+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 9 | | | | 1952 - At 10:50 a.m. a military witness named Raley at Chennault Air | | Force Base, Louisiana saw a disc-shaped object that flew very fast | | for five minutes, and hovered for two seconds. A Project Blue Book | | "unidentified" case. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case # 1870; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1952: August, p. 33). | | | | 1952 - At 8:57 p.m. local time a U.S. Marine Corps ground control | | radar in Grid Area K-3, Pohang, Korea made contact with a moving ball | | of fire with a stream of flame travelling at a high rate of speed: | | 1500 mph. (Source: Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices | | Reported During the Korean War, p. 51). | | | | 1953 - A 60-meter diameter luminous disc-shaped object accompanied by | | four nocturnal lights, flying near Moscow, Idaho at 9:20 p.m., shot | | up and away when three F-86 Sabre jets attempted to intercept them. | | (Sources: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 30; Larry E. | | Towner, Fate magazine, May 1954, p. 32; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft | | UFO Encounters, p. 21). | | | | 1955 - A bright object, the apparent size of the Moon, hovered low | | near the horizon near Moon Lake, Nebraska for two hours. Nocturnal | | lights exited from it and flew off to the north. There were several | | witnesses from three families. (Source: APRO Bulletin, August 1955; | | Larry Hatch, U computer database). | | | | 1959 - Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses had | | to stop when they ran out of fuel at Sombrero, Magallanes, Chile. At | | 7:54 p.m. they observed a light swinging in the sky like a pendulum, | | and coming closer to the ground. It appeared to be a large, vertical, | | ovoid object that made a "whooshing" sound. Its closest approach was | | 120 meters. They estimated its dimensions at two meters in height and | | 1.5 meters in width. When Uribe aimed his rifle at the object it went | | out of sight within seconds. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 493; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs | | over the Americas, p. 14). | | | | 1963 - Harry Bishop, the former major of Mount Vernon, Illinois, | | watched a large, bright red oval-shaped light making a "whirring | | sound" follow a car along Centralia road. When the car stopped, the | | UFO stopped; it hovered for awhile, then moved away at right angles | | to its original course. There were a number of other witnesses. | | Duration: 10 minutes. (Sources: Jeffrey G. Liss, Fate magazine, | | November 1963, p. 26; APRO Bulletin, January 1964, p. 4; Richard | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, | | p. 13). | | | | 1965 - At around 6:00 p.m. an astronomer and his family were driving | | in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York when a silvery disc-shaped | | object with a "ring of bluish white lights" moved overhead slowly to | | the south. The object then turned and accelerated to the | | east-northeast. He drove up to 80 mph in pursuit, but it dwindled in | | size until it resembled a star high in the sky. It moved up and down | | several times, then finally darted to the south out over the Atlantic | | Ocean. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 66). | | | | 1965 - An anonymous music teacher, a "high level public employee", | | was driving on the outskirts of Lima, Peru around 10:00 p.m. when his | | car's engine started to miss, and then stop. At that moment, a beam | | of light  enveloped the car from above, then levitated it from the | | road and carried it through the sky for an unknown distance, at such | | an altitude that the witness could see the coastline and a peninsula, | | La Punta, west of the city. He was paralyzed and unable to move | | during this process. The car was brought to the ground near the shore | | and he could hear waves breaking. Then, a voice spoke to him in | | perfect Spanish, and asked him to get out of the car. He did so and | | "could barely make out" little men with big ears. No UFO was seen, | | but there was a luminous screen nearby, on which was displayed, "We | | are using calming rays on you to remove your fear." He then asked | | several questions, in response to which a spokesperson told him that | | they came from a place more distant than Mars, that they had visited | | Earth on various occasions in the past, and that they did not appear | | in public because that would cause panic. Asked if they knew about | | music, he heard they had "something that might be considered as | | music, but that it had the power of raising the feelings to the | | highest exaltation." After that, his car was transported back through | | the air to the spot from which it had been picked up. He told his | | story to an uncle, an official in the Peruvian police, who informed | | reporters. