+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 19 | | | | 1909 - At 1:15 a.m. several witnesses on the docks in Cardiff, Wales | | observed a cigar-shaped airship that curved up and down the coast, | | making a whirring sound. It was described at fast, with two lights. | | At 9:30 p.m. several observers in Pontypool, Wales saw a graceful | | cigar with a quivering light make a 90 degree turn to the | | north.(Source: Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, pp. 18, 21). | | | | 1909 - In Wroxham, Norfolk county, England a searchlight from a white | | globe of light traveling overhead in a straight trajectory caused the | | headlamp on a motorcycle to fail at 11:30 p.m. (Sources: East | | Anglican Daily Times, May 21, 1909; Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, | | p. 19; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. | | 1). | | | | 1947 - At 12:15 p.m. seven railroad workers in Manitou Springs, | | Colorado watched a silver saucer do acrobatics for 20 minutes. The | | object flew away quickly to the west-northwest into the wind. | | (Sources: Denver Post, June 28, 1947; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying | | Saucers Are Real, p. 66; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; | | APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO | | Journal, May 1992, p. 19). | | | | 1949 - A 20-foot diameter disc flew over New Orleans, Louisiana going | | north at 4:15 p.m., again on this date. (Source: Bruce S. Maccabee, | | MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11). | | | | 1954 - A Ms. Heffer in the hamlet of Shobley, in the New Forest, | | Hampshire, England saw an intense glare in the sky at around 11 p.m. | | A 50-foot orb descended to the treetops; it then glided down road | | toward Bruton, Somerset where a close encounter occurred at 2 a.m. | | the next morning. (Source: Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 15). | | | | 1954 - At 8:30 p.m. a fisherman in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi watched | | three reddish-yellow objects that hung in the sky for 45 minuts. They | | bobbed up and down, and glided away fast to the northeast. (Source: | | Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 100). | | | | 1955 - At 7:15 p.m. three silver disc-shaped UFOs played tag over | | Mount Wilson for 50 minutes. They were seen by several thousand from | | Pasadena, Tujunga, and Montrose, California. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, | | August 1955, p. 5; Lenoard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, June 1955, | | p. 5; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 115). | | | | 1960 - On this night Salvatore Cianci, a jeweler, and his wife, were | | driving near the Sicilian town of Siracusa, Italy when a creature | | about one meter tall suddenly appeared in the headlights. It wore a | | shiny coverall uniform and a diving helmet, and had two short wings. | | Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock. (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, | | April 1964; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 506; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case  A0498). | | | | 1960 - At 3:50 p.m. twelve UFOs were seen over Long Beach, California | | swinging in the sky in a pendulum motion. (Source: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, August 1961, p. 6). | | | | 1963 - A 17-year-old teen named Bushbridge encountered an ovoid | | object by the side of road as he was driving near Mount Gambier, | | South Australia. When he got to within six meters of it a bright | | light dazzled him. The five-meter long object rose vertically, then | | moved across the road over his car, making a roaring noise. (Sources: | | Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 24; Michael | | Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 172). | | | | 1967 - In Grove City, Ohio between 4:00 and 4:30 a.m. EDT four men, | | including the main witness named Schmidhammer, saw a cigar-shaped | | object for 20 minutes that maneuvered in the sky and descended to | | within 150 feet of the ground. It then made a 90-degree turn and flew | | off to the west. The object made an odd noise "that made your ears | | ring." (Sources: Grove City Record, May 25, 1967; NICAP files). | | | | 1969 - At 3:10 a.m. a bright glowing ovoid object chased a car down a | | road southeast of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. The car's radio | | and lights were effected by the UFO during the pursuit. The UFO flew | | off to the south over some woods, according to the report filed with | | the RCMP. (Source: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 70). | | | | 1969 - On this evening at 7:30 p.m. two women, Dona Aurora and Clair | | Mefessoli, were walking to a neighbor's house in Fernandes, Santa | | Catarina, Brazil to borrow some milk when they saw an elongated | | yellowish luminous object descend behind them, not quite touching the | | ground. Two little three-foot tall beings, with features like humans, | | got out of the UFO. The terrified women fled the scene. (Source: | | David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1969-36, citing FSR, July-August 1969). | | | | 1969 - Two hours later, at 7:30 