+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 26 | | | | 1897 - A lawyer was surprise to see a lighted object fly over as he | | was driving his carriage three miles north of Aquila, Texas. His | | horse shied and nearly toppled the carriage. When the main light was | | turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible ont he | | underside of the dark object, which supported an elongated carriage. | | The airship went down toward a hill to the south, five kilometers | | from Aquila, Texas. When the witness was on his way back, one hour | | later, he saw the object ascending. It reached the altitude of the | | cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast at a fantastic speed with | | periodic flashes of light. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 30; Dallas Morning News, April | | 28, 1897). | | | | 1897 - At 5:15 a.m. in Barring Cross, Arkansas a photograph of a | | structured flying object was taken. (Source: Jerome Clark, Flying | | Saucer Review, July 1967, p. 22). | | | | 1897 - At 11:00 p.m. in Sidnaw, Michigan several people saw a green | | ball of light fly overhead. (Source: Marquette (MI) Mining Journal, | | May 1, 1897). | | | | 1948 - A flying humanoid was spotted on this morning in St. Louis, | | Missouri and reported to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper by a | | Mrs. Dolezal. (Sources: St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 26, 1948; | | Kansas City Star, April 29, 1948). | | | | 1954 - What first appeared to be a flaming ring made sharp turns in | | the sky over a school in Newburyport, Massachusetts at around 3:30 | | p.m. It resolved into a solid silver, disc-shaped object with a dark | | center and protruding top. It made an intense roaring sound that | | lasted five seconds. It left a bright white tail in descent, and flew | | off rapidly to the southeast. At 8:35 p.m. 15 balls of light in a | | V-formation buzzed a University of Georgia professor of aeronautics | | and four other witnesses in Athens, Georgia. (Sources: (1) Richard | | Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 66; UNICAT database, case 773, | | citing Project Blue Book; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case 2983; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A | | Study of Multiple UFO, p. 59; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: | | January-May, p. 79). | | | | 1958 - At 9:05 p.m. a red hot coal-like object streaked across the | | sky over Adelaide, South Australia. It made a hissing noise. (Source: | | Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164). | | | | 1959 - Luis Da Silva had seen a red colored disc in the sky before he | | went to bed in Sao Paulo, Brazil and when he awoke at midnight he | | felt a compulsion to go out into his garden, where he found a note | | telling him to return the next night at 1:30 a.m. He did so, and a | | circular UFO appeared at a low altitude, perhaps 100 meters. He felt | | paralyzed and unable to move. In a spiral a man descended from the | | UFO but did not quite touch the ground. He wore a helmet and was clad | | in plastic looking clothing, with gloves that looked transparent like | | glass. He told Da Silva to return again on Thursday at 2:05 a.m. and | | then re-ascended in a spiral to his craft. On Thursday the same | | sequence of events occurred, but this time three entities descended, | | one at a time. The last of these beings asked Da Silva for a sheet of | | paper, and he inscribed upon it a message consisting of | | undecipherable markings. (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, May-June | | 1967, p. 7; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1959-07, citing Dr. Walter Buhler, SBEDV). | | | | 1964 - An interesting photograph was taken this day in Burgh le | | Marsh, Cumbria, England. A Mr. Templeton took a photograph of a | | little girl holding a nosegay of flowers in the early afternoon. Not | | seen at the time was what appears to be the image of a man standing | | behind her, dressed in a white spacesuit. (Sources: Flying Saucer | | Review, November-December 1964, p. 11; Gordon Creighton, FSR, | | September-October 1970, p. 29). | | | | 1964 - At 12:30 p.m. Orlando Gallegos observed a bright, metallic, | | egg-shaped object about 70 meters away, on the ground, north of La | | Madera, New Mexico. Blue flames appeared to circle the base of the | | machine, which was silent and about the length of a telephone pole. | | Scorch marks and four imprints were found, according to Police Capt. | | Martin Vigil. Also on the same day, a thirty-foot wide silver, | | inverted bathtup-shaped UFO was sighted near Truth of Consequences, | | New Mexico by a Mr. Mitropolis. It was seen a quarter of a mile to | | the east, flew up over a mountain, then down out of sight near the | | Caballo Reservoir. (Sources: (1) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, case 598; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, | | p. 5; (2) Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 10). | | | | 1965 - At 5:00 p.m. Gary W., age 9, in New London, Minnesota saw an | | object which came down silently and hovered at ground level, 60 | | meters away. A sort of periscope emerged from the craft, and a | | strange noise, which was also heard by the boy's father, was noted. | | After a couple of minutes the "periscope" disappeared, the object | | rose, and then dashed up into the sky at unbelievable speed. | | (Sources: Saucer News, Fall 1965, p. 26; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 645; Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO | | Journal, April 1990, p. 20). | | | | 1966 - A young man was driving his car in Follansbee, West Virginia | | at 11:30 p.m. when he saw a silent UFO shaped like two bowls glued | | together. It flew at 30 meters altitude, ahead of his car. He | | estimated the diameter of the object at 10 meters. He drove away as | | quickly as he could without looking back. (Sources: Jacques Vallee: | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 766, citing US Air | | Force ATIC; http://www.nicap.org/waves/1966fullrep.htm). | | | | 1967 - At 8:30 p.m. a Miss Roberts of St. Catherines, Ontario saw a | | blindingly red object ascend into the sky, then turn a green color. | | It next shot beams of light at a dog on the ground, and made an exit | | with erratic maneuvers. In nearby Waterloo, Ontario at 9:00 p.m. a | | Mr. Dorscht saw an oil-drum shaped cylinder descend from the sky, | | extend six legs, and then land on his farm. The 1.5 meter tall object | | left behind six landing imprints in the ground after it departed. At | | 9:30 p.m. EDT a witness in Kitchener, Ontario saw a small cylinder, | | estimated to be 3 feet in diameter and 5 feet tall, with flashing | | lights. The object landed, deploying six legs when it was about four | | feet from the ground. A whirring sound during landing stopped once | | the object was at rest. Ground impressions (physical traces) were | | found at the landing site. (Sources: (1) NICAP UFO Investigator, June | | 1967, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A | | Thirty-Year Report, p. 337; (2) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, case 837, Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces | | Associated with UFO Sightings, case 272; (3) NICAP report form and | | unidentified newspaper clipping dated September 8, 1967 in NICAP | | files). | | | | 1967 - On this night in Mount St. Helens, Washington two teenagers | | saw a saucer-shaped object with a dome. It had a swept back wing, and | | red body lights. As it pursued the witnesses' car and illuminated it | | with a light beam, a whistling sound could be heard. The object then | | turned away and started to follow a truck that passed. (Sources: | | Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files; | | http://www.nicap.org/waves/1967fullrep.htm). | | | | 1969 - At 5:26 p.m. in the suburbs outsie of Melnik, Sofia, Bulgaria | | a shiny delta-shaped object remained in place in the sky for two | | minutes. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind | | the Iron Curtain, p. 197). | | | | 1969 - On this evening David Arychuk was out walking his dog in | | Calgary, Alberta when he saw a circular object with three pulsating | | red lights around the top, 200 yards away from him. The UFO was about | | 30 feet in diameter and 20 feet high, and cream-colored with a pitted | | surface. He smelled a rather nauseating odor of "sweet bitterness" | | that was in the air. One hundred yards away stood two humanoid | | beings, "taller than normal," wearing dark clothing. David yelled out | | "Hey you!" and they walked around behind the UFO. His dog refused to | | go on and was shivering from fright. By the time David came back to | | the site with his stepfather the UFO was gone, but the odor was still | | present the next day. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-44, citing | | investigator William K. Allan; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and | | Critters, p. 49). | | | | 1969 - Sr. Robler's watch stopped when he drove his car under a | | luminous red, cone-shaped UFO on a highway between Ibiuna and Sao | | Paulo, Brazil in Sao Paulo State at 4:30 a.m. (Sources: Hans | | Bemelmens, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 17; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA | | Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 52). | | | | 1974 - Forty-one year old Oscar Patero failed to return from a short | | business trip that he embarked upon on this day. Five or six days | | later he was found rain soaked and covered with ticks on a thousand | | foot mountain near Colatina in the state of Espiritu Santo, Brazil, | | which was over 900 kilometers from his home. He said that a light | | appeared at around 11:30 p.m. just before he crossed a bridge while | | driving between Catanduva and Julio de Mesquita, Sao Paulo, Brazil. | | In fact, his car was found there. Under hypnosis he revealed that he | | had been taken aboard a UFO and been given a physical exam, but he | | resisted giving any further details except to say that a tall, | | fair-haired and blue-eyed young man was one of the aliens. The man | | was described as about 5 feet 8 inches tall with a small nose and | | small ears. He revealed that this was actually his second UFO | | encounter, because he had given a ride to this same individual | | previously on the night of his first encounter. (Sources: Gordon | | Creighton, FSR, November 1975, p. 15, citing O Dia, May 29, 1974; | | Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space | | Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 81; Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and | | Reports from Brazil, p. 171; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1320, citing Walter Buhler; | | Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case | | 186B). | | | | 1975 - A UFO dove at spectators who had stopped to watch it along the | | side of a highway in Gerena, Sevilla, Spain, causing the witnesses to | | panic. The six witnesses got back into their cars and drove away, but | | were chased for two miles. The red, elongated or ovoid object came so | | close that the drivers were dazzled by the light. When they pulled | | into a filling station for santuary the light finally shot off | | rapidly to the east. The incident lasted approximately eight minutes. | | (Sources: Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80, | | citing I. Darnaude; Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1976). | | | | 1976 - At 11:30 a.m. a disc-shaped object maneuvered for more than | | two minutes in the sky between Carson and Long Beach, California. | | (Source: Ann Druffel, Skynet, April 1976, p. 24). | | | | 1977 - Two witnesses, including a 31-year-old woman named