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-27). | | | | 1965 - At around midnight the K. Denver family of three saw a UFO on | | the ground at South Myton Bench, Duchesne County, Utah that stood up | | like a rocket. The top was flat, with a row of windows below, and a | | room inside with bright lights. Rotating flashing lights on top, | | orange-red flames on bottom. It rose vertically without a sound, | | hovered, then shot up quickly. (Source: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah | | UFO Display, p. 17). | | | | 1967 - A disc-shaped object about the size of a rugby ball was | | sighted by a married couple in Grey Friars, Stattordshire, England at | | 2:30 a.m. It flashed blue lights all around its rim, and seemed to be | | spinning in time with sound coming from it. It caused their dog to | | begin barking. The witnesses reported that they were too frightened | | to sleep after their encounter. Later that evening another close | | encounter occurred in Weston-on-Trent, England. The witness reported | | a "dull penetrating sound," then sighting a red light that moved up, | | down, and "all over the place." This witness's dog also whimpered, | | barked, and scratched at the door in response to the UFO. The noise | | persisted throughout the night, even after the UFO had gone. (Source: | | Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 6). | | | | 1967 - At 11:30 p.m. a bright, cage-like UFO shaped like an inverted | | bowl, with a row of yellow lights on its surface, flew over Grand | | Rapids, Michigan very fast at an estimated altitude of 5,000 feet. | | (Source: Grand Rapids Press, August 11, 1967). | | | | 1968 - A beam of energy from a disc-shaped object caused the death of | | someone on a farm in Jaboticatubas, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at | | 8:10 p.m. On the same night a round flying object emitting blue and | | red lights was sighted in the suburbs of Cerro de la Gloria, Mendoza | | province, Argentina. Two dwarves wearing helmets with bright glowing | | antennae on their heads exited the landed craft. When a police office | | named A. Romero pointed his gun at them, a luminous ray immobilized | | him. He was later hospitalized. (Sources: (1) Bob Pratt, UFO Danger | | Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 193; (2) David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A1565, citing Roberto Enrique Banchs and Cronica, August 14, 1968). | | | | 1971 - Starting at around 9:00 a.m. a glowing orange disc-shaped UFO, | | shaped like two basins placed edge to edge, paced a plane flying from | | Belo Horizonte to Uberaba, Minas Gerais State, Brazil for 20 minutes, | | and then suddenly sped away. The private pilot was a 24-year-old man | | named Vicente Buono. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1972, | | p. 2; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1971, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The | | UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 15, 120). | | | | 1972 - A woman teacher was camping out in the yard of a friend's | | house in Saint Jean Du Gard, France and had gone out for a walk at | | 2:30 a.m. when she noticed a white spherical light that appeared to | | be in a nearby field. As she stood there watching, she heard | | footsteps behind her that sounded like someone walking on the dry | | grass. When she turned around, she was confronted by a five-foot | | tall, robot-like being that was completely black. Its head was | | egg-shaped and it had two round white discs for eyes. The witness | | felt an unbelievable level of fear and had the feeling that the being | | possessed extraordinary powers; it could in fact control "nature | | itself." She blacked out and when she recovered found herself back in | | her tent with her husband. That same morning a truck driver named | | Marcilio was forced to stop his vehicle in the pre-dawn hours on the | | Amaral Peixoto Highway in Brazil when the road was blocked by a UFO | | sitting on the road with yellow and blue flashing lights. It took off | | rapidly. (Sources: (1) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1968, case # 1102, citing Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the | | Universe; (2) Gordon Creighton, FSR, September 1972, p. 26, citing O | | Dia, August 9, 1972). | | | | 1973 - A father and his son were driving along the main highway in | | the Exeter, New Hampshire during the day when they saw a landed UFO | | along the side of the highway. A tall humanoid figure stood next to | | the object. The witnesses kept driving without stopping. (Source: | | David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1973-19; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the | | Humanoids). | | | | 1977 - At around 1:30 a.m. Police Constable David Swift was | | investigating an unusual fog in a nearby fog located in East Hull, | | Yorkshire, England. As he crossed the field, he saw three figures who | | seemed to be dancing around a non-existent Maypole. Each had an arm | | raised. "One figure was a man in a sleveless jerkin and tight-fitting | | trousers...the other two were women in bonnets, shawls, and white | | colored dresses." Thinking they were drunks, he approached them. At | | about 50 feet away the entire scene vanished. "No one was there." He | | drove about the area in his car, but found nothing more. He then | | reported the incident to his sergeant. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | 1977 Humanoid Reports; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-44, citing Robert J. | | Richard, Fortean Times, issue # 23). | | | | 1979 - Two white, 30-foot diameter lenticular discs were seen flying | | together below an aircraft being flown by the state police southeast | | of Hayfork, California at around ten o'clock in the morning. The | | discs were hugging the terrain, following the contour of the land and | | flying in and out of the canyons below, nearly grazing the ground. | | Their speed, when first sighted, was estimated to be 600 miles per | | hour, but they accelerated and sped away to the north at 1,500 mph. | | There were four witnesses who watched the craft for 20 seconds. | | (Sources: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, | | p. 191; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42; Richard | | H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 