p.m. CDT in Rising Sun, Indiana | | George Kaiser noticed a strange figure 25 feet away. The being was | | the size of a man and covered with black fur. The head sat directly | | on its shoulders and the face was black, with close-set eyes and a | | very low forehead. When Kaiser made a move to get into his car, the | | creature grunted, jumped over a ditch, and ran down the road at high | | speed. Footprints were found that showed only four toes. On the | | following night a UFO was observed over the same area by neighbors. | | (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1969-37, citing Jerome Clark and Loren | | Coleman). | | | | 1971 - On this morning in Mangere, New Zealand Mr. R. Gray sighted an | | elongated metallic object, quite bright like metal reflecting sun, | | that appeared in the sky over Penrose; it moved away and down slowly | | for 5 minutes. (Source: Auckland (New Zealand) Truth, June 15, 1971). | | | | 1973 - A blue cylindrical shaped UFO made a low silent pass over | | Springfield, Missouri at around 9 p.m. It was seen again that same | | night after midnight. (Source: Springfield (MO) News Leader, June 15, | | 1971; Data-Net Report, November 1971, p. 9). | | | | 1974 - Between Pantano and Tuejar, Valencia, Spain flashes were seen | | at around 10 p.m. by two witnesses. A red object was next seen | | resting on a mountain; it went up the mountainside. A red 12 meter | | saucer was on another mountain. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester | | Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case | | # 190). | | | | 1974 - At 9:00 p.m. a mother, daughter and son watched a bright | | object in the sky that was a quarter of a mile away from them in | | Hillsborough, New Hampshire. It hovered for awhile, then moved into a | | nearby forest. No evidence of a landing was found. Three hours later | | and 38 miles to the southwest an occupant report and UFO landing was | | made at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. (Source: David F. Webb, | | Skylook, August 14, 1975). | | | | 1978 - Cars stopped on US highway 29 in Greenville, South Carolina to | | watch a huge, silver colored cigar hovering in the sky around 4 p.m. | | It caused a two mile long traffic backup, and there were over 75 | | witnesses to the event, which lasted over two hours. (Sources: D. N. | | Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 12; Greer (South Carolina) Citizen, | | May 31, 1978). | | | | 1979 - In Bukit Mertajam on the island of Pinang, Malaysia six school | | children reported sighting a landed object and four tiny humanoid | | figures near it in the middle of the afternoon. The creatures were | | only about 4 inches tall. One of the students attempted to catch one | | of the creatures but was shot in the hand. The creature then shot at | | a brick, breaking it into pieces. Afterwards the creatures ran back | | into their tiny craft. Another student reportedly grabbed the small | | object and was shocked by an electric current. The object then took | | off, and an adult witness watched the object taking off. (Source: | | Admad Jamaludin, A Summary of UFO and Related Events in Malaysia, p. | | 81). | | | | 1984 - In rural Williams, Indiana at 11:50 p.m. the witness was | | working on equipment outside behind his house on a warm, clear | | Saturday night. His wife was sleeping inside, and two of this | | neighbors had just left after stopping by to visit him. Suddenly, | | everything around him became brightly lit, and the witness felt a | | tingling sensation. He looked up to see that the light source was a | | brilliant orange light, low in the northwest sky. It was totally | | silent and he could only see the light, no craft could be seen. He | | went inside to call his two neighbors to come back and see the | | strange light, but he did not wake his wife who is a sound sleeper. | | He went back outside and the UFO was there as before. After 10-15 | | minutes had passed, the object began to drift away to the northwest | | where he lost sight of it. Shortly after this his neighbors arrived. | | They had not seen the UFO and teased him and seeing things. The | | object was reportedly 400-500 feet away. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, | | Regional Encounters, p. 81, citing Palmiter, MUFON Indiana). | | | | 1986 - Starting at 9:10 p.m. multiple radar-visual trackings by | | civilian and military pilots occurred in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao | | Paulo, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For nearly three hours, air | | traffic control and military radar tracked up to 21 unidentified | | objects, and jet interceptors pursued them, making visual contact in | | some cases. The night was clear with good visibility. The objects | | appeared to be red-orange balls of light (BOL), but changed | | frequently to white or green. Col. Ospires Silva, oil company | | president and former president of EMBRAER Airlines, with his pilot, | | Commander Alcir Pereira da Silva, was descending through 2,000 feet | | (600 meters) on their landing approach to Sao Jose de Campos, near | | Sao Paulo, at 9:10 p.m. Sao Paulo radar notified them that an unknown | | object was in the area, so they broke off the pattern and turned to | | follow