with a fluorescent glow and a short flash of | | light. Too terrified to go outside, they heard heavy footsteps around | | their trailer for the next two and a half hours. At dawn there was a | | sound like that of a generator, and seconds later the object was | | gone. (Sources: Allen Utke, case investigation files; Jim & Coral | | Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 27; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 868). | | | | 1967 - On this night in St Louis de Kent, New Brunswick, Canada a | | dozen teenagers reported that they saw a "huge, black monster" that | | descended from a lighted craft in a wooded area. They were returning | | home from a dance when they caught sight of the figure dressed in | | black, with a black face or face mask and goggles. They didn't | | approach "the monster," who quickly disappeared. (Source: David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1967-74, citing Moncton (NB) Times, August 17, 1967). | | | | 1968 - At 1:00 a.m. there was a reappearance of a bright white UFO, | | sometimes vivid orange in color, at the same nuclear missile sites in | | Pennington County, South Dakota as occurred two nights earlier on | | August 10, 1968. The UFO illuminated the ground behind a small hill. | | (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 5; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, | | Shadow of the Unknown, p. 166). | | | | Gloucester, Massachusetts Saturn-shaped UFO - 1968 | | | | [] | | | | 1968 - At 8:15 p.m. EDT a golden-white globe surrounded by a dark | | ring that looked like the planet Saturn flew over Gloucester, | | Massachusetts. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation report | | dated August 15, 1968; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary | | Visitors, p. 354). | | | | 1968 - A woman staying by herself at a house on the outskirts of | | Mercedes, Argentina heard a buzzing sound and her dogs began barking | | at eight o'clock in the evening. Looking out she saw a brightly lit | | object that gave off bright flashes of light, sitting on the ground. | | Smaller lighted objects emerged from the object and hovered above the | | treetops. At one point one of the lighted objects silently approached | | the house. The witness then saw a second object on the ground from | | which the figure of a man wearing a brilliant silvery outfit was seen | | to emerge. Suddenly there was a brilliant reddish blue flash and the | | whole scene disappeared. The next day several ground traces were | | found in the same area where the objects were seen. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #6, citing Richard | | Heiden, quoting R. Banchs). | | | | 1969 - At 10:50 p.m. two people witnessed three luminous triangular | | craft flying toward >E in a V formation over the mountains north of | | Espalion, France. They stopped, rotated in place, turned >SSE, and | | then flew away. (Source: Larry Hatch, U Computer Database, case 8929, | | citing LDLN Lecteurs). | | | | Taize, France Close Encounter August 12, 1972 | | | | [] | | | | 1971 - Three women at a camp in Himbleton, near Droitwich, England | | heard a roaring sound and thought that it was a plane that was going | | to crash. Instead, they saw a cigar-shaped object with red and green | | lights, thirty to forty feet long, that came and hovered silently for | | an hour, then rose with a noise and disappeared over the trees. | | (Sources: newspaper clipping, August 24, 1971; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA | | Journal, January 1972, p. 14; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1971, | | p. 6). | | | | 1972 - At 1:55 a.m. a huge elongated elliptical object with bright | | lights hovered near the ground in a forest near Taize, Saone-Loire | | department, France. It emitted light beams downward, and smaller | | satellite white disc-shaped objects emerged from it. The UFO reacted | | to a light flashed at it and caused some physiological effects. | | (Sources: Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1973, p. 11; | | FSR, July-August 1973, p. 16; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 16, 202, 269 & 381). | | | | 1972 - A disc-shaped object landed on top of a Quonset hut in Gem, | | Kansas at 2:00 a.m., making beeping sounds. Its light illuminated the | | surrounding field. On the same night two women watched as two very | | large round UFOs flashed beams of light at each other for 45 minutes | | in Gallatin, Missouri. (Source: Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, | | pp. 51 & 52). | | | | 1973 - Several in Broxburn, Lothian, Scotland watched as a star-like | | object passed overhead. A car's engine malfunctioned during the | | sighting. (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, p. 58; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference | | Project Report, p. 65; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 | | (1974), case # 422). | | | | 1974 - In Salles-de-Villefagnan, Charente, France a 15-meter in | | diameter disc-shaped object was encountered over highways D31 and D27 | | at 4:10 a.m. Birds in the area were frightened by the UFO, and the | | eyes of the witnesses hurt after the sighting. (Source: Lumieres dans | | la Nuit, issue # 144). | | | | 1974 - At around two o'clock in the morning police from four towns in | | central New Hampshire saw a domed, oval-shaped object, 40 feet in | | diameter. At one point it came to within 300 feet of a police cruiser | | on Interstate 93 in Sanbornton. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, | | September 1974; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December | | 1974, p. 39; FSR, January-February 1975, p. 31). | | | | 1975 - At 9:30 p.m. J. P. Brassen watched an oval-shaped craft rise | | from the sea and land on the beach in Sanary, Var department, France. | | An oval door opened, and luminous orange beams of light shot out | | while at the same time he heard a loud hissing sound. Two short | | humanoids are seen moving around the craft on the ground. The | | humanoids reportedly had three legs, were very thin and were covered | | with what appeared to be a shell-like material. They moved around in | | small jumps and were only 70 cm in height. The witness fled the area. | |  (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 195 (April 1980), Denys Breysse, | | Project Becassine). | | | | 1976 - Calignaia, Tuscany, Italy was visited by a USO (unidentified | | submarine object) at 10:30 p.m. Dogs barked as a colored light | | maneuvered under the surface of the river. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case #  11812, citing ITACAT). | | | | 1978 - Two 21-year-old college students were driving in Niceville, | | Florida near Eglin Air Force Base when suddenly an oval-shaped UFO | | rushed at their car. At close approach it had the appearance of an | | "eye-like" form, with a "cornea" of shiny black glass, and a "body" | | of metallic silver. The object also had two antennas. (Sources: Allan | | Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 6; UNICAT, | | case # 152, citing IUR). | | | | 1998 - Five youths in Massape, Ceara State, Brazil reported seeing a | | huge object land near the Mondubim lagoon on this evening. Three | | humanoids resembling robots exited the object and proceeded to | | collect shrubs and rocks. The youths fled the area and notified some | | nearby military units, however they failed to find anything. Later | | one of the witnesses, Joao Lira, decided to return to the scene and | | saw the same object on the ground. When he approached it he suddenly | | felt dizzy and passed out. He was found three hours later next to the | | lagoon, shirtless, sweating, and with partial amnesia. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Revista | | Brasileira de Ufologia). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 June 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: beeping and | | buzzing sounds, disc-shaped UFOs, dome-shaped UFOs, giant humanoid dr | | essed in black, ground traces, large numbers of UFOs seen at the same | | time, landings, ovoid UFO, physiological effects: sore eyes, process | | ion of objects, robot-like humanoids, Saturn-shaped UFO, silver unifo | | rms, triangular UFOs, unidentified submarine objects (USO), vehicle E | | M ignition interference effect, vertical ascent, witnesses terrified. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+