24, | | 125; UNICAT database, case 47, citing Paul Cerny). | | | | 1980 - A few minutes after midnight a Sandia Security detail of three | | men, Ferenz, Rist, and Frazier, reported that a disc-shaped object | | landed behind the "HQ CR 44" nuclear storage building at Sandia | | Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. One of the | | security guards drove his jeep into Coyote Canyon and approached on | | foot. He had a clear view of the round disc-shaped object at the | | Manzano Weapons Storage Area. His radio would not work when he tried | | to radio for backup. The UFO shot straight up and away at high speed | | at the end of the 30 minute encounter. (Sources: Lawrence Fawcett & | | Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO | | Experience, pp. 224-225; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 406; | | UNICAT database, case 373, citing Fawcett & Greenwood). | | | | 1983 - A 34-year-old man named Platner saw a UFO in Winifreda, La | | Pampa province, Argentina at 7:30 p.m. and followed it in his van. | | When he stepped out of his van he was paralyzed by a beam of light. | | Four small humanoids wearing diver suits with large round eyes, one | | of them a female, emerged from the craft and communicated with him | | using telepathy. He was taken aboard the craft, undressed, a blood | | sample was taken, and he subsequently became unconscious. When he | | came to again he was on top of his van. (Sources: Jane Thomas, FSR, | | December 1983, p. 9, citing Diario Popular, August 12, 1983; Thomas | | E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 104, | | citing FSR). | | | | 1983 - At 8:45 p.m. an extremely bright metallic dome-shaped object | | maneuvered over Interstate highway I-225 near Selma, Indiana, | | observed by 19-year-old Jennifer Irving for ten minutes. It had | | strange beams of light and made no sound. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, | | Regional Encounters, p. 79). | | | | 1993 - At 5:00 p.m. a very large, fat cigar-shaped object, | | "battleship gray" in color, was observed from State Route 150 near | | Cherryville, North Carolina just over some trees. It crossed the | | highway close to the car without making a sound. Two cars were | | involved in the incident. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, April | | 1994). | | | | 1996 - At 2:20 a.m. a silent white disc-shaped object with lights | | followed a car for 6 km near Tavaco, Corse-Sud, France. It then | | hovered for over an hour. At the same time there was the occurrence | | of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area. | | (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 341; Illobrand von Ludwiger, | | Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109). | | | | 1998 - A couple on a terrace in Cintegabelle, Haute-Garonne, France | | witnessed the slow passage of a luminous sphere at around 10 p.m. | | There was also unusual behavior by animals, and the total silence of | | nature. The sphere silently zigzagged, and disappeared after 5 | | minutes Another witness in a distant city saw it, too. (Source: | | GEIPAN, case # 291). | | | | 1999 - On this afternoon at 5:07 p.m. a round white object shot past | | SwissAir flight 127 while flying over Long Island, New York at 23,000 | | feet altitude. It passed to within 400 feet above the airliner. Its | | speed was described as "incredibly fast". The USNTA said another | | aircraft in the area saw nothing. (Source: Lynn Picknett, Mammoth | | Book of UFOs, p. 173, citing the Toronto Sun). | | | | 2001 - A cigar-shaped object, approximately 100 feet long, with | | lights on each end that changed color, was seen in Calico Rock, | | Arkansas at 10 p.m. It also reportedly made the sound of three | | musical tones. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, August 2001 webpage, report uploaded October 12, 2001). | | | | 2004 - "Imagine a a 30-foot wide strand of silk in the shape of a | | perfect chevron, moving at a constant speed of 25 mph from North to | | South." That is what the witness reported seeing at 11:00 a.m. from | | Squamish, British Columbia. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. (Sources: | | Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2004-564; Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2004 webpage, report | | uploaded October 12, 2001). | | | | 2005 - At 10:00 p.m. a rotating disc-shaped object, wobbling, showing | | different lights, flickering, and "spazzing" was sighted in | | Westmount, Quebec. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, | | case # 2005-074, citing HBCCUFO). | | | | 2007 - A low flying object that looked like the Concorde (supersonic | | aircraft) was sighted in Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada at 7:55 | | p.m. It was the size of a 50-passenger plane, had no markings and no | | windows, and the strange thing is it was flying backwards. (Source: Geoff | | Dittman, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2007-487, citing NUFORC). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 6 August 2013). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes | | : abductions, aircraft UFO encounters, animal reactions: dogs barking | | and whimpering, disc-shaped UFOs, landings, missing time, multi-year | | reports from Argentina and Brazil, nuclear facility visited by UFO, | | ovoid UFO, "Oz effect": total silence, pendulum motion, short humanoi | | ds, tall humanoid, UFOs causing injury and death, vehicle ignition in | | terference effect, vertical takeoff, whirring sound, whooshing sound. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+