a bright red-orange light that seemed to dance around in the | | sky. Meanwhile, radar at Brasilia confirmed the presence of an | | unknown ojbect. As they pursued the object in the twin-engine Xingu | | aircraft, the light blinked off every 10-15 seconds, only to reappear | | in a new location, as if jumping from point to point. Their low | | performance airplane could not gain on the object, which they | | estimated was traveling at 1,500 km/hour (900 mph), so they abandoned | | the chase after about 30 minutes. | | | | By that time the Brazilian Defense Center, which operates an | | integrated civil-military radar ATC system, was on full alert due to | | numberous UFOs cluttering their radar screens in the vicinity of Sao | | Jose dos Campos and nearby Sao Paulo. All civilian air traffic was | | put on hold, as jet interceptors were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB, | | Sao Paulo State, and Anapolis AFB, near Brasilia. Three F-5E jets | | were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB, followed by three Mirage III jets | | from Anapolis AFB. The first visual contact was made about 10:550 | | p.m. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho, age 25, an F-5E pilot, was vectored | | toward a target indicated by radar to be 35 miles (56 km) distant, | | but he was unable to catch up. At one point ground radar showed the | | UFO rapidly approaching his jet, but he saw nothing at that time. | | Later, he did see a very intense reddish light that changed color to | | white, then to green, then to red again. Another F-5E pilot, Capt. | | Marcio Jordao, age 29, managed to close in to within 12 miles and saw | | a very strong, intensely bright light, continuously changing color | | from white to green. When the object moved off shore and out to sea | | he broke off contact and returned to base. | | | | Ten to thirteen white and green UFOs (BOLs) were chased by the three | | Mirage III fighters. Only one of the jets was able to make visual | | contact. The jets closed to within two miles, then the UFOs outflew | | the jets and climbed vertically up to 33,000 feet. The radar | | controller at Anapolis AFB testified that there were several targets | | behind one of the Mirage jets, six to one side and seven to the | | other. Radar had tracked the UFOs at speeds of up to 800 knots (920 | | mph). At time the objects made 80 degree turns. "No plane I know can | | make turns like that at 1,000 km/h," Capt. Viriato de Freitas said. | | The unexplained nature of the UFOs was openly acknowledged by the | | authorities. The decision to release the news to the public was made | | personally by the president of Brazil, and carried out by the Air | | Force Minister, Brig. Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima. (Sources: Richard H. | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 110-111; | | Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, July 1986, p. 4; Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta, p. 40; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, pp. | | 317-318; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 131, | | UNICAT, case 535). | | | | 1990 - Driving to work in Warrior, Alabama at 4:35 a.m. a man saw a | | boomerang-shaped object with a fan tail approach from the front, | | hesitate, and then pass 15-20 feet over his truck at a leisurely | | speed. It had six big lights in front. He watched it until it was | | lost from view amid the rooflines in the vicinity. The UFO apparently | | overflew a shale strip mine in the area. (Sources: Todd Pierce, field | | investigator, MUFON field investigations database, case 900708; | | Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 121, citing the MUFON UFO | | Journal). | | | | 1993 - At 10:20 p.m. on a misty night in Kenyon, Rhode Island a woman | | was abducted into a 50 foot wide saucer-shaped object and kept there | | for five hours. Inside she was met by two three foot tall humanoids. | | She reported that she was later transported back to her house via a | | blue beam of coherent light. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1993, case # 2389, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, | | issue # 268). | | | | 1996 - The witness was cooking in her kitchen in Rutland, Vermont at | | 10:30 p.m. when she noticed a strong glare of light streaming through | | the kitchen window. She stepped out onto the back porch and noticed a | | disc-shaped object hovering over her house. As the started walking | | back into the house to call additional witnesses, she was confronted | | by a strange humanoid being with huge round eyes. She apparently | | suffered a loss of consciousness and does not know what happened for | | two hours. She vaguely recalls being in some type of an otherworldly | | environment. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting | | Reports database, case 2453, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and | | the World). | | | | 1997 - At 12:15 a.m. local UFO investigator John Tosti and two other | | men in Bloomington, Indiana saw several bright objects hovering over | | a local power plant. Mr. Tosti decided to drive to Snoddy Road at an | | isolated location to signal to the objects with a flashlight. Two of | | the UFOs descended to his location. When one object approached his | | vehicle, the engine and electrical system sputtered. Tosti was able | | to discern a metallic, disc-shaped object, with a small round dome | | and an even smaller dome on top. A blue glow emanated from the bottom | | of the craft. Around the middle of the object was a row of square | | windows, showing a yellow to amber colored light within. Inside the | | craft he could see the silhouettes of several individuals with large | | heads. He attempted to communicate with them by waving his arms, but | | he was apparently ignored. Two smaller bright spherical objects | | emerged from the disc, which then shot up at very high speed, joining | | the other objects in the sky. After a short while, the UFOs left the | | area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1997 Humanoid Sighting Reports | | database, case # 2630, sighting Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume | | 2, number 22). | | | | 1999 - Chilean TV showed a video of a UFO seen hovering over the | | capital city of Santiago, Chile in the late evening. Another UFO was | | filmed the night before. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), September 1999, | | p. 18). | | | | 2000 - A video of a hovering UFO was made in Southampton, England by | | police. A police helicopter flew around the UFO several times before | | the object faded and disappeared. There was a lengthy official | | investigation. (Source: Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case | | # 171). | | | | 2001 - At 2:17 p.m. on a Saturday, two people in Palatine, Illinois | | saw a metallic, cigar-shaped object that was extremely high above | | scattered clouds. "It flew directly over us and gleamed in the sun, | | as it was moving at a very high speed," reported the witness. It was | | an elongated oval, looking somewhat like a missile. The sighting | | lasted from 2-3 minutes. (Source: George A. Filer & David E. | | Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 120, | | citing NUFORC). | | | | 2003 - A huge boomerang, surrounded by a cloud or mist, flew inland | | over Tiruvanmiyur, India at 9:50 p.m. local time. It then flew | | silently back out to sea heading east. There were no lights on the | | object. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18192, citing | | a newspaper clipping). | | | | 2003 - Following a series of early UFO sightings on May 17, at 9:50 | | p.m. on this evening a bright shining nocturnal light was observed by | | local residents in Simferopol', Crimea, Ukraine. The UFO looked like | | a white star, as bright as Sirius. It was moving 2-3 times faster | | than a satellite. Mr. Viktor Zdorov, while waking his dog, saw a | | satellite passing near the UFO in the very same part of the sky. The | | satellite was dimmer and moving much slower. (Source:George A. Filer | | & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO | | Sightings, p. 44). | | | | 2003 - At 12:10 a.m. a totally silent craft bearing three bright | | white lights was observed crossing I-5 near Fresno, California. A | | boomerang-shaped UFO was spotted over Albany, California at 9:30 p.m. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May | | 2003 archived webpage of reports). | | | | 2004 - At 11:30 p.m. EDT a saucer-shaped object, flickering green and | | blue lights and only about 30 feet in the air was reported by a | | witness in Vicksburg, Michigan. There was a big bright flash that | | blinded the witness for 30 seconds, and when his sight recovered the | | UFO was gone. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, May 2004 archived webpage, report ). | | | | 2004 - At 9:52 p.m. PDT a V-shaped object with lights was seen | | hovering low, close to the ground, in Trail, British Columbia, | | Canada. There were three lights on each wing of the V, rotating | | rapidly in circles. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, | | case # 311, citing HBCCUFO). | | | | 2008 - A disc-shaped UFO was spotted over the Surry, Virginia nuclear | | power station at 12:20 p.m. The object was hovering or drifting | | slowly, and made a very leisurely circuit of the power plant. It | | moved against the wind, and very slowly rocked up and down. | | | | 2011 - At 10:00 p.m. Restoule, Parry Sound, Ontario a red light moved | | from southwest to northwest, stopped, flew down and then away. At | | 11:10 p.m. dark objects on a "crooked triangle" of red lights passed | | near witnesses in Dryden, Ontario. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2011 | | Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 329 & 331). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 May 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction, blue beams of energy, boomerang or V-shaped UFOs | | , cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, dwarf humanoids, | | small footprints, hairy humanoid, landings, luminous UFO, missing tim | | e, multi-year reports from Indiana, ovoid UFOs, pendulum motion, phys | | iological effect: tingling sensation, radar-visual reports, short hum | | anoids, short winged humanoid, silvery uniform, tiny humanoids, up-an | | d-down motion, UFOs over nuclear facilities, vehicle EM interference. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+