Coombes, | | reported that a 7-8-foot tall luminous silver figure, three feet | | wide, looked in a window for an hour in Milford Haven, England on | | this night. The humanoid form, whose face was black with no features, | | vanished when a neighbor drove up. An orb chased the car. (Source: | | International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2, citing a newspaper | | clipping). | | | | 1978 - A close encounter of the first kind happened in Eden Prairie, | | Minnesota to a witness named Stoddard. (Sources: Eden Prairie (MN) | | News, May 4, 1978; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's | | Unexplained Phenomena, p. 40). | | | | 1980 - A disabled man and a woman neighbor in Holton, Indiana watched | | a luminous, golden-colored triangle, that appeared and passed in | | front of the full moon at around 11:00 p.m. It hovered for awhile, | | then shot straight up, and finally zigzagged before vanishing at a 45 | | degrees angle above the horizon in the northwest. (Source: Allan | | Hendry, CUFOS News, September 1980, p. 3). | | | | 1984 - At around 11:00 a.m. a humanoid wearing an odd helmet was seen | | in the woods west of Macomer, Sardinia, Italy by two children. There | | was an odd silence that permeated the encounter, which lasted only a | | couple of minutes. A disc-shaped object rose from the forest floor, | | then flew off to the east-northeast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 14138, citing CISU). | | | | 1984 - At 10:00 p.m. a multicolor disc fired fireballs at the ground | | and maneuvered in the sky over Stanmore, London, England. (Source: | | Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 114). | | | | 1984 - At 10:00 p.m. in Screven, Georgia several witnesses including | | police watched a W-shaped object with lights that flew at a low | | altitude and at a speed of 160 km/hour. (Source: Michael Hitt, | | Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 82). | | | | 1985 - A shiny sphere was sighted over a farm near Gomoab, Namibia, | | Africa at around 8 p.m. The next morning a 15-meter deep well was | | found dry. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1991). | | | | 1992 - At 1:30 a.m. a green glowing disc-shaped object, ringed with | | portholes and estimated to be 100 meters in diameter, was sighted | | flying over the residential area of Macae, Rio de Janeiro State, | | Brazil. It made a sonic boom as it flew off toward the east. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, cse 15714, citing Causistica | | Brasileira de 1992, issue # 8). | | | | 1994 - At 1:10 p.m. a distant white, disc-shaped UFO hovered over | | Santa Rosa Sound as witnessed from Gulf Breeze, Florida. It created a | | churning swirl of water, that looked like a waterspout below the UFO. | | (Source: Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 56). | | | | 2000 - At around 2:00 a.m. several residents living on the slopes of | | a hill in Tocopilla, Antofagasta Province, Chile saw a strange | | looking entity climb rapidly up the side of a steep hill. It moved up | | a practically vertical cliff using reptilian like movements, and | | seemed to expand as if it possessed dark wing-like membranes on its | | back, which may have helped propell it up the cliff. Once it reached | | the summit witnesses began hearing strange growling and screeching | | sounds coming from the top. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 2000, case HC # 3644, citing Paranigma Chile). | | | | 2001 - In Mount Gambier, South Australia at 7:00 p.m. there was a | | procession of orange/red fireballs that passed from west to east. The | | second followed the first at a 5 minute interval, then 20 minutes | | passed before the third object, and then five minutes again until the | | fourth one passed. They all travelled beneath the cloud line. One | | went out completely, while the others faded in the distance. At 7:45 | | p.m. there was another procession of objects. Another object was seen | | in the sky, then another one 5-6 minutes later, then a third one came | | from the northwest direction, which moved east toward Victoria. | | (Source: Doug Moffett, Australasian Ufologist, April 2002, p. 37). | | | | 2001 - At 8:00 p.m. a huge V-shaped UFO with white lights on the | | leading edge defining the boomerang outline, flew directly overhead | | in Salt Ash, New South Wales, Australia. A minute later, single | | lights began arcing in one direction, then the other. (Source: George | | A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of | | UFO Sightings, p. 105). | | | | 2004 - A very fast, low flying cigar-shaped object with four diamond | | shapes on the bottom was seen flying over Longmont, Colorado at 9:00 | | p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April | | 2004 webpage).  | | | | 2004 - A glowing flying triangle was spotted by a couple in Kelowna, | | British Columbia. It was white in color. No lights were seen on the | | craft, flying at an estimated 20,000 ft, with no aura nor trail. It | | went on a straight line toward the northwest. Later a helicopter was | | seen flying at a low level. (Sources: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian | | UFO Survey, case # 246, citing HBCCUFO; George A. Filer & David E. | | Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. | | 113). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 26 April 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database | | | | Themes: abduction, disc-shaped UFO | | s, domed discs, flying humanoid, green UFOs, ground marks, landing im | | prints, multi-year reports from Brazil, Nordic UFOnauts, pungent odor | | , red UFOs, tall humanoids, undeciphered writing given to UFO contact | | ee, V-shaped or boomerang UFOs, winged humanoid, whistling sound, wit | | ness felt a compulsion to go to a specific site after a UFO sighting. | | | | © Donald A. 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